The Armstrong and Jetty shows the net effect of went and tweeted this morning and what we're talking about now to cast doubt on the results of the It's had an interesting impact. I didn't know it was going to be the impact it had. What people are now looking at is am I right but not me? Are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent, they'll be fixed, they'll be rigged. And everyone's looking at it, and a lot of people are saying,
you know, that probably will happen. That's hilarious. Um So Trump tweeted yesterday that you know, maybe we should delay the election, and everybody went crazy, and he said, I didn't think it would have that sort of a lot of reaction. I it surprises me. I love him jerking people around. I mean, I get a kick out of that on on many different levels, but pretend outrage and the rest of it. I often wonder what he's hoping
to accomplish. We're joined by Lani Chen David and Nyanne Stephie fellow in American Public Policy Studies of the Hoover Institution, and Lani, much as I deal with my backyard, let's clean up the dong first, and then we'll get onto the more edifying stuff. That's the worst transition I've ever heard, thank you so. Uh. The idea that Trump would delay the election, how likely? Oh god? Uh looks zero likely,
zero likelihood that he can do it. Uh, you know, zero likelihood that he would ever uh you know, he'd ever be able to get away with it. You know, on this one, the constitution and US law are pretty clear. Now one more and it's even more ridiculous, And I think it's zero likely he would try so and he knew, how so even more ridiculous if Trump were to declare after the election, which in this scenario he lost, I am not leaving, as has been suggested in the New
York Times, the Washington Morning. Joe talks about it all the time, all the alphabet that in serious tones. As a man of great experience and knowledge. If a president were to declare that, what would happen on inauguration day? Well, I mean, you know, he would find himself locked out of the White House. I mean, that's just not it's it's again. The Constitution here is very clear. US law is very clear, the president's term ends on a certain date, and if he has not been re elected, he is
no longer the president by noon on January. You're a private citizen. You don't live here anymore. A trespasser need be removed, right, I mean it would be like, you know, it's it's like the guy who finds himself kicked out of his house. I mean, it's this is this is kind of what would happen. So, you know, I mean, look, there's a lot of conversation about stuff Trump says, and and there's a lot of things I really wish he wouldn't say, and I don't I don't think are particularly helpful.
But you know, he is sort of, as you guys alluded to, he's sort of the ultimate troll in a lot of ways, right, I mean, he sort of gets people to respond to things, uh, and then it gets people spun up. And and that's exactly what he's hoping to do. He's hoping to take you know, people take their eyes off the ball and take their eyes off
of what really matters. Would it be a good idea for uh, you know, Barack Obama bringing it up yesterday John Lewis's funeral, I thought was shocking the idea he actually suggested Democrats need to do away with the filibuster in the Senate. That is that an issue you could get people worked up about, or is that too complicated for most voters. I think it's an issue that activist bases get really worked up about, so on the right
and on the left. This is actually one area where the activists based on the right agrees with the activists based on the left, the idea that the filibuster is antiquated, and if only we didn't have the filibuster, we'd be able to get so much done. The problem with that, of course, is that the way American politics works is that you don't have one part in control for long
periods of time. Usually party you know, party control goes back and forth, which means, you know, if you want the filibuster gone for Republicans, uh, then you ought to be able to accept the fact that filibuster will be gone for Democrats as well. And that's precisely why the filibuster I think, remains in place, because people realize how damaging it would be if it were to be to
be eliminated. Well, just to put in plain terms, what we'd see, among other things, is wild, jarring instant changes in the way the country is governed every four year, every two years, conceivably, I mean, just wild swings in policy, foreign policy, domestic policy. Oh yeah, I mean, look, you'd see, you know, you'd have Obamacare one year, you'd have no Obamacare the next year, and then you'd have Medicare for
all the fifth year. I mean, that's the that's the kind of gyrating that you would see, and it would be tremendously damaging and difficult for us to really uh be able to operate as a country in a lot of ways because you would have massive portions of the economy affected by big time policy and it would change all the time. Because what would happen is you would only need a simple majority to make these huge policy
changes in the Senate. And that's really the only thing that keeps this I think that keeps the train from going off the tracks completely. Oh yeah, we could go back and forth between open borders and zero immigration in one administration, and before you know it, cannibalism. Lani chen is on the line from the Hoover Institution. Do you even care? Do you pay attention to Joe Biden's VP choice or or is that just an overrated question, you know.
I mean it's something that the political class gets really excited about and interested in, you know, particularly because maybe there's there's there's not a whole lot of other uh, you know, other other stories to follow closely. Uh. Look, I think it matters in so far as Joe biden situation is that he's really old, and you know, you want to make sure that there is somebody there who credibly could be president, you know, at any given time. So I think in this situation with Biden, the VP
pick matters a little bit more. But historically what we know is that the VP pick doesn't actually impact the course of the election that much. It's a new story for a few days. But with Biden's case, maybe it matters a little bit more. Um. Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart argued the other day, I think it was in Time magazine that Biden shouldn't debate at all. So Biden might do no press conferences and no debates until the election. You think you can pull that off? No,
I don't. And I think that's a stupid idea, uh to, to to have Biden avoid debates. I mean, that plays right into the narrative that I think Trump is building around Biden, you know, the Biden and the Bunker narrative, and and I you know, look, I think Joe Biden has showed that there are times when he can be fine lucid. Uh. During the Democratic primary debates, he went out there and he had a couple of debates that were really bad and a few that were quite good.
I think that in this situation, if you're on the Biden team, you have to accept the possibility that Biden could do okay, and that there might be more harm than good in keeping him the question in the bunker and not wanting to debate. That is absolutely the wrong look I think for him. Yeah, I just wonder if
it'll actually move votes. Yeah, I'm not saying you're wrong one he I just which will he got to balance it against him coming out in a ninety minute debate and you know, really showing his age, you know, the the risk risk versus reward, which I think is why they're hanging a lantern on some of his faults. As they say said, yeah, he's gaff prone the rest of it, but he's a nice fella. Now they're saying, look, he's a transitional figure. He's only going to do one term.
Then it's onto the new thing. It's no big deal if he gets elected. I did hear somebody make the argument that Trump had the reverse situation for debates last time around. Hillary was the expert, she knew everything, was a political expert. I don't know anything about debating. Well, Trump has set the bar so low for Biden now by saying, you know, he can barely talk. I think if Biden comes out and he's competent at all, yeah, oh, hecor out of time. Sorry about that line. Yeah, that's terrible.
It's a waste of your valuable time, your expertise, etcetera. Alan he Chen, that was interesting. Uh, fellow in American Public policy studies, Hoover Institution. Always enlightening. Thanks a million. All right, um, yeah, I I don't know with the Biden thing. I could see it going either way. There's so much more than it's going to happen between now and then and Getty