WEBVTT - Does Anyone Really Believe These Idiots? 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:14.800 You are entering the freedom Hunt, the tyranny of the 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:20.840 interagency consensus, Elizabeth Warren's healthcare debacle, the Katie Hill lies, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:27.120 threats about outing the whistleblower, and Zuckerberg shoots down Sorkin 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.000 that in more coming off the buck Sexton Show. This 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.479 is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:39.559 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.400 no mistake American, You're a great American. Again the buck 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:52.960 Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Welcome to 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.920 the buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Thank you so much for 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.320 being here. Great to have a chance to address you 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.240 all across the country and in some cases all around 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.279 the world. We have a lot of stuff to get 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.160 to for a Friday, so I feel like shouldn't stand 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.039 too much on ceremony and just get right to it. 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.920 I do want to note, though, that one of my 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:15.160 predictions came true. In fact, many of my predictions come true, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.720 but this one in particular, I'm proud of. I told 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.800 you that as soon as everybody learned about Conan the 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.600 bar Carrian, as we are calling him Conan the Hero Dog, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.679 there would be a surge in interest in Belgian Malinois, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.039 the breed of dog that Conan happens to be one of. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.880 And now ABC News had a story this morning. I 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.400 remember I told you the people are gonna want to 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.760 start getting the Belgian Malinois. It's going to become very trendy. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.920 ABC predicted this morning. Thousands now want the breed of 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.839 hero dog involved in the Al Baghdaddy raid, but experts 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:53.440 warn that they are too much for most people. Who 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.840 told you, folks who told you not only that they 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.320 were too much for most people, but that there would 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.520 be this surge in interest. So as beautiful and incredible 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:07.160 as Belgian Malinois and even German shepherd's Dutch Shepherds, these 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.440 different working dog breeds are. They are not something that 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.120 you want to just pick up and bring home to 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.040 the kids. You're gonna have your hands more than full. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.240 Important safety tip from the Freedom Hut today. All right, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:23.960 let's get to the tyranny of the interagency consensus. Fantastic 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:30.040 piece today from my friend Mark Hemingway, husband of Molly Hemingway. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.640 Mark is a great writer in his own right over 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.079 at the Federalist, and his piece is called Donald Trump 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:41.000 versus the Interagency Consensus. And this is a particularly important 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.200 time for this because as part of all of this 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.640 impeachment stuff, you see going on bruhaha, which is a 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:55.240 fun word to say, this impeachment frakis ruckis. I think 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.280 those are all words that we could use. You are 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.760 seeing people come forward who can't help. But let it 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.880 be known that while they are government employees, they think 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.359 that the bosses within the government that are elected by 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:15.320 the people to oversee the federal bureaucracy, the machinery of 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.840 the day to day of the federal government, that the 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.960 people who work inside the machinery think that they're not 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.120 just executing on orders, they're really there to drive things, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.960 and that the elected officials come and go, but the 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:37.320 bureaucracy is forever. This is troubling stuff. And when you 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.960 add that to the admission more recently of the former 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:48.400 I think he was the former acting CIA director John McLaughlin, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.480 when he was being asked by a CBS one of 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:58.160 the liberal CBS journals about Trump's impeachment, here is what now. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.040 I know people will take this in different ways. I'll 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.320 tell you how I'm going to take it, but here 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.920 is what the former CIA director John McLaughlin, who is 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.520 a guy from inside the bureauxy for a very long time. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.840 Here's how he talks about the deep state. Play for Please, 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.479 you'd have to agree that naturally the impeachment inquiry is underway, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.120 sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.960 It feeds the president's concern and often use term about 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.880 a deep state being there to take you know, thank 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:37.960 God for the deep state. I mean, I think you 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.200 know everyone here has seeing this progression of diplomats and 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.200 intelligence officers and White House people trooping up to Capitol 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.120 Hill right now and saying, these are people who are 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.800 doing their duty, who are responding to a higher call. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.479 Think about it for a minute. With all of the 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.520 people who knew what was going on here, it took 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.520 an intelligence software to step officer to step forward and 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:04.360 say something about it, which was the trigger that then 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.520 unleashed everything else. Now, why does that happen? What I'm 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.200 tell American people why that happens is this is the 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.000 institution in the US government that, with all of its 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:19.119 flaws and it makes mistakes, is institutionally committed to objectivity 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.359 and to telling the truth. I will tell you, as 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.960 somebody who used to work in the CIA, that that's 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.800 a very rosy picture of what the institutional commitment of 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:34.800 that organization, or any part of the intelligence bureaucracy, what 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.880 the day to day really is something quite different from that. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.039 There's a lot of complexity involved here. There are concerns 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.039 about access, how do you shape policymaker beliefs without actually 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.320 telling policymakers what to do. These are the back and 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.360 forth that you'll hear about from people who've actually worked 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.040 the intelligence community. But I'm also going to tell you 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.320 that there are a lot of people who work in 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.560 the federal government who really think that. First of all, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:08.440 they're overwhelmingly personally politically Democrats and in some cases really leftists. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.440 They've gone into government work because they believe in the 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.040 power of government to do good things. And they also 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.440 think that if we're going to have this big shiny 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.320 toy that that is the federal government, they want to 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.280 be in control of it, and they want to do 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:27.920 the things that they are ideologically aligned with it doing that. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.760 The mission is not top down from the president as 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.839 the head of the executive branch. A mission is what 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.240 the people inside the walls of whatever this federal agency 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.240 is think it should be, and they give lip service 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.760 to the guy who's or has always been a guy 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.000 up to date, lip service to the guy who is 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.960 giving the orders. Yeah, sure, sure, we'll do what you say, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.360 but we're also going to be working to do things 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.040 differently in our own way. And in no presidency has 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.440 this been more clear than the presidency of Donald Trump. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.400 I think it's also worth noting that we were initially 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.360 told that talk of a deep state was a conspiracy theory, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.840 that if you spoke of bureaucrats inside the federal government 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.840 who thought they had a mission apart from what the 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.520 actual mission from the commander in chief was, you were 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.920 engaged in some misdirection fantasy. You were misled. You must 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.440 have been a consumer of fake news. And then we 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.080 found out about McCabe and Comy and Page and Struck 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.360 and Yates and Brennan and Clapper and the top echelon 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:45.040 of federal law enforcement and the intelligence community under the obamaministration, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.120 none of whom are supposed to be explicitly political, and 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.000 now beyond any reasonable doubt we know that they were 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:57.560 deeply political. Objected to Trump, not just on specific issues, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.800 but in general, objected to his elevation to the role 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.120 of commander in chief and believed that they had a 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:12.680 duty to thwart his desires, his directives, his mission, his 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.880 promise to the American people. They never really accepted that 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.560 he won the election, and therefore the will of the 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:24.640 American people expressed through that election should be pursued. There 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.680 should be efforts made to execute upon that plan, not 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.720 the plan of the bureaucrats who had been there for 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.680 a very long time in DC. And this is where 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:40.600 we get to the the consensus views of the interagency. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.280 What does that really mean? That came up recently in 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:52.920 the testimony of Vindeman, and this was from his written statement. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.439 Now you would find that that's a a troubling thing 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.000 for someone to use as a justification for objection to 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.720 the President of the United States as a policy matter 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.120 in Ukraine. The views of the inter agency, this, I 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.240 can tell you, is also really a misnomber. What ends 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.760 up happening in the intelligence community is that there will 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.880 be an expression of one point of view from one 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:24.640 agency that is the best approximation of what a majority 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.000 of the senior people in that organization, leveraging some of 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.480 the expertise of the younger people think of an issue, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.960 and then it will often be as part of the 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.520 interagency process, balanced with the views of other agencies, many 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.880 of whom have different equities, have different mission sets and 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.960 tools at their disposal and expertise, And at the end 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.680 they kind of just blurred out this product or this 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.200 briefing or this decision on a specific issue to the 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.400 President of the United States that represents the so called consensus. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.199 But by the time it gets to that level, it's 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.760 often so watered down as to be largely meaningless. And 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:09.320 also momentum carries the day. What does CIA think now? 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.480 What does DIA or NSA or any of these agencies, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.679 what do they think now? Chances are it's kind of 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.920 similar or whatever they thought a year ago or five 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.400 years ago or ten years ago about the issue, unless 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.440 there's been some massive change, right. They tend to have 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.440 their own customs and ways of doing things, ways of 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.720 thinking about things, institutional biases about different problem sets around 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.880 the world. What do we think of talking to North Korea? 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.079 What do we think of engaging China in a trade war? 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.040 What do we think of counter terrors? I mean, all 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.000 across the board, And I know because I sat in 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.960 meetings where important issues were discussed in the intelligence community, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.680 and we're trying to find some consensus ish position, and 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.560 there's really no such thing. There's really no such thing. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.240 It doesn't the consensus on Ukraine, well, there was no 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.280 consensus on you crane policy because the Obama administration refused 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.400 to give them lethal aid. Then the Trump administration came 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.680 in and did give them lethal aid. So that was 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.880 a change from the commander in chief. Were there a 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.640 lot of complaints before about Obama's unwillingness to do what 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.240 was necessary to really help the Ukrainians, No, of course not. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.240 And then we get to what the real consensus of 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.760 the interagency, and what we find is the consensus of 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.920 the deep state. It's anti Trump. That was the only 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.560 thing that they all really could agree on. Is what 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.720 was motivating so much of what we saw in terms 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.680 of the actions of these senior bureaucrats to frustrate the 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.640 president's decision making, and beyond that, to destroy the president, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.960 to undermine the president, to work with reporters and the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.000 Democratic Party and whomever, to work with foreigners, in the 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.800 case of Christopher Steel, assembling the dossier and using Russian 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.880 or Ukrainian or whatever sources and running that laundering, that 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.560 DNC paid for a document through our own intelligence community, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.440 and then starting spy as a warn on Carter page 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.480 a full field investigation on George poppadopplas. This stuff is insane. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:21.400 They didn't just oppose in principle. They opposed by taking 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.480 it upon themselves to use the power within the government 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.160 that they had to wage a political war, a political 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:33.040 vendetta against Donald Trump, because the consensus of the deep 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:38.280 state was and is that Donald Trump is unfit, unacceptable, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.839 and did not really win the twenty sixteen election. So 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.160 they are under no obligation. We often hear the Democrats 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.840 now talking about how Trump swore an oath he has 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.520 to uphold and defend the Constitution. Well, guess what part 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.880 of that constitution establishes President Trump as the commander in 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.400 chief of the executive branch and of the military. And 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.079 they don't get to in the deep state just decide 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.120 that they wash that away. They pushed that aside, and 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.200 their mission then becomes whatever they say it is. They're 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.199 giving their own orders. Now, you know, the bureaucracy has 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.080 become self aware, kind of like Skynet and the Terminator movies. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.719 And that didn't end well for us. The only consensus 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.560 opinion that they're really sure of is that they have 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.280 to do everything they can to stop Donald Trump. They 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.720 used to say there was no deep state. Then they said, okay, fine, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.040 there are a few people in the deep state. Now 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:34.640 they're saying, thank God for the deep state. And it's like, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.920 we're supposed to pretend that we didn't know this was 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.120 coming all along, and they haven't been lying to us 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.160 all along. First they insisted that the president is a 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.040 Russian agent. Then they claimed he's a money launderer and 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.280 a tax cheat and a fraudulent businessman. And now they've 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.880 decided they don't like the way he talks to foreign leaders. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.920 But they have no evidence and no argument to support impeachment. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:04.040 All they have is the unconditional cooperation of the media 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:09.120 and their advanced to advance their preposterous narrative. What is 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.600 more likely to repeat one of my favorite challenges here 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.360 on the show, what's more likely that President Trump is, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.920 at the same time, according to Democrats, guilty of all 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.840 of these horrible offenses and congress of newness, they're laid 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.920 out a number of them. Some have gone away as 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:34.720 a result of finding out more facts others have been 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.120 stretched out now and they've added to it, or they've 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.880 moved the goalposts, they found some way to keep the 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.400 allegation alive. But what is more likely that Trump is 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.040 the idiot that the left says he is, but also 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.640 able to do all these things and get away with them, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.200 or that Democrats have abandoned reason, fairness, and decency and 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.080 are just throwing every allegation they can against the President 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:04.320 that they just can stand. They hate this guy. They 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.160 hate him because of what his ascent means about the 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.480 way they view the world. They hate him because it 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.400 means that there's someone who will challenge some of the 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.440 not just political but some of the cultural norms out 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.120 there that have affected politicians, especially on the right, for 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.560 a long time, that he'll take the fight right to 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.520 the media. They can't stand this guy, and the only 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.920 way that they could stop being so crazy about him 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.720 would be to come to grips with all the lies 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.400 that they've told so far, and they won't do that. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.800 And the people that have believed this, the people that 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.160 have been spoon fed the nonsense from CNN and from MSNBC, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.800 those who've been lied to by The New York Times, 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.360 the Washington Post, all these expectations about the Muller probe 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.560 ending the Trump presidency, freeing us all from the long 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:57.600 dark night of trumpness. Turns out that that wasn't true. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.800 But the people that believed it to be true can't 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.680 be told that. They have to be told. Don't worry, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.680 it's coming just around the corner. And that's where Nancy 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.520 Pelosi and all the Democrats come in. That's where the 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.640 people who are part of very much at the top 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:19.720 of the establishment, and who often conflate credentials with credibility 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.200 or credentials with competence, And just because you're the boss 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.280 of something or the head of something, you're the speaker 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.720 of something, doesn't mean that you're a good person, a 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.280 knowledgeable person, or a wise person. The elites don't like 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.720 that though. They don't like the challenge of somebody coming 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.280 forward to say, hey, I know you've all made fun 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.440 of me. You thought I was a joke. Here I 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.520 am that people have empowered me, and I'm now as 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.040 Donald Trump pointing fingers at people and saying, well, who 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.520 are you exactly? Why should you be in this elevated position? 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.640 Why should you be able to walk around so smug 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:58.440 and dictatorial at the same time based on what a 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.760 lot of people, a lot of people in the media, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.480 a lot of Democrats, and academia and the legal profession 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.679 in Hollywood, and they don't have good answers for that, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.080 and it unsettles them. It really bothers them at a 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:16.240 core level. And so that's why Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.480 as I've been saying along and you listen to the show, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.240 you know, I try not to be that guys, as 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:21.879 I predict the future. A lot of people do this 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.560 on radio, and it's annoying to me because they just 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.040 tell you about their winners. They don't tell you about 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.200 their losers. But I tend to be right. Hopefully. It's 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:30.680 one of the reasons why you listen to the show. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.560 I've always been saying, Nancy Pelosi, she's going to make 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.080 sure that this president is impeached. That's stretching back for 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.440 two years now. She's going to impeach this president. Why 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:46.160 because of the emotional psychological need of the Democratic Party 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.120 and the people who run it to lash out at 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:54.520 Trump to have yet another moment of not my president. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.400 This is not any cause for any glee or comfort 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.520 this is something that is it's very solemn, that it's 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.760 something prayerful, and that we had to gather so much 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.440 information to take us to this next step. I rise 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.400 in strong support, but I do not take any pleasure 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.359 in the events that have made this process necessary. I 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.600 rise in strong support of the resolution, but I do 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.760 so with an understanding that the task before us is 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.200 a solemn one. How each member of this Chamber approaches 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.879 the vote this morning and the days and weeks ahead 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.520 maybe the most important service as members of Congress we 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.359 will ever pay to the country and constitution that we 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:41.200 all love and have pledged to defend. Oh, these Democrats 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.760 are so it's just they really don't want to do 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.959 this to Trump. It's just so serious and they know 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.880 how serious it is. And there's no joy, No, there's 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:56.720 no schadenfreude at Trump's misfortune. There's no sense of ha ha. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.520 We're pulling off another scam against this guy because he 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.800 keeps beating us, and we can't accept the reality of 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.120 what's going on in the country under a Trump presidency. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.760 We have to keep creating this fake world of Trump 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:13.520 is destroying everything and everybody. Does anyone believe these idiots 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.040 Pelosi and Chiff and all the rest of them. Oh, no, 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:21.879 we take no joy in this whatsoever. Really, why are 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:27.600 they doing it? It's preposterous. Schiff ran around for two 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.480 years saying that there was evidence of Trump colluding with Russia. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.320 Schiff ran around promising his constituents and all Democrats and 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.080 left us across the country that President Trump's day would 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:42.280 come when finally he could no longer hide from his treason. Remember, folks, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.560 that is what they were accusing this president of. Is 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.160 there any reflection that comes from being wrong for two years, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.080 Madam Chiff, Of course not. He served his purpose if 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.080 nothing else, And the Democrats won't admit this publicly. The 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.800 Muller probe, in a sense worked. It obstructed the president, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.800 slowed down his administration, kept good people from going to 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.439 work in this administration. The Democrats have already managed to 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.600 rob Trump of some of the powers of his office 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:17.760 by running around with these insane, deceptive, destructive narratives. But 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.040 then to have the temerity to have the brazenness to 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.040 sit there and act like they don't want to do this. Oh, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.399 I don't want to do this. I just Donald Trump 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:34.560 is forcing my hand. Ah, it's weak stuff. We all 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.360 know exactly what's going on here. You had the House 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.760 vote yesterday two hundred and thirty two to one hundred 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.720 and ninety six to approve the resolution setting out rules 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:48.720 for an impeachment process. So now there's some rules of 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.879 the road that they have agreed to in the House. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.280 How many Republicans went along with this in whatever we're 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.439 calling this vote to begin an impeachment inquiry that we 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.400 were told had already begune a couple weeks ago. How 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:09.119 many Republicans have defected? Zero? This is an entirely partisan vote, 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:13.880 which is new, which is new in the history of impeachments. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:20.080 Republicans had turned on and we're turning on Nixon, and 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.639 some Democrats went along with the Republicans and the impeachment 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:30.119 proceedings against Bill Clinton. So this strictly party line vote 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.520 shows you exactly what's going on here. This is just 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.280 a power played by the Democrats seeking to undo an 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.000 election that they did not like in advance of just 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.720 barely another election of a president that they say is 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.720 so stupid and so dangerous that it should be obvious 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.600 the American people wouldn't reelect him. Here's what we all 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:54.320 know they are terrified that this president will get reelected. 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.200 Why shouldn't they be. Look at the jobs numbers today, 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.919 look at what's going on in the country. Oh, we 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.479 were told if Trump move troops out of that part 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.320 of SyRI there'd be genocide and Isis would rebound and 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.480 a huge terrorist army would sweep across. Or we'd find 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.760 out that Abubakher al Buaghdaddy was dead a week later, 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.200 thanks to our special operators, some good work by folks 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.280 in the national security realm at the direction of the 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:24.760 President of the United States. Economy is still doing very well. 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.439 The biggest problem now is they're so little in the 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.680 way of unemployment. They're so little for Democrats to sink 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.080 their teeth into as criticism against Trump, that they just 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.280 have to keep repeating these crazy narratives. And we have 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.399 to sit here and spend time shooting down the insanity, 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.879 impeaching the president for what. What's the purpose of this inquiry? 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.320 How many of you even heard about the NSC staffer 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:51.520 who came forward and said that as soon as he 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:55.320 heard this was yesterday when he heard the initial Trump 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.000 phone call with Zelenski, that he thought there was nothing illegal. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.840 There's nothing wrong with it? What law? What law was broken? 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:04.760 And at the end of all this, you have to 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.399 remember the aid was not cut off. The investigation to 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.359 Biden did not occur. So we're going to criminalize a 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.280 conversation between two heads of state that resulted in no action, 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:18.960 nothing done, and that he was completely within his constitutional 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:23.040 rights to do in the first place. This is what 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.800 it is. If the Democrats did not have they're just 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:32.520 quizzling little media toadies in their pockets. They would never 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.600 be able to try to pull this off. It's so flimsy. 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.479 There's no there there, There's just nothing to speak of. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:43.600 That's why they worked so hard at pushing stories that 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.960 any person who spends any time digging into says, is 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.719 this it? This is really what's happening. There are some 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.440 Republicans who, it does seem to me, have an understanding 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:58.480 of what is really going on here. Representative Cheney, by 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:02.320 the way, has some fire. Resentative McCarthy has quite a 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:05.240 lot to say about this too. Producer Mark, please do 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:07.720 five and six for me, if you would, sir. This 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.560 is a process that has been fundamentally tainted. The president 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.600 has had no rights inside these hearings. His counsel has 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:16.880 not been able to be present. So for them now 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.720 to claim that they're suddenly going to open the process up, which, 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:23.240 by the way, this resolution does not do. The resolution 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:25.280 says that they're going to continue doing what they want 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.640 to do. It gives authority for open hearings, but they 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:31.720 cannot go back and fix what is a fundamentally tainted 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:38.040 and unfair record. Elections have consequences, our furollo. Americans use 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:42.160 their vote to choose who will work for them. So 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:46.480 I ask you all a simple question, especially to my colleagues, 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:52.080 is that what is happening here today? Are we gathered 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:55.240 in these final moments before we depart for a week 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:02.000 to fund our government to pay our troop. Are we 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:07.840 gathered today to prove a new trade deal? Are we 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:12.320