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Okay , nice work , Ava . This is the new intro , which is the quick intro . We're getting right into it .
Yeah , we're trying to capture more people's views right off the top .
Don't bury the lead . Right , Right , exactly . Breaking news is really what ?
we need to have , we need a dun-dun-dun-dun , we need a stinger . Okay , we need a stinger . I'll work on the stinger . Breaking news yeah very good .
We are here with Darren White on the no Doubt About it podcast for a couple of reasons . First of all , you guys are kind of getting down to it in the mayor's race , which you are running for mayor , and we're going to talk about that too .
Last time you were on uh , a lot of interest in what you had to say , and because we've had some developments , because we're getting down and we'll explain why you're reaching a critical point here that we want to have you in talk about some stuff and with you we always talk about other issues too . So we're going to talk about all sorts of different things .
Let's do it , and some of it the mayor's race and that's where we'll start off , but of course we start with viewer mail yeah , we have some viewer mail and this this is coming in from dan .
Dan says I always learn something from your podcast and this one is no different . I won't talk about all of it , but want to touch on two things and make a request . The plane being gifted to the us air force to act as air force one was interesting . I thought the plane was fully completed and ready for action , but the show told a different story .
I agree with mark that it's a bad move for Trump to accept it , but then I think Trump does things like this just to get a reaction .
So yeah , no , true . And , by the way , I still don't think . I think , knowing now what we know , there's no way he's going to be able to accept it , and it's not even the acceptance portion of it , it's the it's . So by then Boeing will hopefully have one of them ready . So I would say this is going to be much ado about nothing .
now , and it's classic Trump , though right , it's just like Alcatraz .
He throws these things out there and goes hey guys , have fun .
Just have fun for a while , and so I see it as kind of you know , at the end he's going to say look the Republican , we've talked and this is not a good move . But uh , you know .
but thank you , cutter for cutter , yeah exactly and , by the way , not to and we mentioned this on the last show you've got . You got a country there that supports terrorism . I mean , they do so and I know Trump is there today . He's actually going to be . He's doing a state dinner , I think , right now with the royal family there .
There are some real problems with how they operate . And , by the way , if you go ask Saudi Arabia how they feel about Qatar , it's not good , right ? Saudi Arabia is like these guys are absolutely funneling money to terrorists , so it is a rough situation there .
So I think it's one of those things where I understand he's trying to play both ends against the middle and the Middle East , trying to quiet things down , but but that is not the country to be taking gifts like that from .
OK , so then he goes on . Dan went on . He said second , I'd like to request that any time you talk about John Fetterman , he wants you to wear a hoodie . Yeah , no , I'm all I'm willing to do it OK , I'm out of respect for Fetterman .
And then finally he said we're going to agree that APS does spend too much money per student and that the union is an embarrassment to anyone who was a teacher . We're going to disagree that charter schools , vouchers and school choice is the answer . So that's kind of his comment there . And then we're going to move on to a different comment , ava .
We're going to move on to the next one about school choice . This is from Javier . Javier says we had school choice in Alaska and our kids could homeschool with accredited programs , which was paid for .
When we came here and expected to homeschool my youngest son who does better with homeschool versus in person and we found out we had to pay for it on our own , especially after I looked at what our real estate taxes go to . Why do we keep putting money into a failing system ?
the definition of insanity which our property taxes continue , yeah , and by the way .
That's something we're going to touch on coming up here in a subsequent show , because property taxes are skyrocketing , especially on businesses , and you want to talk about another way to crush business ? Go double their property taxes in a year and some people are having that happen to them . So we'll get into that .
But but I agree , homeschooling is turned into a choice A lot of families have had to make . It's one we had to make because you have so many problems and what's going on with our school system ? We're 51st in education . We pump a tremendous amount of money in there .
The answer is not always just add more money , and that's something that's not been talked about enough , the fact that we spend a ton of money . If you go look at how much we spend per pupil , we're not in the bottom third of the country at all .
No , no , and of course the attendance is down , but the budget is but the budget is typical yeah . You know I got to tell you while I'm out there the mayor doesn't have a lot to do with education , but people are concerned about it , so they bring it up . The one thing , more and more , is this splitting up APS .
Oh , right , people are very- . Oh , it should be in three parts , probably , it's too big . It's too big . No , it's probably true , it's one of the biggest school districts , I think in the country ? Yeah , second or third in the country .
It's kind of crazy . Okay , and then Sagittarius said this is the last one that we want to talk about today . It said oh , okay for Trump to accept this plane , really . So what are they going to get in return ? What about conflict of interest ? This is outrageous , utterly outrageous .
Isn't it wrong for the President of the United States to accept such a lavish gift ? I think this woman misunderstood a clip from our show , thinking that we were in support of the Trump plane .
We actually were saying Trump should not accept this plane but the optics on it just looked bad and it was not a good call .
So stop , stop so vigorously agreeing with us , because that's exactly what we said . She did , I think , actually right back and said I'm sorry , I just think we I missed , I misunderstood .
So yeah , nothing against Martha , I totally get it , martha , martha right .
And then okay . Sagittarius says hey , mark and Christie , what are your thoughts for Duke Rodriguez potentially throwing his hat into the ring for governor on the Republican side ?
And is he a better or worse than an equal choice to Greg Hall ? Okay , I'm going to let Darren start with this and give him a little bit of his history and then and then we'll we'll kind of fire away at our thoughts .
Yeah , I've known Duke for a long time . He was on the cabinet with me and governor Johnson's cabinet . He also then had a medical cannabis company . Now he's in recreational cannabis . It's called ultra health . It's the largest , uh , one of the largest in the in the state and , um , you know , duke , is somebody like he's , he .
He comes from a uh , a health background , right , and he's very guy was very much so yeah here's the thing you have to .
I mean , if the article is right and look and I've known duke to be somebody , when he says something he usually does it he said in the article talking about his announcement , that he's going to put $2 million of his own money in , and that is immediately a game changer . Game changer , excuse me , if he does that . Greg . Greg Hall's a great guy .
I like Greg a lot . Um , you know , there's talk about John Sanchez . These are all good people , but if Duke is going to to live up to that pledge of $2 million , the , this has really changed the outlook of the , of the , I would say the outlook of the race , yeah , and I don't .
I don't know Duke , I don't think I may have met him at some point , I don't recall . Um , but a few things . I think . Number one , you're exactly right . If he'll put $2 million in and really he's got to be talking about putting 2 million in in the primary , he's got to be talking about putting $2 million in the primary .
That's where he's going to have to put it all in . So then , if you do that , what you do at that point is you're right , you do change things . Now , really , what we're talking about here is Holland , probably John Sanchez , I think . First of all , duke doesn't have .
By judging by his public comments , he doesn't have the kind of regard for John that you might have expected . So there could well be . I don't think John's going to keep Duke out of this race . And you're exactly right , early money in politics means everything .
So if Duke will come out and lay that money down and start to put things on the ground , or resources on the ground , he can do it . There's no doubt he can be a formidable candidate .
I don't love and it's funny saying this with you sitting here but I've told you this I love and it's funny saying this with you sitting here , but I've told you this I don't love the marijuana thing . I don't . I don't think it's . I don't think it's productive for the state . I think it's not great . However , he's , he's made his money doing this stuff .
He does have a health background , I think it makes it more ironic and conflicting , in my opinion whatever you know , we have our thoughts on that , but but we'll be interesting to see .
But you're right , though the money is huge , because if you're , if you're Greg Hall , your problem is in all of this is if you get John Sanchez in and you get Duke , who's spending his own money in , I will tell you right now , donors will look for any reason to sit on the sidelines in a primary right . They will .
They're not opening their checkbook to throw money at you . Primary is very hard to raise money in and when you get into a primary that's somewhat crowded with people that have some money and you don't right away , that's a problem for you to get going . So I can see why Greg got in early .
But if he's making , a real key thing here is when you get the October numbers that come in . Greg has to have raised a lot of money or he's in trouble , and it sounds weird to say more than a year out . But the problem will be that once everybody's in , the money tightens up , it doesn't loosen up out .
But the problem will be that once everybody's in , the money tightens up , it doesn't loosen up . Yeah , and so that that's going to be an issue in that , and that's exactly what you say Duke is very smart .
This comes from a very big , big health background , but also he's fiery . Yeah , he is somebody that will speak his mind and he will make debates very , very interesting , coupled with that type of money , who knows . Yeah , I mean it's very , very early , but it looks like people are lining up , since we're going to have a vacancy . That's good .
It's good for the party . No , it is good .
It's good for all of us . Yeah , and I think , one other thing with him that he mentioned . He said you know , most Republican candidates get 46% of the vote and da , da , da . No , they don't . Okay , nella Domenici found that out . You don't start at 46 .
It turns out so you should have a month . You have you know , I actually will have him on .
I will have everybody who is an interesting guy , yeah , and everybody who assumes you end or you start where we ended .
You're wrong . You don't start where we ended , so you start about 12 back and then you see if you can make it up , and he may well be able to do it . It'll be really interesting . So great question . Yeah , okay , I can buy a lot of name ID . Yeah , it can , they can , right , and you're going to need to . Well , I think you're going to need to .
I've never heard of him so I honestly , like I are saying this the drug , they , they correlate all of the all of it together . So you look at the DUIs that are still out of control , which I'm hoping you can help us talk about that a little bit .
Um uh , mayor , white cause , I'm going to go ahead and refer to you and you know , but we have a serious issue here with fentanyl . We have a drug crisis and then you couple it with somebody who is very pro recreational marijuana . I think that's a . It's a conflict of interest for a lot of Republicans .
It's going to be interesting to see how does he combat that in a primary and how does he , you know , reach across that , that kind of domain .
Yeah , and it's one of those issues that once you get to a general , it won't be a problem at all for him . Right , the general is not a big deal .
It is the . You know , and I don't even think it's a big deal , obviously in the mayor's race because I think you have such a mixed company in Bernalillo County . Here you have people that really support the cannabis businesses here in Albuquerque for a mayor's race , so it's a very different dynamic .
It's also a non-partisan race , so it's a little different now . People know who the republicans and democrats are . But all right , all right very good , so let's get into this yes , so we want to get to where you are in the campaign . Uh , just put together a quick little graphic here now .
It's not the best looking graphic in the world , I'm not gonna lie , mark's not a graphics guy . Yeah , I'm not really a graphics guy , but , ava , we're gonna kind of come in here , you're . You're in the middle of trying to get signatures and donations , so let's go to the signature requirements for this . This is unbelievable .
When you run , by the way , for governor of the state of New Mexico , you need like 3,500 signatures . Yes , okay . When you run for mayor of Albuquerque , you need 3,000 signatures .
Technically , you need 7,000 . So explain that . Because you need 3,000 petition signatures , okay , yeah . Because you need 3,000 petition signatures , okay , yeah . And if you're going to participate in the public financing , you need $3,785 donations , yep . And so if you , we're going to put it together , it's almost 7,000 , right , unbelievable .
And so , yeah , it's a tough , it's a hard haul , there's no question about it . We're doing good . We're over 1,000 on the $5 donations , petition signatures , over 1,000 . But look , make no mistake about it , this is what every one of the candidates is doing right now and it's an interesting breakdown .
We're almost a month into this and I expected Mayor Keller and I think again , this is just a little bit of a kind of doing a little quarterbacking here yeah , keller has done this three times . Yeah , I anticipated when he went out he'd hit his list right away and he would be $1,500 , $2,000 within two , three weeks , absolutely . He just
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crossed over $1,000 . Interesting . And so look , ubatis , he's digging into his numbers a little bit . He's affecting his ability to get the $5 donations . Keller's going to get it . I don't think there's any question about it . I don't know about . You bought his . He started off really well , uh , and then last week he only got 20 .
Yeah . So just one quick thing on him and we'll get to him in a second Cause . I want to talk about him a little bit because people don't know him . Former federal prosecutor jumped in the race Democrat and going to kind of get into the Keller and his little lane there . But just a couple other quick things here . You've got to have this done by June 21st .
June 21st , Like this , is coming up .
Yeah , this is a real heavy haul man , I'm telling you , and this is all we focus on . I mean , it's just what the campaign is all about . If you don't get to that public financing , it becomes very , very tough .
Explain the public financing , how it works and what it does for you .
So we're raising right now . It's called seed money . The seed money is being used to get the $5 donations we are doing , we're doing emails , we're doing some text messages . We did a small mail piece to get people to go on digitally and do the $5 .
Which we did , by the way . I thought that was actually a great way of getting people's attention . You have a QR code , people can scan it and they can sign your and what's great ?
about it is those are verified . Once you go into that system , it automatically recognizes that you're a registered voter and then it lets you pay the $5 . And that's already counted Versus the books , the old books where you had to walk around and people had to fill out the books . Look , we submitted about 60 of the the hard copies . 22 of them were rejected .
Keller submitted a couple of hundred . 60 were rejected . And so that's what you deal with with the digital QR code . It's , it's done and it's over with . And so that's why we've been with the digital QR code . It's , it's done , yeah , and it's over with . And so that's why we've been focusing on it .
We're on Keller's heels and but it's not easy and but we're confident we can get there and it'll kind of thin the field out .
Oh , there's no question , hold on . I know there are nine people in this race . No , there aren't . There are probably going to be three , would be my guess , because it's so difficult , potentially four with Louie .
He's way behind . Yeah , I think he's been surprised how difficult this is to do . So there's again . There's only so many voters , right , and the Democrats are cutting that pie up yeah . And so maybe Louie . It'll depend on where he is , I think this week . If he's still below a thousand , it's going to be tough for him to get there .
Yeah , what ? Just tactically for a second . How many people do you want in this race ?
Uh , as many Democrats as I can get , yeah , right .
Right , right , no , that makes sense . So you're , you're out helping them .
Once you get to your numbers .
You should be . I'm all for it . I'm all for them , because that is democracy in action .
Because you care , right , I do , I care , but you know , it's as I've said from the beginning our goal is to come in first or second . Yep , because then there's the runoff , yep . And so everything we're doing , get the public financing and then coming in first or second .
Explain really quickly . We kind of cut you off . Public financing means what ? So for the average ?
so it's like $730,000 that they give you , minus what you raise in seed money . Okay , and that's what you get to run your campaign . Uh , then there's also what they call measure finance committees . Those are separate from us . Uh , those are groups that can set up , but they have to support a candidate and we're not involved in that .
right , that's like a pack and it is a pack right so so , and what that means is , and what darren's talking about is , when you set up a pack , they can raise unlimited funds into that , but they can't coordinate with you , right , right , yeah . So so they can say they can know hey , we want to support darren and this .
And this is trickier than people think , because oftentimes these PACs will go throw up an ad and you at the campaign will be like what ? The hell was that , and then . so you've got to be really careful because everybody thinks , oh , the PAC will just do whatever the campaign wants .
There is not real contact there if you're doing it legally and I got to- tell you , Mark , I don't think the public should .
The taxpayer dollars should be spent on knuckleheads like me , yeah .
I agree To campaign .
Come on Really Right . And then the whole thing was you know , clean campaigns , right , oh , but we still have PACs , right , and it's like and believe me , I believe it's like people have a First Amendment right to have these campaigns . I mean , we all understand how that works . But you know , look , keller will have one , absolutely .
And as , while he was like , oh , we're all for clean campaigns and we hate those groups , he'll have one , you bought his , we'll have one . Uh , uh mailing , uh , our meal already has one , right , and so it's just the reality .
Yeah , sure , and so we need that money . Though that you need that money , I think there's always that question is what you need that money for . Darren , you're not taking the salary from that money , correct ?
I should , though I mean no , of course not . What you do is you , you , you know you're . The majority . Of it is going to be on the ads .
It's just , it's all messaging . It's getting people yeah .
Get it campaign staff . You know that whole . Thing .
But with that type of money , though you being that you've done this before you know , that doesn't go a long way .
No , it doesn't .
That's what I'm saying that's why they rely on these measure finance committees , because they realize it's not a ton of money to get your message out , and so um , yeah , but that that's where we are . As I said , I'm grateful we're in second place . We're working really hard .
We'll come back again this week and hopefully you know , as I said , I know we're over a thousand and you know we have a lot of work to do in the next month .
Okay . So , Darren , if people want to go to your website , can they sign up for your financing there or not ?
We'll put a link in the show notes to go directly to the sign up to the signup .
Yes , there's a . There's a link right for my site where you can go right to Darren White and do the $5 . It verifies your address . You pay the five bucks or they can go to Darren
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white from aircom . We have a link on it as well .
Yeah , please do , please do this to , to , to get Darren the numbers he needs to get on the ballot . This is an unbelievably high bar . It really is . And again , the way , the way it goes then .
So , so 700 and some odd thousand dollars will come in from public financing , and then there are packs that'll jump in for all the candidates that will also pour money in . So that's the way the money flows in a mayor's race . So let me ask you like .
I have two Republican opponents and they're very nice people and this is not disparaging them , but the , the , the .
they haven't even reached a hundred Right they haven't even reached a hundred Right , so use your time to support people .
It's going to be impossible for them to get there at this point , Right , and that's not saying they're going to drop out , because they they still have to get the petition signatures . If they get the petition signatures the 3000 , they could possibly get on the ballot . But this really comes down to the public finance .
Yeah , right , right . Cause then if you don't have that public financing , you don't have the money to be able to run any sort of campaign where anybody knows who you are , what you stand for , and that's the bummer part of politics now that if ? You don't have money , you don't have a voice in a lot of cases .
Yeah Right , Um , okay , Ava , I want to go to clip 16 , cause I want to touch on you . Bias for a second . He's the other , um , kind of main name , uh , kind of pulling from Keller , and so I kind of watched and looked at his journal article when he announced . I thought it was interesting . Here's what it looked like .
Here's what the journal article looked like here . I want to read a couple of quotes here . First of all , he had a quote I think he was referring to you and Keller . He said he's got one . He's running against one person who's wrong and one person who basically can't do the job .
And did you read that I think I'm Mr Wrong . Yeah , I agree , You're Mr Wrong , Just so you know . Again , I don't he possibly could be referring but I don't think so .
Whatever , welcome to the party , no question . But I did . I found a couple of his quotes interesting . Here's the first one here , and he says this he said we've really become a disconnected from one another and the pressures of just living have driven us to hate each other , not to see each other as humans . We can change all this . There are proven strategies .
Okay , I read that and kind of went , oh okay , okay maybe . And then he followed , he washed it down with this comment which I really then went oh okay , I think I see what we're dealing with here . He says I think there are politicians who profit off of the idea that we are divided . It's either all this or all that .
It's sweep the streets and incarcerate everyone , or it's no one should be punished and everyone gets handouts . This is not true . They're all lying to us . There are common sense solutions . They're all lying to us . There are common sense solutions . Ok , that is right .
Out of an ignorant rookie political team that that just hands this guy lines which don't connect and first of all , they're over the top , overly simplistic and not true . And then he just kind of says this stuff and I listened to him . I thought I expected more from this guy .
But when I listen to that kind of reflexive political platter I it just kind of makes me think okay , I'm not sure you're a serious candidate , to be honest with you .
Yeah , well , he also responded to KOAT's questionnaire regarding sanctuary cities . Right , and are we immigrant friends ? And it was literally like a prosecutor writing an affidavit for a complaint . It was very I didn't quite understand what he was trying to say . And matter of fact the KOAT said he didn't answer the question ?
Well , of course not , because , remember , he's running on the left side of the aisle where , where , if he , if he takes a law and order stance , he's out , he's in trouble , actually , right . So I just kind of listened to him and went . I kind of thought this guy would be a little more interesting than this , and I was surprised he wasn't .
Yeah , I mean , I just think to me this sounds like I don't even know if he actually wrote that comment . It feels like a disconnect in the fact that there's no talk of actual what's wrong with Albuquerque , which we all know . It's crime , everybody knows it's crime , every single person that lives here feels it , sees it , knows it .
Homelessness is our second major issue . There's zero talk about , I mean , him saying why can't you just say that ? I know . And the fact that he's saying , oh , it's either all everything or all nothing , and I'm like nobody's saying that .
I haven't heard that been said by anybody , not even Keller would say that , and you're surely not saying sweep everybody up and throw everyone in jail . Give me a break .
I have said we have a significant problem when it comes to the homeless .
Yeah .
And we should be in a situation Look , we spent millions of dollars on the Gateway Center , on programs for the homeless . They're there and all I've said is you offer these services , yes . You say , look , you cannot live on our streets , right ? It's illegal , right ? And so we're offering you all of these services .
If you refuse these services , then we will take law enforcement action . If you continue to do all the nasty things you do on our streets Because I love these Democrats they all throw around . They say equity , equity , equity , equity . What is equity ? Equity's the root . What is the equity is fairness . Right , it's fairness .
What about the people that live in that , on that corridor , these families that have to endure this disgusting environment ? You know , I watched there's another one of those . Another influencers came to town and he talked to you know , folks in the war zone , and one lady said living behind this , just some complete compound .
And she said you know , the other day we left and there were homeless people with my kids and there were homeless people having sex in the street . And where are you , tim ? Why aren't you addressing that ?
You know , you had a homeless guy literally saying yeah , it's disgusting because they're going the bathroom out here all the time A homeless person was saying that . And so where is the fairness with those businesses that have to operate ? I got to tell you , mark , real quick .
I went down to First and I-40 again where I did my video , and Keller's cleaning them out every day . But they're moving up to Prospect and First Street and on that corner there is a little lawnmower repair shop . It's been there forever , lovely people that run it .
I walked in and said because what happens is in the morning they move them up to Prospect because there's a church or something that's giving them food and different things . And I mean that stretch between First and Second Street is packed with homeless . So I went in and said how do you do this ? And he goes we don't . And then he went on to tell me .
He said look , he had some lawnmowers out there that he fixes and sells . He said they were tried to steal my lawnmower and I saw them and I ran out there and grabbed it . He goes . I got stabbed three times in the chest . Oh my God . And I looked at him . I said what he's like . Yeah , I said have you told this ? He goes ?
Oh , tim Teller came here for a photo op and I told him I got stabbed . And yet there they are . And while we were talking , we went outside and we watched somebody staring at us . And I mean Mark .
This guy was 50 feet away from the entrance to the door and he was watching us and we watched as he took a syringe out of his sock and started shooting up . How do you again ? Where is the fairness ? This man pays his taxes . He's just trying to . He's trying to provide for his family .
It's got a small little business and he can't even pull it off because , yeah , it was great little photo op . But where are you , tim Keller ? Tell us you love Albuquerque , but you're going to let this man have to endure this . It's not fair and I'll tell you the day I get elected , it will stop .
They will either take the services at the gateway center or they will go to jail . I'm sorry , enough is enough .
Well , I saw you there . I saw a comment you made on Twitter where somebody had said you know what is your game plan ? What laws will you pass ? And I thought you know .
you said listen , I don't need to pass any laws , we'll just , you know , enforce the ones we actually have on the books . Right now , it has been illegal to sleep on the streets , the sidewalks and the parks forever as long as I've been here 38 years , and so it's not . You're right , chrissy , it's not about new laws , it's about enforcing the ones we have .
And really what it comes down to is you know , again , this guy's out there shooting up heroin . They're smoking fentanyl and look , handcuffs need to be on the bad guys , not the police officers trying to do their jobs out there . Let let them do their job and they'll clean it up , but they're told to leave them alone , and that's why we have the problem .
And I have to say we are seeing like tent , like cities starting to formulate over here , on Paseo right . So in the Northeast Heights area we're seeing them spread out more and more . It is not just downtown which it's not .
There is not a community in Albuquerque that's immune . I walk on tramway just about every day and I see the tents in all the drainage ditches , um , and in fact I I've had to stop uh to help uh somebody several times that was wrapped up in a sleeping bag that , look , I couldn't just pass . I'm like God , what am I doing ? I'm shaking the guy .
Dude , are you alive ? You know . And then I didn't feel comfortable because it wasn't a response . And you know , you open up the sleeping bag and there's the fentanyl pipe and it's like come on , seriously , man . But no , kirstie , you're absolutely right .
It's not just a central corridor , it's not first in I-40 , it's not first in I-40 , it's everywhere , and it's because we're not doing anything about it .
Well , and we've created an environment where we have also acted as a magnet in this city , because there is a reputation for Albuquerque as a city where , if you are homeless and you're not from here and most of these homeless people are not from here they end up coming here because they can be left alone to do what they want on the street .
So that's why , when you see someone like you by , I say these things that are so trivial and reflexive and and just so nakedly pathetic to me .
I mean , you just look at , address the real issues here , talk about what's going on , instead of trying to play these stupid little political games where you say , well , this side says this and this side says this , and I'm the guy in the middle who ? No , how about ?
Where you say , well , this side says this and this side says this , and I'm the guy in the middle , no , how about you just offer some solutions ? So I thought it was interesting . You're absolutely right .
Look , if you go in there and disrupt what they're doing , they'll find another city to welcome them and they'll pack up and they'll finally leave . That's right , and we'll clean up our city and they don't want to . If you don't want help .
And the others on the left and unfortunately Luis Sanchez , who voted for the sanctuary , said to keep it in place Look , it's not controversial to say if you're in this country illegally and you commit a crime , we're going to send you back to where you came from . It's probably a 75-25 issue in our country and , look , we've got enough of our own criminals .
We don't need to bring any more in . And when they do , we just send them back . And you hear all this . Oh my God . What about the victims ? I'm not talking about victims here . We're not going to ask victims of domestic violence . Are you ? You know you're illegally .
Look , I can also tell you that many of these crimes that are being committed by illegal immigrants are against families who are their own people . Absolutely no , it's such an excuse and running interference and keller does it all the time well , less people will report crime .
It's absolute garbage and there's no , there's no actual information or data to back that up . All right , we want to get through some things . We got a bunch of issues here . We need to start firing through these right , but I wanted to .
Can I talk about this ? This um apd tweet that I put in here this morning ?
Oh , yeah , yeah , absolutely .
Okay , because I thought Darren could .
Well , I was going to go back up to nine , and then we can go down to it .
Okay , mine are not numbered , so you do whatever you want . Oh , they're not numbered . No , go ahead .
No , how did you not get numbered ? I have a different article and the journal never fails to regularly put together articles , uh , that are basically right out of tim keller's campaign handbook . Uh and uh , matthew ryzen doing this one , no surprise , oh my god , momentous occasion albuquerque , mayor , police chief , c finish line in reform effort .
That's because the , basically the , the federal , the casa is is going to be pulled back . Now I wanted to see if you had any thoughts on that for the feds are finally leaving . after what do we have here 11 years ? Yeah .
Take it with a grain of salt . Matt has literally gone on to Twitter to complain about me citing facts about crime in Albuquerque , almost as if he works for the .
Keller no , you read his stuff , it is without question . He just basically turns out a press release for him .
He has considered himself to be the expert on journalism .
Yeah .
Oh I know it's unreal no-transcript .
When I was on and most of us were on , we had a chief for deputy sheeps and about 10 or 11 captains , and so you're looking at about 16 , 17 people . He said in city council last week that there are over 50 in the executive staff and he blamed the DOJ .
I'm sorry , I don't think the DOJ told you how many people you have to have in in your kingdom , right , and so that is then . They're not going to talk about that and so , um , yeah , I'm , I'm grateful that it's it's gone . It should have been gone years ago , right , um and ago . But what has happened because of it will take years to clean up .
And look , we don't want our officers to be heavy handed , we don't want them to violate people's civil rights , but what this has done is you have police officers who now have this culture of doing nothing because they don't want to get in trouble .
It's not even about getting in trouble , it's the appearance , because even if they are suspected of oh my God , what did you do they are subjected to investigation after investigation , after investigation . And so if you want to know why the officers , you don't see people , police officers stopping people for traffic violations Never , why should I have this encounter .
What if they complain about me ? You know , do I have to hire a lawyer ? And so we've got to change the culture of the police department . Post DOJ .
And one thing , one culture they have changed is boy , the PR department is working overtime .
Well , there's like 10 of them , oh .
I'm sure . Okay , so let's go on to this article . It says Matthew Risen says Keller Medina emphasized that while this may be the end of the consent decree , the reforms will continue . We always have to keep improving . We always have to keep pushing for trust and for safety and for progress .
And I know that APD is a very different department , keller says Does it have zero issues ? Of course not . Will there be use of force that are questionable , that are wrong ? That inevitably will happen . Will there be bad actors in the police department ? That will also happen . We will officially hold folks accountable for violations , big and small .
That is the process in the systems that we have built .
And so my problem with articles like this are , instead of then pivoting back to say crime has been out of control under the Keller administration because of how they've dealt with things and start to give some context to this , it just continually is this , this backup , and let them , let them roll into whatever PR spin they want to take .
What's wrong with saying ninety , nine point five percent of all the officers are out there doing a damn good job every day . They work under unthinkable conditions and they're doing a great job .
Yes , we will have a bad apple , but why not talk about the cops that are out there doing the job every day and , most importantly , with the restrictions that Keller has put ?
on them . But I agree , but at the same time , when you don't give a nod to the fact that you have one of the most violent cities in the world here . You just talk about things getting better and then you send out a tweet like you're about to talk about Send out a tweet like you're about to talk about .
So this tweet was this morning . This is from the APD . Apd has seen a 47% drop in auto thefts this year compared to last . This reduction is due to a combination of hard work , smart strategies , including education , bait , car program , grappler technology , license plate readers . Top 25 auto theft offender .
Now , I think this is interesting because number one , we actually had a car stolen yesterday from our church parking lot , but then , on side of that , I looked this up and said these are some of the comments that came in . That's nice , I hope you can find my car that was stolen today , which is like a family woman with small kids .
Then this other guy says I'm positive the UNM employee that had two trucks stolen in one week would disagree with you . And then , finally , this guy says there's no way people believe this 20th most dangerous city on the planet . I'm sure the officers are doing a great job . It's the leadership that is the problem .
Amen . And so here's the problem that you remember we talked about this they a few years ago we were having so many homicides , they decided to redo the math Right , and so they implemented their new way of counting homicides so that it made them look better . Unfortunately for them , the FBI actually keeps track of the real numbers , so we know what they are .
The problem with that is it's those responses that you see . They know that they did that and they question everything that comes out of the Albuquerque Police Department and Gilbert Gallegos' mouth , gilbert Gallagos his mouth .
And that's why I've said look , one of the things that I will do is I will find a chief , a chief of police who's a very strong leader and inspirational , that not only the public can look up to but the rank and file as well , and I think that's severely missing right now .
And this lack of confidence that the public has you see it in these responses Just be what's wrong with being honest .
No , no , it's because it is so anathema to the experience that every one of us have . You can sit here and have Gilbert Gallego stand up or Medina or Keller stand up and say things are better . Things are better . No , they're not . Everyone feels it . So to be gaslit by an administration like this is absolutely infuriating .
Because it's an election year , usually he doesn't even bother to gaslight you , he just doesn't . Just doesn't address it . Doesn't address it . But now he's like oh , it's an election year , time to gaslight .
I mean , that's the problem with all of this , and my problem with him is just the fact that you have no pushback from media that says wait a minute , this stuff is not translating into people's daily lives .
Right , and Can I ask what's your thoughts on this whole national guard coming in Like what I understand , that they're basically trying to do traffic and things of that nature to help officers go out and do other things . What's your thinking on that ?
Well it's , they've militarized the war zone . I mean , that's what happened , right , we've called it the war zone forever . Now we've militarized it . Look , I think it's in . If you were going , if you're bringing in the national guard , let them be in their uniforms . These are service members .
You know we're going to put them in polos , because that's what we want . We want polo shirts . Um , look , if they can offer assistance in different areas , that's fine . I would . If I were bringing them into town , I wouldn't be so worried about their appearance . And you know we're not going to let them drive in police in military vehicles .
I don't know what they're going to ride around , but just like if we had a national disaster and we were worried about looting . The law is very clear .
The national guard cannot and it's called , you cannot have the military enforcing city ordinances or state ordinances or law enforcement , but you can bring them in , like if there was a natural disaster , and have them patrolling those areas , having them have a radio , a police radio , and say , hey , unit that you're assigned to I see some guys over here and they're
up to no good it looks like they're using fentanyl and have the police come in and respond .
You use them as more eyes and ears in these highly concentrated areas , and and now it's a force multiplier , but now they're going to , oh , they're going to , they're going to block traffic when we have a , when we have a scene , and it's like this is a but this is also a political fight
between the governor and the mayor .
I mean , well , you've heard , you've heard Medina say that , oh , he was blindsided by the announcement . I didn't even have time to prepare for the announcement .
Yeah , because she's furious , because she's taking it to you . This is how politics works , making you look incompetent , by the way .
Oh and by the way we're going to also recruit this guy , Alex Ubatas .
Yeah , exactly , I know we have a bet on the show that I'm like .
She did this all to support you , bias . No , no , that's not the bet .
That is the bet no , the bet no . I agree with you on that . The bet is you said she was going to come out and publicly endorse yeah , I said she's not .
She's not going to publicly endorse .
No way no way .
No , I don't think she'll publicly endorse . But I see , think you'll see people surrounding her where there's no surrounding . You bought us , there'll be no question .
Yeah , exactly Exactly . Don't try to turn this you just tried to turn it .
No , I think she'll publicly endorse the guy . I'm sorry . I know that , but you just tried to turn it it may be after the primary , but I think that she'll absolutely wrap her arms around this guy she's not going to endorse .
Okay , all right , let's get to , uh , let's get some national stuff the weatherman . So . So trump , uh , the trump numbers . We want to go into some of these trump numbers . Latest rasmussen numbers right track , wrong track numbers are actually the best they have been over a prolonged period in years 49 right track , 46 wrong track .
Okay , and then , as you've looked at a series of events here , trump actually has had a pretty good past week here , and so we want to listen to Scott Jennings talking about what he's doing right now , and then we'll start to get through a few of these points .
The EO with Pharma Eden Alexander UK on ag UK deal . Last week Zelensky and Putin meeting the president in deal-making mode headed to the Middle East this week . They have momentum here for a lot of things . Some of it's trade-related , Some of it's just more peace in the world related and some of it is just momentum of strong leadership related .
So I think they're on a little bit of a roll and the China piece is obviously huge for the markets but there's more going on , I think , with the administration than just them .
OK , and just one other quick thing To pair with that . The latest inflation numbers are out , and regrettably well , Wolf Blitzer just has to admit that we are not seeing the kind of inflation numbers that we've seen before . They're going down .
US inflation is showing a slowing , I should say , to its lowest rate in more than four years . That according to April's Consumer Price Index report . It's an unexpected and very welcome development that's defying economists' expectations amid President Trump's ongoing trade war .
Let's go live right now to CNN Business and Politics correspondent , vanessa Yurkovich , who's watching all of this in New York . Vanessa , walk us through this morning's report . Where do things stand ?
Encouraging signs Wolf Inflation continuing to move in the right direction , cooling on an annual basis to 2.3 percent .
Okay , see Wolf's face , it's just yeah go ahead .
What do we got ?
I was told I was told that all the tariffs would lead to an absolute , you know spike in inflation , and that hasn't happened . So , interesting started to see some movement here and and I , I , I , you know , look , this , this round of the trump administration is more chaotic than the first right .
So you have some stuff where you go have liberation day , you announce all these tariffs . It turns out to be a problem for the market temporarily , and then it ends up backing you know . He ends up , you know , kind of starting to negotiate these things out . This is political theater that matters for your race too . Actually it really does , sure .
So what are your thoughts on where we are right now ? First , let me just say to my boy , scott Jennings .
You know that Scott and I worked together on the Bush campaign 20 years ago and I'm really glad to see how well he's doing . He has a book coming out here pretty quickly , and so tip of the hat to Scott .
Jennings Tremendous .
Look then , conversely , look at the Democrats' numbers it's just historic lows . They're rudderless . They don't know what issues to attack and not to attack . Look , trump has got good numbers because when you do the things that you said you were going to do , people are going to go oh , okay , that's that . Look , that's the .
The Democrats decided to take these 80 , 20 issues and run on them , and it worked on the 20 , on the 20, . They ran on the 20 and they went .
An interesting tactic and at the end they were like yeah that just didn't work out really well , but yet the problem is , they're still doing it right and they still just can't .
They hate trump so much . And look , I've been critical of trump , yes , I have been . There's things that he does sometimes that make me crazy and you go , but I also get part of the crazy , like we were talking about . Like I'm going to turn Alcatraz into a prison , yeah Right , and it's like you're like what ?
You're going to do what ? Canada is going to be the 51st state . I like Greenland and we're taking over Greenland .
And I would like to be the Pope .
He trolls a lot and it makes the Democrat , especially the libs on TV , makes their heads pop , yeah . But here let me say this People are saying why is he doing so many things in such a short period ? He only has four years . He has two years . Really . It's a very good point . Yeah , two years . Yeah , he knows that there is a shelf life to this .
Yeah , and he has to get as much done as possible and make the libs nuts , as Jennings would say . And but yeah , I think you're seeing people going . Look , they're so used to people doing nothing that they're they're going .
Well , I don't agree with all this stuff , but the guy's doing some right and we're going to get into the Biden stuff because that's going to be huge . We're going to do that in just a second here , but there's some more on this one . So a couple other little things that especially Kevin O'Leary . We've got some clips from him .
Well , he's talking specifically this one time . This is all this China trade deal , because I think you know . Obviously this is the benchmark for these tariffs , right ? Is what's going to happen with China ? So stick a listen to him . He was on CNN . He's talking about what's the latest with the Chinese tariffs .
First , mr Kevin O'Leary , because I remember when you said , hey , let's put these tariffs up to 400 percent . China needs to be punished here .
Do you feel disappointed by seeing these lower the way they were ? Because Donald Trump did ?
pull back .
Not at all . I wanted an embargo . I wanted to shut China trade down until they came to the table . They are at the table in Geneva . Could have been Riyadh , it was Geneva , that's fine . But it's not just tariffs , because I'll tell you where I think we're going .
I'm looking at this saying all right , it's a 10 and 10 reciprocal right now , with a 20 percent bump on the whole fentanyl thing . That could come off any time when the Chinese stop shipping fentanyl here , and they know that and they're working on that . But it's not just the tariffs . Where are we on WTO grievances ? Remember they joined in 2000 .
They've been abusing that rule forever . I'm an investor , I love China , I want to do business there , but I want a level playing field .
That means I need IP protection , access to their courts to settle grievances , and I want to shut them down here , raising capital if they won't bide by gap rules on the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange and , from what I understand out of Geneva , this is all rumors and innuendos . All of those are on the table .
So Besset's doing a hell of a good job here . I give him 100 out of 100 , but we're not finished yet . And , by the way , if you want the index of the market . We have recovered everything since April 3rd and then some . So listen , keep going . But China is a special situation .
When we get that deal done , it'll become the hallmark for all the other countries , and I think where we're going is a 10 and 10 reciprocal on everybody . Call it a VAT tax . That's really what's going on here , consumption tax in America . But you can't sell that to Congress , so you'd call it a tariff ?
Okay , interesting stuff . I think that the number one , the market recovering it's absolutely recovered . Anybody who goes and looks at their 401k can see that the pearl clutching over a few weeks of a down market , that is gone . Interesting stuff , because there is a lot of stuff here . It's not just tariff , it is IP protection .
That's the kind of thing that China has been ripping us off for for decades and continues to continue to . I mean , go to Amazon . Go to Amazon and go find a pair of Apple headphones that are not really Apple headphones . They just come in and rip them off . I mean it's absolutely unbelievable .
So just one other thing from Kevin O'Leary on this thing , and I thought it was interesting . He talked about the jet and we won't get back into the jet , but I do want to get into what is this Middle East trip really about ? He's out there right now and this is something interesting that I had not heard or had not thought of .
So just listen to this Trump he wants to round it up to a trillion dollars worth of deals and investments in the United States . Where do you think that money's going ? Most of it's AI . This trip is about two things China and AI . What people don't realize ? That region is one of the fastest growing on Earth .
I'm talking about the circle of friendship here Saudi Arabia , qatar , united Arab Emirates . Who's number three in AI development right now ? Us . China's number two , number three UAE . So that's why all those AI guys are there . They are so advanced .
I just got back there two days ago from there , from Abu Dhabi and Dubai , I saw for the first time ever a real estate development completely AI-driven . We have nothing like it here . You talk about a smart home . They're way past that the medical AI technology they have over there .
I got a procedure there we don't offer here FDA doesn't allow it called IBU , where my blood was filtered and then oxygenated , then ozonated and then injected with 50 billion exosomes . I walked out of there like a teenager . I feel like a million bucks right now . I said can I do this again next week ? They said no , you've got to wait four more months .
They are so advanced . By getting this whole thing worked out with these countries . We need to align with them because they want to be in the circle of friendship on all of these metrics , whether it's going to be AI , whether it's going to be real estate , whether it's going to be development , and we don't want China doing that .
We want the US forming that relationship .
OK , I was absolutely right . No , it's something you don't think about . It is all . Ai , yeah , and energy too , but remember you talk AI . You better be prepared to talk about energy , because you need massive amounts of energy to move forward with AI . So the whole thought process that the Middle East and oil and gas is not going to be part of our future .
Everything is part of the future . Everything is part of the future , and one of the things I don't think our politicians have wrapped their minds around is the not only the development of the AI , but the amount of harvesting of energy that we're have to be involved in is off the charts , and I don't think we are .
We're going to be behind on that if we don't accept it soon and start to really change the way we operate .
You know I have this little part-time thing that I do with the movie business . You know , keith Giardina , myself and we made a movie last year and be able to report on that pretty quickly . It was called Killer Cafe and so news coming up but the AI part of it , what we're learning about movie making .
Look , people aren't able to make movies for $200 million anymore . It doesn't work under the streaming platforms Right . It doesn't work , it doesn't add up , and so what they're doing is they're changing the way to it's all AI . Yeah , everything is going to be AI , even in the movie . So he's , he's absolutely right , yeah .
No , you guys are missing the whole part of that whole piece , which was a vampire . Yeah , I want to do the . I want to do the blood transmission thing . I mean I'm sorry I want to feel like I'm a teenager again . Can I go do that ?
I know we did learn that Kevin O'Leary is basically a vampire . All right , let's get into . You made the comment that Trump is such a shock to the system again because of how slow the system was moving before him for four years . The big story coming up , we'll wrap with this .
This issue is the book coming out from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson , called original sin , and this is unbelievable . It's president Biden's decline . It's cover up in his disastrous choice to run again . Ok , so a couple of quick things .
First of all , I want to just take you back down memory lane on what that debate looked like and one of the inane fights that Trump and Biden had during the last debate .
I got my handicap , which , when I was vice president , down to a six and , by the way , I told you before I'm happy to play golf if you carry your own bag . Think you can do it that's the biggest lie .
He's a six handicap of all .
I was an eight handicap eight . I've seen you swing , I know you swing .
Let's not act like children , president Trump we're you swing .
Let's not act like children . President Trump , we're going to turn . Let's not act like children . Okay , okay , all right , all right .
So that's what that is let's get back on track . The moderator's like what are we doing ?
Oh my God , what's happening here ?
Golf candy can .
Okay , but the damage done during this whole process to the media and to the democratic party has been profound , and I think that will that will come to the surface even more over the next week , because this , this book , is going to swallow up the oxygen .
Well they're , they're . They're giving excerpts of the book already . And listen , jake Tapper was part of that . I was going to say it's rich coming from him . Okay . Okay .
You guys make a good point , so let's do this . Let's go to Tapper's publisher . Okay , he , they . So let's do this . Let's go to Tapper's publisher . Ok , he , they . Want you to know that Tapper's been on this . He's been on this from the beginning . So clip 29 new video out from Jake Tapper's publisher . Twenty nine .
Well , you pledge that if you're elected , you will be transparent about your health yeah , assets of your health with urgency , so that we know . One poll shows that almost two-thirds of Democratic voters want a new nominee in 2024 . And the top reason they gave was your age . You know that's not a good number for President Biden .
Two-thirds of the American people say he's not sharp enough to be president . I mean , how can you use the bully pulpit when you don't have a bully you can put in the pulpit ? Ok , so you're part of the 23% of adults who
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not , who are not concerned about the president's ability to be president because of his age and stamina . I mean , I know incumbents in general are not popular right now , but do you ever think maybe we should have a new candidate ? There's a little bit of denialism with the president .
This is a particularly bad week for this report and its comments about President Biden's faculties and his memory to come out , because twice this week , he has acted as if he , in 2021 , spoke to European leaders who have been dead for years . Part of the job of president is having the confidence of the American people in your faculties .
The White House's response every single time it has come up for three and a half years has been to deflect , to gaslight , to not tell the truth , not just to reporters , not just to other Democrats , but even , at times , to themselves .
Okay , so that's Alex Thompson too . Now , by the way , I want to distinguish between the two . Alex Thompson was better on this issue than Jake Tapper . Now , the problem for Jake Tapper's publisher is there is such thing as other video , and we managed to track down a little bit . But if you're having to put out the video , you know there's already a problem .
Oh , you got a problem oh you got a problem . You ready for this ? Here's , here's Tapper , being less than critical inquisitive toward the president's ability to do his job .
Makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that .
It's very clearly a cognitive decline . That's what I'm referring to . It makes me uncomfortable ?
You are . No , this is so amazing . It's so amazing to me that that try and figure out an answer , a cognitive decline . President Biden embraces his stutter talking about it , while Trump mocks it , exaggerates it , belittles it . He's sharp physically , I mean mentally .
Yeah , I think the question is physically Right Right , or so Right Right , and the guy who is his chief opponent is only three or four years younger than me I mean you have questioned President Biden's age , mental fitness , ability to lead . Of those supporting Biden you said , quote shame on all of you pretending everything is OK .
You're leading us and him into a disaster . Do you worry that you damaged him at all ? I don't doubt that , that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today , and maybe even publicly some of them , because they like you personally . But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues . I mean just like what is he thinking ?
Exercise and narcissism . I mean false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity . He's 81 and his memory . You know it doesn't seem great , it's not horrible , but I don't understand the outrage . Quote behind closed doors , biden's shows signs of slipping . Unquote .
The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp , which is run by the Murdochs . Beyond the headline there is some critical nuance here . The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans , with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record . They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from Republicans .
Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming a little slower ? No , anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeing seeming a little slower . No , the Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust our election integrity . Joe Biden has dimension , all this stuff .
OK , so my question for you two is does the effectiveness of this book or the impact ?
of this book is it blunted by the fact that Jake Tapperapper ran cover for joe biden for the better part of four years . It's good , I'm just gonna say the book's gonna sell .
So I think that this I mean we know jake tapper because we have followed this whole thing religiously on our show for two years , like like hawks I think the average american is gonna be like if they're interested in this topic , they're gonna buy his book . Jake tapper's gonna get rich off of it .
I'm going to buy the book because I can't wait to read this , but I think I didn't trust Jake Tupper two years ago and I think it speaks loads to his credibility now .
I think I've ordered it because I'm a political junkie , yeah , and you know , I thought it was fascinating that one of the things that was leaked I always wondered why clooney ? Why was it clooney that stepped up and was so adamant behind the scenes ? We were getting on the reports .
Well , now , coming from the book , one of the one of the excerpts that's been released is that when he went here .
it is to that he didn't recognize biden , didn't recognize clooney .
It's a headline on the new york post didn't recognize him , yeah , and so he lost it and and recognized as well . Oh , this is over .
I mean you can't you know , yeah , no , if you're . If you're george clooney , you're like wait a minute , you should recognize me , even if you and I have never met that they had .
I mean , but you're going , you're telling me that he wasn't told he was going to george clooney's event I know it's really it is .
So , as you look at this , it's nothing to make .
First of all , it's nothing to make fun of no , not at all .
I don't think anybody's made fun of it . No , no , no , no lie to us Right .
This is a man that is president of the United States and wants to be for four more years , and people are having about his mental capability of being our commander in chief , but yet all of behind the scenes are like , look we , we just can't keep propping them up . There's conversations now that he was going to be in a wheelchair . Oh , absolutely .
I don't know if any of it's true , but I think what's important to understand is the lengths that they will go to hide just so they can win , no doubt .
And just one more quick thing which I'll interrupt . I'll interrupt here in a second and then let you finish , chrissy . Just the beginning of this clip 27, . Ava , talking about covering up . And it wasn't just Tapper , and it wasn't just big wigs in the Democratic Party , one of our favorites and we'll start it off with Big Joe Scarborough here .
But we'll just get a couple of quick little things here of a part of that cover up tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth .
There we go and f you if you can't handle the truth , yeah he's sharp , he's focused , he's bright I don't have any concerns and and that's from personal interactions this version of biden is the best b ever , not a close second . Alert Sound .
I mean , the Republicans are like good at distractions .
I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline and if the Democrats were honest , they'd admit President Biden's mental capacity is declining .
Six in ten Americans don't have confidence in Joe Biden's mental capacity .
Then you have the liberal media told bad things about me and members of the Oversight Committee , because we have the audacity to investigate , giving us their drive-by diagnoses of the President of the United States .
Congressman , what you are suggesting is that I omit portions of my reasoning and explanation to the Attorney General for political reasons .
Democrats getting to a frenzy , but the people remember , had he won the constitutional crisis , this would have put our country in , because there would have been look , they weren't going to admit it . No , I mean he , he literally could have been completely incapacitated .
We would have had people other than the president , which may have been happening absolutely but I'm saying , if it just declined more and more , they were putting us , at some point they would have come out and say well , you know , he , he , he fell and broke his hip or something where to say we need to remove him . And so that's what I'm saying .
It's disgusting that this happened . I'm interested in the book only to try to find out some of the behind the scenes , but it's sad . It's sad what happened . It's sad . It's sad what happened .
I think the problem I have with all of this is that they're trying right now to spit it , that a lot of the media did not know , right and so that now all this new information is coming out , right , quote , new information . And now they're like , oh and now this is all being revealed and thank goodness Jake Tapper's telling us all the truth about this .
I'm sorry , but that any media , especially new type of media , podcasts especially that I mean we knew about this , and so I just think it's hurting their credibility . They're losing ratings now and they're swimming in it and trying to figure it out and trying to spin this thing to say , oh , and this is again I go back this is not a small thing .
This is not anything . Oh , they're just a poor guy . No no no , this is something that could have been look , world leaders looking and going look .
No , no , no , the Chinese said this week . They said they didn't have to worry about any pushback from Biden because they didn't feel like he was in the position to stand up and fight for the United States . So they just did whatever they wanted .
They had agreements with the United States that they didn't even honor , because they were like what's he going to do about it ? We will by the , because they were like what's he going to do about it ? By the grace of God , something worse did not happen . There's no question about that .
But going back to what I was saying before , then they probably would have had to create something right To say he can no longer serve . I don't know , I don't know .
I mean , who knows how much longer they would have gone on with whoever running the country , and my guess is we had at least two years . Probably . The whole term of the reality is he had , at best , a very loose grip on the wheel and at worst , had no grip on the wheel at all . Yeah , so scary .
Well , we'll read the book and we'll let you guys know what we think as well . But , Darren , again your website . Tell us one more time .
Darren White for Mayor .
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