WEBVTT - FBI Bombshells 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.600 Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.079 us or you were with the terrorists. If you got 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.840 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.680 are satisfied with Trump is not to be president of 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.360 the units, take it to a bank. Together, we will 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:35.720 make America great again. It's what you've been waiting for 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.080 all day. The Buck Sexton Show joined the conversation called 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.720 Buck Toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.800 that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.479 The Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to the 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.600 Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Oh my gosh, A lot going 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.200 on today. I will be honest with you. I will 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.120 tell you that I had been planning, and some of 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.240 you saw this on Facebook this morning. I've been planning 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.720 to just really change it up today with a show 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.120 that would be things of of interest to me and 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.480 maybe a little bit of historical storytelling or something. I 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.039 don't know. I just wanted to get away from what 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.560 had been so dominant in the headlines this week. And 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:24.280 then at about two o'clock today, boom, big stories, I mean, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.360 just big stuff dropping. The biggest how has to do 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:34.080 with this Russia indictment Russia collusion situation. Um, you have 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:39.959 Special Counsel Mueller charging thirteen Russians with interfering in the 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.040 twenty sixteen election. That's that's at least how it's being presented. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.880 I'm gonna dig into this a bit. This is Oh boy, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.320 it's gonna be a bit frustrating. But here's uh Deputy 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.520 Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with just exactly what's going on 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.560 and Grand Jury in the District of Columbia to day 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.400 return an indictment presented by the Special Council's office. The 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:08.600 indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:13.360 committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:20.079 States political system, including the presidential election. The defendants allegedly 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:25.160 conducted what they called information warfare against the United States 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.440 with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:37.160 and the political system in general. Now, this is being 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.640 spawned by both sides. The Trump colluded with Russia and 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.280 betrayed his countryside, also known as the mainstream media as 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.680 well as the No, this is nonsense. How could anyone 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.880 think this about Trump? I'm so sick of this Malarkey 0:02:54.960 --> 0:03:00.240 investigation as being a day when we're where we come 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.000 to a conclusion, right, there was there was there was 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.239 no collusion, there was interference. There was no collusion yet 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.320 how much interference was there. Here's the problem, folks, It's 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.800 never gonna end. This is the They're never gonna stop. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.400 It doesn't matter what comes out, it doesn't matter what 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.880 the actual information is. Rod Rosenstein, Muller. Heck, even throw 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.360 Combie in there. If you stopped taking Twitter photos of 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.280 waterfalls for a moment, throw Comi in there. And if 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.400 they all said, you know what, we've really looked into 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.280 this and Trump there was no collusion with Trump. He 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.840 didn't do anything wrong. You know what the press would say, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.640 Still unable to find Trump Russia collusion, but questions linger. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.560 That's all. So I'm just preparing. It's never gonna change. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.960 So let's just get so we'll focus on the facts 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.480 and ignore as much as we can the nonsense political 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.720 spin that's being put on all this by people who 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.480 aren't invested in in the facts. They're invested in a narrative. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.720 Here's happened, Um, you had a bunch of Russians, according 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.400 to the indictment and I read through the indictment several times. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.800 You had a bunch of Russians part of a Internet 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.920 reason that they had some phony name for Internet research company, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.960 and they set up phony bank accounts in the US 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.440 two and and took on ideas of Americans. So so 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.960 there Look, there are some actual crimes that occurred here, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:33.960 um identity theft by or fraud, but they set up 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.400 sock puppets and Facebook stuff, and I think they maybe 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.200 got a rally or two together somewhere by using the 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.679 Internet in order to run a whole bunch of different 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.760 messages during the election. After the election, they were sometimes 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.200 pro Bernie Sanders, they were pro Trump in some ways, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.360 they were anti Hillary, anti Rubio, anti Cruise. This started everyone. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.760 This is according the indictment to So this is all 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.039 now all on the record, official d o J position, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:11.560 criminal proceeding. This is not theoretical. This started in there. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.880 Did anybody almost in the world, including maybe like President 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.560 Trump's immediate family, think that he was going to win 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:24.680 the election in probably not seem pretty unlikely at the time. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.200 If if you think back, I know a lot of 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.320 your like Buck, I saw it coming. Maybe you saw 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:33.800 it coming in Okay, I don't think so. I doubt 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.599 that that would be quite a prediction that all said, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:44.279 the Russian effort here was to just create a sense 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:49.520 of agitation in the political system and some degree of 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.920 of undermining of the sanctity of our electrical process or 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.960 something like that, basically just to so confusion and chaos. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.520 They call it information and warfare, which I would notice 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.320 that's that's a that's pretty strong terms for some Facebook 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.400 sock puppets and Twitter trolls. That seems to me to 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.000 be perhaps taking this a bit far, which is also 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.120 why I'm I'm a little concerned about what this really 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.280 means going forward. So now is is fake news if 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.120 it involves if a foreign country puts fake news out there? 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.800 Is that a Is that an act of war? What 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.680 is the additional illegality here? In the indictment, it specifically 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.320 mentions defrauding the government of the United States and defrauding 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:40.640 the Federal Election Commission by by by being a part 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:46.640 of our process, by spreading lives, by by rumor spreading essentially. Look, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.040 I'm I don't like Russia. I don't you know, like 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.920 I like Russians what I mean that, but I don't 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.039 like the Russian government meddling in our stuff. I don't 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.240 I don't think this is a good thing. But where 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.760 does that stop and start? The Internet is global, folks. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.320 Here's the biggest problem I have with this. And by 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.400 the way, I don't think that I've forgotten or or 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.800 I'm not going to get to the FBI just just 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.760 doing a straight up a face plant on the whole 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.000 uh stopping the shooter thing. I I knew that that 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.880 it looked kind of bad for them, and then we've 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.720 got that they just ignored the TEP. We will get there. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.880 That's probably gonna wait until the second hour, but I 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.400 promise you we're going to really roll up the sleeves 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.560 on that one, because Wow, I just wanting to get 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.520 that out there. That's something we will have to tackle 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:34.560 today too, because a lot of big news for a Friday. Uh. Well, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.440 the biggest problem I have with this, and I actually 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.840 tangled with the former CIA director. He was never, never 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.400 my boss at the agency, so I have no particularly 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.560 fondness or loyalty to him. But John Brennan, who wrote 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.680 that the do o J statements and indictments revealed the 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:57.280 extent and motivations of Russian interference in the election, claims 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.600 of a hoax in tatters. My take implausible that Russian 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.240 actions did not influence the views and votes of at 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:10.080 least some Americans. I responded to Mr Brennan, former CI director, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.320 close confidante of Obama's, by the way, and a hyperpartisan, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.600 and I know that's the case. It's I got people 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.560 who tell me things. But here's what I respond said. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.280 Under this standard, Mr Brennan, any foreign actor anywhere in 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.120 the world can undermine the results of any U s 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.600 election by setting up a few sock puppets buying some 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.560 Facebook ads, because that would also influence quote, at least 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.800 some Americans. You'll notice that there's no effort, nor is 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.440 there any curiosity in the part of the media to 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:48.800 try and engauge the extent and effect of this effort. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.040 They're saying things like, oh, it looks like they spent 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.439 a few million dollars. A few million dollars to influence 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.559 the US presidential election. Is that a joke? If they 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.640 were trying to influence a congressional seat in Oklahoma might 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.480 be like, all right, you know, a few million dollars, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:11.240 that's gonna be a lot. Yeah, But us presidential election. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.520 Does anyone take Russian sock puppets? Seriously? Was this? Was 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.360 this having any effect? Now here's the problem with this. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.160 It leaves it all completely open ended. They can say, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.240 and technically there's truth to it, that Russia interfered in 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.360 our election, and that's all they want to keep saying, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:34.400 because the subtext of that for the Democrat left is 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:39.560 that Russia interfered in our election and therefore Donald Trump 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.360 is an illegitimate president. We all know that, right, That's 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.640 what they're really saying, that's the subtext. What I'm saying 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.720 in response to that is, this is the equivalent of 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.880 at a presidential election saying there was some voter fraud 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.160 and we can point to at least a few cases 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.480 of people into I did for voter fraud. Therefore, this 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.080 election was tainted by voter fraud and we can't consider 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.959 it to be legitimate. See. A reasonable response to that 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.040 would be does it I mean, are we talking about 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.079 a few hundred votes with over sixty million casts? Because 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.280 that's obviously not changing the course of the election. But 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.559 that's not what they're doing here. This is the this 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.240 is the digital equivalent of well, because thirteen Russians working 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.000 with a few dozen other Russians created some fake Facebook 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.800 accounts that said, you know, lock her up for Hillary, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.920 that that brings the election into doubt. I would also 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:42.040 note that the the saber rattling over this just visa 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.280 vie Russia is astonishing to me. Okay, so we're worried 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.600 about Russia doing this in the next election. How do 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.640 we stop this? And what's a legitimate recourse other than 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.200 to say, okay, Russia, don't do this. Are we going 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.880 to give the power to any non state actor in 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.959 Russia or anywhere else in the world for that matter, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.120 to cause major diplomatic incidents for US because they set 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.480 up some US based social media accounts. As I said, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.199 there are some aspects of the Russian intrusion into our 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.880 process that certainly break laws identity theft. Although identity theft, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.120 you really want to get down to this, the fact 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.640 that matters that identity theft occurs, and what I mean 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.680 that I'm not talking about when you open bank accounts 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.800 and but just creating false accounts. People do that all 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:34.040 the time. I'm not charged. Clearly, the addition of some 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.840 of the other criminal statutes into this indictment today about 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.839 these thirteen Russians in the election is to give it 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.640 a little bit more half, little more teeth, a little 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:48.240 more clarity, because things like information warfare and spreading distrust 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.880 are not crimes. That's what troubles me about this. So 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.679 Mueller saying effectively in this indictment, the DJ is saying, remember, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.880 he's not apart from the Department of Justice, he's just 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.360 a rogue operator within it. That's what the Mueller probe is. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:13.720 But they're saying effectively that this is information warfare. Huh. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 That seems to me to be troubling because if it's 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:22.280 information warfare, what is the proper response and how do 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.839 we stop it? And what is a way to quantify 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.240 the scope and scale of the problem. They don't make 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.160 any effort of that because the narrative on the left 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.040 is Russia interfered in the election. The narrator on the 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.000 right is well a version of what Rosenstein said in 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:47.000 a statement today. I think he wrote this what I've 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.880 identified for you with the allegations in the indictment. There's 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.320 no allegation in the indictment of many effect on the 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:58.559 outcome of the election. So there's nothing about collusion and 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.960 there's nothing about changing the course of the election in 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.280 the indictment. For some of us, we've reached the point where, okay, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.720 if they don't have it, now you know they clearly 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.800 don't have it. But for the other side, it's just yet, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.680 they're always inserting the Yet we don't have evidence of collusion. Yet, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.640 we don't have evidence that it changed the course of 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.200 the election yet, And that will never change, folks. And 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.000 that's what's so frustrating about it. You're not dealing with 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.760 good faith actors on the other side here, the Democrats, 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.320 the left, they don't care what the eventual outcome is, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.800 the processes, the punishment, and as long as they can 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.800 keep running with this storyline that Russia did anything just 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.120 just tip the scale just a tiny bit in favor 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.400 of Trump. It cast aspersions on the legitimacy of the 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.720 Trump presidency. Trump is therefore deserving of no degree of respect, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.560 no degree of bipartisan goodwill. He's hashtag not my president. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.800 They would say so as much as today to me. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:08.480 To me, it's it's really inflated by the left situation. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.079 It's just not as big a deal as they want 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.079 to make it into. It's also not going away anytime soon, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.440 so we'll get into it more of this. But you know, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.280 I take a different approach. I saw a lot of conservicing. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.440 See no collusion, no collusion. I want to say, guys, yeah, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.840 no collusion. But that doesn't stop this because they just 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.560 say no collusion. Yet they say we're going to find collusion. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.880 So just you know, don't think that this is the 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.040 end of it based on the fact that they haven't 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:42.600 asserted any Trump Russia active conspiracy here. I've also been 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.360 telling you all along that they use the term collusion 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.600 and not conspiracy because collusion will be used as a 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.000 political word so that this becomes a political crime, as 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.800 an impeachment becomes the only viable route to deal with it. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.120 Conspiracy has a specific legal definition and terminology attached to 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.880 it that they will never or be able to prove. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.080 And they know that. That's why it's always been about collusion, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.400 because those words otherwise could be used somewhat interchangeably. All Right, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.920 we have a lot more here. What do you think, 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.880 By the way, the thirteen I really want to hear 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.000 from all of you because I look at this and 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.080 I'm just like, what is Muller doing These Russians are 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.960 never gonna get extradited. They're never gonna face justice. They 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.560 set up some sock puppets. They use some fake bank accounts, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.160 you know. They I don't think they stole money from anyone, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.840 although I have not. I have to have to go 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.200 back and look at that. But so there's they're guilty 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:35.320 of some identity, identity theft and wire fraud. It's not good. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.960 It's criminal, but it's also not keeping me, you know, 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.080 up late at night shaking in my booties here. And 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.120 as for the information warfare, I just think it's laughable. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.120 I'm not okay with it. I don't approve of it. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.120 I think Russia is a bad actor in this situation. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.000 But I also think, come on, everyone, let's get a 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.320 grip here. I really think that they's had any effect 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.760 on anything. The answer overs, and then it's absolutely all right. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.680 Eight four four to five. It is Friday. I want 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.080 to hear from lots and lots of you folks out there. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:23.320 Eight four four buck will be right back. The defendants 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.720 posed as politically and socially active Americans advocating for and 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.600 against particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:40.160 to communicate with unwitting Americans. They also purchased political advertisements 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.960 on social media networks. The Russians also recruited and paid 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:50.400 real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.520 and stage political rallies. The defendants and their co conspirators 0:16:54.560 --> 0:17:00.680 pretended to be grassroots activists. So is this information warfare 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.919 or just FEC violations or is it both? You know, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.639 I'm wondering where do we Where do we draw the 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:14.760 lines here? They're saying that thirteen guys indicted for this, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.600 that's it. You'll notice that there's some I I think, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.040 very feverish moving of the goal post that's going on 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.119 here by many of those who have been promoting a 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.879 narrative about Russia collusion for over a year. Now, do 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.320 not forget my friends. Do not let them change and 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:45.080 rewrite history. The whole frenzy behind this is not that 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.640 a few people created some social media profiles to try 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.000 to trick some people into what hating Hillary. Think about 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.960 how much noise was out there, we were talking about 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.359 separating the signal from the noise. How many millions and 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:00.000 millions of Twitter accounts, hundreds of millions of Facebook account 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:04.280 they're posting things about the election, literally hundreds of millions, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.880 and yeah, this was the difference maker. This is laughable, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:16.480 except people think that it is the biggest political scandal 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.479 of the last you know, hundred years or whatever. I mean, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.680 the Democrats do. But the story was not that there 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:28.480 was some Russian intrusion into our political ecosystem via social media, right, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.399 That was not what was getting them all riled up. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.720 Don't let them just ease into that now. Oh No, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.240 it was that there was high level cooperation with the 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:44.000 Trump campaign to do that. We still have nothing on 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:49.760 that zero And we cannot allow those who were promoting 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.040 that storyline for over a year to just kind of 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.840 slink away, just be like, hey, you know, yeah, we 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.879 we really were just worried about those sock puppets and 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.840 Twitter trolls. No, that is not what was at the 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.679 heart of all of this, because that's not gonna stop. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.000 Someone explained to me how the FBI is supposed to 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.560 handle this. There are some someone in Russia, some group 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.520 in Russia sets up a few a few hundred accounts 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.680 to try and help a political candidate in the US, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.720 and they're tweeting stuff out about them. Are we and 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.720 they're pretending that it's coming. It's coming from like you know, 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:29.720 Bill in Kentucky. Uh, are we gonna do what? We're 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.080 gonna block the Internet from Russia to the U. S. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.879 I mean, let's let's think about this for a moment. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.320 We're gonna freak out yell at the Russian government for this. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.360 I just want to know what what's the real response? 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.560 You know, we were talking about trying to deal with 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.080 Russian intrusion the elections, So how do we do that? 0:19:46.119 --> 0:20:01.119 Anyone have any ideas. I'm wondering. We'll be back. He's 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:06.840 holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. After 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.679 the election, the defendants allegedly stage rallies to support the 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:16.520 president elect while simultaneously staging rallies to protest his election. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.840 For example, the defendants organized one rally to support the 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.960 president elect and another rally to impose to oppose him, 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.240 both in New York on the same day. There he 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.560 had Deputy Attorney General Rodenstein from a statement today after 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.320 the indictment of the thirteen Russians, as I said, by 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.639 the way, Russians who will never be extradity the United States. 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.960 So I'm glad that justice will be served by indicting 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.960 these guys who are in Russia and nothing is going 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.520 to happen to them. But anyway, I know, look, you 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.840 go on the record, we show the Russian government you know, 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.159 don't don't do this kind of stuff and all the 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.320 rest of it. But yeah, there you have it. Here's 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.119 here's something that I want to want you all to 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.240 keep in mind. It's quite clear based on the timeline 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.359 here was when much of this guts started. It is 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.760 quite clear from a timeline that the purpose of the 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.159 sock Puppets and this member of sock Puppet is a 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.639 fake identity on Facebook or I think people use it 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.520 for Twitter too, um and a troll you all know, 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:26.440 to Twitter trolls. So it's really kind of the same thing. Uh. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.920 The reason they did all this was to create some 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.119 degree of distrust and chaos in our political system. But 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.840 I just think it's a laughably inept effort to do that, right, 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.880 I mean, this would be like the equivalent of me 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.760 running over And I know some of you like, hey, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.640 what the Obama administration do in Israel during its election? 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.439 But maybe we'll go there later. But if if I 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.199 showed up in a foreign country and I did a 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.359 printing of leaflets, you know, root for this candidate, not 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.560 this candidate. This guy did these bad things, and I 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.359 just started handing them out to people on the street. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.720 I'm sure I'd be violating some election law in that country, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:10.359 and fine, but would anyone really think that I would 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.560 change the outcome of the election that way? Our elections 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.920 such fragile things, that's such a meager effort would have 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.879 any impact on the outcome. And yet if CNN and 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.680 MSNBC we're reporting on it, they'd be like buck Sexton 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:30.880 interfering in the election in yeah, Azerbaijan or wherever, right, 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:35.440 interfering in the election. Technically true, But as I said 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.080 to you with the voter fraud issue, okay, but we 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.879 need some sense of context and scale, some sense of 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:47.520 how important this is. You know, it's also technically true 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.800 that I committed a crime today. It is technically true. 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.159 You could even say that today I branded myself a 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.440 criminal because I jay walked a couple of times. Because 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:00.280 I'm a New York City and we all jaywalked. Would 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:02.119 it be fair to call me a criminal because I 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.600 jaywalked today? Is it? Is it? Specifically? If you want 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.080 to get really technical about it. Did I break a law? Yes, yes, 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:12.560 But should I be locked up for that one? I 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:14.320 really hope not, because all the rest of my fellow 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:17.560 New Yorkers are Gonnet locked up too. I think I'm 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:20.160 trying to illustrate the point here. I hope it's Uh, 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:25.720 it's clear enough with what I'm trying to say. Uh. Meanwhile, 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:42.320 the press just wants to freak out a Trump Russia 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:56.520 day president president by day, kid right presiders Russia and 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:03.159 the grocer. Yeah, let's just let's just go to war 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.440 with Russia over there's everybody. Let's just let's just get 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:10.440 to it. The sock puppet twitter troll War of twenty eighteen. 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:17.840 These people are nuts. Most of them don't even know 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:21.760 that the Communist Party during the Soviet Union was sending 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:26.160 funds to various fellow travelers in the United States, specifically 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:30.879 so that they would publicized communist ideology, anti American stuff. 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.000 And by the way, they also infiltrated some major left 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.040 wing publications with all that, but they don't like to 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.600 talk about that. And they infiltrated the State Department look 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:39.800 up Alger Hiss and a whole bunch of other places 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:44.040 in the United States government. Again, I'm not saying anything 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:48.040 that's okay, But in the case of setting up some 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:54.600 you know, weekly communist rag that's printed in someone's basement 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:57.080 somewhere in the fifties of the sixties, you know, I 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.280 don't think they are about to overthrow the US government 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:04.040 with that. None of this stuff is new. It's just 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:09.520 being exaggerated now because we all know why. It is 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:15.280 to make Trump's election illegitimate. That is the fundamental purpose 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.680 of this entire thing, and to try and pretend it's 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:24.160 anything else is preposterous. I want to know. I would 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:26.600 like some of these people who go on TV. By 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:29.560 the way, it's like CNN, it's just basically hiring anyone 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.760 who's ever worked for and every anyone who's ever worked 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:35.280 for Mueller or James Comey is like finding employment and 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:40.320 airtime over at CNN. Now, isn't that curious? All these 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.080 FBI and d o J folks that with an ax 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:46.280 to grind against administration. Oh, they're just they are just 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:54.040 civil servants doing their duty, sir, Will you with action Russia? Yeah? Sure, 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:57.680 Trump should have. Oh man, he could have some fun 0:25:57.760 --> 0:25:59.399 with that one. I think he just wanted to ignore it. 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.800 But you have all these people now that are running 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:06.000 around with us on TV, and they're saying this stuff, 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.360 and at the end of the day, they're doing Russia's 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:14.280 work for them. Nothing could be more undermining about our 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.199