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The Democrats are doing a lot of
half measures these days, and they're going

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to try to kind of slide by, slide by as if they're half measures

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have solved the whole problem. That
was the theme of the show yesterday,

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and I think it's going to continue
to be the theme today. So I

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think they have a lot of half
measures they've done of just sort of trying

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to sneak Kamala Harris in when boy, I think politically it would have been

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a lot smarter for them to do
a whole measure completely start with a fresh

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slate. She's got more baggage than
any other Democrat option. She's probably the

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least popular out of all the available
Democrat options. Mark Kelly from Arizona,

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Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania, Gretchen Whitmer
from Michigan. Heck, even Gavin Newsom

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might be more popular than Kamala Harris's. Harris inherits all of the bad baggage

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of the Biden presidency. Plus she
still inherits the age problem for Biden.

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And that's the thing I think I
want to discuss. The media is going

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to start acting like the Biden as
best they can, although maybe Biden's health

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gets to a crisis point and it
just becomes insoluble, and maybe Democrats will

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just have to make the shift.
Democrats are going to try to act like,

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well, Biden's out now, So
the age issue that's off the table.

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Hmm, No, couple of things. As long as Biden is still

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in office. The age issue remains
a problem for Kamalo. Why because as

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the vice president, it's her job
to know how the president's doing. It's

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her job to make sure that he's
still physically and mentally able to run the

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country. And if he ceases to
be physically or mentally capable of running the

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country, then she has a tough
constitutional role and decision that has to be

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made to avoid the kind of I
think it was Woodrow Wilson who towards the

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end of his presidency was so sick
and infirmed that basically his wife was running

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the country like she was deciding things
Kamala Harris would need to fulfill to basically

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use the mechanism of the twenty fifth
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functioning American president. Why Well,
because of the fundamental structure of how American

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governance works, which I'll get to
in a second year. But basically,

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the Biden age issue doesn't go away
with this half measure that Democrats have landed

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on. Biden drops out of the
race, but he does not resign the

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presidency. She's still gonna get asked
about it. She's going to be asked

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about it at every debate she has
with Trump. She's going to be asked

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about it repeatedly. Is Joe Biden
still running the country? You know,

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Joe Biden dropped out or do you
have confidence he can still run the country.

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And she's going to have to stand
there in front of the American people,

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none of whom believe Joe Biden is
well enough to be president, by

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the way, and that's the other
thing people didn't People thought Biden was too

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old to be president before, you
know, a month ago, before his

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terrible debate performance. They certainly all
believe he's too old to be president now

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that he's dropped out of the race
and basically admitted that point. So she's

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going to have to stand up there
and implausibly tell people, oh, yeah,

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he's definitely still running the country.
Oh yeah, he's definitely still fine.

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The age issue just doesn't go away
for Democrats unless and until Biden resigns,

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And even if Biden resigns, I
think people are going to start asking

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her, well, when did you
know that the president was going senile?

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They're Democrats coming out now with stories
going all the way back to twenty twenty

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one about how Biden seemed amazingly reduced. We have stories coming out that the

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cabinet hasn't met since October of twenty
twenty three. You know, they haven't

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met for nine months. How is
Kamala Harris not going to have to be

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held responsible that? How would the
sitting vice president not be viewed as uniquely

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culpable if there was a cover up
of Biden's condition, How would the vice

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president not be uniquely culpable? Because
that's because this, this is the problem.

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It's one thing for Biden to drop
out, but it's another thing to

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explain it. You know, Biden
just said in his sort of in the

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statement that was put on Twitter in
his name, which was very weird,

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by the way, and gives the
appearance of something that's done when your circle

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of confidence is shrinking to about four
or five people, and this is the

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best we can do with four or
five people in the room, even down

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to like it was. The wording
and drafting of that letter was odd and

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not very well done. It wasn't
done on official White House letterhead. It

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had some kind of e signature put
on it. It wasn't like an actual,

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you know, ink by hand signature. It was a very odd thing.

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And then to release it just on
Twitter, not like, hey,

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memo to the press, the President's
going to make an address via video in

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an hour regarding the future of the
campaign, you know, not a press

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release giving people a heads up.
No, just all of a sudden on

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Twitter. Boop, here's a letter. Biden's dropped out of the race,

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taking everyone by surprise, including his
own White House staff, his campaign.

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Everyone was taken by surprise. Now, in the letter, Biden doesn't say

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why he's dropping out. He just
says it's in the best interests of the

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Democrat Party in the American people.
But why is it in their best interests?

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There are only two answers. One
is that he is so mentally or

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physically infirm that he cannot effectively campaign, which, if that's true, he

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also needs to resign. You can't
say that I'm physically with it enough to

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be the president, but not to
run for president. That makes no sense.

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The other option is I'm dropping so
much in the polls and politically,

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I'm in such a position that I
know I will lose. The other option

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is fundamentally undemocratic because Democrats had a
whole primary process in which to consider that

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and voted for him. Nobody else
ran against him significant other than you know,

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Dean Phillips. And the problem is
it's really kind of both. His

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obvious declining mental and physical strength led
to a situation where the donors refused to

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give any more money, which would
mean that he would lose polling wise.

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But that's the thing. They're going
to try to sort of play this sort

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of charade of not openly saying,
hey, I'm not physically capable of doing

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this anymore. They're not going to
say that because Biden wants to still be

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president. Jill wants to still be
the first lady. They don't want.

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Biden doesn't want to resign midstream.
Only one American president has ever resigned the

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office midstream, and that was Richard
Nixon. Biden doesn't want to be in

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that camp, even Lyndon Johnson,
who only he served out the end of

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his term through nineteen sixty eight into
January of nineteen sixty nine. I guess

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so, I don't think that Harris
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age. And she's the one candidate
the Democrats could put forward that wouldn't be

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able to escape it. If the
Democrats actually had an open convention and just

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open the field, everyone's stand,
everyone, come on board, Everyone shoot

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your shot. Let's let's see who's
gonna win the nomination. Andy Basher from

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Kentucky wouldn't have to answer anything about
Biden's age. That's not his job,

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it's not his responsibility. Mark Kelly
from Arizona wouldn't have to answer for it.

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Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvani wouldn't have to
answer for it. Gretchen Whitmer from

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Michigan wouldn't have None of the other
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The only one who will have the
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Kamala. And I think Democrats have
sort of convinced themselves, the donors have

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convinced themselves of some things that are
that they can't unders understand because there's so

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much in their little echo chamber.
I think a lot of these Democrat donors

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think that Biden's been a really good
president and the only reason he's losing is

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because he looks old. He hasn't
been a good president. His approval numbers

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are bad, and that is true
regardless of his age. Inflation spiked massively

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during his administration. The Afghanistan withdrawal
was a disaster, and it was the

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Afghanistan withdrawal that was the beginning of
the nosedive for Biden's you know, favorability

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numbers. The only reason the Democrats
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is because Republicans ran a bunch of
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lot of key elections that wound up
losing them, you know, winnable seats

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and sort of dampened the national mood
for Republicans. But Biden is not some

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popular president. He's not been a
very good president by any measure. But

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I think these wealthy Democrats who live, these wealthy Democrat donors who are sort

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of centered around the Bay Area,
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they think the Biden administration has been
hunky Dory, So of course, let's

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just get rid of the age issue
and put Kamala Harris up there. Biden

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was doing badly because of the performance
of his administration. The reason why he's

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losing in states like Pennsylvany. He
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and Wisconsin is because his presidency was
doing poorly. It wasn't just because he

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was old. The mood for There's
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either Biden or Trump, and the
election is going to be decided on how

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they break. The folks who didn't
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The folks who didn't like Trump or
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Now looked like they were going to
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of them, and they don't like
And Kamala Harris is not any more popular

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than Biden. She's not more popular
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think we're gonna start seeing polls.
We haven't had had many polls that account

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for Biden dropping out. A lot
of the early polling we saw, you

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know, Harris versus Trump had to
head that that was before Biden announced he

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was dropping out. But I just
don't think she's gonna pull much better because

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she is just toxic to people in
Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin. She said

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she was openly against fracking. She
was all of these major problems with her

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candidacy. Now, when we return, I want to talk about a little

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bit more about the age issue with
Harris because of the fundamental structure of the

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executive branch and why this is going
to be a problem for Democrats still next

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on the John Girardi Show, there's
kind of a fundamental governmental problem if we

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just kind of skate along the next
six months with Kamala Harris is running for

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president, Joe Biden is. Joe
Biden's still the president. Everybody he was

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too old and sick to effectively run
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old and sick to be president,
and we're going to just kind of coast

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along with Biden as the president.
There's a fundamental problem with that, and

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it has to do with some basics
of constitutional law. So we have three

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branches of our government. We have
the legislative branch that rights our laws.

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We have the judicial branch, which
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and we have the executive branch which
enforces and applies our law. The

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Constitution of the United States vests law
enforcement power in how many people, one

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thousand people, no, one person, one single person. The President of

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the United States, the President of
the United States, has the executive power

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of the federal government. He is
the law enforcement official for the federal government.

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And not just criminal law enforcement.
I'm talking all law. The enforcement

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and application of all the laws of
the federal government sits with him. Enforcement

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of environmental law, the application of
law from the FDA. Basically, it

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goes like this. Any federal agency
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federal law that was created by Congress, it enforces law with the delegated power

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of the President. Every executive branch
agency if you look at its org chart.

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Okay, let's go to the FDA. The FDA is a federal executive

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agency that deals with the regulation approval, not approval, scheduling of drugs.

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The head of the FDA reports to
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Human Services, who reports to the
President. The Environmental Protection Agency reports to

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the head of thee to the Secretary
of the Interior, who reports to the

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President. I think the EPA is
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We've had, you know, all
this controversy about the Secret Service. The

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head of the Secret Service Agent reports
to middle manager Superiors, who reports to

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the Head of the Secret Service,
who reports to the Secretary for the Department

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of Homeland Security, who reports to
the President. All federal law enforcement power,

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the power to enforce the law,
the executive authority of the United States,

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flows from one man, the President. We elect this person. The

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Framers set up our system of government
so that this awesome power of enforcing all

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of the law of the United States
would be in the hands of one politically

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accountable person, a politically accountable person
who knows he is subject to election re

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election, that he only has a
limited time in office to enforce the law,

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and is subject to impeachment or removal
if he does something really egregiously bad.

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Law enforcement power in the hands of
someone who's not politically accountable. The

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Framer's thought could result in tyranny.
That it is law enforcement power, not

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that I think all monarchies are or
have been tyrannies. In history, but

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basically, executive enforcement power unmoored from
political accountability is basically monarchy. Okay,

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you're an unaccountable, single person wielding
power, and that there are monarchical elements

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to the presidency, but it is
ultimately politically accountable. It is politically limited

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by the four year term of office, and politically accountable. You only get

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that job by being elected. So
for us to have a president who is

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so medically and physically mentally and physically
infirmed, where some Democrats have said,

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well, you know, you know, some Democrats have tried to rationalize what's

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going on here by saying, you
know, well, President Biden has a

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great team of people all around him. You know, it's not like he

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has to be you know, no, no team. We didn't elect a

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team. The team can't get impeached. The team isn't accountable to the voters.

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The voters didn't vote for the team. The team is not the font

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from which all executive authority for the
over the federal government flows. The president

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is that we need to have a
living, breathing, functioning president for this

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whole political science experiment to work.
That's it's it's a foundational thing that you

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can you don't have a f youarhead
president. This isn't Great Britain where the

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monarch doesn't really exercise much power at
all. No, the president is a

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real person who exercises genuine authority,
like the idea that so the idea that

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Harris And by the way, who
is the chief official responsible for ensuring this

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well? According to the twenty fifth
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it or the vice president has to
do it of removing the president when he

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is not capable of doing the job
anymore. And given that the vice president

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has likely closer access to the president, I think that job falls mostly on

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her. So this idea that the
Democrats think they can kind of just skate

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by, and maybe they can,
maybe the media will cover that for them

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effectively enough. But I in a
functional democracy, given the fact that he

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was he is clearly very old,
very infirmed. We haven't seen proof of

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you know, we went days and
days and days and days without even hearing

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from him. We heard his voice
yesterday. The press should be asking Kamala

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Harris every single day, how's President
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Is he still there? Still working? If Biden's not going to show himself.

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I mean, this age issue,
I don't know that Democrats have solved

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it because you can't have Harris out
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Nope, Biden's fine, He's still, you know, going one hundred percent.

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When Biden is canceling visits with foreign
leaders like Benjamin Netanyaw was visiting the

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United States, really Biden, Biden
has no more symptoms of COVID left,

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according to his own doctor, he's
almost one hundred percent fine. He can't

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have a meeting with net and Yahoo
where they're you know, sitting ten feet

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apart from each other at a at
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mask or something like like is that
so impossible? Like it's implausible to everyone

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the level that Biden has shut himself
down that things are just normal. So

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there's a massive political and legal problem
with Biden, with us just sort of

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pretending Biden's fine, And really it's
who's making these decisions? Is it ron

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Klain, Like who's actually running the
country when we return? Why all of

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a sudden are Democrats okay with firing
people? Next on The John Girardi Show,

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the head of the United States Secret
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resigning today, and this followed what
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I expect, I mean, let
expectations versus what happened. I expected that

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the House Oversight Committee hearing where Kimberly
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it would turn into kind of partisan
silliness, the normal sort of tribal alignment

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that we see with everything, where
Republicans would blast her, Democrats would not

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blast her or mildly defender, or
they would blast the Republicans in turn for

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politicizing this, and we'd have a
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Because that's what's happened with like every
problem in the entire Biden administration for the

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last three and a half years,
anything that's gone wrong in the country,

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nobody resigns. No one gets fired, No one really gets held accountable.

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Secretary of Marijorkis doesn't get in trouble. No one with the FBI gets in

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trouble. For all the various abuses
of its power that were uncovered during the

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Biden During the Trump administration, nobody
gets fired. Mark Milly can oversee this

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disastrous withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan,
and he doesn't get fired. You know,

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thirteen soldiers get killed in Kabul as
the American military is leaving. We

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leave hundreds of American civilians in Afghanistan. As we pull out, we abandon

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all of these Afghan people from Afghanistan, who the Afghan translators and people who

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worked with us and our military w
while we were there, to god knows

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what fate. Maybe the Taliban will
kill them all. Nobody resigned from that.

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No one was forced to be to
be fired from it. Biden didn't

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fire anybody. And I feel like
it's just this attitude. As I talked

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about this a little bit yesterday,
I think there's this attitude in the Biden

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administration that this is the administration of
buy and for career Washington Executive Branch officials,

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that we just sort of assume that
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federal government, we assume, we
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they're liberals and that they are the
professionals, and that Congress scrutinizing them as

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a bunch of interloping know nothings sticking
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federal government and that even if we
do things that have disastrous results, well,

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we were doing the right thing and
we were doing our best. So

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why are you getting so upset about
it that that's ridiculous? Like you tried

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really hard. And for that reason, I was astonished yesterday to see the

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to see the unbelievable harsh critiques from
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were nailing this woman, Kimberly Cheatle, for the security failures surrounding the assassination

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of Donald Trump. And they didn't
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you know horrible Donald Trump was,
or that Trump brought it on, none

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of the weird narratives of Trump bringing
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like, this was the greatest security
failure by this Secret Service since Reagan's,

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the near assassination of Ronald Reagan in
nineteen eighty one. You had Roe Kanna,

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a Democrat congressman who I believe he's
from kind of Silicon Valley area,

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flat out telling Cheatle she should resign
like the head of the Secret Service did

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after Reagan was shot. It's unbelievable, And so the Democrats were taking shot

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after shot after shot, and then
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hour of the committee hearing wrapping up, the chairman and the ranking Democrat,

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the chairman James Comer and the ranking
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implacably opposed to each other for the
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that they've been on this committee together. So Comer is the Republican chair of

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the committee. Republicans have them Jordan
in the House Representatives, So the chairs

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of all the committees are Republicans,
and Republicans have you know, a couple

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more votes than the Democrats do.
Comer is the chair of the committee.

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Raskin is the leading Democrat, the
ranking Democrat. They issue a joint letter,

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signed by both of them, calling
on Cheetle to resign, and it

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was impressive just the amount of stuff
she couldn't answer to. But again,

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we've seen Biden administration executive officials give
crappy, terrible answers to things, refuse

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to show up for congressional hearings,
bizarrely refuse to hand over information. I

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mean, here's Merrick Garland for example. All right, Merrick Garland. I

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think Merrick Garland's defiance of Congress has
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Representatives has been astonishing. Here's Garland, who oversees the Special Council investigation into

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Joe Biden for unlawful retention of his
documents at unlawful retention of classified documents at

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his beach house. Okay, Biden
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He clearly got these documents when he
was Vice president and while he was a

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senator before that classified stuff that he
would have stolen, he keeps it at

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his beach house. And clearly he
had it between twenty seventeen when he left

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the White when he left the Vice
presidency, and January of twenty twenty one

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when he became president. So he
was private citizen Joe Biden in possession of

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all these classified documents that he was
not lawfully allowed to have. Robert Hrr

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investigates him. Robert Herr issues his
Special Counsel report saying, I'm not going

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to charge him, but it was
likely that he did have those documents,

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and I'm not going to charge him
because of his sinility, because he seems

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too old and not with it that
no jury would actually convict him. The

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House of Representatives the Committee demands from
Attorney General Garland, hey give us the

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transcript of Biden's interview with her,
or they demand from Garland. Rather,

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we want to know what the president
said to Robert Hurr, so we want

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the recording. Garland gives them the
transcript. Now, in any other context,

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a transcript isn't good enough in any
legal setting. If you've got an

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audio recording, that's the evidence you
introduce in court. You don't introduce a

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transcript without the audio recording. A
transcript is just like a helpful aid to

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listening to the audio recording, because
the audio recording is the actual evidence her.

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Garland refuses to give the audio recording
to Congress with the most ridiculous reasons

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possible. Oh, well, the
audio recording might be used for deep fakes.

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He's the president in the United States. We've got enough audio of him

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talking. That's a preposterous thing that
you're going to give the transcript but not

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the audio recording. It's ludicrous.
So Biden officials have gotten away with thumbing

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their nose at Congress repeatedly, time
and time again, and with the blessing

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of the White House. Because even
now so Cheatle resigns and immediately after a

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statement comes out from the White House
statement from President Joe Biden on Secret Service

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Director Kim Cheadle. Jill and I
are grateful to Director Cheadle for her decades

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of public service. She has selflessly
dedicated and risked her life to protect our

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nation throughout her career in the United
States Secret Service. We are thank her

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for answering the call the lead of
the Secret Service and are grateful to her

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service to our family As a leader. It takes on recursion incredible integrity to

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take full responsibility for an organization task
with one of those challenging jobs in public

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service. The independent review to get
to the bottom of what happened on July

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thirteenth continues, and I look forward
to assessing the conclusions. We all know

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what happened that day can never happen
again, as I wish him all the

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best, and I will plan to
appoint a new director. Not a word

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of criticism for the woman who oversaw
the agency that just let a former president

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and major presidential candidate get one centimeter
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Biden, and now maybe we'll see
more reporting on this, but would Biden

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have actually fired this woman because we
know how she got her job. She

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got her job because she used to
be a Secret Service agent attached to Jill

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Biden when Jill was the second Lady. When Joe was the vice president,

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Jill was the second Lady. Kim
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Biden became president, Jill pushed him
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So would you have done it?
Are the Democrats so all of a

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sudden, like, why is there
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that we're going to have accountability for
failures by the executive branch? Where did

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this attitude come from? Are they
just thinking she's expendable? Are they basically

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thinking none of us fear Joe Biden
anymore? So instead of looking like idiots

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trying to defend the indefensible, we're
actually going to score some points for being

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not bipartisan and actually hold someone accountable
who's clearly an idiot, who clearly didn't

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do her job, or at the
very least, who clearly didn't do her

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job, and her testimony was ridiculous. She basically wouldn't answer any questions that

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the House gave her, so well, you know, I guess I applaud

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Democrats for doing the right thing here. Even AOC AOC was blast in this

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woman. I wonder why I'm feeling
to see the connection for why we're having

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executive accountability now when we weren't before. When we return the bizarre drama happening

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in the Southern Baptist Convention over how
wonderful Joe Biden is next on the John

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Girardi Show. Now, generally,
when I talk about religious stuff, I'm

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talking about Catholic stuff and various forms
of inside Catholic baseball. As I do

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so, it's with a little trepidation
that I look across the street at other

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denominations. But I've noticed a some
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So the head of the ERLC,
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or convention. I'm not sure what
the C stands for, which is basically

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the public policy advocacy entity that represents
the Southern Baptist Convention. It's got a

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gentleman named Brent Leatherwood. The ERLC
issued this statement about how you know,

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impressive it is that Joe Biden is
stepping down from power and that you know,

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shows you know what a good decision
this is for the country, that

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what a noble thing it is for
Biden to step away from power, which

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everyone read and by the way,
Southern Baptists are usually pretty conservative, the

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most of them, and everyone was
scratching their heads like, what the heck

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are you talking about. He's clearly
was dragged into this, kicking and screaming

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because the donors said they wouldn't give
a dime to any Democrat candidates and the

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whole election would be a disaster.
Probably they were threatening they wouldn't donate for

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a Biden presidential library and museum like
they were. He was dragged, kicking

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and screaming and clawing away, and
he didn't give up the presidency. He

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just said he's not running for reelection. This was not some selfless act by

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Joe Biden. What are you crazy? This in conjunction with this soft kind

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of liberal sympathy that the ERLC leadership
has had, kind of driven by Russell

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Moore who used to be the head
of the RLC. They were very anti

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Trump, and but then that morphed
into being super pro fauci, pro all

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these vaccine narratives, pro the all
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that the ERLC was really pushing on
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Basham, who works for Daily Wire, has covered this pretty extensively. But

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again, and I just want to
focus now. This has resulted in Brent

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Leatherwood, the head of the ROLC, getting fired by the board, then

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getting reinstituted, and the chairman of
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that's happened in the last like twenty
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for one, says a Catholic,
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Catholic bishops generally don't feel compelled to
comment on kind of day to day new

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zy political things like that. They
I mean, they comment on policy stuff,

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but not on things like that.
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oh Jesules, finally, for once, Catholics aren't stepping in it. But

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I just to put a bow on
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this like he's Cincinnatus, the famous
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the dictator basically the temporary dictator,
to fight off the invasion of Rome and

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immediately resigned his power after the threat
to Rome, was defeated and went back

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to plowing his field. You know
that he's our modern day Cincinnatus. No,

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this was not some selfless act by
Joe Biden. He was dragged from

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Power kicking and screaming the whole way. That'll do it for John Girardi Show.

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See y'all next time on Power Talk