1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Thursday edition of Clay and Buck kicks 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: off right now. Everybody, Thank you for joining im. A 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: man Clay on vacation in Australia having a great time. 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: I think there even some photos up at clayanbuck dot com. 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: He is in one of them hugging a koala. I said, 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: I need Clay and a koala in a photo, and 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: it exists, so I think it'll be up on clanbuck 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: dot com. Having a great time in the landdown Under. 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about today. I gotta 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: say one thing about doing shows, and I can't even 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: It's amazing to me to sit here and realize how 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: long I've been doing radio at this point, how many 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: we're now going on the second decade of radio. But 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: whenever you do a show close to the holiday, you wonder, 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: you know, am I just going to sit around and 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: talk about my favorite Christmas music? Or am I going 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: to be discussing that perennial topic about his Diehard at 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: Christmas movie? Or should when should you tell your kids 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: about how real Santa is? Because for all the kids listening, 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: he's very real with all that. No, No, we actually 22 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: have a lot of news today, a lot to get 23 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: into which I'm pleased that we can dive into the 24 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: substance together here. First up, there's some breaking news out 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: of Prague, a mass shooting. Ten students killed already at 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: least thirty injured. So that number likes somebody who's gone 27 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: gone completely homicidal, wacko. I'll bring you details as we 28 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: get those throughout the course of the show. New numbers 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: from CBP since December one, two hundred thousand plus migrant 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: encounters at the Southern border, over ten thousand a day. 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: This is an absolute flood. I mean, these numbers are 32 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: completely unmanageable and sustainable. This is as bad as anybody 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: thought things could get, perhaps even worse the Southern border. 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: My friend Julio Rose Sauce, an intrepid reporter with town 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: hall dot Com. He'll be with us in the second hour. 36 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: He is down at the border and seeing this going on, 37 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: and seeing the numbers and the overwhelmed border patrol. So 38 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: we shall discuss where that goes. President of Harvard Claudine 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: Gay now fases forty four zero allegations of plagiarism seven 40 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: publications she's written are being looked at now. According to 41 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: The Daily Mail, Chris Ruffo is on this one. And 42 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: it's amazing to watch the established. Not surprising, but amazing, nonetheless, 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: to watch the academic and left wing establishment contort themselves 44 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: pretend that plain language and the obvious meaning of things 45 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: they've said in the past no longer applies. Why. Well, 46 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: because the president of Harvard is one of the most 47 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: elevated Dei hires out there right now in the world 48 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: of academia. Harvard University has a fifty four billion dollar 49 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: endowment and has enormous cultural reach and implications. And there 50 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: is a president of Harvard who they celebrated as a 51 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: Dei higher. So we can't be told now, you can't 52 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: say she's a Dei Higher, but enormously important implications. I 53 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: think of how this goes. Will she be forced out 54 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: or force a step down? One more thing. I want 55 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: to get into this. I've been saying it, and I 56 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: don't like when I say, oh, we're going to get 57 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: to this, and then I the last couple of days 58 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, we should do 59 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: a little bit of a deep dive on this one, 60 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: get into some of the history, because I think that 61 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: the people that are tearing down, they are trying to 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: currently tear down this monument. They want most folks to 63 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: have a very limited, superficial, perfunctory approach and understanding to 64 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: all of this, And the more context it is given, 65 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: I think the more clear it is that this is 66 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: more of the iconoclasm spasm that we saw after the 67 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: BLM riots, the destruction of these different monuments and pulling 68 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: them down without real consideration for the history that is 69 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: represented and the meaning and the intent behind these I mean, 70 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: in this case a work of art. Will they're saying 71 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: they're moving it, not destroying it. But yeah, we all 72 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: know what's going on here. We will get into that. 73 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: I will get into that, maybe even the bottom of 74 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: this hour. But first up here, Biden has waighed in. Yesterday. 75 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time. We had a little 76 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: technical issue, so maybe more time than even intended. We 77 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on the Colorado State Supreme 78 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: Court decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in 79 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: that state. You know, I can't even say anymore. Oh 80 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: my d you'll hit the ground. I'm so surprised. This 81 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: is outrage acrossing the Rubican That's what That's what we 82 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: were all saying after the indictment in New York and 83 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: then the indictment in Florida, and then the indictment in DC, 84 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: and then the indictment in Atlanta, and the civil trial 85 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: run by a state attorney general Natissa James in New 86 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: York where she promised to get Trump when she was 87 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: running for that law enforcement office. And you know, they're 88 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: trying to bring huge fines and the ability of the 89 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: Trump organization new business in that state. I mean this. 90 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: You know one thing I'll say occasionally people who don't 91 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: support Trump on the right will reach out to me 92 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: or I'll even see them in day to day life, 93 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,119 Speaker 1: and they'll just be like, oh, you've got to stop 94 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: talking about all these get Trump efforts. I look at 95 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: them and I say, it is actually beyond Trump. At 96 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: some point, whether Trump thinks so or not, or anyone 97 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: else recognizes this. We can't allow this to stand. This 98 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: can't be something that happens in this country. Anyone who 99 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: thinks they will just do this against Trump has not 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: been paying attention. They have actually been building up to 101 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: this for many years, and I always name all the 102 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: names I go through this. You talk about what they 103 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: did to Senator Ted Stevens. You talk about what they 104 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: did to Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin with the John 105 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: Doe prosecutions. You talk about what they tried to do 106 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: to Governor Perry in Texas when he was going to 107 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: defund a prosecutor who was a drunk driver. You look 108 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: at Chris Christy with Bridgegate. Chris Christie forgot all about that. 109 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: Apparently now he's on the on the get Trump train 110 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: times ten, and it's disappointing doing the work of the 111 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: left at this point in my opinion. And you know, look, 112 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: we pushed him on some of these issues. I don't 113 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: ever want this audience to feel like we're not going 114 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: to hide important conversations from you that are happening on 115 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: the right. We're not going to say, oh, well, we 116 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: don't like the argument some of these Republicans are making, 117 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: so we can't. You know, we have to protect your 118 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: ears from this. No, you've heard it. I find Chris 119 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: Christie's opinions on this stuff entirely unpersuasive, and I think 120 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: that's clear from when I've talked to him. And Clays 121 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: talked to him recently his opinions on why he's still 122 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: even in the race. I find that unpersuasive. But my 123 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: point here is there's something much bigger at work than Trump, 124 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: which is not something you've been able to say. I 125 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: think for a while, you know, Trump has been this this, this, 126 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: this creation of a tornado around him all the time, 127 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: a political and legal tornado where it takes it sucks 128 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: all the oxygen out of the room. It you know, 129 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: lifts houses off their foundations. I mean, the whole thing 130 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: is crazy. Okay, what are we seeing right now? Well, 131 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: we talked about the removal of Donald Trump from the 132 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: ballot in Colorado and his chief political opponent yesterday, the 133 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: current president of the United States, at least officially speaking. 134 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: How many decisions this guy actually makes. I don't even 135 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: know if he's making the decisions about, you know, how 136 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: to put his socks on in the morning himself, but 137 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: happy decisions he's making is something we'll have to continue 138 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: to look into. But here he is. He is actually saying, 139 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: this is our cut one today, that Trump is an insurrectionist. Well, 140 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: I think he starts waking yourself, Evan, he saw it 141 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: all and I wanted to a fortune Nutter revise. I 142 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: let the coordinate that decision. But he's certainly supportinate the insurrection, 143 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: no question about it. He certainly did not. And if 144 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: you listen to and or or read the transcript of 145 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: the speech that he gave, have your voices be peacefully heard. 146 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: If Donald Trump's when he's president, everybody, if Donald Trump's 147 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: version of an insurrection when he is the commander in 148 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: chief of the United States Military and the chief executive 149 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: officer of the federal government, if his version of an 150 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: insurrection is gather around in chance Logan and have placards up, 151 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: and then some people a portion of those people across 152 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: the line rioted, some of them, you know, punch police, 153 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: and there was some exchange. We've seen this usually. I 154 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 1: just want to be clear. In a riot, if you 155 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: hit police officers in this country, if you say that 156 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: you're doing it for racial justice, or you're saying you're 157 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: doing it to right historical inequality or wrongs, nothing happens 158 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: to you. But if you do it on January sixth, 159 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, maybe you get after a year 160 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 1: in solitary, you get five or ten or fifteen years 161 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: in federal prison. Okay, so we know there's a two 162 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: tier justice system. I know it, you know it. I 163 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: say it just because I don't want anyone to think 164 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: that I've forgotten this. But okay, yes, is it a 165 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: violation of law. We can't just cast off all the 166 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: laws because they are willing to do that. We can't 167 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: abandon everything because they abandon it at will, because then 168 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: it just turns into a mic makes right situation. Entirely, 169 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: that's what the Democrats want. They want us to abandon 170 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: all of our principles. They want us to become the 171 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: monster in pursuit of the monster, and we have to 172 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: we have to be willing to fight, fight, you know, tough, 173 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: no question, but we have to maintain some baseline principles 174 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: in this entire process. We can't lose sight of who 175 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: we are and what we stand for. And so Biden 176 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: saying he's an insurrectionist. I've said this before. I even 177 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: wrote a piece about this a couple of years ago. 178 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: Anyone who says this is an insurrection is lying or stupid. 179 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: I think a lot of the people you see, they're lying, 180 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: And like Morning Joe and these shows, you know some 181 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: of you know you all know, because I've talked about 182 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: it before. I was in the CIA for a number 183 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: of years, and when you're in the world of intelligence, 184 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: you have some sense of what does an insurrection look like, 185 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: what does a coup look like? And this would be 186 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: the most pathetic and absurd insurrection or who in the 187 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: modern history of the planet. People who overwhelmingly do nothing 188 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: illegal show up peacefully say that they want more investigation 189 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: into an election that they believe is stolen, and the 190 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: police antagonize them. There are some people being very provocative 191 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: among the members of that crowd. We've never really gotten 192 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: full answers on that. And then there is a riot. 193 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: And by the way, it's not like the capital. You know, 194 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: the capital wasn't burned down. There wasn't you know, tens 195 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars of damage there, tens of millions, 196 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: actually billions of dollars of damage done to buildings, including 197 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: federal buildings like the courthouse in Portland that the BLM 198 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: lunatics wanted to burn down in the summer of twenty twenty. 199 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: That's what BLM gets to do. That's what the left, 200 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: the Democrat foot soldiers, the Democrat shock troops, BLM they 201 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: get to get away with all of that, but calling 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: it an insurrection and then using that I mean, I 203 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: can declare anyone an insurrectionist on the basis of what 204 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is doing here and what is being done 205 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: in his name by Jack Smith and others to destroy Trump. 206 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: Jacksmith obviously in the January sixth trial and now the 207 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 1: Colorado all Democrat appointees, by the way, I believe it 208 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,599 Speaker 1: was four to three on that state Supreme Court. So 209 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 1: even some Democrats didn't want to go along with this 210 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: because it's so absurd all Democrat appointees on that state 211 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. But there's something that's very interesting, and some 212 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: of the big legal minds of the right are looking 213 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: at this right now and they're saying there could be 214 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: a well, I don't want to get anyone's hopes up prematurely, 215 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: but there could be a Jack Smith checkmate move in 216 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: the works right now. And it comes from an amicus 217 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: brief courtesy of former Attorney General Mee and a couple 218 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: of former I believe Scalia clerks, very high profile conservative lawyers. 219 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: And here's the basics of what they're saying. Jack Smith, 220 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: the special Counsel is illegitimate. Now you might say, well, 221 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: hold on a second. No, no, not that he's politicized, 222 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: not that he's succeeding his authority. Not he has no 223 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: authority under law. You can make those other arguments too, 224 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: But he has no authority under law. He should not 225 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: exist in the role that he currently occupies because that 226 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: role is unconstitutional, based on the Constitution and based on statute. 227 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: He should have to be appointed by the President and 228 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: uh and confirmed by the Senate. He is not just 229 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,599 Speaker 1: an employee. He is acting as a superior officer. I 230 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: read the brief this morning. It's pretty interesting, compelling stuff. 231 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: And here's here's the I'll get into this a little 232 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: bit more. I'll read a little bit from the from 233 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: the brief, I mean ed me's uh, you know, these 234 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: are serious people, right, These are brilliant legal minds. This 235 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: is not some you know, throw it over the transfoms 236 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: and see what happens. This is not some hail Mary 237 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: pass and who knows. Uh, this is real. And what 238 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: happens if Jack Smith is delegitimized in this way as 239 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: I think he should be as a function of law, 240 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: Oh man, the whole thing collapses, at least on the 241 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: federal side. What do you do then the whole investigation 242 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: was being run by a guy who had no investigative authority. 243 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: The prosecutions will have been brought by somebody who has 244 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: no legitimate authority under the Constitution to bring those prosecutions. 245 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: This is what again former at Attorney General Meiees and 246 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: a couple of others are saying, I'll get into some 247 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: of these details. I think it's really interesting. Well, I 248 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: think the right, which is why I think it's so interesting, 249 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: and it makes the more you think about it, it 250 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: makes sense Attorney general can just decide, oh, I'm going 251 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: to appoint somebody with these tremendous powers and based on 252 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: what exactly, based on what statute and what staturory interpretation. 253 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: There's some complexity here because there is you know, you 254 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: look back and they say in the brief Patrick Fitzgerald, 255 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: the pointment back in two thousand and three over the 256 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: leak investigation that that was legitimate, but this one is 257 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: not because of the processes that they did not go through, 258 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: and also the laws have changed around this issue, and 259 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: also the authorities that are being wielded by by Jack Smith. 260 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: So let's get it. This could be big. This could 261 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: be a checkmate move if the court agrees, if it 262 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: makes its way all the way up, we will see. 263 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it. But you know, my wife 264 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: Karen and I had a great vacation this past summer 265 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: in Scotland. I absolutely love Scotland. I highly recommend that, 266 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: even if you don't play golf, believe it or not, 267 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: I don't play golf, I love Scotland and as far 268 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: as day to day activities, I could stay connected, call 269 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: my family, tex send photos no problem. 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But as I said, former Attorney 294 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: General Nie and a couple of conservative law professors who 295 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: are former SCALI clerks are just saying, look the way 296 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: we have a system of appointments and for appointing special counsels, 297 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: and to give universal jurisdiction to a private citizen who 298 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: was not a presidential appointed, a presidentially appointed and Senate 299 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: confirmed makes him effectively more powerful than any other US 300 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: attorney and you can't do this. I'm very curious to 301 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: see how this might be handled. And this all goes 302 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: to Jack Smith's decision, very politicized decision to try and 303 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: fast track the Trump defense of an immunity claim around 304 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: the J six prosecution in Washington, d c's we'll talk 305 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: about that. I want to discuss the Confederate Memorial takedown 306 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,239 Speaker 1: we come back, so stick around for that. I got 307 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts on it for all of you. 308 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: But the world can be a volable place, as we 309 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: all saw this year despite the conflicts going on and 310 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: you cran the Middle East. Our stock markets continue to 311 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: be a good place for investors to be. 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So this will happen pretty rapidly. And if 330 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: you were to go and take a look at what's 331 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: being said on left wing websites or you know, New 332 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: York Times wherever they will, they'll tell you that this 333 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: is a victory over racism and the veneration of fascism 334 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: and slavery and all this sort of stuff. So I thought, 335 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: instead of even just engaging in the high level, why 336 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: are they trying to tear down statues, memorials history and 337 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: where does this end? Because if any connection of any 338 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: kind for something to slavery means that it has to 339 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: be erased and pulled from public display, we're going to 340 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: have to figure out what we're gonna call Washington d C. Right, 341 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: we all understand this. They understand it for sure, and 342 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: they view this as a weapon to use against the 343 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: shared sense of culture, history, and just understanding of what 344 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: it is to be an American that we all have today. Right, 345 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: if you tear away the founding fathers, the Constitution, if 346 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: you get rid of all of that, well what's left, 347 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: well whatever they decide to replace it with. But I 348 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: actually thought it would be more useful to discuss how 349 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: we got to this point or what the history of 350 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: this is. The Arlington National Cemetery, I believe it or not. 351 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: I believe it was George Washington's adopted sons daughter had 352 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: that plot of land at one point, and then Robert E. Lee. Yeah, 353 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: that Robert E. Lee was the executor of an estate 354 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: that can controlled what is now. It was less, I 355 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: think it was a couple of hundred acres, but now 356 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: Arlington National National Cemeteries about six hundred plus acres. But 357 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: in terms of the Confederate monuments specifically, well, let's go 358 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: back to what happened. You get after the Civil War, 359 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: you have reconstruction in the South, and it basically ends 360 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: eighteen seventy seven, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws federal troops 361 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: from the South, and as we all know, there are 362 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: still tremendous racism and segregation and policies of disenfranchisement and 363 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: of use toward Black Americans, and it was systemic across 364 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: the South. So the policies or the idea of uniting 365 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: the country was still had a long way to go 366 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: in that regard, and it's still had a long way 367 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: to go with regard to just those who were southerns 368 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: white southerns and northern There was a lot of resentment 369 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: that was still felt at that time in the country. 370 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: But then there is something of an opportunity toward unity 371 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: that presents itself, as so often happens in societies throughout history, 372 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: with the beginning of the Spanish American War in eighteen 373 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: ninety eight. So all of a sudden, you have people 374 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: who are feeling you have Southerners, you have white Southerners 375 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: who are saying, I'm going to go fight for my country. 376 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: So this was seen as an opportunity. Thirty three years 377 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: after the end of the Civil War, there's there's this 378 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: chance to bring the country together against the common enemy, 379 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: in this case, the Empire of Spain and President McKinley 380 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: saw it as this moment in time where something could 381 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: be done to bring the country together. McKinley served himself. 382 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: We all know how McKinley unfortunately met his end, but 383 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: McKinley had served in the twenty third Ohio Infantry fighting 384 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: for the Union. He enlisted as a private and made 385 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: it all the way through to eighteen sixty five as 386 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: well as an officer. And he appointed three Civil War 387 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: veterans to command the campaign in Cuba. Two of them 388 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: were Medal of Honor winners for the Union, and the 389 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: third was fighting Joe Wheeler, who was a Confederate cavalry general, 390 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: and he had been elected to Congress and Alabama in 391 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty and had been part of the effort to 392 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 1: heal the wounds of the country. The Civil War had 393 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dead on both sides. A lot 394 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: of Americans gave their lives for their cause and for 395 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: their side. So in nineteen hundred Congress authorized and again 396 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: this is part of this move to bring the country, 397 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: bring North and South further together, you know, emotionally, spiritually, idealized, logically, 398 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: after the wounds of the Civil War. So in nineteen 399 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: hundred Congress allows Confederate remains to be taken from there. 400 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: Reincharg taken from their grave sites around DC and moved 401 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: to Arlington National Cemetery in what is now called Section sixteen. 402 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: So that was something of a that was obviously quite 403 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: a change, a move toward peace. President McKinley did his 404 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: Peace Jubilee nationwide tour and he proclaimed as follows. This 405 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: was actually in eighteen ninety eight, this before the graves 406 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: were moved, but he said, in the spirit of fraternity, 407 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: we should share with you in the care of the 408 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: graves of Confederate soldiers. Sectional feeling no longer holds back 409 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: the love we feel for each other. The old flag 410 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: again waves over us, in peace with new glories. Now, 411 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: to be clear, this new moment of bonding and bringing 412 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: together country still excluded African Americans who were in the 413 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: segregated burial plots at Arlington until Truman. President Truman in 414 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight integrated Arlington. So in nineteen oh three, 415 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: you're the first Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies held in the 416 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: Arlington Confederate Section. President Theodore Roosevelt sent a floral arrangement, 417 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: so he actually sent flowers along. By the way, Jim Webb, 418 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: was a marine veteran, did an excellent editorial laying out 419 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: a lot of this in the Wall Street Journal and 420 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 1: which he was saying, look, I think that the removal 421 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: of this monument at least understand why the monument is there. 422 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: Right for all these people writing, oh, it's awful, it's 423 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: about slavery, it's about elevating the South and racism, and 424 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: they're Nazis, but they're just Nazis before the Nazis existed. 425 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: Hold on a second. This monument was meant to heal 426 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: wounds that the country had and bring the two sides together, 427 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: and people who had actually fought the Confederacy, people who 428 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: had lost family members to the Civil War, were involved 429 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: in this process of reconciliation. They wanted the country to 430 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: come back together. So in nineteen oh six, Secretary of 431 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: War Taft allowed the Daughters of the Confederacy to raise 432 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: money to build a memorial. Right, so, first the graves 433 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: are moved, there's the reinterred graves, and then they have 434 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: this memorial that is starting to be built. And it's 435 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: actually built by Moses jacob Ezekiel, who was an artist 436 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: sculptor and a Confederate veteran and the first Jewish American 437 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: to graduate from the Virginia Military Institute. So some interesting 438 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: backstory on how this all got built. So there's a 439 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: a if you look at this. I haven't been to 440 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: the memorial, I've only seen photos of it, but there's 441 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: a thirty thirty two foot tall female figure, classic Greco Roman, 442 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: kind of classical antiquity looking figure, and then there are 443 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: a bunch of smaller figures depicted in this sculpture below, 444 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: and there are some inscriptions. There's the Latin phrase, well, 445 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: first they have beat their swords. This is a biblical inscription. 446 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: Actually they've beat their swords into plowshares and their spears 447 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: into pruning hooks. And the whole purpose of creating this 448 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: monument at the time was to try to bring together 449 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: the feeling of unity north and South, and that was 450 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: seen by presidents, by veterans of both sides, by people 451 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: as a as a worthy goal. And this is not 452 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: meant to elevate I mean, there's greater there's so much 453 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: more complexity on the issue than people will generally allow. 454 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: And as I said in the web editorial, in this 455 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: he lays out there were a number of states, for example, 456 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: that did not give up their slaves, who fought for 457 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 1: the Union, but did not give up the slaves they 458 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: already had over the course of the war. I know 459 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: from visiting the in Charleston they have the Slave Slave 460 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: Auction Museum there that three percent of Southerner's own ninety 461 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: seven percent of the slaves, and that of the two 462 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight thousand Confederate soldiers who died, which 463 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 1: is a roughly thirty percent figure of those who actually 464 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: took up arms for the South, a tiny percentage of 465 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: them overall actually even owned slaves. So when you understand 466 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: I think the greater historical context of why this monument 467 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: was built and what it is meant to symbolize and 468 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: is not meant to be an excuse for and none 469 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: of the people, none of the people involved in in 470 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: you know, constructing it, the government officials who approved it. 471 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: It was not supposed to be about, oh, you know, 472 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: slavery was a cause that we should think of, as 473 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: you know close, but they didn't win or something right. 474 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: It wasn't meant to It was meant to bring together 475 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: the two sides that had fought a horrific war that 476 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: killed hundreds of thousands on both sides, and to bring 477 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: the union together. This all comes, by the way, this destruction, 478 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: or I should say removal, because officially they're just removing it. 479 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: But you know, where's it going to go. It's in 480 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: a place of honor obviously in Arlington Cemetery. Where is 481 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: it going to be moved to? They'll put it in 482 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: the basement of some museum, I'm sure, so, I know 483 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: they have some plan for it, but who knows where 484 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: it we'll actually end up. This all comes from the 485 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: George Floyd panic. They also don't talk about this very much, 486 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: right George Floyd, the convicted felon and drug addict who 487 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: died of heart failure in a interaction with police. Yes, 488 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: he was convicted of George Floyd's murder. We could have 489 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: a whole other discussion about whether that was politically motivated 490 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: or not, and whether the jury even felt they could 491 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: deliver a fair verdict or not. But in the National 492 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: Defense Authorization Act of twenty twenty one, they it's like 493 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: almost a trillion dollar bill. They had the empowered they 494 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: empowered a naming commission to remove quote all name symbols, displays, monuments, 495 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of 496 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: the America. So they slipped us into the NDAA National 497 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: Defense Authorization Act, And now we're all supposed to think 498 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: that somehow, what what is accomplished by this other than 499 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: forcing people to, well, one, I think, live in ignorance 500 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: because so few people actually even know how this came 501 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: to be. It is your Confederate monument. And then they 502 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: want to just they want to remove, they want to destroy, 503 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: they want to have taken away. What's the purpose of 504 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: this specific money. Remember these are the same the same 505 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: voices on the left that wanted to get rid of 506 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: a statue commemorating emancipation of the slaves with money raised 507 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: from former slaves to pay for it, because they did 508 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: not like the depiction in the statue of some of 509 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: the emancipated slaves. It's never enough, I mean, there will 510 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: never be. You can never appease this side. All you 511 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: can do is allow them to destroy whatever history that 512 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: you think you know of this country and replace it 513 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: with this distorted version of America is a bad, awful, 514 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: racist place with nothing redeemable about it. And only if 515 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,479 Speaker 1: we have Marxist identity politics obsessed lunatics in charge, can 516 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: we ever be a better place. I reject that, and 517 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: I think many of you do as well. 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Slash Buck sponsored 544 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: by Preborn once more Clay and Buck. That you didn't 545 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: here on the show, get podcast extras in the Klayan 546 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: Buck podcast feet find it on the iheartapp or wherever 547 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Welcome back, everybody. I want to 548 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: take some calls here and also let you know that 549 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to our friend Julio ro Sauce 550 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: coming up in just a few minutes. Hees down at 551 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: the border the biggest numbers of illegal crossings ever and 552 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: you can bet easily. That also means you've got more 553 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: fentanyl crossing, and I mean the southern borders are total mess. 554 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: Biden's kicked it wide open, or should say the people 555 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: around Biden who actually make the decisions while he mutters 556 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: around like where you know? That kind of sounds like Biden, right, 557 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: just sort of muttering. I don't know. We have Gary 558 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: in Arkansas calling in here. What's up? Gary? Yeah? I 559 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: was curious. Are they gonna remove all the Confederate soldiers 560 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: in Arlington? Also? Let's sak you know Gary, it's it's 561 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: a good question, right. They say right now that none 562 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 1: of the graves will be disturbed. But you know, if 563 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: if if the memorial can't stand, then why should the 564 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: Confederate soldiers be? You know, in Arlington is a place 565 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: of honor in this country. We all know that, right, 566 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: So you can't you see I mean obviously you can see, 567 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: but can't one see how the left will just the 568 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: incrementalism never stops. The next push will be, well, we 569 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: we need to put them in some other you know, 570 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: some other cemetery somewhere else, or you know, whatever it 571 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: may be. I think the answer your question is right now. 572 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: They say they won't do it officially, but these the 573 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: people that push for this stuff. They lie, and they 574 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: change their minds, and then they do exactly what they 575 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: said they wouldn't do. So Gary, I think it's I 576 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: think we all see what's going on here. I appreciate 577 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: you calling in. Thank you. Uh. Let's see we have 578 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: uh bill in uh do we just do No? That 579 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: was an Arkansas bill in Alabama? What's going on? But 580 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: so when they took down Roberty Lee and Richmond and 581 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: his horse, they melted him down in secret and then 582 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: told everybody, oh, by the way, we destroyed that statue, 583 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: you'll never see it again. Is that the fate of 584 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: this one too? I think, give it time, they'll say 585 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: it every step of the way, Oh, we would never 586 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: do that. It's going to somewhere else. But they'll move 587 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,800 Speaker 1: it somewhere else, and then there'll be a petition to 588 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: move it from that place, and then they'll be a 589 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: petition to put it, you know, in the base in 590 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: a museum. That'll go in the basement of the museum, 591 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: and then, you know, and then they'll dismantle a piece 592 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: by people you know who knows it's it's again a 593 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: fair question when you see what they've done. When they 594 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: got rid of the statue in front of the Museum 595 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: of Natural History in New York City, for heaven's sakes, 596 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 1: with Teddy Roosevelt, right, that can't be there. They're doing 597 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: this all over the place. What are we supposed to 598 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: replace it with? I mean, honestly, are we just supposed 599 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: to be surrounded with statues of Nancy Pelosi? Is that 600 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 1: what's supposed to happen? You know? Who are we allowed 601 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,280 Speaker 1: to symbolize in a historical sense, not even necessarily praise 602 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 1: and venerator, though that's a thing that is done too 603 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: by statues. It depends on the context. They don't want 604 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 1: the context. They just want the power. They want everyone 605 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 1: to bend the knee. Everyone's supposed to shut up while 606 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: we're all told that the real history of America is 607 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: the sixteen nineteen project, that America is a terrible place 608 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: and we should feel awful every day. And oh, by 609 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: the way, the people who say all that stuff, they 610 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: don't think they should be in charge of this awful 611 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: place that made all of its money, you know, in 612 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: ill begotten gains. That's really convenient for them, isn't it.