WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI A M six forty, 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.879 The Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I'm just saying, 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.839 this show has a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun 4 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:17.600 here. You're having fun. You'd think that the station's upstairs would have more 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.719 fun because they get to play music right and do fart stuff. Well, 6 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:27.600 maybe it's that in that time that they're playing music they're talked out. Yeah, 7 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:32.240 probably, but we aren't. We're fun all the time, four hours 8 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:37.399 of fun. Even even in the breaks, we're fun. You know. 9 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.719 You think, yeah, oh, I'm sorry. Are you not having fun? 10 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.799 Well, it's there are times when, for example, you start going 11 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:50.840 through your purse and I don't have anything to say about it because anything I 12 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.600 said would be mean, Like what what could you possibly say that would be 13 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.399 mean with regard to me going through my purse? Well, sometimes when you 14 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:03.519 open that thing, it sounds like a closet on a sitcom that's been overfilled 15 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.560 with stuff falls onto the person who opens the closet door. What do you 16 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.120 need? You need it again? This CBS receipt, Oh my gosh, 17 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.000 I thought that was a pair of pants. How about a face mask. 18 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:21.319 I've had one of those, though, I'm fine with that nature Valley bar 19 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:26.760 Oh, I don't want a nature. Do you guess who has the COVID? 20 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.519 I think this is fake news. I think this is a lie to 21 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.079 I'm having a hard time believing anything coming from any politician lately. Always that's 22 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.439 listen. It is actually a good rule any politician, you love them, 23 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.159 you hate him, you voted for him. You didn't always take what they 24 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:47.120 say with just an ounce of suspicion, maybe more, maybe an ounce and 25 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.640 a half of suspicion. But it goes back to the grain of sault saying, 26 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:57.319 which originated with when you're taking poison right. Several top Democrats have now 27 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:04.599 said that on the heels of the COVID test with President Biden, the rising 28 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:12.759 pressure of congressional leadership now means, according to Axios, they believe that President 29 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.879 Biden could drop out of the race as soon as this week. It's gonna 30 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.960 be tomorrow. Why my bet is tomorrow. Why because it'll be Friday, 31 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.000 you'll have the weekend. The way that they think is they think that the 32 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:30.759 news cycle will die out and they'll have time to circle the wagons and crown 33 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.319 the next leader over the weekend, have an announcement on Monday. Maybe Well, 34 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.199 if they're going to do it that quick, their only option is Kamala 35 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.479 Harris. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, but I just 36 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.199 see it's imminent. It is imminent because if you just listen to what the 37 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:52.400 President has said in his interviews to that same question of will you get out 38 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:57.280 if it shows that you cannot win or whatever reiteration of that question he has 39 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.599 faced. It went from the Lord all he's got to tell me to I 40 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:07.080 got to be hit by a train, to a medical condition of some kind, 41 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.000 and then bam covid and guess what. All three of those have come 42 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.360 true. Well, I don't know about if the Lord Almighty has come down 43 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.719 to him. Necessarily, that's between he and the God, the and the 44 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.800 God, he and the Lord. But at this point, all three of 45 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.199 those appear to have all those boxes have been checked. At this point. 46 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.759 There was a woman on MSNBC Joy Reid, Oh, I have that audio, 47 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:34.560 please believe it is unbelievable. Joy Read was trying to find a way 48 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:42.840 to explain that getting shot like President Trump did is the same as getting COVID, 49 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.919 like President Biden did. These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump 50 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.439 is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to 51 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:55.400 take a iconic photo op during an active shooter of the situation. Weird situation. 52 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:01.120 We'll figure that out one day. But his survive and bouncing right back 53 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.960 and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a 54 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:11.199 sign of string. This current president of the United States is eighty one years 55 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.719 old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days? 56 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:20.079 Doesn't that convey exactly the same thing that he's strong enough older than Trump to 57 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:26.199 have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So 58 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.160 if he does fine out of it and it comes back and is able to 59 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.040 do rad isn't that exactly the same? I mean, it's not exactly the 60 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.120 same. It's not same incident, but it's it's an elderly man coming through 61 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:41.480 out of a missage. Okay, Now, if you're just looking at the 62 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.720 actual wound to President Trump's ear, yeah, it's it's a flesh. I 63 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.800 mean, it's it's fine, everything's fine. But if you talk about the 64 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:58.040 stress of hey, I almost lost my life versus what appears to be a 65 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:02.000 mild cold. And that's based on what they say his symptoms are. Why 66 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.120 is the bar so low that it's at the place of he's not going to 67 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.519 die from a cold. Listen, that's a very low bar. And that's 68 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.759 not even what we're talking about. We're not even talking about his physical health. 69 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.480 We're talking about his mental health. His mental health is not there. 70 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.879 That's the problem. Nobody's saying he's well. People are saying he's old, 71 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.519 but not that he's near death. It's just that his mental acuity is nowhere 72 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.839 near where it used to be. There was a series of meetings that has 73 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:38.439 apparently took meetings and phone calls that took place between the President and some of 74 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:44.279 his I wouldn't say closest advisors, but important voices in the Democratic Party. 75 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:49.079 Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi obviously came to Joe Biden and she said that Poles show 76 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:53.720 that he cannot win that and that he would take down the House. That 77 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.959 is the huge thing, because Pelosi doesn't move without knowing she's going to win, 78 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.959 and she still is the puppet master. I believe there in DC, 79 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:09.680 despite not being Speaker, and I think that her that's the final stop. 80 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.879 That's the buckstops there. The other two that talked with him, apparently over 81 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.560 the last few days, Haakim Jeffries, the minority leader in the House, 82 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.079 met with Biden last week at the White House, and then Chuck Schumer, 83 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:26.079 the majority leader in the Senate, met with him Saturday in Delaware. And 84 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:30.759 in those meetings they talked about the concerns of the members in their body, 85 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.680 whether it was House or Senate, who said they were concerned that having Biden 86 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.000 at the top of the ticket was going to deprive them of majorities and make 87 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.920 it much much harder to hold the Senate and then retake the House. And 88 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:46.480 that's the same thing Adam Schiff said. Adam Shiff another one of those very 89 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:53.959 high profile Democrats arguably the highest profile, higher maybe the Nancy Pelosi simply because 90 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.120 of who he is and has been for the Democratic Party when it comes to 91 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.319 going up against Donald Trump. Doesn't have near the power there that Pelosi has. 92 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:06.120 Not such power. Yes, but at least some of the noise around 93 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:11.759 the Democratic Party has been concentrated on Adam Schiff. But the key perhaps was 94 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:17.240 the meeting with Katzenberg with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Jeffrey Katzenberg is one of the campaign 95 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:23.680 co chairs and is one of the massive, massive fundraisers for Joe Biden. 96 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.399 And without the money, the campaign is going to go nowhere. Well, 97 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:34.439 and it's interesting that he met with Biden in Vegas just hours before the allegendary 98 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:41.120 COVID diagnosis. And I didn't know anybody. I don't know anybody who has 99 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.600 tested for COVID. I mean literally, I don't know anybody who has tested 100 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.839 for COVID in probably two years. Steve Gregory did a couple of weeks ago. 101 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.519 I rest my case. I don't know what case I made, but 102 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:57.399 I rest my case. The President has COVID. According to White House Press 103 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:01.680 Secretary Karg Jean Pierre, he flew back to Delaware yesterday. He had been 104 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.759 in Vegas. He had to cancel his speeches. They say he will be 105 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.720 self isol self isolating and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully 106 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.600 during that time. Good boy Joining us now is Tom Dempsey. He is 107 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:20.399 a DC correspondent for News Nation And Tom, have you gotten any sleep in 108 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:26.439 the past two to four weeks? It has been so stressful and busy covering 109 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.319 all these developments because it's you know, this morning in particular, it just 110 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.559 looked like developments were just kind of again left and right, and you know, 111 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.519 for listeners right now, A long story short in the story I was 112 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:43.240 tracking all morning long for New Nation is that this wave against President Joe Biden 113 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:48.840 is really growing U So ABC News first reported on it. But you know, 114 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.320 private phone calls between President Joe Biden and cene of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer 115 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:58.840 and a House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries to the highest ranking Democrats on Capitol Hill 116 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:03.879 on they allegedly all on President Joe Biden to withdraw during those private phone calls. 117 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.919 Either of them have come out publicly yet, which is important to note. 118 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.600 But again, when you have voices like that coming out and pulling on 119 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.519 the president to withdraw, I mean that could be the difference maker in this 120 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.720 because the higher up this gets, the more pressure obviously is going to be 121 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.200 building on the president. Just saw a short time ago, the DNC held 122 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.440 their own I don't know if you'd call it a counter news conference, but 123 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.120 they were in Milwaukee when they held this news conference today and said to the 124 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:35.200 effect of we're not planning for any scenario where Joe Biden is not at the 125 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.960 top of the ticket. Is that can we believe that? Yeah, well 126 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.799 that's at least that's being said publicly. So again, this is the This 127 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.919 is what is interesting being a reporter at this point right now in DC, 128 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.840 because there's a whole thing that's being presented publicly, and then you're getting reports 129 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.159 of stuff that's happening privately. Like I said, publicly, we're hearing, 130 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.159 you know, President Joe Biden is our nominee and we're going to keep fighting 131 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.360 and we're going to keep you know, trudging along and keep fighting through all 132 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.159 this. But privately, we're hearing more and more about these phone calls, 133 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:11.039 you know, meetings with lawmakers expressing concern about the president and how you know, 134 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.559 him running for a president could impact you know, the House and Senate 135 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.279 races that are happening as well in other states, you know, privately, 136 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.679 like I said, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, 137 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.960 the Senate majority leader, holding private phone calls with the president directly and calling 138 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.080 him on him to withdraw. So a lot of some of these politicians are 139 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.000 really you know, walking a tight rope right now, saying some things privately 140 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.559 but saying different things publicly, and you know, at least publicly. I 141 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.639 will note too, we have seen almost two dozen House Democrats come forward to 142 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.879 calling on President Joe Biden to withdraw, but at least privately, I think 143 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.720 that number is definitely bigger. I feel like there's a clean team and a 144 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.799 dirty team, and you know, like Hakem. Jeffries gets to keep his 145 00:10:54.919 --> 00:11:00.919 hands clean there, while it seems like maybe Pelosi's working in the trees and 146 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.399 the fact that her name is surfaced now to me, that's kind of where 147 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.200 the bucks stops, or it seems to be. Does she still wield the 148 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.759 power that she did? Oh? Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. So I 149 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.480 mean there's the big there's the big three, as I like to call him. 150 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.399 On the Capitol Hill for the Democrats, you have Pelosi, Schumer, 151 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:22.360 and Jeffries. So again we heard about these private phone calls with Jeffries and 152 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.360 Schumer two out of the three. And then Pelosi allegedly, you know, 153 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:31.080 didn't have any issue with California Representative Adam Schiff, who's running for Senate in 154 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.559 California, publicly calling on President Joe Biden to withdraw. So again that whole 155 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:43.679 public private thing. You know, none of the Big three publicly have come 156 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.759 forward calling on President Joe Biden to withdraw, but privately we're seeing the much 157 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.360 different game sort of play out. Welcome to DC politics, where you hear 158 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:52.840 one thing, but then you get reports of a different thing. It's just 159 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.600 how it works in DCA, unfortunately. But again, this is still very 160 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.440 much evolving right now. And you guys say too, as all of this 161 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.480 is playing out, President Biden is at home right now or recovering from COVID, 162 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.320 and he can't be on the campaign trail. And it was interesting because 163 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.799 the White House is you have lid on White House, you know, as 164 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.559 far as public events for the president very early today and for listeners at home. 165 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.159 Basically what that means is we're not going to really see or hear anything 166 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.559 from the president today because he's recovering from COVID. I think there's either two 167 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:30.000 things here. They're using COVID as an excuse for him to get out of 168 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:35.399 these monstrous interviews where he has evolved his line of thinking or his line of 169 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.600 answering the question of will you step down? You know, it started with 170 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.960 the Lord Almighty has to tell me to I need to be hit by a 171 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:48.000 train to some sort of medical condition. It just seems like it just keeps 172 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.279 getting worse for him on this interview circuit. Well, that that's interesting too. 173 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.720 You bring that up because you're right to say it. As in, 174 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.600 like, you know, the reasons from President Biden, you know, what 175 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.559 would lead him to withdraw. But we're seeing kind of a slow drip as 176 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.679 for reasons why he would withdraw. You're right, First it was the Lord 177 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.320 Almighty, you know, calling on him to step down. Then it was 178 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.879 a medical condition. And now apparently, at least according to the New York 179 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.960 Times, he's entertaining are not as defensive and conversations about you know, calls 180 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.360 to withdraw. You know, he's a little bit more open to hearing unfavorable 181 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.080 polling data and a little bit more open to talking about the chances for Vice 182 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.919 President Kamala Harris if she were to become the candidate. So again, it's 183 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.080 like a slow drip we're seeing, you know, as far as the reasons 184 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.840 that might lead to him with withdrawing, and certainly all these lawmakers coming forward, 185 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.639 the more they come forward publicly, that's going to be the more pressure 186 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.559 he's going to face. And you know, I think one other name to 187 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.960 keep in mind right now is former President Barack Obama, because if he were 188 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.039 to come out and say anything, you know, expressing concern about President Biden 189 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:54.360 or saying you should, you know, entertain the thought of withdrawing, that 190 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.200 could be the very last, very very big name to come out calling on 191 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.840 him to withdraw. Where Hillary Clinton in all of this, she's been very 192 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.080 very quiet with people haven't talked about her. Does she hold sway in the 193 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.559 power of the way an Obama would? I think, I mean, we 194 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.120 want to get into power rankings within the Democratic Party. I think Obama probably 195 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.240 carries a little bit more weight than the Clinton's right now, but that's not 196 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.799 to say I mean Hillary Clinton absolutely has a very powerful voice within the Democratic 197 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.879 Party as well. They've been pretty quiet as far as former President Bill Clinton 198 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:31.399 and former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and for the first lady. But again, 199 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.559 if any of them, the former president Obama or Clinton were to come out, 200 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.720 or Hillary Clinton were to come out again, more pressure for the president. 201 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:43.200 Because this wave really is growing right now and it's going to be really 202 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.519 interesting to see how the campaign kind of navigate through all this. Sorry to 203 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.879 hear about DJ Pickett going to LSU instead of Miami. How did you know? 204 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.039 I was a Miami Hurricanes fan? Is that why you said that? 205 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:01.000 Listen, we have sources, Tom, you can't break news on this show. 206 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.639 Tom or dialed into the U. All right, Tom, thank you, 207 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.919 thank you you. Bet Tom Dempsey there from News Nation, the Washington 208 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.279 d C Correspondent. There's so much. I mean, he makes the good 209 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.639 point. Even just this morning, there has been development after development on the 210 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:28.720 Biden on the Biden portion, but there's also the assassination investigation portion of all 211 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.720 of those. There's so much to get to. Did you know that Wendy 212 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.080 was I think it was Burger King that has mozzarella fries. That was why 213 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.879 I made that face. You thought there was breaking news. I saw mozzarella 214 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.919 fries. Yum, all right, Carrie, she like mozrella sticks, but 215 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.279 they're they're skinnier, but they're like fries. Wouldn't be completely distracted now by 216 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:54.600 another fried cheese and random fried recreational cheese, Oh my gosh, yes, 217 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:03.399 search a sound effect for fibber McGee and Molly finally opening a closet that will 218 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.679 be perfect for Shannon's purse. Okay, I made a comment about when you 219 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.799 open your purse. It sounds like the old sitcom trope of someone opening an 220 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:18.240 overpacked closet and it falling completely. I looked up Fibber McGee and Molly and 221 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:22.720 found this in your Parkio. I know, but where's my Oh, I 222 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:36.639 know, it's right here in the long clock. You've gone batty, Yes, 223 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:38.360 right now, this closet. One of these days. There's plenty of 224 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:44.000 room in here, by the way, for what room for whatever. Your 225 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.600 arm entirely disappears into that thing when you reach in there. It is It's 226 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.480 like if I'm going away for a weekend. This is all I need. 227 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:59.799 The shooter in the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump wrote on the popular 228 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:06.279 game platform stream quote, July thirteenth will be my premiere. Watch as it 229 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.359 unfolds. Investigative be trying to figure out more about this guy, what he 230 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.160 was doing in the days and hours leading up to the assassination attempt. We 231 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.519 know that he visited the location twice. He seemed before the rally. He 232 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.119 seems to be a little obsessed with politics on his phone. There were a 233 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.599 number of photos of politicians and public officials, pictures of Trump, President Biden, 234 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.319 Fanny Willis, Fawnie Willis, excuse me, who had been prosecuting Trump 235 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:40.039 in Georgia, Hakeem Jeffreys, Mike Johnson as well. Remember yesterda was it 236 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:45.200 yesterday? No, it was Tuesday when we did profiles of assassins, and 237 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:51.759 one of the one of the studies showed that their target moves will move from 238 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.319 person to person. Yeah, that they're not necessarily going after one person, 239 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:00.480 They're just going after the notoriety or the high profile nature of it. Now, 240 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.799 what we now know is among the thousands of people who were there at 241 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:11.400 the rally, this guy stood out again. He wasn't never in the fairgrounds. 242 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.519 He was always on the outside of the fence. But local officers spotted 243 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.920 this guy acting oddly. They notified other law enforcement. The Secret Service was 244 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.880 also notified at the time. He did not appear to have a weapon. 245 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.680 They found this guy officers did not know at the time, and they eventually 246 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:34.880 lost track of him. So twenty minutes before the shooting, twenty minutes they 247 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:42.759 spotted him again. A sniper took his picture and then as time slipped through, 248 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.920 according to The New York Times, at least two officers were pulled off 249 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:51.079 of traffic detail to help look for the guy, but the Secret Service did 250 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:56.200 not stop the former president from taking the stage. Eight minutes after he started 251 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.200 speaking. That's when the former president was shot. And that's why experts tell 252 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.839 you this was a failure from top to bottom. Several top Democrats have been 253 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:10.000 telling Axios as well that the rising pressure being put on President Biden to decide 254 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.599 to drop out of the race means that he could decide as soon as this 255 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:18.720 weekend. The eighty one year old president is self isolating with COVID still. 256 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:23.759 Publicly he's been saying he's in it to win it, and they said privately 257 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.799 he has resigned to the mounting pressure, to the bad polls, to the 258 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:33.039 scrutiny, and the possibility that whatever legacy he had is going to be destroyed 259 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.079 if he stays in the race and loses not just the White House but also 260 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.599 the Senate In the House. Can we talk about the optics of him getting 261 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.839 out tomorrow or this weekend. It would be terrible for Democrats because it would 262 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:52.480 be all but conceding the race to Donald Trump. Because he speaks tonight today 263 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.920 is all about Donald Trump at the RNC. I mean it has been since 264 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:00.319 it began. But he takes the stage in Milwaukee tonight. Depending on the 265 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.319 speech, I'm sure it's not going to shock us one way or the other. 266 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.079 What the tone of his speech is. I hope it. But then 267 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.079 to come out tomorrow or Saturday or Sunday and drop out of the race. 268 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:17.440 It's almost like, oh that the speech is the last nail in the coffin. 269 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:22.440 Yeah. Objects are bad down the optics are bad for Democrats down the 270 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.680 ticket. Yeah, because it's like, oh, well, we're not going 271 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.200 to beat that. We got to get out well. Last week obviously we 272 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:30.839 didn't know what assassination attempt was going to take place. But last week I 273 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:36.119 had said, you know, one of the best options I thought would be 274 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.599 for last weekend to be the time that Joe Biden announces that he's going to 275 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:45.240 step down, because that takes some of the oxygen out of Milwaukee, right 276 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.880 and take some of the headlines back well, and if they were to pitch 277 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:53.440 it, you know, his stepping down and the search for the next candidate, 278 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.880 assuming it wouldn't be Kamala Harris. In this scenario, that generates a 279 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:00.799 lot of electricity. General, it's a lot of energy. Whether it's a 280 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:06.000 positive or negative. It generates headlines. And your plan may have been the 281 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.680 plan that got derailed once the assassination happened on Saturday, or the attempt, 282 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.680 you know what I mean, Because if they planned to do it, let's 283 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:18.119 say Sunday night, right last Sunday night, and then steal all the headlines 284 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.799 throughout the week from the RNC, that would be a great plan. But 285 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.920 you can't do that after the assassination attempt. Good point. Speaking of the 286 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.240 assassination attempt, one of the things that the Director of the Secret Service has 287 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:36.240 kind of intimated suggested, but not really leaning into it is the building where 288 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.960 the shooter was was supposed to be protected by local officers. And Edward Natali 289 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:48.240 is the Butler Township commissioner, and he's going around basically defending his guys, 290 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.640 defending his police force. At the site that day, there was the Secret 291 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:59.279 Service, the Pennsylvania State Police, Butler County Sheriff's Department, and of course 292 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:02.960 the Butler time Police. I am not here to throw anyone under the bus. 293 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:10.079 What I'm doing is protecting my team for what is a completely unacceptable suggestion. 294 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:14.960 I do hope that the investigation is done rigorously and that the truth comes 295 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.200 out, and that's what I want, And he said, I mean, 296 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.400 they have a very small police force. Butler, Pennsylvania is not a big 297 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.759 city. The Butler Township Police Department is an honorable department, works hard. 298 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:32.200 Our detail was specifically planned for traffic detail only. There was no security, 299 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:36.559 no protection detail whatsoever. I guess a couple of his officers, well not 300 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:41.039 his, but a couple of the officers were tasked with helping to find the 301 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.319 guy after he'd been identified as at least suspicious at that point. Now, 302 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.519 a former Secret Service agent, Mike Matrango also did an interview today and asked, 303 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.799 Okay, if we had eyes on this guy, or we thought that 304 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:57.759 there was a suspicious guy walking around, that should have prompted at the very 305 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:03.559 least a delay. I was the former president allowed to take the stage when 306 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.400 this individual had not been identified, We did not know where his location was. 307 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:14.079 That would be my question is why the rush? Why push him one 308 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:18.279 stage? Why not delay? That's protective assignments one oh one. You have 309 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.559 a person of interest that is out there that could potentially be of harm that 310 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:30.119 has obviously gained some type of suspicious intent or exhibited behaviors by someone in authority. 311 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.119 Why are we rushing the former president on stage now? I don't know 312 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.559 anybody rushed him, but they didn't prevent him from going on en At a 313 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:42.119 rally like that, it would not be unusual to have a delay of a 314 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:45.720 few minutes, sure, or several minutes, I mean, until you could 315 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.279 figure something out. Why haven't we seen people get fired over this yet? 316 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.240 It should have been swift, It should have been you don't get you don't 317 00:23:53.240 --> 00:24:00.279 get an opportunity to answer questions type of a situation. But everybody involved with 318 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.920 this organizational failure should just be dumped. I also wanted to point out that 319 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:10.039 Mike Matronga, again a former Secret Service agent himself, had talked about protective 320 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:15.000 details, but also talked about the ten thousand foot level of what we do. 321 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.200 We're not involved, we weren't there, we weren't work in security, 322 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.240 we weren't at the rally. If that bullet would have been an inch to 323 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:26.559 the right, what type of civil unrest not only in the United States that 324 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.559 we would have had, but also through throughout the nation and throughout the world. 325 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:37.359 So we've got to do better as Americans at understanding that there's such a 326 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:44.359 political divisiveness in this country that's been created by both parties. And what I 327 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.519 would say is that we've got to be better Americans. We have to understand 328 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:52.279 that when things go bad, we can't solely look at our government to save 329 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.440 us. It's going to be our neighbors that do that, and so that's 330 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:57.640 what brings us together. We've got to do better. Oh, that was 331 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:04.559 a nice message considering all of the absolute tornado plus a hurricane and throwing a 332 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:10.920 sharknado of feces that has been going on. Oh. Absolutely, you've been 333 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.240 listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on 334 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:18.759 KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and 335 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.359 anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.