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The media claims the 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.760 biggest concern we should all have is the safety of 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.680 the media. And they, of course are pointing to Trump 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.160 supporters after last night's riley in Florida as the reason 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.240 for this rise in concern. We'll talk about what's really 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.840 going on here, and also the latest from the Muller 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.640 probe and the possibility of it getting shut down. That 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.119 and we're coming up on the buck Sexton Show. This 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.400 is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:50.480 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.320 no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, the buck 0:01:54.400 --> 0:02:04.280 Sexton Show begins. It is a text, no, it won't. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:05.920 Just to give you a sense as to what's happening 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.560 right now. You can hear there is a forest of 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.160 foods and other chance of this trunk crowd here in Tampa, Florea. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.320 They're saying things like CNN sucks, go home and fake news. Well, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.639 obviously all of those things are false. We're staying right here. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.960 We're to do our John. They're not all rally to 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.600 all the reviewers here tonight. But I think Washington is 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.720 so anti Trump and the liberal media is so anti Trump. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.320 They don't understand what's happening out there. Let's just give 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:36.760 you one example, sanctuary cities. Let let's let's let's cause 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.280 for a second. Welcome to Bucks exit show. Everybody. Uh 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.760 so you had you had a cost to last night 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.800 there at the route. Look, I I have I have 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.120 so many thoughts on this. Well, I think it's funny 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.960 that people are chanting CNN sucks and go home CNN 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.760 and CNN is fake news. And their response to this 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.919 is that those things are not true. It's like, well, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.680 it's really a matter of opinion, dude. Um, But what 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.600 ended up happening here is that there was a lot 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.359 of a lot of focus on this last nd the rally. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.760 Bubbaly Trump did a phenomenal job at the rally last night. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.040 He's incredible as a live performer. He is a force 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.160 of nature. He is unlike any other unscripted people say, oh, 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:26.079 bood Obama. I'm like Obama could give a compelling left 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.880 wing Democrats speech with a prompter that he had practiced 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.240 beforehand on and somebody else writing it for him. But yes, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.080 he could deliver that effectively. All right, I'm not gonna 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.520 say whereas Hillary can't even do that. Ah yeah, I'm 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.840 really got a prompter it's just horrible, right, it hurts 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.200 your ears. You don't want to see it. It's not good. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.720 Trump just gets up there and he just lets it 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.040 ripped for an hour. It's it's incredible that this guy 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.160 does this and he's he's making all these points and 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.440 he's really getting to get the crowd that energest. You know, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.080 I'll say this, I do it a lot of different 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.000 kinds of media. There's a different energy when you're in 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.880 front of a live crowd like that, especially a really 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.320 big crowd. I don't care if you used to speaking 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.440 to millions of people on TV or millions of people 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.320 on radio. It's a little bit, there's a little it's 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.560 a little more intimidating, isn't the right word, But the 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.719 energy is different. You gotta bring your a game. You know, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.839 there's there's no hiding whateveryone's in the room with you. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.599 You know, you can't you can't cut the commercial break 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.960 what everyone's in the room with you, or in the 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.880 in the arena with you, as the case may be. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.560 But here's what you get. You know that this this 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:41.080 martyrdom complex that CNN and much of the mainstream media 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.159 have was on display last night and You're getting a 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.280 lot of this in the follow up to it, uh, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.680 And I want to break this down for you because 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.440 it is symbolic or really emblematic of what they still 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.400 don't get. Let me tell you the real situation here. Okay, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.560 Jim Acosta, by the way, I don't know him really 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.760 from sing and I never met him. I just know 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.760 his work, so I don't know him personally, so none 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.960 of this is personal. There's some people see Ann that 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:12.440 I know personally, and I tend I I avoid uh 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.920 unfairly criticizing anyone, but I particularly look. I'll tell you 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.880 if I'm friends with somebody, I'll say I'm friends with 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.560 that person, and I generally won't go after them, even professionally, 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.400 because I feel weird doing that. And I think that's 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.720 a tough spot for some some people in the commentary 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.880 business to be in sometimes. But at least I'm honest 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.880 with you about it. There's only few people see Ann 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.680 feel that way about. They're a handful. Uh. I don't 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.400 know what cost him. I do know that he's become 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.280 a almost household name for people that watch TV news, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.520 if not a household name because of the Trump opposition, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.279 he is better known wealthier, and it's gonna be able 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.800 to I know that you don't want to hear this, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.360 but write his own ticket after this administration, go wherever 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.039 he wants to go, or get his own show at 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.440 CNN because of Trump. Now, are we really supposed to 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.360 feel badly for him? I'm con used. Oh it's so hard, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.920 and they really just Oh, it's just this victimology complex 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.520 that the left has. It stretches beyond identity politics. It 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.480 stretches beyond you know, the way that they pander to 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:17.520 different identity groups. Now it's the media has a victimology complex. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.960 I mean, the media thinks that they are being victimized 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.119 by Trump. I keep having to point this out too, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.800 whenever they say something like, oh it's authoritarian. Look at 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.279 out trumpet so authoritarian. I want to say. Authoritarians have 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.080 the whole media in their pocket. Authoritarians don't have the 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.560 entire media against them trying to end them and take 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.599 down their regime or take down their government. Obama was 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.279 much scarier for press freedom than Trump was. That's what 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:49.040 they don't understand. Obama had the press doing his bidding, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.719 had the press asking questions when he When Obama would 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.800 step out of line when Obama's Justice Department put a 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.960 Fox News reporter in a in an espion indictment as 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.120 a as a co conspirator, didn't charge him, but put 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.479 him in the indictment. Yeah, the press corps, they made 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.559 some noises about it. There's some of them who are like, well, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.400 this is troubling. They're calling Trump hitler. I mean, they're 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.840 saying that he's running concentration camps at the border. They're 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.840 saying that he's a he's a fascist. You want to 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.480 talk fascism. Obama's Justice Apartment was actually talking about journalists 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.720 being criminals for doing their jobs. Use the ESPIONA Espionage 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.320 Act more than every other administration combined. Yeah, they covered it, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.120 but they covered it. Was like, well, let's for us 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.760 troubling questions about press freedom. I'm not sure Obama's the 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.400 best messenger for this press freedom all with trumpets. He's 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.400 a fascist, he's a Nazi, he's hitler. And some of 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.040 us understand the difference here, folks, people listening to the 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.280 show understand the difference. But you know CNN that they 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.840 forget all this stuff now and we're supposed to buy 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.040 that that Trump is some terrible enemy of the press, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.240 because he says that the press of the enemy of 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.760 the people. He says that large. I mean, look, he's 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.280 he's not joking and then it's haha, but he's he's 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.760 trolling on a little bit. He's goading them. Oh and 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.760 Trump gives all kinds of access to the press. He'll 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.800 sit down for interviews with you know, Maggie Haymerman of 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.960 the Times and these other people who all hate his guts. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.920 I'll talk to them. Unlike, let's be very clear about this. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.800 Trump has never, unlike Obama, really thought seriously about and 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:33.160 taking actions that made people believe that he would prosecute 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.959 journalists for doing their jobs. Obama, that was a real thing. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:38.959 You know, with Obama, that was something you had to 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.439 really consider because he had the whole press in his pocket. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.320 So there wasn't going to be this real rallying around. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.679 Oh that's right. Fox News, which was singled out, it 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.000 singled out in that d o J indictment under Eric 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.760 Holder's d J and also singled out by Obama for 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.640 ridicule and contempt on a regular basis. That's right. Now, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.160 CNN is getting a little what they used to, you know, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.200 dish out to the other side or seeing how the 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.839 other side had to take it, and they're all where, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.120 pull over the we ambulance please. And then there's a 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.120 there's a bigger issue here too, which is you had 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.200 these uh, you know, these journalists last night who recovering 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.880 by the way, there's their security there, they're all on camera. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.040 Nobody hit anyone, Nobody threatened anyone that I that were 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.120 aware of, like threatened actually harm anybody, you know, physical violence. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.160 Nothing happened. That's not the case. And we talk about 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:38.640 what happens to conservatives and Trump supporters, that's not the 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:43.640 case when you look at I mean that CNN. Uh. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.120 And you know, I know Dana pretty well from from 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.199 working with her at the Blaze. Um. You know, I 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.760 don't know her really socially, but I know her professionally. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.800 And I mean with what happened to her at that 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.760 CNN gun rally thing was was an abomination. You know, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.120 people were menacing her as a woman who walked in there. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.480 And and that audience has been has been fed this 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.320 line by CNN, by the analysts they put on TV, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.120 by the so called anchors were really just pundits without 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.760 the the goal to really fight and stand up for 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.080 their positions. Right there was hide behind this little facade. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.439 It's cowardly. That's the problem with the CNN approach to 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.839 this stuff. It's cowardly. If you want to be a pundit, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.440 be a pundit, if you want to stand for if 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.719 you want to be an activist, if you want to 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.080 stand for issues, If your reason for getting out of 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.960 bed every morning is you hate Trump, at least be 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.240 a man about it, or be a strong woman about 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.880 it whatever, you know what I mean, at least be 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.160 honest about what's all. You know, We're just I'm just 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.160 gonna sit here and tweet snarky stuff to undermine Trump 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.079 all day. And I'm just gonna do one story after 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.720 another on Michael of Nadio and Stormy Daniels and Russia, Russia, Russia. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.439 But but oh no, I don't. I don't. I don't 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.439 want to. I'm not I'm not partisan. I don't want 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.200 to have to defend anything. Oh don't play it on, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.760 back off, don't be mean to me. It really is cowardly. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.080 I mean, they could start to say at the cowardly 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.360 News network. I wrote this piece for The Hiller in 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.200 the week you know, I does not make me popular 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.120 among the swamp set. I'm like this notion that journalists 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.240 are under threat in the era of Trump. It's just garbage. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:22.160 It's preposterous. They were so desperate to make that terrible 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.320 shooting in Baltimore about Trump, But that guy was a 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.400 deranged maniac who had been coming after them for years 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.440 before Trump was even in office. Nothing new with anything. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.720 And that and one other incident, which was if something 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.320 you remember, if you forget exactly what it was. The 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.040 guy felt like he had been passed over. It was 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.199 essentially a workplace it was workplace violence. But the guy 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.400 televised it. It It was a journalist to forget in North 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.080 or South Carolina. I think, um that was a few 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.839 years ago. Those are the only incidents of more than 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.880 one person being harmed doing journalism in this country in 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.000 the last thirty years. A total of eleven journalists have 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.240 been killed in the United States for doing their jobs 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.400 since nine team doing their jobs for any reason. By 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.840 the way, so then, and you know that this includes 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.800 writing stories about somebody that don't like it includes being 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.480 in a dangerous neighborhood. Eleven journalists have been killed in 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.040 this country. Now, I wish the number were zero, but 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.400 let's not all sit around and do this. Woe as me. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.840 Journalists in America under threat? You know who was under threat? 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.120 And this is one I want to spend some real 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.000 time digging into this because I think that I think 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.440 this is I think this is important. I think it 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.760 matters because the other side doesn't get that we're not 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.120 giving in on this one. We're not playing their game anymore. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.600 You know who was under threat under the Obama administration. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.360 Cops And you can say, oh, buck, but no, that's 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.520 not that's not fair. And well, no, the Black Lives 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.360 Matter movement, which President Obama was supportive of, which is 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.840 Department of Justice was supportive of, which the media was 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.520 fanning the flames of all the time. And I went 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.800 to those rallies to cover them as a journalist I 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.640 saw what was going on there, or to cover them 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.160 as a pun it whatever I heard the chance. You know, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.520 I remember pigs in a blanket, fry him like bacon, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.040 and I remember what we want dead cops when we 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.600 want it now. I remember all that, and the media was, oh, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.600 you know, man, racism is real, so you know, we 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.840 can't really you can't really call this out and police 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:23.120 officers were murdered because of that rhetoric that led. There 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:28.280 was a direct connection between a widespread narrative that the 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.760 media really created with the help of activists, and the 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.480 Obama administration and the White House. Obama was there. You know, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:35.920 if I had a son, he would he would have 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.440 looked like Trayvon. You know, Obama did not hold back. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.240 You know, the whole Mike Brown thing and everything else. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.200 There was a lot of support given for this idea 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.839 that cops are racists who are hunting down black men 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.360 for sport. That was what Black Lives Matter protesters were saying. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.160 And I know because I heard them say it, so 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.959 I've been through the stuperilde. Let's not what they were No, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.800 that is what they were saying. That is what they 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.160 were saying. And police officers were murdered because of that. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.840 And CNN was the worst offender in giving that narrative, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:13.000 giving that storyline, oxygen, giving it more room to burn, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.360 throwing gasoline on the fire. They were doing all of that, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.840 and now they want to lecture us about creating a 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.400 hostile environment. Now now they want to tell us, oh 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.720 my god, the protesters. You know, there's there's more on 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.160 these books, but I've really had enough of this. I 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.880 don't want to hear any more of the journalists, these 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:39.960 these you know, cosseted, overpaid, wimpy milk post stealth liberals 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.040 that go on TV and get all all all this 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.240 acclaim and yeah, you know, people say, don't talk about 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.840 George John cocktail parties. It's such a cliche. Okay, fine, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.280 I'll talk about color rama cocktail parties, right, I mean 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.320 the fancy day, I'll talk about what goes on and 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.720 Martha's Vineyard and Nantuckett and the Upper West Side. And 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:59.480 that's actually where all these journals live. And they're being 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.320 treated as heroes among their friends. Their paychecks are only 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.400 getting bigger, even though their audience is getting smaller at 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.720 the NIT. But they know they'll be taking care of 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:15.360 any risks, risks please. Everybody's watching them, was like, oh, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.200 thank you for standing up for truth against Trump the tyrant. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.640 Oh my gosh, you're so brave. And you know, cost 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.200 is just he just this is this is theater now right, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:24.720 we all know that he but others do it too. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.600 You know, you can't say CNN sucks? Why not? Why not? 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.840 I remember covering Occupy Wall Street. As I said, and 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.240 if you had a Fox News, if you had a 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.520 Fox News uh signed microphone on up, if you'd signed 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.760 itge that said Fox News up, people would people would 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.600 get up in your face and threatened to yell at you. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.360 And nobody was, Oh Fox News. It's so sad. And 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.680 that's one network, the only network, the only network that 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.800 represents the other fifty percent of the country that you 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.680 think could have maybe more than one network, and that 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.880 something you're gonna say, like news Max or in America. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.640 But if you look at the rate things, folks, there's 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.320 one network in this, Fox News. So I'm not done 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.400 with this because this got this, This got further coveragetay 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.280 in the White House press conference. I mean we we 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.880 really should, we should really air this out, We should 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.320 really dive into this a bit. I'll talk to you 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.520 more about policy and immigration and all that other stuff 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.080 later on on the show. This media fight right now 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.800 is the center of Hey, we'll all talking about Muller 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.640 probe and this Manafort, the Manaphort trial. This is like 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.520 a It's a glorified tax evasion case, that's all it is. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.520 I've got some thoughts on that I'll share the two 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.440 eight four or four to five eight four four nine 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.040 Buck as you can tell a little fired up today, team, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.600 I don't want to hear from you. Send me or 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.600 not send me, call me, or send me a tweet 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:55.080 if you want at buck Sexton, I'll go back. But 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.280 I think Washington is so anti Trump, and the liberal 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.520 media saw anti Trump don't understand what's happening out there. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:06.399 Let's just give you one example, sanctuary cities. Eighty four 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:14.439 of the American people believe sanctuary cities increased crime. Now 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.640 every Democrat in the Senate co sponsored Senator Einstein's open 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.680 border bill. There's no state in the country we're more 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.600 than people favor open borders. So that the Democrats are 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.119 talking themselves out on these radical left agendas, which in 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.760 the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CBS News 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.120 all sounds terrific. But I think when you get down 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.760 to September in October, we're going to discover that there 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.159 there's a red wave, not a blue wave, and that 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.280 people are going to repudiate the kind of radically streamism 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.720 that we're seeing emerging in the Democratic Party. There is 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.960 this extremism, I mean new Newt has been it's been 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.800 been you know when new it's in the sweet spot. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.000 He's pretty good and uh, he's he's been making a 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.960 lot of sense these days. Well for a while. Now. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.040 You know this, this notion of sanctuary cities. I talked 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.240 to you about it yesterday. There is really no good 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.600 reason for this. There's nothing about sanctuary cities that respects 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.679 the rule of law. There's nothing. It's just pandering from 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.520 Democrats to constituencies that are in the country illegally. This 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.359 this is speaking of collusion. Sanctuary cities are how the 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:28.160 Democrats collude against the rule of law. That's what's going on. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:29.840 And I think people need to know that and that 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.920 story I told you yesterday. I really want more people 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:38.760 understand that that because of these sanctuary policies, the Immigrations 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.880 and Customs enforcement, criminal investigators who are handling drug trafficking, uh, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.480 child sexual exploitation, human smuggling, you know, crime crime, really 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.480 important issues of criminal justice and keeping communities safe, they 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.280 don't get cooperation from local law enforce And that was 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.600 told me by Obama's acting Ice director. Okay, so this 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.480 is not I'm not looking at this on some blog 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:02.960 somewhere you know that this guy told me to my 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.119 face and somebody who was generally, you know, sympathetic at 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:08.879 least to what Obama was trying to do on a 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.720 lot of other immigration areas, but on this one, he's 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.399 just like, that's not a good idea anyway. I just, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.119 you know, this is where we were as we're getting 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.040 closer to mid terms. I just hope the American people 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.840 remember that abolished Ice was for about a month a 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.320 rallying cry of the Democrat Party until they realized, oh 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.840 my gosh, that's crazy. We probably we can't fool centrists 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.040 and independence into voting for us if we're calling for 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.920 abolishing ICE for doing their job. But I do want 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.480 to get back to what happened at the White House 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:43.119 today in response to CNN's ambulance session. Uh, this is 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.879 gonna be good, Sarah, how could be Sanders? She had 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:47.800 a home run today in response, So we'll get to that. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.080 He's back with you now, because when it comes to 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:06.600 the fight for truth, the buck never stops. Is the 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.320 White House willing to say right now, in view of 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.840 what happened with one of our TV colleagues last night, 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.680 that it is wrong for his most vocal supporters to 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.560 be menacing towards journalists doing their jobs in a situation 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.040 like that, or in any situation, nobody was last night. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.040 They were trying to prevent a broadcaster from getting his 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.399 broadcast out and yelling at his network sucks. Is that 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.520 right or wrong? I'm I'm sorry, what was the first 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.679 part of your question? I said, no one was being 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.320 violent last night in terms of hitting anybody, and no 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.000 broadcaster was broadcasting state secrets. They were trying to do 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.879 stand ups at a public rally, and he had people 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.719 trying to yell over them, preventing them from doing their 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.120 jobs and yelling that their network sucks. On live TV. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.879 Support that or not. They really want to see if 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:55.159 they can get on the record the White House calling 0:20:55.160 --> 0:21:00.720 out Trump supporters for saying that CNN sucks. That that 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.960 seemed to be a quite quite a focus today for 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.120 a few minutes there at the White House Press conference. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.399 By the way, I'm a believer in get get rid 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.120 of the get rid of the cameras in the White 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:10.959 House press conments. You know how this goes? By the way, 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:12.800 folks speaking of the swamp and things that you learn 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.719 when you're down here, you know, they are signed seating, 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:21.280 which is very very hierarchical in the White House Briefing Room, 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.560 the White House Correspondence Association, you know, the people who 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:30.879 are in charge of the White House Correspondence Dinner. Those uh, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:37.040 those elitists, throne shiners, they're the ones that decide who 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.240 gets to sit where in that room, and they're very 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.280 involved in all this. And as I've said to you before, 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.520 you know, I think the White House Correspondence Dinner, it's 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:46.800 just the whole thing, is Ikey. I went many years ago, 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:48.840 really my first year in media. I didn't know any better. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.399 I was like, yeah, I'll go. I was invited, I'll go. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.080 Uh it's it's first of all, it sucks. It's not fun, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.920 and you're around a lot of people who I don't 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.480 really want to hang around, and it's really slow and boring, 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.760 and the food is bad. So what's the point. I 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:04.880 went to a a couple of parties thrown by some 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.640 other media entities that were after parties. Those were fun. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:13.920 I mean, did buck Gingham style? Can neither confirm nor deny. Yeah, 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.600 Gettingham style? That was awesome? So where was I on this? That? 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:18.960 That will give you a sense of how many years ago. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.560 It was too there was there was Gangham style folks. 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:23.959 I think there was actually a video. I don't know, 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.640 somebody somebody at BuzzFeed may or may not have Gangham 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.879 style buck video. Uh So, but back to the the 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:31.960 guy saying that, oh no, look, how there's so mean 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.000 to them? Ah, well, you know what. I want to 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.919 give you my analysis. But first here's here's Sarah Houckeby Sanders, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:39.879 who's they're they're trying to box her into a corner. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:42.479 And I think she's at the she's kind of at 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.159 the screw it part of this whole thing, where she's like, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.119 you know what, if you're just gonna take cheap shots 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.879 at the president of the the time, we're gonna give it 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.280 as much as we get. And uh. Here here's how 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.840 she responded to this line of question in play six team. Please, 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.720 the President condemns and denounces any group that would uh 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:04.320 and violence against another individual, UM, and certainly doesn't support 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.120 uh groups that would promote that type of behavior. We've 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:10.800 we've been clear about that a number of times, uh 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.840 since the beginning of the administration. On the second part 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.520 of your question, Um, the President, as I just said, 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:22.040 does not support violence against anyone and or anything, and 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.200 we've been very clear, um every single time we've been 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.159 asked about that. When it comes to the media, the 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:33.240 President does think that the media holds a responsibility. Uh. 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.000 We so fully support a free press, but there also 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.680 comes a high level of responsibility with that. The media 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:44.040 routinely reports on classified information and government secrets that put 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:47.720 lives in danger and risk valuable national security tools. This 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.320 has happened both in our administration and in past administrations. 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:53.679 One of the worst cases was the reporting on the 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:57.280 US ability to listen to Osama bin Laden's satellite phone 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.000 in the late nineties. Because of that reporting, he stopped 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.560 using that phone and the country lost valuable intelligence. Unfortunately, 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:07.080 it's now standard to abandon common sense ethical practices. This 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:10.119 is a two way street. We certainly support a free press, 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.400 We certainly condemn violence against anybody, but we also asked 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:18.920 that people act responsibly, uh and report um accurately and fairly. Yeah, 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.800 that this this didn't all just start today or last 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.720 night at the at the Florida rally. You know, I'm 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:30.720 sorry to have to keep repeating this because it's I know, 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.000 it's uh, it's one of these events that we all 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:38.240 wish we could kind of forget. But which political party 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:43.520 and under which administration? Was there a mass assassination attempt 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:48.439 of congressman against right? Which political party almost lost a 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:54.000 bunch of its congressmen to a mass assassination? And did 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:56.919 you know did get some of our people did get shot? Right, 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:00.320 some congressmen did get shot? But where was that? That's right? 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:02.520 It was Republicans of the Freedom Caucus. And who shot 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:08.880 them a Bernie bro a Democrat while Trump's president. So 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:13.120 the only act of truly heinous political violence at that 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:16.679 level against elected officials that has occurred while Trump has 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:19.800 been in office has been against Republicans. And yet we 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:24.080 have to sit around and get lectured by CNN and 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:27.159 their ILK about how the president occurred his violence, the 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.560 president coured his violence? Here? Here, here's little test, folks, 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.919 find me a news story of somebody who got punched 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.679 in the face, had a drink poured on them, got 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:44.440 slapped around because they had a Obama Biden T shirt 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:49.679 on for all eight years of Obama in office. Maybe 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:51.879 you'll find it, I mean, but you're gonna have to look, 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.560 and I don't know if you'll find it. Good luck, 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.680 you probably won't find that. Now if I ask you, 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:06.080 if I ask you to find an incident of a 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:11.360 Trump supporter getting hit that way, literally hit getting getting assaulted, 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.720 you'd be like, well, Buck, which week you want last week? 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:17.040 Or you want the week before that, or you want 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:20.720 the week before that. You know this happens, it happens 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:23.119 to our side. Okay, I'm the one who has to 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:25.679 walk around this city and when people see me, if 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:27.880 they recognize me from what I do, which, by the way, 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:30.120 you know, I do conservative stuff. So I'm not saying 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:31.520 that happens a lot. But if it does happen, or 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.399 if I see a member of Team Buck, that's always exciting. 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.280 But I have to think of myself. Okay, well, am 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:39.840 I gonna have a problem here because what the mainstream 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:44.639 media has been feeding its audience since Trump won is 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:47.520 a steady diet of they don't care about murdered children, 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.239 which is horrifically ironic because of course they're the pro 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:53.320 abortion party, but they're saying, you know, children that get 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:56.880 killed in mass shootings, Republicans don't care about it. That 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:00.679 was the whole tone and tenor of that that hate 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:02.399 fest that they said was a town Hall. I mean, 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:06.640 CNN should be ashamed of itself for that town Hall ashamed. 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:08.680 You'll notice, by the way, all these anchors they talk 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:10.840 tough on CNN. When was the last time you saw 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.840 one of them going to a an unfriendly political environment 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:15.840 and try to defend their reporting. They don't do it 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:20.600 like cowards. They snark on Twitter and then they go 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:24.240 in their their their little privileged purchase and that they 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.040 don't I've by the way, I've invited CNN anchors on 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:29.440 this show lots of time never come on this show. 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:31.680 I don't think that I won't. I mean, don't think 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:34.320 that I don't. I just stopped because I kept getting 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:36.080 told a little corporate won't allow. A corporate won allow? 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:40.040 What's because they're cowards? Do they really want to have 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.119 this debate? Here's how they debate with a CNN anchor 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:45.960 would go on this network with me who who spent 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:47.639 real time there and knows a lot of people on 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.199 the different shows, knows their producers, knows some of what 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:53.360 these guys and gals are really like. By the way, 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:56.440 which also they don't like. You know, I've gotten a 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.520 little bit of a peak under the hood, and it's 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:03.520 not good. Uh. I'm would start with CNN. Is CNN 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:07.000 a partisan network? To CNN have a point of view, 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:12.080 the CNN a Democrat aligned news organization. They would all 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:15.840 say no, so they start from the premise of they 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.719 start from a lie, and then the conversation would just devolve. 0:28:21.119 --> 0:28:22.840 But that's they're still you know. I mean, if you 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:24.800 had MSNBC on, they would say, yeah, we're you know, no, 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:27.040 we're journalists. We're trying to print the facts. But you know, yeah, 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:31.520 we have we're we're progressive or you know, we're I 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:33.360 think they would say that. Maybe not, and maybe they're 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.320 just as delusional. And I just don't know them as 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:39.880 well because I know CNN stuff better. But that rally 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.880 they had or they're not rally, uh whatever. The town 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:46.520 hall where Dana lash showed up and Marco Rubio and 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:48.720 Marco Rubio, I don't know what he was doing there. 0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:50.760 I don't know why he thought that was a good idea, 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:54.560 Mark Rubio, I gotta tell you, really disappointing. You know, 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:57.560 I think there was some raw town There was obviously 0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:59.240 some raw talent there. The guy got elected U S 0:28:59.240 --> 0:29:01.800 Senator itself made I mean, I still have respect for him. 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:06.800 I'm not. But in the era of Trump, just you know, 0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:08.640 I don't need to hear the little model u n 0:29:08.680 --> 0:29:11.440 speech about how he knows he knows some things he's 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:15.160 been briefed on about this or that national security issue, 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:18.480 like let's actually get on board and get some get 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:22.080 some wins on the board for the Republican Party here 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:24.320 at home. And I think on that issue he has 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:29.040 been more than lacking. So I am just I'm disappointed 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:33.640 in a a little little Marco. That's an aside, but I 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.520 just want to put that out there. But CNN had that, 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:39.120 and then they also allowed one of the survivors of 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.920 the Parkland shooting to go on TV and and say 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:48.200 unchallenged that people that don't agree with his myriad gun 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:51.400 control ideas, you know, we gotta listen to eighteen year 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.800 eighteen year old now explained to us all gun control 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:56.960 his mirroad gun control, I deals, don't care about dead 0:29:57.040 --> 0:30:01.120 children and have blood on their hands. That's what was 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:05.240 being said, with anchors just nodding enthusiastically. I mean, Rachel 0:30:05.280 --> 0:30:10.440 mattaw was was fan girling when the Parkland kids came. 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:12.200 I mean, I remember we played the audience like, oh 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.040 my gosh, I'm so you know, this is so amazing. 0:30:14.120 --> 0:30:15.920 You know, it was of course all the theater for 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:20.120 her audience too, because they were the the political tool 0:30:20.200 --> 0:30:23.720 of the left for the moment. But then they weaponized 0:30:23.760 --> 0:30:26.840 that tool by having kids, one kid in particular, David Hogg, 0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:28.840 go on TV and go after people, and go after 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:32.000 their careers, go after their sponsors, really trying to take 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:34.920 them down. I really trying to hurt people, get people 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:40.120 fired for disagreeing with them on policy, and call them heartless, 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:42.600 you know, heartless people with with blood on their hands, 0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:46.760 who don't care about dead children. And and and now 0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:49.400 CNN wants to lecture us all on discourse and civility. 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:52.520 Do you think that they've spent a lot of time 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.840 uh at at CNN or any of these other networks, 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.920 any of the non Fox networks focused on what really 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:00.680 goes on a campus. Now, when I when a college 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:03.240 uh invites a conservative speaker, I don't want to talk 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:05.920 about that. I don't want to talk about that issue. 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:09.040 Do you think that they really cover how much security 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:12.080 is needed for some of these speakers? Of course not. 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:14.960 And I mean I just say this to you, and 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.960 I was saying before about Obama Biden. You could walk 0:31:18.000 --> 0:31:21.320 around any city in America for all eight years of 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:24.880 Obama's presidency with an Obama Biden t shirt on, and 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:26.720 you were either going to be a d percent safe 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:28.680 or a percent and get a high five from other 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:34.080 leftists you walk around. I will tell you this, I 0:31:34.120 --> 0:31:37.040 would not be comfortable. And I know I look young, 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:40.240 but you know, six ft tall, two hundred pounds, I 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:46.080 would not be comfortable walking around Washington d c uh 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.600 wearing a Maga hat for let's say a week. I 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.840 want to stay not be comfortable. I don't mean I 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.000 mean that, I know that I'd be looking for problems. 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:59.160 I know that somebody would say something, they'd start something 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:00.880 with me. And I also depends on what part of 0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:06.000 the city we're talking about, too, So that is reality. 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:10.320 Jim Acosta with cops everywhere on TV, with people yelling 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:14.760 you suck, well, that's also reality. But that's not a threat. 0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:17.560 Nothing bad is gonna happen to Nothing bad is gonna 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.120 happen to see ann They're going to continue to be, 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:24.760 you know, an overpaid legacy media institution that has all 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:28.000 kinds of access and gets its way all right. And 0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:32.440 this is just complete and utter slap sism. They're obsessed 0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:35.880 with themselves. They're dishonest and how they present things. And 0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:38.680 for the very people who have done the most in 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:42.600 this country to course in the political discourse and make 0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:45.560 it seem acceptable to really debase your political opponents, to 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:50.400 drag them on Twitter, to make them hated, to make 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:53.280 them untouchable, to make them less than dirt in the 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:57.360 eyes of fellow Democrats. Right to just take Conservatives and 0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:02.280 Republicans and trash their character in their lives, get them boycotted, 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:05.200 all that stuff. For those people now to play oh 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:07.120 wait here, we are just be night to each other. 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.480 I just I don't want I won't have it. I 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.960 won't have it. And they won't even go out and 0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:15.320 make this case publicly. They'll just go on friendly media 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:17.440 outlets or people that really, you're right, thank you for 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:20.240 thank you for holding the administration to account, thank you 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:25.800 for speaking truth to power. Just punks. Really, it's just punks, 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:29.400 and the American people are onto the game. I hope 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:32.720 that look. I hope see it changes. It wasn't as 0:33:32.720 --> 0:33:36.480 crazy five years ago. It really wasn't. It's gone into 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:42.480 some other gear. It's some other level of wacko eight 0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:48.320 four eight to five eight four f Buck, we have 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:50.520 much more show. I'd love to hear from you. Give 0:33:50.520 --> 0:34:07.320 me a ring, will be right back. Are we got 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:09.360 lines lit here in the freedom hunt? Let's take some 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:14.560 calls Herb in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hey, Herb, Hey Buck, how 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:17.239 you doing. I'm good man, thanks for calling in. What's up? 0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:20.520 She'll tie? Hey listen, um, First of all, let me 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:24.919 assure you that you could come to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, any 0:34:24.960 --> 0:34:29.400 day of the week, and as an analyst, uh, I 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:32.399 believe you will appreciate this. You could bring your bright 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.799 red maga hat and any day of the week and 0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:38.759 you could disappear in the crowd. Well that sounds nice. 0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:42.880 I gotta go hang out in Harrisburg more. Absolutely, Hey listen, um, 0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:47.759 I can't believe these uh cry baby journalists are actually 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:51.680 whining about Please make them stop. You know, you can't 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:55.080 send that reporter over to a war zone for fear 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:57.600 that they might you know, how, Hey, stop shooting so 0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.560 I can do my live shot. I mean, come on, 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:04.560 if you can't take controversy, you ought not be there 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:07.960 to try to report on it. Yeah, and I would 0:35:08.000 --> 0:35:11.360 just point out not a single journalist. Not a single 0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:15.719 journalist has been uh physically assaulted at a Trump rally 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:19.280 that I am aware of, not one at all the rallies. 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:22.120 So I mean, well, you know, I'm just presenting the facts. 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:24.560 And how many rallies have there been, how many journalists 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.440 have been to those rallies? You know, they tried this 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:28.799 crap with the Tea Party to the Tea Party got 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:33.759 together hundreds of thousands of Americans at rallies. How many people, 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:36.600 how many Tea Party assaults happened? I mean, the worst 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.239 thing that ever happened at Tea Party is, you know, 0:35:38.400 --> 0:35:40.440 somebody put something in the recycling that they meant to 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:43.160 put in the trash. I mean, that's it. And and 0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:45.080 yet they acted like the Tea Party with some sort 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:47.160 of a you know, some sort of mob assault on 0:35:47.200 --> 0:35:50.640 American democracy. It's just crazy, man. The only the only 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:53.640 assaults I ever heard reported at a Tea Party rally 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:57.480 where a Tea Party attendees getting assaulted. That's correct. I 0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:59.360 was gonna say that there are some union goons that 0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:01.640 assaulted some Tea Party people. I remember that happened to 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.799 Shields Higher. Thanks for calling from a Harrisburg Rachel. We've 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:09.479 got about a minute. Rachel from California, what's on your mind? Hi? So, um, 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:11.520 I keep hearing, how are you talking about the media 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:14.160 and how they just don't really have brains and the 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:18.160 sense that they're just really But how much do you 0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:22.279 think that like CNN reporting and affecting the American people, Like, 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:25.600 do you think that people actually listen to that and 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:28.160 agree with them and then do something about it? Because 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.520 I know, like, do you have CNN on in the background, 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:32.640 because I hear a baby crying, so that would make sense? 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:35.200 Does the baby here Accosta's voice? I would cry too. 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:37.799 But I'm sorry you're You're asking a serious question, and 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:39.920 I'll give you a serious answer. Um, I think that 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:44.480 CNN is poisoning the discourse and his poisoning dialogue. But 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:46.520 I think that also their audience is dwindling, and it's 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:49.520 down about twenty or twenty five percent year to year, 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:52.120 which in TV terms is big. And you know, they've 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:54.759 got less than a million people watching, which when you 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:56.879 compare it to Fox, you know, on on a good 0:36:56.960 --> 0:36:58.759 night Fox and some of its lineup will have three 0:36:58.840 --> 0:37:00.880 or four million people. I mean, on Hannity will have 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:05.799 four million people watch the show. So it's pretty amazing, right, 0:37:06.360 --> 0:37:08.759 But yeah, I do think Rachel that that CNN is 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:13.479 making things worse. Shieldsay sorry for for jumping in there quickly. Uh, team, 0:37:13.520 --> 0:37:15.000 we got a big second hour. We gotta talk about 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:20.000 Muller probe and more. 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Buck Sexton mission, decoding the news 0:38:21.320 --> 0:38:28.000 and disseminating information. Who is actionable intelligence? Make no mistake, American, 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:40.520 You're a great American. Again. This is the Buck Sexton Show, Analyst. No, well, 0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:44.360 they're treating it like it's the O J Trial in 0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:46.960 terms of its importance right now. I mean, this is 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:51.600 there's so much focus on this whole manifort situation, and 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.520 I think this this should be a snooze fest, folks, right, 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:57.759 this should be a nothing burger with cheese? Perhaps care 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:01.279 yeer pretty sure? Mike? What is the best cheese for 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:04.080 a burger? We did not cord to this beforehand. No, No, 0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:05.799 let's just forget all about all the calls. I know 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:07.040 people want to talk to you, but this is an 0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:10.200 important question. We'll get to the calls in a moment. Mike, 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:11.919 do you have producer? Mike, do you want to jump 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:13.440 in on this one. What is the best cheese for 0:39:13.480 --> 0:39:15.799 your burger? Is the important question the folks need to know. 0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:20.120 The answer is I got with American. It's a safe 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:22.640 choice with this audience. I see what you did there. No, well, 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:30.160 I will eat any cheese anytime, anywhere too. I'll go American. Um. 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:34.480 That was I'm a big fan of Um. Yeah, that's 0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:37.840 that's that's the good American. What do you Yarlsberg guy? 0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:40.239 There you go, Yarlsberg. I was gonna say, I think 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:42.960 the answer is Cheddar. I don't care that it's I 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:46.279 think technically British. I think Cheddar is good. Wisconsin, Hey, Wisconsin, Cheddar. 0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:48.040 There you go. We didn't get John in on this 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:49.600 from but I have a feeling he's a blue cheese 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.319 crumble guy. You know he's he's secretly he's got some 0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:54.440 hipster in there. He likes a little blue cheese crumble 0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:58.080 from you know, the raw milk Commune. That's that's the 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:00.280 that's the way to get the blue cheese going. Anyway, 0:40:00.800 --> 0:40:03.319 important questions that we have to answer sometimes during the show. 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:07.360 I just thought of that now, Manafort though whatever he 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:09.359 likes the most expensive cheese. I did have to note 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:12.279 that yesterday it came out that he bought a a 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:16.040 fifteen thousand dollar Ostrich jacket, and that's one of the 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:18.440 things in this Manafort trial that they're all focused in on. 0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:25.520 This Judge T. S ellis the third who doesn't suffer 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:28.440 fools lightly. He had to tell them to stop with 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:32.759 just the the the the wealth shaming or really the 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:35.040 bling shaming that's been going on in this trial. But 0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:40.800 I will say, an Ostrich coat, that's really something that's released. 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:42.600 You know, you really need your Ostrich coat as you're 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:46.120 driving around in your tesla on your way to your 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:50.040 holistic life coach. So he's spent fifteen dollars on that, 0:40:50.320 --> 0:40:53.440 and the judge today in this trial, I had to 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:55.879 tell that prosecutors to lay off this whole thing. But 0:40:56.000 --> 0:40:59.080 you know you can tell the interest in the Manapoort case. 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:02.240 This is your folks. This is very straightforward. The fairer 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:05.400 thing is just an add on because that's essentially how 0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:09.520 Mueller justifies that this falls under his purview in some way. Right, 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:14.960 the Foreign Agent Registration Act violation, which people don't go 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:16.960 to prison for. Usually they just say, all right, you 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:20.239 gotta register. I mean, it's kind of a you know, 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:22.600 you get a mulligan on this one. Usually it's not 0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:24.839 that big a deal, but they throw that in there 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:27.319 because it at least explains why this is being even 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:30.799 looked at by Manaford. But then when you when you 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:33.520 go a little a little further into this, you see that, Okay, 0:41:33.560 --> 0:41:37.719 so this guy did all this consulting, and how many 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:40.200 people even knew that until Trump? I think Trump tweeted 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:42.920 this out today. Manaford had worked for a lot of 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:48.880 previous administrations. Uh, Manaford had you know, spend time. By 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:51.560 the way, do we have the CNN sucks chant? John? 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:53.640 I just want to have that handy just in case. 0:41:54.680 --> 0:41:56.000 But we have to listen to it. Make sure there's 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.000 no there's no potty mouth stuff there that people are 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:08.520 yelling about how CNN suck. One of the the music to 0:42:08.600 --> 0:42:11.200 my ears. I think I'm gonna you know, if we 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:13.960 were still in an era of of ring tones, I 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:17.080 think I have to make that ring That'd be great 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:19.920 every time I get a phone call see you on 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:24.560 sucks Uh, good times, good times. I think for your 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.920 new show intro, we should we should probably put it 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:30.719 and then let me think about that. That that that's 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:33.160 a bold that's a bold move, producer Mike to open 0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:36.400 the show sucks. I don't think they're gonna have me 0:42:36.440 --> 0:42:38.760 over there again anytime soon for a for a segment. 0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:42.239 I think you are going anyway, yeah, I will see 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.000 the last time. The last time I was over there, 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:46.520 a very very prominent get An executive looked at me 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:49.480 like what and this was gosh, I don't even know. 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:52.080 This is over a year ago. What are you doing here? 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:54.800 I was like, WHOA, what is that? I was invited? 0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:56.239 What do you mean? What am I doing here? You 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:57.920 guys asked me to come on this thing. This is 0:42:57.960 --> 0:43:01.080 before Trump, but that was before Trump won. So the 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:05.520 whole different world now whole different world. But then Manaphort trial, 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:09.799 the guy is, you know, hiding money offshore allegedly right, 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:11.680 it hasn't been proven yet, but it doesn't look good 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:15.680 for him. He's hiding money off shore and you know 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:18.560 he's he's using it too. He's using that untaxed money 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:20.560 to pay for things to support his lifestyle. Here it's 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:24.480 a it's a pretty straightforward tax fraud case. And they're 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:28.040 gonna really uh, they're gonna really nail him. And this 0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:29.680 is what they're going By the way, here's what Trump 0:43:29.760 --> 0:43:36.839 tweeted out. Um. Trump tweeted out that Paul Manafort this 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:41.160 was earlier today. Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:46.200 and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.040 worked for me for a very short time. Why didn't 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:51.719 government tell me that he was under investigation? These old 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:54.600 charges have nothing to do with collusion, a hoax, that's true. 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:59.520 The fascination folks with menaphort is they've just they've created 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:06.040 this narrative in people's minds that somehow there's something Manafort 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:11.840 Russia putin Facebook bought related that any day now is 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:14.319 gonna come out. I'm telling you that's not gonna happen. 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:16.080 You already know that's not gonna happen. But I'm just 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:22.759 reaffirming no way, no way. But this is really an 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:25.160 extension of Trump' arrangement syndrome. And in fact, not not 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:28.239 to get all all weepy and and Acosta like here, 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:32.680 but I think it's really unseemly to see so many 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:37.799 people reacting with glee to the fact that a a 0:44:38.040 --> 0:44:42.000 an American for the crime of hiding taxes from the 0:44:42.480 --> 0:44:45.399 hiding money from the government it's gonna spend the rest 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:47.120 of his He's probably gonna die in prison. Now, he's 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:48.600 gonna spend the rest of his life in prison if 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.160 he's convicted on all this. You know, he's got a family, 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:53.600 you know, man of Ford probably probably has a dog, 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:55.880 probably loves his dog. He's got a family, loves his family. 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:58.480 I mean, you know, he's he's a person, and they're 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:02.120 just they want this guy crushed. And it really reminds 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:04.080 me of what happened with Scooter Libby in that sense. 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:07.920 They hated Scooter Libby. Oh my gods, They're calling him 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:10.200 a traitor and all this terrible stuff, and it was 0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:15.040 just he became the target of the rage that had 0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:19.080 built up against the Bush administration. And MANA. Ford is 0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:22.640 now a target of the anti Trump rage. And I'm 0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:24.799 not saying Manafort. You know, with Libby, they just they 0:45:24.840 --> 0:45:27.000 just did him dirty. That's a whole different thing. But 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:30.960 with with man of Fort, Okay, so the guy cheated 0:45:30.960 --> 0:45:34.520 on his taxes allegedly. I mean, it looks looks like 0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:36.279 you probably did. But that's what they're saying, cheating on 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:39.880 those taxes. You know, if I told you that somebody 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:41.600 cheated on their taxes and you were sitting down and 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:43.279 we're all having lunch, and he was sitting there with us, 0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:46.200 would you get up and leave? No, you probably say okay, 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.720 that sucks. You know, you might you might say that sucks. 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:50.960 You got caught, But you'd probably say, all right, you know, 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:54.719 you pay your debt to society. You know, Okay, it 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.080 doesn't make it like a terrible person. It's a crime. 0:45:57.440 --> 0:46:00.759 You gotta you gotta answer for it. Fine, but not 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:03.160 that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. 0:46:03.200 --> 0:46:06.520 And like the cosmic existential why are we here? You know, 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:09.480 the the millions of dollars that Manaford didn't pay to 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:13.960 the the U. S. Treasury makes zero difference to anyone, folks. 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.239 I'm not justifying. I'm not saying you don't go to 0:46:16.239 --> 0:46:17.960 prison for it, but I'm just saying it really doesn't. 0:46:18.000 --> 0:46:20.640 You know, the victim here is the United States Treasury. 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:22.440 And if you were to aggregate this out or not 0:46:22.560 --> 0:46:24.560 or disaggregate this, I mean you'd see that. You know, 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:27.560 Paul Manaford probably stole the equivalent of point zero zero 0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:30.080 zero zero zero one pennies from you or something, so 0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:32.719 I know he's gonna pay his debt to society, but 0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:33.840 it looks like he's gonna go to prison for a 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:37.360 very very long time. I just find it unseemly and 0:46:37.600 --> 0:46:41.600 unnerving that people are celebrating this so much, like, yeah, 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:44.400 we got him, all right, so he's a dirty tax 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:47.560 cheat that really made Does this really make people feel 0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:49.640 better about themselves at night? That this guy got nailed 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:52.360 because he was foolish enough. And I've seen this with 0:46:52.360 --> 0:46:54.640 other people that got you know, they got close. It's 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:56.440 kind of the Icarus effect, right, those of you who 0:46:56.440 --> 0:46:59.279 are Greek mythology fans, remember Icarus built the wings, got 0:46:59.280 --> 0:47:01.520 too close to the melted the wax, and the wings 0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:04.880 felled the sea. I wish do more Greek mythology on 0:47:04.920 --> 0:47:06.440 the show Man. That's one thing we haven't worked in 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:09.200 a while. But I've got my handsful now that I've 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:14.200 committed to doing uh the Siege of Malta official Shields 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:17.719 Shields High podcast, so that and and this month. I've 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:21.200 committed to it, but cannot tell alive once he commits 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.160 he has to do it. I just don't think this 0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:25.239 Man of Foord thing is is nearly as interesting as 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:27.520 so many of my my media colleagues do. But that's 0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:32.520 because they view this as Manaford is getting the you know, 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:39.840 the the two minutes hate from the mainstream media about Trump. 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:44.360 He's become the vessel for the scapegoat for anti Trump 0:47:44.480 --> 0:47:47.440 is um. And the fact that they've gone through everything. 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:50.360 I mean, they rated his apartment, you know, the early 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:52.399 raid in the morning, they got they used a key. 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:54.279 They don't even know they got the key. I think 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:57.160 that came up today. Uh, you know, the fact they 0:47:57.200 --> 0:47:58.759 did all this stuff, they went after him so hard, 0:47:59.160 --> 0:48:02.759 and they still haven't out on any Russia collusion. I 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:04.359 think that tells you what you really need to know here. 0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:08.560 I think that tells you that there's no Russia collusion 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:11.160 to speak of. I don't have time to get into 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:13.279 the collusion is is or is not a crime thing 0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:16.360 today because we did that yesterday. And I'm noticing that 0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:20.279 there's this shift, just mark my words on this. They're 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:22.799 now saying, well, conspiracies a crime, and they're gonna try 0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:25.560 to play this game of collusion is a political offense 0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:28.960 and conspiracies their criminal offense, and they're gonna they're moving 0:48:28.960 --> 0:48:31.640 the goalpost. So when they don't get conspiracy charges, they're 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:34.560 gonna say, well, collusion is a political charge, and that's 0:48:34.600 --> 0:48:36.920 what we've proven, not in a court of law, but 0:48:36.960 --> 0:48:40.479 in the court of public opinion, as can only be 0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:43.759 shown in a mid term election. That they will say 0:48:43.840 --> 0:48:46.480 is a referendum on Trump and that if they win 0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:48.480 the House, they will then impeach him. Right, that's the 0:48:48.480 --> 0:48:51.480 whole playbook. I just took you through the Democrats playbook 0:48:51.480 --> 0:48:54.160 going into this midterm election, and that's what I reallys 0:48:54.200 --> 0:48:56.719 the happening here. But you know, one thing that's come 0:48:56.800 --> 0:49:01.799 up a lot is the FBI's disparate treatment of threats 0:49:01.840 --> 0:49:06.200 to the Trump campaign versus threats to other campaigns. Why 0:49:06.239 --> 0:49:08.560 didn't they, as Trump pointed out, they didn't let him 0:49:08.600 --> 0:49:12.080 know that they were going after his campaign? Why is 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:15.840 that the case? But in other cases they have the 0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:18.600 FBI did step it, notably with Hillary Clinton. We've actually 0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:21.480 got John Solomon, who's my colleague here at the Hill, 0:49:21.560 --> 0:49:23.760 who's got a piece up on this. We're gonna discuss 0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:26.280 it with him now, burning up the charts, and everyone's 0:49:26.280 --> 0:49:28.160 reading this one said, WHOA, what's going on here? Why 0:49:28.200 --> 0:49:31.879 does Hillary get protected by the FBI when it comes 0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:34.719 to any Russian agent of influence? But agents of influence 0:49:34.719 --> 0:49:38.960 were encouraged almost it seems, by the FBI to penetrate 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:42.200 Trump's campaign. We will get into that and uh much 0:49:42.200 --> 0:49:45.239 more coming up, teams, So stay with me. I don't 0:49:45.280 --> 0:49:47.480 know about you, but I end up checking way too 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:50.320 many times to see is my door locked? Did I 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:53.520 leave the gas on? 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John, thanks so 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:23.879 much for joining. Glad to be here. All right, so John, 0:51:23.880 --> 0:51:25.960 tell us what happened here. We've got a tale of 0:51:26.000 --> 0:51:28.839 two Russian Russian agents as you start out here, Yeah, 0:51:28.880 --> 0:51:31.160 that's exactly right. So when people look and say has 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:33.839 there been disparate treatment in the FBI, bias or just 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:36.960 playing different approaches, I think this is one that's going 0:51:37.000 --> 0:51:39.759 to stand out to people. In Tourni eleven, there was 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.799 a Russian spy ring led by a woman named Anna 0:51:42.880 --> 0:51:46.360 Chapman and uh as soon as she activated, she was 0:51:46.360 --> 0:51:49.160 a sleeper selling as soon as she activated, and one 0:51:49.200 --> 0:51:52.759 of her agents, UH, Cynthia Murphy was her American name, 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:55.080 went to try to get to towards Hillary Clinton and 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:58.560 get some political connections. A donor, Allan Patrick off close 0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:01.440 to Hillary Clinton. The FBI rolled up the whole ring. 0:52:01.440 --> 0:52:03.840 They took no chances, they didn't want any compromising of 0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.880 US officials. So that's that's the That was the gold 0:52:06.880 --> 0:52:09.279 standard of how the FBI dealt with Russian spies or 0:52:09.320 --> 0:52:13.200 Russian influence agents. Now, as fast forward to two weeks ago, 0:52:13.239 --> 0:52:15.960 when the FBI suddenly arrested a woman named Maria Bettina. 0:52:16.400 --> 0:52:18.879 What I reported this column is that the FBI knew 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:23.320 since and maybe even earlier, that she was a Russian 0:52:23.360 --> 0:52:25.840 agent of influence, that she was trying to make inroads 0:52:25.880 --> 0:52:29.359 with conservative politicians, that she was having access to people 0:52:29.400 --> 0:52:34.360 who had security clearances, governors, members of Congress, former national 0:52:34.400 --> 0:52:38.480 security advisors, former ambassadors. And yet, unlike the Anna Chapman 0:52:38.520 --> 0:52:41.719 scenario when they were going after conservatives, the Russians weren't 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:45.120 rolled up. Maria Bettina had free access for basically four 0:52:45.200 --> 0:52:50.080 years UH to to make influence and and UH access 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:54.200 to the conservative network of money donors, big big presidential candidates, 0:52:54.200 --> 0:52:56.440 even President Trump, and they didn't roll her up. And 0:52:56.440 --> 0:52:58.120 people are asking the question, well, why do you roll 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:00.160 up one when they get close to Hillary Clinton, and 0:53:00.200 --> 0:53:01.680 you don't roll up the other one when they get 0:53:01.719 --> 0:53:04.440 close to conservatives, and uh, the FBI doesn't have a 0:53:04.440 --> 0:53:07.680 good answer for that. Yeah, it seems to echo what 0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:11.200 Trump has said about how if there were problems with 0:53:11.200 --> 0:53:14.439 the Russians trying to penetrate his campaign, why was he 0:53:14.640 --> 0:53:18.439 as a presidential contender, Why wasn't his campaign informed of it. 0:53:18.440 --> 0:53:20.200 It seems like there's a double standard or john for 0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:24.799 what constitutes an actionable national security threat versus what the 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:28.319 bureau decides to let slide or or let play out. Well, 0:53:28.320 --> 0:53:30.120 I say in here that one of the interesting things 0:53:30.120 --> 0:53:33.480 that this these two cases happened under two separate FBI directors. 0:53:33.520 --> 0:53:37.000 Bob Mueller rolled up the Anna Chapman ring, and Bob 0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:39.120 Muller was a product of post nine eleven. He was 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:42.040 the first FBI director after nine eleven, and he preached 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:44.000 that he was going to change the FBI right. He 0:53:44.040 --> 0:53:46.920 was going to make sure that on counter terrorism and 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:49.759 counter intelligence they stopped worrying about prosecutions and they worried 0:53:49.800 --> 0:53:52.640 about preemption and prevention. You probably remember some of this 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:54.719 when you were at the CIA, Buck that that the 0:53:54.760 --> 0:53:57.680 FBI was trying to transform itself. James Coby comes in, 0:53:57.719 --> 0:53:59.719 and I think he brings back to the FBI the 0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:03.120 old pre nine eleven sentiment. Uh, prosecution is the way 0:54:03.120 --> 0:54:05.600 we go. We get headlines, we get glory, we can 0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:09.080 pat ourselves on the black. And the difference is that uh, 0:54:09.120 --> 0:54:11.399 Bob Mueller's team rolled up an agent as soon as 0:54:11.640 --> 0:54:14.760 they posed a threat to Hillary Clinton, and Maria Bettina 0:54:14.840 --> 0:54:17.120 has left to just run wild in America for four years. 0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:19.479 In fact, the government gives her a student visa after 0:54:19.520 --> 0:54:22.080 the evidence is gathered. The FBI sits on her for 0:54:22.160 --> 0:54:25.640 eighteen months and watch what she does in secret surveillance. Uh. 0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:29.080 They allow the embassy in Moscow to take two congressmen 0:54:29.120 --> 0:54:32.440 to meet her in um in St. Petersburg, even though 0:54:32.480 --> 0:54:34.719 they have all of this open source intelligence of what 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:37.520 she's doing. I think if you're Donald Trump and a conservative, 0:54:37.560 --> 0:54:40.160 you're gonna feel disserved when you compare it to the 0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:42.759 way Hillary Clinton's team got treated. And that that's the 0:54:42.760 --> 0:54:45.759 real question. Then the question becomes why is it incompetence 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:48.520 a change of philosophy, or was somebody in the FBI 0:54:48.640 --> 0:54:50.840 having a bias and hoping he could develop a case 0:54:51.080 --> 0:54:53.640 that one day would embarrass the Republicans. We don't know 0:54:53.680 --> 0:54:57.040 the answer. Why, you know, speaking of of the wire, 0:54:57.080 --> 0:55:00.520 why is the Boutina case not under the mull umbrella 0:55:00.600 --> 0:55:04.920 people that Yeah, absolutely. I think even Maria Bettina his 0:55:05.000 --> 0:55:08.440 lawyers are wonder that allowed in court. I think that 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:11.680 is a good question, which is if Bob Mueller's uh 0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:15.200 investigating a collusion in Russia efforts to influence the election. 0:55:15.520 --> 0:55:17.840 This is a woman that in sixteen had access to 0:55:17.920 --> 0:55:21.160 the president, his son, and numerous Now there's anything a 0:55:21.280 --> 0:55:25.680 llegs wrong by them, but numerous political leaders, numerous presidential candidates, 0:55:25.920 --> 0:55:30.640 Santorum and Governor Walker Uh. And yet through all that 0:55:30.760 --> 0:55:33.960 there's no warning. And then afterwards it doesn't appear that 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:35.840 the guy who's supposed to be looking at Russian election 0:55:35.880 --> 0:55:38.279 interference thinks it's a big deal, so he kicks it 0:55:38.400 --> 0:55:40.200 or allows it to go to the Washington U. S. 0:55:40.239 --> 0:55:42.920 Attorney's office. There's two theories of thought and people have 0:55:43.000 --> 0:55:45.040 talked to. One is he doesn't think she was a 0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:47.400 big deal, that this was sort of a low level, 0:55:47.719 --> 0:55:51.200 influenced peddaling scheme. Or two he sees some fault in 0:55:51.200 --> 0:55:54.360 the FBI that he used to preach preemption too. And 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:56.040 now they let this one go all the way through 0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:58.360 until they can make a great prosecution case, and he 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:00.680 just doesn't want to be near it. But it's pretty clear, 0:56:00.680 --> 0:56:03.080 at least at this point, Bob Muler wants nothing to 0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:05.719 do with this case. The pieces up on Hill Dot TV, 0:56:05.880 --> 0:56:08.320 so folks can read it there the real Maria Bucina scandal. 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:11.000 FBI could have prevented it. Also. I managed to get 0:56:11.040 --> 0:56:13.799 in a question about this to Devin Newness, which we 0:56:13.840 --> 0:56:15.560 have linked into the piece you can see to give 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:18.160 you a little additional context. John, before we let you go, Uh, 0:56:18.200 --> 0:56:21.360 what do you make of the referral to the Southern 0:56:21.360 --> 0:56:26.040 District of New York that Mueller's team made about some lawyers, 0:56:26.120 --> 0:56:28.080 but not just lawyers. The reporter on this in the 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.960 little Sketchy one had been a counsel to Obama in 0:56:31.000 --> 0:56:34.120 the White House. These are very prominent, very connected. We 0:56:34.160 --> 0:56:38.920 have very connected Democrat lawyers to Pesto, you know. And 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:43.040 there's a possible Foreign Agent Registration Act violation tied to this. 0:56:43.080 --> 0:56:46.800 What's going on there? I think that uh, Special Counsel 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:50.520 Mauler is trying to keep his investigation as narrow as possible. 0:56:50.600 --> 0:56:52.440 It's not going to be a kitchen sink. He is 0:56:52.480 --> 0:56:55.200 signaling it's not going to be a kitchen seink. He 0:56:55.280 --> 0:56:58.600 kicks Maria Bettin there, right. He kicks Michael Cohen to 0:56:58.640 --> 0:57:00.560 the New York District, a southern just go New York, 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.799 even though clearly Cohen might have some relevant information. He 0:57:03.880 --> 0:57:06.480 kicks these other lawyers who were working in concert with 0:57:06.560 --> 0:57:09.080 or had something to do with Ukraine at the same 0:57:09.120 --> 0:57:12.200 time as Paul Manafort. So he's clearly signaling, Listen, I 0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:14.480 got a very narrow mandate and I'm sticking to it. 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:16.920 I'm not gonna get poked for expanding my mandate. I'm 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:19.720 not gonna be Janet Reno and Ken Starr or Lawrence 0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:22.400 Walsh in the Reagan years. Uh this, I'm gonna get 0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:24.040 my job done as quickly and get out of dodge 0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:26.720 as quickly as I can. That's the what my reporting 0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:30.080 indicates from inside his shop. And uh and so anything 0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:33.480 that's answllary that doesn't directly relate to his question. Uh, 0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:35.560 you can see. And today there's another development, right, the 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:39.840 president's lawyers got information about exactly what Bob Mueller wants 0:57:39.840 --> 0:57:42.760 to ask about. It's not about collusion, it's about obstruction. 0:57:43.040 --> 0:57:45.400 They only want to ask about the firing of James Combe. 0:57:45.440 --> 0:57:47.840 It appears that gives us a lot of guidance that 0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:51.200 Bob Mueller is narrowing down and maybe even winding down 0:57:51.240 --> 0:57:54.360 where he's at Hill dot TV. Everybody to check it out, 0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:57.240 the real Maria Bettina scandal. FBI could have prevented it. 0:57:57.320 --> 0:57:59.480 John Solomon is the author. John, thank you for joining 0:57:59.840 --> 0:58:01.439 to be with you back. The team will be right back. 0:58:12.360 --> 0:58:15.960 He's holding the line for America. Buck sex in his 0:58:16.160 --> 0:58:22.840 back and when not going to be reduced to their 0:58:23.000 --> 0:58:27.280 vision of America. We're not going to be reduced to 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:33.640 their selfishness and their isolation and their division. That is 0:58:33.680 --> 0:58:38.360 not who we are. We're not going backwards. We're gonna 0:58:38.400 --> 0:58:42.120 go forward. We're gonna stand, and we're gonna rise, and 0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:46.720 we're gonna resist this administration. We will not be diminished, 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:50.840 we will not be demeaned. We're gonna fight back. But 0:58:51.160 --> 0:58:55.600 we are right and they are long. We're gonna protect 0:58:55.600 --> 0:58:59.520 our health care system. It's the best in the nation. 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:05.800 And we're gonna treat one another with the love, indignity, 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:13.040 love and dignity. We're gonna protect our healthcare. We're gonna 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:17.840 make sure that we only yeoll, because when we yell, 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:22.280 we get a point across, and our faith New York 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:30.320 accent comes across even more strong. Cuomo out. You know, healthcare, folks, 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:33.200 is something that everyone's gonna be talking about now for 0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:36.760 the first time in a while going into the mid germs. 0:59:36.800 --> 0:59:39.120 That and I'm gonna say it, I think Republicans have 0:59:39.280 --> 0:59:45.640 done a a poor job um on on healthcare going 0:59:45.640 --> 0:59:48.920 into the mid germs in terms of the messaging. You know, 0:59:49.280 --> 0:59:52.320 we had a poll last month year at the Hill 0:59:53.360 --> 0:59:55.720 a pull that healthcare was a top issue for voters, 0:59:55.720 --> 0:59:59.960 and healthcare is going to continue to be a top 1:00:00.120 --> 1:00:04.600 issue for voters. So, you know, here's the here's the 1:00:04.640 --> 1:00:11.720 bottom line, folks. Obamacare is a failure. Obamacare is not 1:00:11.840 --> 1:00:14.520 what was promised, is not what they said it would be. 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:19.840 And then they had to try and protect us from 1:00:19.960 --> 1:00:22.760 some of the crappier parts of the law at least 1:00:22.840 --> 1:00:25.560 to extend us extended out longer, so we would take 1:00:25.600 --> 1:00:28.240 longer to figure out what was going on. Um But 1:00:28.320 --> 1:00:30.160 I don't think you know, if I asked you right now, 1:00:30.280 --> 1:00:36.880 what are the Republicans, what are the Republicans offering when 1:00:36.920 --> 1:00:40.680 it comes to uh, healthcare. You know, it's not enough 1:00:41.200 --> 1:00:44.960 just to say, well, single payer is idiotic and we 1:00:45.000 --> 1:00:47.520 can't do that and it's too expensive anything else. Yeah, 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:52.880 that that's true. That is true, But we have to 1:00:52.960 --> 1:00:55.720 offer an alternative to that. You Now, we have to 1:00:55.760 --> 1:01:00.000 do something that's more than just point out that. Uh. 1:01:00.240 --> 1:01:03.520 You know, there are there are a lot of Democrats 1:01:03.520 --> 1:01:05.520 out there who don't know the first thing about anything. 1:01:06.520 --> 1:01:08.880 So you know, there are some areas where I'd really 1:01:08.920 --> 1:01:11.600 like to see Republicans take the lead. And this is 1:01:11.600 --> 1:01:14.200 one of them. Insurers there something that's gonna be double 1:01:14.240 --> 1:01:20.960 digit increases folks in premiums. Uh, So you're you're gonna 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:24.240 have a big premium hike. And you know, if we're 1:01:24.360 --> 1:01:28.400 if we're counting on people to remember what Obamacare did 1:01:28.440 --> 1:01:30.640 and how it drives premiums up and how it's terrible 1:01:30.640 --> 1:01:33.680 for the health care system, I think we may be 1:01:35.200 --> 1:01:37.400 very disappointed when the votes are finally tallied up in 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:42.280 the midterm election. So you know, this, this is a problem. Uh. 1:01:42.320 --> 1:01:44.440 And there's some other areas of this. You know, Medicare party, 1:01:44.600 --> 1:01:47.080 which people say is great, but it's also really expensive. 1:01:47.160 --> 1:01:49.080 We probably want to rain some of that in and 1:01:49.120 --> 1:01:52.480 figure out how to bring down costs. And oh, I 1:01:52.520 --> 1:01:55.600 had on Senator Ron Johnson today we talked about the 1:01:55.720 --> 1:01:58.560 right to try legislation. So that'll mean that now, if 1:01:58.600 --> 1:02:01.520 you really, really really want a drug that hasn't gotten 1:02:01.560 --> 1:02:03.720 all the way through f d A approval, you can 1:02:03.760 --> 1:02:06.480 do it if you can afford it. You've mind, some 1:02:06.480 --> 1:02:12.160 of these drugs cost several hundred thousand dollars. But you know, 1:02:12.200 --> 1:02:15.800 I just I wish there was a more cohesive message 1:02:15.800 --> 1:02:20.240 because remember, they did not repeal Obamacare. They didn't even 1:02:20.320 --> 1:02:26.080 skinny repeal Obamacare, and that leaves open territory for Democrats 1:02:26.160 --> 1:02:28.240 to come up with a counter narrative about what's going 1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:30.320 on here, leaves open territory for people like Cuomo to 1:02:30.400 --> 1:02:34.160 be like, we love our healthcare system. When I go 1:02:34.320 --> 1:02:38.320 into a doctor, he puts the shiny metal thing on 1:02:38.440 --> 1:02:41.440 my chest and it is a little cold, but it 1:02:41.520 --> 1:02:46.040 allows him to hear my heartbeat, which is good because 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:49.320 if my heart was not beating, I believe I would 1:02:49.320 --> 1:02:54.120 have a serious medical problem. So that's what they offer you. 1:02:54.120 --> 1:02:58.560 You know, the other side has no has no solutions 1:02:58.560 --> 1:03:00.800 other than to pretend that gonna get you a single 1:03:00.840 --> 1:03:05.120 payer system, which would be absolutely ruinous. Um, but that 1:03:06.360 --> 1:03:10.240 leaves because the Republicans haven't established a cohesive narrative on 1:03:10.280 --> 1:03:13.680 this one. You might have Democrats you start playing games with, oh, well, 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:16.280 you know, I'm actually for your more choice in hospitals 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:18.160 and blah blah, and you know, we'll work within the 1:03:18.240 --> 1:03:20.720 system and you know, doing doing a little sort of dance, 1:03:20.720 --> 1:03:23.480 a little shuffle in the middle between the issues. And 1:03:24.160 --> 1:03:26.760 you know, every every election is local, right, folks. This 1:03:26.800 --> 1:03:29.120 is when you get the Connor Lamb effect. This guy 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:31.120 in Pennsylvania who if you look at me talking to 1:03:31.200 --> 1:03:33.160 me like it sounds like guy might be Republican. Then 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:34.800 he goes, well, I'm you know, I'm pro choice and 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:37.240 pro union and pro Obamacare, and you're going down the 1:03:37.240 --> 1:03:39.160 whole list, you know, pro legal alien, the whole thing. 1:03:40.800 --> 1:03:43.760 So if they can pull that stuff off, you know, 1:03:43.840 --> 1:03:46.560 I I don't even know what is the what is 1:03:46.600 --> 1:03:51.760 the healthcare healthcare pitch from the Republicans right now? They 1:03:51.760 --> 1:03:55.080 did not manage to repeal Obamacare, and I think that 1:03:55.080 --> 1:03:59.600 that is a that's a a big miss, and they 1:03:59.600 --> 1:04:01.720 don't have a clear plan They've gone with people, so 1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:04.560 that's one area of vulnerability. I've got to be honest 1:04:04.600 --> 1:04:06.240 with you, it's an area of vulnerability I think going 1:04:06.240 --> 1:04:11.360 into the midterms. It creates concerns for me um and 1:04:11.360 --> 1:04:14.080 and it could resulting because you know what happens if 1:04:14.080 --> 1:04:19.120 they take the House. This turns into impeachment central. That's 1:04:19.160 --> 1:04:21.000 what ends up happening in d C. We're just gonna 1:04:21.040 --> 1:04:23.880 talking impeachment all the time, and everyone's gonna go into 1:04:23.920 --> 1:04:27.640 their corner and we're gonna spend essentially the next two 1:04:27.720 --> 1:04:32.840 years in a protracted presidential re election battle. Congress is 1:04:32.880 --> 1:04:36.680 gonna be largely irrelevant. Nothing is gonna get done, and 1:04:37.880 --> 1:04:40.600 that's why it's so important that the Republicans keep the 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:43.440 House and keep the Senate. You know, I'd also like 1:04:43.480 --> 1:04:45.840 to see them take some bigger risks on the legislation 1:04:45.880 --> 1:04:48.240 they're putting forward, But you know, I don't know these days. 1:04:50.120 --> 1:04:52.120 You know, you've got the Mitch mcconnells, the Paul Ryan's 1:04:52.120 --> 1:04:54.440 calling the shots, not not non occuraging. I we got 1:04:54.440 --> 1:05:06.680 other stuff that I want to hit, So stay right there, team. 1:05:06.680 --> 1:05:10.040 So far, the Democrats haven't given us any votes, and 1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:13.320 that's because they will do anything they can to not 1:05:13.640 --> 1:05:20.200 help the Trump agenda. Brett Kavanaugh, highest education, best grades, 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:24.440 best test best everything. They thought fifteen years ago he 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:27.240 was going to be a Supreme Court judge. Look at 1:05:27.320 --> 1:05:31.160 Justice Gorsuch. How good is he? Not allowing these great 1:05:31.200 --> 1:05:34.360 people to serve that country. It's a disgrace. So Trump 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:37.320 making a case for Cavanal last night, it is a disgrace. 1:05:37.520 --> 1:05:40.960 And the people who are opposing Cavanaugh just always end 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:44.440 up looking one of my favorite words recently, un serious. Right, 1:05:44.480 --> 1:05:49.760 they look buffoonish, clownish. What's the problem? Oh? The the 1:05:49.760 --> 1:05:54.440 the currently serving judge on the DC Court of Appeals, 1:05:55.040 --> 1:05:59.400 which is considered the stepping stone to the Supreme Court 1:05:59.440 --> 1:06:02.080 by most of who watch these things closely. And the 1:06:02.120 --> 1:06:05.520 guy who has the best legal pedigree you could possibly have, 1:06:06.080 --> 1:06:09.080 who everyone says is fair minded and decent and kind 1:06:09.200 --> 1:06:13.440 and good and brilliant, who Elena Kagan hired when she 1:06:13.680 --> 1:06:18.120 was dean of Harvard Law School. That person is somehow 1:06:18.200 --> 1:06:20.640 unqualified for I mean, I I saw this video today, 1:06:20.960 --> 1:06:24.360 and I try not to be nasty, even about politicians. 1:06:24.360 --> 1:06:25.960 And I know I don't get personal, but I try 1:06:25.960 --> 1:06:30.080 not to be too full of ridicule and snark. Although 1:06:30.640 --> 1:06:34.800 sometimes I fail and you get Kirsten. By the way, 1:06:34.840 --> 1:06:39.240 can we John, should the name be Kirsten or Kristen? 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:43.960 I think we can only have one. I think no, no, 1:06:44.000 --> 1:06:49.280 I'm not saying what is her name? It's it's she's Kirsten. Uh, Jilip, 1:06:49.400 --> 1:06:51.560 Wait is it? I just messed myself up as a Kurston. 1:06:51.840 --> 1:07:00.080 It's the only execute failure exactly exactly. Uh but anyway, No, 1:07:00.160 --> 1:07:03.080 it's it's gosh. The point I'm trying to make here, John, 1:07:03.120 --> 1:07:04.720 is that there should only be one name because they're 1:07:04.760 --> 1:07:07.960 too close together and people get them wrong. It's Kirsten, 1:07:08.200 --> 1:07:11.840 Gil Gillibrand, Alright, but we can only have one of 1:07:11.840 --> 1:07:15.720 these names. It can't be Kirsten or Kristen or Yearston 1:07:16.480 --> 1:07:19.160 because like there's kids Yeerston, Nielsen or whatever. It gets 1:07:19.360 --> 1:07:22.920 very confusing. Alright. Anyway, Jilah Brand, who is a Cenator 1:07:22.960 --> 1:07:25.600 from New York my home state, I guess not anymore 1:07:25.600 --> 1:07:28.520 now my home states. Technically this I'm I'm a technically 1:07:28.560 --> 1:07:31.840 a swamped while I was terrible, good for access, good 1:07:31.840 --> 1:07:35.520 for the show, but so swampy. But here's what Gillibrand 1:07:35.560 --> 1:07:37.000 said today. Just you know, I had to get into 1:07:37.040 --> 1:07:40.840 talking points, let it rip. Help all of you stands 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:48.240 up against having first step in actually overturning Robi Wayne, 1:07:48.360 --> 1:07:51.120 the first step in making sure women don't have reproductive 1:07:51.160 --> 1:07:53.439 rights in this country, the first step in making sure 1:07:53.680 --> 1:07:56.360 that women don't have basic civil rights and civil liberties. 1:07:56.680 --> 1:07:58.720 This is a moment where we all have to fight back. 1:07:58.840 --> 1:08:01.680 All of us have to be organized, We have to 1:08:01.720 --> 1:08:03.920 make sure we are hard. We have to reach out 1:08:03.960 --> 1:08:05.800 to all our friends and everyone we care about in 1:08:05.880 --> 1:08:08.000 all things the States. This has to be something that 1:08:08.080 --> 1:08:11.160 we all stand together and fight against. Dutch Kavanaugh will 1:08:11.200 --> 1:08:14.240 be horrible for women's basic civil rights and civil liberties, 1:08:14.240 --> 1:08:18.960 and against what the heck is she talking about, folks, 1:08:20.000 --> 1:08:22.720 that's a sitting senator. Some people talk about her as 1:08:22.760 --> 1:08:26.960 a a possible presidential contender, although that's that's a joke. 1:08:27.800 --> 1:08:30.280 Can you can you imagine Trump against her in a debate? 1:08:30.320 --> 1:08:34.559 I mean, it's just not nonstarter. And I really mean 1:08:34.640 --> 1:08:38.800 that she strikes me as a deeply unimpressive person. From 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:41.080 all the things, all the speeches, all the interviews, everything 1:08:41.080 --> 1:08:44.160 I've seen this, I don't know what what there is 1:08:44.200 --> 1:08:46.680 here to get excited about. For for for Democrats, I'm 1:08:46.680 --> 1:08:50.320 even talking about how I disagree with her, but you 1:08:50.400 --> 1:08:52.920 hear the things that she says there, and this all 1:08:52.960 --> 1:08:55.639 ties in, you know why they don't want Kavanaugh? Why 1:08:55.640 --> 1:09:00.559 then Kavana is not the guy here the way reproductive rights? 1:09:02.360 --> 1:09:07.479 This is a an Orwellian term in the truest sentiment. 1:09:07.680 --> 1:09:10.600 What what does this even mean? Why can't they just 1:09:10.640 --> 1:09:14.720 say abortion? If abortion is fine? Why can't you just 1:09:14.720 --> 1:09:18.760 say abortion if abortion is as I believe you can 1:09:18.800 --> 1:09:22.800 make a very clear case the single most important right 1:09:22.880 --> 1:09:25.040 to the modern Democratic Party, and the thing that they 1:09:25.439 --> 1:09:29.320 the thing that really defines the Democratic Party is that 1:09:29.720 --> 1:09:32.120 there's no room for pro life or is the Democratic 1:09:32.160 --> 1:09:36.200 Party anymore none? Uh. People say, well, I'm personally pro life, 1:09:36.800 --> 1:09:38.600 as in a lot of ways, that's even worse to 1:09:38.640 --> 1:09:41.599 be personally pro life, so you know what what's ethical 1:09:41.600 --> 1:09:44.479 and what's not. Apparently, but then in your public life 1:09:45.160 --> 1:09:48.960 vote alongside the Nancy Pelosi's and the the abortion on 1:09:49.080 --> 1:09:51.920 demand all nine all nine months of her pregnancy crowd, 1:09:53.920 --> 1:09:59.560 this is what his issues where, you know, folks, abortion 1:09:59.720 --> 1:10:03.680 is there's not there's not a there's not a two 1:10:03.680 --> 1:10:05.559 ways about it. There's not a you know, there's not 1:10:05.680 --> 1:10:09.000 some Oh, you know, it's it's this is just complicated. 1:10:09.040 --> 1:10:11.080 I mean, you know, it is a right and wrong issue. 1:10:12.120 --> 1:10:13.760 But but you'll notice the way she talks about it, 1:10:13.760 --> 1:10:16.639 and it's as part of her opposition to Kavanaugh. She's saying, oh, 1:10:16.680 --> 1:10:20.680 reproductive rights, civil rights, What civil rights does Kavana want 1:10:20.720 --> 1:10:23.680 to take away from women? And a lot of us 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:25.920 sit here and say, I don't even believe that it's 1:10:26.000 --> 1:10:29.479 the I don't even believe that it's the role of 1:10:29.600 --> 1:10:32.559 judges to to do the things that Democrats are worried about, 1:10:32.560 --> 1:10:35.559 meaning that they're supposed to rule the constitutionality of laws. 1:10:36.760 --> 1:10:39.280 They're not supposed to come up with new laws just 1:10:39.360 --> 1:10:42.759 because they like something or don't like something. So I also, 1:10:43.160 --> 1:10:45.720 you know that their fears in a sense give you 1:10:45.760 --> 1:10:49.960 an idea of how Democrats view the Supreme Court. Their 1:10:50.000 --> 1:10:54.120 fears give you a sense of what what they would 1:10:54.160 --> 1:10:56.519 like to have and what they would have if they 1:10:56.560 --> 1:11:01.200 got one of their people in the White House. So 1:11:01.320 --> 1:11:03.800 I'm sorry the well in the way that's true, but 1:11:03.840 --> 1:11:06.960 also on on the Supreme Court, on the on the 1:11:07.000 --> 1:11:10.040 Supreme Court, So you know, I see this stuff about 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:12.599 the capital is gonna get through, folks. I'm pretty confident 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:17.000 about it. And you know, Democrats, I think have already 1:11:17.080 --> 1:11:20.400 they've spent themselves to sugree or they're still so focused 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:24.240 on anti trump Ism that all that rage and all 1:11:24.320 --> 1:11:28.120 that angst and anger and victory, all that they would 1:11:28.160 --> 1:11:33.559 normally ordinarily try to mobilize for the purposes of stopping 1:11:33.560 --> 1:11:39.280 a Supreme Court pick, that is, they don't have it 1:11:39.320 --> 1:11:41.719 because they're they're still all focused on Trump and Mueller 1:11:41.800 --> 1:11:45.200 and Russia and all this stuff. That's where they are 1:11:45.280 --> 1:11:49.120 on this one. That's the the problem as I as 1:11:49.160 --> 1:11:52.360 I see it, um, you know, and then there's there's 1:11:52.400 --> 1:11:55.000 one other thing, by the way, and I have to 1:11:55.000 --> 1:11:58.040 do it with Kagan. I mentioned her before. The Daily 1:11:58.080 --> 1:12:00.960 Caller reported on this earlier in the week that Justice 1:12:01.000 --> 1:12:05.360 Kagan fears politicized confirmations are destroying faith in public courts. 1:12:06.560 --> 1:12:09.360 I saw this tweet and I thought to myself, you know, 1:12:09.479 --> 1:12:11.479 this reminds me of the way the media views They 1:12:11.760 --> 1:12:14.560 never understand that you don't get to just pick the 1:12:14.640 --> 1:12:17.760 date when all consciousness begins, or you don't get to 1:12:17.880 --> 1:12:21.439 artificially say, well, I'm worried about what's happened in the 1:12:21.479 --> 1:12:22.960 last six months, and then the rest of us say, 1:12:23.040 --> 1:12:27.720 what about the last six years? And this notion of 1:12:27.760 --> 1:12:31.240 a politicized confirmation battle first a lot of stretches back 1:12:31.280 --> 1:12:34.839 for decades, but it only really became an issue when 1:12:35.040 --> 1:12:38.920 liberals on the court started writing lass and then it 1:12:39.040 --> 1:12:42.719 was clear that progressivism in this country and the American 1:12:42.840 --> 1:12:45.160 left viewed the role of the Supreme Court as a 1:12:45.200 --> 1:12:48.360 super legislature. And then it became an arms race to 1:12:48.400 --> 1:12:52.559 try and get conservatives or liberals on the court. But 1:12:52.680 --> 1:12:55.439 liberals politicized at first, and this notion of a swing 1:12:55.560 --> 1:12:57.160 vote as kind of the the balance. I mean, this 1:12:57.280 --> 1:13:00.320 is just this is a band aid on the overall problem. 1:13:00.880 --> 1:13:03.360 We shouldn't be we shouldn't be thinking about conservatives or 1:13:03.360 --> 1:13:05.320 liberals in the Supreme Court. We should be thinking about 1:13:06.040 --> 1:13:09.599 good judges who interpreted the law. And I have an 1:13:09.640 --> 1:13:15.600 understanding of the Constitution and some deference to pressident, but 1:13:15.880 --> 1:13:19.880 also understanding that the ultimately this is about upholding and 1:13:19.920 --> 1:13:23.120 defending the Constitution via the law. And I just think 1:13:23.120 --> 1:13:25.880 it's fascinating that now that the political fights around the 1:13:25.960 --> 1:13:29.320 open over the Supreme Court, there's some liberals expressing regret 1:13:29.360 --> 1:13:32.600 about it. It's just because they're about to lose, folks. 1:13:32.640 --> 1:13:36.840 That's why they have regrets about it. That's the problem. 1:13:36.880 --> 1:13:39.320 And just like with with the media's I was saying, 1:13:39.400 --> 1:13:41.439 they they don't like all these attacks on the media 1:13:41.439 --> 1:13:44.040 and everything else. That well, when they had a monopoly 1:13:44.520 --> 1:13:47.160 on the national conversation, which they did for many decades 1:13:47.240 --> 1:13:50.760 via the media, at least I'm not playing the media conversation. 1:13:51.560 --> 1:13:53.840 You know that that was fine. Now that's gone, and 1:13:53.880 --> 1:13:57.439 now they're worried about people not trusting the media. Okay, well, 1:13:57.720 --> 1:13:59.760 that lack of trust didn't come out of nowhere, just 1:13:59.800 --> 1:14:02.880 like our concerns about politicization of the Supreme Court didn't 1:14:02.880 --> 1:14:07.320 come out of nowhere. But you know, this is our 1:14:07.360 --> 1:14:09.120 liberalcy of the world. We've got a big hour three 1:14:09.160 --> 1:14:13.679 coming up. Talk about immigration a little bit, and uh 1:14:13.920 --> 1:14:18.479 talk about the whether the wall is gonna get built 1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:21.160 or not, the shutdown fight that is looming. 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But We're not gonna let that happen. I'm 1:16:30.439 --> 1:16:34.799 not like other politicians. You've seen what happens. I've kept 1:16:34.840 --> 1:16:39.719 my promises. They're not dumping so much anymore. You notice, 1:16:41.880 --> 1:16:46.600 and if they do, they're paying Tower four attacks. So 1:16:46.680 --> 1:16:48.800 you know what I say to that, dump all you want. 1:16:49.960 --> 1:16:55.080 I hope you dump a lot now. Thanks for our tariffs. 1:16:55.640 --> 1:17:00.080 Are steel workers are back on the job America and 1:17:00.280 --> 1:17:06.400 steel mills are back open for business. Trump quite a 1:17:06.479 --> 1:17:09.160 rally last night in Florida, quite a rally. We we look. 1:17:09.160 --> 1:17:12.080 We've been talking about it, the dynamics between Trump and 1:17:12.120 --> 1:17:15.439 the press, but now people are getting a little bit 1:17:15.479 --> 1:17:19.960 more nervous about the possibility of a of a broadened 1:17:20.000 --> 1:17:25.240 trade war with China. Two billion dollars of Chinese imports, 1:17:25.240 --> 1:17:29.479 they're saying now, and this could start to bite just 1:17:29.520 --> 1:17:34.280 in time for the mid term elections, which I have 1:17:34.360 --> 1:17:37.280 to say is it is a risk. You know, one 1:17:37.360 --> 1:17:41.200 thing though that you'll notice and and I believe a 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:43.280 lot of people that have seen this Trump wave coming 1:17:43.280 --> 1:17:48.160 have understood this from the beginning, and it's it's at 1:17:48.160 --> 1:17:52.400 odds with much of the stuff you hear about politicians 1:17:52.439 --> 1:17:54.080 and how they should act and how they should be. 1:17:55.040 --> 1:17:59.400 Leadership isn't supposed to be a process of when we're 1:17:59.400 --> 1:18:03.520 talking about press sinential leadership trying to trying to establish 1:18:03.920 --> 1:18:08.000 a real change in direction on important issues to the country. 1:18:08.439 --> 1:18:11.400 It's it's not about getting consensus and and polling in 1:18:11.439 --> 1:18:13.559 the media on your side. I mean, you you get 1:18:13.600 --> 1:18:16.200 consensus from as many of the American people as you 1:18:16.240 --> 1:18:18.800 can in order to become president. But once you're in 1:18:18.840 --> 1:18:22.559 that seat, leadership is not supposed to be putting your 1:18:22.560 --> 1:18:24.200 finger up in the air and deciding which way the 1:18:24.240 --> 1:18:26.920 wind is blowing and go with that. And on this 1:18:27.000 --> 1:18:30.240 issue of trade, uh, you know, my thinking has come 1:18:30.320 --> 1:18:33.519 much more around to the Trump point of view on this, 1:18:33.640 --> 1:18:37.360 which is everyone agrees there's problems, especially with China. Every 1:18:37.360 --> 1:18:40.040 trade expert I say I talked to says there's problems 1:18:40.040 --> 1:18:43.799 with China. Everyone that I know who follows this issue, 1:18:45.160 --> 1:18:48.559 or even even in a every man sets right just 1:18:48.600 --> 1:18:51.200 from reading the newspapers, everyone understands China's problem for US 1:18:52.160 --> 1:18:55.519 UH and trade with China has caused problems in our economy. 1:18:55.560 --> 1:18:57.360 I mean, if nothing else, the rip off of our 1:18:57.400 --> 1:18:59.360 intellectual property and some of the other things they're doing 1:18:59.640 --> 1:19:04.240 a really, really bad but no one does anything about it. 1:19:05.000 --> 1:19:06.840 No one does anything about it. And then Trump comes 1:19:06.880 --> 1:19:08.720 along and says, you know, we're actually gonna stop this. 1:19:09.400 --> 1:19:11.960 We're gonna hold the Chinese accountable for this. We are 1:19:12.000 --> 1:19:16.880 going to take action that will hopefully get a change 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:19.200 in behavior from China. And they're not gonna like it. 1:19:19.240 --> 1:19:20.760 And there could be some pain in the short term 1:19:20.800 --> 1:19:23.439 for US economically, and this is gonna be some rough seas. 1:19:24.640 --> 1:19:30.240 That's leadership, though understanding there's a problem, being willing to 1:19:30.280 --> 1:19:33.719 bear the costs of addressing the problem and giving yourself 1:19:33.760 --> 1:19:38.240 a real shot of fixing the problem. If it were obvious, folks, 1:19:38.240 --> 1:19:39.880 and I know you know this, and a lot of 1:19:39.880 --> 1:19:42.880 you are listening to the show, saw what was going 1:19:42.920 --> 1:19:45.919 on with Trump before I did so. I I approached 1:19:46.000 --> 1:19:49.559 this with with some degree of humility because I've I 1:19:49.640 --> 1:19:51.559 have now seen I am I am a true believer 1:19:52.280 --> 1:19:57.160 through facts. I'm a true believer through reality on the ground, 1:19:57.200 --> 1:19:59.800 meaning that as I've seen what Trump has been able 1:19:59.800 --> 1:20:02.120 to do from the beginning, you know, and I've told 1:20:02.120 --> 1:20:03.960 this to friends and family mine, I'm like with every month, 1:20:04.000 --> 1:20:06.400 I'm like, Trump is even doing a better. Trump's even 1:20:06.439 --> 1:20:10.360 better than I thought. And now we're going on eight 1:20:10.640 --> 1:20:12.160 months of that, so you can imagine around like, oh, 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:14.360 Trump is even better than I thought. You know. I 1:20:14.360 --> 1:20:16.080 started out with all let's see where he goes. You know, 1:20:16.080 --> 1:20:18.519 it's amazing he beat Hillary and and I voted for him, 1:20:18.520 --> 1:20:20.760 and I told others to vote for him, and all right, 1:20:20.760 --> 1:20:22.280 I'm on, I'm on the Trump train. Let's see where 1:20:22.280 --> 1:20:24.320 it can take us. And now I'm like up in 1:20:24.320 --> 1:20:25.960 the front of the Trump train with the engineers like 1:20:26.040 --> 1:20:29.400 choo choo baby, like a freight train choo cho you know, 1:20:29.600 --> 1:20:34.000 I'm I'm saying, let's go because I I see what 1:20:35.280 --> 1:20:37.360 is not just possible for him to achieve, but also 1:20:37.400 --> 1:20:40.040 who's against him and the lengths they're willing to go 1:20:40.080 --> 1:20:41.240 to look at how much we have to talk about 1:20:41.280 --> 1:20:44.280 the Mother probe and all this other stuff, and then 1:20:44.320 --> 1:20:47.879 on an issue like trade, my eyes have been opened. 1:20:48.520 --> 1:20:52.680 You know, what do smart people say? Quote smart people, right, 1:20:52.680 --> 1:20:54.400 what do they say when when they're asked about trade, 1:20:54.680 --> 1:20:58.880 I'm a free trader. I like free trade. That's like saying, 1:20:59.080 --> 1:21:04.040 you know, I'm i'm pro I'm pro liberty. Oh what 1:21:04.080 --> 1:21:07.360 does that mean? You know? You yeah, I'm pro liberty. 1:21:07.400 --> 1:21:09.639 Your pro liberty. But that's not the answer to any 1:21:09.720 --> 1:21:12.360 question about liberty. That's not the answer to you know, 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:14.200 should you be able to grow weed in your backyard? Well, 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:17.240 i'm pro liberty. I mean, well that that's not enough. 1:21:17.240 --> 1:21:18.680 By the way. I think the answer that's probably yes, 1:21:18.680 --> 1:21:20.080 you should be able to grow weed in your backyard. 1:21:20.120 --> 1:21:23.400 But that's a whole other discussion. I don't On trade. 1:21:23.560 --> 1:21:26.559 You just had this answer that was offered you, I'm 1:21:26.600 --> 1:21:28.479 I'm I'm pro free trade, you know, and that's what 1:21:28.520 --> 1:21:31.679 all the everyone looks around. Oh yeah, Trump comes along, 1:21:31.760 --> 1:21:33.599 They said, oh, he doesn't know anything, he doesn't understand. 1:21:33.600 --> 1:21:36.400 This is too complicated for him. And he's saying, well, no, actually, 1:21:37.280 --> 1:21:39.880 free trade is not free right now. There are a 1:21:39.880 --> 1:21:41.599 lot of restrictions, there are a lot of tariffs, there's 1:21:41.600 --> 1:21:43.200 a lot of games the other side plays. I've been 1:21:43.240 --> 1:21:46.080 telling you about this, right, there's there's not there. There's quotas, 1:21:46.960 --> 1:21:50.120 there's percentages of the overall goods brought into the country. 1:21:50.160 --> 1:21:54.280 They're specific item tariffs where it's a percentage of you know, 1:21:54.360 --> 1:21:57.280 you pay a cost based on the on on the 1:21:57.320 --> 1:21:59.120 price of the goods. I mean, there's all these different 1:21:59.120 --> 1:22:02.479 there's slowdown that they intentionally institute to give domestic production 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:07.120 and advantage all kinds of stuff, and not just China's. 1:22:07.240 --> 1:22:09.439 China is doing it, but Canada's doing, the EU is 1:22:09.479 --> 1:22:11.960 doing a lot of people are doing it. So he 1:22:12.000 --> 1:22:14.120 comes here to shake things up. And I feel like 1:22:14.160 --> 1:22:16.519 some people, especially in the GOLP, they don't understand that 1:22:16.600 --> 1:22:20.280 Yees shaking things up is uncomfortable at first. There is 1:22:20.280 --> 1:22:25.840 an adjustment period, there's there's a necessary adaptation that has 1:22:25.880 --> 1:22:31.320 to occur. And there's also the embracing of risk. Trump 1:22:31.439 --> 1:22:34.160 is embracing risk of there no question, and it might 1:22:34.200 --> 1:22:36.639 not work. We might get slammed in the mid terms. 1:22:36.680 --> 1:22:39.960 You know, if tariffs send up being a a big 1:22:40.000 --> 1:22:42.800 loser force in the short term and the economy terms. 1:22:42.800 --> 1:22:46.440 You know, this is not no one's offering guarantees here, folks. 1:22:46.479 --> 1:22:50.120 The only guarantee is if you don't try to deal 1:22:50.120 --> 1:22:52.160 with China on trade, if you don't take the approach, 1:22:52.200 --> 1:22:54.599 if we've got to fix this, this is the status 1:22:54.680 --> 1:22:59.200 quo is not acceptable, then you'll be in a place 1:22:59.280 --> 1:23:03.439 where you're suffering the same problems you have. This Nothing 1:23:03.479 --> 1:23:06.519 gets better, that is, that's for sure, right Because if 1:23:06.600 --> 1:23:08.800 if you're letting somebody steal from you and ring this 1:23:08.920 --> 1:23:11.800 ring the game, they're gonna keep doing that. That's the 1:23:11.840 --> 1:23:13.600 only thing you're If you try to stop them, you 1:23:13.680 --> 1:23:16.200 might not be successful, but if you do nothing, they're 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:19.519 definitely gonna keep doing it to you. And I see 1:23:19.560 --> 1:23:22.519 how Trump has changed this changed this discussion such that 1:23:22.600 --> 1:23:26.360 now the so called smart sets like, well, I mean, yeah, 1:23:26.479 --> 1:23:28.960 you know, there's you're trying to as a problem and 1:23:29.040 --> 1:23:31.240 it's pretty bad, and you know, maybe there's something that 1:23:31.280 --> 1:23:34.800 could be done here. So I just think that, you know, 1:23:34.920 --> 1:23:38.080 I'm not a it sound like I'm not like a 1:23:38.080 --> 1:23:41.160 trade expert like Ocasio Quartet style. I'm not like the 1:23:41.200 --> 1:23:43.360 expert on that thing or this other thing. But like 1:23:43.439 --> 1:23:47.040 I totally like want socialism, uh no, but really I'm 1:23:47.040 --> 1:23:49.719 not somebody spends all days sitting or sitting down reading 1:23:49.960 --> 1:23:53.120 long trade agreements. There are people who do that work it, 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:57.240 various government agencies and probably some think tanks in the 1:23:57.240 --> 1:23:59.200 economic wing and everything else. That's not what I do. 1:23:59.720 --> 1:24:02.479 But I see the argument he's making, and I think 1:24:02.520 --> 1:24:04.559 he deserves at this point, given the four point one 1:24:04.600 --> 1:24:07.280 percent GDP growth we've just had, given how well the 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:11.360 economy is doing, giving that, given that wages UH have, 1:24:11.360 --> 1:24:14.200 wages as a percentage are up more now than they've 1:24:14.200 --> 1:24:17.920 been at any times since two thousand and eight, I 1:24:17.960 --> 1:24:21.720 think that he's bought himself the leeway to try this 1:24:21.800 --> 1:24:24.840 out and have our support as he does it. And 1:24:24.840 --> 1:24:27.840 and as I said before, it's also he doesn't He's 1:24:27.840 --> 1:24:30.479 not taking a PLEBIS site here. This is not Oh guys, 1:24:30.520 --> 1:24:32.040 before I do this, I want to show hands. Do 1:24:32.040 --> 1:24:34.400 you think I should take on China and trade? He 1:24:34.439 --> 1:24:36.280 told us what the platform was, he told us what 1:24:36.320 --> 1:24:38.800 the agenda was, and those just voted for him and said, 1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:41.000 all right, let's go for it. Let's see what you 1:24:41.080 --> 1:24:45.080 got um and on this issue, I think he will 1:24:45.120 --> 1:24:46.760 surprise a lot of folks, just like I think he's 1:24:46.760 --> 1:24:49.160 gonna surprise people in North Korea. Although I've seen some 1:24:49.240 --> 1:24:52.759 of the troubling stuff in last twenty four hours about 1:24:52.840 --> 1:24:55.000 them still building missiles. I'm not blind to it, neither 1:24:55.040 --> 1:24:57.280 of you. But let's see where it goes on this 1:24:57.360 --> 1:25:01.439 trade war. I hope that the timing of it is 1:25:01.479 --> 1:25:03.639 not the problem because the timing could affect the mid terms, 1:25:03.720 --> 1:25:07.160 but we will see. Let's talk about the border wall 1:25:07.200 --> 1:25:08.960 and the shutdown. I got some more on that, stay 1:25:09.000 --> 1:25:26.400 with me. Is the funding of the border wall going 1:25:26.400 --> 1:25:29.080 to wait until after the mid term elections? Probably, and 1:25:29.160 --> 1:25:32.160 that's something we do have a disagreement on. And the 1:25:32.200 --> 1:25:34.759 homeland security won't get funded before the mid term probably 1:25:34.800 --> 1:25:38.559 not um but most of the government will be covered, 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:40.479 and then at the end of the year, if we 1:25:40.520 --> 1:25:42.479 can't reach an agreement on that, we'll do what's called 1:25:42.479 --> 1:25:45.679 a continuing resolution for that little portion of the government 1:25:46.920 --> 1:25:50.920 spending that's left unpassed in individual bills. So you're not 1:25:50.960 --> 1:25:55.679 worried about the government shutdown because I have heard this theory. 1:25:56.040 --> 1:25:58.920 I happen to think it's a good thing politically. I'm 1:25:58.960 --> 1:26:01.320 not doing good for politics. I'm doing it because it's 1:26:01.360 --> 1:26:03.560 the right thing to do. So I'm not looking at politics, 1:26:03.600 --> 1:26:06.400 but I happen to think that border security would be 1:26:06.439 --> 1:26:08.840 a good thing before the election. But there are many 1:26:08.920 --> 1:26:11.800 people within our party that are good, good people that 1:26:11.960 --> 1:26:15.120 like you, that agree with you on everything you say, 1:26:15.160 --> 1:26:17.559 but they'd rather do it after. They don't agree on 1:26:17.560 --> 1:26:21.200 on doing it before. And I accept their you know, 1:26:21.240 --> 1:26:23.360 their opinion, but I happen to think it would be 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:26.280 a good thing to do before. I actually think we'd 1:26:26.280 --> 1:26:29.200 get more and they'd be more pressure on the other 1:26:29.200 --> 1:26:31.920 side because we're doing it because the Democrats are not 1:26:32.000 --> 1:26:38.240 giving us the votes. So the shutdown decision is going 1:26:38.280 --> 1:26:41.160 to come pretty soon here, and you're you know, you 1:26:41.240 --> 1:26:43.200 heard there that the two different sides that if you 1:26:43.320 --> 1:26:48.320 got one to get McConnell majority leader Merciable Cornell, and 1:26:48.439 --> 1:26:52.799 he's out there saying that that this absolutely, there absolutely 1:26:52.800 --> 1:26:55.640 should not be a shutdown. Not keep in mind, you know, 1:26:55.720 --> 1:26:58.840 Mitch is not he's not worried about his position, is 1:26:58.880 --> 1:27:02.519 not worried about his job, and you know he's a 1:27:02.520 --> 1:27:04.800 guy who is risk averse on these things. Now. To 1:27:04.960 --> 1:27:08.639 be fair, Mitch is also he's he managed to hold 1:27:08.640 --> 1:27:10.280 you know, I gotta give there got some credit. I 1:27:10.280 --> 1:27:11.880 know a lot of people go and talk radio, they 1:27:11.920 --> 1:27:17.080 bash the majority leader because it's really easy to just Republicans. Yeah, 1:27:17.200 --> 1:27:19.320 Republicans let us down on a lot of stuff, but 1:27:19.880 --> 1:27:23.280 on some things, like, for example, not caving and doing 1:27:23.320 --> 1:27:26.120 the whole Merrick Garland thing. You know, Mitch McConnell held 1:27:26.120 --> 1:27:28.439 his people together. There weren't the defections that could have 1:27:28.439 --> 1:27:32.360 gotten the Mitch Garland thing going. I mean Mitch Garland. Gosh, 1:27:32.479 --> 1:27:37.040 Merrick Garland. The uh Mitch Garland is somebody else, I guess, 1:27:37.320 --> 1:27:39.720 Americ Garland. And and as a result, we're gonna have 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:42.080 Kavana on and I think Misch McConnell's gonna get having 1:27:42.080 --> 1:27:44.080 all through pretty quickly. So so we give him credit, 1:27:44.080 --> 1:27:47.720 all right. Fun, But you know, there's I think a 1:27:47.720 --> 1:27:51.520 bit of amnesia here, folks, there's a bit of amnesia 1:27:51.800 --> 1:27:57.600 about what happened, uh this past January with the the 1:27:57.760 --> 1:28:02.719 Schumer shutdown. You guys remember that you remember the Schumer shutdown. Uh, well, 1:28:02.840 --> 1:28:07.920 here's here's a little bit of background. Uh. Mr Schumer 1:28:07.960 --> 1:28:09.720 should have remembered this from the Waltston Journal that at 1:28:09.800 --> 1:28:12.639 least in the short run, whoever caused the shutdown loses 1:28:12.720 --> 1:28:16.400 in Republicans. Senator Ted Cruz convence the GOLP House, it 1:28:16.439 --> 1:28:20.639 could defond Obamacare, etcetera, etcetera. Or Republicans picked up nine 1:28:20.680 --> 1:28:24.800 senten seas in thirteen House seats in mid terms. The 1:28:24.880 --> 1:28:28.240 games were despite the shutdown, not because of it. Well, 1:28:28.479 --> 1:28:32.200 you know, he here's the problem with all this. I understand, 1:28:32.200 --> 1:28:34.320 this is the conventional wisdom, right, I understand this, But 1:28:35.080 --> 1:28:37.280 you know Schumer and those guys, they were threatening to 1:28:37.320 --> 1:28:39.400 shut down the government because they thought that they had 1:28:39.439 --> 1:28:42.160 the upper hand and we're told, oh, well, they they 1:28:42.200 --> 1:28:43.920 would have been blamed for it, so they stayed away 1:28:43.920 --> 1:28:47.720 from it, right. But I think that maybe it was 1:28:47.760 --> 1:28:51.240 because it was on the issue of immigration and people 1:28:51.240 --> 1:28:53.879 don't want amnesty. They don't want the government shutdown for amnesty, 1:28:53.920 --> 1:28:59.439 and Trump was the x factor at all this. I 1:28:59.800 --> 1:29:03.960 think this can actually work through our advantage. You know, 1:29:05.040 --> 1:29:07.320 what is going to get people to turn out in 1:29:07.360 --> 1:29:11.000 the mid terms in competitive states. What's an issue that 1:29:11.000 --> 1:29:13.880 could really show where the Democrats stand versus where the 1:29:13.920 --> 1:29:17.559 Republicans stand. I have to say, I think it is 1:29:18.560 --> 1:29:22.679 this issue. I don't think there's another issue that comes 1:29:22.840 --> 1:29:25.840 uh close to this. And that's why Trump is going 1:29:25.840 --> 1:29:28.800 around saying things about the border specifically play clip three. 1:29:30.439 --> 1:29:34.679 The evangelicals have been so amazing to us. They came 1:29:34.720 --> 1:29:39.560 out and they voted and double and triple the numbers 1:29:39.600 --> 1:29:44.480 that ever voted an election before. We love the evangelical 1:29:44.560 --> 1:29:50.559 for instance, if you want safety, if you want orders, 1:29:50.680 --> 1:29:53.599 if you want to have a country, then you need 1:29:53.600 --> 1:30:02.679 to go out and vote Republicans. That's right. There needs 1:30:02.760 --> 1:30:06.160 to be a reason. People have to be told why 1:30:06.200 --> 1:30:08.519 they should take their time, why they should show up, 1:30:09.560 --> 1:30:12.720 and and and I don't believe that you know this. 1:30:12.920 --> 1:30:15.240 The whose fault is the shutdown? Is the question they 1:30:15.240 --> 1:30:16.720 always asked. They always say it's going to be the 1:30:16.760 --> 1:30:21.960 Republicans fault. But on this issue, I think if we 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:24.760 say that it's about funding homeland security and getting a wall, 1:30:24.840 --> 1:30:28.559 and and falling through a presidential promise when you have 1:30:28.560 --> 1:30:31.559 a majority in the House, majority of the Senate, the 1:30:31.640 --> 1:30:34.880 Democrats being obstructuredist on this one, I think that well, 1:30:35.080 --> 1:30:37.639 you know, look, folks, we're not gonna get a wall 1:30:37.640 --> 1:30:39.400 if it waits after the mid terms. I really think 1:30:39.439 --> 1:30:42.160 that that's the case. And especially if the Democrats take 1:30:42.160 --> 1:30:43.760 the House, which all the numbers are said, it's going 1:30:43.800 --> 1:30:48.120 to happen. So fortune favors the bold. We can either 1:30:48.160 --> 1:30:51.799 try something here. We've had Trump be so disruptive, managed 1:30:51.840 --> 1:30:55.679 to beat the conventional wisdom on all this stuff time 1:30:55.720 --> 1:30:58.519 and again, and now the conventional wisdom is saying, oh 1:30:58.560 --> 1:31:00.720 no, no no, this time, this time, we're this time, We're 1:31:00.720 --> 1:31:04.800 really gonna get it. We understand this political moment. Don't 1:31:04.800 --> 1:31:08.840 fall into this trap, don't make this mistake. And one, 1:31:08.880 --> 1:31:10.720 I think the media doesn't have the power that it 1:31:10.760 --> 1:31:16.439 has had in the past to assign blame over a shutdown. Uh. 1:31:16.479 --> 1:31:20.800 And too, I think that if Trump makes the case 1:31:20.840 --> 1:31:24.720 about why he is unwilling to remember, you know, he's 1:31:24.760 --> 1:31:29.000 unwilling to be a part of the Democrats doing business 1:31:29.040 --> 1:31:31.679 as usual, all this stuff, I think you could work. 1:31:31.720 --> 1:31:34.679 But you know, if I'm a betting man, I'm gonna 1:31:34.720 --> 1:31:36.479 bet that they're just gonna go along. And I think 1:31:36.479 --> 1:31:38.080 that they're not gonna do the shutdown, and we're just 1:31:38.240 --> 1:31:39.800 gonna go into the mid terms and we're gonna lose 1:31:39.840 --> 1:31:41.479 the House. And you know what they're gonna say if 1:31:41.479 --> 1:31:44.400 we lose the House, Folks, you know this right now. 1:31:44.560 --> 1:31:46.479 And I don't mean to be pessimistic about this one. 1:31:46.520 --> 1:31:49.760 I'm just trying to be honest. But at the moment 1:31:49.760 --> 1:31:51.639 they lose the House, what they're gonna say is, well, 1:31:51.760 --> 1:31:53.400 you know, now we can't do it because we gotta 1:31:53.400 --> 1:31:58.439 work with the Democrats, and that window that we had 1:31:58.520 --> 1:32:01.679 to try and get a border wall will be gone. 1:32:02.000 --> 1:32:05.760 I one thing and I'm absolutely certain of is that 1:32:05.800 --> 1:32:08.640 a wall would be effective. And then Democrats if we 1:32:08.680 --> 1:32:10.559 ever got a wall built, Democrats what spen all this 1:32:10.640 --> 1:32:14.000 time talking about how you know they never opposed the 1:32:14.000 --> 1:32:17.320 wall really or the wall isn't isn't as effective as promised. 1:32:17.360 --> 1:32:19.240 They've told us as a joke, right that there's nothing 1:32:19.280 --> 1:32:21.960 that the wall will do. I meanwhile, anyone who's been 1:32:21.960 --> 1:32:23.559 to the border says, well, if you make it harder 1:32:23.600 --> 1:32:25.519 to get across the border, less, people will get across 1:32:25.560 --> 1:32:29.400 the border illegally. Um. They don't want to hear it. 1:32:29.560 --> 1:32:32.400 They don't want to hear it. I'm I think there 1:32:32.400 --> 1:32:34.280 should be a wall, folks. This was what we were promised. 1:32:34.360 --> 1:32:36.360 Build the wall, was the chant. We don't have any 1:32:36.400 --> 1:32:37.800 of the audio right now, but you know we can 1:32:37.840 --> 1:32:40.280 find it very easily. It's all over the place. Build 1:32:40.320 --> 1:32:42.000 the wall, Build the wall. That's what they were saying. 1:32:42.920 --> 1:32:46.200 A an establishment of sovereignty and a decision to break 1:32:46.240 --> 1:32:50.519 with the political consensus of the past few decades that 1:32:50.760 --> 1:32:55.040 we should just rely on members of Congress to get 1:32:55.080 --> 1:32:57.000 tougher when it comes to the enforcement of the very 1:32:57.080 --> 1:33:00.479 laws that they leave on the books that government for government, 1:33:00.479 --> 1:33:05.360 Republican and Democrat have been unwilling to enforce. You know, 1:33:05.560 --> 1:33:07.479 I think we forget now that it was really the 1:33:07.479 --> 1:33:11.960 George W. Bush Karl Rove approach to be very soft 1:33:12.000 --> 1:33:15.519 on immigration issues, to not do very much at all 1:33:15.520 --> 1:33:19.639 about illegal immigration, and a huge number of legal immigrants 1:33:19.720 --> 1:33:22.880 crossed during the Bush years. The Bushes were not good 1:33:22.880 --> 1:33:24.679 on the border, folks. This is something that you don't 1:33:24.680 --> 1:33:27.680 often hear about. Not good on the southern border, not 1:33:27.680 --> 1:33:31.160 good on border security, and it became this article of 1:33:31.200 --> 1:33:33.759 faith that for the GOP to be competitive in the future, 1:33:33.800 --> 1:33:36.760 they had to win over Hispanics. One reality, what they've 1:33:36.800 --> 1:33:39.560 done is just created a bigger constituency for the Democratic 1:33:39.600 --> 1:33:45.320 Party to leverage against Republicans on every issue, but specifically 1:33:45.320 --> 1:33:47.360 on the issue of immigration. I mean, you know, California 1:33:47.479 --> 1:33:50.160 is lost to the GOP forever or at least for 1:33:50.880 --> 1:33:53.599 you know, for for my lifetime, unless some dramatic things 1:33:53.680 --> 1:33:58.400 change because of a legal immigration. Other states will follow. 1:33:59.400 --> 1:34:04.360 This is a political conquest and the Democrats know that right. 1:34:04.439 --> 1:34:08.320 This is taking territory for the Democrat Party by changing 1:34:08.320 --> 1:34:13.880 the demographics through a process of lawlessness. A wall would 1:34:13.880 --> 1:34:18.880 re establish some degree of law and order on the border. 1:34:18.920 --> 1:34:20.519 And I think that it's worth I think it's worth 1:34:20.520 --> 1:34:24.080 a fight. But it's a gamble. We'll see if Republicans 1:34:24.160 --> 1:34:26.559 willing to roll the dice. Here's betting they won't agreet 1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:31.960 that liberty, truth, and great hair. The buck Sexton Show 1:34:32.080 --> 1:34:39.920 is back. I wanted to take a moment here to 1:34:40.000 --> 1:34:45.120 say happy thirty years of first in class, first in 1:34:45.160 --> 1:34:50.320 the nation broadcasting to Mr Rush Limbaugh. I know he's uh, 1:34:50.400 --> 1:34:52.719 he's today at at the thirtieth year mark. I actually 1:34:52.880 --> 1:34:57.519 was uh fortuitous enough to hear that there was gonna 1:34:57.560 --> 1:35:00.320 be the President called. Then I saw on Twitter and 1:35:00.600 --> 1:35:03.839 I've managed to turn it on and here President Trump 1:35:03.880 --> 1:35:09.040 calling into a Russia lum balls show and thirty years 1:35:09.080 --> 1:35:12.880 of broadcasting. That's that's pretty incredible. You know, I'm there 1:35:12.880 --> 1:35:15.439 are a few people in the business who I have 1:35:15.479 --> 1:35:19.840 to say I always have and and will owe a 1:35:20.320 --> 1:35:24.960 debt of gratitude too, and certainly, I've got to put 1:35:25.040 --> 1:35:28.360 Glenn in there. Glenn back for hiring me, for preventing 1:35:28.360 --> 1:35:31.799 me from taking on a couple of hundred thousand dollars 1:35:31.800 --> 1:35:34.240 of loans to go to uh graduate school instead of 1:35:34.320 --> 1:35:36.880 hiring me as a as. I was hired as an 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:42.160 assistant editor for technology and national security at the Blaze 1:35:42.280 --> 1:35:48.599 dot com. And that was seven years ago. Um so yeah, 1:35:48.720 --> 1:35:55.160 assistant editor for for no, assistant editor for intelligence and technology. 1:35:55.479 --> 1:35:57.720 So the intelligence part I got, but the technology part 1:35:57.720 --> 1:36:00.280 I did not. Anyway, Uh So Glenn hire me. That 1:36:00.320 --> 1:36:03.720 was a really obviously a milestone and I had never 1:36:03.760 --> 1:36:06.519 even thought of working in media really before that. But 1:36:06.600 --> 1:36:10.160 there was among the biggest breaks I got in my 1:36:10.320 --> 1:36:13.760 in my career, um was when I got the call 1:36:14.800 --> 1:36:18.920 from Russia Limball years ago now, gosh, it must have 1:36:18.960 --> 1:36:22.760 been four four years ago, at least maybe five. I 1:36:22.800 --> 1:36:25.240 got the call from It was five, right, John, thank you? 1:36:25.280 --> 1:36:29.240 Five might have been six, I don't at least five 1:36:29.320 --> 1:36:33.040 years ago now. But I got the call from from 1:36:33.120 --> 1:36:37.120 Kid Carson, and it is the only time and you know, 1:36:37.200 --> 1:36:39.720 Kick Carson rest in peace, unfortunately lost the battle with 1:36:40.160 --> 1:36:44.519 cancer a couple of years back. But but Kid called 1:36:44.560 --> 1:36:48.439 me up, and I it was the only time I 1:36:48.840 --> 1:36:51.439 thought somebody was messing with me because he was like 1:36:52.080 --> 1:36:55.240 Kid Carson from the Rush Limball Show. How'd you like 1:36:55.280 --> 1:36:57.800 to fill in for Rush? I mean just just like that? 1:36:57.840 --> 1:37:00.720 I mean just know I was how like that fill 1:37:00.760 --> 1:37:03.880 in for Rush? You know, following the in the footsteps 1:37:03.880 --> 1:37:07.599 of Mr Sean Hannity for example, who also not only 1:37:07.680 --> 1:37:09.920 is the biggest you know, Sean is the biggest show 1:37:10.400 --> 1:37:14.439 not on Fox News, not on Cable news on cable 1:37:14.960 --> 1:37:18.800 last month, which is just you know, that's astonishing. So 1:37:18.920 --> 1:37:20.840 congrats to Seawan and his whole team. I will say 1:37:20.880 --> 1:37:23.800 I miss I miss Sean and his and his team. 1:37:23.840 --> 1:37:27.559 That's the one of the downsides of being a swamp dweller, 1:37:27.760 --> 1:37:29.280 as I don't get to hang out in New York 1:37:29.360 --> 1:37:31.760 and see Sean and and and his He's got this 1:37:31.840 --> 1:37:35.479 amazing squad around him in New York City of really 1:37:35.479 --> 1:37:37.200 really great folks, and I don't get to hang out 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:40.800 with him as much. So that's kind of a bummer anyway, Yeah, Sean. 1:37:41.600 --> 1:37:43.759 Sean actually told me that the first time he filled 1:37:43.800 --> 1:37:47.600 in for Rush, uh, the microphone fell down and like 1:37:47.720 --> 1:37:50.000 fell out of the holder at the very start of 1:37:50.000 --> 1:37:53.320 the show, which is so classic. That's stuff like that 1:37:53.360 --> 1:37:54.680 has happened to me too. One of the times I 1:37:54.720 --> 1:37:59.360 filled in for Glenn, I remember, I I don't I 1:37:59.360 --> 1:38:00.840 don't know if John, but I don't think John was 1:38:00.880 --> 1:38:03.200 there for this one. Producer, John, I don't think you're 1:38:03.479 --> 1:38:06.320 you're running the board on this one. But I knocked 1:38:06.320 --> 1:38:12.520 over a venty Comi coffee Starbucks. Yeah, it was Sarah 1:38:12.600 --> 1:38:15.240 all over the place, man, I mean just and they 1:38:15.240 --> 1:38:17.520 had to run in the engineers because it was seeping 1:38:17.720 --> 1:38:19.400 over the top of the desk and it was gonna 1:38:19.439 --> 1:38:22.120 get all in a very expensive gear. Uh. You know, 1:38:22.160 --> 1:38:24.719 Glenn had a beautiful studio in New York. Obviously Soda 1:38:24.800 --> 1:38:29.680 Soda Russian Sean. But anyway, back to Mr Lindball here, Uh, 1:38:29.800 --> 1:38:31.840 there is no one else like him. I've never met 1:38:31.920 --> 1:38:34.960 Rush to this day. I've never talked to him, never 1:38:35.000 --> 1:38:39.840 met him. Um, I know his team well, and you know, 1:38:40.360 --> 1:38:42.400 Rush letting me sit in for him was was a 1:38:42.400 --> 1:38:46.479 total game changer. It got me heard by folks across 1:38:46.479 --> 1:38:49.080 the country. I had somebody I did the Greg Gutfeld 1:38:49.160 --> 1:38:51.559 Show a couple of weeks ago, and I had people 1:38:51.560 --> 1:38:54.320 come up me outside and you know what. Two of 1:38:54.360 --> 1:38:56.120 them said, not just two of them just came with 1:38:56.160 --> 1:38:58.880 me said, I've really liked you ever since I heard 1:38:58.880 --> 1:39:01.519 you fill in for Rush, And yeah, I think I 1:39:01.560 --> 1:39:03.599 did a pretty good job feeling for Rush but also 1:39:03.840 --> 1:39:08.240 getting the l rush boat stamp of approval was it 1:39:08.400 --> 1:39:11.719 was like, it's the radio equivalent of getting accepted to 1:39:11.920 --> 1:39:14.160 Harvard early admission. I mean, it doesn't get any better 1:39:14.200 --> 1:39:17.599 than that. So, uh, Mr Rush, thank you so much. 1:39:18.040 --> 1:39:20.640 Happy thirty years of being the best. There'll never be 1:39:20.680 --> 1:39:24.000 anyone else like you, and you've changed a lot of 1:39:24.000 --> 1:39:35.320 folks lives, including mine. We got roll call coming up. Hey, 1:39:35.680 --> 1:39:40.160 team Buck, it's time for roll call. All right, let's 1:39:40.160 --> 1:39:44.000 get to it with some roll call we have. And 1:39:44.040 --> 1:39:45.320 by the way, if you want to be a part 1:39:45.360 --> 1:39:49.519 of the action Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton best 1:39:49.560 --> 1:39:52.799 way to do it, Let's get to it. James writes 1:39:53.000 --> 1:39:56.320 young Guns. I assume that James is referring to a 1:39:56.320 --> 1:39:59.200 movie quote from earlier in the week, and yes, in fact, 1:40:00.320 --> 1:40:02.759 you are correct. I did make a reference to young Guns, 1:40:03.400 --> 1:40:06.320 and here it is. But you can't be any geek 1:40:06.360 --> 1:40:08.920 off the street. I gotta be handy with the steel 1:40:08.960 --> 1:40:11.200 if you know what I mean, or any keep Indeed, 1:40:11.439 --> 1:40:14.200 Charlie from Young Guns, you cannot be any geek off 1:40:14.280 --> 1:40:18.120 the street, our buddy, Aries writes in buck Very Powerful 1:40:18.160 --> 1:40:20.640 opening to the Monday podcast. Looking up the definition of 1:40:20.640 --> 1:40:23.640 treason in the dictionary, it says the crime of betraying 1:40:23.760 --> 1:40:27.479 one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the 1:40:27.520 --> 1:40:31.800 sovereign or government. So how is the attempt entities like 1:40:31.800 --> 1:40:34.760 the Koch brothers and Democrats were trying to overthrow the 1:40:34.760 --> 1:40:38.200 sovereign authority of American people by intentionally replacing us with 1:40:38.240 --> 1:40:43.120 four nationals not treason, one of the lesser of two evils, 1:40:43.120 --> 1:40:45.000 because they only want to replace us out of greed. 1:40:46.000 --> 1:40:48.559 Uh and he wants Yeah, I mean, Aries, Look, I 1:40:48.720 --> 1:40:51.360 get it, I get it, my friend. It is a 1:40:51.680 --> 1:40:53.800 It is a frustration that there's so many who are 1:40:53.840 --> 1:40:58.120 working to overturn the election results one way or another. 1:40:59.439 --> 1:41:03.240 Bomb is next up here movie quote was from Tuesday 1:41:03.320 --> 1:41:06.840 night was die Hard again Shields High. All right, Bob, 1:41:07.400 --> 1:41:09.639 all right, you got me. That's right. It was die Hard. 1:41:09.680 --> 1:41:11.439 Although I think I've said this now on the air, 1:41:11.479 --> 1:41:15.720 but nonetheless you're correct. Uh, here we go. Next up 1:41:15.760 --> 1:41:20.559 we have William who's still on this taekwondo kick? Hey man, 1:41:20.600 --> 1:41:22.800 just watch some of the greatest UFC fights. You'll see 1:41:22.800 --> 1:41:25.479 folks getting high kick to the forehead. You'll see a 1:41:25.560 --> 1:41:28.320 champion wrestler and champion jiu jitsu guy jab and kick 1:41:28.400 --> 1:41:32.400 for five rounds. Stop this in taekwondo. It's another tool 1:41:32.439 --> 1:41:35.320 in the toolbag. I spend good money on. My kids 1:41:35.400 --> 1:41:38.320 learned taekwondo. One thing is for sure. They might lose 1:41:38.320 --> 1:41:39.840 a street fight, but it won't be because they were 1:41:39.880 --> 1:41:42.880 afraid to fight. In our school, we're taught fancy kicks 1:41:42.880 --> 1:41:46.000 are for sparring. My kids learned elbows, knees, joint locks, 1:41:46.000 --> 1:41:48.880 and submission. Okay, William, I'm I don't know any taekwondo. 1:41:48.920 --> 1:41:50.479 I I take your word for it, buddy, I just 1:41:50.520 --> 1:41:53.320 read somebody. But let's be clear. Earlier the week, somebody 1:41:53.320 --> 1:41:56.160 else wrote in to say they don't think taekwondo is effective. 1:41:56.200 --> 1:41:59.200 That's that's not on me. I'm just, you know, take 1:41:59.280 --> 1:42:02.200 that up with the other dude. I don't know. And 1:42:02.200 --> 1:42:05.360 then William writes, asked Joe Rogan of taekwondo is ineffective. 1:42:05.720 --> 1:42:07.760 I'd be happy to ask Joe Rogan that if you 1:42:07.800 --> 1:42:10.559 ever had the chance to sit down with him on 1:42:10.600 --> 1:42:14.679 his podcast, that'd be great. So there you have it. Virginia. 1:42:14.680 --> 1:42:18.760 Greetings Buck, longtime Democrat, woke up with Trump and I 1:42:18.800 --> 1:42:22.080 really enjoy your show. Well, thank you, Virginia. I really 1:42:22.080 --> 1:42:24.679 like having a former Democrats listening. I even like having 1:42:24.680 --> 1:42:28.120 current Democrats listening, because that's a listening to me. At 1:42:28.160 --> 1:42:30.720 least there's hope, you know, at least that maybe they 1:42:30.840 --> 1:42:32.840 they see where I'm coming from on some of this stuff, 1:42:32.880 --> 1:42:37.360 and they're willing to be They're willing to hear the 1:42:37.360 --> 1:42:41.160 other side, which is a good thing. Bill writes, check 1:42:41.200 --> 1:42:44.360 out Sabotan for some cool, newer pump up music. They 1:42:44.400 --> 1:42:48.240 make songs about historic battles with an upbeat, heavy metal feel. 1:42:49.000 --> 1:42:54.160 I personally like winged Hussars shields high. Bill. I have 1:42:54.600 --> 1:42:58.679 never heard of Sabotan, so I will have to. I'll 1:42:58.680 --> 1:43:01.200 have to give that one a listen. That's that's new 1:43:01.400 --> 1:43:05.840 to me. Uh. Monica writes, where are My Detonators is 1:43:05.880 --> 1:43:08.720 a Hans Gruber quote from die Hard? Yes, correct, you 1:43:08.720 --> 1:43:10.280 know what guys? All right, all right, I get it. 1:43:11.040 --> 1:43:13.759 You've been hurt on this one. You now you want 1:43:14.080 --> 1:43:17.840 tougher action movie quotes. This is it's too low level 1:43:17.880 --> 1:43:20.000 for you when I work them into the conversation from 1:43:20.000 --> 1:43:22.280 the most well known action movies. So I'm gonna start 1:43:22.280 --> 1:43:25.479 giving you some some curveballs, and you know what I'm 1:43:25.479 --> 1:43:27.880 gonna do to make it really the real deal. I'm 1:43:27.880 --> 1:43:29.599 gonna I'm gonna work in quotes. I'm not even gonna 1:43:29.640 --> 1:43:32.040 say that's an action movie quote. And we'll see who 1:43:32.160 --> 1:43:34.920 can get the secret action movie quote that I worked 1:43:34.920 --> 1:43:37.240 into the show and just say it at some point 1:43:37.240 --> 1:43:39.639 in this show. We'll see if you you guys want 1:43:39.640 --> 1:43:41.320 to strap on the big boy pants out there and 1:43:41.360 --> 1:43:43.599 team Bucklin on action movie quotes. You know you want 1:43:43.600 --> 1:43:46.479 to wear the belt? I always got confused. But in 1:43:46.600 --> 1:43:49.120 karate is the red belt of the black belt higher? Right? 1:43:49.360 --> 1:43:51.640 The red belt is right before black belt? Right? But 1:43:51.680 --> 1:43:54.040 then isn't there a black belt with gold stripes on it? 1:43:54.160 --> 1:43:56.679 Or you know all these different belts. I think Bruce 1:43:56.720 --> 1:43:58.439 Lee once said belts are for holding up your pants, 1:43:59.439 --> 1:44:02.040 and but work in those action movie quotes. Angie RT's 1:44:02.160 --> 1:44:04.719 love the show. Another word we need to bring back 1:44:04.960 --> 1:44:09.879 is Tom Foolery shield Hie. You know what I agree 1:44:09.920 --> 1:44:12.320 with you? I would very much like to bring back 1:44:12.920 --> 1:44:16.600 Tom Foolery. Um, I you know, I think that's a 1:44:16.600 --> 1:44:19.360 good word. I think that's something that we could work, 1:44:19.400 --> 1:44:23.680 we could get going into the conversation. So thank you 1:44:23.720 --> 1:44:28.519 so much, Angie for that one. Patrick writes, here's a 1:44:28.640 --> 1:44:33.000 Spotify list with workout songs. Patrick, you are a scholar 1:44:33.040 --> 1:44:35.479 and a gentleman. Thank you for sharing that one. And uh, 1:44:35.560 --> 1:44:37.960 I will let you know. I'll give you my my 1:44:38.080 --> 1:44:42.200 review of your workout Spotify list A S A P. 1:44:42.960 --> 1:44:44.880 I should probably post, you know what I'll do on 1:44:44.880 --> 1:44:48.360 on Facebook. Maybe I'll post my Spotify workout playlist for 1:44:48.400 --> 1:44:50.040 all you guys, those of you who are on Spotify. 1:44:50.080 --> 1:44:52.000 That would be a fun idea. You can tell me 1:44:52.040 --> 1:44:54.799 what you think and don't give me any guph because 1:44:54.840 --> 1:44:58.920 there's some you know, I don't know T Swift on 1:44:58.960 --> 1:45:01.519 there or something, and I try to mix it up, folks. 1:45:02.400 --> 1:45:06.559 T Swift is very talented, very very talented. That's all 1:45:06.600 --> 1:45:12.000 I'm saying. Let's see what we got next here, Hold 1:45:12.040 --> 1:45:15.240 on a second, it's coming up. And the thing Jason 1:45:16.360 --> 1:45:21.120 Rights isn't amazing how the Party of Science and Evolution 1:45:21.160 --> 1:45:25.120 has completely abandoned both with both the issues of transgenderism 1:45:25.120 --> 1:45:29.320 and toxic male masculinity and the world of beta maile democrats. 1:45:29.360 --> 1:45:35.360 We see a complete rejection of survival of the fittest um. Interesting, 1:45:35.640 --> 1:45:40.639 I never thought of it that way. Um evolution, Yeah, 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:45.360 I mean, they they're they're always trying to redefine merit 1:45:45.479 --> 1:45:48.439 and excellence and and bend this. Look, this is there's 1:45:48.479 --> 1:45:52.960 an obsession on the left with collectivism and with equality. 1:45:53.120 --> 1:45:56.280 But those are the those are the the central beliefs 1:45:56.280 --> 1:46:00.840 I think of of leftism and atheism at some level too, 1:46:00.880 --> 1:46:03.439 But now I'm really getting down to the rabbit hole. 1:46:04.080 --> 1:46:06.960 But there's a central obsession with collectivism and equality, and 1:46:07.080 --> 1:46:10.200 equality is an impossible goal. I mean, there is no 1:46:10.320 --> 1:46:14.760 such thing as as absolute equality, and so context is 1:46:14.760 --> 1:46:17.719 always necessary for any dis question of a discussion of equality, 1:46:17.760 --> 1:46:19.679 just like there's no such thing as absolute liberty. Folks, 1:46:19.720 --> 1:46:22.080 we know that no one thinks that liberty means do 1:46:22.120 --> 1:46:25.040 whatever you want, whatever you want, right, Well, equality just 1:46:25.080 --> 1:46:28.880 means equality in the nation state context, in the in 1:46:28.920 --> 1:46:32.640 the context of a polity, of a political organization of 1:46:32.720 --> 1:46:36.720 human beings. It means equality before the law. That's really 1:46:36.720 --> 1:46:38.200 the best that we can hope for. All these other 1:46:38.280 --> 1:46:41.799 efforts to make us the same are doomed to failure 1:46:41.960 --> 1:46:44.360 because we are not the same. You are trying to 1:46:44.479 --> 1:46:49.640 square a circle. It does not work. Uh. And in 1:46:49.720 --> 1:46:52.559 a life is unfair. This is something else that I 1:46:52.560 --> 1:46:54.599 think a lot of liberals need to need to hear. 1:46:54.640 --> 1:46:56.920 And well, I guess that they all they do is 1:46:56.920 --> 1:46:58.639 talk about alan fair it is, but it's never gonna 1:46:58.640 --> 1:47:01.559 not be unfair. I guess as part of the part 1:47:01.560 --> 1:47:03.320 of the discussion here, it's it's never going to be 1:47:03.360 --> 1:47:07.920 something that they can make go away. And so agitation 1:47:08.200 --> 1:47:12.559 under the guise of absolute equality is something you need 1:47:12.560 --> 1:47:14.840 to be on on guard against because it's it's not 1:47:14.880 --> 1:47:18.160 going to lead two good outcomes. H. So there you 1:47:18.240 --> 1:47:21.040 have it, Paul writes, Hey, buck love the show. I 1:47:21.120 --> 1:47:25.480 listened daily. Don't always agree, but that's okay. Well, Paul, absolutely, 1:47:25.520 --> 1:47:27.880 you know. I don't expect people always agree. I feel 1:47:27.920 --> 1:47:29.720 you're honest and understand the world we have a deal 1:47:29.720 --> 1:47:32.959 with today. I'm not all right, nor am I a leftist. 1:47:33.000 --> 1:47:36.880 I guess I'm somewhere in between right leaning. Uh. And 1:47:36.920 --> 1:47:38.880 then he wrote, I have a question, And Paul, by 1:47:38.920 --> 1:47:43.479 the way, I'm really glad uh that you are able 1:47:43.520 --> 1:47:45.479 to listen to the show. You like the show and 1:47:46.240 --> 1:47:49.919 appreciate that, you know, I just want people listening. Anybody 1:47:49.920 --> 1:47:55.760 who has a mind for facts, knowledge and entertainment, I 1:47:55.800 --> 1:47:58.040 would hope would give this show a shot. I do 1:47:58.120 --> 1:48:01.360 a tremendous amount of research and reading every day before 1:48:01.360 --> 1:48:03.559 I come on air, and I try to make the 1:48:03.560 --> 1:48:06.320 best use of the time we have together. And and 1:48:06.320 --> 1:48:08.240 then this is this is my life's work right now. 1:48:08.320 --> 1:48:11.720 Is this show that you're hearing. So thank you for 1:48:11.720 --> 1:48:12.960 listening to it. Thankful to be a part of it. 1:48:13.000 --> 1:48:14.280 I know you wrote I have a question, but I 1:48:14.280 --> 1:48:16.080 don't see a question here, so please get back to 1:48:16.120 --> 1:48:18.840 me with your question. I'll answered as soon as I can. 1:48:19.800 --> 1:48:22.000 Sean writes, Hey, Buck Shields time. I love the show 1:48:22.000 --> 1:48:24.320 and have listen to you since you were on The Blaze. 1:48:24.840 --> 1:48:26.439 I'm always a day behind on your show, but I 1:48:26.479 --> 1:48:31.479 want to say Adam's over Jefferson any day, simplify from Sean. 1:48:32.120 --> 1:48:36.280 Interesting somebody was willing to say they actually prefer Adams 1:48:36.320 --> 1:48:38.719 over Jefferson. I feel like that's a rarity. I feel 1:48:38.760 --> 1:48:41.960 like you usually don't get that. People don't make that call. 1:48:43.080 --> 1:48:50.560 Michael right, Uh, you need to start using blaflom regularly. Huh, 1:48:50.800 --> 1:48:54.280 I've actually never heard of blaslom. I don't. I don't 1:48:54.320 --> 1:48:58.920 even I'm assuming that's like piffle or you know, it's malarkey. 1:48:59.080 --> 1:49:02.759 Maybe I don't know anything about that, so I gotta 1:49:02.760 --> 1:49:06.639 look that word up, Donald buck Something not enough people 1:49:06.680 --> 1:49:11.760 point out about free healthcare. How many countries are there? Um, 1:49:12.040 --> 1:49:15.280 were you would die from an illness that might bankrupt 1:49:15.360 --> 1:49:19.240 you here, what would you rather be dead or in debt? Well, 1:49:19.240 --> 1:49:23.080 you know, William, I'm sorry, Donald, Uh. This is one 1:49:23.080 --> 1:49:25.800 of these things where we can live in the real 1:49:25.800 --> 1:49:27.519 world that we can live in fantasy world. And the 1:49:27.560 --> 1:49:32.280 truth is that you're better off in America than pretty 1:49:32.360 --> 1:49:34.800 much any other country in the world if you have 1:49:34.840 --> 1:49:38.240 a life threatening illness. And that's I mean, maybe Switzerland. 1:49:38.240 --> 1:49:39.880 There's a few places people say, well, you know, they've 1:49:39.880 --> 1:49:42.439 got really advanced, But this is where you want to be. 1:49:43.080 --> 1:49:47.599 And in part it's because we have incredibly hard working 1:49:47.880 --> 1:49:52.400 and next level brilliant surgeons and doctors and people in 1:49:52.439 --> 1:49:56.080 the medical field who are well compensated folks. Yes, that's 1:49:56.120 --> 1:49:58.479 a part of this. I want hard surgeons to make 1:49:58.520 --> 1:50:00.519 a million, two million, three million doll hours here. I 1:50:00.560 --> 1:50:03.240 want them to make that because I want you know, 1:50:03.280 --> 1:50:06.000 when it's when it's you know, my relative that's getting 1:50:06.040 --> 1:50:08.600 open heart surgery. I don't want somebody who was you know, 1:50:08.920 --> 1:50:11.240 middle of the class in in in high school and 1:50:11.560 --> 1:50:15.840 third tier in grad school. No, I want somebody who 1:50:15.960 --> 1:50:18.960 is top of their game. And yeah, that's gonna be 1:50:18.960 --> 1:50:22.439 difficult to pay for. Sometimes it's gonna be costs literally 1:50:22.479 --> 1:50:25.479 costs associated with that. But isn't isn't that what you 1:50:25.720 --> 1:50:29.080 what's the alternative? It's all about incentives, folks. This is 1:50:29.120 --> 1:50:32.920 what collective is. The leftist don't understand is that individual 1:50:33.560 --> 1:50:38.160 interest self interest is a constant. It is a reality 1:50:38.280 --> 1:50:40.559 of our day to day lives. There's no way around it. 1:50:40.600 --> 1:50:45.200 And to try to either eliminate it from the way 1:50:45.240 --> 1:50:47.960 that you're setting up laws and and setting up society, 1:50:48.840 --> 1:50:52.599 or think that you can somehow just pretend it's not there, 1:50:53.280 --> 1:50:56.760 that that is again doomed to failure. And I think 1:50:56.760 --> 1:50:58.360 that when I bring this up, and I know it 1:50:58.439 --> 1:51:01.719 sounds maybe a little I don't know, as a territ 1:51:01.840 --> 1:51:04.000 or in the weeds or something, but this is that, 1:51:04.200 --> 1:51:07.800 this is what separates the mind of a conservative from 1:51:07.800 --> 1:51:10.760 the mind of a liberal These very basic concepts of 1:51:10.800 --> 1:51:14.800 the collective versus the individual, of you know, liberty versus equality. 1:51:14.840 --> 1:51:17.599 I mean, these are the this is why we approach 1:51:17.640 --> 1:51:20.120 the world differently than they do. So I think it 1:51:20.160 --> 1:51:24.519 is important to spend some time on all that. Thank 1:51:24.560 --> 1:51:27.000 you for being your team. It's been a pleasure and 1:51:27.040 --> 1:51:29.080 honor as always, great to have you hanging out with 1:51:29.120 --> 1:51:32.599 me in the Freedom Hunt. 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