1 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. A horrific mass shooting 2 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: targeting Muslims in New Zealand has politics inflamed in this country. 3 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: We'll talk about what this terrorist was trying to accomplish, 4 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: what we can do to stop future acts like this, 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: and also all the latest from politics here in the 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Swamp and on Capitol Hill. That and more coming up 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: on the buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: Show where the mission or mission is to decode what 9 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: a great American. Again the buck Sexton Show begins. Remember 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: this was an attack aimed deliberately at Muslims. A live 12 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: streaming the massacre via a camera mounted on his head. 13 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: We are not showing any of that video at this point, 14 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: but I have watched it for the sake of our reporting. 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: It shows the gunman driving calmly toward a mosque playing music, 16 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: talking to himself saying, let's get this party started. He 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: then takes weapons from his trunk. He walks toward the mosque, 18 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: which was filling up for Friday prayers. He opens fire, 19 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: gunning down at least two men at the doorway. Then 20 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: he walks inside, he shoots every single person he can see. 21 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: He reloads several times, and at one point goes back 22 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: into a room where two large groups are laying on 23 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: the floor, many of them clearly already dead, some just wounded, 24 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: and he walks calmly around taking kill shots, finishing off 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: his victims with head or body shots. It's a tragic 26 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: day for the whole world today because of what has 27 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: happened here in New Zealand. People are understandably rattled, shocked, outraged, furious. 28 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: Forty nine people dead at prayer, forty over forty people wounded, 29 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: and clearly this is one of these national international news 30 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: stories that is going to force a lot of conversations, 31 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: some of them constructive, most of them not. Though within 32 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: minutes of this incident first coming up, within minutes of 33 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: this first becoming something that people were talking about, there 34 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: was an effort to begin to pin to pin blame 35 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: to find. You know, the blame should be pretty straightforward 36 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: in these situations, and I think you all know that 37 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: it is the shooter, the terrorists, the person who engaged 38 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: in these violent acts is the person that we all 39 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: should first and foremost think about as the one deserving 40 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: of blame. They're now in There are a few people 41 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 1: in custody in New Zealand. But we didn't even have 42 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: the details in fully on this. We did not have 43 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: all that much information when it came about that you 44 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: had some of the most prominent Democrat politicians in the 45 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: country deciding that they would find a way to make 46 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: this about Trump, that this was Trump's fault. Now, I 47 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: read through the entire manifesto of the shooter, as is 48 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: becoming a custom of people in the media. Now, I 49 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: don't know how useful it really is. I don't know 50 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: that it will work. Although there is some research to 51 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: show that these mass shooters crave fame and attention, and 52 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: so the more you give them, the likelier there'll be 53 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: other people that follow when their foots steps. But so 54 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: I won't name him. I don't feel particularly strongly about 55 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: naming one way or the other. But there's there seems 56 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: to be a movement among people in the media that 57 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: I respect, and then I think have good judgment to 58 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: try to avoid just repeating over and over again the 59 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: name of the person who is responsible for this. And 60 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 1: I did, however, read the manifesto, and there are parts 61 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: in it that were seized upon immediately by Democrats and 62 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: by the mainstream media in this country as a see 63 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: this is tied to the right. The guy said that 64 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: he did not like Trump's policies at all, but he 65 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: likes Trump as a symbol of white nationalism something along 66 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: those lines. He also had a bizarre reference in his manifesto, 67 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: which has been making a lot of This reference in particular, 68 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: has got a lot of attention that I to Candice Owens, 69 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: who I know her work. I know Candice a little bit. 70 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: I've worked with her before. She has nothing to do 71 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: with targeting Muslims or violence or any I mean, it's 72 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: just the guy might as well have said, you know 73 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: a person whose work I really admire is you know, 74 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: Luciano Pavaratti. I mean, it has nothing to do with anything. 75 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: But people seized on that and they tried to say 76 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: that this is just indicative of the way that the 77 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: right wing is fanning these flames of resentment and violence. 78 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: You know, let's let's now take a look, let's step 79 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: back from what the media narrative is of this and 80 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: try to get to a bit more of what the 81 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: truth is here. There are billions of people in the world. 82 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: The truth is that mass shootings on a percentage basis 83 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: around the world are actually are actually quite rare, and 84 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: that a shooting like this by a self described white nationalist, 85 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: as horrific and deeply disturbing as it is, is fortunately 86 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: also very rare. This shooter viewed Anders Brevic, who was 87 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: the shooter in Norway some years ago, as an inspiration 88 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: for him. Bravick was, I think almost a decade ago. 89 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: Now this is a rarity. Doesn't mean it's not horrible. 90 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that there won't be and should not 91 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: be follow on consequences and conversations to this. But the 92 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: effort to make this somehow Donald Trump's fault is just 93 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: unfair in every respect. The media and the people in 94 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: the media who are the different different outlets who are 95 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: taking this as an opportunity to score cheap points against 96 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: President Trump, I think they do a disservice to everyone 97 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: right now because there are some things that are not 98 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: political at all. There are some things that aren't about 99 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: where you stand on the US or any other political spectrum. Really, 100 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: it's just about being a human being, and no person 101 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: who was decent, who is moral, who is in his 102 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: or her right mind has anything but contempt for somebody 103 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: who would go into a house of a worship, a 104 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: house of prayer and gun down completely innocent and totally 105 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: helpless people. Instead of uniting in this country and condemnation 106 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: of what happened here, there has been a very clear 107 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: immediate backlash against anybody who is a political target of 108 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: the left. They are playing this game that I've seen 109 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: many times before. Whenever there is jee hottest terrorism, they 110 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: immediately want to explain to us all that gee hottests 111 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: are a very small percentage, that this is not the 112 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: true Islam, that has nothing to do with Islam. And 113 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: I actually think there's a much more in depth conversation 114 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: to be had about whether it has to do with 115 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: Islam or not, and whether you know that there's there's 116 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: real discussion to be had there, and the left never 117 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: wants to have it. They say even bringing that up 118 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: is racist. You know when Obama said famously, the Islamic 119 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: State is not the Islamic North State, Uh, you know 120 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: that that's that was a very debatable proposition. And there 121 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: are a lot of groups all over the world that 122 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 1: seem confused and regimes that run whole countries that seem 123 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: confused about what the true Islam is. Um. That's not 124 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: to say that Muslims around the world are all radicals, 125 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: quite the quite the opposite, ninety nine plus percent of them, 126 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: or just folks like you and me just trying to, 127 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: you know, take care of the families, feed the kids, 128 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: go about their day to day lives. But an ideology 129 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: of over a billion people is going to have, Unfortunately, 130 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: even with a very small percentage, a large contingent of 131 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: radicals that can be very disruptive, as we saw as 132 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: we have seen in recent years, and horrifically destructive as 133 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: we saw on nine to eleven. White nationalists as a 134 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: as a terror group are in my view, exaggerated as 135 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: a threat in most public discourse and most of the 136 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: news media's mind. And the notion that Donald Trump is 137 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: somehow a white nationalist. I mean, this is a guy 138 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: who is born and raised in New York City and 139 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: no one ever thought he was a white nationalist until 140 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: he ran for president. And now they really think this. 141 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if they believe it or if it's 142 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: just useful for them to pretend. On the front page 143 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: of the Washington Post right now, Trump downplays the risk 144 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: of white nationalism. Quote, it's a small group of people. 145 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: That's what the Washington Post is saying. The truth is, 146 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: it is a small group of people. You know, I 147 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: work in conservative media. I know a lot of very 148 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 1: hardline right wingers. A lot of them are my friends, 149 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: and we all have absolute contempt for white nationalists, neo Nazis, 150 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: anybody like that. We think that not only we have 151 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: contempt for them, we think they're losers. We think they're idiots. 152 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: They don't know anything. Their ideology is really just based 153 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: on resentment of everything because their lives aren't what they 154 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: think they should be, and so they look for answers, 155 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: they look for explanations for that. But there is no 156 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: global support for white nationalism. There is no global threat 157 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: of white nationalism taking over a country. You know, Look 158 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: what you have in Iran, Look what you had in 159 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: the Islamic State in Syria, Look what you had an Afghanistan. 160 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: In these other plays, white nationalism is not about to 161 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: take over a country and maybe get nukes. And these 162 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: are not equivalent forces for global destabilization and for violence 163 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: and causing violence around the world. They're not even they're 164 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: not even close. But right now, what we are being 165 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: told is that President Trump is in some way partially 166 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: responsible for this, and it's so deeply destructive and the 167 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 1: people who are saying it should be ashamed of themselves 168 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: because there's nothing to back this up whatsoever. But they 169 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: know that the hatred of this president is such that 170 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: they won't even give him. They won't even give him 171 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: the good faith of what is obviously the case that 172 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: President Trump hates what happened in New Zealand, despises this shooter, 173 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: and were it in his powers, commander in chief would 174 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: have done anything and everything to stop this person. But 175 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: of course this was on New Zealand, so I'm not 176 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: on us soil, and that they don't believe that is 177 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: deeply troubling to me. That the left thinks that this 178 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: is an opportunity to tear down this president, and that's 179 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: really their first inclination, and not just President Trump. By 180 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: the way, there are other targets that have also come 181 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: under attack from the left that I have nothing to 182 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,599 Speaker 1: do with this, this terrible event, this mass shooting in 183 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: New Zealand, Alexandriocazzio Cortez has written. She wrote on Twitter 184 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: that thoughts and prayers is a reference to the n 185 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: NRA's phrase used to deflect conversation away from policy change 186 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: during tragedies. That is so insidious and incorrect and stupid, 187 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: it's hard to know where to start. Thoughts and prayers, 188 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Okazio Cortes, is a reference to thoughts and prayers. 189 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: It's a reference to people wanting to send you know, 190 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: their their prayers of God's grace and support and help 191 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: to individuals in a terrible circumstance and to the families 192 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: left behind. And it's an expression of basic human solidarity 193 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: and goodwill and decency. Thoughts and prayers is not an 194 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: NRA phrase used to stop policy solutions to stop gun violence. 195 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: New Zealand has almost no gun violence as a country, 196 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: has less than less than fifty murders a year in 197 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: a country of five million. There's almost no gun violence 198 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: in New Zealand anyway, So what is the what is 199 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: the policy solution supposed to be for a case like this? 200 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: Don't allow a mass murderer to be a mass murderer 201 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: and to ever exist in the first place. I mean, 202 00:13:54,600 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: as manifesto is a rambling and incoherent mess of bitterness 203 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: and hatred and disdain for his fellow human beings. And 204 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: yet we're supposed to think that he is connected to 205 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: American conservatism or he doesn't like conservatives. He even says 206 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: in the manifesto he doesn't like Trump on policy. He 207 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: says in the manifesto. I read the whole thing today, 208 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: about seventy pages. He's a racist, He's a true white 209 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: nationalist racist. He's a disgusting discredit to humanity. And he 210 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: killed all these people today of the mosque, and it's horrible, 211 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: and I wish that somebody had been able to interview 212 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: even sooner. It is worth. It is worth I think, 213 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: noting that the reports, at least so far that I've seen, 214 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: or that a Muslim meant who was a legal gun 215 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: owner did manage to return fire on them and may 216 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: have saved a lot of lives in the process. So 217 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: a Muslim hero, he'd step up here. I just wish 218 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: he could have been there at the very beginning and 219 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: stop this whole thing and put two in this shooter's 220 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: head before he was able to hurt anyone. But there 221 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: was there was action, there was heroism, and you know, 222 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I've thought about whether I would watch 223 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: the video I've just seen so many of these terrorist 224 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: videos and beheadings and tortures and everything, and it stays 225 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: with you. And I think we all know, and I 226 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: think that the shooter wants us to watch, And I 227 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: don't know if that really adds a necessary context to it. 228 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: There are no solutions. I don't have any solutions for you. 229 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: People say in back, you worked in counter terrors, and 230 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: what should we do. There's evil in the world, my friends. 231 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: There are evil people who will do evil things. Sometimes 232 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: it will be in the form of a mass shooting. 233 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes it will be in the form of a bombing, 234 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: or it will be a militia that goes into a 235 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: village and slaughters everybody, or it will be a systematic 236 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: torture of political opponents. Or there is evil in this world. 237 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: The choice that we make every day is in our 238 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: own way. Do we fight against it? Do we do 239 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: what we can to make sure that evil does not triumph. 240 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: You have a role to play in this. I have 241 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: a role to play in this, all of us do 242 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: every day. Are we kind? Are we decent? Are we honorable? 243 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: Do we treat each other well? Do we stand up 244 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: for one another? Do we show bravery? Do we have integrity. 245 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: That's how we fight evil. Doesn't mean you're going to eliminate. 246 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean we're gonna win every battle. But we 247 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: do the best we can. And to those on the 248 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: other side of the world who are mourning right now, 249 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: we do send thoughts and prayers. We'll be right back. 250 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: And who is going to be the boogeyman of the 251 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: next ten to twenty years. Who's going to be the 252 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: great rival to the United States in the eyes of 253 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: American society China? That's right, And so what do you 254 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: think the attitude is going to be over time for 255 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: the shrinking in secure, a white majority that's losing their jobs, 256 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: for let's say, Chinese Americans or Asian Americans. I don't. 257 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm like I personally, I said to a group at Harvard, 258 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: I think we're one generation away from falling into the 259 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: same camps as the Jews who were attacked in the 260 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: synagogue in Pittsburgh, like just a couple of months ago. 261 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: It's like, we're probably one generation away from Americans shooting 262 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: up a bunch of Asians saying like, you know, damn 263 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: the Chinese because there's a giant cold war. Even more 264 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: with China That is the great danger that I fear 265 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: that my children are going to grow up in. That's 266 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: Andrew Yang, who's a presidential candidate. He's concerned that the 267 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: competition with China is going to lead to people going 268 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: in and shooting, shooting Asian Asian Americans, shooting up Asian churches. 269 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: You know this, This is not helpful. I mean, what 270 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: you're hearing from people now, what you're hearing from Democrats 271 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: is not in any way adding anything into this conversation 272 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: that will help avert something like this in the future, 273 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: that will help heal. This shooter wanted to create divisions. 274 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: That is what he wanted to do. It was explicit 275 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: in his very manifesto. And by acting like this is 276 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: somehow the fault of conservatives in America, they are giving 277 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: the shooter exactly what he wanted to accomplish from this, 278 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: other than the horrific mass carnage. This guy was a terrorist. 279 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: Let's not give the terrorist what he wants. 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That's AMAC dot 296 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: us slash buck. AMAC is better, better for you, better 297 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: for America. I don't really I think it's a small 298 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: group of people that have very very serious problems. I 299 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: guess if you look at what happened in New Zealand, 300 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: perhaps that's a case. I don't know enough about it yet. 301 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: They're just learning about the person and the people involved, 302 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: but it's certainly a terrible thing, terrible thing. It is 303 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: a small group of people, and you look at the 304 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: grand scheme of things that this violent white nationalists who 305 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: engage in terrorism on a global scale. It is a 306 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: very small group of people, but the President gets a 307 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of heat for this. People want 308 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: they want to believe that there is some connection to 309 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: President Trump. They want to believe that he is because 310 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: of his rhetoric. You know, he's the reason that this 311 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: is going on. He said, I think it's a small 312 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: group of people that have very very serious problems. Yeah, 313 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: that's right, that is true. And I've been seeing and 314 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: i haven't have watched some of them because I'm on 315 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: air with you, but there have been some panels on 316 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: CNN in the last hour where they're just all coming 317 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: up with ways that you know, Trump's rhetoric inspires this 318 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,479 Speaker 1: and Trump, Trump gives cover to these white nationalists. And 319 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: you know, Trump has said that white nationalists are losers. 320 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: He says that they're they're a joke, that there are 321 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: bad people. It doesn't matter what he says, though, they're 322 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: still going to take this position that Trump is in 323 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: some way a white nationalist sympathizer or you know, he's 324 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: created this this new environment where white nationalists can thrive. 325 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,880 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna just note that whenever, whenever we talk 326 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: about radical Islamic terrorism, that the script is entirely flipped. 327 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: It's it's not the fault of the ideology, it's not 328 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: the fault of anyone on the left for being weak 329 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: on dealing with radical Islam, you know. And in fact, 330 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: they'll often say that the reason for radical Islamic terrorism 331 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: is because of the insufficiently what's the word, the the 332 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: insufficient desire to cave in and do what Islamists want, 333 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: or the inability or the unwillingness of European countries to 334 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: better assimilate their European I mean, there are Islamic minorities 335 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: in Europe. That's that's always a part of that debate 336 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: as well. So I don't have much more to share 337 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: view on this shooting, because, you know, the Prime Minister 338 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: of New Zealand says that gun laws will change. New 339 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 1: Zealand already has pretty strict gun laws. They don't have 340 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: a full registration the way that the way that Australia does. 341 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: Keep in mind that you won't read this in the 342 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: news coverage of this at all, but Australia's buyback program 343 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: is always listed as being so successful after a mass 344 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: shooting in Australia. They did a buyback, a forced buyback, 345 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: which is confiscation with compensation. That's what that is. And yes, 346 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: there was a decline in violence in Australia. But guess what. 347 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 1: There are now more guns in circulation in Australia in 348 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: private hands than there were before the buyback program and 349 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: there is less violence. So someone would need to explain 350 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: to me how the buyback program is the cause for 351 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: this drop in violence when there are even more guns 352 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: now in private hands. Look, there's the emotions that people 353 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: have after a mass shooting like this are such that 354 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: they want to take action, especially people who believe that 355 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: their political positions are an extension of their goodness or 356 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: their worthiness as a person. And they also it fits 357 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: in with a view of how we should relate to 358 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: our states, how we should relate to our federal government, 359 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: such that guns are a little private rebellion in the 360 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: hands of citizens. Every gun in the hands of a 361 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: law abiding citizen is a private rebellion against the authority 362 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: of the state. They know that, and people are uncomfortable 363 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: with that. A lot of people do not like that. 364 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: The left in this country has really made guns a 365 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: dividing issue for culture as much as for the Second Amendment. 366 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: The manifesto writer understood this. In fact, he wants this 367 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: to create. In his manifesto, he said he wanted this 368 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: to create a Second Amendment battle in the United States 369 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: that would further divide the country and would lead to 370 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: inflict and civil war. Here, I mean the guy's a 371 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: loon too. Let's remember that. I mean the guy's a loon. 372 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: But there's now this big debate, this big discussion about 373 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: gun control and what we can do next for gun control. 374 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: And I'm sure Democrats will seize on this. And I'll 375 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: tell you this as well, Nothing in this country I 376 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: think will change. It's just not going to Why also 377 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: would anything, Why would our laws change in response to 378 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: what happened in New Zealand. There are still calls for 379 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: this from Democrats because it's such an emotional issue today 380 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: and because people are obviously so psychologically wounded by this. 381 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:40,959 Speaker 1: But what exactly are we supposed to do. We have 382 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: different laws than New Zealand, we have a different gun situation, 383 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: we have a different constitution than New Zealand, and yet 384 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: we're still going to be told that there needs to 385 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: be immediate action, and if you stand against it, if 386 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: you think that action that will help no one and 387 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: will infringe on rights is a bad idea, they're going 388 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: to say you're a bad person. You're a bad person. 389 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,959 Speaker 1: That's where this is all going next. Because there are 390 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,959 Speaker 1: a gun control efforts from the left. It's not just 391 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: about the guns. It's about their contempt for the people 392 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: who own guns. They don't like gun owners. It is 393 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: a separation between right and left now in this country. 394 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,239 Speaker 1: If you own a gun, the overwhelminglihood is that you 395 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: are more conservative and more likely to be conservative. That's 396 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 1: just the way it is. I want to switch to 397 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: the border just for a second here, because we got 398 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other topics. We'll talk about Beto 399 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: klobishar more Democrat candidates out there in the mix. We'll 400 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: have the latest on the cheating scandal with my friend 401 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly. He'll join later on the show. Just we're 402 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: gonna need to lighten things up a little bit, right 403 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: It's it's obviously been an emotionally draining day in the 404 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: news cycle, and I know it's Friday. We're gonna have 405 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: Jesse join us. We'll have some fun. We'll do some 406 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 1: roll calls, so things will definitely move in that direction 407 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: as we move along in the show. But I have 408 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: to know this was a piece today in the Daily 409 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: Mail that Trump's border agency. He says he has built 410 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: zero new walls, despite claiming otherwise for months. As a 411 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: president prepares to veto, lawmakers attempt well, he did ardie veto. 412 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: So the veto happened. The presidential veto happened. But now 413 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: you are starting to see US Customs and Border Protection 414 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: just coming out and saying, look, people should know what's 415 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: really going on here. And there is not new barrier 416 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: that is going up there. There's better barrier where there 417 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: already is some kind of a physical structure to prevent 418 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,479 Speaker 1: illegal crossings. But there is not, on a massive scale, 419 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: a lot of new barrier construction that is happening. It's 420 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: just not happening. And this is where a president Trump's salesmanship, 421 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: I think can be a little bit of a little 422 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: bit of a liability because he wants to say that 423 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: it's happening, because he wants to keep people engaged, and 424 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: he wants to build the wall. And I think that 425 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: he given him is given his druthers, he would follow 426 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: through on that promise, but it hasn't happened yet, and 427 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: I don't believe that we can be supportive of the 428 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: presidents saying that it is happening when it is not. 429 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: That's why when he tweeted out that wacky nut job 430 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: and Coulter, who still hasn't figured out that despite all odds, 431 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: an entire Democrat party of far left Democrats against me, 432 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: including Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight, I am 433 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: winning on the border. Major sections of wall are being 434 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: built and renovated, with much more to follow shortly. Tens 435 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: of thousands of illegals are being apprehended at the border, 436 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: and it's just like responding, Okay, tell me where this 437 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: new border fence is. Give me the latitude and longitude. 438 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: Tell me exactly where the new border fence is. I 439 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: gotta tell you on this one. Miss Coulter raises a 440 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: very important point, and we need the President to stay 441 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: focused on this and follow through. We also have a 442 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: whole lot more show coming up for your team in 443 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: just a moment, so stay with me. Today's votes cap 444 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: a week of something the American people haven't seen enough 445 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: of in the past two years. Both parties in the 446 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: United States Congress standing up to Donald Trump. In two days, 447 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: Congress has delivered three three major rebukes to the president 448 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: and stood up for transparency, accountability, and the constitutional powers. 449 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my stomach just turns a little bit when 450 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: you've got Chuck Schumer talking about transparency, the separation of powers, 451 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: as if he cares about any of that stuff. This 452 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: is what the Republicans that voted against Trump and with 453 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats on this resolution, this is what they've done. 454 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: They've given the Democrats a victory lap opportunity here and 455 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: for what it's certainly not smart. It's certainly not smart 456 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: from the perspective of enacting the Trumpet agenda, and it 457 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: gives Chuck Schumer this moment where he gets to point 458 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: out the divisions on the Republican side. Look, Trump's already 459 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: he's vetoed this thing, so it doesn't doesn't go anywhere, 460 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything, doesn't do anything. But I find 461 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: it just beyond beyond irritating when you have someone like 462 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer who gets to have some fun at the 463 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,959 Speaker 1: expense of the fractured Republican Party, because you've got some 464 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: Republicans that their first concern, really and truly is how 465 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: they how they appear, not just to their constituents, but 466 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: to the media. I think you get a lot of 467 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: Republicans that don't really don't really care as much about 468 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: what this means for them back home in the short 469 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: term as they do about what the what the mainstream 470 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: will say about them. And then that brings me to this, 471 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: and this is courtesy of our friend Sean Davis over 472 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: at the Federalist that Bill priests tap. The top FBI 473 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: counterintelligence official told a federal court last August in a 474 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: sworn declaration that John McCain passed the Steel Dossier to 475 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: James Comey on December nine, twenty sixteen, and that the 476 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: FBI briefed Obama on it even though the FBI had 477 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: not verified its claims. The Steel Dossier was an orchestrated 478 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: media opposition operation, Sean writes from the beginning, and that 479 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: everything done by Clapper and Comy was done to provide 480 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: media in an excuse to publish defamatory claims to damage Trump. 481 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: I think that that is all correct. It is absolutely 482 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,239 Speaker 1: insane that James Comey took it upon himself in an 483 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: intelligence briefing to present an unclassified, unsourced, unverified document to 484 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: the President United States saying that he had Russian prostitutes 485 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: engaging in all kinds of reprehensible behavior with him, you know, 486 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, gross things that was only done 487 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: to create the perception that this is real. But I 488 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: also have to wonder. I know that some people get 489 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: very touchy about this, but John McCain, Why did John 490 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: McCain pass the Steel dossier to James Coomey in December 491 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen after the election. What is John McKinnon. 492 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: Did he really think that it was real? Did he 493 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: did he think that that was something that should be 494 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: should be done? I mean, why would he share opposition 495 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: research on the President United States with the FBI director 496 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: at the time? And why haven't we heard more about 497 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: what Obama knew about all of this, which he definitely did. 498 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: And you they always keep Obama out of this situation. 499 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: They always pretend that Obama had, you know, no knowledge, 500 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: didn't order anybody to do anything. And I didn't didn't 501 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: know a thing about this old dossier. And I'm telling you, 502 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: the behind the scenes here with these Democrats was unseemly. 503 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: Doesn't even begin to cover it. But I also stopped 504 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: and thought to myself, McCain at so many different points 505 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: was willing to abandon his side at a at a 506 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: key moment to help the Democrats and the aftermath of 507 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: the election defeat of Hillary Clinton by a Republican nominee, 508 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: that McCain would pass this to KOMEI Why didn't McCain. 509 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: Let's really ask this, If McCain had to steal dossier, 510 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: why didn't he call for a private meeting with the 511 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: President United States himself? Man? Demand wouldn't that have been 512 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: the honorable thing to do? It was already out there 513 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: in circulation. There's not some sources and methods concern, there's 514 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: no I mean, it's the presid the United States. He 515 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: can see anything. But this is an unclassified document that's 516 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: circulating among the media and circulating among the media as 517 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: part of a plan by the Democrat operatives that created 518 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: this whole thing to defame and destroy the President United States. 519 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,719 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't McCain say, mister President, I need to talk 520 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: to you about something and sit down with him. Because 521 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: if he believed this was real, why wouldn't John McCain 522 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: do that? Why give it to James Comey? And be 523 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: a part of this scheme, this scheme to nullify the 524 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: election defeat of Hillary Clinton by President Trump. Why everyone 525 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: I know in politics feels very they're very passionate feelings 526 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: about John McCain. I know people that all they ever 527 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: want to talk about is his honorable military service in Vietnam, 528 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: and you know, nobody questions that, nobody disputes that. I 529 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: also know a lot of people who feel like his 530 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: legacy is one of turning on Republicans at key moments 531 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: and not being somebody that has owned I could count on. 532 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: And also you want to talk about people that surrounded 533 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: themselves with bad individuals from it during the campaign. I've 534 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: heard his campaign was it was an absolute mess, and 535 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: people have told me he was also. I won't I 536 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: won't get further into it beyond that, but McCain sure 537 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: enough shows up in this circumstance as someone who was 538 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: part of this whole artifice, this whole scheme to create 539 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: a Russia collusion narrative where there wasn't one. This was 540 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: all just made up whole cloth. There was nothing, There 541 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: was nothing there. They they made this like a fairy tale, 542 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: and then they weaponized the intelligence community and the collection 543 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,320 Speaker 1: platforms that it has all because they were so so 544 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: upset that Hillary Clinton wasn't going to be the president 545 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,720 Speaker 1: of the United States. This is the biggest scandal of 546 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: my lifetime. And nothing you know, Monica and and you know, 547 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: you name it. I mean, there's there's no scandal that 548 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: I have lived through an American politics that comes anywhere 549 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: near what's going on here, and that the people who 550 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: are at the heart of it not only won't be 551 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 1: punished but are going to be celebrated as some kind 552 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 1: of heroes when what they did has torn at the 553 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 1: very as the very fabric of this country as a 554 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: place that has rule of law that isn't based in politics, 555 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 1: that isn't based in what political party you happen to 556 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: be a part of. It has undermined that in profound ways. 557 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: And there will be no accountability for the men that 558 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: did this, and Trump and his presidency. Who knows what 559 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,959 Speaker 1: would have been different if he hadn't had to carry 560 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,840 Speaker 1: around this burden. Who knows what would have happened if 561 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: he had not been in a situation where he had 562 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 1: the Special Counsel harassing him, haranguing him and the people 563 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: around him. The Legal Bill the anxiety, the lost sleep, 564 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:11,280 Speaker 1: the prospect of all of this just destroying whatever feelings 565 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 1: of goodwill he could ever have from the other side, 566 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: or that the other side could have about him, and 567 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: McCain was involved in it. I think that I think 568 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 1: that people will look back on a lot of what 569 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,879 Speaker 1: John McCain did as a politician with far greater criticism 570 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: than we have been allowed up to this point, when 571 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 1: we have a bit of distance and honesty. Our two 572 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: is coming up. Whether you like Donald Trump or you 573 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 1: dislike Donald Trump, the one thing that I think we 574 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 1: can all agree on is that Donald Trump has made 575 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: American journalism great again. The other thing we can agree 576 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: on is that the media is not the enemy of 577 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,399 Speaker 1: the people. At CNN, our core mission is to tell 578 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: the truth, to hold those in power accountable, even when 579 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable, especially when it's uncomfortable. Last November, we made 580 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,280 Speaker 1: the most uncomfortable and the easiest decision of my career. 581 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 1: We sued the President of the United States for taking 582 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: away the press cidential of our chief White House correspondent, 583 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: Jim Accosta, all because he didn't like the questions that 584 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: Jim was asking him. We didn't pick that fight We 585 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 1: didn't want that fight, but the decision to fight for 586 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: our right was easy. That's CNN chief Jeff Zucker, in 587 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 1: a moment of preening and delusion, or a few moments 588 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: of it, talking about how Trump has made journalism great again. 589 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: I think that's quite the opposite. I think Trump has 590 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 1: exposed American journalism for the shallow cast of nasty, want 591 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: to be cool high school kids at all just want 592 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: to sit at the same table. Because I think that's 593 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,799 Speaker 1: what it really is. And I think that they have 594 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 1: not learned any lessons. They do not care that the 595 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: general public doesn't believe them, does not trust them, does 596 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: not think that they engage in their profession honestly, and 597 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: the public should not think that they engage in their 598 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 1: profession honestly because they don't. They are activists pretending to 599 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: be journalists. And then CNN's Zucker complains a bit more 600 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,840 Speaker 1: about this seven. The President has treated our CNN journalists 601 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,200 Speaker 1: with disrespect on more than one occasion. The name calling 602 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: and the insults are sadly something that has become the 603 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: norm when covering him. We don't like it, and it 604 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: is wrong. What we do has never been more important. 605 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: This administration need not like what we say, but they 606 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: should respect our right to say it. The President has 607 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: treated our CNN journalists with disrespect on more than one occasion. 608 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: The name calling and the insults are sadly, yeah, we 609 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: get it, we get it. So we heard, we heard that. 610 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: So is he just is he just completely delusional? Because 611 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: CNN journalists have been not just disrespectful to this president. 612 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,280 Speaker 1: CNN journalists have been at the heart of the effort 613 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: to destroy this president. CNN journalists were the ones involved 614 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,839 Speaker 1: in the early days of leaking the meeting between come 615 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 1: and Trump about the dossier that Big Bag oh Lies 616 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 1: known as the Dossier. They were hoping to turn it 617 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,359 Speaker 1: into a news story and they have been running with 618 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: it ever since. SNI has had to fire journalists for 619 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,440 Speaker 1: fabricating news stories about Trump and the people around him, 620 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to phase them one bit. I guess how 621 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,360 Speaker 1: many news how many journalists has seen have to fire 622 00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 1: for a hit piece on Obama, This pretense that Zucker there. 623 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: We try to hold people to account, Well, they'll hold 624 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: Republicans to account. They'll do more than that. They'll do 625 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,239 Speaker 1: everything in their power to destroy a Republican. They will 626 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: try to ruin a presidency. They drunk with power and 627 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: their own self righteousness, are willing to lie, are to 628 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: stack the deck against a president, whether it's in a 629 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 1: debate or just in their day to day news coverage. 630 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: They will take an activist role in this whole situation. 631 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,399 Speaker 1: And then there's this latest addition to the many, many 632 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: complaints of journalism about Trump, that he puts lives at 633 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,399 Speaker 1: risk placlip eight. This administration has made it abundantly clear 634 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,840 Speaker 1: that they do not have respect for or tolerance of 635 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: a free and independent press. They call us the enemy 636 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,760 Speaker 1: of the people. They limit our access, They selectively grant interviews, 637 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: most often the outlets that have assured them that they 638 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 1: will follow the script. Quite literally, they put our lives 639 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:05,760 Speaker 1: at risk with their words and their actions. That's just insane. 640 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,400 Speaker 1: They're not putting CNN journalists lives at risk anymore so 641 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: than journalists who are spreading lies about Trump and his 642 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 1: supporters are putting lives at risk when they are saying 643 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 1: the president's a trader, guilty of treason, which they have done. 644 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: They've asked this question. They they've gone on TV and 645 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 1: said is the president a trader? Well, wouldn't that mean 646 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: that if you voted for him, you've supported a trader. 647 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: What if you still support that trader. They take no 648 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:42,919 Speaker 1: responsibility for the toxic politicization that they have engaged in 649 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: and the political advocacy that they've done under the falsehood 650 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,760 Speaker 1: that this is journalism. They take no responsibility for this whatsoever. 651 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the head of CNN. He's one of 652 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 1: the most powerful people in the news business in the world. 653 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,040 Speaker 1: And you know, do you get the sense are we 654 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: supposed to believe that CNN is fair to the president. 655 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,800 Speaker 1: The head of CNN is out there trashing the president 656 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Trash is Fox News as well. 657 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,520 Speaker 1: And let me tell you, in a state run media environment, 658 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:24,400 Speaker 1: you don't have one outlet that is favorable to you know, 659 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,800 Speaker 1: favorable to the regime in power, and then a hundred 660 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 1: that are just trying to destroy the regime in power 661 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,520 Speaker 1: all the time. That's not all. That's not an authoritarian 662 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:37,600 Speaker 1: regime situation. No. What's much It's a much greater threat 663 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,760 Speaker 1: to your liberty is when you have a united front 664 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,840 Speaker 1: of support for the regime from all of the different 665 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,320 Speaker 1: media outlets that will cover up the abuses, that won't 666 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 1: dig deep that don't want accountability. That's a far greater 667 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: threat to liberty and freedom than one media outlet that 668 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,239 Speaker 1: gives voice to half the country essentially. I mean, I 669 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: do believe I wish that there were there was another 670 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,799 Speaker 1: channel like Fox out there, just so that we'd have 671 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: more bandwidth, so that there'd be more shows, there'd be 672 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: more of a conservative voice and even more diverse Republican 673 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: and conservative position in this country. You know, maybe maybe 674 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 1: a little more libertarian flavor in some of there too. 675 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: You know that I think that would be great, But 676 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,800 Speaker 1: we don't have that. But we have is a vast 677 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:33,080 Speaker 1: media conglomerate that all works together, that's really just a 678 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 1: wing of the DNC and is doing everything it can 679 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,879 Speaker 1: to destroy a presidency. And I know some of these people, 680 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: so I know that they want Donald Trump's children to 681 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: go to prison. They want people like Manafort to die 682 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 1: in prison for tax fraud. They think that's a good thing. 683 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,880 Speaker 1: I mean, what happened. And you know, we've actually actually 684 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: got a Democrat, a Democrat former federal prosecutor come on 685 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,319 Speaker 1: Rising today and he was willing to admit and I 686 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,880 Speaker 1: give him credit for this, that what the Cyrus Evans 687 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: in New York State did by adding the Manhattan District 688 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:19,200 Speaker 1: Attorney's office by adding charges when they're already two guilty 689 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,920 Speaker 1: either verdicts or please from men Afford and two other 690 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,600 Speaker 1: federal trials for a seven year old man is just 691 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 1: the most blatant politics imaginable. And what you know now 692 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,040 Speaker 1: from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is that if you're 693 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 1: a high profile Republican, you're not going to get a 694 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,439 Speaker 1: fair shake. If you get you can't. Look what happened 695 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,560 Speaker 1: to Gennesta SUSA. That was Preet Barrara. Oh where did 696 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,200 Speaker 1: Preet Barra, the US Attorney for the Southern District of 697 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,440 Speaker 1: New York. What did he do as soon as Trump 698 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,319 Speaker 1: got rid of him? Oh he went to work at 699 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,239 Speaker 1: CNN and to start a podcast. That's right, he's a 700 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,920 Speaker 1: left wing media guy. Well, he used to be able 701 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,879 Speaker 1: to determine how many decades you go to prison for 702 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,240 Speaker 1: for white collar crime. That was his job. And Preet 703 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,760 Speaker 1: was a big fan of purp walks for white collar criminals, 704 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 1: people who were not in any way a physical danger 705 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,680 Speaker 1: to anyone. Berrara really wanted to parade them around. Why 706 00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 1: because it made him look tough on white collar crime, 707 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,799 Speaker 1: and that's what he really cared about. That's what really 708 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:25,920 Speaker 1: got him excited. These people have no appreciation for how 709 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: much damage they're doing to the good faith that a 710 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,160 Speaker 1: lot of us would like to have in these different 711 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,160 Speaker 1: institutions and these mechanisms of government, and yes, in the media, 712 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,040 Speaker 1: I would think it was a fantastic thing if we 713 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,960 Speaker 1: had an honest news media. I mean, I can tell 714 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 1: you that even well, I was going to tell you 715 00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 1: some stories about some of the stuff I deal with 716 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:48,920 Speaker 1: the media, but I don't have to hold on some 717 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,960 Speaker 1: of that. But the assumption, the assumption is that when 718 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 1: you're in a newsroom, you're dealing most unless you're at 719 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,360 Speaker 1: Fox or maybe the Wall Street Journal a few other places, 720 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,640 Speaker 1: but when you're in your typical newsroom, most of the 721 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:07,120 Speaker 1: people in there are woke left wingers, and so they 722 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,279 Speaker 1: don't just disagree with your point of view, but have 723 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,520 Speaker 1: this professional approach what they're doing. They think that they 724 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:18,080 Speaker 1: are on a mission, a mission from the depths of 725 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:23,400 Speaker 1: their own self righteousness to destroy people who are on 726 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,600 Speaker 1: the other side, including people who work with them, who 727 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,879 Speaker 1: are colleagues of theirs, who are good people and who 728 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,279 Speaker 1: are just trying to do their job. You know, you 729 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,200 Speaker 1: cannot trust libs in the media. Unfortunately, I wish you 730 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,680 Speaker 1: know some of them. You get to know well enough 731 00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 1: you can maybe trust, But in general it's a very 732 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,680 Speaker 1: unwise thing to do because they're zealots, they're true believers, 733 00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: and they control that they control the narrative, they have 734 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,399 Speaker 1: the most outlets, and then they get Zucker to get 735 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,520 Speaker 1: up there and wind for them, talk about how their 736 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,680 Speaker 1: lives are at risk and Trump is so terrible and 737 00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: how could he do all these bad things? And Jim 738 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,680 Speaker 1: accost some kind of American here, and now you've got 739 00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,920 Speaker 1: to be kidding me, right, this is a joke. Unfortunately 740 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,400 Speaker 1: it's not a joke. This is how the mainstream media, 741 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,280 Speaker 1: all these pampered millionaires, this is how they see themselves. 742 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,800 Speaker 1: There's a legal sentence, and there's a sentence of shame. 743 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: Anytime he walks into a green room, which we have 744 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,319 Speaker 1: here at CNN for the next twenty years, when every 745 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,440 Speaker 1: he gets out, he cannot look at a single member 746 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,319 Speaker 1: of the press, court, a single politician without shame. He 747 00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,759 Speaker 1: can't walk out of a room again to regardless of 748 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,200 Speaker 1: whether he gets out of a jail, without shame. People 749 00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,839 Speaker 1: in this town are going to dishonor him. So that's 750 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,240 Speaker 1: one of the favorite national security analysts over at CNN, 751 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:46,320 Speaker 1: Phil Mud talking about Maniford, and notice the real sense 752 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:52,399 Speaker 1: of sanctimony but also vindictiveness, talking about how Maniport will 753 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,719 Speaker 1: feel shame. He's gonna feel shame. Can't go into a 754 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,479 Speaker 1: green room with that. And this is the greatest fear 755 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,080 Speaker 1: for people that really like your CNN is you're not 756 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,120 Speaker 1: going to be welcome in the CNN green room. Oh oh, 757 00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 1: that's really that's a scary universe to live in, right, 758 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:12,040 Speaker 1: you can't have that. Paul Metaphord's going to prison for 759 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: seven and a half years. He's a seventy year old man. 760 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,280 Speaker 1: He's going to serve that seven and a half There's 761 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,560 Speaker 1: now the possibility of additional state charges hanging over his head. 762 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,239 Speaker 1: They're doing that just so that the president can't pardon him. 763 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,280 Speaker 1: So that's an end run on the president's pardon power. 764 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:34,560 Speaker 1: It is explicitly and obviously political. It's disgraceful. What exactly 765 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: did Manaphort do that makes feel Mud so angry at him? What? What? 766 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,719 Speaker 1: What is Manaford's great crime? Not paying his taxes? I mean, 767 00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,680 Speaker 1: he's making twenty five million dollars of restoration payments to 768 00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,839 Speaker 1: the government. Okay, so he's paying the taxes and then 769 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,239 Speaker 1: some I think that in most tax cases that should 770 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,799 Speaker 1: be I that should really be sufficient. I mean, if 771 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,719 Speaker 1: you can make the government whole and you can pay 772 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,799 Speaker 1: massive fines on top of it, maybe a six months 773 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,959 Speaker 1: and it's just as kind of a you know, don't 774 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:07,200 Speaker 1: be naughty. But seven and a half years they hate 775 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,239 Speaker 1: manap it because he worked for the president. He has 776 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,880 Speaker 1: become a scapegoat for all the rage they have and 777 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,719 Speaker 1: at also, I think all the intellectual insecurity that they 778 00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,880 Speaker 1: try to suppress about Russia collusion that never happened, it 779 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:27,880 Speaker 1: didn't exist. But Manaford is now a convicted felon facing 780 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,360 Speaker 1: almost a decade in prison. So he's the one to 781 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,080 Speaker 1: direct all of their anger to. You know who else 782 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,080 Speaker 1: should be a convicted felon and in prison, or at 783 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,520 Speaker 1: least should have faced the possibility of being a convicted 784 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:44,080 Speaker 1: felon in prison. Hillary Clinton, I've not forgotten this. Why 785 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,520 Speaker 1: should we accept different standards of justice for the right 786 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,120 Speaker 1: and the left. Why should we accept that Democrats get 787 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,440 Speaker 1: away with everything Republicans don't. Just it's not just that 788 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,040 Speaker 1: they don't get away with anything. They're destroyed for nothing. 789 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't think we should. I don't think that should 790 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 1: be acceptable to anyone. Lindsey Graham brought up the possibility 791 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,960 Speaker 1: of maybe taking some action on this when it comes 792 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,080 Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton. Play clip one. Any American out there 793 00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,839 Speaker 1: who did what Secretary Clinton did good be in jail now. 794 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,919 Speaker 1: The question I want to know is, does anybody other 795 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,920 Speaker 1: than me believe that. I don't ask you to believe me. 796 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:28,400 Speaker 1: We let Muller look at all things Trump related to collusion, 797 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,120 Speaker 1: and otherwise somebody needs to look at what happened on 798 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,560 Speaker 1: the other side and find out if the FBI in 799 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,399 Speaker 1: the DOJ had two systems, one supporting the person they 800 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,440 Speaker 1: wanted to win, a one out to get the person 801 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,160 Speaker 1: they wanted to lose. Some of these people have been 802 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,279 Speaker 1: fired for lying, and it's now time to have a 803 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:56,040 Speaker 1: special counsel looking all things twenty sixteen, not just Trump. 804 00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,000 Speaker 1: How about some accountability for the other side. I can 805 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,880 Speaker 1: already tell you that the plan is to let, for example, McCabe, 806 00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,800 Speaker 1: who was acting FBI director, who is clearly a Hillary 807 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:12,160 Speaker 1: partisan and a bad guy, let him just fade off 808 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,920 Speaker 1: into the sunset and not bring any charges against him 809 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,880 Speaker 1: he lied under oath. I thought lying under oath was 810 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,080 Speaker 1: a heinous crime. I thought you should never lie under 811 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 1: oath because you're going to go to prison for it. 812 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,719 Speaker 1: But not if you're somebody that was playing for the 813 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,080 Speaker 1: right team. This has gotten to the point where it 814 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 1: is not just too obvious to ignore, but I think 815 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,000 Speaker 1: it's too dangerous for us to ignore. I think that 816 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,320 Speaker 1: the willingness of the Democratic Party he used a legal 817 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,480 Speaker 1: system as a weapon against their political allies, has to 818 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,279 Speaker 1: be met with a commensurate response. And yeah, that might 819 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,520 Speaker 1: mean a special counsel on Hillary Clinton. Why not. We've 820 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,400 Speaker 1: just found out this past week, based on the LEASA 821 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:04,319 Speaker 1: page closed door testimony, that the decision was made very 822 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,000 Speaker 1: high up in Lauretta Lynch's DJ that they were never 823 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:12,359 Speaker 1: ever going to bring charges against Hillary Clinton, didn't matter 824 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,640 Speaker 1: what they found in the investigation. The investigation was all 825 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,400 Speaker 1: for show. It was a sham. We just found that out. 826 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,000 Speaker 1: So since that now is a matter of record, that 827 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,320 Speaker 1: now as a function of testimony from somebody who was 828 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,759 Speaker 1: under oath, and who would know, what else can we 829 00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:32,760 Speaker 1: find out. I'm hoping that President Trump is holding back 830 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:38,680 Speaker 1: for example, the declassified FISA application or the declassification of 831 00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:43,440 Speaker 1: the FISA application on Carter Page and more of the 832 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,399 Speaker 1: Russia Investigation origin documents. I hope that he's hanging back 833 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,480 Speaker 1: on that in case they try to pull some nonsense 834 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,439 Speaker 1: with the Muller probe, in case they decide that they're 835 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,799 Speaker 1: going to, even though they don't have any charges against him, 836 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,160 Speaker 1: they're going to take some kind of action men to 837 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,759 Speaker 1: undermine his presidency, make him seem like he's a bad guy, 838 00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,800 Speaker 1: because what he should do in that case is unleash 839 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,000 Speaker 1: what he knows, what he has access to as a 840 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,319 Speaker 1: commander reprief about what happened there. And I really do 841 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,040 Speaker 1: believe that it would be a jaw dropping moment if 842 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:26,200 Speaker 1: we found out how much these guys in the most 843 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,000 Speaker 1: sensitive positions in law enforcement in our government. I think 844 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,640 Speaker 1: it will be a jaw dropping for us to find 845 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,640 Speaker 1: out just how much they were abusing their power and 846 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,879 Speaker 1: going after Trump. I really do. I think that this 847 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:43,040 Speaker 1: is one of those moments that it will be hard 848 00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,480 Speaker 1: for us to take in at first, so because it'll 849 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,319 Speaker 1: be so overwhelming and so obvious, and it'll be hard 850 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,120 Speaker 1: to believe even when we have the evidence that we 851 00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,880 Speaker 1: know we should believe it. I want Trump to release 852 00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: that information. I want Trump to put it out there, 853 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,759 Speaker 1: but he may be he may be holding back on 854 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,080 Speaker 1: it until he needs it. You know, it's essentially the 855 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,680 Speaker 1: bazooka he's keeping the media bazooka that he's keeping in 856 00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,440 Speaker 1: his pocket in the case that he might need something 857 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,240 Speaker 1: to talk about. So, you know, I want to discuss 858 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,160 Speaker 1: presidents with you coming up here in presidential candidates, because 859 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:21,520 Speaker 1: you've got some very how should we say it, I've 860 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,840 Speaker 1: got some real losers on the Democrats side, they're already 861 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,080 Speaker 1: in the mix, and I just start to think more 862 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,960 Speaker 1: and more about how I think that people don't even 863 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,839 Speaker 1: really know what they wanted a president anymore. I think 864 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,360 Speaker 1: the rules have changed about what's acceptable for a president, 865 00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,560 Speaker 1: and what certainly the Democrats and the Left desires in 866 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,080 Speaker 1: a president is now kind of fuzzier than it's ever been. 867 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,200 Speaker 1: They kind of just want an emotion, not a person. 868 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,719 Speaker 1: Her campaign was shaken up in the early days by 869 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,360 Speaker 1: multiple reports, negative reports of how you've treated some of 870 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,680 Speaker 1: your staff in the past. Your answer to that, which 871 00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,239 Speaker 1: you've given many times many people have asked about this, 872 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,040 Speaker 1: you said, look, I can be too hard. What's too hard? 873 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,799 Speaker 1: Well to me, If you are a boss, you have 874 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,840 Speaker 1: to have high standards, and that is what I have 875 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,280 Speaker 1: always had. And that doesn't mean it's a popularity contest 876 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,280 Speaker 1: all the time. And so I've had high standards for myself, 877 00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,520 Speaker 1: high standards for our staff, and mostly I'm going to 878 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,720 Speaker 1: have high standards for the country. But one can always 879 00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,640 Speaker 1: do better, and that means you want to be sure 880 00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,040 Speaker 1: that you are listening to people if you know they 881 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:34,760 Speaker 1: felt that something was unfair or they felt bad about something. 882 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,840 Speaker 1: But I still think that you have to demand good 883 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,040 Speaker 1: product when you're out there on the world stage and 884 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,439 Speaker 1: dealing with people like Vladimir Putin. Yeah, you want someone 885 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,719 Speaker 1: who's tough. You want someone that demands the answers and 886 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,279 Speaker 1: that's going to get things done. Yeah, that's that's Klobischer 887 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,520 Speaker 1: running for president there. And I wanted to really get 888 00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,799 Speaker 1: to the end because you know, you got you gotta 889 00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,400 Speaker 1: have her hear it, her say it. You got to 890 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,600 Speaker 1: hear it from her. Uh, that's right, She's gonna take 891 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,360 Speaker 1: care of Putin. Maybe she'll throw a hairbrush at Putin. Yeah, 892 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,880 Speaker 1: maybe she'll make Putin eat salad with a with a 893 00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,239 Speaker 1: hairy comb and then make him clean it off in 894 00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:20,560 Speaker 1: front of her. It's so gross. It is so gross. 895 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:28,359 Speaker 1: Amy klobashchar famously famously abusive to her staff, nasty, nasty 896 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,759 Speaker 1: person when it comes to what I was working for, 897 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,280 Speaker 1: And I always think it's it's so it's so cute 898 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,600 Speaker 1: when people after they've been accused by a lot of 899 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:42,920 Speaker 1: their former staff of being really terrible to work for, 900 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,040 Speaker 1: and then they'll get some group to come forward that 901 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,839 Speaker 1: is all looking to advance themselves most like, I'm sure 902 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,000 Speaker 1: some of them probably think that she's actually nice. You know. 903 00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:55,399 Speaker 1: Usually a mean boss isn't mean to everybody. It's very 904 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,680 Speaker 1: rare and that's why. And usually mean people aren't mean 905 00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:04,160 Speaker 1: to everybody. So it's really the absence of mistreating any employee, 906 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:08,719 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the presence of treating mistreating any employees is 907 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,160 Speaker 1: all you have to find. Because if you're mistreating any employees, 908 00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,719 Speaker 1: then you're a bad employer. You're always going to be 909 00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:20,640 Speaker 1: able to find usually some people who feel like you 910 00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,880 Speaker 1: weren't that bad, you know, And this is kind of 911 00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,480 Speaker 1: a version of you know, even even Hitler loved his dog, right, 912 00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,600 Speaker 1: I mean, people always everyone has some kind of level 913 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,320 Speaker 1: I think that's a Bill Mark quote, by the way, 914 00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,520 Speaker 1: But you know, as people have some level of humanity 915 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,600 Speaker 1: and kindness, even the very very worst people. So just 916 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,200 Speaker 1: because somebody isn't terrible that everybody doesn't mean they're not 917 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,160 Speaker 1: a terrible boss. But I was thinking about this a 918 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,960 Speaker 1: little bit today because with klobaschar on this huge group 919 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:51,680 Speaker 1: of all the different candidates out there, and Bajo, who 920 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,040 Speaker 1: just like I just want the whole country to hold hands, 921 00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,960 Speaker 1: close their eyes and feel the power of the power 922 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,800 Speaker 1: from within where your power center is. Uh, you know, 923 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,800 Speaker 1: with all this stuff that's going on, I think it's 924 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,280 Speaker 1: fair to ask, what do we really wanted a president? 925 00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,240 Speaker 1: You know? I used to say that what we want? 926 00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,800 Speaker 1: And look, I'm going to support Trump for reelection obviously, 927 00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,200 Speaker 1: so it's not it's not that important to think about 928 00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,160 Speaker 1: this in the immediate term on the Republican side, But 929 00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,600 Speaker 1: I do think that it shifted someone. I think that 930 00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,360 Speaker 1: our perception of what a great commander in chief would 931 00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,840 Speaker 1: be is very different these days from what it would 932 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,360 Speaker 1: have been when I was at least a young kid, 933 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,680 Speaker 1: you know, in the era of Reagan. I feel like, 934 00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,920 Speaker 1: now you want somebody who is a fighter on social media. 935 00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:50,160 Speaker 1: You want somebody who is very much I you know, 936 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what the Democrats really want, and I 937 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,400 Speaker 1: think the Democrats don't really know what they want. They 938 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:59,040 Speaker 1: want they want a set up policies. But is character 939 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:02,200 Speaker 1: even important any more? Does character matter? How can we 940 00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,800 Speaker 1: as a country, given recent presidential choices, how can we 941 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,680 Speaker 1: say that we think that character is an important presidential trait? 942 00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:16,080 Speaker 1: I mean, the Clinton machine was premised on the eradication 943 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,760 Speaker 1: of character as something that is necessary for anyone to 944 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,920 Speaker 1: run for for public office. That just I think it's 945 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:29,160 Speaker 1: interesting we've changed on this without really stopping to think 946 00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,520 Speaker 1: about how much we've changed and how, you know, and 947 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:36,080 Speaker 1: what we've changed. And that's just that's what I get 948 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:40,320 Speaker 1: from the klobaschar fiasco. Where Why does she think because 949 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,000 Speaker 1: she's a Midwestern senator and maybe she'll be able to 950 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,280 Speaker 1: bring this is just a profile raising exercise for her. 951 00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to say it's to sell 952 00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,080 Speaker 1: more books, because I don't think she has. Actually everybody 953 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,480 Speaker 1: these days has a book. You know what also bothers me. 954 00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,240 Speaker 1: You know, I'm in a mood as a Friday of 955 00:59:56,280 --> 01:00:00,520 Speaker 1: a letter rip. Why is everyone okay with other people 956 01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,400 Speaker 1: writing books under their name, and why do I You know, 957 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,800 Speaker 1: there are a few areas where I'm an odd duck 958 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,520 Speaker 1: and I know it, and I get shouted down by people, 959 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,800 Speaker 1: even people I like in respect a lot. They think 960 01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,840 Speaker 1: that I'm totally crazy. But you know, these these politicians, 961 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,560 Speaker 1: they have these books that they put out and this 962 01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,760 Speaker 1: has become commonplace. The politicians put out of a book. 963 01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,760 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying none of them write them, but 964 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,600 Speaker 1: I think almost none of them really write them. Maybe 965 01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,200 Speaker 1: some of them consult and they work with the ghostwriter. 966 01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:34,200 Speaker 1: Why isn't that plagiarism? You know? This is where you 967 01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:36,800 Speaker 1: know and you see. This is on the issue of 968 01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:42,440 Speaker 1: plagiarism and books. On getting rid of recruiting. Remember, I'm 969 01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:44,640 Speaker 1: fine with college athletics recruiting as long as you're not 970 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,600 Speaker 1: going to change the academic standards for the admission. So 971 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,640 Speaker 1: if you can find a straight A student who's also 972 01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,520 Speaker 1: you know, a world class defensive lineman, great, you know, 973 01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:55,880 Speaker 1: take them for your school. I'm not saying you can't 974 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,280 Speaker 1: try to find I'm just saying the system as it 975 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,880 Speaker 1: works right now, where you can override the overall academic 976 01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:06,240 Speaker 1: system in order to get a certain kind of athlete. 977 01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,520 Speaker 1: I think that that's crazy. I think that, you know, 978 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,800 Speaker 1: there are some other areas where I'm I'm alone, John, 979 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,240 Speaker 1: what was I talking about just second ago? I just 980 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,760 Speaker 1: lost my own train of thought on that one where 981 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,240 Speaker 1: what was I saying I'm crazy? On anyway, there's there's 982 01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:25,240 Speaker 1: a lot of oh, writing books, writing books that that 983 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,760 Speaker 1: it's okay if you pay someone else to write a 984 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,360 Speaker 1: book under your name, that's somehow that's not a not 985 01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,880 Speaker 1: a big deal. I don't know why we think that 986 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,480 Speaker 1: this is a normal thing to do. If I kept 987 01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,960 Speaker 1: publishing editorials under my name that I paid someone else 988 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,320 Speaker 1: to write for me, wouldn't people think that I was 989 01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,280 Speaker 1: not a very good writer. And that's a strange thing, 990 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:48,080 Speaker 1: a strange thing to do. And this is where we 991 01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,440 Speaker 1: get into the conversation also about what's going on with 992 01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:56,280 Speaker 1: this school system, that school school system scamming, the emission scams, 993 01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:58,600 Speaker 1: where I take the point of view that there's a 994 01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,240 Speaker 1: lot of very shady reasons that people get into school. 995 01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:03,840 Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways that people gain the system. 996 01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,440 Speaker 1: So why are we so outraged right now that this 997 01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,840 Speaker 1: particular system, which is more brazen than others. I admit 998 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,280 Speaker 1: that but that this particular system existed in the way 999 01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,439 Speaker 1: that it did. I just I would note this is all. 1000 01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,360 Speaker 1: This is all where people break from me and say, oh, Buck, 1001 01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,479 Speaker 1: you just don't really understand what's going on. You don't 1002 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,680 Speaker 1: understand what's going on. But I think I do understand. 1003 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:29,240 Speaker 1: I think I know what's up. I think I know 1004 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:35,720 Speaker 1: what time it is. What kind of president do you want, Well, 1005 01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:39,680 Speaker 1: maybe you want a president who just like connects and 1006 01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,920 Speaker 1: you know, was in a punk rock band. But also 1007 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,560 Speaker 1: it was like the hunky o pair on the Upper 1008 01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:50,200 Speaker 1: West Side that everybody wanted to hang out with. Yeah, 1009 01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:51,600 Speaker 1: he was an opair of the true story. He was 1010 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,479 Speaker 1: an opair on the Upper West Side of New York City. 1011 01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,040 Speaker 1: So Becho and Betto and I were in New York 1012 01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:59,320 Speaker 1: at the same time. But speaking of Betcho and what 1013 01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,640 Speaker 1: you want for a pres if you're a Democrat, what 1014 01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,720 Speaker 1: we want is for Trump to win another term. Although 1015 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,040 Speaker 1: I would like to have a little more focus from 1016 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,280 Speaker 1: the Trumpster on enacting the agenda. I think the Trumpster 1017 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,640 Speaker 1: lacks a little bit of focus. I know he's got 1018 01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:17,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the Russia collusion thing drags around him, 1019 01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,080 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff I know I'm not 1020 01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,160 Speaker 1: trying to be unfair to the man, but the agenda 1021 01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,480 Speaker 1: is not nearly as as enacted as I would like 1022 01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,720 Speaker 1: to be at this point. But this was interesting. This 1023 01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,280 Speaker 1: was from a Reuter's profile today on Peto quote. Arguably, 1024 01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,400 Speaker 1: there has been no better time to be an American 1025 01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:41,480 Speaker 1: politician rebelling against business as usual. There is no indication 1026 01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,520 Speaker 1: that O'Rourke himself ever engaged in the edgiest sorts of 1027 01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:48,880 Speaker 1: hacking activity. He was a hacker, breaking into computers or 1028 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,960 Speaker 1: writing code that enabled others to do so. Still, it's 1029 01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:55,960 Speaker 1: unclear whether the United States is ready for a presidential 1030 01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:01,320 Speaker 1: contender who, as a teenager, still long distance phone service 1031 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:05,520 Speaker 1: for his dial up modem wrote a murder fantasy in 1032 01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:09,360 Speaker 1: which the narrator drives over children on the street and 1033 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:15,920 Speaker 1: mused about a society without money. You know, I've I'm 1034 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,760 Speaker 1: in a weird spot here with some of this stuff, folks, 1035 01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:20,440 Speaker 1: because I've been saying, you know, you can't hold against 1036 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:24,000 Speaker 1: people stuff that they said ten years ago, and and 1037 01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:29,480 Speaker 1: I agree. And I'm not saying Bettos should be fired 1038 01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,560 Speaker 1: from a job or that he should be kicked out 1039 01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:37,040 Speaker 1: of the public square for this stuff, but murder fantasy 1040 01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,000 Speaker 1: where the narrators running over children on the street. That's 1041 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:45,280 Speaker 1: a weird that's a weird move. They the long distance 1042 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,680 Speaker 1: cell phone service thing, that's nothing. I mean, everybody who's 1043 01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,840 Speaker 1: my age, You guys all remember Napster and what was 1044 01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:56,200 Speaker 1: the LimeWire which everyone was just downloading all kinds of stuff, 1045 01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,520 Speaker 1: including a lot of naughty stuff, a lot of I 1046 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:02,800 Speaker 1: was he was astonished at how much how much porn 1047 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:07,120 Speaker 1: was on the shared Amherst College server. And I of 1048 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,520 Speaker 1: course never watched any of it, but there was all 1049 01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,000 Speaker 1: this port on the server, and I guess they just 1050 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:15,400 Speaker 1: didn't know how to like get it all out. But 1051 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,080 Speaker 1: people would would upload stuff to the to the college 1052 01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:19,880 Speaker 1: server that was portgred. This is a lot. This is 1053 01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,760 Speaker 1: earlier in the early days of the Internet, and there 1054 01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:24,640 Speaker 1: was all kinds of stuff on there, you know, some 1055 01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:31,640 Speaker 1: really really funky, funky stuff. So anyway, children on the 1056 01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,200 Speaker 1: street getting run over sidey without money. I think betto 1057 01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,240 Speaker 1: is kind of a weirdo. But a weirdo is no 1058 01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,680 Speaker 1: longer a problem when you're running for president. In fact, 1059 01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:45,720 Speaker 1: we've really changed the nature of what opo research can 1060 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:47,760 Speaker 1: be at this point. I mean, unless you have and 1061 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,240 Speaker 1: Bettos duy. People are going to point to that when 1062 01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,560 Speaker 1: he ran across the median and ran into another car, 1063 01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,040 Speaker 1: unless you killed somebody and something like that, which he 1064 01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,040 Speaker 1: did not. He did not severely injure anybody, including himself. 1065 01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,920 Speaker 1: But unless you're talking about a situation like that, just 1066 01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,600 Speaker 1: just doesn't move the doesn't move the needle. It's not 1067 01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,560 Speaker 1: going to prevent him from running, it's not going to 1068 01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:11,840 Speaker 1: prevent him from from possibly winning. So we have we 1069 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,680 Speaker 1: have very much changed. You know that that that Amy 1070 01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:18,880 Speaker 1: clovischar could be known as a serial abuser of staff 1071 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,320 Speaker 1: and to make people clean off the comb that she 1072 01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,840 Speaker 1: ate a salad with, which is still just the grossest thing. 1073 01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:27,720 Speaker 1: You know. It's I don't know what it is about 1074 01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,640 Speaker 1: using a comb to eat your salad, you know, but 1075 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, you find a spoon or a fork, for 1076 01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:37,680 Speaker 1: heaven's sakes, it just strikes me so gross. But betto 1077 01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,919 Speaker 1: being a weirdo who was a hacker and wrote murder 1078 01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,000 Speaker 1: fantasies that where people are running over children, none of 1079 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,920 Speaker 1: that's going to even that's not even gonna register. Folks. 1080 01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,640 Speaker 1: We are in a brave new world where we're weird 1081 01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:56,760 Speaker 1: and crazy seems kind of an asset. I'm Don blank 1082 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,480 Speaker 1: chef candidate for US Senate, and I approved us message. 1083 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,720 Speaker 1: Politicians are running a lot of crazy ads. They blew 1084 01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,240 Speaker 1: up the coal mine and then put me in prison. 1085 01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,520 Speaker 1: Now they're running the ads to say the coal mine 1086 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,040 Speaker 1: blew up and I went to prison. There's no surprise there. 1087 01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,480 Speaker 1: But if you want jobs, if you want to end 1088 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,880 Speaker 1: the drug epidemic, and you want to protect you unborn, 1089 01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:18,920 Speaker 1: you need to vote for me. One of my goals 1090 01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:22,160 Speaker 1: as US senator who will be to ditch cocaine Mitch. 1091 01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:24,880 Speaker 1: When you vote for me, you're voting for the sake 1092 01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,840 Speaker 1: of the kids. So that's Don Blankinship, and that's where 1093 01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:34,000 Speaker 1: the whole cocaine Mitch joke comes from. Right. So when 1094 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,760 Speaker 1: people some have asked me, Buck, why do you called 1095 01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,520 Speaker 1: cocaine Mitch? And why are there all these memes about 1096 01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:44,600 Speaker 1: cocaine Mitch, because it comes from this ridiculous ad from 1097 01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:51,280 Speaker 1: now failed Republican Senate candidate Don Blankinship. So one this 1098 01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,440 Speaker 1: gives us an opportunity to play that ad, so you 1099 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,760 Speaker 1: can hear it again because it's kind of fun. Coquerine 1100 01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:02,720 Speaker 1: Mitch gotter rout of Coquine Mitch. And then there's also 1101 01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,440 Speaker 1: a news reason for this, which is that Don Blanketship 1102 01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:14,240 Speaker 1: has sued not a twelve million dollar defamation lawsuit against 1103 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:18,040 Speaker 1: the biggest media outlets in the country. Don Blanketship has 1104 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:25,000 Speaker 1: filed a twelve billion dollar eleventy billion dollars, a twelve 1105 01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:29,519 Speaker 1: billion dollars defamation lawsuit against major media outlets. Now they 1106 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,840 Speaker 1: say it's or he says it's because dozens of news 1107 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:36,040 Speaker 1: outlets and media personalities referred to him as a felon 1108 01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,600 Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen when he was running in the 1109 01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:43,120 Speaker 1: West Virginia primary. Now Blanketship was the was the CEO 1110 01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:47,840 Speaker 1: formerly of Massey Energy, and he did have a little 1111 01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:51,720 Speaker 1: stint where he went to prison for a while, but 1112 01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:59,400 Speaker 1: he was acquitted of all felony charges. Turns out, so look, 1113 01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:01,880 Speaker 1: I don't think he's kint a twelve billion dollar case, 1114 01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:04,880 Speaker 1: but I wonder if he won't get entirely laughed at 1115 01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,439 Speaker 1: a cored all the merits based on that he's if 1116 01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,680 Speaker 1: he's not technically a felon and they're all calling him 1117 01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:13,519 Speaker 1: a felon's that is the kind of thing that is 1118 01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,280 Speaker 1: actionable sometimes in a in a defamation case for what 1119 01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:21,920 Speaker 1: I understand. I mean, defamation is usually very hard to prove, 1120 01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,559 Speaker 1: especially if you're a public figure and you're running for office. 1121 01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,160 Speaker 1: And remember, you don't really prove it. You just kind 1122 01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,960 Speaker 1: of have to convince a jury. And it's a civil issue, 1123 01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:34,639 Speaker 1: but defamation can be very hard. The cocaine Mitch thing 1124 01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:40,640 Speaker 1: is because Mitch McConnell and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chow, who 1125 01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,160 Speaker 1: I'm just this is what blanketship. Blanketship referred to are 1126 01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,880 Speaker 1: as quote, a wealthy China person. That's what he said, 1127 01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:51,240 Speaker 1: and he referred to China people on in his ads. 1128 01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:55,639 Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is really out there that they 1129 01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:58,840 Speaker 1: owned a shipping company that McConnell's wife or tied to 1130 01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,920 Speaker 1: a shipping company, and some in the shipping company I 1131 01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:04,000 Speaker 1: think there was a cocaine seizure, and so he was 1132 01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:07,400 Speaker 1: saying that Mitch is tied. It's just crazy, and that 1133 01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:11,200 Speaker 1: that a guy who would accuse the speaker of the 1134 01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:15,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Senate Majority leader of in any way 1135 01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,040 Speaker 1: being tied to drugs. There are some people in the 1136 01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:22,920 Speaker 1: Senate who I could see, maybe even decades ago, being 1137 01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:26,200 Speaker 1: tied to drugs, probably not today. Mitch McConnell is not 1138 01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,040 Speaker 1: one of them. I think he's probably the most straight 1139 01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:31,280 Speaker 1: edge guy that you would find in the Senate. Well, 1140 01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,000 Speaker 1: Mike Lee is a little more straight edge, but Mitch 1141 01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:35,800 Speaker 1: McConnell's pretty straight edge. And I just think this whole 1142 01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,600 Speaker 1: thing's got a funny And now you know, if I 1143 01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,000 Speaker 1: refer to cocaine Mitch, I am not, in fact suggesting 1144 01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,519 Speaker 1: that he is the second coming of Pablo Escobar and 1145 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:47,400 Speaker 1: has been part of some incredible plot to be the 1146 01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,639 Speaker 1: most powerful Republican senator of his generation. No, no, no, 1147 01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,400 Speaker 1: it was all a joke, a joke from this guy 1148 01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,559 Speaker 1: blanket Ship who I'm sure. I'm sure some of you 1149 01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,280 Speaker 1: know a bit about a bit more than I do. 1150 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,760 Speaker 1: But it's looking very unlikely that he will. I know 1151 01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:06,240 Speaker 1: this for sure. He's not going to get twelve billion dollars. 1152 01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:07,760 Speaker 1: I just wish I could see how they came up 1153 01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:12,360 Speaker 1: with that number. Not five billion, not ten billion, twelve 1154 01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:17,600 Speaker 1: billion dollars in a defamation lawsuit. Very very unlikely to 1155 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:19,719 Speaker 1: see that. And keep in mind that there's a there's 1156 01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,520 Speaker 1: a large two hundred and fifty million dollar defamation lawsuit 1157 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,519 Speaker 1: by one of those students from Cummington High school. I 1158 01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,519 Speaker 1: don't know how much money he's actually going to get, 1159 01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:35,320 Speaker 1: but it's that's a lawsuit that they better take very 1160 01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,800 Speaker 1: seriously because I think he does have a case. I 1161 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:42,920 Speaker 1: think he does have the ability to get damages from CNN. 1162 01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:46,639 Speaker 1: He's not a public person. They were reckless in their reporting, 1163 01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,400 Speaker 1: along with other places Washington Post. So he may be 1164 01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,719 Speaker 1: a very rich young man, which would be great. Maybe 1165 01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:55,519 Speaker 1: he'll start a conservative free speech foundation with his millions 1166 01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,880 Speaker 1: and millions that he is definitely owed got. Jesse Kelly 1167 01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:05,400 Speaker 1: joining shortly Team stay with me special Friday treat for 1168 01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:09,520 Speaker 1: all of you listening. My friend that the tallest conservative 1169 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:13,840 Speaker 1: man I've ever met, Jesse Kelly, is joining us now. 1170 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,760 Speaker 1: He clocks in at at seven to six I think. 1171 01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:20,400 Speaker 1: But he's also a fantastic radio host and podcaster in 1172 01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:23,559 Speaker 1: his own right, host of the Jesse Kelly Show. He's 1173 01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:28,559 Speaker 1: down on KPRC in Houston. That is his radio station. 1174 01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:30,200 Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter if you want to 1175 01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:34,080 Speaker 1: be highly amused. Mister Kelly, great to have you six 1176 01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:36,760 Speaker 1: foot eight. Buckets six foot eight, but it's seventh sick. 1177 01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:40,040 Speaker 1: Did you count the ego exactly? There you go. That's 1178 01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:41,880 Speaker 1: what I always say. I'm six feet tall, but you 1179 01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:43,760 Speaker 1: throw the hair in there on a good day. Six 1180 01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:48,960 Speaker 1: one son? What's up? So, so, Jesse, tell me, tell 1181 01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:52,200 Speaker 1: me a bit about your take on this, on this 1182 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,559 Speaker 1: college admission scandal that has rocked to the nation. You must, 1183 01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:59,479 Speaker 1: you must watch this with a much amusement. I do well. 1184 01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:03,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm pretty pretty highly educated. I 1185 01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:05,960 Speaker 1: don't like to rub my education in everyone's space, but 1186 01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:10,200 Speaker 1: I have almost three years of accredited community college credits, 1187 01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,040 Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't. I don't. I don't want 1188 01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,439 Speaker 1: to make other people feel bad, but so I've got 1189 01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:16,519 Speaker 1: I've got some pels in the wall. Let's just say. 1190 01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:20,400 Speaker 1: And I look at this and all I do is 1191 01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:24,040 Speaker 1: laugh like I don't find it scandalous, even buck, I'm sorry, 1192 01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,840 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see what the big deal is. 1193 01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:30,000 Speaker 1: Rich people pay money to get their kids access to 1194 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:33,240 Speaker 1: things that poor people don't get access to. That's called 1195 01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,680 Speaker 1: the history of the world. Yeah, yeah, I get it 1196 01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:38,160 Speaker 1: was a scam and this kid didn't get in or 1197 01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:40,240 Speaker 1: that kid didn't get in. The how does this anymore 1198 01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:43,880 Speaker 1: scandalous than Harvard not letting Asian kids in? And it's 1199 01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,120 Speaker 1: the same thing. That's what universities do they screw some 1200 01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:50,680 Speaker 1: deserving kids over in the favor of the undeserving, and 1201 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,280 Speaker 1: they do it for nefarious reasons. That's the college university system. 1202 01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:56,080 Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty amazing. When I'm with you, 1203 01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,960 Speaker 1: I can't get nearly is. I find it more kind 1204 01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,840 Speaker 1: of amusing and and telling that anything else. I mean 1205 01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:05,599 Speaker 1: this is I also have been saying on radio this 1206 01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:07,639 Speaker 1: is not the only one of these scams in college 1207 01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:09,360 Speaker 1: that there's no way that this is the only one 1208 01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,920 Speaker 1: of these there's this has been an underground industry for 1209 01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:16,000 Speaker 1: I'd say the last at least the last ten, maybe 1210 01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,479 Speaker 1: the last twenty years that nobody's really thought much about. 1211 01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:20,960 Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's more of this. But when I've 1212 01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I've said to people, you know, do we really want 1213 01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:28,439 Speaker 1: federal criminal charges against somebody for giving a check to 1214 01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:32,160 Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the men's swim team coach or something, 1215 01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,640 Speaker 1: or the track and field coach. And people act like 1216 01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm I'm defending a mass murderer. That they really get 1217 01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,200 Speaker 1: mad at me. How dare you the deserving spots? I'm like, 1218 01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:46,120 Speaker 1: the deserving spots they go to idiot kids whose parents 1219 01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:48,799 Speaker 1: donate buildings. They go to minorities that are a standard 1220 01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:52,160 Speaker 1: deviation in terms of their SATs and grades below the 1221 01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:54,960 Speaker 1: average for the class they go to. Uh, you know, 1222 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,599 Speaker 1: they go to people for all kinds of reasons, and 1223 01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:00,840 Speaker 1: the whole athletic recruit thing, I would say is subject anyway. 1224 01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:03,519 Speaker 1: So you know, I think it's kind of people freaking 1225 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:07,160 Speaker 1: out about nothing, but they thinking I'm the crazy person. Yeah, 1226 01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:10,120 Speaker 1: that's because people adhere to the old waves and they 1227 01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:14,559 Speaker 1: don't realize that the just how much awful things go 1228 01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,439 Speaker 1: on behind closed doors when it comes to universities. And 1229 01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,479 Speaker 1: you know what's funny you brought it up about how 1230 01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:24,320 Speaker 1: this isn't the only one. I guarantee you one, there 1231 01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,720 Speaker 1: are lots of people out there sweating bullets right now 1232 01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,879 Speaker 1: because they have done and or are doing the exact 1233 01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:33,639 Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, they didn't get busted, they didn't 1234 01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,120 Speaker 1: get swept up, and this is one. They were in 1235 01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,599 Speaker 1: different universities to doing different things that just they're just 1236 01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,439 Speaker 1: waiting for the shoe to drop. This is what happens. Man, 1237 01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,240 Speaker 1: Kids who don't rate get into great colleges because he 1238 01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,960 Speaker 1: can swing a baseball bat or throw great passes. That 1239 01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:50,719 Speaker 1: this is This is the university system and on top 1240 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:53,520 Speaker 1: of that, we need to have a completely new discussion 1241 01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,559 Speaker 1: about the university system at all the United States. Why 1242 01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,679 Speaker 1: does every kids feel like he has to go to college. 1243 01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,639 Speaker 1: There are a bunch of kami trade in camps at 1244 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,800 Speaker 1: this point in time. I'm not going to push my 1245 01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,439 Speaker 1: kids for college. If you have something specific you want 1246 01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:08,000 Speaker 1: to go for, fine, But we have all these kids 1247 01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,600 Speaker 1: graduating in four years with one hundred thousand dollars and 1248 01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:13,160 Speaker 1: the students loaned it, and they're bigger morons than they 1249 01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,160 Speaker 1: were going in with middle life skills. There's actually a 1250 01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,560 Speaker 1: piece from Heather McDonald of the Manhattan Institute that I 1251 01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:21,519 Speaker 1: read today where they gave and this was at elite schools, 1252 01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:24,680 Speaker 1: they gave students a basic American history test when they 1253 01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,280 Speaker 1: entered as freshman, and then gave them the same the 1254 01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,120 Speaker 1: same test when they left as seniors. They did better 1255 01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,800 Speaker 1: as entering freshman. So essentially, all the drinking and all 1256 01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:36,040 Speaker 1: the wheat smoking for four years did not in fact 1257 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:40,200 Speaker 1: make them smarter. Of course, you know, I went to 1258 01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,400 Speaker 1: college for one year when I got out of high school, 1259 01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,760 Speaker 1: like a real college, not the community college version, and 1260 01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:47,559 Speaker 1: I got a zero point zero grade point average. My 1261 01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:51,240 Speaker 1: first semester, I drank and partied like you would not believe. 1262 01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,439 Speaker 1: I was easily way more dumb when I left them 1263 01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,160 Speaker 1: when I got there. I did not get any knowledge 1264 01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,080 Speaker 1: about the real world until the Marine Corps, until she 1265 01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:03,200 Speaker 1: started reading books and things like that. There is an 1266 01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:05,439 Speaker 1: endless world out there of knowledge that you can get 1267 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,719 Speaker 1: where you don't have to spend twenty five thousand dollars 1268 01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:10,599 Speaker 1: a year to get. I think you raise a very 1269 01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:13,000 Speaker 1: interesting point, which I know doesn't surprise you, Jesse, because 1270 01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,400 Speaker 1: you probably recognize all of your points is very interesting. 1271 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,960 Speaker 1: But we are at a time when you have greater 1272 01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:24,920 Speaker 1: access and easier access to information, to self teaching, to 1273 01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,800 Speaker 1: learning about things on your own that at any point 1274 01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:29,840 Speaker 1: in human history, it's not even close, right, And there's 1275 01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,960 Speaker 1: no question if you want to nerd out sometime and 1276 01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:34,599 Speaker 1: I don't know if Jesse would ever do this, guys, 1277 01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:36,160 Speaker 1: but those are you listening. If you want to nerd out, 1278 01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:40,759 Speaker 1: you can watch. There are whole lectures by revered Yale 1279 01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,679 Speaker 1: professors online that you can watch. I mean, there's whole 1280 01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,559 Speaker 1: courses that they put up for free. You can want 1281 01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,560 Speaker 1: this stuff and can learn. You can see all the 1282 01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:50,599 Speaker 1: stuff that they're doing. This is all free, and yet 1283 01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:54,160 Speaker 1: while that's going on, the price of four year college 1284 01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,760 Speaker 1: tuition goes up and up and up. I think that 1285 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,960 Speaker 1: these places are operating kind of like quasi government backed cartels, 1286 01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:05,120 Speaker 1: and there's just so many bloated administrators, and you've got 1287 01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,200 Speaker 1: a lot of professors that are teaching two hours a week. 1288 01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:09,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a scam on that side 1289 01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,640 Speaker 1: of it that nobody ever focuses on. Well, yeah, and 1290 01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,320 Speaker 1: you're right about the wealth of knowledge at your fingertips. 1291 01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I've got two sons. They're eight and ten 1292 01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:19,360 Speaker 1: and a million times a day. Now, you know, they'll 1293 01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:22,280 Speaker 1: want to know about this or that. Shockingly I know 1294 01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:24,120 Speaker 1: is it may be to your listeners, I'm not all 1295 01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,719 Speaker 1: knowing and we don't know. We stop. Okay, let's stop, 1296 01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,000 Speaker 1: go to the computer, let's google it, let's watch YouTube video, 1297 01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:34,120 Speaker 1: let's figure it out. There's no question you have that 1298 01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,720 Speaker 1: is not a quick Google search away from finding the 1299 01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,679 Speaker 1: answer to and endless amounts of reading material. The knowledge 1300 01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,320 Speaker 1: is out there. You don't have to pay and go 1301 01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,439 Speaker 1: do it, and I'll tell you something else. We're going 1302 01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:47,639 Speaker 1: to see a flip to this system. One of these days. Soon, 1303 01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,680 Speaker 1: the corporations, the businesses in this country are going to 1304 01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,000 Speaker 1: figure out quickly. You don't have to wait for a 1305 01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:56,240 Speaker 1: kid to be twenty two. Talent is talent. Go snatch 1306 01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:59,479 Speaker 1: up a high school graduate, beg him sign a contract 1307 01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:01,280 Speaker 1: that he's going to stay for so many years, and 1308 01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,800 Speaker 1: give him me on the job training he needs right 1309 01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:07,439 Speaker 1: in your place, and skip the whole university racket. I 1310 01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:11,280 Speaker 1: don't think that four year college degrees are are worth 1311 01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,800 Speaker 1: as much in actual skills as our society pretends that 1312 01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:18,400 Speaker 1: they are. I just think that they are a credentialing system, 1313 01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:21,000 Speaker 1: and when they're trying to sort people out from each other, 1314 01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:23,920 Speaker 1: they they set this bar up. But I also would 1315 01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,519 Speaker 1: note that the bar because so many more people are 1316 01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:28,320 Speaker 1: going to four year undergraduate schools, and now the bar 1317 01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:30,599 Speaker 1: keeps getting higher, and now you got people that are 1318 01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,559 Speaker 1: supposed to get advanced degrees, master's degrees, all this you know, 1319 01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:36,800 Speaker 1: MBA's jds, all this other stuff. So I think it's 1320 01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:38,840 Speaker 1: kind of out of control. But Jesse, I need to 1321 01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:40,639 Speaker 1: I need to ask you, because you are a Texan 1322 01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:46,479 Speaker 1: and not far from ground zero of Beto Mania, what 1323 01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:51,960 Speaker 1: is your take on the men, the myth, the emo 1324 01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:57,360 Speaker 1: songwriter Beto roork Let me let me preface this by 1325 01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,759 Speaker 1: saying I can't stand him. I cannot stand in his voice. 1326 01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,439 Speaker 1: I don't like watching him speak. I don't like anything 1327 01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,840 Speaker 1: about Bedo O Roorke. So everybody stayed your hate man. 1328 01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:12,000 Speaker 1: Bedo Rourke is a phenomenal candidate, an absolute superstar, and 1329 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,679 Speaker 1: somebody that Republicans should fear a lot more than they do. 1330 01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,240 Speaker 1: He is the next Obama. You can laugh at these 1331 01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,800 Speaker 1: morons doing their Beeto songs and things like that. Have 1332 01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:26,600 Speaker 1: you seen any Elizabeth Warren's song or Kamala Harris songs. 1333 01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,240 Speaker 1: That's the exact kind of idiocy that Obama could inspire him. People. 1334 01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:32,880 Speaker 1: He came within three points of beating Ted Cruz in 1335 01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:35,240 Speaker 1: a year where Greg Abbott beat hit opponent by double 1336 01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,559 Speaker 1: digit The guy is a tireless worker. He's gonna have 1337 01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,160 Speaker 1: Obama behind him. He's got national name. I d can 1338 01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,519 Speaker 1: raise money, his family has money. He's not gonna beat Trump. 1339 01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:47,320 Speaker 1: If the economy stays this way, nobody can. But you 1340 01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,240 Speaker 1: watch out for this guy. He is going to be 1341 01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:51,519 Speaker 1: trouble for us in the future. Wow, you think he 1342 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,200 Speaker 1: can make it all the way through? Oh? I think 1343 01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:57,519 Speaker 1: he's In fact, I've been telling him as the Democrat 1344 01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,040 Speaker 1: nominee for six seven eight months. He was about a 1345 01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:02,080 Speaker 1: month into his Senate run and I was the first 1346 01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:05,000 Speaker 1: one to call it. He came out hard anti gun 1347 01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,040 Speaker 1: in Texas, which means you're not really running to win 1348 01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,479 Speaker 1: in Texas. You can't do that. But I knew right 1349 01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:11,600 Speaker 1: then he was running for president. And I'm telling you 1350 01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:13,320 Speaker 1: he is going to be a contender. He's going to 1351 01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:18,559 Speaker 1: be the nominee. Huh, Jesse Kelly Man dropping a marker 1352 01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,360 Speaker 1: here on this one. I'm messing around, really saying that. Bettos. 1353 01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:25,439 Speaker 1: I said this yesterday. And you know, we had our 1354 01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:29,280 Speaker 1: mutual friend Rahim Kassamon, and he takes your your a 1355 01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:31,200 Speaker 1: version of your point of view, at least where he 1356 01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:35,200 Speaker 1: agrees that he's While he's goofy, he is formidable. And 1357 01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:39,160 Speaker 1: you know, in the era of AOC, another politician that 1358 01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:41,519 Speaker 1: I know you must have some thoughts on in the 1359 01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:46,600 Speaker 1: era of AOC being a goofy, Ignoramus seems to be 1360 01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:50,960 Speaker 1: an asset. Yeah. Look, he understands very much the two 1361 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:55,120 Speaker 1: thousand nineteen Democrat voter. He does on his website, he 1362 01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,320 Speaker 1: did his campaign, launched, launched his website. He has merchandise 1363 01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,080 Speaker 1: for sale and not a single policy position. The man 1364 01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:05,400 Speaker 1: knows exactly what he's doing. It's brilliant. It's brilliant, and 1365 01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:08,160 Speaker 1: he is able to for whatever reason, just because you 1366 01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:10,920 Speaker 1: can't see it and I can't see it, for whatever reason, 1367 01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:14,000 Speaker 1: he is able to inspire some kind of loyalty and 1368 01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:17,080 Speaker 1: enthusiasm and people that makes them want to lay down 1369 01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,559 Speaker 1: in traffic for him. That's the same stuff Obama used 1370 01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:21,360 Speaker 1: to do. You remember we used to make fun of 1371 01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:23,519 Speaker 1: all those idiots that would go to Obama's speeches and 1372 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,760 Speaker 1: they'd pass out because they were so excited and all 1373 01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:29,679 Speaker 1: that stuff. That's Beto Aurora, I'm telling you fear this guy. Yeah, 1374 01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:32,680 Speaker 1: and the left wing mind these days really does. That 1375 01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:34,800 Speaker 1: is what they want. They don't want someone to come 1376 01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:38,759 Speaker 1: in who's a technocrat who has sound policies and ideas, 1377 01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:40,959 Speaker 1: even if I don't like them, at least they're sensible. 1378 01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:42,960 Speaker 1: I mean, they don't want someone like Howard Schultz who's 1379 01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:45,599 Speaker 1: gonna say, you know, we can't actually at tax millionaires 1380 01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,760 Speaker 1: at ninety percent and expect us to have any kind 1381 01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,400 Speaker 1: of product productive economy. They don't want him. They want 1382 01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:53,599 Speaker 1: somebody they can pass out at rallies and that they 1383 01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:55,320 Speaker 1: can think is some kind of a messiah. So, Jesse, 1384 01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:57,280 Speaker 1: I think I think your analysis this one to sound 1385 01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:00,519 Speaker 1: before we let you get back to all things Texas. 1386 01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,799 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, by the way, is it Camela or Kamala? 1387 01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:06,640 Speaker 1: Because I hear it both ways, and I feel like 1388 01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:09,879 Speaker 1: since you're so close with her, you would know. Well, obviously, 1389 01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:11,880 Speaker 1: as everybody knows, we're super tired. I mean, I'm sure 1390 01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,439 Speaker 1: she has a crush on me too. I mean we're 1391 01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:16,960 Speaker 1: just not talking about it. I call her Kamala or kay, 1392 01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,000 Speaker 1: you know for short, But I mean everyone else can 1393 01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:21,200 Speaker 1: call her what holla, what they want. That's just her 1394 01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:24,879 Speaker 1: and I and our kinship. How's her? How's her campaign 1395 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,000 Speaker 1: coming along? You think? I just I think she's too 1396 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:31,519 Speaker 1: boring to win. Well, she's clearly the media darling though 1397 01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:33,120 Speaker 1: it was the thing, or at least she was before 1398 01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:35,240 Speaker 1: Beto got in. I think he's gonna take that from 1399 01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:37,320 Speaker 1: her and that was going to carry her far. You 1400 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,479 Speaker 1: saw them swooning over a buck. They're going shopping with her. 1401 01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,800 Speaker 1: We had Medium members bragging about helping Samala Harris pick 1402 01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:47,559 Speaker 1: out a new jacket to buy. So that alone is 1403 01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,760 Speaker 1: going to get her a long away look. She does. 1404 01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:51,960 Speaker 1: I joke around a lot because she does have the look. 1405 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,880 Speaker 1: She speaks really well, because of her background, she's she 1406 01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,280 Speaker 1: has a lot of things the other candidates don't. I mean, 1407 01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,599 Speaker 1: Elizabeth warrens a terrible candidate. Coloba shar is a terrible 1408 01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:04,519 Speaker 1: The Democrats have some really bad candidates. I actually think 1409 01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:06,920 Speaker 1: Kamala is a very good one. And head Beto not 1410 01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,120 Speaker 1: gotten in out of said she's going to be the nominee. 1411 01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,080 Speaker 1: But we'll see you now what happens when Kamala asked 1412 01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,000 Speaker 1: you to be a part of her campaign? Jesse, will 1413 01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:17,800 Speaker 1: you will you for your fondness of Kamala? Will you 1414 01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:21,639 Speaker 1: will you sell out your country? Absolutely in a heartbeat, 1415 01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:23,360 Speaker 1: I mean the heart ones with the heart once book. 1416 01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,559 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do anything about that. He's an 1417 01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:29,080 Speaker 1: honest man, folks. Jesse Kelly the one and only KPRC 1418 01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:31,400 Speaker 1: down in Houston. Listened to him on radio there. You 1419 01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,800 Speaker 1: can follow him on the Twitter look for the Jesse 1420 01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,200 Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Jesse, my friend, great to have you have 1421 01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:43,960 Speaker 1: a fantastic weekend. Be good brother. An interesting story today 1422 01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:49,880 Speaker 1: to put in the free speech wars category. Guardians of 1423 01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:54,920 Speaker 1: the Galaxy director James Gunn was fired by Disney some 1424 01:24:55,040 --> 01:25:02,000 Speaker 1: months back because of offensive tweets that were unearthed of 1425 01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:07,800 Speaker 1: his that made light of pedophilia and rape from a 1426 01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:13,280 Speaker 1: decade old I think they were a decade old. So 1427 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,960 Speaker 1: this is a guy who they did the whole tweet 1428 01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:19,320 Speaker 1: deep dive thing, and they were able to dig up 1429 01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:22,280 Speaker 1: some stuff that was bad enough on him that he 1430 01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:25,519 Speaker 1: was then fired from his job. Well, it turns out 1431 01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:31,760 Speaker 1: that now after the interceding or intervening months, he is 1432 01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,839 Speaker 1: back on. They have rehired him, and he's also attached 1433 01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:40,360 Speaker 1: to the upcoming Suicide Squad sequel for Warner Brothers, and 1434 01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:44,200 Speaker 1: after that, Guardians the Galaxy three will commence. I thought 1435 01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,400 Speaker 1: Guardians of Galaxy one had some good stuff. It was 1436 01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:52,519 Speaker 1: a little a little too a little too noisy on 1437 01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,320 Speaker 1: screen for my taste. It just was a little too 1438 01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:56,320 Speaker 1: much stuff going on sometimes. But I thought there were 1439 01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,080 Speaker 1: some good things in Guarding the Galaxy. I have a 1440 01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:01,720 Speaker 1: I do like Chris Pratt, and he's does a good job. 1441 01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,400 Speaker 1: I liked him in Parks and rerec I like him 1442 01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:05,920 Speaker 1: now as as a leading man. He does a good job. 1443 01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:11,240 Speaker 1: Suicide Squad was an unbelievably bad movie. Though Suicide Squad 1444 01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:14,040 Speaker 1: was a shock because how hard can it be to 1445 01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:17,600 Speaker 1: make a movie that, you know, how hard can it 1446 01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:20,640 Speaker 1: be to make a movie about that kind of superhero 1447 01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:23,439 Speaker 1: stuff that's at least watchable. I'm not saying it has 1448 01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:26,000 Speaker 1: to be Citizen Kane, but can it just not be 1449 01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:32,200 Speaker 1: horrifyingly terrible? That is that really asking too much? Apparently, answers, Yes, 1450 01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:35,679 Speaker 1: it is. It is asking. It is asking too much 1451 01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:41,080 Speaker 1: to have a reasonable viewing experience with Suicide Squad. I mean, 1452 01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:44,000 Speaker 1: will Will Smith in it was terrible and anyway, it 1453 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,439 Speaker 1: just was bad. Man, The whole thing was bad. Anyway, 1454 01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,679 Speaker 1: enough of my movie reviews on the free speech issue. 1455 01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:52,719 Speaker 1: You know, now we're gonna start to see this happen, 1456 01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,400 Speaker 1: and I wonder how we should react to it because 1457 01:26:55,439 --> 01:27:01,479 Speaker 1: he's a leftist who has been reinstated by Disney, which 1458 01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:07,120 Speaker 1: is a liberal run company, I mean the executives at 1459 01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:10,280 Speaker 1: Disney or liberals. And he is a leftist and he 1460 01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:16,000 Speaker 1: is now reinstated in this and so does that mean 1461 01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:21,200 Speaker 1: that the old model of apology and contrition and then 1462 01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,439 Speaker 1: you can keep your job and you can move forward 1463 01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:26,200 Speaker 1: in your life. Is that coming back or is it 1464 01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:29,360 Speaker 1: only coming back for leftists? You know, there was such 1465 01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:32,439 Speaker 1: a frenzy and it's worse. It's been worse in the 1466 01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:34,519 Speaker 1: last twelve months than it's ever been in my lifetime. 1467 01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:38,519 Speaker 1: A frenzy of find something bad that someone said and 1468 01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:42,480 Speaker 1: destroy them, destroy their livelihood, you know, destroy their reputation. 1469 01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,400 Speaker 1: There's been so much of it that I think that 1470 01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:47,640 Speaker 1: the left realized they were going to be in a 1471 01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:53,840 Speaker 1: in a mode of self consumption unless they tried to 1472 01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,240 Speaker 1: figure something else out. But they didn't want to give 1473 01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:59,040 Speaker 1: up the standard that they had put in place because 1474 01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,479 Speaker 1: it's so useful for trying to crush conservatives. It's so 1475 01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:08,040 Speaker 1: useful for them to weaponize against their political opponents. Now 1476 01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:12,839 Speaker 1: we're seeing a high profile leftist get a second chance. 1477 01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:15,679 Speaker 1: I think that this will just be used to say, 1478 01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:19,519 Speaker 1: see the next conservative if they go after they'll say 1479 01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,320 Speaker 1: he wouldn't even apologize, and they'll hope that we take 1480 01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,559 Speaker 1: the bait and start apologizing again, because I still think 1481 01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:27,720 Speaker 1: they'll Prince Jeoffrey Us. I think that if you're a 1482 01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:31,559 Speaker 1: conservative and you say I'm really sorry for what happened, 1483 01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:34,120 Speaker 1: unless I mean unless you are, I hate you know, 1484 01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:38,240 Speaker 1: I've got some never trumpers, some blue check never trumpers 1485 01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,960 Speaker 1: that come after me and say, you know, you think 1486 01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,639 Speaker 1: you should never apologize. Obviously, if you stepped out a line, 1487 01:28:45,160 --> 01:28:50,800 Speaker 1: you know you should apologize. That guy, Congressman Gates, you 1488 01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:55,400 Speaker 1: know what he publicly tweeted about about Michael Cohen and 1489 01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,439 Speaker 1: his wife and how maybe his wife would cheat on 1490 01:28:57,479 --> 01:28:59,280 Speaker 1: him when he's in prison. I mean, that's just out 1491 01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,600 Speaker 1: a line. It's just not okay. And he apologized for 1492 01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:04,559 Speaker 1: and that's the right move. It wasn't the right move 1493 01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:08,080 Speaker 1: because the mob said he should apologize. It was the 1494 01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:10,920 Speaker 1: right move because it was a dirt bag thing to 1495 01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:13,800 Speaker 1: tweet and he knew it, and he stepped back. I mean, 1496 01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:15,200 Speaker 1: he got a lot of heat and he stepped back. 1497 01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:18,799 Speaker 1: But you know that's that's when honor calls for an apology. 1498 01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:22,120 Speaker 1: When you should apologize for something, Not when you make 1499 01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:24,720 Speaker 1: a joke that is a little offensive or lands the 1500 01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:27,519 Speaker 1: wrong way. Not when you you know, made comments ten 1501 01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:30,280 Speaker 1: years ago that were politically incorrect. No, No No, that's that's 1502 01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:33,880 Speaker 1: just caving to the mob. We'll see if John, did 1503 01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:37,439 Speaker 1: you see Guardians the Galaxy too? Yeah? I didn't see 1504 01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:40,280 Speaker 1: it either. I don't know. It's a little just look, 1505 01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:41,600 Speaker 1: look a little too noise at me. I came to 1506 01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,080 Speaker 1: there making Guardians of the Galaxy three, and the best 1507 01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:46,800 Speaker 1: thing in Guardians of the Galaxy was the little the 1508 01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:51,479 Speaker 1: little tree, you know, root or is it grout or root? 1509 01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:54,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, I guess it grout. Yeah, that was 1510 01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:56,679 Speaker 1: the best thing Guardians and Galaxy for me. I didn't 1511 01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:58,599 Speaker 1: like the raccoon as much as I wanted to. Whatever 1512 01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,040 Speaker 1: his name is. He found him. That Bradley Cooper who 1513 01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:02,679 Speaker 1: does the voice for that too. It's such a weird 1514 01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,960 Speaker 1: what a weird call, you know, learns that the new 1515 01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:07,600 Speaker 1: every day. But we'll see where this goes in the 1516 01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:10,360 Speaker 1: free speech wars. The left will now start to take 1517 01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:13,080 Speaker 1: contrition from some on their own side. I wonder if 1518 01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:15,760 Speaker 1: I'll do it on the other side. Roll call coming 1519 01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:22,360 Speaker 1: up like soft butter on warm toast. Time to spread 1520 01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:34,080 Speaker 1: some freedom coast to coast. It's time for roll call 1521 01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:39,160 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton for roll call action 1522 01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,240 Speaker 1: where I get to hear from all of you over 1523 01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:43,360 Speaker 1: the weekend. I am planning, I don't know about you. 1524 01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm planning on lame pretty low this weekend, going to 1525 01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:50,599 Speaker 1: try to regroup and recharge. Been quite a week, friends, 1526 01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:52,840 Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on, a lot of things 1527 01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:55,439 Speaker 1: to handle. You know, sometimes it's just not your week. 1528 01:30:55,520 --> 01:30:59,000 Speaker 1: This week just wasn't my week. But we got good 1529 01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:02,439 Speaker 1: things to hear from all of you, good things to read. 1530 01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:08,120 Speaker 1: That's fun. Matthew rights buck. As a trucker and managing 1531 01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:12,320 Speaker 1: a small trucking company, I welcome automation. There is a 1532 01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:15,360 Speaker 1: severe lack of drivers and the insane level of logging 1533 01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:19,000 Speaker 1: regulation we are under makes it very difficult to get 1534 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:22,080 Speaker 1: loads moved in the time shipper's desire. Just having a 1535 01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:24,760 Speaker 1: truck that can drive interstate and highways between cities while 1536 01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:27,679 Speaker 1: the drivers sleeps would be a major benefit. That still 1537 01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,519 Speaker 1: leaves us skilled drivers to handle the difficult in city 1538 01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:34,120 Speaker 1: pickups and deliveries thanks to the great show shield Tai. Matthew, 1539 01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:37,160 Speaker 1: see this is this is why I always appreciate the 1540 01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,280 Speaker 1: expertise from this audience of people who really know these 1541 01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,600 Speaker 1: issues because they're living these issues, are dealing with the 1542 01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,400 Speaker 1: reality of the challenges that we talk about on a 1543 01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:49,840 Speaker 1: daily basis. And you raise a great point about essentially 1544 01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:54,120 Speaker 1: the ability to have drivers who would be it would 1545 01:31:54,160 --> 01:32:00,799 Speaker 1: be really a partially AI partially AI situation not entirely, 1546 01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,719 Speaker 1: so that way they could sleep overnight, and if they're 1547 01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:06,640 Speaker 1: on highways, you know, they could eliminate the need to 1548 01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,280 Speaker 1: stay up for highway driving, which is obviously a huge 1549 01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:13,880 Speaker 1: portion of interstate trucking and travel in general. So you know, 1550 01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:15,800 Speaker 1: you see, this is what we can't tell right now, 1551 01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:19,160 Speaker 1: which is how well the technology can be integrated and 1552 01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:21,960 Speaker 1: how people can continue to have jobs with the technology anyway. 1553 01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,160 Speaker 1: But you obviously have a good sense of that, and 1554 01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:28,680 Speaker 1: I think that's a very interesting, very interesting idea you 1555 01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:32,599 Speaker 1: have there, sir. Thank you, Amy, writes Ha. The movie 1556 01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,600 Speaker 1: references Archimedes in Disney's Sword in the Stone that was 1557 01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:40,000 Speaker 1: from yesterday. Also, thanks for not hammering my Senator Mike 1558 01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:42,960 Speaker 1: Lee for voting his principles. I like that someone in 1559 01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:45,800 Speaker 1: DC is wanting to do that. Mitt Romney, however, does 1560 01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:49,080 Speaker 1: not have a constitutional foundation, as shown by his governance. 1561 01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:51,200 Speaker 1: Feel free to take a swing. We all know he's 1562 01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:54,760 Speaker 1: a progressive and highly political you know, Amy, I think 1563 01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,759 Speaker 1: that there are people that in the Senate who believe 1564 01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:02,240 Speaker 1: that what they did was trying to turn back executive 1565 01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:07,160 Speaker 1: over region, and there were definitely good faith arguments about that. Yesterday. 1566 01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:09,960 Speaker 1: I was a little frustrated about it, and probably a 1567 01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:13,800 Speaker 1: little more harsh across the board about the senators that 1568 01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,680 Speaker 1: voted in favor of the resolution of condemnation that I 1569 01:33:17,680 --> 01:33:21,320 Speaker 1: should have been. But the president needs all the help 1570 01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:23,040 Speaker 1: he can get these days, and I do think that 1571 01:33:24,040 --> 01:33:29,880 Speaker 1: Republicans suffer from a bit of a grandstanding complex and 1572 01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:33,439 Speaker 1: a self righteousness complex, where when it's really important that 1573 01:33:33,439 --> 01:33:36,559 Speaker 1: they're all, you know, trying to run the ball up 1574 01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,040 Speaker 1: the middle together, some of them will say, no, I'm 1575 01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:43,960 Speaker 1: not going to because I'm so special, and that's not helpful. 1576 01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:47,640 Speaker 1: But Mike Lee, he may in fact sleep on a 1577 01:33:47,720 --> 01:33:51,840 Speaker 1: bed with sheets made from copies of the Constitution. If 1578 01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:53,960 Speaker 1: I found that out about Senator Mike Lee, it would 1579 01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:57,519 Speaker 1: not surprise me. I've interviewed Mike a bunch of times, 1580 01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:00,320 Speaker 1: haven't interviewed him in a while, though, should probably try 1581 01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:04,960 Speaker 1: to get him on one of my shows. Adam, Hello, Adam, 1582 01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,320 Speaker 1: on the Trump's first veto. It reveals for all that 1583 01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:12,280 Speaker 1: we have a single party establishment. Both party elites work 1584 01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,240 Speaker 1: only for themselves, and there's little, if anything we can 1585 01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:21,200 Speaker 1: do without tremendous cost to ourselves. Dark times shields high Adam, 1586 01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,000 Speaker 1: the political elite is a real thing. There are certainly 1587 01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:29,479 Speaker 1: real concerns about what Kennon should be done by those 1588 01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:31,200 Speaker 1: of us who have to live in a country where 1589 01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:35,439 Speaker 1: the laws are written by generally self interested men and women. 1590 01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:40,080 Speaker 1: There has not been as much movement on the Trump 1591 01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:42,400 Speaker 1: agenda as I would have liked in these last two years. 1592 01:34:42,439 --> 01:34:45,559 Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Congress has played a role. 1593 01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,080 Speaker 1: I think a lack of focus from the White House, 1594 01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:50,320 Speaker 1: or perhaps a focus on some of the wrong things, 1595 01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:54,559 Speaker 1: has played a role. And now we are heading into 1596 01:34:54,760 --> 01:35:01,439 Speaker 1: a very bitter election season with incredibly important consequences. Whether 1597 01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:03,680 Speaker 1: the country will be socialist or not is essentially what 1598 01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:07,240 Speaker 1: is at stake, and that's going to be a tough 1599 01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:10,120 Speaker 1: time to make the case. Well, you know, I don't 1600 01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:13,200 Speaker 1: really like socialism, but I wish Trump had followed throwing 1601 01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:16,080 Speaker 1: even more of US campaign promises. I'm not sure that's 1602 01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:19,040 Speaker 1: going to be a sound way to approach it. So 1603 01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:23,679 Speaker 1: I think you'll see a lot of Trump supporters willing 1604 01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:27,960 Speaker 1: and desiring to give him another four years. As for 1605 01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:30,479 Speaker 1: what the Republican Party will do, it is true, and 1606 01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:34,120 Speaker 1: you're seeing more of this lately, people repeating this. Politicians 1607 01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:38,080 Speaker 1: will always disappoint you. They will always disappoint you, even 1608 01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:41,599 Speaker 1: the good ones, even the ones who are trying, because 1609 01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:44,519 Speaker 1: they are men and women, they are flawed, they have 1610 01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:48,280 Speaker 1: their own interests, and the system itself is such that 1611 01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:51,759 Speaker 1: I think it grinds down even the best men and women. 1612 01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:56,360 Speaker 1: I think that the swamp has a kind of toxic effect, 1613 01:35:57,080 --> 01:36:01,439 Speaker 1: and it certainly weak is the backbones of many a 1614 01:36:01,479 --> 01:36:07,680 Speaker 1: member of Congress. Chuck, all right, did you notice that 1615 01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:13,280 Speaker 1: the Spanish version says betto for all? And he sent 1616 01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:17,720 Speaker 1: me a link to something Beto o'rourkey, Chuck, I did 1617 01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:21,800 Speaker 1: not notice that. I did not see that, Chuck. But 1618 01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:25,439 Speaker 1: your Betto is gonna push a lot on the fact 1619 01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:30,559 Speaker 1: that he is bilingually speaks Spanish, and that will certainly 1620 01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:34,400 Speaker 1: be something you're hearing a lot more of or from 1621 01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:39,240 Speaker 1: him on. So there you go, Mark Buck. The only 1622 01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:42,200 Speaker 1: thing better than Hillary doing single nasal breathing yoga is 1623 01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:45,720 Speaker 1: the Betto impression, followed by de Blasio Wilhelm. Even my 1624 01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,840 Speaker 1: nine year old loss it with the Hillary single nasal 1625 01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:53,960 Speaker 1: breathing yoga impersonation. Thanks Mark, I don't even remember. Obviously, 1626 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:55,719 Speaker 1: we've done a lot of Hillary stuff on the show. 1627 01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't this single single name. We gotta, we gotta John. 1628 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:04,000 Speaker 1: Do you remember that Hilary single nasal breathing impression? I 1629 01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:06,080 Speaker 1: know I did it. I just can't remember what I did. 1630 01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:11,280 Speaker 1: Some days, I'm I'm overtaken by a bit of wackiness 1631 01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:15,000 Speaker 1: that can kind of happen. Tends to be more I 1632 01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,479 Speaker 1: was gonna say tend to be more on Friday. I'm 1633 01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:20,640 Speaker 1: not even sure that's really true, Mary, Rights, Buck, you 1634 01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:24,559 Speaker 1: are right about recruiting for sports in college. Only a 1635 01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:27,200 Speaker 1: small amount a small amount go on to go pro. 1636 01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:30,120 Speaker 1: The ones that don't need to be able to read 1637 01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:32,280 Speaker 1: and do well in school to have a career after 1638 01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:35,240 Speaker 1: college needs to start before college. It needs to start 1639 01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:41,120 Speaker 1: in school, Mary. People sometimes say, here's an unpopular opinion, 1640 01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:44,400 Speaker 1: and then they share an opinion that most people that 1641 01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:46,000 Speaker 1: they want to agree with and will agree with them on. 1642 01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,839 Speaker 1: You know, here's an unpopular opinion, folks. I really respect 1643 01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:53,640 Speaker 1: the constitution, right, No, Buck, that's that's not an unpopular 1644 01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:56,559 Speaker 1: opinion with people you're talking to, But a lot of 1645 01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:59,360 Speaker 1: a lot of media folks do that these days. My 1646 01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:06,320 Speaker 1: position on ending college athletics recruiting is legitimately an unpopular opinion. 1647 01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:08,640 Speaker 1: There are some people who agree with me, but there 1648 01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:10,160 Speaker 1: are a few and far between. From what I can 1649 01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:13,759 Speaker 1: see and the editorial I wrote today in the Hill people, 1650 01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:17,400 Speaker 1: I can tell a lot of people that commented on 1651 01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:21,280 Speaker 1: it didn't even read it. They just think there's kind 1652 01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,840 Speaker 1: of this like, oh, whatever, nerd, you know what, you're 1653 01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:26,519 Speaker 1: such a nerd, Why do you not want sports. I've 1654 01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:29,400 Speaker 1: never said we shouldn't have sports in college. I just 1655 01:38:29,439 --> 01:38:31,960 Speaker 1: think it's so funny that the culture is such that 1656 01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:36,200 Speaker 1: right now we're supposed to think it's normal that if 1657 01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:39,400 Speaker 1: you are a great water polo player, you should maybe 1658 01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:41,920 Speaker 1: get into Stanford even if you don't have great grades. 1659 01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:46,200 Speaker 1: Why who the heck cares about water polo? And for 1660 01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:50,320 Speaker 1: the really big sports teams, really football, basketball, maybe put 1661 01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:52,919 Speaker 1: a few others in there that do draw major crowds, 1662 01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:55,839 Speaker 1: that do get big NCAA ratings. I think that those 1663 01:38:56,400 --> 01:39:00,720 Speaker 1: students should be treated as semi pro athletes, so that 1664 01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:04,519 Speaker 1: they would be essentially athletic Academy admits, and they would 1665 01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:06,559 Speaker 1: have still they would still have access to the same 1666 01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:09,679 Speaker 1: classes and everything else. But we should just be one 1667 01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:13,120 Speaker 1: less exploitative of people in the the nc double A, 1668 01:39:13,320 --> 01:39:15,160 Speaker 1: which is what's going on right now. It's a multi 1669 01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:18,599 Speaker 1: billion dollar business. And if one of these NC Double 1670 01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:21,960 Speaker 1: A players, you know, takes a ham sandwich from a booster, 1671 01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,400 Speaker 1: we are all supposed to get so outraged that this 1672 01:39:24,479 --> 01:39:28,360 Speaker 1: kid who doesn't have any money and is an incredible athlete, 1673 01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:30,639 Speaker 1: you know, and people are making a lot of money 1674 01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:33,080 Speaker 1: off of his skills. You know. I think that's a 1675 01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:37,879 Speaker 1: big problem. But also D three schools recruiting is just ridiculous, 1676 01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:39,600 Speaker 1: and I don't care. I don't care anybody because I 1677 01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:43,040 Speaker 1: went to a D three school and it was bizarre. 1678 01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:45,479 Speaker 1: There was no reason for they were recruiting for team. 1679 01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,200 Speaker 1: They had dozens of different teams. They're recruiting for the 1680 01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:51,559 Speaker 1: women's softball team, they're recruiting for the men's crew team, 1681 01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:54,920 Speaker 1: they're recruiting for the you know, the lacrosse team, men's 1682 01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:58,800 Speaker 1: and women's. If it, why, why can't we just have 1683 01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,880 Speaker 1: people show up? The school of sixteen hundred kids show up. 1684 01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:05,640 Speaker 1: Each sport has tryouts, They last a few days, You 1685 01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:08,280 Speaker 1: play your sport, and you know, you go about your life. Man, 1686 01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:09,840 Speaker 1: I just why can't we do it the way they 1687 01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:13,280 Speaker 1: do it in high school? I don't understand people. I 1688 01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:15,120 Speaker 1: keep in mind that people are getting into the school 1689 01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:17,360 Speaker 1: that don't have the academic skills and then they struggle, 1690 01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:19,120 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of bitterness from some of the 1691 01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,799 Speaker 1: especially the big sport athletes who don't do well in school. 1692 01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:25,800 Speaker 1: But Mary, I appreciate you are the one of the 1693 01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:28,679 Speaker 1: very few that has reached out to me today and 1694 01:40:28,720 --> 01:40:32,000 Speaker 1: that has agreed with me on this at all. I 1695 01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,519 Speaker 1: got I didn't get dragged on this today, but I 1696 01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:39,080 Speaker 1: definitely people were just, oh, whatever, shut up, nerd. Sports 1697 01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:42,160 Speaker 1: are cool. It's like I played sports in college. I 1698 01:40:42,240 --> 01:40:45,080 Speaker 1: played sports, and I love sports. I'm not anti sports. 1699 01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:48,880 Speaker 1: I'm anti people cheating the system by being great fencers, 1700 01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:51,960 Speaker 1: which is not exactly a highly competitive sport in this country. 1701 01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:53,240 Speaker 1: And hate to break it to you, not a lot 1702 01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:55,479 Speaker 1: of people spending hours and hours a day doing fencing 1703 01:40:55,720 --> 01:40:57,720 Speaker 1: so that they can get into Harvard. Okay, I think 1704 01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:01,840 Speaker 1: that's just stupid anyway. And then I think that the 1705 01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:05,040 Speaker 1: big sports at the big school should be semipro. Don't 1706 01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,519 Speaker 1: And I don't understand why this is such a oh oh, 1707 01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:11,640 Speaker 1: and here's the crazy idea. And the universities and collegists 1708 01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:16,400 Speaker 1: auld first and foremost be concerned with educating students. Wow, 1709 01:41:16,600 --> 01:41:21,080 Speaker 1: it's not insane. They're educational institutions. Maybe they maybe they shouldn't. 1710 01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:22,759 Speaker 1: I mean, you think of a lot of these schools 1711 01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:27,040 Speaker 1: and you you name them, and people immediately think football 1712 01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:30,760 Speaker 1: or basketball or you know, whatever sport they're best known for. 1713 01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:35,880 Speaker 1: That's not which that's not good. Schools should want to 1714 01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,600 Speaker 1: be known for being great, great institutions of learning. And 1715 01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:40,360 Speaker 1: I know I do sound like a hull modern or 1716 01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:43,280 Speaker 1: nerd here, like, oh, schools wan be good learning? But 1717 01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:47,479 Speaker 1: it's true. Schools are about learning. Why is it so 1718 01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:53,120 Speaker 1: hard for people to understand and believe schools are about learning? Anyway? 1719 01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,360 Speaker 1: Seeing I've been thinking of this for a long time, 1720 01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:59,519 Speaker 1: but the American culture does not want to agree with 1721 01:41:59,560 --> 01:42:03,960 Speaker 1: me and telling people that, you know, Texas Tech is 1722 01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:05,880 Speaker 1: going to have a great football team even if they 1723 01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:09,680 Speaker 1: don't break academic standards for students and recruit like a 1724 01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:12,519 Speaker 1: professional team, they don't want to hear that. I mean, 1725 01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:14,599 Speaker 1: they'd still have great football. They still have great football 1726 01:42:14,600 --> 01:42:18,160 Speaker 1: games to watch. What's the difference. But people, you know, 1727 01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:19,800 Speaker 1: people don't want to hear what buck as to say 1728 01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:21,679 Speaker 1: on this one, except the ones who want the truth. 1729 01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:28,639 Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back with Roll Call 1730 01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:32,280 Speaker 1: Part two on our Friday show. Here the way, take 1731 01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,880 Speaker 1: off the weekend, everybody. I hope you've enjoyed hanging out 1732 01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:36,479 Speaker 1: with me today here in the Freedom Hut on the 1733 01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:39,320 Speaker 1: buck Sex didn't show. You know, it'd be fun one 1734 01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:40,760 Speaker 1: day to just do like a third hour where I 1735 01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:43,240 Speaker 1: get to just be one of those radio hosts who's like, hey, 1736 01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:48,040 Speaker 1: bringing you the smoothest hits circa nineteen ninety three, you know, 1737 01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:50,519 Speaker 1: and just like play the music and be the guy 1738 01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:54,280 Speaker 1: who you know, the original on air? They said, right, John, 1739 01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:57,519 Speaker 1: isn't that how like radio? That's what people used to do, 1740 01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,200 Speaker 1: And then talk radio started really in the well, I 1741 01:43:00,280 --> 01:43:02,280 Speaker 1: forget what it was. I should so much should write 1742 01:43:02,280 --> 01:43:04,479 Speaker 1: a book about the radio industry, because there's really no 1743 01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:08,479 Speaker 1: place to go to. Are there books about the radio industry? Really? 1744 01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:11,160 Speaker 1: Oh okay, we'll see that's not something I've ever seen, 1745 01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:13,920 Speaker 1: so I don't have to learn about this. Like people 1746 01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:15,920 Speaker 1: bring up Bob Grant and I'm like, I don't know 1747 01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,120 Speaker 1: who Bob Grant was? Am I supposed to move Bop? 1748 01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:20,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's a radio host, but I 1749 01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:22,280 Speaker 1: don't know anything other than that. So I gotta I 1750 01:43:22,320 --> 01:43:26,960 Speaker 1: gotta learn some of these things. Let's see we have, Aaron, 1751 01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:32,280 Speaker 1: college sports need to be suspended for ten years to 1752 01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:35,320 Speaker 1: give everyone involved time to find a new career. Afterwards, 1753 01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:38,439 Speaker 1: it can be restored on a commertly, completely non commercial 1754 01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:44,120 Speaker 1: volunteer basis. No paid coaches, no athletics scholarships, no broadcast 1755 01:43:44,160 --> 01:43:50,120 Speaker 1: of games, no charge for admission. Aaron, you know that's 1756 01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,880 Speaker 1: a pretty radical take, but I can you know how 1757 01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:55,320 Speaker 1: I feel about this. I think that college sports in 1758 01:43:55,360 --> 01:43:57,679 Speaker 1: general are completely out of control and that everyone needs 1759 01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:00,519 Speaker 1: to get a grip and this is just it's just 1760 01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:02,960 Speaker 1: too much at this point, like it needs to not 1761 01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,920 Speaker 1: be what it is, and there's a lot of complexity 1762 01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:07,559 Speaker 1: to it. It's different at the D one the D 1763 01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:11,320 Speaker 1: three level. I think that you know, athletic scholarships, if 1764 01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:15,880 Speaker 1: you're going to do the semipro league in the university, 1765 01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:20,439 Speaker 1: call them scholar or you know, sports academy admits, so 1766 01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,880 Speaker 1: people that are there primarily for sports but also are 1767 01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:28,400 Speaker 1: being taught and going into class. I just think there 1768 01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:30,439 Speaker 1: are ways to structure that are different, you know, think 1769 01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:32,599 Speaker 1: about it this way, my friends. I mean, our university 1770 01:44:32,640 --> 01:44:37,080 Speaker 1: system is really based on the European university system split 1771 01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:41,240 Speaker 1: this out there. Yeah, Oxford has sports clubs. You know, 1772 01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:44,800 Speaker 1: there's a soccer club team, and there's rowing teams and 1773 01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:49,759 Speaker 1: there's But Oxford and Cambridge don't have a few dozen, 1774 01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:56,920 Speaker 1: highly recruited, highly competitive sports programs that have enormous stadiums 1775 01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:59,840 Speaker 1: that they play in and you know, ten tens of 1776 01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:03,400 Speaker 1: millions of dollars on facilities now that they don't have that, 1777 01:45:03,479 --> 01:45:06,519 Speaker 1: and it's okay. They still have lots of sports leagues 1778 01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:10,440 Speaker 1: in the country, and you know, I think people increasingly 1779 01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:14,080 Speaker 1: should if you want to pursue first of all, if 1780 01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:17,280 Speaker 1: you want to pursue professional sports, then there's a lot 1781 01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:18,920 Speaker 1: of argue. There's a lot of argument made that with 1782 01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:21,200 Speaker 1: the exception of football, you really want to do it 1783 01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:24,040 Speaker 1: by the time you're eighteen, you're basically ready to go 1784 01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:27,000 Speaker 1: pro by eighteen, so and in tennis, for example, it's 1785 01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:29,519 Speaker 1: a lot earlier than that. I just think it needs 1786 01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:32,920 Speaker 1: a rethink. And you know, that's such a big system, 1787 01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:34,920 Speaker 1: there's so many people that make money off it. Nobody 1788 01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:38,160 Speaker 1: really wants to to change it. But I think I'm 1789 01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:40,400 Speaker 1: right on this one. I know that I'm a little 1790 01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:45,880 Speaker 1: bit of a sports flat earther. But I'm telling you 1791 01:45:45,920 --> 01:45:47,880 Speaker 1: the Earth is flat. I'm telling you this is on 1792 01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:50,600 Speaker 1: this issue. Don't don't quote me. Oh my gosh, this 1793 01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:53,040 Speaker 1: is like media matters of book Sucsten's a flat Earth 1794 01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,160 Speaker 1: or no. No. I just meant I was taking the 1795 01:45:55,200 --> 01:46:00,000 Speaker 1: analogy further. Darn it. Joey, big fan of your radio show. 1796 01:46:00,280 --> 01:46:02,960 Speaker 1: I hear you are a dog lover. I have a 1797 01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:07,400 Speaker 1: Belgian Shepherd, a TerVeer in best dog ever. What do 1798 01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,760 Speaker 1: you think about the breed? Well, Joey, thank you so 1799 01:46:09,840 --> 01:46:11,280 Speaker 1: much for being a fan of the show. I do 1800 01:46:11,439 --> 01:46:14,559 Speaker 1: absolutely love dogs. I think dogs are one of the 1801 01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:18,520 Speaker 1: great joys in life. I think that dogs are great companions, 1802 01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:21,840 Speaker 1: and if I had a more set schedule and a 1803 01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,000 Speaker 1: little bit more time and resources to devote to it, 1804 01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,360 Speaker 1: I would get a dog and a heartbeat, I do 1805 01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:29,440 Speaker 1: plan at getting a dog one day. As for Belgian Shepherds, 1806 01:46:30,160 --> 01:46:32,040 Speaker 1: if they are the dog I think they are, which 1807 01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:37,760 Speaker 1: I think people sometimes confuse with Belgian Malinois, But I'd 1808 01:46:37,840 --> 01:46:41,000 Speaker 1: have to look up the specific breed, but I'm sure 1809 01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:43,920 Speaker 1: Shepherds are usually great dogs. Team. That's gonna be it 1810 01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:46,240 Speaker 1: for the show today. Thank you so much for listening. 1811 01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:48,360 Speaker 1: Really Please do have a great weekend, rest up, take 1812 01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:50,759 Speaker 1: care of yourself. We'll talk Monday. Shields Hie