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Speaker 2: Welcome, my friends, it is another Monday. Welcome to the
Monday edition of Boston Earl Rush Hour. James Golden with
you here. Eight hundred and eight four eight nine to
two two is the telephone number that was an accident, Carlos.
He's looking at me like what lately we have not
been taking calls during the week. We have been just
you know, just powering through it because time is so
short and there's so much to do. And then we
take calls on the Saturday show, so I don't know.
Maybe we'll take a call to today. I don't know.
We'll see what happens. But at any rate, there is
a lot of news out there, a lot of news
to discuss, and we shall get to it because time
is so short, very quickly. Is you know Joe Biden
over the weekend. It came too late that Joe Biden
has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. When I heard that,
I got a chill, a real chill, because I myself
have had not aggressive well, I have heard the words aggressive,
but when I was first diagnosed with prostate cancer, it
you know, no, it's a surprise. I don't think when
when you first hear it. Now, I will say this,
having been through prostate cancer, having so far done well
with it, one can never say what happens in the future,
whether it will return, whether it won't it is. It
is quite chilling when you hear those words, regardless of
who is the person that has the disease mine in
my case, ladies and gentlemen, it was monitored for several
years without me having to take any action, and then
one monitoring trip got back home and I suddenly get
a telephone call. I was being treated Nih, as many
of you know, and I got a call, your cancer
has turned aggressive and you need to get here now.
And that was it. Okay. So when I hear the
words aggressive and prostate cancer, it is and that sends
a chill up my spine for whoever it is that's
hearing that news. The finding for Joe Biden came after,
says the Associated Press. He reported urinary symptoms which led
the doctors to discover a nodule on his prostate and
he was diagnosed with prostate cancer Friday, the cancer cells
having spread to the bone. I'm not a doctor. I'm
not going to speculate. I will say that I'm trying
not to say something here because my experience is that, yes,
when you have aggressive when you have aggressive prostate cancer,
you have to act quickly. It is just amazing. Well,
when you hear some of the reports that have been
on television today that they looked through the records that
were available and there was no PSA testing going on,
that I just I'm just stunned by that. In case
most of you don't know about this, if you can
and all men are urged to over a certain age
to get your PSA tested, It's a blood test and
their mark is there. You get a gleas and score
out of it, and that can tell you where you
stand if it's something to be concerned. It's a simple
blood test. It's part of the blood work. So for
the President of the United States not to have that
included is just I'm shocked. It's just beyond to me.
When I say, it's almost beyond belief. It is such
a common test, especially for older men. And I mean
when I say older men, I'm talking about when you
get to be in your forties, you need to start
considering having your PSA. It's a blood test. You're gonna
get blood work anyway, so just have a PSA test. Guys,
if you happen to to be a black guy, yes,
you'd better start getting tested earlier than forty just to
be on the safe side. Just have them run a
PSA test with your blood panels. That's all. And if
you start getting symptoms like urgency, men have suffered this
norm I'm talking about urgency, or you have to get
up multiple times in the night to take a trip
to the restroom, then you may want to you may
may want to go get it checked. Now. Our good friend,
doctor Peter Michaelas has just texted me and he said,
good news. He's older and with hormone it slows it down.
And that is exactly right. This is not necessarily an
immediate death sentence, even though it is aggressive, even though
it has metastasized to Joe Biden's bones. And by the way,
that is the fear. That is why in my own case,
my doctors told me high tailor that I had to
leave where I was living and go to Niage in
Maryland to go get treated. And I lived there for
several months while I was being treated, and it was
They're like high tail. And what they showed me is,
first of all, until they touch your prostate, you don't
even know you have one. And as my doctor liked
to tell me, there's only one way in. So it's
not the most comfortable exploration in the world. I can
see women right now. Now you listen to these men
complaining about this. Look, we're not used to it, you ladies.
You know comes with the territory men, well, at least
most men don't like being invaded. And it's an invasive
The prognosis of doctor Michaelo says is worst in younger men.
That's right. And I was about to mention this and
then he doctor Michelo says, Now, the thing about it
is there's a capsule. What does that mean. It's not
like a space capsule. There is like a little Your
prostate is like this oval shaped thinging I guess, and
around it though there's a it's like a an atmosphere,
a capsule of its own like substance. And if the
cancer cells can maintain inside there, you can be treated
like with radiation, or they can just remove it if
they're careful. But if those cancer cells break out of
that capsule, then that's what Joe Biden has. It's broken
out and it then metasticides into his bones. And let
me tell you something, I had the best treatment to
me in the world. And as a result, I'm a
huge fan of NIH and the work that they do
and the work that they've done, especially on these kind
of issues like with prostate cancer. Huge fan and it
was intense, but they can when they go to be aggressive.
It's really a tough deal. And I say all that
to say this, I join with all of you of
goodwill and good hearts who have expressed your desires that
President Biden and hopes and desires and prayers that President
Biden will a have a successful treatment. There is no cure,
by the way for this, but it can be managed,
and usually it can be managed. Even the aggressive form
that he has now for several years, it can be managed.
So we're all hoping for the best possible outcome. Yes,
that capsule, Okay, Doctor Nicholas just gave me a much
better explanation than mine. That capsule he's talking about is
it's like an orange peel. So you have the fruit
and then you have the peel. Now, if that cancer
escapes out of the peel, that it's in the body,
and life gets woof and it can be very miserable.
My friend's very, very miserable. So I hope and pray
that this that the Biden family, that Joe Biden has
a successful management of this, and that he can be
treated as successfully as humanly possible. Donald Trump and others
have also. President Trump was very he said he and
First Lady Monnia Trump saddened to hear of former President
Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. We're saddened to hear about his
recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes
to Jill and the family and with Joe a fast
and successful recovery. Now, when we get back, there are
other voices, and we're gonna let you hear some of
those other voices, including some Democrats that you might think
are not being as gracious as you would like during
this difficult time for the Biden families. James Golden is
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let's just get started with it. Brian Stelter. Look, folks,
I want to start with the Democrats and then we'll
get into some of the others. Republicans have been how
shall we say, wishing Joe Biden. Well, for the most part,
there have been some statements that have been made. But
let's start with CN in Media and Brian Selter with
this cut three and here is mister Selter.
Speaker 3: The timing Jessica is just extraordinary. We know from the
statement from his personal spokesman that Biden learned the diagnosis
on Friday.
Speaker 2: Well, what was the biggest Biden story on Friday?
Speaker 3: It was the release of those audio excerpts from his
conversations with Robert Herb back in twenty twenty three. This
was the audio that Axios obtained almost certainly from the
Trump administration, showing Mary Rapses. And there are a lot
of people fridably talking about that audio being hard to hear,
even excruciating to hear Biden showing his age on those
audio tapes that never been heard by the public until now.
So on the day that story was breaking, Biden was
facing this personal news at least that's according to this
statement from his personal spokesman. So you have that as
one element of the timing here, and then you have
as you and Paul just acknowledged, this book coming out
one of the biggest political books in several years. To
take out our colleague Diake Tapper for a second, this book,
no matter who, no matter where it was coming from,
was going to be a very big, blockbuster book. And
it just so happens two of the best reporters in Washington,
Jake Tapper and Alis Thompson, are the authors of it.
It's already a best seller based on a number of
pre orders. And so this book comes out in two days,
but some of the excerpts have already come out, and
it's reignited this debate in Washington and beyond within the
Democratic Party about Biden, about whether he should have run
for reelection at all. So it seems to me, Jessica,
this debate doesn't end at all, but it is briefly
put on pause as a result of today's news.
Speaker 2: Oh it's put on pause. Put on pause? Really, well,
you know what else is put on pause? Yeah? Yeah,
certain criticisms. Let's go back down memory Lane, folks, and
let's visit with Alison Camarada back in twenty twenty three,
who just prior to Joe Biden's run for the White House. Yes,
that would be the one as it.
Speaker 4: And Biden got his physical today, Walter Reed, probably his
last check up before he's expected to announce he's running
for reelection. He's already our oldest president eighty six at
the end of a second term. So what are the
results of his physical tell us? He's apparently, according to
his own doctor, President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, eighty
year old male who is fit to successfully execute the
duties of the presidency. All right, welcome questions answered there.
Speaker 5: I guess President.
Speaker 4: Biden does have word funding difficulties. It is, I mean,
if we can win him entire any time you hear
him on his speech, he does them. And I don't
know if that's his stutter or if that's the prompter
he does and as you know, his critics sees on that.
I just think that, you know, when I can watch
other networks, they edit it strategically to show.
Speaker 6: And stammering.
Speaker 4: They do that, and then they sort of, you know,
bring their hands about how concerned. They are all right, Well,
all questions answered there, I.
Speaker 2: Guess all questions answered. He's healthy, nothing wrong with him.
We have more, folks. We're just getting started with the audio.
But remember these things that we were told in the
past about Joe Biden and Joe Biden's health. Nothing by
the way that we play today in terms of audio,
and you are going to hear from Joe Biden himself.
Nothing that I am playing today and playing with the
intent of downplaying this news. And yes, our prayers are
with President Biden coming back away.
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Speaker 7: All right, I mean, I think those conversations are going
to happen, but they should be more muted and set
aside for now as he's struggling through this.
Speaker 2: That's David Axelrod when I'm CNN. Yeah, those conversations we're
having about Joe, they should be muted. Now, James Goldlin
is thirty with you, the fastest hour in American media.
Let us get to the phones because this first call
will actually lead us into a topic of discussion that
we need to have Mike in South Carolina, You are up.
How are you, Mike? Thank you for waiting.
Speaker 8: Oh, no problem, but how you doing. I'll tell you
what I was listening before. I just turned seventy one
May eleven, so I got to check my PSI prostate
and like I listened to Dominico all the time and whatever.
And here's the thing. Took a little music. I always
get to it quick, dire strait broke in the swing.
I like a little call of Santana Steely Dan FM Chicago.
I gotta speak with you Saturday. I always get to
my point, you know, whether I call rit it and
you know what.
Speaker 2: Okay, so your point today is exactly.
Speaker 8: What my point today is. Let's when when Donald Trump
got out of the starting gate, he hasn't stopped since.
You know, unlike, hey, we're real bad for Joe Biden,
but you know the far left Democratic you know, uh,
you know mantra drinking a kool aid. Enough is enough.
Let's go in a new direction. Let's go the direction.
Speaker 2: People got it. Thank you, I appreciate it. John in Minnesota,
you are up next, How are you?
Speaker 9: Thanks both?
Speaker 2: John, Johan that's me, Okay, we lost you for a moment,
Take advantage of the moment and just tell us what
it is that you wanted to say, really quickly.
Speaker 9: I'm not buying the story that this was suddenly discovered.
To go to a gleases score of nine, which is
ten is the worst in a stage four in a
very short time is very suspicious in the It might
be coincidental with the release of the her tapes, but
the PSA. He should have had PSA tests every year.
People make a big people make a big deal out
of the PSA test. It's just a blood test. They
do a blood every year, you do physical it's a.
Speaker 2: Blood panel, which is so suspicious. And so you said
that this you're not buying it. So let me just
ask you a question directly. You're not buying this story.
What do you think is going on here? John from Minnesota?
Speaker 9: Not sure, But I'm a twenty year survivor of prostate
cancer and I know a little bit about the PSA test,
and I say they make too much of a big
deal about it because it's just like checking for diabetes
or cholesterol. It's not a test. And I'm just not
buying it that he went from zero to stage four.
Gleason's score nine in a short period of time. Either
he wasn't getting adequate medical attention but his doctors, or
they're lying about it. And that's why I think the
coincidence with the her tapes it's suspicious.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thank you so much for that call.
As I said, there are many things I'm not going
to weigh in on, ladies and gentlemen, but I would
like you to hear some different audio. In fact, uh,
let's let's let's let's visit to his point, urologist doctor
bart Radolinsky. I believe he was on with Chris Let's
cut ten. I believe he might have been on with
UH with Sozilla today. Let's just listen to this.
Speaker 10: So it is a little bit surprising that the President
of the United States didn't have a crossed exam in February.
And to answer your question, is it possible that a
nodule was not on that exam in February.
Speaker 2: It's possible, but it's been very unlikely that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would say, I would say it's very unlikely,
and it's likely that before he even involved a nodule,
his PSA, the blood test for screening for prostate cancer,
would have been elevated.
Speaker 2: I see, so there's doubt being cast right now. Now,
I want to take you back, ladies and gentlemen, to
the year we at twenty twenty four, shortly after and
within this was in a day or two of Joe
Biden saying that he was not going to run for
the presidency again, dropping out of the race. I want
to take you back to a little news report from
CBS News. CBS is in the news today because the
CBS head said she's leaving, but we'll get to that
at some point. I want to take you back cut
twelve Carlos to a CBS News report with Frank Biden
about Frank Biden, brother of Joe Biden, and just listen
carefully as we go back and revisit this.
Speaker 11: CBS News had a brief conversation with Frank Biden, one
of President Biden's two younger brothers, and here's what he
told us. He said, I'm incredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly,
I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we
have left. He is a genuine hero. Country over health.
Sounds corny in our cynical political environment, but he nor
I are cynical. The goal remains the same defeat Trump
and continued the work that Joe has done. My hope
is that our party rallies around this heroic act. We
asked him whether he feels that his brother's overall health
and vitality made a major role in this decision, and
he says, in my humble opinion, absolutely so. A member
of the president's family now confirming that the president's health
was indeed a major factor in this decision and calling
his brother a hero for making the decision to pass
the torch Ta Kamala Harris So.
Speaker 5: Nathy, Sorry, can you clarify that that the family verified
saying his health was or was not a factor.
Speaker 11: He's saying that, in his humble opinion, yes, the president's
health and vitality played a considerable role in his decision.
It's important to note Frank Biden is not speaking for
the family written large, this was simply a conversation between
CBS News and Frank Biden. Unclear how much input he
had in this decision, but he says that say that
he believes that his brother's health did play a role,
and he says that the goal remains the same to
defeat Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Well, that is notable because today, the family, the White House,
the establishment has rejected the premise that there was anything
that was challenging the president's mental acuity or his health,
and not all these accusations were baseless, that.
Speaker 2: It was just baselessness, chameless.
Speaker 5: You know, difficult nights like he had on the debate stage.
Speaker 9: So that is a.
Speaker 2: Changeless, baseless, baseless basis. Okay, let's go to cut nine,
ladies and gentlemen. This is from twenty twenty two. Joe
Biden was speaking out of an event. I believe this
was in the backdrop was a bridge. He was in Delaware,
And it won't make sense. There's no context I can
give you for the actual event until it gets near
the and then you'll hear a very interesting sentence from
our president from then President Joe Biden back in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 12: And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible,
my mother drove us and rather than a stable of
walk and guess what the first frost.
Speaker 2: You know what was happening.
Speaker 12: It had to put on the windshield wipers to get
literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I
had so damn any other people I grew up have cancer,
and why camp for the longest time, Della had the
highest cancer rate in the nation.
Speaker 2: Say what? And then they lady said he misspoke. Just
one more time, let's listen through the ramble to get
to that last part. Just I'll well one more time,
play that, please, Carlos.
Speaker 12: And because it was a four lane highway was accessible,
my mother drove us and rather than a stable walk
and guess what the first frost you know what was
happ It had to put on the winshield wipers to
get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why
I had so damn the other people I grew up
have cancer? And why camp? For the longest time, Delaware
had the highest cancer rate in the nation. That's why
I had so damn the other people I grew up
have cancer? And why camp? For the longest time, Delaware
had the highest cancer rate in the nation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, okay, so we have that now. Chris Sizilla,
who used to be Washington Post then see nn uh,
let's see uh. Let's see what Chris Sozilla had to
say on his podcast. There cut eight.
Speaker 6: This is a guy who is the president of the
United States for four years and thought and ran for
a second term, at which point he would have been
in his mid eighties had he won. And Sir, so,
that to me is a really serious comversation about how
did we get to this point, given that there were
there were a lot of signs that suggested that Joe
Biden definitely should not have run for a second term.
Speaker 2: How did we get to this point.
Speaker 6: It's a media story, it's a politics story, it's a
sort of transparency story. And again, I always say this,
if the shoe was on the other foot, if Donald Trump,
god forbid, had been diagnosed post presidency with prostate cancer
and there were real questions about his acuity and his
physical abilities while he was in office, do you think
Democrats would say, let's just drop all of this. Of
course they wouldn't because it's an important conversation to have
because we're talking about the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: Hmm, couldn'tess this sounds like he's a little bit skeptical,
something like that. And let's let's turn the channel. Let's
flip oversea what they're saying on PMSNBC. That would be
cut five with doctor Vin Gupta on pms NBC going.
Speaker 13: To run for president for another four Easonborough. Obviously, the
PSA exam is not one hundred percent accurate, and I've
never met a doctor that doesn't say you needed to
do the PSA exam and also have the physical exam
as well.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, just find it hard to believe any white.
Speaker 2: House digital exam.
Speaker 14: We say, okay, well, what my doctor what every other
doctor says, which is okay, We've done the PSA tak
and that's fine, but at least once a year, we
need to do a physical exam.
Speaker 2: Again. Yeah, this digital exam on the one way street.
Speaker 14: Your old guy that is not running the free world.
That's one thing. But if you're a white House physician
and you have any any man over forty years old,
are you not going to at least say, hey, once
a year, like every other position says, once a year,
we need we need to do a physical exam and
check because this is like one of the leading causes,
you know, one of the leading sicknesses from ny You.
Speaker 2: Give a snap of that glove.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, Joe one hundred percent, and you know,
did they do a digital rectal exam to to assess
this trust it again? Typically that's done in the presence
of symptoms. To your point, he's the leader of the
free world. Did they do it and not characterize it?
It's hard to note. Respeculate here, I would say in
a bunch of the costume. Probably if be hell listening comprehensives,
that would make sense. It is interesting to note that
President Trump's, President Obama's, and President and President Bush the
second in their most recent physicals in their terms of
office obviously twenty twenty five to President Trump did comment
on their PSA levels, and so they got screened while
in office and they commented on it. It's not easy
to access the most recent ones from President Biden. You
can read my summary articles, you can't. I couldn't access
it on the archives set in the White House just
before it came on. But according to those that were
able to, there is not a report of a PSA
test on the most recent physical that was read out
for President Biden's last year in office. So it's to
say what was done what was not done. You and
I would be speculating, But the other three most recent
occupants of the White House at it drawn and it
was reported out.
Speaker 2: In the case of President well, isn't that interesting. Let's
go to another break, my friends, I want to grab
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Speaker 2: Mexican Navy tall ship crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge, Chuck,
you Schumer.
Speaker 16: We know that the Trump administration has been meddling in
US Coast Guard operations, from staffing to command and comms,
and I have the general sense of a doge dysfunction
in parts of the Coast Guard, to put it mildly,
After being fully briefed on last night's Brooklyn Bridge accident,
one thing is very clear.
Speaker 2: There are many more questions than answers.
Speaker 16: We know that there has been meddling by the Trump
administration into the Coastguard staffing, and now we need to
know how this meddling might have impacted the events of
last night.
Speaker 2: The President of the United States is the commander in chief.
He doesn't meddle into the affairs of the Coast Guard.
He runs the military. And that's just the beginning anyway.
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Speaker 2: Falls and let's get to the calls. Mark in New Jersey,
you are on, how are you?
Speaker 8: I'm good both?
Speaker 17: Thank you man, I'm good both. Thank you man, such
a huge fan. Thank you for what you do. Listen,
all I wanted to say was was that the Joe
Biden situation with his cancer diagnosis, although you know, I again,
Mark goes out to them, the family whole thing, you know,
you know, speedy recovery. But the fact of the matter
is the reason we're not learning about this now is
simply because they were trying to cover it up along
with his cognitive decline. And the reason that is is
because when you hear the word president of the United States,
you think of leadership, you think of strength, you think
of resilient and obviously we all know Biden did not
have that. And you know again, really it's such an
honor resteat with you, sir, And what's your take.
Speaker 2: I'm still in the exploratory mode. I having, as I said,
as a initial commers of today, having gone through prostate cancer. Folks,
I am just dubious as the previous caller was, who
has also had prospectate cancer. You just don't go from
most of the time. I'm not saying it's not possible,
but you don't go from a low gleasing score of
anywhere zero, two, three, and all of a sudden just
jump to nine. Usually there is a progression. And if
you're the president, I find it hard to believe that
they're not taking PSA test. It's a blood test. Why
wouldn't they take it? Very briefly, Susan. If we don't
get finished today, Susan, let's try to wrap up over
the with another collator in the week. What's on your mind, Susan,
I'm state New York.
Speaker 18: So this is the game changer. The investor rating service
for bonds lowered, Moody's lowered, our triple A treasury rating.
And this is a total game changer for this bill
because they lowered it, which makes our bond's risk.
Speaker 2: Here on the assumption that on the assumption that the
debt is somehow horrible, they didn't lower it. The entire
debt as a debt was being raised during the Biden administration. Oh,
we need to talk about this more. I think there's
a lot of shenanigans going on. Who we got to go.
May God bless each and every single one of you
families and your loved ones, love and gratitude for your
being here with me. Folks. God willing back tomorrow same time.
Until then, I bid you, I do buye.
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