WEBVTT - Run Out The Impeachment Clock 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:15.760 You are entering the freedom hunt. We'll mustache Bolton, sink 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.760 Trump's ship, plus CNN shows us who they really are 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.200 a bunch of smug libs. Washington Post suspends a journalist 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.400 for some tweets about Kobe Bryant's terrible accident. And then 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.720 what about Western civilization? And art is triggering to other civilizations? 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.520 And there art We'll get into that coming up. This 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.320 is the bus Sexon Show, where the mission or mission 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:46.400 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.800 no mistake American great here a great American Again the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:59.160 buck Sexton Show begins. Remember no, Welcome to the buck 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.640 Sexton Show, every buddy, thank you so much for being here. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.880 Man from NYC. Always a good day here in town. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.720 Appreciate you spending the time with us. Pruce and Mark 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.479 is fired up today. He got a good night's sleep. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.640 Apparently I got a good night's sleep. We have quite 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.600 a show in store for you. Let's kick it off 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:22.400 with Bolton straight away, Mustache Bolton. Right, isn't there a 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.520 Beatles song? I am the Walrus? Right? Isn't that? Or 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.080 is a line? A line from a Beatles song? Because 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.319 the must the Bolton mustache is Walrus like, and I 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.760 respect that the guy's willing to go out on a 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.440 limb in this way and be so devoted to a 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.319 particular style of facial hair. Somebody who is newer to 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.080 the facial hair game respect for Bolton on that, but 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.480 some disrespect on some other things should come mister Bolton's way. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.400 And I guess that's where we start this today. Why 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.600 would a former senior adviser to any president, never mind 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.200 this president, think it is appropriate to write down everything 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.800 that was said in meetings and then use some of that, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.799 at least to publish a book so that the public 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.520 can know what was going through the president's mind and 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.639 how he reaches the decisions that he reaches. Notice how 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.240 this is very much out of the Komi playbook. You 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.280 see these bureaucratic infighters, people who have spent a long 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.600 time in the corridors of power and government often have 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.520 competing emotions. And this comes from my time in the CIA, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.960 dealing with not just the most senior CIA folks, but 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.560 also other people throughout the government all the way up 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.760 to the President. I had briefings in the Oval Office 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.960 with the President, the Vice President, national Security Advisor, and 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.680 so on and so forth. And when you spend some 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.880 time in those policy circles, you get the sense very 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.360 quickly that you have people who are both frustrated. They 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.960 feel frustrated and underappreciated because their genius has not been 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:04.520 fully embraced by the rest of their government peers. And 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.480 then there's also quite a bit of arrogance because they've 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.200 had this power and they think, they really know, they're 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.160 the one that is best suited for this job. They're 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.360 the one that needs to maintain the perception in government 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.600 circles and even more importantly, in many ways outside of government, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.640 that they have a wisdom insight that other people would 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.160 not bring to the same role. What is that really 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.280 based in I don't know. I don't think you could 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.560 really point to anything in particular. In fact, I have 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.960 popularized what I believe now many people understand to be 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.320 a truism about these government agencies and these government positions, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.520 which is that they're very hard jobs to get. That 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.040 doesn't mean that the people who get them are impressive, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.160 highly skilled, and worthwhile. Just because it's hard to get, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.800 you know, it's hard to win the lottery. It doesn't 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.640 mean a lottery winner as a genius. Right, that's a 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.800 simplification of this principle. But you understand where I'm going 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.000 with it, So I'm Bashador Bolton. You look at him 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.720 and you ask, well, what exactly are the big foreign 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.000 policy successes that this individual has. Does he feel any 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.560 even a little bit chastened over the Iraq War? No? 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.560 Does he feel like there has been a really now 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.880 multidecade failure in the war in Afghanistan to even understand 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.640 what we are doing there other than prevent the Taliban 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.039 from taking over the country and defeating the allies that 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.560 we have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars training, equipping, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.360 and trying to assist. Perhaps maybe people feel that that's 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.040 enough of a mission, but then we should at least 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.160 be honest about it. There is no future in which 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.680 a stable and democratic and worthwhile from a nation state perspective, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:55.320 Afghanistan exists. It's always going to be this difficult, violent 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.520 backwater of a country. That's just something that we may 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.000 have to step I would prefer there was honesty from 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.840 policy circles though about this. Why is Bolton someone who 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.000 has this job of National Security Advisor? Well, it's in 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.839 no small part because he was making the rounds as 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.040 a pundit on Fox News. He had visibility to this president. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.960 To Trump did not come from the left wing media swamp. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.120 And as we see with Trump, if you were good 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.360 enough on Fox and known in those conservative circles, it's 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.080 very it was a very useful springboard to some of 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.360 the most powerful positions in government. And this this didn't 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.720 always result in a good outcome. Just look at the mooch. Hey, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:46.040 a mooch sennor Scaramouchi, who is really reveling in his 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.760 turn coode status against the president. I mean, this was 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.400 a fellow who I remember. I sat on a panel 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.320 on Maria Bardaromo's show once and we had we had 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.000 the Mooch come in, and he was almost the Trump whisperer. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.480 He was an individual who came in to tell us 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.000 what was really going on in Trump's mind, in his heart, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.200 and all of it was that Trump is a genius, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.479 He's amazing, He's fantastic. And then when the mooch really 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.919 self destructed, it wasn't deep. You can't blame Trump for 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.880 the mooch calling a reporter and going on some really 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.200 shockingly profane I mean, I do use salty language in 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.440 private life, but not like the Mooch does shockingly profane 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:28.080 tirade and got himself fired from the White House. Speaking 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.360 of people getting very important, very senior jobs, White House 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:36.520 Communications Directors, Karamuchi, Special Advisor to the President, Amorrossa. I mean, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.600 you go down this list the presidents. I mean, I'm 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.240 amazed at actually how successful he has been given some 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.200 of the quite honestly unforced errors that have been made. Right, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.680 I mean, the fact that he withstood the Russia collusion ambush, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.080 which is what it was. It was a coordinated ambush 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.159 from the deep state, the left of Democrats trying to 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.120 undermine this present. The fact that he was able to 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.880 do that is remarkable, and I think it would have 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.640 broken a lesser man. I don't know. I don't know 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.480 if I would have been able to handle in Trump shoes, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.800 all that pressure, people going after trying to use the 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.640 weaponize the Department of Justice, to go after your children, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.600 to go after your family, to go after anybody who's 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.880 close to you. That's intimidating, even when you're the President 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.840 of the United States. But on the personnel choices he 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.520 has made, I can make no defense of Trump in 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.920 that in that realm, I mean, he just he's I 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.200 don't know who he's listening to. I don't know why 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.080 he can't figure this out, and people who Sometimes people 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.600 get mad at me or Trump supporters, and I say, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.080 or really, are we gonna you get? Some of Trump's 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.200 most senior people turn on him after he's given them 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.440 the opportunity of a lifetime to serve their country. And 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.520 that's what brings me back to Bolton here. What's most important? 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.520 When I was talking to you about these bureaucrats and 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.200 their egos and the frustration insecurity and arrogance that all 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:03.560 combines in this Knox just stew I'm so amazing, but 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.840 people don't think I'm amazing enough. And I'm the one 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.320 who needs this job. But it's really about the mission, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:15.160 this ping ponging back and forth psychologically, what is really 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.760 important using that position to advance the interests of the 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.080 United States, the American people, or making sure that you 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.800 get a two million dollar book advance and get really 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.200 big fees on the speaking circuit afterwards, and that your 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.880 policy chums, your buddies think that you did great work 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.640 and maybe you'll get pulled into another administration, or you'll 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.240 be made the president of some very cash you know, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.520 coffers full to the brim think tank, or maybe you'll 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.559 get pulled in to be on the board of some company, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.440 not Barisma, because you've got to be a real superstar 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.160 to get on the board of Barisma. As we know, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.760 apparently Hunter Biden actually is going to pay the child 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.880 support videos for the child he fathered with a stripper 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.000 that he initially denied paternity of. And I believe he's 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.439 also married and his wife is expecting, so he's got 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.960 his handsful. But he is going to be writing some checks, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.400 it seems, before having to go to court to have 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.120 them force him to do so. I go back to 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.880 my premise on this of could you imagine if one 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.520 of the Trump children had this story? Never mind, I 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.160 mean there's the BURISMUS staff and the doing crack and 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.760 getting kicked out of a military post. He only got 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.560 his dad was a senator, is a public affairs post, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.600 gets kicked out of that for failing a drug I mean, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:40.160 what a mess. But remember nothing he did was in 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.320 any way illicit. Hunter Biden has fantastic judgment. How could 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.320 you question his judgment with the crack and the strippers 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.680 and the out of wedlock lying about birth thing and 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.280 all that, And I mean, who could really think that 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.240 Hunter Biden would make such a mistake, make an air 0:09:55.280 --> 0:10:01.000 of course not, it's malarkey, utter malarkey. But then that 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.240 brings me to Bolton again. This is another reason why 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.120 the Senate, the Republican senators that are currently in the 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:16.640 seventh day of what is a stunningly boring trial, because 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.280 it's there's not even no normal person hears about what 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.840 the allegations are and says, oh my gosh, the president 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.360 did that. First of all, he didn't do anything, because 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.319 nothing happened at Second of all, even if he tried 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.360 to do the thing they say he wanted to do, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.680 who cares he has the right to do it. They're 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.880 impeaching the president over nothing, or they have impeached him 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.000 mother over nothing. They're trying to remove him even that 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:48.720 step further over absolutely nothing. And that's why with the 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.920 exception of about you know, three or four million superlibs 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.520 who watched this coverage on TV, and I mean, I 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.160 know how many of them are super libs. That's who 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.520 watches the coverage probab about half Superlibs and half people 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.679 who just care to know really followed politics closely, Conservatives, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.319 and there are other people, but you know, there is 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.440 this core of left wing base that finds all these 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.000 speeches by Adams and I think it's journalists. For example, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.440 they think every Adam Shifts speech is the combination of 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.920 you know, the funeral oration by Pericles, you know, the 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.800 Gettysburg address. I mean, you name him, the greatest speeches 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:37.559 in history. You know, Eisenhower talking about the military industrial 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.520 complex and all this stuff, all the greatest speeches in history. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.760 And they think that Adam Shift is just doing that 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.920 all the time when he's talking about this obstruction and 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:54.520 corruption and all the rest of it. Mustache Bolton should feel, honestly, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.679 his loyalty should be to the people of the United States, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.480 and in that means not going along with the ambush 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.160 that Democrats are running against the duly elected president of 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.960 the United States on false slash, trumped up pardon the 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:13.280 phrase pretenses, that's where we are. His book is not 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.319 as important as not playing into the Democrats hands here. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:22.560 But again, the president brings in someone of questionable judgment, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.480 questionable history, and loyalty. On top of all of that, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.680 I have never been a Boltonist. He is definitely showing 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.000 us shades of James Comy here. Who was the single 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.920 most important person in the whole James Coomy fiasco we 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.920 know is Comy himself. That's what really mattered. It was 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.160 never about Trump or the American people or anything else. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.200 First and foremost, it was about Comey. Why does Bolton 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.400 think he's so important that this book needs to drop 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.800 now at this point? And why should he profit so 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.080 handsomely off of betraying the very commander in chief whom 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.680 he was entrusted with the sacred obligation to advise on 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.679 matter of war and peace? Do we ever get an 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.079 answer for that? Now? Every everybody just gets to cash out. Now, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.000 everybody in DC, all the swamp dwellers, get to do 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.800 whatever they want on either side of the aisle when 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.520 it's time to fill up their bank account and get 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.320 their face on television. It's distressing. It's also why I 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.720 sit here and tell you I do believe. I believe 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.360 Mitch McConnell will keep the senators in line here. I 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.240 won't go as far to say that I can predict 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.960 because Mitt Romney. You know when MIT's in it, you 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.880 never know with friends like Mitt, who needs enemies in politics. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.600 But I do think that they're going to vote to 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.920 end this thing, that they should just have the vote. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.600 Have the vote. Let's see. If they don't, they will 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.319 not have learned a fundamental lesson of the Trump era, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.200 which is that if you if you insist on taking 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.959 good faith actions to try to make the other side 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.280 like you, when all they've done is bad faith action 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.800 and show you how much they hate you, you're not 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.480 going to win them over and you're not gonna win. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.840 I've got a better idea. Hey, Republicans in the Senate, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.240 let's win. Shut it down, take the vote. America needs 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:21.160 to move on. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:27.960 the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Well, it's kind of ironic. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.480 It's coming from the New York Times. Someone telling the 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.120 New York Times about a book deal about somebody wants 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:38.560 to sell a lawyer or lawyer kind of confirmed. Regardless 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.840 regardless of all that, you go to the fact Ukraine 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.520 got the money. They did nothing to get the money. Zelenski, 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.160 the president said, there was nothing held up. If you 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.120 based upon that, you have the transcripts to which the 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.960 whole world does. If you stick to the facts, there's 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.600 no reason why this carry on beyond Friday. If you 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.560 look at what the Democrats said in Adler when he 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.840 was in Congress proposing this impeachment, that they proved to 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.800 beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is not the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.080 Senate's rule to have witnesses come in. I do not 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.160 think they made the case. I think they repeated the 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.680 same thing. I think they went overboard when you saw 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.280 Nadler and you also saw Adam Shifts and they're going 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.760 to put people's heads on a spike and others. I 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.400 think they did everything in their case to make sure 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.800 that this is ended. By this. The Republicans have been 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.200 operating in good faith this whole time. I think too 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.640 much good faith, and I think that they have allowed 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.800 the Democrats to gain too much ground for their underhanded 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.520 messaging efforts. But here you are. You know, the draft 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.400 of the of the Bolton book seems to have been 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.240 or at least parts of it have been leaked to 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.560 the New York Times. This is Kavanaugh two point oh, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.800 this is the playbook all over again. They've decided that 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.000 they're not they haven't won. Everyone knows this now. I 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.600 mean the desperate Dems that go on TV and say, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.360 oh my gosh, it was an amazing speech. Look with 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:03.440 the no no sorry if Nadler, no serious person finds 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.840 them to be compelling truth tellers. No honest observer in 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.920 this whole process would turn around and say, yeah, Adam 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.520 Schiff and Nadler, they really convinced me. I was on 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.280 the I was on the fence before, but I've changed 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.440 my mind because of what they have said. You know, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.720 there's there's some different areas they keep trying to find. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.040 What will the same way than the earliest days after 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.080 the whistle blower we still don't know the whistle blower is. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.160 Why is that because the media is complicit in this? 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.600 Well A, you're gonna tell me the media can't figure 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.000 this out. They've all got sources, the national security apparatus 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.520 they can't figure out. And we already we've it's already 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.680 been reported it's Eric Scaramella. Can we find out if 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.360 that's actually true or not? You know, can we verify 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.480 this that's what's been reported? No, no one. When was 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.920 the last time you even heard that name? And it matters? 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.320 A whole lot who he is and what his motivations were. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.320 It certainly does because we're in this game of perception, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.560 perception of were these charges brought against the president because 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.680 of outrage against crimes, against against constitution or were a 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.159 bunch of left wing activists in the government conspiring to 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.720 find some excuse because the Mueller probe failed to bring 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.160 this president down. That's a very important distinction. That's one 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.280 we should have all the facts we can to answer 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.760 one way or the other. But they pretend that that's 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.240 not the present, that's that's not the case, that's not 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:33.639 going to happen. Um. You have also the severity of 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.000 this is now getting you know that they keep moving. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.520 What the ground is that they want to have this 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.119 fight on the Democrats are going to? Where are they 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.800 really going to focus in? One area is as is 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.000 this even is this conduct even impeachable? Which from the 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.760 very beginning, so this should just be I mean, this 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.520 is where Trump and his defenders should have should have 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.560 made the this is where the fortress should have been 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.520 set up. And this is ridiculous. It's utterly clearly not 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.080 impeachable conduct. They happened, and he's allowed to have the 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:07.600 conversation he had and that's it. That's it. But sometimes 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.320 this White House doesn't have the best messaging strategy. Thanks 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.600 for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.320 subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.920 you get your podcasts. And So, the appropriate question for 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.119 crimes alleged in the articles and the common law of 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:33.960 presidential impeachment and Nixon yes, in Clinton yes, here no 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.879 a factor to be considered as the judges in the 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.080 High Court come as you will individually to your judgment. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:48.719 What's a way to gauge the severity of this? You 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.680 get into this argument about about whether there are whether 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:56.720 you have to commit an actual criminal offense to be impeached, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.159 and I think that in fairness and in honesty, no, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.200 of course there are. There are circumstances under which you 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.600 could be impeached without violating the law. But when we 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.920 talk about high crimes and misdemeanors, right, I mean the 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.280 language used, the perception of why would this be set 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.480 up in this way? You look at the history of 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.560 this process when it has been used before, and the 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.760 fact that it has never been successfully for example used, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.320 meaning that a president's ever been removed should tell us something. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.800 It's a very high bar, a very high bar. It 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.480 was FDR impeached and removed for violating the constitutional rights 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.639 of Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps. Now, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.400 of course not. I mean you look at all these 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.399 other times in history. I mean you look at Wilson, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.600 look at FDR. You could look at a whole bunch 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.439 of presidents and say, well, I mean they they violated 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.840 people's rights. They did things that would be far more egregious, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.600 far more egregious when President Trump has done so. Really, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:59.000 this becomes a the reason this is not a criminal proceeding. Okay, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.800 this is not in the hands that are partner of justice. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.160 It is assessing whether or not this is an outrage 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:11.280 without politics. Can you take political inclination out of this? 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:16.400 And would a normal American be outrage to hear about this? 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.000 And I know we're in a culture we're outrage is 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.160 so cheap, and the media thrives off of it, and they're, 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.320 oh my gosh, they pretend to be freaked out all 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.600 the time. But when someone sits down and says to you, 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.600 this is what happened. The President United States have this 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.160 phone call raised the issue of whether he could get 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.880 some answers in an area of corruption involving somebody who, yes, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:41.320 is a Democratic contender for the presidency. Does anyone say, oh, 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.960 that's just too far. The only people who say that 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.600 are the same people who think the president is a 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.080 traitor because of Russia, which was a lie. The president 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.239 is a rapist, including this woman who came forward with 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.040 the allegation from thirty five years ago at a department store, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.440 went on Anderson Cooper TV. Made a mockery of Anderson 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.920 Cooper's journalism. You know said, quote, this is the woman 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.159 who accused him. You know quote, I think rapist. Sexy 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.840 end quote, that is what the accuser of Donald Trump. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.000 That everyone now is just pretended like that didn't happen. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:15.560 What she said. So, the same people who believe that 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.160 Trump is out of his mind crazy has to be 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.720 replaced through the exercise of a constitutional amendment to remove 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.960 a crazy president. The same people think the president was 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:26.560 a trader with Russia. The same people who think the 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.680 president should be removed for the emolument's clause. The same 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.639 people who think the president should be removed because of 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.720 the Billy Bush tape. I mean just whatever it is. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.199 Those are the only people who hear about this story 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.680 and say, yeah, yeah, he should be impeached and removed 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.359 from office for it. If you don't fit into that category, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.320 if you're not somebody who has thought the president should 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.760 be removed from office for a dozen other things, none 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.359 of which he should have been removed from removed for, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.520 then you hear this and you say no. So when 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.280 they talk about how there's no crime, I mean, there's 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:02.399 there's no crime against against dignity, ethics, and morality worthy 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:04.320 of being removed from office, I mean, forget about it 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:08.240 actually being a criminal statute. There's just no They're there, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.680 but they'll they'll try on this and they're hoping to 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.240 focus in on something that will just give them a 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.520 little more a little more leeway. Look, it's pretty straightforward. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.239 If you want to take a sports analogy. This is 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:21.720 the this is the fourth quarter. And now you know, 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.960 now the two teams in this impeachment and removal proceeding, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.879 Republicans and Democrats. You know, they're calling timeouts, they're throwing 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.600 the ball. You know, they're throwing the ball, making sure 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.280 that it gets out of bounds so that the clock 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:37.960 stops I mean there there's time management going on here 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.880 because one side just wants to do anything to extend 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:43.639 this and that's the Democrats because they've lost, and they 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.879 know it. They've lost. They did not they did not 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.320 make the case, they did not win the perception battle. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.959 And Republicans it's in their hands now. All Republicans have 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.280 to do. Producing Mark's gonna be proud of me. I'm 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:57.960 gonna use some sports here. All Republicans in the Senate 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.199 have to do is take a knee. That's all they 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.840 have to do. They have the ball, the clock is 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.359 running down. They can take a knee. Why when the 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:10.159 other side has been cheating it every way and on 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.240 the other side is doing everything they can to make 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.760 sure that it hasn't been a fair game, and you 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:17.920 have the ball in your hands and you're the Republican party, 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.560 why would you not say we're ending this thing. That's 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:25.639