Thanks here now, America's Newsroom Co host Bill Hemmer.
Bill, it's always great to see you and get your
insight.
We're looking at an election coming up in November.
And President Biden's got a lot of problem areas,
right? I think Edward did a really good job of
just spelling it out in terms of the math and
what we're getting in our polling.
And we we debuted that new issues tracker just yesterday.
And he's exactly right. Economy strongly favors Trump by double
digits.
The border strongly favors Trump by 18 points.
Kind of gives you some clues as to why the
executive order came down the way it did.
And I'm wondering is that a last ditch effort for
this administration to say we've messed up on so many
different fronts?
We got to pick something and at least try to
kind of put it out there that we're we're trying
to work on it.
You know, I, I think they'll try and they'll hope.
I think it's also very complicated.
They had more than 65 executive orders that he signed
along with Secretary Mayorkas.
You going back to January of
2021 to
removed so much of the border that had been put
in place and
it's tough to do. Plus,
you got a battle from the left who disagrees what
they're doing here.
Here's one thing to keep in mind.
Will it work? Will the media continue to report on
it?
We've been there. Will others still be there to see
whether or not you hit the
2500 mark or not? I think the border is so
bad after being there myself
that it's going to, it takes more than just an
executive order signed in the Oval Office to get this
done.
I want to talk about some interesting reporting,
the big news out this morning,
sort of that big expose,
the big piece from the Wall Street Journal highlighting sort
of how behind closed doors people are becoming a little
bit more worried about Biden's mental acuity.
Is that an election issue?
It's going to be if I could go back to
the issues tracker,
we find age and Donald Trump favored by 21 points
21. You know, you more more than than any other.
It's the largest lead that he had on Biden or
Biden had on on Trump.
And off the top of my head,
I think Biden's best showing was on abortion and he
led there by by 12 points.
Another thing going on right now when you land in
in France and that's the foreign policy issues.
You know, you got a war in Ukraine,
you got a war in Gaza,
you got challenges from the Chinese.
And you know, when it comes to the age thing
that
I think what voters are telling us is they even
though Trump's four,
3 1/2 years younger than Biden,
they see him as more vibrant.
They see him with greater energy.
And it's I think it's showing up in our polling
here.
So watch that and we'll we'll see how that works
out.
One thing I just want to be delicate about this.
I'm trying to choose my words carefully here.
I watched President Biden get off the plane earlier today
in France and he fine came down the stairs,
shook the man's hand, took a picture,
Then he works the line.
And
I, I, I think the quote from the Journal was
you couldn't be there and not feel uncomfortable.
I'll just say that and I'll,
I'll leave it at that.
But for European leaders who are getting their first chance
to see him,
maybe in some time they're going to see exactly what
that quote was in the Wall Street Journal piece.
Then all these leaders across the continent start talking and
they say,
how's he doing? How did he look to you?
And they're they're going to say something like,
you could not be there and not feel,
you know, you said something so interesting there.
You know, you, we want,
we want to be delicate about it.
You want to be delicate about it.
But if you're a world leader,
if you're an adversary, you're not delicate about it.
You're looking at you're looking at the commander in chief
and you can see what everybody can see.
And you're thinking to yourself,
now's the moment to press our advantage.
Now's the moment to do.
I mean, are you not if,
if, if you're, if you're China,
if you're Iran, if you're whatever you're,
you're not concerned about being delicate,
right? So how, how concerned does American voter need to
be about,
you know, Brian, the last time we were on two
weeks ago,
I made the point that a lot of people talk
about how you resolve the war in Ukraine.
And I think there's been very little discussion that's been
given how you could stop the war in the first
place.
You know, you deal with creative ideas and you deal
with leadership.
And that's how we we did not have that early
2022. And Putin made the call to go in.
I agree with you. I think I think
those who are looking to score points,
they have seen their opening over the past 3 1/2
years.
And maybe that opening closes in five months.
It's five months from yesterday when America votes.
We'll see. Does the Hunter Biden trial have anything to
do with the election?
It might. I'm a little cautious on this.
I think we just, you know,
keep our powder dry a little bit.
You know, we'll wait for the verdict.
Similar to Trump trial as well.
I think what's interesting about the Trump trial and the
fall off and the two things I would say,
no juror has spoken publicly yet.
No juror has been identified.
We don't have any names.
You know, they've made a conscious decision not to do
that.
I think the other thing is there's been some polling
after the verdict.
I think you you need to allow the waters to
roll over the stone for several days,
if not even several weeks.
Quinnipiac today at 2:00 is going to come out with
a poll on Georgia.
And so we we may get a.
Now our polling suggests that Trump has a lead there
and
I would expect Quinnipiac to reflect that.
But maybe they ask a question too about this verdict.
We'll see you now. Well,
and let's also see how the Hunter Biden trial plays
out.
Great piece in the post saying this is
essentially they're being tried and Hunter is being tried in
Biden town.
And if this verdict, they feel sorry for him and
they let him go.
It's just going to highlight that two tiered justice system
that ultimately it's shows that the courts may play favorites,
they may protect or they may persecute,
depending on the party. I guess the only points that
would make is that you cannot go.
You cannot live in Delaware and not be aware of
the Biden name,
right? Yeah. It was a US senator at the age
of 29.
And they do have several jurors on there who have
said that they have members of their family who
are addicts or have been addicts.
Not quite sure how that plays,
how it plays out. Listen,
it's going to be a tough couple of weeks for
the family regardless.
Always great to see you,
Bill. You too, Jackie. You,
Sir Taylor. Good to be with you.