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Hey Shannon, this is an easy, hard working long storm and down
here is pork. We're busier than buzier than bees down here. Hey,
uh, Gary, Man, I don't know. Some people calling up telling
me you're dumb. You're not dumb. You're a smart guy. Man,
Thank you the hell they thinking? And Shannon, I've been mainlining mozzarella stream
cheese the last couple of nights. Yeah, And I don't know, man,
I tend to have better dreams when I have cheese before I go to
bed. Yeah, true story. And you know what that is a very
low calorie cheese. You've chosen HS dreams. Remember our friend who said,
I'm sorry, I don't swear a lot, but how the fuck is this
legal? Yes? And I think he works. Hey Gary, Shannon,
that guy was cool. That guy should be our president. He's the best.
That's what we need. Somebody that's his all the time and talking.
I like that guy. That guy for president. My vote. We haven't
had an f at Friday for a long time. And that is apparently what's
happening. We didn't even try. It's time for swamp watch. Swamp is
horrible. Government doesn't work. Man, make it like a reality TV show.
A bad always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a swamp and in so
many ways still a swamp. I have to watch a malwarkee. What he
said, drained the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so he wash.
You know the thing. One of the biggest bombs for Biden dropped on
Wednesday with that op ed by George Clooney saying it's time to step aside.
Another massive bomb dropped today in the New York Times with the big donors telling
the largest pro Biden super pack that they have frozen their money ninety million in
pledged donation frozen if he remains on top of the ticket. That is,
that is where it's going to come from. That's where the pressure is going
to come. Not eighteen members of the House, Democratic members of the House,
not even a senator who's going to come out and say it's going to
be the money, because listen, money is driven or sorry, politics is
driven by money. There is supposed to be a campaign rally in Michigan today
for President Biden after that news conference from yesterday and mixed reviews. The bar
was very, very low, and he he covered it. He met that
they. I don't think he did better than expectations. I don't think he
did worse. He didn't do. The only thing age does is helping with
it creates a little bit of wisdom if you pay attention. Yes, this
was not a great way to start. The very first he hit about eight
or nine minutes and prepared remarks and then started with this, why can't you
be AOK. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,
so I think she's not qualified to be president. That would start there.
That was the first thing he said. Once the teleprompter was turned off.
That was the first question. And I understand that with age comes wisdom.
But then step aside and be a consultant for the next Democratic president. Let
them consult you, let them call you up, live your life, relax,
don't have the grueling schedule that is the sitting president of the United States.
I had the thought, I mean, if everybody wanted to talk about
his bona fides when it came to foreign policy, which I think he did
well. I mean, and I would hope that he would do well.
He's the president should yeah, he could be the secretary of State. And
then I thought about, wait a minute, think of the travel schedule of
the secretary of State, probably four or five times more grueling than the president,
just in terms of they they have to go on a moment's notice.
How many times has Anthony Blincoln been back and forth from the Middle East in
the last seven or eight months, and that just as an example. And
if travel is one of the things that drags him down, admittedly he says
it is, then you don't want him to do that, you know.
I was wondering, continuing to wonder why they nicknamed that the Big Boy Press
Conference. It wasn't something that the administration came up with. It was something
that they adopted from somebody in the media. Why would you go with that?
And the only thing that I can think of is they're trying to make
light of it. Yeah, and this is not a job to make light
of. And this is not a moment in American history to make light of.
It's very serious. I'm most amazed at the number of people who refuse
to to trust their own eyes when it comes to this right and beyond any
sort of feelings about politics or anything, there is a determination that we all
have have to make about who it is that's leading the country. You can
like him, you can hate him. You can think he's the best president,
you can think he's the worst president, you can think he's better than
the alternative. Whatever you want to believe. But there is something going on
here and we can't just ignore it. We can't just close our eyes and
put our fingers in our ears and go, I don't see it. I
don't know what you're talking about. But Jamie Harrison is the chair of the
DNC and wants to talk about a master class that was held last night at
that news conference. Listen. I think he was clear, I think he
was strong and really, Chris, he put on a master class in terms
of complex international foreign policy tonight and listen. He is good at foreign policy.
He knows the things that he's got to say. But he didn't wow
me with anything. Now that does not, by definition, does not constitute
a master class. He was already a disadvantage when he ran for president the
first time, because he's not a great orator. He's just not. And
what happens is whatever skill set you have, it starts to dwindle a little
bit. That's just hopefully we all get there. I'm just curious why you
guys aren't talking about Project twenty five or Project twenty twenty five. Very interesting,
very interesting. No one wants to talk about it, but there's a
lot of chatter of what's going on. Crazy? Okay, we'll do Project
twenty twenty five when we come back. It's not a thing. I mean,
it's a everybody wants to blow. It's this small smoldering fire that everybody's
trying to blow oxygen into and throw gasoline on the fire. But it's I
don't You're not just a surrogate. You're somebody who's getting text messages and emails
every day to consider running. How do you handle all of that? Delete?
Delete, delete, thank you, delete and rents repeat. I'm all
in no daylight. You never even engage in it privately? No, I
don't, absolutely not, absolutely not. I know one thing, everything you
do in private becomes public. Private thoughts, that's publicly friends, Yeah,
everything you do, everything you do in private becomes public he did you see
the s eating grin on his face or in that whole thing. Yes,
it's awful. It's just it's so it's just conniving, like it's so backstabby.
He was asked at a news conference yesterday by the Way about George Clooney's
op ed piece in the New York Times suggesting that Joe Biden not be at
the top of the table governor. Following up on the national topic that was
brought up yesterday, George Clooney says that that Joe Biden America saw during on
the debate stage, it's the same one that he saw at the Peacock Theater.
You were there at the fundraiser, and you were there at the debate.
Are you not seeing what he sees? No, well, we've been
I think all of us that were at that fundraiser wondering what they were thinking
is scheduling the president who just got overseas to a fundraiser late at night.
And I came home very exhausted that night, and all I had to do
was fly down from Sacramento to LA And I think the first comments I had
to the President were like, who did your schedule? I can't couldn't even
handle three hours and a red eye let alone coming from overseas. So to
me, that's those are two different things. The person I show up at
that fundraiser was a human being like any of us, exhausted. But as
it relates to the debate, that's a that's a whole different debate and conversation.
Okay, So so hold on a second. So, yes, I
did see him in diminished capacity. Yes, he seemed tired. Yes he
was not coherent. Yes there were problems, but he was tired. And
that's different than what we saw at the debate. That that's that was his
that was his response to us. Yeah, no pull, no poll says
that. Hakeem Jeffries sent a letter to the Democrats in the House today.
He said that he met with President Biden last night. It was a meeting
he asked for. He says, in my conversation with President Biden, I
directly express the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path
forward that the Caucus has shared in our recent time together. Nowhere in this
short three paragraph letter to his Democratic colleagues does he say I'm writing and dying
with Joe Biden or anything anything close to that. And we mentioned this at
the beginning of Swamp Watch, the ninety million dollars that is currently on hold.
One of the largest political action committee supporting President Biden has said that that
ninety million dollars in fundraising money pledge donations specifically, is on hold if President
Biden remains at the top of the ticket. Well, you don't want to
fund something that you're not going to get the fruits of your labor. You
don't want to throw you're an age money after bad Yeah, yeah, Okay,
So the Project twenty twenty five thing. Project twenty twenty five is about
a nine hundred page written plan for very conservative slash Republican policies on just about
every aspect of American life. Christian backing Heritage Foundation. Yeah. So there
are questions people are trying to tie this to Trump, and there's a couple
of reasons why I don't think he has anything to do with it. I
know there are what is it, one hundred and twenty five or one hundred
and forty people who have written parts of this worked in the Trump White House
or worked in the Trump administration at some point. But he has said he
has no idea about it, and doesn't endorse it and doesn't agree with parts
of it, but he will take those conservative religious votes. He'll gladly do
that. Yes, But my point is, this is a nine hundred page
document. There is no way on this God's green earth that he is going
to spend any time reading any word of a nine hundred page document, even
if it were to help him in the campaign. That's not who he is.
So listen. He may agree with parts of it, but this is
not his thing, this is not his style. And then listen, to
be frank, a lot of this stuff isn't going to go anywhere. A
lot of it is way too far to the right to be appreciated or endorsed
by the vast swath of the middle of this country. He's not going to
vote for banning pornography. No, he knows all the money that's in pornography.
I suppose Hi, Gary hy Shannon, I'm excited for Steve Gregory's news show.