WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.919 I think in life, it's very easy to do things halfway, to take 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:14.279 half measures or half steps, and not do the difficult thing, which is 3 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:25.600 to see something through thoroughly and completely. And I think politics it's often difficult 4 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:31.320 to do the smart thing completely because you're doing dealing with human beings who have 5 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:37.079 their intrench little interests, and it's the art of compromise. You're dealing with 6 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:46.280 a family who benefits from Joe Biden being in office, who kind of control, 7 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:52.039 they sort of hold the key to the whole thing. Everyone realized Biden 8 00:00:52.240 --> 00:01:00.759 staying on in the presidential campaign would be disastrous, that Donald Trump would clean 9 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:07.439 the clean his clock. But clearly the Bidens didn't want to move out. 10 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.640 They didn't want to stop campaigning. They wanted to keep going. Clearly, 11 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:17.319 that's what Jill wants. Clearly, that's what Hunter wants. What does Joe 12 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.480 want? Who knows? Maybe Joe, in whatever lucid moments he has, 13 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:27.920 he still wants to keep going. But all these Democrat power brokers, they 14 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:34.120 don't want this to continue. And eventually, I think that the decisive thing 15 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:44.120 was the money. The donors communicating through their key representative, who is Nancy 16 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:49.359 Pelosi, basically just let Biden know, if you don't drop out, we're 17 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.719 done giving any money whatsoever. So you're going to drop out otherwise this whole 18 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:06.159 election will be a wipeout, not just for you but for everybody. That 19 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.120 I think was enough to get President Biden to drop out. And Ron Klaine, 20 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:15.439 his former chief of staff, actually fairly bitterly tweeted about this and explicitly 21 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:25.159 blamed the donors for forcing Biden's hand here, but it's still being done. 22 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:32.560 I thinking kind of a half completed, half rear ended fashion. You know 23 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:36.879 the word I'm trying to say. But I'm a little concerned about FCC stuff 24 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:46.439 half but half butted fashion. What do I mean a half butted fashion? 25 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:53.639 Why is this half done? Well? First of all, what would Republicans 26 00:02:53.199 --> 00:03:00.280 actually really fear? Let's be real here, in spite of Donald Trumping, 27 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.719 you know, I think Republicans kind of have lost sight of this. Yes, 28 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.319 Donald Trump has had a pretty awesome month for him. He the first 29 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.960 part of his speech at the convention was pretty good. I don't know why 30 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:15.240 he included the second forty five minutes of his speech, which was kind of 31 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.199 long and rambling, But the first forty five minutes were great. Would have 32 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.319 been great if he just stopped there. Stop stop at the first twenty five 33 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.439 minutes. Why we needed the longest convention speech in American history. Anyway, 34 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:36.080 the start of his convention speech was undoubtedly great. The whole Republican convention seemed 35 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.919 incredibly unified, incredibly positive. It's going to give the party a big bump. 36 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:53.639 Trump's actions and way his resilience following the assassination attempt, the destruct the 37 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:59.080 self destruction of Joe Biden during the debate and in subsequent appearances, I think 38 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:04.840 Republicans have lost sight of the fact that President Trump still remains fairly unpopular. 39 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:14.039 Okay, President Trump's favorability rating has never been higher than his unfavorability rating, 40 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:23.120 and there are a lot of Americans who still don't really like him, and 41 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:29.240 that a lot of the sentiment around a Biden Trump pairing was that basically the 42 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:35.000 election was going to go to whichever way the I don't like either candidate crowd 43 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:40.000 broke. So there's a crowd of people who are the I don't like either 44 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:46.399 candidate crowd. And Donald Trump won that vote in twenty sixteen, and Joe 45 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.920 Biden won that vote in twenty twenty and it was looking like Trump was going 46 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:56.800 to win that vote in twenty twenty four. So Biden. Trump still has 47 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.600 his liabilities. Okay, he's still in various wa He is deeply unpopular, 48 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:12.240 and I think a Democrat candidate who was a genuine fresh face who could project 49 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.480 as being genuinely moderate and likable, like, for example, the governor of 50 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:28.199 Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. I mean I haven't had much in a much intervention 51 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:33.680 interaction or read much or understood much about Josh Shapiro, but seeing him speaking 52 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:40.480 during he had a press conference after Trump's assassination attempt, he seemed incredibly impressive. 53 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:45.360 He was effusive in his praise of the the firefighter who was killed, 54 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.720 mister comparatory who was killed during the Trump rally. He was incredibly bipartisan and 55 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:59.279 seemed like an incredibly impressive dude. There are other candidates who are sort of 56 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:05.519 fresher basis on the national scene, Andy Basheer, the governor of Kentucky. 57 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:13.759 There are a lot of people who could present a very fresh face for the 58 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:18.279 Democrats and thereby I think be really threatening to Trump. I think if you 59 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:25.439 present the country with someone who is not in their seventies and is a fresh 60 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.560 face and seems fairly likable and bipartisan. I think they could mop the floor 61 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:42.000 with Donald Trump. But what have they done instead? Half measures? And 62 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:50.759 the half measure that seems to be happening is twofold one is seemingly the Democrat 63 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:58.199 powers. Then that be seem to be coalescing around handing Kamala Harris the nomination. 64 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.399 That seems to me to be a bad idea. No, why are 65 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.360 they doing that? Well, remember who was driving this process? It was 66 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.800 the donors. Okay, the donors clearly went to Joe Biden and said, 67 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:18.079 we're cutting off the money. And who has always been the darling of the 68 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:27.600 donor class, Kamala Harris. Why was Kamala Harris on the Biden Harris ticket 69 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.920 in the first place? Why did Joe pick her in twenty twenty? It 70 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:39.319 never made any sense. Harris completely flamed out during the twenty twenty primaries. 71 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.519 She didn't even make it to twenty twenty. She had to drop, She 72 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:46.160 had to end her campaign months before the Iowa caucuses. She ended her campaign 73 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.199 in twenty nineteen, in spite of all the money she had, In spite 74 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.560 of all the juice her campaign had. She immediately demonstrated herself in the debates 75 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:01.240 to be a lightweight. She was absolutely skewered and roasted alive by Tulci Gabbard. 76 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:07.759 She was unlikable. She didn't come off as particularly bright. Her past 77 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:15.199 record as basically was able to be tarred and feathered for her record as Attorney 78 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:20.160 General of California and as attorney general as a district attorney in San Francisco as 79 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:30.720 being both too harsh on crime for liberals locking up lots of African American men 80 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.320 who were, you know, drug use offenders, but then also could be 81 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.879 tarred and feathered as being too liberal on crime, supporting Prop forty seven, 82 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:50.399 et cetera. Also, during the twenty twenty primary process, she basically called 83 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:56.799 Joe Biden a racist to his face. She had no history of working with 84 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:01.840 Joe Biden. No, they did not overlap in government at all. She 85 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.000 entered the Senate after Joe Biden left as Vice President. They didn't serve in 86 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.320 the Senate together. They didn't serve in the Obama administration together. Biden had 87 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.639 no history with her, so why did he pick her? It's because Democrat 88 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:26.159 money power is centered in San Francisco. National Democrat financial power is centered in 89 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:33.840 San Francisco and Silicon Valley. And those are the relationships that Kamala Harris had 90 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.919 via Willie Brown, via her various campaigns in California. Like Kamala Harris is 91 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:48.639 very similar to Gavin Newsom. Just as far as who is their power base, 92 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.919 who is their base of money support, it's all these same people, 93 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:01.399 the Getty family, these old money San Francisco people and newer money Silicon Valley 94 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:07.080 people. That is the base of Democrat power. Why was Nancy Pelosi the 95 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.080 leader of the Democrats in the House, Cause I guess what does Nancy Pelosi 96 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.480 represent? What district does she represent? Right the heart of San Francisco. 97 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.639 That's her district. And she had the connection with all these people. And 98 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:26.480 that's why she not Hakeem Jeffries. She was the main messenger, not even 99 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.639 Chuck Schumer. She was the main actor in getting Joe Biden to step out 100 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:41.200 of the campaign. So the Democrats instead of having an open primary at their 101 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:46.080 convention and an open convention process where a bunch of people are going to get 102 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:52.720 nominated and the convention delegates can maybe go back to their states and take straw 103 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.320 polls and figure out who it is that their people want. Instead, it 104 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:09.080 looks like we're clear, we're parting the red seas for Kamala Harris. And 105 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:16.039 I gotta say, if I'm sitting in Trump's seat and I'm looking at the 106 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:24.039 landscape of potential Democrat challengers, the one I am least worried about is Kamala 107 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:31.080 Harris. But that's the half done approach, that's the half rear ended approach 108 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:39.679 is just make Kamala the heir apparent. The donor class is comfortable with her, 109 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:46.039 They kind of like her, and they know that it doesn't offend the 110 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:54.799 sensibilities of race and sex obsessed Democrats. Because there's also this problem if Harris 111 00:11:54.840 --> 00:12:00.720 isn't the nominee, and you nominate let's say, Mark Kelly from Arizona, 112 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:09.399 Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania, Andy Basheer from Kentucky, even Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan. 113 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.919 You pass over a black woman for either a white guy or, in 114 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.519 Whitmer's case, a white woman. Oh, that's not going to go well 115 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:24.440 with a lot of the Democrat voting days. There are a lot of Democrats 116 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.159 who would get pretty angry upset about that. Now, maybe they'd get over 117 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.240 it. They got over it with Biden clearly, when Biden beat out a 118 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.720 field of or you know, even Pete Boudagig throw him in there. I 119 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:41.919 guess Bootajige just got his his intersectionality minority thing because he's gay. But if 120 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.759 you pass up Kamala Harris for say, Josh Shapiro, some Democrat activists might 121 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.480 get mad. But guess what, that's a guy who could I hate saying 122 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.559 guess what because I realized that's a verbal tick that Joe Biden uses to cover 123 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:01.240 up his sinility. If Josh Shapiro, if Josh Shapiro is the pick, 124 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.320 yeah, that might offend a couple of super fringe extremists Democrats, but they'll 125 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.000 get over it quickly. So what have they done. They've done the easy 126 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.039 thing. But even in doing the easy thing, they've taken the easy way 127 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:22.559 out. When we return, why Biden should resign not just for the good 128 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:28.440 of the country, but even like for smart campaigning purposes. That's next on 129 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:35.200 the John Girardi Show. I think the Democrat decision to go to Kamala Harris, 130 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.960 while a step, was a half measure, and that there is half 131 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.679 measures upon half measures. The first half measure is not having an open convention 132 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.720 process and nominating genuinely the strongest person, because I think I would say, 133 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:56.360 from my position as Republican, I would be much more afraid of a Pete 134 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:03.360 Boodagi presidential campaign, a Josh Shapiro presidential campaign, a Mark Kelly presidential campaign, 135 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.399 a Gretchen Whitmer presidential campaign, and Andy Basheer presidential campaign. Then I 136 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:13.440 would a Kamala Harris presidential campaign out of all of the options Democrats, even 137 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.159 a Gavin Newsom presidential campaign would be scarier. Out of all the options, 138 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.759 Kamala Harris seems to be the weakest one. And yet what is happening. 139 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.559 All these big time Democrats are all endorsing her, The sees are parting. 140 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.600 Pretty much everyone and their mother, starting with Joe Biden, has come out 141 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.559 saying we're endorsing Kamala. We're endorsing Kamala. We're endorsing Kamala. And I 142 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:43.679 highly suspect that the machinery of the DNC is going to make sure that Kamala 143 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:50.879 wins at the convention. So I think there's this half measure of not having 144 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.879 a genuinely open process because guess what, not only is Kamala maybe the weakest 145 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.519 candidate out of all of them, she has all of the negatives of the 146 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.679 Biden iministration's, you know, policy failures placed on her, plus her own 147 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:11.159 unique special brands of being awful like her both, she could be both tarred 148 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:16.159 and feathered, both as being too harsh on criminal justice matters for liberals and 149 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:28.320 too lenient having supported Prop forty seven. But the other half measure I see 150 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:33.320 to this is and this is a half measure that's the result of the Biden's 151 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:45.720 own self absorption and pride. Is this kind of preposterous position for which Harris 152 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:50.759 is going to be held responsible just as much as Biden, that Biden continues 153 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:58.879 to be president, that he's not stepping down as president along with stepping down 154 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:03.679 from the campaign, Biden's staying in office. So he's saying that he doesn't 155 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.759 think he can keep well, he's just he said he's stepping down from campaigning, 156 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:15.639 but for some reason, not from running the country. And I think 157 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.840 that's also gonna kind of hamstring Harris. I mean, look, the best 158 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:25.039 way a Kamala Harris for President campaign twenty twenty four could kick off would be 159 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:33.879 Biden resigning the office, and then Harris being able to have all the pomp 160 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:41.000 and circumstance and free television coverage that comes with a legitimately newsworthy and historic thing 161 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.519 her inauguration. She would have an inauguration. There would be a whole day 162 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:56.519 of news coverage for the inauguration of our first female president. Like, if 163 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.840 the Democrats are really like, all right, Kamala is our girl, then 164 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:06.680 do it right? Have Biden resign, Let her be sworn in as the 165 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.839 forty seventh president of the United States, the first African American female, the 166 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.160 first female president of the United States, and the first African American female president 167 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:15.640 of the United States. Have a whole day of positive press around it. 168 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:21.720 That's the way to kick it off. She gets the the you know, 169 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:29.519 the honeymoon phase bump that all new presidents get. What a positive way to 170 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.759 get her started. And then at the very least she can say, look, 171 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:40.799 once it became apparent the President Biden's age was unsustainable, was an unsustainable 172 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.559 you know problem, he did the right thing to resign and I became president. 173 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:51.000 Well, now what do we have now? She's got to answer questions 174 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:57.079 of was how long was Biden senile? And you didn't tell the American people? 175 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:07.440 Why is President Biden still serving? Now? Can you, as vice 176 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.400 president tell us with a straight face that Joe Biden is with it enough to 177 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.839 be the leader of the free world, the president of the United States of 178 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.599 America? Can you say that with a straight face right now? I don't 179 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:25.160 think she'll be able to, or certainly not very convincingly. That problem, 180 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:36.559 the Biden senility problem, doesn't go away. If she's the nominee, she 181 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:38.759 still kind of has to answer for it, and she kind of has to 182 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.559 answer for lying to the American people because, I mean, she's on the 183 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:51.240 record saying that Joe Biden's great, Joe Biden's awesome. Even after the debate, 184 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:56.920 I mean, she had to say sort of positive sounding things about him, 185 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.839 Like how is she gonna be able to answer of this? That that 186 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:06.559 issue does not go away? It goes away if he quits. It goes 187 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:11.319 away if he resigns his office and she becomes president, and then she can 188 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:19.079 more credibly say anyway, Look, once it became clear that he couldn't do 189 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.599 the job, a bunch of Democrats came together. I was part of that 190 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.279 process. We convinced him to step down. I'm very proud of him for 191 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.200 stepping down. This was not an easy decision for him to make, but 192 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:32.640 you know, everyone agreed it was, you know, and now I'm the 193 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:34.480 President of the United States, and I think Joe Biden. But she could 194 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:40.039 get she could skate by in that way, she can't as long as he's 195 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:45.519 still there. She still has to answer for all that. So it's it 196 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:51.839 just seems to me like Democrats have taken half measures upon half measures upon half 197 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:57.880 measures, and now maybe you know, you know, maybe tomorrow, uh, 198 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.319 maybe tomorrow Joe Biden announces a whole bunch of pardons, he pardons Hunter, 199 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.160 and then he steps down. Maybe he does that. I mean, 200 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:11.079 he could resolve it. But it seems very much like there's some Biden family 201 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:19.720 arrogance at play here, that there's some Biden family arrogance at play here, 202 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:23.039 that they don't want him to resign halfway, they want him to go out 203 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:29.440 on his own terms, and that it seems like we're doing all of this, 204 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.440 the Democrats are having to do all this to placate Joe Biden, and 205 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:38.720 it's a bad strategy. It's going to hamper Harris. But again, in 206 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:47.079 all of this, I see half measures. I see having this coronation process 207 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:52.640 for Harris without an open convention process. That seems like a bad idea, 208 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.759 given that Harris, I think, seems like the absolute weakest candidate. Maybe 209 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:02.119 there are some stories about the money that the money is most easily and freely 210 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.160 transferred to Harris rather than other candidates, although I think even that's overstated. 211 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.720 If another candidate became the Democrats' presidential nominee, then all the Biden Harris money 212 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:17.480 could go to the Democrat Party or other places. Like I think it's a 213 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:25.759 manageable situation. So not having an open convention process, Democrats are going to 214 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:32.799 land on the worst candidate possible of who's available, which is Harris. Budhagig 215 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.039 would be a better candidate, Shapiro would be a better candidate, Mark Kelly 216 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:37.480 would be a better candidate. Gretgen Whitmer would be a better candidate. All 217 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:45.599 these other Democrats would be better candidates probably than Harris. And we have the 218 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:51.799 half measure that Biden's also not stepping down. If Biden stepped down, he 219 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:55.880 would eliminate a bunch of problems for Harris. He would give Harris a massive 220 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.720 bump as being now the first female president, but he's not doing that either. 221 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.519 So I think if you're Trump, I'm not super worried. The only 222 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.240 thing that could worry me is maybe a really effective VP choice. But even 223 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:18.559 then I think vice presidential choices are generally overrated. When we return the Bizarre 224 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.640 Case of the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and why no One in Washington never 225 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:30.759 gets fired next on The John Girardi Show, The Curious Case of Kimberly Cheatle. 226 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:38.079 Now the head of the Secret Service is testifying, was testifying today in 227 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:45.960 front of the House for Representatives, and she's basically trying to answer these Republican 228 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.720 questions and not really answering them, not really answering them very well at all. 229 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:55.240 You've got her sort of being mealy mouthed to Jim Jordan as he is 230 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:03.200 as he's asking about why did you say that you didn't deny any security requests 231 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:08.160 to the Trump team, but then it seems like you did. Why haven't 232 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:12.279 you stepped down? What's all this? There's question after question after question that 233 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:18.960 remains unanswered, and she is still there. The one of the points I've 234 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.759 been saying on the show, is this idea of like, well, well 235 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:29.880 it was it really the Secret Service's fault that this happened. Stop. This 236 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:36.559 is sort of a resp Lockwitter situation. Requitter is this legal concept that basically, 237 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:41.720 if you're walking down the street and a piano falls on you, and 238 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:48.000 your widow sues the moving company who was moving the piano for negligence, you 239 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.759 know, for negligent death, wrongful death due to negligence, whatever, and 240 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.400 the judge says, well, ma'am, do you have any proof that the 241 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:03.319 moving company was negligent. Yeah, the piano dropping itself. The thing speaks 242 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:08.599 for itself. Pianos don't drop unless someone doesn't take the appropriate amount of care 243 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.000 that they should take, because you know the kind of bad thing that can 244 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.400 happen if you drop a piano and you didn't take the necessary steps to move 245 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:29.400 it. Pianos don't drop absent negligence. Secret Service protectees a former president who's 246 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:37.960 also the leading candidate for president. They don't get assassinated unless the Secret Service 247 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:44.119 screws up. I think that's fair to say. Would you agree if Donald 248 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:55.960 Trump's head had been positioned like one centimeter further to his I don't know. 249 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:02.279 If his head had been positioned just one centimeter different, we'd be talking about 250 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:07.319 dead Donald Trump. And obviously the Secret Service director would have been fire or 251 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.839 maybe maybe that's not obvious anymore. I don't know, but you would imagine 252 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.440 that heads would have to roll at the Secret Service if the assassination attempt was 253 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:29.759 one centimeter better executed. Now instead, for some reason, she keeps her 254 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.480 job. For some reason, we get a whole bunch of tweets that come 255 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.480 out suspiciously right after the assassination about oh, oh, here's all the ways 256 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:40.240 in which the Secret Service wasn't at fault. We get these implausible explanations about 257 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.440 well, or snipers couldn't have been on that roof because it was so slopy. 258 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:47.200 It was a very sloped roof when it's not a very sloped roof, 259 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:49.920 and they had snipers on other buildings that seem to have equally sloped roofs. 260 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:56.799 I have regaled all of you listeners with the story of how I went on 261 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:02.319 my own roof for the far less important test and with far less gear, 262 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.880 like a pair of sneakers I slipped on while I'm in my pajamas to chase 263 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:10.400 my neighbor's cat off the roof. After my neighbors came and said, our 264 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.880 cat is stuck on your roof, could you help us? And all right, 265 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:15.680 get out my ladder, and I'm on my roof, and my roof 266 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:22.960 is actually decently sloped, more far more sloped than that building in Pennsylvania. 267 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:27.279 So here I am kind of like trying not to kill myself, and the 268 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:32.200 cat keeps running from one side of the house over the top sort of ridge 269 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:33.720 of the house to the other side of the house, and I'm having to 270 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.480 kind of scramble up and down, up and down, trying to shepherd this 271 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.519 cat to a corner where finally the cat got to a corner where it could 272 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.759 jump onto a fence and then it came down. So I'm willing to do 273 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:51.400 that in sneakers and pajamas at nine o'clock at night. The Secret Service, 274 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:53.720 I think has a little bit more gear for handling the situation, like what 275 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:02.839 an implausible thing that was. But it seems like the Biden administration has taken 276 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:12.480 on this sort of attitude of federal employees are sacro sanct and it's almost like 277 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:22.119 there's this understanding among Democrats that federal employees, including federal employees who are who 278 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:29.440 are not in political appointee jobs. So I mean the head of the Secret 279 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.799 Service, it's not a super politicized appointment. I mean, yeah, the 280 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.359 president can appoint the replacement, but I don't think it's been a thing of 281 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.279 like as soon as a Republican comes in, they appoint a Republican head of 282 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.720 the Secret Service. It's just not a very political entity. I mean, 283 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.960 it's kind of like the head of the FBI. You've often seen like a 284 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.640 Republican president will hold over, you know, a Democrat appointee as head of 285 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.319 the FBI or vice versa. Well, the Secret Service is, if anything, 286 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:03.960 one step less politicized even than the FBI is. It's you know, 287 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:12.319 it has a very straightforward job protect the president, protect former presidents, protect 288 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:22.039 the vice president, protect their families, and then leading candidates for the presidency. 289 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:29.519 They also get Secret Service detail. It's a protection job. But I 290 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.960 get the sense that the Democrats have taken this posture of we know that like 291 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:40.799 eighty to ninety percent of all federal employees, even the non partisan ones, 292 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:48.160 are Democrats, and that is true. I mean the overwhelming percentage of the 293 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:56.759 DC based employees of the federal government, whether that's DoD and that includes DoD, 294 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:03.759 Pentagon people, CIO people, Intelligence Community, all these and all the 295 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:08.680 federal executive agencies, all these different people who work at HHS, people who 296 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.960 work for the National Institutes of Health, all these people up and down the 297 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:18.240 executive branch of government, all these career appointees, Democrats. Know that they're 298 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:26.000 all Democrats, or that eighty plus percent of them are. They know this. 299 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:33.119 So as a result, it seems like when bad things happen that are 300 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:38.920 under the auspices of the federal government, there's almost this knee jerk reaction not 301 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:47.599 to hold them responsible. We have our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, where thirteen 302 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:55.960 soldiers were killed in Kabul because of the bizarre way that the Biden administration decided 303 00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:59.079 to get us out where the only place we had for getting out was this 304 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:06.880 one base in heart of Kabble, surrounded by Taliban, Thirteen of our soldiers 305 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:14.039 die. The manner of doing this was obviously bizarre, irresponsible. Does anyone 306 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:15.720 get fired. No, Mark Milli doesn't get fired, The Secretary of Defense 307 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:22.799 doesn't get fired. Nobody gets fired. Everyone sort of issues little tweets or 308 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.200 gets people to send out little tweets saying that this, that and the other 309 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:32.400 half. It's all fine. No one gets fired. Secretary Majorcus doesn't get 310 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:37.799 fired for anything bad that happens at the border Patrol. Nobody gets fired for 311 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.680 sorry. Secretary Majorcus doesn't get fired for anything bad that happens at the border. 312 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.359 No one involved with the American Federal Immigration Apparatus gets in trouble for anything 313 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.680 wrong going on at the border. Secretary Mariorcus keeps his job. Everyone's just 314 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:56.359 doing fine. There's this entrenched sense of not only are we not holding people 315 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:03.000 accountable, but screw you for even asking. The one thing that came out 316 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:08.279 from the Secret Service that was clear and strident and that they clearly focused a 317 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.279 lot of time on was a big, long statement last couple of days from 318 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:22.519 Secretary Majorcus ripping people for criticizing the presence of female agents in the security detail 319 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:30.799 around President Trump, and how terrible it is to slander the good work of 320 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.880 female agents for the Secret Service. That's the only thing they care about. 321 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:41.680 It's defending these people who you know, I'm not saying it's it was the 322 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:48.079 fault of any one individual agent on the ground at that Trump rally that day, 323 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.039 but clearly some of the people there. I think there was some indication 324 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.279 that some of the people in the security detail were not trained Secret Service agents, 325 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:02.240 that they were Department of Homeland Security people who were pulled in. But 326 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:07.799 it was clear just seeing the video that some of the people signed to protect 327 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:16.359 President Trump were fairly small, unathletic looking women. I'm sorry, but I 328 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.279 don't think it's an unreasonable expectation for this. The job of this group is 329 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:30.119 to protect their target, to protect their assignment from physical harm. I want 330 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:37.000 big six foot three inch tall killers. I want former US Marines or Army 331 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:45.839 rangers or Navy seals. I don't want a five foot two overweight woman who 332 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:51.119 as I'm sure she's a lovely person and works really hard and is very accomplished. 333 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:52.680 Nothing against her, but I don't want a chubby five foot two women 334 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:58.359 protecting any I don't want a chubby five foot two women protecting President Clinton or 335 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:02.359 President Carter, or protect President Obama. I want. I don't want any 336 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:08.559 American presidents or former presidents getting assassinated. I want big, tall bruisers who 337 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.759 look like they can rip you in half. I want like former MMA fighters, 338 00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:16.519 like MMA fighters who got fourteen hundred on their SAT. That's what I 339 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:27.680 want. But there I think there's just this sense in Washington that federal employees 340 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:36.359 are mostly liberals, so we don't fire them. And there's also all this 341 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:42.160 reporting about the head of the Secret Service, miss Cheatle, herself, Kimberly 342 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:46.200 Cheatle, she had been a Secret Service agent before, and whose detail was 343 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:50.880 she assigned to? To, whose detail was she assigned, why she was 344 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:58.240 assigned to the detail of the second Lady, Jill Biden, and that Jill 345 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.960 pushed for her to be made the head of the SAD Service when Joe became 346 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:09.360 president. So it seems to me like there's this bizarre sort of favoritism sort 347 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.880 of involved here, and that's the reason why Joe. Joe just doesn't fire 348 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.679 people. He just doesn't. But maybe, you know, not everything's firing 349 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:24.840 on all cylinders for him himself. Obviously that's the case. When we return, 350 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.280 could we have some proof of life for the guy who's allegedly currently the 351 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.639 president of the United States. Next on the John Girardi Show, a couple 352 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:44.079 of questions about Joe Biden not being the nominee anymore so. Joe Biden announces 353 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:50.840 that he's not the nominee on Twitter slash x. Not in a press release, 354 00:34:52.400 --> 00:35:00.760 not in a press conference, not a statement to the press, not 355 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:06.920 in person, not in an address to the nation, on Twitter, on 356 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:12.280 Twitter, with a pdf of a letter that's not even on official White House 357 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:22.039 letterhead. No one has seen the president, nobody has heard from the president. 358 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:30.719 The announcement takes White House staff completely by surprise. The Cabinet Secretary's even 359 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:37.199 only heard about it via the President's chief of staff, not even from the 360 00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:45.000 president. So this means maybe one of two things. One is that Biden 361 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:51.360 is a he continues to be a jerk. Biden has always been a jerk. 362 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:54.880 And I'm not saying that in a sense of, you know, I'm 363 00:35:54.880 --> 00:36:00.400 a Democrat, he's a Republican. He's been notorious for not actually being all 364 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:06.440 that nice a person. Okay, there's plenty of story and history about Biden 365 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:14.320 being sort of this political and personal mediocre who has been a jerk to people 366 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.079 in a lot of different ways. Maybe he's just being a jerk, but 367 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:21.559 there's also I think the distinct problem of could we maybe have some proof of 368 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:27.559 life here, like, did he given the concerns for why people thought he 369 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:36.320 should step down? Could we not see an image of him offering this stepping 370 00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.400 down from the campaign. Could we not see that he himself is doing it? 371 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:46.760 And lastly, there's this after Biden makes this announcement, there's all this 372 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.360 talk about, oh, how selfless it is, how selfless it is that 373 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.119 Joe Biden stepped down from power. The ERLC, which is sort of the 374 00:36:55.159 --> 00:37:00.199 public policy representatives for the Southern Baptist Convention, is you this tweet about, 375 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.920 Wow, it's really impressive to see political leaders stepping down from power voluntarily. 376 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.199 What an amazing Christian move this is by Joe Biden. To what I'm saying, 377 00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:15.360 he was dragged out of power, kicking and screaming. The only reason 378 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:22.639 he's stepping down is because the donors clearly explicitly told him. All the reporting 379 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:27.519 we have indicates the only reason he's stepping down from running and not resigning the 380 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.920 presidency, which if you're doing one, you probably should do the other. 381 00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.320 The only reason he's doing so is because the donors said, we're not giving 382 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.360 you a dime of money, and the whole Democrat ship is going to go 383 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:45.480 down with you if you don't step down. It wasn't some selfless act of 384 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.159 giving. Yeah, oh my child, when I rip the lollipop from her 385 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:53.639 hands as she's shrieking in the aisle, she selflessly gave up candy for that 386 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:00.719 night. No, this wasn't some selfless act. He was forced to do 387 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:07.239 it by the realities of campaign money. That'll do it for John Girardi Show, 388 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.679 See you all next time on Power Talk.