0:00

My mother believed and my father believed that if

0:02

I wanted the President of the United States, I

0:05

could be, I could be Vice President. Former

0:08

Vice President Joe Biden has been

0:10

elected President of the United States.

0:13

It is my greatest honor and

0:15

privilege to have been your President. We will

0:17

be back in some form. We are still

0:19

deeply divided. Public health experts warned this was

0:21

coming unless more was done and here we

0:24

are now. Are you proud of what happened

0:26

here today? Absolutely. Never

0:28

before in American history has there

0:30

been an uprising like this. After

0:32

75 million Americans who voted for Donald

0:34

Trump, I don't know how many today

0:37

are feeling, Dear God, what was I

0:39

thinking? But I would wager a lot

0:41

more are thinking that's carry on this

0:43

fight. Character matters. It

0:45

matters. Tell them

0:47

the truth matters. The 21st

0:49

century is going to be

0:51

the American century. Because

0:54

we lead not only by the example

0:56

of our power, but by the power

0:58

of our example. That is

1:00

the history of the journey of America.

1:05

269 days until the US decides who will

1:07

be their next president. And one thing looks

1:09

certain. It won't be Nikki Haley. This week

1:11

in Nevada, she didn't just lose to a

1:13

man currently under investigation for everything but

1:15

jaywalking. She lost to

1:17

the none of these candidates option. It's

1:20

pretty embarrassing. Marion McKeown and Sunday Business

1:22

Posters here as always to help us

1:24

sift through the latest news from America.

1:27

This week, though, Marion, we're also joined by

1:29

a very special guest. It's

1:31

his first time on the podcast. I can't wait

1:34

to hear his contributions. It's

1:36

a rat yesterday at

1:38

3 p.m. Eastern. Tina discovered

1:40

a rat in our office. No,

1:47

she can't believe screamed as loud as she

1:49

could. I wasn't here at the time later.

1:52

And she carefully bolted from the premises

1:54

faster than Mike Johnson after a standalone

1:56

bill had been defeated. She

2:00

only told everybody, son just hold them the race. I can

2:02

tell you if there was a rat behind us. When

2:05

questioned about the incident, she described the rat as being

2:07

as big as a rabbit. Oh,

2:10

my god. She now refuses

2:12

to enter the office, and I am surrounded

2:14

by rat traps, poison, of all kinds. Oh,

2:16

my god. Like a Hanna-Barbera kind of cartoon

2:18

set up here. So if you hear a

2:20

snap or a bang or a squeal at

2:22

some point, that is my rodent co-host. We

2:25

live in this. And

2:27

you're laughing because I am 7,000 miles

2:30

away from you, and I am feeling

2:32

terrified. Just no. Anything

2:36

except a rat. Anything. Yeah, it's

2:38

awesome. I'm looking through ghosts for

2:40

anything but Nikki Haley. Anything

2:43

but a rat. I literally, you

2:45

know, I actually walked into the path of

2:47

a lion when I was in Africa at

2:50

one point, like straight into his path. And

2:52

I was nervous, but I wasn't freaked. I

2:55

came across a rat once in Mayo,

2:57

and I nearly had a stroke. I

3:00

literally nearly had a stroke. I'm not

3:02

kidding. Yeah, it's just so unpredictable. Oh,

3:04

it's like what are we doing when

3:06

we're not here? You know, we're in camels.

3:09

But why are we so calm? What's wrong with you? I

3:11

don't know. I don't know. Maybe I grew up on a

3:14

farm myself, and rats were all over the shop. We

3:16

obviously are in the countryside here in Ireland. You

3:19

know, we've never had a rat in the office. Maybe the

3:21

rat knows something we don't know. You arrived back to

3:23

the worst rain LA has seen in 40. Now,

3:28

Los Angelesians, as we know, deal very

3:30

badly with the rain. So

3:32

they never can tell when they complain about the

3:35

rain. If it's actual rain, this looks pretty scary.

3:37

Yeah, this time there is. Yeah,

3:41

this thing is called an atmospheric

3:43

river. And there's also a complicating

3:45

factor called a Pineapple Express, which is

3:48

also the name of a very popular

3:50

brand of cannabis in California. But anyway,

3:52

between the three of them, including the

3:54

popular brand of cannabis, I suspect most

3:56

people are just staying in at

3:59

the moment. Now, there have

4:01

been the fire brigade, as

4:03

of about four hours ago, they've

4:05

been called out to about 350

4:07

mudslides because, you know, in LA,

4:09

I just came back from from

4:11

GC, by the way, where the

4:14

sky blue and pristine and everything

4:16

was just impeccable. But

4:18

in LA, they so many

4:20

of the little houses are built up into the Hollywood

4:23

Hills. And there are lots

4:25

of it's part of the charm and the

4:27

beauty of LA. And really, it's a very

4:29

beautiful city for people who haven't been here

4:31

and really charming, but you've got all these

4:33

little houses and no two or anything like

4:35

and they're kind of dug into the Hollywood

4:37

Hills and the mountains. And but

4:40

when it rains, when it comes

4:42

down like this, everything just

4:44

slides. So I was

4:46

in Laurel Canyon for quite a while, beautiful

4:48

little house there. But now, like

4:50

my favorite place in LA is the Canyon

4:53

Country Store, where I still go for my

4:55

coffees most mornings. I'm in LA and

4:58

now the whole thing is

5:00

just one big mudslide the whole

5:02

way down. Like houses

5:04

have been lost, the old houses

5:06

and trees have fallen on the roof. There are

5:09

cars just floating by on the street at the

5:11

moment with nobody driving them that I can see.

5:14

So it really has. LA has taken

5:16

a pounding. It's been described as

5:18

a once in a thousand year event.

5:21

Now, most of it is over, I think, as

5:23

of the time we're speaking now, but

5:26

they they are expecting more damage.

5:28

And, you know, there

5:30

was no rain here for I think about four

5:32

years. It was an utter drought. And this year

5:35

so far, there have been, I think, seven or

5:37

eight of these atmospheric rivers, which is the equivalent

5:39

of if you took a giant

5:41

basin of water, basically, and just turned

5:43

it upside down. Wow. Wow.

5:46

It's basically sad. Does it bring

5:48

up questions around global

5:50

warming, climate change? Like,

5:53

as in, does it make that

5:56

a bigger election issue or

5:58

is it still the economy? in

6:02

California like Gavin Newsom has

6:04

been and before him

6:07

Jerry Brown, California has been all over

6:09

climate change. They've led the country in

6:11

as much as the country will put

6:13

on this but they have

6:15

they've been at the forefront of the

6:17

battle against climate change for decades and

6:19

really you know things like bringing in

6:22

sort of regulations. Now,

6:25

AAMC LA is a very car heavy city

6:27

but bringing in regulations in California like to

6:29

clean up the air and it's really worked

6:31

the air quality in LA now is so much

6:33

better than it was 20 years ago.

6:36

It'll be almost now if not on

6:38

a par with Dublin but pretty close.

6:40

It'll be normally in the good category.

6:43

So

6:46

they've really done a lot of stuff but you

6:48

know you cannot have one state

6:50

dealing with climate change in isolation the rest

6:53

of America needs to buy in and it's

6:55

still very very patchy here and of course

6:58

you'll hear no arguments in California

7:00

that this isn't because of climate

7:02

change but it's also quite welcome

7:04

because the drought has been you

7:06

know before this once in a

7:08

thousand year event in California was

7:10

in the worst drought for 1200

7:13

years. I'm not quite sure how they measure these

7:15

things. It rings and freeze I

7:17

assume but so that drought has

7:19

been broken now and I think

7:21

everything's very grateful for it but

7:24

as well when this part

7:26

of the world you know around LA gets

7:28

some rain it just becomes

7:30

glorious because the wildflowers and the

7:32

mountains and the foliage and everything

7:35

just takes off and it really becomes

7:37

very beautiful. So I think most people

7:39

feel it's kind of a small price

7:41

to pay although you wouldn't know

7:43

that to talk to but as I say

7:46

at the moment here there's nobody on the

7:48

streets there's nobody driving everybody is I

7:50

don't know where they are but they're

7:52

not out for sure. They don't do

7:54

bad when they're here. I have a

7:56

few friends over there in LA and

7:58

they always laugh about it. The response

8:00

to rain and power. It's

8:03

not safe to drive and

8:05

years something about their the

8:07

Irish descent own it's it's

8:09

drizzle severe, a versatile and

8:11

it is. Look, I'm kind

8:13

of going around a little

8:15

bit here because. Anything

8:18

to do both. Talk about the absolute

8:20

shit show that's taking place on the

8:22

hill at the moment. Let's first talk

8:24

about Taylor Swift heading to the Super

8:27

Both. But if you believe the right

8:29

wing conspiracy theorist. It's the

8:31

Democratic party who scored a

8:33

touchdown at is what is

8:36

what is this idea that.

8:38

The. Us Defense Department is attempting to

8:40

manipulate the psychology of people so

8:43

that they'll vote for Joe Biden

8:45

send you. break this down for

8:47

us. Oh My. God. Third god,

8:49

where'd he go with his m?

8:51

Okay, let's let's start with the

8:53

most recent development which was in

8:55

the last couple a days a

8:58

spokesperson for the Department of Defense

9:00

as calm as and said we

9:02

are not using Taylor Swift as

9:04

part of a Cyclops. Like aside,

9:06

a psychological operations were not smart.

9:08

Enough and it's a it's a little

9:11

tongue in cheek look At the same

9:13

time they have had to come up

9:15

before say Taylor Swift is not working

9:17

for the Department of Defense. She's not

9:19

one of our people out there. She's

9:22

not doing things for us because at

9:24

moments there's something about the the. M

9:26

My god base that.

9:29

Cannot. Comprehend.

9:32

It makes our head explodes or

9:34

to have. This billionaire phenomenons is

9:36

businesswomen and pop star. An icon

9:38

who rothys our own software takes

9:40

no crust from any. once you

9:42

know who, who is a business

9:44

londoners loves the pop icon and

9:46

a very very good one am

9:48

at who's going in. As with

9:51

the houses seeking Nfl football alleged

9:53

the i will be though it

9:55

was. I'll take who's ever word

9:57

far as is. An and.

10:00

The only thing that can be going on here

10:02

because. And. South. Of

10:04

Kelsey that is as a business. Jeffers.

10:07

Yep, okay toys and for the chase.

10:10

Tags you advocate the Kansas City Chiefs

10:13

about. I've got a nerve signals of

10:15

they are the Superbowl Five A We

10:17

are. All of these things have been

10:19

put together because about the year and

10:22

a half ago. At seat is

10:24

an ad. Encouraging people to get

10:26

covered vaccinations, saying it hopes he's

10:28

a hugely popular guy in the

10:30

Nfl saying a box, get a

10:33

box in a bag said Saturday.

10:35

that immediately turned him into communists

10:37

as hippie Toby This, an infiltrator

10:40

of America. At now Taylor.

10:42

Swift's am has of a while ago

10:44

about a month ago maybe said to

10:46

have heard Swifty guy out there who

10:49

are a number of he says gulf

10:51

of five hundred and fifty million followers

10:53

on his are so there's a lot

10:55

of them had tax and she said

10:58

register to vote shelf next to revoke.

11:00

She didn't say both for Joe Biden.

11:02

she certainly didn't vote for Donald Trump.

11:04

She said register and vote and that

11:07

at demographic would be the eighteen to

11:09

twenty fourth The people that Joe Biden

11:11

tulloch. Allowed for love or money

11:13

was who Donald Trump is guessing

11:15

as morals. Weirdly because he's got

11:17

a lot of these young guys

11:19

and sleeps in. Who are these

11:21

angry new conservatives who are kind

11:23

of almost as a size sexes?

11:25

I think Donald Trump's so anyway

11:28

status if said, get out and

11:30

vote. and apparently. Not.

11:32

Gonna have registered close and apparently

11:34

over the next couple of weeks

11:36

a bands like definitely well over

11:38

a hundred thousand people didn't have

11:40

heard that and fifties didn't register

11:42

to vote. So you put an

11:44

altogether you have am a hard

11:46

boyfriend fiance with every is in

11:48

the Superbowl now season playing of

11:50

the halftime or saying half time

11:52

she's a lesbian be Japan was

11:54

a power to eat she's going

11:56

to be flown bucks and upon.

11:58

by elvis it is She's

12:01

going to the land just in time

12:03

and she and Travis Kelsey are going

12:05

to get engaged or married or something

12:07

at the halftime show. And then

12:09

they're going to go and campaign for Joe Biden and

12:11

they're also going to cast with Stell on the

12:13

whole of America that's watching. Something's

12:15

going to be beaded to every pair of eyeballs

12:18

that will make them go in November and vote

12:20

for Joe Biden. And also

12:22

Travis Kelsey is really a giant research. So

12:24

I did some of the bits

12:27

of the conspiracy theories that I've been picking

12:29

up and I did not make up one

12:31

of them except for, did I make up Elvis? No,

12:33

there was definitely an audience in there somewhere. There

12:36

was, I mean, Elvis is in Japan. It

12:40

is just clickbait, right? It is just some

12:42

conspiracy theorists thinking, well, if I put these,

12:45

line these dots up, people will click and they

12:47

can't have it. Yes, and though

12:49

there is a real rage

12:51

and frustration amongst the MAGA base at

12:54

Taylor Swift. They absolutely hate her. They

12:56

hate her because she's a hugely successful

12:58

woman. As I said, they hate her

13:00

because she doesn't take too much crap

13:03

from anyone. And they just,

13:06

she's everything they despise and she speaks

13:08

out on issues and, you know, she

13:10

says what she thinks, etc., etc. And

13:13

she's kind of the worst nightmare, a

13:15

woman who doesn't just make more than them,

13:17

who makes more than they and their entire

13:19

family and their entire state and their entire,

13:21

whatever making their entire lifetimes. And they just,

13:25

and the fact that she's, because

13:27

the NFL has always been Trump property.

13:29

Do you remember Trump with the taking a knee

13:31

and he went to Astacoll and Kaepernick and he

13:33

really acted like the owner of the NFL. These

13:37

are my boys. The team owners were

13:39

his buddies. And now it's like,

13:41

oh my God, when did the NFL go

13:43

Democrat? And it's all because of this

13:45

Taylor Swift busybody meddling woman and that

13:48

weirdo boyfriend of hers who is really

13:50

a lizard, not a football player. And,

13:52

you know, so it's, they're really, it's

13:55

sort of driving them nuts and they

13:57

can't figure it out. And how did

13:59

this happen? So it has everybody

14:01

and of course the Super Bowl is on Sunday. So

14:03

we'll see. You know there's talk that she'll

14:05

fly home from Japan to be there for her boyfriend which

14:08

I'm sure if you could do you would too. She

14:10

has her own plane, why not? But

14:13

if she doesn't make it, well it's so possible.

14:15

But there's this big thing that she's going to

14:17

turn up and something's going to

14:19

happen and also of course that

14:22

the whole thing was rigged by

14:25

the NFL for

14:27

the campus to get to

14:29

the finals. It was all to sell

14:31

tickets and blah blah blah and promote Taylor Swift's

14:33

career and you know like

14:36

just crazy stuff really. Well

14:38

less crazy is President Biden's

14:40

campaign starting to ridicule Donald

14:42

Trump on his very own

14:45

truth social, the

14:47

social media platform he started.

14:49

On Wednesday Biden Harris HQ posted

14:52

a campaign video alongside the message

14:54

have you seen this new ad?

14:57

At real Donald Trump. Now the

15:00

video I'll have to play it here for

15:02

you because I

15:04

really thought if we're in Super Bowl weekend

15:06

we're talking strategy. The strategy

15:09

seems pretty obvious. Let's take a

15:11

listen. Donald Trump is

15:13

truly confused. Nikki Haley is

15:16

in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people. They

15:19

don't want to talk about that. He

15:21

didn't just get me confused. He mentioned

15:23

it over and over and over again.

15:25

He's not what he was

15:27

in 2016. He has declined. That's a fact.

15:29

I mean we won last time. We won

15:31

50 states, right? This is not Donald Trump

15:34

of 2016, guys. What? What

15:37

is? If he's off the teleprompter he can

15:39

barely keep a coach in thought. I mean

15:41

that's just fact. We are an institute in

15:44

a powerful death penalty. We will put this

15:46

on. I think he's declining. I stumbled and

15:48

mumbled purposely. I do speak in long, complex

15:51

sentences and have a lot of material in

15:53

each sentence. If you have voter ID

15:55

to buy a loaf of bread, you

15:57

have ID to buy a loaf of bread. Have you

15:59

known? He's a

16:01

little confused these days. The person close to

16:04

Trump actually says that he's rattled by Biden's

16:06

efforts to get under his skin. Marion,

16:10

he has clearly figured

16:12

out that going

16:15

after this guy on the

16:17

basis of the issues may

16:19

not be the wiser strategy. Would

16:22

you agree that this might be the

16:24

beginning of an

16:26

attempt to just rattle the man?

16:28

But if you could just get him rattled, he

16:31

won't be able to throw the football. Well,

16:34

I think that's exactly what it is

16:36

that we have seen

16:38

when Donald Trump loses his cool that

16:40

he just becomes, you

16:42

know, he's not able to function.

16:44

He just becomes this sweating,

16:47

shouting, shaking, giant

16:49

orange wobbly thing. And it's

16:51

not edifying and it's not

16:53

attractive and it's not charismatic

16:55

and it's certainly not presidential.

16:58

And I think that Nancy

17:00

Pelosi was the path master

17:02

at doing this and she

17:04

and Biden are pretty good buddies.

17:06

And I don't know if there

17:08

wasn't a little word in from Nancy because

17:10

do you remember Jarlton? I know

17:13

we spoke about before when Donald Trump got

17:15

COVID, Nancy Pelosi,

17:18

she never lost an opportunity to

17:20

enrage Trump and she would do it.

17:22

She'd stick the shiv in in the

17:24

most subtle way. And you wouldn't even

17:26

know she does at least saw his

17:28

head explode. And I do remember

17:30

one time in Washington when he had COVID and

17:33

she was doing a kind of a press

17:35

gaggle on the hill and we were saying,

17:37

you know, do you know about President Trump

17:39

COVID and she said, oh, yes, and you

17:42

know, I'm so worried about him. I'm really

17:44

praying for him because of course,

17:46

as we all know, he is morbidly obese

17:49

and that makes it so much more dangerous.

17:53

And you knew she was saying

17:55

that. Just like him. Well,

17:57

the guy thinks he looks like Elvis like that. Exactly.

18:02

But this is sad. I

18:04

mean, like it does point

18:06

out, I'm getting your throat now, Mary, it

18:08

does point out a few things that I

18:11

don't think people have lined up properly. Does

18:14

it actually have an impact or a

18:16

power? Do you think it's actually worth

18:18

something outside of pissing

18:21

them off? Do you think it's

18:23

possible that this has an actual, this kind

18:25

of campaigning has an impact? I

18:28

don't know. You know, Biden

18:31

isn't that funny. Now I think that's,

18:33

and okay, I think hitting Trump on being

18:36

confused and all that is, I think

18:39

it's clever, but I

18:41

think you've got to be nimble on your feet as

18:43

well to carry that kind of thing off. You know

18:45

what I mean? I think it's

18:47

no harm for him to troll them at all.

18:49

I'm just a converts welcome and all that. I

18:51

think it is very funny in itself

18:54

and I think it's smart. But

18:56

I don't know that Biden

18:58

doesn't have that sort of, Obama

19:01

was quite good at that. That

19:03

kind of arch, kind of slightly

19:05

taking the mic and chilled

19:08

with it. And as I said, Pelosi had

19:10

that mischievous sense of humor where she knew

19:12

more than anybody had to get under Trump's

19:15

skin. I don't think

19:17

Kamala Harris does. And I think that

19:19

Biden is quite easily

19:21

written to himself. I mean, you know,

19:23

he's not a very accomplished

19:25

performer. So I really don't

19:28

know. I think with Biden, what

19:30

happened today in the House or

19:32

what's happened with the immigration has

19:34

indirectly given Biden the gift that

19:36

he needed weirdly to go after

19:38

Trump. But I think he will

19:40

be going after more of the

19:42

issues because Trump's only issue is

19:44

basically the border and how he

19:46

is being persecuted. And just like

19:48

Jesus Christ are coming after him

19:50

because he wants to save all the MAGA

19:52

people and, you know, et cetera,

19:54

et cetera. So I don't really

19:56

I think I know. And

19:59

I was talking to someone. somebody who is working on

20:01

the Biden campaign and they said that

20:03

they're very concerned that Trump

20:06

this time round has got

20:08

a really good online game apparently and

20:11

he's going to all those far right

20:13

sides where young conservatives hang out in

20:15

young white supremacists, mainly let's call them

20:18

what they are and they're putting ads

20:20

there and they're connect with them there.

20:22

They're going to where these people

20:24

are hanging out anyway and this

20:28

Democrat I spoke to said Biden

20:30

hasn't got a game yet

20:32

for younger voters. They're

20:35

not going to the sites where they might

20:38

be. They're not trying to find them and

20:40

he's still almost doing the old TV ads

20:42

and billboards. Nobody

20:44

looks at or watches. The campaign

20:47

really isn't targeting the demographic groups.

20:49

I know that and David Plouffe and

20:51

Dave Axelrod who were Obama's kind

20:54

of his kids back in 2008

20:57

and who have now become very wealthy individuals

20:59

particularly David Plouffe are saying

21:01

look he's going to have to sharpen his game.

21:03

We're not seeing any sign of

21:05

online game that's in any way effective

21:07

so maybe this true socialist is the

21:10

start of something that they're going to

21:12

maybe push out more and it's always

21:14

good to use humor. It's

21:16

always good. It always helps. I

21:20

know I'm biased and I do believe

21:22

in this more than others but in

21:24

a time when people are switched off and we've

21:27

discussed it so many times the general

21:30

malaise and fatigue, disgruntled, whatever you

21:32

want to call it with the

21:34

establishment and the system it is

21:37

kind of coming around the houses. It is

21:39

sliding the meds in with a spoonful of

21:41

sugar that if it can be done well

21:44

it gets much more traction. A

21:46

funny video you get much more traction than a

21:48

political video. It's time

21:50

to talk about what happened

21:53

when you referenced what

21:55

is actually taking place in terms of this

21:57

bill being defeated. Can you break it down for the next video?

22:00

the uninitiated who is maybe a

22:02

little bit cheesed off with what

22:04

keeps happening. What

22:06

took place this week and the implications

22:08

for the months to come? OK,

22:11

well, what happened was

22:13

last October, Joe

22:17

Biden wanted money for Ukraine.

22:20

He wanted money for Ukraine. And then

22:22

immediately after the October 7th attacks by

22:24

Hamas, and he wanted money for

22:26

Israel. He went to Congress and he

22:28

said, we need to pass a bill. The bill was

22:31

one hundred and four million dollars in total. And

22:35

he said, we need to pass this bill and

22:37

it's for Ukraine and it's for

22:39

Israel and it's for Taiwan. And there's

22:41

also a big humanitarian ten billion or

22:43

so humanitarian aid in there. And we

22:46

have to pass this because this is

22:48

really important because if we don't help Ukraine,

22:50

we're effectively helping people. You know, if we're

22:52

if we're not with Zlensky, we're with Putin.

22:55

And the House saw an opportunity

22:57

to tie by nothing. Not Magic

22:59

Mike or Maga Mike Johnson had

23:01

just taken over and he said,

23:03

no, no, no, no, no. We

23:06

are not doing anything unless it's

23:08

tied to a bill which will

23:10

address the border, the border crisis.

23:12

So Biden went back and

23:14

he went back to Chuck Schumer in the

23:16

who's the Senate leader. And he

23:18

said, basically, what can we do about this?

23:21

Anyway, long story short, what happened was a

23:24

senator, a conservative senator,

23:26

Jim Langford from Oklahoma,

23:28

got together with Kirsten

23:31

Sinema, who's the sort of quasi

23:33

independent for Arizona and also

23:35

Chris Murphy from Connecticut, a Democratic

23:38

senator. And they worked extremely

23:40

hard on a bipartisan border bill.

23:42

Because Mike Johnson said the only

23:44

way we're passing aid to Ukraine

23:46

is if it's tied directly to

23:48

a bill which will address the

23:50

border. So that is exactly what

23:52

they did. The Republicans

23:55

and Democrats together drafted

23:57

a bipartisan bill that

23:59

would. It went

24:02

up to about $118 billion, which

24:04

is included in that $20 billion

24:07

for the border, which included a

24:10

whole range of really effective methods.

24:12

Obviously more technology to watch, to

24:15

monitor who's coming over, but also

24:17

more judges, more manpower,

24:19

more – it would

24:21

basically expedite the whole asylum process,

24:24

more centers. Just streamline

24:26

the whole thing, make it much more

24:29

efficient. It wouldn't be foolproof, but

24:31

it would in a big way address it.

24:33

Coupled with that then, you would have a

24:35

situation which really for the

24:38

Democrats to agree to it was, I

24:40

was kind of surprised that if

24:42

the border crossings reached 5,000 a

24:44

day, Biden could

24:47

arbitrarily then shut down the border or indeed

24:49

any other president who followed Biden and say,

24:51

right, that's enough, hold up there, hold up

24:53

there. And we're not letting any more of

24:56

you in until we've dealt with backlogs. So

24:58

there were a whole number of things that

25:00

were considered very conservative for

25:02

Democrats to sign on to. But

25:04

anyway, they did it. So they went

25:06

back. On Sunday, the

25:09

whole bill was completed. Mitch McConnell, who

25:11

we know is the weasily

25:15

Senate minority leader, he's the Republican

25:17

leader in the Senate, who

25:19

has locked horns with Trump for peace, to

25:21

them to despise each other. Anyway,

25:23

McConnell came out repeatedly and said, we have

25:25

to pass this bill. We've got to get

25:28

A to Ukraine. This is really important. It's

25:30

addressing the border. It's getting A to Ukraine.

25:32

And then somebody obviously thought,

25:34

well, hang on then, what's Trump going

25:36

to run on? And of course, that's somebody who was

25:38

Donald Trump. Because the

25:40

only thing he has to run on is

25:42

the border's a mess. The border's a mess.

25:44

Look what Biden's doing. The border's a mess.

25:48

And we're going to impeach. And I'll get on

25:50

to that in a moment. The Homeland Security Secretary

25:52

Alejandro Mayorkas and oh my God, look at the

25:54

border. So as it

25:56

turned out then, the House Democrats realized

25:58

that it was a mess. if they

26:01

basically couldn't take yes for an answer. So

26:03

the Dem Cup said, okay, you know what's fine, here's

26:05

your border bill, we've given you pretty well everything you

26:07

asked for. Now let's sign it and now

26:09

let's put all this in place and now let's get

26:12

the money to Ukraine. But then Biden

26:14

would be going and see lectures of bipartisan

26:16

victory on the border, the first border legislation

26:18

in 38 years. So

26:20

obviously Trump was not going to have that.

26:23

So Mike Johnson then went and said,

26:26

instead of a rival, even though it was everything,

26:28

Mike Johnson had demanded he wasn't even

26:30

going to bring it to the floor.

26:32

And then bizarrely, three hours after Mitch

26:34

McConnell came out and made a speech

26:36

saying, we've got to pass this bill,

26:38

he came back out and said, this

26:40

bill is jet. So,

26:43

you know, the cynicism, the cowardice

26:45

and the craveness of all these

26:47

Republicans who have been going down

26:49

to the border and having their

26:52

photographs taken down there and look

26:54

at this mess, look at what

26:56

Biden has done, look what he's doing,

26:58

he's letting in terrorists every day. It's

27:00

an emergency. And now apparently it's

27:02

not such an emergency because it can wait until 2025.

27:05

So it's just, but

27:08

I think, you know, I don't know if Biden

27:10

is this clever, I have a theory. Okay,

27:13

so I have a theory that Biden and

27:15

the Democrats knew all along

27:17

that Republicans would never pass

27:19

this. So they were quite safe

27:22

to agree to everything, knowing it

27:24

was never going to be passed. So

27:26

I think that that may be part of the

27:29

damage and then that they could go to the

27:31

electorate and they said kind of a

27:33

double bluff and go, look, you see, we were there,

27:35

we wanted to sign this bill because Biden

27:37

said three separate times, send

27:40

it to my desk and I will

27:42

sign it immediately. He didn't even say

27:44

there were no qualifications, there was no if,

27:46

what's or maybes, there was no if you

27:48

leave that out or you put that in, he

27:50

just said, send me the bill and I will

27:52

sign it. And now he's

27:54

still saying, if he said it again, and but

27:58

it's the Republicans then. who

28:00

are blocking border reform, not

28:02

the Democrats. So they've kind of flipped

28:04

the switch there. Now, I don't know

28:06

if they're going to sell that to

28:09

the electorate, but at the moment, the

28:11

Republicans are looking very, very cynical and

28:13

very ineffective. And once again, the

28:16

Republican Congress, you know,

28:18

they have a slender majority in the House,

28:21

is looking like not just

28:23

a do-nothing Congress, but a

28:25

do-harm Congress, a screw-it-up Congress,

28:28

a Congress that will not let

28:30

things progress, will not work

28:32

for the American people. And Biden, in

28:34

a pretty hard-hitting speech, said over

28:36

and over, I just want

28:38

to work for the American people. I'm

28:41

working for you, but the Republicans are

28:43

working for Donald Trump. That's all they're

28:45

doing. They're just working for Donald Trump,

28:47

and they're scared of Donald Trump, and they

28:49

won't work for you because they're too scared of Donald

28:51

Trump. Now, that's a pretty damning message

28:54

to take out. And if Biden can

28:56

sell that effectively, and if the

28:58

Democrats can say, look, we worked with Donald on

29:00

the bill, we gave them everything they wanted, and

29:02

they walked away, you know,

29:04

then they cannot reasonably keep blaming

29:06

the Democrats if it's the Republicans who

29:09

are refusing to sign a bill

29:11

on the border. So I don't know how

29:13

to... They'll find a way. That's the only

29:15

thing I always think, is they'll figure out

29:17

some sort of version of it. It doesn't

29:19

need to be connected to reality. When

29:22

I was watching Mitch

29:24

McConnell, you

29:26

know, ring his

29:28

hands and say how woe is

29:30

me, all I

29:32

could think was, how is this guy

29:35

still in there? Now, Ted Cruz has

29:37

come out and, you know, called

29:40

the mismanagement of this border security

29:42

in Ukraine funding package another

29:45

reason that Mitch McConnell needs to

29:47

step down. How much

29:50

traction will that get? And how likely

29:52

are we to see this man take

29:54

his retirement? Well, I think

29:56

he will. I think there's no doubt

29:59

he's completely disempowered. there's a behind

30:01

the scenes struggle to become the

30:03

next Senate leader and it's basically

30:05

between Ted Cruz who everyone hates

30:07

and Josh Hawley

30:09

who everyone also hates, albeit not

30:11

as much as Ted Cruz. So

30:14

I think that one of those

30:16

two and probably Josh Hawley are,

30:19

you know, I mean Rick Perry, very

30:21

sort of big level trying to become

30:23

the Republican Senate leader, but certainly Mitch

30:26

McConnell has lost control of the

30:29

Republican Senate. Half

30:32

of them absolutely despise him and they are

30:34

taking their cue from Trump and the half

30:36

who don't despise him are concerned about him.

30:39

They think he's too old. They think he's

30:41

completely ineffective and to see

30:43

him and not only that,

30:45

you know, you can be old and you

30:47

can be frail but you can still have

30:49

moral fiber and to see the way he

30:51

literally stuck that little tortoise head back

30:53

under the shell and and just,

30:56

you know, went back

30:58

on everything he had said and caved

31:00

so easily was just like, you

31:03

know, you don't have

31:05

to agree with a leader if you

31:07

believe that they believe what they're saying,

31:09

you know, and I think that

31:12

Donald Trump, weirdly for his people, has

31:14

that authenticity. They

31:16

believe him. They believe that he believes what

31:18

he's saying and he probably does in the

31:20

moment he says it, but Mitch

31:22

McConnell just seems like the ultimate cynic

31:24

who will just play all the angles,

31:26

see which way the wind is glowing

31:28

and that you cannot trust his word.

31:30

He came out on Sunday and said

31:33

he and Chuck Schumer had never worked

31:35

harder than they worked together

31:37

on this bill. He took ownership of

31:39

this bill and then he literally slithered

31:41

away from it outside

31:44

the Senate chamber today. What a guy.

31:47

It's just honestly and YouTube, everybody up

31:49

there, you know, when I was up

31:51

there was saying, What have they

31:53

gotten him? What Have they gotten him? And

31:56

I Don't even think it is that, although

31:58

who knows, but I Think that. We

32:01

thought way he is a

32:03

man who is absolutely lacking

32:05

in principle and in in.

32:07

Integrity of any form we saw

32:09

when he refused to that Merrick

32:12

Garland nomination for the Supreme court

32:14

don't through it his election year

32:16

and then he ran through Am

32:18

aiming at the Amy with said.

32:21

Goodness of Amy to Amy Cool

32:23

with m Opt out only bears

32:25

flatly me thousand dollars. So. It'll have

32:27

been a he has no. Integrity of he

32:29

has no words and away they

32:32

probably shouldn't be surprised that he

32:34

and went back on his word

32:36

because he is on principles was

32:38

even for him it was pretty

32:40

shameful. I thought wow, sweep an

32:42

awful lot more to get through.

32:45

In the second half of my

32:47

conversation with Marion including Tucker Carlson

32:49

has confirmed an interview with Vladimir

32:51

Pillow Talk me as we Jaffa

32:53

means to talk But is this

32:55

the and for Nikki Haley at

32:57

there's a Ton. Of news thus we've

33:00

got to get to and the only

33:02

way to hear it is over on

33:04

patriarch.com Forward/irishman abroad I will be in

33:06

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33:10

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33:12

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33:14

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33:16

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33:22

late show are sold out. The Saturday

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33:28

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33:32

and a couple of tickets left in

33:34

Bristol for the seventeenth at Marion. Thank

33:36

you so much for this and we'll

33:39

see you guys over on Patria. Will.

33:41

Be right back after this commercial

33:43

break. At

33:46

White House senior living on

33:48

less feel slighted. Our

33:51

liberty. And.

33:55

Round. I've

34:01

been eating everything I couldn't find. I've been

34:03

eating all of the Italian food, basically.

34:06

And ice cream. Chocolate chip ice cream. White

34:08

House senior living, where

34:11

residents feel like friends. Ready?

34:18

You have the cameras rolling. A

34:21

lot of people who would probably

34:23

consider themselves liberal have done very

34:26

well financially under the Donald Trump

34:28

four years. You encouraged espionage

34:31

against our people. You

34:34

condemn any interference by

34:36

Russia in the American election.

34:38

By Russia or anybody else?

34:41

Russia, please, if you can,

34:43

get us Hillary Clinton's emails.

34:46

Please, Russia, please. To renew

34:48

America, we must revitalize our

34:50

democracy.