The Megyn Kelly Show - Disturbing New Reporting About Biden and Parkinson's Expert, and "Elder Abuse" Claims, with Stu Burguiere and Dave Marcus | Ep. 831
Episode Date: July 8, 2024Megyn Kelly is joined by Stu Burguiere, host of BlazeTV's "Stu Does America," and Dave Marcus, columnist for Daily Mail and Fox News, to talk about Biden doing a phone interview with his buddies at Mo...rning Joe this morning, Joe Scarborough's changing framing of the issue with Biden and the Democrats, Biden's sad and obvious cognitive decline, Biden’s rough ABC interview where he couldn’t remember if he watched the debate, how his team only cares about themselves and keeping power, the "elder abuse" we're seeing in public, the frequent visits from a Parkinson’s specialist doctor who visited the White House many times over the past year, what Biden was doing publicly before each of these visits, whether there's a massive cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline and mental fitness, why the American people deserve answers, the evidence that Biden’s health is worse than we thought and that he may have Parkinson's disease, the possibility this has been going on far longer than the country knew, how the American people deserve answers, how Jill Biden appears to be the one pushing President Biden to continue as nominee, more disturbing clips from Biden over the weekend, and more. Then Megyn Kelly ends the show discussing her annual 4th of July party and patriotic celebrations, how lucky we are to live in this country, how we all should be proud to be American, and more. Burguiere- https://www.youtube.com/StuDoesAmericaMarcus- https://www.amazon.com/Charade-Covid-Lies-Crushed-Nation/dp/1637581866? Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
Oh, I'm over, like, look at the amount of post-its and papers in front of me,
the amount of news that has gone down in the past few days.
I'm really looking forward to getting back in front of you and talking with all of you about all of it.
And we begin with the Democratic Party in massive turmoil over the continued fallout from President
Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance. Polls, most of them, there's one outlier,
cratering, donors fleeing, including very top, very wealthy ones,
more politicians calling for Mr. Biden to step aside, and new alarming reporting about what Joe
Biden is really like behind the scenes, highlighting the true scope of his cognitive decline.
And yet the president remains defiant. He gave a brief interview to ABC News on Friday night
with George Stephanopoulos. We'll get to that. I mean, it was incoherent. He can't finish a
sentence or a thought. He's in denial about his condition in this race and his approval rating,
his polls, you name it. And then again, this morning,
I guess this is meant to dissuade people from thinking he's not capable. He decided to appear
via telephone on his favorite TV show, Morning Joe, calling in for a surprise phoner. I said this
when Fox News was doing this with Trump. All right. I said this while I was
at Fox News about the Fox and Friends program allowing Trump to call in when he was a candidate.
It's inappropriate. It's unethical with a presidential candidate. They could easily
be sitting there reading notes, mimicking what an advisor says.
A fast typist could be getting his answers into a teleprompter. It's not ethical for any
news outlet to allow this of a presidential candidate. But they did because they're about propaganda on MSNBC and in particular on Morning Joe.
The president this morning set up to succeed. I'll let you decide whether he did.
Challenged his critics and the so-called elites in his own party. Listen here.
Remember all this talk about how I don't have the
black support. Come on, give me a break. Come with me. Watch, watch. I'm getting so frustrated
by the elite. I'm not talking about you guys, but about the elite in the party who they know
so much more. If any of these guys don't think I should run against me, go announce the president.
Challenge me at the convention.
I think most of the Democrats at this point would say, great, let's do that.
We would love that.
Joining me now for the full show, Stu Bergeer, the host of Stu Does America on Blaze TV,
and Dave Marcus, a columnist for Fox News and the Daily Mail.
Stu, Dave Dave welcome back things to say massive turmoil on the
Democratic side right now really was an understatement. And I guess we should pick
it up with the president now trying to save himself with an interview with George Stephanopoulos
and enter a couple a pair of interviews with two black radio hosts in Pennsylvania,
one of whom has now been fired, both of whom have now admit
admitted that they just asked the questions the White House provided them.
And frankly, I can tell you right here from this seat, the same is true of Morning Joe.
Guaranteed it was rehearsed. It was understood between them exactly where they'd go with this
interview. And the choreography of the whole thing was set between the sitting president and his BFFs
posing as some sort of journalistic figures
over at MSNBC this morning.
Stu, what do you make of it?
Fascinating stuff.
I mean, this has been one of the most incredible
week or two periods that I can ever remember in politics.
I mean, the debate performance
was one of the most catastrophic things
I've ever seen occur in politics for a candidate.
And now this fallout, which has been amazing,
everything from the media completely changing
and morphing into like this group of people
that actually like hold, you know,
a president on the Democratic side to account.
All of a sudden they're doing
their scattered showers of journalism all over the place, which has been fascinating to watch.
And of course, the morning Joe thing is just hilarious. You know, just a couple of months ago,
Joe Scarborough was on the air saying, you know, this guy is not only cogent, but he's the best
he's ever been. He was saying that it was a conspiracy theory,
that they kept underestimating him at their own peril. Then it seemed for a couple of days,
I guess, that he was supposed to be, well, it was a really bad performance and maybe he should be thinking about his legacy. And then today he seems to be back on the bandwagon. I mean,
the man seems to have absolutely no beliefs that are actually real other than what will get him more conversations at a cocktail party.
He seems to have no, no soul.
The way that he because there's this thing that happens when normal humans communicate with each other, Megan, which is when you're saying something that, you know, to be a blatant lie.
You feel this internal level of shame you feel uncomfortable doing it
most people feel this joe scarborough has mastered the uh the skill to not feel any shame whatsoever
when he says blatantly uh untrue things that disagree with each other moments apart. It is a parlor trick I didn't know anyone had,
but in reality, it's disgusting. And we have this put together, Stu. So Joe Scarborough,
this morning in his interview with the president, he if you hear the questions, he goes on like
the elites, the politicians, the press, you know, that they're calling for you to step out of this race. You know, these people who think they know better. You're one of them. You dishonest dumbass.
To your point, Stu, listen, we put together his just this past couple of weeks evolution and back
Scarborough's on Joe Biden. All right. Here he is. You'll hear the montage where initially he's
talking about how Joe Biden's the greatest ever best he's ever been. And then after the debate, how he sounded.
And then a few days went by and he reversed messaging again. And now he's out there
pretending he wasn't one of the ones calling for Biden to step down. Listen.
He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been. He spent much of the night with his mouth agape and his eyes darting back and forth.
I fear Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States unless things change
and tragically did not rise to the occasion.
Now is a good time in June, thank God, in June and not October, in June, this is the last chance for Democrats to decide whether this man we've known and loved for a very long time is up to the task.
Let's take a deep breath and let's understand it's only July the 5th.
Such an historic decision should not be made in haste.
It's unbelievable. Right. Thank God we know in June. Hey, you know what? Actually,
it's only July. Like, don't make the decision in haste. Anything could happen. He could turn
this thing, the whole thing around. I really do think it's incredible.
If we all remember here, too, that when it felt like the right thing to do to be buddies with Donald Trump, that's also what he was.
He was bringing him on television.
Licked the boots.
Licked them openly every morning.
Yeah.
Brought him on.
They went to each other's weddings and hung out and were buddies to the extent that even off the air leaked video
showed that he was basically asking Donald Trump what questions he wanted to be asked.
The same thing these poor reporters and radio hosts got fired for this weekend he was doing
to Donald Trump. And now he's completely reversed himself multiple times because whatever benefits Joe Scarborough on that day is
what he says. That's who the guy is. He is one of the lowest forms in the entire media and has been
his entire life. So, Dave, as interesting as Scarborough's hypocrisy and lies are, the
presidents are far more interesting. And here he was sounding more vibrant this morning than he has over the
past weekend and several years, trying to convince us that he is staying in this race and that really
the focus should be on Trump's terrible performance at the debate, Satu.
And I've not lost. I haven't lost.
I beat him last time.
I'll beat him this time.
And this is a guy who,
look, we talk about debate.
Look at his performance
with debate.
He lied over, you know,
Trump has 50 lies.
I mean, look, this is a guy
who says 10% of the universe.
Ah, yeah, I'm going to get into it.
He's just a liar.
And he hasn't done a damn thing since the debate. He's been riding
around in a golf cart for 10 days without a Mar-a-Lago talking with his wealthy friends.
I'm not running because of these guys, Joe. I'm running because, and you told me well enough to
know this from the very beginning, I ran because I never bought on in the trickle-down economic
theory. I never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world and cave to Putin or anybody else. I've never, never believed any of that.
And I'm confident that's what the American people are. So what I did was I went out and I wanted to
make sure that there wasn't any slippage at all. And with the average voter, I don't care what the
millionaires say. Okay, so it's amazing, Dave, that he's calling attention to the
fact that Trump's been silent for 10 days, which is the most disciplined Donald Trump has ever shown
in his life. It's exactly the right move. He's trying to bait him into saying something so he
can shift the story off of himself. Yeah, no, Trump has played this very well,
including the night of the debate. But listen, I'm so frustrated by all of this. And I talked to so many Americans who are so deeply frustrated because we are watching right now. Why nobody trusts politicians? Why nobody trusts pundits? We all watch that debate. We know what we saw. It wasn't a close call. That was a senile man, at least on the edge of dementia, who
is absolutely unfit to be the president of the United States.
There is no question about that. We all knew it. Our jaws were on the floor. But by the
next morning, all of the politicians and all of the pundits were saying, I'm sorry, how
do we spin this? How do we describe this? Because, well, you know, the Republicans,
they don't think he's fit for office, but they'd rather run against him.
And the Democrats, they think they don't mind the deep state running things, but now they're
worried he might lead, he might lose. And the American people are watching all of this. And
they're saying, you people don't give a shit about us. You don't give a shit about the country.
You're worried about maintaining power. So let me try to break this cycle. Joe Biden is not fit to be president of the United
States on July 8th, 2024. I don't care if it helps the Democrats, the Republicans, the libertarians,
he's not fit to be president. And everybody ought to just be able to say that it's infuriating.
Totally agree with you on every word. It's, it's infuriating that he gets to remain president between now and January,
no matter what happens. You're right. He's not fit. This person cannot be the president.
There are more gaffes even this weekend, which we're going to show the audience,
but I want to go through the news sequentially because it's just easier to digest that way.
He got out there not only on Morning Joe this morning, but he had this sit down with
George Stephanopoulos, the big sit down ABC news initially was going to release a little
bit on their evening program on Friday night with David Muir.
Then they were going to release some with Stephanopoulos on his Sunday show.
And then the big kahuna was going to be this morning on good morning America.
Well, that didn't happen because he only sat there for 22 minutes and you can't make three programs out of a 22 minute interview with the president.
And so they released the whole 22 minutes on Friday. And it was another disaster. He was
incoherent. Once again, as we saw during the debate, he could not finish a sentence.
He kicked off with this where he's not even sure whether he watched
the debate on television after it happened or not, Sot 5.
Your friend Nancy Pelosi actually framed the question that I think is on the minds of millions
of Americans. Was this a bad episode or the sign of a more serious condition?
It was a bad episode. No indication of a more serious condition. It's a bad episode.
No indication of any serious condition.
I was exhausted.
And did you ever watch the debate afterwards?
I don't think I did, no.
What is that, Dave?
Listen, Joe Biden wouldn't know if he was watching Matlock half an hour ago.
I mean, that's what it means. I mean, that's all that it can mean. Look, I think you've made a very good point about Jill Biden's role in this. Now we know that the great intellectual Hunter Biden is the primary advisor and gatekeeper to the president of the United States right now. They've admitted that he can only actually function between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. I mean, this is turning into a Monty Python sketch.
It's a level of absurdity that I don't think I've seen before. But I will say this.
It reminds me of COVID in a sense. One of the things I stressed in my book was that
it was horrible that COVID happened during an election year. It was the
worst possible timing because as soon as there started to be a difference of approach in the
summer, right? And DeSantis is saying, maybe we can open up and Cuomo saying, no, we can't.
Everyone got into their political silos and we were just not able to have a rational conversation.
And I feel like that's happening here. And we're just stuck in this cycle. I feel like if we had the moon landing today, by the next morning, both sides would be arguing
over whether it really happened or did it really matter or is it worth getting excited
over?
We just don't share the same reality.
Yeah.
And, you know, you speak of elder abuse that that's that's how I see what's happening now
that there I tweeted out over the weekend,
this is infuriating because what you have here is a critical wounded horse.
And instead of, I'm not saying putting him down, but instead of caretaking the horse, they're making him run again. The cruelest stable owners wouldn't put the horse back out there to watch him die on the track
or take a split bone and turn it into a massive compound fracture of a femur, right?
Like that's what they're doing right now, saying just run, just keep running, get out there.
And that's why he gives answers like, I'm not sure if I've watched the debate. I'm not sure. As he
just pointed out, it happened a week ago, a week. It was eight days when he sat down with
Stephanopoulos and he doesn't remember. Here was another. He kept saying no excuses,
no one's fault but mine. But then he kept making excuses for why he performed so poorly.
And the latest was Trump was yelling, even though the mics were cut.
How quickly did it come to you that you were having that bad night?
Well, Kenya was having a bad night when I realized that even when I was answering a question,
even when I turned his mic off, he was still shouting.
And I let it distract me.
I'm not blaming him on that.
But I realized that I just wasn't in control.
Stephanopoulos followed up by saying, you know, some of this began, your confusion, even before Trump weighed in.
And he just didn't have an answer.
He didn't, because there is no answer. It wasn't Trump's
yelling. It wasn't the mics. Again, in this interview, he said, I was exhausted.
Last week, at the end of the week, he said it was my travel schedule. Jet lag, we've heard.
Overprepared with details, he raised that again. None of that was the answer. And everyone knows
it, Stu. I mean, that's the problem he's up
against. He can say everything he wants here. And the only question is who's going to go along with
it because they want the gaslighting to continue because they still believe in him and who's not
either because like us, they don't think he's qualified to hold his position or because like
the Democrats who want to win, they realize he can't do it and they just love him or
hate him. They know they need to get him out of there unless, you know, in order to hold on to
control of the White House. Yeah, I mean, and the sad thing is, I think if you go the week period
from the debate to that interview, the interview was the best moment for him. I think it was
horrible, but it was, I guess, better than the debate.
When we were doing live coverage on Blaze TV of the debate, it ended and I couldn't even think
of what to say. It was jaw-dropping. I'd never seen anything like it. In any sane society,
obviously, he would not be president. My first thought coming out of that coverage was, good God, I have kids who live in this country that this man is in charge of of of managing in some way. I mean, you start thinking
about are my kids going to wind up getting blown up because of a mistake he makes? We've got a
of our military. He's the commander in chief of our military. Yeah, it is. I mean, I think the
biggest threat to our entire globe right now is the fact
that we have this guy as president managing the situation between Ukraine and Russia. God only
knows how that spirals out of control. He keeps telling them that we're sending them more and more
arms that go deeper and deeper to their territory, crossing his own red lines. It's a whole other
topic, but it's very, very disconcerting. But I think when you go back to whether he's going to try to hold on to power, I number
one, do give some of the blame to Joe Biden.
Yes, he is the racehorse, as you pointed out, that is limping very heavily.
And so it is sad to watch.
But this man has wanted this power since at least 1972.
It's all he's thought about.
He has wanted to be this man,
and I don't think he has any intent
of giving it up himself,
whatever coherent moments he has during the day.
And yes, you have Jill Biden and Hunter Biden.
Hunter may have a little bit of interest
having his dad be ahead of the DOJ right now.
Of course, he's going to argue for him to stay in,
but it's not just them.
I mean, look at the people around him.
You think Antony Blinken has a good job
after this is over?
I mean, you think everyone's like,
oh, wow, I can't wait to hire Antony Blinken.
Does Corinne Jean-Pierre have a gig
outside of Applebee's when this is over?
It's over for these people.
What else are they going to do
but argue, stay in power
because all of their life is justified
by this man having power.
They have nothing else of value. Can I follow up on that? There's a report in Politico about, stay in power because all of their life is justified by this man having power.
So, you know, can I can I follow up on that? There's a report in Politico about it, which is,
I have to say, doing a great job on this. They have reasons as you know, to be covering this story aggressively. Where were you when the rest of us were doing it in any event about how that
meeting he had last week with with the Democratic governors, you know, and after he had that meeting, try to assuage concerns.
And by the way, at that meeting, the governors of New Mexico and Maine told him,
you're going to lose our states. Our states are now in jeopardy. These are not swing states.
These are blue states. And all the news reported, those two governors stood up and said,
they're in jeopardy, sir, as a result of you. Anyway, you didn't have a flow of
Democratic governors coming out and saying
he's got to step down after that meeting. And you know why? Political reporting. It's because
they want to run. They all see themselves as the next Democratic presidential candidate in four
years. And so they don't want a young, potentially two-term Democrat winning other than Joe Biden
right now. They'd much rather put the racehorse out there and let him limp through another four
years, and then they can emerge as the saviors four years from now. It's craven how little these
people love America. They only love themselves still. That is 100% true.
And it's important to understand their motivation.
I mean, I think you mentioned Politico, which I was looking at the Politico homepage the day after the debate.
I couldn't believe it.
I mean, it was harder on Joe Biden than, I don't know, Breitbart is on a daily basis.
The New York Times, you know, looks like the Blaze and like, you know, Daily Wire.
I don't know where this has come from.
And actually, I do know, of course, where it's come from,
which is they now, for this short period,
believe that doing actual journalism
is the right thing to do
because they believe Trump is going to win.
They believe that this is their opportunity to get him out.
And I promise you, the second they cannot have a replacement, the second that is out of the picture, they will switch back.
They will all of a sudden start talking about, actually, he's starting to
be more coherent in these meetings. Actually, we're getting reports. This is turning around.
Maybe it was just a bad night. They will reverse themselves and act like none of this ever happened
if he stays in and survives the next couple of weeks. They will basically go on the air and say
that, you know, President Biden, who promised to cure cancer, must have
come up with a cure for Alzheimer's instead because he's now magically in control of all
of his faculties. They will reverse themselves. It is kind of weird, though, to live in this world
where kind of journalists are doing what they're supposed to do. I mean, they seem to be.
I love how they're pretending like, gee, we just stumbled upon this story, which was being covered up by the White House.
And so here we are in earnest now ready to cover it.
I mean, there's a nugget of truth in there, Dave.
There has been a massive cover up by the White House for sure.
They've been masking just how bad the problem is.
But all of us on the screen right now have been covering Joe Biden's
obvious struggles with dementia. It's not a medical diagnosis. It's just a lay person's
observation for years. And it's been ignored by all these same people who are like, oh, cover up.
Meanwhile, I want you to respond to that. But I do want to get back to the elder abuse
line because I do.
That's that's how this feels. Yes, he's ambitious. Yes, he's the most aggressively political person in his circle.
But when someone becomes infirm. Personally, I give them a longer leash because it's up to the family members when that happens to step in.
That's why you can go in and you get power of attorney when that happens to step in. That's why you can
go in and you get power of attorney when this happens to a parent or a grandparent. You say
to the court, I love my mom, my dad, my grandma, but they're no longer capable of making decisions.
And so please give me the power to make the decisions for them. And the courts do it regularly
because they understand that person, while they may have many moments of lucidity, overall, they've lost the capacity to make big decisions for themselves.
That's why the family's more culpable here. Michael Moore, of all people, who literally
today was calling Donald Trump the devil, made a similar point on, I think it was a podcast
interview. Take a listen to that four.
I have to be the only one to stand for Joe Biden. That's right. That's me. You heard me say that.
If I have to be the only one to stand up for Joe Biden here to protect him from the cruelest form of elder abuse I've ever been forced to watch, well, then that's what I'll do. He was in epic distress that Thursday night.
Every cognitive default in his mind seemed to be shutting down.
If this had been somebody that you truly cared about, loved, embraced? What would you have done?
Yeah, that was Rumble with Michael Moritz, his podcast. Go ahead, Dave.
Yeah, I mean, look, the question of what we knew about Biden's condition is tricky because the White House actually did do a pretty effective job of shielding the worst of it.
It seems it also may have gotten progressively much worse very quickly.
You know, we don't know it, but it's almost like the mafia, right?
Like we all knew apologies to Carol Markowitz.
The mafia doesn't exist.
We all knew the mafia existed.
Right.
But until the commission case, we didn't have the evidence.
We really couldn't prove it.
Right. existed, right? But until the commission case, we didn't have the evidence. We really couldn't prove it, right? This would be like if John Gotti had walked into a restaurant and like
murdered 25 people on camera, it just became completely obvious that this was real.
And I think the Democrats and the media ultimately have the same dilemma, which is that it's probably
going to happen again. So I think Stu's right that the liberal media would be perfectly
willing to reverse themselves. And somehow the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune,
if Biden stays in the race, are going to endorse him, even though they already called for him
to leave. Right. Somehow they're going to square that circle. But the real question is,
if if they do that and it does happen again because it will happen again,
will there start to be consequences? Are we already starting to see consequences? Right. Is the is the economic failure of CNN and MSNBC o back to the same Trump hating Brian Stelter loving
thing that they've been since the golden escalator. I don't, I don't understand it.
I think, you know, Scott Jennings, a couple of people, they're going to do it, Dave. They're
going to, if Biden stays in, they'll, there'll be a day of. OK, we were against it, but that's his decision. He's got the
but Megan, and then then the whole remaining period, however, I mean, it's going to at most
is going to be three months will be about how evil Trump is. That's it. Just Biden won't be
the story. It'll just be Trump is the devil. It'll be the Michael.
He's the devil. And therefore and I have to tell you, I was talking to a Democrat friend of mine over the weekend who I love.
A wonderful woman. She's not particularly political, but she votes Democrat.
And she I was asking her what she thinks about all this. And she's she's she's like, I don't really care if it's presidency by group.
Like, that's fine. As long as they care if it's presidency by group. That's fine.
As long as they keep enacting the policies I like.
It's going fine so far.
It's certainly better than with Trump.
Whoever's around him is doing things I like.
So yeah, I'm still going to vote for him.
I think there are a lot of Democrats who feel that way.
Yeah, no, I agree.
I don't think there's enough.
I think ultimately, especially more independent leaning Democrats and independents
themselves want a president of the United States. Because I thought one of the points Trump made in
the debate, and I know that nobody paid any attention to anything other than Joe Biden's
vacant stare during the debate. But there was one moment when Trump said to Biden, you don't fire
anybody. You never fire anybody. And it was
absolutely true, right? Jake Sullivan said, what, 10 days before October 7th that the Middle East
hadn't been that quiet in decades. He's still got his job. Mayorkas still has his job. What do you
have to do to get fired by the Biden administration? So I think that's actually something that Trump
should continue to hammer because if the Democrats are going to say, oh, it's president by committee,
well, the committee also sucks. Yeah. Did you see that photo tweeted out over the weekend
of president Biden's speech writing team? Oh my God. I just want to buy those kids like a
carton of cigarettes and a bottle of bourbon or something like, how can this be? They like they're still in the acne phase of puberty. It looks like a Columbia University
struggle session live and in the White House. It's terrifying. We'll put it on the board for
the YouTube audience. There's two of them in the corner doing work. I think they're filling out
resumes. I mean, it's unbelievable. Well, and Karine Jean-Pierre is in the background. She's their boss,
which makes a lot of sense. Now I totally understand like this. Okay. That, that makes
perfect sense to me. Have you seen this? I don't think I've seen the photo. I mean,
it makes perfect sense, but I have not actually seen it.
If there's somebody there over the age of 24, it'll be a miracle. They they're in,
they've got every, of course, all the racial and gender
and whatever boxes are checked. And they I mean, I guarantee you these people know
nothing, absolutely nothing about anything other than woke diversity, DEI type issues.
I want to get to this because to me, one of the things that's been really jarring about listening to Joe Biden speak is he cannot finish a thought or a sentence. And our audience is going to hear this
repeatedly during some of the soundbites that we've pulled for today, because this is a problem.
He's the leader of the free world. And here's just one example. This is right at the top
of the interview with Stephanopoulos. Listen to him. The whole way I prepared, nobody's fault of mine.
Nobody's fault of mine.
I prepared what I usually would do, sitting down as I did come back as foreign leaders
or the National Security Council for explicit detail.
And I realized partway through that, you know, I get quoted, the New York Times had me down at 10 points before the debate, nine now or whatever the hell it is.
The fact of the matter is that what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times.
I couldn't. I mean, the way the debate ran, not my fault.
No one else's fault. No one else's fault.
What?
First of all, this is how he speaks now.
As I did come back, national security, he's missing words, many words in his operative sentences.
And then in the middle of nowhere, he pivots to, I get quoted, New York Times had me down 10 points, which is untrue. The New York
Times prior to the debate had him down three or four, depending on which poll you look at,
according to Nate Silver, not 10, because he's trying to make the point in the middle of that
sentence that the debate didn't cost him any points. He says, now I'm down nine. There was
no substantive change. That's a lie. It's inaccurate at a minimum. He inserts it in the middle of
nowhere for what purpose, why it doesn't flow out of anything after national security advisors,
and then goes back to, well, he lied 28 times. And this is, you can't even follow the logic,
the method of thinking, Stu, and all these cognitive experts will tell you this is yet another sign.
It's a sign of cognitive abilities starting to shut down. When I watch him speak, I often think
of my 1978 MGB, a British car. When you turn the key, a lot of times it does not start.
And it makes noise and it does things that sound like
cars running, but it doesn't actually move you in any direction. And that's what it feels like
watching him. I mean, it really is disconcerting realizing this guy is also supposedly negotiating
with foreign leaders over major important things. You know, I think the most scary part of this is that like you have a night like that
debate night and you realize your entire political life legacy career is on the line. You have
days to address this and figure out a strategy. And the strategy actually is not the hard part,
right? Like the strategy is obvious. You go out there and you do a bunch of appearances where you look good. And if he were capable of doing that, he would have done it.
This was his opportunity to go out there and shine. And look, you know, I'll even judge it
on a Joe Biden curve. Like if every politician you say one to 10 scale, all Joe Biden content
falls between like one and three, like the best biden speech ever is a three out of ten
i will judge him on that josh holly yeah i if he put in a 2.5 you'd be okay with it
get to a three out of ten fine he can't even do this there are dozens and dozens of highly paid
professionals around him realizing what the stakes are for this campaign.
All of them are uniquely and completely focused
on making this one appearance seem
like this man can actually do this job.
He's got to get through 20 minutes
with a guy who is a Clinton operative.
And even with that setup, he still fails.
And the reason is because he is incapable of succeeding. That is a remarkable thing to say about a series of town halls and put him out himself out there for repeated interviews. Hello. Hello, McFly. They know that he's not capable. You're so dumb. Do
you think they don't know that he can't do it? That's why everything has to be controlled.
And he can only be given to Morning Joe and he can only be given to two radio hosts to agree to
ask the White House questions. And he can only be given to George Stephanopoulos, who was near tears. He was so upset with reeling off the president's
approval ratings in the polls and so on. That's why they're doing it that way.
The president was asked by Stephanopoulos about whether he will take a cognitive exam.
We're going to get into this in detail in two minutes. We're
going to take a break and then we're gonna get back into the cognitive stuff in depth,
but just listen to what he said to Stephanopoulos on that, on that score. It's, um,
what is it? Deb sought seven. I think.
Do you dispute that there have been more lapses, especially in the last several months?
Can I run 110 flat? No, but I'm still in good shape.
Are you more frail? No. Have you had the specific cognitive tests and have you had a neurologist,
a specialist do an examination? No, no one said I had to. No one said they said I'm good.
Would you be willing to undergo an independent medical evaluation that included neurological and cognitive tests and release the results to the American people?
Look, I have a cognitive test every single day.
Every day I have that test.
Everything I do.
You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world.
Would you be willing to have the independent medical evaluation?
Watch me between. There's a lot of time left in this campaign.
So no, he refuses to submit to an independent medical evaluation. He refuses to have a cognitive exam. And in the course of refusing that, he tells us, I'm not more frail than I was
three and a half years ago. I mean, that's just an absurdity that I'm in good
shape. The polls are not accurate. I'm not behind. And 36 is not my approval rating. Everything's
denied or lied about. And I refuse to give you a cognitive test. My God, Dave.
I mean, I guess he did admit that he can't run the hundred and ten seconds flat. So I mean, we got that. At least that's true. Yeah. Look, this isn't going to hold. You know, the other night, my son and I watched Wag the Dog. Right. And if you remember in that movie, there's a scandal. The president's up for reelection. And it was like the Firefly girl. And De Niro's character comes in as Mr. Fix-It. David Mamet wrote that movie. And one of
the things that that's sort of a drumbeat through it is you hear them say there's two weeks to the
election. There's nine days to the election. There's seven. And De Niro keeps saying, like,
we just got to string this out for 11 more days. We just put them together. We can do this.
This is four months. This is not going to hold for four months. If the election was next week, okay, you could do,
you could produce a war, right? You could do it. This is not going to hold for four months if
that's the best that Joe Biden can do. And so it's a hell of a pickle for the Democrats right now,
because if he's refusing to leave, I do think they're going to have to one way or another remove him, even if
it means invoking the 25th Amendment. I just I think they all know that this is not going to work.
Here was just some of the Democrat reaction to that interview with Stephanopoulos. David Axelrod,
CNN contributor and former Obama guy, of course, after Biden says only the Lord Almighty could
persuade me to give up this race. He writes denial, delusion, defiance, Paul Begala,
Clinton operative. It will not quell the growing anger. Nothing short of President Biden doing a
Simone Biles triple flip with a double twist can make Democrats unsee that debate. Julian Castro,
who ran against Biden in 2020 and raised the age issue. Then you really see a president in denial
and in a bubble. And Nate Silver, who I mentioned a moment ago, got the guy to polling says,
I wimped out in today's column and deleted a line saying that he should formulate a plan to
transition the presidency to Harris within 30 to 60 days. But I'm there now. Something's clearly wrong here.
And goes on to say, you can see in the ladder of being forced out, he's about halfway up.
It's got things like back channel conversations about pushing him out,
anonymous leaks to the press, influential non-electeds and donors say he should resign.
Backbench elected officials say he should resign. Signals from senior party leaders that he should resign with plausible deniability.
Mega donors saying he should resign and withholding funds. Normie senators or representatives saying
he should resign. All this is starting to happen. You know, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia trying
to call this meeting, which has now been bounced to tomorrow. You've got five Democrats going into
the weekend who openly called in the House for him to step down. Another six saying so or reverse those numbers.
Six going into the weekend.
Another five over the weekend joining the chorus.
You've got leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer not saying anything publicly yet.
But Pelosi saying we're entitled to answers on whether this is an episode or a condition. You've got top donors like billionaire Rick Caruso saying he is going to pause donations
to the Biden campaign and urging Biden to step aside. So you can feel these wheels in motion
still. And Politico this morning had a headline saying that several Democrats we spoke to view this Friday as a soft deadline for Biden to prove
he's up to the job, lest the effort to force him aside, gather or get more aggressive and
potentially more humiliating, which is just an absurdity. What's he going to do this week?
He's going to do the Simone Biles triple flip double back. I mean, like, what could he possibly
do to satisfy them by Friday?
They're waiting for polls. That's what they're waiting for. There was a sliver of good news for
Joe Biden in that realm following a devastating New York Times poll that showed him six points
behind Trump in likely voters, nine points behind Trump in registered voters. There was a Bloomberg morning consult poll showing him having steadied the ship.
We can talk about all that, but I've got to take a break. And when we come back,
we're going to get into the fact that it broke over the weekend, not once, not twice,
nine times over the past year, a Parkinson's specialist physician has visited the White House
and met with President Biden's personal doctor and potentially with President Biden himself.
Not one of these crack reporters covering the White House found this, disclosed it,
or reported on it. The New York Post broke the story yesterday.
There's been follow-up reporting since. And we went back and took a hard look at every single
one of those visits. And what, if anything, had happened in the president's world just prior?
Wait until you hear this.
All right, guys. So just a couple of news items that we got to go through today. Joe Biden wrote
a letter to all house, I guess, congressional Democrats in the wake of these house members
holding a phone call yesterday and several more coming on saying he should step down
and the senators preparing a meeting of their own. And I'll read to you in part what it, what he wrote. Um, I want you to know that despite all
the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race.
I wouldn't be running again. If I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to
beat Donald Trump. We had a democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and
decisively. This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run.
Only three people chose to challenge me.
One fared so badly he left the primaries to run as an independent.
He's speaking of RFKJ.
Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated.
There he means, what's his name who came on our program?
The nice man from Minnesota.
Dean Phillips.
The voters of the Democratic Party have
voted. They've chosen me to be the nominee. Do we now just say this process didn't matter,
that the voters don't have a say? I declined to do that. I feel a deep obligation to the faith
and the trust of voters of the Democratic Party that they've placed in me to run this year.
It was their decision to make, not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors. How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore
it in our own party? I cannot and will not do that. The question of how to move forward has
been well aired for over a week now, and it's time for it to end. We have one job, and that's
to beat Donald Trump. We have 42 days to the convention hours and 119 days to the general election. Any weakening
of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us. It's time
to come together. So there you go. This is him saying I won democracy. Listen to the will of
the people. I mean, I have to say this is very rich, very rich coming from a guy, Dave, who
tried to take away the right of voters in several states to vote for Donald Trump by getting him
bounced off, who unleashed the lawfare against Trump to try to get him put in jail so his voters
couldn't vote for him. But now he wants to be the champion of the voters who've spoken.
So we're just going to have to do what they said, ignoring the 72 percent of voters who, as James Carville has been jumping up about are saying
we don't want him. He's too old. Yeah. You know, it's interesting because that is almost
part of that anyways, almost word for word what you're hearing out of Trump world. Right.
Laura Trump, chair of the RNC, is making this very same argument that wait a minute, what you're hearing out of Trump world, right? Laura Trump chair of the RNC is making
this very same argument that, wait a minute, if you swap him out now, then how can you call
yourself a defender of democracy? Right. Especially if the idea is that some small
cabal is going to decide like if it's Harris or it's Newsom or, or whoever it is. Um, and look,
I think it's probably Joe Biden's best argument, but it doesn't change
the basic facts on the ground. And as I mentioned at the top, like everybody kind of sees through
the motivations here. And so we're just in this very, very weird place where until
we know for certain whether he's going to be the nominee or not,
I don't know when that's going to be. We're just going to be in this weird area of flux.
But bet on this. At the moment at which Republicans and the Trump campaign feel that the door is
closed and Biden is 100 percent going to be the nominee, we are going to be right back at he's
unfit for office right now. And those
attacks are going to be devastating. And they haven't started yet. I mean, Republicans really
haven't started attacking him on this issue yet. No, because they want him. Because that's exactly
right. But that's the difference between the three of us sitting on this set, I think, which is like
or at least, you know, you said it, Dave, and I agreed with you. I don't want to put words in your mouth, Stu, but I care about the country. I don't, I'm not a partisan. And so
I want him out. I, he cannot be the president anymore. He's not fit to be the president,
period. And the, let the chips fall where they may in the election. I think Trump will beat
Kamala Harris. I think he'll, he'd probably beat any of these others that they're offering up. He's clearly the favorite against any of them. I mean, yeah, I think so will beat Kamala Harris. I think he'll he'd probably beat any of these others that they're clearly the favorite against any of them.
I mean, yeah, I think so. But to me, it's like. We can't have an infant, an infirm, unfit president.
We can't have that. And but right now, politically, Trump and Biden, Joe Biden, not by not Democrats, are exactly on the same page.
They both want Joe Biden to remain the nominee.
Yeah, I mean, if you take it, go ahead, Stu.
No, no, no worries. I mean, if you take out, you know, the survival of all of our families.
Yeah. I mean, I really want Joe Biden to be the president as well. You know, the nominee as well.
I mean, I am torn on this a little bit. And when it comes to politics, I think quite clearly you want Joe Biden to remain the nominee if you're if you're Donald Trump or anyone who thinks the stuff that Joe Biden has done has hurt the country. That's that's
what I believe. I I'm a little more concerned with Kamala Harris than most just because
Harris, who is terrible, she's absolutely terrible, clearly, but she's not worse at anything than Joe Biden is. Their largest problem in every poll with their own voters, with independents, with Republicans
is how old the candidate is. And if you solve that problem, all of a sudden you've got a 54 or 55
year old running against a 78 year old. And all of a sudden, you know, Donald Trump's comparative
polling, which is much better than Biden's on the issue of age, looks a lot worse in that particular region.
If they could solve the one worst problem they have, it's certainly a more difficult path for Trump.
And honestly, that scares me because you might not be looking at six months with Joe Biden as a bad president or an unfit president.
You might be looking at eight and a half years of Kamala Harris.
And I don't know. I mean, that sounds really bad as well. I'm not sure. I think this
is like, you know, you go to the doctor and he and he says you have lung cancer and you're like,
oh, my God, that's terrible. And then he's like, but if you want to have pancreatic cancer,
you can have that instead. Like neither of these is just pulled lung cancer out of the air there Megan oh sorry Dave
sorry
sorry
just saying
none of these is a good option
that's why the Democrats are in such distress
Dave I think it's you that's pulling lung cancer out of the air
that's kind of your gig isn't it
we're rooting for you Dave
we want you to live
alright when we come back a deep dive
into that Parkinson's doctor and what he was doing at the White House. Don't go away.
Over the weekend, there was some bombshell reporting on the story of President Biden's
health reporting that could prove to be a key piece of the puzzle in determining
what's wrong with him. First, from The New York Post's John Levine, who reported that
President Biden's personal doctor, a man named Kevin O'Connor, met with a Parkinson's disease
specialist at the White House back in January of this year. That specialist's name is Dr. Kevin
Kennard. Okay, Kennard. O'Connor's the main doctor. Kennard is the Parkinson's guy.
Then on the heels of the New York Post reporting this news, Alex Berenson followed up and reported
that this very same Parkinson's doctor had actually visited the White House's residence
clinic nine times over the past year.
Most of the appointments set up by the Navy nurse who runs care for President Joe Biden.
In fact, from what we've gleaned from the White House visitors log, we've looked at it now too.
It's been on a near monthly basis that a Parkinson's specialist has been visiting the White House and the team that takes care of President Biden.
So we did some digging of our own, looked back at the dates that Kennard, the Parkinson's guy,
visited and what was going on with President Biden at or around the time.
The visits actually started not in this past January, but a year ago, July 2023.
Earlier on the day of Dr. Kennard's visit, the president traveled to Maine. Now in this video, you see him come down the stairs of Air Force One and fail to salute service members
waiting at the bottom of the steps. That's standard protocol. All the presidents do this.
He knows this. Instead, he just blows past them and starts looking around like he's lost. He then
walks off to the side and stops again. At one point, you see him then walk back
toward a Secret Service member standing in back of him. He appears lost. Approximately a month
later, the doctor visited the White House again, the Parkinson's guy. Days before he showed up,
President Biden had been in Hawaii to survey the devastation from wildfires.
While there, Mr. Biden struggled to say the names of various Hawaiian officials,
including both of Hawaii's Democratic senators.
This made headlines at the time, and we here on the MK show reported on it.
Watch.
Brian Shantz, our senator, Senator Mazie.
By the way, Mazie, I told my granddaughter, whose name is Mazie as well.
She said, that's why I like her anyway.
But her name is Mazie as well.
And Jill Takuda.
The president also appeared to be very pale during that trip.
Some suggesting he appeared to fall asleep at an event.
Look at him in this video.
He looks ghost white. A week later, Dr. Kennard was at the White House again.
This visit came days after President Biden made this incoherent and rambling comment about shootings that had happened in Florida. And he made numerous factual errors again a story
we reported at the time and so we have to act against this hate fuel violence and this is all
what's happening by the way almost five years to the day that five young blacks were killed
in jacksonville five years earlier at a gun shop, a store that are doing kids' toys.
And we have to speak out that there's a whole group of extreme people trying to erase history,
trying to walk away from it.
I mean, the idea that we're sitting here, I never thought that I'd be president, let
alone be president, and having a discussion on why books are being banned in American
schools.
And as an administration, we're going to continue to march forward with the job and the freedom
that we've worked so hard for.
You can hear him again, slurry, not completing his
thoughts, incoherent, talking about this shooting. What seems to be happening here is after speaking
about a 2023 shooting in Florida, he was trying to discuss a different shooting that happened exactly five years earlier in Jacksonville,
but he had all of the facts wrong. In that 2018 shooting, the gunman opened fire at a
video game tournament at the Chicago pizza restaurant, not a gun shop or a store doing
kids toys. Two were killed, not five, as he said. One victim was black,
one was white, not five young black people. Moving on now. The doctor visited again on
October 13th, which was understandably a significant time of stress as the Hamas
terror attack on Israel had just taken place. He again visited on November 17th, a day before President Biden had referred to China's
President Xi as a dictator, causing the president's secretary of state to visibly wince and shake his
head. President, after today, would you still refer to President Xi as a dictator? This is a term
that we used earlier this year. Well, look, he is. I mean, he's a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is based on what the former governor told you to do.
There was no White House visit listed in December, but the president was out of town for a large portion of that month.
On January 17th, the doctor visited again. This is the visit that prompted the Post to report on this today. And they saw it first. And it happened to come just days after the president mistakenly suggested that he was still in the Senate during
an event in Pennsylvania. Of course, he has not been a U.S. senator since 2009.
President Biden also appeared to get lost while being introduced to people.
He's let around, stopped. He's wide eyed. He makes odd gestures. He looks down,
then motions for someone to come over before shaking hands.
A few days later, during a rally in Virginia, President Biden mumbled a bizarre slurring
message about women and former President Donald Trump.
We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson. Don't mess with a man in America unless you
want to get the benefit. Days later, on January 26th, that White House meeting occurred,
that the New York Post reported on involving four people, the Parkinson's expert,
President Biden's personal doctor,
a cardiologist, and an unidentified fourth person.
We do know that President Biden
was at the White House that day.
In fact, he had held meetings with congressional leaders.
We also know that the president's official schedule
was clear at the time of the doctor meeting.
When questioned by the New York Post,
a White House spokesman said, quote,
a wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds.
However, the spokesperson refused to answer questions about who the doctors were meeting with that day and did not say that it wasn't President Biden. About a month later, President Biden's personal doctor would
issue his own summary about the president's health after conducting his annual physical.
He had noted that he had specialty consultations with various people from Walter Reed,
but he did not name the doctors. This is O'Connor. He's not naming Kennard nor anyone else.
He also noted the specialties included neurology and cardiology.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor said that the other doctors concur with his findings and that President Biden, quote, continues to be fit for duty and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations. That report was promptly panned by people such as former President Trump's and
Obama's former doctor, Ronny Jackson. The whole report is absolutely ridiculous.
It's nothing more than the White House's effort to check the box and hope that we'll move on from
this. The fact that they didn't do a cognitive test as part of this physical exam, they did a
neurological exam. There's five cards to a neuro exam. One of them that they conveniently
left out. The one that we care about is the mental status exam. They have nothing on his
mental status. This was a complete joke by Dr. O'Connor. And, you know, if he were serious about
this, he would have done a thorough, comprehensive, objective exam that included that included a
cognitive exam. And he would have stood up before the press, objective exam that included that included a cognitive exam.
And he would have stood up before the press in the press briefing room and he would have defended it and he would have answered questions. But he doesn't because he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to answer the questions because he's going to have to lie.
There would be another visit by the Parkinson's expert on March 28th and possibly more.
The White House visitor logs
don't go beyond March. Therefore, we have no way of verifying what happened in April, May, June,
or July so far. What we do know, the White House has some explaining to do,
and the American people deserve answers. Back with me now, Stu and Dave. Guys, as far as we can tell, his very first
appointment, we don't know if it was his, but the Parkinson's doctor's first appearance at the White
House, as we said, was a year ago, July of 2023. And he showed up, I think I said on the 28th.
We found out that the appointment for him to show up was made on July 11th. July 11th, Biden had been in the UK and appeared
confused when he was meeting with King Charles. That may or may not have been the thing that set
it off. Again, to underscore, we have no confirmation independently that all of those
visits were for President Biden or were him examining President
Biden. But the American people deserve answers because on many of these visits, he was seeing
the president's doctor. Was the president there? And Ronnie Jackson, the former doctor to Obama
and Trump, says that this guy, Kevin O'Connor, is just a mouthpiece for Joe Biden. That's why Jill and
Joe chose him, said openly that this guy would say anything they want him to say. So there is
plenty of reason to believe we are being misled by this White House. I don't know that the president
has Parkinson's, but we deserve an answer on why a Parkinson's doctor visited the White House
nine times over the past year. A cognitive exam
was apparently not performed at the president's annual physical last February,
and the president is refusing to take one now. Your reaction to all this, Stu?
It's shocking that this could happen. It's not shocking that he might be dealing with
issues like this. I mean, it seems to be pretty consistent. I've had relatives that have had Parkinson's, sadly, and
it's a really, really difficult thing to go through. As you point out, we don't know that
that's what's going on, but it certainly would explain a lot when you listen to those sort of
moments where he's slurring and having difficulties. And we did this thing on
Stude's America a long time ago where we had the Joe Biden triangle of emotion,
which was kind of,
you could plot all of his gaffes on this triangle
and the three corners of it were funny, sad, and scary.
And each one would kind of fit in a different slot.
And at the beginning,
I felt like a lot of them were funny.
Not recently,
but they all seem like they're sad or scary.
I'm terrified
for the future of our country. And I'm sad for this guy, even though I think he's been
considerably damaging to the country. I think he's been a terrible president. And I think he's
done a lot of things to unravel the fabric of our nation constitutionally and in so many other ways.
But of course, as a human being, you feel terrible watching this happen and you feel terrible that he has people around him allowing this to happen. Watching it in real time is really, really disconcerting. And, you know, I go back, you mentioned Nate Silver earlier, who's a Democrat, like he doesn't want Donald Trump elected. a piece talking about how probably is wise for the Democrats to switch out Joe Biden for somebody
else. And what he said at the time was, look, 75% of the American people think he's too old and can't
do this job right now. And maybe we're wrong, but if we're wrong, let's have them, let's take a
moment now in February to prove it. Let's have him do over the next few weeks for interviews.
And he outlined kind of generally nice categories, one with like a, you know, a major newspaper, one on one of the Sunday shows, one with maybe a
center right outlet, like the dispatch or something like that. Someone who would be tough, but you
know, fair, maybe kind of a wildcard interview, like a Joe Rogan or something. And he'd be out
of his element and just see how he handles those. And we can kind of make a determination
instead of doing that or something,
some sort of approach like that
to see what was really going on,
they intentionally hid it from all of us.
And while like it's true,
they did have a massive coverup
to hide this from reporters.
It's hard to excuse them
because any human being
with any level of an inquisitive nature would realize you have to ask more and more questions.
You have to get to the bottom of this.
And I think they all knew that this was going on at some level but chose to hide it from us.
And now they're getting burned by what they've created here.
And so I feel really bad for him and his family.
But I feel worse for the country because we are
now in a situation where we have a president who obviously can't do this job and has been sheltered
to an extent that is disgusting i don't know why they agreed to the debate in the first place if
they were going to go down this road they should have just said i will not debate a you know
convicted felon and hid even further i mean mean, thank God they actually allowed this debate to
happen. So at least the American people can see this before it's too late. Dave, what do you make
of this? I mean, if we've had a Parkinson's, well, we know the Parkinson's doctor has been there
almost every month over the past year. And if he was meeting with President Biden,
the man who refuses to take a cognitive test. And by the way, he's got multiple expertise.
So it could be another, you know, there's, there's other forms of dementia that he could
potentially be handling. It's a massive scandal. And there wasn't a single white house reporter,
people who literally get paid to do things as tedious as look at the White House visitor logs every day,
who thought anything of it? Or is it that they understood it was dynamite
and they didn't want to touch it because they understood it could hurt him?
Well, I'm very confused because I've been constantly told that this is the most transparent White House in the history
of the United States of America. Karine Jean-Pierre says that basically every day.
And of course, the reason that she says it is because it's so blatantly not true. And so
obviously not true. So yeah, it really is amazing.
But it's interesting.
Stu said something interesting about that Nate Silver piece back in February, right?
Because all three of us have spent, I mean, basically since Biden became president, we've all been asked over and over, do you think he's going to run?
Do you think he's going to run?
My opinion varied over time.
I was generally in sort
of like the 50 50 range, but there was always one caveat that I mentioned. I always said, listen,
you have to, you have to factor in a 10 to 15% chance that something just flat out medical
happens, right? He has a stroke, he dies, he took it right. And that has to go in the half of, you know, he's not going to be the nominee.
And I think that's what happened. I mean, increasingly to me, and I think that wonderful reporting by your team, Megan, by the way, and also like how indispensable is the New York Post?
Amazing.
You know, and John Levine for finding that that first story and opening the floodgates here. But yeah, I mean,
this is a mess. Everybody feels lied to. If that guy's been there nine times in the last year,
Megan, like that's not, there's no, there's no innocent explanation for this.
No, there isn't. And you know what? If there is, then give it to
us. Let's hear it. Show it. Give us a name. Tell us, you know, you don't have to identify somebody
because of hip up, but you can say a general in the Navy. But that's my understanding is
that he was there at least for sure on that first occasion to see the president's doctor,
this Kevin O'Connor, and met with him. And as we pointed out, may have met with the president as well, who we understand was there that day. And why? Who was he seeing? What doctor
comes to the White House for some random staffer, right? Random staffers like the rest of us go to
the doctor. The doctor does not come to us. They deserve, we deserve answers about all of this and
whether the sitting president of the United States has Parkinson's or any other issue relating to
brain health or cognition. They can't keep hiding it. All right. I do want to mention on the subject
of the lying White House liars that it does appear to have been known by everybody
around him. We weren't the only ones. We just were the only ones reporting it. Now we're getting the
more in-depth reveals about what they knew and when they knew it. And the latest is courtesy of
Olivia Nuzzi, who's been on this program. She writes for New York Magazine. She's
an excellent reporter. And she does an in-depth piece entitled, The President's Mental Decline
Was Like a Dark Family Secret for Many Elite Supporters. She's getting some shit for only
posting this on July 4th, right? Some of the things in here happened a long time ago,
but I will say she did raise problems that she noted in the president's cognitive abilities
back in 2020. So this is not her first time reporting on this, unlike many on the left,
but here's in part what she talks about. Yeah. She starts with a story about president Biden
at a private New Jersey fundraiser with powerful Democrats and rich campaign donors the Saturday after the debate, it was at governor
Phil Murphy of New Jersey's house. Uh, she says the content of his speech would matter less than
his perceived capacity to speak coherently at all, though much of what he would say
would not be entirely decipherable. Um, reporters were whisked away. The ones who were supposed to
provide constant coverage of his movements, it was made clear that they would be permitted
limited access to observe his remarks. Instead, they were whisked away from the reception or
wrangled. She, um, said she began hearing stories about the president's mental health
in January. And obviously she'd expressed some before that in January, I began hearing stories about the president's mental health in January.
And obviously she'd expressed some before that.
In January, I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists and donors,
all people who supported the president and were working to help reelect him.
Following encounters with the president, they had arrived at the same concern.
Could he really do this for another four years?
Could he even make it to election day?
They did not wish to come forward with their stories. They did not want to blow a whistle. concern. Could he really do this for another four years? Could he even make it to election day?
They did not wish to come forward with their stories. They did not want to blow a whistle.
When they discussed what they knew, what they'd seen, what they'd heard, they literally whispered.
They were scared and horrified, but they were also burdened. They needed to talk about it,
though not on the record. They needed to know that they were not alone and not crazy. She writes, for example, about this disturbing interaction. Longtime friends,
longtime friends of the Biden family who spoke to her on condition of anonymity,
were shocked to find the president did not remember their names. At a White House event
last year, a guest recalled with horror,
realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because it was clear
he would not be able to make it through the reception. Number two, saying hello to one
Democrat mega donor and family friend at the White House recently, the president stared blankly and
nodded his head. The first lady intervened to whisper in her husband's ear, telling him, say hello, and giving
him the donor's name and to thank them for their recent generosity. This is literally what we do
with our three-year-olds. Say thank you to Mr. Whatever, the neighbor who brought you this nice
toy. The president repeated the words his wife had fed him.
It hasn't been good for a long time, said this Democratic mega donor, but it's gotten so,
so much worse. A witness to the exchange told me so much worse.
A few more. She writes about Jill Biden seeing Olivia in April at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
They were in the basement for a photo op with the president.
In the basement, I smiled and said hello.
She looked back at me with a confused, panicked expression.
It was as if she had just received horrible news and was about to run out of the room and into some kind of a family emergency.
Uh, hi, she said.
And she glanced over to her right. Oh, I had not seen the president up close in some time. I had skipped this season's holiday parties and preoccupied with covering Trump's
legal and political dramas. I followed the first lady's gaze and found the president.
Now I understood her panicked expression. Up close, the president
does not look quite plausible. It's not that he's old. We all know what old looks like.
Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old. The president
was something stranger, something not of this earth. My heart stopped as I extended my hand
to greet the president.
I tried to make eye contact, but it was like his eyes, though open, were not on. His face had a
waxy quality. He smiled. It was a sweet smile. It made me sad in a way I can't fully convey.
I always thought, and I wrote, that he was a decent man. If ambition was his only sin,
and it seemed to be, she's on the
left, he had committed no sin at all by the standards of most politicians I had covered.
He took my hand in his, and I was startled by how it felt, not cold, but cool. The basement was so
warm that people were sweating and complaining they were sweating. This was a silly black tie
affair. I said hello. She knew him well. She'd
covered him for years. His sweet smile stayed frozen. He spoke very slowly and in a very soft
voice. And what's your name? He asked. Exiting the room after the photo, the group of reporters,
not instigated by me, I should note, made guesses about how dead he appeared to be
percentage-wise. 40%? One of them asked. This was in April. In April, guys. This is
a five-alarm fire for the country. And the left can rally. Joe Biden can rally.
Let's see if it'll include Schumer and Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries. But the rest of us have an
obligation to continue reporting the truth about his infirmity. Because what if they do get behind
him, Dave, and they pull this man over the finish line.
And somehow, like we just saw happen in France, the left rises up at the last minute and says the right is too much for us.
And this guy gets reelected to another four years.
Yeah, look, I don't know. I mean, you know, maybe Biden needs
to do like a balance of nature ad with like a before and after where like, you know, he's fine
or something. I feel bad for I don't feel bad, but I think Newsy was in a tough spot there.
Right. Like this isn't something I have to deal with very often because I'm a columnist, not a reporter, but reporters have to sit on things sometimes, right? The whole
reason that people are willing to give them information and access is because they trust
that that information and access is going to be portrayed, is going to be presented to the
American people in a way that's not awful for them. Right. There is a sort of game that goes on here.
You know, I do wonder what the editorial relationship is like.
It's always a little different.
But like if she's going back to her editors at New York Magazine in April and describing
this encounter to them, then at that point, I think at least New York Magazine has an
obligation to pursue that story, even if they're not going to burn her sources, even if they're going to let her take her time and do whatever she's doing.
You know, she what she described, and I thought in pretty decent writing there was the look in the eyes that they can't fix.
It's exactly what we saw in the debate.
It's that vacant, as she put it, otherworldly stare. And the fact of the matter is Joe Biden could recite the entirety of Homer in perfect ancient Greek. But if his eyes look like that, he can't be president of the United States and everybody knows it. she said she planned on publishing this before the debate, but that she was,
she had to work on it.
She was trying to get those anonymous sources on the record.
And the piece is always better when you actually have sources on the record.
Um,
she's,
she,
to me,
she doesn't seem like a reporter who's afraid of blowback.
I mean,
her 2020 piece was pretty brutal on Joe Biden.
And she writes about how she was ostracized from the White House for a long time because of it.
So I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt.
And I'm grateful she wrote the piece.
But you got to be careful.
You know, like it's one of the pieces of advice.
My mom was a criminal defense attorney and she represented a bunch of mobsters in Philly.
And, you know, she always told me like her piece of advice was like, listen, you can represent them.
You know, you can be cordial
with them. You don't go to dinner. You don't go down the shore for a weekend, right? You don't
go out on their boat because they get their hooks in you. And it's very hard for reporters because
they need that access. And there is a, you know, at Megan, there's a deal that goes on and it's
hard to stay on the right side of the line there if we even know where that line is.
That's why I one of the reasons why I liked my post at Fox, because I could always do whatever reporting I wanted to do on Republicans or Democrats.
And they would still have to deal with me because I had such a powerful post there.
They couldn't ignore Fox News and it was going to be hard to ignore me too. And over here, I've, I've wondered, I wondered when I launched the show, should I
interview politicians? Because they certainly don't have to come on the Megan Kelly show,
but I don't want to be somebody who goes soft on them because I need ongoing access.
And I thought about it a lot before I interviewed Trump, before I interviewed DeSantis.
And I think anybody who watched either one of those interviews, nevermind what I did with Nikki Haley, when she came on a Vivek, what all of them would know,
I just chose to do journalism and let the chips fall where they may. But you're right. It's a,
it's a consideration for those who are in the game that the fact that reporters are openly
Stu before this debate, talking about just how dead is he? 40%, right? Those same reporters,
none of whom, take it off of Olivia. Who else reported this? Who else talked about Joe Biden
in April at the White House Correspondents Dinner in this condition? Nobody. And by the way,
the first lady is gross. She's the villain in all of this. As far as I'm concerned,
she's out there right now. This just came across my phone. Um, here she is in what North Carolina.
Yeah. She's in North Carolina saying she's all in on his reelection campaign. She plans to make
three stops and in three separate States, Joe's made it clear he's all in and that's the decision he's made
just as he's always supported me. I'm all in too. Sure. It's just because he decided.
So you're all in. All of us know if our spouse were in this condition, we would hug them right
into retirement. We'd be sitting on the couch next to them watching Matlock. I think this
president's in the condition where you can just keep repeating the same episode over and over and
over. How dare she pretend this is a normal campaign and it was just a bad night. That's
her messaging. He's repeating, not the other way around. Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating to watch
this happen. Watching the media react to this,
and I think it was Derek Thompson over at The Atlantic, who I like. I think he does a lot of
good stuff. And he was kind of like frustrated about how, well, people are saying this wasn't
covered. Of course, Biden's age was covered. And it was by some, I mean, we've mentioned a few of
them that, you know, you know, Livia did of this, uh, you know, Nate Silver is not really
a reporter, but he talked about this. David Axelrod, right. Was on television mentioning
these sorts of concerns. There were some, but not nearly what was required for this moment.
And as you go through that story, I mean, I, you know, I remember where I was standing in my house
when I was on the phone with my grandma. And for the first time, she couldn't,
she didn't know who I was. Like, it's one of the worst moments of my life. You know,
I loved her to death. And every time I think about it, it's terrible. Like, I remember that moment
where she just couldn't track who I was anymore. I would remind her and multiple times in the
conversation, she would lose it and ask me again. It was a terrible, terrible thing.
And the family's response to that was not to say,
hey, what else can we get out of her before she's gone?
That was not ever part of the consideration.
It was how do we make her comfortable?
How do we make her last days the best that they can be?
How do we spend time with her and enjoy her
while she's still here,
when she's still a little bit with us? It's the exact opposite calculation with these people,
and it's revolting. And the notion, as reported in Politico this morning,
that they think he's got till Friday to really dazzle them, these Democrats, like prove that
he can be the nominee. What a joke. What is that? All these stories that she's writing about
match up with what we've seen with our very eyes, the waxy complexion, the seeming like you're not
there, the getting lost all the time, the believing dead people are alive and alive people are dead.
All of that, not knowing who people are, right? Like getting confused constantly about identity names, dead or alive, all of it. We, we, there was just new reporting
over the weekend. Cause now the knives are out for him, um, about Jackie. Remember the where's
Jackie moment? Um, when he thought Jackie Spires was alive, she was a Republican who had just died
in a car crash shortly before this
bipartisan event that he was celebrating. And she was part of the Republican coalition that joined
with Dems to make this thing happen. He had gotten up and at that event, he said, where's Jackie?
She was she was supposed to be here. Do we have it? Yeah, we have it. Here it is. Looks out 17.
And I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like
Representative Gover and Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie. You here? Where's
Jackie? I think she was going to be here. Yeah. Just so the audience knows, they had run a, an in memoriam video about Jackie right before he stood up,
his team helped put it together. He, he knew she was dead. She had recently passed.
And now it comes out that his team had put in prompter for him that she had died and to pay
respects. So he couldn't even comprehend either what he had just read or what
he'd skipped over. I'm not sure what his failing was there, but he couldn't hold on to the fact
that she had died. So all of what's in the Nuzzi report matches up perfectly with what we've seen
ourselves. And it is ongoing. Just this weekend, he got out there and told this long, rambling story.
I'm not even going to take a shot at trying to explain to you what this is about.
I'm just going to play it.
And you tell me when it's done what this story was about.
Sod 16.
But I tell you what, once, after our, I went to a local parade, a little parade, a little place called Hocasin, Delaware.
Right on the Pennsylvania border after our son had passed.
And I was sitting there at home thinking it was his favorite parade.
So I decided just to go into it.
And I was walking along in this small community.
And three guys, four guys about your size came running up to me. I thought the walking along in this small community and three guys, four guys
about your size came running up to me. I thought the secret
was going to kill them. And they came
running up. Swear to God, true story. I said,
Joe, what's all this damn stuff
about Pennsylvania? You're from Delaware.
You're from Delaware.
It never leaves you.
Huh? And you can see
at the end there, Dave, Jill Bideniden she's behind him and when she realizes
what he's doing she starts moving right up and we saw that again this way like that was this
weekend but we've seen that repeatedly now she's his handler she's the one who's going to take the of stopping us from seeing his decline. I mean, I wrote in my column immediately
after the debate. I mean, I wrote these words within five minutes of it ending. I said,
the question going into the debate was whether Joe Biden was fit to be president for four more
years. The question after the debate was whether he was fit to be president for four more days.
That's where we are now. Think about the fact that we're deciding whether this guy should be
president three years from now. I almost think of it this way, right? Three years when you're in your 30s or your 40s or your 50s,
things change, right?
It's not that big a difference.
Big difference between being 14 and 17, right?
Big difference between being 12 and 15.
Big difference most of the time between being 84 and 87.
The fact that we're even contemplating
this guy being in charge of the country,
the most powerful man in the world,
for four more years?
They're literally chanting four more years?
It's abjectly insane.
Nobody can look.
Don't even look at Joe Biden from 2020.
Don't make that comparison,
make the comparison to 2022 in the last two years, he has changed completely. Like, like this is,
this is madness. Yeah. The, the, just this past weekend on your diagram stew of funny and sad.
Now they're all sad. This one is sad, but it also, it's like kind of funny. I mean, I'm not going to lie. When someone showed it to me, I was like, what? Um, this is vice. This is,
this is Biden claiming he was the first black woman to serve with the black president.
Sorry, but it was given on a radio interview with WURD in Philly over the weekend.
It's Sada Levin.
Listen, guys, I said question George Floyd's humanity.
Led the birthing movement against President Obama.
Accused the Central Park Five.
They should be in jail.
By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman.
Served with the black president proud of the first black woman in the supreme court there's just so much that we can do because together
we there's nothing look this is the united states america okay and he had the questions
yeah so he had the question Let's get to that next.
But the fact that he can't even like he's not black and he's not a woman and he was not either of those things ever.
He just he and the White House is mad that people are nitpicking his words in reaction to that clip.
And they got all over.
Do you guys do we have the I think it's the one soundbite from Stephanopoulos
we didn't play.
Is it Sade where he says goodest?
They're all over reporters for accurately reporting
that he used the term goodest
in his interview with George Stephanopoulos.
And if you stay in and Trump is elected
and everything you're warning about comes to pass,
how will you feel in January?
I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest jobs I know I can do.
That's what this is about. Saying he said good as, which by the way, if you listen to the full
sentence, it makes no sense either. Grammatically, none of it makes sense. But now they've started
to nitpick all the reporters who are reporting
on these gaffes as saying, oh, please, you know, you don't let him get away with anything.
But meanwhile, they've let him get away with everything, Stu.
It's true. I am a little disappointed in you, Megan, for playing all these cheap fakes throughout
the program, highly edited, misleading videos that make people think this guy's not on as sharp as a tack.
It's fascinating to watch this
because all of the videos I think you've played
that preceded the debate,
I never read one mainstream media story
discussing any of them.
Now, they were serious.
He was lost.
I mean, when you were talking about the Parkinson's doctor and all those dates that you laid out like that, which was incredible, each one of those was massive. And conservative media hit that stuff. We would talk about it, and they would say, oh, you're motivated as a partisan against him. And of course, like, obviously, I don't think he's a good president. I don't want him to be president. So I think it's important for people to know this. It's important either way,
even if he's a great president. But like watching the media switch is remarkable. I mean, it must be
incredibly jarring for the White House. There was another clip from this weekend that came out and
I saw it read in a New York Times story. And they described how he went on this tour. He was trying to prove himself capable, but he was still making these incredible gaffes.
And they point out that on his 4th of July speech to military families,
he called Donald J. Trump, quote, one of our colleagues, the former president.
We have that. Yeah. Yeah. We have that. Standby. I think it's 13.
Listen.
And by the way, you know, I was in that World War One cemetery in France.
And the one that my one of our colleagues, the former president, didn't want to go and be up there.
I probably shouldn't even say it anyway.
We got to just remember who the hell we are. be up there. I should probably shoot him and say, at any rate.
We gotta just remember who the hell we are.
This is what he does.
He always starts,
he'll swear now to sort of cover up a gaffe.
He'll say, anyway,
just to sort of change his train of thought abruptly in the middle of a sentence
to cover up his incapacity still.
Yeah.
And I mean, like,
we played, I don't know,
you've played probably about 20 different
pieces of sound and video here in the show.
And you weren't even really planning to play that one
because it was sort of unremarkable, right?
It was like, you know, it wasn't bad.
Like, honestly, probably doesn't make the show cut today. Like it's probably on the cutting room
floor yet. The New York times is highlighting it. Like what changed here? Uh, all of a sudden
they've realized that their goal, which is the same to not let Donald Trump be president is now
served by getting this man out instead of keeping him in and hiding everything.
Right. All of a sudden, their goal is the same, but their mission has changed in a way.
So now you've got Jill Biden running to block him from making another mistake. And weirdly,
Ashley Biden reappears on the scene at the Fourth of July celebration at the white house. I'm just showing you this video. Very strange. It shows president Obama dancing and arms wrapped around him. Sorry, president
of Biden dancing. I'm kind of standing there looking at the fireworks with arms wrapped around
him. Those are Ashley Biden's wrapped around him. And I don't know why this is such an odd shot,
but then suddenly you're going to see her arms go up
and she starts kind of dancing. This is the one who said she took inappropriate showers with him
in her diary dancing. Okay. And now she bends down and gives the press or the visitors,
the ICU, like the fingers in the eyes and then pointing back to the people.
I'm not sure what that's about. Is that a reference to the diary? Is that she trying to, I don't know what's happening there, but the whole family is
reportedly rallying around him. And now there are reports that there's a rift between the family and
senior staff that's playing out. This is 100%. This is the senior staff saying the reason they're
talking about getting rid of people like Anita Dunn is pre debate scores that the evil family's trying to settle.
But this is one of the last stages of dying for a politician when the family and the intimate staff start publicly turning on one another.
Yeah, I mean, we've you saw this in I remember this happening in the McCain campaign back in 2008 over like Palin and stuff like that.
Right. And, you know, there's books about it.
And so there was this sort of public dispute between the campaign and the family and like and like, what are you doing?
Yeah, that's a bad sign.
And, you know, Stu's right.
You keep playing these things. I mean, now you have to remember all the times that he went out in front of the media and
said, oh, I better not because they're going to get mad at me.
Right.
Yes.
Remember all, you know, he would always do that.
He'd go out and he'd completely change American foreign policy in a speech.
And like 10 minutes later, there's texts coming out from the white house like oh he didn't
mean that but that's not what he meant um so yeah i mean there's just there's a mountain of of these
things and i think what we've been poking at from different directions throughout the show is that
you know yeah we had very good reason to suspect that it was bad. And yes, most of the liberal media, well, probably all of the liberal media, chose to ignore very obvious signs. But we're past it. We're past it now. You can't.
It's too late. The jig is up.
There's no drug you can give him. There's nothing you, again, you can't get that look out of his eyes. If there was a way to do that, everything. Right. So now Jill, Jill Biden tries to do the corral.
So now I guess Ashley Biden's literally putting her arms around him to try to hold him up or
show support. I don't know what the reason is. And the white house, meanwhile, is doing what it can
releasing the preferred questions to these radio hosts. This is the comeback tour. This is him
trying to prove he's still got, he's still vigorous. And so why do they feel the need to
give pre-scripted questions to interviewers over the weekend as he tries to prove his vigor?
Well, that's what happened in the case of two interviews he gave, um, to let's see civic media
radio host, Earl Ingram in Madison, Wisconsin, and WURD radio host
Andrea Lawful Sanders in Philadelphia. Both have large black listener audiences.
Neither is a journalist, but they were doing interviews with the president.
And they humiliated themselves because they accepted said questions and asked them,
I'm sorry, the sin is on them. The White House is disgusting and clearly doesn't believe in Joe Biden. But to actually ask the
question when your integrity has been insulted in this way is to affirm the White House's
assumptions about you, that you are a lapdog and you will do as instructed. And now the latter,
Andrea Lawful Sanders, has been fired, which is the right
move. Good for WURD. She never should have done it. And bizarrely, these two got on the air with
CNN's Victor Blackwell and admitted it. That's how we found out. He asked them the question.
You know, these sound kind of like the same questions. How did that happen? And I
think we have them admitting it and sought 10 or at least one of them. Were those questions given
to you by the White House or did you have or the campaign or did you have to submit questions ahead
of this interview? The questions were sent to me for approval. I approved them.
Okay, so the White House sent the questions to you ahead of the interview?
Yes. Okay. I got several questions, eight of them, and the four that were chosen were the
ones that I approved. And the gentleman later admitted he did the same, though,
as far as I know, has not yet been fired. Nothing says he's robust and can do this job. Like, please, for the love of God, ask these pre-approved questions, please.
It's incredible. I mean, the fact that that guy was admitted and the fact that they would even
attempt it in the middle of this sort of comeback tour where he's supposed to prove his virility.
I mean, it's just malpractice at a state that I can't even imagine.
And like, you know, at some level, you think of these people who are working behind the
scenes trying to keep this guy in power by any means necessary.
And if you suck out sort of the disgusting nature of that for a second and just think
of it as a job, it's got to be a really difficult job, right?
I don't know how you do it.
I mean, I was watching him at this black church
he was at this weekend and he's sitting there
and people are standing there.
People are dancing around him
and he just, that same empty look, just staring around.
He was sitting at one point, a friend of mine said
he looked like Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap
because he would always be dropped into
these situations that he didn't know where he was and you'd have to sit there. I love that show.
I love that show too. And you'd have to sit there quietly, like trying to figure out who he was and
what he was supposed to do there. That's what it is for Joe Biden every single day. And like,
if you could have just told him, Joe, just look around and smile. You're at a little bit of a
party. You look around. It's a fun day.
The church is there.
Everyone's excited.
All you have to do is smile
and nobody will notice at all.
I'm sure they told him that,
but he couldn't.
If he were capable of it,
it would have been done.
I got to go, you guys.
You're the best.
Thanks so much for being here, Stu and Dave.
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months free. Offer details apply. Happy belated Independence Day. Hope you had a great fourth. As you may know,
we have an annual celebration at our house. We do it every year and hence annual, but this year
I was not sure at all that we could pull it off. In fact, I did not think we were going to be able
to do it. Um, we were in a rental this summer as our house is having some work done at,
I just wasn't sure like where, where are the costumes? Where are the decorations? Whether the logistics could work at the rental, we were two weeks in Scandinavia.
It was just a lot. Um, but more, I thought about it, the more I realized this is actually an
important party. It's important to me, to my family. And I actually think it's got some importance to
our friends and our neighbors at this point too. It's not just a celebration. It's a life lesson about the incredibly special foundation of our
country. And it's a chance to bond with our community over our shared patriotism,
something of great value. And sadly, it's more and more scarce these days. It's also something else. A great musical tradition.
And those are important too. Year after year, people get used to the commitment of being with
one another on this one day, saying the pledge together, singing the anthem together, making the country's birthday
a real salute to our shared ideals. Our friends come over in the days beforehand to try on their
costumes, which I get for the team because it's just fun for me. We play patriotic music and
maybe have a glass of wine. This year, my hairstylist did
our hair like colonial ladies. We skipped the wigs, most of us gals. And it was such a joy
getting ready with my friends. This is the before picture. Our kids and their friends never say no
when we ask them to suit up. They don their get-ups just as readily as the adults do. And everyone knows
what a fun day this is. They have zero qualms about dressing the part. It really does add something
to the festive nature of things, right? To have like kind of just the costumes and the whole
production. On the big day, we put on a little play about the lead up to the Declaration of
Independence and the state of mind of the founding fathers at that point, before we get to the big reading and those of us who are on stage
meet and go over the script that Doug and I draft together. That too is entertaining and full of
anticipation this year. Uh, those of us were, we were in the kitchen and we read it and it was so
fun, like, you know, like a table read. And then we did a shot of tequila before we went. And I think that's
also what Thomas Jefferson did before he... We laugh at ourselves and each other. We get into
character and all the absurd, over-the-top ways a hoop skirt or a colonial wig might inspire.
This year, we actually stole a few lines from the play, The American Revolution,
in which you may remember our 10-year-old Thatcher
played Betsy Ross earlier this year, along with his fourth grade buddies. Here we are on the fourth
with some of those borrowed lines. A line has been drawn and I for one am prepared to cross it.
I am with you, brother. No more driving on the left-hand side of the road.
No more calling soccer football. Give me liberty or give me death.
Then it was on to the main event, the reading of the declaration, which really is stirring
when you hear it read out loud and with vigor. We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness.
It is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Yes. And so for the support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. But the best part, the absolute best part,
has become the big finish, which is when the marching band comes down the
street, pounding away on their drums as they approach, only to burst into song upon arrival,
including, of course, the national anthem. Ah, we started this last year and it was a Herculean effort to find a marching band,
as you may have guessed. But my assistant, Abigail Finan, has magical powers that made it happen.
For me, this moment is pure happiness. Last year and this year, I cried tears of joy when that
marching band came down the street. There's just something about them. And you know, I cried tears of joy when that marching band came down the street.
It's just something about them. And you know, I had many of my friends stop me and say they
had the same feeling. People are looking to feel patriotic. They're looking to be reminded about
what's great about this country and feel all the feels that you get when you sing those words and
think about the lyrics of the anthem, looking around, seeing our kids singing
it, hands on their hearts, alongside our neighbors, our friends, our community, all joined together in
song in celebration of America. It's one of those moments you experience knowing every second that
passes has become an instant treasured memory. Eventually the party wound down and some of our
friends migrated to the backyard where we let our
hair down a bit and partied colonial style able to relax now that the big show is over and just
enjoy being in each other's company we wrap the evening watching the fireworks together the bombs
bursting in air thinking about the beauty and the majesty and the excitement of
the night sky and of the day behind us. On Sunday, our family went to mass where,
as they did last year, they ended the mass with the congregation singing God Bless America.
What a perfect and beautiful way to cap off our celebratory weekend. And though I'm pretty sure
it's not
allowed, I did sneak a recording of the moment. I didn't get anybody on camera
because I wanted you to share. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, wide we fall.
God bless America, my home sweet home
God bless America
My home sweet home Oh, what a way to end the mass. If you were born in the United States of America,
you hit the lottery, the home of the free and the brave, a place where anything is possible,
where merit and hard work can make all the difference for anyone, irrespective of class
or background, where the poorest of kids can grow up to be president, black, white, doesn't matter.
Where a kid like JD Vance, I've been thinking about him lately, who was raised in Appalachia
without a steady father figure with soda in his baby bottle with verbal and physical abuse all too frequent can
grow up to find himself on the short list for vice president of the United States. That's us,
the land of opportunity. Yes, still more than ever. In fact, America, the liberator of Europe
and savior of the world, the winner of the Cold War, the world's greatest
superpower, still the dominant force in the global order, still the country that invented rock and
roll, the personal computer, the internet, the light bulb, the airplane, blue jeans,
the polio vaccine, the telephone, movies, sliced bread. That was us. The country to which millions
all over the world flock, hoping for a chance at a better life. Immigration remains a tough
issue in the U.S., but there is a reason that by a wide margin, America has more immigrants
than any other country in the world. People would do anything to live here,
to have an American passport, American birthrights, American rights. And most of us were born with
that. So celebrate, not just on July 4th, but every day. Take some time to treasure the gift of being an American and say happy birthday
to this gorgeous country of ours with its sweeping plains, majestic mountains, sparkling natural
lakes, borders flanked by deep blue oceans, and tell your kids to do it too. Godspeed, America,
and God bless. Thanks for joining me today.
See you tomorrow.
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