WEBVTT - Don't Be A Quid Pro Schmo 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:15.400 You are entering the freedom hunt. The walls are closing in. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.240 This time Trump is finished. This is his Watergate moment. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.680 This time he's gone too far. Just kidding. Lives are 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.800 losing their minds. None of that is true. But there's 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.080 another impeachment hearing today. We'll get to that coming up. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.480 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.680 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.400 Make no mistake America, You're a great American. Again the 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:50.600 Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. Now, Welcome 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.520 to the Buck Sexton Show, everybody. Last night I was 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.600 taking a break from working on the book that I'm 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.600 I'm tentatively calling Crushed the Commies, but I don't think 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.480 that's actually going to be the title. But you'll find 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.160 out the title eventually. It's coming out. I got a 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.120 draft to drafts, gotta be in full draft before Christmas. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.280 I was writing, taking a moment to think about life 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.039 in the world. I turn on the TV. I don't know, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.560 maybe it was seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night and 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.880 seven o'clock at night, I guess it was. And this 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.520 hearing had been going on still for what was it 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:30.559 eleven plus hours sitting there. I was like, oh, who 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.920 thought that this was a good idea? I mean, this 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.919 is absurd, asking a million questions about an unimportant event 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.520 that didn't even happen, that nobody should care about. And 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.200 liberals have somehow convinced themselves this is where Trump's supporters 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.280 are going to flee him. This is where independence will 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.120 come over to their side, and maybe even Republican senators 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.080 will vote to remove him from office, these people who 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.840 have completely lost their minds. Was there? Did you order 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:07.920 the quid pro quo? Remember that with Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.760 United States Marine Corps, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Remember that guy, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.200 the whole moment where he's asked, did you order the code? Read? 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.200 And that's the build up in the whole movies that 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.080 it's a very watchable movie, even though it's really not 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.680 that interesting if you think about the storyline. But anyway, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.560 it's okay, I've watched it many times. Did you order 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.640 the quid pro quote? That is the question that I 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.320 suppose we're dealing with now. Even though before we get 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.239 into the thick of this, before we get down into 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.639 the weeds, let's keep in mind. What have I been 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.560 telling you all along. I don't care if there was 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:53.120 a quid pro quo investigating the twenty sixteen election Ukraine, Shenanigans, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.360 Biden and Bresma, is all legitimate for the president to request. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.120 I do not care. I don't know how. There is 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.320 no statutory infringement here. If they don't like how the 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:10.920 President of the United States uses his powers and his 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.520 constitutional authority, that's what elections are for. That's not what 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.720 impeachment is for. There is no abuse here. Just because 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.440 they don't like the thing that he asked about. That's 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:28.239 not an abuse, right. But here we are being told 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.280 that this is the moment that it all turns around. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.400 This is the incident that we look at and we 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.560 think to ourselves, Oh my gosh, I simply can't handle 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.080 supporting this president anymore because of what I think. Maybe 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.960 an ambassador said to another ambassador who heard from a 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.560 guy who worked at the NSC, who talked to his brother, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.960 who talked to a lawyer who talked to the whistleblower 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.600 that Trump wanted an investigation of Barisma and Hunter Biden. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.120 Oh no, so what I see I see here? And 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.200 I ask from the beginning of You know, we can 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.600 argue about whether there was a quid pro quot and 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.960 how it's even possible to be upset over a quid 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:16.400 pro quo when nothing happened. The aid was not was 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:21.240 not taken away from Ukraine, they got the money, and 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:27.080 there was no investigation started of the bidens. So what 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.839 are we talking about even with but that that goes deeper, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.599 that really plays the game from their side of the field, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.560 and I don't particularly want to do that. Notice how 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.120 they've gone back to quid pro quot because bribery didn't work. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.240 That was what they were trying, bribery, and before that 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.279 it was an abuse of power, and before that it 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:52.400 was a campaign finance violation, and after that it was 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.440 a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act according to the 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.000 Ninth Circuit of Appeals. I don't know changing it every day. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.400 If you have a real case to make against somebody, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.760 you don't change the charge every day. Well, today this 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.880 is pulling better, so we'll just say this thing. Tomorrow 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.840 that one might be pulling better, so we'll say that thing. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.320 You have more testimony today, Ambassador Sonlon. I was watching 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.719 it this morning. The guy actually kind of reminds me 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:28.440 of the insurance salesman from Groundhog Day, Ned Ryerson. Oh hey, buddy, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.240 he bought whole life blah beady blah health insurance from me, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.360 remember from Groundhog Day? Or Bill Murray hugs the guy 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.560 ned Ryerson. Anyway, it's Almond just kind of reminds me 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.560 of that actor. Very good comedic actor, by the way. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.680 That guy was fantastic in that role. So all right, 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.440 we got this solon, Let's dig in this together, because folks, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.680 and this is it's wall to wall. The journals are 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.640 all fired up about this. They think this really matters 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.080 so much they really want to talk about it. It's okay, 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:57.760 So I think it's going to go on for like 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.320 another twelve hours today, I mean, was endless yesterday, and 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.960 then we'll get into some other components of this narrative 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.920 also some other things talking about there's a Democratic debate tonight. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.720 I don't know if anyone wow, I don't know if 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.000 anybody really cares, But there's a Democrat debate tonight. Mayor 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.160 Pete is surging. Maybe Mayor Pete is the Democrat savior 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.440 that they have been waiting for, at least in terms 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.400 of their primary campaign. May Or Pete's way up in 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.560 New Hampshire, way up in highways. I'm just putting it. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.680 I've been telling you along, it's not gonna be Biden, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.719 just like I've been telling you along, doesn't matter if 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.440 there's a quid pro quo, stick with the buckster, I don't. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.560 We don't have to do a lot of corrections here 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.800 on this show. Oh I was way Sam tonight. I 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:43.120 was way off. So Sondlin, let's get to what he 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.400 has to say. This is all about whether the storyline 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.000 today they want you to take away from this. I'm 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.200 gonna distill down for you, and this is, I hope 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:52.880 why one of the reasons why I listened to this show. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.240 I will distill down for you everything that is said 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.760 over you know that has that has been said today 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.440 and was said yesterday, over the course of Lord knows 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.000 how many hours of testimony into the very simple narratives. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.600 The Democrats are then going to try to force free, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.520 try to ram down the throats of the American public 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.560 to bring about the outcome of at least a change 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.360 in public opinion that will politically disadvantage Trump going into 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.720 reelection and maybe in their while this dreams perhaps get 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.080 some Republicans in the Senate to start to go along 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.280 with the possibility of removal, but I don't think. I mean, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:33.280 that's just it's just not going to happen. I think 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.480 the Democrats have never really even thought about what the 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.120 implications would be if they removed Trump in that manner, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.200 after the leveraging and the manipulation of the deep state, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.440 and all the dishonesty not just from the media, but 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:51.560 from very senior Obama appointees trying to get an investigation 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.800 and successfully getting investigation of the president going based on lies, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.280 based on the abuse of power that was seen there. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.640 If they managed to remove Trump from office, I would 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.760 lose all faith in the American political system, and a 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.400 lot of us who really do believe in this country 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.480 in the constitution, would very quickly understand this place to 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.960 be under direct threat, that the institutions that we have 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.920 grown up with and that have we have defended, in 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.480 some cases, for many of you defended with your lives 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.040 by serving the armed forces, that they are corrupted and 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:34.200 perhaps corrupted beyond repair. Democrats are so shrill, they shriek 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.600 so loudly with their hatred of Trump They don't seem 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.760 to understand what the implications would be of getting what 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.960 they want if they really remove this president based on 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.839 this based on a phone call that a lot of 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.000 people heard, and we'll get into this didn't think was 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.640 a big deal, and based on a policy dispute that 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:59.640 didn't lead to anything. And I mean, what they really 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.600 believe that will just go that that things will return 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.080 to normal after that. I think that's one of the 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.200 fundamental fallacies that the left indulges for itself, is that 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.959 they that they'll be able to pretend this whole Trump 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.840 thing never happened. And we're going to go back to 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.840 a point where the elite media, the Libs, the Democrats 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.440 could just sort of pat people on the heads and 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.839 say this is the way this system is, this is 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.599 the way the system in our government works. And a 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.720 lot of Republicans, of course going along with them, don't. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.839 There's a lot of machine GOP that needs to be 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:37.280 swept away. But then that brings me to the storyline today. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.400 The one thing they're trying to get everybody to believe 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.240 or to hear so many times that it will influence 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.480 and affect their judgment, and that will change minds about 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.600 the President of the United States. Did everybody know Mulvaney 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.679 and Pompeo and well, at least everybody in the Trump's 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.160 inner circle and Trump's inner circle, because we had a 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.520 lot of testimony as from senior NFC guys. I will 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.360 say it's Vulker and this other guy, Morrison. They're square 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.760 away dudes. They kind of remind me of some of 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.880 the individuals that I worked with at the CIA in 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.840 terms of their demeanor, in terms of their approach to 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.839 their jobs, in that they were really spot on, They 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.400 really know their brief They I thought they were impressive 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.480 under that pressure, and you weren't really aware of what 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.800 their politics were. I even though I forget the name, 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.560 but the aide depends yesterday. I don't think that she 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.160 showed up as a We know who the partisans are, right, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.480 we know who the partisans are in this whole process. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.600 I mean Vinman and I love seeing yesterday. You know 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.160 you had on Twitter Rob O'Neill, who's a Fox contributor 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.360 guy I know a bit and has has never been 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.760 shy on the Twitter, just saying all you need to 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.720 know about Vinman. You found out when he insisted on 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:59.480 being called lieutenant colonel. People, people who serve, they don't 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.199 flex like that because they don't have to unless they're 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.280 trying to prove something, trying to do something a little weird. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.960 So I thought that was that was a noteworthy incident. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.559 But we know who the partisans are, and we know 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.360 who the people are heard just showing up and telling 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.800 what they know about this. And the fact that Adam 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.920 Schiff provides presides over all of this tells you really 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.240 all you have to know about the legitimacy and the 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.000 decency and the fairness of the proceeding, which is that 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:28.160 there is none. But okay, you're supposed to believe that 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:33.400 Mulvaney knew that Pompeio knew that everybody knew that the 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.719 President had drawn a line in the sand about an 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.320 investigate getting dirt on his political opponents. That's what they 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.760 we say, which I would note is a distortion, an 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.680 intentional distortion of what has even said in the phone call. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.400 On the phone call in question, can you find out 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.440 about what happened here? I've heard bad things. Is not 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.320 the same as manufacture lies about my opponents so that 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.640 I can feed them to the press. That is what 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.680 the Democrats did, by the way, with the dossier paid 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.000 for by the DNC, using foreign sources, running into the 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.720 fires accord, corrupting the top of the DOG and the 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.480 FBI under Obama. So they already know all about that, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.800 They know how to do that. That's not what happened here. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.800 They keep saying, get dirt on your political opponent. Is 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.760 there dirt? Are they are? They taking it as already 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.040 established that there must be. So the only reason you'd 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.559 ask for dirt is if there is dirt. So I 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.920 guess the Biden situation Ukraine is perhaps shadier than they've 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.240 been willing to admit up to this point. That's an interesting, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.360 an interesting admission that I don't think they intended. They 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.480 keep saying this though, I'll get dirt on the opponent, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.880 there's nothing wrong and I will not veer from this. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.280 Nothing will change my mind about this, because it's so 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.920 obvious when you think about it. There's nothing wrong with 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:00.280 requesting a look from a foreign counterpart at what happened 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.280 in the twenty sixteen election. There are active DJ investigations 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.120 right now about that matter. The Democrats all they could 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.000 talk about for over two years was that, but they 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.080 had they were in control of that and they knew it. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.880 They had Weissman, their little attack guy going after Trump 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.760 with all those little Democrats. So they were fine with 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.200 investigations then. But now the shoe is on the other foot. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.040 Now the other side maybe gets to take a look 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.640 under the hood and see what's going on. H okay, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.200 But we're told that there was a quid pro quo, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.960 that the president's top advisors all knew about this, and 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:43.319 that is Sonlin's position, Except there's one problem with that. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.439 As he is saying this, don't looks Sonlin is a 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.439 You know, this is another example. Maybe we shouldn't a 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.160 point ambassadors based on how much money they're raised for presidents. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.040 But that is what ends up happening. This guy who 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:59.200 was ambassador to EU, he's a hotelier and you know, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.320 he is a Trump pointe who raised money for Trump. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.400 So Trump doesn't appoint the best people. Never gonna change 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.880 my mind on that. Trump Trump does not have the 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.720 best people. I don't hear him say that anymore because 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.080 he doesn't. He does not have good instincts about human beings. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.280 It's just real good instincts about politics, good instincts about 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.480 fighting back against the opposition. But when it comes to 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.080 picking the best people, I mean, I'm sitting here in 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.960 my White House Press Secretary Trumpster, you're missing out. But 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.000 here's the problem with Sonlin's point of view on all this. Please, producer, Mark, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.640 would you play twenty six from this morning's hearing. Do 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.920 you have any reason to doubt Ambassador Taylor's testimony, which 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:44.880 he said was based on his meticulous contemporaneous notes. President 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.560 Trump never told me directly that the AID was conditioned 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.080 on the meetings. The only thing we got directly from 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.119 Juliani was that the barissima in two thousand and sixteen 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.800 elections were conditioned on the White House meeting. The AID 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:07.240 was my own personal you know guests, based again on 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.200 your analogy two plus two equals for so you didn't 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.960 talk to President Trump. When Ambassador Taylor says that that's 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.120 what you told him, is that your testimony here? My 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.360 testimony is I never heard from President Trump that aid 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.000 was conditioned on an announcement of elections. So you never 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.680 heard those specific words, correct, right, but never heard those words. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.640 So the president draws, we are to believe just follows 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.400 through just applot logic. Forget about it Akham's razor, my man, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.160 just go to it this way, the President draws this 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.040 line in the sand, you must do these investigations. You must. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.080 But nobody has ever told this in a meaningful and 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.520 straightforward way. Nobody his policy chain of command seems to 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.800 remember the President saying that this must happen or else. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.920 Maybe he said he wanted them investigate me. It was important. Maybe, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.280 but you know the whole thing, here's the quid pro quo. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.840 Nobody remembers being told us. And somehow the investigations didn't happen, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.680 and there were no consequences from the investigations not happening. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.720 So if this was a quid pro quote, it was 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.920 the worst one anyone has ever come up within history. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.240 And this is why you can't believe the narrative that 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.520 they're trying to feed you on this one. You can't 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.000 believe the story they're telling you. Don't be a quid 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.200 pro quot, Schmo. Don't listen to the fake news on this. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:36.080 The Democrats fake outrage that President Trump used his own 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.560 channel to communicate with Ukraine. Or remind my friends on 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.040 the other side of the aisle that our first president 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:48.520 George Washington directed his own diplomatic channels to secure a 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:53.560 treaty with Great Britain. If my Democratic colleagues were around 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:59.960 in seventeen ninety four, they'd probably want to impeach him too. Yep, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.720 probably would. This is something that has left out of 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:08.439 the feverish media coverage. Oh my gosh, Trump and the 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:13.800 abuse of power and all over. Really, Oliver sat Biden, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.080 they're going to do this guy. I think he's seventy 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.040 eight years old today, by the way, and not going 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:26.320 to be there their primary victor. But the president can 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.960 appoint people to act on his behalf and foreign policy. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.480 Presidents have done this, as Devin Nun has pointed out. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.439 But you don't hear that. There's always this talk of 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:40.320 the unofficial channels. Rudy Giuliani is skulking around in corners 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.360 and just you knowing, wringing his hands and just how 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.480 can I, how can I undermine policy? He's a policy 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:53.040 emissary of the President of the United States. The President's 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.879 allowed to do that. Presidents allowed to conduct secret diplomacy, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.399 is allowed to have people doing diplomacy in his behalf 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.840 present is allowed to do this. Folks. Media doesn't want 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.680 to tell you that ah, but as predictable as night 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:15.840 follows day the better On CNN Witness implicates Trump, Oh 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:22.280 my gosh, implicates him in what ask that question? What 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.239 is the crime? What is there an anti quid pro 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.280 quos statute? Because all foreign policy is based on quid 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:36.200 pro quos all the time. Their entire case hinges on 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:42.000 whether or not the public understands the request. It's not 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.880 it wasn't a demand, it wasn't enforced. The request for 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.840 a look from a foreign counterpart into issues of concern 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.720 to this country, including twenty sixteen and whether there was 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:01.080 corruption going on in Ukraine and whether that corruption directly 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:07.040 touched on the Biden relationship in Ukraine. Is that a 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:12.119 legitimate request or not. I'm here to tell you it 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.560 is a legitimate request. Do not listen to what they 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.440 are trying to feed you. Oh my gosh, getting dirt 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.480 on his opponent? Is that what he said? Did Trump say, Hey, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.159 can you guys just give me give me something? Just 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.200 makes have one of your guys rite up a memo 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.439 about how Hunter Biden took a duffel bag full of 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.560 cash under the table to tell his dad not the 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.600 you know, to get the prosecutor fired or whatever it was. Oh, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:37.680 he said, I've heard bad things. Can you look it? 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.399 Can you look into this and get us some answers 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:45.680 on the situation now in a crowd strike, the Ukrainian 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.879 server situation that is perhaps not as strong a case, 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:57.159 that's not territory that is quite as valid for this, 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.600 But the twenty sixteen election in Ukraine over all is 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.960 very valid, my friends. And I will get into why 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.280 I'm gonna pose this question to you, and I will 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.120 return to it in a moment. But and byron Yorke, 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:17.280 who is just he's just this understated, steady hand in 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.000 writing about this and covering this issue. Who just he 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.520 lets his writing, He lets his thoughts do the talking 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.159 for him. He's not a lot of bluster. He's not 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.919 running around calling people out. He's just like, what about this? 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.040 How about that? Anyone want to take a look at this? 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.800 And he's very, very consistently I think, insightful on these 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.560 matters of not just impeachment, but Russia collusion and all 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.000 the rest of it. I mean, there's a whole crew 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.320 Andy McCarthy, Byron York, Molly Hemingway, I mean, these people 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:49.119 have been correct on this all along. Which I think 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.320 should matter, and ones CNN and MSNBC keep putting these 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.720 people on TV or are like, oh my gosh, any 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.040 day now the walls are closing in on no false, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.760 it's not true. It wasn't happening, but it was I 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.440 suppose good for ratings, good for ratings at the time. 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.200 But I would want to take you to a piece 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.640 that Byron has written where he goes through what if 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.840 Trump is right about Ukraine? They just hold that thought 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.240 for him because I have to get a little more 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.200 of this testimony today on what they're saying, Oh qui 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:30.400 pro quo They're back to this now because sounds shady, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.399 And I do think that the White House and the 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:39.639 Republicans have made a rhetorical mistake by saying there was 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:44.159 no qui pro quote. Mick mulvaney was actually right, but 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.600 it was counter the narrative the White House was putting 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:50.560 out at the time. He was right when he said 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:52.240 the quit pro quos happened all the time in form 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.320 I mean the way he said it wasn't excellent. But 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.280 the truth is that Mick mulvaney was more on target 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:03.080 here because quit pro quos aren't something that foreign policy 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.600 doesn't just have it's a it's not a bug, it's 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.639 a feature. It is central to how you do this. 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:14.520 So if the President has a valid a valid request, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.399 or a valid national interest, or just an valid interest 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.960 for it for the administration of the in the executive 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.840 branch of the United States government, he is allowed. There's 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:30.560 nothing improper with him asking about that matter. There's nothing 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.840 improper with him requesting more information or even an investigation 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:40.359 from a counterpart about that. You you must remember this 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.680 because they want you to. They want you to forget 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:47.360 all about that aspect of this debate and just skip 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.800 right too. Well, if he conditioned aid for the you know, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.679 for the Ukrainians based on whether they would look into 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:58.800 his political rivals. Did did President Trump make Hunter Biden 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.119 take fifty thousand dollars a month while daddy was running 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.840 foreign policy in Ukraine? No? He did not. Is that 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:09.439 a legitimately shady and perhaps even corrupt arrangement? Yes, it is. 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:16.880 Have far less credible and serious things been investigated ferociously 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.920 by Democrats over the course of the two year Special Counsel, 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:21.879 as well as you know, everything else they throw to 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.120 this president. Of course, of course, look at the way 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:29.240 they went after the Stormy Daniel hush money hush money payments, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.840 which they were trying to say might have been a 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.359 non criminal campaign finance violation. That that's what they're gonna 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:43.880 go with. It's it's it's mind boggling. There is plenty 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.320 of reason to look into whether there was a corrupt 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:51.080 situation between the Bidens and Barisma in Ukraine. It is 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.960 just reality. Everyone can pretend like, no big deal, it's 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.919 not illegal. Well it's a big deal because it is unethical. 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.760 It was gross. That's established. What happened was gross. Hunter 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.240 Biden is an imbecile. He was getting paid fifty grand 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:07.679 a month because of who daddy was, because daddy had 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:11.560 a lot of power in your name. The daddy in 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.560 this case, Joe Biden, was acting on behalf of the 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:18.320 Obama administration, who was your president and my president at 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:20.720 the time. He was acting on behalf of the American people, 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:23.919 carrying that weight, carrying that power. And there was at 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.680 least the appearance of corruption. So why can't we look 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:28.520 into this and find out if there was more than that? 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:34.160 How could we know if there was something explicitly illegal, Yes, 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:37.719 a quid pro quo of corruption unless we asked our 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.200 counterparts and found out more about what was happening here. 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:46.040