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How can they close me 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,479 up on what ground? I'm shocked, shocked to find that 13 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,439 gambering is going on in here. You're winning, So thank 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,159 you very much. Yes, the people closest to President Biden, 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,679 we're well aware that he had changed. He talked more 16 00:00:57,759 --> 00:01:01,679 slowly than he had just a few years before, needed 17 00:01:01,679 --> 00:01:05,359 to hoist himself out of his seat in the presidential limousine, 18 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:11,480 and walked with a halting gait. So I'm gonna stop 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,599 right here for a moment and just point out how 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,239 the things that The New York Times is identifying in 21 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,840 this piece by Katie Rogers, Adam and TuS, Maggie Haberman, 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:25,920 and Carl Hulsey. These are all physical things. These are 23 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:33,280 physical things. On mental He's totally fine mentally. He talked 24 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,480 more slowly, needed to hoist himself out of the seat 25 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:39,680 in the presidential limo, and walked with a halting gait, 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,239 which they explained was because when he took the fall 27 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:46,280 on one of those I mean, not crimes, no, no, 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:47,040 not like that. 29 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:47,239 Speaker 2: No. 30 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:49,719 Speaker 1: And he took the fall when he fell down at 31 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:51,840 some point. I think it was off of the bicycle. Remember, 32 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:54,239 I mean, he had several falls, so I don't remember 33 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,840 which one, but I think it was the bike that 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,760 he had injured his foot apparently in that fall. And 35 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:04,599 I know I thought the same thing, like, uh, thank goodness, 36 00:02:04,599 --> 00:02:07,519 it wasn't a hit, because that's it'll come back from that. 37 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:10,360 But it was a foot. And then he refused to 38 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,639 wear the boot. He didn't want to wear a cast 39 00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:14,639 or something like that while the foot healed because he 40 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:21,719 didn't want it to look like he was old, so like, yeah, 41 00:02:21,759 --> 00:02:27,439 that would that would be the giveaway, right anyway, And 42 00:02:27,479 --> 00:02:30,199 so the foot didn't heal correctly, and that's why he 43 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,919 was walking weirdly and yeah, okay, so whatever. So these 44 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,120 are all physical ailments, right, His age was showing through 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,439 in his lack of mobility. That's the thing, Like, I 46 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,280 don't look, I don't care. Joe Biden could have been 47 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,919 in a wheelchair. If he was mentally sharp, I would 48 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,879 not have any concerns about his ability to do the job. 49 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,879 I would not. But his brain being in a wheelchair, 50 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:04,639 that is a different story. Mister Biden acknowledged the concerns, 51 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:11,319 but the warnings only ignited his defiant competitive streak. Defiant 52 00:03:11,759 --> 00:03:17,560 competitive streak, or as I have called it, being a jerk. 53 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:21,520 He has been a jerk for his entire career and 54 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:24,319 you don't just lose that. And when you turn you 55 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,199 know eighty, If anything, it becomes more pronounced. In April 56 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:33,159 of twenty twenty three, get this, without convening his family 57 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,360 or having long deliberations with AIDS, he announced he was 58 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:44,759 running again. So he apparently made this call, made this 59 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:56,120 decision without telling his family. Does that sound normal? When 60 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:02,599 have you ever heard any politician ever say that they 61 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,599 just made the decision on their own. No, they always 62 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:09,360 say that they consult with their family and any non 63 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:13,400 jerk running for an office. Would of course do that 64 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:19,079 because your family goes along for this ride. And I 65 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,040 have said this for years and a lot of people 66 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,160 may not even think about this, but it is always 67 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:28,920 harder on the family members, always because they have to 68 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,399 adhere to all of these you know, rules and strict 69 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:37,000 customs and stuff, and you you know, can't do this, 70 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:39,560 can't say that, can't go out there. You got security 71 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,160 details around you, your life changes, You get all of 72 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,120 all the downside and very little upside, very little upside. 73 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,519 Like think about like the kids that are growing up. 74 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,240 I mean, yes, you're in the White House and oh 75 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,120 that's cool, and you get weighted on and you have 76 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,480 all I'm not saying it's without privilege. I'm not saying that, 77 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,839 but there is so much that restraint ricks your life 78 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,519 for the rest of your life. That's why you have 79 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:09,439 to unless you're a jerk, you have to talk to 80 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,120 your family about this stuff. So apparently Joe did not, because, 81 00:05:13,199 --> 00:05:15,120 like I said, he's been a jerk for a very 82 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,079 long time. So Biden decides I'm running again at eighty two. 83 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,879 He makes an extraordinary admission in an interview with USA 84 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,040 Today back on January fifth. Okay, so he's still president 85 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:33,800 at the time. Does an interview with USA Today and 86 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,079 he says he's not sure if he would have made 87 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:49,480 it through a second term. He said, quote, which means, 88 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,160 who knows what I'm going to be when I'm edey 89 00:05:52,199 --> 00:05:58,720 six years old? And that's a perfectly natural thing to think, right, 90 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,360 You're eighty two, you slowed down a bit, you got injured, 91 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:09,199 and you know you're you're in the last year of 92 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,360 your life. You don't know how much longer you've got. 93 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:17,120 Nobody knows, right, So at that age, you know, like, 94 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:21,920 this is it. I'm on limited time here and the 95 00:06:22,079 --> 00:06:23,720 last years I'm not going to be able to keep 96 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:25,279 doing this stuff. And so who knows what I'm going 97 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:27,240 to be like at eighty six? Yeah, I mean I 98 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:32,759 may not serve the whole term. So he was aware 99 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:37,199 of this. The president's acknowledgment. I love this line in 100 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,240 the New York Times. The president's acknowledgment has put a 101 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:46,319 new spotlight on his family and inner circle, all of 102 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,920 whom dismissed concerns from voters and Biden's own party that 103 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:55,000 he was too old for the job. First, the New 104 00:06:55,079 --> 00:07:01,879 York Times saying this line about the resident's comments putting 105 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:06,720 a spotlight on his family, This is like our hands 106 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:09,959 are clean, as if you're not the ones operating the 107 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,720 dead gubbed spotlight. You guys are controlling the spotlight. You 108 00:07:14,879 --> 00:07:18,519 literally are moving the spotlight around to highlight things and 109 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,600 show things and oh hey look at this, Look at 110 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:23,040 that person, here's an issue, here's a guy. Oh my gosh, 111 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,560 show that's a Nazi salute by Elon, Like you're the 112 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:32,519 ones controlling the spotlight. Whoever put the new spotlight on 113 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:36,759 the family members? Whatever those comments, If that's what it 114 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,600 took you think that's the comment, that comment on January fifth, 115 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,120 that puts a spotlight on the family members. Why you 116 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,759 didn't know they were on stage or something all this time? 117 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,480 You didn't realize that they were like close to Joe. 118 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:54,680 It's just ludicrous. This is them trying to absolve themselves 119 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,319 of any kind of responsibility for covering up the biggest 120 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,920 scandal in presidential history. That's what this is. I have 121 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,279 been saying this for years. It is the biggest scandal, 122 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:08,720 the fact that we have a president that should have 123 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,600 been removed with by the twenty fifth Amendment, by his 124 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:17,000 own cabinet members, his family, people that knew his condition, 125 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:21,079 and they didn't stop it. They just let him continue. 126 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,360 Why because they were running the government, they were pulling 127 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:29,319 the levers of power, and they enjoyed it, and so 128 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,519 they kept him there as this figurehead, as this puppet. 129 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:36,279 I am left with no other logical conclusion. Did he 130 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,000 have good days? Was he coherent in some sentences and 131 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,639 words throughout the course of the day. I'm sure he was. 132 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,200 I've seen enough of his interactions and media availabilities and 133 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,440 stuff over the last four years to know that sometimes 134 00:08:50,519 --> 00:08:52,840 he had a good day. Some days he was okay, 135 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:55,559 but he was not every day. And the New York 136 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,840 Times says this in this article, that he had good 137 00:08:58,919 --> 00:09:00,519 days and bad days, and the state knew it, and 138 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,480 the family knew it, and the legislators knew it. Chuck 139 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,840 Schumer knew it. Senate Democrats knew it. Senate Democrats were 140 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,759 getting ready to go public with all of this. And 141 00:09:11,799 --> 00:09:15,960 it's only after Joe Biden is out that the New 142 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,879 York Times can finally tell us the story. Oh, yeah, 143 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:23,279 you know what, the Senate was actually gonna coop Joe Biden. 144 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,039 They were gonna throw a coup against him. They were 145 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:29,279 going to like demand neurological reports and stuff. They were gonna, 146 00:09:29,759 --> 00:09:31,440 oh yeah, they were gonna call for him to step down. 147 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,639 They were, they were getting ready to do it, and 148 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,200 Schumer couldn't hold them back anymore. And so Schumer had 149 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,440 to go out and visit Joe Biden on the beach 150 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,759 at Rehobeth and have a heart to heart. And why 151 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,080 Chuck Schumer? Because Obama said, you need to go do 152 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:48,240 this because he won't listen to me. And why won't 153 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:51,480 Joe Biden listen to Barack Obama? Because Barack Obama didn't 154 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,919 endorse Joe Biden in twenty sixteen. He threw his he 155 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,320 threw his weight behind Hillary Clinton. Ew but he did. 156 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,279 He threw his Yeah, he was like, it's Hillary's time. 157 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,360 So Barack obop and that ticked off Joe. But it's 158 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,480 funny because Joe Biden gave an interview where she said 159 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,879 that Joe Biden forgives everybody and so she is the 160 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,279 keeper of the family grudges, which is quite the admission. 161 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,600 That is a thing to say, is it not? Even 162 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:24,080 if you are the keeper of the grudges, why do 163 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,320 you say that? Why would you say that? Ugh, this 164 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:32,879 family man, here's a great idea. 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You mean like being 189 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:58,559 able to sell a childlike painting for hundreds of thousands 190 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,639 of dollars, being paid eighty grand month to sit on 191 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:06,960 an energy board. That's true, okay, outside of engaging in 192 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,879 criminal activity as part of a family crime syndicate. Outside 193 00:12:10,919 --> 00:12:14,639 of that, no, I was mainly thinking of like being 194 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:20,200 a young child right going through your teen years, like 195 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:24,679 you're under this microscope, you know, and look, there is 196 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,159 some element that I can relate to about this is 197 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,080 that you know this, Okay, this may surprise you, but 198 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,679 there are people that say things about me that are 199 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:35,559 not very nice. 200 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:35,919 Speaker 2: I know. 201 00:12:36,159 --> 00:12:39,159 Speaker 1: I don't know why either. They just they say some 202 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,320 pretty mean stuff about me. And here's the thing, I 203 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:45,360 don't care. It doesn't matter to me. He said. Whatever 204 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:48,960 you want to say, good whatever. I don't care there 205 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,120 is anything you can say that will hurt me, because 206 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:58,080 whatever worst thing you can think of to say about me, 207 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,320 I have probably said it about myself before, worse things 208 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,200 than you can think of, because I know myself better 209 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,600 than you know me, and so like, it doesn't really 210 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,679 matter to me. People say this, but my family members, 211 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,320 like they want to defend me, just like you would 212 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,480 want to. And I would want to defend my family 213 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:17,559 members when somebody says something about them, right, so it's 214 00:13:17,799 --> 00:13:20,039 much harder. And then but then you lay her on 215 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:22,600 this thing where you know, I mean, look what happened 216 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,919 with Governor Cooper's wife, right, remember Roy Cooper, my good 217 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:32,200 friend Ray, he was his wife. Rather was driving through Raleigh, 218 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,240 I guess, on her way back to the Governor's mansion, 219 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,840 and she saw some people out there protesting the mask 220 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,279 mandates and the COVID lockdowns and stuff. And I mean 221 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,919 they didn't know she was They didn't know she was, 222 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,000 who she was or what she was doing. But yeah, 223 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,080 but she was. She flipped off a kid, remember, gave 224 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,159 the middle finger to some like twelve year old kid 225 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,919 holding a sign. Okay, that may not be the greatest 226 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:56,679 example of what I was talking about. But it is 227 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,399 always harder on the family and not always, but like 228 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,200 many times, it's very difficult to be a family member 229 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,320 of an elected official, particularly if you know there's a 230 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:12,080 controversial issue or the politician rises to a level of 231 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,519 you know, prominence where people now know who they are 232 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,080 there are you know, there's there are security measures that 233 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:23,399 like I have that I've taken and you have to 234 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,360 take when you become public, you're in the public eye. 235 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:31,240 You know, there are things that you do when you're 236 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:33,399 out in public, Like whenever I go out in public, 237 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,720 I am quote on, have to be I cannot do 238 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:42,000 anything in public. If I'm out at a grocery store, restaurant, 239 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,480 or whatever, I always assume that somebody is going to 240 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,279 be videotaping me, recording me, or trying to pick a fight. 241 00:14:52,399 --> 00:14:55,080 You have to think that way because if you don't 242 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,720 think that way and it happens, bad things will occur 243 00:14:59,759 --> 00:15:03,080 after that. So if you are mentally prepared when you 244 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:06,919 go out, so you're always quote on, you're on the clock, basically, 245 00:15:08,039 --> 00:15:11,639 then you are less likely not that it will never happen, 246 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:15,480 but you're less likely to get caught unawares, and there 247 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,759 are people that actually try to do this in order 248 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:22,519 to destroy you. Not I mean, I'm small beans, right, 249 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:25,399 nobody's doing like they're not going to that kind of effort, 250 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:27,840 although some have, right, some people have tried to cancel. 251 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:30,960 They've tried to well they have. They've threatened me, you know, 252 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:35,320 identified my house, docksed me, threatened to hurt me, my family, 253 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:37,600 that sort of stuff. So that is part of that. 254 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:40,039 That's part of what comes with all of this. And 255 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,279 people who are in politics, they they go into it 256 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,720 and the family needs to be on board because it's 257 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:48,759 very difficult. So I get that. I don't know how 258 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:51,120 I got onto this topic. I was talking about Joe 259 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:54,440 Biden being mentally incapacitated. 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Pete at 280 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,879 the Pete Calendar show is the email Kevin says, I 281 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:05,200 listened to your show all the time. I really do 282 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,160 enjoy it. Also, I love discussions and a good debate. 283 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,880 But I don't know how you are able to keep 284 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,359 your mouth going for hours every day. I consider myself 285 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,000 a talker, but man again, I'm not sure how you 286 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:18,960 do it day in and day out. Thanks again for 287 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:25,000 all you do Pete Sign Kevin So. Number one exercises. 288 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:30,960 I exercise the mouth a lot. Two hours of prep 289 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:37,000 for one hour on air. That's my general rule. Some 290 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,480 days are you know, it's easier than others. Some days 291 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,440 I have to do way more prep. But and most 292 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,880 of the time, a lot of the prep I never 293 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,039 get to I never actually turn into content because I 294 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,079 just run out of time because I'm running my mouth 295 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:56,000 too much. The other thing is something that program director 296 00:17:56,039 --> 00:17:58,160 told me a long time ago. I believe it was 297 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:05,640 Randall Bloomquist, Hurricane Randall, who said, everybody has a show 298 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,640 in them. Everybody can do one show, and most people 299 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,799 can do a week. You got enough material, you have 300 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,599 enough time to plan. Most people can do five Can 301 00:18:16,599 --> 00:18:20,119 you do a month? Can you do a year? Can 302 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,680 you do five years? Can you do ten years? And 303 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:29,759 the thing is, you don't know. Nobody knows until they 304 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:34,839 do ten years that they can do ten years. Nobody knows. 305 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:38,200 Some people burn out and they're done, they don't have 306 00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:40,759 anything else to say, or whatever like that. It happens. 307 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,400 So but you you just start running and at some 308 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,960 point you're like, that'll do, pig, that'll do all right. 309 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,920 Back to the new York Times piece here how Biden's 310 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,119 inner circle protected a faltering president. They would arrange meetings 311 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:01,440 to make sure Biden was in a better mood, right, 312 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:10,319 good days, bad days. These people quote cooperated to manage 313 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:16,200 his decline. This is according to more than two dozen AIDS, allies, 314 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,680 lawmakers and donors that The New York Times talked to. 315 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,640 Twenty four people plus right say that yeah, they cooperated 316 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:30,039 to manage the decline. They would delay sharing information with Biden. 317 00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:32,559 They would surround him with people like remember when he 318 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:36,480 was walking to the helicopter, and they claimed it was, 319 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:38,720 you know, because he was constantly working, when in fact, 320 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:41,799 it was to shield him from video being captured of 321 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,680 him walking weirdly to the chopper. They had Biden used 322 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,200 a teleprompter even when he would go to these really 323 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,240 small fundraisers in private homes. They would set up a 324 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:54,319 teleprompter so he could read. Anybody that wanted to ask 325 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,119 him questions would have to provide the questions ahead of time, 326 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,839 so there were no impromptu Q and A. He couldn't 327 00:20:01,839 --> 00:20:08,440 do it. That is not a physical infirmity, right. And 328 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:16,039 this concerned people that would go to these donor events. 329 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,799 Six people, key people protected the president Jill Biden's you 330 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,799 call her doctor Jill, Doctor Jill Biden. Goy named Mike Donollan, 331 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:34,440 Steve Richetti, lawyer Guy uh and Annie Thomasini deputy chief 332 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,880 of staff, and Anthony Bernal, who is Jill Biden's senior aide. 333 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:46,960 So Jill Biden's senior aide was part of the the cabal. Basically, right, 334 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:52,559 this guard that protected Joe, which tells you what Doctor 335 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,839 Jill is the one with the power. Right. The New 336 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,640 York Times goes on to say, all of them are 337 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,480 deeply devoted to mister Biden, all our adept and navigating 338 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:05,200 his quick temper. As I mentioned earlier, he's a jerk. 339 00:21:05,839 --> 00:21:11,039 All enjoy proximity to the most powerful office in American politics. Gosh, 340 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,000 if only we could figure out a motive for why 341 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:15,119 they would do such a thing. Could it be that 342 00:21:15,559 --> 00:21:19,039 they enjoy proximity to the most powerful office? Is it 343 00:21:19,079 --> 00:21:21,480 the proximity to the most powerful office? Or is it 344 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:25,599 actually using the most powerful office that would keep them 345 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,759 doing this? Then there was Biden himself, whose pursuit of 346 00:21:29,759 --> 00:21:33,039 the White House had been the family's project for nearly 347 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:38,319 forty years. Right, he finally gets it and he says 348 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,160 I'm gonna be a transition to president, right, and everybody's like, oh, 349 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,599 he's goingly gonna be around for one term. Okay, cool. 350 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:48,960 But then his pride and a string of legislative accomplishments 351 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,160 and a strong showing in the twenty twenty two mid 352 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,960 terms by Democrats makes him decide in April of twenty three, 353 00:21:56,079 --> 00:22:01,799 I'm gonna run again. History will remember him as the 354 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,200 man who beat Trump and then paved the way for 355 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:09,119 Trump's return. In May of twenty twenty three, a month 356 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,079 after he announced he was running for reelection, Biden was 357 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:15,359 in the Fifth Avenue duplex of Hamilton James, the billionaire 358 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,319 former President Blackstone, who is not an oligarch. Okay, just 359 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,880 because he's a billionaire and just because he's got the 360 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,119 ear of the president, inviting him over to his house 361 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,359 and having a conversation with him about doing stuff whatever, 362 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,960 that doesn't make him an oligarch. Only oligarchs are oligarchs 363 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,400 when they are friends with Republicans, just in case you 364 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,599 were wondering what that makes somebody in oligarch. Anyway, he 365 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,759 makes his case for another term. But to these nervous 366 00:22:41,799 --> 00:22:45,440 donors at this event, and the donors walk out and 367 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,200 they were like, we have the opposite effect now, like 368 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:51,400 we left with more worries about his age. Again, not 369 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:56,759 his age, it's his mental abilities. They then spend a 370 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,720 page going over all of the physical stumbles literally and 371 00:23:01,799 --> 00:23:04,359 the falls that he had and the physical stuff blah 372 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,279 blah blah, and then at the end they start talking 373 00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:10,759 about the grueling bad days. He had pursued a final 374 00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:12,680 term at part because he felt his family was in 375 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,240 shape to withstand an exhausting campaign, but by the time 376 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,400 the race was underway, Hunter Biden's legal problems were mounting. 377 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:23,480 Federal prosecutors were investigating Joe for the classified documents handling. Right, 378 00:23:23,759 --> 00:23:26,079 Robert Hurr came out and said, oh, you know, sympathetic 379 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,200 old man with a failing memory. He says, ah, dare 380 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:30,000 you And he goes out and does the news conference, 381 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,759 and everybody's like, oh, her was right. Biden was struggling 382 00:23:32,799 --> 00:23:36,000 at the time to manage support for the stalemate in Ukraine, 383 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,039 growing feurer in the party over the Israel Gaza war, 384 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,359 and so they're chalking this up as the demands of 385 00:23:43,519 --> 00:23:47,160 foreign policy took a toll on his energy levels as 386 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,480 he campaigned Oh, the poor guy, right, he's got all 387 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,480 of these things. It's just you know, Israel and Ukraine, 388 00:23:54,519 --> 00:23:58,200 and that's me Johnson in this war. That's the reason. Like, no, 389 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,559 he can't do the job anymore. He doesn't have the 390 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,920 mental bandwidth to do the job. He was taking naps. 391 00:24:06,319 --> 00:24:10,799 This story says they had to schedule him naps during 392 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:15,799 his debate prep because he had taken foreign trips weeks before, 393 00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:20,920 weeks before, so weeks before the debate, he goes overseas, 394 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,079 he comes back, which is that's where maybe he was 395 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,079 like wandering around. Oh it's a parachute, you know, and like, oh, 396 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,559 look at that, and why are these foreign leaders having 397 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,160 to like guide Joe Biden to the buffet table. And 398 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,759 weeks later he's taking naps because he's just so wiped 399 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:42,039 out from all of his foreign travel. That's not that's 400 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,799 not good. But now we can be told now when 401 00:24:45,799 --> 00:24:49,240 it doesn't matter any longer. The first lady, who was 402 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:52,160 married into the family in nineteen seventy seven, believes he 403 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,599 would have been fine with the second term. She says, quote, 404 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,640 I mean today, I think he has a full schedule. 405 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,160 You know, he started early with interviews and briefings and 406 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,559 it just keeps going. And Biden's ally say he remained 407 00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:07,720 sharp in private situations. See, so it's like it's all physical, 408 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:12,079 it's not mental. So this is them giving a little 409 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,119 bit of ground. All right, we'll go okay, yeah, I mean, 410 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:18,240 I mean, he's eighty two. It's a mentally fine, mentally 411 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,680 sharp as attack. Except house speaker Mike Johnson had a 412 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,599 bit of a different experience. He'll tell you what that 413 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,880 was up next. All right, if you're listening to this show, 414 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,440 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 415 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,519 of current events, and I know you do too, And 416 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:36,039 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 417 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:39,799 Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 418 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:42,720 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's 419 00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:46,240 an app and it's a website and it combines news 420 00:25:46,279 --> 00:25:48,200 from around the world in one place so you can 421 00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:51,640 compare coverage and verify information. You could check it out 422 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,240 at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put 423 00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:59,240 the link in the podcast description too. 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All right, So here's Mike Johnson talking with 435 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,240 Barry Weiss, founder of the Free Press. 436 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 2: And I say this without any personal animus at all. 437 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,200 I mean, you know, in some ways actually kind of 438 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,960 feel sorry for Joe Biden. I mean, he's in the 439 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,359 twilight years of his life. He is not obviously has 440 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,759 not been in charge for some time. And I know 441 00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:54,160 this by personal observation, and now the whole world knows it. 442 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,720 And it's been very, very concerning to me over the 443 00:26:56,799 --> 00:26:58,880 last you know, year and a half since I've had 444 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,240 this story. When you say personal observation would well, this 445 00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:05,279 is it's public now because the Wall Street Journal got 446 00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:08,319 it and put it on the front page. But January 447 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,079 a year ago, almost exactly a year ago, I had 448 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:13,759 been asked. I became Speaker in October twenty twenty three, 449 00:27:14,079 --> 00:27:16,599 and there were all sorts of big national security concerns 450 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:19,000 and everything going on, and I started requesting a meeting 451 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:20,960 with the president because you know, I'm kind of old school. 452 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,240 I'm a constitutional law guy. Speaker of the House should 453 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,759 be able to talk to the president, especially in times 454 00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:28,799 of great national interest in calamity. But they wouldn't let 455 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:31,200 me meet with him, and his staff kept getting any excuses. 456 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,000 This went on for like eight or nine weeks. I'm sorry, 457 00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:35,279 miss Speaker, he doesn't have time. What are you talking about. 458 00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:36,519 I'm second line of the presidency. 459 00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: He has time. 460 00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: I need to talk to him. We had I can't 461 00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:41,559 say the class fat parts, but we had some big, 462 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:46,279 big national concerns at the time that I was losing sleepover. Finally, 463 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:47,799 I just went to the whole press cort and I said, 464 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:49,599 the President is not being allowed to meet with a speaker. 465 00:27:49,599 --> 00:27:51,880 There's a problem. So they started putting pressure on him. 466 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,759 Long story short, they finally relented. They invited me to 467 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:56,400 the White House. I show up, and I realized it's 468 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,599 actually an ambush because it's not just me and the president. 469 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,319 It's also Kamala, Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakem you know, the whole, 470 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,279 the CIA director, everybody. And then so I walked in 471 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:08,359 the Oval and ah, I know what this is. This 472 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,400 is a they're going to hot box the speaker on 473 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,440 Ukraine funding. That's what it was. This is probably third 474 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,279 week of January. We sit down, we're in the midst 475 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:18,559 of it, and the cool conversation, and I'm going, we 476 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:20,759 don't need to have this conversation. The President reaches over 477 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,559 just like this, We're sitting in the right next to 478 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:24,160 the fireplace in the Oval, and he grabs my arm 479 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,319 and he says, the Speaker and I just need a 480 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,359 couple of minutes together. Will y'all just leave us alone? 481 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,920 And I looked up on the faces of some of 482 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,160 the staff standing around the wall and they're like, no, 483 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:32,720 he did it. 484 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: So he called it. 485 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 2: He's the commander in chiefs. Everybody leaves and he and 486 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,720 I are standing awkwardly in the middle of the Oval office, 487 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:40,319 right over the rug by that coffee table, and I said, 488 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:42,599 miss President, thanks for the moments. You know, this is 489 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,960 very important. I got some big national security things I 490 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,640 need to talk to you about that I've heard and 491 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,440 I think you know, and what do we do? But first, 492 00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:50,839 real quickly, miss President, can I ask you a question 493 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,160 I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana. Sir, 494 00:28:55,319 --> 00:28:58,720 why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Like I 495 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,680 don't understand. You know, liquefied natural gas is in great 496 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,599 demand by our allies. Why would you do that because 497 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,440 you understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand your 498 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,759 fuel in Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to 499 00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:10,799 get their gas from him, you know. And he looks 500 00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:14,039 at me, stunned with this, and he said I didn't 501 00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:17,319 I didn't do that. And I said, Miss President, you, yes, 502 00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:19,000 you did. It was an executive order like you know, 503 00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:20,640 three weeks ago, and he goes, no, I didn't do that, 504 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,720 and he's arguing with me. I said, Miss President, respectfully, 505 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:25,519 can I could I go out here and ask your 506 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:27,359 secretary to print it out. We'll read it together. You 507 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,440 definitely did that, and he goes, oh, you talk about 508 00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:33,200 natural gas? Yes, sir? He said, oh no, I did 509 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,039 you misunderstand? 510 00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: He said. 511 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: What I did is I signed this thing to We're 512 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,440 gonna conduct a study on the effects of energy. I said, no, 513 00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:42,920 you're not, sir, You paused it. I know I have 514 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,440 the terminal, the export terminals in my state. I talked 515 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,599 to those people this morning. This is doing massive damage 516 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,720 to our economy, national security. It occurred to me very 517 00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:54,079 he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not 518 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,920 know what he had signed. And I walked out of 519 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,079 that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought we're 520 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:01,240 in serious trouble. Who was running the country, like, I 521 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,759 don't know who put the paper in front of him, 522 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:03,359 But he didn't know. 523 00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: So did he not know because he had forgotten? Right, 524 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,480 faulty memory, old man with the failing memory, is that 525 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:16,079 it he just didn't remember that he signed it. But 526 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,160 if that's the case, then why did he say the 527 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,240 part about oh no, that was a study. Well, who 528 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,519 told him it was a study? How did he come 529 00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:27,000 to that? Is that maybe he's misremembering it, confusing it 530 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:29,279 with some other thing that he signed that was a study, 531 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:33,039 or maybe somebody put something in front of him and 532 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:36,000 said this is to study it, and in fact it wasn't. 533 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,799 It was to pause the exports. And who was that 534 00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:44,519 person and why did they do that? And the people 535 00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:48,680 that were in that Room, Harris Kamala, Harris Chuck Schumer, 536 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,759 Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, and the CIA director. 537 00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:01,359 So who do you think was running the country? I 538 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,839 think it might be those folks that Johnson just named. Now, 539 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:09,920 why did it take until, oh what last week for 540 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,240 Johnson to tell this story publicly? That I don't know? 541 00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:15,599 I have never heard the story. And maybe he has 542 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,279 told the story before and I didn't know it, and 543 00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:20,000 maybe he leaked it somewhere and it was reported someplace else. 544 00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:25,359 But that is terrifying because now it makes me wondering 545 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,799 question every single executive order that this president or the 546 00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:32,319 former president signed, did he actually know what he was signed? 547 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,920 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 548 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 so much for listening. 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