not to drive schlapp, the staffer texts slap and says, quote, i did want to say i was uncomfortable with what happened last night. the campaign does have a driver who is available to get you and make it back to the airport. according to phone records, schlapp tried to reach the staffer, and then after a couple of hours, schlapp actually texted the staffer. he used his name, and he said quote, if you could see it in your heart to call me at the end of the day i would appreciate it. if not, i wish you luck on the campaign, and hope you keep up the good work. anderson, we also reviewed other text messages from that night in realtime. these are being made public for the first time. it includes, the staffer texted a friend who was in politics, and he wanted to tell him what happened. he is clearly very upset. he is looking for guidance about how to tell the campaign what happened. so, stafford texts
allegations, and his lawyer gave us the statement, quote, the attack is false and mr. schlapp denies any improper behavior. we are evaluating legal options for response. we should say, anderson also that the board of directors of the ecu that he is the chair of also released a statement saying that they stand behind schlapp and his leadership. i also want to adhere that senior campaign officials who is cnn interviewed and who spoke to the staffer in realtime describe him as being angry, and mortified, and they immediately instructed him not to drive schlapp again. yeah. he was supposed to pick him up the next and take him to the airport, is my understanding. you obtained text messages, what do they show? according to the text messages, and also phone records, we reviewed after the campaign, tells the staff are
president s personal attorney rudy giuliani, who all also wove a false narrative about smartmatic, an election tech company which is now suing giuliani, fox news and others smartmatic is a company that was formed by three venezuelans who were very close to, very close to dictator chavez of venezuela. and it was formed in order to fix elections. that is the company that owns dominion does smartmatic own dominion? no. we do have a relationship. we are competitors. late hugo chavez? absolutely not. do use of venezuelan company software that has been used to absolutely not. anderson, i can cut all of this short. we were founded in toronto, which is where my family was from. and there is nothing to do with venezuela. can you flip votes in the computer system, can you add vote that did not exist? absolutely not.
if you look nationwide, we have seen the largest increase in rent in 40 years. so people are playing much more for their housing if they are renting their apartments just like myself. what else are you looking at? where have prices gotten better? okay so anderson, once upon a time i said you want to go on a cruise with me. how about we go on a car ride together? let s look at energy prices. let s go look at gas prices in particular and say how much does it cost to do a round trip, just looking at gas prices from here to washington d. c.? during the summer costs about $90 to go round-trip based on the gas prices, now it is down to 60, about $60. so energy prices are one area in which inflation is really dropping and americans are seeing that when they fill up their gas tanks. what about food? what about food. okay what about food? i don t know if you know this about me but i love chicken. chicken is a big thing for me, i love popeyes, all of the popeyes chicken sandwich. look at
because the inflation numbers, the areas that have brought so much economic pain to americans are beginning to get better. now, you know, he was making the argument before the election that this was going to happen. and, you know, the election didn t go the way that the democrats or republicans necessarily thought. but it wasn t because of inflation that there were other economic issues, there were other driving issues. that led to the democrats doing better than expected. is it possible to say that inflation is the most important issue for the 2024 presidential election, i mean if it stays high, how likely is it that biden could get reelected? it is really hard to say right now. i mean, i was thinking about this anderson, if you and i at this point, in the last presidential cycle were to make a prediction, there was no such thing as covid. there was no such thing as so much that we had to face. you know, covid i think