WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:07.480 Well whiskey coming thame my pay money ally, Oh why 2 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:08.800 don't You? 3 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:16.600 From Powerline blog dot com and produced by Ricochet dot Com. 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:21.879 This is the Three Whiskey Happy Hour with your bartenders 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.519 Steve Hayward, John You and power Lines International Woman of 6 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.160 Mystery Lucretia Gotta giving. 7 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:34.799 Let that whiskey clone where you're feeling in loud down 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:35.439 and loone. 9 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:46.119 Welcome everybody to a special Christmas Day Christmas Week episode 10 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.439 and the Three Whiskey. I'm gonna start again and welcome 11 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.479 everybody to a special Christmas Week episode of the Three 12 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.920 Whiskey Happy Hour, our last gathering before December twenty fifth, 13 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.039 though we will be having one directly afterwards as we 14 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.200 approach the new year. But we thought this was going 15 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.000 to be a quiet, quiet time. We were going to 16 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.879 sit back and enjoy our whiskey and talk about great 17 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.719 philosophy and all the other things like Big Max and 18 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.359 Nick Ribs mc ribbs work products that we usually talk 19 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.560 about at the end of December. But actually the news 20 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.640 presses on and there's a lot of actually deep political 21 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.439 theory and constitutional questions to discuss raised by this week's events. 22 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:40.599 I'm joined today by our relentless hosts Steve Heyward, Steve, 23 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.079 where are you? 24 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.840 I'm actually in Seattle today. Long stupid story that I'll 25 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:45.680 skip over, but. 26 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:49.519 Just like all his stories, Yeah, why do we stick 27 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.680 up this one over? And the International Woman of Mystery 28 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:56.799 mac Gresha Magresha, how are you? Where are you? 29 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.200 I'm well, John, thank you, and I am home. Just 30 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.519 got home yesterday, so I'm happy to be home. And 31 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.760 I'll tell you what I know. There's like three percent 32 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.560 of our listeners who care. But she's happy I'm home too. 33 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:16.240 Your cat, yes, the cat. Yeah, she's very happy that 34 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.039 I'm home because I've been gone too much lately. 35 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.280 So anyway, you are a pathetic excuse for cat lady though, 36 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:22.719 I just put that down there. 37 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:23.080 I know. 38 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.840 But you guys are not childless, your fertile You know 39 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.520 how did the fertile cat lady vote in four members? 40 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:34.919 Oh? I think we do, actually, John, I posted a 41 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.599 chart about this. In fact, you know, married cat ladies 42 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.599 who have children voted for Trump. It's amazing. 43 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:45.919 Yeah, okay, no, this is the last time I'll bring 44 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.560 up cat at all. But I do have to tell you, guys, 45 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.159 if you ever got to meet my cat, I know, 46 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.639 neither one of you really like cats, unless you are 47 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.240 one of those actually despise cats sort of people that 48 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.800 can't even be around them, which included my son, by 49 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:03.879 the way, He would just like go wash his hands 50 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.240 after he touched one and that sort of thing. He 51 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.000 adores her. Everyone adores her because she acts like a dog, 52 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.319 is what it comes down to. She has no cat 53 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:14.680 qualities whatsoever. 54 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.080 Anyway, Sorry, I loaf cats. I think they're just watching 55 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.240 us and waiting around for us to kill ourselves off 56 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:21.159 so they can take over. 57 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:23.759 Right, Yeah, that's obviously. 58 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.360 She's probably doing that. I'm not going to deny that 59 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:27.199 one for sure. 60 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.280 The dogs are on our side. They want to maintain 61 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:35.039 human supremacy. Okay, well, let's let's start off with the 62 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.400 news about President Biden. There was a lengthy expos in 63 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.759 the Wall Street Journal this week which gave a lot 64 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.159 of detail to what I think Steve and Lucretia have 65 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:50.000 long thought and suspected that President Biden might not really 66 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.199 been president all these years, that he had become so 67 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:58.560 withdrawn due to his faltering mental condition that it seemed 68 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.400 like his White House not for in charge. There are 69 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.879 reports that some cabinet members rarely talk to him, not 70 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:09.520 to mention saw him that even the most important functions 71 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.000 of the government, defense Treasury were now it didn't seem 72 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.560 to be really run by President Biden, that the cabinet 73 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.399 members would not ask for meetings and wouldn't even see 74 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:29.639 them because they'd be turned down. Actually, I got to say, 75 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.959 Lucretia has been on this from if I remember the 76 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.040 very first week of Biden's presidency. Lucretia, what do you think? 77 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.680 Thank you and take your time trotting around the course 78 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:41.519 in your victory lap, in. 79 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:43.800 My victory lap. Thank you for noticing that. Actually, if 80 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.000 I'd have had more time between when you brought this 81 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.199 up yesterday and today, I probably would have gone back 82 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:56.079 through our podcasting compiled a short, you know, montage of 83 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.759 me saying that over and over and over again, and 84 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.279 talk and actually ask you guys on a couple of occasions, 85 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.920 as I recall, who you thought was actually in charge, 86 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.399 and we never had a clear answer for that, although 87 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.639 you guys are get credit for not entirely disagreeing with 88 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.199 me on that point. But what I think is maybe 89 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:21.360 worthy of discussing here see my shocked face. Oh Biden 90 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:26.000 wasn't really on top of things is that you finally 91 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.319 see what came out in the Wall Street Journal, you know, 92 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.279 three reporters, and then it was reported over and over again. 93 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:37.920 You see the mainstream media sort of gleefully reporting this now, 94 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.079 which is kind of interesting. 95 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:40.600 You know. 96 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:46.639 I see a few really really left wing rags coming out, 97 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.639 you know, Vox and a few others, Donna Brazil best 98 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.680 president ever in the history of the universe, and people 99 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.120 like that trying to counter it. But most of the 100 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.680 mainstream media does seem to be wanting to try to 101 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:04.040 restore some and you know, try to instore your store 102 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.079 some respect for their integrity, I guess is a better 103 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.240 way to put it. Carrying this story and you know, 104 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.480 acting duly shocked of course that they were misled. Of 105 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:16.600 course they knew it. If I knew it, they knew it. 106 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.680 Let's just put it that way. I'm not brilliant about 107 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.839 these things. So I think that's actually the story here, 108 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:28.680 is how much the whole idea that they covered it 109 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.279 up and now they're pretending like they're shocked about it, 110 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.360 but coming clean on it. I think that's a story. 111 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.519 And I do one last thing, Steve, I just want 112 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.839 to say, I quoted you today on Twitter, John, and 113 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.480 I said, my good friend, John, you thinks that this 114 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.480 is the perfect opportunity for a for Congress to investigate 115 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:54.800 under the legitimate legislative purpose of the twenty fifth Amendment. 116 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:56.279 I'll let you talk about that, but I just want 117 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.720 to tell you that I gave you credit for that one, 118 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.439 although I followed it with I'm not sure when you 119 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.839 have weak minded Republicans based on history running congressional investigations, 120 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.199 you'll get anywhere. But still it's an interesting idea done Steve. 121 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:14.600 Oh yeah, so yeah, hearings right. So one of for 122 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.000 listeners who haven't seen the story, and it's probably a 123 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.000 lot if you don't subscribe to the journal, one of 124 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.079 the things the story makes clear is that the cover 125 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.199 up of Biden's disability began during the twenty twenty campaign. 126 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.959 This is not something that started in twenty twenty two 127 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.759 or whatever. And the Wall Street Journal was one of 128 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.600 the only major outlets to report on this. I think 129 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.720 back in June they had their big feature story that 130 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.680 reported a lot of these problems, and they got ferocious blowback, 131 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.480 not just from the White House and from Capitol Hill Democrats, 132 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.480 but from the rest of the media. That's when that 133 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.680 Joe Scarborough guy said, I can tell you that this 134 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:51.560 is the best Biden. He's intellectually sharp, he's on top 135 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.000 of things. And it wasn't just the journal by the way, yesterday, 136 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.360 it was also that Chris Silizigai who used to be 137 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.439 on seeing it in the Washington Post, and he went 138 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.399 on YouTube said I have to apologize to all my readers. 139 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.759 I should have been asking questions about the president's condition. 140 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:08.920 And you know, I want to ask him if I 141 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.399 had the chance, why didn't you? Because you know, the 142 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:12.639 media was heard. Right. 143 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.560 What the story now is not that. The story is 144 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.199 how ubseid he is with the right wing for not 145 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.079 taking his apology seriously. 146 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.879 Yeah, yeah, of course it's always a republican's pounce, right. 147 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.920 Of course, Yes, well he war like that. But so 148 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:29.959 you know, this is a media scandal as well as 149 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:34.399 a political scandal. One other details emerged from this, which is, 150 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:40.480 you know, sorry Biden met Putin. One meeting with Putin 151 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.000 in I think June of twenty twenty one in Geneva, 152 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.000 And of course this is two months before we bug 153 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.559 out of Afghanistan in such a shameful way. And you know, 154 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.279 I think back to when John F. Kennedy met Krushchev 155 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:55.039 in Vienna in nineteen sixty one and Krushchev said, this 156 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.360 guy's a lightweight, I can take him. And that was 157 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.360 one of the chain of events leading to the Cuban 158 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.919 missile crisis. And Kennedy knew it. By the way he 159 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.639 told is he told his staff after he came home 160 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.559 from Vienna, says got Krushchev absolutely brutalized me. It was 161 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.679 the phrase Kennedy himself used. Well, I am guessing my 162 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.200 hunch is is that Putin took the measure of Biden 163 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.279 and realized he was senile and out of touch and pushover. 164 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:20.440 And then after the Afghanistan bug out, decided, you know, 165 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.879 we can just Wautch and Ukraine and take the whole thing. 166 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:24.919 We can quit nibbling at the edges like they've been 167 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:30.799 doing for a decade now. One other thing, So there's 168 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.000 this story going around social media in the last thirty 169 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.200 six hours that Kamala Harris abruptly canceled her plans to 170 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.000 go to California for the holidays. Biden came home from 171 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.000 Delaware and they're saying that's for some event or maybe 172 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:45.519 to sign a continuing resolution, which isn't necessary. Lots of 173 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.919 speculation about what. Oh, and then Harris was seeing in 174 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.679 a motor kate going to the White House the other night, 175 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.679 I think Thursday night. So the question is Discussia. There's 176 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.879 something going on, So you can only speculate. But when 177 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.279 you read today's Wall Street Journal story saying that Biden 178 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:04.240 is considered ring commuting the sentences of every federal inmate 179 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.480 currently facing a deat sentence, which would include people like 180 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.559 that Sarnaev kid who did the Boston marathon bombing, the 181 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.279 guy who's the Bowers guy who shot eleven people, the 182 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.799 Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania, et cetera, et cetera. 183 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.279 And you know, the Democrats are already embarrassed by Biden's 184 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.559 pardon of Hunter, and this is crazy speculation of my partner. 185 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.559 And I'll say the last thing, which is maybe they're 186 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.679 going to invote the twenty fifth Amendment because they're afraid 187 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:32.639 that Biden is going to go crazy with pardons and 188 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.440 really embarrassed Democrats. It seems unlikely, but you know, then 189 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.879 you do that historic first presidency thing for a woman. 190 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:41.639 But finally, yeah, I mean I had that idea too. 191 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.080 There ought to be aggressive hearings and haul and all 192 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.559 the cabinet members, all the White House staff, and say 193 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.720 why did you conceal this? How did you do it? 194 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.720 What are the implications of this? Do you know for 195 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.519 reasons that you stated? John? And I think that would 196 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.159 this is at least as biggest scandal's Watergate in my mind, 197 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.039 concealing we didn't have a president who's been president for 198 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:02.799 the last four years. It hasn't been Joe Biden. 199 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.360 Yeah. I think there's two angles that Lucretia's right. You 200 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:11.399 have the media, which conscious possantly must have covered this up. 201 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.919 I mean, anyone who saw him close up would have known. 202 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.759 Let me say though, that the only truth teller here 203 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:21.320 was the Korean guy, Robert Hurr, the special counsel. Remember 204 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.799 how attacks he got when he said, this guy's a 205 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.159 well meaning man, old man with memory problems. And then 206 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.840 the political cover up, because I think that's what the 207 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.480 Wall Street Journal opens up that we're not focusing on enough, 208 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.279 but we will, as Lucretia Steve's call for congressional hearings 209 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:44.639 is for a president in that condition to have continued 210 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.759 in office meant a whole bunch of people conspired to 211 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:51.320 keep the American people from knowing, and we're probably issuing 212 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.879 orders in Biden's name that he didn't even know about. 213 00:11:54.519 --> 00:12:00.679 Now there was exercising the power of the presidency without permission. Basically, 214 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:02.799 think the pricelessness of this is going to be great 215 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:07.639 because if Congress is smart and does these hearings in 216 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.480 the start of the new year, Trump finally gets his 217 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.799 and yet another Trump getting his revenge because all those 218 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.279 all the staff members and cabinet members going to claim 219 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.679 executive privilege. Guess who gets to decide whether they have 220 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.799 executive privilege the same argument. By to make the sitting 221 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.759 president not the past president, Trump will be able to 222 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:30.759 waive all of their executive privilege and they will be 223 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.559 subpoenaed and forced to testify. And then it gets even better. 224 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.919 If you suppose Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury 225 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.840 or Lloyd Austin says executive privilege, I won't testify. Congress 226 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.879 will subpoena them, and then guess who's in charge of 227 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.399 whether to throw them in jail and enforce the subpoenas 228 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:53.440 Pam Bondie going to be priceless. Everything that the Democrats 229 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.440 did to the Trump people is going to boomerang back 230 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:00.720 on them exactly. So sorry the christ you're about. 231 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:02.279 To no, no, no, I was interrupting you. I just had 232 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.480 a question about it, because you know, at the beginning 233 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:11.519 of Biden's administration, Ron Klain was obviously very, very powerful, 234 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:16.000 and the Wall Street Journal article talks about how he 235 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.159 was the one making a lot of decisions. If you're 236 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.320 if you're at the height of power there, why do 237 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:23.879 you resign if you're Ron Klein? 238 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.720 Oh well, I mean I hate to say this, but 239 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.919 usually people in the White House, especially at the beginning, 240 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.879 to take leave after two years because that's when you're 241 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.919 the most valuable on the lobbying circuit. 242 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:38.519 Yeah. 243 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.120 I don't know that's a good answer, John, You. 244 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:41.600 Know, it's uh. 245 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.080 You know, every White House staffer has a best if 246 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:49.879 used by date on them, and best if used by 247 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.720 is usually the second year, end of the second year 248 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:53.639 of the first term. 249 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.279 Although to be fair, a lot of the Biden advisors, 250 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:01.080 a lot of Jill Biden's closest people that want Andrew Brennall, 251 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:08.320 you know, the sexual harasser guy. They've been with him 252 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.360 for years and obviously they're loyalty. I thought Ron Klaan 253 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:14.080 was a little bit more in that category, but you're 254 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:18.919 probably right. But it's coming out that he probably was 255 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.200 the person at least the first two years responsible for 256 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.559 just about every initiative out of the Biden administration, at 257 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:26.799 least the domestic exactly. 258 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.080 Yeah, the people know most him the current chief of 259 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:32.960 staff zites. And also, I think Jake Sullivan has a 260 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.960 lot of things to be worried about because you will 261 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.360 look at a lot of Biden form policy having been 262 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.799 a disaster, and that's what happens. Maybe when you know, 263 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.440 a young junior staffer suddenly becomes National security advisor, there's 264 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.639 a whole story about why that happened, and then starts 265 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.639 making decisions with very little guidance from the president. 266 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:55.879 I have a very descriptive name. I'm sorry. I'm just 267 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.200 going to say I have a very descriptive name for 268 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:00.720 Jake Sullivan that I probably should didn't say on a 269 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.279 Holy show, So I'll just leave that alone. But it 270 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.840 describes him perfectly and explains everything that you said the 271 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.000 long story about Jake Sullivan. But anyway, go ahead, Steve. 272 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.320 Oh, I got to hear about this well, but boy, 273 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:19.080 oh no, god, oh. 274 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.200 Dear, I didn't actually think you were going to say it. 275 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:26.440 Okay, well before yeah, just two footnotes. I've been saying 276 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.679 for years now that Jake from State Farm would give 277 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.159 us better advice than Jake Sullivan. 278 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:31.440 Uh. 279 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.840 And on a second footnote on the media story, So, Lucretia, 280 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.519 you say that the media is now suddenly backing and 281 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.120 filling or actually I heard Charlie Cook say I think 282 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.159 quite sagely or no, it was Rob Long and Ricochet said, 283 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.600 you know, if you want to know what's happened, you 284 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:46.519 always want to read the New York Times two weeks 285 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.919 after an election that they've lost, because then they start 286 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:50.120 approaching the truth. 287 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:54.080 But yeah, like there's been immigration problems. 288 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:55.879 Right exactly. And uh and and also they have their 289 00:15:55.879 --> 00:16:00.000 own litervery mild story about Biden's disabilities. But uh, you 290 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:01.799 I know you were on the move yesterday, Lucretius, so 291 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.120 you missed this. But won't be surprised that at the 292 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.480 Daily Press conference there was not one question for creating 293 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.320 Jean Pierre Paul Sart about the Wall Street Journal story 294 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.559 in Biden's disability. Not one you would have thought somebody 295 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:16.639 would have asked that, and for a White House response, 296 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:17.399 but no, one. 297 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.279 Did, even Peter Doucey, was he there? 298 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:21.200 I don't know. I didn't watch it, but I read 299 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:23.240 I read an account. I believe that no one asked 300 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.440 about it. So there you go. There. Media is still 301 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.399 covering up for him, in other words, because they're deeply 302 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:28.679 implicated in it, and. 303 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.360 Either that they just feel really super sorry for Kareem 304 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.039 Abdul Jabbar whatever her name is, mophead. 305 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.240 It would take three of her to get as tall 306 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.120 as cream. 307 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.919 I know, but they might. They might. Actually, I think 308 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.120 I could almost. I confess to feeling sorry for her 309 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.799 last time. So I think that maybe they what's she 310 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.240 going to say? I don't know, the same thing that 311 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:55.480 that that that Brnald gut No, the the other spokesperson, 312 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.919 the other White House spokesperson, Andrew somebody or other. I 313 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.559 forget baits. Maybe something's with a bee who just kept saying, 314 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.200 oh no, every decision, every decision was either the will 315 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.599 of Biden or an extrapolation of the bill of the 316 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.279 will of Biden kind of thing, you know. In other words, oh, 317 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:15.480 in spirit, he was behind it all. We knew what 318 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:17.519 he really wanted, and we just carried it out. 319 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.559 Yeah, No, that's all they thought. 320 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:21.319 Or who knows. 321 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.759 Let's move on to the ancillary issue, which also is 322 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:30.200 actually raised by Biden's many mental troubles, which is the 323 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:35.480 sweeping pardons he's issued. Not only did he pardon Hunter Biden, 324 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.920 which we talked about before, but since we talked he 325 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:42.599 has now issued what his administration claimed this is the 326 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:46.720 most sweeping set of pardons in history, over one thousand, 327 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:52.799 eighteen hundred, including people who have defrauded cities and states 328 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.720 out of millions of dollars, including you know, various drug 329 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:58.079 dealers and so on. 330 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:03.680 Judges who let who took money to put probably innocent 331 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.000 kids in for profit prisons. 332 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:12.279 Yes, in Pennsylvania. And although so one, he's almost definitely 333 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.519 wrong because the broadest set of pardons were issued to 334 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:21.039 draft dodgers right after Vietnam by Jimmy Carter, or by 335 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.640 Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, to all the Confederates. So it's 336 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:29.039 not even close. But he's still trying to make his mark. 337 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.279 And it's also I think raises the question we didn't 338 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.079 also talk about too much, which is do presidents have 339 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:40.440 this power to pardon people for things they haven't been 340 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:45.039 prosecuted or convicted for, or things that we don't even 341 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:47.640 know they did yet, Steve. 342 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:50.400 Well, yeah, look, I mean I think a lot of 343 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.160 people make a distinction, John, between prospective amnesties as was 344 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:57.559 done after the Civil War and after Vietnam, and pardons 345 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.440 are commutations of people who've actually been committed through the 346 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.359 you know, through due process and so there, if you 347 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.240 just use that categorization, Biden has set a new record, 348 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:09.119 even exceeding Franklin Roosevelt, who had, you know, twelve plus 349 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.599 years to parton people. They have admitted by the way 350 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:15.279 that they did not do these on a case by 351 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.160 case basis, actually reviewing the facts that they just were 352 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.279 out and found a lot of people. I have two 353 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.400 speculations again, One is, you know, you wonder if Biden 354 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.720 and his family are getting bribe for some of these 355 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:30.160 and or the number of them is meant to part 356 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.400 point two as cover for extending yet another round of 357 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.279 pardons to oh, I don't know, Biden's family and Biden 358 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.839 himself on his way out of office. You know, you know, 359 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.400 all those Floria partons, what's another couple for my brother 360 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.359 uh and and all the other people who did how 361 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.880 many suspicious bank reports, suspicious transaction reports? Did banks send 362 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:52.480 in on the I don't know it was it was 363 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:53.559 a lot. I'm not sure it was one hundred, but 364 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:54.480 it was a large was. 365 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:56.880 Over one hundred. I saw those figure the other day. 366 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.880 It's just unbelievable. And and you know, let us remember that. 367 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.079 Oh it'll be interesting to see a fight. Last point. Sorry, 368 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.480 I have enjoyed again, you know, Trump winning on all fronts, 369 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.119 talk about well, we should prosecute Liz Cheney and the 370 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:13.799 January sixth Commission and maybe those fifty one intelligence officers. 371 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.559 And I think, but I think this is a reverse syop. 372 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:19.559 Lucreati is big on sy ops from the left. I 373 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.160 think maybe this is a Trump syop. The idea being 374 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:25.319 that Biden will feel compelled to issue prospective pardons to 375 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:29.960 Liz Cheney, the January sixth Committee, all kinds of other people, 376 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.200 and then Trump's gets to say, well, they wouldn't have 377 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:33.680 needed a part, and if they didn't do anything wrong, 378 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.359 this is implicit recognition that they're guilty. And you know, 379 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.200 another great day for Trump on Twitter. 380 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.519 So a couple of comments and questions. So the way 381 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.880 you described it at first is are you kind of 382 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.599 gave us two categories of pardons? John and one was 383 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.119 a pardon for a crime already committed, and then you 384 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.039 called it a prospective crime. And you said that as 385 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:02.759 a result of you know, prospective crime Confederates and draft dodgers. 386 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.160 But I see a distinction there as well. And that 387 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:13.440 distinction is everybody knows why the Confederates were being pardoned. 388 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.680 Everybody knows why the draft dodgers were being pardoned, even 389 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:20.920 if they had not gone through the legal process necessary 390 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.480 to find them guilty of treason in the first case, 391 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:28.799 whatever draft dodging. There is a difference between that and 392 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:33.160 a prospective pardon that pardons for anything that might have happened, say, 393 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.400 in the case of Hunter Biden, right, it's not just 394 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.759 for the a pardon for the things he was actually 395 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:44.599 convicted of or pled guilty to. It's a a pardon 396 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:46.599 for anything that they might have found that was a 397 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:48.920 crime that he did in that entire period. Okay, that 398 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.519 was my first point. My second point, the White House 399 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.680 admitted to the fact that of those fifteen hundred pardons 400 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:01.400 that they didn't look into the specific of the you know, 401 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.799