Bret Baier asked my question!!! (10-17-2024--Hour3)

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[00:01:37] So, Brett Baer from Fox News. I don't want to say he listens to the show. I have no evidence to support that except he became the first person I am aware of to ask the question that I have been wondering if somebody is going to ask the most important question.

[00:01:56] The most important question, I think, of the last decade, if not my entire life of a, well, in a political sense.

[00:02:08] But in my lifetime, the question, when did you know the president was in cognitive decline?

[00:02:17] That is the question. That is the most important question.

[00:02:21] I have been hoping and praying that somebody would ask this question.

[00:02:26] And finally, somebody asked Kamala Harris.

[00:02:30] Spoiler alert, she did not answer it.

[00:02:32] Call Donald Trump. He's misguided.

[00:02:36] You say now he's unstable.

[00:02:38] He is unstable, but...

[00:02:39] He's not well. You say he's mentally not stable.

[00:02:42] He's not stable.

[00:02:43] Let me ask you this.

[00:02:44] You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff.

[00:02:50] When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?

[00:02:57] Joe Biden, I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room.

[00:03:03] And he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.

[00:03:14] There were no concerns.

[00:03:16] What the hell was that?

[00:03:18] First off, note the pause.

[00:03:22] Two full seconds.

[00:03:25] And that's a lifetime.

[00:03:26] In an interview setting like that.

[00:03:28] And the look on her face is just this, like, deer in headlights, crosses, blank stare.

[00:03:36] Just like a chip isn't reading correctly.

[00:03:40] Like buffering, buffering or something.

[00:03:44] And then the answer that Biden has the judgment and the experimental drugs.

[00:03:49] I mean, the experience.

[00:03:51] I'm just kidding.

[00:03:52] She didn't say experimental drugs.

[00:03:53] She almost said experiment.

[00:03:54] And so I assume that she meant experimental drugs.

[00:03:57] But that's I don't know that to be true.

[00:04:00] She could have just meant experience and just misspoke.

[00:04:04] But I love this line that he that Joe Biden has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done.

[00:04:16] Yeah, no poop, Sherlock.

[00:04:18] What would that?

[00:04:21] Like, that's obvious.

[00:04:24] Thank you, master of the obvious, a.k.a.

[00:04:27] Moo.

[00:04:28] Or I guess it would be Moto.

[00:04:30] Like, we can all see what he did.

[00:04:32] We can all see him perform.

[00:04:36] He has the experience to do what he did.

[00:04:39] That's not the question.

[00:04:40] Once again, you're not answering the question.

[00:04:43] Let's re-rack it.

[00:04:45] He's not stable.

[00:04:47] Let me ask you this.

[00:04:47] You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff.

[00:04:53] When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?

[00:05:00] Joe Biden, I have watched in from the Oval Office to the Situation Room.

[00:05:06] And he has the judgment and the experiment and experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.

[00:05:17] There were no concerns raised?

[00:05:19] Joe Biden is not on the ballot.

[00:05:20] I understand.

[00:05:21] And Donald Trump, Donald Trump is.

[00:05:23] But you talked about it.

[00:05:24] That's not the point.

[00:05:26] That's not the point.

[00:05:27] And you can see now she's getting angry.

[00:05:30] Once again, this is the woman that 92% of her staff quits on.

[00:05:37] That's who you're looking at right here.

[00:05:39] That's who you're hearing.

[00:05:41] Where she corrects him.

[00:05:43] Brett, Brett, Joe Biden's not on the ballot.

[00:05:46] It doesn't matter if Joe Biden's on the ballot.

[00:05:48] We're not asking you about Joe Biden and whether he can be president.

[00:05:51] We're asking you when you knew he couldn't.

[00:05:55] When did you know?

[00:05:57] See?

[00:05:57] When did you think he was cognitively impaired?

[00:06:03] And she is angry because she has she has no prep for this, which that goes also, you know, it goes to the criticism of her by former staffers that it was reported over a year ago.

[00:06:15] I want to or yeah, with any within the last year that her staffers grew very, very frustrated with her over the fact that she refused to do the prep work.

[00:06:28] And so then she would put get put into these positions.

[00:06:32] Where she ends up talking about Venn diagrams and the size of space because she doesn't have anything prepped.

[00:06:39] She shows up at a location and just starts rambling incoherently.

[00:06:46] She sounds like the drunk chick trying to get back into the bar after being cut out.

[00:06:51] Right.

[00:06:51] I mean, like that's or kicked out like that's the.

[00:06:55] I'm not saying she's drunk.

[00:06:57] I'm just saying she's acting like she's drunk.

[00:06:59] That's all.

[00:07:00] Donald Trump is.

[00:07:01] After George Clooney said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage.

[00:07:10] Donald Trump is on the ballot.

[00:07:11] I understand you met with him at least once a week for three and a half years.

[00:07:15] You didn't have any concerns.

[00:07:18] I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump, which is why the people who know him best, including leaders of our national security community, have all spoken out.

[00:07:30] OK, so let me get this straight.

[00:07:32] You want me to believe all these people that say Donald Trump is unfit and unstable.

[00:07:42] You want me to trust all these people that knew Donald Trump the best, that worked with Donald Trump all the time, that was close to Donald Trump.

[00:07:49] And now they are like he can't do the job.

[00:07:52] You want me to trust them.

[00:07:56] Should I trust you?

[00:07:58] When you tell me about Joe Biden.

[00:08:02] That's the question.

[00:08:04] It doesn't have anything to do with Donald Trump because people are going to weigh whether or not they they believe Trump is stable or not.

[00:08:11] That's a separate question.

[00:08:14] The question for you is what's your judgment?

[00:08:18] Because you were saying that Joe Biden is fit for office, that Joe Biden.

[00:08:24] Joe Biden is not cognitively impaired, that Robert Herr, the special counsel, when he put out the statement as to why he wasn't going to bring charges against Joe Biden for mishandling all of the classified documents for decades.

[00:08:40] That.

[00:08:41] That.

[00:08:42] No prosecutor would be able to win the case because he would present himself as a doddering old man with a failing memory.

[00:08:48] And you got very angry.

[00:08:51] You said that's inappropriate.

[00:08:53] You said it's unprofessional.

[00:08:55] He shouldn't have said that.

[00:08:57] It's not true.

[00:08:58] I'm with Joe Biden all the time.

[00:08:59] He's not like that.

[00:09:01] Hers lying, basically.

[00:09:03] Well, does that speak to your judgment?

[00:09:07] If you think that Joe Biden is fit, how do I know your judgment?

[00:09:17] Is sound.

[00:09:19] When you are considering the advice from these people that.

[00:09:24] Are telling you Donald Trump isn't fit.

[00:09:29] It speaks to your judgment as much as she wants to make this about Donald Trump.

[00:09:34] This is about her.

[00:09:35] And she is highly uncomfortable with this line of questioning.

[00:09:39] You can tell.

[00:09:40] Highly uncomfortable.

[00:09:40] People who worked for him in the Oval Office, worked with him in the Situation Room and have said he is unfit and dangerous and should never be president of the United States again, including his former vice president, which is why the job was open.

[00:09:58] OK, so she keeps trying to turn it back to this that, you know, to this focus on Trump, not on anything I've said or anything I have done.

[00:10:07] This came at the very end of the interview.

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[00:12:09] I got a message here from Larry who says, breaking news, Pete.

[00:12:16] Kamala is from a middle class family.

[00:12:19] I did not know that.

[00:12:21] No, she's from a working class family now.

[00:12:24] She was from a middle class family.

[00:12:26] That has now shifted to working class.

[00:12:29] Okay.

[00:12:30] It's different.

[00:12:32] All right.

[00:12:33] So one of the questions asked where it started to get a little bit rowdy was regarding turning the page.

[00:12:44] Like, turn the page.

[00:12:46] Like Tim Maul's wife did.

[00:12:48] Turn the page.

[00:12:49] And it looks a lot like Bob Biden.

[00:12:51] Right.

[00:12:51] Okay.

[00:12:52] So it was kind of like that.

[00:12:54] And the question was essentially, look, we know you're not Joe Biden and we know you're not Donald Trump.

[00:13:01] But what does this whole turning the page thing mean?

[00:13:05] Your campaign slogan is a new way forward and it's time to turn the page.

[00:13:10] You've been vice president for three and a half years.

[00:13:12] So what are you turning the page from?

[00:13:16] Well, first of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we've been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country and have Americans.

[00:13:32] She's also from a working class family.

[00:13:35] I would.

[00:13:35] And John Kerry served in Vietnam.

[00:13:37] Literally point fingers at each other.

[00:13:41] Rhetoric and an approach to leadership that suggests that the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we all know.

[00:13:48] The strength of leadership is based on who you lift up.

[00:13:51] The strength of an American president.

[00:13:52] See, Brett Baer knows just like I did.

[00:13:56] He knows what she says on the campaign trail.

[00:13:59] That's her stump speech.

[00:14:01] And as soon as she starts going into the stump speech, he starts interrupting her because he's not going to put up with that crap.

[00:14:08] Like all of the other friendly hosts and interviewers have with her so far in her entire career.

[00:14:18] Which is one who understands that the vast majority of us have more in common than what separates us.

[00:14:25] That is turning the page.

[00:14:27] 70% of people.

[00:14:28] That is about turning the page on rhetoric that people are frankly exhausted of Brett.

[00:14:33] More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track.

[00:14:36] They say the country is on the wrong track.

[00:14:38] If it's on the wrong track, that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president.

[00:14:47] That is what they're saying.

[00:14:49] 79% of them.

[00:14:50] Why are they saying that?

[00:14:51] If you're turning the page, you've been in office for three and a half years.

[00:14:56] And Donald Trump has been running for office.

[00:14:59] But you've been the person holding the office.

[00:15:01] Come on.

[00:15:02] You and I both know what I'm talking about.

[00:15:04] You and I both know what I'm talking about.

[00:15:06] I actually don't.

[00:15:06] What are you talking about?

[00:15:07] Oh my gosh.

[00:15:09] I actually don't know what you're talking about.

[00:15:12] You're talking about something else.

[00:15:14] She's trying to make it about Donald Trump's existence in the political world.

[00:15:20] That's when she talks about turning the page on the last decade.

[00:15:23] She's talking about the last seven years since or eight years since we've been subjected to Donald Trump in our politics.

[00:15:28] Not the three and a half years she's been vice president.

[00:15:31] I'm talking about is that over the last decade.

[00:15:35] People have become.

[00:15:36] But listen, over the last decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans who are on stage with me.

[00:15:44] The former chief of staff to the president, Donald Trump, former defense secretaries, national security advisor and his vice president.

[00:15:54] One, that he is unfit to serve, that he is unstable, that he is dangerous and that people are exhausted with someone who professes to be a leader who spends full time demeaning and engaging in personal grievances.

[00:16:11] And it being about him instead of the American people.

[00:16:14] People are tired of that.

[00:16:16] If that's the case, why is half the country supporting him?

[00:16:18] Why is he beating you in a lot of swing states?

[00:16:21] Why, if he's as bad as you say, that half of this country is now supporting this person who could be the 47th president of the United States?

[00:16:30] Why is that happening?

[00:16:31] This is an election for president of the United States.

[00:16:34] It's not supposed to be easy.

[00:16:36] I know, but it's not supposed to be.

[00:16:38] It is not supposed to be a cakewalk for anyone.

[00:16:42] So are they misguided, the 50 percent?

[00:16:43] Are they stupid?

[00:16:44] Oh, God, I would never say that about the American people.

[00:16:47] And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people.

[00:16:57] He's the one who talks about an enemy within, an enemy within, talking about the American people, suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.

[00:17:11] Soylent Green is people, Brett.

[00:17:14] No.

[00:17:15] What is she talking about there?

[00:17:17] She's talking about the use of the military to put down riots, the insurrections that we saw in cities all around the country, right?

[00:17:24] That kind of stuff.

[00:17:27] But I thought this was interesting where she said, well, then why?

[00:17:30] Why are you losing?

[00:17:32] It's a debate.

[00:17:33] It was a debate.

[00:17:34] I'm sorry.

[00:17:35] It's an election is what she's saying.

[00:17:37] It's not supposed to be easy.

[00:17:40] That doesn't actually answer the question either.

[00:17:42] I don't think she answered a single question so far.

[00:17:46] But when he said, so what's up with the American people?

[00:17:49] Like, why are half of them voting for this guy that you've accused of all these things?

[00:17:54] He's so terrible.

[00:17:55] Then why are you losing to him?

[00:17:57] How does that happen?

[00:17:58] Are the American people stupid?

[00:18:00] And she says, I would never say that about the American people.

[00:18:03] And that's funny because you did, actually.

[00:18:07] So are they misguided, the 50%?

[00:18:10] Are they stupid?

[00:18:11] What is it?

[00:18:12] Oh, God, I would never say that about the American people.

[00:18:14] What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24?

[00:18:17] They are stupid.

[00:18:20] Yeah, I remember that line.

[00:18:23] Oh, Pete, she's just joking.

[00:18:25] Well, she said she would never say that about the American people.

[00:18:28] But she said that about some American people.

[00:18:31] So awkward.

[00:18:34] So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.

[00:18:37] And before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:18:42] 40 years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:18:48] Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:18:53] It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:18:56] They've got huge hearts.

[00:18:58] I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:19:00] This cause means a lot to me.

[00:19:02] I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's.

[00:19:05] And I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:19:08] It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:19:09] You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:19:11] It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:19:15] Sign up at alz.org slash walk and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:19:20] And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:19:23] Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th.

[00:19:26] So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:19:30] I would really appreciate it.

[00:19:31] There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:19:39] We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.

[00:19:43] And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:19:46] Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:19:52] This is why I walk.

[00:19:54] Let us go to the phone lines and talk with Sean.

[00:19:57] Hello, Sean.

[00:19:59] Come on, man.

[00:20:00] You have a problem with the way she answered the question?

[00:20:02] Yes.

[00:20:03] No, no, no.

[00:20:04] I have a problem with what she said.

[00:20:05] And then the increasing tone and pitch of her voice indicates that she is lying.

[00:20:16] How are you coming to conclusions from that?

[00:20:18] Just because of her tone raised up?

[00:20:20] Maybe, you know, everybody gets a little upset.

[00:20:22] Oh, because that's your analogy.

[00:20:24] But maybe that's your analogy and that's most of your...

[00:20:26] No, it's an opinion.

[00:20:27] No, it's my opinion.

[00:20:28] It's not an analogy.

[00:20:29] It's an opinion.

[00:20:30] So sometimes you like to say analogies.

[00:20:32] So that's your opinion.

[00:20:33] No, well, I say analogies when I'm talking about analogies.

[00:20:36] I say opinion when I'm talking about opinions.

[00:20:38] Well, that's your opinion.

[00:20:39] I think she did a great job.

[00:20:41] She did what she's supposed to do.

[00:20:43] Which was what?

[00:20:44] To go over far.

[00:20:45] She answered the question.

[00:20:46] No, she didn't.

[00:20:47] One question I keep on...

[00:20:49] Don't understand.

[00:20:51] He's the president of the United States.

[00:20:53] That's like a president of anything.

[00:20:56] You think a vice president will come out and say,

[00:20:58] Oh, yeah.

[00:20:58] The president, he's incompetent.

[00:21:00] You got to follow the line, dude.

[00:21:02] Come on.

[00:21:02] Everybody knows that.

[00:21:03] Anybody that works for a president,

[00:21:06] that's just like...

[00:21:06] That's just like the Charlotte...

[00:21:08] I mean, the...

[00:21:08] Telling the Panthers.

[00:21:10] He's making a bad decision.

[00:21:11] You think that the vice president

[00:21:12] or the ace guy will come out and say,

[00:21:14] Yeah, he's making a bad call.

[00:21:16] We need to do something else.

[00:21:17] Y'all need to get out for that.

[00:21:18] And my last point is this.

[00:21:20] If Donald Trump was so great,

[00:21:22] he's been the president

[00:21:24] and she's still tied with him.

[00:21:26] So just because your side

[00:21:28] or whoever we listen to,

[00:21:29] 90% of your listeners don't agree with her,

[00:21:32] she's still tied.

[00:21:34] So I don't care what y'all say,

[00:21:36] it's an even game.

[00:21:37] So what he needs to worry about

[00:21:39] is the independence.

[00:21:40] That's exactly what he needs to worry about.

[00:21:41] But Keith, like always, man,

[00:21:43] it's always nice to talk to you.

[00:21:44] Do you have any questions you want to ask me?

[00:21:47] Yeah, why did you call me Keith?

[00:21:50] Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:21:51] I mean, I called,

[00:21:52] I mean, I talked all day to y'all.

[00:21:53] I apologize for you if I called you that.

[00:21:56] That was my mistake.

[00:21:57] But anything you want to ask me before I go?

[00:22:00] Because I know you got a lot of listeners.

[00:22:02] And why would they care what you have to say?

[00:22:05] Oh, I'm sure.

[00:22:06] I'm sure they all do.

[00:22:08] Really?

[00:22:09] I'm sure they all.

[00:22:10] I'm sure all your listeners care for what I have to say.

[00:22:13] Really?

[00:22:14] I'm sure.

[00:22:15] Somebody has a very high opinion of himself

[00:22:16] and his analogies.

[00:22:19] And let me make another question.

[00:22:21] Yeah.

[00:22:21] About that interview he did on Spanish,

[00:22:24] on the Spanish.

[00:22:26] And one of the Spanish asked him a question

[00:22:29] about what's going on.

[00:22:30] Why did he make that comment

[00:22:31] about the Haitian people eating dogs and cats?

[00:22:34] And you know what his answer was?

[00:22:36] Oh, I just report.

[00:22:38] I don't know.

[00:22:39] Whatever somebody tell me, I report.

[00:22:41] So now he's a reporter.

[00:22:42] Now he's going to call himself a reporter.

[00:22:44] Go back and listen to that too, Keith.

[00:22:46] So don't just go both sides.

[00:22:47] Yeah, you just did it again.

[00:22:49] Again.

[00:22:49] It's not my name.

[00:22:53] Amen.

[00:22:54] Amen.

[00:22:54] I mean, I'm like, I'm about like,

[00:22:56] I'm about like Biden.

[00:22:57] You know what I'm saying?

[00:22:58] You know what I'm saying?

[00:22:58] I forget a little bit here and there.

[00:23:00] But hey.

[00:23:01] Wait, wait, wait.

[00:23:01] What do you mean you're about like Biden?

[00:23:03] What would that mean?

[00:23:04] That you think Biden is forgetful about stuff?

[00:23:07] Everybody forget a little bit

[00:23:08] when you get up there in age, man.

[00:23:10] The dude is 80 years old.

[00:23:11] Okay.

[00:23:11] So do you think he's cognitively impaired?

[00:23:16] I don't know what that's a lot.

[00:23:18] That's a lot.

[00:23:19] He may forget.

[00:23:20] I don't know.

[00:23:20] That's a lot of tests.

[00:23:21] They just had.

[00:23:22] That's just.

[00:23:24] Do you think he is mentally diminished?

[00:23:28] I don't think he's mentally diminished.

[00:23:29] Have you lost a little memory?

[00:23:31] Of course.

[00:23:32] At his age.

[00:23:32] Would that be considered mentally diminished?

[00:23:35] Like they said, I just listened to him.

[00:23:37] You got to do a lot of tests.

[00:23:38] He have to run them tests.

[00:23:39] And if it comes out, that's what he is.

[00:23:41] That's what he is right now.

[00:23:42] So I'm not asking about medical tests.

[00:23:44] They're not doing any of those

[00:23:45] and they're not telling us what they're,

[00:23:47] what those results are.

[00:23:49] I'm going to give you like that.

[00:23:50] My opinion.

[00:23:51] No, that's my opinion.

[00:23:52] You think he's the same?

[00:23:53] Have a good day.

[00:23:54] Okay.

[00:23:54] Yeah.

[00:23:55] Yeah.

[00:23:55] All right.

[00:23:55] Go.

[00:23:56] No.

[00:23:56] Pull your escape hatch.

[00:23:57] Bye.

[00:23:57] Okay.

[00:23:58] Say, yeah.

[00:23:59] Say what you feel like you had to say

[00:24:01] so everybody can hear it.

[00:24:02] And now everybody can like hang on your every word

[00:24:05] because your analogies are awesome

[00:24:07] or opinions, whatever.

[00:24:09] Because those two terms are synonymous or something.

[00:24:16] That's really amazing.

[00:24:19] The idea that,

[00:24:23] and this is what I would have actually preferred

[00:24:25] to discuss with Shane,

[00:24:28] was, oh, I'm sorry.

[00:24:31] Seamus.

[00:24:32] Seamus?

[00:24:33] Was that his name?

[00:24:36] Um, see, that's an analogy to what you did to me there.

[00:24:40] Anyway, the, uh, the, the point there about Kamala Harris

[00:24:44] getting kind of jammed up because it's her boss,

[00:24:47] it's the president.

[00:24:48] And what is she supposed to say?

[00:24:51] That the guy she's been working with

[00:24:53] has made all these bad decisions.

[00:24:56] So of course she's not going to say that.

[00:24:59] I, I actually agree with Shane on that.

[00:25:05] What is she supposed to say?

[00:25:07] Right?

[00:25:07] This would have been something to consider

[00:25:09] before you staged your coup

[00:25:12] and installed her as the replacement

[00:25:16] and then attempted to gaslight me

[00:25:19] by saying she's going to turn the page.

[00:25:22] And then when I ask,

[00:25:24] what does that mean?

[00:25:25] What are you turning the page to?

[00:25:28] You refuse to tell me.

[00:25:31] And when asked,

[00:25:33] you want to turn the page on the last decade

[00:25:36] and move forward with a new agenda,

[00:25:38] you're a different, uh, different candidate,

[00:25:40] different person with different ideas.

[00:25:42] And then you don't tell me how those differ

[00:25:44] from the current boss.

[00:25:48] Well, do you think Joe Biden

[00:25:49] is not aware that you have to run your own campaign

[00:25:53] and you're going to have to distance yourself from him?

[00:25:55] After all, Seamus said that, um,

[00:25:58] he doesn't believe Joe Biden

[00:26:00] is mentally diminished in any way, shape or form.

[00:26:02] Well, if that's true,

[00:26:04] Joe Biden being a creature of Washington DC

[00:26:06] for like 170 years,

[00:26:09] he would know that politics is a blood sport

[00:26:12] and she's going to have to do stuff

[00:26:15] to distance herself from him

[00:26:17] because his numbers are so terrible.

[00:26:21] She has to say stuff

[00:26:23] that is going to cross him.

[00:26:25] He would know that.

[00:26:27] That would be part of the deal.

[00:26:30] When she talked with Joe

[00:26:32] about the coup

[00:26:33] and how she's going to now take over

[00:26:35] and he steps aside

[00:26:37] and gives his full endorsement

[00:26:38] and all of that,

[00:26:39] it obviously would be part of the equation.

[00:26:43] Unless Joe Biden is not aware of that.

[00:26:46] And maybe that's the case.

[00:26:47] See, if you're of my thinking,

[00:26:49] my opinion or analogy,

[00:26:51] my opinion would be that

[00:26:54] Joe Biden is mentally diminished.

[00:26:57] Joe Biden does actually think that he could win.

[00:27:00] Joe Biden might be a little mad actually

[00:27:03] about being the victim of the coup.

[00:27:06] And the people around him are a little upset.

[00:27:08] They're a little salty about it too.

[00:27:10] She is afraid of angering them

[00:27:13] so she can't distance herself too much

[00:27:16] from what he has done,

[00:27:17] even if she wanted to.

[00:27:19] And by the way,

[00:27:19] I'm not so sure she wants to.

[00:27:21] And that's the reason why you ask the question.

[00:27:24] Is there anything that you would do differently?

[00:27:27] And she won't tell you if there is.

[00:27:29] So therefore,

[00:27:29] I have to believe she won't.

[00:27:32] Now, unless you're going to tell me

[00:27:34] she has secret plans

[00:27:35] that are going to do the opposite

[00:27:37] of what Joe Biden has been doing,

[00:27:39] which she says,

[00:27:40] she can't think of a single thing

[00:27:42] she would do differently.

[00:27:43] That's what she said.

[00:27:46] She doesn't have any objection

[00:27:47] to anything Joe Biden has done.

[00:27:49] She is defending all the stuff he did.

[00:27:52] But now we're supposed to believe

[00:27:53] she's going to do stuff differently.

[00:27:55] But she agrees with everything Joe did.

[00:27:57] Now, maybe that's good enough for you

[00:27:59] because she's on your team

[00:28:01] and you just hate the orange man so much

[00:28:04] that logic out the window

[00:28:06] doesn't matter to you.

[00:28:08] That's fine.

[00:28:09] Your mileage may vary.

[00:28:11] I try to hold a consistent standard.

[00:28:14] And if she's not going to tell me

[00:28:16] what it is she wants to do,

[00:28:18] then you don't get my vote.

[00:28:20] I have one other soundbite

[00:28:21] I want to play for you real quick.

[00:28:23] This is where things got heated

[00:28:24] about the whole turning the page

[00:28:27] part of the interview.

[00:28:29] And you and I both know

[00:28:30] that he has talked about

[00:28:32] turning the American military

[00:28:33] on the American people.

[00:28:34] He has talked about

[00:28:36] going after people

[00:28:37] who are engaged in peaceful protest.

[00:28:39] He has talked about

[00:28:41] locking people up

[00:28:42] because they disagree with him.

[00:28:44] This is a democracy.

[00:28:46] And in a democracy,

[00:28:48] the president of the United States

[00:28:50] in the United States of America

[00:28:51] should be willing to be able to handle

[00:28:55] criticism without saying he'd lock people up

[00:28:58] for doing it.

[00:28:59] And this is what is at stake,

[00:29:02] which is why you have someone

[00:29:03] like the former chairman

[00:29:04] of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

[00:29:06] saying what Mark Milley has said

[00:29:09] about Donald Trump being a threat

[00:29:12] to the United States of America.

[00:29:14] He's quoted in the Bob Woodward book

[00:29:16] that way.

[00:29:17] Yes.

[00:29:17] Let me ask you this,

[00:29:19] Madam Vice President.

[00:29:20] You call Donald Trump.

[00:29:21] What's the significance of that?

[00:29:23] Okay.

[00:29:23] So for the Obama bros,

[00:29:27] the advisors that are probably

[00:29:29] still pulling the strings,

[00:29:31] David Plouffe,

[00:29:33] or Pluffy,

[00:29:35] or Pluff,

[00:29:36] he said,

[00:29:37] Kamala Harris,

[00:29:38] strong,

[00:29:39] handled an ambush Fox interview

[00:29:42] light years better

[00:29:43] than the hash Donald Trump,

[00:29:46] unstable,

[00:29:47] made of the Fox pep rally

[00:29:49] disguised as a town hall.

[00:29:51] So this was a,

[00:29:52] a word that was being bandied about

[00:29:54] among the left

[00:29:58] on Twitter last night

[00:29:59] that this was some sort of an ambush,

[00:30:01] that she was ambushed,

[00:30:03] which now I'm going to start using it.

[00:30:05] Like when Christie says,

[00:30:07] Pete,

[00:30:07] did you,

[00:30:08] did you empty the dishwasher?

[00:30:09] Whoa,

[00:30:09] whoa,

[00:30:09] whoa.

[00:30:10] What's with this ambush interview here?

[00:30:15] You agreed to an interview

[00:30:16] to sit down and talk with,

[00:30:17] that's not an ambush.

[00:30:19] If you think that's an ambush,

[00:30:20] I think we have identified

[00:30:22] one of the problems

[00:30:23] with your campaign.

[00:30:24] Next up,

[00:30:25] Dan Pfeiffer,

[00:30:26] he says,

[00:30:27] Kamala Harris,

[00:30:29] handled that Fox News interview

[00:30:30] with confidence and skill.

[00:30:32] Now try to imagine Donald Trump

[00:30:33] handling tough,

[00:30:35] antagonistic questions.

[00:30:38] Wow,

[00:30:38] I've never seen that.

[00:30:40] Hmm,

[00:30:41] gosh,

[00:30:41] never seen Donald Trump

[00:30:43] take any kind of questions

[00:30:45] ever from someone

[00:30:46] that didn't like him,

[00:30:47] except like,

[00:30:48] oh,

[00:30:49] I don't know,

[00:30:50] like every interview

[00:30:51] that he does

[00:30:53] for eight years.

[00:30:56] Then,

[00:30:56] uh,

[00:30:57] this was from Kamala HQ,

[00:30:59] which Brian Stelter retweeted

[00:31:01] because they were quoting him.

[00:31:03] And,

[00:31:03] uh,

[00:31:03] Brian Stelter,

[00:31:04] who used to look like a potato,

[00:31:05] but apparently has got onto

[00:31:06] the Ozempic,

[00:31:07] he said,

[00:31:07] this was one of the most

[00:31:08] adversarial interviews

[00:31:09] Kamala Harris has ever done,

[00:31:11] uh,

[00:31:11] probably ever done.

[00:31:12] A lot of viewers are going

[00:31:14] to come away saying,

[00:31:15] wow,

[00:31:15] she's willing to do that.

[00:31:16] That's a sign of toughness

[00:31:17] and strength.

[00:31:19] That is wish casting,

[00:31:21] potato.

[00:31:24] Okay,

[00:31:24] French fry.

[00:31:25] He's more of a French fry now.

[00:31:27] Um,

[00:31:28] Alexander Vindman,

[00:31:29] remember that guy?

[00:31:30] Ukraine call recorder.

[00:31:32] Uh,

[00:31:33] he says,

[00:31:33] Harris went into a very hostile

[00:31:35] Fox News interview environment

[00:31:36] and likely won over

[00:31:37] moderate and independent voters

[00:31:39] with her smarts,

[00:31:40] competence,

[00:31:41] competence,

[00:31:41] and civility.

[00:31:43] So,

[00:31:44] once again,

[00:31:45] this is like what we went over

[00:31:46] yesterday with the real men,

[00:31:48] Ed,

[00:31:48] that you're not actually

[00:31:50] making arguments

[00:31:51] that are persuading people

[00:31:53] that you claim to be

[00:31:54] trying to persuade.

[00:31:57] Nobody that's watching

[00:31:59] Fox News

[00:32:00] is going to be won over

[00:32:02] by the way you're answering

[00:32:04] those questions.

[00:32:05] You attacking Donald Trump

[00:32:07] doesn't move the needle

[00:32:09] for them.

[00:32:12] David Harsanyi,

[00:32:15] he said,

[00:32:16] Kamala killed it

[00:32:17] on Fox News.

[00:32:19] This,

[00:32:19] this slogan,

[00:32:20] this,

[00:32:21] this hot take

[00:32:21] that all the left

[00:32:22] was rallying around

[00:32:24] that she totally nailed it.

[00:32:25] That is the new version of

[00:32:28] Biden is sharper

[00:32:29] than ever.

[00:32:32] It's just a narrative.

[00:32:34] Did they win the day?

[00:32:36] This was the,

[00:32:37] uh,

[00:32:37] the,

[00:32:37] the animating philosophy

[00:32:39] or strategy,

[00:32:40] I should say,

[00:32:41] in the Obama campaign

[00:32:42] in 2008.

[00:32:44] after he had won

[00:32:45] and,

[00:32:46] you know,

[00:32:46] people started doing

[00:32:46] interviews with the

[00:32:47] advisors and the

[00:32:49] campaign people

[00:32:50] that now that they had

[00:32:52] won,

[00:32:52] they were,

[00:32:52] you know,

[00:32:53] happy to talk about

[00:32:54] the strategies

[00:32:54] that they used

[00:32:55] and such.

[00:32:56] And one of the things

[00:32:57] that they talked about

[00:32:58] afterwards,

[00:32:59] I remember covering it

[00:33:00] at the time,

[00:33:01] it was that,

[00:33:02] um,

[00:33:03] they went into

[00:33:04] every single day

[00:33:07] asking,

[00:33:08] how do we win today?

[00:33:11] meaning the news cycle,

[00:33:13] whatever is,

[00:33:14] whatever is the quote

[00:33:15] story of the day,

[00:33:17] that's what we need

[00:33:18] to win.

[00:33:19] And tomorrow will be

[00:33:21] a different story.

[00:33:21] And today doesn't

[00:33:23] matter tomorrow

[00:33:26] unburdened by what

[00:33:27] has been,

[00:33:27] you might say.

[00:33:30] Anthony Abitas

[00:33:31] on Twitter said

[00:33:32] on a purely tactical

[00:33:33] level,

[00:33:35] Kamala repeating

[00:33:35] the tired

[00:33:37] anti-Trump arguments

[00:33:38] to try to woo

[00:33:39] never Trump Republicans

[00:33:40] would have been

[00:33:41] more effective

[00:33:42] on MSNBC

[00:33:43] or CNN,

[00:33:44] not Fox News.

[00:33:46] She did absolutely

[00:33:47] nothing to woo

[00:33:48] Trump voters

[00:33:49] or independents

[00:33:50] during that interview,

[00:33:51] which indicates

[00:33:52] just how distorted

[00:33:53] Democrats' view

[00:33:54] of, quote,

[00:33:55] normal Republicans

[00:33:56] is.

[00:33:59] They think that

[00:34:00] normal Republicans,

[00:34:02] quote-unquote,

[00:34:03] are Lincoln Project

[00:34:04] Republicans,

[00:34:04] are the bulwark

[00:34:06] and the dispatch,

[00:34:08] you know,

[00:34:08] David French

[00:34:09] and Charlie Sykes,

[00:34:11] Bill Kristol,

[00:34:12] these neocons,

[00:34:13] Liz Cheney.

[00:34:14] That's who they think

[00:34:15] the, quote,

[00:34:16] normal Republicans

[00:34:16] are.

[00:34:18] The people who run

[00:34:19] her campaign

[00:34:20] believe David French

[00:34:21] and Heath Mayo

[00:34:22] are the median

[00:34:23] Republican voter.

[00:34:25] Right?

[00:34:25] That's what they think.

[00:34:26] Just like they thought

[00:34:27] the guys in that ad

[00:34:28] were going to appeal

[00:34:32] to, quote,

[00:34:32] real men.

[00:34:35] And Bayer,

[00:34:36] in the interview,

[00:34:37] actually said,

[00:34:38] I'm trying to give you

[00:34:39] a chance to address

[00:34:40] concerns that

[00:34:41] Trump voters

[00:34:42] have.

[00:34:45] He was telling her,

[00:34:47] this is your chance

[00:34:48] to speak to the

[00:34:49] Trump voters

[00:34:50] and to try to

[00:34:51] clean up

[00:34:52] some of these

[00:34:54] attacks that

[00:34:55] Trump has

[00:34:55] levied against you.

[00:34:57] And she didn't

[00:34:59] even realize it.

[00:35:00] Or maybe she did

[00:35:02] and she chose

[00:35:02] not to take advantage

[00:35:03] of the opportunity

[00:35:04] that she was given.

[00:35:05] Either way,

[00:35:08] merely a flesh wound,

[00:35:09] to quote the Black Knight.

[00:35:13] Yeah,

[00:35:13] this was,

[00:35:14] by the way,

[00:35:14] her first taste

[00:35:15] of what it's like

[00:35:17] to be a conservative

[00:35:17] interviewed by

[00:35:18] mainstream media.

[00:35:20] That's what that looks

[00:35:21] like, by the way.

[00:35:22] All right,

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