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PETE: WELL, FROM RAISING TAXES
TO CONSIDERING EXPANDING THE
COURT AND CREATING A CRIRISIS AT
THE BORDER, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS
WASTED NO TIME WORKING TO UNDO
ANY SUCCESSES, ALL SUCCESSES BY
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
AND A NEW YORK POST OP-ED
PREDICTS THIS IS JUST THE
BEGINNING.
ARGUING, QUOTE: IF IT AIN’T
BROKE, JOE BIDEN WILL BREAK IT.
JEDEDIAH: HERE TO REACT IS
FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS
SECRETARY AND COHOST OF
"OUTNUMBERED," KAYLEIGH
McENANY.
WELCOME AND CONGRATULATIONS ON
THAT NEW POSITION.
>> THANK YOU.
JEDEDIAH: YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE
THING, THERE’S AN UNDERSTANDING
THAT WHEN A NEW ADMINISTRATION
COMES IN, OBVIOUSLY, THERE’S
GOING TO BE SOME CHANGES MADE,
OBVIOUSLY, SOME REJECTION OF
FORMER POLICIES.
THE PROBLEM WITH ME, FOR ME WITH
THIS IS THAT THERE WERE SOME
POLICIES UNDER THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, PARTICULARLY
SOME RELATED TO THE BORDER, THAT
WERE JUST WORKING.
AND IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS JUST
A COMMITMENT TO JUST UNDO
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THESE
POLICIES WERE ACTUALLY EFFECTIVE
OR NOT.
WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON WHAT YOU SEE
HAPPENING ACROSS THE BOARD?
>> YEAH, THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT
PARTICULARLY ON IMMIGRATION AS
YOU NOTED, LOOK, FORMER ACTING
SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
CHAD WOLF HAS SAID WE WARPED THE
OBAMA -- EXCUSE ME, PRESIDENT
BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION THAT IF
THEY ROLLED BACK THESE POLICIES,
THEY’D SEE THIS CRISIS ON THE
BORDER.
AND NOW YOU EVEN HAVE A TACIT
ADMISSION THAT THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION IS ACKNOWLEDGING
THIS BECAUSE THE NEW HOMELAND
SECURITY, MAYORKAS, HAS
REPORTEDLY TOLD FOLKS AT I.C.E.
THAT HE MIGHT NEED TO RESUME
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BORDER WALL.
WELL SEE IF THAT HAPPENS, BUT
IT’S ALMOST A TACIT ADMISSION
THAT IT WAS WORKING UNDER TRUMP,
THEY REALIZE IT, AND AT LEAST IN
HUSHED WHISPERS AROUND DHS
THEY’RE SAYING, HEY, MAYBE WE
NEED TO GO BACK TO SOME OF THOSE
POLICIES.
WILL: I DON’T KNOW THAT THESE
TWO MOTIVATIONS ARE MUTUALLY
EXCLUSIVE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THE AGENDA OVER THE FIRST 75
DAYS OF THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION, DO YOU SEE ONE
DRIVEN BY FAR LESS IDEOLOGIES OR
MORE SHALLOWLY DRIVEN BY SIMPLY
UNDOING WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
DID?
IN OTHER WORDS, IF PRESIDENT
TRUMP WAS FOR IT, WE ARE AGAINST
IT.
I THINK FOR MANY, BY THE WAY, IN
GEORGIA, THAT’S WHAT IT WAS
ABOUT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, ULTIMATELY, WAS
WHAT MOTIVATED PEOPLE TO FEEL
ONE WAY OR9 ANOTHER ABOUT THE
GEORGIA LAW.
NOT REALLY IDEOLOGY IN THE END.
IT’S BEEN SO SHALLOW ARE.
EVERYTHING FOR FOUR YEARS, IT’S
ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
IS IT STILL?
>> I THINK IT IS, YES, BUT I
DO -- AND I AGREE THEY’RE NOT
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
BUT I DO THINK THERE IS THIS
FAR-LEFT RADICALISM THAT HAS
TAKENNEN OVER THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION,9 I MEAN, JUST
LOOK AT THE POLICIES.
PACKING THE COURT, ASSAULT
WEAPONS BAN, THE IMMIGRATION
PLAN THAT HE PUT FORWARD WAS A
MARKED CHANGE FROM THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION ERA PLAN WHICH
WORKED WITH THE GANG OF EIGHT,
THAT WORKED WITH REPUBLICANS.
AT LEAST IT ADD HAD THE BORDER
SECURITY MEASURES IN THERE.
BIDEN HASN’T DONE THAT.
AND I SAID WHEN THE REPORTING
CAME OUT THAT HE WAS TALKING TO
OBAMA, I SAID I THINK HE’S
PUTTING FAR MORE CALLS INTO AOC,
AND IT CAME OUT DAYS LATER, IN
FACT, THE CHIEF OF STAFF HAD
TALKED TO AOC.
AN ARTICLE TODAY SAYING AOC AND
HER 95 PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS ARE
FINDING A WAY NOT TO BUCK THE
PARTY, BUT TO WORK THROUGH IT.
BIDEN’S A PUPPET WHOSE STRINGS
ARE BULL BEING PULLED -- BEING
PULLED, AND THAT’S FRIGHTENING.
PETE: THERE WAS NO DOUBT WHO WAS
RUNNING THE SHOW, DONALD TRUMP
WAS RUNNING THE SHOW AND SETTING
THE PREROGATIVES.
IT’S HARD TO LOOK INSIDE THE
BIDEN WHITE HOUSE AND GET YOUR
ARMS AROUND WHO’S RUNNING THE
SHOW.
BASICALLY, WHAT YOU CAN SEE,
WHO’S GUIDING THE RESULTEDDER
INSIDE THAT WHITE HOUSE?
THE RUDDER?
>> IT IS A FASCINATING QUESTION
BECAUSE, PETE, WE WERE TOLD BY
BIDEN, I’M A MODERATE UNITER.
AND, REMEMBER, THIS PRESS, "THE
WASHINGTON POST," NEW YORK TIMES
AND OTHERS WENT TO GREAT PAINS
TO SAY THIS GUY IS THE GREAT
MODERATE.
HE’S NOT A LEFTIST, HE’S MIDDLE
OF THE ROAD.
WELL, HE COMES IN, AND
EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF THE
ADMINISTRATION IS ANYTHING BUT
MODERATE.
SO YOU’RE LEFT TO BELIEVE
EITHER, ONE, BIDEN IS TOTALLY
COHERENT AND HE WAS JUST LYING
TO US FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND
MONTH, OR HE’S NOT RUNNING THE
SHOW, IT’S KAMALA, THE FAR LEFT,
AND HE’S JUST SITTING THERE IN
THE OVAL LETTING THE RADICALS
LEAD THE WAY THROUGH CONGRESS.
I WISH WE HAD MORE OF AN ANSWER,
BUT THIS IS THE LEAST
TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION.
WE NEVER GET PRESS CONFERENCES,
AND WHEN WE DO, THE ONE WE GOT
WAS MIDDLED AND INCOHERENT.
JEDEDIAH: KAYLEIGH,
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE’S THE THEME
OF BEING ABSENT.
JOE BIDEN WAS LARGELY ABSENT ON
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, AND NOW
YOU’RE SEEING VICE PRESIDENT
KAMALA HARRIS ABSENT AT THE
BORDER.
IT’S REALLY UNTHINKABLE, BUT
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