WEBVTT - Guest Host: Mike Opelka 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.000 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.200 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.960 Make no mistakes, American, You're a great American. Again the 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:25.560 Buck Sexton Show begins. No, well it's not Buck, it's 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.760 the Godfather again. It's a Friday, and I'm back. Buck 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.640 is on a special assignment. And he called and he said, Godfather, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.560 you got me on a Friday night. And I said, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.640 I got your six, brother, I got your six. So 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.360 I'm here hanging out with you guys the the Freedom 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:48.159 Hut on the western shores of the Delaware Bay. I 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.360 can't give you the full location, but I am staring 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.920 at the water, enjoying what's about to be an incredible 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.000 moon rise, and talking to one of my favorite audiences 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.200 in the whole wide world. So I'm here. I'm happy 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.000 to be coast to coast uh for Buck, and I 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:11.480 want you to join the conversation. I have some questions tonight, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.640 and I'm probably gonna make some people mad, probably gonna 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.600 make more than some people mad, probably going to make 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.440 a whole bunch of people mad. But I want you 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.640 to talk me out of my opinion on this. I 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.920 want you to share your thoughts. So we're gonna get 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.960 into the situation between the President and the Attorney General, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.920 and we're gonna get into the diplomacy efforts by one 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.760 Lindsey Graham, who I happen to think the world of. 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.080 I know a lot of people don't like him. Some 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.800 of his policies bother me, but I think it's a really, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.160 really great servant to this country. Guy thirty plus years 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.720 in the military. Come on, and yeah, he violates my 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.120 term limits the thing. So I have mixed emotions on that, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.640 but you know the number, write it down eight four 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:11.040 four nine d buck eight four four. Before we get 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:16.200 too heavily into topics, I want to spend just a 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:23.080 couple of minutes talking about another guy I have mixed 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:30.520 feelings over and I'm conflicted. I'm talking about Senator John McCain. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.320 I think John McCain is, without question, an American hero 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:40.600 for what he did in Vietnam. Without question, on blinking 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.440 support for John McCain as a great American hero. The 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.359 guy had the opportunity to get out of a Vietnam 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.119 pow camp where he was in one of those rat 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.560 traps where they would put them in the water inside 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.760 a cage and just let him float and they would 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:06.360 let the rats come up and mess with them. They 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.200 would be they'd have their heads above water. That's about it. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.600 It was brutal what they were doing to John McCain. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:18.280 John McCain was beaten by the Vietnamese. John McCain was tortured. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.720 John That might explain some of John McCain's positions on torture. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.120 And then John McCain came home, but he came home 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.160 later later than he could have. The Vietnamese offered John 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.200 McCain the ability to leave because it was some sort 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:43.040 of some sort of respectful gesture, because his father was 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.720 a decorated military man, because he was an officer, he 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:51.920 could leave the prison. John McCain chose to stay behind 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.480 with the rest of his men. If they weren't getting out, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.960 he wasn't getting at And for that act alone, for 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.400 the enduring the orchard, for the bravery he exhibit in 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.240 service to this nation, you have to call John McCain 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.920 a hero. And it's there I depart with the President 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:17.440 on his his awful depiction of John McCain. Now, John 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.320 McCain's service in the United States Senate, we differ on 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.960 a few things, and as a matter of fact, I'm 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.240 I'm not gonna hide it. I have been calling for 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:36.599 John McCain to step down since early this year, and 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.280 a lot of people are mad at me over it. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.320 And I did it without his name. I just said, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.960 if you have Senator A who is fifty of the 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.600 representation for a state in office and they are incapable 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.320 of doing the job you hired them to do, it 0:04:55.400 --> 0:05:00.560 is truly his responsibility to allow his constitut truance to 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:05.680 have the support and the representation they deserve. And I 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.920 thought John mcckins should have stepped down, and I got 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.920 some angry male from people. Oh dare you. He's a hero. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.560 John McCain is a gigantic hero. He's a huge hero. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.839 But I think the people of Arizona deserve to have 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.799 somebody in office doing the job they elected John McCain 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:31.400 to do. That's what I'm saying. And so now we 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.440 get the news today, the terribly sad news today that 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.880 John McCain's battle against the brain cancer the I think 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:45.320 it's called glioblastoma, the very aggressive brain cancer that has 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.680 stricken him. He's losing it. He's losing the battle and 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.479 so John McCain announced, through an announcement from his family, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.800 a release from the family, that he was going to 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:07.279 end the efforts to fight his cancer. Terribly sad, terribly 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:12.640 sad as someone someone who has lost two parents in 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:18.719 the last two years and realizes the emotions required to 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.520 put out that statement to tell the medical team, We're 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.599 not going to do any more medication. It's coming to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:33.400 the realization that it's over. So to John McCain and 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:38.200 Cindy McCain, his wife, and the family, Megan McCain and 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.360 all of the attached members of the McCain family, this 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:47.000 is a terrible day. This is an awful day. This 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:51.000 is a day no family wants to face. And I 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:57.240 go back to John McCain is the hero again because 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.360 while I disagreed with McCain on some of his actions 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.920 in the Senate in the last few years, on how 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.200 he treated the President, you can't understand after what the 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.880 President said about him. You can certainly understand how John 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.400 McCain held a grudge against President Trump after what was 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.200 said on the campaign trail. And God only knows. And 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.240 I kind of wished publicly about two months ago that 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.080 John McCain would have gotten a call from Donald Trump, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.920 maybe even a visit from the President as he was 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:38.640 dealing with this battle privately at his family home. I 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.240 think it would have been the most amazing thing for 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.880 the President to do, to go out and put that 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.720 put that fight to bet. It didn't happen, and I 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.000 don't think it's going to happen. Maybe a phone call 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.440 has been scheduled, but that, to me, would have been 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.280 the bigger thing to do. And I was raised by 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.360 two great parents who always said be the bigger man. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.720 So maybe the President missed an opportunity to bury the 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.760 hatchet with John McCain. John McCain's not dead. People are 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.960 sending me text messages that John McCain die. No, he 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:26.120 didn't die. He just has surrendered the medical battle in 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.880 his fight against the brain cancer that he has been 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.800 so bravely standing up to. But unfortunately it looks like 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.960 it probably won't be a long time. So thank you 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.040 for service, John McCain. I wish I could shake your 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.720 hand and thank you. I don't think that that's gonna 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.480 happen either, But I want to play just a tiny 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:55.559 clip it for an amazing interview with Jake Tapper Tapper 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.040 talked to McCain. I think this was the very last 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:05.240 interview where he was discussing his cancer and DOCCA and 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.280 his legacy. But I'm fighting cancer that I know I'm 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.840 not gonna beat. I don't know if I could be 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.679 as stand up and strong as John McCain. But he 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:22.160 talked to Tapper weeks ago, months ago actually, and his 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:28.280 attitude and his approach, it's something I hope I can mirror. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.960 So I'm getting the best treatment that anybody could get, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.360 and I'm very happy. I'm very happy with my life. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.800 I'm very happy with what I've been able to do. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.480 And there's two ways of looking at these things, and 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.400 one of them is to celebrate. I am able to 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.760 celebrate a wonderful life, and I will be grateful for 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:52.240 additional time that I have. Amazing, amazing. I would have 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.280 cracked like a hot piece of glass put under a 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:04.000 cold stream of water. That's the John McCain you gotta remember. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:10.120 That's the John McCain who said I know I could 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.840 leave the prison camp, you bastards, but I'm not leaving 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:20.240 my men. That's the guy you got to remember going forward. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.679 And so, while while he's alive and his family is 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.679 getting to spend some quality time with him. I kind 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.119 of feel like this is the announcement that we received 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.880 about ten days ago when Aretha Franklin's family said, Aretha 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.280 is uh in in the hospital with friends and family 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.520 and we're asking for prayers. So to the McCain family, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:49.720 you deserve our prayers and our thanks and a big 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.640 hug and thank you, Senator McCain for your service. I 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.880 still stand by everything I said for the people of Arizona. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.160 But you're a hero, sir and uh. I wish I 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.800 could tell you that to your face, and I wish 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.480 the president could do that too, Michael Pelka, and for 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.120 Buck Sexton. We have a boatload of stuff to cover 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.040 tonight on a Friday night, some of it serious, like 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.480 the last few minutes, and some of it kind of 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.440 just downright silly. So we we will deal with all 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.400 of that in due time. In due course. I have 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.640 to tell you though, before before I break, I have 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:38.559 to remind you of my experience with one of Buck's sponsors. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:44.960 I I was an early adopter of the Simply Safe 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.240 security systems. I was one of the people who when 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:53.080 we first started carrying Simply Safe at oh, you know 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.000 what they just told me. Don't talk about that till 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.800 the end of the hour. So I'll hold off and 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.719 I'll tell you what. We'll get back to this. I 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.520 think I think we're gonna be able to get into 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.280 the fight between the president and his attorney general with 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.360 our friend, attorney Wendy Patrick. We're checking on that next. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.960 Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:32.920 Come on back, Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton. Buck 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.040 is on a special assignment. He'll be back on Monday. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.440 I'm hanging out in the freedom Hut. But my freedom hut, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:45.800 this is the constitutionally protected free speech First Amendment protected 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.520 freedom hut protected by the Second Amendment, I might add. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.520 So I'm hanging out on a Friday with you guys, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.200 when we're covering everything everything we can, I will get 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.680 to some of my outrage and just a little bit, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.400 but I want to talk about, uh, the the madness 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.640 of the last twenty four hours between the president and 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.080 his attorney general. As things got crazy. But I need help. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.160 I need legal help. I also need psychological help. I 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.000 realized that. So Wendy Patrick, our attorney friend and author, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.680 you can find her at Wendy Patrick pH d dot 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:27.559 com has agreed to join us from the road this evening. Wendy, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:34.760 Happy Friday to you, my friend. You are you with me, Wendy? 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.599 Oh dear? Did we lose Wendy? I know she was 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:47.880 on them. Yeah, okay, you can hear me. I can 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.000 hear me. You sound great now, But let me do 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.800 this because you were correct last week when you predicted 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.360 that the Manafort jury would come in our early this week, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.800 and you were right. So let me open this cola 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.840 for you. Yeah. There, it is open to Candic Coke 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:11.560 for you, poor Ner Coke know, oh you many well. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.760 I think I was right about that. What I did 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.240 not expect was the Michael Cohen' plea that really was 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.440 out of the blue. And for all of the leaking 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.800 that goes on in this administration, in the Motor probe, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.280 I didn't see that, Colin Mike, did you No, I didn't. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.200 I was totally surprised by it. But it makes sense 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.080 when you look at the speed with which all this 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.880 is happening. Uh. And I want to get to that, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.640 but I want to ask you about this breakdown. We 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.360 know that the president has not been pleased with his 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:47.880 attorney general, especially since Jeff Sessions recused himself early and 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.640 people are saying maybe he should have told the president 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.120 that before he was appointed that he was intending to 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.440 recuse himself. But it's been kind of out of control, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.360 with the President throwing down, and then the he turned 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.880 to general throwing down, and then Lindsey Graham trying to 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:10.800 be peacemaker. Uh, it's it's palace intrigue at the highest level. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.560 But where are you on this, Wendy? Do you think, uh, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.920 Sessions is going to be bumped after the midterms? I 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.320 that would be such a bad political move. Who are 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.200 they going to confirm to replace him. One of the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.640 things that struck me yesterday was that Session. Do you 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.800 say Sessions threw down? It's the first time, Mike that 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.320 he's thrown down. He has taken a lot of I 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.960 don't want to say ridicule. Let's just say criticism and 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.560 will deferm that will define that term broadly from this president. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.240 The President's tweet today was taunting, but it was probably 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.800 in response to the fact that Session stood up for 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.400 himself after the President said what he did in his 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.240 Fox News interview when he basically said, you know, Jeff 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.640 hasn't stepped up, and Jeff was right back saying, I 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.200 took control of the Justice Department from day one. So 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.280 you know, one of the things we know about Sessions, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.360 and I watched his confirmation hearing very closely. You probably 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.240 did too, is he stands up for himself when it's 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.800 important and when he feels like his integrity is being questioned. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.680 That's what he did yesterday. And so the President fought 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.640 back today and I thought it was also interesting they 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.560 had a meeting yesterday apparently at the White House on 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.880 the topic of their public Twitter and Twitter if you'd 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:22.080 never came up, can you imagine that? Awkward? Awkward? Yeah, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.320 But at the same time, at the very same time, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:30.240 the world is absolutely obsessed with this, going, oh, Trump 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.360 paid Sessions, Sessions, It's Trump. And then you hear Lindsey 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.160 Graham go, well, he was at the White House yesterday. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.600 He's sitting down with the President. You and your imitation 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.640 says exactly what he sounded like. I love it, You're 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.720 you're right, and he is trying to play peace Baker. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.240 He probably would love to see there be a some 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.880 kind of a resolution, but you know, isn't going to 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.600 run out and open all these investigations into Democrats and 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.240 into Muller and into me just because the President taunted 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.760 him by tweet to do it. So it really does 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.680 leave the specter is what is going to happen after 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.040 the terms. But the President has to be talked off 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.920 the ledge as usual. He's probably being you know, counseled 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.800 by some of his advisors and cohler heads will prevail, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.160 that's my prediction. So don't go cracking another candicap until 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.359 I win this one too. I do not see him 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:24.720 being fired after the mid terms. That's interesting because last 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.960 night with our our buddy Shannon Bream uh Lindsey Graham 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.439 said the following when he was quizzed on it. But 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.520 you don't have to be Dr Phil to understand that 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.800 the president that the attorney general do not have a 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.920 good working relationship. Every president deserves an attorney general they 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.160 have confidence in. As to Jeff Sessions, I've never met 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.240 a finer man. He was a great senator, he's a 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.560 great lawyer. I think he's been a good attorney general. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.960 But this is not working. So I hope the relationship 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.320 gets better. If it doesn't, I would imagine the president 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.240 is going to look for a new attorney general cause 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.760 what's going on is unsustainable. I'm not blaming anybody. I 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.000 love Jeff Sessions, but from my point of view, the 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.560 country is not being well served with as much frictional 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.240 So there it is, Wendy, you are making the prediction. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.720 I'm going to vote with that's right. That's right, and 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.080 you know what I might because we need to do 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.960 that in reverse order. We don't fire Jeff Sessions and 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.760 then say, okay, now we're going to do a nationwide 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.040 search for replacement, like we're trying to replace the CEO 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.439 of a company. There needs to be and there maybe 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.199 we're not privy to the discussions behind the scenes, but 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.560 there needs to be a plan be in place before 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.720 the president fire session. That plan by has to include 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.800 a name that can be confirmed. It has to be 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.600 a workable, practical replacement. And thank you, Wendy. I'm up 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.119 against the gigantic sorrows machine. We'll be back on the 0:18:46.160 --> 0:19:02.960 Buck Sexton Show. He's holding the line for America. Buck 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:08.119 Sexton is back. Well, he'll be back Monday. Michael Pelka 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.119 is sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Coast to 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.920 Coast on the Buck Sexton Show. I love being here. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.440 I'm so thrilled to be here, and uh, I appreciate 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.119 every opportunity to join you. I'm gonna bring in a 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.000 guest to talk about the process we're going through to 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.960 make Judge Kavanaugh Justice Kavanaugh. But I got to take 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.840 a quick call from somebody I think moved out of Atlanta, 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.439 at least I think so, Rhett, you're in Alabama, welcome 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.359 to the Buck Sexton Show. Well, thank you, Marke. I 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.920 appreciate it. But I enjoining your show. Listen to Buck 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.240 every chance I get. But I'm certainly enjoying the other day, 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.960 so I appreciate it. Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.639 The time an Jeff Sessions. You know, look, yeah I was, 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:58.440 I was. I was at the rally when Jeff Sessions 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.920 walked out on stay Age with a great again had on, 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.920 and I gotta tell you that was a proud moment. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:14.240 But I've gone from proud to disappointed to appear disgusted 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.600 with Jeff Sessions, I think, And Rhett, I'm just gonna 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.760 put this out there for you. I think we need 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:29.359 to see what time tells us. Because every great legal 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.600 mind I've talked to said Sessions was right to recuse himself, 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.280 maybe wrong not to tell the president he was going 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.879 to do it before the appointment. But there are a 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.439 lot of great legal minds like the one we just 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.520 talked to, Wendy Patrick and others who said and gretive 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.320 ancestor and who said he was right to do it. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.560 And we need to maybe watch history unfold and see 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.520 I understand, because we all want the president to go 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:01.639 full speed ahead and keep moving forward. But um, you 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.840 know this one, I think a little bit of this 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:09.320 is being played for the media. I'm just throwing that 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.320 out there. You know, there's a lot there's a lot 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.479 of people out there that I hope that you know, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.440 and I certainly hope it myself. But but I's all 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:23.679 they can come up with is uh, internal revenue problems 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:28.040 and parking tickets. The Russia cramp is over. Yeah, oh, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:33.159 definitely with you, And I'm going to get into the 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.080 internal revenue thing a little bit later. So you gotta 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.240 stick around. But I sure thank you for joining us 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.359 in the freedom tonight. Uh, you gotta stick around for 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.960 the conversation we're about to have, because I think this 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.360 is a line in the sand that we're drawing as 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.000 we deal with the the next phase of the change 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.879 of the Supreme Court. So thank you, Rhett, appreciate have 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:00.720 a great rest of your day. I have to confess 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.200 earlier today I was hoping to get some insight to 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.399 where we are with a Judge Kavanaugh and his process 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:14.240 towards being Justice Kavanaugh. So I spoke with John Malcolm 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:20.240 from Heritage, the Heritage Foundation. Uh, John Malcolm, great great 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:24.880 constitutional brain, a protector of liberty and freedom. And I said, John, 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:26.600 would you hang out and talk to me about where 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.240 we are at the Judge Kavanaugh. I know it's Friday evening. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.479 He goes, yeah, okay, we'll get it done. So welcome 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.560 John Malcolm to the buck Sexton program Sir, appreciate your 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.920 being here. Happy to be with you now. John, I 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.520 quizzed you earlier today, squeezed you for some info if 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.640 you had seen the basketball court at the Supreme Court. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:48.879 You said, yeah, you haven't played on it yet, but 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.920 it's probably a bucket list thing. And I think I 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:53.879 think it's cool that it's up there. But I have 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.639 one more question, one more Wonky Washington question for you. 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.040 Have you seen the bowling ye in the White House. 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.480 I have not played on it, but I have seen it. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.320 A lot of my friends have in fact played on it. 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.399 But I have that have gone bowling at it, but 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.520 I have seen it. Yes, I am dying to roll 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.680 a few frame sporting venues I've I've gotten to see. 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:19.200 Yeah that you know, nobody knew how much. And now 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.320 the swimming pool at the White House was covered over 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:25.679 to make the press room years ago. And underneath that 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.600 press room where Sarah Sanders holds forth, there's a swimming 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:33.159 pool that JFK used but lb J didn't like. Have 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.920 you signed the wall of the swimming pool underneath the 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.439 press room? No. I have been on the old yacht 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:45.320 Presidentially Yatta Sequoya, before Jimmy Carter sold it, but I 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.840 have not seen the wall. And where the where the 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.719 pool is in the White House. Underneath the White House 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:55.560 press room. All the TV equipment needed to broadcast all 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.639 those press events is in the pool. It's an empty 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.720 swimming pool, so it's all tiled and and it's there, 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:06.919 and every reporter and camera crew for the last fifty 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.280 years has gone down there were the magic marker and 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:11.919 signed the wall, and a lot of the presidents have 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:16.520 to um yours truly was fortunate enough to tag the 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:20.760 White House as it's known about about nine years ago, 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.119 but not enough about that. So you need to ask 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:26.840 your buddies in the White House next time you're in. 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.080 Can I see the pool? Can I sign the wall? 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:32.440 You got well and look for it. Look for my name, 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:35.720 you'll sign. I've made a big I'm right by Anderson 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:40.280 Cooper actually on the wall. That's my at my brush 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:44.360 with greatness. So where are we with Judge Cavanaugh becoming 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:48.119 Justice kavanat? I know Schumer wants to shut it down, 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:52.960 but can he No, I really don't think he can. Uh. 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.120 You know, the Democrats see that this is going badly. 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:02.400 Judge Kavanaugh is a superbly qualified UH nominee. And you're 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:07.399 not hearing any peep of any defection by any of 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:11.640 the Republicans. Of course, the majority is incredibly slim. It's 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.200 only with John McCain in Arizona and not coming back 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.320 to Washington. Uh, it's a fifty to forty nine majority. 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:21.680 But you're not really hearing any noises about any Republicans defecting. 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.560 Rand Paul that was concerned about at one point, but 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:26.919 after he met with Judge Kavanaugh. He said, I'm in. 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.359 I will vote to confirm him. So the Democrats are 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.879 certainly shouting an awful lot about what a threat this 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.600 is to abortion rights because they're trying to appeal to 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:38.760 either Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. So far that doesn't 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:41.520 appear to be working. Judge Kavanaugh has now met with 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:45.200 both Senators Collins and Murkowski. So the next thing they're 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.960 trying to do is come up with anything that will 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.440 delay this. If they delay it, maybe something pops up 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.000 that that they can use, maybe hoping against hope, the 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:58.399 Democrats we take the majority in the Senate and can 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.639 scuttle the nomination. May maybe something else happens with President 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.800 Trump makes him so unpopular that his nominated the Supreme 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.160 Court loses team. But I don't think any of those 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:10.760 things are going to happen. I mean the latest salvo. 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:13.280 I mean, first of all, a lot of the Democrats 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:15.720 and we need to see every scrap of paper that 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:19.159