WEBVTT - Why The Left Coast Is Crumbling? 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:16.360 You are entering the freedom hunt. California fires burn out 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.320 of control and people are starting to look at the 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.439 state and the blackouts and all the problems and say, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.800 what is going on. We'll get into that, and plus 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.680 the latest on the VINMN testimony in closed door session, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:33.400 what really happened there, Epstein suicide, some new questions, and 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.279 also when should bosses just get out of the way? 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.720 Animore coming up on the Buck Sexton Show. This is 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.000 the Buck Sexton Show where the mission or mission is 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.880 to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.040 mistake America, You're a great American Again the Buck Sexton 0:00:53.080 --> 0:01:02.080 Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Welcome to Buck 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.880 Saxon Show. Everybody a lot to get to today. We'll 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:10.119 have more on the process of Nancy Pelosi and Adam 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.880 Schiff trying to do an impeachment behind closed doors where 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.640 there's no transparency. Man, I have so many things I 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.240 want to hit today. I'm not even sure we'll get 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.760 to them all. Free college in New Mexico paid for 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.319 by oil though, Oh that could be a problem. Almost 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.880 eighty thousand unaccompanied minor children showed up the border so far. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.520 This I believe it's this past fiscal year, and were 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.160 there efforts to change the transcript of the phone call 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:42.080 between Presidents Lensky and President Trump. We have oh Is 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.360 questioning Lieutenant Colonel Vinman on patriotic We'll get into that 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.680 and so much more. I wanted to start, though, with 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:54.280 a question that I posed to our our guest yesterday, Tiana, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.240 the esteemed Tiana Low of the Washington Examiner. She's a 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.160 California native. Perhaps we'll get Victor Davis Hanson, one of 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.960 my favorite living authors, Victor Davis Hansen, to come on 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.280 and join us, because he has always had some very 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.040 worthwhile thoughts about just what the heck is going on 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:20.400 in California. Where is the political backlash to problems that 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.600 now are just blaringly obvious, that are just staring everyone 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.640 in the face. And I wanted to start, well, actually, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.079 let's review some of what's going on there. You right 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.800 now have fires that are even threatening the Reagan Library, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.200 fires burning out of control. If the winds get bad, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.440 you could see hundreds and hundreds of homes perhaps who 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.040 knows how many millions and millions of dollars have damage done, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.400 People losing all their personal belongings, and of course, most importantly, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.520 most urgently, the possibility of people in harm's way, as 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.880 these fires can burn very fast, very quickly, changed direction, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.639 and you can be caught in a place where there's 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.799 just no way to help, there's no one who can 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.520 get to you in time. You have these fires, then 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.200 you also have the blackouts. And the fires and the 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.359 blackouts are related. And I'm keep in mind this is 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:16.600 not just a state. California is the fifth largest economy 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.760 in the world by itself, and because of the political 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:26.520 monoculture that exists there, it is largely now a standard 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:31.679 bearer of unfettered liberalism, progressivism without any speed bumps or 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.560 breaks put on it. Just go all in progressive, very 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:40.400 high taxes, tremendous regulation, left wing special interest dictating policy. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.320 Now you have the problem with the blackouts tied to 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.920 the fires, because the blackouts that are currently affecting almost 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.680 forty million or could effect up to forty million people 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.920 in the state of California, are a result of concerns 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.200 over the fires. Why do you have fires in California 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.760 like this? And by the way, the fires are more 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.520 devastating in recent years than had been the past. People 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.720 want to point to climate change, but in fact, there 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.280 were more fires overall earlier in history if you look 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.600 at the data on this, So there's not it's not 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.880 that there are more fires that but fires have become 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.480 more devastating. Why is that they will tell us it's 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.960 because of climate change. That's just they're just pointing to 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.640 the thing that makes them happiest as an answer. It's 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.680 much more likely that the natural state that many of 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:35.560 the environmentalist groups in California insist on for the forested areas, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.960 meaning leave all the dead brush, leave all the stuff there, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.200 don't do any controlled burns, and don't do any active 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:49.000 forestry management, just let everything pile up. That then results 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:54.160 in much more devastating, fast burning fires in many areas 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.440 of the state. And then you also have the blackouts 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.359 that have come down. A PG and E, which is 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:07.919 the major utility company involved here, has insisted on voluntary blackouts, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.640 at least voluntary from perspective of the company does not 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.839 have to do this thing, but is doing it because 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.760 they don't want liability for fires that are caused by 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.320 down power lines. All right, so when there are fires 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.240 going on, they're concerned about being blamed for fires that 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.120 result from a down power line. Obviously, if the fire 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.839 stretches in and hits some of the power lines, or 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.279 if winds pick up, which is a concern about the fire. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.080 There's all these different components of risk for PG and E, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.960 and so what do they do. They say, Fine, We're 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.360 just gonna turn off the power. Now, this is something 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.839 that you generally associate with a third world country, having 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.839 been in countries where in the middle of a day, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.920 all of a sudden, all the lights go out, all 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.880 the computers go blank, the air conditioning shuts off. If 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.560 they have air conditioning, You say to yourself, what just happened, Oh, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.039 just you know, a blackout. They'll be on hopefully in 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.920 an hour or two, and everyone just kind of goes okay. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.280 I don't think the people of California should get used 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.160 to that. I don't think that they should accept this 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.240 as the future, as the status quo. But I do 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.560 wonder when will they wake up to what's really going 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.440 on here? When will they recognize that First of all, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.880 less than ten percent of fires are started by down 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.800 of these major forest fires are started started by down 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:42.640 electrical lines, and all the all the judgments that are 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.600 being made right now by PG and E are very 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:51.080 much affected by the hyper regulatory environment that insists on 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.200 by the way, having the power company extend their networks 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:02.280 to housing developments in what are considered very high fire areas, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.640 even though the power company is like, well, that's going 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.920 to be bad for us, because what happens if there's 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.960 a fire caused by a downpower line in that high 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.280 risk area? Up, you're going to be You're going to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.000 be held responsible. In fact, the state of California holds 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:21.600 the power company responsible regardless of negligence. So they're trying 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.440 to provide power up something bad happens, power company is 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.239 responsible now, and this is part of the litigious anti 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.720 corporate attitude, even though it's a utility company not really technically, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.240 it's not really a private corporation the same way, but 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.280 some big depocketed corporate entity has to pay when bad 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.360 things happen to people. This is another liberal idea, although 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.840 sometimes it crosses party lines. California is a one party government, folks. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.240 So when we look at the exploding homeless population on 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.600 the streets of California cities, when we look at the 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:00.560 terrible water management issues where they've had stretching back for 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.080 years now, concerns about drought and what are we going 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.720 to do. California as a as a piece of land, 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:12.400 as a piece of territory, should be paradise. Basically, it's 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:18.480 incredibly rich in natural resources. You have an amazingly hospitable 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.880 natural climate there for agriculture, obviously for growing wine up 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.480 in Napa and Sonoma, as well as other places in 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.840 the state of California. It's there's oil in California, there's 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.680 natural There's just tremendous natural resources in California. But there 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:39.560 have been mismanaged horribly by those who are blinded by ideology. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.480 And now we get into this. So so what happens 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.760 now there's the flow from California of families, especially young 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.000 working families, that are saying, we're done with this. We're 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.719 going to Nevada, We're going to Texas, We're going to 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.400 North Carolina, perhaps Tennessee. I don't know, but they're just 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.880 leaving places in California because I can't take it anymore. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.440 The Golden State is no longer golden for them. They've 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:06.680 had enough. Now that part of your mind that thinks 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.839 about the federalist system that we have and the experiments 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.360 of government in all the individual states. There should be 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.920 a little bit of a light going off there. When 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.440 will people learn the lesson? Oh, but they'll tell us 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.640 California so wealthy. Look at how wealthy it is. Look 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.400 at how many people live there. Well, a lot of 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.360 people live there because they've been born into this state 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.840 that is getting over time increasingly poorly managed. But there 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.000 are also enormous concentrations of wealth in Silicon Valley and 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.960 in Hollywood. Those are the two big ones that you 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.120 generally think of, But remember those are now appealing to 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:51.560 a global marketplace. They're not just local company towns. You know, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.040 they're not really responsible for the state of California. You know, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.160 they pay high taxes, or they have armies of accountants 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.480 and try to avoid taxation as much as possible. And 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.640 there's a lot of ways that corporatism and big government 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.040 go hand in hand, go together. But you'll notice that 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.840 progressives have not yet figured out. They haven't yet connected 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.520 the dots here as to why are all these things 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.440 happening in this state? How is it that the same 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:23.240 state that is home to the most wealthy technology corporations 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.480 in the world. Well, I mean I guess Amazon's technically 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.079 not California base, but Google and Facebook and well all 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.480 of them are on YouTube's owned by Google, all these 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.240 different companies that are based out there. That's the same 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.839 state now that has blackouts for millions of people when 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.440 there's a fire going somewhere in the state. That seems 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.320 to be a warning sign, doesn't it. But here's the problem. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:53.079 Progressives can live off this so called can live off 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.320 the fat of the land for a while. They can 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.760 take what they can and it over the period of 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.480 time that they are running in economy in this case 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.120 of state economy into a ground, into the ground. They 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.440 will always come up with new excuses to why this 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.720 is happening. You also have in that progressive stronghold on 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:18.880 the left coast the wealth inequality that is looking like 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.160 a third world country while they're pretending to be doing 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.040 so much to help working people. At some point there 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.400 may come a moment of recognition. I would hope for 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.400 the people of California and for the entire Every time 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.439 I say that, I think the people of California with NATO, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:40.360 with Schwartzenega. Schwartzenega took on the public sector unions that 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:45.160 are politically unbeatable in the state and they just crushed him. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.760 And that was after they had the recall of that governor. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.160 So politics has been largely dysfunctional there because it's a 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.760 one party state. But progressives never learned a lesson, you see, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.040 That's what you really have to take away from this. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.000 They don't see cause and effect. They just come up 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.559 with theories. Oh it's climate change. Oh it's because the 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.520 rich aren't paying their fair share. It's always a slogan. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.480 It's never rooted in cause and effect, the reality of 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.640 what's really happening day to day, what decisions are made, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.240 and what are the consequences of those decisions, especially by 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.560 the state government. These things take time, right, It takes 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.400 time to ruin a city, as we see here in 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.320 New York with Mari de Blasio. It takes time to 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.280 ruin a state. The problem with waiting until all the 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.360 results are in there's really twofold. One then things are ruined, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.880 and two they won't even take responsibility once they've destroyed 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.839 the thing that you've been warning them all along they 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.680 were destroying. That's really part of the lesson of mismanagement 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:46.320 in California, in many major cities that are Democrats strongholds, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.040 whether it's Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore. It's never the 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.000 fault of the people in charge, you see, there's always 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.880 external factors. It's almost like the Venezuela playbook here. Well, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.640 it's not that the Majuro regime and before the Chavez 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.600 regime turned a generally well off South American country into 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.839 an impoverished, anarchic waste land. It's the Yankee Americans were 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.880 the ones that ruin this country. You know, if you 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.079 talk about Chicago, you talking about Baltimore, talking about the 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.000 whole state of California. Now, it can't be the Democrat Party. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.439 It can't be the policies of the left which make 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.840 people feel good and can sound good, but in practice 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.600 our disastrous. Whether it's water management, forestry, dealing with fires, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.360 management of utility companies, economic inequality, all these different areas 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.839 where California is just a disaster. They don't learn the lesson, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.920 which is one of the reasons why we can't just 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.280 allow them to play out their experiment. We have to 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.120 try and come up with a counter argument, come up 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.040 with an alternative that people will believe in enough to 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.640 take power out of the hands of the left wing idealogues, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.360 the central planners of progressivism, and give it to people 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.840 who know what the heck they're doing and will govern 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.920 based on not just the will of the people as 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.080 they see it, but on the results of their policies. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.520 They can tell us all day about how terrible Trump is. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.520 Look at how the country's doing, Trump's the president. Look 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.839 at how California is doing. Democrats were on the whole state. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.760 I think the proof is in the pudding, as they say, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.360 my friends, but don't expect them to learn that less 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.400 than any time soon. There's always a ready excuse when 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.840 you're talking about leftist no matter how much they destroy 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.280 what should be a great state, a great place. And 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.560 that's what they're doing right now. The President's done a 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.480 lot of work to strengthen the alliances that perhaps were 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.160 neglected in the previous administration. And what we found is 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.360 that by working with our partners in our allies throughout 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.560 the world, we're able to create better burden sharing, and 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.280 we're able to find ways to hopefully resolve some of 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.480 the more difficult situations in the world without escalating them. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.360 And so again, all the things that the people were saying, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.600 who are against the president. Last time, we're saying would happen, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.800 that we're bad if the president want hapn't happened. And 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.800 then you know, the next morning, the sun rose, in 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.720 the next evening, the sun set, and Americans. America's gotten 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.640 more and more prosperous, and I think people really like 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.520 what the president's doing. The last part people would argue with, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.120 but the part right before it, and I was Jared 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.920 Kushtier By the way, we don't hear very much from 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.120 from Jared, But America is getting more and more prosperous. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.640 Things things are going well. I like to judge a 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.400 politician by the results of policies and by what happens 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.080 in the aftermath of their decisions, not by what the 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.000 media tells me needs to happen. You know, there's all 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.880 these conversations that Kenny had about healthcare, about the border, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.040 about the economy, about trade with China. These are issues 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.720 that matter. But instead of what you have on the 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.440 left is this obsession with just trying to come up 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.760 with some excuse to impeach the president when we know 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.080 they're going to impeach him no matter what they find, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.440 no matter what the excuses, doesn't matter. It's all. It's 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.520 all just a ruse. It's a sham, it's a scam. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.680 Who told you? I told you, I'm not the only 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.840 one that the Russia collusion thing was a joke, and 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.600 then it all happened. We went through this investigation and yeah, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.360 guess what, I was right. I'm telling you again, this 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.440 old Ukraine thing is ridiculous. We already have the transcript, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.320 and now they're saying, oh, maybe maybe there are changes 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.000 that need to be made of the transcript, but in 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.000 case you don't know, really, just how worthwhile and brilliant 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.160 The mainstream media is MSNBC's Nicole Wallace, Republican administration official 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.320 by the way, and the Bush administration, she's one of those. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:35.200 Here's what she said about Fox News Fox News conversation 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.040 dealing with Alexander Vinman, who's the one who testified recently 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.920 about Ukraine, played twenty three. Here we have a US 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:50.840 national security official who is advising Ukraine while working inside 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.560 the White House, apparently against the President's interest, and usually 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.160 they spoke in English. Isn't that kind of an interesting 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:04.000 angle on this story? I find that astounding, And you know, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.359 some people might call that espionage, except those people aren't 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.600 chicken like the three of you, and they know that 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.600 he passed a background check that the president's daughter and 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:19.320 son in latdn't. I think, I don't know jo conversation. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:21.920 That's right, Nicole, you heard that. In the beginning, it 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.640 was Laura Ingraham, then John You talking on Fox News. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.360 But then Nicole Wallace comes in to say that they 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:34.000 are chicken bleeps. That's the kind of astute analysis, the 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.160 kind of adult conversation you can expect over at MSNBC 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.480 these days. When I tell you that Trump derangement syndrome 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.480 is real, that it makes people crazy, that they can't 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.200 make normal, rational decisions because of their hatred for Trump, 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.840 I really mean that it overrides other decision making processes. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.400 The hatred of Trump becomes the primary motivation for anything 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.200 and everything. But let's talk more about this congressional impeachment 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.040 situation in Men and all the rest of it. Adam Schiff, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.320 among many things, has been trying to claim that this 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.800 is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.560 to ask questions. Now he gets to choose all the 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.840 witnesses and him and himself only, which means it's not 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.040 a fair process. On the face. But even his claim 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.000 now that Republicans can ask questions has been undermined because 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:25.199 now he's directing witnesses not to answer questions that he 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.600 doesn't want the witness to answer if they're asked by Republicans. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.840 He's not cut off one Democrat, he's not interrupted one 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.320 Democrat and told the witness not to answer Democrat members questions. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.960 But today he started telling witnesses the witness not to 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.280 answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks. And by the way, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.119 if you want to talk about a Soviet style process again, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.119 that might be what they do in the Soviet Union, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.840 not in the United States of America. We can't stand 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.080 for this. The American people are being denied equal justice. Well, 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.800 I've plodded the speaker for finally admitting it is a 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.200 hood tire sham, but you can't put the genie back 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.640 in the bottom. A due process starts at the beginning. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.320 It doesn't affirm a missham investigation all the way through. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.280 If you were in the legal term, it'd be the 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.160 fruit from the poisonous tree. It'd be a mistrial. None 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.359 of this said, none of this information would go forward. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.640 But what's most important to the American public. We all 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.840 have the phone call, we all have the transcript, we 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.160 are all able to see there was no quid pro quote, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.600 the money was released. Ukraine did nothing and no action 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.000 was taken. Where's the crime, where's the impeachment? What's the 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.600 impeachable offense? The American public sees that we should move on, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.240 and they continue to try to move a whole sham organization. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.240 It's not going to work. Well, we're not going to 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.479 move on, not for sure. The Democrats won't allow it. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.879 But let's talk about all of us. Yeah, the process, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.640 what's going on behind closed doors? What has Shifty Shift 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.760 been up to? Also this former NFC staffer Vinman and 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.480 his testimony and all the brew haha over that, We've 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.440 got our friend Sean Davis with us now. He is 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.719 co founder of the Federalists. Go to the Federalist dot 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.880 com for his latest Sean, Thank you so much, sir, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.680 thanks for having me. All right, man, let's start with 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.600 the process. What was this yesterday about Shift telling people? 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.840 So he picks the witnesses, then he has the witnesses 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.280 testifying behind closed doors, and then he tells the witnesses 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.640 sometimes don't answer that how does this work? Yeah, it's 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.080 kind of amazing. I think the best analog would be 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:31.560 to think of a criminal trial where the prosecutor is 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:36.760 also the judge and also the jury. And in this example, 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.680 the prosecutor can call whoever he wants, question whoever he wants, 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.080 present whatever evidence he wants, but he won't allow the 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.080 defense to call any witnesses, won't allow the defense to 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.040 present or question evidence, and won't even allow the defense 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:54.800 to cross examine or ask questions of witnesses. I think 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.480 calling this a Soviet style show trial is probably unfair 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.719 to Soviet show trials. And what happened yesterday was Vinman, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.399 this NFC staffer was asked, Hey, who did you share 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.760 all this information with? Who did you share the transcript 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.199 or read out information with? Who did you lead information to? 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.600 And it was at that point that shift told him 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:19.800 not to answer. That isn't just a shocking obstruction of 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.120 what it's supposed to be a fact finding process? Here? 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.280 What do we know about where Nancy Pelosi is on 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.240 all this? They have had some vote on or there's 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:34.639 a presentation of a process here, they've got a resolution. 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.040 Where does the process stand for this impeachment? Inquiry whatever 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:40.479 they're calling it. I mean, can you just bring us 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.280 up to speed on where this is right now? Well, 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.400 it's nowhere because this investigation they keep referencing is non existent. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.879 And the reason I say that is because in the Constitution, 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.840 the House of Representatives is vested with the authority to 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.199 conduct impeachment. Now, a single member of Congress is not 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.680 the House of re Presentatives. Leadership is not the House 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:05.080 of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi is not the House of Representatives. 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:07.880 The House of Representatives is clearly what it states, It's 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.600 the body as a whole. And that body has never, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.679 not a single time, authorized any of these types of 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.879 investigations into Trump. And so the way the process works 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.440 is when you don't have the entire House delegating specific 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.680 authority to a specific committee, you are left with the 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.320 authority of those various committees and their limited jurisdictions. So 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.639 Intelligence they can look at Intel activities, appropriations, they can 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.400 look at funding activities, Defense can look at the Defense Department. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.239 But what is happening instead of the Intel Committee led 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.120 by Adam Schiff, is doing things that are far outside 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.120 of its jurisdiction, subpoenaing people that they have no authority 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.320 to subpoena. And then you have Pelosi understanding that this 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.400 is a sham process, one that's not authorized, and now 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.520 facing a court challenge on that matter. She's trying to 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.879 come and clean up the mess after the fact with 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.520 this resolution, and has put her in a real bind. 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:06.040 She's having to rescue a scam tainted process without actually 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.800 authorizing a new, real investigation, because that in itself would 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.320 prove that the previous one was in valid. So she's 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.320 got a real mess on her hands nowt Now, just 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.040 for everybody listening, Sean worked in Congress. He was an 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.159 investigator what was for Senator Coburn, Yes, Senator Coburn. So 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.640 he knows about these processes and how this stuff all 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.320 goes on. He's been a part of all that. Sean, 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.320 what do you expect to happen next? It seems like 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:32.880 it seems like it's some level the Democrats don't even know. 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.800 All they know is they want control of it and 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.119 they want to be able to change it day to 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:38.919 day to suit their needs. But do you have some 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.040 sense of how their strategy is going to play out, 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.320 what the timeline is they're working with here? I'm not 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.080 even sure they have a strategy at this point, I 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:51.199 think what they were going with was fire, aim and 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.199