WEBVTT - The Green Dream Is A Nightmare 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.280 You are entering the freedom hudge. President Trump makes the 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.400 right move and walks away from Kim Jong UN's non 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.160 offer offer in Hanoi. We'll talk about where this leaves 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.120 nuclear diplomacy going forward, the aftermath of Cohen's smear session 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.400 up on Capitol Hill that's coming up. And also the 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.600 Green New Deal supposed to create millions of jobs. They say, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.680 but that's not true. We'll talk about why in just 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:42.320 a moment. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.640 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:51.800 actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American Ready, you're a great 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:58.760 American Again, The Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:06.399 No well has risen up. The other side will say, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.679 it's about a job loser. It isn't. It's about jobs, jobs, jobs, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.840 It's a health issue, clean air, clean water, it is 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.399 a defense issue. All Great American programs, everything from the 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.039 Great Society to the New Deal, started with a vision 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:28.720 for our future. Progressive taxation, an ultra millionaires tax. We 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.919 can make a big down payment on a Green New Deal. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.360 Absolutely the minimum that we need to do in order 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.680 to stave off planetary disaster. The idea of farting cows. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.360 The methane released from cows comes more from belching than 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.080 it does farting. This is so incredible. This is such 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.320 a major watershed moment, and I am so incredibly excited 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.560 that we are going to transition this country into the 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.960 future and we are not going to be dragged behind 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.320 by our past. No. I think it is a green dream. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.080 It is, it is. The green dream is a nightmare. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:10.040 My friends. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. So big 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.760 news of the day, of course, is there's no deal 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.240 out of no deal with the North Koreans out of Vietnam. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.200 You had the testimony behind closed doors to Michael Cohen. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.240 We're going to cover a lot of ground today. GDP 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.040 numbers came in. They're good, not amazing, but good. We'll 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.440 talk about why. My friend Matty Duppler, who's an expert 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.200 on these things. She's a number super nerd, and I 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.840 say that in the best possible way. She'll be joining 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.040 us later on the show to talk about what this 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.160 means for the economy. How's the economy looking going into 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.800 twenty twenty. My contention is that if the economy is strong, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.880 Trump is unbeatable going into twenty twenty. But we are 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.400 due for a recession, folks, So that's not that's not 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.480 going to be a done deal. And Trump is going 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.960 to have to do a lot to make sure that 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.839 we don't hit some kind of a cyclical bump right 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.440 in time for some socialist wave to sweep. It doesn't 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.079 have to sweep all of America, just has to flip 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.840 a few hundred thousand votes come twenty twenty, and all 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.520 of a sudden, you have a President Warren or President 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.360 Sanders or you know, you name it, and they're all 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.880 they're all signing onto this They're all signing onto this 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.720 Green New Deal nonsense. All these presidential contenders so far, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.639 the major ones, have said this is what they want 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.040 to do. So what I did today, and we'll get 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.520 into the nuclear diplomacy and what I see from what 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.839 happened in North Korea that'll come up maybe a little 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.840 bit later this hour. And I wanted to take a 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.360 slightly different approach today and not allow what happened yesterday 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.080 to continue to go on, which is where the left 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.520 determines what the narrative is. Right. The left determines that 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.880 we're all because at a certain level, if there's enough 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.080 saturation coverage of something, even though how much do you 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.840 really even care about what Cohen said yesterday? It was 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.960 really a waste of everybody's time, not really anything new, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.520 certainly nothing of any substance or importance, and just Cohen 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.640 acting like the sly, dishonest disgrace that he is. But 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.320 that was such a focus that there were a lot 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.880 of other things that got pushed aside, like, for example, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.600 the nuclear diplomacy in Hanoi, And so I want us 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.520 focus more on that today, very little on Cohen, but 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.600 also on some of the deep dive that I did 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.039 on my own. Well I do all of this on 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.680 my own, of course, but some of the deep dive 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.720 into the Green New Deal, and specifically this idea that 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.880 the Green New Deal is going to be an economic 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:41.640 boost and will create millions of new, high paying jobs 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.920 for the twenty first century economy. This is not new, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.440 by the way, this idea, this talking point, which is 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.200 really that the center of the Democrat Party's platform right 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.839 now is socialized medicine. They're going to call it Medicare 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.239 for all, but what they want is socialized medicine. Medicare 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.240 for all is just like Obamacare was a way to 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:12.040 get there. They want socialized medicine and they want a 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.840 Green New Deal. Now you might think, really, why such 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.120 a focus on this, and amnesty too, but they're not 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.120 talking about amnesty yet. That's also coming. This was the 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:27.239 triad of terribles from the Obama administration. First thing Obama 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.640 did Obamacare, right, that was the very first thing he did. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.800 Second thing he tried to do is get through amnesty 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.360 with that. Remember that Gang of Eight bill, and oh 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.680 we need to do and the Dreamers and DACA. The 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.320 third thing was in climate change, and he wasn't able 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.200 to get that. But those were the Those are the 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:49.880 three dreams of the status left, because if you get 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:54.440 those things, it's all over for limited government, conservatism, free 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.599 market capitalism, all that stuff. Just it doesn't evaporate overnight, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:03.400 but it is in permanent recession, perhaps never to come back. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.520 They know this, and that's why they focus so much 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.599 on those areas. But the Green New Deal is front 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.360 and center right now. Mitch McConnell in a he's a 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.880 KG character, Mitch. He knows what's up. He wants to 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.720 try to force them to vote. He's not making a 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.000 vote on it yet. It may not vote on it 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.839 till before the August recess, So he wants them to 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.120 have to take positions now and then we'll see where 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.560 they are on the vote later. Merchant's a smart guy. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:36.000 You gotta give Mitch some credit. But I wanted to 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.240 look into some of the the things that are said 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.960 about the Green New Deal that just strike me as 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:47.440 either implausible or flatly untrue. And the biggest one is 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.919 that it's going to create all of these jobs, that 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.960 there's going to be this explosion of great millions. They say, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.320 millions and millions of jobs. Well, when you look into 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.599 what the real plans are of organizations that promote this 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.600 Green New Deal, when you look into what they're trying 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.680 to do, you see that there's a tremendous amount of 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:24.840 room for waste, fraud, nonsense, terrible, terrible planning. And that's 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.360 what this is all about. Central planning. The Green New 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.720 Deal allows central planning to become our way of life. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.640 Everything will be centrally planned because the environment and environmentalism 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.720 affects everything that you do, the products you use, the 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.360 house you live in, the way you heat your home, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.880 the way you cool your home, the way you get 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.480 to work, the way you sit at work, the way 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:49.640 everything you do is affected by this Green New Deal ideology. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.840 But when you start to break it into its component parts, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.520 and I read today, and I gotta tell you, there's 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.760 not a lot of great research you'll find on the 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.600 Green New Deal one, because it's a that they've made 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.760 the concept relatively new. Although we have Obama right to 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.240 play that. This is Obama from when he was president 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.600 and talking about this play it. We will increase oil 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.560 production here in the United States. Yes, we can drill more, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.000 but drilling is not a long term solution to our problem, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:23.360 not even close. And that's why I will invest one 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.000 hundred and fifty billion dollars over the next decade, working 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.400 in partnership with states and local governments and the private sector. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.000 We are going to invest in affordable renewable sources of energy, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:39.640 wind power, on solar power, and the next generation of biofuels. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.439 An investment that will lead to new industries and five 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.400 million new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.040 Five million jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced. Well, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.000 let me tell you something about Obama that you may 0:08:55.040 --> 0:09:00.640 not know. The Obama stimulus package included billion of dollars 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.200 set aside for what we would call Green New Deal 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.680 style programs. And you know what really happened. Some of 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.959 these companies that are getting massive government subsidies used money 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:17.960 to buy windmills or solar farms, wind turbines, or solar 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.560 farms or rather solar panels overseas and then use them 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.640 for their own purposes. They weren't creating jobs. Here. We 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.240 know from Cylindra that the economic model, remember that Cylinder, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.720 the Obama administration boondoggle, hundreds of millions of dollars of 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.760 loan guarantees for Cylindra. So that just means that they 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.600 can lose money. And when they lose too much money, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.000 the taxpayer fills in the gap. And that was a 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.080 Department of Energy program. By the way, they couldn't make 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.080 it work. They were losing money on all the energy 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.240 they were creating. Now fast forward to today. So Obama 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.800 had this plan too. Obama love this idea, and it 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.800 didn't work. Now we've also seen what's happened in Europe 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.000 where they've been pursuing some of what they their own 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.600 versions of the Green New Deal. And guess what, despite 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.079 enormous investments and I hate that word investment, because you 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.520 know what investment is. They're taking your money, They are 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.840 taking your taxes. And when you're getting ready like me 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.400 to write out a check in the next few weeks 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.320 to the government to pay your taxes so that you 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.520 can continue to be a freeman who doesn't go to prison. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.160 Remember that they want to take that and say it's 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.880 an investment and give it to somebody who says they're 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:37.479 doing the work of saving the planet by creating green energy. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:43.880 Germany has had flat carbon emissions despite five hundred and 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.640 billion dollars of investment that they've set aside by twenty 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.320 twenty five in a renewable heavy electrical grid, and they've 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.200 had a fifty percent rise in electricity costs. France has 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.320 a tenth to carbon emissions. This was done a piece 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.640 today I saw on Quilette. It was amazing. A tenth 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.120 of the carbon emissions per unit of electricity is Germany 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.920 and pays a little more than half for its electricity. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:13.880 How through nuclear power. Nuclear power, if they're serious about 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.560 clean energy and having affordable electricity, is what we should 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.040 be doing. And yet the left hates nuclear power. Why 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:24.240 because of the propaganda against it, Because it's not part 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.679 of their belief system, because the Green New Deal is 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:32.400 based on a religious belief system. Nuclear doesn't that's not clean, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.480 that's not even though it actually is. There's waste from it, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.720 but the waste is very minimal and small, and the 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.960 risk of nuclear some kind of a nuclear meltdown situations, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.360 very very very small nuclear power. If we were just 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.200 being serious about our future when it comes to energy 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.599 creation would be way more effective. But people are obsessed 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.360 with solar and wind. That's what they really want. Well, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.880 there are cost of solar and wind. You can figure 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.440 out what they are just by thinking through it. They 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.280 estimate that wind power which and this would all This 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.080 is what the Green New Deal would be. The Green 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.920 New Deal would be enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars flooding 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:17.280 into buying land and clearing it for solar farms, because 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:18.960 that's really what you need. You need a lot of 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.160 solar panels to generate enough electricity to power you know, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.000 a major town or city. They're not attractive to look at, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.920 by the way, it's not nice in the landscape. You 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.079 know a lot of solar panels. Those solar panels, I 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.199 would know, don't last forever last about twenty years. We 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.040 don't really know how to dispose of them. What becomes 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.160 of solar panels when they're no longer really useful. There's 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.520 a lot of energy expended in making them, you know that. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.600 I talk about wind turbines as queens and arts for 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.400 migratory foul, but particularly for endangered species of birds, for 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:57.120 bald eagles, for you know, for all kinds of hawks 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.120 and raptors that are on the protected species list. They 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.280 get chopped up by by wind turbines all the time. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:09.240 They estimate a million birds a year, including large you know, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.880 large birds that are protected. But you know, the environmentalists 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.240 just turn a blind eye of that million birds of year, folks. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.560 So there is that. And then on this issue of 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.840 the jobs, there's a fallacy and this is true of 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.160 Democrats on a whole bunch of a whole bunch of 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.679 aspects of job creation. But here's the basics of the 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.280 of the Green New Deal fallacy about job creation. They 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.640 seem to think that you take money, you put it 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:43.240 into you put it into building a solar farm, and 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.440 that's a great thing. You're going to create a job. Well, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.560 how long does that job last? The statistics show doesn't 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.520 last very long at all. What is a green job? 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.920 They don't even define this. You know why because a 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.880 huge portion of the so called jobs that are going 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.640 to be created by a green deal are going to 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:06.040 be bureaucratic jobs. That's right, The administrators of our new 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.760 green energy future, a lot of federal jobs, stating local jobs. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.000 People that are just pushing paper around about how wonderful 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.400 our green new deal future is going to be. There 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.560 not going to be that. We don't need human beings 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:25.240 standing around holding up solar panels. The infrastructure to transfer 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:30.080 this electricity from these different renewable sources is incredibly expensive. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.600 We have to put all that in the battery revolution 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.720 that we've been promised. You know, look at how Elon 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.880 Musk's company is doing, folks. He's supposed to be mister 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.720 battery man. The battery revolution is not here yet. It's 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.600 not as simple as just you're going to charge it 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.800 up and then when it's nighttime, those solar panels are 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.720 going to be just fine because they've already charged up. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.880 A No, that's not how it works. The technology is 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.200 not there yet. And in terms of the job creation fallacy, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.640 the way that liberals approached the Green New Deal would 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.480 be like saying, well, when somebody walks past a car 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.080 and smashes the windshield, that's not a bad thing because 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.080 then the person that sells windshields has to you know, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.040 they have to go and sell the windshield to the 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.800 person that needs a new one. And there are people 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.680 that construct the windshield, and the insurance company is going 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.880 to make a payout. But the insurance company gets paid 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.840 along the way, and there's all this productivity around the 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.640 smashing of the windshield. Well, what the green energy people 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.080 don't understand is that the money that is going into 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.320 that is less productive than the money that you could 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.040 or rather than the ways you could have used that 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.840 money if you didn't have a smashed windshield. This analogy 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.640 that would be fossil fuels the windshield. If that's making sense. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.400 This whole thing is a disaster. It does not work. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.000 The science is not there. It does not create the 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.640 jobs they say it will. Each job that is created 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.440 is incredibly expensive. It just moves jobs out of much 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.480 more efficient fossil fuel energy production rules. It's going to 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.760 create an enormous bureaucracy. It's going to allow the government 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.160 to have its tentacles in every aspect of your life. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.160 The Green New Deal is a Green New nightmare. I 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.360 am telling you, the more you dig into it, it 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.600 is awful. And every Democrat for president that has a 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.680 serious shot right now are all officially signed onto this. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.960 We need more research on this, We mean, we need 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.520 more people looking into this and pulling it apart and 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.040 not just yes, the cow fart jokes are fine. I 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.440 make them too, but we need to look at how 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.680 wrong they are and why they're wrong, because people are 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.320 going to believe this. I'm telling you They're going to 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:48.440 believe these lunatics. I'll be right back. So we do 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:54.000 have the aftermath of what was not a not yet 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.320 a successful deal in Hannoy or not a successful deal 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.760 in trying to get North Korea off of its nuclear footing. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.440 We'll get to that in just a moment. I'll spend 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.680 some time with you to talk through because you're gonna 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.159 hear a lot of noise the media about how it's 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.040 big failure for Trump. But I just I think that 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.879 this Green New Deal thing, I'm seeing a lack of 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.240 intellectual seriousness and pulling apart it is worthy of being mocked. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.639 Make the mistake about it. I mean, I think we 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.280 should just do whole segments where a kaiser Karts has 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.160 its talking about like how we should stop eating meat 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.359 because we're gonna say the planet Like, I get it right, 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.640 I mean I do that too fine. But when I'm 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.879 looking around for who's really tackling this issue of Green 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.880 New Deal jobs millions of jobs, they say this, what 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.040 evidence do they have for this? Why don't we make 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.320 them provide evidence? How will there be jobs? Will these 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.600 just be jobs that are switched over from the currently 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:51.280 productive energy economy? And what about people that are just 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.800 involved in the bureaucracy that this is going to create, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.000 you know, the people that are going to measure how 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.200 green the Green New Deal is. And then also there's 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:06.359 a selective technological optimism at work here where they just 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.480 suggest that Green New Deal technology, you know, wind and 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:10.959 solar and all this stuff is going to get better 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.200 and better and better. What we've actually seen of a 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.160 last particularly fifteen to twenty years, is that fossil fuel 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.600 technology has become way more efficient. Fracking has brought about 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.119 in an oil revolution in this country. We are a 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.119 global fossil fuel superpower, and right at that moment. What 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.199 the left wants us to do is abandon that and 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:36.640 embrace a massive bureaucracy that's really just a trojan horse 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.600 for socialism. And they're going to call it the Green 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.360 New Deal. I'm sorry, it's the Green New Nightmare. I'm 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.040 not down with it, and we're going to keep fighting it. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.600 But we'll talk about Trump and Kim coming up. I 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.960 wanted to denuke certain areas and I wanted everything, and 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.520 the sanctions are there, and I didn't want to give 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.240 up the sanctions unless we had a real program, and 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.000 they're not ready for that. Night understand that, fully, I 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:02.560 really do. I mean, they spent a lot of time 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.600 building it, and that doesn't mean the world has to 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:13.119 be happy. But I wanted them to d nuke, d nuke, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.840 the President says, didn't want to give up sanctions. This 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:24.240 is why there is no deal now. The President was 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.680 very clear that this should not be seen as an 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.600 end to the process. Right. The President was saying today 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.760 that after he left Hanoi, it's not like there's not 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.200 going to be more follow on conversations here and more 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:44.120 to discuss, but the relationship will continue on and will 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.120 continue with the current status quo, which is that there 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:56.160 won't be missile testing, there won't be advanced nuclear stuff 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.960 going on, or ways to try to advance the nuclear 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.080 program that they have him. Mostly it's the missile testing, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.840 but there's other stuff that they could do too. Here's 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.200 what the President said about this place sixteen. We will 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.720 keep the relationship. We'll see what happens over the next 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.399 period of time. But as you know, we've got our 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.679 hostages back. There's no more testing. And one of the 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.280 things importantly that Chairman Kim promised me last night is regardless, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.640 he's not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.840 not going to do testing. So you know, I trust 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.360 him and I take him at his word. I hope 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.960 that's true. I think it was very good, very friendly. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.080 This wasn't a walk away, like you get up and 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:44.240 walk out now. This was very friendly. We shook hands 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.840 saying they're not there yet. Right, He's saying that we 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.240 weren't able to get it done this time, but this 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.320 channel is open now and we'll see. You know, part 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.080 of this process, and I think this is hard for 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:01.680 us as Americans to consider, is the preparation back home 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.280 in North Korea. I know it's not a democracy, it's 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.480 a despotism. But to prepare the people around Kim, his 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:15.800 senior advisors, military generals, the apparatus that Kim. It doesn't 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.879 matter what despot you're talking about, there's always people that 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.240 you have to have that implement your will. Right So, 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.560 you know, even if you're Prince Jeoffrey and Game of 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.399 Thrones or King Joffrey and Game of Thrones, you know 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.000 you need the hand, and you know you need the 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.960 queen regent, and you need people around you. I know, 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:33.639 I'm excited Game of Thrones is coming back in a 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.560 few weeks. You need people around you to implement your will. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:42.200 You know, no matter how authoritarian any individual may be, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:48.000 there has to be an apparatus around them to enact 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.600 their will. So Kim, even if he wanted to take 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.359 steps in this direction, and I don't know if he 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.040 does or not, I haven't had a chance to talk 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.240 to him. I'm that would be kind of funny, wouldn't it. Man? 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:00.240 If I could, that would be quite an inner view. 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.040 You know, he did take a question from a report. 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:06.240 This was pretty remarkable, and you know, this is not 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:10.080 something that it's certainly not something you see every day. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.280 He did take a question do we do we have that? 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:14.199 He were saying, Oh, yeah, here we go play thirteen. 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:24.600 This is before the meeting. Well, it's still really to tell. 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:34.760 But I wouldn't say that I'm testing from what I 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.160 feel right now. I do have a bling bad good 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.920 results would come out. I mean, you got to hear 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.240 I've I've never heard the guy speak before. I'll be 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.920 honest with you. I mean, I've read transcripts and obviously 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.480 it's not speaking in English speaking Korean, but uh, I've 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.440 never even heard his voice. It's always dubbed over. But 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.520 you know, the the back home processes that he's going 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.120 to have to if he Look, maybe this is all 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.440 Maybe this is all for not I'm not trying to 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.800 rule that out. You know, this is the worst regime, 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.840 the worst government on the planet, the one that I 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:18.199 think is the most likely to provoke a war that 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:24.680 could go nuclear. And the deprivation, the viciousness, the sadism, 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.639 the slavery, the torture that the North Korean State engages 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.119 in really exceeds anything anywhere else on planet Earth right now. 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:37.520 I mean, they are number one, and you're dealing then 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:42.240 with somebody who sits atop this this mountain of misery 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:47.919 and enslavement and despair. And you know, he didn't create 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:49.840 this system, but he's at the top of this system. 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.600 You have to remember, I'm not even sure it's clear 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:56.200 that Kim could just flip some switch and all of 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.680 a sudden everything starts to feel a lot more normal. There. 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:02.800 The people have been propagandized too. There are a lot 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:04.959 of people who live in such terror of the regime. 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.600 They believe the regime. This is where I always telling you, 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.040 you know, read Escape from Camp fourteen, read Aquariums of 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.320 pyeong Yang, and they will haunt you. I mean, those 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.399 books will they will stay with you. You know. Escape 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:23.639 from Camp fourteen is like a Korean version of the 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:28.960 Gulag Archipelago. I mean, it's the kind of literature that 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.800 affects the way that you see not just that country, 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.160 but the way that you see life and the world 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:38.160 around you. And it takes you into the real depths 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:42.120 of human despair and misery and violence and hatred. And so, 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:44.879 you know, make no mistake about it. North Korea is 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:49.720 the most evil country in the world right now. I mean, 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:51.680 you know, Iran is an evil regime, but you know, 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:55.000 the Iranian people learned way better shape than which you're 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:56.959 what's going on in North Korea. A lot of Iranians 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:00.479 driving around in BMW's and you know, having par It's 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.159 a very very different scene, right, That's not the scene 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:08.200 you have in North Korea. And part of this whole 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:10.680 process and the reason that it's going to be phased 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:12.720 if it works, which it may not, because maybe he 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:14.679 is you know, he could just be an evil soob 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:18.159 and that's it. But at least now we're finding out 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:20.879 at least now Trump is trying and when you and 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.280 this is another part of this that I don't think 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:28.479 it's nearly enough analytic play. You know, you look at 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.080 who the North Korean dictators have liked in the past. 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.439 They like larger than life figures, you know, they like 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:38.360 Dennis Rodman, you know, Kim Jong n Kim Jong Ill 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:43.479 like Dennis Rodman, They love Michael Jordan, they like you know, 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:47.119 huge American celebrities. I forget, there's some other celebrities. I 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.840 remember reading about this that the Kim dynasty really warmed 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:54.760 to and I can't now And the problem with with 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:57.400 some of the North koreanalysis you do is the North 0:25:57.480 --> 0:25:59.960 Korea jokes and memes that people may get met, you know, 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:01.879 to get mixed in your head with because some of 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:04.399 the stuff that is true sounds like it can't be true, 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.520 you know, like Kim Jong gun got eighteen holes in 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:10.480 one in golf in the same day, and things like, 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:14.320 you know, the North Korean news agency propaganda. It sounds 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.359 so preposterous that it's like something from the Onion. But 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:20.080 it isn't from the Onion. But Kim is going to 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:22.359 have to go through a whole process here. It's not 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.879 as straightforward as just Okay, I want our country to 0:26:26.920 --> 0:26:28.640 be a normal country. I mean I think that there's 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:31.320 a real risk that he could be you know, they 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.560 could take him under house arrest, and there would be 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:35.639 somebody that you know, you could have some kind of 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:37.879 a palace coup, and there's other members of the family, 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:42.680 you know, who knows. Our visibility into the real power 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.520 structure in North Korea and the decision making process is, 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:51.680 I can guarantee you very very minimal. It's very hard 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:54.280 to look into a place as closed off in the 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.280 world as North Korea and really know who's making I mean, 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.520 our visibility into the you know, the decision making in 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:03.479 France into our own government is limited. You can imagine 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:06.360 what we really know about North Korea. But the reason 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:09.280 this fell apart with sanctions, This is very important Play fifteen. 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:16.119 They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:20.240 couldn't do that. They were willing to denuke a large 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:23.919 portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn't 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:26.480 give up all of the sanctions for that. So we 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:28.520 continue to work and we'll see, but we had to 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.400 walk away from that. I think we'll end up being 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.760 very good friends with Chairman Kim and with North Korea. 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:37.840 And I think they have tremendous potential. I've been telling 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:43.040 everybody they have tremendous potential, unbelievable potential. But we're going 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:45.359 to see. But it was about sanctions. I mean, they 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:48.280 wanted sanctions lifted, but they weren't willing to do an 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:52.360 area that we wanted. I want to lift sanctions, but 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:57.520 you know that wasn't going to happen if Trump had 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:00.720 come back. I assure you, if Ump had come back 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:04.439 from Hanoi, which is so much more important, and I 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:06.720 know I've been saying to you, so much more important 0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:09.399 than this nonsense with Cohen on Capitol Hia. So it 0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:13.800 just goes to show you Democrats are unserious people. A 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:17.439 serious threat to the country, but unserious people. All the 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:20.119 saturation coverage of Cohen, all that's all the news wires. 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:22.200 Everyone's talking about me, while the president's trying to solve 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:26.160 a war that's never even formally been ended and going 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:31.359 on since nineteen fifty one, and deal with the greatest 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:36.400 national security threat really in terms of positive, in terms 0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:39.440 of loss of life, potential, realistic national security threat that 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:41.960 exists in the world today. He's trying to tackle that, 0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:44.160 and you know, they just want to make jokes and 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:45.880 make fun of him. But if he had come back 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:50.800 from this and he had agreed to sanctions relief without 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:54.560 a full accounting of the North Korean nuclear program and 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:59.640 without an agreement on steps for denuclearization with verification procedures 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.800 in play, I would have said Trump, Trump's getting played. 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.240 I've told you, I'm disappointed on where the wall is 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:08.320 right now. The wall is not where we were led 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.440 to believe it would be at this point. That doesn't 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:12.720 mean but see there's a difference between it's not what 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:17.040 I want, it's not perfect yet and someone has failed, 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.280 someone has sold us out, someone was lying. Those are 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:22.560 not the same thing, all right. The wall isn't where 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:24.960 it should be now. And Trump hasn't gotten as far 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.680 at this point in his presidency as he should have 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:30.680 based on the importance of the wall in his campaign 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:34.480 rhetoric and the size of the immigration crisis, which is 0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:36.360 only going to get worse. We'll be talking more about that, 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:40.120 I'm sure in the weeks ahead, but on this issue, 0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:44.760 the fact that he did not remove sanctions is absolutely essential. 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:47.160 And this is where this is where the Obama administration 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:50.720 fell into a trap because they were desperate and Obama 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:54.520 couldn't you know, Obama's team couldn't negotiate their way out 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:56.240 of a paper bag. I mean, they had no idea 0:29:56.280 --> 0:29:58.960 what they were really doing because they didn't really understand 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:01.600 the opposition. They didn't really understand who the Iranians are 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:04.720 and what the Iranian regime is trying to do willing 0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:08.480 to do. And there was a tremendous amount of hubrists 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:12.880 and an arrogance that was just dripping from the you know, 0:30:13.040 --> 0:30:18.200 Ben Rhodes and the other chief foreign policy propagandists of 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:22.080 the Obama administration, and they didn't want to listen to 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.600 anybody else. They thought that they knew better, they were smarter, 0:30:24.680 --> 0:30:30.160 and they got They got just swindled, absolutely swindled. Because 0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:33.120 now the Iranian state's getting you know, well, Trump has 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:36.480 rolled this back, but the Iranian state was on a 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:40.280 roadway to getting richer and having a more robust nuclear 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:42.680 program down the line that would be turn key, ready 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:46.120 to go. It gets all this relief from sanctions. We 0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:48.200 gave it, palettes of cash, gave it all this money. 0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:50.920 Iranian regime hasn't changed one bit towards us. Every every 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:57.440 bit is as bellicose and as dangerous and as much 0:30:57.440 --> 0:30:58.880 of a threat to our interest in the Middle East 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.840 and around the world as its always been. North Korea, 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:03.960 we sat down or Trump's show, we didn't do it. Hey, 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.920 here we are Team Buck has a ride for negotiations 0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:09.600 with Kim Jong hun. Now, but the President United States 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:15.400 sat down with North Korea with Kim Jong hun and said, look, 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:19.760 let's do this. He's right to focus on what how 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:22.040 much potential the country has. I would know he's right 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:31.280 to spend time extolling the possibilities for wealth and for prosperity, 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:34.880 because you know, the people at the top of Remember, 0:31:34.920 --> 0:31:37.560 I'm not saying North Korea is never going to be Switzerland, 0:31:38.040 --> 0:31:41.400 certainly not in our lifetime and probably not for you know, ever, 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:44.360 maybe a few centuries. You know, North Korea is not 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:47.440 even going to be Japan or South Korea anytime soon. 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:52.120 But North Korea could be you know, like China circa 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:56.800 nineteen fifty in terms of the way it approaches things 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.120 and the you know, the economy, or maybe China circa 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:02.320 nineteens nineteen fifty probably wouldn't be that much better than 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:05.080 but you know, it could be China thirty or forty 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:12.360 years ago. Command economy, labor force. Yeah, rough conditions, bad stuff, corruption. 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:14.800 You know, it's not like this is some place that 0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:17.760 everyone else wants to emulate. But you know, you've got 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.120 to get the power structure to go along. It's not 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.960 just Kim. Even in a dictatorship, it's not just the dictator. 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:25.400 And the reason I know about this is because I 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:27.560 actually have a bunch of academic literature here on my 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:31.240 bookshelf at home that I've read through about authoritarianism and dictatorship. 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:34.440 You know what, the number one threat to dictators for 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:37.960 the last five hundred years has been it's it's not 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:43.479 external invasion, it's not financial collapse. It is a coup 0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:48.320 from somebody powerful in their inner circle. Number one threat 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.320 for dictators, or at least for the last I think 0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:53.880 hundred fifty years. I said five hundred, last hundred fifty years, 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:58.040 that's the number one threat. So Kim Jong un goes 0:32:58.040 --> 0:32:59.680 back there and he doesn't have buy in from his 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:01.760 general roles. All of a sudden, you know, some second 0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:05.000 cousin of Kims who's the you know, in command of 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:07.320 the military says, you know, Kim's not feeling well. You're 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:09.240 not going to see him for a while. We're running 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.560 the show. Now, who's gonna say, Who's gonna say anything 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:17.400 about that? So it's a process. It's delicate, incredibly complicated. 0:33:17.520 --> 0:33:21.080 More on this week come back. Why these talks have 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:25.760 failed under Bush and Clinton and Obama were we didn't 0:33:25.800 --> 0:33:28.160 think there was an existential threat. Yet now we know 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:30.480 there is with the ability to hit a western city. 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.680 So Trump is much more urgent and serious. And second, 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:37.320 we had this crazy appeasing idea of China that they 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.720 were on the trajectory to the Family of Nations, and 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:43.240 the more we appease them, the more the rich they got, 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:46.440 the more reasonable they are. Trump doesn't buy into that. 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:50.120 We always gave up on sanctions. We said, why, I'm god, 0:33:50.160 --> 0:33:53.960 they're eating grass, or we have to be careful about 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:57.120 the innocent North Korean people, But they don't rate when 0:33:57.120 --> 0:34:01.080 you're considering losing Seattle or Portland's So I think Trump 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:04.840 brilliantly put it in Vietnam, and he's basically saying, without backdrop, 0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:07.720 this was an arch enemy of the United States. It's 0:34:07.800 --> 0:34:13.200 communist and it's doing much better than you are. That's 0:34:14.120 --> 0:34:17.600 the inducement, and that's Mickey Davis Hansen. He understands this. 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:21.400 But why should North Korea? Why should the North Korean 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:25.560 power brokers, the decision makers, why why should they do this? 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:29.320 What do they get out of it? Because I remember, 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:32.000 there's going to be there's gonna be the possibility of 0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:35.600 external influence and they could lose their grip on power. 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:38.160 Why well, you know, you can look from some other 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:42.479 countries in the region that you still have authoritarian rule, 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:47.360 military rule, communist party rule. But people are rich, people 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:51.600 are rich, and even some of the North Korean elite, 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.279 I'm sure would like to get a little richer. And 0:34:53.280 --> 0:34:56.640 that's it's going to be incremental progress. Is I think 0:34:56.640 --> 0:34:58.520 what people have lost sight if here it has to 0:34:58.560 --> 0:35:02.719 be incremental progress, there is no there is no speedy 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:06.520 version of getting North Korea from being the hermit Kingdom 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:09.840 to reunifying with South Korea and everything being fine, and 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:14.279 that's never going to happen. Via Davids. Hanson also just 0:35:14.320 --> 0:35:16.200 spoke more broadly to Trump's record. I want to I mean, 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:18.759 I VDH is one of my favorites these days. He 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:21.960 really he really gets at play seven. 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Now it's strike two, Hannoy once again, 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:04.520 no deal to denuclearize North Korea, something that he's staked 0:37:04.520 --> 0:37:06.480 a lot of his legacy, a lot of his presidency 0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:09.520 on a very rough and rocky twenty four hours of 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:13.080 the President humbled back in Washington, humbled here in Hanoi, 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:17.279 heading back to Washington empty handed. And so I think 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.960 when we assess all of this in the hours and 0:37:20.040 --> 0:37:22.320 days and weeks ahead, I think what's going to become 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:25.920 clear Christiana and Jim is that the President staked a 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:28.600 lot of his presidency on something that is just much 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.759 more difficult than reality TV. This is not something that 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:34.840 can be wrapped up in a season of The Apprentice. 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:39.960 Jim Acosta is an idiot, and CNN should be ashamed 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:43.160 to put him out there as their chief White House correspondent. 0:37:43.160 --> 0:37:46.799 I think he's just not very smart. He's just one 0:37:46.800 --> 0:37:51.200 of these classic TV zombie types who's much more worried 0:37:51.239 --> 0:37:55.440 about what kind of hair hold and spray he's using, 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:59.160 and how the camera angle looks on his jawline and 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:03.760 anything else. And it's just an ignoramus, isn't isn't smart, 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:06.800 doesn't bring much to this, and here he is taking 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:10.120 taking cheap shots at the President of the United States, 0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:17.960 who is legitimately trying to avert a future a future 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:23.000 nuclear crisis. You know, I mean, I could say one 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:28.400 thing when when Obama took out Bin Laden by giving 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.919 the order that he had sat on for a long 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:34.279 time to join Special Operations Command and Enable Seal Team 0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:37.040 went in and actually did the mission. But anyway, people say, 0:38:37.040 --> 0:38:39.720 oh Obama got Bin Laden. No, our seals got Bin Laden, 0:38:39.800 --> 0:38:42.399 thank you. But Obama as Commander chief, did give the order. 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:45.720 I didn't do a whole oh you know, but you know, 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:48.120 I don't really It's it's not good that, you know, 0:38:48.280 --> 0:38:50.880 we got justice for nine to eleven because Obama gave it. No, 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.799 it was the right move. He got credit for it there, 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:57.880 he had it right. I mean, there are some places 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:04.120 where partisanship really just has no place, and on North 0:39:04.239 --> 0:39:07.520 Korea nuclear diplomacy, that's where we should be. And you 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:13.080 can just see these smug, gloating idiots in the mainstream 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:17.000 media are are happy that Trump didn't get a deal, 0:39:17.160 --> 0:39:19.319 happy that Trump didn't get a deal that would have 0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:25.040 not only removed the the threat of a possible major 0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:29.280 nuclear military confrontation when remember, no great has a million 0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:33.960 million plus man standing army, has a tremendous amount of 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:39.880 artillery and and you know, mechanized infantry, and I mean 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:44.719 there's all kinds of Soviet era and then upgraded military 0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:47.080 hardware they could bring to bear, which doesn't really affect 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.720 us that much. I'm not saying they're gonna roll self 0:39:49.719 --> 0:39:54.200 propelled artillery into Omaha anytime soon, but it does affect 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:57.960 South Korea. And we have thirty thousand or so troops 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.440 who are in South Korea, so that they're there are 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:03.560 conventional military concerns that we have to take very seriously. 0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:08.359 But you know that that could have been at least 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:10.480 we could have gotten to the start of the removal 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:14.359 of any threat of that in the future. By the way, 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.200 who's just say that North Korea doesn't just go totally 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:20.839 wacko and invade South Korea again. You know, we take 0:40:20.880 --> 0:40:23.160 this position of, well, they would never do that. Well, 0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:25.880 the more you learn about North Korea, the crazier you 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:30.120 realize it is, and the decision making apparatus there is 0:40:30.200 --> 0:40:34.640 not something that we can effectively anticipate. And if they 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:37.760 thought that they could take enough of South Korea quickly 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:42.080 enough that we wouldn't want to retaliate. And you know 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:44.560 that there's a lot of reason to believe that. Ideologically, 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:47.200 at least, the North Korean leadership is a ligne with 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.000 that anyway. I mean, it's just it's a huge problem 0:40:49.040 --> 0:40:51.719 set North Korea is a concentration camp above ground, a 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:55.480 mass grave below it, and the president is making a 0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:59.680 good faith effort. He really does want Yeah, he wants 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:01.920 this for all presidents. I want there to be a 0:41:01.960 --> 0:41:07.239 degree of of you know, individual glory seeking in a 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:10.120 president when it comes to things like this, because that's 0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:12.560 what keeps you in the fight, that's what keeps you 0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:16.359 willing to take these risks sometimes that you know there's 0:41:16.400 --> 0:41:20.839 going to be an everlasting legacy of achieving something that 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:23.319 is truly great. You know, I want people to be 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:26.439 motivated for themselves as well as for the greater good. 0:41:27.640 --> 0:41:29.960 I want everybody rowing in the same direction. So I 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:34.759 think that Trump trying to achieve this is something that 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:40.279 everybody should be willing to say they want. And yet 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:43.759 you have smug Acosta saying it's much more difficult than 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:48.360 reality TV. You know what is not that difficult preening 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:50.080 in front of a camera about how much you hate 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:54.960 Trump on CNN like an idiot, like an absolute idiot. 0:41:56.280 --> 0:42:02.399 Speaking of idiots, Bob Menendez another a senator. Who wasn't 0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:04.400 he the guy that was flying down to the Dominican 0:42:04.440 --> 0:42:08.360 Republic And there was all kinds of interesting hubbub around 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.880 that Senor Menendez. Oh, he is the guy who his 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:16.120 best friend Meligan, was paying for his very high end lifestyle. 0:42:16.120 --> 0:42:19.799 Even Meligan just ripped off Medicare. And I think a 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:24.800 sixty million dollar fraud, sixty million, might even an eighty million, 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:28.200 but just just ripping off attacks bearer tens of millions 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:31.680 of dollars. That was Bob Menendez's best buddy. The only 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:33.719 reason he didn't go to prison. Menendez didn't go to 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:36.480 prisons because a jury was like, well, maybe they were 0:42:36.520 --> 0:42:40.800 just friends that he wasn't actually a quid pro quo 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:46.920 corruption situation. Well yeah, but Menendez did lobby for some 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:52.000 of Meligan's international babe patrol to get on the private 0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:54.200 jet and come to America and get them visas or something. 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.719 I mean, Menendez should have gone to jail, all right, 0:42:57.719 --> 0:42:59.480 Menendez should have gone to jail. Didn't go to jail. 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:02.439 But on the summit, here's what he had to say. 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:05.719 Remember this guy sits on the Senate Formulations Committee, Play 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:10.399 a teen. What we saw in Hanoi was amateur hour 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:14.120 with nuclear weapons at stake and the limits of reality 0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:19.000 TV diplomacy. What I worry about is that the president, 0:43:19.480 --> 0:43:23.879 by giving Kim John Noon the international not only recognition 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:27.920 but almost acceptance, from going from pariah to an accepted 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:34.359 international leader, has squandered the leverage that we have. This 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:36.920 is just classic, and I'm glad we played this audio 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:44.799 for you. This is classic echo chamber ossified foreign policy 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:50.560 elitism thinking. Here's the reality of what has happened with 0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:55.160 the North Korea. In North Korea gets more advanced missile programs, 0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:59.480 more advanced in its nuclear programs, and is no closer 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:03.279 to liberalizing or becoming a less Bellico state now than 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:07.239 it has been in thirty years. It has been progressing 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:13.719 administration after administration toward deliverable nuclear weapons atop an ICBM 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:16.000 and all the so called smarts that up to this 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:20.680 point hasn't been able to do. Squat and saying these 0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:25.279 things like squandering our leverage and elevating his profile and 0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:28.399 the he is the leader of North Korea. He's got 0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:33.320 nuclear weapons. You know, the people that take this position 0:44:33.360 --> 0:44:35.279 if we never should have talked to Kim Jong un. 0:44:36.000 --> 0:44:39.080 To that, I say, well, we are talking to the Taliban, 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.600 and we're about to effectively hand Afghanistan over to the 0:44:42.600 --> 0:44:47.240 Taliban if current trends continue. So what are we supposed 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:50.000 to do? We don't talk to the enemy. I mean, 0:44:50.000 --> 0:44:52.279 North Korea is an enemy state, but we're not going 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:54.359 to talk to them. What has that gotten us? It's 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:56.440 gotten us a lot of missile firings. Hasn't helped the 0:44:56.480 --> 0:45:00.279 North Korean people. All that I'm not saying. See, this 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:05.960 is the key talk, but don't concede. Obama was what 0:45:06.000 --> 0:45:08.359 can I how can I make a deal? What can 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:10.240 I do? What do I need to give you Iran 0:45:11.120 --> 0:45:12.680 to get a deal so that I have a foreign 0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:15.360 policy legacy? That was the Obama administration and all the 0:45:15.360 --> 0:45:18.840 so called smart set there. Trump is saying, all right, 0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:22.440 let's discuss. Here are my terms. You won't take my terms. 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:29.360 I'm out. I'm out. That's the way it should be. 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.600 What was really the other The other way was back 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:37.120 channeling with some diplomats and to get something going. You know, whatever, 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:39.880 Please you think that the bureaucrats at the State Department 0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:43.880 are going to solve this problem. Find me a problem 0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:46.600 anywhere near as high stakes and challenging as this that 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:50.280 low level State Department bureaucrats have been able to figure out. Please, 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:55.399 I would really like to hear that story like this 0:45:55.560 --> 0:45:59.719 is this is an outcome that's it's disappointing, but it's 0:45:59.760 --> 0:46:05.160 not a disaster. And when you understand the dynamics at 0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:08.400 play here, it's going to take time. The more that 0:46:08.760 --> 0:46:12.360 Trump and Kim Jong un, you could make this argument, 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:13.960 and I think it's a fair one to make, the 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:15.920 more that Kim Jong Uman Trump talk and have some 0:46:16.040 --> 0:46:19.920 kind of personal relationship, the easier it would be for 0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:22.839 the North Korean propaganda apparatus, which is what we're working 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:25.560 on here, folks, to make it seem like, well, maybe 0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:28.400 America doesn't want to, you know, eat all of our 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:32.320 children down to the bone and annihilate our entire country, 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:34.680 you know. And they're not going to be fair minded 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:36.000 about it. Is. They still are going to say where 0:46:36.000 --> 0:46:38.799 monsters were barbarians? But you know, it can ratchet down 0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:42.719 tensions a little bit. It can't be any worse. I mean, 0:46:42.719 --> 0:46:44.920 the relationship between North Korean and the rest of the 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:48.800 world can't get worse short of an all out invasion. 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:52.000 But why haven't we done an all out invasion North Korea? 0:46:52.200 --> 0:46:56.200 Why is North Korea the country that even back to 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.279 the earliest days of the acts of evil, there's been 0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:03.080 no serious effort to topple, to invade, to do any 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:05.600 of those things. Oh, that's right, because they have nukes 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:08.240 and Soul is right next door, and they could destroy 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:12.000 South Korea in a day, or you know, do tremendous 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:14.799 damage to South Korea in a day, So we don't 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:18.200 have that option. All right, we don't have that option. 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:22.760 A lot of stupid stuff coming out of the pundits. 0:47:22.800 --> 0:47:26.760 Oh Trump piece, he's so horrible. And look, I can 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:31.919 handle some degree of criticism around whether or not it's 0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.680 okay to have Trump warm up to Kim Jong un. 0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:36.319 He you know, when he says we fell in love, 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:38.560 and you know, Trump says some weird things. Yeah, of course, 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:41.680 you know, I'm not here to blow smoke Trump. Some 0:47:41.719 --> 0:47:43.319 of the stuff Trump says, I'm like, did you really 0:47:43.320 --> 0:47:45.719 have to say that? Come on, man, you know, But 0:47:45.760 --> 0:47:48.400 then again, I didn't beat the Democrat left wing Hillary 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:50.560 machine and become president the United States when everybody said 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:53.520 it was impossible. So I give the guy some leeway 0:47:53.600 --> 0:47:56.799 to do things the way he does them. Doesn't mean 0:47:56.840 --> 0:47:58.640 that I always agree, though, doesn't mean that I say, oh, yeah, 0:47:58.640 --> 0:48:02.120 that's a great idea. Do I like the comment he 0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:04.400 made about how he takes Kim Jong un at his 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:09.400 word about Otto Warrember? No, I don't. I don't. I 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:13.360 you know, I just think that Otto was one of 0:48:13.360 --> 0:48:16.239 ours and the North Koreans acted like savages when it 0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:20.000 came to Otto, and that's not something that we should 0:48:20.000 --> 0:48:22.920 just let pass. Do. I think that Trump maybe was 0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:26.120 just trying to say, you know, it's not clear to 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.879 him that the decision making about Otto was in Kim 0:48:29.960 --> 0:48:31.680 Jong UN's hands, and he doesn't want to throw away 0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:35.960 the relationship he has with Kim Jong unnecessarily. Maybe. But 0:48:36.040 --> 0:48:38.040 I didn't. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. 0:48:38.080 --> 0:48:41.560 I thought it was a problem. And I'm not saying 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:43.239 that what Trump has done here is perfect, but he's 0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:47.040 trying and we should all this is the key point 0:48:47.040 --> 0:48:50.879 in all this. 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Net 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:11.280 and Yahoo a strong ally of the US on all matters, 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:15.000 really on national security matters, on counterterrorism on Middle East 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:17.800 Security Net and Yahoo could be in some hot water. 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:20.160 This is an area where I feel like we need 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:22.000 to bring in one of our friends who's a true 0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:25.640 expert on what's happening in Israel. We have my friend 0:50:25.800 --> 0:50:28.600 David if Fun with us now. He is the editor 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:31.160 in chief of the Alga Miner. David, great to have 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:36.360 you back. Always a pleasure book. So what's happening with Beebee? Well, 0:50:36.360 --> 0:50:39.680 the truth is, it certainly looks like he's in the 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:44.239 probably the second toughest spot he's ever been in politically 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:48.520 throughout the course of his extensive and illustrious career. The 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:52.280 first was back in ninety seven after the Hebron Accords, 0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:56.239 where he was ultimately booted from office for the first time. 0:50:57.160 --> 0:51:00.840 The second round, he's held on the leadership position from 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:03.440 much much longer. The truth is, though he was in 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:07.840 trouble before the indictments or the intention to indict was 0:51:07.840 --> 0:51:11.560 announced by Israel's Attorney channel today, where a new party, 0:51:11.640 --> 0:51:15.320 which is formed of a collaboration of three different former 0:51:15.400 --> 0:51:19.000 chiefs of staff of the Israeli military, was polling six 0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:23.320 or seven points ahead of his Likud party, and certainly 0:51:23.360 --> 0:51:26.880 this announcement today is only going to add to his troubles. 0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:32.480 Having said that, Yahoo is a brilliant and masterful politician, 0:51:33.000 --> 0:51:35.960 and over the course of his career always seems to 0:51:36.000 --> 0:51:39.239 find a way out of the trickiest spots. So I 0:51:39.280 --> 0:51:41.839 wouldn't be too quick to write him off. But he's 0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:44.960 certainly in a pickle right now. Well, we'll tell us 0:51:44.960 --> 0:51:48.759 about this. What does he is he in trouble? I mean, 0:51:48.760 --> 0:51:52.040 what is he's what happened here? What do he do? Well, look, 0:51:52.080 --> 0:51:55.759 the question of you know what the end of the 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.360 legal process is going to bring for him, We're not 0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:00.960 going to know that until it all plays out. You know, 0:52:01.000 --> 0:52:03.600 there has to be there has to be an indictment, 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:05.960 and there has to be you know, the whole the 0:52:06.000 --> 0:52:09.400 full extent of the legal process. What he's being accused 0:52:09.400 --> 0:52:15.640 of are bribery and breach of trust specifically. You know, 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:18.640 there are a lot of details, and there are a 0:52:18.719 --> 0:52:21.719 bunch of different cases. There are three different cases that 0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:25.160 he's being charged in Case one thousand, Case two thousand, 0:52:25.200 --> 0:52:29.360 Case four thousands, as they're known, but effectively in exchange 0:52:29.400 --> 0:52:34.400 for better coverage from media outlets, and also in exchange 0:52:34.400 --> 0:52:39.560 for some various favors jewelry, cigars, champagne. He's accused of 0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:44.080 doing political favors for certain leading business people and business 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:48.239 oligarchs in Israel and one actually that's in the United States. 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:51.560 Two of those who he's accused of helping run two 0:52:51.600 --> 0:52:56.080 of Israel's biggest media outlets. So he's accused of seeking 0:52:56.120 --> 0:53:01.600 favorable coverage in exchange for various business favors. So what 0:53:01.680 --> 0:53:03.120 do you think, I mean, how does he get out 0:53:03.160 --> 0:53:04.920 of this? And by the way, how much do you 0:53:05.000 --> 0:53:09.439 assess politics? Internal politics in Israel are kind of, if 0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:13.799 not entirely behind these charges, pushing them on a little bit. Well, 0:53:13.840 --> 0:53:18.000 the truth is there's always an element of that, and 0:53:18.080 --> 0:53:19.879 you know we see that in this country as well. 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:23.359 That certainly his political opponents are much more of gung 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.600 ho about things. But the attorney general who's bought these 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:30.399 charges is seen, as you know, mostly for the most part, 0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:32.919 of level headed guy who actually works for Yah who 0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:36.160 in the past as the cabinet secretary, that was his 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:40.760 immediate prior job. The question, really, though, is going to be, 0:53:40.760 --> 0:53:43.800 because the legal process hasn't played out, it's going to 0:53:43.880 --> 0:53:47.080 be you know what all the other members of his coalition, 0:53:47.360 --> 0:53:50.040 how they're going to react to this and potential partners 0:53:50.040 --> 0:53:53.319 in a future coalition. So basically all of the right 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:56.440 wing parties, including those that are further to the right 0:53:56.800 --> 0:53:58.680 of Knitt and the Irish Party, and also the ultra 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:03.760 orthodox parties which make up the coalition as it stands today, 0:54:04.320 --> 0:54:06.040 have all said, you know, we're going to stand by 0:54:06.080 --> 0:54:08.640 net Yahoo. We'd be happy, we're happy to stay in 0:54:08.680 --> 0:54:10.520 his government now, and we're going we'd be happy to 0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:12.719 stay in his government or be a part of the 0:54:12.800 --> 0:54:16.080 future government that he would form should he win the election. So, 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:18.440 you know, it Israel, it's not just about the party 0:54:18.440 --> 0:54:20.960 that gets the most seats. It's also about the party 0:54:21.000 --> 0:54:25.400 that has the ability to build a majority block, because 0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:28.920 nobody gets the majority of the Kineta's seats. You know, 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:32.080 the highest polling party now is a major competitor, is 0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:35.000 polling at thirty five or thirty six seats. That's called 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:37.560 the Blue and White Party, named after the Israeli flag, 0:54:37.840 --> 0:54:40.640 and his Liqud party is polling between twenty nine and 0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:43.880 thirty one thirty two, so he's falling a little bit behind. 0:54:44.239 --> 0:54:47.680 But what's important is not just how many seats you get, 0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:50.560 it's whether you're actually able to form a coalition, and 0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:54.320 the left wing block doesn't look like it's it's passing 0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:57.200 the sixty one seat threshold, and they might have trouble 0:54:57.239 --> 0:54:59.919 actually forming the coalition. So it's happened in the past 0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:03.680 US that the party that won the most seats actually 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:05.960 didn't end up in government because they couldn't form the 0:55:05.960 --> 0:55:09.600 coalition that was necessary. So that's one way that Niah, 0:55:09.600 --> 0:55:15.279 who might emerge intact, I would say, after this, this 0:55:15.320 --> 0:55:17.640 whole process is over all right, Well, David, you're gonna 0:55:17.640 --> 0:55:19.480 have to come back and tell us when all said 0:55:19.560 --> 0:55:22.719 and done, if BB manages to maneuver out of this 0:55:22.760 --> 0:55:25.479 one again. Obviously he's close at the President Tromp. He's 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:29.920 considered a staunch ally of the US in the region 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:33.239 and obviously around the world. So always good to talk 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:35.000 to my friend, editor in chief of the Alga Minor. 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:36.920 If you want to know what's going on, you need 0:55:36.960 --> 0:55:40.360 to check out the Alga Minor. And David, thank you 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:42.120 so much for joining us, my friend David. If fun, 0:55:42.200 --> 0:55:45.920 everybody holy is a pleasure team. We are going to 0:55:46.040 --> 0:55:48.879 roll into a quick break. We've got much more show 0:55:48.880 --> 0:55:51.360 coming up, so stay with me. A lot of people 0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:55.320 tonight are humming ding dong. The witch is dead because 0:55:55.320 --> 0:55:58.320 the witch hunt, the Russia collusion narrative, it was thrown 0:55:58.360 --> 0:56:00.680 out there over and over and over again. And what 0:56:00.840 --> 0:56:04.239 happened was there was nothing there. And so for this 0:56:05.280 --> 0:56:08.840 unbelievable hearing today, you know, there were a lot of 0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:12.799 opportunities afforded this particular witness that shouldn't have happened. He 0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:16.800 had a thirty minute opening. I don't remember any witness 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:19.920 ever having a thirty minute opening. It was all trying 0:56:19.960 --> 0:56:23.799 to spin a narrative to start the impeachment process. His 0:56:24.800 --> 0:56:31.560 testimony was highly incriminating, explosive, a bombshell in the leads 0:56:31.640 --> 0:56:36.520 it should provide if corroborated by other witnesses and documents. Plainly, 0:56:36.800 --> 0:56:41.319 he laid out a roadmap of criminality committed by the 0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:44.000 president that needs to be followed not only by the 0:56:44.000 --> 0:56:49.879 Special Council, but by other prosecuting offices. Right now, no 0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:58.080 aspect of Trump world is not under investigation a Bloomenthal 0:56:58.880 --> 0:57:03.400 de nang dick. There, no aspect of Trump world is 0:57:03.440 --> 0:57:06.080 not under investigation. He really gives away the game, doesn't 0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:09.719 He lets you know what this is all about. This 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:16.320 is about weaponizing the law. That's what this is about. 0:57:16.640 --> 0:57:21.280 That is the primary motivation here for all of this 0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:24.440 stuff that we're seeing, Russia collusion, Southern districts of New 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.240 York looking at the hush payments, trying to get Trump 0:57:27.520 --> 0:57:30.640 Trump's tax returns, all of it. But isn't it funny 0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:33.320 of Mark Meadows and Dick Bluementhal. They're both there at 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:38.920 this hearing, both, you know, watching the same events unfold, 0:57:38.960 --> 0:57:43.040 and they come away with completely different interpretations of it. 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:46.240 Mark Meadows comes away with the one that I obviously 0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:49.880 share because it is based in reality and logic, But 0:57:49.960 --> 0:57:55.160 Dick Bluementhal comes away with, See, everything is evidence. Everything 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:58.400 is evidence of Trump criminality. It's kind of like the 0:57:58.480 --> 0:58:01.640 left and climate change. Everything is evidence of climate change. 0:58:02.040 --> 0:58:04.880 If it gets colder, it's because of climate change. If 0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:06.720 it gets warmer, it's because of climate change. If it 0:58:06.760 --> 0:58:09.240 stays the same, well that's really scary because the climate 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:13.480 should be changing, So it's evidence of climate change. Everything 0:58:13.520 --> 0:58:16.480 proves their thesis. Nothing can disprove their thesis. This is 0:58:16.520 --> 0:58:20.800 one of the most important tools for debating with liberals 0:58:20.800 --> 0:58:22.800 that I've talked to you about in the past, and 0:58:22.800 --> 0:58:25.720 that is ask them what data you could give them 0:58:26.360 --> 0:58:30.200 or what you know, what information you could provide them 0:58:30.320 --> 0:58:36.320 that would even if just theoretically disprove their thesis. For example, 0:58:36.440 --> 0:58:40.800 on climate change, it's not possible to disprove their thesis. 0:58:40.880 --> 0:58:43.480 If the temperature stayed exactly where it is, would that 0:58:43.520 --> 0:58:46.800 disprove it? If it goes up, would that? You know, 0:58:47.160 --> 0:58:50.440 they can't. There's no information that you could ask them 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:52.840 for ahead of time that would show. And by the way, 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:56.040 even if you did, they would just then change the 0:58:56.120 --> 0:58:58.080 numbers and change the data sets so that all of 0:58:58.160 --> 0:59:02.240 a sudden, oh yeah, no, that's right, nothing to see here. 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:07.720 That would be their approach. All right, you cannot falsified. 0:59:07.760 --> 0:59:10.680 It is unfalsifiable. The same thing is true with the 0:59:10.760 --> 0:59:13.920 left and all this Russia collusion stuff and just the 0:59:14.520 --> 0:59:19.880 idea of President Trump's criminality. And they had the personal 0:59:20.000 --> 0:59:22.080 lawyer of the President of the United States for the 0:59:22.160 --> 0:59:26.280 last decade. I mean, they've got him over a barrel. 0:59:26.320 --> 0:59:30.360 I mean, he will tell them anything he can that's 0:59:30.440 --> 0:59:34.200 damaging to Trump. He'll do everything in his power in 0:59:34.320 --> 0:59:36.360 order to get a lesser sentence or just to be 0:59:36.400 --> 0:59:39.920 in the good graces of the Democrat left establishment. Now 0:59:39.920 --> 0:59:41.320 that he's going to prison, and he's going to be 0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:44.640 looking for jobs when he comes out. If you can't 0:59:44.680 --> 0:59:49.600 get a criminal case based off of having the lawyer 0:59:49.800 --> 0:59:52.280 of the president when he was in his personal capacity, 0:59:52.760 --> 0:59:58.400 flip on him, wave all attorney client privilege, and just 0:59:59.120 --> 1:00:03.480 go on a mission of destruction against the president, any 1:00:03.520 --> 1:00:07.880 reasonable person would say there's nothing here. I mean this 1:00:08.880 --> 1:00:12.360 fiction that they cling to, that the payments to Stephanie 1:00:12.400 --> 1:00:16.720 Clifford and Stormy Daniels, that those are criminal activity. First 1:00:16.720 --> 1:00:21.240 of all, we're talking about campaign finance stuff, all right, 1:00:21.240 --> 1:00:24.120 We're talking about campaign finance. We're not talking about a 1:00:24.200 --> 1:00:28.920 crime crime. We're talking about what is known as mallem prohibitum, 1:00:29.040 --> 1:00:33.280 not malamin say, Malamin say is something that is bad, right, 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:37.200 cannibalism bad doesn't matter if the government says it's okay. 1:00:37.200 --> 1:00:41.960 We'll talk more about that later. Mallem prohibitum as the 1:00:42.000 --> 1:00:44.320 government says you can't do this because we say so, 1:00:45.040 --> 1:00:47.240 we have a reason for it. But it's not something 1:00:47.280 --> 1:00:51.200 that is inherently rooted in some moral truth, right. I mean, 1:00:51.240 --> 1:00:54.400 you could argue, even I would argue that taxes are 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:58.240 a mallem prohibitum violation. I mean, are you a bad 1:00:58.240 --> 1:01:01.640 person if you don't pay your taxes. No, if they 1:01:01.640 --> 1:01:04.400 wanted one hundred percent of your income as taxation, should 1:01:04.400 --> 1:01:06.280 you have to pay that? Is that a moral obligation 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:09.560 on you? I mean, that's prohibitum, right, So when you're 1:01:09.600 --> 1:01:14.640 discussing campaign finance violations, that's obviously malam prohibitum, which just 1:01:14.680 --> 1:01:17.480 means it's wrong because the state says it's wrong. Campaign 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:22.440 finance laws change all the time. They are murky, they're opaque, 1:01:22.800 --> 1:01:24.840 and there are lots of ways you can get on 1:01:24.960 --> 1:01:29.240 the wrong side of them, all right. So with that 1:01:29.320 --> 1:01:33.800 in mind, the idea that this is the most important 1:01:33.800 --> 1:01:35.640 thing they could get on Trump, that this is how 1:01:35.680 --> 1:01:38.520 they're really going to nail the president of the United 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:42.520 States by making the case that a payoff to people 1:01:42.600 --> 1:01:45.840 claiming affairs with you is only a campaign expense and 1:01:45.960 --> 1:01:49.080 not a personal expense. Because if it is also a 1:01:49.120 --> 1:01:54.160 personal expense, guess what doesn't count. Did they have no case? 1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:58.080 If they had a case, they'd bring the charges. They 1:01:58.200 --> 1:02:00.640 have no case. It's not in egal act. And I 1:02:00.640 --> 1:02:05.480 think even more importantly, it's not a disqualifying an immoral act. 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:10.240 Oh he didn't, he didn't claim these as a campaign expenditure. Well, 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:14.439 he didn't have to, so why should he. But that's 1:02:14.480 --> 1:02:17.200 the biggest thing, and they've gone after him with everything, 1:02:17.440 --> 1:02:20.160 with everything that they've got. And this is where we 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:23.920 are so far. The collusion narrative, I would note, got 1:02:25.080 --> 1:02:28.960 crushed yesterday for anybody who was paying attention. The dossier 1:02:29.120 --> 1:02:33.480 that said that Michael Cohen was in Prague false. The 1:02:34.280 --> 1:02:39.480 Russia cumpromats, compromising information, Russia compromat tapes of Trump, and 1:02:39.560 --> 1:02:43.640 the Golden Showers and the beds in Moscow doesn't exist. 1:02:43.640 --> 1:02:49.440 According to Cohen, the phone call that supposedly went from 1:02:51.520 --> 1:02:54.480 went from Roger Stone to Julian Assange never happened. Does 1:02:54.480 --> 1:02:57.200 anyone really believe that that would not be something the 1:02:57.280 --> 1:02:59.200 Muller team would already know about. They've pulled all their 1:02:59.200 --> 1:03:01.160 phone records and all the emails, they know about everything, 1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:05.400 all communications they already have. Trust me, there's no way 1:03:05.440 --> 1:03:07.320 that there was some phone call to Assange they don't 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:10.560 know about. But look at how stupid and how easily 1:03:10.640 --> 1:03:14.080 fooled the press is. You know that the press was 1:03:14.120 --> 1:03:18.920 willing to say early on here that they thought or 1:03:18.920 --> 1:03:20.400 when it was it was a couple of months ago 1:03:21.040 --> 1:03:25.680 earlier on that there was a meeting between Julian Osange 1:03:25.760 --> 1:03:29.360 and Manifort at the embassy, the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 1:03:29.440 --> 1:03:33.680 Who could believe that Julian Assange is among the most 1:03:33.800 --> 1:03:38.800 watched and surveiled people on planet Earth. Okay, every major 1:03:38.840 --> 1:03:42.280 Western government that there is is keeping tabs on Julian 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:44.920 Assange in one way or another. You think that Manafort, 1:03:45.200 --> 1:03:47.480 when he's working for the campaign, just had like a 1:03:47.520 --> 1:03:52.800 super secret meeting in an embassy, which by definition is 1:03:52.840 --> 1:03:56.400 going to have security, personnel, cameras, all kinds of things 1:03:56.400 --> 1:04:00.480 in place by definition. But The Guardian reported that the 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:03.720 press is nuts on this one and what they really 1:04:03.760 --> 1:04:05.400 can't do because for a lot of them, this is, 1:04:05.680 --> 1:04:08.200 you know, their life's work isn't so much bringing the 1:04:08.240 --> 1:04:10.800 public the truth, but it's creating. For a lot of 1:04:10.960 --> 1:04:14.720 journos journalists, their life's work is creating the perception of 1:04:14.760 --> 1:04:21.360 themselves as important, important purveyors of truth and the constructing 1:04:21.360 --> 1:04:24.960 a narrative that is what's best for the country and 1:04:25.000 --> 1:04:26.680 really best for the world. They care more about the 1:04:26.720 --> 1:04:31.600 world than about America, and they can't handle the recognition 1:04:31.680 --> 1:04:34.240 that would come along with the collapse of the Russian narrative, 1:04:34.680 --> 1:04:37.640 that they aren't the journalists aren't the people they think 1:04:37.800 --> 1:04:42.040 they are, that they're actually just partisan clowns, that they're 1:04:42.080 --> 1:04:46.760 activists with website or you know, TV show access. That's it. 1:04:47.720 --> 1:04:50.200 There's no particular skill set they bring to bear. There's 1:04:50.520 --> 1:04:55.160 no no great wisdom or expertise. They're just the little 1:04:55.360 --> 1:05:00.760 little peddlers of stories that favor the left, the Democrats, 1:05:01.560 --> 1:05:03.680 and they've just they've done everything in their power to 1:05:03.720 --> 1:05:06.680 destroy a presidency in order to you know, prop this 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:10.880 prop this whole left wing edifice up. So, you know, 1:05:10.880 --> 1:05:14.600 I think that what happened yesterday overall was a waste 1:05:14.600 --> 1:05:17.280 of time, but it was able to show us a 1:05:17.320 --> 1:05:21.320 few important things about the collusion narrative, namely that anybody 1:05:21.320 --> 1:05:23.840 who still thinks that there was collusion is just you 1:05:24.160 --> 1:05:28.400 will never be able to convince them. Otherwise, you will 1:05:28.480 --> 1:05:33.560 never be able to convince someone that collusion did not 1:05:33.720 --> 1:05:36.040 happen if they still believe that it happened, because it's 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:39.960 it's like climate change. It's now collusion has become really 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:46.520 its own religious belief. Collusion has turned into a rallying 1:05:46.560 --> 1:05:49.560 cry for the left that they will never give up 1:05:49.600 --> 1:05:54.640 on so you know, I find it troubling but unfortunately unsurprising. 1:05:57.040 --> 1:06:01.880 We have one through ten for the people. That one 1:06:02.040 --> 1:06:05.040 is the clean Up Government, two was the Infrastructure Bill. 1:06:05.400 --> 1:06:08.040 There is a prescription product, the Lower the Cost of Particution, 1:06:08.280 --> 1:06:11.680 Four is the Voting Rights Act, Five is the Equality Act, 1:06:11.760 --> 1:06:14.640 Six is the Dream Act for seven is Paycheck theres 1:06:14.720 --> 1:06:18.560 eight is today HR eight, nine will be a climate bill. 1:06:19.080 --> 1:06:24.960 And then we have ten reserved for something special that 1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:27.920 sounds super ominous coming from Nancy Pelosi. I can't say 1:06:27.960 --> 1:06:29.800 I know what that is, but that was the Speaker 1:06:29.800 --> 1:06:35.240 of the House giving you their legislative priorities. And I 1:06:35.240 --> 1:06:40.160 would just note that, you know I heard that list 1:06:40.160 --> 1:06:42.000 and a lot of those things. I first of all, 1:06:42.040 --> 1:06:47.360 you think, what does that even mean? And the Paycheck 1:06:47.520 --> 1:06:49.520 Fairness Act, how is that going to be? How is 1:06:49.560 --> 1:06:53.080 that going to be implemented? But beyond that, how much 1:06:53.080 --> 1:06:55.320 of that do I even think is a good idea 1:06:55.360 --> 1:06:57.920 under any circumstances. I think the answer is very very 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:02.400 little of it. Obviously, there's climate change there, prescription drug coverage. 1:07:02.440 --> 1:07:05.120 I mean, that's one place where the left and the 1:07:05.240 --> 1:07:09.560 right can come together on something like a bipartisan basis. 1:07:09.600 --> 1:07:12.400 But you know prescription drug coverage, that that is a 1:07:12.440 --> 1:07:18.400 problem of really regulation and chrony capitalism, all right, that 1:07:18.840 --> 1:07:22.360 is what's going on. So you have the prescription drug 1:07:22.400 --> 1:07:30.320 companies that use the government in order to create barriers 1:07:30.400 --> 1:07:34.640 to entry and competition, and that's just wrong. It is 1:07:34.760 --> 1:07:38.960 just wrong. And you know that's why I think that 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:41.640 when we talk about how to make these things better, 1:07:41.640 --> 1:07:45.280 people say the free market has failed. Look at prescription drugs. 1:07:45.280 --> 1:07:46.959 I always say, well, but there is no free market, 1:07:47.000 --> 1:07:50.880 and prescription drugs, even the basic protections you would expect 1:07:50.960 --> 1:07:54.880 for intellectual property, they always extended and they're all kinds 1:07:54.880 --> 1:07:58.720 of games. And our prescription drug costs are too high 1:07:58.720 --> 1:08:00.520 in this country. They just are. And it's because the 1:08:00.560 --> 1:08:02.640 drug companies are greedy. And if you look at the 1:08:03.560 --> 1:08:05.560 stats on how much the prices have gone up and 1:08:05.600 --> 1:08:10.880 what they're doing with this stuff. Remember, intellectual property protection 1:08:11.240 --> 1:08:14.720 is part of it is not the fundamental basis for 1:08:14.760 --> 1:08:18.599 our society. Right. We do this to incentivize people, but 1:08:18.880 --> 1:08:21.519 there's do not have a fundamental right, for example, to 1:08:21.720 --> 1:08:24.519 in perpetuity be the only person who can create a 1:08:24.560 --> 1:08:27.679 life saving drug. You have a period of time where 1:08:27.720 --> 1:08:30.920 you get to create that but you know, society does 1:08:30.960 --> 1:08:33.160 get to weigh in here at at some level too, 1:08:33.280 --> 1:08:35.280 especially when you think of all the regulations that are 1:08:35.280 --> 1:08:38.120 in place that prevent competing drugs and the money involved 1:08:38.120 --> 1:08:40.080 in all this stuff. It's not as simple as just 1:08:40.120 --> 1:08:45.960 whatever I want is what I'm going to do. But 1:08:46.000 --> 1:08:50.320 Pelosi's whole agenda there, and that should really rally you 1:08:51.600 --> 1:08:56.960 in favor of, you know, making sure that we don't 1:08:57.000 --> 1:09:00.400 allow these people to be in power, because I promise 1:09:00.479 --> 1:09:03.320 you it's just going to get worse and worse. One 1:09:03.360 --> 1:09:05.599 thing that I wanted to bring up today and I 1:09:05.640 --> 1:09:10.280 wasn't sure how much you'd care, but Justin Trudeau, I'll 1:09:10.280 --> 1:09:13.360 talk to you about it a little bit. Justin Trudeau 1:09:13.760 --> 1:09:16.720 is someone that you no doubt know about because he 1:09:16.960 --> 1:09:26.439 is the Prime Minister of Canada or Canada and our 1:09:26.520 --> 1:09:30.160 friend up in Canada, ezra Levant, who I've done his 1:09:30.320 --> 1:09:32.360 shows with back in the day and when they used 1:09:32.360 --> 1:09:34.639 to have the Sun News network. I really like that network. 1:09:35.479 --> 1:09:38.240 He laid out how in this country we have a 1:09:38.280 --> 1:09:41.200 fake corruption scandal going on with how Trump is so 1:09:41.240 --> 1:09:44.719 bad he's gonna go prison. It looks like Justin Trudeau 1:09:45.240 --> 1:09:49.920 is probably all donezo. Maybe he can fake falling downstairs 1:09:49.920 --> 1:09:53.080 again to make all the ladies swoon. Hey, Justin Trudeau, 1:09:53.200 --> 1:09:56.759 he's very he's a very sexy man. Here's what Ezra 1:09:56.840 --> 1:09:59.000 says about what's going on with the Canadian PM. It 1:09:59.000 --> 1:10:01.960 looks like he's in big, big trouble. Quote from my 1:10:02.000 --> 1:10:05.400 American and British friends. Canada's Justin Trudeau is done. He 1:10:05.520 --> 1:10:08.120 might try to fight on. I personally think he's too damaged. 1:10:08.479 --> 1:10:11.599 He's irreparably damaged. Here's what's happened in a few short tweets. 1:10:12.160 --> 1:10:15.599 Trudeau was detonated by his former attorney general, Jody Wilson 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:20.880 or Rainbold, Canada's first Aboriginal attorney general. She just testified 1:10:20.880 --> 1:10:24.000 in Parliament in meticulous detail how Trudeau and his staff 1:10:24.520 --> 1:10:27.040 tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a 1:10:27.080 --> 1:10:30.720 corrupt company that he liked. She refused to bend the 1:10:30.760 --> 1:10:34.880 law for Trudeau's cronies, but they didn't stop Trudeau, his 1:10:35.000 --> 1:10:38.280 chief of staff, his principal secretary, or even the finance minister. 1:10:38.720 --> 1:10:43.000 They met her ten times, phoned her ten more, trying 1:10:43.040 --> 1:10:46.439 to get the charges drop. She wouldn't, so Trudeau fired 1:10:46.439 --> 1:10:50.000 her as attorney general. The story leaked out earlier this month, 1:10:50.000 --> 1:10:52.880 but it was all anonymous sources. The former Attorney general 1:10:52.880 --> 1:10:55.000 herself didn't say a word, saying she was bound by 1:10:55.040 --> 1:10:59.480 attorney client privilege and cabinet confidences. She was effectively gagged. 1:11:00.000 --> 1:11:04.080 Trudeau was the only one talking. Trudeau took advantage of 1:11:04.080 --> 1:11:06.519 her and forced silence to claim she supported him and 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:09.519 everything was fine after all. When she fired her a 1:11:09.720 --> 1:11:13.120 g he appointed her to the minor post of Veterans minister. 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:15.439 When she heard him make that boat, she quit as 1:11:15.520 --> 1:11:21.320 veterans minister. He was shocked. Then suddenly Gerald Butts, Trudeau's 1:11:21.400 --> 1:11:25.360 right hand man, his best friend since college, resigned, claiming 1:11:25.400 --> 1:11:28.559 he had done nothing wrong, which is odd. It looked 1:11:28.600 --> 1:11:32.960 like a compromise. Butts left, so Wilson rabeled, met with 1:11:33.000 --> 1:11:37.160 a cabin in the again, and then finally, today, she 1:11:37.360 --> 1:11:41.880 testified in great detail exactly who pressured her, exactly when 1:11:41.920 --> 1:11:46.960 she named names, including the Prime Minister herself. Yep, that 1:11:47.920 --> 1:11:52.759 end quote there, folks. That is what obstruction looks like, folks. 1:11:53.680 --> 1:11:57.640 Calls and calls and calls, pressure and more pressure, and 1:11:57.680 --> 1:12:02.320 more pressure dropped the criminal charges. That's what obstruction looks like. 1:12:02.439 --> 1:12:04.120 Not well, I hope you can look your way to 1:12:04.280 --> 1:12:06.680 you know, letting, you know, letting things go with this 1:12:06.720 --> 1:12:09.000 guy that service country for thirty years. But you know 1:12:09.080 --> 1:12:14.120 your call. That's not obstruction, all right. So you know 1:12:14.200 --> 1:12:17.920 here we have a textbook case in Canada of obstructing 1:12:17.920 --> 1:12:21.120 the judicial process by the Prime minister. By the way, 1:12:21.120 --> 1:12:23.320 it's a ten year possible prison sentence in Canada. I 1:12:23.360 --> 1:12:25.280 didn't realize Canada, man, you guys don't mess around with 1:12:25.320 --> 1:12:28.040 your criminal code. I was thought. 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We all know that, right The economy gets 1:13:46.040 --> 1:13:49.240 people to pay attention, usually when the numbers come out 1:13:49.280 --> 1:13:53.799 at least somewhat well. We had some numbers today about 1:13:53.960 --> 1:13:57.240 GDP growth last year, and some people are saying that 1:13:57.320 --> 1:14:00.559 it's not a good story for the president. US economy 1:14:00.600 --> 1:14:03.679 grew at two point nine percent in twenty eighteen. What 1:14:03.720 --> 1:14:06.360 does that mean? What can we say about this visa 1:14:06.400 --> 1:14:09.880 the other presidents? We got the lady herself to join 1:14:10.000 --> 1:14:14.719 us now, Miss Mattie Duppler, Senior Fellow at NPU, President 1:14:14.760 --> 1:14:17.880 of Forward Strategies, known to some of her favorite people 1:14:18.400 --> 1:14:23.519 as Duples. Mattie, great to have you on to you 1:14:23.680 --> 1:14:25.519 as duples. You're the only person who called me that 1:14:25.560 --> 1:14:27.560 back again. Well, well now now it's just you, me 1:14:27.800 --> 1:14:31.320 and a few hundred thousand people across America. So good times, 1:14:31.320 --> 1:14:35.360 good time. So now friends exactly, just friends. So tell me, Maddie, 1:14:35.640 --> 1:14:37.920 what what are we what should we make of these numbers? 1:14:37.920 --> 1:14:39.280 Because I have a feeling that's some of my lib 1:14:39.360 --> 1:14:41.400 friends tomorrow are going to be giving me a hard 1:14:41.400 --> 1:14:43.960 time saying, blah blah, Trump's not the builder he said 1:14:43.960 --> 1:14:47.360 he was. What do you say? Exactly right? Okay, So 1:14:47.400 --> 1:14:51.839 this morning, what we got was the data on GDP 1:14:51.960 --> 1:14:54.360 growth for the fourth quarter. This was delayed because of 1:14:54.400 --> 1:14:57.440 the government shutdown. Normally we see this data in January. 1:14:57.760 --> 1:14:59.920 It was delayed until now, so we'll see her as 1:15:00.200 --> 1:15:02.400 on these actually next month as well. But what we 1:15:02.520 --> 1:15:06.920 saw was a two point six percent GDP growth for 1:15:07.120 --> 1:15:08.760 the fourth quarter. I'm gonna walk through a couple of 1:15:08.760 --> 1:15:11.439 different numbers because it's important that people understand what the 1:15:11.479 --> 1:15:14.320 full picture is of the data. We thought today two 1:15:14.320 --> 1:15:17.680 point six percent for the fourth quarter. That was us 1:15:17.720 --> 1:15:20.559 from two point two percent that economists thought we would 1:15:20.560 --> 1:15:22.800 see for fourth quarter growth. You remember, the fourth quarter 1:15:22.880 --> 1:15:25.120 was a little volatile, has some craziness going on in 1:15:25.160 --> 1:15:28.480 the stock market. Of course, trade tensions with China persists, 1:15:29.000 --> 1:15:31.280 and housing has been down for most of the year. 1:15:31.360 --> 1:15:33.880 So the economists, we're expecting that we thought we would 1:15:33.880 --> 1:15:36.679 see a bigger dip in two four than ultimately we did. 1:15:36.760 --> 1:15:39.080 But what that means for the entire year, since that's 1:15:39.160 --> 1:15:42.720 the last quarterly data we're getting for twenty eighteen, is 1:15:42.760 --> 1:15:46.240 that the overall annual average growth for twenty eighteen was 1:15:46.280 --> 1:15:49.800 two point nine percent. Pretty darn good. That is a 1:15:50.040 --> 1:15:53.520 good pace for the economy to be homing along. Now. Detractors, 1:15:53.520 --> 1:15:56.320 of course, will say, hey, President Trump said we'd be 1:15:56.360 --> 1:16:00.960 at three percent growth, where's that growth? You're one tenth 1:16:00.960 --> 1:16:03.080 of a percentage avoid off if you're looking at the 1:16:03.120 --> 1:16:07.000 average rate. But if you also look at fourth quarter 1:16:07.080 --> 1:16:11.320 growth growth measured from the fourth quarter of twenty seventeen, 1:16:12.000 --> 1:16:14.519 then it's three point one percent is what we're looking 1:16:14.520 --> 1:16:17.720 at for the growth for that time period. And economists 1:16:17.760 --> 1:16:20.360 do both these things. They look at the average annual 1:16:20.400 --> 1:16:23.720 growth and they look at quarter to quarter growth to 1:16:23.800 --> 1:16:27.280 assess the health of the economy. So it's both true 1:16:27.439 --> 1:16:31.200 that Trump has got three percent growth for twenty eighteen 1:16:31.280 --> 1:16:34.800 and both not true that it has that he was 1:16:34.880 --> 1:16:38.000 able to merit out three percent growth for twenty eighteen. 1:16:38.080 --> 1:16:41.000 But even in that context, two point nine percent or 1:16:41.120 --> 1:16:44.439 three point one percent, that's a pretty strong number for 1:16:44.479 --> 1:16:47.679 the US economy, particularly when we're looking at a global 1:16:47.720 --> 1:16:50.680 slow down and growth with some of our closest alleys allies, 1:16:50.720 --> 1:16:53.559 and of course with some of the biggest economies in 1:16:53.560 --> 1:16:57.200 the world, China being number one. Now, how does this 1:16:57.560 --> 1:16:59.760 of course I care most about America and have you 1:17:00.200 --> 1:17:02.559 he's doing for America. But if we're going to line 1:17:02.640 --> 1:17:05.360 up how Trump is doing so far in terms of 1:17:05.400 --> 1:17:10.479 GDP growth with Obama and all the socialists around him, 1:17:10.560 --> 1:17:12.880 how does this actually how does this actually go? Tell 1:17:12.920 --> 1:17:16.799 me about the number? But the average rate of growth. 1:17:16.840 --> 1:17:19.639 So that's that average number each year during the recovery, 1:17:19.720 --> 1:17:22.599 so during the President Obama's rank. I shouldn't say rain, 1:17:22.680 --> 1:17:24.160 but you know that's how we treat our presidents. Down 1:17:24.360 --> 1:17:28.160 during President Obama when he was in office, that was 1:17:28.200 --> 1:17:31.400 two point two percent. And if you recall when President 1:17:31.439 --> 1:17:33.920 Trump released his first budget, he was saying that he 1:17:33.920 --> 1:17:36.599 would get to three percent growth for these last couple 1:17:36.600 --> 1:17:39.800 of years, and all of the luminaries on the left 1:17:39.840 --> 1:17:42.840 came out to say that's impossible, there's no way we'll 1:17:42.840 --> 1:17:46.439 see three percent growth. That's a fantasy, that's crazy. Three 1:17:46.479 --> 1:17:49.080 percent is outrageous because they, of course, we're so used 1:17:49.120 --> 1:17:51.920 to this new normal of one point seven percent two 1:17:51.960 --> 1:17:55.960 percent growth every quarter. So and I would put in 1:17:56.000 --> 1:17:59.120 a side there that President Obama's budget called for four 1:17:59.200 --> 1:18:01.200 percent growth even though we were in the middle of 1:18:01.240 --> 1:18:03.879 a contraption. He said that that was possible. And apparently 1:18:03.880 --> 1:18:06.400 these guys weren't skeptical then, but three percent grows during 1:18:06.400 --> 1:18:09.720 expansion to them was Jeff Lunacy. So that's for a 1:18:09.720 --> 1:18:12.080 little bit too. Today where we now see that we're 1:18:12.280 --> 1:18:15.320 at or above three percent for the year, it's a 1:18:15.360 --> 1:18:18.439 pretty darn good number. It reflects strength in the economy 1:18:18.439 --> 1:18:21.240 that we certainly haven't seen throughout the rest of this recovery. 1:18:22.080 --> 1:18:24.040 And you know, there's a lot of debate about who 1:18:24.040 --> 1:18:26.400 gets the credit for that. I think it's less important 1:18:26.400 --> 1:18:28.360 to talk about who gets the credit for that and 1:18:28.400 --> 1:18:30.040 talk a little bit a little bit more about what 1:18:30.160 --> 1:18:32.240 lessons can be learned from this. There's been a lot 1:18:32.240 --> 1:18:35.679 of discussions on Twitter today with people thinking they're dunking 1:18:35.720 --> 1:18:39.800 on the president by arguing, well, Obama had a fourth 1:18:39.880 --> 1:18:42.320 quarter growth number that was better than this one. He 1:18:42.360 --> 1:18:45.360 had a three point i think eight percent growth number 1:18:45.400 --> 1:18:47.680 in the fourth quarter twenty fifteen, which is true. He 1:18:47.680 --> 1:18:50.719 had a great growth number into Quinn in twenty fifteen, 1:18:50.760 --> 1:18:54.479 the fourth quarter, But it needs to also be stated 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:58.679 that Obama in twenty thirteen kind of massive tax cut 1:18:58.720 --> 1:19:03.120 into law, mainly the extension of the Bush tax cuts. 1:19:03.120 --> 1:19:07.559 A majority of those were made permanent by Democrats and 1:19:07.640 --> 1:19:10.639 Republicans in Congress, and then President Obama finding that Intalan 1:19:11.320 --> 1:19:13.760 later that year, in twenty fifteen, he helps to signed 1:19:13.760 --> 1:19:15.759 a Path Act which with a number of tax extenders 1:19:15.760 --> 1:19:18.960 which were awth to a tax cut. So for people 1:19:19.000 --> 1:19:23.880 to say that these numbers somehow reflect some kind of 1:19:25.560 --> 1:19:31.040 latency or deficiency in the in the pages that haven't 1:19:31.040 --> 1:19:34.240 made the taxon under Trump, and then toincite twenty fifteen 1:19:34.439 --> 1:19:37.599 as an understanding of that is to not understand your 1:19:37.640 --> 1:19:39.800 history of what's been happening in Washington over the past 1:19:39.800 --> 1:19:44.120 several years, which is that we've had a low creep 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:47.280 towards better tax policy, one that was expedited immensally, but 1:19:47.439 --> 1:19:49.679 it passes the passage of the tax cut and jobst 1:19:49.720 --> 1:19:52.280 in twenty seventeen. One thing I've known for a while 1:19:52.520 --> 1:19:57.000 from both academic time as well as being in the media, Mattie, 1:19:57.040 --> 1:20:00.559 is that economists can't predict squat. But I am seeing 1:20:00.560 --> 1:20:03.720 today people saying that, well, this is as good as 1:20:03.760 --> 1:20:06.679 it's going to be. Right. That's another way of taking 1:20:06.760 --> 1:20:11.400 a swipe at Trump here. What do you I don't 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:13.640 listen to economists, but I listen to Mattie. What do 1:20:13.680 --> 1:20:16.400 you think about what we should expect for twenty nineteen 1:20:16.439 --> 1:20:18.360 and going into the election, and have we felt the 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:21.680 full lift from the tax cuts? You know, are there 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:24.719 any other reasons to think that things could get better 1:20:24.960 --> 1:20:27.160 or are you expecting kind of status quo? What do 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:30.719 you think? Well, what we have seen both in today's 1:20:30.760 --> 1:20:34.320 data dumps, but the data that we've seen over the 1:20:34.439 --> 1:20:38.120 last several months and certainly for the remainder of twenty eighteen, 1:20:38.400 --> 1:20:42.000 is that a lot of important metrics that proponents of 1:20:42.080 --> 1:20:44.679 tax reform has said would be affected by tax reform 1:20:45.000 --> 1:20:46.880 are showing up. And what I mean by that is 1:20:47.360 --> 1:20:51.720 business investment, capital expenditures, the kind of spending you want 1:20:51.760 --> 1:20:54.559 to see in an economy that will benefit not just 1:20:54.840 --> 1:20:58.240 businesses but people up and now the income ladder that's happening. 1:20:58.880 --> 1:21:01.599 We thought that today was this investment continuing to rise 1:21:01.680 --> 1:21:04.720 in the data that we thought this morning, But over 1:21:04.720 --> 1:21:06.439 the course of last year, you saw the S and 1:21:06.520 --> 1:21:09.719 P that accompanies the S ANDP had their fourth highest 1:21:09.720 --> 1:21:13.360 i think caps year since we've been tracking that kind 1:21:13.400 --> 1:21:18.000 of data. What we're seeing is businesses responding to a 1:21:18.080 --> 1:21:21.360 competitive environment that they hadn't expected that they would have 1:21:21.760 --> 1:21:24.800 and that they hadn't experienced in the recent past. So 1:21:24.840 --> 1:21:27.679 as long as the competitive nature of the US economy 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:30.960 and that both tax US and D regulation continues, that 1:21:31.120 --> 1:21:34.040 kind of activity will certainly continue. There are a number 1:21:34.120 --> 1:21:36.360 of factors that kind of hang out there in the 1:21:36.400 --> 1:21:40.920 balance as economic question marks. The trade discussion between the 1:21:41.000 --> 1:21:43.680 China and the United States is certainly one of them. 1:21:43.680 --> 1:21:47.080 I'm becoming increasingly worried that the President, not seeing enough 1:21:47.600 --> 1:21:51.040 movement on the conversation with China, will move instead to 1:21:51.040 --> 1:21:55.080 implement new tariffs, potentially targeted this time at the EU. 1:21:55.240 --> 1:21:58.080 Tariffs are taxes, and they are paid by Americans on 1:21:58.240 --> 1:22:01.120 consumer products, and that has an effect on our economy 1:22:01.160 --> 1:22:03.719 because we are a consumer drive an economy, seventy percent 1:22:03.760 --> 1:22:07.160 of our GDP comes from consumer spending. So if the 1:22:07.200 --> 1:22:09.720 health of the consumer starts to be threatened, that's when 1:22:09.720 --> 1:22:11.760 I start to worry overall. But I'm going to turn 1:22:11.760 --> 1:22:14.680 an optimist. But I really think that it's important that 1:22:14.720 --> 1:22:18.719 we protect the American consumer in a way that allows 1:22:18.720 --> 1:22:22.360 them to benefit from the competitive nature, main competitive environment 1:22:22.479 --> 1:22:25.479 that has been fostered for businesses here in the United States, 1:22:26.000 --> 1:22:28.480 and in a way that they can do that with longevity, 1:22:28.760 --> 1:22:30.600 without concerns that it will be short lived. And I 1:22:30.640 --> 1:22:32.640 will also say that when it comes to tax but 1:22:33.520 --> 1:22:35.679 you know what, the changes that remain in the code 1:22:35.840 --> 1:22:39.439 in twenty seventeen are not permanent. They will start to 1:22:40.600 --> 1:22:43.200 start to change in twenty twenty two, and the individual 1:22:43.320 --> 1:22:45.719 tax side of the code will change significantly in twenty 1:22:45.760 --> 1:22:48.439 twenty five. Now, that of course the long runway to 1:22:48.520 --> 1:22:52.080 get something done. But if we don't have a conversation 1:22:52.320 --> 1:22:55.559 in Congress for how to do that, that certainly can 1:22:55.640 --> 1:22:59.519 start increasing anxiety. I will have downward pressure on the 1:22:59.560 --> 1:23:01.720 economy for sure. Well, you know, Maddie, I feel a 1:23:01.760 --> 1:23:04.080 little better now, So thank you for all that. You know, 1:23:04.640 --> 1:23:06.800 come on here for a buck you know, I feel 1:23:06.800 --> 1:23:08.479 like we're all gonna be okay because Maddie says it's 1:23:08.479 --> 1:23:11.439 all gonna be all right. Maddie Duppler, everybody, Maddie, aren't 1:23:11.439 --> 1:23:15.080 you in on Rising tomorrow? I sure am. I'm stubbing 1:23:15.080 --> 1:23:17.519 for the one and only Buck Sexton. 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You know, today's Cohen Hearing was behind closed doors, 1:24:50.200 --> 1:24:53.439 and you know yesterday was it wasn't really that important. 1:24:53.479 --> 1:24:55.320 I mean, the media was so fixated on it that 1:24:55.360 --> 1:24:58.679 I tried to pull out the worthwhile moments, but by 1:24:58.720 --> 1:25:01.240 and large it was I think waste of almost everybody 1:25:01.280 --> 1:25:05.040 involves time, except for Democrats who are delusional about collusion 1:25:05.120 --> 1:25:07.360 and about how Trump's going to prison and they're going 1:25:07.400 --> 1:25:10.720 to own Orange Man Trump and drump is bad and 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:14.519 all the lunacy from the left about all things Trump. 1:25:14.760 --> 1:25:16.320 But there was an exchange that I didn't get to 1:25:16.320 --> 1:25:17.920 you yesterday that I felt we should at least spend 1:25:17.920 --> 1:25:22.639 a moment on today with this new congresswoman Rashida to Leib. 1:25:23.479 --> 1:25:30.360 And here's the basic backstory is that Mark Cummings brought 1:25:30.360 --> 1:25:35.679 in Lynn Patton to speak on behalf of Trump because 1:25:35.720 --> 1:25:38.960 people were well, obviously the Democrats were trying to run 1:25:39.000 --> 1:25:41.120 with the narrative and use Cohen as a means of 1:25:41.680 --> 1:25:44.519 bringing it home that Trump is such a racist. Well, 1:25:45.000 --> 1:25:47.519 this thing's got kind of testy yesterday and I didn't 1:25:47.520 --> 1:25:49.280 get to this that I just wanted to take a 1:25:49.320 --> 1:25:52.240 moment to bring it to your attention. This is this 1:25:52.520 --> 1:25:54.920 Talib who, by the ways, said all kinds of anti 1:25:54.920 --> 1:25:57.840 Semitic stuff. And she's one of these new radical lefty 1:25:57.880 --> 1:26:01.479 congresswomen that the progressives are all about. But you know, 1:26:01.560 --> 1:26:04.880 she's not impressive and doesn't seem very nice and this 1:26:05.000 --> 1:26:07.840 was way out of line. Play clip one. Just to 1:26:07.880 --> 1:26:10.200 make a note, mister Chairman, just because someone has a 1:26:10.200 --> 1:26:12.760 person of color, a black person working for them, does 1:26:12.800 --> 1:26:16.160 not mean they aren't racist. And it is insensitive that 1:26:16.280 --> 1:26:19.439 some would even say. It's the fact that someone would 1:26:19.439 --> 1:26:23.160 actually use a prop a black woman in this chamber, 1:26:23.200 --> 1:26:27.280 in this committee is alone racist in itself. Donald Trump 1:26:27.400 --> 1:26:32.120 is setting its chairman. I asked President, I reclaim my time. 1:26:32.320 --> 1:26:35.320 I asked that her words, when she's referring to an 1:26:35.320 --> 1:26:38.439 individual member of this body, be taken down and stricken 1:26:38.479 --> 1:26:41.519 from the record. I'm sure she didn't intend to do this, 1:26:42.040 --> 1:26:45.880 but if anyone knows my record as it relates, it 1:26:45.960 --> 1:26:48.800 should be you, mister chairman. Chairman, I would like to 1:26:49.760 --> 1:26:53.439 I want the words right now. I'm just saying that's 1:26:53.479 --> 1:26:55.559 what I believe to have happened. And if as a 1:26:55.600 --> 1:26:57.679 person of color in this committee, that's how I felt 1:26:57.680 --> 1:26:59.800 at that moment, and I wanted to express that. But 1:27:00.160 --> 1:27:04.280 I am not calling the gentleman, mister Metals a racist 1:27:04.400 --> 1:27:07.160 for doing so. I'm saying that in itself it is 1:27:07.200 --> 1:27:11.000 a racist act. Oh, I'm not calling him a racist. 1:27:11.320 --> 1:27:15.599 He's just he just did a racist thing. This is 1:27:15.680 --> 1:27:21.559 this new left wing loon Rashida to leave in Congress. Also, 1:27:21.600 --> 1:27:23.800 sure firs yourself as a person of color, you know, 1:27:24.520 --> 1:27:26.800 I think that people get a play start playing a 1:27:26.840 --> 1:27:30.080 little fast and loose here with you know, African Americans 1:27:30.800 --> 1:27:37.040 history of legalized discrimination against them and Jim Crow and slavery, 1:27:37.120 --> 1:27:41.040 that very real and very painful history. But that doesn't 1:27:41.040 --> 1:27:45.280 translate into oh, well, you know, I'm from Lebanon, so 1:27:45.400 --> 1:27:47.559 i'm a person of color too, or I'm from Jordan, 1:27:47.680 --> 1:27:51.439 or I'm from you know. I mean, I'm sorry. I 1:27:51.479 --> 1:27:53.679 think that people are a little too quick to play 1:27:53.720 --> 1:27:56.040 that car. It's like no, no, no no, no, no, you know, 1:27:56.400 --> 1:27:58.800 you know, if you're from Turkey, I don't want to 1:27:58.800 --> 1:28:01.200 hear about how oppressed you are, all right, I think 1:28:01.240 --> 1:28:04.040 that we need to start drawing some lines on this stuff. 1:28:04.280 --> 1:28:07.840 But even more importantly, that she would refer to a 1:28:07.880 --> 1:28:11.479 black woman who is in Congress, to who showed up 1:28:11.479 --> 1:28:13.639 to Congress to speak on behalf of the president referred 1:28:13.640 --> 1:28:16.160 to as a prop and say that her very presence 1:28:16.320 --> 1:28:18.760 is racist. But this is really the It's such a 1:28:18.880 --> 1:28:20.960 stupid thing to say and a horrible thing to say, 1:28:21.040 --> 1:28:23.880 but this is the left wing mentality, which is that 1:28:24.040 --> 1:28:27.280 even you know, if you don't have a person of 1:28:27.320 --> 1:28:30.479 color speak on your behalf, well then you're racist. If 1:28:30.479 --> 1:28:32.760 you have a person of color who does speak on 1:28:32.800 --> 1:28:35.479 your behalf, then you're racist because you're using a person 1:28:35.479 --> 1:28:37.680 of color to speak for you. Use stupid racist, right, 1:28:37.840 --> 1:28:42.040 That's what they do. This is why when people criticize 1:28:42.080 --> 1:28:44.360 the Trump White House for not having more people of color. 1:28:44.400 --> 1:28:48.080 I always say, well, remember when Condoleeza Rice was the 1:28:48.160 --> 1:28:52.200 National Security Advisor for the Bush administration and then Secretary 1:28:52.240 --> 1:28:55.760 of State. Did anybody ever give the administration credit for that? 1:28:56.080 --> 1:28:59.639 And Colin Powell was national Secretary of State, did anyone 1:28:59.680 --> 1:29:03.439 ever get credit for that? No, of course not. Conservators 1:29:03.479 --> 1:29:05.160 don't get credit for it. Then they're just Then we 1:29:05.280 --> 1:29:10.639 just get bashed for using quote a token, right, That's 1:29:10.640 --> 1:29:12.920 what they will say. Mark Meadows, by the way, he 1:29:12.960 --> 1:29:15.639 was firy by this. He responded to it, playcliff two. 1:29:16.080 --> 1:29:21.480 Mister chairman, There's nothing more personal to me than my relationship. 1:29:22.400 --> 1:29:28.200 My nieces and nephews are people of color. Not many 1:29:28.240 --> 1:29:31.960 people know that. You know that, mister chairman. And to 1:29:32.400 --> 1:29:35.960 indicate that I asked someone who is a personal friend 1:29:36.520 --> 1:29:39.840 of the Trump family, who has worked for him, who 1:29:39.880 --> 1:29:42.760 knows this particular individual that she's coming in to be 1:29:42.800 --> 1:29:45.800 a prop it's racist to suggest that I asked her 1:29:45.840 --> 1:29:50.559 to come in here for that reason, you know, And 1:29:50.880 --> 1:29:54.479 of all the people on this committee, I've said it 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:57.840 and got in trouble for it. Then you're one of 1:29:57.840 --> 1:30:02.759 my best friends that shocks a lot of people. And likewise, 1:30:02.800 --> 1:30:06.320 miss Chairman, but you are and I would do and 1:30:06.360 --> 1:30:11.439 I could see and feel your pain, Chairman. And to 1:30:11.560 --> 1:30:14.240 my colleague, mister Meadows, that was not my intention. And 1:30:14.439 --> 1:30:17.960 I do apologize if that's what it sounded like. But 1:30:18.000 --> 1:30:23.080 I said someone in general, uh, nice, try on the 1:30:23.120 --> 1:30:28.040 walk back there. Look, give we are conservatives, we are principled. 1:30:28.080 --> 1:30:31.599 Give credit where it is due. Elijah Cummings stepped up 1:30:31.600 --> 1:30:34.599 and did the right thing there. Mark Meadows is his friend. 1:30:34.840 --> 1:30:37.320 Mark Meadows is being called a racist by a Democrat 1:30:37.400 --> 1:30:40.360 for no good reason whatsoever. And Cummings was like, no, 1:30:40.520 --> 1:30:42.919 Mark is my Mark is my friend, He's my buddy. 1:30:44.800 --> 1:30:47.959 It was the most it was, honestly the most impressive 1:30:47.960 --> 1:30:49.680 thing I've ever seen a logic Cummings do. Because he 1:30:49.760 --> 1:30:50.920 is going to get a lot of heat from that, 1:30:52.000 --> 1:30:53.720 but but good for him for doing the right thing. 1:30:53.760 --> 1:30:56.479 Whenever we see people, and it's important, especially in this 1:30:56.520 --> 1:30:59.960 era of zero some politics, whenever we see someone who 1:31:00.000 --> 1:31:02.519 who does the right thing and you really know it's 1:31:02.560 --> 1:31:06.800 the right thing, regardless of party affiliation, you've got to 1:31:06.800 --> 1:31:08.559 say that that thing they did, I'm not saying you 1:31:08.600 --> 1:31:10.519 have to agree with that person or join them and 1:31:10.600 --> 1:31:12.519 or you know whatever. But that thing that they did, 1:31:13.560 --> 1:31:15.040 you've got to say it's the right thing, and you've 1:31:15.040 --> 1:31:16.720 got to give credit where it's due to people who 1:31:16.720 --> 1:31:20.879 do it. So Eligic Cummings stepped up. And then Lynn Patton, 1:31:20.880 --> 1:31:24.200 who was the person at issue here, the person of 1:31:24.240 --> 1:31:27.280 color who was there to speak on behalf of the president. 1:31:27.320 --> 1:31:31.719 She spoke play three. Why does she take the word 1:31:31.960 --> 1:31:36.760 of a self confessed perjurer and criminally convicted white man 1:31:37.360 --> 1:31:42.080 over a black female who's highly educated. That's more racist 1:31:42.760 --> 1:31:49.160 than being put up there as a quote unquote prop yep. Meanwhile, 1:31:49.439 --> 1:31:51.840 Don Lemon tried to justify to lead play clip four. 1:31:52.439 --> 1:31:57.439 There's nothing more personal to me than my relationship. My 1:31:57.600 --> 1:32:01.760 nieces and nephews are people of color. So look, the 1:32:01.760 --> 1:32:06.000 congressman obviously loves his family. He saw how emotional he 1:32:06.120 --> 1:32:09.280 was there. But honestly, that is just not the point. 1:32:10.880 --> 1:32:13.360 Is you had loved ones who are people of color. 1:32:13.640 --> 1:32:16.599 It's not the point that you you've hired a person 1:32:16.640 --> 1:32:19.240 of color. It's not the point that some of your 1:32:19.280 --> 1:32:22.879 best friends or people of color. This is what especially 1:32:22.880 --> 1:32:25.360 people of color try to get people to understand. All 1:32:25.360 --> 1:32:27.080 the no, no, okay, I mean we're done with Don 1:32:27.160 --> 1:32:30.080 Lemon anywhere here. No. No, how you treat people is 1:32:30.120 --> 1:32:33.920 what matters, not what party, what political affiliation you have. 1:32:34.120 --> 1:32:36.519 That doesn't mean you are or are not racist. How 1:32:36.560 --> 1:32:43.120 do you treat people? Don Mark Meadows obviously take it, 1:32:43.240 --> 1:32:45.679 takes it very personally because he treats people of color 1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:51.240 as people. We'll be right back. I keep coming up 1:32:51.280 --> 1:32:56.639 with extreme scenarios where I show you where the left 1:32:56.720 --> 1:33:00.400 is going, or I show you what the logical ends 1:33:00.439 --> 1:33:03.519 of a position that the progressives take is going to be, 1:33:04.600 --> 1:33:07.040 and I do it to illustrate a point, but then 1:33:07.160 --> 1:33:11.920 it's only a matter of time before that is the reality, 1:33:12.040 --> 1:33:15.000 as in, I say, this is so this left wing 1:33:15.040 --> 1:33:19.040 idea is so crazy that next thing, you know, they're 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:24.600 gonna be saying X, and then give it about a 1:33:24.600 --> 1:33:27.840 six month lag time, and that's actually what they're saying, 1:33:28.400 --> 1:33:31.360 you know. So I'm having a hard time, you know, 1:33:31.439 --> 1:33:33.680 keeping up with how crazy the left is because my 1:33:33.760 --> 1:33:36.960 examples of how much crazier they're going to be keep 1:33:37.040 --> 1:33:41.200 coming true. So the extremes are no longer used to 1:33:41.360 --> 1:33:43.840 prove a point about the flaws in their logic. The 1:33:43.920 --> 1:33:47.840 extremes that I'm identifying are just way points on their 1:33:47.880 --> 1:33:53.000 progress into the depths of insane town. And here is 1:33:53.200 --> 1:34:00.599 a perfect example of that, an article in Academia Edu, 1:34:00.880 --> 1:34:07.599 which is a clearinghouse for academic papers from Yuna. That's 1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:10.400 the closest I can get to Norwegian University of Oslo, 1:34:11.439 --> 1:34:16.880 and it is a moral case for legal age change. 1:34:17.000 --> 1:34:18.800 And let me just this is a This is a 1:34:18.880 --> 1:34:24.320 peer reviewed and published academic article at the University of Oslo, 1:34:24.520 --> 1:34:26.960 which I hear is lovely this time of year if 1:34:26.960 --> 1:34:32.080 you like skiing to class. University of Oslo is you know. 1:34:33.000 --> 1:34:36.880 Oh also the also Alto University in Finland, which I 1:34:36.960 --> 1:34:41.280 hear they have a great program in snowcone making. But 1:34:41.360 --> 1:34:44.320 here's the piece, a moral case for legal age change. 1:34:45.120 --> 1:34:48.320 Should a person who feels his legal age does not 1:34:48.439 --> 1:34:52.160 correspond with his experienced age be allowed to change his 1:34:52.280 --> 1:34:55.639 legal age? In this paper I argue that in some 1:34:55.680 --> 1:34:58.320 cases people should be allowed to change their legal age. 1:34:58.920 --> 1:35:02.920 Such cases would be when one the person genuinely feels 1:35:02.960 --> 1:35:06.599 his age differs significantly from his chronological age, and two 1:35:07.360 --> 1:35:11.479 the person's biological age is recognized to be significantly different 1:35:11.479 --> 1:35:14.639 than his chronological age. And three, age change would likely prevent, 1:35:14.680 --> 1:35:19.000 stop or reduce ageism or discrimination he would otherwise face. 1:35:21.080 --> 1:35:23.679 I mean, does it get does it get much much 1:35:23.760 --> 1:35:27.479 nuttier than this? There's a guy who is suing. I 1:35:27.560 --> 1:35:30.400 forget where, but you know, look what happens in Europe. 1:35:30.400 --> 1:35:35.719 It's always just they're further down the socialism and progressivism 1:35:35.800 --> 1:35:40.080 insanity pathway than we are. But it is just a 1:35:40.120 --> 1:35:44.040 matter of time before we find ourselves face with the 1:35:44.080 --> 1:35:46.920 same problems that they have had or that they are having. 1:35:47.360 --> 1:35:49.320 And I know that there's a guy who's suing right 1:35:49.360 --> 1:35:54.920 now in Europe, in Europe because he says that he 1:35:54.960 --> 1:35:56.320 should be a lot of change his age, and they 1:35:56.320 --> 1:35:59.880 won't let him. But just think about this, you know, 1:36:00.120 --> 1:36:02.559 think about the ways this could be abused. And you know, 1:36:02.640 --> 1:36:04.160 I don't know. You don't have to get very creative 1:36:04.160 --> 1:36:08.640 before you realize there's problems here. But the notion that 1:36:08.760 --> 1:36:12.759 legal age is a cause for discrimination, and that also 1:36:13.320 --> 1:36:19.320 somebody's psychology can overcome how society treats the physical reality 1:36:19.400 --> 1:36:22.760 of who they are. This just goes to show you 1:36:22.800 --> 1:36:27.880 that transgenderism, which is now not just embrace but it 1:36:28.000 --> 1:36:33.880 is dogmatically worshiped on the left transgenderism has now opened 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:39.639 the door very wide to transracialism. I don't think I mean, 1:36:39.640 --> 1:36:41.720 look at Elizabeth Warren, right, but I know I don't 1:36:41.720 --> 1:36:44.680 think I'm white. I think I'm actually from Papua New 1:36:44.680 --> 1:36:48.680 Guinea and should be treated as a Pacific islander. And 1:36:48.800 --> 1:36:53.840 now trans ageism. You're you're going to see more of 1:36:53.880 --> 1:36:59.400 this because liberal intellectual types are not necessarily real intellectuals. 1:36:59.400 --> 1:37:02.559 But you know, mozers in the universities are going to 1:37:02.600 --> 1:37:05.759 see this as a new frontier to make the argument 1:37:05.840 --> 1:37:10.559 against rationality, because ultimately, what the left likes to do 1:37:10.680 --> 1:37:14.439 as part of its relativistic approach to all things is 1:37:14.479 --> 1:37:17.880 to find a way to undermine facts and logic in 1:37:17.920 --> 1:37:26.360 their pursuit of power. Team Bucket, It's time for roll call. 1:37:36.120 --> 1:37:40.720 Role Call tom everybody, remember that tomorrow I will be 1:37:41.120 --> 1:37:43.679 That's Friday. I'll be at Seapack at the Gay Lord 1:37:44.120 --> 1:37:47.519 International Convention Center in Maryland. Yes that is the name 1:37:47.560 --> 1:37:50.120 of the place, and I'll be giving a speech at 1:37:50.120 --> 1:37:53.240 eight forty five I should say a debate, not a speech. 1:37:53.640 --> 1:37:56.200 Having a debate at eight forty five am on Syria. 1:37:56.320 --> 1:37:58.639 And then I'm moderating a panel tomorrow evening at Sea 1:37:58.680 --> 1:38:02.320 Pack I think around six six thirty on cyber warfare 1:38:02.439 --> 1:38:05.840 and election integrity. It's gonna be wonky but should be 1:38:05.920 --> 1:38:10.000 very interesting. So if you are in the DC, Maryland, 1:38:10.280 --> 1:38:13.960 Virginia area, please please come by Sea Pack. You'll be 1:38:13.960 --> 1:38:16.759 able to find me. I'll be the guy wandering around 1:38:16.960 --> 1:38:20.720 in boat shoes with the side swoop that you have 1:38:20.800 --> 1:38:24.120 all come to know and hopefully at least are amused by. 1:38:24.800 --> 1:38:26.760 So yes, please do come by and say what's up. 1:38:26.960 --> 1:38:28.880 And Ben Winegarten is going to be in for me 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:31.880 tomorrow on radio because I can't get to see Pack 1:38:32.360 --> 1:38:35.680 do all the Seapack stuff, moderate the panel, and do 1:38:35.720 --> 1:38:39.360 the show. So I'm basically at Sea Pack tomorrow for 1:38:40.200 --> 1:38:42.519 the day. But Ben does a great job here on 1:38:42.560 --> 1:38:44.840 the show. He's already lining up guests and it's going 1:38:44.880 --> 1:38:48.120 to be a really, really solid outing for mister Weingarten 1:38:48.240 --> 1:38:51.000 as always, and he gets psyched. I mean, he loves 1:38:51.560 --> 1:38:54.960 he loves Team Buck and he is always really enthusiastic 1:38:55.000 --> 1:38:57.200 about being a part of what we do here in 1:38:57.200 --> 1:38:58.920 the Hut. So make sure you tune into Ben. He's 1:38:58.920 --> 1:39:03.000 gonna lay it down Facebook dot com a slash a 1:39:03.080 --> 1:39:06.040 Buck sex and if you want in on this role. 1:39:06.280 --> 1:39:14.679 Call action action. It's fun to say. Robin rights follow 1:39:14.760 --> 1:39:18.400 up on family leave. One hundred percent agree it shouldn't 1:39:18.400 --> 1:39:21.080 be regulated by the government. I am a self employed 1:39:21.120 --> 1:39:24.000 mother of five. Wow, Robin, I took eight weeks off 1:39:24.000 --> 1:39:27.160 with zero income and four more with part time. It 1:39:27.280 --> 1:39:30.559 required planning, sacrifice, and a good support network. It was 1:39:30.600 --> 1:39:33.280 so very well worth it. I will say that when 1:39:33.280 --> 1:39:35.720 I went through my miscarriage, I was given three days 1:39:35.760 --> 1:39:38.439 off from my employer at the time. That was generous 1:39:38.479 --> 1:39:41.679 by industry standards, but not nearly enough. Time off without 1:39:41.720 --> 1:39:45.439 pay was not permitted. Again, shouldn't be government dated, but 1:39:45.439 --> 1:39:49.160 it should be a conversation our society is exploring together. Look, Robin, 1:39:49.240 --> 1:39:52.600 I totally agree. I think that family leave should be 1:39:52.600 --> 1:39:57.639 something that is discussed as a employee benefit right up front, 1:39:58.160 --> 1:40:02.479 the same way that you would discuss what your healthcare 1:40:02.520 --> 1:40:04.760 plan is, what your four oh one K is. But 1:40:05.080 --> 1:40:07.360 it has to be thought of as a benefit because 1:40:07.400 --> 1:40:11.479 if it's a government mandate, is very likely that it 1:40:11.520 --> 1:40:13.720 will put undue strain on a lot of businesses, and 1:40:13.720 --> 1:40:16.559 there will, just as in our discussion of green energy, 1:40:16.680 --> 1:40:22.639 there are unforeseen and even sometimes unforeseeable consequences of government 1:40:22.720 --> 1:40:33.840 intrusion into market activity. Caroline, Sweet Caroline, bom bomp bap. Everybody. 1:40:34.760 --> 1:40:37.240 Everybody knows that. That's the song that they put on 1:40:37.280 --> 1:40:40.960 at every bar in America at about two o'clock in 1:40:41.000 --> 1:40:43.760 the morning. It's not the last song, but it's the 1:40:43.800 --> 1:40:46.800 song they put on after bon Jovi Living on a Prayer, 1:40:46.800 --> 1:40:49.559 which comes on around one thirty whatever. It's like, na 1:40:50.240 --> 1:40:56.679 halfway there. Ever ever likes to just just scream Living 1:40:56.720 --> 1:40:59.800 on a Prayer at you know, twelve thirty, you know, 1:41:00.000 --> 1:41:02.840 at night around there, when they're really good and lit, 1:41:03.280 --> 1:41:06.520 that's when they get the bon job. But Sweet Caroline 1:41:06.560 --> 1:41:08.880 comes on later on. Sweet Caroline is kind of when 1:41:08.920 --> 1:41:10.840 you got to make the all right, how am I 1:41:10.880 --> 1:41:12.519 going to get home safely? Do we need to call 1:41:12.560 --> 1:41:14.920 a cab? You know? Those are the those are the 1:41:14.960 --> 1:41:18.439 thoughts that come after Sweet Caroline. It's it's pretty much 1:41:18.479 --> 1:41:20.800 when the lights come on, you look around, you're like, 1:41:20.840 --> 1:41:24.040 what have I done with my night? Oh? Sorry, Caroline 1:41:24.040 --> 1:41:27.200 actually wanted to say some things. Um, hold on a second, 1:41:27.439 --> 1:41:31.360 I share outrage with people. Hold on, Carolin, let me 1:41:31.360 --> 1:41:34.519 come back to this one. Tj Sorry Caroline, I lost 1:41:34.600 --> 1:41:39.200 your I lost my Wait, why is it? The computer 1:41:39.360 --> 1:41:43.400 is not cooperating here, guys, I'm sorry. Sometimes it freezes 1:41:43.479 --> 1:41:45.120 up on me. I sound like one of these old people. 1:41:45.120 --> 1:41:49.719 It's like the VCR won't work. Somebody make my VCR work. 1:41:51.040 --> 1:41:54.639 Kimberly writes, I agree with everyone else. Your Trey Gouty 1:41:54.680 --> 1:41:57.120 is not very good. You're not very good at doing 1:41:57.120 --> 1:42:01.720 a Southern drawl. Keep practicing, ouch pre Climberly word if 1:42:01.760 --> 1:42:04.920 I'm talking about luck. Just all right? I know you 1:42:04.960 --> 1:42:06.920 hate it, you hate it. I don't want to all right, 1:42:07.000 --> 1:42:10.720 I give, I give. My Trey Gaudy has been voted off. 1:42:10.720 --> 1:42:13.800 The Island Trade does not have the speaking torch on 1:42:13.840 --> 1:42:16.840 the show. Will I will back off of the Trey 1:42:16.960 --> 1:42:21.120 Gaudy impersonations? Mark? Are you sure? But maybe I can 1:42:21.200 --> 1:42:26.519 get a bet? No? No, Trey, No, the people have spoken. 1:42:28.280 --> 1:42:33.280 Brian Rights buck Wow, watched your and Crystal's interview with 1:42:33.320 --> 1:42:36.519 the Sunrise co founder. You didn't let her off with 1:42:36.560 --> 1:42:39.360 a free pass, and it's a testament to your TV show. 1:42:40.040 --> 1:42:42.320 Very entertaining and would love to know the post show 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:46.719 commentary say I have a bachelor or science or electronic engineering. 1:42:46.720 --> 1:42:49.120 Does that make me an expert to indoctrinate my kids, 1:42:49.200 --> 1:42:52.400 niece's nephews, and other family members with Marxist political narratives, 1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:59.000 you know, because science. Yeah, Brian, I am rarely surprised 1:42:59.080 --> 1:43:02.920 by the extra dreamism of the left. But for somebody 1:43:02.960 --> 1:43:06.240 who is an adult roughly around my age, maybe a 1:43:06.240 --> 1:43:08.639 little younger, probably about you know, thirty, I would say, 1:43:09.520 --> 1:43:11.720 who would look me in the eye and not have 1:43:11.760 --> 1:43:15.479 an immediate answer to should ten year olds be able 1:43:15.479 --> 1:43:19.439 to vote? This would be like me asking somebody, do 1:43:19.479 --> 1:43:22.920 you think that it's a good thing that cannibalism is outlawed? 1:43:24.080 --> 1:43:26.599 You shouldn't have to think about that one, right, It's 1:43:26.680 --> 1:43:30.080 it's good that we are not okay with cannibalism and 1:43:30.120 --> 1:43:33.439 it is against the law. Cannibalism should be outlawed. That 1:43:33.479 --> 1:43:36.880 shouldn't be. That shouldn't be a stumper, you know, one 1:43:36.960 --> 1:43:41.160 that gets you stumped. And it's the same thing with 1:43:41.920 --> 1:43:44.320 should a ten year old be able to vote? You know, 1:43:45.120 --> 1:43:47.759 those of you who are Ghostbusters fan know, when someone 1:43:47.800 --> 1:43:50.920 asks you if you're a god, you say yes. When 1:43:50.960 --> 1:43:53.200 someone asks you if ten year olds can vote, you 1:43:53.320 --> 1:43:56.320 say no. You don't say I need to think on 1:43:56.360 --> 1:43:58.080 that one a little bit I don't have the answer, 1:43:58.840 --> 1:44:01.320 and that was where the extremism really came out. You know, 1:44:01.479 --> 1:44:05.080 I try on Rising, I have to practice because I don't. 1:44:05.120 --> 1:44:08.280 It's not a platform like some of the conservative cable 1:44:08.280 --> 1:44:11.599 news shows where I can really just hammer at somebody 1:44:11.600 --> 1:44:13.679 if I want to. I have to share the stage 1:44:13.720 --> 1:44:16.960 and share the airtime with my liberal co host, So 1:44:17.040 --> 1:44:20.200 I have to just get in with pointed questions. I 1:44:20.240 --> 1:44:24.679 can't dominate and hound and do some of the things. 1:44:24.760 --> 1:44:28.479 You know I can't. O'Reilly anybody on Rising? Those you 1:44:28.600 --> 1:44:30.120 used to watch O Riley, you know what I'm talking about. 1:44:30.160 --> 1:44:33.240 We'll do it live. Hey Bill was in his day. 1:44:33.439 --> 1:44:36.240 Bill was great at TV, no question about it. I 1:44:36.320 --> 1:44:40.920 got respect for the guy's TV skills. Harry rights, hey Buck. 1:44:40.960 --> 1:44:43.800 It occurs to me, what's the number of Maizie Harronos 1:44:43.880 --> 1:44:46.760 Senate Bill ordering a fleet of clipper ships and their 1:44:46.800 --> 1:44:49.719 sailors that will be needed to supply everything to Hawaii, 1:44:49.840 --> 1:44:54.760 including tourists, shields high Harry, Harry, I have no idea 1:44:54.760 --> 1:44:56.600 what you're talking about, my man, So you know, you 1:44:56.640 --> 1:44:59.360 know stuff that I don't know. I got nothing for 1:44:59.400 --> 1:45:05.960 you on the main Herono, Bill Kristen not to be 1:45:06.000 --> 1:45:10.200 confused with Kursten. There are a couple of Keto ice 1:45:10.200 --> 1:45:13.240 creams that might be good to support your show. I'm 1:45:13.280 --> 1:45:16.559 glad to support your show. Wink and Rebel are the names. 1:45:16.920 --> 1:45:21.120 Wink is also vegan for those who care, you know what, 1:45:21.479 --> 1:45:25.320 I will check those out, Kristen, I'd love to rep 1:45:25.360 --> 1:45:27.040 some Keto ice cream here in the show. And that 1:45:27.080 --> 1:45:30.080 reminds me. If you are a business owner, if you 1:45:30.120 --> 1:45:32.320 have a product, if you want to be a part 1:45:32.360 --> 1:45:36.320 of our sponsorships here on the show, you can reach 1:45:36.320 --> 1:45:38.720 out to me via Facebook. We've actually had some sponsors, 1:45:38.720 --> 1:45:41.320 some ad campaigns that come in that way where once 1:45:41.360 --> 1:45:43.040 we do a little due diligence on you, get to 1:45:43.080 --> 1:45:44.599 know you a little bit, get to know your product. 1:45:44.640 --> 1:45:46.840 We're happy to partner up with folks. So I know 1:45:46.880 --> 1:45:49.960 there's a lot of business owners that listen to this 1:45:50.040 --> 1:45:52.519 show across the country, and if you're looking for a 1:45:52.640 --> 1:45:55.519 national level spot, you know, just reach out. We'll get 1:45:55.520 --> 1:45:59.720 it going and get get krak Alakin. We sell very 1:45:59.800 --> 1:46:02.439 very well on this show in terms of the products 1:46:02.479 --> 1:46:05.960 we represent, because we represent really great products. And those 1:46:06.000 --> 1:46:07.600 of you who have ever had a concern or a 1:46:07.680 --> 1:46:10.320 question about a sponsor from the past, know that I 1:46:10.880 --> 1:46:14.439 respond very quickly, and I've taken concerns all the way 1:46:14.520 --> 1:46:16.880 up to the very top of the food chain. I've 1:46:16.960 --> 1:46:21.000 I've forwarded emails to me or Facebook messages to me 1:46:21.080 --> 1:46:23.360 about a product directly to the CEO of a company 1:46:23.400 --> 1:46:25.920 if I think it's merited. So that's that we have 1:46:26.000 --> 1:46:28.880 real partnerships here. These are not companies that I don't 1:46:28.880 --> 1:46:31.040 know who they are or what they do, who runs it, 1:46:31.120 --> 1:46:35.639 none of that stuff. David Right's, hey, Buck, why don't 1:46:35.640 --> 1:46:38.000 we ever hear about how Chavez still billions of dollars 1:46:38.000 --> 1:46:39.880 and how his daughter transferred all that money out of 1:46:39.880 --> 1:46:43.320 the country and then and then she left the country 1:46:43.360 --> 1:46:46.759 as a billionaire. I'm sure the Venezuelans could use that money. 1:46:47.000 --> 1:46:51.160 I guess Bernie thinks it's okay, all right, later, Doc, Yeah, 1:46:51.160 --> 1:46:54.559 you're absolutely right. This is what always happens in these 1:46:54.680 --> 1:46:58.719 so called socialist paradises. The people in charge just loot 1:46:58.800 --> 1:47:03.360 the country, just steal, steal and steal some more. And 1:47:03.800 --> 1:47:05.960 when you point that out, you're told that you're being 1:47:06.360 --> 1:47:10.160 a Yankee imperialist, or that you're being unfair to the 1:47:10.240 --> 1:47:14.920 socialist revolutionary credentials, or whatever. But yes, it is true 1:47:14.960 --> 1:47:19.200 that the Chavez family are billionaires. And you would be 1:47:19.200 --> 1:47:22.160 hard pressed to show me a country where you have 1:47:22.240 --> 1:47:28.240 a socialist and a strong man and where you don't 1:47:28.280 --> 1:47:32.880 have a situation that the looting has occurred. It always 1:47:32.880 --> 1:47:36.880 socialism and strong man goes together like looting in and 1:47:37.040 --> 1:47:38.880 carrots or something, you know whatever. You know what I was, 1:47:39.000 --> 1:47:42.960 You know what I was going for, Rob Right, But 1:47:43.200 --> 1:47:46.760 great show, truly love it, Rob Show loves you. I 1:47:46.800 --> 1:47:49.040 think the Democratic Party is at war on two fronts, 1:47:49.040 --> 1:47:52.120 the Green New Deal far left crazies and the conservatives 1:47:52.160 --> 1:47:55.120 who want truth in life. Where does that leave them? 1:47:55.160 --> 1:47:57.639 They are neither communist nor conservative. How do we get 1:47:57.640 --> 1:48:00.280 to this point where communism is at our door? God 1:48:00.320 --> 1:48:03.120 save America. Pray for our president, whom I trust, shields 1:48:03.160 --> 1:48:09.640 high for a president he is anointed. Uh, Well, you 1:48:09.720 --> 1:48:13.080 know you're right about the Green New Deal, and I did. 1:48:13.240 --> 1:48:15.320 I think you're right also about the fundamental schism in 1:48:15.320 --> 1:48:19.840 this country. So we need to fight, and I think 1:48:19.880 --> 1:48:23.320 that we are in for a very very important and 1:48:23.400 --> 1:48:26.280 it's going to be quite a contest going into twenty twenty. 1:48:26.840 --> 1:48:30.680 Bill writes, Your trade gaudy does sound like Bill Cosby, 1:48:31.400 --> 1:48:36.400 what tree guardiles general putting pops. Maybe maybe I should 1:48:36.400 --> 1:48:39.040 just transfer over my trade gouty to being a Bill Cosby, 1:48:39.120 --> 1:48:44.000 and then you guys will like you genero putting and 1:48:44.160 --> 1:48:50.880 wearing your big sweaters. Then rights buck, Since you like pistachio, 1:48:50.960 --> 1:48:52.120 I thought I was going to ask you what you 1:48:52.200 --> 1:48:55.360 thought of spamoni ice cream. However, since you've never even 1:48:55.400 --> 1:48:58.200 heard of neopolitan, I suppose it's a mood point. It's 1:48:58.240 --> 1:49:03.000 like I don't even know you anymore. Whoa whoa van, buddy? Okay, 1:49:03.040 --> 1:49:05.000 it is true. I don't know what spamoni is, and 1:49:05.120 --> 1:49:07.400 you know what, right here on air I'm finding out 1:49:08.120 --> 1:49:12.679 right now. It is a molded gelato with different colors 1:49:12.720 --> 1:49:17.559 and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts. Whoa vn. 1:49:17.720 --> 1:49:20.200 Let me tell you something, buddy. You keep your candied 1:49:20.280 --> 1:49:22.760 fruit and nut ice cream to yourself, all right, None 1:49:22.800 --> 1:49:24.600 of that I do. I don't like nuts in my 1:49:24.760 --> 1:49:29.479 ice cream. I don't like nuts in my brownies. Keep 1:49:29.560 --> 1:49:33.120 them out of air, all right? That's just and fruit? 1:49:33.200 --> 1:49:36.519 What are you putting? Putting raisins? Raisins and ice cream? 1:49:36.720 --> 1:49:39.640 Get out of here with that nonsense. But then you 1:49:39.720 --> 1:49:42.200 like pistachio, so we can still be friends. 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