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Speaker 1: Remember no, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. This is
Speaker 1: Harland Hill filling in for Buck. One of the nicest
Speaker 1: people I know, by the way, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank him for trusting me with his microphone tonight. He's
Speaker 1: a great guy. Got to know him over the last
Speaker 1: few months because we moved to DC around the same
Speaker 1: time from New York. And on this Friday, the twenty
Speaker 1: eighth of December twenty eighteen, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: ground to cover, lots of news is coming in at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, and we have a lot
Speaker 1: of forecasting to do as we go into twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I have a great show planned over the next three
Speaker 1: hours that includes some just phenomenal guests. You're going to
Speaker 1: hear from the Daily Callers, Stephanie Hamill, doctor Sebastian Gorka,
Speaker 1: Diamond and Silk, Judicial Watches, Thomfin and Moore. But I
Speaker 1: want to start with illegal immigration. I'm sick of hearing
Speaker 1: about this issue. I'm sick of hearing the excuses. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of kicking the can down the road. I'm sick
Speaker 1: of the inaction. Men and women Americans are literally dying
Speaker 1: on the streets at the hands of illegal immigrants. Drugs
Speaker 1: and unspeakable crimes are committed with regularity. We're almost desensitized
Speaker 1: to it at this point in our country. And these
Speaker 1: crimes should never happen because these people shouldn't be here
Speaker 1: in the first place. We have police officers, and in
Speaker 1: this case that we're going to discuss today, this police
Speaker 1: officer was a legal immigrant to the United States, murdered
Speaker 1: at the hands of a monster. And where are the Democrats?
Speaker 1: Where are the Republicans? Where have they been? Over the
Speaker 1: last two years, every Republican and Congress was sent to
Speaker 1: Washington with an electoral mandate to stop this problem. Arguably,
Speaker 1: this is the most significant tenant of the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: Trump Revolution, stopping illegal immigration. And despite the President's best efforts,
Speaker 1: we're not making any progress on this because of Congress.
Speaker 1: They had two years to do anything, to do anything,
Speaker 1: but we have obstructionists and the establishments of both parties
Speaker 1: Democrat and Republican who have blood on their hands. They
Speaker 1: could stop this. We could stop this today, between border security,
Speaker 1: building the wall, mandatory Verify, and deporting people people that
Speaker 1: commit crimes. We have people that habitually commit crimes and
Speaker 1: break the laws in this country and are here illegally,
Speaker 1: and we know about them, and they're released into the
Speaker 1: general population, and it breaks my heart. I mean a
Speaker 1: wife and this hero's child he won't ever see his
Speaker 1: dad again because of bad public policy. It's plain and simple.
Speaker 1: Washington could stop this. We could stop this. Well. You know,
Speaker 1: last night I was watching Fox News and I heard
Speaker 1: a clip of the police chief who hired Ron Singh,
Speaker 1: the police officer that was murdered, and the chief was inconsolable.
Speaker 1: He just broke down. Let's play that club. You have
Speaker 1: to understand, this was not supposed to happen here. I've
Speaker 1: been I've been to too many of these funerals and
Speaker 1: I never thought, however, that I would have to be
Speaker 1: doing this. I do not want to be here today.
Speaker 1: I would give anything not to I did not know
Speaker 1: Christmas morning, at four o'clock in the morning, when I
Speaker 1: said goodbye to him and send him off to his family,
Speaker 1: that it would be the last time that I saw it. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was a police officer, but more importantly, he was
Speaker 1: a human being, and that's how he would want to
Speaker 1: be remembered. He was proud to wear the uniform and
Speaker 1: he does want to be remembered as a police officer.
Speaker 1: But don't forget the other things, the little things that
Speaker 1: are oftentimes forgotten in these stories. That his five month
Speaker 1: old he will never here talk, he will never see
Speaker 1: his son walk, He doesn't get to hold that little boy,
Speaker 1: hug his wife, say good night anymore because a coward
Speaker 1: took his life. Please help us find this man and
Speaker 1: bring him to justice. I hope he's watching today and
Speaker 1: he does the right thing and turns himself in. We
Speaker 1: need closure, His family needs closure. Joining me out of
Speaker 1: discuss is Fox New Star, Daily Caller, video columnists and
Speaker 1: honestly one of my best friends in the world, Stephanie Hamill.
Speaker 1: Stephanie First, thank you, Harlan introduction. Stephanie, First, let me
Speaker 1: ask you to react to that clip. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just heartbreaking, heartbreaking. I don't even have words to describe
Speaker 1: what I saw. And we all feel for him. We
Speaker 1: all have families and the idea that He's a father
Speaker 1: of a five month old son. He's leaving behind a
Speaker 1: wife who loved him. This happened on Christmas night. He
Speaker 1: was working over time because he wants to provide for
Speaker 1: his family and do the best. And the way that
Speaker 1: his colleagues described him, I mean, he was an exceptional person.
Speaker 1: He was a hard worker. And what they touched on
Speaker 1: was the fact that he was a legal immigrant from Fiji.
Speaker 1: He did everything the right way. He came to this
Speaker 1: country to seek the American dream. He had it and
Speaker 1: it was all taken away in just one night by
Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant. That's the suspect, and they did catch him.
Speaker 1: There was a man hunt. They found him today, Gustavo
Speaker 1: Perez Ariaga. He's the man who's accused of shooting Ronel Singh.
Speaker 1: And they found him at a brother's house allegedly, and
Speaker 1: his brother's an illegal immigrant, and also one of his
Speaker 1: co workers another illegal immigrant. And you have to wonder today,
Speaker 1: I mean, you touched on this. The Democrats have blood
Speaker 1: on their hands. There are laws that are making it
Speaker 1: easy for criminals to live freely, to walk the streets
Speaker 1: of some of the states in our country. California is
Speaker 1: a sanctuary city, and this is what some of colleagues
Speaker 1: were talking about. The sheriff of that county was discussing
Speaker 1: this and he wasn't holding back. And a lot of
Speaker 1: these police officers and sariffs are afraid to speak their minds.
Speaker 1: They're afraid of retaliation. But he didn't hold back. This
Speaker 1: was this cross the line. This is not something that
Speaker 1: they were used to sing in their county or in Newman, California,
Speaker 1: but it happened, and so they have to address the issue.
Speaker 1: And there's so many things. You know, people are saying,
Speaker 1: built the wall today. Build the wall, you know, building
Speaker 1: the walls one step, but there are so many other
Speaker 1: things that we need to fix. It's not just a wall,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, that's part of it. We need to
Speaker 1: do everything that we can to en four our nation spots.
Speaker 1: And we are blowing out the red carpet inviting people
Speaker 1: to this country. And you know, whether it's through a
Speaker 1: vista that they overstay, or the fact that we have
Speaker 1: employers that are employing the legal in our friends, what
Speaker 1: about you verify all of these other things. We don't
Speaker 1: know how Stavo perez Ariaga, as a suspect, made it
Speaker 1: into this country could have been any of the above.
Speaker 1: We're not sure a WAA would have prevented him from
Speaker 1: coming into this country, but these are all issues and
Speaker 1: things that need to be discussed, absolutely. And one of
Speaker 1: the most troubling takeaways add from this is that as
Speaker 1: soon as the story broke, actor Chris Pratt took to
Speaker 1: Twitter and he was asking for people to be on
Speaker 1: the lookout for this suspect, and he got just lambasted
Speaker 1: by liberals and you know, calling him out, saying well,
Speaker 1: why don't you call out you know, victims of you know,
Speaker 1: police brutality. Why are you focusing on just this? What
Speaker 1: does it say about this country that we have this
Speaker 1: kneed youre reaction from a sizeable portion of the country
Speaker 1: that just asking for help to identify someone that was
Speaker 1: innocently murdered the suspect of someone that murdered an innocent
Speaker 1: person is controversial? What does that say about the country? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it isn't controversial. And notice the silence from the liberal
Speaker 1: media on this issue. Normally, you know, they have kind
Speaker 1: of like a protocol, especially if there's a gun involved,
Speaker 1: they would be calling for gun control today, but instead
Speaker 1: they're actually not even really wanting to talk about this story.
Speaker 1: And then they do talk about it, they say that
Speaker 1: the Republicans or people that are for border security and
Speaker 1: for enforcing our immigration laws, that they're demonizing all immigrants,
Speaker 1: not just the legal immigrants in general, because they like
Speaker 1: to put everyone in the same category. And that's not fair.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we don't want to demonize all immigrants, or
Speaker 1: even illegal immigrants for that matter. But the fact is
Speaker 1: that we already have enough problems in our country. We
Speaker 1: don't need to be inviting criminals making it easier for
Speaker 1: them in this country. Yeah, and sanctuary city laws really
Speaker 1: don't protect a legal immigrants. They protect criminals and makes
Speaker 1: it difficult for police officers to do their jobs to
Speaker 1: share information with eyes when it comes to the detainers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really astounding that lawmakers will continue to
Speaker 1: push to make things easier for criminals to operate in
Speaker 1: this country. Oh yeah, well, and so let me ask you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you used to live in California. California, you know,
Speaker 1: has quickly become a sanctuary state. I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: totally flouting federal law on illegal immigration. Is this going
Speaker 1: to become more common? Um? I hope not. I mean
Speaker 1: I hope people learn about it. Are people are people
Speaker 1: in California? I mean, is is public opinion with the
Speaker 1: idea of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Well, the public
Speaker 1: opinion on it is I think it's confusing on what
Speaker 1: it really with the law really states. So people when
Speaker 1: they think of sanctuary they're they're, you know, hoping that
Speaker 1: and law enforcement is investing into church in school and
Speaker 1: you know, carrying families the party and then doing like
Speaker 1: mass deportations. Yeah, but that's what their idea of a sanctuary.
Speaker 1: They don't realize that it's actually just paperwork and it
Speaker 1: really affects police officers communicating with ice, right, and if
Speaker 1: they knew that, which they don't, because the liberal media
Speaker 1: won't talk about it, and people don't have time to
Speaker 1: look up laws and look through all the texts and everything,
Speaker 1: and people just out busy lives, so they want to
Speaker 1: go with what feels good. So they just don't really
Speaker 1: know a lot about it, and it's a public opinion
Speaker 1: on it wasn't strong. Like I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people work for sanctuary city. Did you ask any
Speaker 1: legal immigrants who went to the process. They don't like
Speaker 1: it well, and so let's let's shift gears here and
Speaker 1: let's move to Washington. Are we going to get anything
Speaker 1: done on this? I mean, we have this shutdown right now.
Speaker 1: If you had to get a crystal ball out, do
Speaker 1: you think that the Democrats are going to come to
Speaker 1: the table with the President and provide some material funding
Speaker 1: to secure the border? I hope. So. I mean Democrats
Speaker 1: aren't willing to negotiate. They never do. It seems like
Speaker 1: Republicans always cave and we always, you know, no matter
Speaker 1: who has the majority, it seems like they're always doing
Speaker 1: what the Democrats want. I mean, they're asking for a
Speaker 1: very simple request, but five dollion dollars for the wall.
Speaker 1: It's not very much, and that's not even what we need.
Speaker 1: I mean, we need a lot more money to build
Speaker 1: a full wall. So I think that's the Democrats. They're
Speaker 1: just not serious when it comes to fixing our immigration problems.
Speaker 1: They talk about comprehensive immigration reform. Comprehensive like what does
Speaker 1: that even mean? And even the Republicans are guilty of
Speaker 1: this as well. I mean, no one is giving answers,
Speaker 1: no one really had solutions, And you know, my theory
Speaker 1: is a lot of people just don't really want to
Speaker 1: tackle the issue. A lot of their donors on both
Speaker 1: sides a businesses and they want to employee legal immigrants
Speaker 1: that they don't you know, they don't want these people
Speaker 1: quote out of the shadows like they benefit from that.
Speaker 1: So until we actually have we verify and a real system,
Speaker 1: like I mean, comprehensive immigration reform really is. It's that complicated.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I'm calling for a mass deportation.
Speaker 1: I'm not even against the amnesty. I'm just against this.
Speaker 1: What we're having right now is these caravans, thousands of
Speaker 1: people come fromming the border. We have some anywhere between
Speaker 1: eleven million and thirty million people quote living in the shadows.
Speaker 1: Why don't we deal with that first? Why don't we
Speaker 1: tackle that first, and then you know, then we can
Speaker 1: go through the process. But the United States is the
Speaker 1: most generous when it comes to green cards in the world,
Speaker 1: and so I don't at some point we have to
Speaker 1: stop just letting whoever end whenever they want to come here.
Speaker 1: And also we need to know who's coming here. That
Speaker 1: this man he shot the police officer officers thing, he
Speaker 1: had a criminal record, He had two DUIs YEP and
Speaker 1: so you know, democrats care about DUIs unless, of course
Speaker 1: it's a legal immigrants. Who are the ones that are
Speaker 1: the US? Isn't that ironic? Yeah? Of course. Well my
Speaker 1: last question here is do you think the President made
Speaker 1: the right call to shut down the government and to
Speaker 1: choose this moment in time to fight the Democrats? Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I was surprised that he had changed his mind at
Speaker 1: the last minute to begin with, because he said he
Speaker 1: was for the shutdown and then he wasn't. So I mean,
Speaker 1: he needs to be forceful, he needs to be strong,
Speaker 1: and whatever he promises, he needs to stick to that.
Speaker 1: And he's promises to the American people aboard a wall.
Speaker 1: We want it not just the wall, but we also
Speaker 1: want you know, other measures to enforce our our nation
Speaker 1: laws and when it comes to immigration. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think he wrote Oliver, President compa is so far
Speaker 1: has delivered on much more than anyone excepted and you know,
Speaker 1: promise has made promises cut absolutely. All right, Stephanie, thanks
Speaker 1: again for joining me. I'm sure you know we'll catch
Speaker 1: up soon. If you guys want to keep up with Stephanie,
Speaker 1: just go follow her on Twitter. Her handle is at
Speaker 1: steph m Hamill. You can also find her videos on
Speaker 1: the Daily Caller dot com. We'll be back after this
Speaker 1: quick break with more. Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show.
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Speaker 1: all right? Yes, um, I think we need a new
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Speaker 1: But there are some dormant Republicans that are just sitting
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Speaker 1: that's focused on putting America first. Who cares what you know,
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Speaker 1: a Republican now, you know. But the country has changed.
Speaker 1: The House was on fire. The only guy that stood
Speaker 1: to put out the fire and turned this country around
Speaker 1: was President Trump. And he's working against obstructionists in both
Speaker 1: parties that will only be satisfied when he's not in
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Speaker 1: Trump's arrangement syndrome has just swept the Democratic Party. Perhaps
Speaker 1: the institution's most affected by this. The mainstream media that
Speaker 1: really came into view this week as news outlets, you know,
Speaker 1: prematurely criticize the president for not visiting troops in Iraq,
Speaker 1: only to have to immediately retract their stories when they
Speaker 1: found out that he was in fact. Are you there?
Speaker 1: Before we get to our next guest, doctor Sebastian Gorka,
Speaker 1: Let's listen to some of President Trump's remarks the troops,
Speaker 1: because while they're talking about him just signing Maga hats,
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to how this huge crowd
Speaker 1: of soldiers reacted to the President's speech. And here's a hint,
Speaker 1: they love him well. First of all, at ease, Attias,
Speaker 1: Let's have a good time. Let's have a good time.
Speaker 1: The other reason I'm here today is to personally thank
Speaker 1: you and every service member throughout this region for the
Speaker 1: near elimination of the ISIS territorial Caliphate in Iraq and
Speaker 1: in Syria. Two years ago. When I became president, they
Speaker 1: were a very dominant group. They were very dominant. Today
Speaker 1: they're not so dominant anymore. America shouldn't be doing the
Speaker 1: fighting for every nation on Earth, not being reimbursed in
Speaker 1: many cases at all. If they want us to do
Speaker 1: the fighting, they also have to pay a price, and
Speaker 1: sometimes that's also a monetary price. So we're not the
Speaker 1: suckers of the world. We're no longer the suckers, folks,
Speaker 1: and people aren't looking at us as suckers. And I
Speaker 1: love you folks because most of you are nodding your
Speaker 1: head this one. We're respected again. As a nation. We're
Speaker 1: respected again. Some people say, well, maybe somebody comes from
Speaker 1: the area and they hit us on our homeland. If
Speaker 1: that happens, they will suffer consequences over here like nobody
Speaker 1: has ever suffered before. Let me just tell you, and
Speaker 1: I hope they hear that loud and clear, and that's
Speaker 1: not a threat. That's going to be a fact. If
Speaker 1: anything should happen at all, nobody will ever have suffered
Speaker 1: the consequences that they will suffer. Just remember I said it.
Speaker 1: Joining me now is doctor Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy
Speaker 1: assistant to President Donald J. Trump and current Fox News
Speaker 1: national security strategist. Doctor Warka, thanks for joining me, absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Merry Christmas, going a happy
Speaker 1: New Year, Happy new year. Were you surprised by the
Speaker 1: media's latest fake news attack against President Trump on this
Speaker 1: Iraq visit? I mean it was they were hyper ventilating.
Speaker 1: You know, first they were proven wrong that you know,
Speaker 1: the President ended up going to Iraq when they were
Speaker 1: reporting that he wasn't going to go and and then
Speaker 1: as soon as that passed and they were proven wrong,
Speaker 1: they started focusing on this maga hat nonsense. Are you
Speaker 1: surprised this? Are you just like immune to it? Now?
Speaker 1: You know, I thought I would be immune given my
Speaker 1: time in the White House of what I've seen in
Speaker 1: the last two years, the media never ever learning from
Speaker 1: their mistakes and doubling down on the news. But I
Speaker 1: was horrifying, Harland. It was absolutely disgusting what they did.
Speaker 1: It was a disgrace the idea. Look look, look at
Speaker 1: the videos, Look at the photographs that Sarah Hukabi Sanders posted.
Speaker 1: Look at the faces about servicemen and women. Look at
Speaker 1: the joy they are on Christmas Day. Their commander in
Speaker 1: chief with the first Lady comes to a war zone
Speaker 1: to be with them, The smiles, a spontaneous chance of
Speaker 1: USA USA. And how does CNN, how does MSNBC react?
Speaker 1: They want to get our war fighters into legal jeopardy.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute outrage. The men and women who wear
Speaker 1: the cloth of the Republic, who go into harm's way
Speaker 1: for us, and they want to quote some bogus legal
Speaker 1: jeopardy with regards Todd regulations. I worked for the DoD
Speaker 1: for five years. I'm familiar with the hat track. I've
Speaker 1: read the regulations on what uniform service and women Cannell
Speaker 1: Cannel do. The only thing that is prescribed is the
Speaker 1: active involvement in uniform during political campaigns. Not getting your
Speaker 1: hat signed by your commander in chief, Harland. It was
Speaker 1: an utter disgrace. They're politicizing this, I mean a real way,
Speaker 1: and the President went out of his way to make
Speaker 1: this about the soldiers in the media. We're so transparent
Speaker 1: because they were willing to jump from one story to another.
Speaker 1: It's just clear that the President could not have done
Speaker 1: anything right right. First they were mad that he didn't go,
Speaker 1: and then they're mad that he showed the soldiers too
Speaker 1: much respect. I mean, I'm flabbergasted, and I think that
Speaker 1: the American people have to start seeing through this. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so transparent what they're doing, it's obvious. It really
Speaker 1: it should make you realize just who these people are.
Speaker 1: They if you love this country, they It's really really
Speaker 1: that simple. If you look at that moment, that incredible
Speaker 1: moment I think it was where an am And said
Speaker 1: to the President that he re upped he stayed in
Speaker 1: the military, he re enlisted because of who the new
Speaker 1: commander in chief is. And how did he respond? He
Speaker 1: said them and said, I'm here, I'm here in uniform
Speaker 1: again because of you, mister President. And the President responded,
Speaker 1: I'm here in Iraq in this war zone because of you.
Speaker 1: They can't relate to that. They can't relate the self hatred,
Speaker 1: the idea we had eight years under Obama. That's that's
Speaker 1: the reason my new book has the subtitle it does.
Speaker 1: My new book is why We Fight Defeating America's Enemies
Speaker 1: with No Apologies. And I'm really grateful my publisher came
Speaker 1: up with that subheading why because we had eight years
Speaker 1: of apologizing for who we are, with the commander in
Speaker 1: chief who didn't back up our military, who said we
Speaker 1: of the problem. Now and these people know it, these
Speaker 1: men and women know it. We have a commander in
Speaker 1: chief who has the bank. Can you imagine the feeding houn,
Speaker 1: Can you imagine off the a years to finally have
Speaker 1: a commander in chief who trusts you and wants you
Speaker 1: to do your job. I'm sure it's an enormous relief
Speaker 1: for them, you know, I mean, after eight years of
Speaker 1: a president that not only didn't respect the military, he
Speaker 1: actively worked to undermine our military, starving it of the
Speaker 1: resources that it needed to stay competitive in an increasingly
Speaker 1: dangerous world. Barack Obama undermined our national security and it
Speaker 1: took a president like President Donald J. Trump to finally
Speaker 1: reinvest in it, not just financially, but in terms of
Speaker 1: our confidence, to provide absolute confidence in our leaders to
Speaker 1: do what's necessary to win these complex So hats off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I tell a story that tells you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know and why we fight. By the second year
Speaker 1: of the administration, we had a group of about eighteen
Speaker 1: future Green Berets visit the National Security Council, and I thought, hey,
Speaker 1: it'd be really cool. In addition to their briefings at
Speaker 1: the NSC, Why why don't we get them in front
Speaker 1: of their new commander in chief. How cool would that be?
Speaker 1: The Front Office immediately signed off. On the day they arrived,
Speaker 1: after their briefings on the NSC, I took them into
Speaker 1: meet the President. The president in addition to meeting with
Speaker 1: them taking the time to get to know them, he
Speaker 1: took them into the Oval Office with no press there.
Speaker 1: This is not a press moment. He said, I want you,
Speaker 1: each of you to stand next to me, one by one,
Speaker 1: next to the resolute decks. Now, we're going to take
Speaker 1: a photograph for you and your family. Can't publish it
Speaker 1: because you're going to be special operators, but you're going
Speaker 1: to have a photograph in the Oval office with the
Speaker 1: Commander in Chief to share with your family, to share
Speaker 1: with your units. That's who this man is. He's proud
Speaker 1: of our Jadair Christian heritage, is proud of what America
Speaker 1: stands for. And as a certain former president from Illinois
Speaker 1: once said, elections have consequences, they do they ever? Well,
Speaker 1: the President in that speech, Um and a rock said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're no longer the suckers of the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And this coincides with his decision to withdraw resource or
Speaker 1: proops from Syria and to um, you know, pull back
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. You know, you have enormous connections in the
Speaker 1: military all the way to the top. You're the pre
Speaker 1: eminent national security strategist in the country. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: what are you hearing from people in terms of morale
Speaker 1: at the Pentagon and within the wider military. I can
Speaker 1: tell you just another story from the White House. The
Speaker 1: same day we took those future Green Berets and to
Speaker 1: see the President. I gave a brief on ISIS to
Speaker 1: the YEA to the soldiers, and afterwards there was somebody
Speaker 1: on the comment to the NFC who's from Jay Suck.
Speaker 1: So that's the tip of the best of the best.
Speaker 1: That's the special operations for going covertly to do what
Speaker 1: needs to be done. And he was in civilian clothes.
Speaker 1: He was etiquet of briefing himself and he recognized me
Speaker 1: for the TV. I didn't know who he was, and
Speaker 1: he came up to me after he said privately, Dr Golga,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck here at the NFC. My buddies are in theater.
Speaker 1: They're killing bad guys in the Middle East. I just
Speaker 1: want you to know so the president knows that since
Speaker 1: he came on board, our morale has sky rocketed. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what you want to hear. After eight
Speaker 1: years of saying we are the problem, that America is
Speaker 1: responsible for the ills of the world. To have a
Speaker 1: man who not only trusts the military but unleashes them
Speaker 1: to do the job they were meant to do. Recall,
Speaker 1: ISIS was described by Obama as a generational threat. We
Speaker 1: just have to live with that changed at twelve oh
Speaker 1: one on January the twenty January the twentieth, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: we unleashed our military and within five months, the Isis
Speaker 1: Caliphate no longer existed. That's what leadership can get you.
Speaker 1: What taking a shifting gears here a little bit and
Speaker 1: coming back to domestic politics, what do you think the
Speaker 1: outcome will be of this government shutdown? Is the president
Speaker 1: is going to get the wall. Look, the President just
Speaker 1: tweeted out that he's prepared to close down the border
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get funding for a war that, by
Speaker 1: the way, the Democrats say they would fund. I mean
Speaker 1: in previous years for Donald Trump became president, they actually
Speaker 1: said that we need a war and they're going to
Speaker 1: fund it now because he's the president, because he's serious,
Speaker 1: and because they want to lock in their new plantation dwellers.
Speaker 1: They want to have illegal aliens right across the border
Speaker 1: become Democrat voters. They are going back on their promise
Speaker 1: I want to make I want to give a clear
Speaker 1: message to your listeners. The president knows that he came
Speaker 1: president because his first substantive policy platform was immigration reform
Speaker 1: and building the wall. He will never back down for
Speaker 1: the next two years. The Democrats have the House, they
Speaker 1: have appropriations, so they're going to put a stranglehold on
Speaker 1: significant funding. But the presidents going to continue to do
Speaker 1: to do what he's done already, which is to reprogram
Speaker 1: the fundible assets in the DoD budget to build the wall,
Speaker 1: because the wall is a national security imperative and he
Speaker 1: has every right to do so. Well, let's take you
Speaker 1: brought up a great point there with Democrats. Back in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, all fifty four Democrats in the Senate voted
Speaker 1: to pass the Border Security Economic Opportunity in Immigration Modernization Act,
Speaker 1: and in this was forty six billion dollars for border
Speaker 1: security improvements that added seven hundred miles of border fencing.
Speaker 1: Every single Democrat in the Senate voted for it. Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: Dian Fine stan Stein, Dick Durban, Harry Reid. I mean,
Speaker 1: and so the notion that the Democratic Party has not
Speaker 1: materially changed on the issue of immigration in just the
Speaker 1: last few years is totally debunked by that fact. They
Speaker 1: used to be on our side here and something has changed.
Speaker 1: And now you're a racist for merely suggesting that we
Speaker 1: should secure our border. And be a nation of laws.
Speaker 1: It's so dishonest to the American voter. Well, not only
Speaker 1: is it dishonest, it's disrespectful to the memories and the
Speaker 1: sacrifices made by those that defend us. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at Corporal Sing. Corporal Sing who goes to work Christmas,
Speaker 1: is his five month old son and his beautiful wife
Speaker 1: at home, goes to work, stops an illegal alien who's
Speaker 1: already already been charged multiple times with d uy and
Speaker 1: he gets murdered. He gets killed. Corporal Sing, a legal
Speaker 1: immigrant to the United States, who loved to be a
Speaker 1: peace officer in America, and he's gunned down by legal alien.
Speaker 1: What does Chuck Schumer, what does Nancy Plosi, What does
Speaker 1: mister Katchin release the former president Barack Obama have to
Speaker 1: say to that man's widow, to his five month old son,
Speaker 1: to the family of Kate Steinitz, You're right. They always
Speaker 1: do what for them is most politically expedient. It's the
Speaker 1: same with gay marriage. It doesn't matter what topic you pick.
Speaker 1: They will go with the flow as long as it
Speaker 1: means power for them. If it means a one eighty,
Speaker 1: if it means a retraction, if it means thinking that
Speaker 1: the rest of America is stupid and doesn't remember what
Speaker 1: the Democrats promised to us. The sad fact today is
Speaker 1: that a Democrat who is strong on national security, like
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy was, would not be allowed into the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party. That's how badly the radicals have taken over
Speaker 1: the DNC. Well, doctor Gorka, I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your time and your analysis. It's
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Speaker 1: Doctor Gorka. Hello everybody, welcome to the Buck Sexton Show.
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Speaker 1: internet sensations who became enormously popular in twenty sixteen for
Speaker 1: their viral YouTube video supporting President Trump. And I could
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Speaker 1: White House and they're as popular as ever. I mean,
Speaker 1: yeah there, and the President loves them. He even gave
Speaker 1: him a shout out there So that was that was
Speaker 1: really something. So I want to welcome to the program
Speaker 1: the one and only Diamond and Silk, hosts of the
Speaker 1: new Fox Nations show, appropriately named Diamond and Silk. Awre
Speaker 1: y'all doing, I would, I hope you do a well.
Speaker 1: Oh it's great to be with you guys. Now I
Speaker 1: got to ask, I got to ask, what do y'all
Speaker 1: think if this government shutdown? Look, the Democrats cost it
Speaker 1: because the democratslicit the House, the Senate. They are the
Speaker 1: ones responsible for funding our government and funding government projects,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to our national security, the border
Speaker 1: will have to be funded. They decided to go home,
Speaker 1: go to Hawaii, go to their destinations, and have funds
Speaker 1: over the holiday. And so to stand there huckling it
Speaker 1: down and and and coming to the table with an
Speaker 1: agreement that we're going to fund the border wall. So
Speaker 1: if as or bust about it, and I don't think
Speaker 1: these people understand that. Oh yeah, I mean, so who's
Speaker 1: to blame for this? I mean, as far as I
Speaker 1: can see, it's the Democrats because the President's not asking
Speaker 1: for much. I mean, just a few years ago, they voted,
Speaker 1: they voted, Democrats voted for tens of billions of dollars
Speaker 1: in border security, you know, because they wanted to look
Speaker 1: like they were conservative. Now the presidents just asking for
Speaker 1: five billion and they won't even give them that. So
Speaker 1: who's really to blame here that So it's their fault
Speaker 1: because they took an to uphold the constitution and to
Speaker 1: do certain duties. That duty is purned up funding our government.
Speaker 1: And when you don't want to fund the government in
Speaker 1: this project, but you're funding, you're giving millions of dollars
Speaker 1: to day dreaming and wanting to know what happened with
Speaker 1: quails and this and that. That's crazy. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to daydream if we keep our
Speaker 1: boarders open. Look at how people are just walking up
Speaker 1: in our country. Look at the police officer that got
Speaker 1: gunned down for what. Imagine if we would have had
Speaker 1: a wall up. Imagine if immigration, the immigration problem was fixed.
Speaker 1: I think it's time to hop it down and fix
Speaker 1: the problem instead of dismissing it or putting a band
Speaker 1: aid on it. It's time to fix the problems and
Speaker 1: that we can move forward. I can't blame my president
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump, and the reason why it's because he
Speaker 1: stayed at the White House to do his job, and
Speaker 1: he don't even get paid for the money that he gets.
Speaker 1: He gives that away. Let's say it like that, right,
Speaker 1: But you have these congress if women and men that's
Speaker 1: in office that went home and they still got paid
Speaker 1: for not doing their job. And I heard, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is true that we say allegedly her
Speaker 1: it's been alleged they gave themself a pay raise. But
Speaker 1: I got to continue to do my research to find
Speaker 1: out that that's true, because they should have gave themselves
Speaker 1: no raise. As a matter of fact, they should give
Speaker 1: the money back because they don't work for us. They
Speaker 1: have proven that they work for illegal aliens. That's right. Well,
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean Nancy Pelosi's cashing that check
Speaker 1: every month. Okay, somebody like Nancy Pelosi. She's not working
Speaker 1: for free like the president. And she's worth she's worth
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions. Okay, she's
Speaker 1: a rich woman. And I guarantee you she ain't working
Speaker 1: for free. Okay, there's no chance, So let me let
Speaker 1: me go ahead, There is no chance, Hall of You're right, yeah,
Speaker 1: So let me let me ask y'all. I mean, what
Speaker 1: do y'all think about a Democratic Congress coming in? Because
Speaker 1: now the president he had Republicans, you know, many of
Speaker 1: them that didn't like him over the last two years,
Speaker 1: and it was hard to get some things done. But
Speaker 1: now he's gonna have a Democratic Congress. They're really not
Speaker 1: gonna try to work with him. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: they're going to try to impeach him. Well, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: They should not be trying to talking about investigate. They
Speaker 1: should be legislating is what they should be doing. And
Speaker 1: what we're going to have to do as the American
Speaker 1: people is called them out on their stuff. They ran on, Okay,
Speaker 1: we want healthcare for all. You got the House, so
Speaker 1: you need to be fixing the healthcare problem, not trying
Speaker 1: to impeach a sitting president. And what are you going
Speaker 1: to impeach him? All? For the economy booming, for unemployment
Speaker 1: being at an all time low, for economic opportunities for people,
Speaker 1: for for for putting it I'm signing the first step
Speaker 1: into law for for signing opportunity zones. What are you
Speaker 1: going to impeach him on? See, he is not like
Speaker 1: the traditional career politician. He's a businessman who's about the business.
Speaker 1: That's why he didn't go home for the holidays. He
Speaker 1: stayed at the White House because he's about the business.
Speaker 1: And you got Congress they want to go back to
Speaker 1: business as normal. A lot of them out their hands
Speaker 1: in the cookie tar and ain't no more cookies left
Speaker 1: and they scrambling for kuaw. That's right, and not to mention,
Speaker 1: if you look at it, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: deep state snakes, elitist Republicans right there alone with the
Speaker 1: Democrats for the last two years, and that's why a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff did not get done. So it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be no difference for the next two years with
Speaker 1: the Democrats having the House. But Donald J. Trump did
Speaker 1: it with them or without them these last two years.
Speaker 1: He would continue to do it with them or without
Speaker 1: them for the next two years. Oh absolutely, Now, I mean,
Speaker 1: we have out this week there are all these stories
Speaker 1: that Congressman Maxine Waterso. I know, y'all did a whole
Speaker 1: documentary on She's going to be chairing the House Financial
Speaker 1: Services Committee, which is a big deal. Okay, how is
Speaker 1: this happening? This woman's been discredited time and time again,
Speaker 1: and here she is. I mean, she's getting promotion. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. They don't care about that. They don't care
Speaker 1: about her getting her kick back. Patty, what about that
Speaker 1: situation with the bank that her husband was tied to
Speaker 1: and up under the Obama administration, that bank was built
Speaker 1: out because of her influence. They don't care anything about that.
Speaker 1: They want to continue to do. Listen, Banses as usual.
Speaker 1: Let me, that's why you have them about ninety two,
Speaker 1: one hundred years old, still up there. It's the money,
Speaker 1: it's the money. But the gravy trains are coming to
Speaker 1: an end. I don't know how she got that position,
Speaker 1: what it is, what it is now, it's our responsibility
Speaker 1: to watch her because that's tax Paris dollars. It ain't
Speaker 1: nothing to be fool in the row when it comes
Speaker 1: for our dollars. Oh absolutely, So let's just shift gears
Speaker 1: here to twenty twenty, because you know, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: a couple days from twenty nineteen now, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have all these Democrats coming out of the wood work,
Speaker 1: you know, announcing their intentions to challenge President Trump. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be beating each other up in the Democratic primaries.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're looking at the lists of candidates, like,
Speaker 1: what do you think about these people? I mean, like
Speaker 1: Beata O'Rourke, I mean, what's his deal? Beetold me he
Speaker 1: told listen, hey don't have no deal because he couldn't
Speaker 1: even win Texas and they spent millions and millions of dollars,
Speaker 1: which we've got to understand the reason why you're seeing
Speaker 1: some of these people throws they had in the ring.
Speaker 1: It's all about money. How much had to raise and
Speaker 1: probably allegedly, this is my old personal opinion, how much
Speaker 1: they can take because they know they don't even stand
Speaker 1: its hands at winning when it comes come up. When
Speaker 1: they come up to President Donald Trump. I look at
Speaker 1: Beto o, Beto, whatever his name is. He don't look
Speaker 1: presidential to me. He had all this sweat on the show.
Speaker 1: He looked like a sweat person. The President's just sweating.
Speaker 1: And no, we would never vote for him. When you
Speaker 1: see Beeto, you've been a vetold him, act like we
Speaker 1: don't did a veto, Absolutely not. It's a no for Beeto.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Corey Booker because people are
Speaker 1: saying he might be one of the guys. You know,
Speaker 1: he's right up there with Beata. I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you think about? No, cry Booker. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: something about Corey Booker. Then Cory Booker admit some things
Speaker 1: that he used to do. The women now they want
Speaker 1: to downplay it. You don't hear the me too movement,
Speaker 1: you don't heed the hear time up movie. You don't
Speaker 1: hear none of them talking about it. But Cory Booker
Speaker 1: is an absolute no, no, no, He's already made a
Speaker 1: mess up there in the Senate. That's no. He's a
Speaker 1: not well people don't realize. I mean, he left his
Speaker 1: when he was mayor of Newark. He left that place
Speaker 1: a dang disaster. I mean, so if we left out
Speaker 1: a disaster, what will we want someone like that to
Speaker 1: be running for president and be our president? Don't you know?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a disaster up there at that White
Speaker 1: House if we allow him to get in to think
Speaker 1: about it for a minute. So it's an absolute it's
Speaker 1: a no go for him. No. Yeah, And I you
Speaker 1: know we could go on not because they're gonna be
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna be like coming out of the
Speaker 1: word work. They're gonna be like thirty Democrats and they're
Speaker 1: all gonna beating each other up. It's gonna be real nasty.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have Kamala Harris. And you know if you
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's fifty Democrats and they call
Speaker 1: Hillary to make fifty one yeah, one one, my brother,
Speaker 1: they go knock about one five one. And I see
Speaker 1: him being the president in twenty twenty. And the reason
Speaker 1: why is because he's a man that don't wafer. He
Speaker 1: cares about the American people. When I look at how
Speaker 1: he said I'm going to secure the border. I want
Speaker 1: to secure the border, and he bessed out on his
Speaker 1: holiday to stay up there to fight for that. People
Speaker 1: respect that. And I don't care what side of the
Speaker 1: value on, but people respect that. Even the people that
Speaker 1: didn't be vote for him respect that. And they know
Speaker 1: we do need border security because it drove down wages.
Speaker 1: And the first people it affects minority. I see why.
Speaker 1: Listen if they want to know why Hispanics love this
Speaker 1: president because most of them came in it did the
Speaker 1: right way. They got a line and they waited their turn,
Speaker 1: and they are appalled with the money that they pay.
Speaker 1: How they can allow the borders to say open illegal
Speaker 1: aliens to come rush our borders, beat up on our
Speaker 1: throtocks at our border patrol ages, thinking they can just
Speaker 1: walk back up in here, walk in our country and
Speaker 1: take the American dream. Hu. It's to be up paid,
Speaker 1: but too hot to get in line the way to
Speaker 1: You'll try to do it the right way when you
Speaker 1: come into this country. We have laws and rules. It's
Speaker 1: time to follow up the law. That's right. Y'all. Know
Speaker 1: why people love you so much is because y'all don't
Speaker 1: mince words, okay, and I know why it is. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all aren't from the Acela Corridor. You're not. You don't
Speaker 1: live in DC, you don't live in New York, y'all.
Speaker 1: Are y'all still right down North Carolina? Right North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. We listen, we pay attention,
Speaker 1: and we call it out. And you cannot use these
Speaker 1: big words where people don't understand it. You've got to
Speaker 1: call it out in Lama's time. Here's what it is.
Speaker 1: Job so people can get what's going on and guess
Speaker 1: what people are paying attention to. Well they and look
Speaker 1: the people in the mainstream media, I mean and stuff.
Speaker 1: They think we're stupid, okay, they think it as Trump voters.
Speaker 1: We don't know what we're talking about, and we proved
Speaker 1: them wrong in twenty sixteen because we were right. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and they think that we are crazy. They think that
Speaker 1: we are stupid. Let me tell you something, Americans do
Speaker 1: not benefit from people running it. If we benefit from
Speaker 1: people just run across with our borders with no border security,
Speaker 1: then why don't you have doors up at your house
Speaker 1: and they're a way to security alarm? Tell Obama to
Speaker 1: goal knock down that wall he just built the bockets house.
Speaker 1: Tell Nancy Pelosi to get rid of our walls. Listen,
Speaker 1: we need border security. We cannot continue to risk our
Speaker 1: national security. Elite the American people ride dirty and then
Speaker 1: people gett kill, Americans getting killed, and five million dollars
Speaker 1: should be are dropping a bucket if they can take
Speaker 1: our tast dollars and illegally fund SANCTU where we're sitting.
Speaker 1: So we can take our tast dollars and give President
Speaker 1: doctor Trump the funding he needs to find the wall. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's right. So I know y'all have this new show
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Speaker 1: out there. I mean I've been to their different you know,
Speaker 1: chit chat tours and rallies and different events movie premiere
Speaker 1: that they did. The crowd loves them and so if
Speaker 1: you can get out to something that they're doing, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a great time. I'm telling you so one
Speaker 1: hundred percent endorsed that. Anyway, it was really good seeing y'all,
Speaker 1: like I said last week at the White House, and
Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us today and we'll catch
Speaker 1: up soon. Happy New Year, all right, everybody, we'll be
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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Hello, everybody, a good evening. Welcome back. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Saxton Show. I'm Harland Hill filling
Speaker 1: in for Buck. You can follow me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Harland h r l an. Like I said earlier, the
Speaker 1: phone lines are open. We're gonna be taking a ton
Speaker 1: of calls for the rest of the show. Give us
Speaker 1: a call at eight four to four nine hundred twenty
Speaker 1: eight twenty five. Also, just a reminder, make sure to
Speaker 1: go download the Buck Sexton podcast. You can download it
Speaker 1: wherever you have podcasts, Apple, Google and elsewhere, even Spotify,
Speaker 1: so make sure you grab that. I know that we
Speaker 1: also have a caller Charlie from Ocean City, Maryland, Charlie,
Speaker 1: how are you doing. Thanks for taking my carl And
Speaker 1: I wish the president does two things. Number One, shut
Speaker 1: down the border. That there's two thousand trumps across our
Speaker 1: border every day. Make this shutdown hurt the Mexicans. And
Speaker 1: number two, get the military. I was a CBE back
Speaker 1: in the sixties. I went to non several times. All
Speaker 1: we did was build. There's no problem. You have the
Speaker 1: Army Corps of engineers, You've got the Marine engineers, You've
Speaker 1: got the Air Force engineers. You've got enough military people
Speaker 1: to build the wall. And it won't cost no fifty
Speaker 1: billion dollars. Oh well, absolutely. Now listen, the President said
Speaker 1: today he's willing to shut down the border. He's going
Speaker 1: to do whatever he has to do to make this happen.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. He knows that this is probably
Speaker 1: the biggest promise. Building the wall, securing the border is
Speaker 1: the biggest promise that he made coming out of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: If he's going to win in twenty twenty, he's got
Speaker 1: to deliver on it. And for two years didn't have
Speaker 1: the help of the Republicans. He's certainly not going to
Speaker 1: have the help of Democrats when Snancy Pelosi's running Congress.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Maybe we can get some small
Speaker 1: funding here and there, but it's going to be an
Speaker 1: uphill climb and it's going to be a tough couple
Speaker 1: of years getting the president's agenda executed if we have
Speaker 1: to depend on Congress. So moving to your second point,
Speaker 1: I agree, let's use the full breadth power, the resources,
Speaker 1: and the know how of the American military to do this.
Speaker 1: And there's a very simple rationale for using the military
Speaker 1: to do it. This is an issue of national security,
Speaker 1: plain and simple. We don't know who's coming into this country.
Speaker 1: We don't know could be terrorists, could be other radicals.
Speaker 1: And we know for a fact that we have murderers,
Speaker 1: habitual murderers. We know that we have drugs, We know
Speaker 1: that we have all kinds of criminals pouring across the border.
Speaker 1: We know that that's a fact. You can't dispute it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what talking points Democrats want to trot out.
Speaker 1: It is a fact that you know we have a
Speaker 1: violent element among the people that are coming across our
Speaker 1: border illegally, and we need to act now. And I
Speaker 1: think that the President's next step after the shutdown is resolved,
Speaker 1: and I suspect we're gonna get some funding from Democrats
Speaker 1: and the shutdown will go as long as we need to,
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, chunk of change and we
Speaker 1: can you know, build however many miles of wall with
Speaker 1: that five billion dollars. And I think the President will
Speaker 1: eventually get that. I don't think he's gonna acquiesced in
Speaker 1: the meantime. But that's not gonna be enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got we've got a lot of border to secure,
Speaker 1: and so I have stand with you one hunder the
Speaker 1: President should use the military and whatever other resources he
Speaker 1: has available to fund this thing, to build this thing. Period.
Speaker 1: We don't have a choice. So Charlie, thank you for
Speaker 1: your thoughts. Once again, everybody, I just want to remind
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Speaker 1: Harland Hill filling in for Buck. Twenty eighteen is almost over.
Speaker 1: We have a government shutdown. We're heading for a divided
Speaker 1: government as Democrats will assume control of the House, and
Speaker 1: Democrats are just starting to lay out their plans to
Speaker 1: challenge President Donald J. Trump in twenty twenty. Joining me
Speaker 1: to break down where this all goes in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: is conservative writer Ryan Grdosky. Hey, Ryan, I wanted to
Speaker 1: great to have you. I was watching CNBC. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: was watching CNBC and they're really pushing this idea that
Speaker 1: this government shutdown in the presence focus on illegal immigration
Speaker 1: is hurting the economy. I wanted to play a clip
Speaker 1: for you so you could hear it. The President is
Speaker 1: still taking the wrong lesson from the mid terms. He
Speaker 1: believes the mid terms validated everything that he was doing,
Speaker 1: and of course it didn't. If you look at the
Speaker 1: voting independence went for the Democrats by twelve points. And
Speaker 1: what one Republican strategist said was that the President took
Speaker 1: the wrong lesson from the midterms and that the number
Speaker 1: one issue is the economy, but the President made immigration
Speaker 1: the number one issue. He continues to make immigration the
Speaker 1: number one issue. The Democrats aren't going to cave on that.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Republicans in Congress will talk him into some
Speaker 1: type of compromise, But until the President moves off of
Speaker 1: the five billion for the wall, I don't see anything
Speaker 1: settling on the shutdown in the next few days. So
Speaker 1: let me just lay this out for the viewers. I mean,
Speaker 1: Ryan and I talk about policy and immigration constantly, and
Speaker 1: so I just know that he's going to have a
Speaker 1: lot to say about this because this guy on CNBC
Speaker 1: who's on all the time is inferring that immigration just
Speaker 1: is not a top issue that motivates voters. And this
Speaker 1: harkens back, in my view, to a perception in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen that largely led to the establishment being blindsided by
Speaker 1: the Trump Revolution. Ryan, you want to weigh in on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen election showed anything. It was actually that, Um, the
Speaker 1: Republicans failure on healthcare motivated independence more than any other issue.
Speaker 1: That's what If you look at like Kristen Cinema, who won,
Speaker 1: who was the first Democrat elected in thirty years in Arizona,
Speaker 1: narrowly beating Martha McSally, Cinema ran to the to the
Speaker 1: right of mcsalian immigration. She was constantly saying, how we
Speaker 1: need troops on the border. UM. And and many people
Speaker 1: who ran in and one in moderate suburban districts did
Speaker 1: not run on the open borders policy. Uh. That is
Speaker 1: that is that will be the main view of Democrats
Speaker 1: in the in the primary in twenty twenty, UM, they ran,
Speaker 1: they ran to the to the middle. And there was
Speaker 1: a study done. I forget the institution that did it,
Speaker 1: but I certainly linked to it on Twitter later. UM
Speaker 1: that found that the people who voted for Obama twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: Trump and twenty sixteen, and then Democrats again in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: immigration was their number one issue and they were to
Speaker 1: the right of of of a center on immigration. It's
Speaker 1: just that they're a left of center on many many
Speaker 1: other issues, mainly healthcare and miss something you know you
Speaker 1: don't need to be preached about. But you know, Republicans mean,
Speaker 1: you have said this over and over again. If Republicans
Speaker 1: do not figure out a way to bring down costs
Speaker 1: of healthcare, we're going to have socialized medicine in this
Speaker 1: country in the next fifteen twenty years. And it's you know,
Speaker 1: that is the main motivating factor for Democrats. It's all healthcare.
Speaker 1: So that's the main issue. But it's but Truva is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right to pursue a hardline view and immigration. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, the MSNBC was earlier pushing the idea that
Speaker 1: you know, voters are blaming President Trump for the shutdown
Speaker 1: and that this is going to lead to a route.
Speaker 1: You don't see that. I guess your point here is
Speaker 1: that you don't see people's views on immigration shifting materially
Speaker 1: at all as it relates to the shutdown or any
Speaker 1: that it's it's going to remain constant. People don't like
Speaker 1: the ideas of you know, sanctuary cities. They don't like
Speaker 1: the idea of a police officer who is innocent and
Speaker 1: you know, away from his family on Christmas, being down
Speaker 1: by any legal immigrant. They don't like that. That's not
Speaker 1: a popular public opinion, right. I mean, that's not going
Speaker 1: to change just because the President decides to stand up
Speaker 1: the Democrats. Not only was he gunned down, but it's
Speaker 1: been I think I believe they caught the illegal alien.
Speaker 1: But not only was he gunned down, but Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: who comes from the same state that this police officer
Speaker 1: was gunned down, a legal immigrant, by the way, who
Speaker 1: was gunned down by an illegal immigrant. Nancy Pelosi has
Speaker 1: not mentioned him. Chuck Schumer hasn't mentioned him. I went
Speaker 1: through every Democrat in leadership and major Democrat presidential candidate.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has not mentioned him. Corey Booker hasn't mentioned him.
Speaker 1: Bernie Standers hasn't mentioned They all mentioned this eight year
Speaker 1: old boy who died in custody a border patrol because
Speaker 1: he was dehydrated by human smugglers for weeks on end.
Speaker 1: But they did not mention this, this brave police officer
Speaker 1: who was murdered. And there was a viral vigil that
Speaker 1: went around on Christmas of a new York City police
Speaker 1: officer being attacked by three vagrant vagrants on the subway.
Speaker 1: The main one who started the entire incident was an
Speaker 1: illegal alien with several detain ers that that we're ignored
Speaker 1: by by Mayor de Blasio. No, people care about safety
Speaker 1: and security. They're compassionate, but there they care about safety
Speaker 1: and security. They want the border um protected. And there's
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand more Central Americans trying to come to our
Speaker 1: border and we're being completely overwhelmed. And and I just
Speaker 1: I want, I don't think that most Americans care about
Speaker 1: the shutdown. And secondly, um, those who those who really
Speaker 1: do are are are very heavily partisan, but they do
Speaker 1: want this border controlled and there's no other way about it.
Speaker 1: And Trump is right to whole firm He's going to
Speaker 1: certainly solidifying his base and people who who believe that
Speaker 1: our border needs to be secure. Well, let's shift gears
Speaker 1: here to the Democratic primary for president in twenty twenty. UM.
Speaker 1: Just this week we had the news break that California
Speaker 1: is actually going to move up their primary date to
Speaker 1: Super Tuesday. And in my view, I mean, this just
Speaker 1: is a seismic shift and how Democrats are going to
Speaker 1: view the map as they start allocating resources in the
Speaker 1: primary for twenty twenty, can you explain to people, you
Speaker 1: know why this matters, Why having a state like California
Speaker 1: and Texas on the same day in the Democratic primaries
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen will matter. Right, So several things happen
Speaker 1: if for the twenty sixteen Democratic primary. One is to
Speaker 1: kind of help support Bernie Sanders supporters and get them
Speaker 1: back in the Democrat or attempt to bring them back
Speaker 1: in the Democratic fold. The Democrats did away with a
Speaker 1: large chunk I think about half or almost half of
Speaker 1: their super delicates, so the party will not have the
Speaker 1: same machinery as it did back in twenty sixteen to
Speaker 1: help basically get Hillary Clinton over the line. A lot
Speaker 1: of it will be given to the voters, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats are are They give out delegates based upon proportion
Speaker 1: the votes, So if you get fifteen percent of the vote,
Speaker 1: you get about fifteen percent the delegates, and so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. The thing is is that it was
Speaker 1: always these small and mid sized states that decided, and
Speaker 1: they would ramp up to big states like New York
Speaker 1: and California in Texas by having California and Tech by
Speaker 1: having sorry California in Texas right on Super Tuesday, being
Speaker 1: that will be the fifth election, they'll be Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, and then Super Tuesday. What happens is you
Speaker 1: could have a candidate like a Bernie or Beto or
Speaker 1: or Biden, when sweep three of those four states Iowa,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire and Nevada, South Carolina will probably be going
Speaker 1: to a black Canada whoever runs because it is a
Speaker 1: majority a majority of Democrats in the state are black.
Speaker 1: But but you could have them win three of those
Speaker 1: four and then California comes up, Kamala Harris sweeps California
Speaker 1: and Beto sweeps Texas or gets fifty percent or something
Speaker 1: close to that, then all those early states don't matter,
Speaker 1: and you go into an increasing likelihood of a broker convention.
Speaker 1: And if you think that twenty sixteen was ugly between Bernie,
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, it will it will be
Speaker 1: all out war if it is a Biden Beto ticket
Speaker 1: versus a Kamala Corey Booker ticket, where you have a
Speaker 1: very likelihood good likelihood of chance of splitting establishing Democrats
Speaker 1: versus non established democrats. Progresses versus moderates, young versus old,
Speaker 1: white versus minority. It could be very very men versus women.
Speaker 1: You could be a very ugly contentious situation where two
Speaker 1: or maybe even three are very close to the presidency
Speaker 1: and are not even on the ticket because most people
Speaker 1: have the vice presidential candidate already on the ticket by
Speaker 1: the time the convention comes around. So it could be
Speaker 1: a very, very very serious problem for Democrats. And you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a very strong likelihood of having twenty
Speaker 1: thirty candidates in the field, and many of them will
Speaker 1: have at least a delegate. Now, do you think the
Speaker 1: Democrats have any ability to arrest control of the situation,
Speaker 1: because I think you're right. I mean, it seems like
Speaker 1: it's it's possible we do have a BROKERD convention, and
Speaker 1: as we saw, I mean, we didn't have a ROOKERD
Speaker 1: convention in twenty sixteen, but there was still the perception
Speaker 1: that Bernie was slighted because of the party rules, because
Speaker 1: of the establishment working against him, And I think that
Speaker 1: actually really did have some longer term effects on Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: You know, in such a tight general election, who knows
Speaker 1: may have actually decided the election. No, I believe that
Speaker 1: a hunt. I believe it did too, Okay, but so
Speaker 1: so do the Can the Democrats do anything at this
Speaker 1: point to pull together and unite the party so that
Speaker 1: they can avoid this or do you just think that
Speaker 1: they're so fragmented at this point that's just that's just
Speaker 1: not going to happen. Well, Bernie is Bernie is a
Speaker 1: big problem for the Democrats. One, he is not a
Speaker 1: registered Democrat, which irks a lot of established Democrats. Secondly,
Speaker 1: he's very old. That worries a lot of established democ crafts.
Speaker 1: But also the fact of the matter is is that
Speaker 1: his supporters, so there are a large number of his
Speaker 1: supporters who do feel like the election was stolen from him,
Speaker 1: that he would have beaten Trump, and that this presidency
Speaker 1: is entirely due to the establishing parties. And they're still
Speaker 1: angry about twenty sixteen, and they're not going to sit
Speaker 1: there and support any other candidate besides Bernie. And if
Speaker 1: they feel that this is happening again to them, they're
Speaker 1: going to be absolutely furious. Bernie has a right. Bernie
Speaker 1: supporters have already started a war against Beto, people who
Speaker 1: are being who's being built up by the Hillary Clinton camp.
Speaker 1: Beto is on that Todd Save America and which is
Speaker 1: run by all former Hillary Clinton staffers and is already
Speaker 1: being pursued by Joe Biden as a possible VP candidate,
Speaker 1: you know, So it'll be a four white men running
Speaker 1: for president and vice president if Trump continues with Pence.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of tension in Anger right now. And if Bernie Sanders runs,
Speaker 1: I don't see any way around that, you know, unless
Speaker 1: he completely fans out and and people just kind of
Speaker 1: he's not as exciting as as as he was in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. But there's a mean he also never surrendered
Speaker 1: surrendered his list of the DNC after this after the election.
Speaker 1: So he has this fundraising base which is millions upon
Speaker 1: millions of people. He has millions and millions of supporter supporters.
Speaker 1: He's going to be very high up in the polls
Speaker 1: in Hampshire and in Iowa. And that being said, though
Speaker 1: in a recent poll of Democratic candidates he is the
Speaker 1: most he is one of the most liked and one
Speaker 1: of the most disliked. So it's going to be very
Speaker 1: very difficult for UM for them to grapple with Bernie
Speaker 1: and there's a very strong chance he will run. And
Speaker 1: if he runs, uh, you know, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a bloody, bloody, bloody primary for Democrats where there's be
Speaker 1: a lot of mud slinging um. And I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised at all depending on who was a nominee, where
Speaker 1: you'll have a large segment of the Democratic Party again
Speaker 1: throwing their hands up in the air and saying this
Speaker 1: party isn't worth it for me. And you know, I'll
Speaker 1: be an independent, or I'll be green, or I'll do
Speaker 1: something else, but the Democratic Party is just too corrupt. Well, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for your time. I mean,
Speaker 1: this analysis has been extremely helpful. Where can people find
Speaker 1: you on? My website is Ryan Gredusky dot com and
Speaker 1: you can follow me on Twitter at Ryan Grodowsky and
Speaker 1: Facebook at Ryan Gredusky. Awesome, all right, I'll see you soon, Ryan.
Speaker 1: Everybody will be right back. Stay tuned to the Buck
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Speaker 1: or young you are. We've had a really good show
Speaker 1: so far. We still have another hour ahead of us,
Speaker 1: and in that time we're going to have Tom Fitton,
Speaker 1: the president of Judicial Watch. He has some incredible insight
Speaker 1: on the prospects of Democrats trying to impeach the president
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen in advance of twenty twenty. Tom and
Speaker 1: Judicial Watch are arguably the pre eminent organization that focuses
Speaker 1: on legal issues and on the conservative side. You know,
Speaker 1: they led the charge in terms of chasing down Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton for her misuse of her private email server. They
Speaker 1: chase her down on the issues with Benghazi. They do
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible work. And so I think you guys are
Speaker 1: really going to enjoy my conversation that I have. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have with with Tom here in uh, you know,
Speaker 1: another five or six minutes. Incredibly bright, and he has
Speaker 1: the President's here. And so one thing that we've tried
Speaker 1: to do tonight is to provide as many voices as
Speaker 1: we could possibly find on uh, you know, a holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: And you guys have had some great ones, you know,
Speaker 1: from doctor Sebastian Gorka the Diamond and Silk to Stephanie
Speaker 1: Caller over at the Hamil as Sephanie Hamile over at
Speaker 1: the Caller and um, and we've got some great ones
Speaker 1: ahead of us. I am incredibly m proud of what
Speaker 1: we've accomplished in such a short period of time with
Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump, and I can tell that many
Speaker 1: of you are too. I mean, we've had some great
Speaker 1: conversations with with with callers, and I want to hear
Speaker 1: from y'all exactly what's on your mind. You know, between
Speaker 1: the shutdown, the incoming Democratic Congress, the overreach of Nancy Pelosi. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the most unstable, dangerous characters, people
Speaker 1: like Maxine Waters rising to prominence in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. So, the phone lines are open.
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Speaker 1: at eight four four nine twenty eight twenty five. That's
Speaker 1: eight four to four nine hundred buck. If you listen
Speaker 1: to the mainstream media, we're on the verge of an
Speaker 1: impeachment showdown in twenty nineteen. Just turn on MSNBC or CNN.
Speaker 1: It's all you hear world waff for the last two years. Basically,
Speaker 1: in fact, New York Times just put out on an
Speaker 1: op ed that said that it's quote all but guaranteed
Speaker 1: the President Donald Trump will be impeached after Democrats take
Speaker 1: control of the House of Representatives unless he takes a
Speaker 1: queue from President Richard Nixon and leaves on his own.
Speaker 1: I think that's wishful thinking about the New York Times
Speaker 1: join me to discuss this as the president of Judicial
Speaker 1: Watch and frequent Fox News guests Tom Fitten, Tom, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me. Probably good to be with you. Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. Absolutely so, Tom, is this just
Speaker 1: more crying wolf by the Democrats, or do you think
Speaker 1: that there's a legitimate possibility that leadership in this new
Speaker 1: Democratic House moved to impeach the president. I think they
Speaker 1: were going to talk about impeaching the president. They may
Speaker 1: begin impeachment inquiries, which is one way of having their
Speaker 1: taking eating it too, where they're talking about the possibility
Speaker 1: of impeaching him and having hearings associated with that and
Speaker 1: satisfying their hardcore activists who want impeachment while actually just
Speaker 1: keeping the government operating without too much craziness in terms
Speaker 1: of a full blown impeachment effort. Yeah, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: what is it going to take for us to finally
Speaker 1: get some evidence of any wrongdoing by the president. I
Speaker 1: mean this started. This whole process of trying to undermine
Speaker 1: the Donald Trump administration started before he was even elected.
Speaker 1: They were trying to plant seeds of doubt about Russian
Speaker 1: collusion in the event that he won. And he won,
Speaker 1: and that's what they've done. So at one point three
Speaker 1: years into this nonsense, are we finally going to get something?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm waiting for the American people to
Speaker 1: finally throw their hands up in the air and just
Speaker 1: say this is this is nothing. Why. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to stop until the League Office, really, whether
Speaker 1: it's one term or two, I just see this as
Speaker 1: the Remember you know George Bush's win in Florida, how
Speaker 1: controversial that was for the left. They never gave up
Speaker 1: on it eight years later, and the Russia thing is
Speaker 1: much more sensitive for them, even though it was the
Speaker 1: Clinton Democratic Party that generated the false allegations about Russia collusion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter because they don't have a media
Speaker 1: holding into account here. So you know, the normal checks
Speaker 1: in our in our system aren't working in terms of
Speaker 1: stamping down this outrageous conspiracy theory. As you know, the
Speaker 1: question is of the Democrats, the Democratic political leadership going
Speaker 1: to go you know, full movie, full moonbeam on it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is this the new normal then? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, looking out, I mean, eventually we will have
Speaker 1: a new We'll have a Democrat in the White House
Speaker 1: at some point in the future. You know, is this
Speaker 1: the new norm? I mean, do you think that we
Speaker 1: will reciprocate with these kinds of investigations to work to
Speaker 1: undermine a democratic administration on the right or do you
Speaker 1: think that this is a phenomenon that's unique to the
Speaker 1: radicalism that we're seeing metastasize within the Democratic Party. Well,
Speaker 1: we couldn't get a legitimate investigation based on serious criminal
Speaker 1: allegation against Hillary Clint Cuche. Yes, there's no way, you know,
Speaker 1: the Republicans or Conservatives are going to come up with
Speaker 1: a fake investigation or fake allegations and demanded criminal investigations.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, there's a degree the new normal is the
Speaker 1: Trump slash Kavanaugh approach to politics by the left? Yes,
Speaker 1: I just don't see any ecois of it on the right. Well,
Speaker 1: can you help me understand, I mean, you bring up
Speaker 1: a really interesting point. What's the deficiency here? Like why
Speaker 1: why can't we get a proper investigation into Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 1: I mean, she and her staff destroyed evidence, there was
Speaker 1: under subpoena material to a federal investigation, and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Nothing happened, they got away. If I had done that,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be under the jail house right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, what's the disconnect your Tom? Why are
Speaker 1: we I mean this is asymmetrical. Well, during the Obama administration,
Speaker 1: one day someone serious rout a history of it. The
Speaker 1: politicalization of the government metastasize, especially in the Justice Department
Speaker 1: and the FBI. So there was never any chance in
Speaker 1: retrospect of the radicalized Justice Department in terms of politics,
Speaker 1: seriously investigating and prosecuting Hillary. And it just wasn't going
Speaker 1: to happen. I know, I was naive. I thought the
Speaker 1: right thing might happen, But in retrospect that didn't even
Speaker 1: I even I didn't understand the scope and breadth of
Speaker 1: the corruption at the top levels of the Justice Department
Speaker 1: and FBI at the time. And yeah, it's it's something
Speaker 1: that's going to be difficult to undo because the current
Speaker 1: leadership still doesn't have a full understanding of just how
Speaker 1: political their agencies are. Absolutely and before we go here,
Speaker 1: I just got to ask, do you think that there's
Speaker 1: any risk of Republicans breaking with the Republican caucus and
Speaker 1: you know, working with Democrats to impeach the president. Do
Speaker 1: you think there's any risk of that? Oh, there's always
Speaker 1: going to be some Republicans showing a little leg in
Speaker 1: that regard, and that My guess is that there are
Speaker 1: some Republicans secretly and not too secretly, like you see
Speaker 1: the president removed from office. But I don't think it
Speaker 1: will be a substantial number that will give much cred
Speaker 1: to the left wing impeachment abuses if they proceed. Got it, Tom,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us your commentary analysis. I
Speaker 1: love it on Fox every time I see you, so
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your help tonight. Where can we find
Speaker 1: more of your content? I go to judicialwatch dot org
Speaker 1: and I've got a great Twitter feed at Tom Fitton
Speaker 1: and of course at Judici. Great. Thank you so much. Everyone.
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Speaker 1: and when I first got started in television. Buck was
Speaker 1: actually a contributor at CNN. He was like one of
Speaker 1: the few woke conservatives that were there that had, you know,
Speaker 1: brought the perspective that they're viewers just don't get, you know.
Speaker 1: And I always respected him for going into the Lionston,
Speaker 1: for going into the arena and not back and down.
Speaker 1: It takes some courage to do that, I'll tell you guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done plenty of CNN in the past year.
Speaker 1: I don't do it anymore. I'm exclusive doing Fox News now,
Speaker 1: but I used to do a lot to see in
Speaker 1: particularly back in twenty sixteen. And they play all kinds
Speaker 1: of games. You know, everybody knows about the bias that
Speaker 1: they have. Everybody knows that you know they have. You know,
Speaker 1: they hyper focus on every little fault that they can
Speaker 1: come up with, whether it's true or not about the president.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they just blatantly make stuff up. But one of
Speaker 1: the things that they do that you guys just don't
Speaker 1: see on screen, it's behind the scenes. One of the
Speaker 1: things that they do is, for one, this is actually
Speaker 1: something that you do see. They will stack the panels
Speaker 1: against Trump voices. This isn't something that they used to do,
Speaker 1: you know, with traditional Republicans, but they view the Trump
Speaker 1: presidency and the MAGA movement as an existential threat to
Speaker 1: their pre eminence right. And I mean, the media for
Speaker 1: a long time had a stranglehold on what Americans thought
Speaker 1: and with social media, with the president leveraging social media
Speaker 1: in a way that no president, including Barack Obama, had
Speaker 1: ever done to mobilize his message and to get out
Speaker 1: stories that just were being underreported, including you know, the
Speaker 1: stories of angel Moms, which you know is particularly relevant
Speaker 1: in the light of the story that we opened the
Speaker 1: show up with about the police officer that was brutally
Speaker 1: murdered out in California. But getting back to CNN, one
Speaker 1: thing that they do is obviously they sacked the panels.
Speaker 1: They'll have the host who's almost certainly liberal. They're very
Speaker 1: almost no conservatives. It's gonna they're hosting shows. But one
Speaker 1: of the things that they do is they'll have the
Speaker 1: host who's a liberal, and then they'll have you know,
Speaker 1: two to four Democrats. Then they love to throw a
Speaker 1: never Trump Republican in the mix, somebody like Anna Navarro
Speaker 1: or you know, they're it's a long list of people
Speaker 1: like that that are never Trumpers, and you know, don't
Speaker 1: reflect any major constituency in the Republican Party. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many never Trumpers are there left among voters. They're
Speaker 1: barely any. The president's intra party approval rating is to
Speaker 1: the roof. So the fact that they give equal voice
Speaker 1: to never Trump Republicans as they give to pro Trump
Speaker 1: Republicans is so dishonest to their viewers. I mean, that
Speaker 1: just doesn't reflect the modern Republican Party, doesn't reflect America.
Speaker 1: It's a total fabrication. And so you know, so they
Speaker 1: they to recap they stack it with a host that
Speaker 1: is very anti Trump, and they will have all these
Speaker 1: Democrats have a never Trumper, and then they'll give us
Speaker 1: one pro Trump Republican and everybody, everybody on the panel
Speaker 1: shouts down the Republican, the pro Trump Republican. They don't
Speaker 1: give us a time to respond to like personal attacks,
Speaker 1: and so they drown you out. So but then they
Speaker 1: can say, you know, oh, we're given we're given the
Speaker 1: Trump voice as a chance. Nah, they don't do that.
Speaker 1: The other thing that they do is that they will
Speaker 1: change your topics last minute, and that's normal in news.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a fast moving news cycle. And
Speaker 1: but all everybody else on the panel, everybody else that
Speaker 1: you see on TV, knows what the new topic is.
Speaker 1: This is a trick they play, and they will not
Speaker 1: tell us, so that we're totally blindsided and unprepared and
Speaker 1: puts us at a tremendous disadvantage. Now I told you
Speaker 1: guys earlier, I'm a former Democrat. I used to be
Speaker 1: a Democrat. I used to go on Fox News as
Speaker 1: a Democrat back in the day. I'm now very much
Speaker 1: a Republican. I was always conservative Democrat, by the way,
Speaker 1: so give me, you know, don't hate me too much
Speaker 1: for that. I've seen the light. And I can remember
Speaker 1: going on Fox News back in the day as a Democrat,
Speaker 1: and I was never treated the way that CNN treats
Speaker 1: pro Trump Republicans. They didn't play any games like this,
Speaker 1: They didn't drown out our voices. It was always a
Speaker 1: fairer match. I can remember going on The O'Riley Factor,
Speaker 1: Okay Riley Factor, biggest show on cable news at the time,
Speaker 1: huge had enormous, enormous social impact. A lot of people
Speaker 1: saw it, and at worst it would be the host,
Speaker 1: you know, Bill would be there, and then you'd have
Speaker 1: a Republican voice, and then the Democrat would would have
Speaker 1: a fair shot. You know, they're not getting drowned out.
Speaker 1: So Fox really does to this day give Democrats a
Speaker 1: fair shake. They're able to be defeated by Republican ideas
Speaker 1: on their own merit, and it says everything about CNN
Speaker 1: that they're afraid to give the ideas of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party a fair shot. So coming up, now, we have
Speaker 1: a caller from South Carolina. Yeah, what question do you
Speaker 1: have a Hey, what's up? I was wondering what to
Speaker 1: take up the partial sit down? Oh? Well, for one,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I think that it was
Speaker 1: the best move the President could have made. The President
Speaker 1: made his most important core tenant coming out of twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen was the promise to build the wall to secure
Speaker 1: the border to stop illegal immigration. And he didn't have
Speaker 1: a choice at this point, after two years of Congress
Speaker 1: led by Republicans not putting material funding on his desk
Speaker 1: to sign to build and secure the border. He had
Speaker 1: to put his foot down now, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to pay much of a political price. I
Speaker 1: don't think that most Americans out there outside of the
Speaker 1: Acelic Corridor, outside of DC, New York, LA, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody really cares that the government is shut down,
Speaker 1: partially shut down. They don't care. So this was the
Speaker 1: time for the President to take a stand. And I
Speaker 1: think that he should ride this thing out as long
Speaker 1: as he has to. He should ride this thing out
Speaker 1: until he gets exactly what he wants. And you know
Speaker 1: what I'll waser, did the Democrats come to the table,
Speaker 1: Because you know I said earlier in my conversation with
Speaker 1: doctor Gorka, you know, it wasn't that long ago. The
Speaker 1: Democrats were down with the idea of securing the border.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty thirteen, all fifty four Democrats that were
Speaker 1: in the Senate at the time, every single one, every
Speaker 1: single one of the Democrats in the Senate voted for
Speaker 1: the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immtegration Modernization Act in
Speaker 1: that it's a big long name. In that included forty
Speaker 1: six billion dollars for border security improvements, and it added
Speaker 1: over seven hundred miles of border fencing. The president's asking
Speaker 1: for five billion dollars. You're telling me that many of
Speaker 1: the same Democrats that are still in the Senate and
Speaker 1: in the House can't come to the table for a
Speaker 1: music five billion dollars when they were on they came
Speaker 1: to the table for forty six billion back in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: And that includes the leader of the Democrats in the Senate,
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. He voted for this. But now supposedly walls
Speaker 1: are racist? Are you kidding me? And what do you
Speaker 1: think about the shutdown? Man? Well, I think it just
Speaker 1: exposes the Last because they are a bunch of hypocrites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if they are, they preached saying, oh we're gonna
Speaker 1: build the fence where you know Obama preached, you know,
Speaker 1: the mass deportation, they're they're all that right now. The
Speaker 1: only thing they're trying to do is just undermine Chump
Speaker 1: right now. That's all the Last is doing any anymore.
Speaker 1: It's just to stop Chump. They hate Chump so much
Speaker 1: that they don't want him to succeed. They don't want
Speaker 1: to see a wall built. I don't understand why, But
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they want people crossing out borders illegally.
Speaker 1: And I'm assuming you saw this, this cop that was
Speaker 1: just brutally murdered. You know, I was disgusted by it,
Speaker 1: that that scumbag. Yeah, of any man, all right, I
Speaker 1: get it. If you come to our country you need help,
Speaker 1: I want to give you help. But when you come
Speaker 1: into our country and you decide to kill a peace officer,
Speaker 1: that takes it to the next step. That's when we
Speaker 1: should actually start opening our eyes and look that we
Speaker 1: need security on our wall. We need a security on
Speaker 1: a border. It's been going on long enough. Every year
Speaker 1: people are getting killed by easilygal immigrants who are crossing
Speaker 1: our border illegally, who shouldn't be here in the first place.
Speaker 1: And this all could be preventaged if we had border security.
Speaker 1: But well, border cussary with the wall. Oh absolutely, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for your call. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I mean, I couldn't agree more with all
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, now's the time we sat around.
Speaker 1: We've waited, We kicked the can down the road for
Speaker 1: way too long. It's not just the last two years
Speaker 1: during the Bush administration, we didn't do enough either. As
Speaker 1: a Republican Party you know, Barack Obama and the Democrats
Speaker 1: for the last eight years certainly didn't do what was
Speaker 1: needed to secure the border. They didn't really care. This
Speaker 1: has been a problem decades in the making, decades in
Speaker 1: the making, and enough's enough. We either solve this problem
Speaker 1: now or I'm telling you what, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: ever going to solve it in this country, maybe beyond repair,
Speaker 1: because the amount of crime and the drugs that continue
Speaker 1: to pour across the border are totally unacceptable. No one
Speaker 1: has an issue with a degree of legal immigration, but
Speaker 1: we need immigration and moderation, and it's totally unacceptable that
Speaker 1: we don't know we don't know who's come into this country.
Speaker 1: That's a travesty and it's only a matter of time
Speaker 1: before it costs more American lives. Anyway, call in eight
Speaker 1: four four nine two eight two five. We've got one
Speaker 1: more interview coming up and the I'm gonna be taking
Speaker 1: all your calls on the other side of this this
Speaker 1: break to make sure you call in. Welcome back. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill filing
Speaker 1: for Buck. The mainstream media seem to be pushing endlessly,
Speaker 1: almost rooting for an economic downtterm. They report with bated
Speaker 1: breath the recent correction that we've seen in the stock market,
Speaker 1: and they all to blame at the feet of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump. Let's play this clip from CNBC and
Speaker 1: I think you'll see what I mean. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: you say that he's digging into this issue on immigration,
Speaker 1: which he very much is when it comes to the
Speaker 1: budget issue of the day. But he certainly is very impacted,
Speaker 1: very sensitive if he will, to US economic performance. We
Speaker 1: know he constantly looks at what's happening in the US
Speaker 1: stock markets as an indicator of his popularity in many ways.
Speaker 1: So given what we've seen in markets, do you think
Speaker 1: this will be an impetus for change when it comes
Speaker 1: to President Trump digging in his heels not just on
Speaker 1: the border wall, but on things like China. Well, the
Speaker 1: question is what is going to be the lessons that
Speaker 1: he takes from everything. I think twenty nineteen is going
Speaker 1: to make twenty eighteen look team by Paris. I mean,
Speaker 1: USX Pats are like the canaries in the coal mine
Speaker 1: for US businesses. I mean, we send things coming first.
Speaker 1: I've never seen such nervousness in the US business community
Speaker 1: as I see now. It comes with US China standoff,
Speaker 1: It comes with all the politics in Washington, it comes
Speaker 1: with the world moving forward without US, like EU, Japan
Speaker 1: and the CPTPP. So there's just so much nervousness now
Speaker 1: it's very hard to kick. What's going to make the
Speaker 1: markets better? Joining me now? Is markets Expert A frequent
Speaker 1: Fox guest Katherin Rooney Vera. Katherine is a professor at
Speaker 1: the University of Miami and head of Global Research and
Speaker 1: chief investment Strategists at Baltic Capital Markets. Katherine, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. Thanks Han, So, you know, just listening to
Speaker 1: that last clip there, you know this is a message
Speaker 1: that I'm hearing cram down our throats on CNBC and
Speaker 1: elsewhere across all the liberal networks, that you know we're
Speaker 1: headed for a recession in twenty nineteen. I think it's
Speaker 1: almost wishful thinking. Is there anything to this? And I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with you more. It's almost breathless anticipation of
Speaker 1: a recession, hoping that it actually happens. I hear it
Speaker 1: where and as an economist and as you mentioned, a
Speaker 1: market strategists, it's just hard to justify. I often I
Speaker 1: say to my clients. Harland, I often say, I'd like
Speaker 1: to meet the economist who's calling for recession, who's a
Speaker 1: credible economist, and talk with him or her and say,
Speaker 1: what are you looking at? Because what I'm looking at
Speaker 1: doesn't show me any signs of recession. What I am
Speaker 1: afraid of is that with all of this incessant talk
Speaker 1: about recession, because the market has corrected one thing does
Speaker 1: not induce the other. Of ten, fifteen, twenty percent correction
Speaker 1: in the stock market does not mean imminent recession. Um,
Speaker 1: what I'd like to see, what are you looking at?
Speaker 1: What is going on here? So look, I would say
Speaker 1: that that the China issue is an interesting one. I
Speaker 1: think that President Trump is actually tackling it in the
Speaker 1: exactly proper fashion. I think we're actually going to get
Speaker 1: some type of resolution in the short term in the
Speaker 1: form of a deal, and I think the markets are
Speaker 1: going to be off to the racist. So I'm actually
Speaker 1: very positive on the markets and actively recommending long positions
Speaker 1: to my institutional clients. Is that the vibe that you're
Speaker 1: getting out there, I mean outside of the media, I
Speaker 1: mean your peers. Are they thinking that twenty nineteen should
Speaker 1: be fairly solid? A lot of most people think there's
Speaker 1: going to be a deceleration. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: But when we're talking about a deceleration, Harland, from three
Speaker 1: percent to two point seven two point eight percent, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really not a big deceleration. So I think that
Speaker 1: there's too much emphasis on the deceleration and the negative
Speaker 1: aspects of everything, rather than on what has been the
Speaker 1: motors and impetus for growth, which are twofold. One is
Speaker 1: tax reform, unequivocally, and two is the regulation. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have three percent growth. I remember at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, Harland, people would say to me, three
Speaker 1: percent growth is impossible. Three percent growth is impossible. Now
Speaker 1: we have quarterly, seasonally just annualized figures above four percent,
Speaker 1: and for the year we're going to get three percent. Remember,
Speaker 1: one thing is important to know here for the audience
Speaker 1: is that potential growth through the United States of america's
Speaker 1: two point two percent. So if you're growing at two
Speaker 1: point six two point eight percent after a three percent year,
Speaker 1: that's very strong. That's very strong. So the worst possible
Speaker 1: scenario that I can think of it and what keeps
Speaker 1: me up at night, is a self fulfilling prophecy if
Speaker 1: you get the mainstream media and really every media outlet
Speaker 1: talking about deceleration across the globe in the United States,
Speaker 1: possibility of recession, then I fear you would eventually see
Speaker 1: possibly consumer confidence dipping, which would could mean people putting
Speaker 1: breaks on investment or spending, and that could filter into
Speaker 1: real economic data. So that's where I would be concerned
Speaker 1: from a self fulfilling prophecy perspect active. But the fact
Speaker 1: is is that if you look at total investment, if
Speaker 1: you look at consumption, or you look at exports, the
Speaker 1: economy is growing very strongly on multiple cylinders. Absolutely. And
Speaker 1: so I mean you identify China, I mean, what are
Speaker 1: the biggest risks we're facing If you're playing Devil's advocate here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's China. I really don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've had decades of we've been complaining about intellectual property
Speaker 1: stuff for decades since Bill Clinton. So let's try something
Speaker 1: new here. I mean, I'm not afraid. I think I
Speaker 1: think it's a great way to go. We have the
Speaker 1: deal with NAFTA, which is the USMC. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's good precedent for what we should expect. That the
Speaker 1: rounds with China, and I think the incentives are aligned.
Speaker 1: Not only that, think about this, Harlan. You have some
Speaker 1: concessions from the Chinese, namely a relaxing of the rules
Speaker 1: against joint ventures, a drastic cut in and the tax
Speaker 1: put on US car imports in China, a reopening up
Speaker 1: imports for ellen G and soy products. So I think
Speaker 1: that's playing the groundwork for some sort of um, you know,
Speaker 1: trade deal. So what I'd be concerned about would be
Speaker 1: the felfilling prophecy. I'm concerned about corporate leverage, But apart
Speaker 1: from that, I wouldn't say that we are like like
Speaker 1: Jennet Billen said, I mean, economic extensions do not dieable dage.
Speaker 1: So just because we've been growing before twenty and sixteen
Speaker 1: at a mediocre average rate of one point eight percent,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that twenty nineteen or even twenty twenty mean
Speaker 1: recession is coming. And what do you think about interest rates?
Speaker 1: Because obviously the President's gotten a lot of flak. You know,
Speaker 1: he's taken on the Federal Reserve saying that they're not
Speaker 1: making the right calls. And I think that there's a
Speaker 1: perception out there in the Trump movement that the federal
Speaker 1: Reserve is playing politics and that they're trying to put
Speaker 1: a stranglehold on this economy in advance at the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election. What do you think. I don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's accurate Harlem. But by one thing,
Speaker 1: I think that the SET has reached its stool and
Speaker 1: date that the dual mandate is of course, full employment
Speaker 1: and inflation of two percent. Inflation has been below two percent.
Speaker 1: We're talking core PCE for many years, and we've seen
Speaker 1: the past few data, past few months of data in deceleration.
Speaker 1: So I would definitely not agree that that Jerome Power
Speaker 1: or the SET is is acting on political impulse. It
Speaker 1: really is focused on a dual mandate. I do suspect
Speaker 1: that we're not going to get more than one rate hike.
Speaker 1: If that over the course of the next twelve months,
Speaker 1: if the Fed does hike three or four times, that
Speaker 1: could precipitate the next recession. I mean historic. As you
Speaker 1: look at the economic cycle, there's peaks and troughs. Right,
Speaker 1: you go to the peak and then you start to decelerate,
Speaker 1: and then you go into recession. It's going to happen.
Speaker 1: These are economic cycles. That's part of the economy that
Speaker 1: happens historically. What brings about that that inflection point is
Speaker 1: an overly ambitious fet a feed that moves too quickly
Speaker 1: or too aggressively. So I agree that is a risk,
Speaker 1: but I would I would suspect that given the combination
Speaker 1: both of full employment and an inflation that's kicking up
Speaker 1: to that two percent target, remember the targets two percent um,
Speaker 1: that the fet IS doesn't have to move more aggressively
Speaker 1: than the one hike over the next twelve months. If that,
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you. So in politics, you know
Speaker 1: you watch TV, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and one of
Speaker 1: my biggest pet peeves is that there's no accountability when
Speaker 1: these pundits on television. And I'm one of them, right,
Speaker 1: I'm a pundit on television. You go on TV two
Speaker 1: when when you're great? When when pundits you are to
Speaker 1: thank you. When pundits go on television and they prognosticate
Speaker 1: and then they tend they turn out to be totally wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, basically ninety percent of the people that are
Speaker 1: on TV in advance of the twenty sixteen election, we're
Speaker 1: absolutely totally wrong in predicting the outcome of the election.
Speaker 1: Now there's no accountability in politics. Is there any accountability
Speaker 1: in terms of economics and people that are prognosticating on
Speaker 1: the on the on the long term outlook of the
Speaker 1: Accountmy I wish there was, Harlan, because really, I mean,
Speaker 1: the consensus was that three percent growth that was impossible.
Speaker 1: I remember guys saying that as the outlets you mentioned impossible.
Speaker 1: Tax reform, I recall this. It was never going to happen.
Speaker 1: The consensus was tax reform was not going to happen,
Speaker 1: NAFTA was going to be canned. We would leave the
Speaker 1: wto Trump as an isolationist. None of that happened. We
Speaker 1: got three percent growth. Tax reform became an all star
Speaker 1: major economic growth motor. Right, Tax reform has been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Consumer and business confidence is at highs that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen in decades. Does that get covered? I don't see it, right.
Speaker 1: I don't see it. In fact, when I go on
Speaker 1: the news and I say, look, the market is selling
Speaker 1: off for fear. This is a sentiment driven sell off.
Speaker 1: There is no fundamental motor for this collapse in confidence
Speaker 1: in the market. Look at corporate earnings expansion, Harland, it
Speaker 1: is up twenty five percent year over year. That's not
Speaker 1: just dive it in buybacks. That's not buybacks, are paying
Speaker 1: out dividends. That is corporations investing in themselves using the
Speaker 1: capax incentive. That's part of the tax reform. And I
Speaker 1: look at tax reform and people even say to me,
Speaker 1: I get this question quite a bit from clients and
Speaker 1: from from the media as well, Well, that's a one
Speaker 1: and done. Tax reform is a twenty and eighteen story.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen and it's not going to
Speaker 1: help in twenty nineteen. Economics tells you something different. There's
Speaker 1: something called a virtuous cycle. And the virtuous cycle what
Speaker 1: has what happens. Cut you cut people's taxes, they feel richer,
Speaker 1: they invest in, they spend more, They remodel their house
Speaker 1: or that buy that car, or they go on that vacation.
Speaker 1: Then corporations see that demand or for see that demand
Speaker 1: build up inventories. Inventories goes directly into the calculation of
Speaker 1: US GDP. Bottom line. GDP does better, confidence continues to
Speaker 1: go higher, and people continue to spend an invest So
Speaker 1: the virtuous cycle continues, and I expect that to continue
Speaker 1: to be the case. Over the course of the next
Speaker 1: several years. So with the exception of any possible you know,
Speaker 1: black Swan or or other collapse and sentiment, I would
Speaker 1: expect this economic expansion to continue thanks to both smaller government,
Speaker 1: less taxes and less regulation. That was so great and insightful.
Speaker 1: You don't hear this many places. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: Larry Cublow. I love that guy. I think that he
Speaker 1: gives great economic analysis and you might just give him
Speaker 1: a run for his money. So Catherine, thanks again for
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. Thanks again for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Oh yeah, sure you can.
Speaker 1: Um well, I'm on Twitter, Kay Rooney Vera, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, great,
Speaker 1: so you can certainly find me in all of those places,
Speaker 1: Kay Rooney Vera. Thank you very much, Harlan, and and
Speaker 1: thank you for the invitation. Absolutely stay tuned to the
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Speaker 1: first up here, we're gonna go to George in South Carolina. George,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Yeah, I'm on online. What's what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Oh? What's on my mind? Well?
Speaker 1: I was just thinking that Trump wants to build a wall,
Speaker 1: and all the Democrats are opposed to the wall, but
Speaker 1: it seems in the past they said they would take
Speaker 1: a sense and I think I think Trump should recouch
Speaker 1: is what he wants and call it offense. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, potato patata, tomata tomato. His fence can be
Speaker 1: built identically according to the specifications of what is now
Speaker 1: called a wall and just call it offense. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't care. Yeah, you know, well a lot of
Speaker 1: the I just think it's the way you uh you know,
Speaker 1: brand it is and call it offense and wall. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of conservatives were resist resistant
Speaker 1: to the idea of calling a defense. And I think
Speaker 1: it's because, you know, they were used to the fences
Speaker 1: that Barack Obama and Democrats were building. Uh previously, they
Speaker 1: were easily punctured by illegals. They could just cut right
Speaker 1: through the steel and come through. But I mean the
Speaker 1: president one to build something, you know, more substantial, and
Speaker 1: so if we just change the nomenclature, we just change
Speaker 1: how we describe this, that's fine with me. Once we've
Speaker 1: got the funds, he can do whatever he wants to
Speaker 1: do to build this. So I couldn't agree more. I mean,
Speaker 1: the basic the only thing that matters is do we
Speaker 1: get the funds. I mean, once the funds are there
Speaker 1: and they're allocated by Congress and we're not asking for
Speaker 1: very much, I mean, I beat this home tonight. I Mean,
Speaker 1: all these Democrats back in twenty thirteen voted for way
Speaker 1: more funding than the presents asking for. They've they've voted
Speaker 1: for forty six billion dollars in funding for border fencing,
Speaker 1: forty six billion dollars, the presidents asking for a relatively
Speaker 1: small amount five billion. And so this idea that Democrats
Speaker 1: are resistant to the idea of a border wall and
Speaker 1: border security, it's just it's just convenient. They they don't
Speaker 1: really mean it. And so that's the only thing that
Speaker 1: I might push back on is that, you know, they
Speaker 1: may not be sincere and that they're against the idea
Speaker 1: of a wall, um and would accept the fence. I
Speaker 1: think the president you know, couldn't move the goalpost twenty
Speaker 1: yards um, you know, and and they still, you know,
Speaker 1: would take an issue with it. Umte. Well that's what
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, absolutely, and so um. And the other
Speaker 1: idea that we got previously was the idea of bringing
Speaker 1: the Army Corps of Engineers down and just reallocating funds,
Speaker 1: calling this an issue of national security, and the president
Speaker 1: just decides to do it unilaterally. And if that's a
Speaker 1: concrete wall, the Army corp of Engineers has been building
Speaker 1: canals and digging canals and building a you know, in
Speaker 1: a variety of contexts for a long time. I mean,
Speaker 1: they are more than capable of building something that would, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, appease our concerns about national security. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, if we change the name, I'm one hundred
Speaker 1: percent down with that. And I think that Republicans and
Speaker 1: conservatives should just be smart and realize that doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that we're calling an offence. Once the president has the funds,
Speaker 1: he's gonna do what he wants. And then on the
Speaker 1: other hand, you know, if we don't get that, I
Speaker 1: think the president should say, you know, we're gonna reallocate
Speaker 1: funds from the defense budget. And with the President's done
Speaker 1: that is so smart is he's already dramatically increased the
Speaker 1: size of military spending over the last two years, and
Speaker 1: so there should be funds there that we can find anyway.
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed our time tonight, everybody. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much to Buck Saxton for lending me his microphone. We
Speaker 1: had some great guests. I hope that you've enjoyed it.
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