WEBVTT - McCabe Meltdown 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.880 Mr garbutschaf teared down this wall. Either you're with us 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.840 or you were with the terrorists. If you got healthcare already, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.480 then you can keep your plan. If you are satisfied 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.840 with Trump is not president of the United States, take 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:31.120 it to a bank. Together. We will make America great again. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:36.599 You'll never sharender. It's what you've been waiting for all day. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.600 The Buck Sexton Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.560 Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck. That's eight 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.720 four four nine hundred to eight to five the future 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.720 of talk radio buck Sexton. The Trump administration has been 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.040 accused I heard over the weekend of being vindictive and 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.480 mean spirited, and that seems horribly unfair. I think it 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.800 was horrible day for democracy. This attack on McCabe really 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.760 reminds me of something from a movie. It seems sort 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.440 of tragic and unfair on the surface. So it does 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.720 look vindictive. Should we not take it that way? It 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.600 feels vindictive just because it was the timing of it 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.880 which leads one to believe that this is authoritarian behavior 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:23.440 or the making of one. Welcome to the Buck section Show. Everybody. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.440 Oh Man media was in a meltdown over the weekend 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.600 about that, weren't they? They're just also upset about McCabe 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.959 getting fired. There's so much to say here, folks. We're 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:34.360 gonna have some fun with this one. We're gonna really 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.000 air this one out, you know, so you can take 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.280 a moment, take a deep breath, stretch out, because we're 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.480 gonna lean into this. Oh my, here, let's let's start 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:48.520 with this. Trump didn't fire McCabe. Does that seem to 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.919 matter to anybody here? Did do any of these folks 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.800 who were saying that, you know, oh my gosh, our 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:58.200 institutions are all gonna just collapse? The President United States 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.480 did not fire McCabe. In fact, President United States had 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:08.679 no direct involvement whatsoever in the firing of McCabe. McCabe 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:13.720 got fired because of an inspector General report from within 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:19.359 the FBID. Now that's very significant, folks, That really matters, 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:26.840 because I can tell you this, a federal bureaucracy is 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:32.400 going to protect its own until it can't, you know, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.280 until they decide you have to be voted off the island. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.320 They're usually gonna treat you like one of their own, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.120 and they're gonna protect you at the senior levels Oh no, no, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.520 don't get me wrong. Let's not get this twisted. If 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.120 you're some average Joe Schmoe one of these places, they 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.200 may they may decide to feed your career into the 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.680 wood chipper, so to speak. They may decide that you're 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.680 you're done because it will send a message to the rest. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.320 But at the McCabe level, been there for decades, close 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.400 with everybody, close with Comey. This was Comey's deputy, this 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:12.639 was Comey's right hand man, Mr. Six ft nine, sanctimony himself, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:19.520 James Comey. He of tweeting out Placid Lake scenes while 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.280 writing anti Trump screeds fame. Uh, this is what we 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.080 see here that the Inspector General was the one that 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.919 decided that McCabe has be fired. Now, I don't want 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.360 to go too far down the road of what McCabe 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.960 did was so terrible. He leaked this inform, He leaked 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.040 information and lined about it. That's all we know right now. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:47.680 I'm thinking that if we were to see, if we 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.640 were to see what was contained in the report in total, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.280 we would we would then understand how does the FBI 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.760 would get rid of one of its own in this way? 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:05.680 But oh my gosh, the media were in a tizzy 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.400 over the weekend based on this. He got fired late 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.320 Friday night. You'll you'll call I told you here on 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:11.840 the show. I thought he was gonna fire. We were 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.240 on firing Watch. I even said on Outnumbered on Friday, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.080 I thought he was gonna get fired, and he did. So, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.680 you know, always bet on Buck. That's what I like 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.240 to say, Always bet on Buck. But you know, it 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.760 doesn't really change all that much here until we get 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.880 more information, you know, And do I think that this 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.680 was the right thing. Sure, it makes sense to me. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.440 Oh oh, one more thing before we bust out the 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.560 world's smallest violin for Andy McCabe. Here, let's understand a 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:44.920 few things. He's somebody who no doubt jammed up, which 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.760 is the law enforcement term of art for blanking somebody 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:54.440 over jammed up. Uh, tons of people, for lying to 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.840 probably him as an FBI agent in his day, as 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.080 well as lots of other FBI folks, and for just that. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.120 That's really one of the one of the favorite charges 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:07.040 of the federal government is lying to the federal government. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.560 They love to get you on that one. I'm not 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.760 even saying lying under oath in a court proceeding. I'm 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.640 just saying, lying to a federal agent. Love that one, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.320 and it's actually something I think should be revisited in 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.279 the context of if you didn't actually do anything wrong 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.279 but lied about something unimportant, should you really should you 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.440 get the Flynn treatment? Oh yeah, that's right. Flynn had 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.400 to sell his house to pay his legal bills. General Flynn, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.919 he served decades in the military. Does anyone anyone crying 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.599 for him in the media. No, all, they think that's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:39.320 totally fair. They are exposing themselves. We are seeing how 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.599 deep the deep state really goes. I would note that 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.559 some polls came out of the weekend. I think actually 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.440 CNN might even published one of them about how most 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.039 people believe there is a deep state. So so we 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:54.440 can have academics, right, Snyde pieces about how the deep 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.520 state in Turkey is a very specific Yet we got 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.400 an American deep state here, folks, And we already know 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:05.520 who some of the compos of this crime family are. Camy, Brannon. Ah, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.240 we'll get to Brandon in a second. Don't think he's 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:14.680 gonna escape this one. McCabe call me Brennan McCabe, Sally Yates, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.680 we're just getting started. There's a whole squad of folks 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.080 that are click clapper, Oh gosh, be here all day. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.080 You know, struck you can get some of the lower 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.839 level ones to bruce or there was a clear anti 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.159 Trump effort at the top level of d J. It's 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:37.480 being more exposed with all these revelations. But I just 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.839 on the plane the smallest violent for McCabe ever. Understand, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.000 he's sent people to prison. We're lying him many times. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.000 He's not getting sent to prison. Other people lie and 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.280 lose their freedom. He's just getting his pension delayed, which 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.159 brings me to the oh, pull over the we ambulance 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.960 retiring at fifty full bench and benefits. That's a good deal. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.080 That is a good deal. He's not losing his entire 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.520 pension everyone. That's not true. He might have to wait now, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.320 he might not qualify under the current civil service rules 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.880 until he's I don't know, uh, sixty two or sixty 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.240 you know, like normal person retirement age. He might have 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.560 to do that. Oh no, but you're already seeing a 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.400 lot of Democrats come out and say that they are 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:33.720 willing to hire him. That's how clearly political this is. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.320 Right from the beginning. That's how obvious it is that 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:42.200 this is just my team, their team. McCabe is anti Trump. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.320 Therefore he is embraced by the left. So the Democrats, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.400 what do I tell you? Time and again here on 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.680 the show. The left takes care of its own. The 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:56.800 Democrats make sure that anyone who does bad deeds for 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:02.080 them has good things come with it. That sends a 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.200 very important message, right you, some of you are a 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.440 Game of Thrones fans. I'm sure you know. Lanisters always 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.040 pay their debts. The left always takes care of its own. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.840 You get book deals, you get media contracts, You get 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:20.480 you know, chancellorships at universities, board seats on companies. James Comey, 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:27.120 who is going to write the most sanctimonious giant pile 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.080 of Tyrannosaurus Pooh? I think imaginable is now the number 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.760 one selling author on Amazon in pre sales. Why because 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.160 everyone assumes that he's gonna, you know, slam Trump. There's 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.160 gonna be more of what we already know. But getting 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.480 getting really excited for you know, the the early comy 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.440 years reas a hall monitors like do you have a 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:53.079 pass attention for you? Sanctimonious people don't change. They if 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.240 they're if they're that annoying, now, trust me, they're annoying 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.960 in high school too. And I think Comy is he? 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.600 Is he a New Yorker? I forget is he? I 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 forget where he's Far's in New York or Philly? I 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.200 don't know. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm putting him on 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.719 your doorstep. Quinn, he's a Philly producer. Mike is looking 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.440 at me all a k A. Quinn. He's a Philly 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.360 guy if I ever saw one. I'm thinking there's some 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.600 filling with Comy. And I'm just trying to make him 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.160 not a New York ais. I'm gonna feel bad about 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.920 it anyway. So you get this, You get this, uh 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.760 sense that something terrible has happened because McCay has been fired. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.199 Big deal. He's gonna get speaking, big deal, gonna get 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:32.079 a big book deal. And what oh he's call me. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.800 He's a Catholic school boy from New York like me. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.560 I thought, so, oh, dude, some of the worst, some 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.840 of the best, but some of the worst are from 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.600 my same my same general you know, pumpkin Patch, so 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.360 to speak. Right, we're the same me and Comey and 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.840 uh you know, you know who else Fitzgerald, the special 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.040 prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case. Whatever, he not only 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.000 went to my high school, went to my college. I 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.840 think he's he's also he's also a New York Catholic schoolboy, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.920 and he's a super hall monitor and a and a 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.920 head hunter at the d o J. Who else falls 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.319 in that, But we got some of the best to 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.599 Scalia actually went to my rival high school here in 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.600 New York City, Xavier. We all like to say he 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.760 didn't get into regions, but then people blew us, so 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.480 we try not to say that too much publicly. Um, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.520 but may he rest in peace. One of the great minds, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.640 one of the great legal minds of of all time. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:29.160 Uh So, comey McCabe. We've seen so much of it exposed, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.760 but it gets worse, it gets worse. It's not just 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.160 at the d o J, in the FBI, where they 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:41.439 were clear senior officials appointees of the Obama administration, no 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.439 less President Obama in some cases very close to these 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:51.600 individuals who are obviously anti Trump and took actions against 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.200 the Trump campaign. There's some other folks too who have 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.880 exposed themselves on social media recently. We will get in 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.160 to that, including a former director of my own agency. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.040 I'm throwing my my own, my pedigree, so to speak, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.120 getting thrown to the bus. We got Catholic school guys 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.199 from New York City like comey being sanctimonious. Then we 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.760 got Brennan, former CIA director, who went on a do 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.200 we say tirade or tirade? Do we go both? People? 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.880 I feel like people go both the tirade? Right, I 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.920 say tirade, Some people say tarade, I think, or maybe 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:28.040 it's a sharade. I don't know, sharade, sharade, tomato tomato. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.120 What did Brennan say? And what does it tell us 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.440 about this whole Russia collusion fiasco? And oh, by the way, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.880 Vladimir Puttin on one reelection, we got that, We got 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.840 a lot more. We're gonna talk about China's theft of 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.400 intellectual property from the US. Here's what he's there. You go, 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.520 thank you perfectly. Time dropped. We got China talking about that. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.840 We're also gonna get into some discussion of trade and 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.880 how all this trade war tours or you know, speaking 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.000 on home monitors some of my conservative buddies on this 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.000 or throwing a fit. Uh, it doesn't add up, folks, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.760 you look at the numbers, it's not that big a deal, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.240 no matter how you slice it. It's literally not that 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.840 big a deal aluminum steel. I'll give you the details 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.560 in the numbers. When somebody says it's just gonna start 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:12.800 a trade war and be like, yeah, this is a 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.520 tempest in a teapot, not what people are pretending it is. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.600 We will also talk a bit about this Cambridge Analytica situation. Um, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.480 I can't give you too much of a preview next 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.040 running the next break, but just all of a sudden, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.800 now Facebook and Data are coming under all this scrutiny 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.160 when well, let's just say that this is this is 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:40.640 very very much a partisan narrative that is emerging about 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.360 all this. Keep in mind that it wasn't long ago 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.719 that the Obama administration was all about minding everything they 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.720 could online. Obama's digital team was the best in the business. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.040 They're so amazing, the the digital whiz kids that he's 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.559 got and all that stuff. Now it's like, oh my gosh, 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.959 they're looking at social media profile and information and making 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:07.839 political determinations about it. Good heavens, yeah, of course they are. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.240 This is this is a surprise there should be a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.280 surprise to no one. But because Trump did it, you 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.439 know it must be bad. That's the idea. Because Trump's 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.160 team did it, Now it's evil. Now all of a sudden, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.920 the incredible surveillance machine that is the Internet is scary. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.640 Wasn't scary for eight years of Obama, who, by the way, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.000 I actually did spy on journalists and do all kinds 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.200 of super shady bad stuff. But you know, it wasn't 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.840 a problem that now it's a problem. It's almost like 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.760 journalists were all at sleepaway camp for eight years and 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.719 now they've now they've come back and they actually want 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.280 to do their jobs. In fact, that's exactly what it's like. Um, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.200 all right, we're gonna head a quick break eight four 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.320 eight to five eight four f buck, we have much 0:13:51.320 --> 0:14:03.760 more show. Stay with You don't get to decide when 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.080 to tell the truth and when not to. I'm gonna 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.119 withhold judgment until Horowitz's report comes out because I don't 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.560 say what he found, just say, Harowitz is the inspector general. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.000 Let's wait and see what he found. Let's wait and 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.960 see what that lack of candor was, and then we 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.800 could judge the fact pattern and the proportionality of the 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.800 penalty of his losing his pension. We can judge all 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.840 that once we understand exactly what he's alleged to a 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.120 vain but but make no mistake, the FBI is who 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.600 recommended that he be fired. It wasn't crazy House Republicans, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.040 and it wasn't a Trump administration. It was his own 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.760 fellow bureau agents. The facts with regard to McCabe are 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.440 very important. They basically have said that McCabe leaked classified documents. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.760 That's illegal, but then he also lied about leaking classified documents, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.560 and so you know the fbire sticklers on this, and 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.560 they don't tolerate lying from their agents. And so if 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.520 all that's true, I see no way that he could 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.120 continue in his office, and that punishment is appropriate. Does 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.480 anyone have an argument against what was said there by 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.600 Trey Gaudy and then Rand Paul. You know, I think 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:15.960 those are two of them, two of the Republicans that 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.440 you can count on to to call bs when they 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.080 see it either way. You know, I think that Rampaul 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:23.880 is an honest and ethical guy. I don't think he's 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.000 always right, but I think he's honest and ethical. I 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.520 don't think that he is too clouded with partisanship to 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.480 see things for what they are. Um and I feel 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.960 the same way about Very Gaudy, although I don't know. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.040 I think because Gouty's not run anymore, I start to 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.400 feel like he's he's lost his edge, or maybe I'm 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.640 just seeing it more. It seems to me like he's 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.400 a little too like, well, you know, i'd like the 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.160 New York Times right, nice things about me. Sometimes it's 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.280 very dangerous for Republicans. They write nice things about you 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.360 for a day and then they trash you, and your 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.000 own people think you're a sellout. You don't want to 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.400 go down that path. But I mentioned before we went 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.320 into the break that it's not just d Oh, It's 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.760 not just McCabe and Comy and all these other senior 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.520 FBI folks who are a problem. There's a lot more 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.680 when you look at this, including John Brennan, close confidante 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.640 of President Obama's and the former director of the Central 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.880 Intelligence Agents. And keep in mind, folks, that being the 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.360 director of the CIA, it's not like rising to be 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.680 the CEO of a company where like the best person 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.360 gets the job or somebody with a proven track record. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.640 A lot of the time. These jobs, I'm just gonna 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.320 say it, go to somebody who the president likes and wants. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.000 That person in the role was Leon Panetta, some intel genius. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.840 No Obama liked him. He had some background. They put 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.960 him in these places, right, I mean any number And 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.880 there have been some really Panetta was actually okay as 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.120 directors go. I'm from what I'm told from people who 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.760 were there, and no, uh, there have been some really crap, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.800 lousy CIA directors over the years. But Brennan was o 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.040 Amas Aids the director, and he was known to be 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:07.480 very chummy with the press and reputed to want to 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.200 get certain narratives out there into the media. And he 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.160 tweeted out in response to the McCabe firing the following. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.080 This is a quote from the former CI director of 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.240 the obaministration. By the way, the same CI director who 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.000 was very much pushing the Russia collusion narrative with the 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.960 Trump campaign in full swing during the election. You know, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.720 Brennan was one who was waiving the flags and screaming about, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.119 oh look at all the Russia. You know, he was 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.280 the one, right, or one of a few. Now we 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.000 find out what he thinks of Trump and oh gosh, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.440 you're not going to be surprised by this at all, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.280 are you? Folks? Quote when the full this is in 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.680 response to President Trump directly on Twitter, this is blue 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.280 check warfare, blue check to blue check. When the full 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:59.800 extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.520 no own, you will take your rightful place as a 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:07.200 disgrace demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:12.120 Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America. America will 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.680 triumph over you. I ask you, my friends, at all honesty. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.080 Does that not seem like a slightly unhinged thing for 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.040 a former CI director to write about the current commander 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:29.360 in chief? You will not destroy America. America will triumph 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.160 over you. So we only have a few options here. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:36.720 Are the former CI director in Obama's buddy is losing 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.960 it or he thinks that Trump is a clear in 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.760 present danger of the United States. And if that were 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.320 the case, what would the former CI director have been 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:58.760 willing to do against Trump? While still director? He's holding 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:03.280 the line for America. Buck Sexton is tex laugh. I 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.080 don't know. I mean, at this point, it does feel 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.120 as if you know it's one you talked to one 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.880 set of people and they think the wheels are coming 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.879 off this administration, and you talked to another set and 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.840 it's exactly the presidency that they wanted. So but the 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.919 fact of the matter is, I don't know if our 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.560 institutions can handle what Trump is doing. We can't seem 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.760 to see if our institutions are going to survive the 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.600 emotional spasms of Twitter. The great line, what does that 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.520 say about our institutions? By the way, if if Trump's 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:39.760 Twitter account can bring them tumbling down, they're not very durable, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.960 are they. Now that's also crazy because Trump's Twitter is 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.080 not going to bring anything telling down, which is when 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.720 when you look at what's being said some of the 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:52.439 narratives that have gained traction on the left, you know 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.240 that these anti Trump stories, they're almost like bedtime stories 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.320 now the Democrats tell each other so they can sleep 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.840 at night. They're just nonsensical. They don't add up their 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.240 self contradictory. Did you get Chuck Todd there saying, you know, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.040 I just don't know if our institutions can just I 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:13.280 don't know if they can survive. Well, if an institution 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.760 like the FBI is going to survive the Inspector General 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.320 has to be able to look for misconduct and when 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.040 it finds it has to be able to punish it. Right, 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.800 So this is this is not the least bit surprising 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.240 from that respect. So I just look at this and 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.520 I say to myself, what are they even talking about 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.760 with this? It was an institution operating exactly as it 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.080 should that fired Andrew McCabe from his job at the FBI. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.720 I would notice that what rand Paul said. I'm not 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.359 sure if that has been verified or not yet. I 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.320 think that he was my impression from what I've read, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.639 and I'm admitting that I haven't read the IG report. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:02.159 Nobody is talking about this has read the IG report yet. Um, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:07.880 but we don't know if it was classified information or not. 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.600 That he it was classified information, then he has to 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.400 be fired. And also then there's the issue of why 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.919 why doesn't he have criminal charges? But if we're just 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:20.320 talking about even uh internal information given to the press 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.199 that he then lied about that, why would he not 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.159 get fired for that? It just doesn't it again, it 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.080 doesn't add up, but it does not make sense. But 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:34.120 they are completely as you know, in the tank and 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.240 devoted to doing everything they can to make the president 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.560 look bad, up to including embarrassing themselves. They will be embarrassed. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.480 They will be embarrassed if and when we ever find 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.320 out exactly what the allegations were in that Inspector General report. 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.440 That much I can tell you because they just see, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.240 Oh someone was fired who was working against Trump. It 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.639 must be Trump's fault. That's not true. That's not the 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.520 way that this works. Are We got a bunch of calls, 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:06.920 so let's take some of them before we move on. 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:10.159 I want to get into some calls before we switch topics. 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:17.280 We'll start with Dean in Boston. What's up, Dean doing good? 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:21.200 Track by Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, So I'll be quick. 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.720 So this is funny. I'm listening to our own Seth 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:30.119 Moulton from Massachusetts who says that he would hire this 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.360 guy for three days so he can reach his pension. 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:38.240 And I stiled, thinking, who retires att with a full pension? 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:42.000 And why would someone who has that higher level job 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.160 decide all of a sudden, you know what I need 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.119 to put in from my retirement, and I need to 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.280 get out, and this is the earliest date that I 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.320 can get out. I don't know what the did he 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:54.200 just put that in and said I gotta get out 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.000 of gain. Well, it might have been his planning all along, 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:57.320 because let me think about if you can get your 0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.320 full retirement at fifty, right, wuldn't you do? What did 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.159 you take it? I don't know if this was the 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.879 plan all along. He obviously went early because he was 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.520 gonna run out, you know, he was trying to run 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.439 out the clock and and had come under a lot 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.040 of scrutiny. The thing is, people ask me like, oh, Buck, 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:13.040 do you know what I mean? I was in the 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.440 c I A. I obviously wasn't a career officer who 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.359 spent twenty years there because then I would have had 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.320 to start when I was like five. So I don't. 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.760 I don't know how the vesting process works and all that. 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.520 What I can tell you, uh, is that one it 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.600 is very hard to get fired from these places. You 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.119 have to do something usually illegal. That's what I always 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.480 tell everybody. If you show up on time, if you 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:34.640 are where you are supposed to be for your job 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.080 in the federal government, when you're supposed to be there, 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.280 and you don't actively break the law, it's still and 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:43.280 but you refuse to do any work of any kind. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.080 It still takes a long time to fire you. So 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.439 that's the way the civil service procedures work. And I 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.280 know that for some of these gigs. Look, some people 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.399 have great deals. I could sit here and talk to 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:59.080 you about, like UH fireman's pensions in UH California, for example, 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.840 and some of the major cities California. They are lucrative. 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.560 They ever, that's the deal, that's what they saw it 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:08.000 up for. But they've got great deals. The FBI think 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.960 has a pretty good deal. I would note that I've 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.760 read this today and we haven't checked on this, so 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:15.880 Mike got a fact check me on this one, Producer, Mike, 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:19.399 if I'm if I'm off. I read today that Anthony Weener, 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:22.200 who is currently serving I believe a federal prison sentence. 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.680 He's in prison now right. Anthony Weiner, who is a 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.280 convicted sex offender, will get a million what is the 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:29.639 equivalent of a million dollars worth of benefits for his 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.439 pension as a former member of Congress, despite being a 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:36.320 convicted felon sex offender. So there are some places where 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:38.200 you get great It's a great gig, Dean, if you 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:43.040 can get it in terms of the pension. Yeah, worth 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.920 one point two millions, worth one point to million. Do 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:47.920 we lose Dean or it is Dean just in awe 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:52.000 of all the knowledge bombs, I'm dropping you there, Oh, 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:55.359 there you go. Sorry, now I've done it. What do 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:57.399 I say to the American public that a House of 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:02.159 Representatives member who were thinking math has kind of hidden 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:04.080 agenda to try and get his name out for the 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.800 presidency sometime in the near future. But what does it 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:10.719 say that they step up after the Federal Bureau of 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:15.040 Investigation kind of internal affairs department and an inspector general, 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:20.679 a completely separate agency, decide that this person should be terminated, 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:23.240 and he then steps up and says, you know what, 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:25.240 I'll hire him from three days so he can get 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.399 his pension, right exactly? What what are we supposed to 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.800 think of our trusted institutions then? And this is this 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:35.159 is like the equivalent of saying, well, the FBI's processes 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:38.320 don't matter anymore. What matters is getting Trump and what 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:40.600 manages supporting people who tried to get Trump. That's what 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.959 they're saying. Yeah, yeah, alright, Dean shields him and thank 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.119 you very much for the call. Dean isn't a stute fellow. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:52.840 Charlie in Ocean City, Maryland. Hey, Charlie, Hey Buck, I'm 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:57.440 glad you call and shields high brother. How do you sir? Hey? 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.960 I was just listening earlier to day on some talk 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:04.520 shows and they pointed out there's a report out that 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:10.640 McCabe is actually net worst about eleven mill And I'm 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:14.480 trying to think I was just a simple bricklayer. If 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:17.960 he made a hundred thousand a year in twenty years, 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.919 that's only two mills. How do you get eleven? Well, 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:26.159 his wife is a doctor, right, uh huh, So, I 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:28.840 mean she might be making I don't know, I don't 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:30.919 know what. I don't know what doctors in Virginia. She 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:34.000 was a primary care physician. I believe she could probably 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:37.960 make a half million dollars a year. Yeah, So I 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:41.320 mean the man, okay, his pench is what fifty six 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.760 thousand a year. If you're asking me, how are they 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:47.520 gonna have a networthy of eleven million, Charlie, the answer is, 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.760 I I don't know, um, but it's worth looking into. 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:52.480 But you know, they could have family, you know, she 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:54.119 could have family money. There's a lot of ways that 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:56.760 people can have money that don't necessarily you know. I 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:00.000 but I see this with who is the guy um 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:05.680 senator from Arizona who was the majority Harry Reid. How 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.040 is it that Harry Reid was what could afford living 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.240 in an in an apartment in the Ritz Carlton, which 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.320 is like the most expensive place in all of d C. 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:14.320 That was where he lived when he was in d C. 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:17.480 Where in Harry Reagan that kind of cash? I don't know. 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.800 Look at their friend Nancy, I mean she well she 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:25.320 married a rich guy. Yeah, that's the old fashioned way 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:27.760 marry somebody a lot of money. That's a good way 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:30.119 to do it. Charlie Shields simment, thank you for calling in. 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:33.680 I'll look a little more into whether or not McCabe. 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:38.280 You know, but that's there's always the option of your 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:46.560 family money. Uh maybe maybe Dr McCabe writes novels under 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:48.080 a pen name and it's done very well. You know. 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:49.560 There's all kinds of ways that people make money you 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:51.920 woun't know about, but it's it's worth looking, worth looking 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:54.840 to do. I would say this, I'm guessing FBI has 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:58.440 financial disclosures and so they probably know a whole lot 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:02.719 about how McCabe did or did not make money. Um, 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.639 so I'm not seeing that is a big issue, but 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:07.560 I'll keep an eye on it. I'll make that promise 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:12.840 to you. I want to switch gears because Cambridge Analytica 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:16.879 is getting a lot of attention. Facebook lost billions of 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:20.440 dollars in value today. It was down about five scent 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:22.240 something like that. In trading. I don't pay that close 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:24.480 attention to the markets, but Facebook had a very bad day. 0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:28.840 Everyone's freaking out about this thing, and to me, well 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.000 a few things. One is that they're freaking out because 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:34.480 it involves Trump, so that always automatically, when Trump's arrangement 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:38.720 syndrome kicks in, everything is oh my gosh. Uh. But 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:42.880 they're acting like it's a huge surprise that people will 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:48.000 use the data they can glean from social media and 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:51.720 uh use that for the purposes of constructing political messaging 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:56.680 and memes and campaigns and everything else. Social media makes. 0:28:57.200 --> 0:29:00.160 The reason these places are are so lucrative, and the 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:02.880 reason they offer you a service for free is to 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:06.080 aggregate your data to then capitalize off of that data. 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:10.040 That that is what social media does. That is how 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:14.600 Facebook is essentially a giant printing press. Of money, They 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.040 take the information about you, they take your activities, and 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:23.040 then they tailor advertising to you. And Facebook, by the way, 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.840 has clamped down hard on just you know, the way 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:29.480 that they are doing things these days. And it's their 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:30.960 way or the highway. As I've been saying for a 0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:36.960 long time, we are in these progressive left wing mega 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:40.400 platforms and there's been no choice for a lot of folks. 0:29:40.400 --> 0:29:43.160 You know. People now are well, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.200 go in a whole rand here about something else. Cambridge 0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:50.360 Analytica involved at the Trump campaign. People are freaking out why. 0:29:50.640 --> 0:30:05.560 I'll answer the question after the break. Cambridge Analytic UH 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:08.160 was birthed out of a company called scl Group, which 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:12.200 is a military contractor based in London. It UH this 0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:17.960 this data was used to create profiling algorithms that would 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:22.520 allow us to explore mental vulnerabilities of people UM and 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:27.240 then map out wigs to UH inject information into different 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:31.360 different streams or channels of content online so that people 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:33.880 started to see things all over the place that that 0:30:33.960 --> 0:30:35.719 may or may not have been true. This is a 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:39.800 company that that really took fake news to to the 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:44.160 next level by powering it with algorithms So that's Christopher Wiley, 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:48.600 who helped found the data firm Cambridge Analytica. It's getting 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:53.160 so much news media attention right now and people are 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:55.600 talking about how it has well. He said that it 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:59.360 has an arsenal of weapons in a culture war as 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.920 I understand it. Here's what's happened. You have different companies 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:06.120 that are always trying to find ways to aggregate the 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:08.760 stuff that we're all doing online all the times. These 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:13.880 social media platforms, my friends, are like intel collectors on you. 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:18.440 Every click, every look, every like, all the stuff we're 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.240 doing all the time. We just think it goes into 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:24.240 some you know, vast cloud and who cares? And sure 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:27.120 that's somewhat true. Although I've been saying for a while, 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:30.600 just wait until one of these social media companies decides 0:31:30.680 --> 0:31:34.200 to release the you know, private chat that some guy 0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:36.400 had on Facebook with his mistress twenty years ago when 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:40.800 he's running for president, Because that's gonna happen. Guaranteed that's 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:43.880 gonna happen, just a question of when. And people say, oh, well, 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:45.840 you know, they're private company, they can do whatever they want. 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:48.120 What are you gonna do? They violated their terms of 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:49.840 service and they can say they changed their terms of 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:54.360 service the private company. Unless Congress passes laws to protect 0:31:54.400 --> 0:31:57.600 people from the exploitation of their private information on these 0:31:57.600 --> 0:32:02.080 social on these third party platforms, then that's the way. 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:04.840 That's the way it's gonna be. But so, here's what 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:08.080 happened with Camera gen Analytical. They are a group that's 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:11.040 looking at all this different social media data and they're 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:14.880 trying to find ways to create the most well to 0:32:15.000 --> 0:32:20.480 understand the psyche of the masses really and then they 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:25.200 exploit that information. They exploit exploit that information advantage for 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:28.680 the purposes of politics. In this case, it seems that 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:33.080 they may have hired a company Cambridge Analytica, and their 0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:35.760 ties to the Mercers and Benning and this is all, 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:38.400 oh my gosh, you know there you mind, you know, 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:43.400 the the Obama team back in twelve and uh two 0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:45.520 thousand and eight, they were doing stuff that people thought, 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:48.040 oh my gosh, you know, they're look at how great 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:51.720 their digital team is looking at all this Facebook information 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:54.400 and data, and everyone's crunching all these numbers all the time. 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:57.680 The problem that, well, there's a few things going on 0:32:57.720 --> 0:32:59.760 here with the Camera Generalytic. One of them is they 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:03.080 may have hired another company to be kind of a 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:07.640 front that would have you take a personality quiz and 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:10.080 then you answer all these questions about yourself. And I 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:12.560 think it might have also given you might have also 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:17.920 given that app uh access to your data, your friend lists, 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:19.800 your likes, all that stuff. And this is standard. A 0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:21.560 lot of these apps say you know, can I have 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.200 access to? And it lists all the different things. This 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.360 is the brave new world we live in now. And 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:30.040 if you say yes, then guess what that means that 0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:33.320 that service has access to sure enough all that stuff, 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:34.800 which is why a lot of these things that we 0:33:34.840 --> 0:33:38.960 think are free are free for us. But they do 0:33:39.040 --> 0:33:41.920 come at a cost. And the cost is your information 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:45.960 and your privacy. And that information is now out there. 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:48.960 And if you think it's protected, just start reading about 0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:52.719 some of the major cyber breaches that have happened, and 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:56.640 including places like the government and and others that their 0:33:56.720 --> 0:34:00.000 whole reason for existing is to prevent cyber breaches. Right there. 0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:02.560 They're doing a lot of work, a lot of effort 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:06.120 to try and make sure that does not happen, and 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:09.040 they get breached. So don't think that all Facebook has 0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:13.200 it. It It must be safe. But they you heard that 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:16.360 guy wildy when we started the segment here saying that 0:34:16.360 --> 0:34:21.120 they're like weaponizing people's ideas, exploding psychological vulnerabilities. Another way 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:22.719 of saying it is, yeah, they're figuring out what's on 0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:27.920 people's minds, what's popular, and then they're constructing narratives and stories, 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:31.000 and maybe that includes fake news, maybe it doesn't. Probably 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:34.080 does that will get the most clicks and shares and 0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.520 everything else. By the way, every media entity I know 0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:40.040 is doing this in one way or another. This is 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.000 the game now, folks. This is what is going on. 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:46.920 It's only being treated as so nefarious now because it 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:49.879 involves Trump and some of the Trump or Trump's associates, 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:53.680 people like Bannon and Mercer, who is bankrolling Trump. She's 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:57.880 the daughter of the billionaire Robert Mercer. And this is 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:01.759 going on in all kinds of ways. I have seen 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:04.360 this coming for a while. I've been trying to sound 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.560 the alarm as much as possible that the Internet in 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.840 particularly with the advent of the social media platforms and 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:12.839 their dominance in our discourse. I mean, I know people 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:14.040 now who are like, well, you know, I'm just gonna 0:35:14.080 --> 0:35:16.360 build my business. I'm just gonna sell directly over Facebook 0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:18.920 and I'm like, Okay, you can do that for a while. 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:21.760 But guess what happens when Facebook realizes that your company 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:24.200 is deriving a vast majority of its revenue from them? 0:35:24.239 --> 0:35:25.680 Do you do you think that they can know that 0:35:25.760 --> 0:35:29.160 and then decide that they're gonna use the leverage they 0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:32.359 have over you to demand even higher rates and more. 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:36.120 You know, we're giving so much power to these things. 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:41.719 Facebook is the biggest example, but you know, Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, 0:35:41.760 --> 0:35:44.480 which I've always thought was kind of garbage, um, but 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:48.880 these are collecting information on millions and millions of people 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:54.400 and they're using that. Make no mistake about it. They 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:56.680 are using the information they get from your day to 0:35:56.719 --> 0:36:00.480 day activities, every like, every click, every digital thought that 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:06.200 you leave online, and that may not be used against 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:09.320 you personally, but it will be used by these companies 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:13.719 to get an information advantage. And in the massive digital 0:36:13.840 --> 0:36:18.719 propaganda wars that are going on right now, social media 0:36:18.760 --> 0:36:21.239 platforms are the front line. Um more on camera. Ge 0:36:21.239 --> 0:36:35.280 Atletic a for you tomorrow, promise he's holding the line 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:40.319 for America. Buck sex in his back. This neighborhood is 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:44.239 still being locked down right now for safety. Again, we're 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:46.960 doing this in over abundance of caution so that we 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:49.640 can keep this neighborhood safe. What we process the scene. 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:52.600 What I can tell you is based on the preliminary 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:56.280 review we have done at this time. We have seen 0:36:56.480 --> 0:37:00.880 similarities in the device that exploded here last night and 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:04.560 the other three devices that have exploded in Austin starting 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:08.440 on March two. Again, this is preliminary information, but we 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:12.600 have seen similarities. The big difference in this device again 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:15.480 is we believe that a trip wire was used in 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:19.000 this device. Welcome to our to of the Buck Sexton Show, 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:24.279 Tough News out of Austin, Texas, where you have a 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:27.759 fourth a fourth bomb exploding this time, as you heard 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:32.000 from the Austin Police Chief, there as a result of 0:37:32.280 --> 0:37:36.280 a trip wire, so a more sophisticated device. And now 0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:42.239 the narrative from law enforcement down in Austin when we're 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:46.520 hearing it has shifted away from what was initially it 0:37:46.560 --> 0:37:53.440 seemed like some perhaps even hate crime based attacks. So 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:57.480 now they just have a madman, a serial bomber on 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:00.319 the loose, and they have very little to work with. 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:04.279 From what we've been told so far, you've got four bombings. 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:07.960 There have been fatalities, there have also been some people 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:12.279 wounded as a result of it, and they're looking for 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:15.520 help right now down in Austin. They're looking for someone 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:20.040 to come forward from the public, because the analysis of 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:26.360 an actual bomb after it's gone off is a painstaking process. 0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:28.320 It's not something that happens very quickly. You need to 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:32.560 find the pieces of it, that shrapnel has to be analyzed. 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:36.080 You're looking for any signature that you can find on 0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:38.560 any of this, looking for d n A, looking for 0:38:39.160 --> 0:38:44.640 the components. Using devices, can you reverse engineer the device 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:46.520 in such a way it might give you clues about 0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:49.680 how someone put it together and where they got that information. 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:54.800 Maybe if you might get lucky and have some unique 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:59.120 component to it that is traceable, right, that's um, that 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:02.640 is what I believe. That's actually how the Oklahoma City 0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:06.600 bombing of the of the Federal building there by Timothy McVeigh. 0:39:06.640 --> 0:39:10.239 I think they found a VIN number among the UH 0:39:10.600 --> 0:39:12.960 in the debris and that was the big break in 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:16.400 that case. You see, sometimes when you're looking for a bomber, 0:39:16.400 --> 0:39:20.320 they make it much easier. I remember during the Fisal 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:23.440 Shazad case in two ten, the would be Times Square bomber. 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:27.560 He left the car that he tried to blow up, 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:30.920 make into a vehicle board and provides explosive device. He 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:34.040 left the car in times square, so you trace the 0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:36.000 car and then you're able to trace the able to 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:37.920 find a whole bunch of information on they're able to 0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:40.719 trace the phone that he had used. He had a 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:42.600 I believe he had a burner phone. He had a 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.600 pay as he goes cell phone. Um. And then he 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.480 got to the airport and almost got back to Pakistan. 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:51.560 They had to catch him on the plane at the airport. 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.160 He almost got out of the country, but he did 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:57.719 leave clues. He left information that law enforcem could work with, 0:39:57.800 --> 0:40:00.800 including me. I remember being called in that weekend after 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:05.520 the bomb almost went off. Um, he did not. He 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:07.880 was not a skilled bomb maker. Otherwise you would have 0:40:07.880 --> 0:40:11.319 had a high casualty count that day. But this time 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:14.759 around with Austin, it doesn't look like police have have 0:40:14.920 --> 0:40:17.720 much to go on so far. UM. Here's the Austin 0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:21.359 Police Chief on on where the investigation stands. There has 0:40:21.400 --> 0:40:24.680 already been a significant presence from our federal partners since 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:27.880 these events began, and as we reported yesterday, we have 0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:32.320 over five hundred agents and their teams working on Austin 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:35.799 cases alone, and we have additional resources being brought in 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:39.240 again by both of those agencies, And as has already 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:42.959 been broadcast, there is a hundred thousand dollar reward out 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:45.160 there for someone who can give us a tip leading 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.480 to the identification of the suspect or suspects in this incident. 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:53.239 So they're looking to law enforcems looking to get lucky. 0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:55.600 Here someone will come forward and say, you know what 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:57.879 I've I've got something for you. Or maybe it's someone 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.640 who just wants the hundred k who was trying to 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:04.239 keep silent before mind their own business, so to speak, 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:06.040 and now they're gonna step forward, and who knows, we'll 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:09.880 have to see. You have five agents working on this case. 0:41:09.960 --> 0:41:14.200 In the Austin area. Four bombings as I As I mentioned, 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:16.960 and the addition of a trigger device to this one 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.719 means that this is now something that could have I 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:23.640 could have gone off and killed anyone, children, anybody. I mean, 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:26.560 it doesn't seem like it is. Target of the first 0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:30.000 three bombings were package bombs that were opened by individuals. 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:32.240 They were left on there I believe, left on their porches, 0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:38.640 and they were left in what was a predominantly minority 0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:42.759 area of Austin. So there was also initially put out 0:41:42.760 --> 0:41:44.720 there by I don't know if it was the media 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:46.719 or and law enforcement or just the media, but the 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.479 notion this might have been a hate crime. Now it's 0:41:49.480 --> 0:41:52.880 looking like there's a greater randomness to all of this. 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:57.239 The most recent bombing, I believe two people injured, neither 0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:00.160 of them killed. But the most recent bombing was a 0:42:01.920 --> 0:42:06.960 uh more well off part of the city and was 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:11.040 triggered by a trip wire. So that's just anybody in 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:14.279 the area. People are asking the question about is this 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:16.800 terrorism or not. That's a discussion that I've gotten involved 0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:19.439 in at the national media level and a whole bunch 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:22.840 of cases in the past. There's just not enough to 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:25.640 go on right now. We just don't know um and 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:29.760 anything put out there right now about motive feels like speculation. 0:42:30.560 --> 0:42:33.400 You know, this, this could be uh this could be 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:36.880 domestic terrorism. Absolutely. It also just could be a completely 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:41.680 sick and deranged individual who wants to send bombs or 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:45.480 or plant bombs and kill people just because you know, 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:48.360 we we don't know. So I don't have much on 0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:52.399 the analytics side to give you on why I think 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:56.000 this person maybe this person is doing this. As to 0:42:56.040 --> 0:42:59.319 how they find him, this is where you hope that 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:03.160 all these different ages. You've got a t F down there, FBI, 0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:07.000 Austin City Police, I'm sure you get state police. I'm 0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:10.000 sure Texas Marshals are all the men. Everyone's FBI. Ever, 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.799 everyone's in on this one as they should be, um 0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:15.759 because this is now a city under siege in a sense. 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:19.280 You've got people that are concerned about and and rightfully 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.879 so concerned about just walking around the streets. Right these 0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:26.080 are essentially I e. D. S going off in Austin, 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:29.600 and they have no real leads that we know of, 0:43:29.920 --> 0:43:32.239 and there's no sense that they're gonna be able to 0:43:32.280 --> 0:43:36.600 catch this person anytime imminently unless they get some sort 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:39.960 of a break. Now we're hoping that maybe, uh, they'll 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:45.560 be able to reverse kind of the surveillance footage from 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:52.000 different cameras, maybe street cameras or um in different buildings nearby. 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:54.400 You know, this is where they try to piece together 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:58.400 whatever they can to just get that one break in 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:02.160 the case, because right now it is bleak. It's terrible. 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:04.320 I've read the stories of a young man who was killed, 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:06.279 you know, opening this. He's with his mother, and mother 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:08.799 was severely injured. They brought this package into their into 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:14.080 their kitchen, and just this is it's so the whole 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:18.760 thing is so evil and so senseless. So I really 0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:22.200 hope that they managed to track down whoever is responsible 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:25.200 and hold them to account and prosecute them the fullest 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:29.000 extent of the law. I'm assuming this was to me 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:32.040 on right on his face, this is a death penalty case. Um, 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:35.520 just based on what's going on already, and we'll have 0:44:35.560 --> 0:44:38.799 to see if there's some kind of a manifesto, possible 0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:43.320 political motivation behind this, you know, war against the government. 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:47.440 I mentioned Timothy with baby before. Someone who's you know, 0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:50.279 who knows, could be any idea, you know, could be 0:44:50.320 --> 0:44:53.440 any terrorist or extremist ideology. We just don't know right now. 0:44:53.840 --> 0:44:55.279 We don't have much to go on. So if we 0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:58.080 have anything that breaks during the show, I will bring 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:00.239 it to you. We're watching the case very close, Lee, 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:03.520 and our thoughts and prayers are with those in the 0:45:03.560 --> 0:45:07.520 city of Austin tonight. We're we're thinking about you also, um, 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:10.480 you know, stay safe down there, and let's let law 0:45:10.520 --> 0:45:12.040 enforce and do their work and hope they come up 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:14.719 with some solutions. Quickly, we'll hit a quick break. We'll 0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:37.000 be right back. Trump and trade and of course China, China. 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:41.839 Trump talking about what he is going to do with tariffs. 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:43.759 But I've been trying to look at this from as 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:47.480 many perspectives as we possibly can here in the Freedom Hup. 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.520 We have somebody who is an actual expert on trade 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.200 will join us now here were the peace it's up 0:45:52.239 --> 0:45:56.080 on the hill. How much does trade impact Americans? Not 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:58.880 all that much. We have Derek Scissors on the line. 0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:03.000 He is an international coonymous at the American Enterprise Institute. Derek, 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:05.759 thank you so much. I'm glad to be here. So 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.000 I really like your piece because you're saying, look, the 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.279 people that are saying that this is a huge deal, 0:46:11.440 --> 0:46:13.759 and if Trump does this thing he says you're gonna do, 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.960 the economy is gonna come tumbling down. It's a little 0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:21.080 bit of chicken little going on. Yeah, It's the basic 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:24.360 story here on trade is if you have very strong, 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:27.040 paid trade policies for a long period of time, that 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:29.320 can matter even to a really big country like the 0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:34.320 United States. But our economy, if you use gross domestic products, 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:38.000 is eighteen trillion dollars. Every steal on aluminum product. We 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:43.719 import everyone, no exceptions, all countries billion um. You do 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:46.040 the math. It's just not a big deal. It's hard 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:48.200 for trade to matter to the U. S can have 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:51.399 to matter the US over time. Sure can really big 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:54.880 sanctions against China matter. Sure the steel tariffs are not 0:46:54.920 --> 0:46:56.960 gonna matter. What do you say to people who say, oh, 0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:00.120 but Derek, if maybe it's only about fifty billions at 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.440 forty eight billions for stealing aluminium, but there will be 0:47:02.480 --> 0:47:07.359 all of these reprisals and retaliation. Well, I mean the 0:47:07.400 --> 0:47:08.960 rest of the world's We have the biggest coconomy in 0:47:09.000 --> 0:47:10.279 the world, but the rest of the world's economy is 0:47:10.280 --> 0:47:13.040 bigger than ours. If we're importing forty eight billion dollars 0:47:13.080 --> 0:47:16.839 from everybody and everybody's economy put together as bigger than ours, 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:18.520 why do they care so much about the forty eight 0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:22.200 billion dollars? There could be retaliation. I agree that the 0:47:22.239 --> 0:47:25.560 retaliation will probably be worth about forty billion dollars um. 0:47:25.719 --> 0:47:29.200 So this is not I think the way to attack 0:47:29.280 --> 0:47:32.600 the stealing aluminum terraces. What are we trying to accomplish? 0:47:32.680 --> 0:47:34.400 And and that's where I would push the President of 0:47:34.440 --> 0:47:36.440 the administration, like what are we trying to accomplish here? 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:38.759 Tell me exactly where you're going with this. But the 0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:41.000 idea that what we did is really going to hurt 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:43.480 us or them or both of us, and then they're 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:46.040 gonna do this, They're gonna have this huge retaliation. Why 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:48.719 would they have huge retaliation against what really is a 0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:51.279 small trade step by the United States. They're gonna talk 0:47:51.280 --> 0:47:52.920 a lot about it because they want to look like 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:55.719 they're they're being tough for their own people, just like 0:47:55.800 --> 0:47:58.800 President Trump does. But again, their retaliation is going to 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:01.759 be small, just like our and was small. And in 0:48:01.880 --> 0:48:05.200 terms of what China is doing, that is uh that 0:48:05.200 --> 0:48:07.759 that would go in the category of unfair. Just for 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:10.120 everybody listening, Well, what does China do from a trade 0:48:10.160 --> 0:48:14.040 perspective that gives them an advantage over rivals? That would 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:19.719 rufflesome feathers in the Trans Pacific partnership side of the aisle? Right, 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:21.319 the people that believe that if we all just got 0:48:21.320 --> 0:48:24.200 together and did more trading, everything would be great, Well, 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:26.680 we do two things, one of which the administration is 0:48:26.719 --> 0:48:28.719 looking into and we may hear what they're gonna do 0:48:28.760 --> 0:48:31.839 about it as soon as this week, and the other one, 0:48:32.400 --> 0:48:33.920 which I'll talk about a second, but the first one 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:36.080 that the aministrat is looking into is they they steal 0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:39.920 or or try to push companies into transferring technology or 0:48:39.960 --> 0:48:44.280 intellectual property. And basically the problem there is American firms 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:46.480 are the most innovative in the world. Not in every field, 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:48.800 but overall, we have the most innovative companies, We have 0:48:48.840 --> 0:48:51.560 the most innovative workers, we have the most innovative people. Well, 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:53.759 if we innovate on the Chinese say hey, thanks for 0:48:53.800 --> 0:48:56.480 the innovation, we're just gonna steal it, or we're gonna 0:48:56.640 --> 0:48:58.600 push your companies saying you can't do any business in 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:02.719 China unless turn over this technology. Um. They we don't 0:49:02.760 --> 0:49:05.600 get the benefits from that that we should are are 0:49:05.600 --> 0:49:07.799 Our companies can't sell as many goods because the Chinese 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:10.880 are competing with them, which means fewer jobs for American workers. 0:49:10.880 --> 0:49:13.080 So that's what the administration is looking at right now. 0:49:13.160 --> 0:49:15.520 It's it's China taking the thing that we do best 0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:19.840 and trying to steal the advantages of it. Um. The 0:49:19.880 --> 0:49:22.239 other thing that they do is they heavily subsidize their 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:25.240 their Some of their firms stayed on enterprises in China 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:28.319 and those firms don't export because even heavily subsidized, they're 0:49:28.320 --> 0:49:31.239 not competitive. But it basically means that Chinese market is 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:33.760 closed to a lot of American goods because Chinese standard 0:49:33.840 --> 0:49:37.000 enterprises never lose. You can't outcompete them, you can't drive 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:39.000 them into bankruptcy because you have better products, you're a 0:49:39.000 --> 0:49:41.759 better company, you're better workers, doesn't matter. They don't lose. 0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:44.719 So that's the block on the Chinese market that they 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:47.399 don't let their stated on enterprises lose, and then if 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:49.880 that weren't enough, they go out and they take American 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:52.960 and other countries innovation. Now, the issue of technology is 0:49:52.960 --> 0:49:54.800 actually something I'm going to address later from a national 0:49:54.840 --> 0:49:57.680 security perspective. But when the president and everyone we're speaking 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.239 to Derek Scissors from the American Enterprise Institute, he's an 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:03.839 international economist. When the President says that we're getting killed 0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:07.640 on trade, China is doing all this bad stuff on trade. Uh, 0:50:07.960 --> 0:50:10.480 he's speaking in very general terms. But what is he 0:50:10.560 --> 0:50:14.960 really trying to get at? Yeah, I mean that's that's 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:18.680 a good question. During the campaign and and sometimes as 0:50:18.719 --> 0:50:22.600 president of President President Trump has really emphasized cutting into 0:50:22.600 --> 0:50:26.160 the bilateral trade deficit. So if you can if you 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:28.680 include goods and services. The US has about a three 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:32.520 billion dollar bilateral trade deficit with China last year, and 0:50:32.600 --> 0:50:35.320 President Trump just you know, that really bothers him, and 0:50:35.360 --> 0:50:37.080 he'd like that to come down to, you know, a 0:50:37.200 --> 0:50:39.279 hundred billion dollars. He knows he's not going to go away, 0:50:39.520 --> 0:50:41.520 but he wants an improvement. He wants it to stop 0:50:41.680 --> 0:50:45.000 rising and start dropping. But does he have a point? 0:50:46.239 --> 0:50:49.360 Is that a problem because people tell us it's not 0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:52.600 a problem. I don't think that's the problem. This is 0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:54.839 the way I would put in. The US and China 0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:57.200 have really big economies. You know, you put them together 0:50:57.239 --> 0:51:00.280 in terms of gross domestic products GDP, it's thirty trillion dollars. 0:51:00.640 --> 0:51:02.799 If the Chinese were good trade partners. If you had 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:04.880 asked me a question, you said, you know, what do 0:51:04.960 --> 0:51:07.239 the Chinese do that that upsets people who you know, 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:10.560 have a very positive view of the world, um like 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:13.399 our tv P partners. And I said, I I don't know, 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:15.319 and none of my friends know. And we've been working 0:51:15.320 --> 0:51:17.320 at this for years and they're great trade partners. I 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:19.680 wouldn't care about the trade deficits. What bothers me is 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:22.920 what they do the trade deficit is an outcome. So 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:25.400 you know, three forty million do sounds like a lot 0:51:25.400 --> 0:51:27.240 of money. But if China was a great trade partner 0:51:27.239 --> 0:51:30.600 that was open to American products, that didn't steal American technology, 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:32.200 I would say, I know that that's just the way 0:51:32.239 --> 0:51:34.880 it is. The story I think the President is getting 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:38.719 at is they have that trade surplus because they're not 0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:42.400 good trade partners, um and and you know what I 0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:44.720 want is to change their practices. I think the President 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.120 would just be happy if the trade deficit fell for 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:49.440 you know, for whatever reason, the Chinese just buy a 0:51:49.480 --> 0:51:52.080 bunch of US soybeans, um. So there's a little bit 0:51:52.120 --> 0:51:54.120 of a split there. I don't think the trade deficit 0:51:54.200 --> 0:51:56.200 is a problem. I think what China does is the problem. 0:51:56.440 --> 0:51:59.160 I think the President really just wants the trade deficit 0:51:59.239 --> 0:52:04.080 to shrink. And on the issue of UH steel specifically, 0:52:05.120 --> 0:52:07.360 are we going to be able to see some improvement 0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:11.239 in you know, US industry and steel output. But I 0:52:11.280 --> 0:52:13.680 would assume then if it's only fifty billion dollars or importing, 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:16.040 there are limitations on how much of an impact this 0:52:16.080 --> 0:52:18.720 will have in the economy apart from the national security 0:52:18.719 --> 0:52:22.239 aspect of it. Right, and so yeah, I mean, if 0:52:22.400 --> 0:52:26.160 if you apply tear after everyone, you didn't grant any exceptions, 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:29.320 you and you've got all steel allans, the limited paris 0:52:29.360 --> 0:52:32.520 only ten percent. You're not gonna stop importing forty eight 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:34.719 billion dollars, which is the total last year. It's gonna drop. 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:36.920 It's gonna drop to like thirty five billion because those 0:52:36.920 --> 0:52:39.920 products got more expensive. So we're talking about thirteen billion 0:52:39.920 --> 0:52:42.840 dollars more production in the United States. That's not nothing. 0:52:43.640 --> 0:52:47.160 But for people who are familiar with this industry, even 0:52:47.200 --> 0:52:50.000 steel is heavily automated. It's a lot of capital spending 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:52.160 to set up a steel mill. They're not as many 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:54.959 workers as there used to be. Would it create some jobs? Yeah? 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:57.600 How many jobs will it create? I'm afraid not very many. 0:52:57.600 --> 0:53:00.160 It's also not going to cause the cost of your 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:02.640 car or your plane fly to your house to go 0:53:02.719 --> 0:53:05.480 staring through the roof. That's my point about. You know, 0:53:05.560 --> 0:53:08.640 both sides are exaggerating how important this is. But cutting 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:11.279 steel imports by ten fifteen billion dollars, it's it's just 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:13.959 not going to create very many jobs. Let me ask 0:53:14.000 --> 0:53:15.279 you what we got you on the phone here. One 0:53:15.320 --> 0:53:19.520 more about about NAFTA, You've said before that you've had 0:53:19.520 --> 0:53:21.360 it on my show that NAFTA it is time for 0:53:21.440 --> 0:53:24.000 it to be renegotiated. So people that kind of roll 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.120 their eyes look skyward and all that when Trump says 0:53:26.120 --> 0:53:29.840 we got to renegotiate NAFTA, it does need some some updating. 0:53:30.200 --> 0:53:32.520 What would be the best way for Trump to go 0:53:32.560 --> 0:53:36.239 about that? Right, So, it absolutely needs some updating. It's 0:53:36.239 --> 0:53:38.520 a twenty three year old agreement. It was path breaking 0:53:38.520 --> 0:53:40.440 at the time. You know, whether you think it's terrible 0:53:40.520 --> 0:53:43.879 or great, people tend to agree that it was path breaking. Um, 0:53:43.880 --> 0:53:45.920 it does need some updating. The world has changed a 0:53:45.960 --> 0:53:48.600 lot since then. You know, we didn't have digital trade then, 0:53:48.640 --> 0:53:50.319 we didn't have trade through the internet. We didn't have 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:53.319 people buying things online and anything like the quantities that 0:53:53.320 --> 0:53:58.000 we have now. So, I mean there's another situation where 0:53:58.040 --> 0:54:00.000 I think the President is right that it needs updated. 0:54:00.080 --> 0:54:02.120 I think what the administration is negotiating with to try 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:05.160 to modernize the agreement and to say to Mexican Canada, look, 0:54:05.160 --> 0:54:08.080 the US is very good at services. You need to 0:54:08.080 --> 0:54:10.320 allow us to be able to sell our stuff digitally 0:54:10.400 --> 0:54:12.880 and not have taxes or restrictions or planning games. So 0:54:12.960 --> 0:54:15.319 that those are good things to try to do. The 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:18.480 President also really wants our bilateral trade deficit with Mexico 0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:20.319 to fall, and that's going to be really hard because 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:23.560 the Mexican economy is basically not growing. So if you're 0:54:23.600 --> 0:54:26.200 just trying to upgrade and improve nafter, you can do it. 0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:28.359 And if you in the Mexicans and the Canadians don't 0:54:28.400 --> 0:54:29.960 go along, it's their fault. But if you're trying to 0:54:29.960 --> 0:54:32.360 get the trade deficit the fall, that's gonna be a 0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:35.600 tough sell. Because we're growing faster than Mexico. It's gonna 0:54:35.600 --> 0:54:37.560 be really hard for them to buy more products from 0:54:37.560 --> 0:54:39.239 the United States when they're not buying more of their 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:43.160 own products. Derek Scissors of AI. Everybody go to a 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:45.960 EI dot org to read their latest research. Derek, thank 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:48.440 you so much for joining. Thanks to your peace. Thank you. 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:50.920 I enjoyed it. Say we're gonna roll into a quick break, 0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:53.560 will be back in just a few minutes. We're gonna 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:56.680 have Jesse Kelly joining later this hour. Talk about raising 0:54:56.719 --> 0:54:59.040 young men because he's got a couple of young men 0:54:59.040 --> 0:55:01.400 that he's raising kids. I don't, so he's an expert 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:03.640 on that. I'm not. You'll be joining. We'll talk about that. 0:55:03.680 --> 0:55:17.120 Stay with me. He's back with you now, because when 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:20.520 it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. 0:55:21.680 --> 0:55:24.920 As a millennial, I've heard a lot of the stories 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:29.840 out there from those of you who are boomers gen xers. 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:33.719 Is Jen why a thing too about how you know, well, 0:55:33.880 --> 0:55:37.160 when I was going to college, I I was a 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:41.160 bar back and I you know, worked as a golf 0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:43.520 golf caddy over the summer, and you know, you have 0:55:43.560 --> 0:55:47.160 you have all these stories about how you're saving money 0:55:47.239 --> 0:55:50.320 for college or or raising money for your college tuition 0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:52.600 when you're in it, and they make great stories to 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:55.400 tell your kids. And one of the get off my 0:55:55.520 --> 0:55:59.680 lawn things you often hear from the boomer generation is, 0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:02.839 you know, kids these days, they're just they expect someone 0:56:02.880 --> 0:56:05.200 else to pay for it, or it's all it's all 0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:07.440 taking out debt, and then they're hoping the debt will 0:56:07.480 --> 0:56:10.120 just be wiped away. I would note that that is 0:56:10.160 --> 0:56:15.480 a major major platform for the sander Nista left wing 0:56:15.520 --> 0:56:17.960 of the Democrat Party going forward. You got a trillion 0:56:18.000 --> 0:56:20.600 dollar student loan bubble out there, people are just gonna 0:56:20.600 --> 0:56:23.000 say that, yeah, just we should just have debt forgiveness 0:56:23.000 --> 0:56:26.080 of it, just forgive the debt. What do they think 0:56:26.080 --> 0:56:28.799 about what that would mean? No, they don't. But it's 0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:31.479 gonna get bigger because there's no way people are gonna 0:56:31.480 --> 0:56:34.200 be able to pay off a lot of those loans um. 0:56:34.280 --> 0:56:36.640 But there's a great piece in the New York Time, 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:38.239 you know, in the Wall Street Journal at the New 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:41.760 York Times, you can't work your way through college anymore, 0:56:42.880 --> 0:56:47.600 and it just talks about how different the situation is 0:56:47.640 --> 0:56:49.879 now when you're talking about a particularly a four year 0:56:49.880 --> 0:56:52.000 private college, but even a lot of these states schools. 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:55.680 The difference between what it used to be to go 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:59.160 to a place like Yale, for example, very fancy, very 0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:01.600 elite school, versus what it would be to go to 0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:04.160 Yale today. And this is then filters down all the 0:57:04.160 --> 0:57:08.520 way across the spectrum. So the notion that you could 0:57:09.040 --> 0:57:12.080 wait tables, you know, you could have some job as 0:57:12.120 --> 0:57:14.719 a lifeguard at the beach, save money and pay off 0:57:14.719 --> 0:57:18.000 a semester at college that's gone, you would have to 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:20.200 be making well. He gives you this, gives you the 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:23.080 numbers here, and I'll walk you through someone numbers. Here's 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:24.960 what he writes. This is by Richard West the Wall 0:57:25.040 --> 0:57:27.400 Street Journal. That's right for all you get off my 0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:29.800 law types. You guys, when it when it came to 0:57:29.840 --> 0:57:32.840 college tuition, I'm gonna say it, you had it easy. 0:57:33.120 --> 0:57:35.760 You had it easy compared to what's going on today. 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:38.720 It is out of control now. And I would also 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:40.840 know that you're supposed to get an advanced degree now, 0:57:40.920 --> 0:57:42.960 just to have one, even if you don't use it. 0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:45.320 And I know so many people that have j d s. 0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:47.000 You know, went to law school, and it's like, oh, 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.240 what do you do? I work in marketing? What do 0:57:49.240 --> 0:57:51.280 you Why do you have a j d? Heh? You know? 0:57:51.360 --> 0:57:54.760 Is you know? I gotta gotta be competitive three years 0:57:54.760 --> 0:57:58.520 of law school anyway. Here's what Richard West writes in 0:57:58.600 --> 0:58:01.959 nineteen fifty six as a freshman at year Yil. Here's 0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:05.640 a Yale man, he's a yearly. I waited tables in 0:58:05.680 --> 0:58:08.840 a student dorm for about one dollar an hour, ten 0:58:08.840 --> 0:58:12.320 hours a week. I received a full scholarship. But even 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:15.000 if it had ended, I recall that Yale's all in 0:58:15.240 --> 0:58:19.320 price is amazing. Yale is all in price, including tuition, 0:58:19.640 --> 0:58:23.800 room and board, was eighteen hundred dollars a year. And 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:27.720 my work while in school during the term ten hours 0:58:27.800 --> 0:58:31.520 a week would have covered a sixth of that, So 0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:33.919 you would while you're in school. This is not even 0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:36.880 paying it off after you get out of school. While 0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:40.040 you were in school in six you could pay off 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:45.360 a chunk of your Yale tuition, and then when you 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:47.880 graduate you have even lesson. As everyone knows, you've gotta 0:58:47.880 --> 0:58:50.080 pay interest on the debt and everything else on the loan. 0:58:51.160 --> 0:58:53.880 He goes on. Today, tuition room and board of Yale 0:58:53.960 --> 0:58:57.160 run sixty six thousand, nine hundred dollars. Now for a 0:58:57.160 --> 0:58:58.560 lot of people, I know they're gonna say a book 0:58:58.560 --> 0:59:01.080 eighteen hundred dollars and nineteen fifty six was a lot 0:59:01.120 --> 0:59:05.400 more than than it is today. Uh, it wasn't sixty 0:59:05.400 --> 0:59:09.920 six thousand dollars. Might have been I don't know. We 0:59:09.920 --> 0:59:12.480 could actually look at what the uh what the inflation 0:59:12.560 --> 0:59:15.440 calculator would say for it. I don't know, maybe maybe 0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:20.240 five ten x, you know, maybe something like that. It was. 0:59:20.360 --> 0:59:22.560 It wasn't almost seventy grand now eighteen hundred bucks and 0:59:22.600 --> 0:59:26.200 nineteen fifty six wasn't seventy thousand dollars? Okay, so that 0:59:26.320 --> 0:59:30.200 much I know, no false, And we're not talking about 0:59:30.240 --> 0:59:34.240 eighteen fifty six. This is nineteen fifty six. So he 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:36.840 goes into some of the number crunching here. This is 0:59:36.880 --> 0:59:39.160 just before we all, you know, hear all the stories. 0:59:39.200 --> 0:59:43.880 You know, order order trojure my university classes and four 0:59:43.960 --> 0:59:46.800 fut or snow. And I was carrying on my back 0:59:46.960 --> 0:59:51.880 the lumber for my job as a campus lumberjack. You know, 0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:54.200 I was carrying around paying her off the hard waree 0:59:54.200 --> 0:59:57.280 splinters in my hands when I was doing multi variable calculus. 0:59:57.400 --> 1:00:00.400 You know, we hear all these stories. You know, people, 1:00:00.720 --> 1:00:03.680 you know, are you finished with the sawmill at nine am? 1:00:03.720 --> 1:00:06.200 And I was on campus at ten am paying it off. 1:00:06.640 --> 1:00:09.040 Now that's all great, but it doesn't really work that 1:00:09.040 --> 1:00:12.840 way anymore. Here's what he writes. Quote today, tuition, room 1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:16.240 and board at Yale run sixty six dollars working the 1:00:16.400 --> 1:00:20.120 same amount as I did even at twelve dollars an hour. 1:00:20.600 --> 1:00:25.760 An increase of roughly one third after inflation, produces income 1:00:25.800 --> 1:00:29.040 of thirty six dollars, or slightly more than five of 1:00:29.080 --> 1:00:32.880 the total to earn enough to pay for one sixth 1:00:33.080 --> 1:00:37.000 of a Yale education, which require an hourly wage of 1:00:37.040 --> 1:00:44.120 more than thirty seven dollars. Yeah, not a lot of 1:00:44.120 --> 1:00:46.760 college kids are getting thirty seven dollars an hour for 1:00:46.800 --> 1:00:50.640 their job unless they're an s A T hooter maybe um. 1:00:50.640 --> 1:00:52.680 And I don't know what that markets like these days either, 1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:55.600 but this is where we start to look at how 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:58.959 higher education is just completely out of control in terms 1:00:58.960 --> 1:01:01.480 of costs right now. I also think the quality has 1:01:01.520 --> 1:01:06.080 gone down dramatically. You look at what was required curriculum 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:07.720 and a lot of these schools back in the fifties 1:01:07.760 --> 1:01:09.439 and sixty So for the get off my law types 1:01:09.480 --> 1:01:11.560 out there, you've got some you've got some stuff, you've 1:01:11.560 --> 1:01:14.920 got some likes to stand on. Uh. But now you know, 1:01:14.960 --> 1:01:17.320 you get everyone coming out of school with women in 1:01:17.360 --> 1:01:21.640 gender studies degree thirty forty fifty, sometimes a hundred thousand 1:01:21.720 --> 1:01:26.440 dollars in debt, and this has become the norm. This 1:01:26.520 --> 1:01:30.240 is now the expectation for a lot of well, this 1:01:30.320 --> 1:01:33.960 is the expectation, and society is is pushing people into this. 1:01:34.720 --> 1:01:38.840 It's just assumed that you shouldn't do trade school. You know, 1:01:38.880 --> 1:01:40.320 it's just and I want to say, assumed a lot 1:01:40.360 --> 1:01:41.680 of you are like Buck, I went to trade school. 1:01:41.680 --> 1:01:44.200 I didn't assume that. I'm talking about, you know, the 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:48.240 the general cultural thrust right, the uh, the media, the 1:01:48.240 --> 1:01:51.919 institutions around us. How do here's a good example, how 1:01:51.920 --> 1:01:57.920 do high schools generally measure the success of their graduates? 1:01:58.480 --> 1:02:02.360 What percentage go to college? It's not what percentage get 1:02:03.000 --> 1:02:06.000 a good paying job right away and start saving for 1:02:06.040 --> 1:02:08.200 a down payment on a house and creating skills and 1:02:08.240 --> 1:02:11.960 financial security for themselves. That's not how they measure success. 1:02:12.240 --> 1:02:14.160 And maybe they should change that a little bit. You know, 1:02:14.200 --> 1:02:17.520 they should probably have a what yeah, okay, what level 1:02:17.560 --> 1:02:21.120 of people are uh coming out here? What percentage of 1:02:21.120 --> 1:02:23.240 people are coming out and going to college? But it 1:02:23.240 --> 1:02:27.040 would also be worthwhile to have what percentage of students 1:02:27.240 --> 1:02:31.600 leave this high school and have gainful employment within the first, 1:02:31.760 --> 1:02:33.880 you know, twelve months of graduating. If that's what they 1:02:33.960 --> 1:02:37.200 choose to do, we really need to change this. If 1:02:37.240 --> 1:02:40.360 if I knew now, or if I knew them what 1:02:40.440 --> 1:02:43.160 I know now about what it would mean to go 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:45.400 away for four years and be told to just study 1:02:45.400 --> 1:02:48.960 and better myself and read. Oh my gosh. And I 1:02:49.000 --> 1:02:52.560 think even spending a year to working or serving your 1:02:52.560 --> 1:02:55.720 country the military is an obvious choice, but there are 1:02:55.720 --> 1:02:58.240 other capacities in which I think service would even be 1:02:59.160 --> 1:03:02.360 very illuminate eating. This needs to be a much bigger 1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:06.400 national conversation along with school choice. Uh. There are so 1:03:06.480 --> 1:03:10.960 many places here where conservatives are actually on you know, 1:03:11.000 --> 1:03:13.600 the conservatives are on the side of innovation and improvement. 1:03:14.160 --> 1:03:17.240 It is the liberals who are part of these sclerotic, 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:24.480 stubborn bureaucracy that refuses to change, that excuses failure, in fact, 1:03:24.480 --> 1:03:28.280 always finds a way to transfer the responsibility to failure 1:03:28.320 --> 1:03:32.080 onto someone else's shoulders. And it's just unwilling to look 1:03:32.120 --> 1:03:36.600 at what's really happening in education in this country despite 1:03:36.600 --> 1:03:38.560 all the spending. You know, they're so quick to make 1:03:38.600 --> 1:03:41.440 fun of Betsy Devas, who's at least trying to do 1:03:41.560 --> 1:03:45.040 something to help kids in particularly inner city schools, in 1:03:45.040 --> 1:03:50.800 in minority uh minority areas with low average incomes. You know, 1:03:50.840 --> 1:03:54.400 she's trying to help those students, and people want to 1:03:54.400 --> 1:03:56.600 mock her. I know she's mocked on SNL over the weekend. 1:03:57.360 --> 1:03:59.439 When I look at this now and I see top 1:03:59.480 --> 1:04:03.560 to bottom education has become too expensive. It is not better. 1:04:03.920 --> 1:04:08.320 It is focusing on less applicable skills, and it's inexcusable 1:04:08.320 --> 1:04:12.880 because technology and the availability of information has never been 1:04:12.960 --> 1:04:15.440 better than it is right now. So we've just got 1:04:15.440 --> 1:04:17.760 to catch up with some of the ideas and policies 1:04:17.840 --> 1:04:21.280 and use the technologies we have so that everybody's finding 1:04:21.480 --> 1:04:24.400 their best path, whatever that may be. I gotta roll, 1:04:24.480 --> 1:04:38.680 no break team, I'll be back. Welcome back everyone. We 1:04:38.760 --> 1:04:41.880 are gonna switch gears here for a moment and uh 1:04:42.000 --> 1:04:46.040 get into some some man time. We've got Jesse Kelly 1:04:46.120 --> 1:04:49.480 with us. He is a former Marine. He is also 1:04:49.600 --> 1:04:54.400 former Congressional Kennedy. He writes, he does TV appearances. He's 1:04:54.560 --> 1:04:58.240 all around pundit and uh opinionated fellow. He's got a 1:04:58.280 --> 1:05:01.720 great piece up on the federal list. Why a good 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:05.520 father prepares his sons for war, and we have Jesse 1:05:05.640 --> 1:05:07.760 now to tell us why that is. Jesse, thank you 1:05:07.760 --> 1:05:11.000 so much for joining Good talk to Are you down 1:05:11.040 --> 1:05:12.800 in Texas? Where are you right now? Coming to us Fry, 1:05:12.800 --> 1:05:15.280 I'm down in Texas. I'm down in Houston. So I 1:05:15.320 --> 1:05:17.760 hope you Northeast people are freezing at tests up there 1:05:17.760 --> 1:05:20.240 because it's eighty degrees down here and follow me. Oh 1:05:20.280 --> 1:05:22.240 my gosh, I am refusing to believe that we are 1:05:22.240 --> 1:05:25.040 about to get hit. Almost I think to the day 1:05:25.120 --> 1:05:27.320 the first day of spring with the North easter. That 1:05:27.400 --> 1:05:30.880 just seems like it's too cruel. But enjoy, enjoy your 1:05:31.080 --> 1:05:34.280 your warmth down in Texas while we freeze up here. 1:05:34.720 --> 1:05:38.280 So Jesse, tell me about why good good son prepared, sorry, 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:41.919 a good father prepares his son for war, because that's 1:05:41.960 --> 1:05:45.280 why that's part of the reason why men were created 1:05:45.320 --> 1:05:49.000 on the men are the protectors of society, not of 1:05:49.040 --> 1:05:53.960 just this society, of any society, and power never disappears, 1:05:54.120 --> 1:05:56.600 it just changed his hands. So if we don't have 1:05:56.760 --> 1:06:00.160 strong men, then you get bullies and jerks who pick 1:06:00.240 --> 1:06:02.120 on the week. And that's why you're seeing a lot 1:06:02.160 --> 1:06:05.120 more of that in this society today because we're rating 1:06:05.120 --> 1:06:09.040 and raising a connald generation of boys, and we've told 1:06:09.080 --> 1:06:12.080 them they need to be sensitive and all these other 1:06:12.160 --> 1:06:14.600 things instead of telling them you need to be a man, 1:06:14.880 --> 1:06:17.320 you need to protect those weaker than you. And Jesse, 1:06:17.560 --> 1:06:21.280 you mentioned in your piece a journalist by the name 1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:26.360 of will likech I believe, who wrote about his experience 1:06:26.360 --> 1:06:29.320 shooting a twenty gauge, not even a twelve gauge, a 1:06:29.440 --> 1:06:32.080 twenty gage shotgun. Can you just give us a little 1:06:32.120 --> 1:06:34.160 bit of the backstory there, because this is quite this 1:06:34.200 --> 1:06:38.280 is quite a tale. Somebody sent me the tale. Apparently 1:06:38.320 --> 1:06:41.600 this Will has a series. I mean, he has an 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:44.360 actual series about raising boys. He's got a couple of songs, 1:06:44.720 --> 1:06:48.200 and he tells the story about how horrible guns are 1:06:48.240 --> 1:06:50.040 and how scared he was. I guess when he was 1:06:50.080 --> 1:06:53.400 a boy, just a young boy. His dad just hand 1:06:53.480 --> 1:06:56.760 him at twenty gauge with no instructions, no help, no 1:06:56.960 --> 1:07:00.920 safety classes. The kid holds it up, a from his body, 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:04.280 shoots off around into a field. The gun goes flying, 1:07:04.400 --> 1:07:06.880 the kids scared to death. That's good. It was the 1:07:06.920 --> 1:07:09.800 most embarrassing thing I have ever read in my life. 1:07:09.840 --> 1:07:12.800 As far as a fatherhood thing. That's not Will's problem. 1:07:12.800 --> 1:07:16.280 That's Will's father's problem. Every man should teach his son 1:07:16.560 --> 1:07:18.760 how to handle a weapon comfortably. You don't have to 1:07:18.840 --> 1:07:21.439 raise the Navy seal. Teach your son how to handle 1:07:21.520 --> 1:07:24.680 himself with a weapon, hand with safely, make sure he 1:07:24.760 --> 1:07:27.520 respects it, make sure he knows how deadly it is, 1:07:27.560 --> 1:07:29.560 and that teach him to be fast and deadly with it, 1:07:29.600 --> 1:07:32.000 because he may have to do one that. I also 1:07:32.480 --> 1:07:34.600 had to note that in in this piece. And by 1:07:34.640 --> 1:07:37.000 the way, so Jesse, you now realize that it is 1:07:37.040 --> 1:07:39.400 incumbent upon you to write how to How to Raise 1:07:39.440 --> 1:07:42.480 a Son properly series, right, because we've got the progressive 1:07:42.560 --> 1:07:46.240 left wing version from this fellow Mr Leitch, but now 1:07:46.280 --> 1:07:48.919 we need the Jesse Kelly version in in total, I can't. 1:07:48.920 --> 1:07:51.000 I mean, this piece is a great start, So I'm 1:07:51.000 --> 1:07:53.400 gonna I'm just gonna put some more work on your plate, Jesse, 1:07:53.640 --> 1:07:56.080 along with the podcast, and we're gonna keep hearing the 1:07:56.120 --> 1:07:59.120 freedom of demanding you launch in the next six months. 1:07:59.160 --> 1:08:02.880 But tell me, tell me more about will Light and 1:08:03.160 --> 1:08:06.280 this notion that he's upset that his children are sick 1:08:06.360 --> 1:08:09.520 or that his his boy specifically because they're white males, 1:08:09.840 --> 1:08:13.560 are succeeding, and how that's not good. He gets a 1:08:13.640 --> 1:08:16.320 call into his teacher, to his son's teacher. Uh, and 1:08:16.360 --> 1:08:17.840 his wife's go in and sit down in front of 1:08:17.840 --> 1:08:21.960 his son's teacher and finds out that his kid is 1:08:22.200 --> 1:08:26.040 doing great in school, that his kid is brilliant and 1:08:26.160 --> 1:08:30.000 personable and his grades are great, and the teacher specifically 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:34.120 said his son was a golden child, and was Will happy. Yes, 1:08:34.400 --> 1:08:37.080 But also, and he writes us down in the piece, 1:08:37.680 --> 1:08:40.439 a part of him was really concerned, does his son 1:08:40.520 --> 1:08:43.280 only have that success at the expense of the others. 1:08:43.720 --> 1:08:47.880 Haven't and I quote this, haven't white men already succeeded enough? 1:08:48.040 --> 1:08:51.680 I mean, I cannot imagine how twisted up and tormented 1:08:51.720 --> 1:08:53.720 you have to be as a father to get a 1:08:53.720 --> 1:08:57.040 glowing report about your son and be uneasy about it. 1:08:57.280 --> 1:08:59.680 That is a mixed up person in science, and he's 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:02.000 gonna mixed up as boys if you pass down to 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:05.360 we're speaking of Jesse Kelly's former marine and uh you 1:09:05.360 --> 1:09:09.719 can follow him on Twitter at Jesse Kelly d C Jesse. I. 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:12.240 I really liked the part of your article in The 1:09:12.240 --> 1:09:15.719 Federalist here where you went into it's not just about 1:09:16.120 --> 1:09:18.960 don't allow yourself to be bullied. It's also teaching your 1:09:19.000 --> 1:09:22.920 kids don't allow anyone to bully somebody else. That that bullying. 1:09:22.960 --> 1:09:25.680 You know, there's all these national anti bullying campaigns, and 1:09:25.800 --> 1:09:28.840 that's all fine and good. I think sometimes totally they're 1:09:28.840 --> 1:09:31.240 a little off as to how to prevent bullying. But 1:09:31.360 --> 1:09:33.519 bullying is very bad. But the real way to get 1:09:33.560 --> 1:09:36.000 it to stop is one, as you said, as a father, 1:09:36.160 --> 1:09:39.080 tell your kids, I better never hear about you bullying 1:09:39.160 --> 1:09:41.679 somebody else who's weaker than you, because I will ring 1:09:41.800 --> 1:09:45.880 down the fury. Uh and too if you see, if 1:09:45.920 --> 1:09:48.840 you see anyone else who is being bullied you, as 1:09:48.880 --> 1:09:51.479 an honorable young man, it is incumbent upon you to 1:09:51.560 --> 1:09:55.519 step in and stop that bullying. It is everything that 1:09:55.920 --> 1:09:59.400 the people praying on the week are the worst people 1:09:59.439 --> 1:10:02.240 in the world, and part of every man's duty is 1:10:02.280 --> 1:10:05.000 to stop that, put a stop to that. And you're right. 1:10:05.040 --> 1:10:08.760 My sons have been told several times you will never 1:10:08.840 --> 1:10:12.040 bully somebody, or you will not enjoy it, but you 1:10:12.080 --> 1:10:14.320 will stop a bully. And if you get in trouble 1:10:14.400 --> 1:10:17.240 in school or you get sent home, you get suspended 1:10:17.280 --> 1:10:19.160 for a couple of days. Guess what that's gonna be 1:10:19.200 --> 1:10:21.680 an enjoy a couple of enjoyable couple of days for you, 1:10:21.760 --> 1:10:23.960 because you're gonna be in no trouble in my household. 1:10:24.240 --> 1:10:26.320 A few months ago, my nine year old stop the 1:10:26.360 --> 1:10:29.360 bully in school was taken on another small kid. As 1:10:29.360 --> 1:10:31.639 you can imagine, I'm huge and my son is huge, 1:10:32.120 --> 1:10:33.960 and he put a stop to it. I've never been 1:10:34.000 --> 1:10:36.320 so proud of my dad on life, and that extends 1:10:37.160 --> 1:10:40.439 into adulthood too. That's not just the schoolyard camp campaign. 1:10:40.720 --> 1:10:44.400 The reason you see so much of this disgusting harassment 1:10:44.400 --> 1:10:47.000 in Hollywood is because there were Matt No meds to 1:10:47.080 --> 1:10:49.519 stand there, no man to step in and tell Harvey 1:10:49.560 --> 1:10:52.080 Weinstein to sit down or he's gonna get touched in 1:10:52.120 --> 1:10:55.200 his face. Because all the anti bullying programs in the 1:10:55.240 --> 1:10:57.920 world are fine, that's good, but there is still no 1:10:58.080 --> 1:11:00.680 substitute for balling up your fists and smashing it into 1:11:00.760 --> 1:11:04.200 somebody's nose. Jesse, what are the two or three most 1:11:04.240 --> 1:11:07.880 important things that you think that right now, every uh 1:11:08.040 --> 1:11:14.040 young man in America should hear from either father, older brother, guardian, 1:11:14.080 --> 1:11:17.880 whoever it is that is the the the prominent male 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:20.400 figure in his life. What what are the two or 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:23.920 three things you think everyone should be told now, given 1:11:23.960 --> 1:11:26.759 the direction of the culture, which is obviously not really 1:11:26.800 --> 1:11:31.400 handling this the way that it should. No whining life 1:11:31.439 --> 1:11:34.439 is unfair, and it is your duty to protect those 1:11:34.439 --> 1:11:36.960 who are weaker than you. All right, I like it. 1:11:37.040 --> 1:11:38.600 We can put that on a we just put that 1:11:38.640 --> 1:11:41.439 on a T shirt. Actually, Jesse Kelly was I'm with it, 1:11:41.520 --> 1:11:44.080 my friend, Jesse. Your piece and the Federalist is great. 1:11:44.080 --> 1:11:48.400 Everybody should check it out. It is all about how 1:11:48.439 --> 1:11:52.519 to raise a son who is quote prepared for war, 1:11:52.680 --> 1:11:54.519 not just in the military sense, but in the being 1:11:54.560 --> 1:11:58.000 a good person who defends other sense. Jesse, anywhere you 1:11:58.000 --> 1:12:00.000 want to direct the folks listening to find your stuff 1:12:00.040 --> 1:12:03.400 for more what you're up to. Come find everything I 1:12:03.439 --> 1:12:06.479 do on Twitter at Jesse Kelly d C. Every article 1:12:06.560 --> 1:12:09.120 I do, everything I talk about everybody'll hit. Everything I 1:12:09.160 --> 1:12:11.760 do is all on there at Jesse Kelly DC. And 1:12:11.760 --> 1:12:14.000 I also have a Facebook page Jesse Kelly. If you 1:12:14.040 --> 1:12:16.559 start it should pop right up. All right. Fantastic, Jesse. 1:12:16.680 --> 1:12:19.160 Thank you so much, sir for your service, for your time, 1:12:19.640 --> 1:12:21.599 and for the drinks you're gonna buy me the next 1:12:21.600 --> 1:12:24.400 time you're New York City. I appreciate it. I got 1:12:24.400 --> 1:12:25.960 your brother. I'll be there all right, talk to you 1:12:26.000 --> 1:12:28.160 to Jesse. Thanks man. Alright, team, we are going to 1:12:28.320 --> 1:12:32.160 roll into a break here for the third hour of 1:12:32.400 --> 1:12:34.800 the Box Sexton Show, which is going to talk a 1:12:34.840 --> 1:12:37.479 bit about China and how they're stealing our technology. You 1:12:37.560 --> 1:12:50.679 want to hear it. He's back with you now because 1:12:50.760 --> 1:12:53.360 when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck 1:12:53.520 --> 1:13:00.880 never stops. You are now entering the Tle Operations Center. 1:13:01.520 --> 1:13:06.280 A programs must be kept strictly need to know Team 1:13:06.360 --> 1:13:10.320 Bucket is cleared and ready for the buck Brief. How 1:13:10.520 --> 1:13:16.320 China pushes the limits on military technology transfer is the 1:13:16.360 --> 1:13:19.080 title of the article in the Wall Street Journal. It 1:13:19.160 --> 1:13:24.040 should be how China is stealing us blind when it 1:13:24.120 --> 1:13:30.200 comes to our most critical national security technology are most 1:13:30.200 --> 1:13:36.439 critical commercial proprietary technology, and how this is not only 1:13:36.479 --> 1:13:41.040 being done on a scale that would infuriate most Americans 1:13:41.040 --> 1:13:43.280 if they actually knew what the heck was going on, 1:13:44.160 --> 1:13:50.960 but it's largely being done out in the open. Let 1:13:51.000 --> 1:13:55.640 me explain. This was a piece by a memory of 1:13:55.680 --> 1:13:58.759 Congress Bob Pittinger where he's talking about some of these 1:13:58.880 --> 1:14:02.120 joint projects that are out there. I mentioned this to 1:14:02.160 --> 1:14:06.559 you last week, how uh broad Colm was not allowed 1:14:06.600 --> 1:14:10.000 to take over quaal Calm. These are very high tech 1:14:10.120 --> 1:14:15.519 chip manufacturers and telecommunication companies because President Trump was just like, Nope, 1:14:16.120 --> 1:14:20.400 not gonna happen. There are important national security implications for 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:25.120 this technology. We can't let China be in control of 1:14:25.160 --> 1:14:28.719 one of our most important, one of our most important 1:14:28.760 --> 1:14:32.679 companies in that area. Technically, the company would have been 1:14:32.760 --> 1:14:36.679 owned in Singapore, would have been acquired by a Singapore 1:14:36.720 --> 1:14:40.880 based company, but Singapore has deep ties to China. The 1:14:41.000 --> 1:14:43.360 Chinese have a lot of influence to bring to bear 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:46.600 in Singapore, and if they had slowed things down or 1:14:46.640 --> 1:14:51.559 Garne in another direction, that Chinese could indirectly get a 1:14:51.680 --> 1:14:56.640 major advantage in the race for five G telecommunication technology. 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.519 This is important stuff, folks, and we think about it 1:14:59.520 --> 1:15:01.680 in the data day as well. This would mean you 1:15:01.720 --> 1:15:07.240 could download an entire high definition movie in a second 1:15:07.360 --> 1:15:10.880 instead of twenty minutes on your WiFi. Think about what 1:15:10.880 --> 1:15:14.480 that also means though, for the transfer of military technology 1:15:14.520 --> 1:15:19.479 and for just communication across the board. This is critical stuff, 1:15:20.520 --> 1:15:24.639 and yet this somehow he's into major story. We also 1:15:24.760 --> 1:15:28.200 don't hear much about what the Chinese are really up 1:15:28.200 --> 1:15:31.599 to in the open. Recently, we've gotten a better sense 1:15:31.640 --> 1:15:36.080 of what they're hacking. UH efforts have led to. We're 1:15:36.080 --> 1:15:38.759 getting we're starting to learn more from our own government 1:15:38.760 --> 1:15:42.479 about just how intrusive Chinese hacking efforts have been into 1:15:42.479 --> 1:15:45.759 our systems. But what about the things that are happening 1:15:46.400 --> 1:15:48.519 out in the open. This is from this Wall Street 1:15:48.600 --> 1:15:50.599 journal piece. I wanted to share some of it with 1:15:50.680 --> 1:15:54.360 you and then tell you that it's even worse than 1:15:54.479 --> 1:15:57.960 Congressman Pittinger is saying here. But here's how he starts 1:15:58.000 --> 1:16:02.080 the piece. Quote, for years, the Chinese government has evaded 1:16:02.120 --> 1:16:06.720 America's technology transfer safeguards and been allowed to vacuum up 1:16:06.760 --> 1:16:12.000 military applicable technologies from US companies. The Chinese have perfected 1:16:12.000 --> 1:16:16.160 the weaponization of investment as a legal means to achieve 1:16:16.240 --> 1:16:23.040 this massive transfer of dual use technology, bolstering China's military modernization. 1:16:23.760 --> 1:16:28.080 If the US loses its military technology advantage over China 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:33.879 and other adversaries, it will one day cost American lives. 1:16:34.960 --> 1:16:39.759 And he cites specifically the effort by Broadcom, Singapore based 1:16:39.760 --> 1:16:44.640 company to take over Qualcom, which Trump shot down. But 1:16:44.920 --> 1:16:49.280 when you look at what has already happened, what is 1:16:49.320 --> 1:16:52.400 already going on here, you see that there are US 1:16:52.479 --> 1:16:58.840 companies that are lobbying against any restrictions on their very 1:16:59.120 --> 1:17:04.879 cozy relationships with Chinese based companies because they want access 1:17:04.920 --> 1:17:08.760 to the markets. This is about the bottom line for 1:17:08.800 --> 1:17:13.959 those companies. But in order to get access to the markets, 1:17:14.040 --> 1:17:19.480 guess what, the Chinese Communist Party, which runs the economy 1:17:19.560 --> 1:17:24.640 as well as the government, will insist on US companies 1:17:24.680 --> 1:17:30.320 sharing some very sensitive dual use technology. This has happened 1:17:30.360 --> 1:17:33.720 in many cases as cited in this piece in the 1:17:33.720 --> 1:17:35.680 Wall Street Journal. Here are just a few of them. 1:17:35.760 --> 1:17:41.200 Quote in general, Electric formed a joint venture with Aviation 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:45.559 Industry Corporation of China, one of China's premier state owned 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:50.040 enterprises and the primary supplier of aircraft for China's military. 1:17:50.120 --> 1:17:54.439 Sharing cutting edge avionics technology, a v i C now 1:17:54.520 --> 1:17:59.000 has an enhanced capability to produce high performance aircraft cockpit 1:17:59.080 --> 1:18:04.120 controls and displays, as well as communications and navigation systems 1:18:04.160 --> 1:18:08.640 which it can adapt for Chinese warplanes. So thanks to 1:18:08.760 --> 1:18:16.280 JEEZ venture in China, Chinese war fighters, specifically in this case, 1:18:16.680 --> 1:18:21.560 aviators might have an advantage in the future. This is 1:18:21.720 --> 1:18:24.240 very serious stuff, and I think part of the problem 1:18:24.280 --> 1:18:27.520 here is that the left and academia in this country 1:18:27.760 --> 1:18:31.240 do not want us to know. They do not want 1:18:31.280 --> 1:18:36.040 you to be familiar with the full extent of the 1:18:36.080 --> 1:18:41.720 Soviet penetration of sensitive US government agencies. They're basically was 1:18:41.760 --> 1:18:45.200 a Soviet agent in every single major US government agency 1:18:45.880 --> 1:18:48.320 at the start of the Cold War and all the 1:18:48.360 --> 1:18:52.000 way up to those with direct access to the President. 1:18:52.840 --> 1:18:56.760 The Soviet theft of nuclear technology because of the Rosenbergs 1:18:56.840 --> 1:18:59.880 is somewhat well known, but how many Americans know that 1:19:00.640 --> 1:19:06.120 the penetrations of US avionics technology, for example, led to 1:19:06.200 --> 1:19:09.400 us to miscalculate what kind of advantage we would have 1:19:09.520 --> 1:19:12.840 in the air. During the Korean War. We figured that 1:19:13.040 --> 1:19:16.640 our first generation of jets, never mind even on some 1:19:16.720 --> 1:19:20.639 of our propeller planes, would dominate the skies in our 1:19:20.680 --> 1:19:23.919 fight with North Korea. But guess what. The MiG fighters 1:19:23.920 --> 1:19:27.360 they came up against were flying circles around the stuff 1:19:27.400 --> 1:19:29.760 we put up in the air. Because the Soviets had 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:33.760 stolen our best stuff and used it for their own purposes, 1:19:34.040 --> 1:19:37.800 they actually had an advantage. And therefore Soviet planes that 1:19:37.840 --> 1:19:42.479 we went up against in the Korean War had an advantage. 1:19:43.040 --> 1:19:46.040 This is how the great game of nation states and 1:19:46.080 --> 1:19:50.719 civilizations has played out for millennia, and we in this country, 1:19:50.760 --> 1:19:57.000 I think, are blithely unbothered by what's going on here. 1:19:57.520 --> 1:19:59.160 Let's time for all of us to wake up on 1:19:59.160 --> 1:20:02.000 this one. This is where the important I've got more 1:20:02.080 --> 1:20:04.200 for you from this Wall Street Journal piece quote in 1:20:04.280 --> 1:20:09.040 ten Ge formed a joint venture with another Chinese company 1:20:09.040 --> 1:20:13.439 handing over advanced battery technology that could have battlefield applications 1:20:13.479 --> 1:20:17.320 such as powering heavy ground vehicles. The same year, General 1:20:17.400 --> 1:20:21.680 Electric formed a partnership with Chinese government affiliated Huawei to 1:20:21.800 --> 1:20:26.200 develop cloud based industrial applications for the Internet of Things. 1:20:26.760 --> 1:20:30.360 This arrangement could result in long term cyber vulnerabilities for 1:20:30.360 --> 1:20:34.639 the US, in part because, like so many so called 1:20:34.640 --> 1:20:38.599 private companies in China, Huawei is beholden to the Chinese 1:20:38.600 --> 1:20:42.280 Communist Party and is functionally an arm of the Chinese government. 1:20:42.720 --> 1:20:47.880 Just like I said. Likewise, IBM has systematically transferred high 1:20:47.960 --> 1:20:52.320 and computing technology to China. By according to a working 1:20:52.320 --> 1:20:55.599 group of experts in the National Security Agency and Energy Department, 1:20:56.080 --> 1:20:59.799 China had attained a near peer status with the US 1:21:00.200 --> 1:21:05.759 in high performance computing. Without a doubt, IBMS technology transfers 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:10.880 have contributed to China's enhanced high performance computing capabilities. This 1:21:10.960 --> 1:21:15.520 will lead to a severe compromise of our national security 1:21:15.600 --> 1:21:17.959 as we have a loss of leadership and high performance 1:21:17.960 --> 1:21:22.280 computing end quote I mean, and there's even more in 1:21:23.280 --> 1:21:26.400 IBM formed a joint venture with a Chinese company in spur, 1:21:26.920 --> 1:21:30.719 handing over the capability to manufacture its own computer servers. 1:21:31.360 --> 1:21:34.080 That same year, IBM established a partnership with the state 1:21:34.200 --> 1:21:40.080 owned China Telecom, agreeing to hand over cloud computing technology. Folks, 1:21:41.240 --> 1:21:44.519 We have US based companies that are handing over the 1:21:44.600 --> 1:21:47.800 keys to the store, and yeah, they're doing it because 1:21:47.800 --> 1:21:50.000 they want access to the Chinese markets. They're just looking 1:21:50.000 --> 1:21:55.360 at their bottom line. But there are clear dual use 1:21:55.400 --> 1:21:58.519 applications here, and this is the kind of technology that 1:21:58.600 --> 1:22:01.839 if we actually go to war with China in the future, 1:22:02.720 --> 1:22:08.240 could be a major problem for us. Think about a 1:22:08.280 --> 1:22:11.160 world in which China actually has the technological advantage over 1:22:11.240 --> 1:22:15.160 us militarily. What if they have the best, the fastest, 1:22:15.240 --> 1:22:21.160 the smartest in planes, submarines, technology of all kinds that's 1:22:21.160 --> 1:22:24.200 applicable in the battlefield. That's what we are heading toward 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:25.960 right now. If we don't get a handle on this, 1:22:26.360 --> 1:22:29.040 there's only so much our R and D can do 1:22:29.160 --> 1:22:32.000 to keep us ahead of China if China can keep 1:22:32.120 --> 1:22:37.040 stealing our research and development. And yet everyone's kind of 1:22:37.040 --> 1:22:39.760 asleep on this one for the most part. We all 1:22:39.800 --> 1:22:44.559 just want cheap flat screen televisions and all kinds of 1:22:44.920 --> 1:22:48.439 junks sent over in huge quantities for us to purchase 1:22:48.479 --> 1:22:52.200 at the cheapest possible price, and companies like General Electric 1:22:52.280 --> 1:22:56.679 and IBM are just happy to pad their bottom line. 1:22:57.320 --> 1:22:59.679 They don't see or don't care to see the national 1:22:59.680 --> 1:23:03.960 secure the implications of this. But when we faced off 1:23:04.000 --> 1:23:09.559 against our most recent near peer global competitor, the Soviet Union, 1:23:10.240 --> 1:23:13.519 it was our technological advantage that was among the most 1:23:13.600 --> 1:23:18.240 important things We had to keep them in check. Eventually, 1:23:18.240 --> 1:23:21.439 our economy ran them into the ground, but they were 1:23:21.520 --> 1:23:24.240 much closer to us militarily than they should have been 1:23:24.240 --> 1:23:27.080 at numerous points in the Cold War. Because of all 1:23:27.160 --> 1:23:31.479 this stuff. The Soviets stole Chinese how the second biggest 1:23:31.520 --> 1:23:34.360 economy in the world, and it's growing very rapidly. They 1:23:34.360 --> 1:23:38.040 have embraced a market mentality for the purposes of wealth 1:23:38.080 --> 1:23:42.240 creation and production. It's just state controlled, but their economy 1:23:42.280 --> 1:23:44.920 is not going to creater and collapse into nothing. They 1:23:44.960 --> 1:23:48.599 are looking to supplant us as the most powerful nation 1:23:48.800 --> 1:23:53.360 on earth, and they're stealing some of our most valuable 1:23:53.400 --> 1:23:56.920 intellectual property in that pursuit. And not only that, we 1:23:57.000 --> 1:23:59.960 have US companies that are handing it over to them. 1:24:01.640 --> 1:24:04.000 The Trump administration needs to take action here. I'll follow 1:24:04.040 --> 1:24:06.000 up more on there's a bill making its way through 1:24:06.040 --> 1:24:08.760 Congress that will discuss In fact, I'll try to see 1:24:08.800 --> 1:24:10.320 if you get one of the co authors, maybe even 1:24:10.360 --> 1:24:12.559 the author of this piece in the Wall Street Journalill 1:24:12.560 --> 1:24:15.360 come on and talk. I've got more team, stay with me. 1:24:28.280 --> 1:24:31.360 It was only a matter of time before it was 1:24:31.360 --> 1:24:35.439 gonna happen, and now it has. The first person on 1:24:35.640 --> 1:24:41.799 record has been killed by a self driving or autonomous vehicle. 1:24:41.960 --> 1:24:46.679 This happened in Arizona, and it is the first time. 1:24:46.760 --> 1:24:50.320 It will not be the last time. But it does 1:24:50.439 --> 1:24:54.200 have some implications I think for where all this is heading, 1:24:54.240 --> 1:24:58.040 where all this self driving phenomenon is gonna go. Uh. 1:24:58.080 --> 1:25:00.320 And first of all, it's just it's tragic, you imagine. 1:25:00.360 --> 1:25:02.720 I mean, there was somebody behind the wheel of this 1:25:02.920 --> 1:25:07.120 uber self driving car in Arizona, but they put it 1:25:07.160 --> 1:25:12.280 on autopilot essentially, and it struck a woman in a crosswalk. 1:25:13.040 --> 1:25:18.840 Now here's what I've known all along about this. People 1:25:18.880 --> 1:25:22.920 say that there are roughly what, gosh, I don't even know, 1:25:23.040 --> 1:25:26.719 thirty thousand. I think auto fatality is a year something 1:25:26.840 --> 1:25:30.559 like that, something in that neighborhood. Maybe it's less now 1:25:30.600 --> 1:25:33.400 I think that might have been the all time high. Um. 1:25:33.600 --> 1:25:38.120 But the thing about those fatalities is that they are 1:25:38.200 --> 1:25:43.760 spread out among Oh wow, forty forty thousand people died 1:25:43.800 --> 1:25:47.160 in motorbile vehicle accidents. I thought it was thirty thousands. 1:25:47.200 --> 1:25:50.920 It's even more than I thought. But a vast majority 1:25:51.360 --> 1:25:55.400 people don't often talk about this vast majority of vehicular 1:25:55.439 --> 1:26:01.719 fatalities involve driver error, which is not surprising. Um In 1:26:01.720 --> 1:26:03.720 in many cases I should actually check and see what 1:26:03.800 --> 1:26:06.360 the stats are. I think it's just people that make 1:26:06.400 --> 1:26:08.519 a mistake, much more so than it is people who 1:26:08.520 --> 1:26:12.800 are impaired or who are doing anything illegal necessarily during 1:26:12.800 --> 1:26:14.800 you know, people forget to look one way and you 1:26:14.800 --> 1:26:17.479 know they go through the light or things like that 1:26:17.520 --> 1:26:19.720 are are obviously a large portion I don't know what 1:26:19.760 --> 1:26:21.800 the what the percentages are, but a large portion of 1:26:21.800 --> 1:26:26.960 auti fatalities. But anytime a person dies in a car crash. 1:26:27.080 --> 1:26:28.880 And it's one thing that here in New York City 1:26:29.520 --> 1:26:32.559 growing up was was different than it was in other 1:26:32.640 --> 1:26:35.479 places around the country. I remember when I got to college, 1:26:35.520 --> 1:26:39.479 I noticed how friends of mine, all of my friends, 1:26:40.280 --> 1:26:44.040 pretty much to a person, had at least one of 1:26:44.160 --> 1:26:46.599 their friends died in a car accident in high school. 1:26:46.600 --> 1:26:49.559 I mean a high school aged person that they knew 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:52.120 had died in a car accident. At worst. Because I'm 1:26:52.120 --> 1:26:54.439 from New York City, none of us even were driving. 1:26:54.479 --> 1:26:57.320 Really maybe some of us. I drove senior year of 1:26:57.360 --> 1:27:00.479 high school, but that just wasn't a problem for for 1:27:00.600 --> 1:27:02.240 us to be worried about. We had we had other 1:27:02.240 --> 1:27:06.400 things to worry about. But anyway, the overwhelming number of 1:27:06.720 --> 1:27:10.920 cases of a driver of fatalities a driver air but 1:27:11.000 --> 1:27:14.920 in all those forty thousand or so deaths, the liability 1:27:14.960 --> 1:27:19.920 for it is spread around to the individuals involved in 1:27:19.920 --> 1:27:22.479 the crash, not the car company. Al Right, So if 1:27:22.520 --> 1:27:27.000 you're in a a Ford Fiesta and you crash into 1:27:27.040 --> 1:27:30.920 somebody who's in a Prius and there's a fatality in 1:27:30.960 --> 1:27:33.639 that other car, that's something that you and your insurance 1:27:33.640 --> 1:27:37.719 companies are dealing with, but it's not something that falls 1:27:37.880 --> 1:27:43.000 squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturer. I don't know 1:27:43.160 --> 1:27:45.760 how they're going to handle this from an insurance standpoint. 1:27:46.360 --> 1:27:48.639 I'm sure there probably are ways, which is why they're 1:27:48.680 --> 1:27:53.080 pursuing this. But if any time there's a autonomous vehicular 1:27:53.200 --> 1:27:57.479 accident that ends in a fatality, it ends up being 1:27:57.560 --> 1:28:00.360 the company's fault, the company can be sued. I don't 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:02.519 see how you have a situation that doesn't essentially turn 1:28:02.600 --> 1:28:05.599 into the equivalent of one long running class action lawsuit 1:28:05.640 --> 1:28:10.400 against Uber or against whichever company wins this race for 1:28:10.520 --> 1:28:13.920 autonomous driving dominance. And I also know that there are 1:28:13.920 --> 1:28:15.559 a lot of people that are gonna that are gonna 1:28:15.560 --> 1:28:19.639 push back against having all of the different vehicles out 1:28:19.640 --> 1:28:25.000 there that are machine driven, that are run by algorithms, 1:28:25.000 --> 1:28:28.639 that are run by artificial intelligence. People like to drive. 1:28:29.320 --> 1:28:32.639 Everyone in my family, all the males in my family, 1:28:32.640 --> 1:28:39.600 I should say, really like driving a lot. I do not. 1:28:40.680 --> 1:28:42.840 I'm fine with it, but I don't enjoy it. Like 1:28:42.960 --> 1:28:46.120 whenever someone says, hey, I'll drive you, I'm always like, yeah, 1:28:46.360 --> 1:28:48.639 that sounds good, go ahead. You know. I'm not somebody 1:28:48.640 --> 1:28:50.559 who fights for the steering row. I just don't really care. 1:28:51.200 --> 1:28:53.799 I'm also someone who now has avoided I haven't rented 1:28:53.840 --> 1:28:58.000 a car in in years because I would just prefer 1:28:58.040 --> 1:29:00.559 to Uber wherever I am, I have no entry. I've 1:29:00.560 --> 1:29:03.880 had some of the most negative consumer experiences of my 1:29:03.920 --> 1:29:06.240 life have involved car companies. I hate the whole thing. 1:29:06.439 --> 1:29:09.040 I hate the hard sell for the bogus additional insurance, 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:11.960 all the little extras they try to throw on. You know, 1:29:12.080 --> 1:29:14.720 here's your little garment GPS, and if you lose it, 1:29:14.720 --> 1:29:16.439 it's like a thousand dollars or some I mean the 1:29:16.439 --> 1:29:19.120 whole thing, right, I hate all that stuff. So I'm 1:29:19.160 --> 1:29:22.639 a big Uber proponent. I just don't know how Google Uber. 1:29:23.040 --> 1:29:26.280 This is a massive technology race that's going on right now. 1:29:26.720 --> 1:29:29.320 I don't know how they deal with the issue of 1:29:29.320 --> 1:29:32.960 the liability of if you are relying on computers to 1:29:33.040 --> 1:29:35.840 do this, you know, if you're relying on computers to 1:29:35.880 --> 1:29:41.639 be driving vehicles, unless you can dramatically drop down the number, 1:29:41.680 --> 1:29:43.519 which is part of the argument. I mean, there's a 1:29:43.520 --> 1:29:47.440 lot of interesting philosophical components here, but unless you dramatically 1:29:47.520 --> 1:29:52.880 drive down the number of overall fatalities, it seems to 1:29:52.920 --> 1:29:55.280 me that you have a big problem of how do 1:29:55.400 --> 1:29:59.360 we pay for all of the liability that we have 1:29:59.439 --> 1:30:01.800 as a result of this? You know, computers are gonna fail, 1:30:01.880 --> 1:30:03.840 and then there's just another And this is not a 1:30:03.880 --> 1:30:08.680 technology based argument, um, And we're gonna be switching here 1:30:08.760 --> 1:30:12.240 into a discussion of a movie that I saw over 1:30:12.280 --> 1:30:14.920 the weekend in a few minutes, The Shape of Water. 1:30:15.720 --> 1:30:18.840 It was terrible, but I'll give you more than that. 1:30:18.880 --> 1:30:24.439 But uh, I get a little nervous even with things 1:30:24.560 --> 1:30:28.960 like elevators. Having been stuck in my fair share of elevators, 1:30:29.640 --> 1:30:32.160 and I just hate that sense of loss of control. 1:30:33.120 --> 1:30:35.800 Even if someone shows me the statistics about driving a 1:30:35.840 --> 1:30:37.800 car or someone else driving me in a car, that 1:30:37.840 --> 1:30:40.519 it's much less safe than what the autonomous vehicles will 1:30:40.520 --> 1:30:43.920 be able to to accomplish in in a few short years. 1:30:44.439 --> 1:30:46.000 I think there's a part of all of us, that 1:30:46.000 --> 1:30:48.040 there's a part of us as human beings that just 1:30:48.160 --> 1:30:51.920 want to be able to have some say, some control 1:30:52.120 --> 1:30:56.280 over are well, whether we live or die in this case. 1:30:56.880 --> 1:30:58.800 And even if the technology is better, it's gonna take 1:30:58.800 --> 1:31:01.599 a while for us to switch about anyways. Autonomous vehicle 1:31:01.600 --> 1:31:03.479 as a subject. We'll get into more going forward, but 1:31:03.960 --> 1:31:07.080 first fatality and uh, it's gonna slow this whole process 1:31:07.120 --> 1:31:10.160 down a bit, and very sad. We're gonna run to 1:31:10.200 --> 1:31:23.000 a quick break team. We'll be right back. He's back 1:31:23.080 --> 1:31:25.439 with you now, because when it comes to the fight 1:31:25.520 --> 1:31:29.360 for truth, the fuck never stops. This may very well 1:31:29.439 --> 1:31:32.880 be the most sensitive asset ever to be housed in 1:31:32.920 --> 1:31:39.160 this facility. You may think that thing looks human, stands 1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:43.040 on two legs, right, but we're created in the Lord. 1:31:43.120 --> 1:31:45.360 J You don't think that's what the Lord looks like. 1:31:46.280 --> 1:31:52.560 This creature is intelligent, capable of language, of understanding emotions. 1:32:02.880 --> 1:32:06.479 When he looks at me, he doesn't know how I 1:32:06.520 --> 1:32:13.320 am incomplete he sees me. I. That was from the 1:32:13.360 --> 1:32:16.960 trailer for the Shape of Water, which won the Oscar 1:32:17.120 --> 1:32:22.240 for Best Picture. I felt like I was obligated on 1:32:22.320 --> 1:32:25.920 Friday to watch this movie. Plus MS Molly wanted to 1:32:25.960 --> 1:32:28.320 check it out, and I said, okay, fine, And I 1:32:28.320 --> 1:32:32.200 remember thinking to myself, how bad could it really be? 1:32:32.960 --> 1:32:38.000 It won the best Picture for the entire year. Oh boy, 1:32:39.160 --> 1:32:42.760 I was wrong. It was even worse than I expected. 1:32:43.520 --> 1:32:47.240 The Shape of Water is about a woman who has 1:32:47.280 --> 1:32:53.599 a sexual relationship with an aquarium pet. I'm not even 1:32:53.640 --> 1:32:56.559 going to get too far into a criticism of the 1:32:56.600 --> 1:33:01.280 movie being kind of slow, the dialogue being lackluster, and 1:33:01.320 --> 1:33:03.559 all the rest of it, the whole thing being trite. 1:33:04.080 --> 1:33:08.679 I'm actually more annoyed about the messaging in this film 1:33:09.200 --> 1:33:15.320 and also the completely predictable lens that it looks at 1:33:15.400 --> 1:33:21.200 this situation that has created this this fantasy. But on 1:33:21.320 --> 1:33:24.320 the the biggest charge what I just said that this 1:33:24.400 --> 1:33:29.320 is about a woman who has a romantic relationship, has 1:33:29.400 --> 1:33:34.640 a love affair with an aquarium pet. For those who 1:33:34.680 --> 1:33:37.680 would say, oh, Buck, that's not fair. I say, at 1:33:37.720 --> 1:33:40.840 what point does it become clear? In this movie, which 1:33:40.920 --> 1:33:45.719 is about essentially the creature from the Blue Lagoon or whatever, 1:33:45.800 --> 1:33:49.200 or the Deep Lagoon, whatever, that monster creature is gets 1:33:49.280 --> 1:33:53.880 captured by some government scientists and then the experiment on it. 1:33:53.960 --> 1:33:57.640 And this woman is cleaning up the room where they 1:33:57.680 --> 1:34:00.320 keep the monster, not exactly the tightest secure early in 1:34:00.320 --> 1:34:03.200 the world, and then she decides that she really likes 1:34:03.240 --> 1:34:07.400 the sea monster, and they start getting kind of playful. 1:34:07.760 --> 1:34:10.760 Then she brings it home, plops it in her bathtub, 1:34:11.160 --> 1:34:16.360 and proceeds to get amorous. I will say, and by 1:34:16.400 --> 1:34:19.599 the way, you see a good bit of that in 1:34:19.640 --> 1:34:23.120 this movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Now, 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:27.559 I've seen a couple of different methods of trying to 1:34:28.360 --> 1:34:33.040 explain this away. I think it is bizarro on many levels, 1:34:33.280 --> 1:34:37.679 and and I think it is quite weird. Um, I'm 1:34:37.720 --> 1:34:40.960 not okay with the whole thing. But people say, Buck, 1:34:41.000 --> 1:34:44.439 look at other fairy tales, even the great fairy tales 1:34:44.479 --> 1:34:47.320 we were told as children, right, the princess who kisses 1:34:47.360 --> 1:34:51.519 the frog. Yeah, but the frog turns into a human being. 1:34:51.680 --> 1:34:54.639 That's the whole point. It's actually supposed to be a human. 1:34:54.960 --> 1:34:57.439 People say, oh buck, what about Beauty and the beast. 1:34:57.479 --> 1:35:00.960 You know, it's like she's with some kind of a 1:35:01.080 --> 1:35:05.160 large wolf like creature. It's actually human who has a 1:35:05.200 --> 1:35:09.320 spell on him. All right, that's different. This sea monster 1:35:09.520 --> 1:35:13.120 that the woman in the shape the shape of water 1:35:13.960 --> 1:35:18.160 falls in love with, at no point becomes a human being, 1:35:18.680 --> 1:35:22.639 is actually a human being, is even partially a human being. 1:35:23.240 --> 1:35:26.559 It's a fish from what we can tell. And then 1:35:26.600 --> 1:35:29.320 I know the response would be well backed. But it 1:35:29.439 --> 1:35:35.400 does sign language and it understands her, the protagonist, so well. 1:35:35.800 --> 1:35:39.919 And to that, I would say, chimpanzees can do sign language, 1:35:40.040 --> 1:35:44.360 in fact, can do it quite well. And yes, dogs 1:35:44.520 --> 1:35:49.240 can understand emotion quite well. And while you know, I'm 1:35:49.400 --> 1:35:54.479 quite fond of dogs, they are not human beings. And 1:35:54.680 --> 1:35:58.639 I think that the messaging in this movie is lame 1:35:59.080 --> 1:36:02.559 as well as a bit creepy. Never mind the fact 1:36:02.640 --> 1:36:05.960 that who who's the bad guy? Oh, of course a 1:36:07.120 --> 1:36:09.719 they might as well have had him. He's this white, 1:36:09.760 --> 1:36:12.840 square jawed government guy. He might as well have had 1:36:12.840 --> 1:36:16.599 a big maga hat on. For the entirety of the movie, 1:36:16.640 --> 1:36:18.919 even though it takes place, I guess in the late fifties. 1:36:20.080 --> 1:36:23.759 But he's all about you know, the government and God 1:36:24.200 --> 1:36:30.440 and America at and he's the worst. He is an unfeeling, sadistic, 1:36:31.120 --> 1:36:34.479 terrible piece of trash. And everyone else in the movie 1:36:34.520 --> 1:36:37.400 that you might identify as being somewhat of a liberal, 1:36:37.600 --> 1:36:43.040 even the communist traitor, the guy who's a double agent 1:36:43.840 --> 1:36:48.720 for the Soviets, right, he betrays his American colleagues. He's 1:36:48.760 --> 1:36:53.360 pretending to be someone he's not. Even he has some 1:36:54.160 --> 1:36:56.639 salvation the movie because well, I don't want to give 1:36:56.680 --> 1:36:58.720 it all away in case you want to watch it, 1:36:58.760 --> 1:37:05.400 but every one has redeeming characteristics and qualities except for 1:37:05.600 --> 1:37:11.800 the white male Christian government you know FBI guy. Basically, 1:37:12.640 --> 1:37:14.120 this is what I always have to laugh about. The 1:37:14.160 --> 1:37:18.040 media hates white males and the FBI by and large, 1:37:18.040 --> 1:37:20.280 you know, they really are against them for a whole 1:37:20.320 --> 1:37:23.760 bunch of reasons, except for any white males of the 1:37:23.800 --> 1:37:27.519 FBI that are useful in bashing Trump or or who 1:37:27.600 --> 1:37:30.840 are trying to take the Trump presidency down. But but 1:37:31.040 --> 1:37:34.320 the Shape of Water is just it was a really 1:37:34.360 --> 1:37:36.599 bad movie. I mean, they should rename it the Shape 1:37:36.760 --> 1:37:40.360 of Goose Turd, because that's what it was that at one. 1:37:40.439 --> 1:37:43.720 Best picture is just more evidence of what I've been 1:37:43.760 --> 1:37:46.880 saying for some time, which is that the movie industry 1:37:47.280 --> 1:37:50.680 is in a really weak spot these days. TV is 1:37:50.720 --> 1:37:54.879 doing well overall, and I think it's going to continue 1:37:54.880 --> 1:38:00.960 on this path. But the Shape of Water, it's just hollow. 1:38:01.040 --> 1:38:07.840 The whole thing. It is unredeeming in in every way. Uh. 1:38:07.840 --> 1:38:09.800 And I just couldn't believe it that that this is 1:38:09.880 --> 1:38:12.240 what This is not just a movie that I'm trashing, folks. 1:38:12.280 --> 1:38:15.040 This is supposed to be the collective wisdom of Hollywood 1:38:15.120 --> 1:38:18.639 is what is the best movie of Like I said, 1:38:19.360 --> 1:38:38.439 Big Goose, Turt, We'll be right back. I like to 1:38:38.479 --> 1:38:42.679 think of myself as an innovator. Team there are times 1:38:42.680 --> 1:38:45.320 when I have to stop and give myself a little 1:38:45.320 --> 1:38:50.960 bit of credit for being a trendsetter or perhaps a 1:38:51.080 --> 1:38:56.040 pioneer of style, at least when it comes to food 1:38:56.880 --> 1:39:01.320 and eating of meat. So I realized this because I 1:39:01.720 --> 1:39:05.440 made a ribby for Ms. Molly and I on Friday, 1:39:05.479 --> 1:39:07.720 and I will tell you that it was seared perfectly 1:39:08.240 --> 1:39:13.160 and it was amazing. The dollar cast iron pan that 1:39:13.240 --> 1:39:15.920 I got myself was one of the better investments I 1:39:15.960 --> 1:39:21.240 can remember making in recent years. But the next day, 1:39:21.400 --> 1:39:24.400 I thought to myself, you know, what is one to 1:39:24.520 --> 1:39:29.960 do with leftover ribby? Oh, that's right, I'm going to 1:39:30.040 --> 1:39:34.400 make steak and eggs. That was also amazing, by the way, 1:39:34.479 --> 1:39:36.680 But then I thought to myself, what am I going 1:39:36.760 --> 1:39:40.479 to do with some of that delicious thick cut bacon 1:39:40.520 --> 1:39:43.080 that I have in my fridge that I specifically got 1:39:43.360 --> 1:39:46.080 so that I could cook it to absolute perfection on 1:39:46.120 --> 1:39:51.479 Saturday and have a hashtag Buck brunch. Why is it 1:39:51.600 --> 1:39:55.080 just steaking eggs, my friends, when it could be steak 1:39:55.840 --> 1:40:02.479 and eggs and bacon. Ah. Indeed, so I went with 1:40:02.520 --> 1:40:06.799 all three the trifecta steak, eggs, and bacon for brunch 1:40:06.880 --> 1:40:10.280 on Saturday. And this is what everyone should do going forward. 1:40:10.479 --> 1:40:12.479 There's no need to cut out the bacon just because 1:40:12.479 --> 1:40:15.920 you're having the steak. Maybe just limit yourself to a 1:40:15.960 --> 1:40:20.120 pounder sew. And with that, I would like to get 1:40:20.200 --> 1:40:33.479 into some roll call. Team Buck. It's time for roll call, 1:40:33.960 --> 1:40:40.320 and remember, if you want to be a part of 1:40:40.439 --> 1:40:43.840 roll call, you can send us a message on Facebook 1:40:43.880 --> 1:40:48.000 at facebook dot com, slash Buck Sexton or official Team 1:40:48.120 --> 1:40:50.759 Buck at gmail dot com. If you'd like to send 1:40:50.760 --> 1:40:54.559 an email We are also thinking about setting up a 1:40:54.680 --> 1:40:58.360 special voicemail that we would be able to have recording 1:40:58.400 --> 1:41:01.559 when we're not on air, and then those of you 1:41:01.600 --> 1:41:03.760 who have a voice message you'd like to leave so 1:41:03.800 --> 1:41:05.760 that the rest of the team can hear it, we 1:41:05.800 --> 1:41:08.559 could do that. So if you couldn't listen live, for example, 1:41:08.600 --> 1:41:12.960 if you happen to be one of our wonderful podcast listeners, 1:41:13.320 --> 1:41:17.360 well then we very much could put your audio on 1:41:17.520 --> 1:41:21.160 air when we do our next live show. First up 1:41:21.240 --> 1:41:26.920 on roll Call is Roger. He writes, Buck just heard 1:41:27.640 --> 1:41:32.080 the podcast uh from the Friday show about Bob Dylan 1:41:32.200 --> 1:41:35.360 and gurgling with Gergen. It made me laugh out loud. 1:41:35.720 --> 1:41:39.479 No easy task, shields Hie. Thank you very much. Roger 1:41:40.360 --> 1:41:45.160 with Gergan and Bob Dylan also make me laugh. Monica 1:41:45.320 --> 1:41:48.599 next up here, she writes, Uh, this is the husband 1:41:48.600 --> 1:41:53.360 of Monica and I ate these in Belfast. You asked 1:41:53.800 --> 1:42:00.880 was their Irish ethnic food? Here it is Shepherd's pie. Okay, 1:42:01.080 --> 1:42:04.400 that's I'll take it. Not exactly something that's gonna get 1:42:04.400 --> 1:42:07.559 me too excited in the world of culinary excellence, but 1:42:07.640 --> 1:42:12.040 Shepherd's pie is indeed. Is it Irish thrower? Is it English? Oh? 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:13.439 I don't want to get the middle of that one. 1:42:14.080 --> 1:42:19.040 Let's get to Erica, and she writes, I really listened 1:42:19.040 --> 1:42:21.600 to Thursday's program to get the name of the Progressive 1:42:21.680 --> 1:42:25.400 Hostility study. Since none of my Google searches found it, 1:42:25.800 --> 1:42:28.880 I tried again to conduct the exact title and nothing. 1:42:29.520 --> 1:42:34.840 Tried Duck duck go, and voila, there was the study. Well, Erica, 1:42:34.880 --> 1:42:36.559 I don't know about this duck duck go, but maybe 1:42:36.640 --> 1:42:39.080 it's better for some thing than Google. I'll have to 1:42:39.120 --> 1:42:41.760 check it out. But the piece that I mentioned was 1:42:41.800 --> 1:42:45.320 on quillette dot com and it was or I went 1:42:45.360 --> 1:42:47.559 into some depth about it and just mentioned it, and 1:42:47.640 --> 1:42:54.439 it was the Psychology of Progressive Hostility. Next up here, 1:42:54.800 --> 1:43:00.479 Joey Annette, wow Buck, you're right, Sessions did fire me, Cabe. 1:43:01.600 --> 1:43:03.439 Jeff is a little late to the party, but he 1:43:03.479 --> 1:43:06.720 finally showed up with a haymaker. Now he'll just un 1:43:06.800 --> 1:43:10.519 recuse himself and fire Muller and stop this stupid waste 1:43:10.520 --> 1:43:14.479 of taxpayer money masquerading as an investigation. Shields high and 1:43:14.560 --> 1:43:17.360 keep up the good work. Well, Joey in Annette, I 1:43:17.439 --> 1:43:20.639 will say that I not only called the firing on radio, 1:43:21.040 --> 1:43:24.639 I also went out there on Outnumbered on Fox News 1:43:24.680 --> 1:43:28.000 on Friday and said, Hey, guess what, there's gonna be 1:43:28.040 --> 1:43:32.439 a firing of McCabe And uh, I was correct, So 1:43:32.600 --> 1:43:35.879 thank you for noting that I was in fact correct. 1:43:36.640 --> 1:43:43.920 Next up here, hold on one second, is Philip, and 1:43:44.000 --> 1:43:48.200 he writes, Hey, man, I'm sure you've probably been told already, 1:43:48.280 --> 1:43:54.519 but producer Mike was incorrect about the population of Russia. Yes, Philip, Uh, 1:43:54.600 --> 1:43:57.559 I was in fact basically correct. I said a hundred 1:43:57.560 --> 1:44:00.719 and twenty million. The population of Russia's actually a hundred 1:44:00.760 --> 1:44:03.640 and forty million. Producer Mike on Friday told me it 1:44:03.720 --> 1:44:07.000 was seventy million based on a quick Google search. Do 1:44:07.160 --> 1:44:12.240 not worry. We will shortly assign him a code read Dick. 1:44:14.240 --> 1:44:16.680 Once again, this goes to my theory that even when 1:44:16.720 --> 1:44:20.640 I think I might be wrong, I'm usually right. Uh 1:44:20.760 --> 1:44:25.280 let's see, Dale, He writes, really enjoyed your sidebar the 1:44:25.320 --> 1:44:28.599 other evening about missed a game series near and dear 1:44:28.680 --> 1:44:31.760 to my heart, So Buck, which brother did you pick 1:44:31.840 --> 1:44:35.439 at the end of the original game, Dale, I cannot 1:44:35.439 --> 1:44:37.639 tell a lie. I didn't get that far and missed 1:44:37.680 --> 1:44:39.360 because I was really young when I was playing it, 1:44:39.439 --> 1:44:43.200 and some of those puzzles may have stumped me, but 1:44:43.439 --> 1:44:46.320 miss was. I remember going into computer stores in the 1:44:46.360 --> 1:44:51.719 early days of home PCs, or it is of PCs 1:44:52.120 --> 1:44:55.760 home PC would be repetitive, and there were missed. There 1:44:55.800 --> 1:44:58.920 were copies of missed everywhere. I also remember really not 1:44:59.040 --> 1:45:01.680 liking Mac computer uters for a while because all of 1:45:01.720 --> 1:45:06.200 the video games were for PC windows, and if you 1:45:06.240 --> 1:45:10.360 wanted good games, Mac was not the choice for you. 1:45:10.880 --> 1:45:14.800 And then later on people pretty much stopped using their 1:45:14.840 --> 1:45:17.599 computers for games. I feel like, in general at all 1:45:17.640 --> 1:45:21.120 went to PlayStations and these other consoles with the big 1:45:21.120 --> 1:45:24.760 flat screen TVs. But I did not get very far 1:45:24.960 --> 1:45:28.360 in missed. I must be honest with you. Now, we've 1:45:28.360 --> 1:45:32.640 got Pablo who writes listening to your show recently, and 1:45:32.640 --> 1:45:36.040 you were talking about visiting Vietnam. We're heading there a 1:45:36.080 --> 1:45:39.639 week from Monday and are super pumped. We're doing Hannoy 1:45:39.800 --> 1:45:43.520 for a few days in a Cinnamon Cathedral UH hotel 1:45:43.760 --> 1:45:46.360 and then onto how Long Bay for a few nights. 1:45:46.800 --> 1:45:49.840 We're disappointed to miss h some of the stuff, but 1:45:49.880 --> 1:45:53.000 pumping nonetheless. A Pablo, I think you're gonna have a 1:45:53.000 --> 1:45:55.280 great time. I love the food. I think it's I 1:45:55.280 --> 1:45:57.760 just think it's a really interesting place and very very 1:45:57.800 --> 1:46:02.000 different from other cultures and other countries around the world. 1:46:02.560 --> 1:46:05.160 But have a great time and let us know what 1:46:05.280 --> 1:46:07.960 you think. And for those of you who asked what 1:46:08.080 --> 1:46:11.240 cuisine I'd recommend to start with, I mentioned Foe, which 1:46:11.280 --> 1:46:14.519 is the most famous, which you usually spelled p h o, 1:46:15.000 --> 1:46:18.040 which is sliced beef in a kind of soup slash 1:46:18.200 --> 1:46:21.519 noodle stew. But the other thing that I really love 1:46:21.680 --> 1:46:25.840 is a rice pancake called a band saw, So if 1:46:25.840 --> 1:46:27.760 you can get that, I would say that's a very 1:46:27.760 --> 1:46:31.000 good place to start. And Boon Cha, which is a 1:46:31.040 --> 1:46:34.160 noodle dish, is also really excellent. By the way, one 1:46:34.160 --> 1:46:36.080 of the reasons I like this food so much, Vietnamese 1:46:36.120 --> 1:46:38.880 food is that it doesn't use that much soy sauce, 1:46:38.960 --> 1:46:41.840 so as a ciliac, I can eat most things on 1:46:41.880 --> 1:46:45.560 the menu. It uses mostly rice instead of flower noodles, 1:46:45.640 --> 1:46:49.680 so that's just for full disclosure. It's one of the 1:46:49.720 --> 1:46:54.320 only cuisines that is a an ethnic cuisine that is 1:46:54.400 --> 1:46:58.080 really easy for people who are gluten intolerant to enjoy. 1:46:59.080 --> 1:47:02.040 William is up next to here, He writes, quit crying 1:47:02.080 --> 1:47:05.639 about being old. I started Tae Kwondo at forty four, 1:47:06.080 --> 1:47:08.759 after twenty years of army service and over a thousand 1:47:08.840 --> 1:47:12.599 days in Iraq, and five kids. The five kids are 1:47:12.640 --> 1:47:16.960 much more challenging than convoy security. William, You're right, man, 1:47:17.040 --> 1:47:19.880 I uh, I shouldn't be given any I shouldn't be 1:47:19.880 --> 1:47:22.439 complained at all. I don't know how all you folks 1:47:22.439 --> 1:47:24.680 out there who are parents, I don't know how you 1:47:24.760 --> 1:47:29.920 do it. Uh. Kimberly is next up here, she writes, Buck, 1:47:30.040 --> 1:47:35.280 I love your show, O S S Team Buck, North Carolina. Well, 1:47:35.320 --> 1:47:38.439 thank you very much, Kimberly, I appreciate it. Next one 1:47:38.479 --> 1:47:42.760 here in roll Call is Christie. She writes, I think 1:47:42.840 --> 1:47:45.880 there's at least one movie in which Colin Farrell does 1:47:46.000 --> 1:47:49.960 not suck. He plays a hit man alongside a fellow 1:47:50.000 --> 1:47:55.720 brilliant actor in uh In in Bruges. Interesting film and 1:47:55.760 --> 1:47:58.200 beautiful scenery. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 1:47:58.320 --> 1:48:01.320 Happy St. Patrick's Day, and yeah us you're allowed to say, 1:48:01.600 --> 1:48:05.320 y'all we don't mind, Christie, O S S. Member, Well, 1:48:05.360 --> 1:48:08.040 thank you so much, Christie. Hope y'all have a great 1:48:08.080 --> 1:48:14.200 Saint Patrick's two down in Uh? Where were you? OSS member? 1:48:14.360 --> 1:48:17.320 From where? I'm not clear she was from the South, 1:48:17.560 --> 1:48:21.040 between which we know Christie. I haven't seen in Bruges, 1:48:21.120 --> 1:48:23.479 but I have heard good things, so maybe I'll add 1:48:23.560 --> 1:48:26.799 that to my now very rapidly expanding list of shows 1:48:27.200 --> 1:48:30.679 that I must check out. So um, with that team, 1:48:30.800 --> 1:48:33.800 I am going to close up shop here in the 1:48:33.800 --> 1:48:36.479 Freedom Hunt for the day. Thank you always for being 1:48:36.640 --> 1:48:39.519 with me. Please uh spread the word about what we 1:48:39.600 --> 1:48:43.120 do here and see you tomorrow shield Hie