WEBVTT - Fight Fire With Fire 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:15.920 M you are entering the freedom hunt. Are the Kobe 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.000 memos his interactions with Trump going to be shared publicly? 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.920 And what could that mean for sank to Komey himself. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.080 Plus Muller has abused prosecutorial discretion so many times in 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.000 the past. What should that mean about how we judge 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.960 McKay the FBI's number two, and the charges that he 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:39.920 may in fact face. Also, the Starbucks arrestes have spoken out. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.760 We've got more on that and update on the North 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:47.480 Korea talks. Stay with me. This is the buck Sexton Show, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.560 where the mission or mission is to decode what really 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:57.360 matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:05.480 great American Again the buck Sexton Show be end. No, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.399 there has been no collusion. They won't find any collusion. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.680 It doesn't exist. As far as the two gentlemen you 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.600 told me about, uh, they've been saying I'm going to 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.279 get rid of them for the last three months, four months, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.759 five months, and uh, they're still here. So we want 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.200 to get the investigation over with, done with, put it 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.520 behind us. Welcome to the Bucks Actions Show, everybody. Great 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.959 to have you. I'm coming to you live from San Diego. California, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.840 which I would say is sunny San Diego, but somehow 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.679 I brought the cold in the rain with me. Womp. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:50.040 Trump is right. Trump is right. They are continuing this charade, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.520 or charade if you want to sound really fancy of 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.639 caring about what the truth of the investigation into Russia 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.240 collusion is. What, as we know, it is just to 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.840 get Trump never Trump anti Trump operation in disguise. That's 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.640 what this is all about. They keep talking about whether 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:15.639 they should pass legislation to protect Rosenstein and Mueller, and 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.280 as Trump has putted out himself, they run this story 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.400 whenever it feels like there's a hole in their news cycle, right, CNN, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.120 MSNBC and others. Oh yeah, let's just let's pretend that 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.760 the the firing of Rosenstein is imminent. That will get 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.040 people to tune in. Let's get everyone all riled up 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.440 that it's just, uh, any moment now, Mueller is gonna 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.600 get tossed. As I've said to you, I'm much more 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.440 open to the idea than a lot of other conservatives are. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.600 I figure, you know, rip the band aid off and 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.360 don't think twice about it. But you know, there's some 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.519 word that the Senate may go around Mitch McConnell and 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.440 take action on this. And as I've said to you, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.120 I think this causes problems just from a constitutional separation 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.560 of powers perspective. The Senate can't be passing laws that 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.400 says what the executive branch can do within the executive 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.640 branch about appointees and decisions. That that's that's a no 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.440 go as far as I can see. Uh. But more 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.440 to the point about the complaints around the imminent firing 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.480 of Rosenstein and Mueller, you'll notice that the media are 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.800 not very good at predicting things. They weren't good at 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.040 predicting the the onset of fascism in this country. That's 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.120 what they said was they said that was gonna happen. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.320 There's gonna be fascism in America because of Trump. Nope, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.240 that didn't happen at all. In fact, countries doing quite 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.440 well by all the ways we can measure it. Still 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.280 a lot of work to be done, no question, But 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.760 they're they're not good at predicting what's gonna happen. They 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:55.360 have been predicting Donald Trump's regimes demise, administrations demised for 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.400 quite some time. I don't think it's gonna happen. In fact, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.480 that we're reports today that Rosenstein has told Trump that 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.960 he is not a part of any criminal investigation. Now, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.640 unlike the other side, we can't make too much of that, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.400 because it is true that you can go from being 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.240 not a part to a part of an investigation the 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.640 blink of an eye. And when you have a headhunter 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.320 out there like Mueller who is trying to just take 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.599 people and ruin them, right, who who is on a 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:28.800 quest for deep state vengeance against Trump and his team, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:34.039 you can't take anything for granted. But it feels like 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.040 I'm actually not so bad at predictions. Those of you 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.279 who are listening to the show yesterday, remember that a 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.200 big theme what I started with was, you know, we 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.359 need to fight back, and the good people in this 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.719 country need to push those in positions of power, whether 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.520 appointed officials are elected officials who see things from the 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.080 same perspective as us, meaning that we believe in individual 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.800 rights and liberty and a free society and not some 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:09.719 kind of Democrat, single party state soft authoritarianism. Right. People 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.160 who don't they don't want that for the country need 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.360 to actually throw some punches. Not I don't mean literally 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.440 punch anyone, but they need to be fighting back, fight 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:23.600 fire with fire. And today sure as night follows day, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.000 or is it as sure as day follows night, whichever 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.520 one of those things is the one you're supposed to say. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:36.880 We have two instances of very deep swamp state dwellers 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.400 or wait, deep states. Actually, I kind of like the 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.400 way that came about deep state swamp dwellers or deep 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:49.719 state swamps deep swamp state dwellers, whichever one you prefer. Um, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:56.440 they are on the hot seat. Now McCabe and Comy 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:02.000 may in fact get a little bit of justice that 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.320 they are going to be very unhappy with. Let's let's 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.719 take these, Uh, let's take these piece by piece. First 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:15.440 and foremost, you have the criminal referral within the Office 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:21.600 of the Inspector General of Remember of the McCabe situation. Now, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.480 Andy McCabe was that guy who got fired. And I 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.520 remember when his firing happened. I was on TV. I 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.000 was talking about it over Fox and elsewhere, or I 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.680 guess just a Fox. They didn't want to hear what 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.200 I had to say about it at see ann no surprise, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.120 not that I would go on anyway. Um, but when 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.520 he was fired, there was all these people in the 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.520 left saying, oh, it's terrible, how would they do this? 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:46.400 How would you fire McCabe? And then the Inspector General's 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.400 report came out and it's pretty clear, Yeah, you can 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.160 fire him because he was lying and leaking and those 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.040 are problems. Those are things that you're not supposed to 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.159 do when you are, uh, the number two at the FBI. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.520 That's not the way it's supposed to work. So there 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.479 are real reasons for it. There are real reasons for 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.960 McCabe to get tossed. But then people start to ask 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.120 the other question here, which is, will hold on a second, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.720 why is it if we are going to live in 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:20.880 a country where people like James Comey will be thank 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:27.600 to Comey so haughty about how people can't lie, you know, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.640 in the process of investigations or to to federal government officials, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.600 you can't lie. Well, shouldn't that apply even more so 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.640 to those empowered by the federal government than it does 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.840 to the average citizen. If the people that are given 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.840 the authority to show up at your home with guns 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.480 and you are not allowed to defend yourself, you are 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.200 required to just go with them when they say go, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.680 and they can put you in a cell, and they 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.360 can do all of that because they claim that you 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.760 have had something untrue, even if you've committed no other crime. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.520 If those people lie, shouldn't we have an even higher 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:12.760 expectation that they will be punished. Shouldn't we demand that 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.720 they have to live by the same regime, the same 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.120 rules that they enforced against all of us. And oh, yes, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.440 that's right, Trump and Manafort and Flynn and the whole crew. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:30.360 That guy Spurgan Skimmergan from the Netherlands who got like 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:36.280 thirty days in jail, Smurgan, I forget his name. Uh 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:41.360 he's Dutch. So I think that's normal that we would 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.120 expect that. In fact, I think it's more than just 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.840 okay for us to think that way. We have to 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.640 think that way. And why I was saying yesterday we 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.240 have to fight fire with fire, And I really came 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.880 in the show and I was just I was pumped 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.760 up about this because I go back. I keep doing 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.880 this in my head. I cycle through all the cases 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.560 the big political corruption case is and the cases where 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.920 there was a huge political outcome that turned on prosecutorial discretion, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.360 And what do you see immediately when you just I'm 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.880 telling you. As an exercise, do this yourself. Think about 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.960 a major political corruption case where the Democrats wanted one 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.040 outcome and the Republicans wanted another, whatever it may be, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:25.760 and somehow every time it goes against the Republicans, and 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.960 there's nothing equivalent on the Democrats side that I can 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.560 think of, And I can think of a whole bunch 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:30.520 of ones at the top of my head of the 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:40.520 Republicans Scooter Livery case, Republican got completely post completely ted 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:48.200 Stevens case, Republican hosed investigations never just even prosecutions, investigations 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.920 of big political figures. How many times do you know 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.080 of where a Democrat was investigated based on flimsy to 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.480 no evidence and either hounded out of office or forced 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.040 to lose an election because of a criminal investigation that 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.760 went nowhere. Because I could think of a whole bunch 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:10.160 of times has happened to Republicans. Right, Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.200 they were trying to get him. You had a rogue 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.400 prosecutor up there in the state of Wisconsin, a state 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.679 prosecutor who was going after the governor. Locked a woman 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.640 up in prison because she made a phone call. And 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.400 I remember I covered the case. This was years ago 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.680 where everyone forgets about what happened Wisconsin now, but the 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.480 Left was they were going all in, throwing the dirtiest 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.920 stuff they could at Walker and his people. They locked 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.880 a woman up because she took a phone call in 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.680 a government building when she was supposed to be outside 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.920 of government building. It was a disgrace, and it was 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:48.080 a complete, complete backing all of prosecutorial misconduct, and it 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.800 was just grotesque, and yed Rick Perry faced their criminal 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.679 investigation with the threat of a criminal investigation when he 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.960 was a governor. Chris Christie any charges there Bridge Gate, though, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.000 which I remember Rachel matt Out, who thinks of herself 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.719 as a very erudite person on the I think it 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.800 was a Bill Marshall saying was the most delicious political 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.880 scandal of her lifetime. So she's either really wildly disingenuous 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.000 or just not nearly in the universe of as smart 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.760 as she thinks she is in her audience thing she is. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.920 It's one or the other. Because that was a boring 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.120 political story and Chris Kristy didn't do anything wrong, and 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.120 that not that I'm some big Christie fan. I don't 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.520 like the thing where he showed up on the beach 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.600 when it was closed. Everybody else, I'm just gonna say 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.240 that he forget about it. But oh, Governor Bob McDonald 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.040 another one. Supreme Court had to slap down those federal 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.960 prosecutors and this, folks, I don't even have notes in 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.480 front of me for this. I'm just rattling this off 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.680 the top of my head. And then you look at 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.080 the other side, Hillary Clinton, anything there, Oh, no no charges, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:52.800 no charges. Absolutely violated criminal statutes in the handling classified 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.920 information and the destruction of evidence, by the way, and 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.079 I'm sure if they had tried to actually write down 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.679 what they were saying or cord them, they would have 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.600 gotten Huma and Cheryl Mills and Hillary lying and lying 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.360 and lying. I don't recall the answer to that one. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.199 Something is really rotten and wrong. And yes, there is 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:19.320 a cabal. There is a Mulley, mull Mueller, Comy McCabe cabal. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.760 There is there are these people that are involved in 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.959 these very high profile investigations that have come down on 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.440 on this issue in a way that is obviously partisan 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.679 time and again, and we need to put a stop 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.800 to this. And I used to think that maybe we 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.400 could convince them to stop abusing their power if we 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.200 just spoke up about it. But now I'm convinced. And 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.959 this is where I get back to yesterday and today, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.280 fight fire with fire. McCabe bled The o i G. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.280 Makes it clear, The Inspector General, the FBI makes it 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.920 plain and simple. McCabe's a liar lie to federal investigators 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.000 about matters that affect the United States government, affect the presidency. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.720 He's gotta face, he's got to pay the piper. He's 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.640 got to face the full weight of the law the 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.360 same way time and again in his career. He has 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.240 done that to others. He has jammed up people for 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.199 far less. And if he has a problem with this, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:12.920 if he thinks that he's allowed to lie, whereas the 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.000 rest of us can't. Just take a look back at 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.320 what Comey says in his book about how proud he 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.720 is of the Martha Stewart prosecution. Again, I'm not some 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:27.600 big Martha Stewart fan, but come on, she does make 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:32.600 the best pheasants scented cinnamon sticks, which she matches to 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.800 all of the drapes in the house. But really, it's 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.559 time that we hold these people accountable. And the only 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.320 way we can do that is to make sure that 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.719 they suffer the same consequences that they would enforce, but 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.480 all the rest of us. So when the i G 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.040 has now, as the i G has now turned over 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.800 McCabe to the U S Attorney for possible criminal charges, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.560 they better have a darn good reason why they don't 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.359 charge him, and it better not be we're just exercising 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.240 our discretion in his behalf. Enough of that. We know 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.840 that discretion is a one way street these days when 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.120 it comes to high profile federal cases and the Conservatives 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.439 get hosed, that's enough. No more of that. And Democrats 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.679 get to get out of jail free card speaking to 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.160 get out of jail free cards, and Democrats and all 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.800 the rest of it. It's not just McKay who's in 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.960 some hot water today. Call me, well, he's on his 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.800 book tour. He's talking a lot, you know, call me 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.720 forgot something very important. It's probably forgotten a lot of 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.680 things that are very important, like don't be a huge weirdo. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:38.280 But when you are even possibly going to be under 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.080 suspicion for anything, don't talk a lot. As I always 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.680 tell you. And this is free legal advice. For me 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.480 to you, if you ever, ever ever are arrested, say nothing, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.400 not officer, I'm sure I'm innocent. Not Hey, can I 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.400 get a donut? Hey? Do you want a donut? They 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:57.800 won't like that you say nothing. Comey has been saying 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.360 a lot Comy. He has made it very easy for 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.720 someone us to say, hold on a second, based on 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.240 some of your public statements, show you've got some You've 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.320 got some explaining to do, and we're gonna find out 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.240 some stuff now that could lead to a criminal referral 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.480 about James Comey as well? Oh what am I talking about? 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.000 What is this delicious teas that I have thrown out there? 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:36.760 Stay with me, We'll be right back. Not everybody loves Comy, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.800 despite what he seems to think, the entirety of America 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.120 has not round like, Oh, come me is the man 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:50.200 we've been waiting for. That is not the case. Call 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.960 me got heckled actually at a book signing, and you 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.560 did not look. Anyone can get heckled. But am I 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.040 going to enjoy the audio we have of Comy getting 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.160 heckled in particular? Yes? I am, because why not? It's 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.520 my freedom hunt and I'll do with it what I 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.160 want how is it ethical to brief the president of 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.080 the United States on an unverifiable and salacious dossier, And 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.040 how is it ethical leadership to not tell him that 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.120 his political opposition, Hillary Clinton, paid for that. You are 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.640 not an ethical leader. You're gonna get prosecuted, Comy, You're 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:28.120 gonna get locked up. Now, you might think that that 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.240 that lady sounds a little bit like she could use 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.440 a nap or something, that she's a little little little tense. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:40.400 But maybe she's right about Coby. Maybe uh, maybe com me' 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.440 is in some trouble. Before I get to that, though, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.640 I'm gonna I'm gonna keep you on the cliffhanger with 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.240 this one before I get to that. Her allegation about 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.400 how you know, he briefed a in unverified dossie. I 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.520 gotta tell you if I had ever tried that, I 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:56.760 can just tell you this. If when I was a 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.600 little CI analyst, you know, way way down the ORG chart, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.520 and I had said, Hey, you know what we should do. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.800 We should tell the president about this piece of total 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.400 garbage oppo research, just so he knows it's out there. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.600 People would have been like, we're going to escort you 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.240 out now, and you're not allowed back. But calmly thought 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.679 this was a good idea. Comby doesn't have any good 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.480 answers as to why he thought it was a good idea. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.639 But play a teen. In January two seventeen, when you 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.000 met with President Trump and you did that oral presentation 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:33.000 of what's in the two page memo summarizing the Steel Dossier, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.719 we know from the book that you talked about these 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.040 unverified allegations involving him in prostitutes. Um, did you did 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.000 you brief him about any any of the other things 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.480 in the Steel Dossier claims that his associates Michael Colin 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.560 or Paul Manafort were potentially working with the Russians? Or 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.679 was it only about the prostitute? Was only about the 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:55.520 salacious part of it? Why? Why only about that? Because 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.680 that was the part that the leaders of the intelligence 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.679 community agreed he needed to be told about because we 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.800 knew it and thought it was about to become public, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.119 and if it was true, we didn't whether it was true. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.680 It would be important to let him know this as 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.160 part of a defensive briefing. No, no, no, By the way, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.240 the leaders of the intel community, you mean, like Clapper 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.160 and Brennan who are rapidly anti Trump, I mean hate Trump. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.680 They wanted him to know. I think they were trolling him. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.080 I think they were extending a particular finger in Trump's direction. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:32.399 I do not think they were trying to do the 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.360 president United States of solid and I do not think 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.000 that they were respecting the power of the offices. They 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:42.240 held that to the topic intel positions, and also I 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.920 think they wanted to get it into the official record. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:57.280 But let's talk about Comy's official record coming up. He's 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.760 holding the line for America. But Sexton is back. The 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.000 Justice Department is also expected today to begin the process 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.800 of letting Congress see your memos detailing your interactions with 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.000 President Trump. Is that the right decision to let Congress 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.919 see them? I don't know, because I don't know what 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.600 considerations the Department has taken into account. It's fine by 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.800 me if you don't care. I don't care. I don't 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.680 have any I don't have any views on it. I'm 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.359 totally fine with transparency. I've tried to be transparent throughout this, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.240 and I think what folks will see if they get 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.919 to see the memos is I've been consistent since the 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.520 very beginning, right after my encounters with President Trump, and 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.800 I'm consistent in the book and try to be transparent 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:44.399 in the book as well. Now, Comy's memos might be 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.760 gonna be shared with Congress, but they also, um, they 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:54.720 also may make their way beyond just that. Comy's memos, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.080 if they get seen by the public, would be quite interesting. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.840 I think here's what's going on. We've heard from at 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:07.480 least I think it was Chuck Grassley that there was 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:12.879 classified information there, and now reporting from seeing that and 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.080 others is that the memos are going to be made public. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.280 Here's meaning. So it's one thing for Congress to see them, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.639 but then they may be made public beyond that, And 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.760 this is how it's gonna go down. Um, they can't 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.880 redact what is in the memos for classified reasons, because 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:38.920 then there's absolutely no question Comey would have lead classified 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.360 information to the media right after leaving the FBI, and 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.440 he's gonna be facing charges unless he gets the full 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.159 Hillary treatment, and all of a sudden, the law is 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.200 and the law anymore. But I don't know if Comy 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.760 can count on someone else to pull a Comy for 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.240 him the way he did for Hillary. I don't know. 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.440 He might be in some trouble so they can't redact 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.320 the information when I think it's more likely, you know, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.560 so that you're not gonna get memos released with black outlines, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.280 because that's gonna be us. You're saying, call me release classified. 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:15.120 That's not gonna happen. If they released them publicly, though, um, 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.360 then it would be a question of, well, is this 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.840 information that could be even considered at the lowest level 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:25.080 of classification. For example, is a meeting with the president, 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:30.639 between the FBI director or with the FBI director just 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:36.719 that discusses anything of substance considered classified information? The answer 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.120 is yes. So if the FBI director Comey sat down 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:47.240 with Trump and all they talked about was uh, you know, hey, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.520 like you know, if it was Hilary yoga and whangs. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.040 But you know, if they all that, he was talking 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.760 about stuff that no one really cares about. Okay, fun, 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.600 you know, if it's hey, you know, Jim, just want 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.680 to know that you're on board with the new administration 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.159 and be come over to the residents and have you know, 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.439 dinner with me and Milania. Okay, yeah, that's not classified, right, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.479 I'm not trying to be dishonest about this. And I'm 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.679 not trying to be sancta comus. You like that, right, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:16.920 I'm having fun with it now. But if there's any 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:22.080 substantive information in there, a conversation that deals with even 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:26.080 policy issues in a with any specificity between the FBI 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:30.280 director and the President could very well be In fact, 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.040 I would think in most cases would be considered classified 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.679 information at least at the level of confidential, right, lowest 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:42.520 level of classification. Uh So what would that mean, folks? 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.440 If they release information that's borderline could be classified, but 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.479 they're gonna say it's not classified. A lot of us 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.439 are gonna say, so the fixes it once again, right 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:55.160 because they know that they can't. They can't release stuff 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.960 that is redacted. And I think that there's a very 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.520 a good chance that we'll see this causes this causes 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.480 some issues one way or another. Um, if the Comy 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:09.800 memos are made public, then we will see first of all, 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.679 what Comy was trying to construct as a narrative. Keep on, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.440 this is just his handwritten, so you're not gonna find 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.200 anything bad about Comey in this. This is a one 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.359 sided record. One of the reasons I would note, and 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.240 this is an important aside, This is your free It's 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:25.920 not really legal advice because I'm not a lawyer, so 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.080 I don't don't I'm not actually giving legal advice, but 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.320 you know your your free bit of legal wisdom. Uh do? 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.920 You never want to sit down and allow and people 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:35.800 will argue with me on this, and that's fine. You 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:38.960 want an actual recording of a conversation that you would 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:41.040 have and by what, by the way, how am I 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:45.920 wrong here? Already? Don't talk to the FBI. You don't 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.359 have a lawyer, don't talk to the FBI. That's it. 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:51.119 There's there's not a like a maybe a sort of 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.840 a kind of don't talk to the FBI because I 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:55.159 know all the people listen to this show. If you 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.040 ever had to talk to the FBI and er bad circumstances, 0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:58.600 it would be you know, for like a minor thing, 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.960 you know what I mean. If you're if if they're 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.119 if there's like the lone ax murder who's listening to 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.720