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"my world." >> welcome to this special edition of hannity. i'm in for sean, and i'm kayleigh mcenany. we want to wish a very happy birthday to president biden. >> by the way, it's my birthday today and i can actually sign birthdays. [applause] >> it's difficult turning 60, difficult. [laughter] >> just to get here, liberty and bell had to beat some tough odds in competition. they had to work hard to show patience and be willing to travel over a thousand miles. you can say it's harder than getting a ticket to the renaissance tour or -- tour. it's kind of warm in brazil right now. >> now, i think he meant to say taylor swift and that was after he said the turkey sang happy birthday to him. he's the oldest president in american history and he keeps getting older. today biden turns 81 and he may not have liked the headlines that we woke up to. check these out. the wall street editorial board put it this way, running for re-election and his condition is an act of profound sevlfishness. a very clear takeaway. biden campaign, facing heat over plans to deal with his age. with that one their recommendation was forcing him to joke about his age calling himself grandpa joe. i'm not sure that will quell the fears of the american voter. then there was the "washington post." this was based on 30 interviews. the biden campaign works to ease democratic anxiety over re-election chances. one fundraiser in the article had this brutal assessment. the bad news is that ever is wetting the bed inside of biden world. it's really an unhappy confluence of biden world donors cocktail party friends saying can't you get him not to run, which is stupid and absurd if you know joe buyen. that's selfish joe biden. pierre just tried to laugh it all away. she said this in september. >> how does the president plan to convince the american people over the next year that 80 is not too old for someone running for re-election? >> 80 is is the new 40. didn't you hear? >> it's the new 40. the american people, meanwhile, appear to see it differently. 71% of voters say biden is too old to be an effective president. according to the "new york times" siena college poll and six swing states, that's a pretty big number, trump, this is brutal for the president, too, he beats biden, in the last eight, eight national polls conducted. even the liberal lap dog media are in full panic mode. according to obama's one time senior adviser, david axelrod, i think he has a 50-50 shot here but no better than that and maybe a little worse. and axelrod is not the only democrat who sees the writing on the wall. take a look at this. >> happy 81st birthday to biden but he's looking at some not so happy poll numbers. a new msnbc news poll puts his approval rating at 40%, the lowest of his presidency. >> nbc news polling on a hypothetical trump-biden rematch is not look going for democracy. >> i've said it before. do i think joe biden can do the job? absolutely. i don't think he can win the job and that's what i care about. he's going to lose because the people think he's too old and perception is reality. i'm sorry. >> if we're heading toward trump-biden, a rematch in 2024, how does that look in our polling? here it is. donald trump we have had 46%. biden, 44. >> this is significant because this is the first time in the history of our poll that former president trump beats president biden still within the margin of error. but still significant. >> so those are the lucid liberal lap dogs but some on the left, they have opted for willful blindness. biden isn't the problem. no, he couldn't be. you're the problem. your inability to be controlled. >> sadly, so many of those extremists, those maga extremists take their marching orders from donald trump who has no credibility left by any measure. he's only in it for himself. he's now defending himself in civil actions and criminal actions, and when do they break with him? because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal de programming of the cult members. >> you're the problem. remember it. prepare for the most negative campaign in history because democrats have nothing positive to run on. here now with reaction, fox news contributor ari fleisher. the harris poll chairman mark penn along with poster lee. i began specifically with those pieces from the "washington post" and politico. they have a lot of sources in democrat circles. this is based on at least 42 democrat sources. there is a lot of angst. you know this, we're both former press secretaries. you don't want these pieces landing on your desk. >> no, let me talk about one of my favorite things in that "washington post" article. democrats at the white house saying they want him to walk less so the public doesn't see him have difficulty walking. so what's the most concrete thing they have done? they have stopped him from walking up the big majestic steps to the top of air force one, and he goes with baby steps at the bottom. once you enter the bottom level of air force one, there is no elevator. there is nothing that gets you to the higher levels making it easier. there is an inner staircase, so the only thing they are doing is hiding joe biden. nothing is easier for him. he still has the climb but it's the only way they can hide him. and that's unfortunately the reality of what you have to deal with when you're dealing with an 81 year old. they are hiding the president so the country can't see the difficulties he has. that's a shame. that's not what you do with a president. >> it's basement campaign 2.0 except this time it's the oval office. mark, in one of these pieces, ron complain was asked at one of these swanky events that both parties have, he was asked what's the back-up plan? to which he replied, there is no back-up plan. that seems inconceivable to me given the polling and the president's age. do you think there is back-up plan? >> when your age is twice your approval rating, that's a problem. no question about it. but i don't think that there is going to be a change here in the nominee. that nbc poll, 77% of democrats picked biden for the nominee. he's got the full party machinery. he wants to run again. he is running. so i don't think there is a plan b. biden has a year. i've worked with presidents before, so as ari fleisher. that's a long time. if people thought the economy was going well, they wouldn't care about his age. it's about economy, immigration, crime and key issues. he's got a year to fix. >> a year is a long time. you look at the polls. eight national polls have trump beading -- beating biden. but it hasn't always translated into red victories. where are we? >> when you look at what happened with the red wave there was something else going on. a lot of people were saying the economy was the number one concern but there was abortion on the ballot and women's issues that hurt republicans. and there were a lot of weak candidate on the republican ticket. so this is a very different situation because you're looking at polling that says this is trump versus biden. not just generic ballot. which is exactly what people are looking at. it does not look good for joe biden. there are a couple of things i would be most concerned about if i were him. number one, he's losing significant numbers among younger voters. he carried young voters by a lot last time. it doesn't look like he'll be able to do that. the other thing that's really damming in some of these polls is his favor ability among independents. two in three look at him unfavorably. 65% of democrats say they don't think he's mentally fit for office. so these numbers are really, really staggering, and he can't just get through them by denying it. and he's not going to do it by hiding either. to ari fleisher's point you can't stop him from walking, you can't stop him from walking. he's got to get out there and tell his story, and you heard yellen say today it her job to tell his story. it's not. he's got to convince the american people he's up to the job and right now it's not looking good. >> to that point, i worked on the campaign. you always know the achilles heel of your boss, strength and weaknesses. how as a team do you unwind that and reverse the perception of the american people? >> there is only one way and that is to turn him into binge button and watch him get younger and that's not going to happen. and so it really is a huge problem for the democrats, and what a massive opportunity for republicans. whether the nominee is president trump or nikki haley or somebody else, as i would like to say and i have said it forever, don't compare donald trump to the almighty. compare him to the alternative. and the alternative is joe biden. i am just struck by how the democrats are committing political suicide. it's beyond belief that they are putting up the worst two candidates against donald trump in the country. there is nobody who could lose easier to donald trump than joe biden and kamala harris yet that's the path the democrats are on. it's inexplicable. that's why you will see huge pressure built around joe biden to get him to drop out right before the convention. >> i think that pressure will build. mark, you know, in the wake of the 2023 elections, not a good night for republicans yet again. not a good night in 2022 for republicans. but in the wake of that election, politico said there are two camps of democrats. there is the time to freak out democrats because they see the weakness of joe biden and there is the time to chill out democrats because they keep doing well in elections. which camp are you, chill out or freak out? >> i've been in the freakout camp for a long type. i've been calling attention to these same numbers. trump has been ahead in the harris polls for months. biden has been in this kind of doldrums, particularly, i thought he had a very bad summer. but i come back to, you know, buyen, like trump, in many ways, has managed to have nine lives time and time again. everybody thought he was out. you know, last time in the democratic primary and sudden isly he was in. everybody thought he was going to lose and he won, so i do think you're going to see democrats hold on to that but the reality is, we've got to see economic improvement. that's what this election is really about. not about age. >> one thing that the biden team has done well is mobilize an army of influencers to reach gen-z, millennials. you mentioned trump is doing very well with his cohort. unusually well for any republican but the day before the midterms biden brought all the tik tok influencers in, with an aggregate following of 67 million. obama met with them. they toured d.c. how powerful and how difficult is that to combat, this army of influencers, that has a huge megaphone? >> really hard to combat the army of influencers because they can mobilize on key issues because some of the -- polls seem to suggest seven in 10 independent women will be driven to the polls this election cycle because of the abortion, and three of our key states, abortion is going to be on the ballot. seven in 10 independent women, nine in 10 democratic women. so if influencers are able to get out there and mobilize on that issue i don't think they will be able to mobilize on joe biden but if they can mobilize on women's issues they could have a lot of success and i think republicans must come up with an answer that isn't, they don't have to change their position on abortion but they need to change perceptions on how they view women so they need to come up with a women's agenda. these influencelers be hard to beat especially on that particular issue. >> great point, thank you. it's no secret that democrats are in panic mode over biden's terrible poll numbers. it's game of how low can you go for joe? but harris, she's not worried. she told cnn that she and bide listen just have to earn their eu lex but how? joining us, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. spe speaker, it's always a pleasure to hear your wisdom and at a moment in history, republicans, we don't have the senate or the presidency and elections are about choice how does the house under the newly leaded speaker mike johnson, who i sat across from and was very impressed by, how does the house give the american people a choice? it's it a contrasting opinion to biden. what should they be doing? >> i think they are doing a lot of it. i think if you look at the bills they have been passing, aid to israel, but offset by cutting money out of the irs i would say. a series of steps, very strong parental rights bill that virtually -- i think there are a lot of steps they can take but you also have to be realistic. i think what speaker johnson decided was that keeping the government open was the practical next step, given where they were. and the mess that they have been in and i suspect that was right. now, they are going to have some big fights over appropriations but in the long run they are a lot of other things the house republicans are doing that are going to end up mattering. the fact is, the biden family increasingly looks like, in a newsletter recently, i called them the delaware sopranos. we have more evidence every week from people like comer and chairman jordan and chairman smith. every single week, we're getting more evidence that this is just a family of crooks, and that's an important job which would not be happening if the house republicans didn't have a majority. so i think you're going to see both the process of legislation and the process of investigation moving forward. but let me also be clear. if biden can't solve the challenge with israel, the challenge with ukraine, the challenge on the border, the challenge with fentanyl, the challenge with crime, challenge with prices going up everywhere, we were just out shopping yesterday, and, i mean, the degree to which grocery prices keep going up affects every single american. it's not about polling. it's about advertising. it's about paying. >> the famous old adage, it's the economy c, stupid, but it didn't seem to have as much effect in the midterms. will it matter in a way that perhaps it didn't in the midterms? >> i have done a lot of work on what happened in the midterms. and what happened just a week ago. and part of my conclusion is that republicans do not yet understand the scale of the democratic machine. when you check the service employees union, you take the teacher's union, left wing activists groups, you take billionaires like sorrows, the total weight, if you go to state u.s. senate race by u.s. senate race, for example, or narrow house races or in virginia, some of the legislative races, we're just not big enough. we're like a mid size college team in the super bowl and we're going to have is to get a grip this year on what are we going to do to offset the sheer wait of left wing money, which is desperately trying to retain control for a practical reason. joe biden is spending six trillion $200 billion annually. if you're a left wing union, or a leaf wing interest group, losing control of $6.2 trillion gets you pretty darn motivated and that's a big part of what's going on. >> that's a fascinating description. now, what happens when you put, what you just described, that massive operation, and combine with it mail-in balloting, which people may not realize but in a place like nevada, they have codified that ballot laws, mass mail-out voting to all their voter rolls so what happens when you make that combination? >> i think it's very dangerous for the republicans and very dangerous for the country. what you have today is a nationwide machine on the left. a machine made up of interest groups. for example, the new york city democrats will be asking for billions to pay for joe bind's illegal immigrants. billions. and they are going to want the money. the city of chicago, the mayor will want billions. you go across the whole country. i want you to see as interest group after interest group that's going to want the money. what you have on the republican side are people who are really worried about the budget. they really want to get to a balance. they want to save social security and medicare. well, all of those things are a direct threat to the interest groups on the left. now, the difference in a presidential race, particularly if donald j. trump is involved, he's such a huge figure. he's not a candidate. he's a champion of millions of americans. the leader of a movement. very different than anything we've seen in most of american history. he can rise above, no matter how much money the left has, he has the capacity to reach the american people despite them, and you have to say, as of tonight, he's certainly going to be the nominee, and the odds are much better than even maybe three out of five or four out of five that he'll be the next president which, as it sinks in, will drive the left crazy. >> there is no doubt, he has a movement like we've never seen which is why they must be de programmed, in the words of little clinton. speaker newt, notwithstanding you very much. >> biden is unwilling or unable to deter attacks against u.s. soldiers in the middle east. former secretary of state mike pompeo and senator marcia blackburn will join us when we return. the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. 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