1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,640 your support. I want to start with the second part, 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:41,200 the second portion of the original sin scandal. This is, 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,960 in my opinion, my humble, lowly opinion, the biggest scandal 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,960 in American political history, the Joe Biden cognitive decline and 13 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:55,439 how it was kept hidden we are to believe by 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,920 a small group of people, right, and the Biden family 15 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:02,320 was in charge and his closest advisors. There was like 16 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:05,439 four or five people from Joe Biden's staff, and then 17 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,200 like three or four people from Jill Biden's staff, and 18 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,319 Hunter Biden was basically acting as the chief of staff. 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,239 And that only tells half the story, because the other 20 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,120 half of the story, and by the way, as I 21 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:23,079 went over yesterday, I do not believe for one second, 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,519 that nobody else except this little cabal, or, as Alex 23 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:33,079 Thompson from Axios called them, the pollit Bureau. I do 24 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:35,359 not believe that they were the only ones who knew. 25 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:43,120 That defies reality and logic. Because the tales that are 26 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,439 told in the book Original Sin, which I have not read, 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,959 but I have read enough of the excerpts and the 28 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:56,120 analysis from people who have. I've watched several interviews with 29 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:00,120 the authors, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, and so I 30 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:03,840 got a pretty good gauge on the stories right that 31 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,359 the new pieces of information that have come out. So 32 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:11,039 there's no way that you can do, for example, a 33 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:16,080 fake town hall and bring in a bunch of Democrat loyalists, 34 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,000 put them into an audience setting, pretend to host a 35 00:02:21,039 --> 00:02:24,919 town hall with Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is so 36 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:31,759 unable to perform that they never use any of the 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:38,639 audio or video. They bury it. I would love to 38 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,879 see if any video of it exists. Like so, everybody 39 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:47,240 in that audience knew something was wrong. You don't sit 40 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:51,199 for an hour and a half town hall and witness 41 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,599 that kind of performance and then know everything is fine, 42 00:02:56,759 --> 00:03:02,120 particularly after they kill the project the people who shot 43 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:05,120 the video where he was like, if Donald Trump wants 44 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:05,800 to debate me. 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,039 Speaker 2: Ah, I'll do it. I'll do it too, I'll do 46 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,800 two debates. Whatever they had. 47 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: It was like a one minute video and it had 48 00:03:12,719 --> 00:03:15,439 like six jump cuts in it because he couldn't even 49 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,840 go He couldn't get through a one minute monologue talking 50 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,319 to a camera. The people who were involved in editing 51 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,159 that they knew. And I do not believe that the 52 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:31,560 pollt Bureau, the you know, legislative advisor, national security advisor, whatever, 53 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,080 all these different advisors, they weren't in there doing the editing. 54 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,800 They had people that did that on the campaign staff. 55 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,199 So people knew we had There was one campaign staffer 56 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:41,879 who quit. 57 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 2: They left because. 58 00:03:43,479 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: They said this is this is nuts, right, So the 59 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,400 pollot Bureau were not the only people who knew. You 60 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:54,840 had this entire group of Democrats that also knew. That's 61 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:58,120 one part of it. The other part of it, though, 62 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:04,840 is the media, the media, the legacy media, particularly the 63 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:08,759 same people that are now all of a sudden aware 64 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,759 that Joe Biden was incognitive decline going back to twenty nineteen, 65 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:19,720 in the first run on that campaign in twenty nineteen 66 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:27,519 and at that time, there were media stories about his age, 67 00:04:27,639 --> 00:04:29,519 and again this has never been about his age. It's 68 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,240 been about his cognitive abilities at that time, because if 69 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,639 he were forty years old and was displaying this kind 70 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,480 of cognitive decline, I would be saying the same thing. 71 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:45,319 Speaker 2: So I want to start with the with the media, 72 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,720 because this is where I guess I should say. 73 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: This is I'll start today with the media because I 74 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,240 did Democrats and the focus on the machinations that the 75 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:01,800 politbureau was engaged in. Yesterday, Jeffrey Blair over at National Review, 76 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:06,240 he writes a piece called do not expect the mainstream 77 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:11,720 media to honestly audit itself. He says, I wrote about 78 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:16,240 Joe Biden's condition a week before the twenty twenty four 79 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:21,360 presidential debate, and then after the flaming wreckage of the 80 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,120 twenty twenty four campaign had finally been extinguished, he had 81 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,319 another piece where he says, in spring of twenty twenty one, 82 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:32,120 that is to say, only a month or two after 83 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:36,560 Biden took office, our commander in chief was already having 84 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:42,480 good days and bad days. This was in twenty twenty one, 85 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:48,800 and this man ran for reelection three years later. Blair says, 86 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:51,600 this is the biggest scandal the presidency has ever seen 87 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,120 because it runs to the core of what the presidency 88 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:57,519 is supposed to be. At no point during his time 89 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:01,639 in office has he been fit for the presidency. There 90 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,240 is no getting around the revolting fact that we have 91 00:06:05,319 --> 00:06:09,959 been subjected to four years of a farcical, semi presidency, 92 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,000 one whose drift is now so easily explained by the 93 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,600 simple fact that Biden was little better than a front 94 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:21,759 for an unelected committee of top men who sent us 95 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:27,399 careening from one international and domestic disaster to another. He 96 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:33,399 wrote this in twenty twenty four. He says, I didn't 97 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,000 even need to read this book by Tapper and Thompson 98 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,839 Original Sin in order to agree with the book's premise. 99 00:06:38,879 --> 00:06:45,519 It's thesis because it's been mine and mine, it's been Blair's, 100 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,079 it's been mine, it's been conservative medias for a long time, 101 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:53,920 for years. So we accept the premise absolutely. But it's 102 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:58,639 also incomplete because it fails to adequately address the media's 103 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:05,680 role in facilityating this conspiracy for four years. He says, 104 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,399 for now we know two things to be certain. Joe 105 00:07:08,439 --> 00:07:11,439 Biden was already mentally unfit for office even as he 106 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:15,439 was seeking the presidency in twenty nineteen. His condition worsened 107 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,920 from there, and his four years in office were a 108 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,759 front for a small team of close aids who effectively 109 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:25,360 ran the US government using him as a figurehead and 110 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,199 number two the mainstream media. With a few notable exceptions, 111 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,519 like yes Alex Thompson, they either colluded or acquiesced in 112 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:39,319 all of this right up until the moment Biden collapsed 113 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,720 at the debate, displaying not only a stunning incuriosity about 114 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:49,800 Biden's increasingly vegetative comportment, but also gleefully attacking anybody who 115 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:54,160 expressed doubt about his mental acuity. So the real questions, 116 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,800 the questions that reporters like Tapper and Thompson or others, 117 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:04,040 the questions they are actually best situated to answer, are 118 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,639 left unaddressed, which are why did the American media, in 119 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:13,279 the aggregate forsake its investigative duties. We're told these books 120 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:17,560 about Biden the administration's you know, many efforts to deceive 121 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:20,759 and to spind to bully national political journalists. 122 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 2: Sure, but we are. 123 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:27,199 Speaker 1: Told little about why those journalists acquiesced so easily and 124 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:32,559 at times enthusiastically, were they really that easily fooled when 125 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,240 all the rest of us in America theoretically less well 126 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:42,600 informed than they, we were not. Here's Blair's appealingly simple 127 00:08:42,639 --> 00:08:49,200 theory to explain this mystery again from last year, that 128 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:51,519 the media did not miss it at all. They didn't 129 00:08:51,519 --> 00:08:55,159 miss it. Everybody knew, and the sorts of people who 130 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:00,360 would have normally pursued these whispers about Biden's remoteness simply 131 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,639 decided not to because it was not in the best 132 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:05,799 interests of the Democratic Party to do so, at least 133 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840 as perceived by the herd mind of the media, the 134 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,399 left tinged blob of assignment editors, investigative reporters, and liberal 135 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:18,480 commentators across Washington. And do you know how I know this, 136 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,279 he says, I just look at their coverage. Here's a 137 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,200 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 138 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,480 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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In twenty nineteen, 161 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,360 when Joe Biden was in the primary and everybody just 162 00:10:51,399 --> 00:10:54,240 considered him to be some hopelessly boring retread with no 163 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:57,240 chance of winning, the New York Times was more than 164 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,600 happy to report about Biden's age, and he captured the 165 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:06,159 nomination and then went into the quasi hibernation basement campaign, 166 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,600 which coincidentally timed perfectly to conceal his weakening state. That 167 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,519 was it for any investigations into that topic, right, so 168 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,399 they did cover it in the primary, but when he 169 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:22,679 got the nomination, then it was off off the table. 170 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,919 And then in the fall of twenty twenty two, there 171 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:27,519 was a brief window when it looked like Biden might 172 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,720 decide to pass the torch instead of running again, and 173 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:33,519 the window to discuss Biden's age was once again open. 174 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:34,919 Speaker 2: Washington Post then did a. 175 00:11:34,879 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: Story once Biden chose to run for a second term 176 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,360 back into storage. Do not cover this story. That's how 177 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:46,240 you know that they didn't miss the story. I played 178 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,879 clips from the Megan Kelly Show yesterday with Jake Tapper 179 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,600 and Alex Thompson. I did not play four clips about 180 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,720 Jake Tapper's own role in all of this. And Megan 181 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:05,639 Kelly it into him for about twenty minutes, just non stop. 182 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:08,320 Here's how it started. 183 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: You didn't cover mental acuity hardly at all. I mean, 184 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,200 time and time again when issues came up. You seem 185 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,639 to be running cover for the president. Interested well, I 186 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:22,440 mean we'll start with the Laura Trump issue that you 187 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,360 referred here. It is this happened in twenty twenty. 188 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 4: Joe Biden, as we all know, his work to overcome 189 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,519 a stutter. How do you think it makes little kids 190 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:33,360 with stutters feel when they see you make a comment 191 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:33,759 like that. 192 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 5: First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden 193 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:42,159 ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see 194 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,480 on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a 195 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:48,159 cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. 196 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 6: It makes me uncomfortable. 197 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,879 Speaker 7: You are, No, that's so amazing. 198 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 5: You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting 199 00:12:55,519 --> 00:12:56,240 was I think. 200 00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 4: That you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you 201 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,759 were mocking his stutter. And I think you absolutely no 202 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,399 standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. 203 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 5: And it's very concerning to a lot of people that 204 00:13:05,919 --> 00:13:08,240 this could be the leader of the free world. 205 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,279 Speaker 6: That is all I'm saying. I genuinely sorry for Joe. 206 00:13:11,759 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 4: I appreciate it. I'm sure it was from a place 207 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,519 of concern. All we all believe that. Laura Trump, thank 208 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:16,000 you so much. 209 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,519 Speaker 6: Do you want to apologize to Laura Trump? 210 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 7: Now? I've already apologized her. I called her months ago, 211 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,320 and what did she say? 212 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of 213 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,240 a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well, 214 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,639 and she said she has said this publicly, so I 215 00:13:36,759 --> 00:13:38,799 feel fine sharing it. She said that she would never 216 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,240 mock anybody's stutter. But I mean, you know, after we 217 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,840 did the research for this book and I realized how 218 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:52,240 bad his acuity issues were, I like, I mean, I 219 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:56,639 called Laura Trump and I said, you were you were right. 220 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 6: She was totally right. 221 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,639 Speaker 3: That's the thing, because when I watched that clip, and 222 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:03,399 I'm giving voice to what a lot of people watching 223 00:14:03,399 --> 00:14:06,279 the show are feeling, Jake, I feel angry because she 224 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,320 was right, and not only did you not allow her 225 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,279 to make her comments, but you seem to try to 226 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,240 humiliate her. You had a hostility toward the position. But 227 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,679 she was totally right, and then you lecture her on 228 00:14:19,799 --> 00:14:23,120 how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline, 229 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:28,039 which you guys do at length, including on page four 230 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,240 of your book. You described at length as cognitive decline, 231 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:33,000 which is all she tried to do with you. But 232 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,840 you had such a visceral reaction to her, And my 233 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,879 feeling is that's because you didn't want to hear it. 234 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 7: Now. 235 00:14:40,759 --> 00:14:43,159 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm happy to talk about this. I didn't 236 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,799 come here thinking that you weren't going to ask me 237 00:14:44,799 --> 00:14:46,320 about this. I'm happy to talk to you about it. 238 00:14:47,039 --> 00:14:51,159 The first time I saw the coverage of Laura Trump's comments, 239 00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:56,519 which were interpreted as her mocking Joe biden stutter, was 240 00:14:56,559 --> 00:14:59,720 in January twenty twenty. I read it in conservative media 241 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,279 in the Daily Mail, and that's where I saw that 242 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,759 her comments were being interpreted that way. After those comments 243 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:13,879 were publicized, it got a lot of coverage, and Sully 244 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,200 Sullenberger wrote an op ed in The New York Times 245 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:24,320 criticizing her about this. So that's the context for that 246 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,679 that I was following up on a story that had 247 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:31,039 been out there months before. This is also in the 248 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,279 context of October twenty twenty, a very intense time people 249 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,840 on the Biden side are saying crazy things about Trump. 250 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,759 People on the Trump side are saying crazy things about Biden, 251 00:15:40,799 --> 00:15:43,440 including Don Junior suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile. 252 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,399 So that is the larger context. But as I said, 253 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,679 her comments have aged well, my comments have aged poorly. 254 00:15:53,559 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 7: I own that. 255 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 4: But I think what is significant is, in addition to 256 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,080 me owning that, the reporting that Alex and I have done, 257 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,399 which is beyond just. And when I say just, I 258 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,919 don't mean to diminish it. But the comments of Joe 259 00:16:09,919 --> 00:16:16,639 Biden making gaffes, saying things stupid, tripping, are all important, 260 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,080 and all deserved to be aired, and all deserves scrutiny. 261 00:16:20,399 --> 00:16:23,039 But as you know, Megan, because even though you look 262 00:16:23,039 --> 00:16:25,120 thirty years younger than me, we're roughly the same age, 263 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,639 Joe Biden has been saying stupid things for decades. 264 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,039 Speaker 1: Okay, that is true. Okay, I have to give tappra 265 00:16:31,159 --> 00:16:34,559 that he so that's good. Oh he didn't realize he 266 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,840 was incognitive decline because he's always been this stupid. Oh 267 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:40,519 that was it. No, now I'm not buying that either. 268 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,639 Back to Jeffrey Blair, he says, if the media chose 269 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,639 not to explore Biden's mental decline because of partisan allegiance 270 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:52,879 to the Democrats or dislike of Trump, then they have 271 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,960 forfeited their credibility in a devastatingly permanent way. In that case, 272 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,240 they would have willingly participated in what I consider to 273 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:05,880 be the single worst scandal in presidential history, a mentally 274 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:12,960 incapacitated president concealed from the public and controlled by his advisors. Now, 275 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,440 if they have not done this, if they truly were 276 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:20,000 taken by surprise, then we are in little better position. 277 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,880 We are now cursed with the most useless media class 278 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:30,680 in the world, a mass of despairingly hopeless incompetence who 279 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:33,359 failed in the most important duty that they were ever 280 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,920 asked to perform in their jobs. I'm not sure which 281 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:45,119 verdict they would prefer. Yeah, corruption or incompetence among the 282 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:51,640 media class, and neither one of those is good. Neither one. 283 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,279 They're both horrifying for different reasons. And by the way, 284 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,799 he made these accusations, he made these points in December 285 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:06,839 of twenty twenty four, right long before original Sin came out. 286 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:09,119 All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 287 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,200 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. 288 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,279 And I know you do too, And you've probably heard 289 00:18:13,279 --> 00:18:17,359 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 290 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,119 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 291 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,359 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 292 00:18:23,559 --> 00:18:26,720 and it's a website and it combines news from around 293 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:29,200 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 294 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,160 and verify information. 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Your subscription 305 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,400 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 306 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,680 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 307 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:13,559 Speaker 2: I mean, get David on real quick. 308 00:19:13,599 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 8: Here. 309 00:19:13,759 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 2: Hey David, welcome to the show. 310 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 8: Hey how are you Hey? 311 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 2: I'm good, what's up? 312 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:21,039 Speaker 8: Well, here's another comment I want to make about the 313 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:24,160 Democratic Party and the media. I guess you know one 314 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,319 of them the same. But anyway, uh, you know, yes, 315 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,920 most people, why did Joe Biden get forced out? They'll 316 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,079 say it, well cause his continent decline. He was not 317 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,480 pushed out because his continent decline. He was pushed out 318 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,799 because he couldn't win. They had no problem putting him 319 00:19:39,839 --> 00:19:43,160 back and off for four more years with his cotton declined. 320 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,440 He just got pulled because they think you could win. 321 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 2: Right, And they right, You're exactly right. 322 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: And it became obvious in the debate that the American 323 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:56,119 public had caught on to it. His polling numbers were terrible. 324 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,759 And yeah, and so that's it. You're you're exactly right. 325 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 2: No, that's it. I appreciate the call, David. I want 326 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:02,599 to get to this next sound bite. 327 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:02,799 Speaker 7: Here. 328 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:05,799 Speaker 1: This is again Jake Tapper on the Megan Kelly Show, 329 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,920 and she is grilling him over his coverage. 330 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 3: Okay, I get what you're saying that, but this minimizes 331 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,359 it too, because it was on some stupid things. But 332 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,319 I'm just I'm telling you, like over here in my ecosphere, 333 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:24,680 we were covering all of these it wasn't just falling down, 334 00:20:24,799 --> 00:20:27,079 it was getting lost. It was some of the stuff 335 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,480 you report in your book, we knew and we were 336 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:33,680 reporting on, like the multi jump cuts in the videos 337 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,839 of him, or it was obvious he couldn't get through 338 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,680 a one minute take so they had to use those. 339 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:41,000 It was clear to us that he was using teleprompter, 340 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,839 and there was some reporting on that at the time, 341 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,400 all of which the White House was denying. Now, with 342 00:20:46,759 --> 00:20:49,279 the current white House, I have some connections with the 343 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,200 Joe Biden white House. I had none, but you did. 344 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,119 You did, And so while you've been in Washington thirty years, Jake, 345 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,440 you guys, you and CNN have White House connections. But 346 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,160 there was no effort, none, to get to the bottom 347 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,880 of this. And now for you guys to write this 348 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,400 book like there was a cover up, it's like you 349 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,559 there was a cover up, and there was an attempted 350 00:21:09,599 --> 00:21:13,480 cover up. It could only ever work if you allowed it, 351 00:21:13,559 --> 00:21:14,839 if the press allowed it. 352 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 6: Some of us tried not to, and some of us 353 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:17,680 were complicit. 354 00:21:20,039 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 4: First of all, the Biden white House did not like me. Okay, 355 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:28,079 this is I do not have great connections with the 356 00:21:28,079 --> 00:21:28,920 Biden White House. 357 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:29,839 Speaker 6: Well, clearly a. 358 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 3: Source said, you talked to over two hundred sources for 359 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,480 this book, so I could have called and worked. 360 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,279 Speaker 7: I know. That's the point is that they were not 361 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,039 being honest. That's how the. 362 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 6: Street Journal get it. 363 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 3: In June of twenty twenty four and Jake Tapper and 364 00:21:43,559 --> 00:21:45,400 CNN couldn't find sources for this story. 365 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 6: Then before he dropped out. 366 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 4: Annie Lynsky and Shavon Hughes did an amazing job in 367 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:55,680 their reporting and they should be heralded. 368 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,519 Speaker 7: And I heralded them. 369 00:21:56,559 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 4: I had them on my show right after the debate 370 00:21:58,759 --> 00:22:01,880 to talk about their great report to the debate. 371 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 3: But you did not put them on when they published 372 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,160 that story, which was before the debate. 373 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:06,759 Speaker 2: Right when it was safe. 374 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:08,839 Speaker 7: Correct. 375 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 4: I don't know what the booking situation was, but it 376 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,599 wasn't because I didn't want them. I'm sure I will 377 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:15,559 Let's book. I'm sure I said that they Let's book. 378 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:17,240 That did they? 379 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:16,759 Speaker 6: You? 380 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,319 Speaker 3: You put on a Democrat and you allowed the Democrat 381 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,960 to rive on the report as a Rupert Murdoch sponsored 382 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:24,640 hit piece. 383 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 6: It's just. 384 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:29,079 Speaker 4: Going to do if we're going to if we're going 385 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,240 to do this, let's just stick to the facts here, Okay. 386 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,839 Speaker 7: When there is a damnating report. 387 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 6: That's what I've been doing all along. 388 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 3: The didn't miss the biggest story of the century when 389 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,599 it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did. 390 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:48,759 Speaker 7: Boom. Okay, so the uh. 391 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:55,599 Speaker 4: There is a difference, okay, between the clips of Joe 392 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,680 Biden falling on a stage at the Air Force Academy graduation. 393 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,839 There is the difference between the clip of Joe Biden 394 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,720 embarrassingly forgetting that a Republican member of Congress who he's 395 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:11,440 talking about has died. Those are embarrassing, Those are important. 396 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,880 But there is a difference between that and the investigative 397 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,440 journalism that Alex and I were able to do and 398 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,160 only able to do after the election. And I know 399 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,400 you know this because you've been talking about the scoops 400 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,920 in the book, and you've been talking. 401 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 3: About I don't diminish the importance of the book. I 402 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,720 have supported the importance of the book, and we'll talk 403 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:33,200 about the contents of the book at length, But there 404 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:35,960 is no way we can have that conversation with an 405 00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:39,599 audience that is as skeptical of your ability to tell 406 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,000 the story as mine is without addressing your role in 407 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:45,880 this right, Like Alex is a different story. But you 408 00:23:46,039 --> 00:23:48,400 know you've watched the coverage since it came out that 409 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,400 you wrote this book. There are this a legion of 410 00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:56,279 articles about how comparing you in some instances to like 411 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,519 Ojy instead of if I did it, this is if 412 00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:01,160 I hit that like. 413 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,079 Speaker 6: You are not the right messenger to bring. 414 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 3: The story about the cover up because you helped, you 415 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:10,880 allowed it, and you likely did that out of a 416 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,200 desire to help Joe Biden and hurt Donald Trump. You 417 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,720 didn't want to do anything that might improve Trump's chances. 418 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,839 Speaker 4: I do not think that that is accurate. I do 419 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,240 not think that that is true at all. The idea 420 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:28,079 that Chevn and Annie do their piece and we have 421 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,240 on the co chair of the Biden campaign is not 422 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:33,599 me trying to cover for the Biden campaign. 423 00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:36,279 Speaker 7: That is me putting the questions. 424 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 4: Of the reporting that were made to him and saying 425 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,519 things like, so you really haven't seen any moment, or 426 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:44,079 you would acknowledge that you wouldn't you acknowledge that he's 427 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,039 lost a step, he's eighty one, et cetera, et cetera. 428 00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:50,839 Like I said before, do if I had known then 429 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:54,880 what I know now, would I have been more aggressive? 430 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 7: Yes, of course. 431 00:24:56,559 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 2: Okay, well, then all is forgiven. 432 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,079 Speaker 6: I guess, and you didn't know. 433 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: I'm just curious because when I saw that Wall Street 434 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:07,359 Journal report in June of twenty four I scoffed at it, like, Okay, 435 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,720 it's an attempt, but it's lame. Everybody on the right 436 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,640 wing ecosystem and the independent media ecosystem knew it was 437 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,319 a lame attempt that only scratched the surface. We had 438 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,279 all been discussing his serious cognitive problems for years by 439 00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:26,039 that point, Jake, in June of twenty twenty two, this 440 00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:29,119 show did a full two hour program. 441 00:25:28,599 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 6: On his cognitive decline. 442 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 3: It was I know, we want to pretend I'm mentioning 443 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,039 the Wall Street Journal out of as a courtesy, but 444 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,720 those of us on this side of the aisle had 445 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,680 been reporting in depth on his multiple problems and the 446 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,000 obvious lives we were being told for years, for years. 447 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,920 You really want the audience to believe you were fooled. 448 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 7: What do you mean I was fooled. I'm not saying 449 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:51,480 I was fooled. 450 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 4: I'm saying we all saw these moments before the camera, 451 00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:57,880 and they were obviously concerning, and he was obviously aging, 452 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,200 and that was significant but the people at the White House, 453 00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:05,319 I'm trying to answer the question. So the people at 454 00:26:05,319 --> 00:26:07,480 the White House, when I would call, when others would call, 455 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:09,720 when Alex would call, would. 456 00:26:09,559 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 7: Lie, He's fine, he's fine. 457 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 4: You'd call Democrats and say, what are you seeing behind 458 00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:18,400 the scenes here, because this is concerning He's fine, he's fine. 459 00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:20,960 This is just a moment. He's seventy nine, he's eighty. 460 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,880 He has moments like that. But he's fine. His decision 461 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,799 making is fine. They're still saying that. They're still saying that. 462 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:29,480 And let me defend Annie and Chevn there for a second, 463 00:26:29,519 --> 00:26:31,759 because you just said that their Wall Street Journal story 464 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,400 just scratched the service. They got what they could get 465 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,160 in June twenty twenty four, and I went back, and 466 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,240 Alex and I went back to report some of the 467 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,880 same things that they reported on. For example, there was 468 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,640 a meeting in the White House about Ukraine funding in 469 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:52,000 January twenty twenty four, and we were able to get 470 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:55,480 people to say things as a Democratic member of Congress 471 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,759 that look, I don't know who any and Chavon's sources are, 472 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:00,440 but they were not able to get. 473 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,319 Speaker 7: Them to do that. 474 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 4: I assume that you know they had dozens of sources 475 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,880 for that article, but not one of the Democrats that 476 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,359 they talked to would even talk on background. 477 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,559 Speaker 7: It is a complicated thing to try to get to. 478 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:16,839 Speaker 3: But your commentary on your show, yes, I'm going to 479 00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:19,160 bring you in, But your commentary on your show, Jake, 480 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,400 consistently ran in one direction. 481 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 6: Occasionally you would ask. 482 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,039 Speaker 7: The tough questions true. 483 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 6: I mean, here you are. 484 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 3: On September twenty twenty three saying that Biden was sharp mentally. 485 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 6: September of twenty twenty. 486 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,599 Speaker 3: Three, you said, hold on, you said he's sharp mentally. 487 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,440 I think the question is physically right, he's sharp mentally. 488 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,720 And then you pointed out that his opponent, Donald Trump 489 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:42,480 was only a couple of years younger than he was. 490 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,599 There are many examples where you're doing that kind of coverage. 491 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,599 Speaker 4: Okay, so let's let's be honest and fall about what 492 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,519 you're talking about. 493 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 3: Frank, there's no problem with honesty on this show. 494 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 2: Spicy. 495 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,039 Speaker 1: For the past twenty years, Jeffrey says, I watched those 496 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,279 cords of trust Frey with the media, one tiny braid 497 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,920 after another, pulling itself apart while the center still held 498 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,880 until with the Biden cover up, the coil snapped and 499 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:15,400 unraveled with such finality that it seems as if most 500 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:19,880 journalists haven't yet realized they are now untethered to the 501 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,160 American populace. 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One 526 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,680 final clip again Megan Kelly Program, The Megan Kelly Show, 527 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:00,000 Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, and this is the final clip 528 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:03,599 where she is just dragging Jake Sullivan, who she says 529 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,400 is her friend, that they're friends, and this is the 530 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,079 way she's treating him about his coverage of Joe Biden. 531 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, Frank four came on with a biography about Joe Biden. 532 00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 4: Rank four came on to talk about his biography with 533 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,400 Joe Biden, and I am trying to summarize what his 534 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:20,680 conclusions were. 535 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 7: So he is saying, good Biden. 536 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 3: Is where is the part where you say he's not 537 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,519 sharp mentally? Frank, We've seen the following ten examples in 538 00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:32,799 the past year, nevermind three years. 539 00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 7: I wasn't. 540 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 4: I've already said I wish I had covered this more aggressively. 541 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:39,559 Speaker 7: Frank four had. 542 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,359 Speaker 4: Come to the show to talk about his book about 543 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,039 President Biden. This was in September twenty twenty three, and 544 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:52,839 I interviewed him about his book, and that was the 545 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,000 end of that. Now, I suppose in retrospect I say 546 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,319 again I wish I had been more aggressive. I do, yeah, 547 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:02,640 but our reporting suggests and like I said, we've talked 548 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,240 to more than two hundred people Democratic insiders that the 549 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:10,640 real deterioration of President Biden. And yes, there was a 550 00:31:10,839 --> 00:31:13,519 degression or regression, whatever you want to call it, deterioration 551 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,240 since twenty fifteen, but it really started to intensify in 552 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:22,519 the summer of twenty twenty three when Bo Biden, I'm sorry, 553 00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:25,680 when Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart and Joe Biden 554 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,880 was terrified about what that effect would have on his side. 555 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 3: I accept that, except that it got worse in twenty 556 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,119 three and people close to him say that was a 557 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,039 real demarcation. 558 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,519 Speaker 4: And in October twenty twenty three, there is the last 559 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,920 cabinet meeting for almost a year, and Cabinet secretaries tell 560 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,720 us that that began that fall twenty twenty three, began 561 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:52,400 what they call a weird period where they were kept 562 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,319 at bay, where they were kept away from President Biden. 563 00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:57,319 Speaker 3: And now we're getting thisselfs which I do want to talk. 564 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,160 I'm about to switch to that though, but let me 565 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,680 just ask you because when we got to leading up 566 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,119 to the debate, which you anchored that June twenty seventh 567 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,960 debate twenty twenty four, there was a ton of news 568 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:10,359 leading into that debate in that month, and we look 569 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,640 back at your coverage and found that you ignored it. 570 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,000 Not only did you ignore the Jackie Velarski moment when 571 00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:19,000 you had him thirteen days later, but you ignored the 572 00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:22,759 freeze up that he had at the juneteenth celebration. You 573 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,000 ignored what happened at the G seven when he wandered 574 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000 off and Georgia Maloney, Prime Minister of Italy had to 575 00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:31,200 go find him. You ignored the freeze up at the 576 00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:33,359 George Clooney LA fundraiser. 577 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,519 Speaker 6: You didn't cover it. 578 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,799 Speaker 3: You only covered it after the debate, after George Clooney 579 00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:42,279 wrote his op ed, Jake, nobody made you do that. 580 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,839 There was your network at every turn was telling us 581 00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:50,400 those were quote cheap fakes, and you were not combating 582 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:56,000 that narrative. CNN was actively misleading us on what our 583 00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:57,559 very eyes were showing us. 584 00:32:57,839 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 6: That's the truth, that's the record. 585 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:06,079 Speaker 7: I will acknowledge that after I was named. 586 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,079 Speaker 4: Moderator cooderator of the debate, I tried to make sure 587 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,079 that my coverage was fairly vanilla, both about Trump and 588 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,640 about Biden, because I just wanted to get to the debate. 589 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:26,079 Speaker 1: Interesting, would that be bias? Would that be some external 590 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:30,160 pressure influencing your coverage and what you've chosen to focus on. 591 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,960 You were afraid of not being in the chair for 592 00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:38,680 the debate, so you tailored your coverage right, And this 593 00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:41,240 is supposed to be the this is supposed to be 594 00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:47,079 the cover story. Now this is this is covering. That's 595 00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:52,559 what he's doing. He's covering. The media were not Joe 596 00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:58,599 Biden's victims. They were his enablers. And as Jeffrey Blair 597 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:04,240 writes at National rec there are two original sins Biden's 598 00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:09,440 run for reelection. I would submit the first run, but 599 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,760 also the media. 600 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,559 Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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