WEBVTT - High Stakes Poker 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.560 Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.000 us or you were with the terrorists. If you got 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.759 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.680 are satisfied with Trump is not the President of the 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.600 United States, take to bank. Together, we will make America 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:35.320 great again. You'll never sharend It's what you've been waiting 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.560 for all day. The Buck Sexton Show joined the conversation 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.680 called Buck Toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.720 That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.280 The Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to The 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.279 Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, coming to you live from Savannah, Georgia. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.840 Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.640 We've got a freestyle Friday in effect, and I have 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.760 a lot of news to talk to you about. We're 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.960 gonna deep dive into what's going on with the UH 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.680 the tremendous announcement we had live for you on the 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:17.520 show last night about North Korea negotiations, negotiations over North 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:24.640 Korea's nuclear program. But we also have some information that 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.080 just I'm trying to see when this broke to make 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.560 sure I don't Yeah, just in the last few hours 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:38.000 that Trump not content to look just at the issue 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.679 of global trade and tariffs and take on China for 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:51.040 its manipulations of currency and markets, but also UH to 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:56.920 add North Korea into the mix. And then today Trump lawyers, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.760 according to the Wall Street Journal, are seeking a deal 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:05.600 with Muller to get the Russia probe to finally finish up. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.919 This is high stakes poker, my friends. This is big. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.880 I mean, this is the president of the United States 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.799 who is going against all the conventional wisdom on trade 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.680 right now, and it's like, this is how it's gonna be. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:26.400 Who is perhaps going to negotiate one of the most 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:35.120 important and momentous national security diplomatic UH detons in decades 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.600 with North Korea. We'll see, We'll see early. I know, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.080 I'm not. I'm not. We don't celebrate too early here 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.840 in the Hut. One of our maxims. Don't celebrate too early. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.359 You know, you never want to be the guy gets 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.880 tackled on the two yard line when you think you're 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:52.200 gonna when you think you're in the end zone. No no, no, um. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.720 But then on top of that, Trump is willing to 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.160 deal on the issue of his own presidency. I mean 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.400 to put the presidents eat a sense at stake by saying, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.480 you know what, I'll sit down with Mueller. I've got 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:08.160 nothing to hide, I'm not scared. Bring it Mueller. Wow. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.079 Assuming this is true and this is gonna happen, Uh, 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.799 this is Trump really just calling out all of yes, 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.840 I'll say, at the haters, the doubters, the underminers. Not 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.239 sure that's really a thing, but we could, we could 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.440 make that a word. I love how with the internet 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.160 these days, you just start using a word enough and 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.720 it becomes a word. They add it. So, you know, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.079 the the undermining of Trump by all these different individuals 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.520 if he sits down with Mueller, which I will note 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.080 I think is a very bad idea and precarious. But 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.320 then again, what do we what do we see from 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.840 Trump time and again people are like, oh, that's such 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.160 a bad idea, and and then he does it, and 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.480 then all of a sudden they go, you know what, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.840 that wasn't that actually wasn't a bad idea. And today, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.280 for example, we've had Democrats talking about how bad add 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.320 the tax cuts were. I mean, Nancy Pelosi was acting 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:11.760 like the tax cuts were the were the equivalent of, uh, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.040 some sort of war on the poor. I mean, it 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.919 was just nonsense coming from her. And then today we 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.800 see that the jobs are up for for the month 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.800 of February. Jobs are thousand, folks. You've got over a 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.920 hundred and fifty five million people employing the country right now, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.120 and manufacturing has added two hundred and sixty three thousand 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.800 jobs since Trump took office. The Dow was up today 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.560 four hundred and forty one points. What happened to Oh, China, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.200 the trade, it's gonna it's all gonna fall apart, tax cuts, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.560 It's terrible. He goes with what he thinks is right, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.880 and then we see what the results are on Mueller. Look, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.200 I understand the risks here, and I've been saying all along. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.360 Mueller likes to get people for minor and frac actions, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.040 and he has a long history of doing this. And 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.080 he may decide that he's going to stare down Trump 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.560 on this one. But you know what Trump is like, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.400 bring it, he will see. He sounds like he's willing 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.520 to sit down with Mueller himself, and despite all of 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:22.720 the legal evidence to the contrary, he does not care. Um. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:28.120 He's decided that he is going to sit down and 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:34.039 have his say if this Russia nonsense will come to 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.320 an end at some point if the Mueller pro will 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.600 agree at least that the Trump portion of this has 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.520 to stop at some point. Oh my gosh, this is 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.920 going to drive Democrats insane. But once again we see 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:53.680 the negotiator at work here, because if in fact they 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.960 are meeting the Democrats, the Trump opposition all about just 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.120 getting to the truth of this, that the President would 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.120 sit down and speak the special counsel himself, that's something 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:06.520 they really want, right They've They've been assuming, I'm not 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.200 gonna lie to you. I've been assuming that Trump would 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.520 never do that. If he does it, and if there's 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.200 nothing there and then Mueller has to wrap it up 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.960 within sixty or ninety days or whatever the agreement would be. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.760 Is that is this a bargain that the Democrats that 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.600 the Atom ships and the Polo Seas and the Schumers, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.720 we're you know, will they take this one? New York Times, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.680 Washington Post, all these media outlets that are completely invested 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.719 in the implosion of this presidency the end of this presidency? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.840 Are they going to advocate for against us? Do they 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:47.240 want the truth or do they want an endless They 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:51.760 want an endless investigation that just grinds on, and that's 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:57.080 the purpose of it. The process is the punishment. I 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.880 think we all know that they do want the process 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.880 to be the punishment. But are they willing to make 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.440 a trade one one chance to get the president in 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.440 legal jeopardy? You notice notice how Trump is forcing their 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.120 hand here just in the responses to this offer, which 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.760 has been floated to the Wall Street Journal here and 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.640 is the main story on on the Drudge Report as 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.800 I'm on air. Just that he's put it out there 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.680 will expose some of those who as, oh no, no, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.000 the Mueller probe it has to just keep going on 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.480 and on and on. Oh no, he'll be done when 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:41.480 he's done. Well, is this about finding out if the 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.960 president included with Russia? Or is this about a special 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.120 counsel that just exists to exist and has really just 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:54.360 become a machine of petty prosecutions for the gratification and 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:59.560 amusement of scorned Hillary voters. That's what the Mueller Special 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.400 prosecut You should our special council is all about. This 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.600 is what makes Democrats feel happy, safe and warm at 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.840 night that Mueller's out there, uh, bringing felony charges bankrupting people. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.040 I'm one who likes to remind everyone of this. It's 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.360 this is not without real pain and cost, even for 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.680 those who are completely innocent of any wrongdoing, including process crimes. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.720 I gotta sell your house, gotta empty at your bank account, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.240 tens of thousands of dollars to have legal representation for 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.040 just one of these hearings. Think about if it dragged 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:39.719 on for months, so this would be this would be 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:45.360 quite a showdown. Trump v. Mueller. And you know why 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.040 Trump is willing to do what I think because he's 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:53.440 just if he does it, well, I'm still concerned because 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.319 what happens if Mueller then says that the president has 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.280 has lied under oath or in this case, we line 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.880 to federal investigators. And what if Trump says, no, I didn't. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.160 You want to talk about a constitutional crisis? Folks? How 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.680 does that play out? And can the president even be 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.520 guilty of obstruction? People that I know in respect in 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:21.560 this area of constitutional jurisprudence say no, no, he cannot. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.120 So what the heck is going on? There? Is this 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:30.280 just a political exercise. We will have to wait and see. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.280 But what a week look at what this president has 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.600 piled onto his plate tariffs. That's which is really about 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.880 staring down China nuclear negotiations, which is about staring down 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:49.040 Kim Jong un North Korea. And and he's literally gonna 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.880 stare down Kim Jong I mean, they're gonna be sitting 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.240 across the room from each other and then staring down 0:09:55.280 --> 0:10:01.520 the mollre probe. You know, it starts to make more 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.960 sense when we think back to the earliest days. And 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.320 you know, one of the things that I try to 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.320 do differently than a lot of other people who do radio, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.920 which is I I do as much work in research 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.439 as I can to know as much as I can, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.360 so when I'm on there, I am never wasting your time, right, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.880 That is an absolute goal that I have. But I 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.760 also know that I don't know everything. I learned so 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.600 much from all of you who listened to this show, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.760 and I try to be I try to maintain a 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.000 degree of humility and knowing that sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.280 I don't know things and sometimes I didn't see things coming. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.880 And I remind myself of that because I think it 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.280 makes me a better analyst going forward. I remind myself 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.280 because I want to bring the best that I can 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.400 to you. Every single night here on this show. And 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:49.040 that means being uh self critical one necessary. It means 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.440 holding myself to account, and it means having a memory 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.080 of what I've said and what I've believed to be 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.920 true or what I've put forward here on the show. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.120 And when I start to think back to the early 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.360 days of this whole Trump phenomenon, it's not even enough 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.200 to call it a wave. I mean, it is a phenomenon, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.679 and it's still truly hard to believe. Hard to believe 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.840 is a phrase that people throw around for all kinds 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.400 of things, but this is still hard to believe. There 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.800 are days that I wake up and I said, Trump 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.400 is president. And I don't say it in a negative way, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.240 I just saying, and it's hard to believe, given what 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.360 we were told in the Hillary apparatus and a lot 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.440 of you listening to this show. And I know this 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.839 because you called and you wrote, and you told me 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.040 very early on you saw it coming. But I think 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.959 back to those early days, those early moments of this 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:47.079 uh this Trump phenomenon, and I remind myself, or I 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.960 remind myself and think back to how it all seemed 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.880 so impossible and improbable, and yet he told us all along, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.160 what was what was happening, what was going to happen. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:03.600 There was almost a surree little confidence that Donald Trump 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.240 had in his run for the presidency. It felt like 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.640 it could not be real. But then when you would 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.480 go back and hear what he said and hear what 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.280 his plans were, you think, well, this is and now 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.319 that he's presidency, well this has been the plan all along. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.160 This is what he's been saying all along, right, And 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.440 I try to remind myself of that, because we have 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.400 a president who said that he would drain the swamp, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.520 he said he would build a wall, he said he 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.600 would be He promised to be a disruptor, to be different. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.079 And what was unique about him and separated him from 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.480 the other I can't remember I was at sixteen seventeen candidates, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.319 was that he wasn't going to do it the way 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.880 that everybody else did. He wasn't going to listen to 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.120 the conventional wisdom. He didn't decide that he would just 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.440 sit down in a room, and whoever seemed the smartest 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.120 at that point in time would be the person who 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:54.560 was basically making the decisions as commander in chief to 0:12:54.600 --> 0:13:00.000 be disruptive means you have to change what is in repetition, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:05.120 should you have to change what is expected? And that 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.080 is what Trump is doing. He is fulfilling promises by 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:14.560 breaking with the traditional way of doing things. Is he 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.920 right on all of them? I don't know. But do 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.800 I think that he's earned the right to at least 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:27.559 have our patience and good faith with some of these maneuvers. Absolutely? Absolutely. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.880 If I've learned anything from trying to analyze and understand 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:37.600 the Trump way in politics, to understand the Trump world 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.240 order that we are in now, it's don't underestimate this 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:49.840 guy and don't think you know better than he does. China, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:57.120 there you go, Thank you. North Korea now, Mueller, it's 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.040 quite a week. Quite a week. I want to get 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.680 more into the aftermath of that. North Korea is uh, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.679 come out up here in just a few minutes. And also, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.920 oh wait, it's Friday, so John, you know what that means? 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:14.640 Hit it action movie. People keep asking if I'm back, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.800 and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.960 I'm taking on back. Quote you ever like to be dead? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:30.840 Friday's Friday? Don't kung food? I know, kung food eight 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:36.040 four four to five. Buck your thoughts on any of 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:41.440 these huge hot topics or action movie quotes, were recipes 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.680 for the best possible hush puppies or Jambalaya, any of 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.280 the above. Colin, let me know. We'll talk be right back. Well, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:53.080 it's a deflection. Of course, it's a deflection. Willie comes Stormy, Well, yes, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:59.040 of course, Stormy, So tearriffs and North Korea, all the 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.240 distract from a president that didn't go through the proper 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:07.840 channels are used the proper interagency processes once to change 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:14.360 the headlines from Stormy Daniel what it is? I mean, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.160 Joe Scarborough should really stick to his favorite pastimes shouting 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.600 at maids and limo drivers. You know, not good analysis 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.480 from this guy at all. He really thinks that this 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.160 is all the distract from Stormy Daniels. Nobody cares. I 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.880 have yet to meet a person that cares about the 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.640 Stormy Daniels thing, whether they believe it or not. I 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.800 just haven't met anybody who was focused on that when 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.960 when we're talking about trade with China North Korea, this 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.240 is about trying to stop a nuclear war from happening. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.440 And no matter how much you think Trump has his 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:50.200 flaws or whatever, I think that he takes that seriously. Scarborough. Wow, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.680 that guy amazing. They gave him a show over at MSNBC. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.200 I think that for uh, you know, for a certain 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.000 kind of republic in you know, they they identify with 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.840 Scarborough because they're like, yeah, I always want to look 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.720 like I just came off the beach from Nantucket too, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.440 and I don't have to really read or know anything. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.680 But if I just sound like the guy who sits 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.080 at the cool table in high school, then people will 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:20.120 believe me. There's that and on you hat Acosta as well. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.800 We're gonna get into some of the haters everybody, and 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.600 then I'll talk to you about the real analysis. Michael 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.120 Oslon will be joining us from the Hoover Institution. I 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.120 will say this because I actually have a background in 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.120 national security analysis. As you know, uh, I know who 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.840 knows their stuff. And the people that come on this show, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.880 particularly in the realm of any anything national security or 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.240 security related. You know, they aren't guys like Andy McCarthy, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.920 Gordon Chang, Michael Ostlin. These are people who are at 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.200 the top. There are people who when they speak about 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.680 these issues, they you know, they share a lot of 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.080 important insights and give a tremendous drawn, a tremendous depth 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:58.960 of information. So Michael will be joining us later to 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.760 talk about what's going on here with this North Korean negotiation. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.919 I'll give you my take on it as well. But 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.440 you don't need me to tell you. Don't but I'm 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.600 gonna tell you anything. It's fun. Don't let Joe Scarborough. Yeah, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.040 don't let him shout at you like he shouts at 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.119 bus boys where they don't bring him his ship is 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.640 fast enough. Uh, you know, and don't listen to Jim 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:27.719 Acosta either. Clip eight play it, clip eight play it. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.119 We were hearing from senior administration officials, uh, that that 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.879 they were basically cautioning the president against this, that this 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.520 was not going to be their recommendation. But Trump being Trump, Uh, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.240 it is not unusual for him to defy his advisors 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.240 and decide to go with a bold move like this. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:48.040 The potential ramifications, all all this. You know, we can't overstate. Obviously, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.280 this is not reality television. This is not The Apprentice. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.560 When the President United States decides to me with Kim 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:58.240 Jong un about denuclearizing North Korea, this is deadly serious. Yeah, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.200 we know, we we don't need you to tell us there, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.439 chief White House pundit for CNN that this is not 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.960 the Apprentice. But thanks for that, Thanks for that. Oh gosh, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.359 it's really amazing, isn't it. Um. We'll get into it's 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.560 more of the North Korea stuff in just a second. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.760 Here what it means why the left is obviously so 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.600 deeply committed to making it seem like this is a 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.879 huge mistake. Can you imagine if Trump is by the way, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.840 if I think about if he runs the table this 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.240 week and he's he happens to be somewhat even a 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:35.280 little bit right on the China tariff's issue, and then 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:41.560 on North Korea and Mueller, just an extraordinary evening and 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.040 of course opening the door to the big question President 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.960 Trump can truly solve this problem, that would be going 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.440 down as a great president. And there's no way around that. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:54.000 That is the reality here. Somebody pull over the we ambulence, 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:00.000 you can tell, you can tell they really so we are. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.520 We're actually in a discussion, your folks, about a pathway 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:10.560 to avoiding a military strike that could result in catastrophic life. Right, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.919 that's what the serious people, That's what you and I 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.400 are thinking about here, And how can Trump, How can 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.760 this administration achieve that? Meanwhile, in some of the Democrat 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:25.440 corridors of society, the left wing progressive types, uh, their 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.800 biggest concern is that if Trump pulls this off, then 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.320 it will be so clear that one they've been wrong 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.480 about him all along, but particularly the issue of national security, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.760 he will be as Aaron Burnet just said, they're a 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.879 great president, and she said it almost like it was 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.639 an admission of some calamity that would be followed it. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.920 I mean, it's like so sad, like if Trump stops 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.840 this terrible situation in North Korea, like what's gonna happen 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.800 to America? Because then he'll be a great presidents like 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:02.840 exactly ex Actually, he'll be a great president. Yes he is. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.240 He I think he's going to be. Yeah, there's there's 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.800 some rough edges here and there, there's some stuff. But 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.480 you know, maybe part of the problem is that in 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.000 the past we have put so much stock on the 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:19.320 president sounds, presidential, comes across as presidential all that that 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.919 we lost sight of, well, what really affects you and 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.560 me and what really affects the world around us. And 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.360 I think that that's going to be a big difference 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.960 we shall see with Trump. But yeah, that's it actually 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.760 reminds me of what was going on with some Democrats 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.120 in Congress, and this was I saw this firsthand. There 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.320 were some Democrats in Congress during the surge, which I 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.280 know many people listening to this show right now we're 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.920 a part of and thank you for your service. And 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.600 I know that the Iraqi people also thank you for 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:55.680 saving their country from descending into the seventh circle of hell. Uh. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.360 But during the surge there were Democrats who could barely 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:06.080 high there uh agitation with the fact that the Bush 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.520 administration plan to surge troops into Iraq to stabilize the 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.119 country and to fight counterinsurgency the way that it is 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.119 supposed to be fought, that it was working, which meant 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.320 less violence against the Iraqi people. There was a drop 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.919 in violence. That's how you know it's working, and also 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.800 less casualties for US troops because it was working. And 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.520 I'm talking when you were evaluating, you know, after a 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.920 period of months. And there were some people have yelled 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.760 at me for saying this. I do not care because 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.200 I was there. I saw it. I remember, and there 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.840 were some Democrats who I'm not saying they were rooting. 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.400 They weren't thinking in their heads. And these are as 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.280 a congress, some very well known ones. I'm not saying 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.240 they were thinking out loud or saying out loud, oh 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.120 you know, it's a bad thing that we're seeing us 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:59.639 less violence in Iraq. But they were thinking, darn it. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.480 Trump's whole thing here, this whole gamble. Remember it was 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.640 like they said, he was gambling his presidency on it. 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:10.240 It's working. And you sense that same, that same idea 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.960 here with some of these media folks and some of 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.480 these Democrats, as Trump may have it may being the 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:25.360 operative word, have set in motion the biggest diplomatic victory. Well, 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.359 we'll have to see. Like I said, no, and I 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:29.760 keep saying it, don't celebrate really very important thing to do. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.520 We don't. We don't spike the football until it's time, 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:38.080 and then we spike it hard. But just to give 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:39.440 you a little reminder what it was like here, this 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.119 is what the media was saying before the announcements. We 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:48.119 we pulled together a representative montage. We need a montage. 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.480 I haven't watched Team American a while. Great film. See 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.200 it's it's so great. I won't even clote a movie 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.520 it's a film. Uh North Korea, North Korea. Here we 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.359 go it this clip one. That is what they were 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:05.159 saying before the meeting that Trump announced yesterday. This is 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:06.560 what they were sounding like when it came at Trump 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:09.440 and foreign policy in North Korea. Play one. Tweets like this, 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.960 essentially poor gasoline on that blaze. President Trump is goading 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:19.320 Kim Jong un to testament, I do worry about what 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.080 his boiling point might be in the face of some 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:27.160 of these, uh, inflammatory tweets and statements at the present 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.520 makes this It's just how the snowball effects starts. It's 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:35.119 very easy to get into and quickly. None of this normal, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.600 None of this acceptable, None of this frankly stable behavior. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.119 None of this is normal. Um, that's what they were 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:44.560 saying about it. But I should have just read the 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:46.879 montage myself, as you could tell there. I'm sorry if 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:51.119 I talked over some of that, but gosh, it is. 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.760 It is pretty made. It's christoff from the New York Times. 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.760 If you speak like this and then everyone thinks you're 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.280 so much smarter than they are. If you think that 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.200 that doesn't sound like Nicholas Kristof, go listen to some 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.080 Nicholas Kristof you like Buck, You're amazing. You've got the 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:10.720 Irish gift of mimicry. Hey, lad um. Anyway, this is 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:13.199 what they're saying now. So that was beforehand, right, that 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:15.480 was with the tweets. And he's going and Kim Jong 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:18.199 own into a ward. Oh my god, it's gonna be terrible. 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.200 And and here's what they were saying once the announcement 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.520 was made, to have our own madman who could potentially 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.919 blow up the world. Trump. Yeah, I was thinking of 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:31.439 Trump when I said that all of the summits are dangerous. 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:36.840 Any president could have sat down with Kim or his father. 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:40.919 Why has no suiting American president ever met with a 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:43.280 leader from North Korea? Should I take that to mean 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:45.639 that this might be a particularly risky or even an 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:49.040