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Ep 932 | Kamala’s Campaign Shaping Up to Be EXACT Replica of Biden Failures | Guest: Michael Malice · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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Michael Mali is going to be joining us here in a few to give his,
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uh,
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take on
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the disaster that we're in the middle of.
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Uh,
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what's the media doing and everything else
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with the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
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But I want to start by
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doing Joe Biden 2.0.
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That's who Kamalara Harris is.
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Kamala Harris is just Joe Biden 2.0.
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Now the fact that she is younger
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and
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can walk around and not fall over going upstairs is,
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I grant you a positive.
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It is a positive thing that we have a president that doesn't seem
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like they're going to die every time you see them on television.
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I,
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I,
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I would agree
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that's a positive.
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Not much of one though,
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honestly,
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in comparison to what we're talking about when it comes to policy,
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when it comes to results.
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Frankly,
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and we haven't talked about this in a while,
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but like.
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Just go back to the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Just that
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alone
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is enough to make sure that no one,
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no representative of that administration ever serves in any
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position of power ever again.
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That is a full stop right there.
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There's no need for qualifiers on that.
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If you were involved in any way with that catastrophe,
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bye bye.
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That's how I feel about that.
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But
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there's a lot of other things.
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There's obviously the immigration situation at the border.
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There is inflation,
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all sorts of strife overseas,
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the way they've handled
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the situation in Ukraine and Israel and
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the campus protests and so many other things.
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This has been a problem from beginning to end,
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and one of the things I think the Trump campaign has
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struggled a bit with so far
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is to
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is to tie her directly to the person she's working with.
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I can't see,
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I can't believe how many times
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I've seen the headline,
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hey,
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um,
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the Trump campaign is trying to tie Harris to Biden.
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It's like,
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What do you mean trying to?
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She's the vice president of the United States under his administration.
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It's the Biden-Harris administration.
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Everything that's happened there,
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she owns.
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You know,
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no one ever asks this question,
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but I do think it's an important one.
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You know,
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you keep complaining about what you're going to do on day one,
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and some people have pointed out,
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you know,
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day one for her was back in 2021.
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OK,
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this is not day one,
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this will be
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her,
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she was,
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she was a vice president of the United States.
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And I would love someone to ask her specifically,
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what has Joe Biden prevented you from doing?
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You've been praising him the entire time.
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You've been saying how Bidenomics is working.
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You've been saying how all these policies on the border are working.
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Was there something that you wanted to do and Biden said no?
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What was it?
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And why was he wrong?
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We've never heard word one from her on that,
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and since she's been a candidate,
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we haven't heard word one about anything.
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And that is really starting to be noticed a little bit.
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I mentioned this a while ago.
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Usually the way these things go
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is you get a little boomlet out of a new candidate.
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They kind of seem
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amazing and indestructible and incredible,
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and they just seem like they're the greatest thing since sliced bread,
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and then.
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You know,
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the magnifying glass gets on them a little bit.
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Things start to fall apart.
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That doesn't mean they lose all their new voters,
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but this is the type of thing you would
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expect to happen at some point with Kamala Harris.
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At some point she's going to have to answer questions.
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At some point she'll have a bad interview,
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and people will start reconsidering,
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you know,
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I mean,
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like the left loves to bring up the point of Sarah Palin.
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What they don't,
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of course,
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necessarily point out is how well that went at the beginning.
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I mean
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the first week or two of the.
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Palin vice presidential nomination was really,
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really positive,
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and everyone seemed to love her and she was doing really,
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really well,
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and then of course they successfully came after her and beat her down.
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Now look,
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they will not
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do that to Kamala Harris.
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They will,
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they will not go after her like they did Sarah Palin,
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obviously.
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They will not go after her like they are JD Vance today.
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Obviously we all know that,
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we all
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understand that,
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but it is important to kind of sit back
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and look at.
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The idea that at some point
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there will be a pushback on her just
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not answering questions on some of these policies,
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she will have to answer some of these questions.
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It certainly will happen in September at the debate.
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If that debate occurs,
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but we're starting to see a little some cracks,
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some little
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little cracks.
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I'll give you an example.
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Stephen A.
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Smith,
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who's a sports commentator
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and generally speaking some person who more associates with the left,
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though he will call out at times
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people on the other side of the aisle,
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and he is calling out Kamala.
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He says,
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Uh,
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what are you hiding for?
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Criticizing Kamala Harris.
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Let me give you a quick excerpt of what he said.
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I'm talking to my sister here.
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Come on now.
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You're running for presidency of the United States of America.
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You got my vote.
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So again,
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he's he's a liberal.
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You're running for the presidency of the United States of America.
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What are you hiding for?
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And I mean hiding in plain sight.
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Somebody's got to say it.
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Somebody has got to say it.
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Now you can't be running for the presidency of the United States.
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Not one single press conference,
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not one single one on one sit-down interview where somebody
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gets to question you about the questions that we ask.
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That's not fair.
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If you're a conservative and you're out there lambasting her for it,
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ridiculing her for it,
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trying to torment her for it or whatever,
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it is perfectly within your right to do so.
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All you anti-conservatives out there,
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shut the hell up.
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That's a valid point.
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Yeah,
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it kind of is,
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right?
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And this is not something that is a big shock,
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right?
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This isn't something that's
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a crazy new requirement.
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We're asking people to come out
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and take these new positions and do all these new things.
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She's
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she doesn't have to go on a reality show and compete on eating spiders.
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Like this is basic things you're supposed to do as a presidential candidate.
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You're supposed to be able to come out and talk to people,
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get some tough questions,
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answer some questions at a press conference,
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do a couple of difficult one on one interviews.
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That's like basic.
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Um,
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now she did do an interview,
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I will say,
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I've been saying she has not done an interview at all.
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It's not true.
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She finally did one last night.
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She was interviewed by Tim Walls.
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And that is a pretty hard hitting.
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That was a very hard hitting.
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So I'm not going to play you one second of it because it was a complete waste of time.
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But just so you know,
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she now has
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answered questions on the tarmac after they freed hostages,
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and
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she's been interviewed by Tim Walls,
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so she is really stepping up on this one now.
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Stephen A.
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Smith can be a bit of a heterodox,
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in his opinions at times.
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He will step out of the mainstream,
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and you don't always know what he's going to say.
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And one of the things that kind of makes him interesting.
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Jim Acosta is not that person.
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Jim Acosta is
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hardcore anti-Trump,
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beginning to end.
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That's what he's been since he's not a reporter.
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He wants to make himself famous by hating Trump.
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That's who he is.
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But even he
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is being tested by this strategy
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by Kamala Harris.
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Here he is interviewing
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some spokesperson for the for the Harris campaign.
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I've never,
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I'm not familiar with him in particular,
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but
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then again,
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I don't expect Jim Acosta to get the best guests,
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but he's trying to at least get some answers on this stuff.
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Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?
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Why hasn't she had a press conference?
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Listen,
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the Vice President and Governor Walla
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have been busy crisscrossing this country since
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the launch of this campaign and adding Governor Walla to the ticket.
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You saw the ways in which they went across the battleground states last week,
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generating rallies
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of thousands.
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10,000 here,
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15,000 there,
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but Michael,
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you know a campaign rally is not a press conference.
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Do you mind if I cut in?
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I mean,
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you know,
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a campaign rally is not a press conference.
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Why isn't she had a press conference?
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She's the vice president.
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She can handle the questions.
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Why not do it?
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We absolutely are going to do it.
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You hear her take questions as she's out on the stump,
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and she's,
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as she said last week,
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uh,
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we're going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month.
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Whoa,
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wow,
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that's impressive.
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Now I will say
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he's misquoting his candidate there.
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She did not say that they would have a
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campaign or they would have an interview by the end of the month.
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What she said was they would have an interview
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scheduled
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by the end of the month.
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The interview might be scheduled in 2028.
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We have no idea when the interview will actually occur,
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but they will have one scheduled by the end of the month,
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and that's really stepping up for the American people.
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Now.
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I don't remember there being a big criticism of lack of crisscrossing.
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Um,
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he seemed to be answering a question as if he was.
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Asked,
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well,
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why aren't you guys crisscrossing the United States?
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Oh,
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we have been crisscrossing the United States.
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Now you were asked about an interview or a press conference,
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and you said,
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well,
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we've been crisscrossing the United States.
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No one cares about your geographical patterns of travel.
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That's not what we're asking about here.
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What we're asking about is you answering difficult
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questions from someone who isn't your best buddy.
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And by the way,
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Jim Acosta,
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I don't even think would qualify.
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This is what's so shocking about this,
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she could do an interview
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with friendly sources and at least get people off of her back a little bit.
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You know,
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she could go on Rachel Maddow tomorrow and Rachel Maddow would ask her only
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questions that would help her campaign because
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that's what Rachel Maddow wants to do,
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and Rachel Maddow's smart enough.
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To know what those questions are,
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we were talking about The View as a possibility on radio earlier today,
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and
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I don't think The View is a good idea because the hosts are too dumb.
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They wouldn't know what the right questions were,
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and they might ask a question like,
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Well,
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I bet you support
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Medicare for all.
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That's great,
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right?
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Like that's not what she needs right now.
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What she needs is not more liberal stuff.
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She needs nice cushiony ways to explain.
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Things that people have problems with,
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and
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Rachel Maddow would be a great choice to do something like that.
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It's just kind of shocking,
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right?
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Why,
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why won't,
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why won't she do this?
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Why won't she do a press conference?
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Well,
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we know the reason because
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it's freaking smart strategy for her to not do it.
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If the media is going to give her
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nonstop love when she's not doing press conferences,
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why the hell would you do a press conference?
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And you might say,
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well,
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that's just wrong for people to do.
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I'll give you a good example of the same strategy in action.
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Donald Trump during the Republican primary.
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Donald Trump didn't need to do debates.
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He didn't need to because he was up by 30 points.
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So the only thing that could happen to him in a debate is something bad.
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So he didn't do it.
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He just avoided it and no one ever really got
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to challenge him and go face to face with him.
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It was,
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and I've explained this at length at the time,
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I think the wrong decision
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for the Republican Party and the wrong decision for the country.
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I,
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I think,
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you know,
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candidates should be out there answering questions.
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But it was the right strategy for Donald Trump.
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Quite clearly,
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he won easily.
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He didn't even have a challenge in the primaries.
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The same thing kind of is going here.
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If they're not going to challenge her,
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if no one is ever going to say a negative word about her in the media,
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what's the upside of a press conference?
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What's the upside?
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What do you do?
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She's certainly not going to come off better than she has the past few weeks.
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She hasn't had one tough question,
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and she is making,
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you know,
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speeches off teleprompters.
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What is the upside for her,
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and of course that's what it's about when it comes to Kamala Harris,
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it always is about her.
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The one thing I will say about Kamala Harris,
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is she an idiot?
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Sure she is.
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However,
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she's also a very smooth
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behind the scenes backroom operator.
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She has been that since very early.
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On
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her Willie Brown conquests have been well documented,
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but also when she was in San Francisco,
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she had,
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she got every
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high powered rich person in San Francisco to support her
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for like a district attorney campaign.
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This is what she did.
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She was able to align
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tons and tons of cash behind her.
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She can raise money.
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She can do these things.
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And the one impressive thing she has done since this whole,
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since the Biden debate,
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one impressive thing
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was make a hell of a lot of phone calls the second he dropped out and get
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support
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aligned and coalesced behind her against the wishes of Barack Obama,
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was able to make this into.
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One and done.
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It's already over.
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There is no primary.
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There is no decision.
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She is a smooth backroom operator and she's doing this with the media right now.
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She's using those skills behind the scenes,
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maybe some different skills than Willie Brown,
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I would assume.
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I don't know,
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but different skills kind of behind the scenes
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and going in and making friends in the media,
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making them print all of this crap
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that is not true about her campaign.
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And that is sufficing to step in and and get in
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the way of what normally would be a somewhat adversarial media,
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or at least a media that wanted to appear adversarial,
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and so far she hasn't had to deal with any of that.
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Why would she call it on?
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She's going to look like an idiot when they ask her tough questions.
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Why bother?
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If you don't have to get asked those questions,
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uh,
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why bother?
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Now I will say,
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I,
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I,
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I think eventually this will fade.
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The fact that there have been a couple of
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people like this stepping up outside of the conservative,
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uh,
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ecosphere and saying,
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hey,
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she's got to answer these questions,
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it's a good thing,
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and uh hopefully the pressure will build.
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I do think eventually she'll probably have to do something,
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but.
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Why rush it if you're her?
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Harris is going to make a big speech tomorrow on the stump
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about this big economic proposal she has out there.
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And if you've ever followed the Soviet Union,
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some of this will sound familiar.
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In fact,
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most of it was in the Soviet constitution.
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It's not normally associated with the American system of government,
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but it is what you'd expect out of a Kamala Harris,
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who is very,
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very far left.
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She is not.
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She's not a moderate,
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and she's going to try to present herself the way she's not.
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She's going to back a federal ban on price gouging,
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says her campaign.
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Now this is basically,
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she's going to say,
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well,
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you can't raise bacon prices too much or we're going to get mad at you.
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Of course that's not the free market,
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but that doesn't really matter to them.
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Um,
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it is,
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you know,
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these are price controls,
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and price controls have been proven to be massive
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disasters every time they've been tried in history.
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Of course,
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you probably already know that,
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I don't need to explain it.
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I will say
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the one thing you have to think about when it comes to a campaign
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explanation is,
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again,
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Kamala Harris is Joe Biden 2.0.
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They are the same person.
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They supported all the same policies.
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No one has cast more deciding votes in the Senate in the history of the country.
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Than Kamala Harris,
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she's the one that pushed through all these proposals.
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She is the one
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who is responsible just as much as Joe Biden is
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for all these problems that we've been having.
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Inflation is a great example of that.
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There are a bunch of reasons why inflation happened,
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um,
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massive spending by,
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of course,
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the Biden administration,
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something Kamala Harris was casting the tying votes,
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uh,
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tiebreaking votes for.
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Massive spending
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when she wasn't casting the votes.
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She was just supporting the policies under the Biden administration.
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Also massive spending before Biden even got into office.
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All of that spending also supported by Kamala Harris.
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So like
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she has no out here,
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with one exception.
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That
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evil grocery stores are gouging you,
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right?
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That's the one way she has out.
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It's the only explanation that doesn't point directly at her.
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So of course she's going to try to use it.
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She's going to try to tell you that during the entire Trump administration,
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all these grocery store companies.
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We just suddenly benign.
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They didn't care at all about price gouging.
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They didn't care about greed.
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They were not greedy during the Trump administration,
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but as soon as Joe Biden got in,
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all of a sudden they discovered greed
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and flip-flopped and became trying to make sure your delicious apples
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were 3 times the cost.
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I don't know that anyone with a brain will believe that,
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but luckily,
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you don't need a brain to vote.
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So if you go after people who don't have brains,
16:29
you may wind up winning the election anyway.
16:31
Harris's team is also going to underline her far left economic agenda,
16:35
and you know this is among other things,
16:38
a bunch of advisers.
16:39
The Washington Examiner goes through,
16:41
one of which,
16:42
I mean
16:42
all of which
16:43
were people closely associated with the Biden administration.
16:46
These are people who are at the Head of the,
16:48
you know,
16:48
her economic advisors are his economic advisors.
16:51
He and her are the same person.
16:54
This is the same thing.
16:55
She's just a newer version of the same
16:57
crap,
16:58
the same crap that had a 36% approval rating.
17:00
The fact that she got Megan Thee Stallion on stage
17:03
with her should not have changed that for America.
17:05
Unfortunately it does.
17:07
Again,
17:07
brainless people have votes too.
17:09
Remember that.
17:10
Um,
17:10
the other one is uh rent controls,
17:12
which
17:13
has,
17:13
is well known as one of the most disastrous
17:15
policies ever conceived of in a free market economy.
17:18
This is something that has destroyed city after
17:21
city after city where it's been tried,
17:23
and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden want to bring this to the entire nation,
17:26
to cap or not to cap is the Politico headline.
17:29
And Harris is pledging to
17:31
take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases.
17:36
The policy has been a disaster for a long time,
17:38
but I wanted to give you at least a quick breakdown of
17:41
the support behind it because as you know,
17:43
it's very important
17:44
to understand why these things go on.
17:46
And of course voters love the idea of rent control.
17:49
I mean they're not looking at this as far as
17:52
economic outcomes.
17:54
They're looking at it as far as,
17:55
hey,
17:55
I don't want my rent to go up.
17:56
So voters are supportive.
17:58
73% of battleground state voters say protecting
18:00
tenants against the price gouging in rental housing
18:03
should be a priority for the next president,
18:05
according to.
18:05
A recent Lake Research Partners survey of
18:08
1000 registered voters in seven swing states.
18:10
3 in 4 favor passing rules
18:13
that annual rent increases cannot be higher than increases in the cost of living.
18:16
So you're talking about only about,
18:17
you know,
18:18
what,
18:18
a 2 or 3% rate increase per year,
18:20
which of course would be great if you're renting a place,
18:23
but
18:24
Does not give good outcomes to the actual economy.
18:26
This messes up cities.
18:28
It's really obliterated cities that have tried to do it,
18:31
but it goes on more.
18:33
It's deeper than that,
18:34
of course.
18:35
Otherwise we would not be seeing presidential ads with the word rent in all caps.
18:38
It's a really notable change,
18:39
says Tara
18:40
Ravier,
18:41
director of the Tenant Union Foundation.
18:44
We have our polling,
18:45
and the Harris campaign's messaging indicates to me that they have.
18:47
Polling
18:48
that may be even more dramatic,
18:49
and it's true.
18:50
Harris campaign looks at these numbers and says,
18:52
wow,
18:52
375% of voters,
18:53
including lots of Republicans,
18:54
support this policy.
18:55
We should support this policy.
18:56
It's the same decision and the same deep decision making process they came across
19:01
when they heard about no tax on tips.
19:04
It's polling very well apparently behind the scenes,
19:06
so they supported it.
19:07
OK,
19:08
she's not going to actually do it when in office.
19:10
There's no chance of that,
19:11
but she wants to fool dumb people into voting for her.
19:13
That is the strategy,
19:15
beginning to end.
19:16
Voter enthusiasm for rent restrictions makes some sense.
19:18
Rents have risen more than 30% since the pandemic started in March 2020,
19:22
according to Zillow,
19:23
but critics,
19:24
including many economists,
19:25
say rent control.
19:25
Actually impedes the development of affordable housing,
19:28
which is true,
19:29
and it even leads to the loss
19:30
of existing affordable rental stock by inducing landlords
19:33
to sell to owner occupants in order to earn the market price for their property.
19:38
Existing rental stock
19:39
that isn't sold off can also fall into disrepair,
19:42
since there is little incentive to put money into improvements and upkeep.
19:45
This has been the story of every city
19:47
that has ever tried this.
19:49
It always fails and it fails always in the same way.
19:52
Obviously Kamala Harris doesn't care about that,
19:54
but let me give you the
19:55
overall,
19:55
remember,
19:56
73% of voters support these policies.
19:59
Just 2.
20:01
2% of economists agreed with the idea
20:04
that Biden's rent cap proposal would
20:06
make middle income Americans substantially better off
20:09
over the next 10 years.
20:10
In a survey last month by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
20:14
compared to 74%
20:15
who disagreed,
20:16
62% agreed that the proposal would substantially reduce
20:20
the amount of available apartments.
20:22
Over the next decade,
20:23
if you can't profit off the apartments,
20:24
why build the buildings,
20:25
right?
20:26
So then the housing shortage becomes more
20:29
horrible
20:30
and it winds up biting people
20:32
at the lower end of the income scale over and over and over again.
20:35
This is something that has proven true over and over and over again.
20:37
Everybody knows it.
20:39
That's why only 2% of economists actually support it,
20:41
but none of that matters because the voters agree that they want lower rents,
20:47
and this is what they're going to try to do.
20:49
They are going to try to appeal
20:50
to the people who don't think these things out all that well,
20:53
and our system is great,
20:55
no doubt about it.
20:56
The elements of democracy inside our constitutional republic
20:59
are fantastic,
21:01
and I don't know of a better system,
21:02
or I would pitch it to you.
21:05
But what I will say is
21:06
one problem with it is every moron
21:09
that you drive by that has a Kamala Harris sticker on the back
21:13
of their car
21:14
that can't figure out even the most basic
21:17
elements of an economic policy,
21:18
that don't understand any of this,
21:19
that have forgotten about.
21:20
Afghanistan and the people who died there
21:22
that are still sitting here saying,
21:24
hey,
21:24
don't we still have hostages in Gaza?
21:26
What's going on with that?
21:27
The people who aren't thinking about that and instead watching,
21:30
you know,
21:31
Brat or listening to Brat and watching TikTok,
21:33
those people,
21:34
those people cancel out your vote.
21:37
That's one thing that sucks about this system,
21:39
I've got to be honest with you,
21:40
but there's not much we can do about it except
21:42
do your best to try to educate people around you
21:45
and understand your arguments,
21:46
be armed with the truth,
21:48
and go out there
21:49
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I'm happy to welcome Michael Mali back to the program.
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Michael,
23:48
how's it going,
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man?
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I'm really excited to be here.
23:51
I just heard from my probation officer and this counts toward my community service.
23:55
I'm so glad to hear that.
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We registered a while ago.
23:57
I didn't know that came through.
24:00
uh,
24:00
Michael,
24:01
uh,
24:01
I was thinking of you the other day because of the media,
24:04
and we've talked before about how insane things are getting these
24:08
these days and,
24:09
and
24:10
going through and watching the,
24:11
um,
24:12
uh,
24:12
the Kamala Harris,
24:13
uh,
24:13
I don't know,
24:14
I don't know what you'd even call it,
24:15
coronation.
24:16
It has been fascinating to try to take in.
24:19
The other day I saw a headline that said that
24:21
the Trump campaign was trying to tie Harris to Biden.
24:27
And it's like,
24:28
I,
24:28
as soon as I saw the headline,
24:29
I,
24:29
I gotta get Michael Mali on.
24:30
He,
24:31
he's gotta be going crazy watching this stuff.
24:33
What have,
24:33
what have you taken over the past few weeks?
24:35
Um,
24:35
I,
24:35
I don't know that I'm going crazy per se,
24:37
but you know,
24:38
you and I have been at this for,
24:39
for a minute,
24:39
right?
24:40
And we've seen some,
24:41
some things,
24:41
we've seen other things.
24:42
I think,
24:43
oh,
24:43
it's all blurry for a second.
24:44
I think this is the first time I've seen
24:47
in my lifetime when it's been this.
24:51
Shameless
24:51
when it's basically they're trying to sell like an action figure
24:55
that has no
24:57
uh
24:58
uh
24:58
background,
24:59
no record.
25:00
It's just she's a brat and Trump's weird
25:03
and,
25:03
and,
25:03
and so,
25:04
but the thing is,
25:05
I,
25:05
it's kind of like almost like WWE at this point,
25:08
where you have a good guy and a bad guy,
25:10
and you,
25:11
you want to vote for the good guy,
25:12
not the bad guy.
25:13
Um,
25:14
so
25:15
in that respect,
25:16
I'm glad that the media is being more shameless than ever.
25:19
But at the same time going forward,
25:22
I'm just really
25:23
kind of curious where we go from here.
25:26
Yeah,
25:26
it feels like
25:28
they really are going to attempt.
25:31
To just let her run the clock out here and see how close they can come to
25:35
the end of the campaign without her ever having
25:37
to answer a question or even have to admit
25:39
her supposed
25:41
policy changes.
25:42
She supported something in 2019,
25:43
2020.
25:44
She's just leaking.
25:46
Well,
25:46
actually she doesn't believe that anymore to the media,
25:48
no one gets a follow-up question.
25:50
Are we at a point in our society where that's that's you can do that?
25:53
Can you run out the clock for 3.5 months and win a presidency that way?
25:57
No,
25:59
but I think conservatives have to appreciate that this is the smart move for them
26:05
because the more people know her,
26:07
the less they like her.
26:08
We saw it in
26:09
2020 when
26:11
Democrats were looking for an alternative to Biden that wasn't Sanders,
26:14
and she started climbing in the polls when she took on Biden.
26:18
The first debate implied he was a racist.
26:20
Then overnight when office,
26:22
when Tulsi roasted her in that debate,
26:24
her poll numbers collapsed until she went back down to 1%.
26:27
So she's an empty suit.
26:29
She doesn't do well speaking extemporaneously.
26:32
They know this,
26:33
but here's Sue,
26:34
the thing is,
26:35
it worked in 2020.
26:36
They ran the basement campaign with Biden.
26:37
Now then you had an Excuse because you had COVID,
26:40
you don't want people in big groups and so on and so forth.
26:43
At the same time,
26:45
if you have Jim Acosta of CNN publicly saying,
26:48
why isn't Kamala Harris having press conferences,
26:51
I think people understand that the media is heavily left,
26:54
but I don't think they appreciate to what extent they're malevolent,
26:57
and they just took down a sitting president.
26:59
And they're going to be more than happy,
27:01
I think,
27:01
some of them,
27:02
to keep those knives sharp and see what damage
27:04
they could do with Officer Harris as well,
27:06
because keep in mind,
27:08
President Trump is great for the media because their ratings
27:10
go through the roof because you have content 24/7,
27:13
Trump,
27:13
Trump,
27:13
Trump,
27:13
Trump,
27:14
Trump.
27:15
Yeah,
27:15
I,
27:15
I,
27:15
I,
27:15
and they
27:17
loved that era for,
27:18
for,
27:18
I mean for what it was for them.
27:20
I mean it was an incredible boost in their ratings,
27:22
and they spent the last 4 years trying to figure
27:24
out how to get that magic back with really no,
27:26
no success,
27:27
so.
27:28
I mean at the end of the day,
27:29
they probably,
27:30
at least in the back of their minds,
27:31
would love
27:33
another 4 years of Donald Trump.
27:36
Were you surprised that the media
27:38
was able to take out a sitting president?
27:40
I mean,
27:40
we had,
27:41
look,
27:41
his debate was really,
27:42
really bad,
27:43
and I think everybody knew
27:45
he was incoherent and essentially an invalid in office,
27:48
but
27:49
I mean,
27:50
they really went after him.
27:51
They wanted him gone.
27:53
I mean it was every day,
27:54
a new op ed,
27:54
a new
27:55
uh big revelation about the campaign and how many
27:58
times he had fallen asleep in meetings and such.
28:00
I mean,
28:01
were you surprised they were that aggressive?
28:03
Yes,
28:04
I was very surprised they were that aggressive because
28:07
if there was any sense of decency,
28:09
then they'd have to acknowledge,
28:10
wait a minute,
28:11
we saw this for 4 years,
28:12
and they had to pretend this happened overnight and there were no signs,
28:15
even though conservative and just even broadly right of
28:17
center media had for years had clips of Biden,
28:20
you know,
28:20
falling up.
28:21
How senile do you have to be that you fall up the stairs,
28:23
you know,
28:23
just forgetting Obama's name,
28:25
things like this of that nature.
28:27
So I was shocked.
28:28
I think this.
28:28
This is the first time in our lifetime,
28:30
even when,
28:31
when they're going after Clinton for his perjury
28:34
and things like that,
28:35
they weren't anywhere near this vicious as they were for Biden.
28:38
And I want to make one point
28:40
for those people who are fans of Greek mythology,
28:42
you have like Tantalus who like fed
28:44
his son to the gods,
28:45
so he's punished in hell
28:47
by always being thirsty and hungry.
28:48
Biden was a party hack.
28:50
He was a loyal Democrat since being a senator in the early 70s.
28:53
He did what the machine wanted.
28:55
They put him in office in 2020,
28:57
and then overnight that same machine turned on him and threw him in the trash.
29:01
So I think there's some kind of poetic justice and punishment
29:04
that this is how he's going to end his career.
29:06
Just the second
29:08
he made a misstep,
29:09
they just threw him in the trash.
29:10
It's beautiful.
29:11
I really,
29:12
well,
29:12
I mean,
29:12
it's,
29:13
if it wasn't Joe Biden,
29:14
it would be really sad,
29:16
you know,
29:16
I mean
29:17
they really did just.
29:19
Torch this guy in his 50 years of service in a couple of weeks
29:23
because they wanted a better outcome.
29:25
And can I say one more thing,
29:26
Stu?
29:27
I'm sorry to interrupt you,
29:27
but I'm sure you agree
29:29
that for a while it was public,
29:31
like step down,
29:32
step down,
29:32
step down,
29:33
and he said fairly.
29:34
I got into the office last time.
29:35
I'm
29:36
pretty tight in the polls.
29:37
You can't tell me I can't win.
29:38
That's,
29:39
this is just a rough spot.
29:40
Stick with me,
29:41
guys.
29:42
You know
29:43
that then they turn to threats.
29:45
Because for him overnight,
29:46
for that morning,
29:46
his campaign manager,
29:47
whoever it was in the campaign was on
29:48
the Sunday morning shows saying the candidate's in,
29:51
and then he just issues this statement out
29:52
of nowhere and doesn't make an appearance,
29:54
you know,
29:55
they called him up and say,
29:56
OK,
29:56
we tried to play nice
29:58
and now we're going to play not so nice.
30:00
Yeah,
30:00
yeah,
30:01
I mean,
30:01
who knows if we start believing the things
30:04
that the right is saying about Hunter Biden,
30:05
maybe he does go to prison for 50 years.
30:07
I mean,
30:08
who knows
30:09
what they said behind the scenes.
30:10
It's a,
30:10
it's a fun game to speculate on.
30:12
But I can't help but think
30:14
if he had held out,
30:16
they probably would have threatened him with a bunch of different things.
30:19
But if,
30:19
if he had held out to today.
30:21
We would have reports in the media about actually
30:25
maybe he is sharp as a tack again.
30:27
Actually,
30:28
you know,
30:28
maybe I think he did.
30:30
Maybe it was just a cold that one night.
30:32
It was one bad night.
30:33
What's the big deal?
30:34
As soon as they were locked into him,
30:36
I feel like the coverage would have changed and he actually could have survived it.
30:39
But they went to this guy who's
30:41
incoherent
30:42
and showed him internal polling,
30:44
you know,
30:44
3 days
30:46
after a president,
30:47
his opponent was almost assassinated on stage.
30:50
And
30:51
probably threatened him and got him out of the race.
30:53
I mean,
30:54
in a way they really did just take advantage of this old man.
30:56
Yeah.
30:56
What incentive is there for me?
30:58
I'm sitting in the White House in the Oval Office.
31:01
What have I got to lose?
31:02
OK,
31:02
so I lose the campaign.
31:03
At least
31:04
every candidate of either party has a shot at winning.
31:07
Like no matter who you are,
31:08
they got a corpse in last time.
31:10
So if I'm Jill Biden,
31:11
especially,
31:12
this is the first time in my life people care about my opinion,
31:14
even though I'm a great doctor,
31:16
uh,
31:16
what incentive do I have to walk away from this?
31:18
There's none.
31:19
No,
31:19
there's not,
31:20
and they had all that power and you know they
31:21
loved all that power and of course Hunter too.
31:23
I mean,
31:24
the last thing you'd want to do is leave office and to the other point,
31:29
he can say fairly,
31:30
Kamala Harris has no nationwide traction.
31:33
She was behind Biden in all the polling.
31:36
His team would be like.
31:37
Who's Plan B?
31:38
She's worse.
31:39
Yeah.
31:40
And so
31:41
explain to me,
31:41
Michael,
31:41
how she's not worse,
31:43
because
31:43
obviously since she's come in,
31:45
she's had this adoring media attention.
31:47
She's basically,
31:48
you know,
31:48
Rosa Parks times Barack Obama.
31:51
She's the most popular,
31:52
joyful candidate we've ever seen.
31:54
I mean,
31:55
all of that has come out.
31:56
She has cut this deficit.
31:58
It is a very close race.
31:59
Why is this working?
32:01
Because first there's the honeymoon period,
32:03
right?
32:03
Whenever we had this also in 2012,
32:06
when the Republican in the primaries,
32:08
when Republicans were looking for an alternative to Mitt Romney,
32:11
for those of us old enough to remember,
32:13
it's Herman Cain one week,
32:14
then Michele Bachmann,
32:16
then Newt Gingrich,
32:17
uh,
32:17
the not
32:18
Biden,
32:19
that sort of not Romney voters went from
32:21
candidate to candidate trying to find an alternative.
32:23
So you have that bubble when someone's new,
32:25
like,
32:25
oh,
32:25
this Sarah Palin,
32:27
when she was named as the VP.
32:28
Candidate in 2008,
32:30
she had a brief honeymoon period until that interview with Katie Couric.
32:33
So I think
32:34
as soon as,
32:35
and it's just today,
32:36
you know,
32:37
now she started dropping policies like,
32:39
let's make raising prices illegal.
32:42
This woman is not bright.
32:44
She had to have her sister run her campaign in 2020,
32:46
and that ended,
32:47
as you know,
32:47
disasterly.
32:48
How disastrously,
32:49
how bad do you have to be as a Democrat to not even be able to make Iowa,
32:53
and to have the California bankroll.
32:55
Funding your campaign,
32:56
it's,
32:56
it's insane.
32:57
So I,
32:58
I,
32:58
I,
32:58
the other thing I think that's interesting is,
33:00
as I'm sure you've been following as well,
33:01
Stu,
33:02
the down ticket issues.
33:03
Uh,
33:04
West Virginia is a loss for the Senate race,
33:06
no one questions that.
33:07
But Jon Tester of Montana,
33:09
very purple state,
33:10
if not reddish,
33:11
uh,
33:12
in all polls,
33:13
is now behind the Republican Senate candidate.
33:16
So I think things are going to get really squirrelly
33:19
once those start moving.
33:20
And the other thing is,
33:21
Stu.
33:22
Uh,
33:22
it's Washington is every man for himself.
33:25
She's a nightmare to work for by all accounts.
33:27
People will go to jail for Hillary Clinton.
33:30
No one's going to jail for Officer Harris
33:31
except for the people she imprisoned unfairly.
33:33
So you're going to be seeing a lot of leaks
33:35
to the press when her campaign doesn't do well,
33:38
and these people she hired have to make it clear it's not their fault.
33:42
It's the candidate's fault.
33:43
Watch.
33:44
You're going to have rats scurrying a sinking ship because she has no loyalty in DC.
33:48
Biden had 50 years of a Rolodex.
33:50
He knew everybody.
33:51
He could,
33:51
he could call anyone.
33:52
He could glad-hand the Republican or Democrat.
33:55
She has no base within the Republican Party,
33:57
Democratic Party,
33:57
excuse me.
33:59
Uh,
33:59
last one for you here,
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Michael,
34:00
because I've only got about 1 minute left,
34:01
but
34:02
if you are,
34:03
you're operating as the Trump campaign and your goal
34:05
is to get Kamala Harris in front of people,
34:07
I think,
34:07
right?
34:08
Like you just want her answering questions and doing something.
34:11
Because as soon as people get to know her,
34:12
they typically don't like her.
34:14
What's your strategy to bend this media narrative
34:17
toward that goal?
34:19
Um,
34:19
I would,
34:20
what I would do is,
34:22
I,
34:22
I,
34:22
it's gonna be very hard
34:24
because,
34:24
you know,
34:24
they're both on the same team.
34:25
It's like,
34:26
like if I want to turn you against Glenn,
34:27
it's gonna be really hard for me to do it because also because Glenn's a great guy.
34:31
But
34:31
if he keeps saying,
34:33
why don't you ask Officer Harris
34:35
if 9 month,
34:36
uh,
34:36
uh,
34:36
pregnancy it still counts as being a woman's choice?
34:39
Why don't you ask Officer Harris this?
34:41
Why don't you ask Officer Harris that?
34:42
At a certain point,
34:43
if not the media,
34:44
we're at a point where people are asking the candidates to themselves,
34:47
you know,
34:47
she's going to have these town halls,
34:49
she's going to have these meetings.
34:50
They tried to do it a little bit with Hillary in 2016,
34:52
and they were largely successful,
34:54
but she's not going to have that luxury.
34:55
And I don't think you could trust CNN or even Fox to ask her tough questions,
34:59
but you can ask those citizens who are in those rooms to get in front of that mic,
35:04
and watching her hem and haw is going to be.
35:06
Absolutely hilarious.
35:07
It's gonna be fascinating to watch.
35:08
And just so you know,
35:09
Michael,
35:09
I will turn against Glenn for a 6-inch Subway sandwich.
35:11
Uh,
35:12
that is the price.
35:13
So at any point,
35:13
maybe that's Subway,
35:14
that's not a good,
35:15
let's try another restaurant.
35:17
that connotation is there.
35:19
That's true,
35:19
very true.
35:20
Uh,
35:20
Michael Valli,
35:21
the host of You're Welcome,
35:22
the podcast and author of The White Pill,
35:25
A Tale of Good and Evil.
35:27
Michael,
35:27
thanks so much for coming on the program.
35:28
Always a great pleasure.
35:29
Take care.
35:37
Um,
35:37
let's go with a 6 inch Jersey Mike's sandwich.
35:40
Let's be,
35:40
let's be careful here.
35:42
Uh,
35:42
in fact,
35:43
speaking of Glenn,
35:43
uh,
35:44
he started a company a while ago.
35:45
It's called Real Estate Agents ITrust.com,
35:47
and it was a great idea.
35:48
I mean,
35:49
I don't like to give Glenn credit
35:50
for having good ideas,
35:51
but,
35:52
uh,
35:52
occasionally he does,
35:53
and Real Estate Agents ITrust.com was a great idea because
35:56
it's one of those things like here's a
35:58
really important decision you're making in your life.
36:00
You're looking for someone to represent
36:01
you in your biggest financial transaction,
36:04
and
36:04
the way we do it is like.
36:07
I know a friend of a friend of a friend who kind of just started,
36:10
they're doing it part time.
36:11
Can you go with them?
36:11
It'll be,
36:12
it'll really help,
36:13
it'll really help them out.
36:14
And it's like,
36:14
well,
36:14
that's not the way you make a decision.
36:16
You would not do that for like a lawyer,
36:18
right?
36:18
Like you would go with the best lawyer you could find.
36:20
Well,
36:20
if you're looking for the best real estate agent you can find,
36:22
you can find them at real estate agents
36:24
Irust.com because they do the screening for you.
36:26
They do the entire process,
36:27
they look at the results,
36:28
they look at.
36:29
Who this person is,
36:30
what the markets look like,
36:31
and find you the right person to fit your needs.
36:33
It's real estate agents Irust.com.
36:35
The name kind of says it all,
36:37
but you should know it's a free service to you.
36:39
Why not take advantage of it?
36:40
Real estate agents Irust.com.
36:42
It's real estate agents Irust.com.
36:48
I'm here with bad news.
36:50
I'm here to tell you about trouble in paradise.
36:54
For years and years and years,
36:56
maybe 50 years or so,
36:58
the close friendship between Joe Biden
37:02
and Nancy Pelosi after 50 years of smooth sailing
37:06
is suddenly on the rocks.
37:08
Yes,
37:08
it's a shocking development,
37:10
but
37:11
the New York Times
37:12
still
37:13
was brave enough to report it.
37:15
When will they speak again?
37:17
Once close,
37:18
Biden and Pelosi are at odds,
37:20
which is surprising if you think about it.
37:22
They've been friends for a long time.
37:23
And
37:24
why would you let a minor thing like,
37:27
let's say one of the two friends
37:29
completely
37:30
destroying the life's work of the other?
37:32
Why,
37:33
why would you let that get in the way of a friendship?
37:35
You know,
37:36
let's say,
37:37
you know,
37:37
just because Nancy Pelosi
37:39
undercut him at every turn and spoke behind the scenes to media
37:43
sources and leaked all sorts of terrible things about Joe Biden.
37:48
To the media.
37:49
Now of course,
37:50
to be clear,
37:51
most of those things were true.
37:52
I mean,
37:52
he obviously couldn't actually do the job,
37:55
but
37:56
why would he be so sensitive about that?
37:59
Just get over it,
38:00
Joe.
38:00
I mean,
38:01
sure,
38:01
you worked your entire life to become President of the United States and your
38:04
good buddy completely is responsible for kicking you out of the White House.
38:09
But just let it,
38:10
it's called letting it roll off your back,
38:12
you know what I mean?
38:13
Be a little bit more agile here.
38:15
Every once in a while these things happen.
38:17
You have these minor disagreements where one friend in a relationship
38:20
completely destroys the life of another one along with their reputation.
38:24
And honestly,
38:25
any thought that they might be coherent.
38:27
And sure that happens every once in a while,
38:29
even if
38:30
one of the people like Nancy Pelosi is actually older
38:32
than Joe Biden.
38:34
Now I think both of these people are
38:36
honestly terrible human beings in every way possible,
38:39
so I don't really care what happens to them.
38:41
That's the bad part of me.
38:42
But the good part of me looks at this and
38:44
says basically Nancy Pelosi destroyed the twilight of Joe Biden's life.
38:50
So the fact that they're not talking all that much doesn't really surprise me
38:54
too,
38:55
too much.
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39:08
I'm,
39:09
we actually had,
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uh,
39:10
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Proud to be
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an American.
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40:33
Unbelievable,
40:34
and
40:34
unbelievable can mean a couple of different things.
40:36
Sometimes it means,
40:37
ah,
40:37
it's unbelievable,
40:38
it's an amazing story,
40:39
and sometimes it means
40:40
it is an unbelievable story in the way that it should not be believed.
40:44
I'm not exactly sure which one of that this is,
40:47
but
40:48
the headline is a drunken evening,
40:49
a rented yacht,
40:51
the real story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
40:54
You of course remember the story after the start of the Ukraine-Russia war.
40:59
Let me give you the first paragraph.
41:00
This is the Wall Street Journal,
41:01
and it is worth a read,
41:01
even if you don't believe it at all.
41:03
It was a kind of outlandish scheme that might bubble up
41:05
in a bar around closing time in May of 2022.
41:08
A handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and a businessman had gathered
41:13
to toast their country's remarkable success in halting the Russian invasion.
41:16
Buoyed by alcohol and patriotic fervor,
41:20
somebody suggested a radical next step,
41:22
destroying Nord Stream.
41:23
It goes on to basically say,
41:26
That this meeting of some military guys,
41:28
some business guys,
41:30
led up to a plot
41:32
to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline and cut off Germany from all its natural gas.
41:37
It really hurt their economy.
41:38
They rented a yacht,
41:40
did some diving training,
41:42
and 6 people on a yacht.
41:44
They went down.
41:45
They put explosives on the Nord Stream,
41:48
and then blew a hole in it.
41:50
Where it gets really shady because you could see a couple
41:53
of special operators maybe going down and doing something like this.
41:55
Where it gets really shady is apparently
41:58
I think it was the Dutch or the Danish
42:01
intelligence got a hold of this information and told the United States about it,
42:04
the CIA.
42:05
The CIA then reportedly in this story told
42:09
the Ukrainian government about it and said,
42:12
Hey,
42:12
you can't do this.
42:13
Apparently it had been agreed
42:14
to be done by Zelensky
42:16
at one point.
42:17
The reporting says,
42:18
well,
42:18
Zelensky tried to cut it off,
42:20
but it was too late and they blew it up anyway.
42:22
That part seems really shady to me,
42:25
but
42:25
I will say this.
42:27
I've been saying this a lot lately,
42:28
but I will say it again.
42:30
At some point we're going to have a really great movie
42:33
that tells this story.
42:42
A week from tonight we're gonna have live
42:44
coverage of the aftermath of whatever Kamala does.
42:48
We're actually gonna be,
42:49
um,
42:49
doing sort of a live roast,
42:51
watching the speech that Kamala does at the end of the DNC,
42:55
and a bunch of great people are gonna be here making fun of it.
42:57
That's gonna be really fun.
42:58
I think Bridget Fettey is gonna be part of it.
43:00
uh,
43:00
Alex Stein's gonna be here.
43:01
I think Sarah Gonzalez is part of it.
43:04
Uh,
43:04
we've got a bunch of great people.
43:05
I can't remember.
43:05
There's a big panel,
43:06
so I'm going to be there hosting that.
43:08
That is next Thursday night right after the last DNC.
43:12
And of course I would also encourage you,
43:13
we'll probably have a new episode tomorrow of State of the Race,
43:17
kind of give you a state of where we are before the convention,
43:19
start of a little placeholder,
43:21
give you the updated polling information.
43:23
How far has
43:24
Hamala really risen in the polls?
43:25
Is that real?
43:26
Should we be looking at that?
43:27
Should we be scared of it?
43:29
What should we be thinking?
43:30
I'll give you all that tomorrow.
43:31
State of the race,
43:32
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43:32
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43:33
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