¶ Political Commentary on Current Events
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right . Well , I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right . There's only an up or down . This is the no Doubt About it . Podcast .
No doubt about it .
Now your hosts , Christy and Mark Runcetti . Wildfire , you can't catch us now .
Running , running , running dead . I'm here , all right . Well , we continue in historic times and we've had developments here on Wednesday as we record this , that continue to indicate that things are far from settled in the presidential race , and we will , we will touch on that .
It is swallowing up everything , oh it's all the oxygen in the room is going , this Biden situation , and you know , will he , will he not drop out of the race ? Will he , you know , concede and say I can't do this anymore ? You know , as of yesterday , people believe there's no way he's stepping down . Things change overnight , a little bit you never know .
It's like just this game of like I don't know .
Well , it's a slow erosion , and so this is what we talked about on the last episode , that this was not an explosion that would destroy anything all at once . This would be one of those .
This is the Beaver Dam analogy you just keep pulling and pulling , sticks out and more and more water starts coming through and eventually it overwhelms the dam and it's and it breaks , and I think we're closer to that happening on Wednesday than we were on Tuesday or Monday .
Right , it's , it's true , but in local news . More local news first , before we get into this Biden detail . More flooding for the poor folks of Rio Doso .
Awful yesterday and so we've been talking to people down there this morning . I was on the phone with a few people down there this morning Just brutal . Some areas of Ruedos are not affected , and this is the nature of what happens with these pop-up afternoon thunderstorms in monsoon season .
They're incredibly difficult to predict where they're going to hit , and some of these areas that you see and some of this is near Cattle Baron , so those of you familiar with Ruto so this is the neighborhood near Cattle Baron , I think is what you're seeing here , or at least that's where some of the flooding was , and you can just see there's a house down there
that's come , looks like it's come off its foundation , and this is just . Some areas of town are just fine and then others just get buried with this . They need your prayers , they need your support .
Anything you can do to help would be huge , because this is just one of those things when you get a burn scar like this , the mud is what is so devastating here and it's very difficult to deal with . And again you get a quick inch of rain and all of a sudden , this is what you see happen and just devastating stuff .
Yeah , it's so sad , your heart goes out to these people . Wildfires , flooding , what a week and a half ago ? And then now this again .
Well , and then the hotels are full because you got first responders there and people responding to what's happening with the fires and the floods , and then you have , you know , obviously they didn't do anything over the 4th of July , and so you have business owners there and some of the thought process and some of the business owners is we may not have lost
everything in the fire , but we're losing our businesses too , because the town can't get up and going again , because they can't catch a break .
Right , right , and it's just devastating . And heavily reliable on tourism down there in . Ruidoso Very much so so it's just a tragic situation If you can help out . They're also going to need a lot of construction help and that is To rebuild . To rebuild as they get to that process .
So definitely keep those folks in your place and there was a great fundraiser that happened yesterday , on Tuesday , in Ruidoso . The guys over at I think it was Maverick Resources , which is Sam Shiverick and those guys .
They raised $100,000 for what's happening in Rudoso , down in Artesia , and a lot of the oil and gas interests down there were helping out with that . So definitely seeing a lot of people trying to step up where they can and if you can help , please , please , do it .
Okay , Okay . Well , let's get back into this news cycle that never seems to end . Joe Biden's just begging for some sort of breaking news to take the story away from him , but it's just not happening , right .
And this is one of those stories , too , that we're seeing it . You know , there's always this talk of oh , the news cycle moves so quickly . The news cycle , yeah , it does when you don't have a behemoth story that swallows it up .
So the where we want to take this this morning and into the day today is the fact that some of this discussion now is shifting a little bit to a specific issue that Biden may be having . So , as you look at the Drudge Report , what they're saying Dems in dour mood or Dem mood dour , either way you want to say it , but it is . It is not good
¶ Biden's Health and Media Scrutiny
. And one thing that was interesting it came out on Tuesday . One thing that was interesting and came out on Tuesday Karine Jean-Pierre gets in front of the press court and basically says out of the shoot . Hey look , biden did not meet with a neurologist over the past six months or so . That sort of thing did not happen .
Yes , a neurologist came in , but it was for something different . So she got caught in a lie . And so this is what the AP headline looked like coming up after that story . And it was President Joe Biden saw a neurologist at the White House on January 17th for an exam Press secretary says OK , so that's after she had to correct the lie .
Ok , and this is a lie . So there's a difference between you know , we talk about Biden not quite being able to figure out what's going on and someone saying something that is completely and totally a lie . So here is the pull quote from Green Jean-Pierre from this story .
It says President Joe Biden saw a neurologist at the White House on January 17th for a neurological exam , the results of which were later reported as part of his annual physical more than a month later . The White House said on Tuesday Now here's a part of this that gets interesting .
The confirmation came after the White House press secretary , karine Jean-Pierre , inaccurately said during the daily briefing with reporters that the January 17th meeting was not related to the care of the president , in response to a question from the Associated Press . So she basically mischaracterized it .
And I'll just tell you when you start looking at all the issues that Karine Jean-Pierre has and that they're having in this White House , this is what happens when you do not have a media that holds you to account and suddenly , out of nowhere , they wake up and they decide we're going to start doing our job .
You get pantsed because you have no idea how to deal with it .
Well , yesterday she also just blurted out because I think she got confronted on stuff that he he actually sees a doctor twice a week . I mean , I'm sorry , I even senior citizens out there I'm not sure how many of them are seeing the doctor twice a week . So then that kind of raises some red flags too , of well , why is he seeing a doctor twice a week ?
So you know , and this is all coming around to the fact that is this an issue and is there a specific problem that the White House already knows the president has ?
Yes , the answer is yes , mark . I mean , if we don't know that by now , we are idiots . I mean honestly like it just doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out that there's been a massive you know to put it lightly cover up by not only the media but the people that work in the White House and around him every single day .
Okay , so let's grab that and let's grab the last paragraph of the AP story . So what could we be talking about here ? The AP had asked whether a meeting in which was reported through the White House visitors log , between a renowned neurologist expert , dr Kevin Kennard , and Dr Kevin O'Connor , biden's personal doctor , was about the president himself .
It was the only meeting between those two men , according to the logs that has been reported between July 2023 and this past March , a period that has come under scrutiny because Kennard has visited the White House eight times in that time frame .
So O'Connor and Kennard meeting over something , some other issue that isn't Biden is not what happened in those eight other meetings . And what is Kennard ? An expert in Parkinson's Parkinson's , right ?
Okay , so Parkinson's is starting to become the issue , okay , so we were sitting around yesterday and all of a sudden I saw some video come through that was staggering to me and staggering in the candor of the doctor . So here's how media reported this yesterday . It says parkinson's doctor , not the doctor that met with Biden .
By the way , I want to be very clear on that Different doctor . Okay , he says he tells NBC that Biden has classic features of Parkinson's . I could have diagnosed him from across the mall . This guy says no , we have the audio .
I want you to hear the audio because very rarely you always hear doctors say he's not my , he's not my patient , I can't really tell you what's happening ?
Right , right , right .
Oh , not this doctor . This doctor was very , very clear on exactly what was going on . His name is Dr Tom Pitts and he is a Parkinson's expert .
And this was NBC , not Fox News , Right correct ? So let's make sure that's perfectly clear as well .
Okay . So we want you to hear first he's very , very clear in what he says here and what's going on , and then we're going to break down a longer statement than he makes . So here's Dr Tom Pitts yesterday on NBC .
His motor symptoms are degenerating . He has Parkinson's , that is a fact , you know he has degeneration of the brain . Show me the MRI , show me he doesn't . You know , put your , put your money where your mouth is . He definitely has it .
But the problem is , when you look at his situation you can't say oh , I know for a fact that because he didn't retrieve the word , he didn't know what he wanted to say . And that's why both him and Trump should take the four hour neuropsychological testing , which is the hallmark test for cognitive performance .
Okay . So he wants , he wants testing for both Trump and Biden , but says very clearly Biden has Parkinson's , ok , ok .
¶ Medical Concerns Surrounding President Biden
So I heard that I was like holy cow is this guy ? And so who are we dealing with here ? Dr Tompkins ? Well , he's not a Republican , in fact he's a Democrat , ok , and he lays out what he thinks is going on here , but he expands on his thoughts here and we're going to kind of stop this in a couple points along the way , ava .
So so we'll stop it when I tell you here , but I want you to just kind of listen to what he says and then you can listen to what the reporter says , trying to kind of flush out and make sure you know that that this is something that you know . Could it be something else , could it not ? And he's pretty adamant here .
You noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor ?
Oh yeah , I see him 20 times a day in clinic . I mean it's ironic because he has just classic features of neurodegeneration . I mean word-finding difficulties and that's not . Oh , I couldn't find the word . That's from degeneration of the word retrieval area .
He's also overcome stuttering , though . Could that be part of that too ?
No , this is not a palatal issue or a speech discrepancy , which is very different from a lemono dysfunction , actual word retrieval , where you pick a similar question or talk around the issue , plus the rigidity , monotone voice . Wait , go back to that , the rigidity , what do you mean ? Rigidity , loss of arm swing , standing up lordotically .
You notice when he turns it's kind of end block turning , it's not a quick turn . So that's one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's is rigidity and bradykinesia . Slow movement , and he has that hallmark , especially with the low voice . He said it was a cold hypophonia . A small , monotone voice like this over time is a hallmark of Parkinsonism .
I could have diagnosed him from across the mall here are some of the symptoms from Parkinson's .
We just had him up there on the screen . If we can put him back , what about the movement ? Some people have pointed out the way he walks . Sometimes it's not very fast , small steps . Is that something that is common in people who are battling a ?
disease like Parkinson's . Yeah , it's a hallmark Shuffling gait , we call that . So little steps , loss of arm , swing from the rigidity . When we walk we have a nice cadence . You notice he doesn't really swing his arms and end block turning , meaning he kind of pivots around his foot .
If you said hey , president Biden , he wouldn't go like this . Yeah , but I also know I also don't tell me if I'm wrong here it's very hard to diagnose Parkinson's , isn't it ? It's not , it's not simple .
I mean , I've heard that it can be one of the easier movement disorders to diagnose , actually Okay . So right there , let's stop there just for a second .
So the reporter trying to say , you know , kind of doing what a reporter should do , kind of probing , in saying are you sure about this ?
I mean , could this be something else , could it be something that maybe we're not noticing , or whatever , and this doctor's like no , no , it's very simple , yeah , it's very simple , and I I have heard a doctor speak even as of this morning , saying that there's a couple of parts of Parkinson's that can really affect memory .
So when you think of classic Parkinson's you might not think of like the memory trying to pull from memory loss , things of that nature . That's another type of Parkinson's . So it may not even be the classical like what you think of , where you're just losing muscle abilities . It's more than it's more to do with cognitive reaction .
Right , yeah , very possibly , and so we don't know . We still don't know , but he keeps going and he makes the point here that this is not some partisan trying to go after the president on political grounds .
There's , there's very little others , and I'm you know , I'm a Democrat . I would say yeah this Right , it's just like this and I'm a Democrat I always say it's just like , this guy is not a hard case .
But I've had relatives who have gone through issues neurological issues and I've heard that sometimes Parkinson's is not very easy to nail . You have to take a lot of tests Early on .
If you're just presented with hallucinations that could be a variety of things or just the cognitive problems that could be Alzheimer's versus Parkinsonism and that becomes a little nebulous . But once you start manifesting the hallmark motor symptoms , slow movement , rigidity , mass faces hypophonia .
I mean , if a med student did not pick Parkinson's on the test , they'd be remediated .
Let me ask you you're a Democrat , you're a doctor . You sound like you're frustrated with what the White House is saying . Yeah , why ?
Well , because you know , I'm an American before everything and I look at it and say , when I used to see Russia , soviet Union , north Korea , when they just make outrageous things , you know , like when North Korea can't keep the lights on and they say , oh , you know , it was some faulty power thing , I kind of hate that kind of stuff .
They had four years my own party had four years to find , you know , this was a wreck in slow motion . And they had four years to find out , of 350 Americans , one person that could take the place . And here we are , the day before school trying to do the homework and replace a guy who's got a neurodegenerative disease . Wow , okay .
Yeah , he's pretty clear on that . And here's what's interesting too . I also read early this morning that you know , cause there's now they're going to try to say , oh well , you know , because now they're going to try to say , oh well , you know this doctor that's going in there .
Well , he sees lots of people on the White House staff , right , like that's the big argument . He sees over 30 people . The difference is , is the former White House doctor ? I believe he's a congressman , if I remember this right .
Ronny Jackson .
Yes , Ronny Jackson . He said specifically no , this guy's going into the residence and when you're a White House doctor seeing a lot of the other staff members , you do not go into the residence . And these visits have been in the actual residence . So that's pretty telling as to what's actually happening here .
As far as a big need , they're just trying to keep it under the rug .
Well , that's the thing that is so scary about this is , if they do know , and if this doctor is right , and if they are well aware that he has Parkinson's and they're covering it up , that's a devastating , devastating turn of events and it really is an incredible indictment on the Biden administration , the media and where we are in this country on being honest
with the American people , and that's what has to stop .
Well , and I was talking to a lady yesterday . She's got a son in the military and he's stationed overseas right now and she said who's running the ship , who's deciding where he's going ?
And she said at some point we've got to stop taking the politics of this and really are we putting our military folks in danger , along with people here in the country , when we've got people crossing the border , things of that nature ? And my heart went out to her because I didn't have an answer for her .
Of course you should have the person that's in charge , our president , making sure he's on top of everything , military and otherwise , and that's just not been the case . And I think at this point you know , I think the Democratic Party would . You know , it's the whole weekend at Bernie's thing . We talked about it last time .
They want to win so badly , they want to try to beat Trump so badly that they're this is Do they Hold on , Do they ? Because if they do , they have to insist upon Biden removing himself that just .
That's the point . That's what's happened now . Now they're caught , right . So I think at the beginning before the debate , they were like we'll just drag this guy across because he's going to win and we'll just keep it going Right , we'll just keep this charade going .
That's what I think was happening , and now there's no way to keep it going Right and I just think that just shows disingenuine situation Like you want a good leader in . I mean . I don't think the guy can hold out presidency to January .
quite frankly , Well , no , I understand that , but I think they have to step up for the good of the country and make this move . They owe it to the country , just like if you put the shoe on the other foot .
It'd be difficult for Republicans to do this , but they would have to do it , you would have to do it , you know it has to do it , and the difference would have been the media would have been all over a Republican for years with these issues , so it never would have gotten to this point .
This is one of the arguments I would make about all of this , and that is the media's incompetence and being in bed with one side versus the other has led to the crisis that we're at . We never should be here . This should have been a situation that was dealt with long ago , because there should have been serious accountability for the White House .
They would have not stood up to it and they would not be where they are today . So they are where they are today because they have not had to answer for being dishonest and disingenuous for a period of three years at least .
You know , it would be interesting to see if legislation comes out on testing of our presidents , like maybe that's something that needs to be discussed and passed and put out there , as far as like , hey , at a certain age , or maybe it's for every president , regardless of age , gender whatever , that you have to undergo a certain amount of testing before you were
chosen as the nominee . I think you have to show your taxes , so why not ? You know , have mental capability .
I wonder about that , and the reason I wonder about that is because do we really need that , or can we very clearly tell ? Well , barely clearly that's one of the things that I .
When you look back at all the stuff we talk about this all the time , the criticisms that Reagan faced , and then you go back and look and watch Reagan speak and how he operated versus Biden , it's not close . So I don't know that we do need all this cognitive testing all the time . We can very clearly assess exactly where people are .
It's just that they decided they wanted to willfully believe something that clearly wasn't true .
But I was saying in a way that would be able to remove Joe , like Joe's whole thing is now . Well , there is the 25th amendment . Right , but they're not going to invoke that .
Well , I agree with that , and really the 25th amendment too is , in many cases , is more likely designed for when someone is completely and totally incapacitated , and that is not the situation that for when someone is completely and totally incapacitated , right , right , and that is not the situation , that's .
What I'm saying is , maybe you have to have some legislation that says listen , you gotta do this , because if you are , willing to not put yourself you're putting yourself before the country . You're selfishly doing that . I don't think you can do that through legislation . Oh wow , I disagree . I disagree on that .
Because too often it's gonna be used as a . Very clearly you don't need legislation to know where we are with Joe Biden . You have to be able to step up in his party and I think you're starting to see that more and more and we'll get into the erosion here of what's happening on his own side , but I think you're able to start to see that now .
OK , we're able to see that guy , but Joe clearly needs legislation to tell him it's time to step down because his own party can't get his own party is going to have to do it . You know what's interesting ? You bring up Reagan right .
Did you know that there was one senator that went to Jimmy Carter in 1980 and said you need to step down , you cannot win , you cannot beat him , you are not ? And guess who that senator was ?
Joe Biden , joe Biden .
I mean . So you know , it's just an interesting how things kind of always come around full circle . You know , it's like you tried to . You tried to warn Jimmy Carter , you got people out there .
You have people Jimmy's hanging on , so Jimmy's probably like yeah , I told you maybe Jimmy should call Biden and say listen , remember this conversation we had back in 1980 .
You need to take some of your own advice , all right ? All right , okay . So let's move on , though , from this . Let's let's talk a little bit about morning . Joe , right , or you ?
know he's on there again . I just think this is so . They kept trying and they've kept trying over the past week or so to to put him out there and to assuage people's concerns by having him do more .
And it is funny because one of the even his supporters , the people that are still on board which we'll have a couple of those here in a quick second even they're saying we'll just get them out there to get . That's like saying to me go out there and do a backflip .
I can't do a backflip , I'm laying on my head , and that's exactly what continues to happen here . So he goes on morning , joe , on Monday they do it via phone . He's got notes . It just listened to his internal monologue come out in in a soundbite
¶ Democratic Party's Growing Concern Over Biden
. Now he's saying more and more things that just patently aren't true , but he wants them to be true , right , and so he's just adding new things in and I want you to just listen to what he says here and we'll go back over it . But this has to do with one of our favorite Biden quotes , the suckers and losers quote , right ?
He keeps accusing Trump of calling people suckers and losers who died in I think it was World War I or World .
War II Was it World War ? I think Was it World War II ? Normandy yeah , I feel like it came out in Normandy , Okay it was World War II .
Okay , yeah , yeah , so , and he may have said World War I or whatever . I can't remember exactly how the quote goes , but just take a listen to this . By the way , trump says I never said this , and I'm reading from a list of live First of all , he was made up .
Quote suckers and losers .
I was with . He called Americans in the cemetery from world war one suckers and losers .
Okay , listen to what he said there . First of all , he says reading a list , like he's like reading the stage direction is right , you know , talking back to Mika and Joe . And then reading the stage direction is yeah , right , you know , talking back to mika and joe . And then he says I was there , which he was not .
he was clearly not there when trump said , if trump ever said it , which trump says he never did and you know the thing is is I can see I can see trump saying calling somebody else a sucker and a loser , but not veterans . Right , I'm sorry and not anything .
It's not the point . The point is that he can't . He literally now is just saying things that and he doesn't know what he's saying .
Right , I was there .
I was there . He said suckers and losers . So believe me , believe me , stop believing everything else . Believe me . Yeah , it's bad , it's bad .
It's just his , just in the tank . And again these people are trying to save him . I don't know how much more they can save .
Well , well and so well , let's , let's get into who isn't saving him Right and so , and that's a lot of people that aren't saving him now . So the New York times continues finally though , really .
Yeah , yeah , no , no , no , no doubt , no doubt They've . I don't want to give them too own style . Remember that came out a couple of months ago , Like oh , he's got his own style .
Well then you can . Here's what they said . Here's their latest . This is the latest New York Times op-ed which came out , I think , about 24 hours ago . No , it's one back , ava , it's number 10 . Brett Baer .
Yeah , Brett Ba understands the stakes , but he seems to have lost track of his own role in this national drama . As the situation has become more dire , he has come to regard himself as indispensable . He does not seem to understand that he is now the problem and that the best hope for Democrats to retain the White House is for him to step aside .
Yeah , I mean , they keep hammering it , and so it's interesting because we talked to a lot of people here in New Mexico and back in DC and really across the country about what's going to happen with this and a lot of them still say he's going to hold on , he's going to hold on , he's going to hold on , he's going to hold on .
In fact , jeff Glassburner a pollster in DC ran our campaign here . He he still says , hey , he's sticking it out . I was like , ok , well , james Carville just had an article out and he was he was the guy that was behind Bill Clinton , basically . And so here's what he said . He said Carville said Biden won't win . Democrats need a plan , and here's a plan .
So he lays out a plan . We're not going to get into his plan per se , but I do want to read you a couple of quick quotes from James Carville . And he says Mark my words , joe Biden is going to be out of the 2024 presidential race , whether he's ready to admit it or not .
His pleas on Monday to congressional Democrats for support will not unite the party behind him . Mr Biden says he's staying in the race , but it's only a matter of time before Democratic pressure and public and private polling lead him to exit the race . The jig is up , and the sooner Mr Biden and the Democratic leaders accept this , the better .
We need to move forward , but he says this as well it can't be by anointing Vice President Kamala Harris or anyone else as the presumptive Democratic nominee . We've got to go and get this out into the open , the exact opposite of what Donald Trump wants us to .
So what the point he's making there is they need to blow this thing up , go to the convention and have it out , which I think he's right . I think at the end of the day now I agree with his opinion .
I think the dam is breaking , but you can't withstand this much pressure and we'll get into more and more of what's happening with that in just a couple of minutes and , again , not going to be a long episode today , but we're going to get into all these details . But overall , I think what you're starting to see here is the dam breaks here .
I think Carville is exactly right that at this point it's falling in on Biden . There's nothing he can do to stop it and all his obstinance will not help him anymore , because he's losing each little piece of this as we go and the dam is breaking .
Fun fact I heard too . Okay , so you know , we've kind of talked you and I've talked back and forth who would be a replacement right ? Like who would they try to slide in at the convention ? Potentially right , because they obviously don't want to just trample all over Kamala . So let's say they keep Kamala on there and we've pitched out Gavin Newsom .
Did you know that if they put Gavin Newsom on there and Kamala , one of them have to move out of the state ?
Yeah , it's the same thing with Marco Rubio and Trump .
It's crazy . Yeah , it's like okay , so what ? Kamala is going to move out of California forever .
Vice president .
Another political figure at a Colorado Senator , michael Bennett . He says Biden can't win and he thinks Trump is going to win by a landslide . Listen to this clip that he was speaking on a scene .
And this is on Tuesday .
Oh Tuesday .
No , no , this is interesting , yeah . And so this is some prominent senator now coming out and saying and I give Bennett credit here , because instead of being behind the scenes , you know , oh , because he's worried about his self .
I mean , at some point .
Well , he's not running for reelection , so it's not that . But at least he's standing up , yeah , and he's saying I said it , I said it , so yeah .
My colleague Dana Bash reported that you , senator John Tester and Senator Sherrod Brown all said during that lunch that you don't think President Biden can win in 2024 . Is that true ?
Well , it's true that I said that , and I did say that behind closed doors , and you guys and others asked whether I had said it and that is what I said , so I figured I should come here and say it publicly .
Why do you think you can't win in November ?
I just think the the this , this race is on a trajectory that is very worrisome if you care about the future of this country . Joe Biden was nine points up at this time . The last time he was running , hillary Clinton was five points up . This is the first time in more than 20 years that a Republican president has been up in this part of the campaign .
Donald Trump is on track , I think , to win this election and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the Senate and the House . Yeah .
So you know he's right , right and he comes out . So this is what starts to happen . You start seeing prominent Democrats stand up and say , yeah , you can't do it . You can't do it , and Bennett is , I would consider , one of those . Now , he's not going to be a guy who's going to , is alone going to move Biden out of the race .
Let's be honest , like you have probably at this point , obama , you've got the Clintons going to him .
You've got everybody that .
Who's going to move him out ? Pelosi would be a huge step in that direction .
You think so . You think she's got that kind of power .
She absolutely does .
Well , she's kind of I don't know . First she was like I stand with Biden , stand with Biden on our favorite morning show , morning Ciao . Let's take a listen to maybe Pelosi's changing her tune a little bit .
He has made the decision . He has said firmly this week he is going to run . Do you want him to run ?
I want him to do whatever he decides to do , and that's the way it is . Whatever he decides , we go with . I think it's really important and I would hope everyone would join in to let him deal with this NATO conference . This is a very big deal . Over 30 heads of state are here . He is the host of it , and that means not just hosting .
It means orchestrating the discussion and setting the agenda , and he's doing so magnificently . And I've said to everyone let's just hold off whatever you're thinking , either tell somebody privately , but you don't have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week . Okay , so hold on .
This is a huge deal . This is the biggest thing that's happened so far , because she's now saying hold on , have your private discussions .
I'm not saying you should support him , I'm saying just let's get through this and then we'll get rid of them , because that's sure what that sounds like from her well , and I'm sorry again , this whole like let's focus on nato , which it's weird to me , this whole like let's just focus on the whole night .
All he he talks about is NATO , this NATO thing . I'm like , yeah , I think that's going to fly over a lot of people's heads anyway , like there's other , more pressing issues right , this particular second in our country other than NATO , and I just think also like waiting till what we're what ? A hundred days , 99 days out from the election . So how many more ?
days , it's like 111 or 110 .
How many days is she waiting ?
No , no no , but it is different than President . Biden is our nominee . We're getting behind him . Let's move ahead . That is not what she said and that right now is rocking this race .
And it's a huge deal . And now you think this other one's a big deal . I kind of laugh at it .
No , this other one is a big deal , because I'll tell you why . Not because of who said it , but because of how this person helps Joe Biden . So George Clooney comes out today and says he's got to go , yeah , okay . Now , the reason this is important is because George Clooney is a huge fundraiser for the Democratic Party . That matters , yeah , that matters .
You can say , oh , he's an actor , blah blah blah . Well , whatever . You can say , oh , he's an actor , blah blah , blah , whatever . He sets up million dollar fundraisers on the regular for Biden . And now he says you're out , you need to go . And I read this from the New York Times and it was unequivocal .
It was not like , well , we should think about no , no , no , no . George says you got to go . And here's the poll quote , one of them . There are a bunch of poll quotes on this , but there's one that I wanted to read here . It says is it fair to point out these things out ? It has to be .
This is about age , nothing more , but also nothing that can be reversed . We're not going to win in November with this president . On top of that , we won't win the house . We're going to lose the Senate , and this is only my opinion . This is the opinion . This isn't only my opinion . This is the opinion . This isn't only my opinion .
Excuse me , this isn't only my opinion . This is the opinion of every senator and congressmember and governor that I've spoken with in private , every single one , irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly . So this is interesting . Everybody knows the truth that he has to go . And Clooney comes out and he says it and he wraps it around his neck .
Look , if he was not a huge fundraiser , I wouldn't think this is a big thing he is .
He's going to get Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and they're going to do an Ocean's 11 and they're going to come in there and they're going to like take Joe Biden and they're going to move , remove him and they're going to put in somebody else . Like that's George Clooney to me , how they could ?
I know that's what I'm saying Like to me , that's the power George Clooney has . Right , it's , I get it . I get that he's a big wig as far as in the Hollywood days and blah , blah , blah . And he's got a big voice . I just again , I think , if he's not willing to listen to anybody , the only person he's going to listen to is his wife .
No , I disagree . Support , and it comes from the donor class , which is Clooney . It comes from the political class , which has been it . It comes from the polls which people are fleeing from him right now , and eventually that weight becomes too much to bear , and I don't care what Jill says and what Hunter says .
Okay , these two , these two have proven themselves to be completely ridiculous characters in all of this and they beclown themselves , to be honest with you , and they've , they've let down their father and husband in a huge , huge , way .
Well , they are definitely the weakening Bernie's characters . They're on your side of Biden carrying him around . I mean for sure . And the thing is , you know , we got an interesting email asking could this money that Biden's been raising , such as the money from Clooney , could that be shifted to another Democrat ? It can't . No , it can be shifted to Kamala .
That's it right . So that was just to answer that question . Yeah , and I don't think money will be the concern either way .
No , they're going to have plenty of money , don't worry , george can throw another party .
I'm sure he can . So there is some defense still going on out there
¶ Growing Concerns Over President Biden
. John Kirby , one of his spokesmen . He went with the regular tired trope of you should see this .
See this guy behind closed doors he's magic behind closed doors , yeah the , the president that I see every day , including yesterday a couple of times in the oval office , uh is robust , he's lucid , he's clear , he's direct uh and he's in uh command of the context and the information .
I mean he was asking me questions yesterday , uh , about uh events in europe that I simply didn't have the answers for . I had to go back and come back to him with some answers . I mean , that's the president that I see every day , that's the commander in chief that I've been serving the last two and a half years .
Oh , so he's like playing trivia . Oh yeah , biden's like OK , can you name ? Yeah , they're in jeopardy .
Here's the thing , though , now . Now , what you're going to see the media doing , I think , which this aligns . This next clip up is now , it's just going to be that , oh , if we lose , it's just because of ageism . It's an ageism thing , it's just because Joe was just too old . That's why we're going to lose .
Well , and this is a congressman saying this , yeah , not that .
The fact that we've been holding this guy up and not being accountable for four years , that has nothing to do with it .
It's just his age , and that's why we're going to lose . More than 70 percent of voters think that President Biden is not demonstrating the capacity to be president . Fifty six percent of Democrats say that they would be better off with another nominee .
Those are the concerns that I'm talking about , that are showing up in the numbers and that are affecting his approval rating .
What I find interesting is that issue is more around ageism and ableism and not what this president , President Biden , has done .
Yeah , ok , so this is just , it's ludicrous Right . And so you start to see as this gets worse and worse , the defense gets more and more out of touch .
Well , and this whole argument now of look at what Joe Biden's done . Well , please , let me look at what Joe Biden has done . Let me go ahead and list those things out for you , but let's just say you're going to take that as your argument as a Democrat . Oh , just look at what all the good he's done for this country .
Look what he's done the last four years . The answer now is what can he do in the next four years moving forward ? He's not capable of even having the role . So that's the real argument here that they're trying to deflect from . In my opinion , like that's . That's very obvious . I mean my opinion . It's absolutely what they're doing .
Is they're like oh wait , let's just look at the background and see what he has . Remember old Joe that loves everybody and is so nice .
Yeah , the best you can do is look back right now for them .
And again well that's very weak .
But again , on their own side they don't care about what we think , they care about what their own side thinks , and so that's what they're doing . Well , the problem you're running into now is , more and more , the polls are getting really ugly . So Amy Walter works for the Cook Political Report . They're a down-the-middle polling outfit and kind of an aggregate .
They look at a bunch of different things and here's what they've done . They tend to do the horse race stuff right and they've moved six states toward Trump in the electoral college ratings here . And it's interesting because here's what Amy tweeted and it's an interesting quote here .
As you look at it , it says in one set of surveys shared with me , trump expanded his lead in Pennsylvania Listen to this from four points to 10 points . A just released AARP poll in Wisconsin , which we'll get to in a second , found Trump ahead of Biden by five points 50 to 45 . Ahead of Biden by five points , 50 to 45 .
That's a big deal because Wisconsin has been a very strong state for Biden and it is not maintaining that , at least not in this latest polling information
¶ Political Polls and Republican Platform
. Remember part of this that happens . You say , why is it taking so long for the polls to react . Right after the debate . You went into the 4th of July . So the debate was a Thursday night . You don't pull over a weekend , then you roll into the 4th of July when you don't pull .
So now we're just starting to get all this polling information in , and the numbers are ugly in all of those swing states .
And I do think that they keep saying , oh , just wait to the weekend . Like I don't know if you've heard that that's out there . It's kind of this rumble for this weekend coming up , right , Just wait for this weekend . And I'm like , what are they waiting for this weekend ? It's obviously these polls numbers coming in , right .
I mean , that's really what they're saying is let's wait until we get a little temperature on voters right now . Well , yeah .
And let's look at Emerson . Emerson is , you know it depends . Emerson can be , can be , a good polling office . It's a solid polling outfit . We'll hear the numbers from Emerson right now .
And just listen to this Pennsylvania Trump plus five , wisconsin Trump plus three , michigan Trump plus one , nevada Trump plus six , arizona Trump plus four and Georgia Trump plus five and that AARP poll in Wisconsin . Look at some of the numbers that you dive into . Here's one thing and we talked about this with Jeff which is really interesting .
It shows Trump up five and then Trump up six . If you go and take into account RFK Jr , okay , all right . Now the Senate race is what's interesting here . Tammy Baldwin is up five points on Hovde Okay , so Tammy Baldwin is the Democrat incumbent . She's outrunning the president's by a significant margin here . She's winning by five , biden's losing by five .
That's a net Delta of 10 points . That's very hard to do . It's almost impossible to do . So that's why so many of these people in tight races the John testers of the world who was rumored to have said that Biden can't keep going and you've got Sherrod Brown in Ohio those guys are likely going to lose if Biden's the nominee , and there's no doubt about that .
I think so , as you look at all of this . That's why this has to collapse on him , because they will lose the Senate in a heartbeat if Biden stays in the race and you just see this polling . This is just another thing that adds weight on his shoulders .
I think it's going to be interesting , like can they really ? Is it going to ? Is it just a ? We don't like Biden's situation anymore , but we like these senators that are Democrats . Like that's going to be really interesting to see .
Because , I think if you're a Senator on the Dem side , you're going to come out and say you have to keep me in this position because we're going to lose the presidency , Like that's what they're going to start saying .
Right , and they even , I think , what they would benefit from . They just needed to be closer . If you're a Democratic senator , you just can't have Trump beat Biden in a national race by five points . You'll get swept out like you'll be gone .
Yeah .
And so what they're hoping for , I think , is hey , we've got to get somebody in here that can tighten this , and I think a lot of these senators , like the testers and Sherrod Browns of the world , and even guys like Ruben Gallego in in Arizona , who's not a yet , as they look at all this , they need a race to be tighter .
If you're getting smoked , you're all going to get swept out . I you can say all you want , that that you don't have as many issues as you think . People actually like the Democrats , but they don't like Biden . I think that's one of the points that people make when senators are a lot closer than Biden is in their state .
But overall , that's a very tough weight to carry and it's a massive risk , and I think at a certain point , all the chips now are sliding over to the other side , right where these senators are looking at it and these House members are looking at it , saying we have a better chance to keep our jobs without him than with him . So it's time for him to go .
Right , and what's interesting is how much money the Democrats are spending in these swing states right and losing more and more . Yeah , they keep losing , so they're outspending Trump quite a bit .
If you look at some of these numbers here , you can see that in some of these swing states it says here that in Georgia , I mean , Biden has spent over $42 million to Trump's $19 million .
Yes , in Super Tuesday Yep .
Yep , arizona , biden spent $38 million to Trump's $1 million . Yeah , that's crazy . Right there , nevada , biden spent $19 million , again Trump $1 million . In Nevada , you got Nebraska , which is kind of weird .
Yeah , they have their split-off district , okay so .
Biden has spent $6 million . Yep , trump , $1,000 . Oh , hey , hey , $1 million . Trump , one thousand dollars . Hey , hey , one thousand dollars . People , that's quite a difference . Minnesota , he's , he , they biden spent 641 000 to trump's 5 000 , and then new hampshire biden has spent 561 000 and trump's only spent 12 000 , so they're getting beat .
They're spending more money and they're still getting beat , which which is different . That's unusual and it's happening .
Yeah , I mean yeah , and money isn't everything in politics . Trump saw that in 2016 . He did not spend as much as Hillary and still won and then . So we'll see how all this shakes out . The one other story I think that's that's interesting in all of this is what Trump is doing and how they're trying to massage the Republican platform .
Well , yeah , and you know , we kind of . I've started seeing a lot of comments on Twitter . People are writing us and asking us about this , like , oh my gosh , what is all this that's coming out about ? You know , trump going soft on abortion or whatever ? Where are we with this ? And so I did a little bit of research .
It's not that crazy , I mean they're they are . You know . Basically Trump has been out there saying listen , I got Roe v Wade pushed back to the states . I got a discount in the Supreme Court . You asked me to do that in 2016 and I did it . So now it's a state's issue and basically that's what he wants the platform to state .
And then he said that's going softer on same-sex marriage is just like that . Now the Dems are going to want to have you focus on these social justice causes instead of the actual policy issues . I just feel like , once again , they're going to try to blur the lines and hopefully , you know , their hope is that you don't think Trump's really that he's wishy-washy .
He's not wishy-washy in the fact that he said I did what you asked me to do in 2016 . It's a state's issue .
We're done with this on the federal level and I think Donald Trump very uniquely much more so than any other Republican candidate in the past two to three years he has the skins on the wall to be able to say we're done with this issue and not have the activists on the Republican side push him more and more on the life issue .
Trump can say exactly what you mentioned , which is I did my part , we're moving on , and that's something that Trump has the skins on the wall , with the right to be able to say . Other candidates in their own races throughout their own states don't have those skins on the wall , but Trump does so .
In other words , trump can basically tell his right flank we're done with this , let's move on and focus on these other issues , and Democrats don't want them to do that . Clearly , the far left doesn't want them to do that , but Trump has a unique advantage here and that's why I think this hit is probably one that doesn't stick to him .
Right , it was not going to stick to him . And again , I mean , regardless of which side of the issue that you're on with this , when it comes to a federal issue , they're not going to have the votes either way in the Senate or , you know , house , to ban , do a full ban on abortion nationally or bring back vote Roe v Wade .
They're just not going to have the votes and I just think that that's what people really need to recognize and understand and find other things that we really need to come together on on this particular issue .
Okay , and so , because you're going to catch a flight , we're going to keep this episode short . One last story . This is our wrap up . This was . This was pretty funny . It's an amazing story from minor league baseball . The Sioux city X's are a minor league baseball team in Iowa .
They end up short a pitcher and so they decide to call up on three hours notice , 44 year old state rep JD Shelton . He's a state rep , 44 years old . They need a starting pitcher . Jd takes the hill . Okay , here he comes . It's unbelievable , right . He gets out there , right , and you think , all right , jd is 44 . He throws it great , by the way .
But you're thinking , okay , but how , really , how well can he do ? Yeah , he pitches six and two thirds innings , gives up two runs , six and two thirds innings , gives up two runs , two strikeouts , and gets the win 11 to two . Wow , I mean , you got you taught a state .
If my state rep walked out there and delivered six and two thirds innings and two runs , you'd be like I have the greatest state rep ever .
Yeah , I was going to say this is just going to confirm that he's going to be reelected over and over again . There's going to show this video and his campaign . I can get you out of every clutch that you're ever under . There's no question .
You need someone to come in at the last minute . I mean JD . I mean we love the governor of Iowa . Kim Reynolds is great , but I don't even know what party JD is in . I don't even care . This guy's got to run for governor of Iowa .
I mean , are we bring up the fact that you went out and threw out the first pitch in an isotopes game ? Should we talk about that ?
No , okay , I wasn't great you weren't great , you weren't terrible either .
I mean , you didn't play baseball really since , like what ? Fifth grade ? No , no , sixth grade . I'm sorry for everybody out there that saw that then .
Okay . So I went a little hard at it , which was a mistake . I probably just should have done a nice little soft jobby . No , you tried hard , oh I can throw it , but it just yeah . I just needed to bring it up a little bit in the zone .
Yeah , that's all right , though , guys .
A little tight in the zone , yeah it's been a day or two . I appreciate you bringing it up , though . Okay well , thanks so much for joining us . Mike Garofalo is going to come into town here over the next few days , so I think we may have him sit in studio for us , or something or other , here coming up . You have a great trip . Thank you very much .
I'll man the house with the ladies here .
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