1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,719 Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,599 Speaker 2: For twenty five million, and it would be better. It 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,439 would be better. See this pen ride here in our 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,839 stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. 5 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,679 Speaker 2: So this pen is very inexpensive. 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,839 Speaker 1: But it writes well, I like it. 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: I picked those drapes in my first term. I always 9 00:00:28,719 --> 00:00:29,160 like gold. 10 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,799 Speaker 1: I love the government like I love myself economically. 11 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: And I got all you people looking, and you say 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,600 there must be something wrong with Trump, and you. 13 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: Think Tom Tillis is going to give you. 14 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 2: We're going to have to financing my dad. But that's 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,600 why Tom Tillis is no longer a senator. Okay, on 16 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:47,200 the aid of Tom Tillis is no longer a senator, right, 17 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,520 he's on his way out. Well, no, he quit, but 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,039 he quit. I want to peel back a little bit 19 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:54,560 more on the cognitive decline thing, because the one thing 20 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,000 that struck me, because I think it's really an instructive 21 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:00,240 relative to what we're seeing in the polling. We go 22 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,679 back and you look at the conversation around Joe Biden 23 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,680 that was largely a Republican effort media campaign to paint 24 00:01:10,719 --> 00:01:14,359 the president as cognitively impaired old and all of that 25 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,680 reinforced by our media ecosystem that wrote those stories and 26 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,760 put that in front of voters. And in this situation, 27 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,879 though we're the president is sitting at thirty three percent, Claire, 28 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:29,400 I don't see a whole lot of stories being written 29 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:32,439 about that cognitive decline. We show you just a small 30 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,599 tip of the stuff that happens in this town every 31 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,879 day out of this White House by this president, and 32 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,719 it's not covered the same way. What it tells me, though, 33 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:46,879 is that the voters see this for themselves. They now 34 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,640 see and understand for themselves exactly what's at stake here. 35 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:53,359 The man has taken us to a war they didn't want. 36 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,560 He's cost families and communities and small business owners a 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,200 lot of their hard earned money that they have set 38 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:03,359 aside for savings that they plan to educate their kids with. 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,519 Hell just to get groceries this weekend, they can't fill 40 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,240 up their gas tanks anymore. There's only one person to 41 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,400 look at for that. And when they look at him, 42 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:15,000 they hear the stuff that we played in the Cliff 43 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,599 standing sitting there at the desk talking about how much 44 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,240 he likes a pen, or bragging about the fact that 45 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,360 he hung drapes in front of a hole in the 46 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,960 wall while this war gets prosecuted. And now which again 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,599 we haven't talked about because the press, I don't know 48 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,240 why they're not leveling it up. Y'all know there's a 49 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:34,800 draft coming for your eighteen to twenty six year old 50 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,599 child this December. Your son, right, y'all know that. So 51 00:02:39,719 --> 00:02:42,240 I think voters are beginning clear to so to see 52 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,800 this thing a little bit differently than they may have 53 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:50,039 seen it with Biden, largely because you don't have that 54 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:50,759 sort of filter. 55 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,439 Speaker 1: I think that's right now. Trump has one advantage that 56 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,240 Joe Biden didn't have, and that is that Trump has 57 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,919 always said stuff, and so a lot of the Republicans 58 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,199 just write off that, well, that's just Trump being Trump, 59 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,599 and Trump, Oh, he's a kidder. 60 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,039 Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at 61 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,439 seven pm Eastern on ms NOW.