WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf I A M six forty, 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.919 The Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio Appen. Hey Gary, 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.160 Hey Shannon, this is an easy, hard working long storm and down 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:16.359 here is pork. We're busier than buzier than bees down here. Hey, 5 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.760 uh, Gary, Man, I don't know. Some people calling up telling 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:22.600 me you're dumb. You're not dumb. You're a smart guy. Man, 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:28.960 Thank you the hell they thinking? And Shannon, I've been mainlining mozzarella stream 8 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.119 cheese the last couple of nights. Yeah, And I don't know, man, 9 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.640 I tend to have better dreams when I have cheese before I go to 10 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:38.600 bed. Yeah, true story. And you know what that is a very 11 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:45.920 low calorie cheese. You've chosen HS dreams. Remember our friend who said, 12 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.799 I'm sorry, I don't swear a lot, but how the fuck is this 13 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.960 legal? Yes? And I think he works. Hey Gary, Shannon, 14 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:57.039 that guy was cool. That guy should be our president. He's the best. 15 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.399 That's what we need. Somebody that's his all the time and talking. 16 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.439 I like that guy. That guy for president. My vote. We haven't 17 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.200 had an f at Friday for a long time. And that is apparently what's 18 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.439 happening. We didn't even try. It's time for swamp watch. Swamp is 19 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.799 horrible. Government doesn't work. Man, make it like a reality TV show. 20 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.319 A bad always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. 21 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:30.640 Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a swamp and in so 22 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.719 many ways still a swamp. I have to watch a malwarkee. What he 23 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.560 said, drained the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so he wash. 24 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.280 You know the thing. One of the biggest bombs for Biden dropped on 25 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.879 Wednesday with that op ed by George Clooney saying it's time to step aside. 26 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:52.359 Another massive bomb dropped today in the New York Times with the big donors telling 27 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.519 the largest pro Biden super pack that they have frozen their money ninety million in 28 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:02.959 pledged donation frozen if he remains on top of the ticket. That is, 29 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.680 that is where it's going to come from. That's where the pressure is going 30 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.520 to come. Not eighteen members of the House, Democratic members of the House, 31 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.319 not even a senator who's going to come out and say it's going to 32 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:20.240 be the money, because listen, money is driven or sorry, politics is 33 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.599 driven by money. There is supposed to be a campaign rally in Michigan today 34 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:32.280 for President Biden after that news conference from yesterday and mixed reviews. The bar 35 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:40.280 was very, very low, and he he covered it. He met that 36 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:44.560 they. I don't think he did better than expectations. I don't think he 37 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:49.719 did worse. He didn't do. The only thing age does is helping with 38 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.000 it creates a little bit of wisdom if you pay attention. Yes, this 39 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.639 was not a great way to start. The very first he hit about eight 40 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.000 or nine minutes and prepared remarks and then started with this, why can't you 41 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.400 be AOK. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, 42 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.360 so I think she's not qualified to be president. That would start there. 43 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.800 That was the first thing he said. Once the teleprompter was turned off. 44 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.840 That was the first question. And I understand that with age comes wisdom. 45 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.439 But then step aside and be a consultant for the next Democratic president. Let 46 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.039 them consult you, let them call you up, live your life, relax, 47 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:29.599 don't have the grueling schedule that is the sitting president of the United States. 48 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.319 I had the thought, I mean, if everybody wanted to talk about 49 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.400 his bona fides when it came to foreign policy, which I think he did 50 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.319 well. I mean, and I would hope that he would do well. 51 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.360 He's the president should yeah, he could be the secretary of State. And 52 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.439 then I thought about, wait a minute, think of the travel schedule of 53 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:50.639 the secretary of State, probably four or five times more grueling than the president, 54 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.199 just in terms of they they have to go on a moment's notice. 55 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:58.360 How many times has Anthony Blincoln been back and forth from the Middle East in 56 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.000 the last seven or eight months, and that just as an example. And 57 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.840 if travel is one of the things that drags him down, admittedly he says 58 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.439 it is, then you don't want him to do that, you know. 59 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:14.479 I was wondering, continuing to wonder why they nicknamed that the Big Boy Press 60 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:18.160 Conference. It wasn't something that the administration came up with. It was something 61 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:23.480 that they adopted from somebody in the media. Why would you go with that? 62 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:27.360 And the only thing that I can think of is they're trying to make 63 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.639 light of it. Yeah, and this is not a job to make light 64 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:35.639 of. And this is not a moment in American history to make light of. 65 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:43.040 It's very serious. I'm most amazed at the number of people who refuse 66 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:51.079 to to trust their own eyes when it comes to this right and beyond any 67 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:59.800 sort of feelings about politics or anything, there is a determination that we all 68 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.240 have have to make about who it is that's leading the country. You can 69 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.199 like him, you can hate him. You can think he's the best president, 70 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.079 you can think he's the worst president, you can think he's better than 71 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.000 the alternative. Whatever you want to believe. But there is something going on 72 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.920 here and we can't just ignore it. We can't just close our eyes and 73 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.639 put our fingers in our ears and go, I don't see it. I 74 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:24.360 don't know what you're talking about. But Jamie Harrison is the chair of the 75 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.759 DNC and wants to talk about a master class that was held last night at 76 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.480 that news conference. Listen. I think he was clear, I think he 77 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.959 was strong and really, Chris, he put on a master class in terms 78 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:43.240 of complex international foreign policy tonight and listen. He is good at foreign policy. 79 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.439 He knows the things that he's got to say. But he didn't wow 80 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:53.079 me with anything. Now that does not, by definition, does not constitute 81 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.319 a master class. He was already a disadvantage when he ran for president the 82 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.360 first time, because he's not a great orator. He's just not. And 83 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.519 what happens is whatever skill set you have, it starts to dwindle a little 84 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.399 bit. That's just hopefully we all get there. I'm just curious why you 85 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:15.199 guys aren't talking about Project twenty five or Project twenty twenty five. Very interesting, 86 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.279 very interesting. No one wants to talk about it, but there's a 87 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.120 lot of chatter of what's going on. Crazy? Okay, we'll do Project 88 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:28.439 twenty twenty five when we come back. It's not a thing. I mean, 89 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:33.000 it's a everybody wants to blow. It's this small smoldering fire that everybody's 90 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:39.879 trying to blow oxygen into and throw gasoline on the fire. But it's I 91 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:44.560 don't You're not just a surrogate. You're somebody who's getting text messages and emails 92 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:50.680 every day to consider running. How do you handle all of that? Delete? 93 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:57.519 Delete, delete, thank you, delete and rents repeat. I'm all 94 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.360 in no daylight. You never even engage in it privately? No, I 95 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.199 don't, absolutely not, absolutely not. I know one thing, everything you 96 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:11.480 do in private becomes public. Private thoughts, that's publicly friends, Yeah, 97 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:16.000 everything you do, everything you do in private becomes public he did you see 98 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.959 the s eating grin on his face or in that whole thing. Yes, 99 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:25.759 it's awful. It's just it's so it's just conniving, like it's so backstabby. 100 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.279 He was asked at a news conference yesterday by the Way about George Clooney's 101 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:34.319 op ed piece in the New York Times suggesting that Joe Biden not be at 102 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.959 the top of the table governor. Following up on the national topic that was 103 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.519 brought up yesterday, George Clooney says that that Joe Biden America saw during on 104 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.199 the debate stage, it's the same one that he saw at the Peacock Theater. 105 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.680 You were there at the fundraiser, and you were there at the debate. 106 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.319 Are you not seeing what he sees? No, well, we've been 107 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.600 I think all of us that were at that fundraiser wondering what they were thinking 108 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:01.839 is scheduling the president who just got overseas to a fundraiser late at night. 109 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.639 And I came home very exhausted that night, and all I had to do 110 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:11.160 was fly down from Sacramento to LA And I think the first comments I had 111 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.879 to the President were like, who did your schedule? I can't couldn't even 112 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.199 handle three hours and a red eye let alone coming from overseas. So to 113 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.959 me, that's those are two different things. The person I show up at 114 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.040 that fundraiser was a human being like any of us, exhausted. But as 115 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.200 it relates to the debate, that's a that's a whole different debate and conversation. 116 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.399 Okay, So so hold on a second. So, yes, I 117 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.039 did see him in diminished capacity. Yes, he seemed tired. Yes he 118 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.720 was not coherent. Yes there were problems, but he was tired. And 119 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.559 that's different than what we saw at the debate. That that's that was his 120 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.159 that was his response to us. Yeah, no pull, no poll says 121 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.879 that. Hakeem Jeffries sent a letter to the Democrats in the House today. 122 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.440 He said that he met with President Biden last night. It was a meeting 123 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:07.080 he asked for. He says, in my conversation with President Biden, I 124 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.159 directly express the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path 125 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.679 forward that the Caucus has shared in our recent time together. Nowhere in this 126 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.679 short three paragraph letter to his Democratic colleagues does he say I'm writing and dying 127 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.360 with Joe Biden or anything anything close to that. And we mentioned this at 128 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.279 the beginning of Swamp Watch, the ninety million dollars that is currently on hold. 129 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.879 One of the largest political action committee supporting President Biden has said that that 130 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:43.000 ninety million dollars in fundraising money pledge donations specifically, is on hold if President 131 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.080 Biden remains at the top of the ticket. Well, you don't want to 132 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.279 fund something that you're not going to get the fruits of your labor. You 133 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.159 don't want to throw you're an age money after bad Yeah, yeah, Okay, 134 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:00.320 So the Project twenty twenty five thing. Project twenty twenty five is about 135 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:09.600 a nine hundred page written plan for very conservative slash Republican policies on just about 136 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:15.840 every aspect of American life. Christian backing Heritage Foundation. Yeah. So there 137 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:20.320 are questions people are trying to tie this to Trump, and there's a couple 138 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.639 of reasons why I don't think he has anything to do with it. I 139 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.320 know there are what is it, one hundred and twenty five or one hundred 140 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:35.200 and forty people who have written parts of this worked in the Trump White House 141 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.240 or worked in the Trump administration at some point. But he has said he 142 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.679 has no idea about it, and doesn't endorse it and doesn't agree with parts 143 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:50.519 of it, but he will take those conservative religious votes. He'll gladly do 144 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.320 that. Yes, But my point is, this is a nine hundred page 145 00:10:54.360 --> 00:11:00.600 document. There is no way on this God's green earth that he is going 146 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.919 to spend any time reading any word of a nine hundred page document, even 147 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.080 if it were to help him in the campaign. That's not who he is. 148 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:13.879 So listen. He may agree with parts of it, but this is 149 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.519 not his thing, this is not his style. And then listen, to 150 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.159 be frank, a lot of this stuff isn't going to go anywhere. A 151 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:26.879 lot of it is way too far to the right to be appreciated or endorsed 152 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.440 by the vast swath of the middle of this country. He's not going to 153 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:35.679 vote for banning pornography. No, he knows all the money that's in pornography. 154 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:43.440 I suppose Hi, Gary hy Shannon, I'm excited for Steve Gregory's news show.