And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for! It's time for the Skate for Breakfast for now! It's Friday, July 5th, 2024 and this is the Stake for Breakfast Podcast, episode 414 and 415. Make sure you're subscribed to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. Find us on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Google Podcasts. Check out the Stake for Breakfast Linktree to take your shows Instagram, our latest sub-stack and verified accounts on Twitter, Getter & True Social. What's up everybody and welcome to the first of two big Friday editions of the Stake for Breakfast Podcasts today. I'm Rowan and I've got Noah here with me and we're checking out lots of breaking news. It was a more than forgettable, 4th of July and Independence Day experience coming from the Biden administration this week. But we'll give you a recap on Ho Ho Ho Happy 4th of July. The Democrat Party continues to project mixed messages in the media regarding Joe Biden and if he's going to remain the Democrat candidate for President, we'll bring you to lay this there. Will Joe Biden be forced out before the Democrat National Convention during or even after? We'll analyze and we'll try and find all the big headlines between the disarray that's going on within the Democrat Party. We've also got a great slate of guests coming in here today, retired U.S. Army Colonel, and former advisor to SecDeaf. Colonel Douglas McGregor is going to be here. We'll be sitting down for the first time with former Pennsylvania Senatorial candidate and top advisor to Vivek Ramaswami's presidential campaign, Kathy Barnett. We'll catch up with the New York Young Republican Club President, Mr. Gavin Wax, and circle back with one of our favorites. The National Chairwoman for the D.C. Young Republicans, Kingsley Wilson will be here as well. But before we jump into any of our interviews, let's get into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Monkey, this is not nom. This is bowling. They're a rule. Hey, hey, hey, Junior! America! It's like 4th of July. So, stand by! Alright, everybody. Welcome to the State For Breakfast podcast. I'm Ro knows here with me. Yo. If you're a first-time listener, welcome to the show. If you're a long-time listener, welcome back to America's fastest growing. And quickly, we could be coming favorite political podcast. Two Big Friday editions of the show on deck for you today. We've got a great slate of guests coming in here as well. Colonel Douglas McGregor will be joining us. I think some of his answers will be, well, I don't want to use a military term clichédly, but shock and awful, to say the least. We'll touch up with Kathy Barnett for the first time. She reached out to the podcast recently, wanted to talk about some things that are concerning her regarding this election cycle, and we had a wonderful conversation regarding just such. And then we'll catch up with Gavin Wax, also the New York Young Republican Club president, one of our favorite guests. And speaking of which, can't mention favorite guests on the show here without talking about the national chairwoman for the DC Young Republicans. That's Kingsley Wilson. She'll be joining us as well today. So, Big Post Independence Day editions of State For Breakfast. On deck, Noah, how was your 4th? It was outstanding. I could sort of see some fireworks over the mountain, but it was very quiet. My dogs weren't freaking out, like I normally do. Far enough away to just see enough of that don't bother the dogs, I like it. Yeah. My dogs were reenacting the Normandy storming of saving Private Ryan yesterday when it's stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Were they the actors that were hiding behind the blockades or the actors that were running? My pugs just went into hyperventilation and like walking in circles, but my border collage was literally the guy who was looking at the guy who picked up his own arm. Geez. Yeah. I feel bad, man. We used to dose some of the dogs that we had before with some meds that the vet gave us. They worked pretty good. Their high as fuck. I mean, we live pretty close to a local range enough that you can hear it from my house in my backyard all day long. Yeah. We got helicopters from every federal agency in the military practicing about 10 miles east of where I live. And they fly, I mean, they buzz the tower all day, Black Hawks like 30 foot over the palm trees. You could see the guy sitting in the window. They'll wave to you sometimes. I mean, they're that low. That's crazy. I saw somebody posted a video and it was like they were saying that while their dog was eating the entire time it was growing up from a puppy. They were playing fireworks on TV or YouTube or whatever at increasingly loud volumes until they just don't give a shit now when there's real fireworks. That's good. You factor in the surround sound. You could probably make it a pretty real life experience to say the least. Yeah. My son's little league team for all stars keeps on rolling. They're facing elimination games though. They have to play four straight to win out. So it'd be interesting. Yeah, the dog days of summer, this is when you're supposed to be playing baseball. Not like the professional team, which we prefer in this household, which is the New York Yankees. I knew yesterday 4th of July is a big thing. Yankee Stadium night before they had an amazing fireworks display. But I don't know if you know, I know you're not too into like the nitty gritty and ins and outs of sports. No, but they had a good old fashioned national anthem standoff yesterday before the game. You ever see one of those? A standoff? Okay. So everybody comes out of the dugouts and puts their hats over their hearts when the rendition of the anthem is played. Now, if there's going to be a standoff at the conclusion of said anthem, players will decide to remain on the field and see who will be the last person. To stop loving America. And the Yankees. It's equivalent of whoever moves first is gay. Exactly. Two Yankees, two Reds, classic standoff, and the ump's worn the bench because the Yankees were the home team. So obviously long story short, if the players won't get off the field, the manager gets ejected before the game starts. Five minutes and 41 seconds, it went following the conclusion of the national anthem to the point to where the entire team was on the field for defense. The pitcher had warmed up and the first batter for the Reds had entered the batting circle. I love it. At which point the Yankees manager who, I mean, they're on a skid right now. They've lost 13 of 19. Looked at his players and told him to get in the fucking dugout. One guy bailed, one guy bailed from the Reds and it was down to 1-1. Fans were all into it. And then he like gave him a second look with the backwards thumb to get the fucking the dugout. So the Yankees guy turned first and, you know, the Reds player got a standing ovation, but I just thought how disastrous on the 4th of July for the home team, the Yankees to lose. Back down. A classic standoff. Well, wasn't much said for baseball. They lost eight to four. So, yeah, it is what it is. And some people will blame that, you know, as the foreshadowing of the game, I'm sure. Yeah, and I mean, it's the entitlement of the New York fans. We talk about it all the time with some of the guests who also enjoy the New York sports fear. The best part about being one, even when your team sucks. The stadiums are always packed because the players go and just boo the players and the owners. Makes for good sports. It lets them know that, you know, playing in the mecca of sports is unacceptable when you're not winning. And I feel like the Yankees are about to make a flurry of trades before the end of July when the trade deadline hits. But speaking of which, and you're probably wondering how I'm parlaying Yankees baseball into what's going on in politics. Well, the Democrat party might be thinking about making a couple trades before the trade deadline as well. Considering what's going on with Joe Biden and his family. Man, this was, I think, politically. I could say that I called it, but I fucking called it. Yeah, we're getting pretty close. I'm still 50. We're just going to feed him to the wolves, like I said. 51-49 Biden stays in, and that's just for logistical, bout-related legal reasons, money reasons. But the needle moves closer and closer to 50-50 every day for me. I know you think he's going to be out of there either before the convention or sometimes shortly thereafter. But, you know, it's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. First time, I think, in modern politics that we're seeing, you know, these stipulations for a first-term incumbent who's running for re-election. This is something that happened a couple times on the back end of presidencies, you know, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, obviously. And a couple others dating back to, you know, pre-modern era where health and mental capacity came into question and who was really running the country. But it's never been this overtly in a digital age, especially when you have the media who's carried your water. Since Barack Obama started his first term and essentially all through the Trump presidency, the election cycle of 2020, and now, up until the summer of 2024, where we're getting ready to hit the ballot box in just four short months now to where the media is even for the most part turned on you. You know, they're not doing it without credible sources, I'll tell you that much. Because there have been some reports from the New York Times and the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, places like Axios and Politico that said, "The staff who is most close to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, the most trusted of which, are the ones who are leaking these tidbits to the media." And there's also some high-level Democrat figures within the party. I'm talking about governors and senators, et cetera, who have carried the water now who are, you know, going out and saying like, "Oh, yeah, I love Joe Biden on TV." And then as soon as they hit cut, he's saying, "But off the record, I am scared for what's going on right now." So, you know, it's a wild time. Watching people dive headlong into supporting an obviously demented old man. And I don't mean demented in like a, like, that's just like a technical term of what's happening to his brain. He has dementia. Oh, okay. So you're doing like a Dr. Phil where Donald Trump's saying mental institutions and insane assignments, but on the ground it says therapeutic treatment centers. Yeah. I like it. That won't get us a check mark on Spotify though. But yeah, you know, and then when you just saw the optics of what's happened, Joe Biden has been completely hidden outside of a couple very structured teleprompter directed events. You know, he had a medal of honor ceremony. And, you know, he did the Fourth of July event that takes place at the White House yesterday. And besides that, they've, you know, tonight's going to be the night because apparently he's sitting down with ABCs, George Stephanopoulos, while on the road in Battleground, Wisconsin, fundraising. And it's supposed to be a no hold bar, unedited interview. So either it's going to be like three minutes long or there's going to be edits. No, there's going to be edits, but they're going to do. They're going to do it so much better than they have before. Yeah, they're recording it today during the day and it's supposed to air at 8 p.m. Eastern. So I guess we'll have to see where it goes. We'll have some of them. Yeah, even if there was like a clock in the background, they would still like somehow manage to Photoshop or whatever the video equivalent of that would be. Sure. Cheap pakes, as they like to call it. Cheap fake with themselves. They would cheap fake it. Yeah. Hopefully they don't. It's open. Oh my gosh. That would be weird. Who got fired for that? Whoever got fired for that, we know you had to have gotten fired for that unless you're maybe you're a DEI hire. I just like how the video comes around like every couple of weeks. It'll be like, "Hey, don't forget this banger." And it just shows them like it has like the stopwatch counting down to any blinks. It's like four minutes. But it might. It may be something that has to do with the medicine that they're giving him, quote unquote, "medicine." The regiment. Methamphetamine. Because during the debates, he stopped blinking too at one point. His eyes were like squinty for like the first half and then when that shit kicked in, it was like, "You were shining the dentist's light in his face." Yeah, it's like every junky movie of like the zoom in on the eyes and then like the pupils dilate. Oh, I like it. Fast motion montage of the drugs. Yeah. Oh, man. Is it sad that we're talking about the president of the United States? I wish he was just like a shitty policy president. If he would have done everything exactly the same and not been like a functional retard, I'd be so much better with where we're at right now and I would still feel like Donald Trump had a better and average chance of kicking his ass in November. But you know, this is getting bad. And you know, by the end of the show, we'll kind of paint a picture to where everybody's at because we're going to take you through the course of the last few days over the news cycle. Again, the interviews we got today, all the politicians are getting a couple of days off from stake for breakfast. They're out in district. They're with families. And a lot of hard work in regards to their own campaign. So some people reached out and they're like, hey, I can't catch you on this off day at a weird time or that off day at a weird time. And I was like, you know what? Let's just do it the last two weeks of July. We've got everybody scheduled who usually comes in plus some new ones. Lauren Bobert's got a whole new team around her since she's, you know, won her primary out in Colorado four. So she'll be joining us for the first time next week. We'll also catch up with Congressman big supporter of President Trump, Greg Stooby for the first time. We'll have all of our America first senators that come on the show. Tommy Tuberville will be here. So we'll Ron John and Dr. Marshall, and then we'll be catching up with just about as many house reps as we can before the end of the month and get you guys up to and through the RNC convention, which consequently starts in 10 days. So big time excitement, we're going to find out more than likely who the VP pick is. Donald Trump's already got two rallies set up for this week. Believe it or not. All day is a Tuesday down into Ralph, Florida, he'll be out at 7 p.m. And on next Saturday, he'll be in Butler, Pennsylvania. So the rally circuit starting to fill up at that time of the year when Donald Trump like gets to get out there, open collar, hat on complaining about the heat, but also astonished about how many people continue to come out and triple digit weather for him. So we're here for it. And let's get started jumping into the news as we see a, I don't know, I guess I can consider it politically a very forgettable 4th of July, you know, everybody celebrates it in their own ways. You see some fireworks, spend time with family, obviously watch baseball, do a little barbecue and the fact of the matter is that we're celebrating 248 years of independence. And for as much as we'd like to throw, well, the Constitution, everything about it into the wind these days, you still have to find some reasons to celebrate. One of the big concerns that's been raised up on Capitol Hill lately and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was the team that Joe Biden's setting up around him, which includes convicted felon and former junkie, someone who was kicked out of the military as well, smartest man, he knows Hunter Biden. Well, here are a couple clips on this throughout the course of the show, but let's lead in a little bit of that as it was taking up some of the new circuit yesterday before the 4th of July festivities got kicked off, let's check it out. Good evening news. We're now learning that Hunter Biden is attending some of the president's meetings at the White House, staying close to his father post debate. NBC's Monica Elba is reporting from Washington, D.C., what more can you tell us, Monica? Well, these are new details coming into our team, Chris, along with my colleagues, Kristen Welker, Mike Memley and Sarah Fitzpatrick. We have learned from sources familiar with the situation at the White House that Hunter Biden has been by his father's side ever since they were at Camp David. This weekend is a family where they had some discussions about the president's potential path forward here and his re-election campaign, and that since he returned from Camp David last evening with his father, we understand that Hunter Biden has even joined some meetings and conversations that have taken place between the president and some of his most senior advisors and senior staff. And we'll leave it at that. You know, Noah, at the very least, is it concerned you in any way, shape, or form that someone who has been accused of not only tax evasion and fair violations, but influence peddling throughout the world on the back of his father to be sitting in the highest level meetings, quite possibly that our country hosts, in addition, being privy to national security and intelligence information that most regular people, including all of those who are convicted felons, former junkies, or kicked out of the military, should be receiving. I have concerns. Yeah. I'd say a red flag or two might have been raised. Like, I mean, should he even be allowed on the grounds? Well, you know, this did also mark the one year anniversary of the cocaine that was found at the White House. Yeah, I don't think they're going to be giving him a thorough pat down on the way in, which is probably how that ended up in there in the first place. I think they got rid of all the dogs, too. The dogs that weren't biting people. Well, they would sniff his crotch probably until, you know, somebody tried to pull the dogs back because he probably had some dope on them and the dogs probably got pissed off that they weren't getting acknowledged and getting their treats for finding the dope and just bit their handlers. No, it was actually Biden's dog that was biting the Secret Service agents. Yeah. Sad, but true. And, you know, not just raising red flags here on State for Breakfast, but also, and already within the House of Representatives, my Turner was on Fox and Friends this morning talking about, well, maybe, congressionally, we should do something about this or even could do something about this. Let's check it out. Chris, my Turner to that point, you've sent a letter calling for some congressional oversight as to Hunter's new role. We know the press secretary said he's been in meetings. We saw him at the Medal of Honor ceremony and your letter says this, that it is disturbing to learn. These events are transpiring in the West Wing. It's unclear what official meetings and phone calls Hunter Biden is participating in and in what capacity and whether these discussions include classified information. I want to know about that, but I also want to know, big picture here, whether there needs to be a select committee into Biden's mental acuity, because I'm reading a Bloomberg headline about allies saying he needs to step aside. We just heard from Kevin McCarthy, foreign leaders have called him expressing concerns. So this is Hunter, but it's also big national security picture. Right. And I know that there are a number of decisions that are on backlog in the White House that have serious national security implications for which no one is making decisions. And I think many times when we hear Biden speak, we wonder whether or not he understands his own policies. I think we're getting to understanding that he does not. He certainly doesn't understand the implications of the decisions that he's making, but the fact that he's turning to his son Hunter, of course, has no official position in the government should not have any access to classified information, should not even be in these important national security discussions really shows that things are deteriorating very concerningly at the White House. Congressman, I've had a lot of people arriving on social media since this story came out that Hunter was privy to or in the room with potentially classified information. We've seen both President Biden and President Trump be scrutinized over their handling of classified information and who they allowed access to it. And what we've learned is a lot of ambiguity over the authority the President has. Do you understand if there's a formal process, if the President with his authority can just say, listen, I want that person in here, do you understand what the formality of it is and what would need to happen or what hasn't happened or potentially what role was broken? Right. Well, the President is the ultimate decider, but in this instance, what you're having is the President, including him in discussions that are being conducted by other staff members. And the disclosure of information that perhaps the President hasn't even digested yet, so he's clearly not in the position where he's making active decisions as to what information we disclose or not. This is fraught with peril and is certainly incredibly bad precedent to have certainly a family member who's just been convicted of a felony by the Department of Justice taking up a case against him. And now he's sitting in the Oval Office, perhaps in decision-making with his classified information being discussed, which could even be being presented by the Department of Justice that just took him to court. Wow. Good times. Good times. Okay, long story short, legitimately, Hunter Biden could not get a top-secret security clearance right now, but I guess the President of the United States has the ability, much like the Pope does, to just sign the cross, and you have security clearance? I don't know how that works. Wait, does he officially have one? Well, I mean, he would need to- I mean, if you're going to be in there, then maybe. I mean, he was a naval officer, but I don't know how high he went up the chain. I don't know if he would have gotten into the top-secret clearance category. Well, you would assume that would be revoked at this point. Yeah, so pretty weird. I remember his dad went to bat for him when he got discharged from the military to make it as dishonorable list as possible, and there was some concern there. That's where Barack Obama first started getting hit with, "Hey, do you think Joe Biden's starting to use his office as the vice president to benefit his family a little bit too much? That's when this all started." Mm-hmm. And at that point, Joe Biden was already stuffing his pants with classified material, so absolute chicho and disaster, and now Hunter Biden, the smartest man on earth, apparently, is sitting in the highest level meetings in regards to national security on the planet. That is... Didn't even have that on my bingo card. Well, it leads up directly to them allowing him to catastrophically shoot himself in the foot. Yeah. It's a good point. They're just giving us the media, other politicians that have an actual say in what happens more ammunition to just say that Joe is a fucking train wreck that we already knew. Yeah. My favorite is all the posts on social media, where it's like, "Hey, if you're really surprised about the media, just now starting to tell you that Joe Biden was incompetent." Oh, they knew forever. We already knew. Yeah. So you need to think about what kind of media you've been ingesting. That's why you're getting it here, and a lot more people are coming on every week. You know, no, if you want to check out that disgusting turkey gravy stain that Joe Biden had on his jacket last night, just go to any social media of your choice and type in Joe Biden's stain, and it's already been posted by a lot of people. And this is something where he came out... He was on the balcony of the White House during the fireworks, and he was up on the railing with his family. And at some point, he put his hands on the railing and pulled back to make a surprise face at the fireworks, and you could just see it's like the size of a golf ball. Yeah, it's bad. Oh, you know, somebody wasn't there to rub the spoon under his bottom lip and clean off the gravy. It happens. No, I get it. Or maybe it was the beans. It was probably the beans. They looked like I anywhere near beans. Yeah, jumping into the lack of enthusiastic 4th of July festivities they had at the White House yesterday. So they do like the informal, the public can come in and do like a little barbecue on the lawn. But this is essentially for staff, politicians that are in town, I mean Gretchen Whitmer was in town, Gavin Newsom was in town, standing in solidarity with Joe Biden after they had their big conference call yesterday. And what all the other governors who were like, "What the fuck is going on?" And this is for basically everybody connected to Obama world, was essentially there, you know, the sectaph. You name it. They were there. Millies in town, apparently, on his book tour and, you know, sat at the Medal of Honor, ceremony the other day, and he was at the White House barbecue as well. Joe Biden delivered remarks both before and after the festivities started, front lawn for the peasants first, and then on a private stage in the back for the friends and family, etc. We're going to jump into the first part of the remarks. Thank God that there are short clips because it's Joe Biden, but here's him literally on Independence Day, referencing the fake story about Donald Trump calling World War II veterans suckers and losers. Let's check it out. By the way, you know, I was in that World War I cemetery in France, and... In to France? One of our colleagues, a former president, didn't want to go and be up there. I should probably shoot him and say, "Anyway, we got to just remember who the hell we are. We're the United States of America." Yeah, that's your favorite one that you said. America! Like, somebody just told them, like, when you're starting to get real tired, just get loud. Yep. You could tell that that was 100% off teleprompter, and Lloyd Austin was standing behind him and to the left, and he looked absolutely mortified when he brought up the beginning of that story again. You know, he also talked about going to a lot of battle zones, not war zones, battle zones, and, you know, having experienced... Did he do that? No. I don't think he did. Never did. And when he caught himself, parlayed that right into, "Yeah, and then my son, Bobiden." And you could see, like, everybody that's in front of him on the foreground is like shaking their hands like, "No, no, no." He's like, "Well, it makes everybody differently." Bad. It is amazing. Like, just watching this firsthand, and it was literally, like, the time it takes to flip a coin, that's how fast the media flipped on Biden. Like, there were couples, the holdouts, that were, "No, no. This is the... What did that fucking retard say? This is the best, most sharp... Farfist, Joe Biden, you've ever seen that? Hacked the sound or whatever the hell. This is like, "Wow, there's a social media post where it has Joe Rogan watching that video and just laughing hysterically." I mean, he was probably pretty high, but, you know, of course. Yeah. Joe Duchpero's been off the air for a couple of days, and has had some guest hosts in for the extended weekend. For vacation? Well, him and his wife got into an argument over Joe Biden on the show on Tuesday, and they had to cut to a commercial. Yeah. Yeah, because she's still carrying the water, and he's like, "Nope. This is not it." Oh, he's sleeping on the couch, for sure. And, yeah, it's just, man, imagine doing, like, a four-hour talk show with your wife every morning and arguing about politics. Yeah, what a miserable existence. You know, they have separate apartments. Of course. Or bank. Or at least super rooms. There's no pool boy that's safe around Mika. Noose. Well, Joe Biden would continue to ramble on. I'm going to put our listenership through it, because I know an overwhelming majority of the people that listen to the steak for breakfast were not tuned into these White House events yesterday. Let's get right into it. Let me close with this. Last month, Jill and I traveled to Normandy, France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. We met with American veterans. Some of them, about 12 or 14, over 100 and two years old, veterans who toured the battlegrounds, went through the cemeteries and looked at what was happening. There should be no question, no question about it. All those who served as members of the military were heroes, genuine heroes. Heroes were freedom, democracy, and America. Let's see what they're doing. Look. Now, decades later, we have to look at ourselves and ask the question. Well, we stand for freedom again. We stand for democracy. We stand together as Americans. I believe we will and we can. Sure you do. They're showing the gravy stain on Fox News right now. I mean, it's a ease having a 4th of July barbecue water, like, it's funny. It's a little sad. It's only funny because it's Joe Biden. Yeah, but, like, nobody noticed on their way out, like, hey, we should probably have them throw a new blazer on. Yeah. Nope. So, those remarks concluded shortly thereafter, and what happened was Joe Biden got off the stage and on his way back into the White House somehow got a microphone, no, got a microphone in his hand. Oh. So now, there's secret service. The secret service are playing, like, where are you going, old man? And again, you see Lloyd Austin right behind him acting like security with his eyes. So wide, it looks hilarious. And Joe Biden, no teleprompter, he's way off the stage. He was, like, halfway to the walk up where you go into the Rose Garden doors back into the White House. Where did he get this microphone? I have no idea. But this is why he just picked it up off the ground, like, was there an MC or something before? I remember the time he almost tripped on stage, and he's like, oh, what's this on the ground? Ooh, it's black. No. Jesus. Oh, man. Well, you know, for as much of the jokes we could make, it's actually a lot funnier when you hear Joe Biden. Let's check it out. Which I want to do. There's 7,000 people waiting at the gate to get in. No, there wasn't. So if I don't finish this, they can't come in. So maybe if you're hanging around, I'm going to sneak back out if that's OK, all right? 7,000. Thank you. Thank you. Remember that famous expression? Hold on. They also serve-- That's the CNN people in the background because they were going to cut the commercial money grab the mic. I remember when I saw the boy and my wife would go to the stand in the morning drinking her coffee and say in that prayer, worry, worry, always concerned, and all of you. So we owe you this could not be done without the family's support. So thank you, thank you, thank you. We love you, and I really mean it from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You got me, man. I'm not going anywhere. All right. All right. I'll come back out when I let you open the gate, OK? Thank you, thank you, thank you. One last thing. Oh, God. Then I used to think when I was a senator as a result. The guy had his arm out to take the microphone. There was no congestion on the highways. There was no congestion anymore. None. We got on the highway. There was no congestion. And so what-- the way they get me to stop talking and say, we just shut down all of the roads, Mr. President, you're going to lose all the votes if you don't get in. But anyway, I'll be back out. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now Noah. I know. It sounds like a grandfather when you give him new socks for Christmas. You think we overuse this one a little bit when we're talking about Joe Biden, but seriously? It comes. What in the actual. I'm going to have to limit you to at least, you know, slimming that down to just two times the show. But one more thing. I remember the Secret Service used to tell me if I go over and keep talking, they're going to have to shut the roads down and all the voters are going to be mad at me. Man, right before he said one more thing, the guy who was-- Was reaching. --he had both hands out. He was ready to just take the mic. And as soon as Joe Biden says one more thing, he put his hands down and decided, like, turned it to the guy next to him. Oh, oh. What do I do? What do I do? They told me not to let him talk anymore. One more thing wasn't on the script. We just slapped the mic out of his hand, but shut the fuck up, old man. What if they pulled, like, an Easter Bunny and stopped sniffing the kids for going this way? Yeah. It's bad. It was bad. And guess what? When he got up on stage later after dinner, believe it or not, it got worse and worse. Oh, wait till you see. I know you haven't saw this one, how he was introduced by Kamala Harris and what he said after she introduced him. I did see that one. Yeah. Don't spoil it. Don't spoil it for her listenership. Oh, man. Very 4th of July. Oh, God. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome first of two big Friday editions of State for Breakfast. Do us a favor. No matter what platform you're listening on, Apple Spotify, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio or wherever you hear your shows, please make sure you're subscribed to our podcast. It's 100% free. That's a 100% gift to you all. And we will never ask you for a dime. Just download the show, make sure it's downloading to your electronic device, helps us out big time in more ways than you'll ever know, but we'll probably explain in our next station identification. In addition, check us out on social media, Twitter, Getter, TrueSocial, Instagram, and now TikTok is where we have accounts, find them, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on anything happening down in State for Breakfast. So yeah, before I get into Joe Biden's second speaking event of the day, continuing to ruin 4th of July, Donald Trump had out quite the heater on 4th of July via his TrueSocial account. I would feel like we weren't doing our jobs correctly as micro-influencers and pseudo-journalists if I didn't read it for our listenership to enjoy. This came mid-day. Happy 4th of July to all, including our highly incapable quotes, "President who uses prosecutors to go after his political opponent, who choked like a dog during the debate, but tried to pretend it was, quote, "international travel, parentheses only 12 days of rest before." And when that gig was up, he blamed it on, quote, "a cold." Therefore, why would anyone say he's cognitively challenged? Also respects to our potentially new Democrat challenger, laughing Kamala Harris. She did so poorly in the Democrat nominating process, starting out at number 2 and ending up defeated and dropping out before even getting to Iowa. But that doesn't mean she's not a, quote, "highly talented politician. His ass mentor, the great, really brown of San Francisco, who she gave blowjobs to to move up the chain. Someone else has a clue. Is that in there? No. Not the blowjobs part. Oh. Yeah. Everybody knows what Kamala Harris and Willie. That was her boyfriend. He was like 35 years older than she was Montel Williams. Yeah. That too. He was a chicken head. Just ask her mentor, the great Willie Brown of San Francisco, "Someone else that I have to compliment is the deranged Biden prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has become a legend in his own mind for all of those cases he has lost. The corrupt prosecutors are working hard for Crooked Joe, but it will never be enough. By the way, make America great again." So 4th of July, "Slapper" from Donald Trump. Yeah, you got to be careful adding those things in there who he gave blowjobs to. I mean, I would not put it past him to say it, but I was like, "Wait, what?" Did you hear the leaked Trump audio online this week? Which one? When he's in the golf cart, talking about the duo. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to play that one. Listen, Donald Trump is us. He is every single one of us listening. He talks exactly like we do. He cleans it up nice because he's a former business executive. He's a former Hollywood star. And he knows when it's time for prime time, he has to keep it PG-13 at the very most. But the fact of the matter is, Donald Trump is all of us. And when Donald Trump is not in the spotlight, he talks like all of us. And I was so thankful that that audio leaked. Some people made a big deal, "Oh, this breaks Mar-a-Lago, you know, guess codes." This that Donald Trump posted it within an hour of it leaking online from his own true social account having very little to do with vote Trump, no tax on tips. But that was the caption that he put when he put it out, even though he was talking shit about those two morons. But before we get to that, we're going to hear Joe Biden on the stage for a little bit more intimate, I guess, performance. Yeah, I had some musical guests there and Pre-Fireworks festivities and just about everybody from Team Biden and Harris on stage together. Here's the vice president, Kacala, introducing the first retard. We give thanks to our commander in chief, the president of the United States, the extraordinary president of the United States, Joe Biden. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Happy Independence Day. No, your thoughts. It is retarded and it sounds like he's got holidays confused. But it could also be just his weird interjection thing that he does, you know? Oh, you mean like a poly walnut type thing? What do you know? What do you say? What do you do? Yeah, it's just, I don't know. I mean, I like to play devil's advocate. The guy is lost. We don't need any more ammunition. That one's funny, but I could explain it away if I was a defense attorney. Well, we're better than that. So I actually found a clip of what happened directly after that part, so you could actually hear what he was saying to the guests who were in attendance there at the White House. It's a brief-- No, no, it made not much sense either, obviously. It's a perfect encapsulation of Joe Biden's mental capacity, but let's give the audience the rest of the tape here and not just what they show on cable news and see what we can make of it post-ho-ho-ho remarks. Happy Independence Day! We got to do what our founders did, show the world, nation of dignity, honor, and devotion to one another. Kill British people. No, I really mean it. Folks, it's all about democracy, it's all about freedom, it's all about who we are. With the United States of America, and nothing like it exists in the world. Happy 4th of July, enjoy the fireworks. God love you all, thank you, thank you, thank you. That's the crappiest four more years, Chan, I've ever heard. Yeah, that's literally people that are getting paid to be there, and they're just like--they're still trying to wrap their heads around, everything else that's happened. Yeah, it is, and it was ugly. You want to talk about the actual fireworks display. It was covered on all the major news networks. They showed a lot of fireworks, but the weird way that the camera was trained in on Joe Biden and his family from the balcony of the White House was just disturbing. There were so many cringe moments, there was one where it was all of the families, and then there was a part where it was just Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and they're watching the fireworks, and all of a sudden Joe Biden looks at Kamala Harris, and then looks at her hand, and then puts his hand on top of her hand, and picks their hands up like they just won a championship of some sorts. And this is when? During the fireworks while they're on the balcony. Then there was another one where Ashley-- What was her expression? Well, they gave like a fake hug, you could also look that one up on social media if you haven't seen the edges do Biden, Harris, hug, and it'll show like he opened up his arms for the hug, and she came in, but didn't wrap herself all the way around them, but put her head on his shoulder, but there was clearly space between him, and it just looked sad. Then there was Ashley Biden, who looked completely intoxicated at one point. She had to be to be around him, I'm sure. She was behind Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris grinding on Hunter Biden, like bothering him, like grind dancing on him while he's trying to just stand there and not look coked out. Then there was another point where CNN was doing some commentary, and she put her arms around-- Ashley put her arms around Joe Biden from behind, interlocked her fingers in the front, and just-- you couldn't even see her head, and she was just rocking back and forth with him for like two and a half minutes straight. And as soon as she was done with that, Noah, she un-interlocks her fingers-- Grabbed the drink. No, she looks out from behind Joe Biden, and she does the point at her own eyes, and point at the camera that's trained in on them. What? So weird. It was so weird. And-- That's weird. Yeah. That's fucking weird. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it was like, do your job, or, you know, report it accurately, or I love my dad, or what-- it was just-- they're the cringiest, grossest, grimiest people that have ever been in the White House, and they've ever been presidents who have had threesomes with movie stars in the Lincoln bedroom. It's just sad. But we're at. You know how when you got that coworker that nobody likes, and like, people will talk to them in an official capacity, but then like, in the break room, they just ignore him like he's fucking plague-ridden-- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Yep. I feel like that's how Joe Biden gets treated by everyone except his actual handlers who are being paid only to handle him. Everybody else-- like, he'll start talking to them, and they just-- yeah, yeah, yeah, Joe, and then just walk away. And the fireworks are-- I mean, there were fireworks, but they also had like-- like drone. Like, listen, I think the drones, what they could do for fireworks, is cool, but what the fireworks symbolize on Independence Day. Yeah. You need the fireworks. I will never be like, oh, cool. They made like a-- a MAGA hat out of drones instead of like fireworks. I also ratioed the official account for the country of Japan last night. That said, they launched off their biggest firework ever. I just put a guy who was like reading a book, and he like, looks at the camera and then puts the book down and then takes off his glasses and just stares into the camera because we all know that it's in the biggest firework that Japan has ever experienced. Oh! Well, that-- that they fired off. Too soon? Yeah. Man. I get-- I get what you're going with it, but me. In our last audio clip before we jump in with Colonel McGregor, and we plan on talking with him about some stuff domestically, politics-wise today, in addition to some of the geopolitical news that's going on, which he's always dialed into because he's been doing a lot of podcast on ourcountryourchoice.com recently talking about all the stuff going on with elections, the current state of the presidency and his candidacy and the race and stuff like that. But I do have that banger from Donald Trump kind of ties into the narrative we put out over Fourth of July. Donald Trump was out on the golf course over the course of the last few days and got a little candid while sitting in the golf cart with Baron Trump talking about Joe Biden, the debate, and who is possible next challenge, or maybe let's check it out. Give me so much. How did I do with the debate the other night? Amazing. You've got all broken down pile of credit. Yeah. He just quit. You know, he's quitting the race. Is that right? Yep. I got him out of the race. And that means we have Kamala. I think she's going to be better. She's so bad. She's so pathetic. It's so news. It's just so fucking bad. So I just can't imagine that. Can you imagine that guy with the Dylan, with Putin, and the president of China, who's a fierce person. He's a fierce man. Right. Very tough guy. And they've seen him. They probably. They can't. But they just announced he's probably quitting. Yeah. That's amazing. That's amazing. He's keeping that kind of amount. Thank you. And you want to know what, for the most part, Donald Trump's here for it. He has not interjected himself into, like, this debacle that Joe Biden currently has sitting in his lap, other than a true social poster, too. You know, he touched on possible other contenders at the rally in, in a, I think, an attempt to continue to show America how shitty they all are. And if you want to talk about any of the governors who might try to get into this race and replace Joe Biden, he's going to remind them how shitty they were during COVID, too, and with the borders and what they've done to their cities and these blue states. But yeah, he called Joe Biden. What do you call him? An old pile of crap. Oh, man. It's great. He is us. You know, you never have to be concerned on whether or not Donald Trump is ever going to get too belt-way for his own britches. He's going to remain a New Yorker forever. He's going to talk off the cuff whenever the cameras are and aren't rolling. In that case, when you didn't know the cameras were rolling, that's about as real as it gets. So I think it's a good way to kind of bring us back from the crappy-ish. I mean, listen, the cost of a family, nearly $75 more this year to have a fourth of July barbecue than it costs when Donald Trump was president, that's ridiculous. And my wife and I went to the store yesterday just to get some stuff for, you know, fourth of July dinner, 130 bucks. We got literally nothing. We got $130 worth of food, which we ate, and it was gone. And it's not like we were buying flamingions or anything like that. No tomahawks, nothing outside of the ordinary. Hot dogs, hot links, burger meat, cheese, buns, double bags of chips and salad, and that was it. I got a rack of ribs for 20-something bucks the other day. I think it was like probably almost expired though, so I got to cook that soon, but, you know. No, I get it. Yeah, it's just, man, there's still a show in this. Karl Rove's talking on Fox News right now, and they're showing Joe Biden. Make the bewildered face of all the stains there. Now he's checking his watch. But yeah, you know, it's just like crushing the families, and a lot of people, at least, you know, essentially half the country is sad right now about what their candidate and ticket looks like, so there's a lot of stuff going on in the country right now. And if you don't have something at home that keeps you motivated or you're not really into your job, which essentially doesn't pay enough for you to live, unless you're a billionaire, you know, you don't have a lot to look forward to every day except that the election's coming in four months. So, as always, we're going to continue to track that and keep this narrative rolling through all of our new segments today here on Steak for Breakfast, but we're getting ready to jump in with Colonel McGregor right now before we do a first check in with one of our partners. I think it's time we had a conversation about a good night's sleep. 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All right, joining us next on the show today, this is Big Friday edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. He's the retired U.S. Army colonel who also advised SecDef. He's an author, he's a columnist, he's a commentator, he's a great friend of the show, Colonel Douglas McGregor, welcome back. Hey, happy to be here. Always a pleasure to host you, sir, and man, do we have a bunch of stuff outside of geopolitics to talk about today. Listen, I know you know everything that's going on within the government. You track everything, you've got your finger to the polls, you're extremely accurate in all of your commentary. I mean, are we literally seeing a coup happening in this country going on with the Democrat party right now with the fallout from the presidential debate and the news that's kind of circulated over the last week? There's a lot of people making a lot of opinions, but I figured before I even started to formulate mine, I'd wanted to ask one of the experts, and well, here we are. Yeah, the word coup is a strong word. I think we've had our share of coups, I finally concluded the big coup came in November of 2020. Sure. That's how we got where we are. There are a lot of crazy things going on. It's interesting to me that people are shocked by the performance of Biden during the debate. And quite frankly, he was always dumb. Now he's demented and was a lot of evidence for that early on in his administration. I wasn't confident that he would last a year. So now finally, everybody's admitting this because there's a panic on the left, whom do we run? Who do we pick to be the next president? How do we do this? And they've got problems because legally, they can't automatically shift all the money that's been collected for the Biden campaign to a new candidate. Correct. And that's very upsetting because they've amassed an enormous war chest. So I think we're dealing, you know, Biden is kind of a metaphor for the whole government. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's staggering forward in multiple directions. We have a lot of indications of dumb ideas overseas strategically that could embroil us in wars we don't need to fight. And here we have a man at the top who's just a puppet. Other people are telling him what to say and what to write. I don't know who they are. But I know they're not elected and we should get rid of them. You know, one of the things that kind of went under the radar this week was Rokana, the California Congressman on the Democrat side, who, you know, after the debate and all the negative commentary started coming out about Joe Biden and the possibility of him not remaining on the ticket as the candidate saying, like, we've got a really good team around the president and they're going to continue to make the calls and run this country. And I was like, how can you just open? I mean, they do project a lot of the stuff they do. So when it finally does come to light, they're like, hey, we've been telling you this for years. You guys are just picking up on it. But I mean, that's got to be alarming to see, you know, the chief executive of essentially the free world is just some, you know, empty vessel right now that's getting shuffled around and bullied into doing things. You could see, I mean, you could see Joe Biden is extremely agitated with the situation. I think he kind of gets what is ish going on, but probably doesn't have a handle on everything. Once you have his family telling him one thing, top advisors and donors telling him another, it's got to be a really, you know, sad and frustrating situation for someone who's at the end, at least mentally of his political career and has been for a while. But when you think about who's actually running the nation right now, I mean, you've worked in national defense and, you know, national security for the entirety of your life, Colonel, and this has got to be really alarming to know that, you know, we're asleep at the wheel when it comes to being a country right now. Well, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States is the president. Yeah. And we've made a habit now under his administration of simply discarding the law as irrelevant. We've opened the borders. We're allowing anyone who wants to come in to come in. We don't know anything about the people coming in, but we do know the kinds of things they're doing. And any attempt to address this is just fails. It falls on deaf ears. I think if the American people were asked to vote in referendum for open borders, you know, 80% of the population would say, no, but here's Ro Khanna that doesn't seem to think there's a problem. Maybe he hasn't looked at the criminality that's growing and the child trafficking and the human, the adult trafficking and the drugs and so forth. That's activity iceberg. We've got these people pushing us into confrontation all over the world. I mean, this business in Ukraine has been sheer insanity. Correct. They are now not satisfied with the destruction of Ukraine. They want to double down and encourage the destruction of everything in Europe if they can do it. It doesn't make any sense. And all of the things that have been said about Russia are lies, absolute complete fabrications. Totally wrong. And the Europeans, I think, have begun to figure this out, and that's one of the reasons you're seeing the right sore in Europe because the Europeans have said, wait a minute, do we really want to all go to Eastern Europe to fight in Eastern Ukraine? And what are we fighting for and whom are we fighting against and why? At the same time, they've had open borders. This started with them in 2015. And they're now overwhelmed with millions of people they didn't ask for and millions of people that frankly will never be Europeans. You know, this is the big lie that people don't matter. That's the strange thing. People don't seem to get it. When you start talking about the globalists and the class of globalists that are ruling everybody in the West, the attitude is, well, you know, people don't matter. They're fungible. We can make of them whatever we want. We can do to them whatever we want, whether it's vaccines or feeding them insects for food or whatever it happens to be. It doesn't matter. Well, people do matter. There really are Frenchmen. There really are Germans and Italians and everyone else. They're not interested in going out of business. And I think we're going to see dramatic change in Europe. The question is, what happens to us here? And one of the reasons that I spoke out last week and forcefully for the holding of the election early is that if you don't hold an early election, it doesn't matter who sits in the presidency. As you point out, the people behind the scenes will continue to run everything. See, the only way to get out from under this unelected government that really runs everything and makes all the policy calls is to hold an early election and throw them out as soon as possible. Then we can go around the world and try to piece things together and put it into this sort of slide down the mountain into war. And that's also true in the Middle East. You know, there's nobody in the Middle East that wants a war except the United States and Israel. And I don't think American people want a war over there. I don't think the American people want Israel to be destroyed, but I also don't think the American people want Israel to destroy everybody else. So at this stage of the game, we need some adults in the room. There are no adults in charge in Washington. That's the problem. Is Donald Trump going to be enough next year to be able to get these people to the table and start, you know, being accountable for the things that have gone on in the three plus years under Joe Biden and his failed foreign policy that have allowed these foreign conflicts to spin out of control and essentially push us closer to the brink of World War three than we've ever been before. In your opinion, a short answer is no. The reason for that has almost nothing to do with Donald Trump. Donald Trump, uh, misunderstands the position, not just of the presidency, but he misunderstands our position in the world today. Whatever credibility we had is gone. No one believes us anymore. No matter what we say or do, people are sitting in Moscow and all the other major capitals of the world saying, well, these Americans are full of crap. They can't be believed. They tell you lies. You know, that he can't change that quickly. In fact, the other problem is that we are probably weaker as a great power today than we have been in 80 years. Yeah. Now we are not the nation of 1990 and 91. If you go back to that point, when I reflect, not just on the armed forces, but on the country, this notion of American identity was very strong. People knew who and what they were. People were fighting for something that they thought was correct and was right. There was no crisis of confidence and legitimacy today. People don't believe the government inside the United States. Why should the Russians or the Chinese? And this business of taking us into war in places like Eastern Ukraine or in the Middle East somewhere or for God's sakes in the South Pacific or in the Western Pacific against the Chinese who aren't even attacking anybody. This is ludicrous nonsense. It's not going to work. And putting missiles all over the world with the object of frightening and attacking people, at least psychologically, is producing the opposite effect. I mean, Russia, when it moved into Eastern Ukraine, went in with a very small force. And at the time, I remember all the great military analysts that we have and I am being facetious with that remark saying, well, you know, this is a poor force. They're not well trained. There's not enough of them. The Russians can't possibly win. Well, the Russians didn't go in there to win a war. The Russians didn't want a war. They went in there to send a signal of how serious they regarded the possibility of us building a new platform for attack against them in Ukraine. They wanted talks. They wanted negotiations. We all know that by the end of March, beginning of April, there was an agreement. And that agreement could have been reached and signed and it would have changed everything. All we had to do is accept neutrality for Ukraine. Well, that didn't happen. Well, today, Russia, that used to be this harmless backwater, mired in corruption is now the fifth largest economy in the world. It is thriving. It's going gangbusters. Thank you so much for those sanctions, Washington. We're doing just fine. And they now have a force that is arguably the best army in the world. They certainly have a good submarine fleet and they have a competent air force. But their most powerful force is that ground force and these endless quantities of missiles and rockets and unmanned systems against which we have very little defense. So we've done a great job. We certainly have given Russia. It's an opportunity to metastasize into the very threat that previously didn't exist, but now does. Yeah. No, it's a great point. And you know, when you see some of the developments just over the course of this week, I mean, there's been reports out now that Zelensky is finally going to get his heart broken over the fact that, you know, the NATO community is going to essentially tell him until they root out some of the corruption that's going on in his country. They just can't be added as a member. That's like asking him to cut his right arm off. I mean, we can't even begin to imagine what that man has stolen. Oh my gosh. It's always what I've just purchased a $4.5 million Bugatti and some was showing me film the other day of all the high officials in the Ukrainian government and what they drive all these magnificent Mercedes and Porsches and BMWs and Rolls Royces and Aston Martin's. Hey, things are going really well in Kiev. I mean, they've so they've had 600,000 soldiers killed. No big deal. We'll find more to throw into the in the front of the Russians. Look, this whole thing is it is worse than travesty. What the next president must do, if it's Donald Trump, he's got to do it is not continue this nonsense, but to disengage from it. Stop the threats of war against everybody in sight. Stop threatening people, start backing away and asking people what they want. Find out what their interests are. Then we'll try to accommodate because, you know, his problem and every president's problem right now is at home. What's happening here is more important than anything happening overseas. We have at least 52 million people inside the United States who were not born here. Correct. That is incredible. Never in our history have we faced that larger portion of our population that was fundamentally foreign and we don't demand that people assimilate. We tell people, oh, sure, you want to come over here and build some small version of Somalia. Go ahead. That's fine. You can be a U.S. citizen 50, 60, 70, 80 years ago. Impossible. Well, now we've we've reaped the whirlwind. You've got all of these people who think they can come here and never be Americans. And most of the people coming into the country right now are really economic refugees. If you want to call them that, they're here to join the big consumption machine. They need to go home. If we don't send them home with the with the where this economy is headed, we're in trouble. All we have to do is look at the treasuries, look at the 10 year treasuries. No one wants them. No one's buying them. Look at the interest rate. It's going up and up and up. How many times do you have to hear an economist tell you, well, you know, this is very bad. But we'll get through. Yeah. Well, Armageddon is just over the horizon. Naseem Taleb, who is probably one of the best. He's been saying that for at least a year and everybody says, well, when's it going to happen? When's it going to happen? Well, you can see the train rounding the bend, the locomotive is coming. So everybody that's sleeping on the tracks had better get off the tracks quick. But everybody still wants to know when's the train going to be here? Opening up the dialogue and focusing on this country, you think are the two best avenues to get us at least turned in the right direction is what I'm gaining there. And it seems like such a simple equation. I mean, honestly, it's some of the stuff that Donald Trump is campaigning on right now. And it's not like we're going to get any of that with Joe Biden. I mean, when you look at some of the stuff, even with all the stuff that's gone on since the debate and even before that, the weeks leading into it with the disastrous G7 and then the D-Day debacle that Joe Biden had, it just seems like when it comes to what's going on in Israel and Ukraine, they just started to ignore it and were like, oh, this will eventually flame itself out when they were the ones that stoked the fire so hard that Israel, it looks like is going to start advancing in on Lebanon. And when it comes to Ukraine, I mean, Zelensky is saying like, OK, I'm kind of getting sick of like almost dying every day. Can we start to figure out how I can surrender without starting to make it look like a surrender? But when you come to the, you know, people who are running these things, I mean, Victoria Newland leaves Washington, D.C., now she's in Ukraine. You've got Valerie Jarrett failed Middle East policy all over the planet. Same thing for Jake Sullivan. And then Tony Blinken, who's just a complete friggin disaster. It doesn't seem like at least in the short term, nothing's going to get accomplished ahead of Election Day. Well, the key thing is this piece of broad prosperity at home. Correct. That's awesome. So whoever comes to power needs to say, look, we need to disengage from all these conflicts. We need to tell the people that we've been working with. You've got to come to a solution. You've got to come to the negotiating table. We'll stand behind you, but you've got to end this. We've got to tell the Europeans, we've got to tell the Israelis, we've got to tell their Arab friends and our Arab friends. This has to stop. Tell us what you need. Tell us what you want. We'll do everything in our power to promote an end to this disaster. In the meantime, we've got to come home. We've got to build prosperity in the United States. I mean, I just saw the other day, John Deere wants to get out of the United States where they manufacture their equipment and move it to Mexico. Any president worth his salt should stop that. John Deere is one of the most important manufacturers in this country. One of the last ones that exports all over the world. We have got to put an end to this destruction of our workers and our manufacturing base. And economists the other day was upset because he said, "Well, you know, if you throw the eagles out of the country, you could actually end up with a labor shortage." Now that would cause wages to go up because there would be a demand for more American workers to go to work. But that's dangerous because that could promote inflation. Well, that tells you all you need to know about these economists. And it's an easy answer. Get the eagles out, enforce the law, start putting people in jail who hire eagles, confiscate their businesses. How much of that has to happen before it stops? Don't kid ourselves. People don't want to go to jail over that. They don't want their businesses confiscated by the federal government because they decided to hire eagles and turn away Americans. We've got to do these things. Now I think Donald Trump has some of that in him. I would tell you that the man right now who's closer to all of that and makes more sense is R.F.K. Jr., nobody wants to talk about that man. I mean, it's almost as though, my God, and independent, we can't have that. But R.F.K. Jr. makes most of these points and he deserves an audience. I'm sorry he wasn't part of the debate. I think if he'd been part of the debate, we'd have forgotten all about old Joe and the whole thing would have boiled down to R.F.K. Jr. and Donald Trump. And the good news is that I think those two men would have treated each other decently, which is something we also need. But bottom line is peace abroad brings prosperity at home. We got to get back into the business of business. That's kind of what this country was founded on in coming out of the 4th of July holiday. I couldn't have framed it any better myself. I'm glad we had you on today, Colonel. Obviously, we've got everything live linked in the show description today, a link to your website, your social media links as well. And then, of course, our country, our choice.com, tell our listenership a little bit about that as well. Well, our country, our choice.com is thriving. Our country, our choice is about igniting people across party lines. And we're up over 400,000 members. We're on our way to 500,000 because people say, look, we are Americans. We've got to stop being Republicans and Democrats because those labels don't mean much anymore because our problems in Washington won't be solved through partisan politics. We have a unit party there. These people are all dipping into the pot together. We've got to put them out of business. The unit party has to go. It's not just the Biden administration because they're all caught up in this mess. Sure. But I think that that's what's really helping us and the big issues for us are the border, the foreign law enforcement, peace overseas, putting an end to these pointless military interventions, scaling back spending. Nobody ever talks about scaling back spending. So big. But we're going to have to do it. Or we're going to go under because our creditors won't lend us any more money. It's the absolute truth. And you've been, listen, you've been standing in the breach for this country for a long time. Colonel, you continue to do it with your entities like our country, our choice. And we're really thankful to have a great relationship with you. You know, every time we need to bring it back down and open up everybody's eyes on what's really going on in the world, I just feel free to reach out. And within a few weeks, you're here on the show. We really appreciate you. We hope you had a great 4th of July. And as always, we'll be looking to have you back soon. This is the retired U.S. Army criminal combat veteran, advisor to SecDeck, author, consultant, commentator, great friend, Douglas McGregor. Thanks for coming on the show. Have a great weekend. Hey, same to you, my friend. But for me, I got to witness the president very up close because we had this disaster on Maui 331 days ago. And he was right there by our side. He walked Front Street. He greeted 300 Hawaii residents, hugged every one of them. You know, the entire country, including the Republican governors, called me to offer support. And there was one individual in America who went off. And that was Donald Trump. He sent some kind of hateful message to me and the state as we were recovering from a fire that took 102 loved ones. So you've got President Biden, who came and embraced us. And within six hours, helped us heal with a major disaster declaration. And then you've got the one individual amongst the whole planet who attacked us. And so, look, my heart is with Joe. And if he tells us he's not up to running, then it's his choice. But we have a very clear choice in America, which is a really good-hearted human being with a great vice president. Or we've got someone who is somewhat awful, frankly. We'll be back into the news portion of the show here on the first of two big Friday editions, The Stake for Breakfast. It was great catching up with Colonel Douglas McGregor as well. What do you think? No. You know, dialed into everything. Pretty much understands the way Ukraine has shaken out that they're going to be nearing some kind of end of hostilities at some point soon. We'll touch on that a little bit later in our second edition of the show. But kind of interesting to see that he was open-minded about RFK Jr. I mean, I guess these, you know, Korean military people and those who are around the Defense Department and the military-industrial complex, et cetera, they look at these positions they get into, you know, every four to eight years, you're getting a new boss, but it really doesn't change the reasons you're in it for. And, you know, he thinks that Donald Trump can do some things, but he just doesn't know if he has enough time to do it. So I could see how he could maybe lean towards a candidate that could be in office for eight years. But I think when you look at what Donald Trump was able to accomplish in his first term against all odds and that he's going to have a pretty clear mandate in presidential immunity going back for a second term, I think it's going to be a whole lot smoother and things are going to get back on the right track a little bit faster than they did the first time. What else he knows what he's doing now. He's got a full term under his belt to, you know, have learned the rules of the road. But yeah, it was a little surprising. What do you think? Yeah. I mean, McGregor hasn't been wrong about much so far. I just don't know if anybody's really going to get behind RFK. All the Democrats should be very upset because I feel like the whole reason RFK wasn't allowed to run as a Democrat is because they had already had this in the wings as something that they could potentially be doing. And they knew that he would beat Biden bloody kind of imagine somebody with RFK Jr's voice debating the guy that showed up for the debate with Donald Trump in the form of Joe Biden. Mm hmm. It's like suicide material right there. That was Hawaii governor Josh Green, who's making up stories about Donald Trump. Donald Trump obviously sent stuff out to Hawaii after the tragedy there, which I think took more than a hundred and two lives, I guess that's what they're reporting on. But I think it was probably closer to a thousand, like a lot of people profess because, you know, people just don't get up and swim across the ocean and never come back to Hawaii. They essentially are missing people and missing children and stuff like that. So, but yeah, what we're going to talk about right now, we're getting mixed messages right now from the Democrats, from Democrats in the media and liberal press. We're getting mixed messages from the White House and staffers from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's office. We're getting mixed messages from politicians and, you know, those who all sit on the Democrat side of the aisle, but some are saying like, wow, it's time to throw in the tile Joe Biden and let somebody else run so we can have a chance against Donald Trump or like the governor from Hawaii there, Josh Green just alluded to, you know, there's one person in this race that he's behind and it's Joe Biden. So it's weird the way that, you know, they're kind of split and even Nancy Pelosi couldn't get her shit together. We'll hear from her a little bit later on the segment kind of slur through a response on something, you know, regarding this, but Kamala Harris was hit up following the debate over the weekend and hitting into 4th of July. She was coming out of a fundraising event. She was going back to her limo to head back to wherever she was going to the airport or her residence where she was staying and CBS News caught up with her. So they peppered her with some questions regarding Joe Biden and the presidential race. She finally did decide to stop and field them, you know, Joe Biden runs from all the questions and has allowed to answer them, but at some point everyone can't do it. So, you know, Kamala went and stood in the breach, let's hear it. You know, the Chief Justice, Robert, said that the president is not above the law. What's your take on this? Well, let's just be clear. It's one of the foundational principles in our system of justice that no one is above the law and when we have a candidate in Donald Trump who's openly said there'd be a dictator on day one that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, it is very likely that he could be immune from those kinds of acts and we have to take seriously the stakes of this election in terms of the thought that we could have a president in the White House who thinks he's immune and able then to make decisions with that office that include weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political enemies are being a dictator on day one. And speaking about stakes, you just came out of a fundraiser. We know that many in your party have expressed concern about President Biden's health. Just this morning, Congressman Doggett said that he's calling on President Biden to withdraw from the race, given that there's too much at stake to risk a Trump victory. What's your response to this? Look, Joe Biden is our nominee. We beat Trump once and we're going to beat him again. Period. Are you ready to lead the country if necessary? I am. Proud to be Joe Biden's running mate. Thank you. No public dissension yet between the two, but we know behind the scenes from what's been leaked that she's not a happy camper. Well, she's not allowed. She still has to play her cards right just in case as a last ditch effort. She's actually going to be the person that's going to have to take control, albeit for a short period of time. But I just wonder if Joe Biden, who obviously doesn't want to step down, or at least is being told by Joe Biden and his handlers, and his family handlers, not his handler handlers, that he should not step down, that he's here for the long run and he's going to win. They've convinced him of that just given by the things that he said, I wonder what's going to happen to him. Are they just going to take him directly to the home and we're never going to hear from him again? Or if he gets asked out and he's angry about it, is he going to, as much as a demented old man can do below the whistle on some bullshit? That would be the most amazing thing if Joe Biden went full fucking rogue. You know, I even wonder if it's to the point, does Joe Biden have television remotes in his house, or are channels blocked, which have news? You know what I'm saying? Because there's so many reports coming out recently that say he's got like a cocoon set up around him, of people who just like, you know, if he says like, I don't believe the polling or, you know, America still loves me or all these people voted for me last time, how can they be mad at me like, yeah, he has no idea. I would, I would assume, and maybe like I said, maybe this will come out later when people start, you know, writing their tell-alls about being involved in the Biden presidency. The amount of fabricated media that we consume daily, whether it's altered video, things excluded from video, which doesn't necessarily make them altered, but alters the meaning and the subside. Crowd size. What's being showed. Yeah. Yeah. You have to think that the stuff that Joe Biden is being, is being shown is playbacks of his speaking events, where they flash to like crowds of Trump supporters. Just like, you know, just shit like that, like making him think like he is legitimately doing a fucking bang up job. Yeah. It's wild. You know, I'm telling you right now, Joe Biden is about to do a speaking event in mass in Wisconsin. He's going to be hosting some fundraisers later tonight, and between that, he's going to sit down with George Stephanopoulos from ABC and record supposedly a very candid interview. But here's the deal. Now that the media is turning on Joe Biden, I could see the stage. It's in a high school gym, or it's in a college gym, but it's going to be one of those tight angles make it look like normal. It's going to be up to them to turn around and show the rest of America what that, how empty those gyms are from now on. You know, at the same time where Joe Biden's going to read off a teleprompter for 10 minutes at this event in Wisconsin today, Gavin Newsom's out stumping with Bob Casey, the senator from Pennsylvania, who's running against Dan McCormick, the Trump endorsed Senate candidate there in the Republican side. And Gavin Newsom was out stumping all weekend in different states for, you know, Joe Biden had taken the questions and answering the same way that Kamala Harris did. So you know, it's interesting to see you have people on one side of the aisle, like they, they've mentioned Rep Doggett, who, you know, said that this is an embarrassment. He needs to like literally get out of politics immediately. And then you have like the Hawaii governor or the California governor, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, flew to Washington, D.C. for the governor's phone call. Her and Gavin Newsom, I believe, were the two highest profile Democrats who were in attendance when Joe Biden made this call to the governors across the country to kind of ease the tension and the noise on Wednesday. And we're going to kind of lead into that right now. I got a, believe it or not, Stephen Chong continues. I don't know if he's using an alias or someone on the inside continues to let him in, but whatever they do, these meetings of like high level staffers or, you know, senators and governors where Joe Biden, like, does a conference call with them, Stephen Chong gets like the call in and listens to the entirety of these strategy sessions at the White House. He's done it like twice already. And then goes on social media and says what they're saying. You know, last week he got in on the White House call where they were talking about the scotest ruling and he said, yeah, the Joe Biden's chief of staff said Donald Trump is immune, immune, immune, so we need to move on from trying to put him in jail. I've got another one after we hear this first clip, though. Let's check it out. I apologize to everyone in the room saying this is not an excuse, but it is an explanation. And he blamed the extensive foreign travel that he did in the lead up to the CNN debate for his poor performance. Just a reminder for everyone. He did go to France for the D-Day anniversary and then he turned right back around and went to Italy for the G7 summit and he told the room I didn't listen to my staff. So the suggestion there being his staff did not think this was a good idea. And then he apparently said I almost fell asleep on stage. I just want to unpack this new explanation for a second as the explanation for why his debate performance was so bad. I find it a little bit puzzling and frankly I'm not sure that a lot of people are going to find this reassuring if anything. Some folks might hear this and be even more concerned. Yes, there were two foreign trips in the lead up to the June 27th CNN debate, but he returned from Italy on June 15th. The debate again was on June 27th. So we're talking about roughly 12 days in between when he was back in the States. And remember, a part of those 12 days, about a full week, he actually spent with his advisors at Camp David for the sole purpose of really focusing on debate prep. So why is the president falling asleep on the debate stage at the hours of 9 p.m. to 10. Hey Noah, imagine if your employer allowed you to take 12 days to recoup from your vacation that you take every year on top of the vacation 12 days to recoup from vacation? Yeah, I can get behind that. Yeah, so apparently Joe Biden's 12 days of travel in addition to seven days at Camp David before the debate was not enough. In addition, he said he was staying up well past 9 p.m., which he's just not conditioned to do anymore. So now he's not going to be doing events past 7 p.m. So he could be in bed by 8 p.m. Perfect. Mm-hmm. I can't. Didn't Joe Biden say something to some press or somebody that it's not his health. It's his brain. Yeah. Like I saw something about that. Is that true? Oof. So Stephen Chong put out a quote as he sat in on this call with the governors and leaked it to the media. I've got the call right here. Noah, one of your favorite White House staffers, I'll say, and then you could say it again, Jeff Zients. Zients. Acknowledges. It's been a tough few days. He's been telling everyone to unite and hunker down. Keep your heads in the sand and tune out the media and then hyped up the 4th of July barbecue as a festive occasion and he's literally Leslie Nielsen saying nothing to see here. We are there. We are there. Guys, wherever you listen to the show today, thanks for being with us. 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Find them, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here at the show. Like our top tier guest list. Alright, getting back into this now. We are the joke of the world and they are laughing at us. You know, I think Vladimir Putin is going to wind up ending this war before anybody else does. I know Viktor Orban, who's moved into the figurehead position of president of the EU lately. You know, Viktor Orban is very based. Hungary is very not like the rest of the European Union and he is very close friends with Donald Trump, but he's in Moscow today for some high level meetings at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin and Putin said the expectation bar like lower than low saying like, I feel like you're coming here to carry the narrative of the European Union. So that's what I'm expecting going in. Now, I'm sure off record him and Viktor Orban will be able to, you know, talk about things pretty frankly in regards to resolving the situation. In addition, for as much as Viktor Orban and Donald Trump still talk, I wouldn't be surprised if he's carrying some of the narrative. We'll get into that in our second edition of the show date. Vladimir Putin actually referenced Donald Trump specifically in a speaking event earlier today. But yeah, you know, the way the world is looking at this right now, it's just ugly for everything regarding our political well, apparatus, yeah, and you know, we have to be able to much in like the same case that the Democrats are telling themselves, ignore a lot of the hype, stay out of the, you know, clickbait narratives, everybody listen, how long has everybody said Donald Trump's like dropping his VP and it's these people do this? As soon as Joe Biden should have better the debate, nobody's been talking about the vice president lately. Yeah, nobody cares. And actually so many people have hyped it up and made such a big deal out of it, unfortunately, and I guess fortunately, at the same time, people are now finding all this bad stuff out about people like Doug Burgum, you know, there's that clip circulating around just from 2023 where he said like, as a businessman, he would never do business with the Trump enterprise because you have to, he said, like, know who you're doing business with. But in addition to that, now they're showing all these ties, like he was the bestie of Bill Gates back in the day, they did business together, they were all friendly and it's like, you know, everybody's got a really bad taste in their mouth from Bill Gates based off of all the buying up farmland and COVID vaccine shit. So it's like the more you guys try to promote your own narratives, the worse or harder people are going to dig to try and delegitimize those picks you on in there. Did we have Burgum on? I don't remember. We did not. No. Yeah, I mean, he's still the governor of North Dakota and that's neither here nor there. He still should have came on, but yeah, he just didn't do a whole bunch of media really until recently because again, this time of year ago, he wasn't on the Trump train. Now he's on damage control. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what can you say? You guys just need to let this stuff happen. Donald Trump already said he's made his VP selection in his mind. Who knows if he's told this person? You know, you could already start to see people who definitely aren't going to be the VP pick. And I could tell you from what I've heard is people who are, you know, have been with Donald Trump on the campaign trail a lot up until now, who you don't see as much besides like a news hit here or there, they're going to be filling cabinet level positions, which is still awesome. And they're getting policy training for when they number one go for Senate confirmation. Number two, when they actually get into their job next January. So there's going to be a lot of people who are presently surprised with what's going on behind the scenes right now, but I could tell you, I still don't know and I haven't heard anything. I know there's some people fighting for four fairly strong candidates and that's Bergham, Vance, Rubio and Dr. Carson behind the scenes, but you know, Donald Trump's going to be the person to make that decision and no one else is going to make it but him. So yeah, it's just I saw concerns about anybody that has any ties to Bill Gates, though. Yeah, and that's the thing, you know, it's like people raised the same concerns about JD Vance. You know, he wasn't a trumper in the first term, he's come along and made a lot of strides. But again, if it's half a decade ago that he was talking shit about Donald Trump, it's like, do you really want that guy to be a rice president? I don't know. So it's just one of those things where we have to kind of take into consideration all the factors. And I'm sure, listen, for people that are commentating on news and politics, it's a lot easier for us to kind of bounce that off the wall than it is for the person who's going to be the chief executive of essentially the world and who his vice president is going to be. Donald Trump has downplayed it. He said the vice president really doesn't mean much, doesn't mean much for the ticket, historically hasn't done much in polling and just needs someone to continue to do the job and promote the agenda he wants to give to the American people next year. And it looks good on a hat with his name. Yeah, got to look aesthetically nice. Like Trump Rama Swami was never going to work. Just even up that buy another hat together, put it on. So a ray. True story. And it's pretty weird. Everybody that's in the final four has like a one or two syllable name, you know, yeah, Bergen, Rubio, Vance and Carson. And when you put all of those on the, you know, standard Trump, make America great again, it looks pretty good. So yeah, everybody's bringing different stuff to the table and we've already talked about that. We won't touch on it too much on the show today, but getting back into this. So KJP is at a time. Yeah, defending all of this nonsense, you know, just give up and just be like, you know what? Fuck this. This is ridiculous. I look like an idiot. She won't. She will ride this till the very end until they tell her it's okay. And then she will go and get a paid, you know, commentator spot or her own show much in the same thread that Jen Psaki did and make six figures to essentially continue to spew propaganda. But when you do it on your own show, you don't have the press asking you follow up questions. That's what the easy part is for Jen Psaki now. So you know, it's just kind of the way it is. And yeah, she's, she's been in defense mode, obviously going back and forth with the press. I saw her get into it a little bit with Fox News is Jackie Heinrich the other day during the White House press pool in regards to, you know, Joe Biden setting up this timeline which really didn't make any sense on to why he was like he said in the phone call, literally falling asleep during the presidential debate. Let's check it out. Terrified. Send men's question. Sure. How is it that the president was still tired 12 days after returning from Europe had a cold but then went to the Waffle House and then the following day stage such a huge comeback that he gave those North Carolina remarks like help us understand how you had a cold before. Of course. Okay. So you probably, well, come on, come on, Jackie. Let's be very sweet. Let's wait. Days. She's telling the reporter she's better than this. When you listen to what you're saying, hold on a second. There's a cold. There's a jet lag. You combine that. He continues to work on the with for the American people day in and day out around the clock. Things happen. Things happen. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Look over there. Look over there. Donald Trump's doing a nationwide abortion ban. You should go look over there. Donald Trump's a threat to democracy. Go check him out. Have you heard about that? Yeah. He praised the Nazis in Charlottesville. Probably should go check that out. Like there's still people. There's still people that 100% believe all of those things. Yeah. And they have no interest. You can literally show them the video and they have no interest. They're just like, "Nope." No, they have no interest in understanding the truth. Now the New York Times has come out and said even though Joe Biden referenced it in his presidential debate with Donald Trump, Snopes did come out and officially say that they made it up to make a headline back in 2017 or 2018 whenever it actually originally happened. And it's just, it's an embarrassment to see these people work every single day. And again, 45 million people on average per quarter watch all of these cable news networks. So for those that go out there and say, "Oh yeah, I stopped watching the cable news a long time ago." Well, you're in the smaller minority than you think. And although people keep getting more and more components of their news from alternative media, the easiest thing to do when your home must turn on the television. And even if it's local news, sometimes that's worse. I mean, if you live in a place out here like blue Southern California, they spew the same garbage. But I did see, there's a California representative, state representative Scott Peters from out here. He's one of the more famous ones. He's like an up and cover in the Democrat party. We don't know what that means. He's pronouns laden, homosexual. And he did like a Sunday morning sit down on the major cable network out here in SoCal. And he said he's not riding with Biden anymore. So he's going to be in that part of the upcoming class that is doing the overt coup instead of the covert coup against Joe Biden and his candidacy. But yeah, I actually caught about eight minutes of that. And they asked a whole bunch of different questions at what you thought about the debate and Joe Biden's gate and mental capacity over the course of the last couple of years. And they said, you know, when you start to look at the numbers, it doesn't look too good for Joe Biden. Even getting down in a single digits in places like California. And he's like, yeah, you know, it's probably time for him. He did the whole bow out with pride and honor, but who knows? I mean, I still can't honestly put my thumb on it or make a decision like there's too much stuff going on behind the scene. And I can't even think in my brain what his wife and kids are trying to do to make sure. I mean, because again, their potential freedom could be at stake here. Yeah. And they could thank themselves for that because a lot of the things that people are looking into for Joe Biden's family, especially his son and his brother have nothing to do with the time that he was the president. And for as much as they tried to make it fake news leading up to the 2020 presidential election, we all know it wasn't. And even though CNN has been one of the harshest critics of Joe Biden and what he's had going on since that debate, you know, again, a lot of the pushback from his team falls on not only the network, but the moderators. And again, you have to remember no one helped out Joe Biden and end run cover for him and disinformation for his campaign more than CNN did back in 2019. Jake Tapper was at the front of that tip of the spear, if you will. And then now for, you know, the campaign to be thrown him and Dana Bash, Dana Bash's husband, ex-husband signed off as one of the 51 former intelligence officials who said the Hunter Biden laptop was bullshit. So you couldn't have asked for a better home team advantage. Again, we played a five minute clip of Joe Biden's opening statement from that debate last week. And I think an overwhelming majority of America who was tuning in and maybe hearing Joe Biden talk in any kind of longer context and they see some short clip of the news was like, "Holy shit." I mean, there was at one point where Donald Trump just like looked over and then he like, "Look at the moderators." And he's like, "Is this for real? Like, it's over. We're seven minutes in and it's over." Yeah. And it was all downhill from there. But again, as far as Joe Biden right now and his team, which includes KJP, wants to move on from this, every time the media tries to bring it up, they're going to try and close the door out here. Well, the motivation behind that press conference was clear because Karine John Pierre said it plainly. We want to turn the page. We want America to turn the page. We are hoping to turn the page, but she said it three times. That was quite clear. The page is not turning because there was a lack of answers to the critical fundamental question that was being asked, which is, "What happened? What happened that all Americans saw?" So Karine John Pierre kept saying, "We're not trying to ignore reality. We understand and acknowledge what America saw and witnessed and that that was a really bad night and that that was a bad debate. And we acknowledge that, but she does not offer one bit of evidence or reasoning or rationale for why. Why did America see what they saw that night?" And there were a lot of questions asked by the White House press corps, "Can we get more medical records? Can you bring the doctor in here and make them available? Is it time to do a cognitive test? You didn't do one in the last…?" And there was just no, none, acceptance of that kind of a premise. It was just one bad night. We acknowledge that, but she's missing explaining to the country fundamentally why. Isn't it funny to hear the liberal press like speaking the same threat as us for like the last five plus years and they look so uncomfortable doing it? It's amazing. It's amazing. Why? I just don't understand it. It makes no sense. Where are the doctors' records? They sound like people that were doing shows during COVID and the reference in the President of the United States. Guys, last clip I got before we jump in with former Pennsylvania senatorial candidate who most recently worked on the presidential campaign for Vivek Ramaswamy, Kathy Barnett for the first time. We're going to have a great conversation with her. She's got a lot to weigh in on in regarding this race. We're going to talk about how binomics has been absolutely crushing minorities, especially African Americans in this country and you know, how the law fair that's been waged against Donald Trump has kind of parlayed into those big rises in the polls for the former president and presumptive GOP nominee only for 10 days more it'll be official. Is that people are threatening to cut off the money? Have you heard this one Noah? No, I don't think so. Yeah, some of the biggest executives and donors to the Democrat party and who have been to Joe Biden's campaign over the course of the last, this is the second cycle now, are saying like, absolutely not no more, you know, you're not going to tell us that everything's fine when we get to see it with our own eyes. These big time donors are not going to be, you know, fooled any longer when they were able to see it with their own eyes and we're talking about major, major executives here. The heiress of the Disney fortune, the founder of Netflix and other major donors are saying like, if we don't get this hit straight, which essentially means a new candidate in there who's going to be able to stand toe to toe with Donald Trump, then the money is not coming in anymore. That's here saying that she is not going to give any more money, quote, I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they were placed Biden at the top of the ticket. It's Abigail Disney. This is realism, not disrespect. Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high. Then you have the Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings saying he's going to withhold contributions and Gideon Stein, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, saying he's going to withhold millions of dollars in contributions he was planning to make to the Democratic party. The only place you could hurt them outside of the media at this point because we're not going to the ballot box for four months is in the wallet. When you see the amount of money that Donald Trump raised, like a hundred million more dollars, a hundred million plus more dollars than Joe Biden again this quarter and it just ain't going to happen without the money Joe Biden started a 50 million dollar battleground state television ad campaign today. The Biden campaign also released about 12 million dollars in several swing states up in the Rust Belt and the Blue Wall for on the ground operations there. I also found out that the now new Democrat state Supreme Court in Wisconsin on a fourth re-vote is now going to allow for drop boxes which were essentially outlawed after 2020. So we're getting into that territory too when all else fails cheat. What do you think, Noah? Cheating is going to be the name of the game. I saw there was a, I saw a post online where somebody was down in Texas outside of the Houston area and they were going into a lot of these, there's a lot of companies that moved into Texas and just built like really shitty apartments and they're all filled up with these migrants that are coming across and they were going an interview and people door to door and like saying like, Hey, we're with the Democrat party, we're looking to register voters and they're like, Oh, okay, that's cool. And they're like, are you registered to vote? Yes. Are you a citizen? No. When did you register to vote? Oh, a few weeks ago. Who came? Somebody just like you came and knocked on my door and asked to register me to vote. Don't your country citizenship, Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, all registered to vote in Texas. Crazy. It's not crazy. It's the fucking plan. Yeah. Because like the, the verbiage in the laws are, if they reasonably think that they're allowed to vote, there is no crime. True story. And I'm not saying that all these doctors and lawyers aren't intelligent enough to understand that random paperwork that they're just being told the sign and they're just signing everything. There you go. It's going to happen. Yep. Washington Post had an article out this weekend. This is an op-ed Joe Biden should stay on the ticket. Yes, he should, but he should also replace Kamala Harris and then there was another one from the New York Times. Obviously it was an op-ed as well that said like Joe Biden is, you know, a great man, but sometimes he's a little forgetful. Maybe that's just part of his persona and I'm just like, wow, do the dance. The little guy is playing the Jack in the box and he got the little monkey in the hat on the ground doing the dance for, oh, yeah, don't forget about me. I was so good. Don't forget about me. I was so good. I said good things about you in my op-ed. I was just like, oh man, this is media pandering is even grosser than like government pandering. It's like the, the lowest level of pandering. What were you talking about the New York, New York Times article? Yeah. It says, for Joe Biden, what seems like age might instead be style. Yeah. And then when you start reading the actual, and they're like, what if Joe Biden's forgetfulness is like part of his charisma and persona. I was like, oh my God, I was making my stomach hurt. They're comparing him to Beethoven, Wagner, and Martin Scorsese. Oh, Joe Biden doesn't even have eyebrows anymore. What are you talking about? It's terrible. No, and you know what, the best part about it is it's been a terrible week for Joe Biden and Kamal Harris. We're going to continue to, well, we're going to take a look on whether or not he's going to be forced out and some of the narrative that built throughout the course of the Independence Day holiday surrounding that narrative, as we can go off our second edition of Steak for Breakfast. But before we do that, we're getting ready to jump in with Kathy Barnett, even before we jump in with her, another check-in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. They're law enforcement family owned and they produce some of the best available special to grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. Battleborn researches all their sources, farms, and milling stations to make sure you're not getting any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Sit back and have a couple of their borderline Mexico Chappas blend while you're out sitting on an X or sitting in the office. High quality coffee from high quality people. Use promo code STATE for 20% off your first order. Make sure you go check them out at Battleborn.com. Alright, joining us next on the show today is a big Friday edition of the Steak for Breakfast podcast. The former US Senate candidate from the great state of Pennsylvania, she also served as a senior advisor to Vivek Ramaswamy on his presidential campaign. Joining us for the first time is Kathy Barnett. Welcome to the show. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. It's our absolute pleasure and we are excited to be catching up with you for the first time. So, Kathy, listen, when it comes to politics, we're all in the same game here. We all have very different perspectives. But when you look at how the things have panned out over the course of the last week, let's take it and start with the presidential debate, which happened. A lot of people expected a lot of different things and then I don't think anybody really expected what the actual outcome was. America seems to have woken up greatly over the course of the last seven days and it was absolutely astounding to see that the big lie that a lot of people on the conservative side of the aisle at least have been promoting and trying to pry it about Joe Biden for years now, but were cheap fakes, were deep fakes, were conspiracy theorists, but then America really got to see the world got to see what it's really like inside of the White House during, I guess, the normal business operations and operating hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. eastern. And I just kind of wanted to get your commentary. I mean, maybe a little shock from your end. I mean, couldn't be totally surprised because we knew Joe Biden wasn't the Joe Biden that we see, you know, circulating on films online from 20 years ago. But I don't think America was ready to see just how bad things were when it came to the person who's making the toughest decisions essentially on the face of the earth. Yeah, I mean, question, were you surprised that Joe Biden performed the way he did me personally? No, but I think for not non-political America. I don't think most people were surprised. Yes, there are some Democrats who have their head so far stuck in the same that Jesus could come down and shake their hands and they would they would have no idea. They would you think it's another another Wednesday? But for the overwhelming majority of Americans, specifically those who are conservatives, this did not take us by surprise. And I guess there's some vindication there. But certainly when they when the debate was over and they cut back to that round table of CNN commentators, that that was the deep fake, them feigning moral outrage as if they were surprised as if that that Joe Biden's performance was the first time they had ever gotten a whiff of a cognitive decline in this particular man. That is not the case. But what I think many conservatives are missing is that, you know, we're over here on our side of the aisle, high-fiving ourselves that now the world has gotten to see what the rest of us knew way back in 2020. I don't think that that's the story. If anyone think Democrats care about the cognitive acuity of their candidate, let me just mention John Federman. That should dispel all notions that Democrats are somehow scrambling that an empty caucus is not what they really want in their particular candidate, John Federman, I mean, he literally opened up his 2022 debate with Dr. Mammon Oz with hello, everyone, and good night, literally. That's how the debate started. So Democrats are not scrambling, sorry to tell you, Republicans who think you're going to just scoot between now and November, Democrats are not scrambling. They are not trying to find a better option. They are not biting their nails, trying to figure out how all of this is going to happen. And you know, one sneak peek into the thinking of Democrats, Representative Roe Conan, I believe he pronounces last name, said, the Congressmen, Democrat Congressman, he said what I've heard a number of other people on the Democrats side have said, but he put it in writing on Twitter, now known as X, he said, and I'm paraphrasing, don't worry about Joe Biden's debate performance. He is surrounded by people who will help him govern interpretation. Go to sleep. There is a shadow government that is actually running the nation. These are people you did not elect, but that they are actually running the government. And for those people who are running the government, they would prefer the empty caucus that we saw on that debate stage, then some other person who is young and have their mind together and could present a challenge. But I do believe something else has gone awry because on a normal given day, Democrats would prefer the caucus, but somehow this was what we saw on that debate stage, a well-coordinated takedown of Joe Biden's campaign. So I think that that's the story, that if we were looking for something, that something has gone wrong. I think what has gone wrong is Joe Biden in some fashion, but I think that that's the story. I think Republicans out here are high-fiving themselves, making takedown memes, but we're missing the bigger picture here. No, it's a really great point you make. I really do think that there was some point probably closer to last year when the Democrats probably approached the Biden family and talked to them about Joe serving his time, but wanting to move on the best way to keep that radical progressive green agenda rolling along as if they have somebody that could better articulate it to the American people, granted all the people that ran Barack Obama's first term are the ones that are running Joe Biden's life right now. Yeah. But when you have a prettier face to do it or someone that can identify with the American public a little bit better than Joe Biden was physically being able to, it makes a lot of sense. And then when you've heard how they've kind of tightened up the ranks and fired advisors and Jill's kind of a monster behind closed doors, now they bring Hunter Biden in to start advising and sit in these high-level meetings and stuff. The balance. Yeah. It's a huge power grab at the top of the Democrat ticket. There's also been some reports of maybe not so good of a relationship anymore between the Obama's and Biden's, which is something that's going to definitely see how this goes. So where do you see this going? Is the Democrat party essentially going to be if, if Jill Biden continues to hold the Oval Office hostage, just let them burn in the election and then they'll move on? Hopefully they, you know, hope they can stymie Donald Trump for four years, like they did the last time and then just move on with a better, more progressive candidate, or do you think there's something else to play here? I think there's something else at play here again. Democrats are not concerned about the, the sharpness or keenness of mine of their candidate. Again, I present to you exhibit a John Fetterman, so they're not concerned about that. So stop thinking, not you, but to those who may be listening and thinking that, you know, that, oh, now everyone sees what's really going on with Biden. So now they're scrambling. No, these people already knew that there's something deeper going on. There's something a little bit more nefarious going on between now, between that debate and the DNC convention, mid-August, it's 130 days. But what is not highly being reported, I mean, like really only saw one person report on it is that Democrats are going to have a convention a little bit earlier than the official one. It's going to be at the end of July and they are looking and they're going to do it via zoom because they don't want to have to deal with the messiness of trying to fear this thing out on the convention floor and having all these radicals take over their entire convention. So some of the delegates, all of the delegates for the DNC, they're actually going to be coming together via zoom in a couple of weeks. No one is talking about that, right? Again, now they're using some outdated excuse for doing so, but I think that it is then that they're going to decide who is going to be at the head of that ticket. I think what we saw again last week is them running some early interference of getting the conversation going. I don't think that it is because of Joe Biden's lack of acuity. I don't believe it is because Democrats are afraid Joe Biden is going to lose example. I live in Montgomery County right outside of Philadelphia. Montgomery County is the third largest county by far in the entire state of Pennsylvania. Republicans are not going to win Philadelphia, we're not going to win Pittsburgh, but then you come to the third largest county and it's a really good fight that can be waged here. But the Democrat commissioners have just passed approval to add additional drop boxes in the county of Montgomery County. Those particular all of the drop boxes will be open now for 24 hours, seven days a week. There will be no cameras, no chain of custody. How many of you think Democrats are worried about getting the votes by hook or by crook that they will need? I don't think, again, Democrats are concerned about Joe Biden's decline, mental decline. I don't think they're concerned about whether or not they will be able to get the necessary votes because of Joe Biden. I think there is something, as you mentioned, there's a power grab going on at the top of the Democrat Party. There's a battle that's that's ensuing there. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. And then when you talk about the whole, you know, vote box thing, that component of it is just something that really burns me up. I mean, granted, we live in Southern California, so we kind of just give our 55 electoral votes to whatever Democrats at the ticket recently. But I mean, there's a park close to my house. It's probably two miles away from any main drag. Definitely not any freeway. It's like in the middle of nowhere. It's just a park in the middle of our neighborhood. And there's a drop box not in the front of the park, not where all the fields are, all the way in the back front corner that's not even adjacent to the street. And there's just a rant. I was like walking at the park a couple of weeks ago and I walked past it. It's just a vote box and it's like in the middle of nowhere. And I know they get these votes in from somewhere. I mean, in battleground states and those like, you know, 150,000 or less votes that are usually determined the presidency and the blue wall and the rust belt and battleground states like in Pennsylvania, you know, that's where you get the battles won, but where they collect all those votes for the popular vote and stuff like that. And it starts and begins with places like those drop boxes. So Kathy, before we get into talking about a couple of the issues that you want to do, discuss with our listenership today, I do have to ask, I mean, you just wrapped up what probably is an experience most Americans don't get to do. And that's being part of a presidential campaign, getting out there and really putting yourself in front of the American public and and feeling the actual pulse of the nation, regardless of how the race shifted or what the results were, that's not really kind of what I'm interested in finding out. I just want to know what it was like being a part of that overall experience that's something that a lot of people, especially those of political aspirations, only have dreams of being a part of. And I think when we're in such dire times right now to get out there and actually meet with the American public, it had to be an amazing experience and maybe give us just a little bit of an encapsulation of what that experience was like. Yeah, you're absolutely correct. You know, it really encouraged my heart and affirmed some things within me that I already had a really good sense of running for U.S. Senate here in the state of Pennsylvania, but now I'm walking outside of Pennsylvania across the nation with Vivek Rama Swami. And it affirmed the thought that I had is that we have some amazing people in our country. We have specifically amazing people within our party, the grassroots, those who are on the ground, amazing people, and they deserve so much better as far as the type of leadership we currently have in office. These are good people, but they are riddled with anxiety. Apathy is real among even some of the most staunch conservatives. People are tired, people are exhausted, people are very fearful right now. So those things were affirmed that what I was picking up on here in Pennsylvania, that it's actually not just here, it's across the nation, we have some amazing people. I also realized, however, that although the grassroots within our conservative movement are some amazing people, the Republican party, the GOP, is a system that is broken. There's a reason why we have lost almost every significant election since 2017. Donald Trump wins in 2016. And from that point forward, we have become a party of losers and you don't lose that much by accident. I mean, you don't, it's just, I mean, unless you're just really stupid and incompetent. Otherwise, there's something else, a foot that's going on and being a consultant and now walking at very high levels behind the curtains, behind the scenes, working with these people, I come to realize that it really, a large part of the dysfunction in our party starts with our Republican consultants. These are some of the most inept people, but they have their incentives and their incentive is to just rake in the money. Winning is not their number one priority, hence the reason why we keep losing. Because winning is not the priority. And we just kind of rinse and repeat with these same, with this same pool of just swamp creatures within the Republican consulting class. They just go from one election to the other, losing everything on messaging, on everything. And unfortunately, those same people are in position between now and November. And so that gives that, you know, people ask like, what keeps you up at night? Is that that I know a lot of these people now, they're extremely incompetent and stupid for lack of a more profound word, they just are. And winning is not their number one goal. The people on the ground that I mentioned, their number one goal is to win. But unfortunately, we have a system within the Republican party that is broken and that and they are not, their incentive is not one where they are compensated or rewarded for winning, winning is a byproduct, you know, if they win, they win. But they still get highly incentivized to keep losing. You know, that's a really great point you make. And just over the course of the last couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to hear a couple of people that are close enough to, you know, Trump world to kind of get a little bit of insight on how like the VP debate is going on behind the scenes and everything that you pretty much just said, the think tanks, the consultants, the lobby groups that are like fighting behind the scenes to like make their person that they would like to be Donald Trump's vice president as presentable as possible. It's just wild. Some of the stories I hear and, you know, it's all about control. It's not about who's the best person, who's the better person, what is good for the movement after 2028. So none of that is coming into the conversation only. They only use those kinds of words, you know, as just, you know, fillers and you know, just to make it sound like they're actually moving and working for the people. But in all honesty, I mean, we are, I mean, only Jesus can help us now. And maybe that's where we should have been all along is turning our face towards him. I mean, we deserve Biden, the Democrats and all that they and all the craziness that come with them. I am praying and this is just me being honest that God will not give us what we deserve but that he will give us grace that he and that we will win, but it will not be because we have really smart and competent people on our side. And that makes me very sad and very nervous for my country that I love and for the future of my children. Oh, you know, that's a lot of the same kind of rhetoric and commentary that we get, very often when we get to sit down with Dr. Ben Carson, he always tries to put, you know, kind of a wholesome spiritual spin on it, but then talks about the tough times that we're going through and that a lot of those tough times, albeit, you know, at the hands of the opposition party are often self-inflicted wounds that get things started. We open ourselves up to, like you said, losing and when we should be able to snatch victory easily and then it just sets ourselves up to, you know, play the victim and not be able to, you know, repair this country in the way it needs to be from top to bottom. It's not just about border security and fixing the economy. It's about getting wholesome and family oriented and centered and, you know, God again. And that's a, that's a really great point. You make, I do want to talk about some of the people that have been absolutely crushed under Joe Biden and unfortunately a lot of that has to do with black America. You know, there's been a lot of replacement theory concepts being thrown around. I mean, if you want to talk about a way that 20 million plus illegals by November are going to be getting a benefit set, a lot of, you know, families that used to be able to get them aren't getting anymore and how Joe Biden's open border policies and his pandering to what he considers a new voter base has just seemed to, well, take binomics, put it on steroids and pretty much do a good job in crushing black America over the course of the last three plus years. I don't think there's anybody outside of the ultimate elite class that could really comfortably not live paycheck to paycheck at this point. It's a really sad time we're in America right now, but I know people that, you know, two, six figure spouses that have kids and own a home, they are struggling just as much as people in the more urban areas. And I kind of want to ask how, you know, you've kind of looked at how Joe Biden and Biden brought to the campaign trail. That's, you know, bringing a lot more people that you normally wouldn't see typically in the motorcycle more openly coming back under the MAGA 10. Yeah, you know, you alluded to it. We're all being crushed, not just black people, not just Hispanics. We're all in America being crushed. When you talk about the replacement theory, I believe it's true. But I believe that, you know, where some on our side of the aisle may focus on white people being replaced. I don't think it has anything, anything specifically to do with the color of our skin, I believe was being replaced or our values. Because you know, we often say politics runs downstream from culture. Culture is nothing more than a an accumulation of values and beliefs and the way that we see the world. And so if if politics runs downstream from culture, then what in culture is being changed, it's our sense of values and our patriotism. And those things, you know, there's a reason why America is so different. You know, if you're walking into America versus if you're walking into Iran right now or or into China, it's a sense of values and how we see the world and how we show up and who we see ourselves as being, that is being replaced. So I do believe that there is credence in that. I wish many on our side was will stop being such talking heads and go a little bit deeper than the color of our skin when we're talking about the replacement theory because I believe it's true, but it's not color. It is the focus is on our values and who we are. Regarding, I mean, it's obvious the reason why black people on her, you know, look, raising their head up by the grace of God after 60 years of hoeing the plantation over on the Democrat side. Finally, black people are waking up. I would have thought black people would have woke would have awakened with the horrible schools that their children are being forced to attend or the high crime that they're being forced to live under or the lack of opportunities and drugs and liquor stores on every street corner. But it wasn't that that actually got black people to wake up. It is as a direct result of Biden policies of an open border. And I mean, you know, what I mean, whether we like the reason why black people are finally waking up or not, it is real. Black people, specifically black men are waking up to the reality. And in large part is because these illegals are getting what many of them want. Now, I'm not into the government giving me anything. I just want the government to get out of my way. But we cannot deny those particular communities who, you know, many of them do look at the fact that these illegals are getting a lot of freebies and believe that those things should be coming to them. And certainly if our nation is going to start handing out checks, then yeah, I think I want to get in that line too. I mean, why not, right? I mean, why give it to a Venezuelan illegals coming out of the prisons of Venezuela who's going to come up here and rape and murder our little girls, why give them free housing and five star hotels, right? So I think a lot of people are waking up to that reality of it. And I, you know, and in all honesty, Donald Trump is Donald Trump and Vivek. I was the one who took Vivek into the South side of Chicago. But outside of Donald Trump and Vivek, I have not really seen Republicans go into these predominantly black communities or Hispanic communities that are waking up to what's going on and are looking for a different option. So I'm grateful that Donald Trump is doing that. I am, unfortunately, the rest of the Republican Party goes back to that system we were talking about these people, you know, they don't know how to win. And so I am hopeful that Donald Trump will continue to make the case very plain of what four years under Biden has been compared to the previous four years when he was president. No, it's the truth. And then, you know, what I want to ask you, I think it's a really big component of it. As you see, Donald Trump is the person who's willing to take those bold steps and go out into the communities. I mean, Democrats don't even do it anymore. I mean, you'll have the ones like, you know, the clay burns and the other ones who will go out and they'll pretend that they're like, we were making fun of Kamala Harris dancing before, you know, and doing the hits for BET, where she's telling people she's she's out in the street. She hasn't been out in the streets since she was Montel Williams girlfriend back in the 90s. But that's neither here nor there. As Donald Trump is willing to like walk into a bodega or go into a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta or go into these places that typically no politician goes to these are really the forgotten men and women of America. But then you've seen the law fair that's been waged against president Trump. How does that component kind of change? I mean, you've had the Supreme Court rule in over the course of like 72 hours saying that all the law fair that the Democrats are trying to wage against right now is completely not going to hold up in court, especially if it gets back to the Supreme Court based on these rulings if the judges want to continue to try and play games with it. But you know, as the person who's willing to take those steps and offering solutions to the problem that families are really having right now and then seeing that the other party literally wants to throw this guy in jail for essentially nothing, stuff that every other president that, you know, over the course of the last, you know, modern politics has ever done. Yeah. What do you think the responses? Do you think that that's a rise in the poll numbers coming from Latinos and African Americans and other demographics across the country that are really starting to resonate with, you know, America first principles that maybe haven't over the course of like you said, the last 60 years or do you think that, you know, it might be something else as well? Yeah, I'm sure that that's a part of it as well. I I don't agree with many on my side of the aisle with conservatives who are saying, Oh, now blacks are going to vote for Donald Trump because he's a felon too. No, I find that to be very derogatory. But I believe what I believe black people, Hispanics and others who have been marginalized in their in our culture are picking up on is just the unfairness of it all black people have a strong sense Hispanics do as well. This strong sense of fairness, you know, and when you see something that is so, I mean, they they were able to cook up 34 felony charges from a bookkeeping era. Literally, no one died. No one child was trafficked. It was a bookkeeping era. You do the drop down. You can put you can put the expense in one box or another box and they were able to cook up 34 felony charges from that people see that and it is disgusting. It is despicable. Everyone does not have the moral capacity of an alley had as Biden kept saying on that debate stage. That's just really despicable. And I think people in the black community, the Hispanic community and any other community that feels a little marginalized in American culture at times. I think they see the unfairness of it all. It's just so blatant and disgusting that is causing people to kind of you know, it's like that jolt that people need. No, it's a really good example you use there. And I mean, when you look at the witnesses, let's just say in that case the husband they used a porn star as their star witness and their co star witness admitted that throughout the course of committing this alleged crime, he committed grand larceny. But they were willing to overlook that just so he could testify against the person who didn't actually commit the crime. But because he was at the top of the enterprise that the crime was committed under, they were going to like you said, resurrect 34 felonies out of a dead misdemeanor and try to put literally a bookkeeping. It's so I mean, you can't make it up and to your and something that you mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court is already dismantling their cases. Earlier this week, we saw that the Supreme Court and a three six decision has ruled that presidents do enjoy immunity and their as they carry out their constitutional responsibilities. And so we already see that this is going to be dismantled at the Supreme Court. But again, it's just so tone deaf. People are struggling. People are nervous. People are scared. Our country has fallen. It is it's you know, we have a Russian nuclear submarine just 40 miles off the coast of our nation and virtually no one is talking about it. And when they did talk about it, it was basically go back to sleep. There's nothing to see here. What's going on in Israel right now? Iran is spreading like a metastasized cancer. Now they're in Somalia. They were just with the Houthis. So they're they're spreading their that sense of hatefulness and and just murderous behavior, just barbaric individuals that mentality. It is spreading like cancer. Our world is not safe. And we have people in our country who have us, you know, kind of dangling the carrot over here to the left so that we don't really pay attention to what's going on in our nation. Wild times. I'm glad we're here for it. Kathy. I'm glad you were here with us today. Listen, we've got a link to your podcast live linked in our show description today. So everybody's going to be able to check that out. Is there anywhere else or social media handles that you want to give out that our listenership? If they're not already following you, they can continue to check you out as well. This has been fantastic. We'll be looking forward to having you back at some point in the very near future, hopefully. But where can we find you on social media? Yeah, I am out there everywhere. If whatever platform you're on, I'm primarily on the platform formerly known as Twitter X at Kathy number four truth. Kathy number four truth. But my podcast, the Kathy Barnett show, it is streaming everywhere you listen to podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, rumble. So please go out, check it out. Like it, share it. Blessings. Liked and shared all the stuff that we talked about today. This is the former US Senate candidate out of the great state of Pennsylvania. She was also a senior advisor to Vivek Rameswamy on his presidential campaign. Miss Kathy Barnett, thanks for joining us on the show today. Please have a great weekend. Thank you. Blessings. Guys, we're coming back with another all new edition of the state for breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax and let us change the way you consume your news. [BLANK_AUDIO]
