Glenn is furious after watching the CNN Presidential Debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. But it’s not for the reason you may think. President Biden’s performance was terrifying – he looked and sounded old, seemed to lose track of his sentences, and lied all over the place – and even the mainstream media is panicking. But while they all talk politics, Glenn says they should be talking about the COUNTRY: “How do we get this man away from the nuclear football?!”

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GLENN: Wow! Wow! Last night, I watched something I've never seen before.

This country just continues to get more and more bizarre.

When the president -- I'm going to spend some time here talking as if you've watched the debate last night.

Because we have so much to cover. But I will tell you -- let me just play the first thing that came out of Joe Biden's mouth last night. Do we have the first cut with his opening statement, please? Let me look for the number, I'm sorry. It's cut six.

JAKE: President Biden, inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then, now costs more than $120.

And typical home prices have jumped more than 30 percent.

What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency, than they were under President Trump.

BIDEN: You're going to take a look at what I was left with when I became president. What Mr. Trump left me.

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

When he walked out first, he looked like The Walking Dead. And I think you're going to be surprised at some of the things I say today because I'm not playing politics. And I'm hearing everyone else play politics.

He looked really bad. Really bad. And then when he opened up his mouth and that came out. Well, I just -- it was breathtaking. Breathtaking. Just his presentation. Continue, please.

JAKE: President Trump.

BIDEN: We're going to take a look at what I was left with when I became president. What Mr. Trump left me.

We had an economy that was in freefall. The pandemic was so badly handled. Many people were dying. All he said was it's not that serious. Just inject a little bleach into your arm, you'll be all right. The economy collapsed. There were no jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 15 percent. It was terrible. And so what we had to do was try to put things back together again, and that's exactly what we had to do.

GLENN: Okay. That's probably the clearest he was all night. Let me give you -- cut 14, please. Biden on the border.

JAKE: -- given that, why should voters trust you to solve this crisis?

BIDEN: Because we worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement, that not only changed all of that, that made sure we were never in a situation where you had no circumstance, where they could come across the border with the number -- purported -- right now. We significantly increased the number of asylum officers -- significantly -- by the way, the Border Patrolmen endorsed me. Endorsed my position. In addition to that, we found ourself in the situation where, when he was president, he was taking -- separating babies from their mothers. Putting them in cages. Making sure the families were separated. That's not the right way to go.

What I've done, since I've changed the law. What's happened? I've changed it in a way that now, you're in a situation where, 40 percent fewer are coming across the border illegally. It's better than when he left office, and I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban. The -- the -- the total initiative, relative to what we can do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.

JAKE: President Trump.

DONALD: I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.

GLENN: Stop. Cut 11. Here's Joe Biden on Medicare.

BIDEN: We would be able to worry about his debt, we would be able to make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system. Making sure we're able to make every, single, solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the -- with the COVID. Excuse me. Dealing with everything we have to do with -- look, if -- we finally beat Medicare.

JAKE: Thank you, President Biden. President Trump.

DONALD: Boy, he's right. He did beat Medicaid. He beat it to death, and he's destroying it again.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. That is one of the first fumbles that Biden made. And notice, Donald Trump did not take a swing at him. He said, yeah. He did. He did hit Medicare. And he damn near destroyed it.

He's not making fun of his age. It's the most restrained I have ever seen Donald Trump.

And we'll get into the strategy, which I believe was the strategy of the night for Biden. Which was a complete and total disaster. Let me -- gosh.


STU: Stunning.

GLENN: It's like Sophie's Choice here. I've got so much that I have to get on the show today. And I just don't -- I'm just -- I'm going to just have to assume, that you knew what happened or that was enough information.

It was something I have never, ever seen before. It was terrifying. Terrifying.

If I'm Putin, I am -- I am storming Europe. If I am China, I am going in to Taiwan, right now. It -- this is the weakest our president has ever appeared. Okay.

Never before in my lifetime. I remember -- I wasn't around for Kennedy. But I remember when Reagan was in the hospital after being shot. And that was a very nerve-wracking time. Because he's not in charge, and he transferred the powers to the vice president, while he was in the hospital right at the beginning. It was terrifying! Because you knew the world was watching. Now, here's -- there are -- there were three things that happened last night. Or a few categories.

One, those who knew -- those who knew that Joe Biden was like this, should be the most freaked out. And I'll explain in a minute.

Those who believed in the media and all of this garbage that, no, this is just Republican, you know, a cheap fake.

He's never been more sharp. He's never been better than he is right now.

He's so sharp and nimble.

Anybody who believed that, and you saw this performance last night.

You were probably in shock.

And you're lost today. You don't know what to think today.

But here's what those people who believed the media and were shocked last night. Here's what you should be thinking today: I cannot trust any of my trusted sources.

Because they all lied to me. And I'll get to it in a second, on why this is so important. Then there were those who -- who ran this con.

And who participated in this con, and I include every member of the press corps.

Anybody who has talked to him, anybody who has seen him, anybody who has seen him up close and personal, has had conversations as the press.

You knew it. You knew it. Also, those who ran the con in the White House and the Democratic Party. Shame on you!

We need -- we do need a list of the people who ran this con.

And covered for him.

And I'll explain why, again, in a second. And then there are those, and they can fit in the last three categories, but the last -- definitely the last two.

Those who are today responding by saying, the democratic party is in trouble. That what are we going to do for the election? Can we get him to step down, before the convention? If we do, how do we pick -- are you out of your mind?

We are now facing nuclear threats that we haven't faced since the 1960s. But in the 1960s, we had a jackass of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev. But he was at least aware.

We had Jack Kennedy, who was in so much pain, not unbeknownst to you.

The doctors were jacking him up on drugs, but at least he was sane and all there!

We have a president, that will have seven minutes to decide. Seven minutes.

You know, I don't know if you know what it is like. If there is a launch of a nuclear weapon, or even one that we think has a nuclear bomb in it.

If North Korea would launch a hypersonic weapon at us, we would have less time than seven minutes.

We wouldn't be able to verify if that was a nuke or not.

The president has seven minutes to decide. And what happens? They open up the football. And they take out what's called the black book of death. That's how serious this is!

It's called the black book of death! They open it up. And it is like a -- it's a -- it's a Cheesecake Factory memo.

Menu.

And the president has to look through it. And say, okay.

This city, this system, these ships. These silos.

And then the guy who is with the football is kind of like an actuary.

He then has to look at you all of those. And take each selection.

And then go back to the president and say, within seven minutes, okay. Mr. President, this is going to result in this many Ted. Your target is North Korea.

But the -- the selections that you made, some of those cities are up against the border of China. The radiation will blow into China, and you'll kill an additional 250,000 Chinese.

The Chinese will look at that as aggression against them, and they may launch against you. You may now include the Chinese. Also, up north, you're up towards Russia. You're going to kill citizens, in Russia as well.

Is this your selection, sir?

I am so angry today, that I haven't heard one single person on television or in the political realm, talk about the country! They're all talking about an election. How do we replace him before the convention? How do we get him off of the ticket?

How do we get this man away from the football! Do you know what our enemies were thinking last night?

This country is in more danger. Clear and present danger, than we have been, I believe, possibly in my lifetime.

We are weak! The world knows it. We have enemies, everywhere. They know it.

They are threatening nuclear weapons!

We cannot have this man with the black book of death and the button!

Does anyone understand, what you actually saw?

You didn't see a presidential candidate. You saw the president of the United States!

Where is anyone?

If you were celebrating, because you were like, oh, this is going to be great for Trump. A, be careful what you wish for. But, B, more than self, their country loved.
If you are somebody, who is on the left, thinking, oh, well, this just played into the, quote, caricature that the right was trying to build about him. We weren't trying to build that. Do you think we want our country to be destroyed? Does any American want our president to look like that?

Any American? What the hell is wrong with us?

I -- I -- I -- we're in more trouble, not because of -- not because of Joe Biden.

We're in more trouble, because people are not recognizing the danger, that is right in front of us!

You know, I've been saying a lot lately. May God save the republic. He cannot. He cannot do what we won't participate in.