♪. >> HARD TO TELL WHAT BIDEN IS DOING TO BE FRANK. THE REAL PRESIDENT IS WHOEVER CONTROLS THE TELEPROMPTER, YOU KNOW? IT IS LIKE,HE PATH TO POWERS THE PATH TO THE TELEPROMPTER. LARRY: OH, OUCH. THAT HURTS. THATURTS ME. I KIND OF AGREE WITH HIM. [LAUGHTER]. SAVEMERICA, ELON, YOU G KID. AND HE I GOING TO VOTE REPUBLICAN IN THE NEXT ELEION. JOINING ME TOALK ABOUT IT, LIZ PEEK, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR. SO, START WITH ELON. WE'LL GET TO BEZOS IN A MINUTE, SOME OF HIS SIRRELY REMARKS. ELON ISOMING AROUND HERE. >> I WOULD ACTUALL HE STAY IN NEUTRA TO BE HONEST TO TALK ABOUT FREE SPEECH. CAUSE NOW HE WILL BE CAST AS A GHT-WING ZEALOT. THAT KIND OF PUTS THIS WHOLE EFRT TO TAKE OVER TWITTER IN A DIFFERENT HA YOU KNOW? SO WOULD LIKE HIMO JUST TALK OUT FREE SPEECH. DEFEND FREE SPEECH. BUY TWITTER. STOP DGING AROUND WITH ALL THE BOTS YESTERDAY TODAY, SO ON. BUY TWITTER. MAKE I AVAILABLE TO ERYBODY. AND PUT, MAKE A SOCIAL MEDIA PIRE OUT OF ALLOWING PPLE TO VOICE THEIR ACTUAL THOUGHTS BUT, BY THE WAY, BEZOS VERSUS BIDEN, MUSK VERSUS BIDEN, THESE ARE NOT FA CONTESTS, TRULY NOT. LARRY: YOU MEAN, DO I MEAN IT IS NOT FAIR FOR THE BUSINESS PEOPLE? >> I MEAN IT IS NOT FAIR BECAUSE THEY OUTWEIGH BIDEN IN TERMS OF INTELLECTUAL HEFT A THOUSAND PERCENT. LARRY: REALLY? ELON H A POINT ABOUT THE TELEPROMER PRESIDENT? >> YES MY HUSBAND THINKS JEN PSAKI IS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT. NOW SHE IS GONE. NOW IT IS THE TELEPROMPTER PERSON. THAT IS KIND OF HARSH. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER JOE BIDEN CANT ADDRESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER, EVEN WITH A TELEPROMPTER HE MAKESLL KINDS OF MISTAKES AND SAYS THINGS THAT ARE MPLETELY BUDDLING AND CONFUSED, TO NOT ONLY THE LISTENER AND NOT ONLY TO JOE BIDEN APPARENT. HONESTLY I THINK HE DOESN'T QUITE KNOW WHAT HE IS READING SOME OF THE TIME. LARRY:ET'S GO TO MR. BEZOS. >> SURE. LARRY: I'M VERY INTERESTED. THER ARE TWO THINGS GOING ON I WANT TO PICK YOUR BRAIN ON. ONE HE IS THE OWNER OF "THE WASHINGN POST," RIGHT? THAT IS THE FAKEEWS LEFT, RIGHT? I DON'T WAN-- >> WITHOUT A DOUBT. LARRY: I DON'T WANT TO "THE NEW YORK TIMES" PEOPLE TO FEEL LONELY. >> EXACTLY LARRY: THE POST, Y HAVE TO GIVE THEM CDIT, RIGHT? TH'RE PILLARS OF THE LEFT. D SO, HE IS ATTACKING BIDEN AND THPOST IS ATTACKING BIDEN EDITORIALING IT. >> YEAH. RRY: SECONDLY, BEZOS SEEMS TO HAVE HAD SOME KIND OF EPIPHAN REGARDING THE CORPORATE TAX CUT OR CAUSES OF INFLATION AND AS U WELL-KNOWN, AMAZON, EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN'T REFLECT IT, AMAZON IS FIGHTING UNIONIZATION ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> SURE. LARRY: THESE ARE UNLEFTY -- >> BY THE WAY ELON MUSK IS IN THE SAME BOAT, RIGHT? BOTH OF THEM, BIDEN HATES BOTH OF THEM FOR OTHER REASO BECAUSE BOTH OPPOS UNNIZATION. THE IDEAIDEN HAD THESE EV CONFERCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND NOT INVITED MUSK? IT ISIDICULOUS. HE PUT THE VEHICLESN THE MAP. LARRY: TRUMP DIDN'T LIKE BEZOS EITHER, BEUSE HE BLAMED BEZOS FOR "THE WASHINGTONOST." >> THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE. LARRY: CAN I READ THE SQUIRREL? T THE SQUIRREL ONE UP FOR US. READ THATNE MORE TIME. VERY SQUIRRELY TWE. IT IS COMING. HERE IS COMES. LOOK AQUIRREL. THISS THE WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT ABO MY RECENT TWEETS THEY UNDERSTANDABLY WANT TO MUDDY THE TOPIC, LIZ. THEY KNOW INFLATIONURTS THE NEEDIEST THE MOST. HERE ITHE ERROR BUT UNIONS ARE NOT CAUSING INFLATION. HE GETS BETTER, BUT NEITHER ARE WEALTHY PEOPLE. REMEER THE ADMINISTRATION TRIED THE BEST TO, I CAN'T READ, ADD ANOTHER 3 1/2 TRILLION TO FEDERAL SPENDING. I CAN'T SEE IT UP IN THE PROMPTER BUT I DON'T NEED THE TELEPROMPTER UNLIKE CERTAIN PEOPLE. I WILL JUST AD-LIB. >> THE ARGUMENT HERE -- LARRY: WHY IS H DOING THIS, THATS MY QUESTION? WHAT'S IN IT FOREFF BEZOS? >> THIS ALL STARTED BECAUSE BIDEN PUT OUT SOMETHING THERE REALLY THE PROBL WITH INFLATION WE'R NOT TAXING CORPORATIONSWEALTHY CORPORATIONS ENOUGH. ALL RIGHT, LARRY, TAX RECEIPTS FOR THE FIR SEVEN MONTHS OF THE YEAR ARE UP 39%. WE ARE APPROACHING, IF THE NUMBERS CONTINUE AS THEY ARE, WE'RE GOING TO BE AT 20% OF GDP REPRESENTATIVE SENTED BY TAXES. ONLYHIRD TIME IN OUR HISTORY THAT HAPPENED. THE PROEM IS NOT WE'RE NOT RAISING ENOUGH TAXES. THE PROBLEM WE'R SPENDING TOO MUCH. WE HAVE BEEN SPENDING TOO MUCH FOR THE LAS TWO YEARS AND I WENT ON STEROIDS LAS YEAR IN 2021HEN THEY PASSED THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN WHICH IS ALMOST $2 TRILLION OF COMETELY UNNECESSY MONEY BUT THIS TYING OF INADEQUATE TAXES TO INFLATION, BY THAT LOGIC WHICH SHOULD HAVE ZERO INFLATION RIGHT NOW CAUSE TAXES ARE THROUGH THE ROOF. LARRY: I THINK, I DON'T THINK BIDEN CARES THAT MUCH ABOUT TAX VENUES. I THINK HE JUST LIKES TO BASH RICH PEOPLE. >> SURE. AND RH CORPORATIONS. LARRY: PROGRESSIVE MANTRA, RIGHT? THAT IS BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISM. I THINK BEZOS IS SAYING NO, I HAD ENGH. WHY HE HAD ENOUGH ATHIS PARTICULAR MOMENT I DO NOT KNOW BUT I'M SAYING, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. BIDEN IS LOSING ALL THESE PEOPLE, LIZ, ALL THE WOKE CEOs? WHE WILL HE TURN NEXT. >> EN COMICS. BILL MAHER. LARRY: YEAH. >> EVETHING HE IS DOING IS SO CATASTPHICALLY BAD THAT I THINK OPLE LIKE JEFF BEZOS ARE NOW FREED TO SAY THIS ISN'T WORKING AND BY THE WAY IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT INFLATION WHICH HE IS TOTALLYIGHT, IS E MOST REGRESSIVE TAX YOU COULD POSSIBLY LAY WON'T AMERICAN PEOPL THEN DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN TALK ABOUT TAXING WEALTHY CORPORATIONS BECAUSTHAT IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. LARRY: THAT IS GOOD, SOT IS LIKE, BEZOS IS ENGAGING IN REVERSE WOKE. >> YEAH. LARRY: THE WE IS SO BAD AND UNPOPULAR THATE IS NOW COMING BACK. IT IS KIND OF LIKE A REVERSE DISNEY. THIS IS A REVERSE WOKE. NOW TIME TO PILE ON JOE BIDEN WHO I MIGHT ADD STRONGLY IN THE MID TO LOW 30s IN HIS APPROVAL RATING. >> WELL -- LARRY: I WOULDN'T SAY BEZOS IS A HERO BETTER HAVE HIM UER THE TENT THAN NOT? >> BY THE WAY H IS SOMETHING OF A HERO. HE HAS CREATED ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS, RIGHT? LARRY: RIGHT. >> EMPLOYED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. WHY DOESN'T HE PAY TAXES? RY SIMPLE ANSWER. HE PUTS ALMOST ALL THE PROFITS BACK INTO PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND RESEARCH ANDEVELOPMENT. HE SPENT TENSF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. YO DON'T CREATE A AMAZON OVERNIGHT WITHT EXTRAORDINARY GRNDBREAKING STRATEGIES, ALGORITHMS ALL THE REST OF THE STUFF WE LOVE TO TAL ABOUT. THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY ACCOMPLISHMENT. IF I WERE JEFF BEZOS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNID STATES WAS PUSHING MY WORKE TO UNIONIZE WHICH BY THE WAY MEANS THAT PCES ULTIMATELY GO UP FOR CONSUMERS -- LARRY: ONE THING BEZOS MISSED WITHHE SQUIRREL. >>HAT IS THE POINT OF THAT? LARRY: I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. I THINK HE HAD ENOUGH. I THI A LOT OF THESE GUYS HAD ENGH. >> HIGH TIME TOO. LARRY: STRANGE TIMES. >> YEAH. LARRY: SOMETNG IN THE AIR, MAYBE THE WATER. I'M NOT SURE WHAT. POLITICS IS A GREAT GAME. GREAT LIZ PEEK, JUST PICKING IT APART. WE LIKE, WE WOULD
