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a minute. Last hour we talked about another chapter, which
was about the COVID nineteen outbreak, and now it can
be told. I'll get to the next chapter first, let
me get Nick on. Hello Nick, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Hello Pete. How you doing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good. What's going on?
Speaker 2: Well? I just wanted my comment was I'm frankly insulted
by Allen from Axios and partially with you. We're better
than that. You're insulting our intelligence by being easy on
the media. The media has been in the tank for
years and protected Biden if it was Trump and Trump's
first administration. They were trying to get rid of Trump
the Democrats with Article twenty five saying he was mentally
incompetent and he should never showed anything close to what
Biden showed and to let them off easy. It's insulting
to us, your listeners. You should be much more adamant
about how terrible what this. Allan from Axios said, I
don't believe anything that come coming out of his mouth now,
and this bit about reporter brain, Come on, you know,
as a reporter, you're supposed to be look at things objectively.
We know that's not the case.
Speaker 1: But Nick, I think you're I think I think you're
insulting the entire audience by not being too by not
being harder on on Mike Allen.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm I'm definitely. I don't. I don't bother with
I used to listen to Axios and read them. I
don't any longer.
Speaker 1: So that's not hard enough. You need to be harder.
Speaker 2: Definite. Yeah, I mean they've lost me as a as
a listener and lost me as as a reader of
anything what to have to do with Axios.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm curious as to what else do you think.
I mean, I've literally like hammered media for my entire
career as a host after being a reporter. I'm so
you're you're you're insulted that I wasn't.
Speaker 2: Mean I think you should have been Uh you were
too easy? Well, how so you're too easy on the reporters?
Speaker 1: How so?
Speaker 2: Well, I think that you know, well all right, from
my standpoint, I think you should be more vocal on
them being not objective as they should be.
Speaker 1: Do you think I've not conveyed that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you you've been listen. That's why I listened
to you. Okay, so on you to be pretty refreshing.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, but I but so I'm trying to
figure out what more you wanted.
Speaker 2: I'm just I guess, you know, part of it. Maybe
it's the partisan in me, but I think that that
you should be a little more vocal and adamant you
try to be fair, and I understand that and I
respect that.
Speaker 1: But so so just me, So are you mad that
I said or do you object? I should say that
I thought that the herd mentality that he said was true,
and that there is insecurity among the reporter of press
corps that that I agreed that those two things are true.
Is that what did it?
Speaker 2: I don't agree with you on the Yeah, I don't
agree with the insecurity.
Speaker 1: You don't think they're insecure people?
Speaker 2: Now, I think that they're totally biased.
Speaker 1: Now, who's being too soft on them? Now? Who's being
too soft on the reporters? Because I I I totally,
I absolutely believe that there are insecure I mean, what
do you think drives the peer pressure the group? Think
that that Alan is talking about. It's insecurity, right, it's
it's it's the it's the desire to be a part
of the group and to not be ostracized for any
kind of questioning of the the status quo or the narrative.
And and that is born out of an insecurity. People
who are more secure, they won't care what their colleagues
think of them when they ask the question. Like Mark
Garrison in our news department asked, you know, does the
president have dementia? And he was attacked for it?
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, you're bringing up very good points, and I
do agree with you. Ah, yes, so I guess you
know a better way to look at I have.
Speaker 1: Defended myself successfully. Okay, you've done.
Speaker 2: You've done a good job. I will continue to be
a listener.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much, Nick. I do appreciate the call, buddy,
thanks so much, and I do agree with you. I
just yeah, yeah, have a great weekend. Man, Yes, sir,
you know, I look, I get it and I agree
with him. Like what Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei were
saying and the clips that I played. There's a reason
I played those clips for you is because I don't
buy it either. I don't I don't buy what they're
trying to sell right now, which is that you know,
there's an explanation other than partisan ideology. Now, there may
be other things at play, sure, but the reason why
they didn't cross the White House was because they did
not want to be ostracized by their colleagues and the
White House. And the root of that is ideology. The
root of that is I don't want to be ostracized
from the groups thinking on what is true right and
what is real and what is the what is the
mission here? Because if you start going after Joe Biden,
well that could harm his reelection chances. So, but there
are there are other factors at play. They want access,
they want to be closer to the throne. So this
way they can get scoops, they can get interviews, and
they can walk around among their colleagues and be like,
I'm the one that got this exclusive. I'm the only
one that had the story. They loved that stuff, and
that is born of insecurity as well. It is, and
so there are That's why when he says that there
is an insecurity and a herd mentality at play, I
have no I have no problem believing that to be
at least partially true. But I want to be very clear.
The core of it is ideology, absolutely, and I don't
buy this idea that I don't buy this idea that
Vanda Hi or Alan had no idea what the partisan
leanings are of their colleagues, when we have known for
decades that the field of journalism is packed with Democrats,
and it has been my entire life. So I don't
buy that either. Speaking of Joe Biden and his mental decline,
now it can be told yet again this may surprise you,
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Jill Biden's lust for power that saved America. All right,
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So I did not realize this is yet another Washington
Free Beacon article. I did one in the last hour,
but this is another one on now it can be told.
Many have suspected by the way, this is Andrew Styles
at the Free Beacon. Many have suspected that doctor Jill
Biden played a key role in saving the country by
facilitating Donald Trump's long awaited return to the White House.
Many have assumed the former First Lady and acting President
was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which drove
her to insist that her enfeebled octagenarian husband Joe Biden,
run for reelection. The ill advised decision nearly destroyed the
Democrat Party when Biden's cognitive impairment became impossible to ignore.
It forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, the
most incompetent presidential camp, and that it since Hillary Clinton,
all but assuring that Trump would win a second term
and usher in the Golden Age of America. The revelations
unearthed in several new books by political journalists conveniently published
after the election, confirmed that these suspicions and assumptions were correct.
See We've been too hard on doctor Jilson. We've been
too hard. She is the reason why Trump won again. Okay,
not the reason, she's a reason, right. Had she not
been so in love with the power and the elite status,
then maybe she would have done what any loving spouse
would do and say, no, honey, like it's time, it's
time to let it go. You know, we need to
just retire. It's it's past our time. Right. But she
couldn't do it, so she kept him in the race.
She kept you know, everybody away from him, insulating him
from media and guest visits. That got a little awkward,
and that has redounded to our benefit. See, we've been
looking at this all wrong. People. Jonathan Allen and Amy
Parness have a book coming out, another one of the
now it can be told books. The name of their
book is called Fight Inside, the Wildest Battle for the
White House. There is another book, by the way that
you should not get it confused with that. One's by
Wimple Chris Whipple, sorry Whipple Chris Whipple or maybe it's Whipple,
I don't know, but the author of the book called Uncharted,
How Trump beat Biden, Harris and the odds in the
wildest campaign in history. See so it's wildest. There's a
narrative forming here people. I can just see it. It's
the wildest battle, the wildest campaign. It is wild. Everything's
just wild, which we were told wasn't wild while it
was happening. But again, now the truth can be told
by the reporters who were supposed to tell us that
this stuff was happening and what was really going on,
but they couldn't see it. They were just too close.
You know. It's like the blind man, you know, feeling
the elephant, doesn't know it's an elephant because that's all
he can feel is just like what's in front of him.
Kind of, That's what it was like. They're like the
blind man with the elephant. So in their book fight
they write, or they quote rather a Biden Ally who said,
let's be honest, Jill has a thousand Yeah. Sorry, I'm
gonna say I'm gonna start this sentence again because I
completely messed it up. Quote Let's be honest, Jill was
one thousand percent behind this. She was pushing it. The
staff was all pushing it at the end of the day,
which I hate that phrase. I don't think anyone in
that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary advice
that that thing, that this thing is not going to
be as easy, or maybe this is not the best
thing for the Democrat Party. See they were they were
shielding Joe. Had Joe known, much like Stalin not knowing
all of the people were starving to death. Please tell
Stalin what's happening to us. He must not know, because
he wouldn't let this be happy. See that's that's kind
of the same thing Joe. If he had been exposed
to the terrible poll numbers, then he would have said, okay, yes,
I should step aside Alan and Parness. Note that many
of Joe Biden's longtime aids were also desperate to cling
to power and refuse to consider advising the president to
retire after a single term. Senior advisor Mike Donollan reportedly
told a prominent Democrat quote, nobody walks away from this.
No one walks away from the house, the plane, the helicopter.
Nobody does that. But also Trump is a maniac for
not wanting to walk away from that either, right back
in twenty twenty. Right. See, so it's different when the
Democrats do it or don't want to do something. See,
it's completely understandable. I don't who would want to walk
away from this lifestyle. The burning desire to retain the
perks of the White House was doubly true for the
first lady. So now I'm confused because now you're saying
this is doubly true, but somebody else is saying Jill
is one thousand percent behind it. So I'm not sure
where the percentages break down on this. But doctor Jill
had enjoyed these perks for nearly a decade, and the
trappings of the most elite levels of Washington power had
grown on her. The reporting confirms what presidential historian Douglas
Brinkley said about Jill Biden in February twenty twenty four,
after it was all over and there was no downside
for maccrest quote, she likes power, she wants to stay,
she wants some sense of revenge. Oh, I take it back.
He said this before the election. How come this didn't
get a lot of coverage. I guess that was that
reporter brain that Mike Allen was talking about. The book
describes the core group of family and deeply loyal aids
who acted as gatekeepers, schedulers, and protectors of President Biden
and doctor Jilson carried the most sway. There was also
her chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, who would manage Joe's
calendar and his personal needs, which I we were. We
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So Anthony Bernall, the chief of staff for Doctor Jilson,
would manage Joe Biden's calendar and his personal needs, which
included almost daily sessions with a makeup artist to hide
the physical signs of his age. In their book Fight,
Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnis report how doctor Jilson would
occasionally attempt to intervene when Joe was show in his age.
One example they give here is do you remember when
Joe Biden was on stage and he recognized a dead congresswoman,
calling it like, oh, where's Jackie? Where did I just
saw her? I was just talking to her whatever, And
you know she was dead right, she had she had
passed away prior and he calls her out and can't
find her in the crowd. Well, apparently is this the
day before or after? The family of Jackie Wallorski, the
dead congresswoman. A couple days later, they go to the
White House, maybe as some sort of you know, clean
up on Ale Biden or something. But they go to
the White House and Joe offers them a tour of
the swimming pool locker rooms, and doctor Jill had to
intervene in order to try to prevent it, without success.
By the way, he did give them the tour of
the swimming pool locker rooms. I am not aware. I
have no information on how much hair sniffing occurred, but
that's the kind of behavior Jill was trying to navigate.
And then, of course comes the debate June twenty twenty four,
where doctor Jilson and other family members pressured Biden's aids
to cut short the prep sessions. We heard stories about
this the other day where he would last like twenty
minutes up there in this mock debate, and then he
would just like stumble outside to the pool area and
collapse on a lounge chair and fall asleep. Right. Jill
Biden was, if anything, more firm than her husband about
maintaining the residents at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. She and
Hunter Biden, the president's crackhead son, blamed his advisors for
pushing him too hard and urged Joe to keep fighting.
I can't wait for this movie, you know, And I
hope it's done by somebody who actually wants to tell
the real story on this, because the mechanations would be wild. Like,
you know, Hunter sees Dad remaining in power as the
only way he can stay out of prison. Right, so
he's got his motivation. You got doctor Jilson and her motivation,
you know, keeping all of the trappings of the power
and the prestige and the you know, the private plane
and the chopper rides and everything else, and the Vanity
Fair photo shoots and then it all comes crashing down,
and you know, the coup is affected. And then Biden
endorsed Harris out of spite for Barack Obama. That's apparently
what prompted that, because remember Obama had come out and
said he would he would want to see an open
primary for the Democrats, so everybody could, you know, could
run for the spot. And so Biden endorsed Harris as
a screw you to Barack Obama. It's just unbelievable. One
of the ways Joe Biden's and the president's top aids
tried to weather the calls for him to step down,
according to the book, was by inflicting serious reputation damage.
So this is before the coup. They inflicted or tried
to inflict reputational damage on Kamala Harris. In the weeks
following the debate, but before Biden was booted, okay, and
you remember this, they were sending out messages to people
trashing the VEEP saying that if you keep pushing Joe
Biden to get out, you're going to end up with
Kamala Harris and that's going to be a huge mistake.
Jill didn't like Kamala Harris either. Do you know why
she didn't like Kamala Harris. It had to do with
the debate, not the one that Joe Biden mentally checked
out of No No during the twenty twenty Democrat I'm
Marry when Kamala Harris attacked Joe her racially charged attack
on Biden's opposition to federal bussing mandates designed to integrate
public schools in the nineteen seventies. Right Jill Biden harbored
a grudge against Harris for that, which is weird because
you remember Harris then gave that interview to Stephen Colbert
when he asked her about that, like you were really
landing punches his teeth, like chick lit's all over the
stage and all that. And her response was, it was
a debate, heat, it was a debateat That was the
only excuse she could come up with on the fly,
was that it was a debate. So I lie during debates,
I just say stuff. I just attacked people for really
terrible reasons, call them all sorts of horrible things. But
I do that because it's a debate. Ha ha ha.
Don't you understand. Well, Doctor Jilson never got over that.
And according to the reporters that wrote this book, they
describe doctor Jilson as the keeper of the vindictive flame
for the family. So she's the only one you see.
So remember Hunter Biden's Remember the message that he had
texted somebody. We have no idea who, but we know who.
It was, the Chinese energy company people. But he was like,
you know, where's my money? I'm sitting here with Dad,
and if you don't give me my money, I hold
grudges longer than anyone. I will do everything in my
power to, you know, carry out my wrathful vengeance on you.
I'm paraphrasing, but I don't buy this idea that it's
only doctor Jill that harbors the resentment and the grudges.
I don't buy that. But we're supposed to believe that
no one else in the Biden crime syndicate harbors any
kind of grudges. They don't. They don't keep the vindictive flame.
So it falls to doctor Jilson. She alone must bear
this cross. She's really bitter, she remains really bitter at Harris.
Jill's venom was even more potent when it came to
Nancy Pelosi, who orchestrated the coup right publicly was out
there saying he needs to step down and all that.
Jill Biden should be honored for her efforts. However, ill
intentioned though to burn the party down in a frantic
attempt to stay in power. Rarely in the course of
human events has won individual's reckless ambition and extreme pettiness
had such a positive impact on her country's future on
behalf of a grateful nation. Thank you, doctor Jill. That's
over at the Washington Free Beacon, a piece by Andrew Stiles,
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of being forced out shortly before he was forced to
resign the nation's top vaccine regulator, says he refused to
grant RFK Junior, the Secretary of Health, right refuse to
grant Kennedy's team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine
safety database. And he has no idea why he got fired.
That's so weird. It's uh because he was afraid that
the information might be manipulated or even deleted. I mean,
I don't know what these people are going to do
with this information. Dude, that's your boss. Okay, that's your boss.
Boss comes in. It's like, I want access to everything.
I want to see what I'm dealing with. No, no, no,
you can't have that. Oh okay, employee, you're fired. See
that's how that works. Now I know this is a
weird concept, probably for a lot of you know, civil servants.
But in the private sector, when your boss comes in
and says they want to look at your work product,
they want to get eyes on the back end of
operations and side which they get it because they're the boss.
There's a hierarchy there, right. It's not a democracy. It
is boss to employee relationship. The boss says I want
this to be done this way, or I want to
see this information. You do it that way, or you
get fired. You give the information, or you get fired.
In an interview with the Associated Press, former Food and
Drug Administration vaccine chief doctor Peter Marx discussed his efforts
to make nice with Kennedy and address his long standing
concerns about vaccine safety, including by developing a vaccine Transparency
Action Plan. I tried to play nice with them. I
was try it. He agreed to give Kennedy's associates the
ability to read thousands of reports of potential vaccine related
issues that were sent to the government's system, the reporting system.
Remember this, the theyre's v a ERS, the Vaccine ADVESSE sorry,
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System VAERS, but he refused to
allow them to directly edit the data. I don't know
if they asked to edit the data, but he would
not give them that ability. Why wouldn't we because frankly,
we don't trust them. He said, they would write over
it or erase the whole database. You realize this is
a database of the adverse effects of the vaccines. Why
would the people who have been looking at the database
for the last five years using that to bolster their
arguments against the vaccines because and highlighting all of the
adverse events, you think they would delete all of the
data that supports their argument. That's stupid. They should have
fired you just for that. You're obviously not very bright.
That doesn't make any sense if you're going to construct
this kind of a stupid lie, just I don't know,
make it less stupid. During his Senate confirmation hearings, RFK
Junior told lawmakers that he is not anti vaccine. This
is according to the AP. Remember this is their reporting.
But since taking office he has promised to and they
put it in scare quotes. Investigate children's shots and agencies
under his watch have terminated vaccine related research, canceled meetings
of vaccine advisors, and are poised to reinvestigate ties between
vaccines and autism, a link debunked long ago. So wouldn't
an investigation into the links between vaccines and adverse events,
whether it's autism or whatever like wouldn't if you're confident
in the data and the science, not fauci, but like science.
If you're confident in this, wouldn't you want him to
do this because the science will stand on its own,
would it not? Right? The data that they would look
at and they would then draw conclusions from and they
would issue reports and guidance about it would be the
same as what you did, except now it's coming from
RFK Junior, which, assuming he concludes the same thing y'all
have concluded, that would go a huge distance in tamping
down the anti vaxxer narratives. Right, So, once again, this
doesn't make a lot of sense. You want the investigation
to be done by Kennedy and his crew because if
the science and the data are correct, it will help
you say you were right. And if it really is
about protecting the public health, if they arrive at the
same conclusion based on the same information, then that would
bolster your efforts to protect the public health. Marx is
highly regarded by former FDA leaders and biotech industry executives.
I'm not sure that's a selling feature. But his time
at the agency was not without controversy. During the COVID
nineteen pandemic, he was alternately criticized for being too slow
under Trump and then too fast under Joe Biden to
authorize new vaccines and boosters. Well, yeah, that's because you
guys demonized the horse paste. The horse paste, right, Like,
we went over this the other day. The North Carolina
General Assemblies got a bill to make Ivermectin over the counter.
That drug is like a wonder drug and it's super
cheap because the patent has expired on it. It won
a Nobel Prize for its anti viral properties and for
wiping out all of these diseases and saving all of
these lives. Make it over the counter, make people be
able to go in there and buy It's like no
side effects from what I understand. So that's the argument
that had people been told that there was a therapeutic
that was easily obtainable, cheap to make, then we wouldn't
have had the rush for the vaccines, and that would
not have been a windfall for the pharmaceutical companies. Mark
says that he tried everything to work with RFK. At
the center of that effort was a plan to increase
publicly available information about vaccine ingredients, safety and side effects. Well,
why didn't you do it before Kennedy got there? Look
at me. I'm doing all I can to work with
the new guy who's demanding outrageous things like people know
what's in the stuff we're injecting into their bloodstream. Like, dude,
this is I don't think this. I don't think this
article and this pr offensive that this guy is running.
I'm not so sure you guys thought this thing through.
I don't think you understand how this lands. With about
half of the country. The centerpiece of the effort would
be a vast overhaul of the veyr's system, maintained by
the FDA and the CDC. Scientists with the agencies monitor
the database for possible signals of emerging problems with vaccines,
but analyzing the data requires both medical and statistical expertise.
Because anyone can submit unverified reports of side effects, injuries,
and death, The public facing website warns that the data
is unverified and maybe incomplete or inaccurate misinterpretings of theirs
have long been central to anti vaccine groups and messaging right,
So bring the team in and go over the data
with them, right and hash it all out. That should
be the process. And if after going through that process
the anti vaxxers with Kennedy they're all like, hey, you
know what, we understand the system better now and we
agree with you, that would do wonders for your argument
and for your pr Now if, on the other hand,
maybe all the data says something else, well, and now
I understand why you might be a little suspicious of
Kennedy and his crew. All right, that'll do it for
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