Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
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Speaker 2: bunch of executive orders signed by Biden that are invalid
Speaker 2: and it involves an autopen A lot of discussions to
Speaker 2: be had about this, but also the transband inside of
Speaker 2: the Pentagon, the Hohofy's Trump, so many things to dive into.
Speaker 2: Gabby Kucia is with us once again. She is the
Speaker 2: Pentagon oaan correspondent and she comes to us now from
Speaker 2: inside of the studio that she operates in, but not
Speaker 2: in fact from the Pentagon, but she covers the Pentagon
Speaker 2: every day. What's good? Do I need to call? Secretary Hegseth?
Speaker 2: How come you're not set up yet inside the Pentagon?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Correction? I am this is actually the first time, Buck,
Speaker 1: you're the exclusive. This is the first time that we are.
Speaker 2: Phis Okay you are yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're in the Pentagon building with Wi Fi as of
Speaker 1: this week, of which it usually takes at a minimum
Speaker 1: three months apparently to get any service when you come
Speaker 1: into the Pentagon. But there's reporters that don't have Internet
Speaker 1: access that haven't had it for like over a year,
Speaker 1: just in certain parts of the press core wing so
Speaker 1: pretty wild. Usually I just run outside and report my
Speaker 1: news from the outdoors. But we're inside. This is insider. Look,
Speaker 1: we're almost done.
Speaker 2: How is the food in the Pentagon. I've never been
Speaker 2: to the Pentagon, you know, I've I've worked in Langley
Speaker 2: for years. Never I went to all of White House Congress,
Speaker 2: a bunch of different Intel Intel Agency buildings. Never went
Speaker 2: to the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, Buck, haven't you you know this doesn't the CIA.
Speaker 1: The CIA always has the best food, the best ye
Speaker 1: Lot cafeteria. That stuff still stands. But I will say
Speaker 1: the Pentagon Pentagon slaps when it comes to the food
Speaker 1: because I worked at the White House, you know, so
Speaker 1: like I saw the cafeteria, I see the Capitol Hill Cafeteria.
Speaker 1: Pentagon Cafetia is pretty good. The IA one is definitely
Speaker 1: still number one. But yeah, they got a courtyard. Actually,
Speaker 1: funny funny fact about the courtyard. It used to there's
Speaker 1: in the middle of the courtyard is a pot bellies now,
Speaker 1: but it used to be a hot dog stand and
Speaker 1: back in like the nineties, I believe it was the
Speaker 1: nineties eighties or nineties, Russia was trying to do surveillance
Speaker 1: on the Pentagon and they thought that this hot dog
Speaker 1: stand was They didn't know it was a hot dog stand.
Speaker 1: They thought it was some sort of like secret part
Speaker 1: of the Pentagon that no one knew about. And so
Speaker 1: then Peagon officials drew a bull's eye on top of
Speaker 1: the hot dog stands and let Russia know it was
Speaker 1: in fact a hot dog stand. Anyway, there's that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Langley, we used to I used to get like pressed,
Speaker 2: fresh pressed panini and with my cappuccino. You know, it
Speaker 2: was a very I'm big serious by the way, like
Speaker 2: they actually had pretty good, pretty good food over there.
Speaker 2: I hope that internet works, considering that you're at the
Speaker 2: institution that has the biggest military budget on the planet,
Speaker 2: so hopefully the internet can stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're moving. They're bumping up, which I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: talked about this already. It's true around nine hundred billion
Speaker 1: spending and now they're bumping it up to one trillion,
Speaker 1: which I imagine that a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with the Golden Dome at a minimum, but they
Speaker 1: do have DoD does have some questions that need to
Speaker 1: be answered, considering that the f eighteens of the USS Truman,
Speaker 1: two of which over the last week have been lost.
Speaker 2: What's the Golden Dome?
Speaker 1: The Golden Dome, you know, the Golden Dome. It's similar,
Speaker 1: of course to the Iron Dome in which we are
Speaker 1: anticipating that the dog is going to roll out. I
Speaker 1: believe it's by twenty twenty seven. The end of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven, they will have hopefully some sort of final
Speaker 1: beta testing for infrastructure to intercept any sort of missiles
Speaker 1: or any threats via satellite imagery to be able to
Speaker 1: knock down. Just very similar to the Iron Dome of Israel.
Speaker 1: And you know with the Iron Dome, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: people know this. I know that you know this book,
Speaker 1: but we talk about the Iron Dome a lot, especially
Speaker 1: this past week considering that the foot were able to
Speaker 1: reach the Iron Dome Israel saying that there was some
Speaker 1: sort of technical failure and they're doing an investigation. But
Speaker 1: the failure piece was we have our THAD missiles and
Speaker 1: our Patriot batteries that are being utilized. We just gave
Speaker 1: a second one recently of literally about a month ago
Speaker 1: to the date to Israel. And that portion appeared to
Speaker 1: have some sort of malfunction to they were able to
Speaker 1: detect that missile coming on through the Iron Dome, but
Speaker 1: weren't able to actually respond and intercept it, which is
Speaker 1: pretty wild considering the damage that was done.
Speaker 2: So hopefully you are something of an autopen expert and
Speaker 2: you can tell everybody why that is, and you think
Speaker 2: that there's a very good chance that the autopen was
Speaker 2: being used in the latter part of Biden's administration, let's say,
Speaker 2: perhaps particularly his final year. Why and what would that mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, so, Yeah, I worked at the Executive Clerk's office.
Speaker 1: It's one of the oldest office of the executive branch
Speaker 1: and of which those people do not change per administration.
Speaker 1: So and before I even worked there, when I was
Speaker 1: working in the IT department, I service that office very
Speaker 1: regularly during the Obama administration. So I've seen the autopen,
Speaker 1: I know how it works, and then utilized it myself
Speaker 1: when I was an executive clerk. But it's not even
Speaker 1: the last year, I think is where the media was
Speaker 1: hyper fixated on whether or not Biden had this cognitive decline.
Speaker 1: I mean there's people, I mean, our former reporter here
Speaker 1: at Oaan was doing a full special about Biden's decline
Speaker 1: mentally well before the media was even talking about that
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the administration, So I'm actually saying
Speaker 1: he utilized the autopen from the beginning of his administration
Speaker 1: all four years. When you look at those signatures, that
Speaker 1: autopen signature gets updated and reflective of the most current signature.
Speaker 1: Over time. People's hands can get a little bit shakier
Speaker 1: as they get older or whatever it is they decide
Speaker 1: to like add a I don't know, like a little
Speaker 1: star or an asterisk over some sort of letter in
Speaker 1: their name. Like signatures can change naturally over time, the
Speaker 1: autopen will reflect any changes. The autopen was never changed.
Speaker 1: And the signature of Joe Biden, the alleged signature, right,
Speaker 1: the authentic one, never changed either. Majority of those executive
Speaker 1: orders within those four years never had any ounce of
Speaker 1: squiggle or a mess for that shows an authentic signature.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure being at the CIA right like you
Speaker 1: see human signature collection. So being able to discern signatures
Speaker 1: in and of itself is it's not that it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy, but someone probably with your background you could
Speaker 1: look at that and go okay, yeah, that appears to
Speaker 1: be machinery, especially when it's identical. So being understanding the
Speaker 1: autopen and from my perspective from being in that office,
Speaker 1: those signatures are mostly autopen. And when you talk about
Speaker 1: who has the authority over that, the execus, I'm not
Speaker 1: blaming the executive Clerk's office at all. Again, they've retained
Speaker 1: historically they are part of an email thread from the
Speaker 1: beginning of time for any ounce of document that requires
Speaker 1: presidential authority, presidential signature, so most commonly would be say
Speaker 1: your executive orders, your proclamations, your memos, disaster declarations, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, you see those from start to finish.
Speaker 1: I saw those from start to finish, so from the
Speaker 1: drafts to General Counsel being involved and putting in their
Speaker 1: two cents, from National Security Council if they're necessary to
Speaker 1: be involved, or any other agencies as well. You see
Speaker 1: all of those additions from start to finish. At the
Speaker 1: very end, the staff secretary, So that's who the executive
Speaker 1: clerks answer to directly. They are given in this email
Speaker 1: thread that the very last bless off the words ready
Speaker 1: for ap ready for autopen, and that comes from the
Speaker 1: main staff secretary. When that happens. You print the document
Speaker 1: off nice White House bond paper, and you bring it
Speaker 1: up to records management, who actually manns the autopen, put
Speaker 1: the document under there, watch the signature, go give it
Speaker 1: to the West Wing, and that's it. We make a
Speaker 1: press release and then that's when everybody knows. And especially
Speaker 1: in Biden's case, because compared to say President Trump in
Speaker 1: his first term and certainly in the second term, he's
Speaker 1: signing everything in person, the press releases are being done,
Speaker 1: but press is knowing simultaneously. Not the case during Biden.
Speaker 1: Those press releases were going out because there was hardly
Speaker 1: any coverage of live in person signature anyways. Point being
Speaker 1: GOP oversight. Lots of Republicans hyper focused back at the
Speaker 1: end of the term saying was Biden fully aware of
Speaker 1: the things that he was signing and saying that they're
Speaker 1: going to do an investigation and using taxpayer funded resources.
Speaker 1: I would just say every ounce of anything that President
Speaker 1: Biden at that time had ever signed was completely stored
Speaker 1: in email traffic from the White House Microsoft Outlook account.
Speaker 1: So it's all there, and if you wanted to even
Speaker 1: look and question anyone at any given time, you would
Speaker 1: look at the staff Secretary, of which there were three.
Speaker 1: You had near a tandent, you had Stephanie Feldman, and
Speaker 1: you had Jessica Hurtz. You had three. And that's all
Speaker 1: you need to do is look at them, question and
Speaker 1: evaluate the email chain for every single thing that utilized
Speaker 1: the autopen because it has to be recorded. The executive
Speaker 1: clerks would never ever put out a presidential signature on
Speaker 1: autopen without the direct authority from the staff secretary. That's
Speaker 1: their main job.
Speaker 2: That was the deepest dive on autopen I have ever
Speaker 2: heard or experienced. So that is a very interesting background.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that. We let's talk here in a
Speaker 2: second about It's basically a lot of Biden executive orders
Speaker 2: might might be totally null and void, but we'll see
Speaker 2: if that can ever be proven. I'll talk about Trump
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Speaker 2: that the Hoothies are gonna stop attacking ships. What can
Speaker 2: you tell us about what's going on with this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that came to a surprise from everybody
Speaker 1: because especially with me covering the DoD, I mean that
Speaker 1: was we entered into day fifty one starting on Monday,
Speaker 1: of daily air precision strikes against the hoo Thies in
Speaker 1: the Red Sea, specifically per us dood right, and we
Speaker 1: know all these rapid response accounts are very active online
Speaker 1: and it has been a constant we will not stop
Speaker 1: until they stop, right. I found it really surprising watching
Speaker 1: President Trump and the Oval Office talk about this, because
Speaker 1: the main crux of the reasoning or directing the DoD
Speaker 1: to withhold and refrain from any further in engagement with
Speaker 1: the Houthis in the Red Sea was that the quote
Speaker 1: being we need to take their word for it. I
Speaker 1: will take their word for it. I'll take the word
Speaker 1: of the Hoothies for it. But then you saw immediately
Speaker 1: after that you had personnel from the Hoothis spokespeople or
Speaker 1: spokesman from the Houthies directly saying that they're denying all
Speaker 1: the accounts of any sort of agreement. But it's a
Speaker 1: dicey situation, right because even if there is a refrain
Speaker 1: in the Red Sea between the WHO and the UK
Speaker 1: super involved with all the bombers that we bring into
Speaker 1: Diego Garcia, for your viewers, that's a joint base between
Speaker 1: the US and the UK. We have all of these
Speaker 1: assets that are pre set in stage to act beyond
Speaker 1: just these air precision strikes. So you have that one
Speaker 1: element that's happening in the Red Sea. Then the other
Speaker 1: element being like we talked about earlier when we first
Speaker 1: started speaking to each other, was talking about the Iron
Speaker 1: Dome being infiltrated by a Hoothy strike. Right. So it's
Speaker 1: dicey because you're we're saying the United States postures itself
Speaker 1: to be an ally of Israel and wanting the Houthis
Speaker 1: to stop any strikes or aggression towards Israel. But at
Speaker 1: the same rate, do we like kind of pick and
Speaker 1: choose our wins or our losses here and be happy
Speaker 1: that maybe the Red Sea is actually absolved. I mean,
Speaker 1: Iran has a really terrible economy, and that is one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why China is a huge uh fund
Speaker 1: huge fund funder to the houthies to include satcom satellite
Speaker 1: imagery or the houthis to actually execute their strikes because
Speaker 1: Iran's capabilities are just like, they're just not a match
Speaker 1: for China. So that's kind of the latest and was
Speaker 1: news to everyone in that moment at the Oval office yesterday.
Speaker 1: I will say, we do get which I appreciated. Uh
Speaker 1: since yesterday the Pentagon gave us a full fledged rolodex
Speaker 1: of for or news networks, and so I was looking
Speaker 1: at Yemen, I was looking at Iran and parsing out
Speaker 1: what they were trying to say via Google Translate. They
Speaker 1: were confirming that Oman was the mediator between these conversations
Speaker 1: alleged conversations between the United States and the Huthis. So
Speaker 1: I think this is more of a time we'll tell,
Speaker 1: but a stark, huge pivot from what we've been saying,
Speaker 1: what the DoD has been saying since since mid.
Speaker 2: March is that the single biggest thing right now that's
Speaker 2: on in terms of conflict, the d D radar or
Speaker 2: a d D radar or is uh is India Pakistan
Speaker 2: something that everyone just thinks is going to be contained.
Speaker 1: So the defense officials haven't been super aggressive on formally
Speaker 1: saying too much when it comes to Indian and Pakistan.
Speaker 1: And you know this, like traditionally, the d D is
Speaker 1: never going to get ahead of anything that President Trump says.
Speaker 1: If anyone, it's been more of Trump and more or
Speaker 1: Rubio being the loudest in the arena when it comes
Speaker 1: to just US agencies talking about Pakistan and India. But
Speaker 1: there is this element of you have these two nuclear
Speaker 1: forces and neither I'm almost looking at it in a
Speaker 1: sense of in this arena, a lot of these countries
Speaker 1: to the US two be included, are stretched a little
Speaker 1: thin when it comes to denuclearization or any other further escalations.
Speaker 1: When you have what's going on between Ukraine and Russia,
Speaker 1: where you have what's going on in Gaza, and then
Speaker 1: of course all these these ongoing conversations which again that
Speaker 1: deadline for Iran to denuclearize, that deadline has far pasted
Speaker 1: at this point. So there's a lot of unknowns, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't bode well for any party, right, because you
Speaker 1: have India, you know, the United States aligning a lot
Speaker 1: more with India, right considering our history, especially because Mody
Speaker 1: is such an ally with President Trump. But then on
Speaker 1: the other end, you have China Beijing, both of which
Speaker 1: US and China have been mimicking the same thing, staying
Speaker 1: that they would call for a de escalation. But I mean,
Speaker 1: since nineteen forty seven, there's been what been three wars
Speaker 1: between the two, They've had constant escalation. I do find
Speaker 1: it interesting that it's happening now at a time where
Speaker 1: there's again these other other forces, because again, this has
Speaker 1: always been an ongoing thing between India and Pakistan. I
Speaker 1: will say I can't imagine it going much further, considering
Speaker 1: that the day being today May seventh, India announces their
Speaker 1: operation against Pakistan and allegedly loses Pakistan, saying they took
Speaker 1: down five aircraft. Other outlets British officials were saying about two,
Speaker 1: could be three. So you lose that many aircraft within
Speaker 1: twenty less than twenty four hours of announcing your operation strikes.
Speaker 1: At the same time, is constantly saying and reiterating over
Speaker 1: and over again. Hey, we're doing this in retaliation of
Speaker 1: that April twenty second terror attack and nothing more versus
Speaker 1: saying that we kind we want completely and indefinitely deter
Speaker 1: and eliminate Pakistan or terrorists within Pakistan, right like that
Speaker 1: is significantly different than what we see, say in Iran,
Speaker 1: in Gaza, or even between Ukraine in Russia.
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Speaker 2: what's going on in the Pentagon? I know that the
Speaker 2: court has now ruled in favor of the Trump administration
Speaker 2: and Secretary hag Sets moves, But just tell everybody what
Speaker 2: was the trans ban? Is what people are calling it
Speaker 2: in the military. You know, has it gone into effect
Speaker 2: and what happens now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely so it did go into effect. And this
Speaker 1: was one of the first big memos that hag Set
Speaker 1: had rolled out about two months ago at this point,
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of noise. People defiant in
Speaker 1: the sense that basically what this is watering it down
Speaker 1: is that if you are transgender fully medical, mental, all
Speaker 1: of those evaluations transgender, you are not fit to serve.
Speaker 1: You're not fit to serve in combat locations, you're not deployable.
Speaker 1: That's the keyword, right, deployable. And it comes down to
Speaker 1: very simply outside of any of this, no different than
Speaker 1: whether or not you're medically compliant, is that if you're
Speaker 1: not medically compliance, case closed, it's over. And then there's
Speaker 1: also that element of operationally if you were to be
Speaker 1: on a deployment and you need it to be in
Speaker 1: contact with, say your medical provider, have medications, have a psychiatrist,
Speaker 1: of which most transgenders do, no matter what part of
Speaker 1: the transition they are in. That already is a security
Speaker 1: threat in and of itself. You can't just have an
Speaker 1: open line or have open access or a full on
Speaker 1: supply for however long you need. When it comes to
Speaker 1: certain medications, all that type of stuff needs to be
Speaker 1: cleared for whatever deployment you're going on. So this is
Speaker 1: no different and very much in compliant on the medical
Speaker 1: side for the military. Well before any of this was
Speaker 1: kind of rolled back, and it was all rolled back
Speaker 1: during the Biden administration in which they allowed for transgender
Speaker 1: So it's kind of going back to we're gonna cut
Speaker 1: the fat if you're not deployable, then we're not you're
Speaker 1: not employable either, because other than that, if you're not
Speaker 1: going on these trips or these assignments or tasking orders,
Speaker 1: then you're sitting at a desk instead or being given
Speaker 1: some sort of other job to fulfill in the interim
Speaker 1: of the rest of your unit going on missions. So
Speaker 1: this is kind of this is good news. This is
Speaker 1: good news. It's completely compatible. I mean, this is no different.
Speaker 1: Then you want to run it back for a hot second.
Speaker 1: This is no different than during I mean actually it's
Speaker 1: very different. But the crux of it being like the CIA,
Speaker 1: for example, the military did it, all the agencies did it.
Speaker 1: You're undeployable if you didn't get the COVID vaccine. Now
Speaker 1: that's like it was buck Wilde literally. But if that's
Speaker 1: how they determine deployability, then okay, Like it's wrong if anyone,
Speaker 1: but like, okay, but this is like purely because they
Speaker 1: thought it was like a real you know, not a plandemic.
Speaker 1: It was a real issue. Sure, but if you crack
Speaker 1: of what I'm saying, maybe not maybe No.
Speaker 2: I get I get you, I get I get what
Speaker 2: you're putting down. Yeah, I leave it. We gotta leave
Speaker 2: it there for today, but people can go watch your
Speaker 2: latest reporting, missus Gabrielle Kucia at One America News. She
Speaker 2: is their Pentagon correspondent. Just closing up here as our
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