I pinned the tweet on my twitter i watched it on your twitterberry fantastic show, great to see you. Im laura ingraham, and this is the ingraham angle. A man who spent six years by joe biden side is here to spill the beans about the former vps decline, plus how putin him related him. And cant miss with a stenographer stenographer is straight ahead. The dubious social justice heroes and how pressure for black lives matter is prompting them up. But first, biden 101, the war party exposed. That is the focus of tonights angle. Weve entered the sprint to november and the angle is back to translate joe bidens word for you. He has tried mightily to muddy the waters on his real views and actual record of supporting wars. Do you say your vote on the iraq war was based on the representation this wasnt about going to war, this was about presenting a clear at least threat to Saddam Hussein . Bernie sanders has eyes right through that. Can we say that senator sanders judgment about that was better than yours . Look, the reason i voted the way i did was to try to prevent a war from happening. It is completely false. And anyone who has any momentary memory of what was happening at the time in 2002 and 2003 knows that. This is why biden has sought to capitalize on the now debunked atlantic magazine smear against the president despite the facte that the most incendiary claims in that piece have been disavowed by at least 21 current or former Administration Sources on the record, by the way. No president has ever talked about our servicemen and women in that way. Im sorry if im coming close to losing my temper, but the simple truth is, if thats how you talk about our veterans, you have no business being president of the United States of america. Period. The Biden Campaign of course is eager to drive a wedge between President Trump and his most loyal constituencies, and he happily took the assist from atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg who used Anonymous Sources to conjure up the bogus claim that trump canceled his visit to an American Military cemetery in france two years ago because he didnt believe in honoring violent heroes. Goldbergrg went on to claim in a conversation with senior Staff Members on the morning of the scheduled visit trump said why should i go to that cemetery, its filled with losers. In a separate conversation on the same trip, he referred to the more than 1800 marines who lost their lives as suckers for getting killed. This isnt the first time that goldberg cited Anonymous Sources to prop up a ridiculous claim. Or the first time his writing fits seamlessly with the pro war party agenda. Back in february of 2003, while writing for the new yorker, goldberg was busy selling the iraq wmd claim and the idea that Saddam Hussein had in some way aided and abetted al qaeda. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States whose reporting led to a broad Public Acceptance for invading iraq. Here is an interview with Robert Siegel he did of npr. In all of your reporting on al qaeda and iraq, what is the strongest piece of evidence that would suggest there really is a link between the two . T i would have to say it something i learned of recently and have in this new story, which is in the mid 90s, series of emissaries went from afghanistan earlier from sudan to baghdad to convince the Iraqi Intelligence Service to provide al qaeda with chemical weapons training in afghanistan. According to my sources, they succeeded and iraqis did in fact help al qaeda in the teaching of the use of poison gas. While many of us including this host took that reporting as gospel, big mistake. Well, at least i did a real mea culpa and changed my thinking completely about these types of preemptive wars, specifically those in the middle east. And ended up believing that they would make us weaker across the board, as they did, but mr. Goldberg did not. Although years later heap delivered us apology for his role in peddlingng this pro invasion narrative, he nevertheless insisted onon the dignity of the story the original story. The dignity of a story that ended up supporting a war that cost trillions of dollars in the lives of over 4,400 americans. Such as the hubris of an unrepentant liberal interventionist. This brings us back to joe biden. Why did mr. Goldberg, after his huge iraqi war embarrassment, pull a stunt like this in the campaigns homestretch . To prop up the candidacy of the aging war hawk himself, joe biden. He thats why. Biden laughably has tried to claim that despite having voted for the war, he was against it almost as soon as it started. In reality, biden was pushing for military intervention in iraq five years before theli invasion. This was a 1998 Foreign Relations committee hearing. Many believe as long as saddam is at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect. You or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have routed out root and branch, the entirety of saddams program relative to what weapons of mass destruction. The only way we are going to get rid of Saddam Hussein is we are going to end up having to start it alone, start it alone, and its going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot, in the desert taking saddam down. First of all, hes been in politics a long time, right . But before he won the nomination, his record on wars was actually beginning to catch up to him. Rd the leftwing anti trump website was incredulous that party might actually nominate a war hawk like biden to go up against trump who won in part by taking on the war hawks in his own party. And bidens explanations werent washing. What biden did was to help ensure war happened while trying to wash his hands of responsibility for it. Le he helped build the car for bush, filled it up with gas, saw that bush was drunk, gave him licensed to do what he wanted. Eventually, biden pretended he was shocked that the streaks were littered with mangled bodies. Ep the intercept which is another antiwar anti trump site has also called out biden and the democrats in general for their own long history of supporting wars of preemption. Intoxicated by the maelstrom of crises both domestic and global theres beenen, little accountig for these tragedies. The impact of the wars did not bear mention at the Democratic National convention, but in the end a catastrophe of this scale cant just be brushed aside. And biden claims that donald trump has disrespected the troops . A pathetic driveby smear, and a desperate attempt to cover up his own lies about his own history of rubberstamping whatever the pro interventionist types wanted. The militaryindustrial complex was never comfortable with trump despite the massive increase in spending he pushed back in 2017h while the neocons and the Foreign Policy establishment seized on goldbergs hit piece. They knew that he, the generals knew he asked uncomfortables questions like why are we still in germany 75 years after world war ii ended . And why are people more worried about russia today than china . And why doesnt nato nations why dont they contribute more for their own military defense again . A lot of these war hawks dont like answering these questions or having them asked at all. And they know that biden will not ask them. He wont demand answers to any of those questions. Thats why they like him. Simply stated, biden is a lifetime member of the prowar prosurveillance state crowd. The far left epitomized by the squad, they dont like any of this, they dont like it, but it seems they have made in implicit devils bargain that they will control social policy to push reparations and Court Appointments in a Biden Administration and then they will look the other way, at least for now when it comes two Foreign Policy. The rest of us dont have to make that bargain. Do you know why . We actually have a candidate who fights what eisenhower called the militaryindustrial complex a man who seeks to bring our troops home from endless unnecessary wars and who recognizes that we cant solve all of our problems by bombing cthem. If you want to rein in the pentagon, President Trump is the only credible option. A vote for biden will lead us back to the disastrouswi policis that ledto to the invasion of iq in the first place. And that isin the angle. Joining me now is a former trump nsc official and author of the stakes. Michael, ive got a lot of news on this and we will get to that in a moment. Have you ever heard donald trump utter one disparaging comment about our troops or our Fallen Heroes . No. And i was with him for the first 14 months of the demonstration on every foreign trip where i had lots of interaction with the military bases overseas and the United States, i never heard him say anything like that. One thing i heard him say which you just mentioned in his opening, i heard him ask really pointed questions to generals and senior officials that they had trouble answering. You know, on more than one location they were taken aback. I think theyd gotten used to getting rubberstamped, they were so unused to answering these kinds of questions that they would get flustered and couldnt think of anything. At one point the president said which i think they thought they were going into a meeting where they would stick something in front of him and he would sign it. He saidysk okay, and he kept thm very long and asked them lots and lots of questions he said okay the next time i see you youre going to have answers to all of these. Im not going to do anything until i hear more from you. And lets just say the mood around the table was somewhat swollen and the meeting broke u and they streamed out. Michael, i want to get your reaction to the breaking news tonight as Senior Defense official telling fox news the pentagon, the president , and pentagon will announce tomorrow that they are cutting u. S. Troop 00vels in iraq by a third from 5200 to about 3500 troops. This announcement was apparently planned before the atlantic article dropped, and its keeping with his promise to bring our troops home. But could this have been anul impetus at least for pushing this atlantic hit piece out with zero on the record sources . It could be, im sure, but i think the reason for the atlantic hit piece is much more political. Iv its to seeen what they can do to drive down the tapresident s popularity with te i hate to say it also has to do with a lot of this kind of crazy coo talk that the democrats have been engaging in over the course of the year including joe biden saying the military wont let him stay past january 20th. The military will be on my side. A lot of this kind of nutty talk that really terribly tears atwh the military civilian relations in this country which is one of the bed rocks of our government and you know, here the cynic in me is speaking ahead more to do with that, but you could be right though. A move like this, any kind of troop reduction is in the works for months. It takes a long time to in the meantime, as its getting ready lots and lots of people see it so there are opportunities. Youve just written a book called the stakes. Was then its all on the line notth just the presidency, but e country is on the line. Explain. Fundamentally right now, i think the two big issues of this election, every election has a lot of issues that to biggest ones are stacking, burning, and looting American Cities in the covid lockdown punishing our economy. Its clear wherely biden is. Hes for the mob and hes for the lock down and it may sound harsh to say hes for the mobs what you can only go outut there and condemn violence very blandly, you cant call out core democratic supporters and he cant even criticize these incredibly effective with villas mayors who wont even enforce the law or governors that wont enforce law but in sometimes take to twitter intake to the airwaves and egg them on. Biden has also setme a couple times that if he gets in there is president and the experts whoever they are saved to him welcome that we need more lockdown he says ill shut the country down. Donald trump is on the other side and both of those two issues. Hes made that play all along. He definitely made it plain at the rally some parts of which i saw in south carolina. Then there are his core issues that he ran out in 2016 where they are diametric opposites trump wants more immigration restriction, he wants a wall, he wants to clean up the gratian policy and reform the system so that we are putting americans first. He wants to readdress our trade imbalances, get tougher with china. Biden has been in the pocket of china for a long time. And then finally, war, which youve already talked about. They couldnt be more different there. We have a president who has just helped broker a historic peace deal between the uae and israel, obama blinked and he got a nobel peace prize, its a joke. And this is historic and its a collective yawn for most in the media, but theyre coming into town next week and they will celebrate that. He hes a peacemaker, and people dont like his tweets, but id much rather have a peacemaker who tweets some rough stuffho tn ahu warmonger who is hugging cay with all the constituents all the time. Michael, your book is fabulous everybody should go out and get it. Thank you so much. Thank you. For the last four years, he rolled pro trump gear at the end he did it without any incidents. In fact, he often got complement from coworkers, but it all changed last week when the company who, by the way, is the sole builder of u. S. Aircraft carriers decided that hat would no longer be tolerated. After he refused to remove the trump 2020 had before a safety meeting, he was fired. The company told him he had violated its policy on campaigning, but he wasnt campaigning, he was just wearing a hat. Dave sunderland joins me now. Dave, its great to see you tonight. Is it true you wore a trump hat of this type to work every day for four years without any controversy . What changed . I really dont know what changed. D ye, i did wear it every day for four years. I might have missed a day oruc two, but pretty much for four years i wore it. Either a keep america hat, trump 2020, something. And all of a sudden, it is not allowed. Your company claimed it was not a policy to attack anyones particular viewpoint. We tried to get a statement from them tonight to clarify things and they said the following. We have policies and procedures to eliminate anything that could negatively impact teamwork. These longstanding policies and procedures are designed to minimize disruptions and allow our work teams to doing job safely, efficiently, the procedures are not to any election or candidate. But, dave, they wouldnt actually point us to a specific policy. They kind of just issued the fact that there is a policy, so do you feel like you were treated fairly or targeted because of your trump views . I feel like they are stepping on a First Amendment right here. It may not be what they liked, but they shouldnt be able to pick and choose opinions somebody has. Have you seen other coworkers where other insignias, or mottos that have a political message of any type . Ive seen black lives matter masks. I havent really seen any biden stuff, but i have seen in 2016 i saw the hillery tshirts. There were, Obama Tshirts everywhere. Apparently that was tolerated. At yes, it was. Dave, we will keep trying to get answers from newport news. They certainly make a lot of money from u. S. Taxpayers, not sure why they for the treatment here. Demand that witnessed joe biden up close for six years when he was vp is speaking out about the decline of joe biden. His former stenographer Mike Mccormick joins us exclusively with all the details. Dont miss this. With all the details. Dont miss this. For six years my next guest, Mike Mccormick, was at joe bidens side as his stenographer, transcribing the former vps every word. He was present anytime the former vp gave speeches, met with foreign leaders, had off the record chats with reporters, you name it. In other words, he would have been a near constant presence during bidens time in the white house. Given that personal relationship, its all the more stunning to read what he wrote about biden in his new book. Hes lost a step and he doesnt seem to have the same mental acuity ass he did four years ag. He doesnt have the energy, he doesnt have the pace of his speaking, hes a different guy. Its hard to quibble with the evidence. What holds this nation together and always has, has been an intuitive and expressed commitment to the constitution. To our institutions. All men and women created by you know the thing. You know the rapidly rising in with, i dont know. Joining me exclusively is Mike Mccormick, bidens formerer stenographer and author of biden unauthorized. Mike, what troubles you about where biden is now versus where he was just four years ago in that clip that we played from 2017, i believe. He does seem just to the casual observer, quite a bit different. Laura, thank you for having me on. And the title of my book is joe biden unauthorized and the 2020 crackup of the democratic party. Ill get to the second part of the title later. Joe biden is a different guy than he was. He doesnt have the same vitality. I listen to he spoke, i worked as a stenographer in the white house for 15 years. And started in the bush of ministration in 200 to i worked for the Obama Administration and i worked one year for President Trump, so im not a political appointee, i have sort of acrosstheboard perspective and because of that, im kind of a neutral observer, thats what you wrote the book is because i saw and understood as joe biden was running for president , ther was a lot of things i saw that America Needs to know. What i didnt know when i was writing the book was how far hed slipped until i saw how hedd become this years performance and debates was pretty low quality.