I you know, let me say this before we started, you know,
getting into audio and reflection on the presidential debate from last night. I think
we can all agree this is going to come down to much like the Nixon
Kennedy debate right where you watched it, well, you know what I'm saying,
Ross, Do you remember the circumstances of the Nixon Kennedy debate, right,
yeah, that was the first debate ever in a TV and then Kennedy
looked amazing, right, had his makeup and he let you went to Nixon
and he looked like a sweating right, a mess. Yeah. But if
you remember, they pulled people who watched it on TV and it was like,
yeah, Kennedy won, He's such a nice boy. But on the
radio it wasn't even close because you know, there you're forced to listen to
policy stuff, and you know, at that point people are like, now
Nixon's obviously, Nixon's got his crap together. That's the dude we're gonna go
with right there. And I feel like last night's debate was that sure if
you watched it on TV, or listen to it on the radio, or
streamed it on the internet, or watched it through clips posted on social media.
Yeah, you're gonna think Trump on that debate as ross. That's probably
where you arrived at. I don't want to put words in your mouth.
I think Biden had the worst performance of any candidate of any debate ever.
Right, but where do you watch it street? You streamed it, right
because you stream clips. Well, see, I was about to go to
bed because I had to get here. I woke up at three thirty to
get here at four so I could put audio in the button bar so we
could do a show, right, du which is your usual ANIMI. And
by the way, I'm sorry I texted you last time. I was not
trying to text you. I was trying to text Trevor, who was texting
me, and he's like, hey, you should do some social media all
this stuff. And he laned our process where it's more of a morning thing
for you because you got to double all the audio in, and he seemed
like disappointed we weren't going full war room, and I'm like, dude,
this is how this is the way that it works best. So so I'm
sorry for texting you because I assumed you were asleep. But now I don't
feel so well. Yeah, because so I we you know, we finished
watching our show and then I'm going to bed, so I get up early
and do the show in the morning. Yeah, and I just checked Twitter
really fast. And remember yesterday we were like, every time there's an event
like this, whether it's the State of the Union or other you know,
previous debates, we are always like, man, he's gonna glitch out,
he's gonna malfunction, but that never happens. It alway seems like they roll
him out, and it's like, who is this Biden? We never see
this Biden before, and he's like always on top of it and he's answering,
he's like wide awake. But last night I checked my Twitter before going
to bed and a quick glance and I'm like, oh, it's finally happening.
It's fine. The glitches, the complete just breakdown of the clone or
the lizard person under the mask. It is happening, and it is a
train wreck. So I could not go to bed. I would checking Twitter
the old time, watching videos and stuff and bookmarking like audio we could use
for the show. Now do you think that that's fair? I do?
Do you think do you think I'm not taking any questions, thank you.
Well you know what, now, I just how did you consume it?
You consumed it both live and obviously through audio. And again this goes back
to my point. If you watch it on TV, listen to it on
the radio, streamed it on the internet, or I guess we're one of
the ten people in the building, sure, you're probably gonna walk away from
that thinking Trump one. However, if you're in a different multiverse timeline,
hear me out where people speak at incredibly different speeds, words have different meanings.
Okay, it's a good point, Yes, cognitive expectations for people.
Or I didn't consider the multiverse. I mean, at this point, don't
you realize you got to bring the multiverse. I'm just trying to figure out
how they're gonna spin this. So if you're in the multiverse of nonsense,
it could you could latest the home run greatest debate performance ever. You know
when they're you know, when they're blipping around the multiverse and they go into
that one world, it's like cartoons with paint and stuff. Probably did well
there. It's like a Benjamin Button multiverse. Sure, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Like this guy's phenomenal. He's very young did did you
see the Like, this is what I actually texted to I was trying to
text it to our boss. It was like the the opening moment of the
debate. He was like, it was like he had just done a triple
giant size line of blow off a hooker's butt or something backstage and that faded
within like two minutes. Man. And you're right, they've been able.
He's been very balanced in stuff previous to that where you think that there's gonna
be problems. And I really feel like in this moment, we should be
talking about the strategy of the Trump campaign. For everyone who says that Trump
doesn't have self control, you saw it last night. I think that was
the best performance Trump has ever done. You saw self control last night,
because I promise you there was a conversation had about making the point at you
know, in you know lightly but uh, you know in a way that
everyone picks up on, like what the hell is this about, Joe?
But you can't beat on it right because you don't want you don't want people
to start to feel bad for your opponent. And I think he took a
very measured response. I would argue the kill shot is the medicare stuff.
Do you think that that's true. It's got to be, because what you
had is Trump bringing it in and Biden proving his point. And what was
crazy is I watched on the well, it didn't matter where you watched,
right, you were getting the CNN feed. So I'm watching and they immediately
go to the CNN you know team, and the first thing that they launch
into is Trump's a big, fat liar man. He told whoppers the whole
time. And they were as you can imagine that they were. They were
very upset, right, and it was I thought it was going to go
very standard. That was literally the first thing out of the mouth of one
of the CNN analysts. But within minutes it went in a wildly differ direction,
which we're going to get into this morning. By the way, the
medicare thing. Let's just go ahead and start off with that bad boy,
okay, because I think that this is this is the one that will end
up in ads. This is where I think Trump's uh strategy, I you
know, he's got is independent as Trump is, he does have people around
him that I promise are going over strategy with him. You know, for
all that he doesn't listen to anybody. I think he does when when he
agrees with it, and he obviously agreed with it, because it is this
measured approach to getting into that issue about his opponent that I think that he
didn't overplay, but he also didn't underplay. If I'm just analyzing this purely
from a strategy standpoint, Okay, all right, so let's let's revisit this.
What's happening. They're in a situation where they in fact pay eight point
two percent taxes. If they just paid twenty four twenty five percent either one
of those numbers, they'd raised five hundred million dollars billion dollars. I should
say in a ten year period, we'd be able to write wipe out his
debt. We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need
to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to suppend
strength in our healthcare system, making sure that we're able to make every single
solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the with the COVID,
I just could be with dealing with everything we have to do with Look,
if we finally beat medicare, what does that mean? So just to
be clear, and I'm sure he picked up on it because I don't know
you have two brain cells drub together. That was the portion where they're talking
about, you know, raising taxes on the rich, and it then goes
into the COVID thing and he realized that wasn't right, and then he said,
well, we beat medicare in what a game of chess. I don't
even know what that means. And it's Trump's response to that. I think
that back and forth is probably what you're going to see the most of it.
Definitely was permeating my Twitter timeline probably more than anything else. So here's
Trump's response. And this is what is important in the debate. You got
to have a strategy. You know, you get you hopefully you arm yourself
with, you know, the points that you want to hit, whether it's
about your opponent or about an issue, but you still got to be able
to deliver on it. And I think Trump did a good job. Thank
you, President Biden. President Trump, who he's right. He did beat
medicare, beat it to death. And he's destroying Medicare because all of these
people are coming in, they're putting them on Medicare, They're putting them on
social Security. They're going to destroy social security. This man is going to
single handedly destroy social security. So yeah, yeah, I mean it was
an easy setup then, and at that moment you realize he wants to get
into this, and you have this exchange where it was kind of the first
volley into the cognitive stuff, and again it's clear that they decided to take
a light approach to them. I've changing the way that. Now you're in
a situation where there are forty percent fuel people coming across the border, right,
So I did just be clear, this is on the border. We
transition to the border. Now, I've changing the way that. Now you're
in a situation where there are forty percent fuel people coming across the border.
Legally, it's better than when he left office. And I'm going to continue
to move until we get the total band on, the total initiative relative to
what we're gonna do with more border patrol and more wasn't Trump. I really
don't know what he said at the end of this hands I don't think he
knows what he said either. Look, look, and I want to play
those two cuts because arguably going in on the medicare thing there, you'll notice
he didn't just turn it into a cognitive attack, right. And that's the
thing that surprised me because I assumed he every time, you know, the
chin got near on that trumpets, swing at it. And he clearly didn't.
But it was enough to cause panic because poor Ross has been in here
since four o'clock Bull and Audio, and he had lots to choose from.
I'm telling you, I've never seen a debate where, even from the very
beginning, most of the time when there's a debate, you have the spin
people on both sides, and you know, they could point out why their
candidate is doing great. I've never seen the presidential debate from the very get
go where a huge The only person I saw on the left saying that Biden
was doing great was that twelve year old what Harry Sisson Shild that works for
the d n C. That was the only person. Everybody else we're talking
about, uh, Crystal Joy read Chrystalism, the Dale, the dude,
yeah sank from the young Turks all saying this is a disaster. Well from
the very beginning. Now hold on, now, maybe you're spinning what they
said. That's probably not fair. Let's listen to what Joy reads, I
too was on the phone throughout much of the debate with Obama. The world
people with Democrats, with people all right, hold on, what is Obama?
World people? That's Illuminati, right one world government sorrows. I'm just
I inject a little conspiracy in here. I'm sorry, Balding, Joy read,
go ahead, I too was on the phone throughout much of the debate
with Obama. The world, people with Democrats, with people who are political
operatives, with campaign operative is My phone really never stopped buzzing throughout, and
the universal reaction was somewhere approaching panic. The people who were texting with me
were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak. If
there was somebody who was going to be an apologist of the somebody's and try
to ignore it, Joy Reid would have been one of them. That's what's
that's what's so crazy about that. Joy Reid would have been one of if
she you know, she would have been one of those people that would have
overlooked just about anything. Let me ask you guys a question. We got
tons of audio we're going to get to. We've got a few other stories,
and of course Pete Callender will join us at eight oh five. I
don't know. Maybe he's gotta maybe he thinks Biden one. I don't know.
We'll ask Kim. But let me ask you a question. One of
the things that was unique about the debate last night is it took place prior
to the nominating conventions. Do you think that was a mistake on the part
of Republicans to agree or I guess in this case the Trump campaign to agree
to do it first because Democrats got to test drive the car man and now
they may go with a different model. Whereas you wait for the nomination to
be in then you hold the debates, which is almost universally how that happens.
Actually at the presidential level, it is how it happens. And do
you think this hastens some sort of surprise up in Chicago here? Next?
Is it not? Next month? They're early August? Right? Do you
think that it now? They can go all right, well that didn't work
out. We got to do something, and all of a sudden, Joe
Biden wants to spend more time with family or something. I do know it.
I don't think that debate in September is going to happen well, not
with Joe. You know, they if they roll some somebody else in there,
maybe then you go ahead and do it. I mean, obviously they'd
have to renegotiate it's a different candidate, that's how these things work. But
Trump will do it. If it's Gavin Newsom, Trump will do it.
So that that's the only thing, right, I feel like there's this window.
I don't know how the public could react. I would assume a lot
would reject it among the moderates, but you know, they haven't nominated.
They haven't officially nominated their candidate yet, so you know, I don't know
what sort of coordinated, behind the scenes thing they're working on. You remember
that, you remember Hillary's guy when she wouldn't come down to you know,
give her Hey, I lost speech. They were on the floor while everyone's
crying around them, figuring out what they were going to do to get Trump.
There's video of him being interviewed. So anyway, eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven fourth. So much to get into coming up on
the CaCO Day Radio program, Welcome back. It is the CaCO Day Radio
pro Okay, good, one of our callers wants to get into this as
well. So the thing that baffled me, and there was a lot to
choose from, really from a bow side standpoint, is the dead soldier discussion,
which inevitably, of course, we got a we got to mention of
the president's to see son. That's not unexpected. And he didn't say he
was in Iraq this time. So, and honestly, that's one of the
things I don't necessarily criticize the president for all the time unless he is not
telling the story correctly. But didn't he He did say it though, No,
no, he did say it. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm
saying he did say it. But I give him more leeway on it because
it is his son who died right in the same way that when I see
Mom out in the streets screaming my baby did nothing wrong when he's on video
pulling a gun on a cop I usually will cut a wide berth on Mom.
It's a little different because he is the president, he is a politician.
But what was so weird about the whole thing was I think Trump missed
an opportunity initially because Biden said that no soldier, no soldiers died. Now
he kind of qualified it like in a war, and I guess technically,
when you're evacuating from Afghanistan, where you've said the operations over a politician like
yeah, see, no it's over, it didn't count. And Trump didn't
mention it. But I really thought he should have leaned in at that moment.
And I was actively like, what dude, come on, and so
yeah, I mean that was that was That was just one of the instances.
In fact, let me let me hit some audio. All right,
here we go, Oh, that's in the purple over it. We got
so much audio that Ross had to like create a whole separate button bar.
So you'll have to bear with me. Thank you for not putting stuff straight
in black this time, because when he puts it in black, I can't
see what it's labeled. And he thinks that's very amusing. All right,
here we go. All right, let's uh, let's play the soldier audio
for you. I had a notion that we were this safe country. The
truth is, I'm the only president this century that doesn't have any this this
decade, any troops guying anywhere in the world like he did. I don't
know how you don't go all in on that immediately talk about what transpired they're
in Afghanistan. And by the way, that's not the only soldier killed,
right, didn't we have didn't we have a we had two? Was it
two soldiers or three soldiers who were just killed in Africa? Right? That
whole that whole thing didn't get any coverage. What's what's going on there where?
We basically just you know, put our hands what we're out. So
yeah, I was I really wish Trump would have leaned into that a little
more. And uh, I will say this, I did see that that
was among the Daniel Dale soon in fact check. So what was so weird
is that dude hasn't do it been around like he just disappeared off the face
of the earth. In fact, he ended up where is this? Yeah,
he ended up literally tweeting, Hey, I'm alive after many months of
not tweeting, you read this, Hello, old pals. It's been a
delightful many months of not tweeting. Really couldn't couldn't recommend it more highly.
But I'll be doing fact checks during the debate. Why would you put that
on the record and and not hope people just didn't notice that CNN's fact checker
just went away for the last few months. I mean, this is the
dude, this is the you remember when Trump they're like everyone, they like
created whole departments and lists to everything that he said, adding it to the
list and fact checking it. We had local media here w R A L.
I remember they put in their their fact checker thing, and then that
went by the wayside. That was they put it in under McCrory and and
then it disappeared under Cooper. To their credit, at least they did for
a little while. But yeah, Daniel, like he just disappeared. The
whole thing was weird. I don't know. Maybe there's something, there's some
personal thing there. I don't know, but he was he was right back
at it. All right. Let me grab some phone calls here, Donna,
you're up first, go right ahead. Good morning, Jasey. You
already played the audio. I was going to read the que I transcribed it.
But as an army veteran and as a proud American, I find it
very repugnant how easily he dismisses or a lost soldiers. He verbalized what he
did when those coffins were coming off of the plane by looking at his watch.
He just doesn't care. His son did not die in Iraq. He
is not a gold star father like these poor women, these gold star moms
imagine having necessarily listened to that. Yeah, everywhere I heard what he said.
Let me ask you a question, Donna, just on that phone.
And this is one of the reasons I do steer clear. I don't want
to diminish the concerns that exist out there, not just with Joe Biden and
his family over the burn pits and the water issues at Le June. Right,
I think, yeah, and I think that those are legitimate questions,
concerns, and I you know, where there's smoke, there's fire, and
I'm not trying to put a pun there. And I think that if people
are going to serve this country, we owe it to them to not put
them in unnecessary dangerous situations. Look, we're asking them to, you know,
go into a war zone, and I understand that. But when when
they're back, you know, when they're back at their whatever base they're assigned
to, they shouldn't have to worry about the water that they're consuming or taking
care of. Our soldiers should be taken every everywhere that they are taking care
of first and foremost they are they are our defense. They put their lives
on the line. They should always come first, and right, don I
appreciate the call. I'm sorry, I'm a weird little glitchy thing there on
the bearing Donna. But yes, so that was the audio Donna was going
to get in and I uh agree. But again that's I just want you
to explain why I kind of parse on stuff like that. There is a
reason for it, all right, Uh, Jason, go right ahead,
am I on it's Jaron. Yeah, I'm sorry, Jay, you go
right ahead, sir. Hey, look, they missed one of the requirements
in the debate. They should have gagged Donald Trump. That was what they
missed. But Donald Trump should have hammered away on the cognitive ission. He
dropped the ball there. But as far as the debate goes, we don't
need to hurt Robert hurt tapes anymore. We've seen enough. I still want
to hear them. I want other people to hear them and then they give
me the good stuff. But yeah, I I this is this is why
I am thanks for the call there. This is why I wonder if Republicans
made a or the Trump campaign, because now people are emailing They're like,
well, the States have already rendered their nomination. That's true. And I
don't know exactly what the process is for the Dems, but I don't know
what the process really is for the Republicans, but they have they have the
ability to make that change. In fact, the Democrats probably more so because
they have a slightly different system with super delegates, and they gave the super
delegates a lot more room to move. And remember, they did it because
they were constantly getting kneecapped by like Green Party and stuff. So it allows
them, it allows them to basically ignore and and it's funny because it actually
creates this weird like class system right where you have like it's almost like the
House of Commons, House of Lords thing. Oh well, these are the
really important people in their opinion counts more than yours. Okay, all right,
but no, there's a process. Each of the parties has a process
because you know, what if the candidate dies before the committee or the convention,
what are you going to do then? And what if a candidate comes
and says, you know what, I don't want to do this anymore,
and I have to think, although, you know what, I'll hold out
because I'll admit I don't know, and I tried to dig into dig into
it a little last night, but then I was watching it and I wasn't
finding what I was looking for. Does the candidate have to essentially acquiesce or
can the powers that be do stuff? You know where it says, hey,
I'm sorry, you're not the guy anymore. And I don't know what
the answer is, but I promise you the power brokers do. And those
are the conversations that Joy Reid is talking about. Boy, I would can
you imagine being a fly on the wall at one of these super Donor watch
parties or something? Oh I can't even that must have been that must have
been a wild set of conversations. Let's see here. Let me get you
one more cut of audio. We get again if you want anything you want
to opine on debate related feel free eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four would love it if you, you know, had kind of a
unique take, something we haven't heard before. I'm always interested to hear those.
Let's see, well, oh yeah, this, I have some questions.
In fact, let me do this. Let's go ahead and hit the
brake. Just looked at the clock at six forty six. Where are the
secret trillionaires. That's who I want. Ross. Are you secretly a trillionaire?
And you haven't told anybody? Do you have a Are you a trillionaire?
It's just just between us, just us the circle of friends here.
Are you a trillionaire? Yeah, he wouldn't. I don't know, man.
We'll get into that audio and all sorts of stuff coming up. CaCO
Day Radio Program. Good Morning, CaCO Day Radio Program, phone number eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Let me ask you guys
this because I'm paying attention obviously to the candidates and what they're doing, but
I'm also paying attention to the moderators. Did you see anything that you thought
was overtly approaching a Candy Crowley moment with Bash and Tapper? Ross did did
did you see anything you thought, well that is that was wildly inappropriate.
I mean, I thought there was one instance where, you know, when
Biden was taught or when Trump was talking, they didn't mute Biden's microphone.
Yeah, there was a few few moments like that, but it might have
not been intentional, but it probably was intentional. Well, I also don't
think Tapper and Bash are running the mute so now I'm talking about with them,
you know, I'll be honest. The only criticism I saw, and
I had a couple of you have emailed me on this. People thought there
was a couple Biden froze moments where Tapper goes, you know, because I
don't know if you saw, if they stopped talking before they were allotted time
Tapper back, primarily Tapper Tapper go, you got you still have forty five
seconds and we need an answer on what we posed or something like that.
And some people thought that when Biden froze, Tapper was too quick to jump
in and restate the question. I maybe I was saying stuff from the Blaze
that they said they lost feed for like thirty seconds. Was there like a
thirty second like blackout or was that just on the Blaze? I know,
I well he was here was the thing? So I streamed it, but
I streamed the five You're still streaming CNN, right, But I was streaming
it on the Fox feed that was on YouTube, right, so rather than
because I don't have cable, so everything I do is stream and I guess
technically I could have you know, opened like the peacock app or something like
that, but I just went to YouTube because you got your choice of streams
there, and I had the Fox stream on and the thing dumped out right
at the beginning. But then I clicked over to NBC or ABC's feed.
I can't remember whose it was, and they were ready to rock. So
I don't know who knows. Maybe it depends where they're pulling it from.
I guess what would be would be the thing? So did the does the
Blaze have access to pull? I'm getting into technical stuff, like what you
don't know is right to the left of Ross there is a selector and uh.
On the selector, there's there's a bunch of different options and basically he
can stream the various feeds from different studios in the building. And UH,
we have Fox News obviously because you hear at the top for the hour,
but there's there's UH, there's multiple channels. There's the Fox where you hear
the news. There's UH what's called the unanchored, which generally has just live
feeds of stuff. There's the anchored when they're doing the coverage like last night.
And you know, that's how we as a media outlet pull stuff.
I don't know how the Blaze pulls it. So I I honestly, I
don't even know how to answer that. All right, let's get to the
phones. Oh look at this, Jamal, what's up? Well ticing,
Oh, I'm calling in m The best thing Donald Trump did, Oh real
quick, talking about conspiracy. Anybody that has rumble, We'll tell you who's
a contenttrator. Rumble was down for about an hour into that debate. So,
I mean, rumble just totally crashed. Every if you and people like
what in the world. Literally rumble crashed last night. Nobody didn't know what's
going on. But the smartest thing President Trump did. And I was screaming
it online and I kept screaming. I'm like, yes, they built Joe
Biden up to be Obama on the debate stage. Everybody starts saying, and
President Trump stopped. Oh yeah, you know, he's a little scenew but
he you know, he's gonna be every I saw some Democrats. Oh Joe
Biden gonna bite the floor with him. Oh, he's gonna he gonna do
it a Jamaal, We have the super cut. We're gonna play that here
in the next segment, so you get to relive your joy of one week.
You know, prior to the debate of all of these absolutely in the
you know, in the Democrat camp, journalist talking about how he's the greatest
thing since sliced bread, and yeah, tune their tune changed, isn't it,
Yes, sir. And I'm gonna tell you Casey, I will because
last night, of course, you know, there's Hayes for Sheriff, Hayes
Mi Sheriff pushdown. You got the k c O Day Twitter channel, And
I was when I was streaming last night and I'm like, in the middle
of the day, one of the somebody wrote, Jamal calmed down, yo,
yo, your blood pressure. You're gonna have a heart attack. I
was screaming and laughing so hard. And when he started that mumbling and stuff,
I'm like, oh my god. Oh. They started lying saying Joe
Biden had a cold, Like no, are they already start putting out that's
why it sounds that's why his voice sounds like that, and he's a little
off. He's got a cold. Man. They didn't say that. Nobody,
Nobody said that. Thing was like, Oh, this is gonna be
good. Joe Biden, the elder Statesman, Donald Trump, He's gonna get
on the Donald Trump skin. He tried to get on the Donald Trump's getting
and Donald Trump looking at as at him in his face and Jake Tapper,
I'm gonna tell you when did and people did. I don't know people.
That was just Jake Tapper did try to pull some last night. He was
talking about my thirty seconds real quick. Okay, last night last night,
when Jake Tapper was talking about January sixth, he kept letting them go back
and forth, back and back and forth. But when it came to the
economy and it came to immigration, he wouldn't allow him to go back and
forth like that. He could. They went back and forth about twice,
but when it came to January sixth, they stayed on that topic for about
five six minutes. Yeah, happy Friday, and uh well, I guess
probably not. If you're members of much of the mainstream media, you're not
having a good day because uh wowser man. Uh we got again. We
got a lot of audio, a lot of phone calls to get to We're
going to get into that. But uh oh, and Pete calendar at eighto
five. I don't know, maybe Pete's like noh, Biden totally won it.
I don't know. I'm not gonna put words in his mouth. We'll
get into it, but yeah, I think what I want to get into
with Pete though, is the is the path forward? I think that's a
fascinating discussion. Right, Here's what I mean by that, Like, there
is there is normally not a presidential debate prior to the official nomination party nominating
committee conventions. Okay, And I I wonder if agreeing to the first one
being prior to that, if in fact that probably was an air on the
part of the Trump campaign. And I admittedly I don't know that I thought
of it and until I started contemplating it yesterday, because now you have this
whole window of time, which is you know, it's like a month plus
to figure out your strategy. And I see people on Twitter, They're like,
they're not gonna throw this guy to the wolves. What would make you
th think that that they wouldn't if it's about winning. Remember, Uh,
it's it's the you know, it's the it's that whole rama manual crisis,
go to waste attitude. But it's the version where it's hey, as long
as it's the ends justify the means, right, are they going to throw
them to the wolves. You could say that's what they did last than a
purpose? Well and and but how does that manifest going for? I think
it's gonna be fascinating because it's right here in our own backyard. Joe Biden
right now is I don't know where he landed at two am. I'm assuming
they wist him off, probably to the Umstead and stuck him in his cryo
chamber or whatever. But UH air Force one touchdown at RDU at two am
this morning from Atlanta, and he has an event at the at the State
fair Grounds later today. So I think a lot of people are going to
be watching the coverage of that. How what the what's the turnout going to
be? Let me ask you, let me ask you this if if if
you just watched that debate last night, you were planning on going to see
the president and UH and and you voted for him, do you think maybe
you're like, you know what, I'm just gonna I'm gonna go to Jimmy
John's or something. I you know, maybe that'll be fascinating, But I
mean, really, the the the way in which if they choose to oust
them, that they do it. I don't think will be as restrained as
some people are thinking, because you saw what what what? What? The
willingness to do things that Republicans I think wish they could sometimes, but they
don't have the media to go along with it, right you know? Uh
yeah, Let's let's let's put together an entire Russian collusion hoax. Let's get
intelligence officials, including literally the spouse of one of the debate moderators, the
one of the CNN anchors, I should say, not the debate moderator,
but the woman who eighty six the Trump spokeswoman. Let's put together this thing
saying that this Biden laptop is Russian, you know, right back to the
Russian. Well, let's go ahead and get rid of the ability to have
to get sixty votes in the Senate to confirm a judge. If you're willing
to do all these things, I don't think it's that far fetched. Don't
believe me? All right, hang on, We're gonna get your calls here
momentarily in this segment. I do promise, But what a difference a week
makes? What a difference a week makes? I'm gonna play you leading up
to the debate a little montage and I'll play a little montage from post debate,
and you're gonna hear a lot of the same voices or the same networks.
And once you know, the single greatest weapon that I think Democrats have
is the media willing to carry water for them. It's incredibly powerful choosing to
ignore some stuff or spin other stuff. And if you lose that weapon,
I don't know what you do, because unlike Republicans, Democrats are very good
at staying all on the same team. Right. That's why you know the
the repeal Obamacarey go John McCain with the thumbs down thing, right, you
got to sadly, you have the congresswoman no longer the congresswoman from where I
grew up, and a handful of others willing to do their own thing.
You don't see that on the Democrats side very much. You see a little
of it with the squad, which is what I think irritates them so much.
And so the problem becomes, who do you slot in there? Who
isn't on record supporting all of the really bad stuff that has people so upset,
Who hasn't attended one of these uh you know, screw Israel rallies,
who hasn't said no the border it's going great. Most anyone you would put
in there is on record is loving what's going on. That's a problem.
All right, So here we go. This is this is pre debate,
and go start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the
truth and that few if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden
is the best Biden ever he knows so long as it's nine. In fact,
I think he's better than he's ever been. President. Biden has a
photographic memory. His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation remarkable. He
is sharp, intensely probing, and detail oriented and focused. Jackie, you
here, Jackie, I I just want to be clear. In this super
cut, obviously the person who put it together then inserted the Biden they were
not running it next to the statements. But the statements are statements from analysts
within the media. Okay, just aroun on the same page. I was
sitting, you know, a two feet from him across the table, and
he was, you know, intense to have trouble walking sometimes, Yeah,
so did that dr He wanted gd war. But he's totally focused. He's
very sharp, They say he's sharpened meetings and so on. Very lucid,
well, very well done for him. Biden's stately, he comes with gravitas.
There hasn't been, as far as I know, a single claim that
Biden made a mistake. Agism is an issue. Americans have a rich history
of holding people's physical characteristics against them. Okay, you can ask African Americans
he's older, that doesn't mean that he is unfit. And there's a lot
of agism there. Now, this age attack, this obsession by the right,
Joe Biden may not be able to speak for himself the way that he
used to. They want to think to take on government if we get out
of line, which they're talking on again about him lying around. I think
people should be speaking up for Joe Biden. Americans and reporters in the media
are just judging him by a physical appearance, and it's fur of the unfair.
Age is an asset. He showed exactly how with it he is.
The flip side of this point is that he has a tremendous amount of wisdom
and experience. Have you heard any concernans from anyone who has met with President
Biden about him seeming a little slower, no more wild speculation from a bunch
of people who have probably never been in a room with Joe Biden and certainly
don't have medical degrees that I'm aware of. You don't get paid for performance
to be president. You don't. The job is not a job of endurance.
I don't see Donald Trump out by riding like Joe Biden. It's the
Hillary's email. All they have is that he's on all right, so again
going into this thing, everybody's happy, well, hold on, several of
you have sent me this the same. They can't throw him to the side
due to the fact that people have voted for his nomination. Can't throw that
aside, ignoring the will the people proof Trump right. No, there is
a mechanism within the party. There's also one within the Republican Party. If
you have a candidate who literally dies at you know, in that interim,
or you have a candidate who has to maybe they have some sort of scandal,
they got to step aside. They'll have to probably get Biden to agree
to it. But let me explain it real quick, and I'm going to
play the other half of this audio. If you have the biggest donors in
the party, who are probably the ones who are in those circles having these
conversations last night, who are going to go, look, I'm not going
to waste my money. And you just saw that the amount of funds that
Trump was able to raise, Like that's that's a stake to the heart.
And so if you get Biden to come out and say, look, just
everything going on with my family, I just need to handle this. And
I think so and so is a better person. He'll have to kind of
acquiesce probably to say face and everyone will know what's going on. And I
think then the media would be you know, bow, he's such a great
guy. He wants to go care for his family, whatever it is.
But there is a mechanism where they can the delegates can go ahead and entertain
others. Then they'll have a vote. You have to have it just for
those situations I just laid out. All right, now, allow me to
fast forward to uh right after the debate last night, and let's see if
it sounds different. See if you can spot the differences. Okay, it's
like that photo game, right, all right, it's not easy Ross when
you're dubbing this in did you constantly get confused as to which was which when
you were like, oh, is that the one from pre debate or post
I could see where it'd be difficult. Here we go. You can sure
that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able
to do with the want to be is a realistic of Biden. And then
I'm gonna play the audio. So here we go, making sure that we're
able to make every single solitary person very eligible for what I've been able to
do with the UH, with the COVID. I'ste you with dealing with everything
we had to do with UH. Look, if we finally beat medicare,
we find him, we find providing housing for Black Americans, the impact of
the choice, the idea that they're gonna I'm not gonna. I've been proposing
that everybody they pay, the millionaires pay one percent one percent, so no
one after I've not raised the costs of so security for anybody. Three,
I got my handicapped, which when I was Vice president down to a six.
You're all the people that we just the ability of medicare. I just
this is this is almost like kicking a puff. So it's painful. Let's
go then now to the MSNBC panel who was among those sighted in that montage,
several of them, and see if they got some different thoughts. Okay,
all right, here we want to go to our colleague Alex Wagner,
who is on site in Atlanta. She has been watching the debate in the
spin room. Alex, what's the reaction that you've been hearing there. Yes,
I'm not going to put a fine gene on it or or a spin
on it, even though I'm in the spin room, Rachel. There has
been a uniformly negative reaction to Biden's performance tonight. Surely, as you know,
Joyce said, this was about revealing who Donald Trump was, but it
was also Joe Biden battling a caricature of himself as an enfeebled person, an
impression that Trump has been eager to convey to the country, and he did
nothing to disabuse I think the country of the notion that he is very old
and was lost frequently in that debate. I mean on answers that should have
been, to put it, bluntly, a layup for him, whether it
was abortion or the attack on abortion medication. His answers were rambling and incoherent.
He turned an answer, He turned a response on abortion into a mention
of a migrant killing. Yes, this is MSNBC's initial reaction. Maybe CNN
had a different take. Let's go to John King. Shall we that?
Right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and
a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. It started minutes into the debate
and it continues right now. It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials,
it involves fundraisers, and they're having conversations about the president's performance, which
they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party
in the ticket, and they're having conversations about what they should do about it.
Some of those conversations include should we go to the White House and ask
the president's step aside? Or other of the conversations are about should prominent Democrats
go public with that call because they feel this debate was so terrible. They
do say in moments in the debate. Later the president got better and got
his footing, but then at the end, even his closing statement was a
little halting. A little halting is an understatement. So CNN, MSNBC,
we played you Joy read earlier. That's where the things at all. Right,
let me grab a call. Thank you for hanging on, George.
I know that was a lot, but we got a lot to get to
go. Go right ahead, sir, Yeah, to two things real quick.
I want to give my heartfelt condolences to whoever had to do the closed
captioning because that had to be a brutal night for whoever did it. High.
Yeah, I keep it on and uh, I was actually amused by
watching some of those moments, the close captioning moments. Yeah, it was.
It was just that had to be a painful night for that person,
even with AI helping them, it had to be impossible. And my second
point is, you know, they they want to say that Trump lied twenty
six times, but if I can't find anywhere where they're listing what those twenty
six lies work, because a lot of times when they say that he's lying,
is merely giving his opinion that they disagree with, and they call it
a lie. So I'm wondering if you know of any place where they're lifting
these supposed twenty six lives. CNN's Daniel Dale, on his Twitter account,
posted a bunch of them to his I guess to be fair, he posted
a bunch of Biden ones too. Now I shouldn't say a bunch a handful
there, And you're right, some of them do dwell into the opinionated side,
like when he was talking about the NATO stuff, and you know,
because that's just that's that's opinion, and Biden had his opinion and Trump had
his opinion as to whether him telling NATO that they better get their crap together
actually worked in our standing within the world. I mean, that's I guess
if you're doing the dollars, you could that argument. But they got into
the realm of you know, whether the world leaders think Trump was better than
Biden. Well, now you're just cherry picking an opinion. So I don't
know. But George, thanks for thanks for the call this morning. Do
appreciate it. Just a reminder eight oh five, we're gonna bring Pete Calender
into this conversation. He'll have some thoughts and coming up here in just a
few minutes. We got a bunch of audio. We got to get into
so much from the debate, including some of the stuff we just talked about
with NATO, the border stuff, which was absolutely backcrap, crazy, no
the way to describe that, and oh so much more. Let me see,
we've got Stormy Daniel stuff in there, golf stuff, you name it
and we'll dive into it. Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. You want to get on the show, and we'll be
right back the debate last night. We're gonna get into more audio. But
I gotta tell you, Okay, Ross the reason I was digging around my
backpack for another adapter for my headphones because they were just clipping on me.
And you ever find like twenty dollars in your pants when you're doing laundry,
or maybe your wife does laundry. I don't know, but you know that
feeling. We're like, oh, it's twenty. Not that it's your you
know, it wasn't yours, but it feels like it's a free twenty because
who knows what would have happened. It's a great feeling. Right, there's
two bags of mini cheese. It's from my flight vacation flight for American Airlines.
I completely forgot about them, so no I have cheese. It's this
morning, and that's right, I said cheese. It's Sue me who makes
these. I guess I don't know whoever, the company is Kellogg, sue
me, Kellogg, do whatever you want. So I'm sorry breaking news right
in the middle of it. I had to share. Okay, let's uh,
let me do this. I just want a bullet point where a few
things are at and then we'll get back into the audio one. It was
that it was, and it's getting lost in all of this Trump. I
don't know what they told him. I don't know what he thought up or
somebody told him and then he said it's his idea. I don't know.
But whoever crafted the way that he was going to approach it. Not the
words, right, we can discuss and debate and all that stuff, but
the the I guess, the the vibe that he chose to go with yesterday,
and what I mean by that is not a repeat of the first debate
with those two from last time around, and not him in every response,
you know, doing Joe Biden cognitive stuff. Right, It was very measured.
He didn't say anything for what probably what fifteen minutes, right, fifteen
minutes when you know, it just became where you had to say something and
and I think that that was that was the right tact. You know,
it's the it's the old art of war thing, right, or it's an
Napoleon thing. I'm sorry, you know, never interrupt your enemy when he's
making mistakes, and too often Trump will do that, right. That's it's
one of the things where you're just like, dude, just shut up for
half a second, let him explain, you know, this thing, because
they're horrifying people with their explanation. But not last night, man. So
yeah, I mean you can, you can get into him in bellishing or
his opinion on stuff and all the fact checks and all that. That's fine.
But I think that his approach to it yesterday was very good because if
you if you beat him up on the cognitive every time, you run the
risk of people going of feeling bad for him but also feeling angry at you
for latching onto it. And he didn't do that. If you think I'm
wrong, go ahead and I'll ask Pete the same thing. Two And you
saw it in one of the audio clips we played there, the one from
John King. The the the money and the down ballot races are all that
is being discussed right now in uh, you know, powerbroker circles. If
and frankly The person in North Carolina who should be the most bothered by that
that debate last night is Josh Stein already tagged is the most important governors race
this election cycle. That is that that's devastating right there. You know how
probably you get the money that flows in, but the interest among voters may
not be there. And that did not do anything to aid that position.
I would I will love it if somebody get a mic in front of his
face. I'm assuming he'll be at the Biden rally or maybe not. If
you're Josh Stein, do you show up to that thing, or do you
have a conflict that just came out, or do you get a cold?
So that would be point number two, right and I and I think that
that's that's that's I think that's a very important part of the context and what's
the process for for swapping this guy out. I still think that I still
think that the green to a debate prior to the nominating committees was a mistake.
And I don't know why. Several of you have emailed me where you're
just like, oh, they voted, I agree with you, but except
for one guy is really angry at me for saying this and I don't know
why there are methods with or there are within the rules. And and by
the way, convention rules are are so changeable. You've ever been to one,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. There is a mechanism built in,
not really for this per se, but like a dead candidate, right
or a candidate who withdraws, and so they're able to do that. So
the trick is you got to get him to withdraw. But the other trick
is you got to get somebody in there. And the problem is because everyone's
so lockstep within the party. There the big you know, the big names,
all of the same policies that Biden's losing on. There's video of them
all in on this stuff. That's a real problem, man. And I
think what's very telling last point and then more audio you ready, Ross,
did you notice what was absent from the Twitter timeline as you were doom scrolling
it either last night or this morning that we normally see during debates. Did
you see what was missing from all of that. I didn't see any posts
about except for like people who were joking. I didn't see people getting into
the into the earpiece stuff right where they're posting photos at the exact moment his
suit moved and I see there's a there's a transponder in there. Right,
we're not seeing any of that, no, because typically we see that when
when you know, we see him one way uh uh, you know,
not during the debates and not during the stead of the union, and they
roll him out for these events and he's like a super guy and he can
talk and he's go here and he makes sense. But then right, and
the last night, it finally happened. Right, So what I was,
I was about to go to bed and I'm like, I'm going to bed.
He's not gonna malfunction. And then all of a sudden, I see
my Twitter timeline blow up and people I'm like, it's finally happening. So
people aren't saying, hey, you know he's wired or he's a clone or
he's a lizard person because it was not good. Yeah, I don't know.
That's like some sort of bell Weather in my mind is crazy as that
sounds. All right, let's let's get into this. There's somebody mad at
me over what is you know, I bet your fun at a party.
Some guy he just he sent me the literally the ingredients list from cheese its
and go enjoy your your chemicals man and your soy I will you know what?
I'm many eat both bags? What do you think of that? Sir?
And I think I might buy some of the spicy ones because I had
to go shopping later today because they got no food in my house. So
yeah, yeah, turning me off cheese its, that's not gonna happen.
All right, Let's get into this. Uh where is my border stuff?
Or is I just staring at this? Okay? Oh, where there's the
border? Oh it's in the okay, the dark. But I'm telling you
there, I got so much crap going on here. All right, So
let's talk about the border and uh more specifically a the issue that might show
the single largest divide within the Democrat party. So it's gonna be really important
because they're not buying the Hey, we're doing everything we can, which I
actually thought that they'd come out with maybe some concrete stuff they wanted him to
talk about. Hey, here's what we're doing. I was wrong. The
only terrorists who've done anything across the border is one who came along and killed
three on his administration kill an no Kada person committed and his administrations kill three
American soldiers, kill three American soldiers. That's the only terrorist that there.
I'm not saying a no terrorist ever got through with the idea. They're empting
their prisons where let were welcoming these people. That's simply not true. There's
no data to support what he said. Once again he's exaggerating, he's lying.
All right, so you know, we get we get into this conversation.
Obviously, Trump did take it to specific issues. He referenced the twelve
year old girl, he referenced the Georgia case, and he was not ambiguous
about it. But then Biden said something really strange for you fact checkers out
there. I hope this peaked your interest significant increase the number of asylum offer
significantly. By the way, the border patrolman endorsed me, endorsed my position.
But yes, the guy who moved allowed to move forward. The Haitian
whipping incident nonsense. Even when the photographer took the picture was like, no,
this is not he let Mayorcis go forward with all of that insanity.
The border patrol agents did not endorse you. You had homeland security like Union
folks who did. But the border patrol agents Union, which is its own
thing, has endorsed Trump and they haven't endorsed him in the past, and
it's because the majority of agents realize what's going going on down there and the
level of disrespect that's shown when you know you're trying to hang him over that
that those still framed photos of what is a traditional way that you ride a
horse with split reins, they didn't endorse you, and it was they almost
immediately came out and said that's that's not true. So he really didn't do
anything to address it. And I kind of thought that if you're going to
see anything leaned into, that would have been it. And it clearly wasn't
the rased agic or no, no, I'm sorry, it's not Ray.
Who do we got this morning, Jeff mar Jeff Maher is going to lean
into spaghetti models because I see you guys got those going, oh yeah for
next week. They're peering all over my news speeds. So let's talk short
term and maybe long term what's going on, Jeff. I'm talking about some
hot temperatures that are going to be out here in the afternoon hours today and
for that matter, through the weekend. Before you get a little bit of
relief early next week. In the meantime, though, drive this morning,
sunshine this afternoon to hind your ninety four today, and then clouds will increase
tonight. There may be an isolated shower thutderstorm popping up this evening over night.
A low down to seventy four tomorrow, partly to mostly cloudy, hot
and humid, a high ninety five, the heat index into the triple digits,
with an occasional afternoon thunderstorm. Rain increases on Sunday ahead of a front
with behind the mid nineties. Behind that front, clearing and cooler Monday,
with a high close to eighty seven degrees. Okay, Jeff, appreciate it.
We're talking in hour, sir. Okay, sounds good. And uh
the we're gonna just for we got Pete at eight o five peak. Calendar
will join us at eight oh five. Really, the meaty stuff or the
stuff that people are like, I can't wait to see how this goes down.
A lot of it was around, uh, Trump's felony conviction. You
know, what what's Biden gonna do with that? And obviously Hunter's conviction,
what's Trump gonna do with that? And of course you know just the standard
talking points. I can't believe by the way that Biden doubled down on the
good people on both sides. But right, you know, Snopes even like
was like nah and and Trump, and Biden looked like he genuinely still believed
it. That's what was so wild to me. But we'll get into those
those hot button gotcha issues. We got whole string of audio coming up Casey
O Day radio program, and in both the campaign website and the Twitter timeline
of Josh Stein, I don't see any mention of the event. So is
he not going? Is he not gonna go stand with the with the president?
Over? Oh? And not just the president? By the way,
do you know who's you know, who's the entertainment and I guess the MC
if you will for the event? Fat Joe? Yeah, when's the last
time you heard news about Fat Joe? Man? Fat Joe? And I
think the Triangle Pride band. So but over under on whether you thought Ross
do you think Fat Joe was still with us? Because you know, dude's
a big du I don't. I don't know, ill will, I just
want to point this out. I really don't care. But I hadn't thought
about that Joe in some time, So, Annie Who, So we got
but I can't find anything on Stein's Twitter feed or on the on his campaign
website, So I don't know. So maybe I know he and Robinson had
they were in Wilmington yesterday at was it the Chamber or no, it was
what they call it. It's a it's a business leaders thing down there.
I don't know, it's the Chamber. And so they both spoke at that
event down in Wilmington yesterday, and he's posted gazillion things about that, but
I don't see anything on the other thing. So Annie Who, Let's get
into the juicy tid bits, right, suckers and losers, Charlottesville, Stormy
Daniels, felony convictions, your son's a drug addict, all of that.
This was the nastiness. This was the meeting us that people were predicting would
be a large part of this, and it did manifest, but not as
much as I think some people want it. All Right, let's start with
you know, he's not a loser, not a sucker. You're the sucker.
You're the loser, all right. So and again that's the that's the
story where the even the author of the story. You promised to reveal sourcing
on it, just be forgot about it. I don't know whoopsie. And
then Biden does the Stormy Daniels thing after he feigns the outrage over his kid,
and I think he believes this stuff in the same way that I was
watching him. I was watching Biden when he was talking about the Charlottesville thing,
and Trump's like, dude, this has been debunked. This has been
debunked by partisan journalists. Right, what do you what are you doing?
And it looks Biden. I think Biden honestly believes that that's what he said
without any of the context around it. I think that's and that's amazing to
me because I just assume when people go down that road, they they know
what it is, but they don't care, which is super slimy. But
at least I understand that, you know, you can, you have ears
that work. So this is this is now on the button bar forever.
I didn't have sex with a porn star presidential race. Friends, that's the
other year. Are you gonna tell you should take credit though, for the
playmate of the year though, I mean, AnyWho, All right, let's
get in. Let's get into the conviction because as you can imagine, Biden
did go there, and I think Trump was prepared. It's not new information,
but I think he packaged it effectively. Number two, that was a
case that was started and moved. They moved a high ranking official, a
DJ into the Manhattan DA's office to start that case. That case is going
to be appealed and won. We had a very terrible judge, a horrible
judge Democrat. The prosecutor, we're all high ranking Democrats, pointed people and
both the civil and the criminal. He basically went after his political opponent because
he thought it was going to damage me. But when the public found out
about these cases, because they understand it better than he does. He has
no idea what these cases are. But when they found out about these cases,
you know what they did. My poll numbers went up, way up.
You know that because you're reporting it. And we took in more money
in the last two weeks than we've ever taken in the history of any campaign.
I don't think any campaign has ever taken hundreds of This is by the
way, this is like that caller reference. This is where the fact checkers
get really excited because I don't know if that's I don't know if that's true.
You know, when you've adjusted it for inflation. You know how they
write fact checks. So but you know, it's also how Trump speaks.
Really put the cherry on. Let's bring other people into a pistol whip what
they thought was wrong. Pete Calender Middays WBT. He joins us and Pete,
I want to ask you a question because right at this very moment,
President of the United States is inside of our broadcast footprint. Right I don't
know where he is. I'm assuming they wisto him to the Umstead or something
and stuck him in his crowd chamber. But maybe look, maybe he's not
moving around, and so the possibility exists he could be listening right Yeah,
Okay, what would you say to Joe Biden if he was listening right now?
There's some advice that you would give him, or maybe what would you
want to tell him if you knew that he was listening right now? About
last night, mister president, you did a fantastic job. There are people
that don't recognize how awesome of a job you did last night. Your record
is awesome as well. Keep up the great work. Stay the course.
People will they will come back to your camp. I know the pulling might
be a bit squirrely right now, but I think it'll settle out in your
favor. You probably will win every single star eight because everybody hates Donald Trump.
I mean, that's just the fact nobody likes him. Uh and right,
yeah, so you're you're you're gonna be fine. Just keep doing what
you're doing. Now. You may hear some calls for people that want you
to like step aside or something, but they're just jealous and they're they're you
know, they've got their own moves in mind, they're trying to secure power
whatever. Uh, don't listen to them. Stay the course, stay in
the race all the way through the convention. You got this this segment,
by the way, being brought to you by the wheelbarrow full of money next
to Pete right now. So well, wait, I'll tell you why,
I'll tell you what was fascinating, and then finish up where you're at.
And if you've got to pause randomly for five seconds at a time during your
response, that's fine too. Way ahead of you, Okay, what clear
thinking presidents do They gather their thoughts, Casey well he had a cold,
Pete so and Trump lied. Why wouldn't you talk about Trump's lies? Trump
was a liar last night. Everybody knows Trump black All my life, I've
been on this side of the equation. Well, I forgot. I took
that audio was the smaller one. But that's Trump saint Biden lies. So
I don't know what to believe. Here's here's though. There was two things
that were very telling to me. And I try to look for the things
that maybe the other hosts aren't gonna notice, so we don't all sound like
One. Uh, there was a glaring lack of he's wearing an ear piece
conspiracy theories on Twitter yesterday and I think nose, Well, that's did you
not see? Right? Did you not see? He jiped? Okay and
then in the crack of his behind and then uh probably didn't Biden came up
to remove it. So but but no, like a lot of the stuff
that was normally there wasn't there, and I think that was an indicator of
the job. But two, and this is the most important. It made
Ross watch Ross in the morning, he or in at night. He goes
to bed, right and then he it's up and he comes in extra early,
and that's how he ingested debate. I think it's so I don't text
him all night, but the fact that he watched it, that's crazy town.
Man. Yeah. Well, and the worst part was that if they
were dosing the president with any kind of meds, which by the way,
there was a but there is a pill. Like the people on the left
were dismissing this idea that the president would be juiced up somehow on you know
prescriptions, like like, oh, that's so stupid, but it's actually not.
There's the former chief of staff for Donald Trump, Mick mulvaney. He
was on our morning show a couple of well, I guess Monday morning,
and he talked about there is a pill. There is a prescription. It's
in the White House medicine cabinet. He knows because he took it. It's
called provigil and I think the name, the actual name is like madafinil or
something like that. And they use this. They give it to pilots to
to be focused and uh and clear on long trips, on long missions and
stuff like that. To me, they tried to prescribe that. A doctor
tried to prescribe it to me, and I'm like, no, I don't
want your I don't want that. You don't want to be too smart.
I have a very love hate relationship with prescription medicines anyway. And I guess
also they use it for smoking cessation, because I have the doctor explain it
to me, and I'm just like, you know, I'm good, and
it was really expensive. But when your president, I suppose I'm paying for
it. So yeah, I saw it. I saw that post. I
actually talked about it earlier this week. Oh good. Yeah, like I
had, like I had long suspected that they were, you know, every
president, not just this one, but every one of them. These guys
keep ridiculous schedules right there, flying all over the world. They got to
then get off the plane and do negotiations and you know, high stake stuff,
and so there has to be there at the very least, are getting
ivy right at the very least. So when uh Mick mulvaney explained this,
and I was like, well, that makes perfect sense. The problem is
I think they they were. I think if they were using him with something
that you know, his cold maybe got in the way of it, or
the timing the release was not timed well because he got stronger the longer the
debate went on. The problem is he was so bad at the beginning,
and he confirmed everybody's fears at the beginning that people who don't watch all the
way through, and that's most Americans that don't care about politics, they're going
to tune in, they're going to see the opening. They're going to catch
a couple of minutes or whatever, maybe twenty of it, and then they're
gone. And the first that first half of the debate was just painful.
And anyone who has had an aging grandparent or parent in their lives, they
have seen the signs, they have seen this behavior. It is it is
so obvious now that even media and Democrats but I repeat myself, can't ignore
it, which to me is like the funniest part of all of this,
although it's terrifying, but the funniest part is that all of these Democrat lawmen,
makers and strategists and media people that are like, I can't believe this
performance, but really, were you just believing the bs about the cheap think?
So what's that all cheap think? I mean that was the big winner
last night was the split screen shot, right like that's oh yeah, that
that conveyed everything that we need to know. And honestly, I got to
give credit to Donald Trump. And I don't do this very often, but
I got to give him credit. He did not. He did not go
off like, you know, an unhinged lunatic. That's how the show.
Yes, oh yeah, and so yes, he did what he had to
do because if he had, if he had behaved as he has in the
past, then I think that would have overshadowed and it would have given people
the ability to kind of look past by him. But he just kind of
you know, all they've got is like, oh he lied, Yeah,
well so did Joe Biden. He lied like two dozen times too, about
all sorts of stuff. That's what politicians do. They lie all the time,
especially Joe Biden. He's been doing it for sixty years. So I
thought, h Trump did a I thought he did a good job. I
mean on a Trump scale, right, he's not well, no, normal,
that's exactly. Yes, that's exactly. And to echo your point,
there is that fine line to where you're acknowledging saying, hey, look at
this, but you're not doing it so often that people the simple you want
it's okay to be sympathetic to what's happening with Biden. And as you pointed
out, I watched this with the family member with my mom, with my
grandmother who literally we had to explain to her my mom died several times,
like it's the emotions to go along with it are just wild because my mom
passed away before she did. And so if Trump goes like first debate between
those two and it's just all in and every answer includes cognitive stuff, you
you dig Biden out of that hole. So I don't know if somebody,
I don't know if Trump thought of the measured approach or somebody convinced him it
was his own idea or whatever, but it worked. And yeah, the
format that the Biden camp pressed for actually benefited Donald Trump more so. And
also keep in mind, the earliest this is a debate has ever happened,
right, And this was at the behest of the Biden camp, right.
They asked for this. They prepped for a week with like two dozen people
around Joe Biden to fully prepare him. Built, they said, they built
a face right in an airplane hangar. It's it's like the Bellagio highst in
ocean's eleven. It's rat Yeah, and so keep in mind, this is
this is peak, This is the best. Like, the thing about this
kind of cognitive decline and physical decline is that you'll never be better than you
are today, right, there is no there is no getting better. You
don't turn the corner on this. And and so what we saw was a
week of preparation. Right, this is Joe Biden performing at his best,
and this is what that looks like. And then of course you have to
ask who the hell is actually in charge now, because it's pretty obvious that
Joe Biden is not. And if you watch doctor Jill helping him down the
stairs at the end of the debate. After the debate was over, you
could see the feed that's coming from CNN, and it's again painful to watch.
Now I do have some good news. The good news out of all
of this, yeah, yeah, is Kalala Harris has to go. Like
that's the silver lining here is now everybody is aware that the vice president needs
to somehow get off the ticket because if she's still there, they can't get
rid of Joe. They have put themselves in a very very tight spot here
because if they want to get rid of Joe Biden as now you see all
these people talking about it inside the democratic circles, because that's what democracy looks
like. I'm told is to not let your voters decide who is going to
be the nominee, but you're going to go into a convention and pick somebody
else. So they but they can't do that. You can't remove him with
well no, so and this is where And I'm glad that you're digging into
this because I don't know that I am comfortable that I know exactly the answer
to this. There are mechanisms within each Both parties have mechanisms because right,
you know, if a candidate dies, what do you do, Like you
have to have some sort of scenario for this. So it's one thing to
say, you know, if they just eighty six Biden, but if he
comes out and he's like, look we got a lot going in with the
family, I'm going to go, you know, take the you know that
standard thing. Does he instantly go to Kamala because we haven't gone to the
nomination the nominating thing. And I wonder if Republicans or the Trump campaign made
a mistake by not waiting until after he was nominated, So what do you
know? So he is so at sitting president, like the party is irrelevant
at this point because he's sitting president. If he's going to step down,
then Kamala takes over, takes over. Yeah, I got that, understood,
understand that. So so then what what then what comes next? Right,
she's obviously if if that's if that happens first, then she is obviously
going to seek the nomination. Now, maybe that happens in an open convention
and they have to fight it out and then she gets she gets bumped.
Right in the convention, you get super delegates. They do things differently over
right. But part of the problem right now, you've got a problem,
though, is that like some of these electors are already committed and they can't
be like Wisconsin, they can't be moved from Joe Biden. What happens to
those don't know? Right? They're going to do for the numbers that you
have that are still uncommitted, so long as the committed don't outweigh it.
So I mean, and you know as well as I do, that rules
at a convention can change, can change absolutely, and they do. They
they love doing that. So you yeah, I'm gonna speed you along too,
just because I have like nine things I want to get to. I
Look, here's the problem is, there's two problems. One, the conversations
right now are about down ballot races and fundraising the big any donors aren't going
to give them money. Josh Stein, do you, by the way,
do you think he shows up to that rally today at the news? Yeah,
I couldn't find anything on his Twitter or any of the rest of this.
But but that is that's their that's their huge problem here. And uh
and so they had they have to go ahead and figure that out. And
if people just go, look, I'm not throwing money at that, that
is devastating. So that but the problem is is Democrats do something that Republicans
don't, and that is lockstep on stuff. Right, and so all of
the things that voters hate right now about what Biden's doing, Any candidate you
could possibly think of is on record going, yeah, screw Israel or yeah,
no, the border's fine. Right, They're mired in it because everyone
has to be in lockstep. So it's a double problem in my opinion.
Oh yeah, well, yeah, you've got the donors that are closing their
checkbooks. I've seen multiple stories about it already today they're like, I'm not
going to put money on that, And that then creates problems if you are
the organization of the you know, Democrat Party at the state or national level,
because you need that money obviously to sprinkle around into all of the different
races. In North Carolina Democrats that are always every single year, they're like,
we're at swing state, We're in play. You should put a bunch
of money in here. Here. A few years ago, weren't they basically
go around the verge of bankruptcy. Yeah, correct, Yeah, they were
about to lose their headquarters because they couldn't pay the rent. So kay Hagen
had to use the Wake County Republic or Wake County Democrat Party apparatus to help
her in her campaign against Tom Tallis, which she lost because the state party
was a wreck. So the the down ballot impacts from a fundraising standpoint,
it just means there's not going to be enough money going around at the lower
levels to help the local candidates. And now I mean the Democrats. This
this could cost them the Congress. They could lose every winnable Senate see and
healthy. Yeah, if the money. We're the most important governor's race.
That's what I heard. And so the you know, the the gazillion dollars
they were going to spend, I mean, bad news for us, right,
that's that's our money. Yeah, that's the reality of it. So
let me ask you this, just because I got just about two minutes left.
Give me the where what we see over the next week peak calendar prediction,
and then if you're wrong, will beat you up next week. So
fire away, sir. What do you where do you think this? What
do you think we start seeing as the news cycle opens today, today,
today, over the next week people, So for the next three days,
right, So I think for the next three days, you're going to be
seeing all of the you know, the internal deliberations, if you will,
in the leaking of stories and narratives about what to do about Joe Biden.
Right, You're going to see some I think pushback you know, from the
White House on that stuff. I doubt that they're going to do any kind
of like uh like collaring Jean Pierre kind of uh uh uh press conferences from
the podium for a while. But I could be wrong on that. As
you know, it's like I don't know, like they're gonna They're gonna try
to, you know, make whatever case they can. But I don't think
Joe is going anywhere. I said this before. I really like, I
think there's gonna be an effort to try to get him out, but I
I don't think he's he's interested in leaving, and I don't think the family
is like they all knew this. Everybody that saw that last night has to
know that this is not the first time they saw him, and so the
family is going to be pushing back on that. Now, maybe I'm wrong,
and maybe some of the poohbahs in the Democrat Party go up to him
and like, hey man, you need to you need to step aside,
right, Yeah, I don't Yeah, I don't think so. I think
they're going to try to focus like the next thing that Donald Trump says that
is borderline wacky, it's going to be just all in. Yeah, it's
I think they're gonna have to try to bigfoot the story. All right,
Pete Calender, And I'll tell you what. I don't know. If you
saw the Kamala post debate, We're gonna play that audio for all you coming
up. Uh, don't send her to do it. That's uh, that
would not work out. But all right, Pete, well I'm sure your
show is going to be banging. You can streaming on the iHeart Radio app
and we'll talk next week and be right back hang on. All right.
You know, I hate to do this on the air, but I'm on
the air, and I'm in this segment, and I was going to get
into this thing. And and Rossie, look, you put in a lot
of work, thank you, you know, getting getting in an hour early
today, all of the great audio. We got more. We're gonna get
into the Kamala Harris audio. So understand that. I appreciate that. But
I asked for Today's New York Times cover first today it's two hours early.
Well, second, that's today's paper. It's no, there's no, there's
It couldn't possibly be today's pay What is the lead story here? Justice is
ruling in perils the aid deal for opioid crisis. Oklahoma moves to require teaching
the Bible in school as sons. There's an assange follow up. China I
Ran intensifies work on nuke's. How is that today's That couldn't possibly be today's
paper? You're telling me that The New York Times, on the front page
of their paper, top and bottom fold, didn't run a single story about
the debate. I mean, there's more important things going on, right and
I'm sure somewhere in the back well. Now, if you go to the
op ed section, it's every writer is abandoning, including Friedman and others.
It's it's crazy. If you go to the opinion section of New York Times
right now, everyone's like, hey, we love you, but no,
so there's that. Now. Did you see the headline and CNN? I
am so inundated with headlines? Maybe I did, Maybe I didn't. What
what happened to It just says we are I'm not kidding. Stop, it
says we are on there. So if I go to their website right now,
that's not that they bleep out the F word, but yeah, that
is their headlight on the babylon b right. No, do you understand that.
I feel this is why I brought the multiverse up, because oh wow,
oh uh, President Biden, if you're listening, don't go to CNN
dot com. Okay, you could just avoid doing that, that'd be great.
That is savage in the New York Now Obviously The New York Times does
have stories. They actually have it, so they have it. I guess
they have a debate section and they're like, no, we have a debate
section. That's why it's not on the front. Whatever. Shut up.
The op ed is just one after another. The hits keep coming kind of
stuff. It's wild. But I just like it's I have the inability this
morning. You know, we've been doing this for so long. There's things
behind the scenes. You don't know the level of giddiness omitting from Ross's studio
this morning, where every every every break we go to break he's like,
oh my gosh, did you see what I just put on the button bar?
I mean, we have a page and how we have thirty five audio
cuts today, a lot of it. I will not get to all of
them. I will not get to all of them, but I want you
to leave that page up because I expect when certain people start certain criticisms,
then we can just go back to it. So, yeah, there's a
page and a half is monstrous. I mean, it just cuts twenty six.
We could fit twenty six on the button bar, right, but yeah,
twenty four. Yeah, it's just a matter of like I said last
night going to bed, because every single time one of these things rolls around,
it's always the same, Right, we don't see the Joe Biden at
Normandy or we see day to day at that State of the Union or at
these debates. And last night before I went to bed, I picked up
my phones just to check it out, and it was like the the Steve
Carell office meme where suddenly it was like, oh, it's happening, It's
happening. Yeah, Like he's just completely melting down on stage so much,
so much so that you have people like Chrystaliza Sang from the Young Turks or
whever you say his name. He's kind of been out for he's kind of
been out for a while. I will say that you have the guy.
Yeah, you have these people that are always in the tank though, right,
that are like this is not good, Like this is bad bad.
I don't know. But if you think Kamala Harris is going to be the
answer, this is. This was the probably one of the last three things
Ross was very giddy about. And I got a chance to watch it,
and I kind of understand why so Pete mentioned it. But I want you
to remember the terms of this debate, the date of this debate, like,
you know, not having the audience, it's before the thing. Who
who even is going to host? That these were all exactly what the campaign
wanted. I don't think Trump pushed back on anything. And yeah, that's
it was a roll of the dice, but it seemed to have paid off.
So now Kamala Harris is sitting down with Anderson Cooper and it's not going
well. He was a very different person on the stage four years ago when
when you debated him, you must I mean that that's certainly true, is
it not? And by the way, that is a This is a very
good point because remember Kamala was the one with the school bus thing, right
with the bus sing and the little girl picture, and she arguably got the
hardest punch into Biden at the debate of any of the debates, I believe,
to the point where people were really surprised that he would pick her for
VP because she just she called him a racist. But anyway, all right,
so here we go. He was a very different person on the stage
four years ago when when you debated him, you must, I mean that
that's certainly true, is it not? Anderson? The point has to be
performance in terms of what a president does, a president who against the capitol.
No, but I got the point that you're making about a one and
a half hour debate tonight. I'm talking about three and a half years of
performance in work that has been historic. The other night, that, the
other night on the debate, every day. By the way, this is
this is this is akin to being like, well, John Wayne Gacy didn't
kill the kids at the first few parties. He worked, right, Come
on, I mean the good old days. Man, this is a doomed
direction. She's taking this and it's and by the way, you're like,
oh, this is hard to it gets so much worse. The person that
you saw on the debate stage that has for the last three and a half
years up until today, performed in a way that has been about, whether
it be in the Oval Office negotiating bipartisan deals so that we have an infrastructure
a real infrastructure plan where we're putting trillions of dollars on the streets of America
to upgrade our infrastructure. Whether it be the person I see in the Oval
Office who is meeting with heads of the military and the intelligence community, and
in the situation room and by the way, this is and she led herself
into this because you'll hear with Anderson, but stepping into the person I see
in the Oval office. The next logical question that pops into my head,
thankfully, is what Cooper went with here? We got ensuring the safety of
America, the person I see in Joe Biden on the world stage, convening
world leaders who often ask for his advice, most recently just during the G
seven conference. So I'm not going to spend all night with you talking about
the last ninety minutes when I've been watching the last three and a half year.
Here's a performance. But this was a debate that your campaign wanted,
You pushed for this debate at this moment. Yes, yes, this is
everything that you wanted, and he's asking you and you literally give it to
him this debate. How does that comport with what you see? And and
she doesn't want to go there, She doesn't have an answer. I'm blown
away. Nobody prepped her for it at all, because the prepping for her
sitting down after should have started thirty seconds into that debate, right, and
I'm sure did. And she either chose not to or decided that she had
a better answer. But there I have to think that if if somehow,
some way he is out, and maybe he's not going to be, it
has to be a path that doesn't involve her cause I don't think her.
Can you imagine Trump in a debate with her? I don't know. Man.
We'll get some popcorn first, though. Let's get some weather and Jeff
Mars here from the Weather Channel. Since ray takes super long weekends, what's
up, Jeff? What do we doing? Some of the hot weather hats
for sure as we headed it this weekend, and then we'll get a little
bit of relief early next week before temperature starts to rebound heading towards the fourth.
As far as today's sunshine with the light breeze out of the ease the
end result of hind you're ninety four this afternoon and then tonight, increasing clouds,
possibly an isolated shower thunderstorm this evening, with an overnight love of seventy
four, hot in human tomorrow high in the mid nineties, the heat index
hitting the triple ditch when you factor the humidity. The temperatures climb a few
more isolated afternoon thunderstorms, that chance for rain increasees Sunday, which showers likely
also some more thunderstorms and a high. You're ninety five than clearing Monday with
a high reaching eighty seven degrees. All right, Jeff, thank you so
much, sir, do appreciate it. And we'll chat with Jeff Bellinger from
Bloomberg News. Ras. Shall we get Jeff's debate reaction? I wonder if
you'll go there? All right, we'll try hang on. Well, good
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Retail sales were soft in April and May, and chain store executives said during
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of his own money into the project. Casey, alrighty, thank you much.
Jeff, you want to you want to do a Beata analysis with us?
Did you watch last night or I couldn't stay up and watch it.
I heard a lot of clips from it, and I think I heard what
everybody else heard. I'm going to leave it at that. All right,
fair enough, Thank you sir, appreciate it. Have a good weekend.
Take care. Yep, there you go. Jeff Bellingcher Bloomberg News and uh
yeah, all right, what did I What nine things have you learned in
the last five minutes? Ross that has you giddy other than savaging by who
is that? Chris Wallace? Chris Wallace called it a car crash that just
keeps going, repeating over and over again in slow motion. You know,
we we we mentioned the comparison when they built like the fake stage to like
Ocean's eleven. Can you imagine if the heist had gone that wrong, right,
just I mean they'll just right, they'll just go in a shot,
right yeah, all yeah, whoopsie, Yeah that was I have We have
so much audio and get too but that's okay. Some of this, some
of this will definitely be rebounding coming up here. Is there any cuts that
you pulled that I hadn't played yet that you're like, oh, you got
to play it because obviously you you dubbed in a corrupt Oh the new Something,
Maybe I should play that? Yeah, I got time. So Gavin
Knewso who looks like he fell asleep in a Tanning booth, he had some
thoughts supposed to Bate. You were out there getting a chorus of questions about
whether Biden should step down. There is a panic that is set in.
Well, there is panic that has set in among people who have watched this
debate, who are Democrats, people who are strategists, and some even inside
Democratic campaigns. Do you think it's unfounded? Well, I think it's unhelpful,
and I think it's unnecessary. We've got to go in, got to
keep our heads high, and as I say, we've got to have the
back of this present. You don't turn your back because of one performance.
What kind of party does that. It's been a masterclass. Fifteen point six
million jobs. That's eight times more than the last three Republican presidents can buy.
The only thing to last. By the way, the job stuff makes
me so irritated. And Trump did address it, but it's you know,
it's rebound stuff. It's in California. That's crazy because we just had the
story in California with all those jobs they said they had last year, it
turned out to not be true and they were a net loss. So this
guy, this guy to lie about. Anything Republican presidents have in common is
recessions. Democrats deliver. This president is delivered. We need to deliver for
him at this moment. With all due respect. The more time we start
having these conversations go down these rabbit hole it's unhelpful to our democracy, a
fate and future of this country the world. They need us right now to
step up, and that's exactly what I intend to do. Yeah, that's
a dude. By the way, I still think is jockeying for Kamala's job.
But the scenarios that they've discuss, because remember she was a senator,
nobody wants to backpedal, is putting her on the Supreme Court. You've heard
that talk, right, which but then you have to talk one of the
Democrats into stepping down on the on the court or one of the appointees.
And you know that you saw how well that worked with Ginsburg. So uh
yeah, that's rock and hard play stuff right there. Man. Uh all
right, I just played this one more time. I didn't have sex with
a porn star because I love that that's in my system right now. And
then, uh, finally, just because I was very amused by the golf
discussion and I demand that this round of golf take place. That even entered
into it, well in my computered a little bit. Look, I'd be
happy to have a driving contest again. I got my handing. Well,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you wanted to play a round of
golf, not a driving contest. By the way, I'd still watch that,
but I want to see the whole thing what he is. Look,
i'd be happy to have a driving contesting him. I mean, I got
my handicap, which one I was down to a six. And by by
the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf. If
you carry your own bag, I think you can do it. That's the
biggest live And here's the sixth handicap of all. I was an eight handicap
eight, but I know this one. I don't know. That's so funny.
And then he says to Trump, he goes, see, I'll take
you on if you if you carry your own bag. Yeah, he said
that before too. And I didn't understand the guy standing on stage looking like
he's about to drop dead.