MSNBC Panel on Viral Clip of Biden at G7: ‘Right-Wing Outlets’ Put It Out There; ‘You Would Think that Joe Biden Was Just a Doddering Old Man’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Sanders: “We are just sitting here, chatting is a continuation of the last question we asked joyce about, why Republicans want the audio, the potential to manipulated on the American people who understand that that is kind of like the game that they are playing, and we have seen it in so many instances just this week. Not the audio manipulation, because they don’t have it, and they are likely not to get it, but who knows, but you see these videos of Joe Biden at the G7 and we will have it for folks and he is at the G7 police paratroopers are landing, and in the clip that went viral from the RNC and the New York Post and all of these right-wing outlets that put it out there, you would think that Joe Biden was just a doddering old man, he had to be yanked back by the Italian leader.”

Steele: “That is also the video that they adopted that showed Joe Biden looked like he was trying to sit on a chair made up there.”

Sanders: “ “Yes! And France.”

Steele: “In France and Normandy. Look, I am telling folks who have been seeing it for a while whenever we talk about it, we haven’t got into the ai piece of this. This is just taking this raw footage and editing it—“

Sanders: “Clipping it.”

Steele: “Clipping it and editing it. Wait until we get into the meat of this campaign and the hard right starts throwing out AI versions of their reality and putting this in the public space, and people will be confused. You were talking about a group of folks, you are talking to and their impression, based off of what that one clip—“

Sanders: “I was talking to some students yesterday and I have them how many of them saw the video of the president at juneteenth and they all raised their hand I said what did you think? And they said oh, he was frozen, he was stuck and I was just like you all not— first of all, I’m sitting behind the president and kurt franco was on stage being like I don’t want to love nobody but you, do it Mr. President, Joe Biden was like — we are not doing— The vice president can do it. It’s not going to work for the president, but without the context that is a type of discipline that I am looking to go. Know your limits. Joe Biden was like —“

MENENDEZ: “Meanwhile in the back I was like — you have a former president talking about how the city where the are in is going to be hosted is horrible, and then the Republicans don’t even know which defense to use.”

Steele: “They don’t. That is so awkward, they don’t even know which defense. So, yeah, so you have the ones, but all of the defense is Donald Trump is right, that at the end of the day, whether he knew about it, didn’t know about it, whether he agreed or disagreed he was right, and so, look, this is the reality. You can’t expect anything more than what you are already getting from Republicans. There will be no national discussion on big policy issues as Jamie Raskin talked about. That is largely going to be left to Democrats to sort of frame those narratives. But at the same time you have got to do the politics. The politics go to what simone was talking about in terms of taking things as they occur and recontextualizing them into our—“