Douglas Murray questions ‘who is running’ America amid Joe Biden’s cognitive decline

Johnny me now is author of international bestsellers including the strange death of Europe The Madness of crowds and his latest book the war on the West Douglas Murray Douglas thanks for joining us let's start with the situation with Joe Biden whose mental incompetence has become really the laughing stock of the world here is an exchange between Fox news reporter Peter Ducey and White House Press Secretary Karine jeanpierre where he asks a legitimate question about how a president who needs more sleep can't do anything after 8:00 p.m. would handle a national security situation he also said he's he's sharpest before 8:00 p.m. so say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke it's 11:00 p.m. who do you call the first lady he has a team that uh lets him know of any of any news that is pertinent and important to the American people uh he has some one or that is decided obviously with his National Security Council and who uh gets to tell him that news Douglas the best she could say is well uh we've got a whole team not we would wake the president immediately in the event of a nuke has this now gotten to the point where it's dangerous it's it's long past that point I'm afraid because the question that that is on everybody's lips in America is um who then is running the country who exactly is running it who who's running it after 400 p.m. in the afternoon or whenever it is that we're told that Biden starts to wind down for the day um are they confident about waking him in the night clearly not Karine jeanpier behaves what as ever as if it's just impertinent to ask any question of the sun king and his court um and and it's and it's very troubling uh what the American public have seen growing for a long time and which the Democrat media have had to admit since a catastrophic debate with Trump the other week is that that Biden is not on top of his game to say the very least and so where is the direction of the country where is the security of the country and all we get are these sort of miff and peeved uh uh answers from the White House Press spokeswoman and really you know these are questions that should be asked and furthermore there questions should be answered well absolutely and and following the US presidential debate uh it was interesting because you wrote you said you don't think an American journalist would meaning or would be sitting in a Cell in Moscow or American hostages in Gaza if the word world feared America now the president of the Free World is clearly a bumbling mess makes no sense not being taken seriously here this is highly problematic the world doesn't see the us as a genuine threat well well I mean you know there's still plenty to be said about the US and plenty of force in it it's just that the direction of travel under this President is so extraordinarily unclear um we've seen that I know we've all been told by the the courtiers of the Biden family for years that he's absolutely on top of his game that he he absorbs things so fast and he ask such devastatingly pertinent questions of the people briefing him but nobody beli that anymore and if the average swing voter finds that hard to believe and they're inclined to sort of favor the president of the United States imagine what Vladimir Putin thinks or the mullers in tran uh who are guiding uh Hamas or the regime in Qatar which hosts terrorists whilst pretending to play middleman um it it's an extremely worrying situation as I mentioned in in that column in the New York Post yes there are American hostages in Gaza in and I don't think that would be the situation if if the world recognized that the superpower America was something to be fearful of if you you that you cannot steal its citizens with impunity and that lesson you know I mean it was recently said you probably heard it's been confirmed from other sources that on the way out of the White House when Trump was trying to negotiate the withdrawal from Afghanistan with the Taliban leaders but apparently he said you know you're not going to touch a single hair on an American Service person's head on the way out or I'll kill you and then just for emphasis showed the Taliban leader that he had a photograph from the air of the Taliban Leader's house now I think that is a suitable way for a strong power to defend its citizens for democracy to defend its citizens and you know it's just night and day difference that and I'm afraid that Americans and the rest of the world are learning that this so just on that then what should Trump do if he's reelected what message does he need to be sending oh I think on the hostages the message is extremely clear it's you will release the hostages on the first day of my presidency you better keep them in the best possible condition until then because if you don't and you don't release them the day I come back into office there isn't a tunnel or a bunker deep enough for you to escape from me that would be the message and I think that I think that it would be heard yeah absolutely now look just on Joe Biden he spoke at the NATO Summit overnight he started off with some strong words on the Ukraine war and we know Putin won't stop at Ukraine but make no mistake Ukraine can and will stop Putin but then true to form he started stumbling for five additional D defense systems I I don't know what he said there and then as he started walking off stage he clearly had no idea where he was or who he was [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with Douglas this just goes to the point that you were earlier that he's not being taken seriously on the world stage we're talking an important Global event the NATO Summit where the Ukraine war is being discussed an important discussion and yet the president doesn't know where he is he's becoming a joke well we've had this week the news that that he usually gets a uh a briefing that includes I mean this is horrible to say it's so cruel but he apparently gets these briefings where it shows photographs of how to get to the stage where the podium is where to walk on where to walk off you can't really pretend that this is a man at the height of his powers or even with any real Powers it's very sad and I think that you know the the the people who support the Democrats in America or would like to vote against Trump should just reflect on what their instinct is when they see something like that do they think this guy has got another four years in him or do they think think as many of us do this is cruel of Jill Biden and Hunter Biden and the rest of the family not to be saying to him step down now Joe allow a new generation to come in leave with some dignity uh um protect your legacy and and pass the Batton on it's cruel that they're not saying that and there's going to be just more and more of this and and just one other quick thing you know the job of the president of the United States is not just to occasionally read an auto queue in front of allies it is much much more than that it is directing policy it is deciding policy uh he he he he does these speeches where he gets sort of angry he can whip himself up into an anger sill sometimes when reading the AQ uh but if if he meant what he just said about Ukraine then then why has America not been providing Ukraine with all of the Weaponry it's been asking for in this period whether you agree with it or not Biden says you know we're going to we're going to stop Vladimir Putin but then then doesn't act on it um I mean I think this these are sort of it feels like a late Empire problem and I hope it's not well look let's hope that it's not and just just on that point you know he's got these big photos of how he needs to walk from the stage to the podium uh there's reports that White House advisers uh for more than a year have had to aggressively stage manage his schedule his movements his interactions you know Douglas how long can the White House and Jill Biden as you mentioned the Biden family how long can they really keep up this facade if he is to go another term no they can't they can't it's perfectly clear with every day they just can't keep it up I mean they will for a little time but the longer they leave it the more humiliating it's going to be for everybody not least America the harder it'll be for the Democrats to find a candidate who or running mate and a candidate who can be introduced to the American public in time for the polls in November you know the longer the bidens leave this the worse it is for the bidens the worse it is for America and the worse it is for their political party you know that's what makes no sense when when your political opponents are running rings around you and ridiculing you when your rivals on the world stage mocking you when your own side is saying in the name of God go and you cling on there's something cruel about that there's something very unusual about it certainly well you just want to say a loved one in that position it's just extraordinary that they they're letting this go on for for so long look let's move on now because three Columbia University Deans have been removed from their positions and placed on indefinite leave over text messages they sent during a panel about Jewish life on campus that quote disturbingly touched on Ancient anti-semitic tropes now Douglas we know this university has failed on many fronts it let Pro Palestine protesters run rampant at encampments and now this what does it say about the state of the University system well it says nobody should send their kids to Colombia nobody should give any money to Colombia Colombia should not have Federal funding either um um look I mean it's just a total mess there's no reason whatever students think about International Affairs there is nothing that should allow them to shut down the study of other students on campus prevent students from learning even as they're getting into significant personal debt uh and what's more to get away with screaming at Jewish students things like go back to Poland or saying these Jewish students should be the next Target of Hamas both of which were things that were screamed at Jewish students on the Columbia campus then for there to be a hearing about those sorts of racist slurs and for these Deans to be actually engaging in more racism during it you just have to do the experiment any other way if there had been an anti-black protest on campus at Colombia for an hour it would have been shut down it would not have been allowed if there was a a protest on Colombia's campus that went on for weeks and weeks calling for the lynching of black people I don't think that it would be a difficult for everyone in American society and particularly The Faculty to condemn any students and Outsiders engaging in that and what's more if there was a hearing about that and there were racial slurs being hurled around about black students by Deans and employees of the university all hell would be let loose in fact I suspect that the campus would be over I suspect that Colombia's stored and Rich history would come to an end that day but it wasn't black students it was Jews and this just shows one of the appalling standards of our time uh um Colombia students have let have have have been let down by their authorities but this is a spiral that that institution is in uh uh these are always Elite things when you're talking about sort of Ivy League colleges but this just shows how rotten Elite institutions can become absolutely the double standards on display have just been astonishing and and not just at Colombia we've seen it all around the world even here in Australia it's just been been terrible at these universities now New York City hotels housing migrants have brought in would you believe over a billion dollars in taxpayer funds since converting their buildings into migrant shelters that's according to the New York Post Douglas New York City is spending an average of $156 us per room per night on hotel rooms that house migrants some up to $300 where do you draw the line here this is out of control the whole thing's been out of control for a long time uh uh Sanctuary cities in the US are I'm afraid reaping what they sowed they said you know these are places where illegal migrants can come and the illegal migrants came and there was nowhere for them and so the authorities in New York have got into this racket and by the way it is a racket um the uh the huge spending on hotels I I mean it's apart from being Preposterous there are people who very cynically benefit from that who have got into the business of this and who are raking in the the the taxpayers money as they put up all of these people who shouldn't be in the US and I say that completely straightforward because you know everywhere in the 21st century migration is going to be an issue everywhere that is a developed country is going to be under pressure in this Century the mass movement of people has never been easier and uh unfortunately at that very time uh countries like America have decided to punish people who go the legal route and reward people who've gone the illegal route and if you're a a legal worker in the United States have gone through all the right things paid your lawyers got your papers in order and all of that you're the mug because it turned out you could just walk over the border and you could be put up in a $300 a night hotel with a with a swimming pool which is not an exaggeration in New York City in the heart of Manhattan nobody has a right to live in Manhattan nobody has a right to live in the most expensive bit of real estate in the world but why do so many Democrats think that if you come illegally you actually do have them that right it's inexplicable not least but it undercuts the their own voter base they may think they're importing a new voter base I've got news for them it undercuts their own voter base because if you go to those hotels in New York city where the illegal migrants are being housed filled outside with delivery bicycles because all of these guys and they're mainly guys do illegal work for delivery companies and totally destroy the legal Workforce so good luck uh the work party who thought you were doing anything good for your country by actually just letting the borders go yeah meanwhile there's a cost of living crisis uh in the United States people can't even afford to be in a home yet the illegals get this handed on a silver platter it's just shocking now let's talk about the UK election result you wrote about how the Tories only have themselves to blame for what occurred over the weekend where do you think it all went wrong for them oh around about 2006 in my view uh David Cameron uh announced that he was going to detoxify the conservative party he just made it wooly and uh broke all the promises that he made uh such as they were it was a it was a lackl of five years of a of a parliament where he had to be in government with the liberal Democrats uh and Nick quig remember him wow what talent um and then we had the brexit years and the Toran fighting and the stabbing in the back and prime minister after prime minister and Deadlock and a total I mean the the way in which the conservative party seemed to think that the nation had an absolutely Limitless appetite for conservatives to have infighting in the party it was just astonishing to me uh and you know we watched it happen couldn't believe the lack of discipline couldn't believe the lack of delivery David Cameron came in in 2010 uh promising to lower migration from the hundreds of thousands a year to the tens of thousands like in the 1990s before Blair they leave office with Migra net migration nearer 1 million in a year they they let down everyone they've got very little to show for their time in office they were there for 14 years um and what few things they did achieve are all now going to be wiped Away by the historic labor Landslide of Kira a man who absolutely nobody is enthusiastic about it's not that Britain swung left it didn't it just voted against the conservative party and maybe they will use their time in opposition to try to cohere actually be conservative actually come up with some policies that differentiate themselves from the other parties well maybe they won't maybe they will just disappear into history that can happen there is no law of nature that means that the conservative party should never die maybe it will we'll see yeah we we'll find out now Nigel farage has given his first ever speech in the Commons as leader of Reform UK this is what he said I know called the leader of Reform UK Nigel farage you Mr Speaker re thank you very much indeed we are the New Kids on the Block we have no experience in this Parliament whatsoever even though some of us have tried many times over the years previously to get here so we can't judge you from working in this place but we can judge you from the way the outside world sees you and I don't just mean the United Kingdom I mean the world because Prime Ministers questions time is global box office politics Douglas he's got them all rattled already and he's only just begun what sort of a force do you think Nigel farage will be in UK Parliament it's going to be very interesting I mean I gosh what a frosty reception he got there there weren't very many convivial comradely cheers were there um I suspect he will and if he's wise he will use the opportunity as a really remarkable platform um there are uh there are lots of things that can happen from here for farage and the other reform MPS uh they could be a sort of nuisance block uh they could make noise use it as a platform uh like farage very very clever did the EU Parliament uh to effectively broadcast to a wider audience um or they could use it to Coalition build to friend build uh they could uh they could do an awful lot of things they can cause trouble but they can do lots more than cause trouble as well the problem is that the size of the labor majority is such that I suspect that in the coming years the main opposition to the labor front bench will be the back benches of the labor party uh because everyone else has very little voting sway in them that's a really fair point Douglas before we let you go I just want to ask you about the situation in France where riots and violence have erupted after the left defeated the far right in an unexpected Victory now this is on the streets of Paris [Applause] just shocking scenes and we also saw the far-left clash with police as they celebrated the victory Douglas you know the far left are just as dangerous if not more dangerous than The Fringe right but what does it tell you when you see these scenes unfolding right now you know it's it's it's the fault of maon for his hubris uh Paris is about to host the Olympics what a sign to the world I mean there were already serious security concerns about the Paris Olympics before this election season began but look at this the world's eyes are going to be on Paris and we see this a city where in order to keep our marine Leen uh uh they decided the center and the center left decided to unite in voting in the melanon ists who have at the top of their list people who are supporters of Hamas I mean there's more anti-Semitism and racism from the far left in France now than there is from the from the the parties that are called far right um and they get away with it and they Riot on the streets and they they break stuff up and you know my belief is that political extremism can can can come from any direction the French seem to have forgotten this they seem to think the far-left you know can be regarded as a benign force it can't be macron has Unleashed terrible forces and uh it's astonishing for a man who came glid did into office on his um alleged ability to sort of bring people together it's amazing what we see at the end of his career yeah good point and you're right what a way to welcome uh the worldwide athletes as well as the tourists right now to Paris and France Douglas Murray really appreciate your time thank you so much for joining us great to be with you thank you

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Published: Wed Jul 10 2024