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We've already 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: gotten a sense of where this is all going. Folks. 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 1: They are nuts. All the Democrats have to do is 12 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: not be crazy, and they can't do it. We'll talk 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: about their socialist tendencies, the tax rates they're putting forward, 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: the ideas that they are espousing, and the incendiary rhetoric 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: they're using against the president. That and also the border 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: shut down and the fight of the Wall. Coming up 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: on the Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton 18 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: Show where the mission or mission is to decode what 19 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, You're 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: a great American Again. The Buck Sexton Show begins the 21 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: sect of it. When your son looks at you and says, Mama, 22 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: look you won. Bullies don't win. And I said, baby, 23 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: they talked, because we're gonna go in there. We're gonna 24 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: impeach the Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. There you 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: have it a pretty good summation of what you're going 26 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: to be seeing from the incoming Democrat majority in the Congress. 27 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: We're going to impeach the mf in president. That's from 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: a newly installed US Member of Congress, Rashida to Leib, 29 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: who says that not only are they going to impeach Trump, 30 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: but they're going to use in public with people there 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: or you know, people obviously videoing this, use profanity about 32 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: the president. Now, I understand that the immediate inclination of 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: the left is going to be to say, oh, but Trump, 34 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: Trump uses such coarse language and Trump says such bad things, 35 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: and you can't complain about this. Now, I'm not really 36 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: complaining about the fact that a member of Congress wants 37 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: to debase herself and the office that she represents and 38 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: the constituents that she has by using that kind of language. 39 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: You know, there's a difference between calling somebody a dog 40 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: or calling somebody a jerk and using that kind language, 41 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: which I obviously can't use on the air. I think 42 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: you all know what I'm talking about. Though. That's about 43 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: as extreme as it's as it's going to get in 44 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: terms of curses that you're going to hear somebody throw around, 45 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: in terms of phrases that someone could use to try 46 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 1: and debase the president, that's that's really a new level. 47 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: I mean that that's crossing a line. I have never 48 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: seen or heard Trump say anything in the same stratosphere 49 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: of profanity as that. Now, this is from a new 50 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: member of Congress. It's not the President, it's not Nancy Pelosi. 51 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: I know what the counter arguments are going to be here, 52 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: but I wanted to drill down into this for a moment, 53 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: just because this is not a one off, folks. This 54 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: is not something that comes out of a vacuum. You 55 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: know that woman who is now a sitting member of Congress, 56 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: who also some of you are probably saying buck talk 57 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: about how she's a you know, anti Israeli some would 58 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: say anti Semitic, pro Palestinian activists. And I know there's 59 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: a whole other background we could get into here, but 60 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: I'm more concerned with the overall context in which somebody 61 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: can come in, and she's one of the first Muslim 62 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,679 Speaker 1: women ever elected to Congress. I'm concerned with how this 63 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: is not that surprising given the kind of things that 64 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: have been said about this president freely for a long 65 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,559 Speaker 1: time by the press and by the Democratic Party. Let's 66 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: not forget that as we start twenty nineteen and now 67 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: have Democrats in control of at least the House of Representatives, 68 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: that we are coming off a year where the hatred 69 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: of the left, the willingness of left wing activists and 70 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: the mainstream media and the Democratic Party to act in 71 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,559 Speaker 1: the most heinous and just destructive ways toward their fellow 72 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: Americans was on display time and time again. As these 73 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: Democrats are now entering office, and there's this new hope 74 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: on the left that they're going to hold Trump accountable 75 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,119 Speaker 1: and there's finally going to be a check on his power, 76 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: as if there haven't been checks on his power all along. 77 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: This is a delusional stance. All it takes is one 78 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: federal judge to stop Trump or who doesn't want Trump 79 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: to do something, and all of a sudden Trump can't 80 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: do it, and he doesn't say, you know, no, I'm 81 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead anyway. But there's a context for 82 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: the hatred against this president, and it's that this has 83 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: been building and building and getting more toxic and more destructive. 84 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: There's been a corrosion of the soul of the progressive left. 85 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: That has been an ongoing program. I mean, this has 86 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: been an intentional policy, mean to make people not just 87 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: disagree with Trump and his supporters, and don't forget that 88 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: part of it, it's the supporters too. It's you and me, 89 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: not just to disagree with Trump or to even hate Trump, 90 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: but to hate all of us and think that we 91 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: are bad. It's not that we're wrong, it's that we're 92 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: bad people, and we're wrong, but more importantly, we're bad people. 93 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: That's what they really think. That is what the Democrat 94 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: base believes. They think we're all racist, they think we're 95 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: all hateful. They think these things, and that is not 96 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: about to change. That was not just a coping mechanism 97 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: for the last two years, really, but that has been 98 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: building and now we will see it channeled and weaponized. 99 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: Now we'll see the full scope of their crazy. Representative 100 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: Hank Johnson, here's an example. I mean, this is now 101 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: not just this is now the the standard that you 102 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: will hear from people talking about Trump. This is this 103 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: is an outliers. I'm not you know, I know. We 104 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: started the show this woman in Congress who's yelling, you know, 105 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: profanity about calling the president of profane word and and 106 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: and also saying she's gonna impeach him, which let's not forget. 107 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: We've had a credulous, laughably credulous media running around for 108 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: the last six months saying, oh, no, we're gonna wait 109 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: for the Muller probe defend, and they're gonna wait for them, 110 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna wait. Well, they want to impeach the president too, 111 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: but they've been claiming we're gonna wait for the Muller 112 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: probe to finish before we make any decision about about impeachment. No, 113 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: they're not. It's a lie. They're gonna they're going, mark 114 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: my words, they are going to impeach this president. They're 115 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: not going to remove him. And I even I would 116 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: even willing to concede. I think Nancy Pelosi knows it's 117 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: probably not a good idea to impeach the president. But 118 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: she's gonna be in the kind of puncher's pilot position here. 119 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: She's gonna say, look, if this is what all know, 120 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: if this is what all you crazy's want, I mean, 121 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: and all right, I guess I'll give it to you. 122 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: She is going to get so much pressure from the 123 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: left wing, lunatic Democrat Party base that I just think 124 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: that impeachment is a foregone conclusion. And that's why when 125 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: you hear people already coming out and saying and they 126 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: already had a member of Congress file articles on peachbi, 127 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: I know this is this is going to be an 128 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: ongoing thing. I mentioned Hank Johnson. Yeah, here's here is 129 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: the standard line from the left on who Trump is 130 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: and who Trump supporters therefore are. Play clip twenty two 131 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: Americans elected an authoritarian, anti immigrant, racist strong man to 132 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: the nation's highest office, Donald Trump and his make America 133 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: great Again. Follow us who want to return America back 134 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: to a time when white men and white privilege were 135 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: unchallenged and where minorities and women were in their place. 136 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: Much like Hitler took over the Nazi Party, Trump has 137 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: taken over the Republican Party. Nazi Party Trump, Trump has 138 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: taken it over. This is not a fringe This is 139 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: not a a fringe position. This is not something that 140 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: you will not hear from more and more Democrats, and 141 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: you have been hearing from Democrats obviously for quite for 142 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: quite some time now. I do want to focus in 143 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: on some of the policy that they've been discussing as well, 144 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: because we're starting to be reminded and this is the 145 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: greatest advertisement for the Republican party in power, really is 146 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: the Democrats talking about what they want to do. That's 147 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: when you really get a sense of, oh my gosh, 148 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: you cannot give these people power. You cannot allow them 149 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: to be in a position where they get to make decisions, 150 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: because their ideas aren't just bad, I mean they are 151 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: catastrophically bad. You know, today you had your introduction to 152 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: the House of Pelosi articles of impeachment and an effort 153 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: to maybe abolish the electoral college, right voting, this brinksmanship 154 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: on shutdown, profanity from a new member of Congress. You've 155 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: got this insane tax scheme that okaus Y Cortez is 156 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: talking about. I just played audio of that guy talking 157 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: about how Trump is a Nazi and this is day 158 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: you know, this is day one, This is day one. 159 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: Where does it go from here? And that's why I 160 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: have to laugh. I have to laugh when people say, oh, yeah, 161 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: there's gonna be an infrastructure bill, and there's how can 162 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: this is the favorite? The favorite? And I'm man, I 163 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: get forced to ask it too, So don't don't you 164 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 1: know dredge up audio of me saying the same thing. 165 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: There We all end up having this conversation, even though 166 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: I think a pretty useless one, of well, what are 167 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: the ways that the new the new you know, Democrat 168 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: majority can work with the Republicans in a bipartisan fashion 169 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: to make America. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. 170 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: It is not going to happen. Okay, that's we can 171 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: sit around and talk about it, But that's not what 172 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: this is about. You and I my friends are in 173 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: the early phase of a struggle for power that will 174 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: not stop. That will be a continuous, ongoing, bare knuckle 175 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: brawl until twenty twenty, and then it just goes into 176 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: a new phase with whoever wins and you know, and 177 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: then the cycle resets. But but we are, we are 178 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: on a on a pathway now to twenty twenty. Nothing 179 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: of any real political significance from a legislative perspective, is 180 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,599 Speaker 1: going to happen between now and then it's just you know, 181 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: and people talk about gridlock. I'll say this, you know, 182 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: let me give you a little moment, a happy because 183 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: we're here on a Friday because Bucks happy. Do you 184 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: know there's I like that song. Um, let me give 185 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: you a little moment happy. Though, I think the founders 186 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: wanted gridlock to be common, I think that it should 187 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: be hard for the Congress to make massive, massive transformations 188 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: to this country. I do not want it to be 189 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: a simple thing for them to take it upon themselves, 190 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: one way or another, to transform this country. I think 191 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: that it's probably for the best. A lot of very 192 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: smart historians, analysts, pundits, people that look at these issues 193 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: all the time will tell you and have told me 194 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: that in a lot of ways, the less the Congress does, 195 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: the better for the rest of us. Now, there are 196 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: things that they can fix, but oftentimes they try to fit. 197 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: Look at Obamacare, they say they're fix it. If they're 198 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: making it worse, they're making it worse. You know, if 199 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: if we can just get a few a few wins, 200 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: a few more wins racked up from the president's side 201 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: of things like oh, I don't know, another Supreme Court 202 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: justice would be really nice, then I think you're you're 203 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: pretty much just in a election twenty twenty showdown, which 204 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: is where we're heading. And in the meantime, it is stuff. 205 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: If you're gonna Democrats are gonna be all those And 206 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: this is what I meant before about the context, right 207 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 1: when when you have this member of Congress screaming the 208 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: president is an mf or all of these marches in 209 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: the streets, the Women's March and Antifa and showing up 210 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: outside of conservatives homes and chasing them down in restaurants, 211 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: and the psychopath who tried to kill Steve Scalise and 212 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of other members of Conservative members of Congress. 213 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: Any all of that background, all of that history is 214 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: now going to be funneled into channeled into the histrionics, 215 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: the grandstanding, the narcissism, and the nastiness of Nancy Pelosi's Democrats. So, 216 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: you know, this has been a very It's been a 217 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: good twenty four hour introduction to what we're going to 218 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: be up against here, which is a lot of a 219 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of kind of worthless talk about 220 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: policies that the Democrats know they have no chance of 221 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: getting through in the next two years. But they're going 222 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: to be engaged in a propaganda battle to see also 223 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: where where they're going to run for twenty twenty and 224 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: then just just tear down this president. I mean, the 225 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: effort is going to go into hyper drive here, overdrive, hyperdrive, 226 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: whichever one is more of a drive. That's what they're 227 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: gonna do. Team. We're in the midst of our Friday 228 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: salon here on the Buck Sexton Show, so I'm very 229 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: much enjoying it. If you want to send me your thoughts, 230 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: note Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton is a great way 231 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: to do it. We've got more on Pelosi's paranoid and 232 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: crazy Congress and also the Wall shut Down Showdown coming up. 233 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: One of the things that's so beautiful to watch is 234 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: three point two percent wage growth that hasn't happened in 235 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: so long per our country. That's an incredible thing. That 236 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: means people are actually getting more money, taking home more money. 237 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: A lot of good things are happening. Labor participation ation 238 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: rate increased to sixty three point one. That's an incredible 239 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: number also, so I just wanted to bring that out. 240 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: The economy is very good, and remember from the time 241 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: of my election, the stock market's gone up very close 242 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: to thirty percent. And that's with all of the things 243 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: that are happening. Three hundred and ten I'm sorry, three 244 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: hundred and twelve thousand jobs and latest jobs report unemployment 245 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: still below four percent. In sameer times, this would be 246 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: the primary news story, the single most important thing that 247 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: we've been told today by the news media. Meanwhile, give 248 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: you a sense of where things are. You know, on 249 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: the other side of things, you have CNN and MSNBC 250 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: and all these different Here you go CNN, hundreds of 251 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: TSA screeners calling out six okay, and also on seeing 252 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: an amen allegedly chased a woman into a karate studio, 253 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: it went, just how you okay? Well, that's that's the 254 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: top story. I guess there must be a viral video 255 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: with that. Speaking of viral videos, you know, there was 256 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: this uh Okazi Quartes dancing video. It's not worth playing 257 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: on Eric because you can't see your dancing. It was 258 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: put out by some anonymous Twitter account and it went 259 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: it went viral. People were all talking about this last night, 260 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: and it was a big conversation among the the Twitterati, 261 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 1: you know, the various media folks out there that are 262 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,719 Speaker 1: all Unfortunately, we're all we're all glued to Twitter these 263 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: days because of the president and and the importance of 264 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: some of the proclamations that come via tweet. But this 265 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: a Kazy Cortes's video. She's danced around, she's having fun, 266 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: and look it's cute. I mean, she's she's an appealing person. 267 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: You know, she will talk about her terrible ideas and 268 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: bad economics in a second, but she's an appealing person. 269 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 1: And I saw all this, all this reporting, or at 270 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: least all this commentary on how oh look at people jump, 271 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: you know, jumping conclusions and trying to bash Okazia Quartez 272 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: for dancing and having some fun when she was in 273 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: college or on this video. And then I looked around, 274 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: and I've still I put out this challenge. I said, 275 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: can someone show me one instance of a conservative of 276 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: any note, of an actual conservative of any with any 277 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: kind of platform or following her voice, who was calling 278 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: Okazia Cortes out for this video? And I still have 279 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: yet to see one. Tons of people claiming that Republicans 280 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: pounce and Republicans have overreached on Okazia Quartz And then 281 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: I look at I say, well, hold on a second 282 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: where it says who who says who Poles or Poles? 283 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Michael Cohen. Yeah, that was that was a 284 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: different era, wasn't it. So I just wish people would 285 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: be honest about whether there really is this overreach on 286 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: this issue with Okazi Quartez, but also in general, you know, 287 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: conservatives basher for policies, not for her persona. That's an 288 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: important thing. They're just making her more famous all the time. 289 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: And Libs don't care if Okazio Cortez, you know, isn't 290 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: good at math. So I mentioned Okazio Cortes and and 291 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 1: her her tax rate, you know, and a math. And 292 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: this is where you're gonna have real This is where 293 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have real problems for the for 294 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: the Democrats going forward. They're not the moment that people 295 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: get into a place where they hear what the reality 296 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: of these policies are. Things like a green New Deal, right, 297 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: that's you're gonna hear a lot about that coming up. 298 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not going to happen, but they're gonna 299 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 1: be proposing this idea of a green new deal, um. 300 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: And and then also just on the redistribution of wealth 301 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: and what what paying your your fair share, right, bringing 302 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: back the old Obama phrase paying your fair share. Maybe. 303 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: I think today she said, was it seventy percent Ocasio 304 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: Cortez on taxes, Yes, seventy percent tax on the on 305 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: the super wealthy too fund the Green New Deal. And 306 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: you always hear people trot out this, oh well, under 307 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: the Eisenhower administration, So yeah, let's go back to let's 308 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: go back now sixty some oddiars. Under the Eisenhower administration, 309 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: the top tax rate was, you know, ninety one percent 310 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: and two things one. Nobody paid. Whether that might have 311 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: been the rate, nobody paid that rate. You know, this 312 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: is like saying, well, in Greece in the mid two thousands, 313 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: the tax rate was whatever it was. Yeah, but it 314 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: didn't matter what the tax rate was. Nobody was paying taxes, 315 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: which is why Grease had the problems that it did. 316 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: I mean the tax compliance rate. It's not nobody. I'm exaggerating, body, 317 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: The tax compliance rate was very, very low, and no 318 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: one was really paying ninety one percent. This is also 319 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: where I get it, I get a little revolutionary in 320 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: my tone here. You know, if we're gonna have these 321 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: high taxes, we need to we need to have a 322 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: wealth tax. It can't be a tax on income. A 323 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: tax on income prevents people from ascending the ladder. It 324 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: punishes people for productive activity. Tax on wealth. You know, 325 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: if we're going to start, you know, just having the 326 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: government confiscate from people, well, it shouldn't confiscate from somebody 327 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: who makes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars one year, 328 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: the same as it confiscates from somebody who's worth ten 329 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: million dollars. And it is making two hundred and fifty 330 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on unearned investment income every year. Right, that's 331 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: not we're going to talk about fair. That's not fair. 332 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: And we already have an incredibly and like I don't 333 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: think of wealth tax a good idea. I'm just saying, 334 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: if we're going to go down this road, let's not 335 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: pretend that one the people at the at the top 336 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: end of the of the spectrum are going to be 337 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: able to fund all of this. There's there's not enough money. 338 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: There's not enough money to do this. And you know, 339 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: I understand that right now because of the Republicans are 340 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: spending a lot in you know, Trump we got almost 341 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: a trillion dollars deficit this past year. It's not not 342 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: good in that sense because Republicans are spending a lot 343 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: the discussion about the debt and what it's going to 344 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: mean when interest service payments on the debt start to 345 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: crowd out more of overall spending. You know, we're not 346 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: in as strong opposition as we should be to make 347 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: that case the American people, because the Republican Party and yes, 348 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,239 Speaker 1: the Trump administration have been somewhat complicit in blowing up 349 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: the debt. I mean, we're not We're not as bad 350 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: as Obama was, right Obama. Obama took it and basically 351 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: doubled it, which is pretty remarkable. I mean, if you're 352 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: gonna say, one thing that Obama definitely accomplished was putting 353 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: the United States in a long term dire fiscal situation. 354 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: So he did manage to do that, which which was 355 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: remarkable in its own way. But this notion of a 356 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: seventy percent tax rate only is that going to fundamentally 357 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: change not just this country's economy, but the global economy. 358 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: We are responded, this country responsible for so much innovation 359 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: and wealth creation. You go back and I know that 360 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: some people, you know, this doesn't really get headlines, doesn't 361 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: really get a lot of attention. You go back, you 362 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: look at how much of the world lived in true poverty, 363 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: even as far back as nineteen fifty, right, so not 364 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: that long ago. A lot of you were alive in 365 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,239 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, you know, you go back and look at 366 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: what was what the global poverty index was then and 367 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: what it is now. And there are billions of people 368 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: who aren't in poverty anymore relative to what was going 369 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: on then. And this is because of the American approach, 370 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: which other countries have to adopted obviously, you know, Japan 371 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: and Western Europe to very degrees, and but rewarding productive 372 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: behavior and ingenuity and risk taking and wealth creation in 373 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: and understanding how much human self interest is a motivating 374 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: and mobilizing force in society and the good that that creates. 375 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: This has you know, we are so blessed. We're almost 376 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: you know, people all that our life today, we're almost 377 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: like the spoiled brats of the human race because we 378 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: didn't have to go through what some of the others, 379 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: what some of the others have in the past. You know, 380 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: we didn't have to deal with the constraints, the artificial 381 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: constraints on our productivity and on our ability to choose 382 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: our own destinies put on us by this state. Remember 383 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: the left, the Democrat Party is now the American Socialist Party. 384 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 1: They they are playing a little bit of foot see 385 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: with the terminology, but that's where they are. And that's 386 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: why the radicalism in the language that you've heard in 387 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: the last two years is when you're now, it's being 388 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: translated into policies abolishing the electoral college, a seventy percent 389 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: tax rate, impeaching the president, a Green new Deal, you know, 390 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: a radical transformation that just means a radical transformation of 391 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: the energy sector that will make this country a lot 392 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: poorer very quickly. This is what these people really want 393 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: to do. The biggest advertisement for keeping Trump and Republicans 394 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: in power, fortunately for us, is the Democratic Party. As 395 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: long as the American people are paying attention. Let's talk 396 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: about that wall fight coming up. You ran your campaign 397 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: promising supporters that Mexico is going to pay for the 398 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: wall and that the wall was going to be made 399 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: of concrete. You just said earlier that the wall could 400 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: be made of steel, and right now our government is 401 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: shut down over a demand from your administration that the 402 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: American taxpayer pay for the wall. So how can you 403 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: say you're not failing on that promise to your supporters. 404 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: A very nice question, so beautifully asked. Even though I 405 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: just answered, it didn't let me take excuse me? Are 406 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: you ready? Are you ready? I just tell you that 407 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: we just made a trade deal and we will take 408 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: in billions and billions of does far more than the 409 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: cost of the wall. The wall is peanuts compared to 410 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: what the value of this trade deal is to the 411 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: United States. As far as concrete, I said I was 412 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: going to build a wall. I never said I'm going 413 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: to build a concrete I said I'm gonna build a wall, 414 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: just so you know, because I know you're not into 415 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: the construction business. If I build this wall or fence 416 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: or anything that Democrats need to call it, because I'm 417 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: not into names. I'm into production. I'm into something that works. 418 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: If I build a steel wall rather than a concrete wall, 419 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: it will actually be stronger than a conquered Steel is 420 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: stronger than concrete. Okay, okay, yep, you could check it out. 421 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: This is so dumb, but it tells you a lot 422 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: of it where the Democrats and their their lackeys in 423 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: the media are this It's a wall it's a fence. 424 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: It's a barrier. No, it's a fence. Everyone knows. We're 425 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: just talking about barriers at the border to stop people 426 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: from coming into the country illegally. We don't care what 427 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: color defense is. We don't care what hype the barrier is, 428 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: as long as it is a physical obstruction to prevent 429 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: illegal access. How are we even having this discussion? Maybe though, 430 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: it's because there's a little bit of concern among the 431 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: left wing propagandists in the media and their allies in 432 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party over what's going to happen here. Maybe 433 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: they've started to realize that the more the American people 434 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: pay attention to this really can't spare five billion dollars 435 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: to build a wall, and Trump is having the shutdown. 436 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: They could end the shutdown anytime they want. Just give 437 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: the man the money he needs to start building this wall. 438 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: Five billion dollars is nothing the government. The federal government 439 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: loses an estimated eighty billion dollars a year in Medicare 440 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: and Medicaid fraud. In fraud, the federal government's spending how 441 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: many billions of dollars on fourign eight, how many tens 442 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: of billions of dollars on FOIGN eight every year. We 443 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,479 Speaker 1: don't have five billion dollars with the border, but they 444 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: focus in on, Oh, the fence is not a fence, 445 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: it's a barrier. Oh, it's not a barrier, it's a wall. 446 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: That's just this is just a semantics game. This is nonsense. 447 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything. Why why would anyone spend their 448 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: time on this? And then also you said Mexico's gonna 449 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: pay for it, Well, Mexico's not paying for it. Okay, 450 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: Well maybe Trump was wrong and in that Mexico won't 451 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: be able to pay for it right away or it Still, 452 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to 453 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: build a wall. That that's not some argument ender, you know. 454 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: That's uh. CNN's Caitlin Collins. I know Caitlin, and I 455 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: like Caitlin. I don't know. She used to work a 456 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: daily caller. We've we used to hang out sometimes. I look, 457 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: she's seen Jim Acostas turn himself into a household name 458 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: by going after the president. I understand, if you're at CNN, 459 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: there's no better career move than going after the president. 460 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: But I don't think she was I don't think she 461 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: was doing herself long term any favors there. But you know, 462 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,479 Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. She's become like I said, I like her, 463 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: and I it's hard. It's hard for me to see 464 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: what's going on over at CNN these days because I 465 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: know some good people over there who are on air 466 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: and and they're just doing what little Jeff Zucker tells 467 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: him to do. You know, that's that's really You got 468 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: to dance to Jeff's tune over there or else you're 469 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: out of luck. You know, he decides whatever gets paid. 470 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: He decides, you know, whether you whether you live or dies, 471 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: so to speak, at CNN is completely in Zucker's hands. 472 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,959 Speaker 1: And obviously he's a he's an anti Trump fanatic at 473 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: this point. So uh, and it's it's just a shame, um. 474 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: But this idea that it somehow is a useful addition 475 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: to the national conversation here to pretend that the specifics 476 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: of the wall, oh well, you know the wall that 477 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: he's talking about now, the slats that wasn't one of 478 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: the one of the initial prototypes. Who cares? What is this? 479 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: I think it's desperation. I think it's the left and 480 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: the Democrats just trying to find a way to just 481 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: to kick up dust, to throw smooth blow smooth, throw smoke, 482 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: blow smoke. You can do lots of things with smoke. 483 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: You can just smoke it. Um. Democrats used to talk 484 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: about building a wall. By the way, this this also 485 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: gets lost. You know, if we had an honest press Corps, 486 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: they would be holding Democrats feet to the fire. On 487 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: the Secure Fence Act of two thousand and six, huge 488 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: bipartisan majority said yeah, let's build it. Let's build a 489 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: border fence. And this this was because everyone knew this 490 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: was a very effective thing to do. But now they're 491 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: pretending to like, oh, it's not But Democrats, even in 492 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: recent years have talked about their desire to build a wall. 493 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: Democrats have been saying openly it's a we have the internet, 494 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: we have the interwebs, we can pull this stuff up, 495 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: we can find it. Here's a here's a whole montage 496 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: of them play clip nineteen. I voted numerous times when 497 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: I was a Senator to spend money to build a 498 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. 499 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: And I do think you have to control your borders. 500 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: People who enter the United States without our permission are 501 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the 502 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: same as people who entered the US legally. The American 503 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: people will never accept immigration reform unless they truly believe 504 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: that their government is committed to ending future illegal immigration. 505 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: But those who enter our country illegally and those who 506 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: employ them disrespect the rule of law. And because we 507 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, 508 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: we cannot allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented, 509 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: and unchecked. Who knew that Hillary, Schumer and Obama were 510 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: slid a bunch of racists, right, Wow? They must really 511 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: not like Mexicans because they're talking about illegal immigration being bad. 512 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: You can't do this, It's not a good thing for 513 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: the country, Hilary said. Quote I voted to spend money 514 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: to build a barrier. Oh my gosh, she said barrier. 515 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: Well she didn't say wall. The dumbest stuff that you're 516 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: hearing these days coming from these democrats I do. And 517 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: also the hypocrisy and dishonesty of it. It really bothers me. Maybe, though, 518 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: just maybe the President's going to find a way a 519 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: way through this. It is it is possible, it is 520 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: conceivable that the president finds a way through no matter 521 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: what happens with a shutdown. Now he's saying he's not 522 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: going to cave. And I think one thing you say 523 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: about Trump is trying to force that man to do 524 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: something he doesn't want to do. Good luck, Democrats, good 525 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: luck getting Trump to cave when he's really set on something. 526 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he's not a guy who changes 527 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: his mind, but if he's dug in, looking how douging 528 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: he is on trade, He's gone against the He's gone 529 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: against the most unanimous expert consensus on trade, almost unanimous. 530 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: It's not n US, but he's going against it, and 531 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,719 Speaker 1: he's he's not backing down one bit. You don't think 532 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: he's gonna ride this shut down out as long as 533 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: he has to. But then there's a possibility maybe he 534 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: just gets a little bit of funding and they say, oh, well, 535 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: you can't use it for this reason or that reason, 536 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: and then he just drums there is maybe he declares 537 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: the national emergency play eighteen. Have you considered using emergency 538 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without 539 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: congressional approval? And seconds ago you have, Yes, I have, 540 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: and I can do it if I want. So you 541 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: don't need congressional approval to build the national emergency because 542 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,239 Speaker 1: of the security of our country. Absolutely no, we can 543 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: do it. I haven't done it. I may do it, 544 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: I may do it. But we can call a national 545 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: emergency and build it very quickly. And it's another way 546 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: of doing it. But if we can do it through 547 00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: a negotiated process, we're giving about a shot. I think 548 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: that's the right attitude. Now, if Trump did declare a 549 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 1: national emergency, there's no question that the federal anti Trump, 550 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: never Trump judiciary would shut it down with another nationwide 551 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: But this will we got to change this, by the way, folks, 552 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: you can't have one federal judge just declaring for the 553 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: whole country all the time. Sorry, you know that the 554 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: executive branch can't do this thing. But you get you 555 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: get an it'll get a nationwide injunction that'll stop the 556 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: building of the wall, and then you'll probably get a 557 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: request for a stay, and then I'll go to appeals 558 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: and then it'll make its way that you know that 559 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court in the election year might be looking 560 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: at whether or not the president can use emergency power 561 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,440 Speaker 1: to build the wall. And you can imagine how contentious 562 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: that will be. But if Trump takes it there, if 563 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: he just if he does truly everything that he can 564 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: to get this wall built as he should, then I 565 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: think he's in excellent shape for twenty twenty and then 566 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: he may have an their four years to get this 567 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: wall going. So that's why this fight is so important, 568 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: which is why Pelosi and Schumer obviously don't want to 569 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 1: budge at all on it. They understand the political The 570 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: one thing Nancy Pelosi does know is what's good for 571 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: her and what's not. I don't think she knows what's 572 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: good for the country and what's not, or maybe it's 573 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: more apt to say she doesn't care, but she definitely 574 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: knows what's good for Nancy Pelosi, which is why she 575 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: is in the position she is in now. So we'll look, 576 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: We're going to continue to talk more about it. This 577 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: is the most important issue in the country right now, 578 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: no question immigration. Who's gonna win. I mean, this is 579 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: this is like the Obama care fight of twenty ten, 580 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: and you know we lost that one, folks. I don't 581 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: think we want to see what the future is like 582 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: for this country if we lose this one. I don't 583 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: think that we're going to be able to rebound from 584 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: what would really just be the end of any effort 585 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: to have a secure border. You know, you'd one hundred 586 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: and fifty five thousand people apprehended in the last year 587 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: at the border, five hundred thousand visa overstays every year. 588 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: You have hundreds of thousands of illegals coming into the 589 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,399 Speaker 1: country every year, and they're not planning on leaving anytime soon. 590 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: That's why the numbers. I've told you as a joke, 591 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: it's now or never. Trump understands that, and that's why 592 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: I'm so pleased to see these willing to fight on 593 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: this one. But I worry about these Republicans, weak knees 594 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: among a lot of GOP establishment types. We got more 595 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: on this. Stay with me. We need protection in our country. 596 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna make it good. The people of our country 597 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: want it. Without a wall, you cannot have border security, 598 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 1: it won't work. Hopefully, we're gonna work together and we're 599 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: gonna get lots of things done. I think the Presence 600 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 1: made it very clear. Yes, there's no wall, no deal, 601 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: but look, we really are prepared to negotiate. We're prepared 602 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:54,759 Speaker 1: to talk. I like that they're saying that no wall, 603 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: no deal. But you know the issue with opening this 604 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: up here there you had obviously Trump and Pence with 605 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: a one two punch on on where we stand in 606 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: this shutdown. The issue is that the Democrats aren't opposed 607 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: to the wall really for any reason. When I say 608 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: the Democrat Democrat Party broadly speaking is opposed to the 609 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 1: wall because it will work and because they like illegal immigration. 610 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: The Democrats that you're going to have to negotiate with 611 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,479 Speaker 1: to get funding for a wall, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. Their 612 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,240 Speaker 1: main opposition to this, at least in the immediate sense, 613 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: is they are against it because Trump is for it. 614 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: They don't want there to be a wall because that 615 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: would be a win for Trump and they know that 616 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 1: and politically they will not allow that. You know, I 617 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: spoke to the incoming budget Chairman, John Yarmouth today on 618 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: rising and I just said, you know, it's five five 619 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,040 Speaker 1: billion dollars. There's not a lot of money. And the 620 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 1: head of Order Patrol, the head of Immigration, of Customs Enforcement, 621 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: you know, every border patrol age and I've talked to 622 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: all say that a wall is useful and a wall works, 623 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,320 Speaker 1: and we need a wall and places where we have 624 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 1: a wall on the southern border or a barrier of 625 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 1: some kind. It's already proven that it works. So what 626 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: is this nonsense? I mean, what is this fabrication that 627 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,360 Speaker 1: we're always told experts say a wall won't work. I 628 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: never see anybody that'll go, oh, there's an expert. You know, 629 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 1: this is why, you know, you can't take their word 630 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: on any of this stuff. You can't take their word 631 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: with the Oh, all the experts agree, agree on climate change, 632 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: all scientists agree. Well that's not true, but they'll say it. 633 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: They'll say it because of the momentary propaganda value of 634 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 1: the lie and the hope that people aren't paying close 635 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 1: enough attention that they'll be held to account for the falsehood. 636 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: You know, they'll they'll just go go forward with with 637 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,279 Speaker 1: the same nonsense they've always done. You know this, this 638 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: is a very straightforward issue, and it's being made complicated 639 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 1: by the Democrats, not not by the Republican. Republicans are 640 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 1: not the ones that are complicated. It's very easy to 641 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: give them what they want. Democrats the ones you say, 642 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,320 Speaker 1: we want border security, but you know not, that's not 643 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 1: border security that will actually secure the border. That's that's 644 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,960 Speaker 1: a complicated position. That's a difficult thing to to make 645 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: work and to make sense. You know, here, here's Pelosi 646 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 1: and you know she's back. Everybody, Hey, that's a Pelosi. 647 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: She's back, and you're gonna be hearing a lot from 648 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: her in the next two years. So get ready for 649 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,439 Speaker 1: We're we're gonna be gonna be spending plenty of time 650 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: holding Pelosi to account here on the show. So that 651 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 1: will be I'm hoping, very entertaining for us as well 652 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: as worthwhile. But here are some of the things that 653 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 1: she says about the wall and about the negotiations. Your 654 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 1: play clip too. What we're asking the president the Republicans 655 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: in the Senate to do is to take yes for 656 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: an answer. A wall is an immorality. It's not who 657 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: we are as a nation. And this is not a 658 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,240 Speaker 1: wall between Mexico and the United States that the president 659 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: is creating here. It's a wall between reality and his constituents. 660 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: I wonder who writes these seemingly gotcha lines for Nancy 661 00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,960 Speaker 1: Pelosi dispute on TV that when you think about it 662 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: for more than a second, you realize it is idiocy. 663 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,839 Speaker 1: This is not an intelligent thing. A wall is an immorality. Well, 664 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: a wall is an inanimate object. So I can't understand 665 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,839 Speaker 1: how a wall is an immorality. And if let's play 666 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,759 Speaker 1: this out for a moment, let's take Nancy at her 667 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: word here froment. If a wall is immoral, isn't our 668 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:49,239 Speaker 1: border patrol? Immoral? Isn't our border? Immoral? Isn't the whole 669 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 1: idea that we will take people? You know, current US 670 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: law that exists because of the Congress, that she is 671 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: now the single most important official working in which is, 672 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 1: as I say it, astonishing, But that's where we are 673 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: as a country. Oh well, but the law is that 674 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: if you try to come to the country legally, you'll 675 00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: be stopped. Is that immoral? Is our border? Immoral? Democrats 676 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 1: are never forced to have a real debate on these issues. 677 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,360 Speaker 1: They are never forced to get deep into the discussion 678 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,840 Speaker 1: about any of this, and they just stick to the 679 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: talking points. It's very superficial, very surface level, and all 680 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: about trying to rile people up emotionally without having to 681 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 1: engage on the substance. That has been their tactic to 682 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: deal with immigration for a long time, and as you know, 683 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 1: it's probably the single on this show. I think we 684 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: talk with immigration more than any other policy issue. And 685 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 1: we have for quite a long time. I mean, I 686 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: think immigration is from the perspective of what the government 687 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 1: can do, should do, needs to do, what the Trump 688 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,280 Speaker 1: administration needs. So it's probably the single most important area 689 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,279 Speaker 1: where there needs to be success because it's an existential 690 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,640 Speaker 1: issue for the Republican Party for conservatism, for limited government, 691 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: and over the long term, it's an existential issue for 692 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 1: the United States as we know it. It will not 693 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,399 Speaker 1: be the same country in fifty years, some would say 694 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: in fifteen years unless we get I handle all this 695 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: and understand what the real implications are of nearly unrestricted 696 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 1: mass immigration that's been going on for decades that has 697 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,840 Speaker 1: overwhelmed the systems of assimilation that we have had in 698 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 1: place in this country for a long time. But the 699 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 1: idea that the wall is an immorality, why when Nancy 700 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,319 Speaker 1: Pelosi says that a real press corps would push her 701 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 1: and say is a border immoral? Is it immoral that 702 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: we don't let anyone just come into this country and 703 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: then have a claim on our stuff. And I mean 704 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,960 Speaker 1: that quite literally. If you're allowed to just come to 705 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 1: America because you want to be in America and get 706 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: the full benefits of being here, then you're essentially able 707 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,840 Speaker 1: to apprise yourself of or able to acquire for yourself 708 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,920 Speaker 1: the benefits of the state that are paid for by 709 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,759 Speaker 1: the taxpayer. So is that that's all good, that's fine, 710 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: that's acceptable. I mean, at what point is it theft? 711 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,719 Speaker 1: What point is this breaking of laws eroding the very 712 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:37,840 Speaker 1: foundation of national sovereignty and of the state itself. But 713 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,880 Speaker 1: there's more Pelosi in the wall plicklip three. Resident cannot 714 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,759 Speaker 1: hold public employees hostage because he wants to have a 715 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,000 Speaker 1: wall that is not affected, not effective in terms of 716 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: its purpose, not cost effective in terms of what the 717 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: opportunity costs it is of a federal dollars to spend. 718 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,319 Speaker 1: And the President said, Mexico is going to pay for this. Oh, 719 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,279 Speaker 1: let's let's anchor ourselves into reality. Mexico is not going 720 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:10,000 Speaker 1: to pay for this wall. So no, he could make 721 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 1: Mexico pay for the wall after the fact. I don't 722 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: remember the President saying that the Mexico is going to 723 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 1: pay upfront. He could start taxing remittances, which I think 724 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:23,160 Speaker 1: would be an excellent idea. There should be taxes on remittances. 725 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,240 Speaker 1: You've got about twenty billion dollars a year flowing south 726 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 1: of our border, most of it, you know, just just 727 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 1: in pure cash, untaxed, unaccounted for, and subsidizing the Mexican economy. 728 00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,560 Speaker 1: I always fine, it's such an interesting argument. You'll hear 729 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,799 Speaker 1: this from lefties too, from from progressive types. Oh well, 730 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,960 Speaker 1: that's a good thing, because the stronger the Mexican economy is, 731 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: the less likely people are to come here. Okay, but 732 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: we're still subsidized. You know, you could say that about 733 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,759 Speaker 1: a lot of different countries. So so how much more 734 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: do we need to subsidize the Honduran economy and the 735 00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,680 Speaker 1: El Salvadoran economy and the Nicara You know, you just 736 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,480 Speaker 1: go all the way down the line. We again subsidize 737 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: them enough that people don't want to come here. Being 738 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: an American is a very special thing. We are lucky 739 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,319 Speaker 1: you and I understand that. I know that people listen 740 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:09,840 Speaker 1: to the show actually all over the world, and some 741 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,560 Speaker 1: of you aren't Americans, but vast majority of us listening 742 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 1: to the show are American. There are some Canadians, what's up, 743 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,840 Speaker 1: Team Bot Canada. There are some Canadians listen to the 744 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,040 Speaker 1: show too, But we understand that it's it's a privilege 745 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,800 Speaker 1: and we're incredibly lucky and are grateful for that, but 746 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,279 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we want to give it away 747 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,200 Speaker 1: to everybody and allow it to be destroyed either, right, 748 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,080 Speaker 1: And is it fair? You know, there's the accident of 749 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,920 Speaker 1: birth is a real thing. There's a lot of things 750 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,080 Speaker 1: that aren't fair. One of the most important things in 751 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,840 Speaker 1: life is to understand that life is not fair. And 752 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,799 Speaker 1: the fact that you and I were born in the greatest, wealthiest, 753 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,120 Speaker 1: freest country in the history of the planet and not 754 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,279 Speaker 1: born in the midst of a civil war in Somalia 755 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:58,920 Speaker 1: or a North Korean gulag is to our everlasting benefit 756 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 1: and just a stroke of incredible good luck for all 757 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,239 Speaker 1: of us. Right, we are very, very lucky comparatively and 758 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,279 Speaker 1: not I don't even have to go with present day 759 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,360 Speaker 1: worst case scenarios places like North Korea. You know, we're 760 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 1: lucky compared to what we would have been dealing with 761 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: in you know, in basically all of the world you 762 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 1: to one hundred years ago. We're lucky, not just in 763 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,120 Speaker 1: the time we were born, but in the place we 764 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,400 Speaker 1: were born. So there's a lot that we have to 765 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,600 Speaker 1: be a lot that we have to be thankful for. 766 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,600 Speaker 1: But the you know, the Democrats don't see it this way. 767 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:33,720 Speaker 1: They see it as we owe the world, we owe 768 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 1: the third world, in particular the redistribution of wealth that 769 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,560 Speaker 1: will occur from citizens to non citizens through a mass amnesty, 770 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,800 Speaker 1: through open borders, through continued infiltration of illegal aliens in 771 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:53,160 Speaker 1: this country. Rona McDaniel said this about about the Democratic 772 00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,719 Speaker 1: Party and Pelosi, and you know, she definitely hit hit 773 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,600 Speaker 1: some of the highlights here play for the Democrat Party 774 00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,480 Speaker 1: is now the party of sanctuary cities, abolish ice, open borders. 775 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,160 Speaker 1: She called a wall immorl. What we know about the 776 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,080 Speaker 1: walls and the borders that we have is that it 777 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,560 Speaker 1: has decreased illegal crossings by ninety percent where we have them. 778 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,200 Speaker 1: She called that immorl. I think it's immorl to give 779 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,720 Speaker 1: more money to foreign governments than you do to protect 780 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,440 Speaker 1: our border. The president's asking for five billion, she gave 781 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,520 Speaker 1: fifty four billion to foreign governments. Her priorities are out 782 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 1: of whack. The American people now see Republicans are fighting 783 00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,520 Speaker 1: for our country. Democrats are doubling down at obstruction and 784 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,520 Speaker 1: everything against this president that they can do, instead of 785 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:36,759 Speaker 1: solving the problems at home. Rememb're this fight's all over 786 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,080 Speaker 1: spending five billion dollars on border screup. Think of think 787 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,120 Speaker 1: of all the money. I mean, you know this, this 788 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,440 Speaker 1: point about priorities that Ron McDaniels making here you use 789 00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 1: the R and C chairwoman, This point about priorities is 790 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,839 Speaker 1: a very poignant one. I think. I just consider all 791 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,239 Speaker 1: the money that's been spent in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in 792 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,160 Speaker 1: foreign aid to countries le Honduras like Mexico. Think of 793 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 1: all the money that the federal government is spending that 794 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,160 Speaker 1: they're taking from tag The federal government has no money, 795 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,719 Speaker 1: it has your money. So think of all the checks 796 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,480 Speaker 1: that sent into governments all of the world. And think 797 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,600 Speaker 1: of here we are talking about, as I've said, I 798 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: mean maybe second only to the you know, the economy 799 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:25,280 Speaker 1: and the and the debt, but the long term, biggest 800 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,440 Speaker 1: challenge we have, most important challenge we have is is 801 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:34,160 Speaker 1: secure orders and immigration. You know, after the debt deficit 802 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,880 Speaker 1: in the economy, and they won't spend five billion dollars 803 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,279 Speaker 1: to maybe get this thing right. And if they're so 804 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,000 Speaker 1: sure that it wouldn't work, wouldn't it be worth spending 805 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,080 Speaker 1: the money. Wouldn't it be worth allowing Republicans to go 806 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,120 Speaker 1: off on this fool's errand and Trump to do his 807 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,239 Speaker 1: wall that all Mexican's gonna pay for it. They all 808 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,880 Speaker 1: think they're so clever with this, put it up, and 809 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,080 Speaker 1: then and then let's see what the numbers are. If 810 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,640 Speaker 1: they're right, there'll be no change in illegal crossing, there'll 811 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,920 Speaker 1: be no more secure border sectors than they currently are. 812 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: And then they can laugh at us and say we're 813 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,319 Speaker 1: also dumb. And you know what, if that happens, I'll say, Wow, guys, 814 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,960 Speaker 1: I guess every single real border expert I spoke to, 815 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,200 Speaker 1: and every person that's worked on law enforce in the border, 816 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,000 Speaker 1: we were somehow all wrong. But I will say that. 817 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,279 Speaker 1: And they're not taking the position that they're not sure 818 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,000 Speaker 1: this will work. They're saying it won't work, it won't work, 819 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,919 Speaker 1: it's foolish, it's dumb. Well, if they're so sure, let's 820 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,680 Speaker 1: try it out. Let's try it out. And if this 821 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,640 Speaker 1: were a good faith negotiation of the Democrats, they would say, 822 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,839 Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna even five billion dollars. We're 823 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,239 Speaker 1: gonna give you two billion dollars, and we're gonna pick 824 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:46,360 Speaker 1: one sector of the you know, the US Texas. I 825 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,120 Speaker 1: start the Mexico Texas border. You take one piece of 826 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,360 Speaker 1: the border where we're having a lot of legal crossings, 827 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:53,719 Speaker 1: and we're going to use that as a test case. 828 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,960 Speaker 1: And if it really, if it really does shut down 829 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,200 Speaker 1: legal crossings there, even if across the entire border it 830 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,920 Speaker 1: remains unchanged, well then at least we know that sector 831 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,560 Speaker 1: by sector it could work. So there are ways to 832 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,760 Speaker 1: test out this theory and see who's right. They don't 833 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,279 Speaker 1: want to do it. They don't want to do it, 834 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,799 Speaker 1: and as we've been discussing the things they do want 835 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,759 Speaker 1: to do or are just nuts. You know, all the 836 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,319 Speaker 1: Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they 837 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,320 Speaker 1: are incapable of doing it. So we do have that 838 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:31,600 Speaker 1: going for us, which is which is very nice. In 839 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,800 Speaker 1: the midst of all the whining that comes from the left, 840 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,239 Speaker 1: you have to wonder why in the world would anyone 841 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,000 Speaker 1: act this way. My guess is they're just not getting 842 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,759 Speaker 1: their daily dose of black rifle coffee. 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That's Black Riflecoffee dot com, slash 858 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,520 Speaker 1: buck for fifteen percent off Black Riflecoffee dot Com slash Buck. 859 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 1: Speaker Pelosi is basically align herself with her left wing, 860 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,160 Speaker 1: and I think that for her to back off will 861 00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,319 Speaker 1: be very expensive. The President has said publicly so many 862 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,279 Speaker 1: times now that he won't sign anything that doesn't pay 863 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:51,000 Speaker 1: for border security. That for him to back down would 864 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,440 Speaker 1: be very expensive, and I think this is one of 865 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,480 Speaker 1: those cases where exhaustion is the only thing that's going 866 00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 1: to work. I mean, people can get anxiety written, we 867 00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,200 Speaker 1: can have mass TV coverage of every meeting, but the 868 00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,399 Speaker 1: fact is neither side is tired enough to start moving 869 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,719 Speaker 1: towards an agreement. As you know, I'd advocated several weeks 870 00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,440 Speaker 1: ago to provide a legal path for the Dreamers as 871 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,200 Speaker 1: part of a package that would include border security. You 872 00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,560 Speaker 1: would think the Democrats would be very interested in trying 873 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,600 Speaker 1: to help seven hundred thousand people who came here as children, 874 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,000 Speaker 1: But the fact is they dislike Trump a lot more 875 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:31,759 Speaker 1: than they care about young Latinos. Now. I agree with 876 00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,040 Speaker 1: Mit in general on I'm sorry, Mit, I meant Newt mits. 877 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,440 Speaker 1: I got Mit on the brain this week. Sorry about that. 878 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,600 Speaker 1: I agree with Newt in general on a lot of 879 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:46,279 Speaker 1: these immigration issues, at least right now. Mit is if 880 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,839 Speaker 1: you go back, gosh, I gotta step sing Mit. Newt 881 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,680 Speaker 1: if you go back, is somebody that I think has, 882 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 1: let's just say, evolved in the issue of immigration. He's 883 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:59,759 Speaker 1: much more open to the Dreamer situation dealing with that now, 884 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,840 Speaker 1: and quite honestly, even I think it is sensible, because 885 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,120 Speaker 1: if you don't have a secure border before you get 886 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,880 Speaker 1: the Dreamers, the cascading effect of the amnesty for dreamers 887 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,640 Speaker 1: will overwhelm your ability to have any leverage negotiations to 888 00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,440 Speaker 1: really get border security. I mean, you have to get 889 00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,480 Speaker 1: border security now. It has to be real, it has 890 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,440 Speaker 1: to happen, and you have to change the whole conversation 891 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,280 Speaker 1: around preventing illegal entry into the country and also enforcing 892 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,560 Speaker 1: immigration law in this country and giving up this point 893 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,640 Speaker 1: of leverage on DACA. Remember DACA turned into DAPPA, which 894 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,560 Speaker 1: is deferred action for the parents of arrivals. So now 895 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,319 Speaker 1: it was kids who are here and their families and oh, 896 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,120 Speaker 1: by the way, people who came here and it's not 897 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,160 Speaker 1: just kids. People came here as kids who claim to 898 00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,320 Speaker 1: have come here as kids, and you know, if they've 899 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,440 Speaker 1: had kids, then you know even the extended family is 900 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,480 Speaker 1: not going to get because there are going to be citizens. 901 00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,160 Speaker 1: And then so no one's going to be sent home. 902 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,920 Speaker 1: And you just start looking at this and you know, 903 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,120 Speaker 1: there's no way that we come out of this with 904 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,439 Speaker 1: a more secure border down the line if we give 905 00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,200 Speaker 1: up on some of these issues that are so important 906 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,320 Speaker 1: to the left right now. And they know that because 907 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,080 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is if they get dreamer amnesty, and 908 00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:21,960 Speaker 1: I don't like the term dreamer, but that's you know, 909 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,840 Speaker 1: I can't think of you know, if they get amnesty 910 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:28,000 Speaker 1: for illegals governed under DACA, then the next thing is 911 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 1: just going to be another amnesty. They're just gonna keep 912 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:34,279 Speaker 1: holding out. They don't budge on these things. There might 913 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,040 Speaker 1: be there might be a compromise here. This is what 914 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,000 Speaker 1: Rampaul said, Play eight. Well, you know, I think there 915 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,280 Speaker 1: is a compromise when you think about it. The Democrats 916 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,279 Speaker 1: last year, almost every one of them in the Senate 917 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,640 Speaker 1: voted for twenty five billion dollars for a wall. Now 918 00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:49,120 Speaker 1: the president's only asking for five billion. Now, the democrats 919 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,279 Speaker 1: new position is zero. So I figure you take their 920 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,520 Speaker 1: position zero the president's position five. I haven't split the difference, 921 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,760 Speaker 1: you know, two to two and a half billion dollars, 922 00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,880 Speaker 1: and I think that would probably be adequate to have 923 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: a deal where both sides can say, you know, they 924 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,000 Speaker 1: didn't give the president what he wanted, but the President 925 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,560 Speaker 1: didn't cave in and get nothing. In their counter, they're 926 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,000 Speaker 1: increasing foreign aid to other countries to over fifty billion dollars. 927 00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,960 Speaker 1: There's a twelve billion dollar increase in foreign aid. Many 928 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,520 Speaker 1: of these countries hate us and burn our flag. And 929 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 1: the President campaigned on America first, so he wants to 930 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,600 Speaker 1: spend that five billion dollars here at home. And I 931 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,440 Speaker 1: think the Democrats are gonna have a lot of explaining 932 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,399 Speaker 1: as to why they won't spend any money at home 933 00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,960 Speaker 1: on security, but they're willing to send it to foreign countries, 934 00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,920 Speaker 1: many of whom burn our flag and chant death to America. 935 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,840 Speaker 1: Well said by Senator Paul. We'll be right back. A 936 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:40,239 Speaker 1: lot of news stories now about how difficult it is 937 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,879 Speaker 1: for people that are affected by the shutdown, and well, 938 00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:46,839 Speaker 1: we can be sympathetic to those who are working without 939 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,000 Speaker 1: a paycheck. It's also perhaps a good time to ask 940 00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:54,360 Speaker 1: some questions about is this really the federal workforce that 941 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,640 Speaker 1: we need? Is it the size we need? Is this 942 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,920 Speaker 1: really essential to borrow a term that is often used 943 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,719 Speaker 1: in these situations, Well, I've got somebody who has no 944 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,480 Speaker 1: qualms looking at this and asking those tough questions and 945 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,759 Speaker 1: coming up with some answers that may not necessarily be 946 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,200 Speaker 1: what the public sector union folks want to hear. We 947 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,600 Speaker 1: have Inez Felcher in the House. He's a senior policy 948 00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,719 Speaker 1: analyst and the Independent Woman's Forum, and she's ready to 949 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,359 Speaker 1: drop some knowledge here with us on Friday Ines. Thanks 950 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,120 Speaker 1: for calling in, Thanks so much for having me back. 951 00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:30,040 Speaker 1: So let's let's just start with the reforming civil service, 952 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,200 Speaker 1: chopping it down, make it a different. What should we 953 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:38,439 Speaker 1: do with our federal government employee workforce? According to your 954 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,200 Speaker 1: most recent white paper? Well, I think Donald Trump has 955 00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,960 Speaker 1: some great ideas. When he mentioned that the last State 956 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,080 Speaker 1: of the Union address, he said, give managers the power 957 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,960 Speaker 1: to hire and fire to make sure that the federal 958 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,440 Speaker 1: workforce actually works for the American people. And that sounds 959 00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,799 Speaker 1: like a really basic thing, But the way that our 960 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:03,080 Speaker 1: civil services had today, it's basically an impossible goal. It's 961 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,399 Speaker 1: tie in the sky just to have a civil service, 962 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,520 Speaker 1: a competent civil service that actually works for the American people. 963 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,160 Speaker 1: And that's the case because for the last about one 964 00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,480 Speaker 1: hundred years, since the progressive era, we've been piling all 965 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,320 Speaker 1: of these job protections on top of federal employees to 966 00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,560 Speaker 1: protect them essentially even when they're doing a really bad 967 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,440 Speaker 1: job or when they're outright defying the people that we 968 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:29,160 Speaker 1: elect to direct them in their jobs. Now, you mentioned 969 00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,600 Speaker 1: to me off Fair that there was a Project Veritas video. 970 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,600 Speaker 1: James O'Keefe outfit that came out pretty recently where you 971 00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,560 Speaker 1: had federal government employees who were saying what they were 972 00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,880 Speaker 1: pleased with their ability to frustrate Trump's agenda by essentially 973 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:49,040 Speaker 1: not doing what they're supposed to do as employees of 974 00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:53,160 Speaker 1: the of the executive branch. That's exactly right. So James 975 00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,800 Speaker 1: O'Keeffe's outfit uncovered basically when undercover with some of these folks. 976 00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,120 Speaker 1: These are some of the folks who actually were if 977 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,560 Speaker 1: you recall that there was a moment, especially during the 978 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:07,600 Speaker 1: Kabinaugh hearings, but even before that, Republican senators, Republican officials 979 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,960 Speaker 1: who worked in the administration were being chased out of buildings. Actually, 980 00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,760 Speaker 1: the main organizer of the group that does that, that 981 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,760 Speaker 1: goes to restaurants and yells at Republicans is a socialist 982 00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,800 Speaker 1: and she works in the States Department, And so she 983 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,960 Speaker 1: wasn't one of the many people they caught on tape 984 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,560 Speaker 1: basically saying, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and obstruct Donald 985 00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,960 Speaker 1: Trump's agenda because we don't agree with Donald Trump's agenda, 986 00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,240 Speaker 1: and we worked for the federal government and it's impossible 987 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,080 Speaker 1: to fire us. This is a deep constitutional problem. It 988 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,160 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you like Donald Trump. Where you don't 989 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,960 Speaker 1: like Donald Trump. This is a deep constitutional problem. It's 990 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,520 Speaker 1: a democratic problem, right, small d democratic problem. When the 991 00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:47,480 Speaker 1: person that the people elect has very little power over 992 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,600 Speaker 1: the people who are supposed to carry out his agenda, 993 00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,760 Speaker 1: and when they have absolutely who do not stand for 994 00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,400 Speaker 1: election right before the American people, when they have this 995 00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,200 Speaker 1: much power to sign me that agenda, there's a democratic 996 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,000 Speaker 1: problem here. How hard is it to fire most people 997 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,640 Speaker 1: under civil service regulations? What kind of hurdles are there 998 00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:10,440 Speaker 1: in place? Well, it currently takes between a year and 999 00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:15,400 Speaker 1: three years. There are four separate different systems that one 1000 00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,200 Speaker 1: might go through to appeal a dismissal. There are two 1001 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,200 Speaker 1: that are used the most often. The other two are 1002 00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,680 Speaker 1: used in particular instances. But either way that you go, 1003 00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,960 Speaker 1: there's a twelve step or more slow chart for a 1004 00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:31,920 Speaker 1: manager to go through to fire someone, and even for 1005 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,040 Speaker 1: the most egregious misconduct, it can take years. So just 1006 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,840 Speaker 1: as an example, the head of the Caribbean VA who 1007 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:43,280 Speaker 1: was actually completely corrupt and was convicted of corruption by 1008 00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,760 Speaker 1: a criminal court. So he was convicted of a crime 1009 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,720 Speaker 1: during the course of his job. This wasn't a crime 1010 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,080 Speaker 1: that he committed on his own time. He was committing 1011 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,320 Speaker 1: celonies while he was on the jobs. And it's still 1012 00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,600 Speaker 1: he was in jail, and it still took two years 1013 00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:02,560 Speaker 1: for the v to actually fire him. Okay, so the 1014 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,560 Speaker 1: American taxpayer paid his salary while he was sitting in 1015 01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,880 Speaker 1: jail after being convicted of corruption while on the job. 1016 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,680 Speaker 1: It still took two years to get rid of that 1017 01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,800 Speaker 1: guy and to make sure that the American taxpayer was 1018 01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,320 Speaker 1: not paying his salary. That is how long. And most 1019 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,200 Speaker 1: managers they just don't deal with it. It's not worth it. 1020 01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,600 Speaker 1: For just a poorly employed, performing or even defiant employee. 1021 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,960 Speaker 1: They just find ways to move them around at best 1022 01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,560 Speaker 1: and to get them out of everyone's way to the 1023 01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,440 Speaker 1: extent that they can. And oftentimes even there's I'm sure, 1024 01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,080 Speaker 1: as a former federal employee yourself, bof you've heard of 1025 01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:39,400 Speaker 1: the notorious notion of getting rid of an incompetent employee 1026 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,480 Speaker 1: by actually promoting him so that you no longer have 1027 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:46,320 Speaker 1: to deal with him. Oh. Absolutely, I mean I was 1028 01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,840 Speaker 1: always amazed at how much shuffling of people would occur 1029 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,720 Speaker 1: based upon you know, you'd send some people, you'd send 1030 01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,120 Speaker 1: some people forward and put them up for positions that 1031 01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,200 Speaker 1: would have even the high you know, a higher paygrade 1032 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,880 Speaker 1: than what they're supposed to have, just because you didn't 1033 01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,840 Speaker 1: want them in the office. So there's there's plenty of 1034 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:09,400 Speaker 1: that stuff that would go on. There are a whole 1035 01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:11,959 Speaker 1: there were a whole agencies, whole places in the federal 1036 01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,760 Speaker 1: government where they'll just kind of park you instead instead 1037 01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,960 Speaker 1: of firing you. You know, I I think you would 1038 01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:18,600 Speaker 1: have been proud in as Earlier the week, I got 1039 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,040 Speaker 1: to speak to a representative from one of the I 1040 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:25,440 Speaker 1: think it is the biggest federal public sector union, and 1041 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,480 Speaker 1: I just said, you know, why do we have to 1042 01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,320 Speaker 1: have public sector unions? And she looked at me like 1043 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,120 Speaker 1: she had never even this had never even occurred to her. 1044 01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,440 Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I'm pretty sure FDR, way 1045 01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,840 Speaker 1: back in the day, it was like, well, unions are good, 1046 01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,400 Speaker 1: but obviously public sector unions would be crazy. We can't 1047 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,360 Speaker 1: have government employees with their own unions against the American people. 1048 01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,480 Speaker 1: That would be nuts. No, that's what we have now. 1049 01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:51,480 Speaker 1: That's absolutely what we have now. And as you said, 1050 01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,640 Speaker 1: even FDR thought it was nuts. So the unionist is 1051 01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,440 Speaker 1: actually layered on top of all these caections that they 1052 01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,760 Speaker 1: have by law, And the purpose of a lot of 1053 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,160 Speaker 1: these things, right, purpose, original purpose and a lot of 1054 01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,840 Speaker 1: these protections and union protections among others, was to make 1055 01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,000 Speaker 1: sure that we don't have a totally corruptible service, to 1056 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,280 Speaker 1: totally politicize to civil service. Right. But the cure has 1057 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,040 Speaker 1: turned out to be way worse than the disease, because 1058 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,240 Speaker 1: now we have, as you mentioned, an entire class that's 1059 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:22,240 Speaker 1: insulated from the American people, from the voter, who imposes 1060 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:26,320 Speaker 1: their political views upon the American body politic with absolutely 1061 01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,720 Speaker 1: no legitimacy to do so. And the idea that the 1062 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,200 Speaker 1: civil service is somehow a political because of all of 1063 01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,920 Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. So in the last election federal employees, 1064 01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,320 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the donation from federal employees went 1065 01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,240 Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton ninety five percent. The only places that 1066 01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:47,800 Speaker 1: are more politically spewed than the civil service in America 1067 01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,760 Speaker 1: are maybe faculty lounges and maybe Hollywood awards ceremonies. The 1068 01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:56,200 Speaker 1: civil service is incredibly less leaning, but we pretend that 1069 01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,400 Speaker 1: it's a political and everyone sort of goes about their 1070 01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,640 Speaker 1: jobs and hands that these people do not have an agenda. 1071 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,440 Speaker 1: They do just like any other American. The difference is 1072 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,200 Speaker 1: they they're working for a government they ought to be 1073 01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,080 Speaker 1: responsive to the American people, and right now they're not. 1074 01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,600 Speaker 1: You know, this is kind of a random aside and 1075 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,480 Speaker 1: as but I had to interview today. Did you ever 1076 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,440 Speaker 1: watch the show The West Wing. I've watched a few 1077 01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:21,160 Speaker 1: episodes here and there of it, but I'm not a 1078 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,600 Speaker 1: a voracious watcher. Let's say that. Yeah, yeah, the true 1079 01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,680 Speaker 1: meet me too. I probably have seen maybe a half 1080 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,600 Speaker 1: a dozen episodes total of my life, but I've seen 1081 01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:33,480 Speaker 1: a few of them. But the deputy, the deputy White 1082 01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:37,040 Speaker 1: House chief of staff character is an actor that I 1083 01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:38,400 Speaker 1: got to interview today and I thought it was you know, 1084 01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,959 Speaker 1: so we were having kind of a Hollywood media talk 1085 01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,280 Speaker 1: and I said, so, you know, what do you think 1086 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:48,360 Speaker 1: about Hollywood speaking about how politicized and how these places 1087 01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,640 Speaker 1: are really a uniparty under themselves. So what do you 1088 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:54,360 Speaker 1: think about how politicized Hollywood is? Hollywood's really says, we're 1089 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,200 Speaker 1: not really that liberal. So, oh my gosh, of course, 1090 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,800 Speaker 1: now it all makes sense. Hollywood's not really that liberal. 1091 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,400 Speaker 1: The federal government's not really that liberal. You know, this 1092 01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:06,440 Speaker 1: is this is why we never get anywheres because we 1093 01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,960 Speaker 1: can't even start with the basic reality of what's happening. Well, absolutely, 1094 01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,120 Speaker 1: and people, I mean I grew up in the Bay Area, right, 1095 01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,480 Speaker 1: and none of them actually label themselves as liberal. If 1096 01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,920 Speaker 1: you talk to them, they're like, oh, I'm an objective moderate, right, 1097 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,760 Speaker 1: but the premises that you come in with are incredibly 1098 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,840 Speaker 1: less wing. And I don't know it actually is a 1099 01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:26,840 Speaker 1: larger left wing problem. I think they refuse to see 1100 01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,560 Speaker 1: their own ideology. They pretend that everything, all the conclusions 1101 01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,080 Speaker 1: they come to are simply a dispassionate analysis of the fact, 1102 01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:38,240 Speaker 1: which is not true. But it leads them to feel like, oh, okay, 1103 01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:39,880 Speaker 1: if you're well, if you're not left wing, you must 1104 01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:41,840 Speaker 1: not care about facts. You must be live in an 1105 01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:46,000 Speaker 1: alternative fact universe. Right. So I mean, that's the larger 1106 01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:49,200 Speaker 1: this is By the way, that's the go ahead. I 1107 01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,800 Speaker 1: was gonna say that that's the liberal that CNN caters 1108 01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:53,720 Speaker 1: to you. By the way, that's the whole purpose of CNN. 1109 01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:57,680 Speaker 1: It launders liberalism. It's it's an echo chamber. It's just 1110 01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:01,960 Speaker 1: the people with the same basics mistis underlying, disagreeing about 1111 01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,160 Speaker 1: maybe a policy here or there, but having the same 1112 01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,600 Speaker 1: fundamental principles talking to each other and then pretending that 1113 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,680 Speaker 1: it's a real discussion that actually spans the political spectrum 1114 01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,920 Speaker 1: in America. It Jeff doesn't. And the same thing in 1115 01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,200 Speaker 1: the civil service. They may not think of themselves as 1116 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,479 Speaker 1: explicitly political, but in the way that they see the world, 1117 01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,440 Speaker 1: they are, and it comes out when you actually look 1118 01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,160 Speaker 1: at something like their donations and see that they're ninety 1119 01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:27,200 Speaker 1: five percent go to the Democratic Party. And by the way, 1120 01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,640 Speaker 1: in the States Department, your favorite, I'm sure it's ninety 1121 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,960 Speaker 1: nine percent that went to Hillary. Yeah, think about that, everyone, 1122 01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,560 Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of donations the last presidential cycle, the 1123 01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:41,400 Speaker 1: State Department went to Hillary Clinton. What a surprise. Inanez Felcher, everybody. 1124 01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,760 Speaker 1: Independent Women's Forum also readers stuff on the Federalist Inez. 1125 01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,240 Speaker 1: Have a fantastic weekend. Give Jared a high five for me. 1126 01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,360 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, talk to you to see you. 1127 01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:54,200 Speaker 1: Moore coming up, stay with us. It's a way to 1128 01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,800 Speaker 1: make noise, but it actually isolate Smith and puts him 1129 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,000 Speaker 1: in a much narrower, smaller group. Very smart, he's been 1130 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,680 Speaker 1: a governor, he's been a very successful businessman. He could 1131 01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:06,640 Speaker 1: come in there and have six or eight or nine 1132 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:11,120 Speaker 1: really positive ideas he could make a real contribution, but 1133 01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,800 Speaker 1: to posture as the anti Trump, I think it's a 1134 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,560 Speaker 1: really narrow career path. And I just think my guess 1135 01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,040 Speaker 1: is he has some advisors who thought it was clever. 1136 01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,000 Speaker 1: Newt didn't like it, did not like that. Mitt op 1137 01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:26,960 Speaker 1: ed on Trump, and my next guest also not a 1138 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:28,600 Speaker 1: fan of it, and I'm not a fan of it either. 1139 01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,080 Speaker 1: So we'll all just dive into this together. He's got 1140 01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,960 Speaker 1: a piece up in the Detroit News. Romney stands for 1141 01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,840 Speaker 1: failed Politics of the past. Guest host of this program, 1142 01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:41,680 Speaker 1: Clairemont Institute fellow author of the book No Go Zones, 1143 01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,640 Speaker 1: which you can get on Amazon, and I highly recommend 1144 01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:47,040 Speaker 1: to you. The man himself, mister Raheem Kasam, is joining 1145 01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,200 Speaker 1: us before his weekend festivities kickoff or He'm great to 1146 01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,840 Speaker 1: have you back. I didn't know about weekend festivities. The 1147 01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:56,480 Speaker 1: buckets drive January for me. Oh my, I don't even know. 1148 01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:57,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know how that's going to go. But 1149 01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,920 Speaker 1: it's probably a good thing. You know, we should all 1150 01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,280 Speaker 1: get a good start, a good, strong start to the 1151 01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:06,040 Speaker 1: new year. Romney did this and we've been talking about 1152 01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:07,960 Speaker 1: it all week and I don't want to overplay this. 1153 01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,480 Speaker 1: I just I have a curiosity about what do you 1154 01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:15,840 Speaker 1: think Romney thinks he was doing here? Well, look, I mean, 1155 01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:20,080 Speaker 1: let's let's go back to when Trump was first running 1156 01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:24,760 Speaker 1: for president and Romney came out against him. Then Mit Romney, 1157 01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:30,040 Speaker 1: you know, audition for Secretary of State and President elect 1158 01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:35,560 Speaker 1: Trump entertained the idea. Then Romney slammed him again. Then 1159 01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,960 Speaker 1: Romney sought the Senate seat in Utah, and Trump and 1160 01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:45,520 Speaker 1: the administration gave them, gave him their blessing for whatever 1161 01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,000 Speaker 1: it was worse. And now he's in the Senate and 1162 01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:50,440 Speaker 1: he's slamming Trump again. So when you want to talk 1163 01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:55,360 Speaker 1: about bad character or poor character, as Mitt Romney suggests 1164 01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:59,560 Speaker 1: in this in this OpEd in the Washington Post, there's 1165 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,000 Speaker 1: there's any one person in that relationship between those two 1166 01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,080 Speaker 1: men who have shown themselves to be poor of character 1167 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:11,480 Speaker 1: and repeatedly hypocritical and backstabbing in that Romney And it 1168 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,480 Speaker 1: comes down to this for me analyzing this over the 1169 01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,680 Speaker 1: last twenty four to forty eight hours, because I think 1170 01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:20,759 Speaker 1: it is something that requires us to be a fleet 1171 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,880 Speaker 1: of foot when it comes to watching the opposition that 1172 01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:28,639 Speaker 1: the make America great again crowd experiences from within its 1173 01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:33,400 Speaker 1: own quote unquote conservative slash gop rax. I think that's 1174 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,320 Speaker 1: a very important thing. And it comes down to this. 1175 01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:41,920 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney is not somebody who understands, as they say 1176 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,240 Speaker 1: in my article in the Detroit News, the sort of 1177 01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:52,400 Speaker 1: a wildcatterie, the risk taking abilities of somebody like President Trump. Now, 1178 01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,880 Speaker 1: those risks sometimes come with rewards and sometimes they come 1179 01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,280 Speaker 1: with failures. But remember Romney comes from the school of 1180 01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:02,880 Speaker 1: thought that you always do things by the book, play 1181 01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:08,920 Speaker 1: it very safe, and you'll incrementally, very slowly rise. And 1182 01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:13,040 Speaker 1: that's been the sort of conservative gop mantra for the 1183 01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:16,040 Speaker 1: last ten fifteen years. But it hasn't got them very far, 1184 01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:21,559 Speaker 1: because fighting against radicals, fighting against the Democrat machine actually 1185 01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:25,040 Speaker 1: requires radicalism. In return, fighting fire with fire as President 1186 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:29,120 Speaker 1: Trump's whole stick, and it appears to at least, if 1187 01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:32,120 Speaker 1: not completely be working at this point, at least is 1188 01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:38,640 Speaker 1: keeping the harvest line elements of the political establishment at 1189 01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:43,439 Speaker 1: bay and even seeding radical elements within the Democrat Party 1190 01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:47,320 Speaker 1: like the Alexander Occasio corteses who are now taking the 1191 01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,720 Speaker 1: fight to the Democrats from within. If anything, Trump's emboldened 1192 01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,519 Speaker 1: the radicals inside the Democrat Party to take on their 1193 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:56,320 Speaker 1: own establishment. And I think this is what Mitt Romney 1194 01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:59,760 Speaker 1: really despises, because in a world of eccentrics and in 1195 01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:03,520 Speaker 1: the world of characters, somebody in the likement Romney disappears. 1196 01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,639 Speaker 1: He has no place, so he thinks he can grab 1197 01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:08,920 Speaker 1: some headlines in the Washington Post, he can get some 1198 01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,000 Speaker 1: airtime on CNN and really kick off this sort of 1199 01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:18,719 Speaker 1: new McCain flakelike resistance within I think actually it's probably 1200 01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,040 Speaker 1: going to new to him in the long term. What 1201 01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:24,599 Speaker 1: does it say to you that the GOP's last two 1202 01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:29,800 Speaker 1: presidential offerings before Trump were McCain and Romney, who are 1203 01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:34,320 Speaker 1: two of the most vocal anti Trump Republicans anyone can 1204 01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,639 Speaker 1: think of. Well, that's certainly. I mean, they had their chance. 1205 01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:42,120 Speaker 1: They had multiple chances to go out there and prove 1206 01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,560 Speaker 1: the case, and they failed to do it over and 1207 01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,920 Speaker 1: over again because they didn't. What they didn't do is 1208 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:50,320 Speaker 1: aim listened to ordinary people in the United States. They 1209 01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,640 Speaker 1: didn't listen to their concerns. You know. They ran on 1210 01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:57,320 Speaker 1: things like tax cuts, which the GOP made the mistake 1211 01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,439 Speaker 1: of trying to do it this last midterm election to 1212 01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:03,280 Speaker 1: look out worked out we didn't run on the radical 1213 01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,240 Speaker 1: id views in Washington, DC, which aren't actually radical ideas, 1214 01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:08,400 Speaker 1: and the rest of the country like, oh, I don't 1215 01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,960 Speaker 1: know a semblance of border security or I don't know 1216 01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,920 Speaker 1: helping ordinary people find jobs. And look at the jobs 1217 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:18,120 Speaker 1: numbers to day that came out under this radical president. 1218 01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,000 Speaker 1: Those are the things that the mccains of the Romney's 1219 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,880 Speaker 1: are shoot for so long and just turn their backs 1220 01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:27,160 Speaker 1: on when it came to actually campaigning. So for Romney 1221 01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,640 Speaker 1: and you know the failed Weekly Standard and the departing 1222 01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,240 Speaker 1: Jeff Blakes of the world. This is this is their 1223 01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,759 Speaker 1: ideology dying. And of course when an animal has wounded, 1224 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:38,880 Speaker 1: it will lash out. And that's what Mitt Romney's doing 1225 01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:43,880 Speaker 1: is he is the personification of a dying breed of 1226 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:49,240 Speaker 1: pseudo conservatism. And I think if if the magatypes, if 1227 01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,200 Speaker 1: the trump Trumpists, Trumpites, whatever you want to call them, 1228 01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,320 Speaker 1: if they're good enough and they're smart enough to see 1229 01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:58,600 Speaker 1: that they can actually bury that pseudo conservatism for a 1230 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,160 Speaker 1: good generation him. Kassam, everybody, Raheim, can we actually can 1231 01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,560 Speaker 1: we bring you back right after this Breakouf, because I 1232 01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,360 Speaker 1: want to ask you about what's being called by some 1233 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:12,160 Speaker 1: the victimhood populism of Tucker Carlson. Others are saying Tucker 1234 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,200 Speaker 1: Carlson nailed it in this monologue early this week where 1235 01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,080 Speaker 1: he diagnosed some of the problems. Can you talk about that? 1236 01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,320 Speaker 1: Do you have a minute? Absolutely? Yeah, all right, We're 1237 01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:21,040 Speaker 1: gonna stick with Rahem Kasam will be back in just 1238 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,240 Speaker 1: a moment. You know what's really smart figuring out who 1239 01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:27,920 Speaker 1: you want to hire for each position you have so 1240 01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,559 Speaker 1: that you can take your business to the next level 1241 01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:33,000 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. 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I 1261 01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:37,080 Speaker 1: observed the Christmas holiday for a few days, and why 1262 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,680 Speaker 1: cut in fact and cut in half the time I 1263 01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,800 Speaker 1: would have had with my fan? Was that a cheap shot? 1264 01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:45,679 Speaker 1: But the faid, Oh, it's not it's not important. It's 1265 01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,320 Speaker 1: totally unimportant. The President may not know this, but Hawaii 1266 01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,200 Speaker 1: is part of the United States of America. Maybe he 1267 01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:56,000 Speaker 1: doesn't realize that. I love how We're back with Raheem 1268 01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:59,679 Speaker 1: Kasam here, author of No Go Zones, Clairemont Institute, fellow host, 1269 01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,040 Speaker 1: guest host of the show You're listening right now, Raheem, 1270 01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,599 Speaker 1: I like how Pelosi there is asked by Savannah Guthrie 1271 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:08,960 Speaker 1: if she made a cheap shot in another context and 1272 01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,960 Speaker 1: then she follows it up with she pivots doing a 1273 01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,560 Speaker 1: different cheap shot, which is maybe the President doesn't know 1274 01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,599 Speaker 1: Hawaii as part of the US, which was neither clever 1275 01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,240 Speaker 1: nor nor insightful. But but I do have this question 1276 01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,679 Speaker 1: about how it is that there are so many people 1277 01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:27,400 Speaker 1: who believe that Nancy Pelosi has the interests of the 1278 01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:31,280 Speaker 1: American people at heart. I really, you know, I want 1279 01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,360 Speaker 1: to talk about trump populism and how some conservatives have 1280 01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:38,280 Speaker 1: issues with that, But to me, Pelosi is the quintessential 1281 01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:45,240 Speaker 1: limousine liberal. Couldn't be more you know, distant from normal 1282 01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:48,280 Speaker 1: Americans and their concerns. And yet we're always told that 1283 01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,760 Speaker 1: she's practically like a social justice warrior who just you know, 1284 01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:57,320 Speaker 1: has hashtag resistance tattooed on her arms. It's crazy to me, Well, 1285 01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,400 Speaker 1: she's going to be in a lot of trouble over 1286 01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,759 Speaker 1: this this Congress, I think, and mostly from her own side. 1287 01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:07,519 Speaker 1: She doesn't represent what the Democrat Party a base, that 1288 01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:13,080 Speaker 1: the active base at least is wishing for in this Congress, 1289 01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:17,800 Speaker 1: and she barely manages to cobble together enough you know, 1290 01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:20,720 Speaker 1: support in not in the sense of the number of 1291 01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,719 Speaker 1: votes she gets to become speaker, but in the sense 1292 01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:27,439 Speaker 1: of the rhetorical and passion support that you need amongst 1293 01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:32,760 Speaker 1: your own, you know, your parliamentary party effectively to guide them. 1294 01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:35,559 Speaker 1: I mean, we've already got stories in the last twenty 1295 01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,840 Speaker 1: four hours about you know, this move on to or 1296 01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:40,960 Speaker 1: party from last night, where you've got one of the 1297 01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,519 Speaker 1: congresswomen swearing and saying we're going to impeach Trump, which 1298 01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,320 Speaker 1: is something that Pelosi had tried to get them away from. 1299 01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:50,520 Speaker 1: The talking points of the media over here is fascinated 1300 01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:54,400 Speaker 1: by people like Alexander Arcasio Cortez, and I think Pelosi 1301 01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:56,559 Speaker 1: number one will get very envious of that. But number 1302 01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,519 Speaker 1: two will lose a lot of power within her own 1303 01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:02,200 Speaker 1: party the results, So she's going to be constantly buying 1304 01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:06,320 Speaker 1: for power inside on your right. She has to prove 1305 01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:11,679 Speaker 1: that she can represent Trump represents to the conservative base, 1306 01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,200 Speaker 1: and I'm afraid she doesn't. She's sort of like the 1307 01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:19,439 Speaker 1: Paul Ryan figure in her own party. And Paul Ryan 1308 01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:23,599 Speaker 1: lost so much credibility and support over the last couple 1309 01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:27,120 Speaker 1: of years that he almost became irrelevant to most conversations 1310 01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:30,400 Speaker 1: about the future of conservatism. Now. On the issue of 1311 01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:35,040 Speaker 1: conservatism as it should be today, or where the right 1312 01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:39,679 Speaker 1: should be focusing its energy. There was a Tucker cross 1313 01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:43,000 Speaker 1: in monologue that was also then turned into an essay, 1314 01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:44,920 Speaker 1: or maybe it was an essay turned into monologue, whatever 1315 01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:49,320 Speaker 1: it was, it was on populism this week and really 1316 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:53,640 Speaker 1: diagnosing some of the problems of American society and some 1317 01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:58,360 Speaker 1: of the inadequacies of the political elites in addressing that. I, 1318 01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:00,960 Speaker 1: of course, any of that, Tucker says, you're going to 1319 01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:02,639 Speaker 1: have a lot of pushback from the left. They're gonna 1320 01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:05,400 Speaker 1: say it's terrible, it's it's racist, or whatever. They'll always 1321 01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:08,760 Speaker 1: have the same knee jerk reactions to it. But there 1322 01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:13,200 Speaker 1: were many on the right of the kind of Weekly Standard, 1323 01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:18,280 Speaker 1: National Review, never Trump variety, who are saying that this 1324 01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:23,560 Speaker 1: is perpetuating victimhood, that this idea of a populist conservative 1325 01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,920 Speaker 1: movement that needs to take care of workers, that needs 1326 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:32,680 Speaker 1: to reassess global trade and the free market at all 1327 01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:35,599 Speaker 1: costs mantra that we've had is somehow a sell out 1328 01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:38,519 Speaker 1: of principles. You know, you were there in the early 1329 01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:42,800 Speaker 1: days with Bannon talking about things like populism for conservatives. 1330 01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,679 Speaker 1: What do you make of this? Well, look, I'm glad 1331 01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:50,960 Speaker 1: that it's finally getting the airtime it deserves as a 1332 01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:55,479 Speaker 1: new guiding philosophy for the political right. And Fox News 1333 01:17:56,320 --> 01:18:00,639 Speaker 1: not exactly the most populist or nationalist are out there 1334 01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:04,040 Speaker 1: giving Coger Carlson the air time to do this. I 1335 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:05,960 Speaker 1: think is it can only be a very good thing. 1336 01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:10,360 Speaker 1: You know, we should be welcoming conversations like this, but instead, 1337 01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,960 Speaker 1: David French in National Review, they poo poo it. They say, 1338 01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:16,160 Speaker 1: you know that this is this is a debasement of 1339 01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:20,120 Speaker 1: conservative values. Now, you know, British and American conservative values 1340 01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,080 Speaker 1: differ quite a bit, and I understand that. But I've 1341 01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:25,360 Speaker 1: also come to understand that when you talk about conservatism 1342 01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:31,280 Speaker 1: in America nowadays, people automatically think free market capitalism, low taxes, 1343 01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:35,519 Speaker 1: and perhaps even though not in practice, the theory of 1344 01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:39,840 Speaker 1: limited government. They don't really talk enough about, especially not 1345 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:47,040 Speaker 1: in DC, family values, sovereignty, border control, jobs, wages, you know, 1346 01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:51,880 Speaker 1: as Tunis Carlson said in his monologue, dignity, human dignity, 1347 01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,560 Speaker 1: and this is this has been the clarion call of 1348 01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,800 Speaker 1: the so called populists in Europe over the last five 1349 01:18:57,920 --> 01:18:59,880 Speaker 1: or six years. When you look to Hungary and it's 1350 01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:03,559 Speaker 1: lea the Czech Republic, in Austria and the United Kingdom's 1351 01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:08,000 Speaker 1: Brixit vote. The human dignity element came in a very 1352 01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:11,040 Speaker 1: strong way. You know, people in the United States, the 1353 01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,599 Speaker 1: average family would struggle to put four hundred and fifty 1354 01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,160 Speaker 1: dollars together in case their boiler breaks down in their home. 1355 01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:21,880 Speaker 1: That's an undignified position for the world's wealthiest nation to 1356 01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:26,080 Speaker 1: impart upon its citizens. So something has been broken, but 1357 01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:29,320 Speaker 1: the establishment right didn't want to admit it because it 1358 01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:33,000 Speaker 1: would mean having to admit that there was something fundamentally 1359 01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:38,160 Speaker 1: incorrect in their ideology. Now, conservativism, it's conservative, isn't supposed 1360 01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:41,839 Speaker 1: to be an ideology like a lot of the lefting dogmas. 1361 01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:44,640 Speaker 1: It's actually supposed to be a guiding philosophy. And the 1362 01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:47,920 Speaker 1: guiding philosophy behind that is effectively the nuclear family in 1363 01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:50,479 Speaker 1: your community. So it was incredible that Tucker managed to 1364 01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:55,200 Speaker 1: do thatteen minutes. And I understand it's gone superviral on 1365 01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,120 Speaker 1: the Internet in the last twenty four hours, and I 1366 01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:02,040 Speaker 1: think that's because for all of the magazines and quarter 1367 01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:05,360 Speaker 1: leads in journals out there, nobody's managed to boil it 1368 01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,839 Speaker 1: down just so succinctly and to such a massive audience, 1369 01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:12,080 Speaker 1: and of course that will cause what I call conservative ink. 1370 01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:15,519 Speaker 1: You know, the consulting class, the think tank class that 1371 01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,760 Speaker 1: you know in Washington, DC. You know the guys that 1372 01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:20,679 Speaker 1: were feeling us all those free drinks over the Christmas period, 1373 01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,480 Speaker 1: but their defensive Christmas part is it causes them great irritation. 1374 01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:26,200 Speaker 1: The drinks were good, they now have to go back 1375 01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,000 Speaker 1: to their donors. The drinks were fine, you know, you know, 1376 01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:30,960 Speaker 1: it was it was, it was all right, but the 1377 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,400 Speaker 1: conversations were not like this. And it's it's so refreshing 1378 01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:36,640 Speaker 1: to me that that Tucker is moving these conversations on. 1379 01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:39,639 Speaker 1: And it's an addendum to that, he's written an amazing 1380 01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:44,120 Speaker 1: article as well this quarter in the American Conservative magazine 1381 01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:48,360 Speaker 1: about about the foolish and endless wars that Western nations 1382 01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:50,920 Speaker 1: have found themselves dragged into. So he's really becoming a 1383 01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:54,000 Speaker 1: torchbearer for the populist writing. I say more power to 1384 01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:58,439 Speaker 1: him who's written that article. Right, Oh, Tucker wrote an 1385 01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,360 Speaker 1: arcle American servant. I didn't know that he wrote about that. 1386 01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,960 Speaker 1: That's I'll have to find that one. I've obviously seen them. 1387 01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:08,080 Speaker 1: I've seen the monologue from this week. I just look, 1388 01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,519 Speaker 1: I like the robust debate, and I give the guys 1389 01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:12,240 Speaker 1: on the other side of this one who at least 1390 01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:14,160 Speaker 1: put their names to things and want to engage with 1391 01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:18,120 Speaker 1: these ideas seriously credit for being a part of an 1392 01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,680 Speaker 1: important discussion on the right and not just being you know, 1393 01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:23,799 Speaker 1: because because there really are and I think it's important 1394 01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:25,479 Speaker 1: keep in mind, they're people that just disagree with some 1395 01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:30,559 Speaker 1: aspects of Trump's you know, nationalism, Trump's view of trade. 1396 01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:33,160 Speaker 1: You know, there there are places to have disagreement on policy, 1397 01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,560 Speaker 1: never mind on the personal matters. And then they're the 1398 01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:38,640 Speaker 1: people like Anna Navarro who or Jennifer Rubin who are 1399 01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,160 Speaker 1: just in no meaningful way on the right except to 1400 01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,519 Speaker 1: pretend they are so they can trash people on the right. 1401 01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:45,439 Speaker 1: So those are the people that I have no time 1402 01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,760 Speaker 1: for and and don't need to hear from it all. 1403 01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:54,439 Speaker 1: And I'm fine with just if I could just I 1404 01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:56,040 Speaker 1: would be okay with that as well. And in fact, 1405 01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,200 Speaker 1: I would like to see some of these some of 1406 01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,880 Speaker 1: these ideas played out in massive debate settings. But David French, 1407 01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,839 Speaker 1: at the end of his National Review card criticizing Tucker Carlson, 1408 01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:08,479 Speaker 1: says the populist elevation of the political over the personal. 1409 01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,879 Speaker 1: It's perhaps the worst possible response. He's not actually tackling 1410 01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:16,080 Speaker 1: the ideas. He's just saying that bad mean good, and 1411 01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:18,840 Speaker 1: that's all I'm afraid the establishment has at the moment, 1412 01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:22,080 Speaker 1: it's not willing to say, well, actually, the ideas that 1413 01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,519 Speaker 1: we've been espousing in the cane that Romney, the Ryant 1414 01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:27,840 Speaker 1: ideas for the last twelve years plus has failed a 1415 01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,720 Speaker 1: lot of people in the country. So I've yet to 1416 01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:35,120 Speaker 1: see anybody on the political establishment right take Tucker or 1417 01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:38,920 Speaker 1: Anon or anything like that. Hyper Seriously, I'd like to 1418 01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:41,000 Speaker 1: see someone step up to the play, but I don't 1419 01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,080 Speaker 1: think we are going to see anyone. Well, I mean 1420 01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:46,439 Speaker 1: to the earlier points that we were making here, there 1421 01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:49,760 Speaker 1: is a lot of personal investment that some of the 1422 01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:53,960 Speaker 1: voices in this have just in being right above making 1423 01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:58,080 Speaker 1: sure that the movement is pushing in the right direction 1424 01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,960 Speaker 1: and acting in ways that are are for the betterment 1425 01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:04,000 Speaker 1: of the entire country. Right. So I think that there's 1426 01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:06,439 Speaker 1: essentially we're in the midst of a giant clash of 1427 01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,519 Speaker 1: egos on the right, and for a lot of people, 1428 01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,519 Speaker 1: they can't get beyond the fact that you know, Trump 1429 01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,120 Speaker 1: hasn't been their guy, and they don't want to hear it. 1430 01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:15,960 Speaker 1: I mean, today I was dealing with some people who 1431 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:17,639 Speaker 1: are even kind of who are who are on the right, 1432 01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,160 Speaker 1: and they were they were just saying, well, you know 1433 01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:23,120 Speaker 1: the jobs numbers. I guess that. I guess they're good. No, no, 1434 01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:26,680 Speaker 1: they're good. It's just it's a good jobs number. Well, 1435 01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:29,360 Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what any were up against the 1436 01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:31,679 Speaker 1: debate you want to moderate because you're a very fair guy. 1437 01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,639 Speaker 1: If you want to moderate the debate, I'll take part 1438 01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,240 Speaker 1: on the populist national side. You find me an establishment 1439 01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,800 Speaker 1: conservative who can hold their own against me in debate, 1440 01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:44,240 Speaker 1: I'll be there ten out of ten times. Well, I'm 1441 01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:46,640 Speaker 1: I love this idea actually, and I'm not. This is 1442 01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,360 Speaker 1: not just a throwaway from me. Before we let you 1443 01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:51,599 Speaker 1: go to enjoy your weekend, raheem, Who if I could, 1444 01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:57,320 Speaker 1: if I could help arrange a conservative populism versus you know, 1445 01:23:57,640 --> 01:24:01,320 Speaker 1: traditionalist GOP debate for you know, with with you, who 1446 01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:02,880 Speaker 1: would you want to who would you want to uh 1447 01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,040 Speaker 1: have on the other side of that? I mean or 1448 01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:06,439 Speaker 1: or you know, you give me a couple of names. 1449 01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:08,960 Speaker 1: Who comes to mind. Yeah, it's a it's a good question. 1450 01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:10,599 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it would have to be someone 1451 01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:14,400 Speaker 1: from from you know, the National Review Stable, to be 1452 01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:16,880 Speaker 1: somebody from from I think there were some people like 1453 01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,000 Speaker 1: that that way in trying to the Federalist um. You know, 1454 01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:22,040 Speaker 1: I think I think I can get you a short 1455 01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,439 Speaker 1: list of five to ten people. We should do this. Yeah, no, 1456 01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,000 Speaker 1: we should. And I have the we have the ability 1457 01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:28,960 Speaker 1: of the you know, the resources and the platforms to 1458 01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,120 Speaker 1: do It's him. Let's give us one some thought because 1459 01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,840 Speaker 1: I think because I you know, I do want this 1460 01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:35,840 Speaker 1: discussion to be aired out more. I do think people 1461 01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:37,720 Speaker 1: need to hear it and not just oh, you know 1462 01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:41,320 Speaker 1: Trump mean Trump say bad things on Twitter, Trump nasty 1463 01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,960 Speaker 1: to women. You know. Therefore, on my side wins. Well, 1464 01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:46,200 Speaker 1: if we're talking about trade, I don't really care what 1465 01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,280 Speaker 1: Trump is writing on Twitter. But you know, we're talking 1466 01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:52,519 Speaker 1: about the purpose that people should feel day to day 1467 01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,519 Speaker 1: in their lives as Americans. I think that's that's worth more, 1468 01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,560 Speaker 1: and that's that's a more important issue than just the 1469 01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,679 Speaker 1: back and forth that we've been seeing a lot of time. Anyway, 1470 01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,680 Speaker 1: I've obviously had fun talking to Raheim because we've gone 1471 01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,240 Speaker 1: way over time. Here check out No Go zones. Follow 1472 01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:09,320 Speaker 1: Raheim on Twitter if you're not already, and and well 1473 01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:11,759 Speaker 1: we'll have Raheim back again sooner him. Have a great weekend, 1474 01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:17,160 Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you everybody. Remember the Mullet pro That's 1475 01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:20,160 Speaker 1: a thing that's still going on. Haven't yet had any 1476 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,559 Speaker 1: resolution to it. Have not been told when this thing 1477 01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:26,880 Speaker 1: is going to end, where it's heading, or what the 1478 01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:30,160 Speaker 1: end result is going to be. But we are getting 1479 01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:33,479 Speaker 1: more information and no surprise to any of you, as 1480 01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,880 Speaker 1: we find out more about the origins of what you 1481 01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:42,920 Speaker 1: could call, more broadly, the Russia collusion investigation. Doesn't look good. 1482 01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:47,599 Speaker 1: It is not confidence inspiring. That's a pretty easy way 1483 01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:49,559 Speaker 1: to put it. And we've got somebody on now who 1484 01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:53,759 Speaker 1: has a very interesting addition into the canon of knowledge 1485 01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:58,639 Speaker 1: about just how shady the whole dossier Russia collusion fantasy 1486 01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:02,040 Speaker 1: really was. Lee Smith is an investigative journalist. He's with 1487 01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:04,000 Speaker 1: US now. He's written a piece up on the Federalist. 1488 01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:09,000 Speaker 1: New documents suggest the Steel dossier was a deliberate setup 1489 01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:12,800 Speaker 1: for Trump. Lee, great to have you back on the program. Buck, 1490 01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,000 Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure. Happy New Year, 1491 01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:17,320 Speaker 1: and how do all your listeners do? Happy New Year? 1492 01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:20,800 Speaker 1: To you. So, so tell me, my friend, what do 1493 01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:23,479 Speaker 1: you What do you have here to suggest that the 1494 01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:27,960 Speaker 1: Steel dossier was in fact a setup meant to just 1495 01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:32,320 Speaker 1: take down Trump? Right? I mean, there are some interesting 1496 01:26:32,439 --> 01:26:36,080 Speaker 1: and useful details here, as well as some very helpful 1497 01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:40,920 Speaker 1: interviews from some former US officials and some current US 1498 01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:46,360 Speaker 1: officials which you know, which which points to specific housing 1499 01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:51,559 Speaker 1: wise of why Carter Page was targeted with the size 1500 01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:53,559 Speaker 1: of warrant, and how that would get them in there, 1501 01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:57,240 Speaker 1: and how that would allow them to monitor the communications 1502 01:26:57,760 --> 01:27:00,479 Speaker 1: of the entire Trump team. So I put a lot 1503 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:04,280 Speaker 1: of different moving pieces in here together. How they weaponized 1504 01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:09,400 Speaker 1: this dossier as you nicely pronounced it, and managed a 1505 01:27:09,520 --> 01:27:11,960 Speaker 1: media campaign. I think it's really important to see these 1506 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:15,960 Speaker 1: two things moving in tanda, the media campaign as well as, 1507 01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,000 Speaker 1: I guess, for want of a better word, we might 1508 01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,640 Speaker 1: call it the spy campaign, since a lot of it 1509 01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:25,880 Speaker 1: was run by FBI counter intelligence people. How these things merge. 1510 01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:28,479 Speaker 1: So I had some more details which I think are 1511 01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:31,320 Speaker 1: very helpful and very interesting. One of the other important 1512 01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:34,320 Speaker 1: things about the piece, I think is to remind people 1513 01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:37,280 Speaker 1: that this has been going on for nearly two years. 1514 01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:42,360 Speaker 1: James Comey ushered in the era of the dossier January sixth, 1515 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:46,360 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, when he briefed President elect Trump on the 1516 01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:50,519 Speaker 1: existence of this thing. That's the fact of that briefing 1517 01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:54,400 Speaker 1: was leaked to CNN and then BuzzFeed later published the 1518 01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:57,880 Speaker 1: entire document. And since that the last two years, we've 1519 01:27:57,960 --> 01:28:02,800 Speaker 1: been living with this not only the nonsense Russia investigation, 1520 01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:06,719 Speaker 1: not only Russia Gate, which is filled the pages, filled 1521 01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,800 Speaker 1: print and broadcast media, but as I point out in 1522 01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:14,799 Speaker 1: the Federalist piece, uh, there have been other operations modeled 1523 01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:19,200 Speaker 1: on the dossier operation, targeting not just Trump team policies, 1524 01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:24,320 Speaker 1: but also targeting the American public. So that's that's how 1525 01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:26,240 Speaker 1: what what what I think the piece adds to the 1526 01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:33,439 Speaker 1: to the discussion targeting the American public house quote if 1527 01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,400 Speaker 1: you um, I mean I think the American public was 1528 01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:40,320 Speaker 1: targeted with the Russia Gate. Uh when with the dossier operation. 1529 01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:43,000 Speaker 1: I mean, this was about a bunch of people. You're 1530 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,120 Speaker 1: saying it was an information operation, It was a it 1531 01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:48,760 Speaker 1: was a propaganda operation, right, Yeah, that's what I mean. Um, 1532 01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:53,640 Speaker 1: you know they were contesting uh kendidate and then an 1533 01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:57,479 Speaker 1: election that that they didn't like. Um, so yeah, so 1534 01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,800 Speaker 1: so so so that's what I mean. They were, you know, 1535 01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:05,639 Speaker 1: going after the going after the election, going after the election, 1536 01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:09,400 Speaker 1: right information operation, And I mean, did you do you 1537 01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:13,280 Speaker 1: find that the To me, it seems like the dossier 1538 01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:15,320 Speaker 1: has just gotten lost in the memory hole for so 1539 01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,640 Speaker 1: many people because it served its purpose, which was to 1540 01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:22,400 Speaker 1: give the at the time, to give some kind of 1541 01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:26,240 Speaker 1: a fig leaf for all these different pieces to be 1542 01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:29,240 Speaker 1: put in play to go after Trump, to go after 1543 01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,920 Speaker 1: people around Trump. And now that a lot of time 1544 01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:35,400 Speaker 1: has passed and there's no collusion proof whatsoever that's been shown, 1545 01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:38,280 Speaker 1: yet everyone's kind of like, yeah, what was that dossier again? 1546 01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:40,759 Speaker 1: What was that all about? Where, in my mind, shouldn't 1547 01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,680 Speaker 1: we be verifying if the dossier was ever really a 1548 01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:45,800 Speaker 1: thing that anybody should have paid attention to. It seems 1549 01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:48,280 Speaker 1: like there's not as much interest in this from journalists 1550 01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:51,200 Speaker 1: or the government as there should be. I think that, 1551 01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:55,080 Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, most of the press was part of this, uh, 1552 01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:58,760 Speaker 1: part of this information operation, so there's not a lot 1553 01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:03,120 Speaker 1: of interest on that part of of trying to see 1554 01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:06,360 Speaker 1: what was going on here. And certainly we see right now. 1555 01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:08,880 Speaker 1: I mean, there are large parts of the Department of Justice, 1556 01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,559 Speaker 1: including the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was still 1557 01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:16,040 Speaker 1: pushing back. I mean, when Republicans were in control of 1558 01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:18,640 Speaker 1: the House and in control of oversight committees, they were 1559 01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:23,880 Speaker 1: pushing back on House intelligence, on judiciary, on oversight. And 1560 01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:27,040 Speaker 1: now that now that the House has changed hands and 1561 01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:31,559 Speaker 1: it's in Democratic hands, we're likely to get the answers 1562 01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:33,760 Speaker 1: that we're going to get are not going to come 1563 01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:36,519 Speaker 1: through the House. But I think that one of the 1564 01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:39,160 Speaker 1: things we're going to see happen is I mean, who 1565 01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:44,080 Speaker 1: has already Brad Sherman, who is filing, you know, filing 1566 01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:48,080 Speaker 1: some sort of impeachment papers. I think that this is 1567 01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,400 Speaker 1: going to come up again. They're going to use the 1568 01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:52,840 Speaker 1: Russia Gate stuff. They're going to use They're going to 1569 01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:55,360 Speaker 1: use the dossier, They're going to use all of these 1570 01:30:55,479 --> 01:31:01,080 Speaker 1: things again to target President Trump. To that that is, 1571 01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:04,360 Speaker 1: that is for sure, We're gonna have to Yeah, we're 1572 01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:06,200 Speaker 1: gonna to see if if they're able to actually get 1573 01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:08,360 Speaker 1: the bottom this. Lee Smith, everybody check out his piece 1574 01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:10,439 Speaker 1: on the Federalist. Lee, thanks so much for calling in, 1575 01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:15,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing me on. Oh, it's almost the weekend, team, 1576 01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:19,080 Speaker 1: which means that I have a very exciting and very 1577 01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:22,360 Speaker 1: very social weekend plan of watching movies with Miss Molly. 1578 01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:24,360 Speaker 1: It's gonna be who it's gonna be, gonna be crazy. 1579 01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:26,320 Speaker 1: I don't know how we're gonna how we're gonna keep 1580 01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,040 Speaker 1: up with all of it. Lots of time on the couch, 1581 01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,160 Speaker 1: lots of napping. But there will be some film watching, 1582 01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:34,360 Speaker 1: I think, or at least some Netflix watching. And I 1583 01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:36,800 Speaker 1: saw this. I saw this piece by Kyle Smith over 1584 01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:39,120 Speaker 1: a National Review. I think Kyle's an astute guy. Have 1585 01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:41,720 Speaker 1: had him on the show many times in the past, 1586 01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,640 Speaker 1: many different shows in fact. And he says he's got 1587 01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:48,640 Speaker 1: this piece out ten conservative movies that hit home in 1588 01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:52,320 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and and I was really curious. It's like, wow, 1589 01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:55,720 Speaker 1: what ten conservative movies? What could be? You know, what 1590 01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:58,760 Speaker 1: could be on this list? And sure enough he does 1591 01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,400 Speaker 1: have some some good ones. I'll start in order of 1592 01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:05,280 Speaker 1: the top of the list down to h you know, 1593 01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:08,479 Speaker 1: so we'll start with with the the biggest and the best, 1594 01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:10,120 Speaker 1: I guess, and move our way downloads a little bit. 1595 01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:14,439 Speaker 1: But he points out the chap Aquittic on Netflix is 1596 01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:16,360 Speaker 1: a movie that you can watch now. I saw it 1597 01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:19,120 Speaker 1: when it was streaming online a while ago. I think 1598 01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,320 Speaker 1: we actually I think I might have even had the 1599 01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,800 Speaker 1: producers of the movie on on this show. I can't 1600 01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,559 Speaker 1: remember now, I think we did. And Chapa Quittics pretty 1601 01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:28,840 Speaker 1: good producer, Mike, you see this one, Yeah I did. Yeah, 1602 01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,040 Speaker 1: they were on the show. Actually they we had they 1603 01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:34,400 Speaker 1: were a sponsor for they were right, Yeah, and they were. 1604 01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:36,320 Speaker 1: That's right, they were a sponsor on the show. We 1605 01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:38,760 Speaker 1: love our sponsors. Uh. You know, I like this movie 1606 01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:42,000 Speaker 1: just because, for the first time that I can think of, 1607 01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:46,280 Speaker 1: it was fun to see the Kennedy's finally get a 1608 01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:48,360 Speaker 1: little bit a little bit of the truth treatment, you know, 1609 01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:52,639 Speaker 1: where we're so uh inundated in the in our culture 1610 01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:55,640 Speaker 1: with people trying to pretend that the Kennedy's were fantastic, 1611 01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,920 Speaker 1: that the Kennedy's were, you know, Camelot and all this stuff, 1612 01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:01,720 Speaker 1: and at Teddy Anny Wash you know, kind of a 1613 01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,240 Speaker 1: dirt bag. You know, it's not not a good guy. 1614 01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:06,960 Speaker 1: Yeh man. He got away with murder. You start with that, 1615 01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:09,439 Speaker 1: and then everything else is kind of you know, you 1616 01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:11,640 Speaker 1: could throw and yeah, you know he's a womanizer and 1617 01:33:11,760 --> 01:33:13,479 Speaker 1: you know, a booze hound and all that stuff. But 1618 01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:15,760 Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, he let 1619 01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:17,599 Speaker 1: he let a woman drown the back of his car, 1620 01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:22,519 Speaker 1: and and the whole effort to salvage his political career affords. Anyway, 1621 01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,519 Speaker 1: chap a quick. It's look, it's not gonna be a 1622 01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:29,040 Speaker 1: popcorn eating blockbuster kind of experience for your for you, 1623 01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:31,200 Speaker 1: but if you haven't seen it, you know it was. 1624 01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,599 Speaker 1: It's a good movie. So I I point that one 1625 01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,720 Speaker 1: out and then, or rather Kyle Smith points it out, 1626 01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:38,720 Speaker 1: but I agree with him. He's got number two on 1627 01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:43,479 Speaker 1: his top ten list. Here is Halloween, which I am, 1628 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,679 Speaker 1: which is now available on demand. I have never seen, Mike, 1629 01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:50,360 Speaker 1: I just realized this. Any of the Halloween movies have you? Yeah? 1630 01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:56,800 Speaker 1: A lot. Actually, I'm a big Christmas movie guy. So Halloween, 1631 01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:02,839 Speaker 1: the the original Halloween. Yeah, Halloween, the horror movie. Halloween. 1632 01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:06,160 Speaker 1: Isn't it about Halloween not Christmas? Yeah? My mind is 1633 01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:08,320 Speaker 1: still on vacation down in Florida where I just got 1634 01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:12,680 Speaker 1: back from. But so I'm still thinking Christmas. But I 1635 01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:15,120 Speaker 1: actually do like, I actually do like Halloween movies. Um, 1636 01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:16,960 Speaker 1: and I don't like You're about to start a whole 1637 01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:20,680 Speaker 1: existential discussion. There is Halloween a Christmas movie. I know 1638 01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:22,800 Speaker 1: you could, you could. It is a Halloween. It is 1639 01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:25,760 Speaker 1: a holiday movie. You could say, well, how is it conservative? 1640 01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:28,639 Speaker 1: I don't. I have no idea unless they're trying to say, 1641 01:34:28,840 --> 01:34:31,680 Speaker 1: like conservatives, Kyle Smith writes. He writes about it, the 1642 01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:35,880 Speaker 1: importance of armed individual self defense, the fallen nature of man, 1643 01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:40,639 Speaker 1: the incompetence of state authorities, the necessity of capital punishment 1644 01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:46,040 Speaker 1: for evildoers, and even the vapidity of liberal true crime podcasters. 1645 01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,160 Speaker 1: All gets traumatized. Well, he's made me in his description, 1646 01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:51,759 Speaker 1: He's made me kind of want to want to watch Halloween. 1647 01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:54,439 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll see if this Molly wants to download it. Yeah, 1648 01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:56,120 Speaker 1: that started out as a stretch, but then I could 1649 01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:58,920 Speaker 1: see where he was going. Yeah, what's kind of like 1650 01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:00,560 Speaker 1: how when you when you think of about it? You know, 1651 01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:05,680 Speaker 1: Grand Turino very conservative movie. Yeah, Ghostbusters, very conservative movie. 1652 01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:10,720 Speaker 1: Ghostbusters about a couple of plucky entrepreneurs who start a 1653 01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:14,519 Speaker 1: small business and get screwed over by the EPA. What 1654 01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:16,800 Speaker 1: could be more of a conservative fairy tale than that? 1655 01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:20,439 Speaker 1: It's very true, so you know some Yeah, sometimes these 1656 01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:22,320 Speaker 1: movies you don't think of as conservative, turns out they are. 1657 01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:24,840 Speaker 1: But I also would throw in there, Mike, I saw 1658 01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:27,479 Speaker 1: I've always thought that if I was going to make 1659 01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:29,280 Speaker 1: a movie. There are a few genres that I feel 1660 01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:31,360 Speaker 1: like you can't miss if you do it right. And 1661 01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm not a I'm not a big Sasquatch person, you know, 1662 01:35:34,439 --> 01:35:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't get that excited about Sasquatch. That said, 1663 01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:41,960 Speaker 1: I've always been surprised that there aren't more excellent offerings 1664 01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:46,160 Speaker 1: in the Sasquatch film and it's kind of horror and 1665 01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:50,360 Speaker 1: uh and thriller movie genre, you know, movie genre. I 1666 01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,760 Speaker 1: found one over the break. It's called Primal Rage, which 1667 01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,479 Speaker 1: is not a pretty good title for a Sasquatch movie, 1668 01:35:56,880 --> 01:36:00,800 Speaker 1: but it is like it is the the big Foot 1669 01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,000 Speaker 1: of your nightmares. I mean, it's like hunting people down 1670 01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:08,120 Speaker 1: and it's it's incredibly violent and a very brutal, brutal movie. Um, 1671 01:36:08,320 --> 01:36:10,760 Speaker 1: but I gotta say it was pretty entertaining. Actually I'll 1672 01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:18,240 Speaker 1: check it out. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm I'm somebody 1673 01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:21,280 Speaker 1: that just feels like they're there are movies that you 1674 01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:23,600 Speaker 1: know you can watch, you think yourself, I could do 1675 01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:26,719 Speaker 1: a better version of this, uh and and that's definitely 1676 01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,160 Speaker 1: one of them. I feel like I one day will 1677 01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:32,680 Speaker 1: write the great Sasquatch horror movie. And this is just 1678 01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:34,640 Speaker 1: a weird, A weird thing I thought of before. Oh, 1679 01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:38,640 Speaker 1: back to uh, back to the list. Here, um Gosnel, 1680 01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:40,880 Speaker 1: the trial of America's biggest serial killer. I know we've 1681 01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:45,160 Speaker 1: had I've had him people from that Nick Searcy, for example, 1682 01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:46,880 Speaker 1: I had him on Rising. I think we had him 1683 01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,839 Speaker 1: here here on Radio two. I have not seen Gosnell, 1684 01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:52,639 Speaker 1: So I've got to add that, add that to my list. 1685 01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:55,080 Speaker 1: First Reformed. I don't know what that. Have you heard 1686 01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:56,880 Speaker 1: of that? I don't even know what that is? No, yeah, 1687 01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,160 Speaker 1: I haven't the only one, actually I did. I did 1688 01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:01,599 Speaker 1: not hear of it. I know of Gosnel, I know Halloween, 1689 01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,439 Speaker 1: and I know Chap a Quick. The other ones I 1690 01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:08,560 Speaker 1: don't know about. And then this is the one that 1691 01:37:08,680 --> 01:37:13,920 Speaker 1: really surprised me here, Black Panther, he says. The new 1692 01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:16,759 Speaker 1: Black Panther is a rebuke to the old Black Panthers, 1693 01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,640 Speaker 1: as played by Chadwick Boseman in this terrifically entertaining and 1694 01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:26,440 Speaker 1: smart blockbuster. I am a I'm a Black Panther contrarian. 1695 01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:30,760 Speaker 1: I do not like Black Panther as a movie at all. 1696 01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:34,840 Speaker 1: I thought it was loud, dumb, and too long, and 1697 01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,719 Speaker 1: I would I would say for example, if we're talking 1698 01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:42,720 Speaker 1: about a superhero movie with an African American in the 1699 01:37:42,880 --> 01:37:46,519 Speaker 1: lead role, I think Blade with Wesley Snipe's a better movie. 1700 01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:48,840 Speaker 1: I think it's a better movie the Black Panther. Maybe 1701 01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:52,240 Speaker 1: I'm crazy. I haven't heard great things about Black Panther. 1702 01:37:52,439 --> 01:37:57,200 Speaker 1: But Blade was an excellent movie, right, Blade's an excellent movie. 1703 01:37:57,600 --> 01:37:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean in Black Panther, at the end, you've got 1704 01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:05,640 Speaker 1: cgi uh, you know, Rhinoceros is running people over. I mean, 1705 01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:07,720 Speaker 1: it's just nonsense. It's just I don't know. And I 1706 01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:10,080 Speaker 1: get I said this at the Hill today because we're 1707 01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:12,280 Speaker 1: talking to Black Panther came up earlier today. I just 1708 01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:17,000 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Everyone has drunk the Black Panther kool aid. 1709 01:38:17,360 --> 01:38:20,200 Speaker 1: They're all being told that it's the greatest movie and 1710 01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,040 Speaker 1: you have to love it, you know, you have to 1711 01:38:22,160 --> 01:38:24,599 Speaker 1: be into Black Panther. And I'm just like, I don't 1712 01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:29,080 Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't see it. Yeah, yeah, anyway, 1713 01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,400 Speaker 1: Well that's that's what. And then there's the Death of Stalin. 1714 01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:33,720 Speaker 1: I will say that's on showtime. I've I've been told 1715 01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:37,559 Speaker 1: that's excellent. So that actually this weekend, I think Death 1716 01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:39,280 Speaker 1: of Stalin top of my list producer, Mike, if you 1717 01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:41,120 Speaker 1: pick one of these up, you gotta come on and 1718 01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:42,920 Speaker 1: give us your review, right, Yeah, I will watch one 1719 01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:44,599 Speaker 1: of these. I'm looking at a couple of them look 1720 01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:47,519 Speaker 1: really good. Um that the Stalin sounds the most appealing 1721 01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:48,960 Speaker 1: to me right now, so I might go with that, 1722 01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:51,640 Speaker 1: and maybe we can we're first reformed. I'll go with 1723 01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:53,240 Speaker 1: one of those. Ding I think the Gods, no one. 1724 01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:57,680 Speaker 1: I don't think I could get through that. That's for me. 1725 01:38:57,880 --> 01:39:03,120 Speaker 1: That's I'll get and yeah, disgusted all at the same time, 1726 01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, I mean I was for Schindler's List for 1727 01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:09,800 Speaker 1: for quite a while. After I saw it, I was 1728 01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:12,080 Speaker 1: kind of, yeah, you know, kind of traumatized. I think 1729 01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:14,800 Speaker 1: it's important that people see that movie, but I don't. 1730 01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:17,240 Speaker 1: I think I'd have a traumatic experience if I sat 1731 01:39:17,240 --> 01:39:19,160 Speaker 1: through Goss. Although I'm told there's not it's not gory 1732 01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:22,240 Speaker 1: or anything, which is obviously good, but it deals, you know, 1733 01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:25,360 Speaker 1: the subject matter. It's tough to tough to watch and 1734 01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:27,800 Speaker 1: listen and hear about that and not I think come 1735 01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:30,559 Speaker 1: away angry and that was all happening in Philly, your hometown. 1736 01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,240 Speaker 1: I know. I was just about to say that and 1737 01:39:32,479 --> 01:39:35,840 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's a little disappointing. You know. They gotta wait. 1738 01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:37,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to watch it at some point so 1739 01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:39,800 Speaker 1: I'll everybody know what I think. But I am a 1740 01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:44,200 Speaker 1: next seriously, but all right, that's yeah. You know, he 1741 01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:46,120 Speaker 1: was in the Shape but he was the only good 1742 01:39:46,160 --> 01:39:48,479 Speaker 1: thing in the Shape of Water, which is a movie 1743 01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:50,680 Speaker 1: about a woman who has sex with her aquarium pet. 1744 01:39:51,160 --> 01:39:52,720 Speaker 1: And every time I say that to people, they think 1745 01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:54,320 Speaker 1: that I'm weird, and then they think about They're like, 1746 01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:57,920 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you're right, Buck, that's right. It's a 1747 01:39:58,080 --> 01:40:01,200 Speaker 1: bizarre movie. Ye, I believe it one best picture. But 1748 01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:04,400 Speaker 1: the oscars now are about as meaningful as a Nobel 1749 01:40:04,479 --> 01:40:07,240 Speaker 1: Peace Prize, which is, as we all know, not very meaningful. Meaningful. 1750 01:40:07,680 --> 01:40:09,280 Speaker 1: So let's let's come back and do some role call 1751 01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:11,840 Speaker 1: team to close out the show for the and kick 1752 01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:15,240 Speaker 1: it off for the weekend. Stay with me like soft 1753 01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,920 Speaker 1: butter on warm toast. Time to spread some freedom coast 1754 01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:31,040 Speaker 1: to coast. It's time for roll call. Indeed, it is 1755 01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:36,200 Speaker 1: time for the roll call. I'm trying to uh, trying 1756 01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:39,080 Speaker 1: to think about ways I can I can follow through 1757 01:40:39,360 --> 01:40:40,880 Speaker 1: on some of the things we've discussed, some of the 1758 01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:43,240 Speaker 1: changes we've discussed for the show in the new year, 1759 01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,880 Speaker 1: so I have not forgotten. I know we've said we're 1760 01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:48,160 Speaker 1: gonna get away to get more calls going here. That's 1761 01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:50,240 Speaker 1: gonna happen. We've we've got We've got plans, folks, we 1762 01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:53,120 Speaker 1: got plans. So roll call, though, is always fun. So 1763 01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:56,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna keep going with that. Rocky kicks us off. 1764 01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,640 Speaker 1: It is imperative we let the people who vote Democrat, no, 1765 01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:04,040 Speaker 1: they are supporting the things that Democrats are pushing. After 1766 01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:05,760 Speaker 1: talking to a number of them, it seemed there were 1767 01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:09,200 Speaker 1: more single issue voters when I mentioned the other issues 1768 01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:11,559 Speaker 1: they're pushing. They seem to think they can separate themselves. 1769 01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:13,760 Speaker 1: We have to let them know we are holding every 1770 01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:16,960 Speaker 1: one of them responsible for the craziest, stupidest ideas. Don't 1771 01:41:17,040 --> 01:41:22,280 Speaker 1: let them escape responsibility. All right, Rocky's Rocky's got a 1772 01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:25,800 Speaker 1: plan and he's gonna fallow through on it. Andrea, all right, 1773 01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:29,880 Speaker 1: thank you so much for acknowledging publicly that the opioid 1774 01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:34,200 Speaker 1: crisis is not patient doctor base, but illegal consumption based. 1775 01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:37,040 Speaker 1: I have a very painful and debilitating condition for which 1776 01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:39,559 Speaker 1: my doctor will no longer prescribe meds. I had safely 1777 01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:42,280 Speaker 1: been on for six years. To make it worse, the 1778 01:41:42,360 --> 01:41:45,080 Speaker 1: symptoms are extremely bad in the cold, and we're about 1779 01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:48,040 Speaker 1: to be stationed in Mongolia, oh gosh, where it's usually 1780 01:41:48,080 --> 01:41:50,840 Speaker 1: negative twenty to negative forty in the winter. I'll have 1781 01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,799 Speaker 1: to entertain dignitaries while in pain, which makes it difficult 1782 01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:57,400 Speaker 1: to move, think or interact. Thanks mainstream media and military 1783 01:41:57,520 --> 01:41:59,920 Speaker 1: healthcare for letting me down horribly. Keep up the good work. 1784 01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,639 Speaker 1: Maybe your voice and other rational voices will help reverse 1785 01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:07,720 Speaker 1: some of this. Yeah, Andrew, it's it's troublesome because there 1786 01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:11,960 Speaker 1: is a clear preference in the media for talking about 1787 01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:17,519 Speaker 1: the downsides of opioids when it comes to prescription drugs 1788 01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:20,439 Speaker 1: and doctors who are prescribing, they always want to focus 1789 01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:23,280 Speaker 1: on that part of the problem. And in the last 1790 01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:26,320 Speaker 1: five years that's become a smaller and smaller slice of 1791 01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:29,600 Speaker 1: the last ten years, it's become much much smaller than 1792 01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:32,360 Speaker 1: it was, and yet the problem is worse than it 1793 01:42:32,400 --> 01:42:35,040 Speaker 1: ever was. And that's because the cartels have seen an 1794 01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:38,280 Speaker 1: opening and there's a lot of money to be made 1795 01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:44,400 Speaker 1: for them, and they're now just providing at the street level. 1796 01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,160 Speaker 1: They're providing these drugs for people that they can now 1797 01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:50,240 Speaker 1: get illegally, but they're illegal drugs, right if you if 1798 01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:54,679 Speaker 1: you buy fake oxyconton, which might actually even be fentonel, 1799 01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:56,519 Speaker 1: so it's incredibly dangerous. But if you buy that from 1800 01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:59,439 Speaker 1: the cartels, that is a felony. That's illegal. It's illegal 1801 01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:01,560 Speaker 1: from a seller, it's legal for anyone to buy it. 1802 01:43:02,160 --> 01:43:05,120 Speaker 1: So that's part of the illegal drug trade. And it 1803 01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:09,680 Speaker 1: is disconcerting because one of the reasons that there was 1804 01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:17,400 Speaker 1: such an opening for this explosion of prescribing certain drugs OxyContin. 1805 01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:19,600 Speaker 1: OxyContin is the most well known one, but one of 1806 01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:22,000 Speaker 1: the reasons for it is that there's a lot of 1807 01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:25,639 Speaker 1: chronic pain. People are living longer, but also as life 1808 01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:28,760 Speaker 1: expectancy has gone up and people are trying to be 1809 01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:33,080 Speaker 1: more active, they're dealing with more chronic and debilitating pain 1810 01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:38,519 Speaker 1: and there's not The truth is that are modern medicine 1811 01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:42,920 Speaker 1: is pretty disappointing when it comes to really effective pain management, 1812 01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:45,840 Speaker 1: or at least you have to really become your own 1813 01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:49,479 Speaker 1: advocate within the health system to find ways to get 1814 01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:52,600 Speaker 1: the assistance you need. And there's no there's you know, 1815 01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:55,040 Speaker 1: there's no easy fix, and there's a lot of bad information. 1816 01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,760 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who will tell you, oh, 1817 01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:01,560 Speaker 1: it's in your head, or maybe it's maybe it's fibro myalger, 1818 01:44:01,720 --> 01:44:03,519 Speaker 1: or maybe it's this, or it's that. They just they 1819 01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:07,160 Speaker 1: just don't and the answers they don't know. Um, pain management, 1820 01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:11,880 Speaker 1: once you get into the real you know, the real 1821 01:44:12,360 --> 01:44:17,719 Speaker 1: deep weeds, if you will, of things like the gastro 1822 01:44:17,840 --> 01:44:23,800 Speaker 1: intestinal tract, of of pain management, of you know, neuro 1823 01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:28,840 Speaker 1: neurobiological function. We know stuff, but we also don't know 1824 01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:31,760 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, meaning that modern medicine's got a 1825 01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:34,439 Speaker 1: long way to go on that. So anyway, Andrea, stay strong, 1826 01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:37,960 Speaker 1: keep your shield high and uh and and hopefully you'll 1827 01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:40,080 Speaker 1: be able to find a regiment that works well for you. 1828 01:44:40,200 --> 01:44:42,080 Speaker 1: I'm sure you will. Just keep just keep looking and 1829 01:44:42,120 --> 01:44:45,679 Speaker 1: remember what I said, You've got to be your own advocate. Joseph, 1830 01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:48,240 Speaker 1: all right, it's happy Friday, Buck. I really enjoyed listening 1831 01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:52,599 Speaker 1: to you shredding budget chairman this morning. Could could up 1832 01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:57,880 Speaker 1: the fight shields high? Um. Yeah, I I did get 1833 01:44:57,920 --> 01:45:01,160 Speaker 1: to talk to Joseph saw me on Unhealthy and I 1834 01:45:01,280 --> 01:45:04,240 Speaker 1: asked the budget chairman, is there any I love to 1835 01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:08,400 Speaker 1: do this? I like to do the understated question that 1836 01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:13,280 Speaker 1: just wrecks that just ri e kt, as they say 1837 01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:17,479 Speaker 1: on Twitter, leave somebody wrecked by just asking a question 1838 01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,800 Speaker 1: that exposes what the real agenda is or what they're doing. 1839 01:45:20,840 --> 01:45:23,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I had somebody on not long ago, and 1840 01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:28,519 Speaker 1: her whole thing was how Trump's Trump's deregulation and all 1841 01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:33,400 Speaker 1: she does is study regulations and advocate against the deregulatory 1842 01:45:33,479 --> 01:45:35,639 Speaker 1: efforts of the Trump administration. And I said, well, Trump 1843 01:45:35,680 --> 01:45:38,720 Speaker 1: has gotten rid of how many thousands of regulations? Is 1844 01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:40,800 Speaker 1: there a single regulation he's gotten rid of that you 1845 01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:45,080 Speaker 1: can name person who only works on regulations that was 1846 01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:50,719 Speaker 1: a good was a good decision? Crickets chirping, Nothing, couldn't 1847 01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:54,479 Speaker 1: name one. So every federal government regulation Trump's gotten rid of, 1848 01:45:54,479 --> 01:45:58,160 Speaker 1: we're supposed to believe they're all good ideas, meaning the 1849 01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:02,200 Speaker 1: regulations were all good ideas. That's laughable. It just goes 1850 01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:05,679 Speaker 1: to show how people are are often because they're especially 1851 01:46:05,720 --> 01:46:08,440 Speaker 1: in DC, when you're talking about lobbying or policy advocates, 1852 01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:11,840 Speaker 1: they're they're mercenaries. They're they're paid for an outcome. They're 1853 01:46:11,840 --> 01:46:13,679 Speaker 1: not paid for the best interests of the American people. 1854 01:46:14,280 --> 01:46:16,599 Speaker 1: And in the budget Chairman Yarmouth, what I will say 1855 01:46:16,720 --> 01:46:19,320 Speaker 1: is a very nice guy from from Kentucky. He's very 1856 01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:22,280 Speaker 1: charming guys, he's very friendly. Um. But you know, I 1857 01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:25,759 Speaker 1: ask he's he's the incoming Democrat budget chairman in the House, 1858 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:29,040 Speaker 1: and I say, is there an area of the government 1859 01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:32,760 Speaker 1: where we're spending too much money? And what do you think? 1860 01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:37,519 Speaker 1: He says the only thing that he singles out defense, 1861 01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:40,160 Speaker 1: and then we hear a yeah, we need to balance 1862 01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:42,479 Speaker 1: the budget more generally, you know, kind of some a 1863 01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:44,280 Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that, not 1864 01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:46,720 Speaker 1: too hot, not too cold, just rite talk. And then 1865 01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:49,640 Speaker 1: he starts talking about raising taxes. So this, this is 1866 01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:53,479 Speaker 1: just the This is the Democrat, the Democrat two steps. 1867 01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:55,280 Speaker 1: This is what you're always going to hear from them. 1868 01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:57,160 Speaker 1: The only thing we spend too much money on, they'll 1869 01:46:57,160 --> 01:46:59,600 Speaker 1: admit his defense and the only thing we really need 1870 01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:05,000 Speaker 1: to do is raise taxes. As if that's going to 1871 01:47:05,200 --> 01:47:07,120 Speaker 1: get us out of the twenty two trillion dollar hole 1872 01:47:07,160 --> 01:47:11,000 Speaker 1: that we're in, or even over the long term, stabilizes 1873 01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:15,720 Speaker 1: it is not. Mike writes Buck. I listen every night 1874 01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:17,920 Speaker 1: in LA on eleven fifty am, and of course that's 1875 01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:19,960 Speaker 1: a six pm start time for your show out here. 1876 01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,400 Speaker 1: I guess you're aware of the situation that they have 1877 01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:27,600 Speaker 1: replaced your show sometimes with UCLA sports programming and not 1878 01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:29,760 Speaker 1: just games, but locker room talk. Is there anyway we 1879 01:47:29,800 --> 01:47:32,559 Speaker 1: can get them off of eleven fifty, am, Man, I'm 1880 01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:34,680 Speaker 1: telling you that most of your shows were placed in 1881 01:47:34,800 --> 01:47:39,559 Speaker 1: November and December. Well that's a and then Mike writes, 1882 01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,040 Speaker 1: I love your show. This is not good. This is 1883 01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:43,599 Speaker 1: not good at all that they're cutting you off. Well, 1884 01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:45,639 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm on one hundred and thirty 1885 01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:48,080 Speaker 1: stations or so one hundred and twenty seven I think, 1886 01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:50,519 Speaker 1: or something like that. So I'm not sure what's going 1887 01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:54,080 Speaker 1: on with this one, but I will look into it 1888 01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,680 Speaker 1: and team. That's gonna be it for this weekend or 1889 01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:00,320 Speaker 1: for this week rather have a fantastic weekend. I will 1890 01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:05,040 Speaker 1: talk to you Monday, shield Hie. It's a new year. 1891 01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:09,080 Speaker 1: That means new hiring, bringing new people into your company, 1892 01:48:09,120 --> 01:48:12,519 Speaker 1: into the fold, and that means background checks. 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