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<v Speaker 1>You are entering the freedom hunt. Democrats trying to get

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<v Speaker 1>a resolution together to oppose Trump's National Emergency declaration, a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of posturing from them, Will it mean anything? Also,

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<v Speaker 1>Smallets melt down over his hoax continues. We've got updates

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<v Speaker 1>for you on that and the possibility of a legal

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<v Speaker 1>defense for him, And what does it mean to have

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<v Speaker 1>a good job? And how can you make any job

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<v Speaker 1>you have meaningful? It's all coming up later in the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Bucks Sexton remission, decoding the news and disseminating information with

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<v Speaker 1>actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American Again.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the Bucks Sexton Show. CIA analysts, I can

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<v Speaker 1>speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing

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<v Speaker 1>that sometimes it is Bucks. No. Do you see every

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<v Speaker 1>single day that President Trump is trying to undermine our constitution?

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<v Speaker 1>I thought an emergency was floods in Iowa, Okay. I

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<v Speaker 1>thought that an emergency was wildfires in Colorado or a

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<v Speaker 1>hurricane in Florida. But he has put that on its head.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's going to be found constitutional, but

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<v Speaker 1>that's the kind of games that he is playing with

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<v Speaker 1>our constitution. Will you definitely vecho that resolution? It was

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<v Speaker 1>introduced today that would block your national emergency if it

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<v Speaker 1>happens on the wall. Yes, welcome to the buck Sex

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<v Speaker 1>and show my friends. Great to have you with me

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday. So the Democrats are trying to do their

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<v Speaker 1>usual maneuvering. Um. They're trying to figure out some way

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<v Speaker 1>to make the president look bad on this declaration of

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<v Speaker 1>national emergency because they won't really, they can't stop the declaration.

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<v Speaker 1>The President has the right to declare. But what they're

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<v Speaker 1>going to do is try to make it look bad

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<v Speaker 1>and fight against it, and then legally there will be

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<v Speaker 1>a challenge in the courts the moment funding is moved

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<v Speaker 1>and they start trying to use it at the wall.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, you have emergency powers have been invoked.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe under this statute. Since the seventies, fifty nine

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<v Speaker 1>national emergencies have been declared. Thirty one of them have

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<v Speaker 1>been renewed each year. So you've got things like the

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<v Speaker 1>you know this is all just just from a quick

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<v Speaker 1>Google search. You see this stuff. You have things that

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<v Speaker 1>range from suspending all laws regulating chemical biological weapons, suspending

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<v Speaker 1>any Clear Air Act implementation, authorizing constructing military projects using

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<v Speaker 1>existing defense appropriate creations, for construction, draft drafting, retired Coast

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<v Speaker 1>Guard officers. I mean a lot of stuff from emergency

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<v Speaker 1>powers here, stretching back for a long time. But you

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<v Speaker 1>notice that you know how much of that is really

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<v Speaker 1>an emergency? Or you know where? Where's the emergency there?

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<v Speaker 1>Where's the house on fire? There? We started off with Klobaschar,

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<v Speaker 1>best known for being unknown except for when she throws

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<v Speaker 1>things at members of her staff and treats them horribly.

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<v Speaker 1>As an aside, I am unable to and I shouldn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I shouldn't start with this, but I have it on

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<v Speaker 1>very good authority that at some point you will hear

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<v Speaker 1>that Kirsten Gillibrand is not only a phony, but he

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<v Speaker 1>is a very nasty person. I have. I have an

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<v Speaker 1>anecdote that is amazing to show the one she's a

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<v Speaker 1>phony and she's really mean, just like Klobaschar. But I

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<v Speaker 1>can't tell it because the person it's the person who

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<v Speaker 1>told me about it as a Democrat, and I am

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<v Speaker 1>I am for now sworn to secrecy and until that

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<v Speaker 1>person is willing to come forward and share the story

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<v Speaker 1>about his or her interactions with Kirsten jilla Brand as

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<v Speaker 1>a Democrat. Mind you, I can't. You know, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>because that person if they won't back up my oh,

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<v Speaker 1>but I want to because she's such a phony and

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<v Speaker 1>she's a terrible, terrible person from what I understand. But

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<v Speaker 1>Klobash are also really nasty. Look at all these really mean,

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<v Speaker 1>really mean elected Democrats. Not a surprise, is it? You know?

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<v Speaker 1>I think there are Republicans that are an elected office

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<v Speaker 1>that are not my cup of tea. But most of

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<v Speaker 1>the ones that I come across are pretty nice people.

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<v Speaker 1>Most of the ones that I've dealt with are rand

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<v Speaker 1>Paul is chill. I would not call him warm and fuzzy. However,

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<v Speaker 1>he can be a little can be a little prickly.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, by and large, most of the republic

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<v Speaker 1>lookings that I've dealt with in the Senate and in

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<v Speaker 1>the House are are pretty are pretty nice. I think

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<v Speaker 1>I'm actually having I'm doing a bucket a bar segment

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<v Speaker 1>soon with Congressman Duffy. I believe, I think that that's

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<v Speaker 1>going to happen. So I got I got things, I

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<v Speaker 1>got things going on, things going on. I'll tell you

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<v Speaker 1>about them, all right. But back to the Trump national

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<v Speaker 1>emergency situation here. So they're hoping to put this in

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<v Speaker 1>front of him, so he has to veto it. So

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<v Speaker 1>essentially it'll be the Congress disagreeing with the President on

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<v Speaker 1>this issue. But you know what's funny about about an

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<v Speaker 1>executive executive authority is that so what unless they're going

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<v Speaker 1>to repeal the law that gives him the authority, This

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<v Speaker 1>is just like their opinion, man. And ultimately, I think

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<v Speaker 1>that it looks bad for Congress to be out there

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<v Speaker 1>making the case the American people that what's going on

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<v Speaker 1>in the southern border is not an emergency. How could

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<v Speaker 1>it not be an emergency. You're on track for half

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<v Speaker 1>a million people coming into the country falsely claiming asylum,

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<v Speaker 1>abusing our system, abusing the generous and kind nature of

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<v Speaker 1>the American people for their own purposes. These are economic migrants,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're showing up with families because they know they're

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<v Speaker 1>more likely to be in this country if they show

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<v Speaker 1>up as a family. And you have the drugs pouring

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<v Speaker 1>into there's there's meth pouring into the country, and in

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<v Speaker 1>levels that are that are mind blowing. In fact, I

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<v Speaker 1>believe meth. Now they're dropping the price of meth. The

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<v Speaker 1>cartels are dropping methamphetamine prices just so they can maintain

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<v Speaker 1>some of the markets they have, even if they're selling

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<v Speaker 1>some of it at a loss based on their you know,

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<v Speaker 1>importation illegal importation fees. So there are other drugs that

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<v Speaker 1>they're trying to pile into the country other than just

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<v Speaker 1>pentinol and and and the opioids that have been killing

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<v Speaker 1>over seventy thousand Americans a year. Now, that's not an urgency,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, that doesn't matter. Think about the communities across

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<v Speaker 1>the country where these drugs are flooding in. We're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to believe that that doesn't qualify for an executive action

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<v Speaker 1>like this. I really, you know, this is it. If

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<v Speaker 1>we can't win this argument on If we can't win

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<v Speaker 1>this argument on the border under the Trump administration, we're

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<v Speaker 1>never gonna win this argument. It turns into something similar

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<v Speaker 1>to what we have with the national debt, which is

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<v Speaker 1>where there's really only one side of this that's right,

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<v Speaker 1>But it's a long term, structural, strategic, foundational issue that

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<v Speaker 1>you know, to deal with it now is painful, so

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<v Speaker 1>much more popular to procrastinate, say it's not a big deal.

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<v Speaker 1>We are heading toward a day facto open borders state,

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<v Speaker 1>and if we don't establish secure borders under the Trump administration,

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<v Speaker 1>it's never going to happen. In fact, only they will

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<v Speaker 1>not be secure. We're just going to have a policy

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<v Speaker 1>where people can come and go. You know, essentially anyone

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<v Speaker 1>who can get here can stay. And you know, you

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<v Speaker 1>talk about things like sovereignty, the cohesion of a polity,

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<v Speaker 1>of the political unit. You know, what is a country?

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<v Speaker 1>We can take this down to a very distill this

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<v Speaker 1>down to its essets. A country is an idea. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're Americans because of the culture and the and the

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<v Speaker 1>the people around us and the ideology of this country

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<v Speaker 1>that we buy into that we believe is important to

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<v Speaker 1>us as individuals and as a nation, which is a

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<v Speaker 1>group as a group as well. And you know, you

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<v Speaker 1>can always make the case, well, why why can't you

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<v Speaker 1>be a citizen of any country? It's not fair? Why

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<v Speaker 1>can't you just pick the whole nation? State system is

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<v Speaker 1>based on the largely based on the accident of birth.

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<v Speaker 1>It's unfair. It's inherently unfair. So if fairness is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be the governing standard for who gets to stay

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<v Speaker 1>and who doesn't get to stay, and it's a fairness

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<v Speaker 1>not based on the law, but based on what feels

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<v Speaker 1>good to people. You're an open border state. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to tell anybody you're not allowed to be here

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<v Speaker 1>in America. I mean, well, criminals obviously, but I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to look Honduran migrants in the eye. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to look some twenty two year old woman who arrives,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, with her with her two kids under the

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<v Speaker 1>age of tenants as you know, all I want to

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<v Speaker 1>do is be in America. I don't want to look

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<v Speaker 1>at her and say, sorry, you gotta go. That's not

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<v Speaker 1>going to feel good. But if you look at what

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<v Speaker 1>it means, if our law enforcement is I mean, then again,

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<v Speaker 1>I also don't want to arrest people for simple drug possession.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of things I don't want to do.

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<v Speaker 1>If our law enforcement, though he isn't able to tell

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<v Speaker 1>that woman who's not legally allowed to be in the country,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. You know, we're gonna make or you're safe

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<v Speaker 1>and take care of you and get you medical care,

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<v Speaker 1>but you gotta go. Then everyone can come and stay.

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<v Speaker 1>And if everyone can come and stay, we don't really

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<v Speaker 1>have a country anymore. We have a kind of economic

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<v Speaker 1>opportunity zone that has no particular character or ethos or

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<v Speaker 1>sustainable version of itself. It just will be in a

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<v Speaker 1>constant flux of well, you know, you know, and you

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<v Speaker 1>look at the numbers and look at how countries change

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<v Speaker 1>over time, and there can be profound shifts, profound si.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that a lot of Americans have this idea

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<v Speaker 1>that the immigration that we're dealing with now is similar

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<v Speaker 1>to immigration way from the past, and that's just nonsense.

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<v Speaker 1>By the percentages, it's We've never had anything like this.

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<v Speaker 1>We've never had a larger illegal alien population in the country.

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<v Speaker 1>We've also never had a larger legal immigrant population. And

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<v Speaker 1>I would just note that while I'm in favor of

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<v Speaker 1>of legal immigrants and we welcome legal immigrants into our

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<v Speaker 1>American family, there's an assimilation process that has to happen

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<v Speaker 1>there too. Maybe this is, you know, getting too deep

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<v Speaker 1>into the issue, but there is a limit to how

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<v Speaker 1>many legal immigrants you'd want to bring in as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And for people that that sounds that sounds crazy too. Okay, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>let's let's assume that let's talk about a smaller country, right,

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<v Speaker 1>Let's take it out of the context of America for

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<v Speaker 1>a second. If if the Netherlands allowed eight million Rockies

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<v Speaker 1>to immigrate to the Netherlands. Is the Netherlands still the Netherlands? No,

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<v Speaker 1>it is not, It is something else, right, it would

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<v Speaker 1>it would overwhelm the character and the legal and cultural

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<v Speaker 1>foundations of that country. It would overwhelm the assimilation system.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about a legal immigration way. Now. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think we're quite there with legal immigration year a year,

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<v Speaker 1>but we're not far off off either. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>do think that a million a year is at is

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty high number. It is a lot of people

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<v Speaker 1>that bring into a country to go through the assimilation process,

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<v Speaker 1>especially when you have a lot of them are being

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<v Speaker 1>brought here through chain migration because of family connections. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>the system is the system, So I have no problem

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<v Speaker 1>with anybody who's going through system legally. But we also

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<v Speaker 1>as a country and those people who are legal immigrants

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<v Speaker 1>who become citizens to the country, they get to be

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<v Speaker 1>part of this conversation too. We get to have a

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<v Speaker 1>discussion as a nation about well, how many how many

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<v Speaker 1>legal immigrants do we really want to take in? And

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<v Speaker 1>I understand that for people that their primary political motivation

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<v Speaker 1>is to feel good about themselves and to take the

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<v Speaker 1>position of the greatest generosity and never have to say

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<v Speaker 1>no to people and just want to see the good

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<v Speaker 1>in people and not look at how things can go wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>Why wouldn't you want to be open borders, you know?

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<v Speaker 1>And this is why I try to ask democrats questions

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<v Speaker 1>like why why is a legal immigration from a Democrat

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<v Speaker 1>perspect active wisely illegal immigration bad? And the answers they

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<v Speaker 1>don't think it is. There's no And you'll never get

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<v Speaker 1>them to say, Well, if you have a country of

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<v Speaker 1>three hundred and twenty million Americans and you were to

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<v Speaker 1>allow the importation of the immigration of you know, ten

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<v Speaker 1>million Hondurans, which is basically the population of Honduras because

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<v Speaker 1>their country is so crappy, does that change? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's certainly going to change the political direction of the country.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to change, you know. This is what we

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<v Speaker 1>have to look at and and do people when they

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<v Speaker 1>come in large enough numbers, does that affect their desire

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<v Speaker 1>to assimilate when they're here? These are all these are

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<v Speaker 1>all serious discussions about the future of the country and

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<v Speaker 1>as it is affected by immigration. But it's so much

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<v Speaker 1>easier to just say where a nation of immigrants, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they're doing the jobs Americans won't do just let people in.

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<v Speaker 1>Illegal immigrants are more American than Americans, all this stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is where the Democrats have gone with this.

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<v Speaker 1>So Trump is Trump is right about securing the border.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he's gonna win this fight. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if he's gonna win this fight. It might

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<v Speaker 1>be that the Democrats may have their long term strategy

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<v Speaker 1>to change the demographics of this country such that there's

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<v Speaker 1>a permanent left of center majority for the Democratic Party,

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<v Speaker 1>and that enough Republicans have been bought and paid for

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<v Speaker 1>on the immigration issue that they won't stand for the law.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It's kind of a bummer thing to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you on a Friday, but we may be too

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<v Speaker 1>late on this issue. I don't know if anybody's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get it done. If Trump can't get it done. So

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<v Speaker 1>I hope that he's able to prevail on this one

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<v Speaker 1>in the courts, in public opinion in twenty twenty. But

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<v Speaker 1>there's some concerning signs here. All right, we gotta roll

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<v Speaker 1>into a quick break. I will be back with you

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<v Speaker 1>with so much were we gotta talk about the smallette smolette,

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<v Speaker 1>monsieur smolet. That whole situation stay with me. What do

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<v Speaker 1>you staying on some form of reparations for black people. Well, look,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that we have got to address that. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>it's back to the inequities there through. Look, America has

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<v Speaker 1>a history of two hundred years of slavery. We had

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Crow. We've got to recognize back to that earlier point,

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<v Speaker 1>people aren't starting out on the same base in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of their ability to succeed, and so we have got

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<v Speaker 1>to recognize that and give people a lift up. We

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<v Speaker 1>have a history of racism in America. So you are

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<v Speaker 1>for some type Yes I am, Yes, I am. That's

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<v Speaker 1>Kamala Harris, prime top tier candidate from the Democrats for

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<v Speaker 1>the presidency. So far, a lot of establishment folks excited

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<v Speaker 1>about her candidacy. You know, there's definitely a buzz around

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<v Speaker 1>her saying that she is in favor of reparations. I

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<v Speaker 1>do not now I could be wrong here, so one

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<v Speaker 1>of you could point this out. I do not remember

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<v Speaker 1>hearing a president in recent memory, any any Democrat presidential

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<v Speaker 1>candidate that I can think of. Again, this is just

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<v Speaker 1>off top of my head that was in favor, openly

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<v Speaker 1>in favor of reparations for slavery. The federal government stepping

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<v Speaker 1>in with reparations, and I would be very curious to

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<v Speaker 1>know what that would look like. What is she really

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<v Speaker 1>talking about here? We already have affirmative action. Affirmative action

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<v Speaker 1>is running into some problems now because of the discriminatory

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<v Speaker 1>effect against Asians that affirmative action has resulted in. And

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<v Speaker 1>affirmative action has been has been extended way beyond African Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>to Latinos, to Native Americans, to transgender individuals, to LGBT me.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, affirmative action is now everything that's not essentially

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<v Speaker 1>an Asian or a you know why mail. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>that's where a firm invaction has gone. But I also

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<v Speaker 1>noted in this and that was I think an interview

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<v Speaker 1>on this radio show, The Breakfast Club. But she mentioned this,

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<v Speaker 1>the inequities. You remember this, This is important. I brought

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<v Speaker 1>this up, I think yesterday here on the show. Not inequalities.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to pay attention to the words that leftist

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<v Speaker 1>used inequities. Inequality is the way it is treated in

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<v Speaker 1>public policy discussions. Is about the law. Right are you

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<v Speaker 1>equal in the law? Equal is rights? Equal is you

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<v Speaker 1>know you are treated the same way by the state.

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<v Speaker 1>Inequity Inequity is the absence of fair ends. Not fair process,

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<v Speaker 1>but fair ends, fair results. Do you have the same

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<v Speaker 1>that what somebody else has? Forget about the decisions you've made,

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<v Speaker 1>forget about the work you've done, forget about your skills

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<v Speaker 1>and abilities. Do you have the same that somebody else has?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you don't. That's inequity in the eyes of the left.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you are in a protected category, you should

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<v Speaker 1>not have to suffer inequity. And in fact, this state

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<v Speaker 1>should have to come in to give you the same ends,

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<v Speaker 1>the same results and benefits that somebody else has because

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<v Speaker 1>of your identity group. This is gonna you're gonna see

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<v Speaker 1>more of this. Pay attention to that term inequity versus inequality.

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<v Speaker 1>The Left is going to be all about this. Somebody

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<v Speaker 1>tweeted yesterday of the day before, and I thought it

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<v Speaker 1>made a lot of sense. So this is a police

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<v Speaker 1>department that has had some issues. I think there are

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<v Speaker 1>issues with the Chicago Police Department as a general proposition,

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<v Speaker 1>whether or not they are alleged to have treated people

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<v Speaker 1>of color fairly, other or not, they are capable of

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<v Speaker 1>doing an investigation without any difficult issues arising. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you've got to be kidding me. Smolette's attorneys there, Garrigos

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<v Speaker 1>and Benjamin Brafman, are starting to do the whole Well,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe Chicago PD is racist. Maybe maybe that's really the

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<v Speaker 1>problem here. I mean, this guy, if the maximum he

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<v Speaker 1>can serve us three years, I think he should get

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<v Speaker 1>three years. You really got to make an example of

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<v Speaker 1>this idiot. What he did is disgusting, it's wrong, and

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<v Speaker 1>that he's got his attorneys out there now saying, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe Chicago Police Department's racist. I'm sorry. They gave this guy,

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<v Speaker 1>this utter moron, Chelsea Small, this spoiled brat by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>who was upset that he didn't get paid more money

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<v Speaker 1>for their show he was on. They gave him more

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<v Speaker 1>than the benefit of the doubt. They gave him every

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<v Speaker 1>opportunity to not just explain his side of story, but

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<v Speaker 1>to come clean. He did neither of those things, and

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<v Speaker 1>now here we are. It's it's appalling. Ed Davis, the

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<v Speaker 1>former Boston Police commissioner, saw this for what it is

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<v Speaker 1>play six. When defense attorneys don't have any facts, they

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<v Speaker 1>go to process and they're trying to throw enough smoke

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<v Speaker 1>up there to establish reasonable doubt in the minds of

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<v Speaker 1>the prospective jurors. That's what this is all about. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know Ed described this very well yesterday. He called

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<v Speaker 1>it a despicable crime. And when you hear his presentation

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<v Speaker 1>and the presentation of the state's attorney, there's almost an

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<v Speaker 1>embarrassment of evidence here against Smalllett couldn't be any more obvious,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it's it's just reprehensible that lawyers are

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<v Speaker 1>going out there now and are just are essentially saying Chicago,

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<v Speaker 1>Chicago is racist, the country's racist, Chicago police are racist.

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<v Speaker 1>If that defense would work for Smallett, then what you're

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<v Speaker 1>really or Smollette, then what you're really saying is that

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<v Speaker 1>no African American in Chicago could be committed of any

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<v Speaker 1>crime because the police department's just so racist that even

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<v Speaker 1>when the evidence is overwhelming, as we already know it is.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, this this guy, it could not be more

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<v Speaker 1>obvious that this is a hoax, and more clear this

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<v Speaker 1>is a hoax. If he gave us a signed confession

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<v Speaker 1>with videotape, then maybe it'd be more obvious, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>still I'm sure lawyers would say he was coerced. He

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<v Speaker 1>was coerced into his confession. At this point, some lawyers

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<v Speaker 1>are great. Some lawyers men. No shame, no shame at all.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, the guy should be punished. I saw today

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<v Speaker 1>that there was some beginnings of a narrative that, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe he's got a drug problem or something. I'm sorry, no,

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<v Speaker 1>let's not. Let's not do that one now either. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>this is these are all just desperation maneuvers. These are

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<v Speaker 1>all these are all hail mary's to avoid accountability. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know it's just it's I hope I was gonna

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<v Speaker 1>say it's not gonna work. I hope none of this works.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, with our justice system sometimes sometimes things

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<v Speaker 1>can be surprisingly illogical and unfair. He should serve time,

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<v Speaker 1>he should spend some time in a prison cells. The

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<v Speaker 1>drsh weight on this one, and I think the dursh

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<v Speaker 1>just got this one correct. Play for if the facts

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<v Speaker 1>are as the police say they are, if actually payments

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<v Speaker 1>were made and a plan was hacked to put a

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<v Speaker 1>rope around the neck, and a police report was filed,

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<v Speaker 1>then we have a potential for a serious a crime.

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<v Speaker 1>I think people who make false reports or to go

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<v Speaker 1>to jail. I think you know in the Bible, if

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<v Speaker 1>you falsely accused somebody, you get the penalty that the

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<v Speaker 1>person would have gotten had the accusation been true. So

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<v Speaker 1>if in fact these people had attacked him in this

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<v Speaker 1>racist way and put a noose around his neck, they

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<v Speaker 1>would have gotten some years in jail. If you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to follow the Bible, this guy ought to get the

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<v Speaker 1>same penalty that he falsely accused other people of getting.

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<v Speaker 1>Totally agree with the dersh on this. And let me

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<v Speaker 1>also say that we have been treated to lecture after

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<v Speaker 1>lecture from partisans in the media and in the Democratic

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<v Speaker 1>Party about how lying to the system destroys the system.

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<v Speaker 1>So even a relatively minor lie in the course of

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<v Speaker 1>a federal investigation, oh, I don't know, like the Muller probe,

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<v Speaker 1>for example, even a relatively minor lie is unacceptable because

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<v Speaker 1>that lie makes the work of the entire system harder

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<v Speaker 1>and so people have to be held accountable for this,

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<v Speaker 1>and there has to be there have to be consequences

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<v Speaker 1>for this. Right. Well, if that's the case for lie,

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<v Speaker 1>false accusation is just a form of lying. It's no different.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, if you sit there and say I never

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<v Speaker 1>spoke to Putin and you did speak to Putin, and

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to throw you in prison for that, saying, well,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't speak to Putin, but this other guy did,

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<v Speaker 1>and he should go to jail for that, and he didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just another form of line. A false report is

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<v Speaker 1>an official lie that hurts the system. So if you're

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<v Speaker 1>somebody who thinks that George Papadappolis should have gone to prison,

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<v Speaker 1>you better darnwell think that jose Smalllett should go to prison,

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<v Speaker 1>or else you're gonna have some explaining to do. As

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<v Speaker 1>far as I am concerned with all of this, it's

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<v Speaker 1>amazing the oh wait, Smallett's statement that we have that,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, we have Smallett's statement to the prosecution here

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<v Speaker 1>plicklip two. Smalletts stated that he wanted them to adhere

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<v Speaker 1>to attack him. Defendant Smalett also stated he wanted the

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<v Speaker 1>brothers to catch his attention by calling him an empire

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<v Speaker 1>f empire n Defendant Smollett also included that he wanted

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<v Speaker 1>Ola to place a rope around his neck, pour gasoline

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<v Speaker 1>on him, and yell this is mega country. Astonishing, isn't

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<v Speaker 1>it astonishing? Um? But yet here here we are that oh,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, CNN of course trying to cover for

0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:28.359
<v Speaker 1>CNN and m SMC trying to cover for him. Play

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<v Speaker 1>clip one. If we're going to see um, conservative media

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<v Speaker 1>probably play this up a bit. Sean Hannity is gonna

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<v Speaker 1>eat Jessie Smalett's lunch every single second. Tucker Carlson is

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<v Speaker 1>gonna et just Smalllet's lunch every single second. President nine

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<v Speaker 1>is stas is gonna eat his lunch, Eat his lunch. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>eat his lunch every single second. Well doesn't that isn't

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<v Speaker 1>that kind of deserving? Isn't that kind of deserving? Isn't

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<v Speaker 1>that isn't that a air thing for for this to

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<v Speaker 1>turn into? I mean, you know, why was I talking

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<v Speaker 1>about this actor? Why was I able to know that

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<v Speaker 1>everything was fine? Why was I able to know that

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<v Speaker 1>there was really no truth in this story? And all

0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:18.600
<v Speaker 1>these different media companies, the big media apparatus, they couldn't

0:26:18.600 --> 0:26:22.960
<v Speaker 1>figure it out. Oh, Republicans, pounce is the story? I

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<v Speaker 1>see right? Ah, they're being mean to to Jussie. They're

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<v Speaker 1>being mean to JUSSI no, no, no, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>so this is a guy who should go to prison.

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<v Speaker 1>We call this one team right all along? So we

0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:35.960
<v Speaker 1>do a little victory dance on that when we've known

0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:39.640
<v Speaker 1>all along that that was the case, and we also

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<v Speaker 1>now should expect there to be accountability in this whole process.

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<v Speaker 1>We should expect that somebody who was willing to draw

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<v Speaker 1>resources off of investigations of homicides in a city with

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<v Speaker 1>a serious homicide problem should not go unpunished and should

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<v Speaker 1>not go unscathed. But you know, the sad part about

0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:02.200
<v Speaker 1>this is the media is not going to learn a thing.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not going to change at all. And here's what

0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:06.720
<v Speaker 1>I can tell you. The next and there will be one,

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<v Speaker 1>the next big hate crime hoax that comes along, the

0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:16.040
<v Speaker 1>same script for the media will be in play. They

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<v Speaker 1>won't change their coverage, they won't be more skeptical. And

0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:24.720
<v Speaker 1>it's because that, ultimately they really think that they did

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<v Speaker 1>this the right way, even though they were totally wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>They think the mainstream media believes when it comes to

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<v Speaker 1>hate crime hoaxes, even when they're wrong, they're still right

0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:42.040
<v Speaker 1>because they've raised awareness. Be right back. So a lot

0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:46.240
<v Speaker 1>of people have talked about small at this week. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the best, and I want to give you a

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<v Speaker 1>good chunk of it. Charles Barkley is one of the

0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:57.040
<v Speaker 1>more entertaining TV commentators around period. You know, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>always get great stuff from Charles, but you do get

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of a lot of gems. I mean, Charles

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<v Speaker 1>Barkley comes up with stuff. I don't even really care

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<v Speaker 1>about professional basketball very much. I used to watch it,

0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:10.200
<v Speaker 1>but I don't have the time these days. But Charles

0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:15.200
<v Speaker 1>Barkley is so amusing when he talks about professional basketball,

0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:17.680
<v Speaker 1>and not even just that, just just topics in general,

0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:23.000
<v Speaker 1>that I will sometimes watch. I will sometimes watch Charles

0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.040
<v Speaker 1>Barkley on his panel on TNT just because I know

0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:29.120
<v Speaker 1>he's so funny. The stuff that he said about Smoletts

0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:33.080
<v Speaker 1>today though, because we got the we got Friday coming

0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.520
<v Speaker 1>up here, we got a weekend. I just figured be

0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:38.720
<v Speaker 1>fun to share some of this with you. Here's what

0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:44.520
<v Speaker 1>Charles Barkley said about this play eighteen. Just if you

0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:47.520
<v Speaker 1>wasted all that damn time of money, you know what

0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:53.160
<v Speaker 1>you should have did. That's what I'm really a Mason's neighborhood.

0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:55.680
<v Speaker 1>This one over there that you would say has no

0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:59.160
<v Speaker 1>chance of happening. Um, two black guys being the black

0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:08.960
<v Speaker 1>guy and have figured out loud, that's us not on here, man.

0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:16.240
<v Speaker 1>I think that's probably I think that's probably it. Okay,

0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:19.080
<v Speaker 1>the Lakers will not make the playoffs. The King's Will

0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:22.160
<v Speaker 1>is the latest edition. Go ahead, Kenny, I can't leave

0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:29.040
<v Speaker 1>your chuck here with caster check America. Let me just

0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:32.680
<v Speaker 1>tell you something that do not commit crimes with checks.

0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.560
<v Speaker 1>If you're gonna break the law, do not write a check.

0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Because you're writing a check that what get cashed? Man, Paul,

0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 1>stop literally now, I got one more question. Be by

0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:52.600
<v Speaker 1>the face mask, the rope and the thing in the

0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:55.760
<v Speaker 1>same story. They get it. You think they put that

0:29:55.880 --> 0:30:02.640
<v Speaker 1>on a receipt, face mask, the rope, bleach the store.

0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:08.360
<v Speaker 1>So they're obviously having some fun there on the set

0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:11.880
<v Speaker 1>of TNT with Charles Barklay, just really going after the

0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.440
<v Speaker 1>smolette thing. But I think I think you have to man,

0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that this is a situation where we

0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:22.880
<v Speaker 1>should all pretend like this isn't completely preposterous, that what

0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:27.520
<v Speaker 1>he isn't absolutely ridiculous, uh, you know, and and and

0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 1>damaging and wrong, but also so stupid. This is real,

0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:39.800
<v Speaker 1>real buffoon kind of stuff. I mean, it's really astonishingly dumb.

0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:42.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean, writing a check, buying the stuff from the

0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:45.520
<v Speaker 1>store on video, bringing in two other guys to be

0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:48.200
<v Speaker 1>a part of this, and all of it. It just

0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:53.080
<v Speaker 1>makes no sense. It's somebody who's clearly not very smart. Um,

0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:57.920
<v Speaker 1>and yet there are some people out there believe it,

0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:01.720
<v Speaker 1>believe it or not, believe it or not. There are

0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:05.640
<v Speaker 1>some people out there who aren't yet convinced, aren't yet

0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:13.320
<v Speaker 1>entirely convinced. If in fact, this guy Smolett did this

0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:16.400
<v Speaker 1>whole thing play clip seven here, Maxie Waters ways in.

0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't think we can at this point it makes

0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:23.920
<v Speaker 1>sense of it. There's still some questions that we have,

0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:27.000
<v Speaker 1>some answers that have to be given. He's a friend,

0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:30.920
<v Speaker 1>he was at my office, we marched in the Pride

0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:34.960
<v Speaker 1>Rate for get Together. He introduced me at Black Girl's Rock,

0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:39.600
<v Speaker 1>and so I believed him when I heard about it.

0:31:40.360 --> 0:31:42.880
<v Speaker 1>I still don't know all of the details. I'm waiting

0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:45.520
<v Speaker 1>for the final results of all of this. If in

0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:48.000
<v Speaker 1>facts it's the hoax, of course I would be disappointed,

0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:52.880
<v Speaker 1>But I'm just hopeful that whatever goes on, and if

0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 1>he finds that he's in trouble, that his life will

0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:58.920
<v Speaker 1>be changed, then he has to redo it all over again.

0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:03.280
<v Speaker 1>How much more does she need in terms of facts,

0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:07.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm just wondering what the facts from? Does she not

0:32:07.480 --> 0:32:11.480
<v Speaker 1>believe the Chicago Police Department. Does she not believe Eddie

0:32:11.560 --> 0:32:17.480
<v Speaker 1>Johnson is CPD superintendent who's speaking yesterday? I mean, this

0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:19.800
<v Speaker 1>is what this is what Eddi Johnson said yesterday play

0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:24.840
<v Speaker 1>three to let pay thirty five hundred dollars to stage

0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:28.440
<v Speaker 1>this attack and dragt Chicago's reputation through the mud in

0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:33.880
<v Speaker 1>the process. And why this stunt was orchestrated by Smilette

0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:38.400
<v Speaker 1>because he was dissatisfied with his salary, so he concocted

0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:43.440
<v Speaker 1>a story about being attacked. Is there any part of

0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:50.280
<v Speaker 1>that that Maxine Waters thinks he's a lie? Is there

0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:52.880
<v Speaker 1>some is there some aspects of this that she Let's

0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:56.080
<v Speaker 1>all be very clear. The chance that the Chicago Police

0:32:56.120 --> 0:33:00.360
<v Speaker 1>Department would come out and say these things about a

0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:05.000
<v Speaker 1>gay African American actor who claimed to have been attacked.

0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:07.880
<v Speaker 1>Did the fact that they're coming out to say that

0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:11.640
<v Speaker 1>this is a hoax? They are they have this thing

0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:15.000
<v Speaker 1>as air tight as you could have anything, as air

0:33:15.160 --> 0:33:19.600
<v Speaker 1>tight as you could have anything. So that's let's start

0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:22.360
<v Speaker 1>with that. But if he does face charges, there are

0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:26.320
<v Speaker 1>some people who are saying, you know, crazier things have happened,

0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:28.320
<v Speaker 1>and you start to think about some cases that have

0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:33.280
<v Speaker 1>come up. This is Sonny Houstin on the View nineteen.

0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:36.800
<v Speaker 1>He is going to mount a vigorous defense, and he's

0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:39.960
<v Speaker 1>made it very clear that Jesse is still entitled to

0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:42.760
<v Speaker 1>a presumption of innocence. And I think we do need

0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:45.720
<v Speaker 1>to remember that for the police department to come out

0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:49.120
<v Speaker 1>and lay this all out, we have to still be skeptical.

0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:51.040
<v Speaker 1>We don't know what's going to happen. I mean, did

0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:54.160
<v Speaker 1>everybody think Casey Anthony was going to be found guilty, yes?

0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:56.920
<v Speaker 1>Did everybody think O J was going to be found guilty? Yes?

0:33:57.040 --> 0:34:02.320
<v Speaker 1>And those people were not found guilty. She's confusing analysis

0:34:02.520 --> 0:34:04.959
<v Speaker 1>of the news with the legal process a little bit.

0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:07.400
<v Speaker 1>There By the way, he's not going to mount a

0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:10.040
<v Speaker 1>vigorous defense if he if he goes to trial, he's

0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.080
<v Speaker 1>going to lose. He's going to take a plea bargain.

0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:15.200
<v Speaker 1>He's not gonna mount no if they charge him, he's

0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:18.040
<v Speaker 1>gonna plead it out. No way, he's going to mount

0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:22.240
<v Speaker 1>a vigorous defense. But to her point about Casey Anthony

0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:23.800
<v Speaker 1>and o J. Yeah, I mean there are people that

0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:27.160
<v Speaker 1>get away with crimes all the time. Unfortunately, I see

0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:31.719
<v Speaker 1>that R. Kelly today was charged with ten counts of

0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:35.759
<v Speaker 1>some kind of sexual misconduct. I don't know exactly what

0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:39.480
<v Speaker 1>it is. R Kelly's ten counts of sexual misconduct. R

0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Kelly was charged, and the documentary on him, I think

0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:45.480
<v Speaker 1>it's on Lifetime that I've watched. It's a series of

0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:49.120
<v Speaker 1>like six or seven episodes, is very good and disturbing.

0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:53.919
<v Speaker 1>R Kelly was prosecuted for underage sex and making child pornography.

0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:58.120
<v Speaker 1>He was They had a video of him with the

0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:01.680
<v Speaker 1>underage girl. They showed it to the jury and r

0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:04.040
<v Speaker 1>Kelly said it might be his brother, that it wasn't

0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:09.040
<v Speaker 1>him in the video, and he was found not guilty.

0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:12.920
<v Speaker 1>How could a jury be so stupid? I don't know

0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:15.759
<v Speaker 1>the OJ jury, I don't think. I think the OJ

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:17.879
<v Speaker 1>jury always knew that he did it. They just thought

0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:21.960
<v Speaker 1>that this was some getting back at, getting back at,

0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:25.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, at the racist oppressors in this country. No

0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:29.120
<v Speaker 1>one with you know, a functioning brain thought that OJ

0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.120
<v Speaker 1>didn't do it. So is there a chance that Smalette

0:35:32.120 --> 0:35:35.600
<v Speaker 1>would get off. Well maybe, But he's also he's not

0:35:35.760 --> 0:35:38.480
<v Speaker 1>some hero to any community. I mean, this is all

0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:41.320
<v Speaker 1>the whole thing is just is just grotesque, right, So

0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:43.520
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<v Speaker 1>I'll be talking about it. But you know, the nice part.

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<v Speaker 1>There was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was

0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:02.040
<v Speaker 1>no anything, So that's the nice part. There was no

0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:06.160
<v Speaker 1>phone calls, no nothing. We have a I won a race.

0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:07.440
<v Speaker 1>You know why I won the race because I was

0:37:07.480 --> 0:37:10.000
<v Speaker 1>a better candidate than she was and had nothing to

0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 1>do with Russia. And everybody knows it's a hoax. It's

0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:16.160
<v Speaker 1>one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on this country.

0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:18.920
<v Speaker 1>So I look forward to seeing the report. If it's

0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.200
<v Speaker 1>an honest report, it will say that. If it's not

0:37:21.320 --> 0:37:26.840
<v Speaker 1>an honest report, it won't. Yeah, we may in fact

0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:36.319
<v Speaker 1>be in the last days of Mullermania. Mullermania. I could

0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.359
<v Speaker 1>do some cool we could do some cool theme music

0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:42.839
<v Speaker 1>for Mullermania. I am so happy for well at least

0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:44.800
<v Speaker 1>this reason. And maybe this is a little bit selfish,

0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:48.600
<v Speaker 1>but I just don't want to have to talk about

0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:53.279
<v Speaker 1>this case anymore. It's so obviously stupid. It's such a

0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:56.600
<v Speaker 1>political hatchet job. It has been from the start. The

0:37:56.719 --> 0:38:01.479
<v Speaker 1>people involved, or unseemly they're dishonor they're bad people. They've

0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:05.840
<v Speaker 1>tried to undo the results of a democratic election, you know,

0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:10.200
<v Speaker 1>And I just feel like we've talked this thing to death.

0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:14.200
<v Speaker 1>The whole country has. I mean, you turn on CNN

0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:17.879
<v Speaker 1>and most nights there's a Russia story and a lot

0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:19.759
<v Speaker 1>of nights and this is for the last two years,

0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:23.560
<v Speaker 1>a lot of nights they lead with a Russia story

0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:25.880
<v Speaker 1>and they bring people on who go, well, you know,

0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:27.880
<v Speaker 1>we don't know yet, and we don't know yet, and

0:38:28.200 --> 0:38:32.000
<v Speaker 1>all this It was the speculation Olympics for two years

0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 1>about whoa, maybe maybe Mueller's got this up as sleep

0:38:35.000 --> 0:38:37.680
<v Speaker 1>and maybe now all of a sudden they're starting to

0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:41.000
<v Speaker 1>try to manage expectations a bit now, and now they're

0:38:41.200 --> 0:38:45.840
<v Speaker 1>changing the whole tone, the whole vibe of the Mueller probe.

0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:49.120
<v Speaker 1>And our friend Kim Strassel, who you know is a

0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:53.000
<v Speaker 1>frequent visitor here on the show, wrote a great piece

0:38:53.560 --> 0:38:59.280
<v Speaker 1>shifting sci f F TI N to phase two of collusion.

0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:04.400
<v Speaker 1>Conspiracy theorists look for something new anticipating a Muller letdown,

0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:07.880
<v Speaker 1>and let me just get Ki. Kim just nails it

0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:09.200
<v Speaker 1>in this piece. Let me give you someone what she

0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:13.280
<v Speaker 1>gets into here. Quote There's been no more reliable regurgitator

0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:19.360
<v Speaker 1>of fantastical Trump Russia collusion theories than Democratic Representative Adam Schiff.

0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:22.480
<v Speaker 1>So when the House Intelligence Committee chairman sits down to

0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:26.719
<v Speaker 1>describe a new phase of the Trump investigation. Pay attention.

0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 1>These are the fever swamps into which we will descend

0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:35.520
<v Speaker 1>after Robert Muller's probe. The collusionists need a new phase

0:39:35.719 --> 0:39:39.520
<v Speaker 1>as signs grow that the Special Council won't help realize

0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:42.879
<v Speaker 1>their revelries of a Donald Trump takedown. They had said

0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:45.719
<v Speaker 1>mister Muller would provide all the answers. Now that it

0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:49.040
<v Speaker 1>seems they won't like his answers, Democrats and media insist

0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:53.920
<v Speaker 1>that any report will likely prove anticlimactic and inconclusive. This

0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:57.400
<v Speaker 1>is merely the end of chapter one, said Nato Mariotti,

0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:01.680
<v Speaker 1>a CNN legal analyst. Mister Schiff turned this week to

0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:05.080
<v Speaker 1>a dependable scribe, the Washington Post, David Ignatius to lay

0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:07.920
<v Speaker 1>out the next chapter of the Penny Dreadful, by the way,

0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:11.839
<v Speaker 1>a very good TV show on Cinemax. I think if

0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:15.280
<v Speaker 1>you haven't seen it. Mister Ignatius was the original conduit

0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:17.960
<v Speaker 1>for the League about former National Security Advisor Mike Flinn's

0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:22.040
<v Speaker 1>conversations with a Russian ambassador and the far fetch claims

0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:24.320
<v Speaker 1>that mister Flinn had violated the Logan Act. Of seventeen

0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:27.960
<v Speaker 1>ninety nine. Mister Schiff has now dictated to mister Ignatius

0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:32.640
<v Speaker 1>a whole new collusion theory. Forget Carter Page, Paul Manafort,

0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:37.279
<v Speaker 1>George Papadopoulos, whoever the real Trump Russia canoodling rests in

0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:42.680
<v Speaker 1>Trump's finances. The future president was doing business with Russia

0:40:42.800 --> 0:40:49.600
<v Speaker 1>and seeking Kremlin help. End quote. Guys, these people are shameless,

0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.000
<v Speaker 1>aren't they. I mean, Kim totally nails it. She's right.

0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:54.480
<v Speaker 1>I mean I've been saying this too, But this is

0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:58.640
<v Speaker 1>this is where all of this is heading. We're just

0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:02.880
<v Speaker 1>gonna start to hear now about how we need Trump's

0:41:02.920 --> 0:41:08.400
<v Speaker 1>tax returns, We need to know more about about Trump's

0:41:08.440 --> 0:41:11.759
<v Speaker 1>business dealings. And you see, this is just going to

0:41:11.840 --> 0:41:16.640
<v Speaker 1>be an investigation of Trump the person. That's what they're

0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:20.879
<v Speaker 1>going to transition to. This is an investigation of Donald Trump. There.

0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:22.880
<v Speaker 1>You know, they can try to say it's about Russia,

0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:25.359
<v Speaker 1>collusion anything else. But now, I mean, if they're talking

0:41:25.400 --> 0:41:28.879
<v Speaker 1>about his business dealings, what is that If they didn't

0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:34.879
<v Speaker 1>find collusion as in Trump and Trump's campaign actively contacting

0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:39.560
<v Speaker 1>and working with the Russians to help steer the election

0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.920
<v Speaker 1>to Trump, if they didn't find that then looking at

0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:48.719
<v Speaker 1>Trump's finances can't be a part of that investigation because

0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 1>obviously Trump's finances, as it affects the Russia collusion narrative

0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:57.759
<v Speaker 1>would have already been covered. It would have already been

0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:00.200
<v Speaker 1>there if they had any evidence of this what's whatever.

0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:02.520
<v Speaker 1>So now they have no evidence of collusion. What they're

0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:07.360
<v Speaker 1>saying is, let's just turn Trump's finances upside down and

0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:11.920
<v Speaker 1>then we'll find evidence of collusion. You know, this is

0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:16.600
<v Speaker 1>the throw the witch out in the lake, tire down

0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:20.400
<v Speaker 1>with stones. If she drowns, she's innocent. If she floats,

0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:25.799
<v Speaker 1>she's a witch. Trump can't win. Trump can't win. Don't

0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:27.640
<v Speaker 1>even get me started on that scary movie The Witch.

0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:30.000
<v Speaker 1>I've been having nightmares the movie scary, too scary, man,

0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:33.960
<v Speaker 1>too scary. But this is, this is what we're dealing with.

0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:37.520
<v Speaker 1>These these people are the Democrats, their little media allies,

0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:42.240
<v Speaker 1>little media stooges. They're they're utterly shameless. I mean, Rachel

0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:45.520
<v Speaker 1>Maddow has been doing these. Now we have this really

0:42:45.600 --> 0:42:50.319
<v Speaker 1>interesting revelation that's gonna blow your mind about Russia. Every night,

0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:52.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, she takes a little pen out, she taps

0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:54.839
<v Speaker 1>on the table, the whole stick. I mean, I don't

0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:58.080
<v Speaker 1>know who finds Rachel Maddow's show interesting. I really don't.

0:42:58.120 --> 0:43:01.200
<v Speaker 1>It's just it's just more people speculating abou Russian night

0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:04.399
<v Speaker 1>after night who don't know anything. There's no information. It's

0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:07.239
<v Speaker 1>just speculations. Well maybe maybe yes, no kind of so

0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:12.080
<v Speaker 1>they have nothing to offer in terms of knowledge, in

0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:17.680
<v Speaker 1>terms of actual transmission of useful information or real information. No,

0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:23.439
<v Speaker 1>it all just becomes the same old nonsense about how well,

0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:25.759
<v Speaker 1>if this happened, then maybe that happened, then maybe this

0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:28.440
<v Speaker 1>other thing happened. You know, anybody? This is like when

0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:31.040
<v Speaker 1>McCabe goes on TV and says Trump still could be

0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:34.840
<v Speaker 1>a Russian asset. McCabe still could be a Russian asset.

0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:38.200
<v Speaker 1>Can he prove to us that he's not a Russian asset?

0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:43.120
<v Speaker 1>How do we know? Oh, let's investigate him. This is

0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:48.720
<v Speaker 1>the essence of police state tactics. This is what happens

0:43:48.760 --> 0:43:51.680
<v Speaker 1>in countries where there is no rule of law and

0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:56.280
<v Speaker 1>where the people who have the ability to exercise judicial

0:43:56.480 --> 0:44:03.600
<v Speaker 1>and prosecutorial discretion do not act in faith. The bar

0:44:03.960 --> 0:44:07.719
<v Speaker 1>for a counterintelligence investigation, as we've seen from McCabe and

0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:11.279
<v Speaker 1>Coombe and others is essentially we think maybe this thing

0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:14.320
<v Speaker 1>could have happened, so we're going to start pulling people's

0:44:14.360 --> 0:44:19.480
<v Speaker 1>phone calls and emails and surveiling them because of counterintelligence concerns.

0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:25.120
<v Speaker 1>This is a massive abuse, This is an enormous scandal,

0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:30.920
<v Speaker 1>and that the Democrats are just unwilling to see what

0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.480
<v Speaker 1>is plainly staring all of us in the face here

0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:35.959
<v Speaker 1>just goes to show that you can't trust these people

0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:43.560
<v Speaker 1>with power, their ideology, their party is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:47.480
<v Speaker 1>You don't want these people to be in charge. You

0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:50.080
<v Speaker 1>do not want Democrats to be in a position to

0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:54.600
<v Speaker 1>sick the irs, the DOJ, the f behind people. Notice

0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:59.200
<v Speaker 1>how who is Trump sicked the prosecutorial arm of the

0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:02.480
<v Speaker 1>government on you know, you know, the Clintons used to

0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:06.520
<v Speaker 1>have the IRS go after people. The IRS went after

0:45:06.840 --> 0:45:12.200
<v Speaker 1>conservatives under the Obama administration, conservatives. Somehow, Republicans, this doesn't

0:45:12.239 --> 0:45:15.360
<v Speaker 1>happen from our side. I wonder why that is. We

0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:19.520
<v Speaker 1>don't weaponize the apparatus of the government the way the

0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:23.920
<v Speaker 1>left does, you know. And and for for people who

0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:25.680
<v Speaker 1>are going to say, well what about the Clintons, Buck

0:45:25.760 --> 0:45:28.279
<v Speaker 1>and Whitewater, the Clintons should have gone the Clintons should

0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:30.480
<v Speaker 1>have been criminally prosecuted. The Clintons actually broke the law.

0:45:30.520 --> 0:45:32.480
<v Speaker 1>We all know they broke the law in a whole

0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 1>bunch of ways, both of them more than once. So

0:45:37.280 --> 0:45:39.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, that's that's not a witch hunt. That's actually yeah,

0:45:39.760 --> 0:45:43.960
<v Speaker 1>you're that's that's just a hunt that's finding illegal behavior.

0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.360
<v Speaker 1>But this sole Muller thing, it's not. It's going to

0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:52.200
<v Speaker 1>end next week. And Kim's right. Kim Strauss's right just

0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:59.200
<v Speaker 1>means collusion. Chapter two begins. That's a woman who inflicted

0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:03.760
<v Speaker 1>enormous rescue on American soldiers, on American citizens. She's a terrorist.

0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:07.200
<v Speaker 1>She's not coming back. President Trump made clear that she

0:46:07.360 --> 0:46:09.520
<v Speaker 1>wasn't coming back. She's not a US citizen, she has

0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:12.879
<v Speaker 1>not entitled to US citizenship, and she's not coming back

0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:16.520
<v Speaker 1>to our country to pose a threat. Secretary of State

0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:22.960
<v Speaker 1>is not messing around when talking about Hodah Muthana. This

0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:25.000
<v Speaker 1>is the case. I believe we spoke to my friend

0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:30.560
<v Speaker 1>Rahim Kasam about this one earlier in the week. But

0:46:30.719 --> 0:46:33.160
<v Speaker 1>this is the case of a woman who was a

0:46:33.480 --> 0:46:42.960
<v Speaker 1>I think thrice married isis bride. So she went off

0:46:43.000 --> 0:46:45.160
<v Speaker 1>to join the Islamic State. Now and there's a lot

0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:46.400
<v Speaker 1>of details I want to get into it. Let me

0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:52.320
<v Speaker 1>start with this. Who sees the snuff videos, the the

0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:59.560
<v Speaker 1>horrific murder videos that are out there of the Islamic

0:46:59.600 --> 0:47:03.800
<v Speaker 1>State orchering people, mutilating people, murdering people. Who sees that

0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:08.479
<v Speaker 1>stuff and and then says I want to go join

0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:14.680
<v Speaker 1>that group? Who sees that? What kind of a person

0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:18.360
<v Speaker 1>would want to go be a part of that and

0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:23.320
<v Speaker 1>marry fighters for this? I mean, this woman, you know

0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.200
<v Speaker 1>she's a terrorist, folks, She is a terrorist. I know

0:47:26.320 --> 0:47:28.520
<v Speaker 1>you know that. But we need to make sure we

0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.920
<v Speaker 1>keep a close eye here on the T word because

0:47:32.960 --> 0:47:37.400
<v Speaker 1>there are some very interesting and shady and slimy figures

0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:39.279
<v Speaker 1>that are emerging who all of a sudden are trying

0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:41.960
<v Speaker 1>to make a case that, you know, maybe she wasn't

0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:44.040
<v Speaker 1>that bad, or we should bring her back and she

0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:48.920
<v Speaker 1>should have her day in court. Now. I think there

0:47:49.000 --> 0:47:54.359
<v Speaker 1>are some legal issues here where, you know, it can

0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:56.440
<v Speaker 1>go either way. I mean, in my opinion, if you

0:47:56.920 --> 0:48:00.960
<v Speaker 1>wage war against your country, you should be able to

0:48:01.040 --> 0:48:05.320
<v Speaker 1>have your citizenship stripped from you. This woman not only

0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:10.000
<v Speaker 1>not only joined the Islamic State in Syria, married multiple

0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:15.400
<v Speaker 1>Isis men, was a bride for them. She was tweeting

0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:19.840
<v Speaker 1>out ISIS propaganda and encouraging people on behalf of the

0:48:19.920 --> 0:48:23.400
<v Speaker 1>Islamic State and posting online on behalf of the Islamic

0:48:23.520 --> 0:48:28.200
<v Speaker 1>State to kill Americans here at home, not just on

0:48:28.280 --> 0:48:31.000
<v Speaker 1>the battlefield, here at home. She was one of the

0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:35.440
<v Speaker 1>people who was encouraging who you could say was was

0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:41.879
<v Speaker 1>digitally conspiring with individuals to radicalize on their own here,

0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 1>to mow people down with cars, to stab people, and

0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:50.800
<v Speaker 1>just do all these disgusting, horrific terrorist things that we

0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:55.080
<v Speaker 1>know the Islamic State has been doing. And now she's

0:48:55.280 --> 0:48:59.160
<v Speaker 1>being held by Kurdish forces, she's in a refugee camp,

0:48:59.239 --> 0:49:01.279
<v Speaker 1>she has a child. She says she wants to come home.

0:49:03.320 --> 0:49:05.120
<v Speaker 1>She said, quote, I know I've ruined my future, in

0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:09.440
<v Speaker 1>my son's future, and I deeply regret it. And now

0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:13.680
<v Speaker 1>people referring to as the Isis bride, and there's going

0:49:13.800 --> 0:49:16.160
<v Speaker 1>to be I tell you this, the social justice left

0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:18.960
<v Speaker 1>is going to start saying, oh, she was brainwashed and

0:49:19.080 --> 0:49:23.440
<v Speaker 1>it wasn't her fault, and that she should be allowed

0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:28.279
<v Speaker 1>back in the country. The Trump administration has just said,

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<v Speaker 1>as you heard it there from a Secretary of State,

0:49:30.080 --> 0:49:34.040
<v Speaker 1>she's not a citizen is not a citizen quote. The

0:49:34.080 --> 0:49:38.200
<v Speaker 1>State Department maintains that no such process is required. As

0:49:38.520 --> 0:49:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Muthana is not, and never has been, an American citizen,

0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:46.680
<v Speaker 1>she stands outside of the Fourteenth Amendments guarantee of birthright citizenship.

0:49:46.719 --> 0:49:50.000
<v Speaker 1>The government argues because her father, who is now a

0:49:50.200 --> 0:49:55.160
<v Speaker 1>naturalized citizen, was formerly a Yemeni diplomat under the jurisdiction

0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:57.480
<v Speaker 1>of his home country, that's right like in the Constitution,

0:49:57.560 --> 0:50:02.440
<v Speaker 1>subject to the jurisdiction thereof US citizenship and Immigration Services

0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:08.160
<v Speaker 1>guidelines specify an exception to birthright citizenship for children not

0:50:08.400 --> 0:50:10.960
<v Speaker 1>born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as

0:50:11.000 --> 0:50:14.520
<v Speaker 1>the Fourteenth Amendment requires, she may have been born here,

0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:17.640
<v Speaker 1>Pompeio said, she is not a US citizen, nor is

0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:22.600
<v Speaker 1>she entitled the US citizenship. Muthana's lawyers, however, are indicating

0:50:22.600 --> 0:50:25.719
<v Speaker 1>that her father has been was discharged from his diplomatic

0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:28.319
<v Speaker 1>position by the time of her birth, by which point

0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:32.080
<v Speaker 1>her mother had gained permanent residency status. When the government

0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:34.960
<v Speaker 1>revoked the young woman's passport in January, it stated that

0:50:35.080 --> 0:50:38.560
<v Speaker 1>she hadn't was not a birthright citizen because her father's

0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:43.440
<v Speaker 1>termination had not officially been documented until February nineteen ninety five.

0:50:44.880 --> 0:50:47.520
<v Speaker 1>So you know, look, this is where you're going to

0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:52.760
<v Speaker 1>get into. You know, if the papers weren't signed in time,

0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:58.040
<v Speaker 1>the laws, the law, and if your citizenship papers didn't

0:50:58.040 --> 0:51:02.760
<v Speaker 1>go through, guess what. Sorry. And I hope that nobody's

0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.759
<v Speaker 1>really gonna lose too much sleep over this one. But

0:51:05.880 --> 0:51:09.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, the left, they see they see a Muslim minority,

0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:16.000
<v Speaker 1>you know, Muslim minority female, and they are immediately trying

0:51:16.080 --> 0:51:20.000
<v Speaker 1>to find ways to, if not openly take her side,

0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:23.880
<v Speaker 1>certainly defend her, defend some aspects of her position. I

0:51:23.960 --> 0:51:27.560
<v Speaker 1>saw the Council on Arab Islamic Relations. I only see

0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:29.840
<v Speaker 1>the Council CARE. They call it the Council on Arab

0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:34.640
<v Speaker 1>Islamic I'm sorry, Council on American Islamic Relations. Pardon me.

0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:37.600
<v Speaker 1>I only see CARE though. When it's like, hey, does

0:51:37.600 --> 0:51:39.759
<v Speaker 1>anybody want to defend this terrorists and they're like, yes,

0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:42.200
<v Speaker 1>we are from CARE. We would like to defend the terrorists.

0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:45.279
<v Speaker 1>Like who is that really the only the only time

0:51:45.360 --> 0:51:48.000
<v Speaker 1>we get to hear from you guys? Or if somebody

0:51:48.080 --> 0:51:52.440
<v Speaker 1>leaves a mean voicemail on an imam's you know, phone

0:51:52.480 --> 0:51:54.680
<v Speaker 1>message and then we get to hear about it. I'll

0:51:54.719 --> 0:51:58.680
<v Speaker 1>never forget that I was in I was at CNN

0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:03.040
<v Speaker 1>once and it was after one of the I think

0:52:03.080 --> 0:52:05.120
<v Speaker 1>it might have been after the Pulse nightclub shooting. I

0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:08.000
<v Speaker 1>pretty but I forget. I was over there analyzing so

0:52:08.160 --> 0:52:10.880
<v Speaker 1>many terror incidents. I think it was a Pulse nightclub shooting.

0:52:11.280 --> 0:52:14.279
<v Speaker 1>And they brought me on and the segment before me

0:52:14.440 --> 0:52:16.640
<v Speaker 1>was about the shooting, which had just happened maybe a

0:52:16.719 --> 0:52:19.040
<v Speaker 1>couple of days before, and they wanted to talk to

0:52:19.080 --> 0:52:21.560
<v Speaker 1>me about how is this going to spur arise in

0:52:21.680 --> 0:52:26.200
<v Speaker 1>hate crimes because somebody left a mean voicemail on an

0:52:26.280 --> 0:52:31.080
<v Speaker 1>EMMS on an emom's answering machine at a mosque somewhere.

0:52:32.080 --> 0:52:35.680
<v Speaker 1>I remember thinking, this is how CNN priorities work. You

0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:39.000
<v Speaker 1>have a terrible attack with dozens and dozens of gay

0:52:39.040 --> 0:52:41.480
<v Speaker 1>men slaughtered while they're trying to just have a night out,

0:52:41.600 --> 0:52:45.279
<v Speaker 1>have a night of fun and enjoyment, and you know,

0:52:45.440 --> 0:52:47.680
<v Speaker 1>killed for the crime of trying to dance and listen

0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:53.560
<v Speaker 1>to some music by this Islamic state supporting psychopath. Remember

0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:56.880
<v Speaker 1>when the FBI redacted information from the transcript to the

0:52:57.000 --> 0:53:00.839
<v Speaker 1>Obama FBI. There have been some big big signs out

0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:04.880
<v Speaker 1>there that the FBI is not this UH team of

0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:08.520
<v Speaker 1>crack gum shoes that a lot of people would like

0:53:08.600 --> 0:53:11.840
<v Speaker 1>to believe they were. They were retracting things or redacting

0:53:11.920 --> 0:53:14.200
<v Speaker 1>things like I'm doing this in the name of the

0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:18.680
<v Speaker 1>Blank State, and I pray to Blank that I will

0:53:18.719 --> 0:53:21.400
<v Speaker 1>be a martyr. I mean, I think we could do

0:53:21.440 --> 0:53:23.719
<v Speaker 1>the film remember that with the UH. That was a

0:53:23.800 --> 0:53:27.160
<v Speaker 1>real thing during the aftermath of Pulset nightclub shooting. But

0:53:27.280 --> 0:53:29.359
<v Speaker 1>they immediately wanted to talk to me about is there

0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:30.839
<v Speaker 1>going to be a rise in hate crimes? And who

0:53:30.840 --> 0:53:33.000
<v Speaker 1>are saying? You know, can we focus on the actual

0:53:33.040 --> 0:53:36.399
<v Speaker 1>crime here? Can we actually talk about the Terrorist Act

0:53:36.480 --> 0:53:38.680
<v Speaker 1>and not immediately switch this into like, well, like we

0:53:38.760 --> 0:53:41.080
<v Speaker 1>don't want, you know, we don't want to talk about

0:53:41.560 --> 0:53:44.399
<v Speaker 1>this hate crime, which is what it was. We want

0:53:44.440 --> 0:53:46.720
<v Speaker 1>to talk about the possible hate crime against the Islamic

0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:50.600
<v Speaker 1>community later on. And back to this this woman who's

0:53:50.640 --> 0:53:52.960
<v Speaker 1>trying to come back from the Islamic State. I'm sorry

0:53:53.080 --> 0:53:56.160
<v Speaker 1>you you joined the enemy. You have no rights in

0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:58.560
<v Speaker 1>this country as far as I'm concerned. You're not a citizen,

0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:01.279
<v Speaker 1>so I mean government that the government says you're not

0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:04.319
<v Speaker 1>a citizen and you don't have citizenship. What we're gonna

0:54:04.320 --> 0:54:09.560
<v Speaker 1>give her citizenship now? So she wasn't a citizen when

0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:12.719
<v Speaker 1>she went there, she's not a citizen now. And I

0:54:12.920 --> 0:54:16.600
<v Speaker 1>think that the Trump administrations right on this one. Notice,

0:54:16.640 --> 0:54:18.600
<v Speaker 1>how though, they'll be plenty of Democrats that say, oh,

0:54:18.760 --> 0:54:21.240
<v Speaker 1>it's tyranny and it's terrible what Trump is doing because

0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:24.480
<v Speaker 1>they just opposed Trump, no matter what it is. It's

0:54:24.600 --> 0:54:28.880
<v Speaker 1>one of the more remarkable tests of the left delusion

0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:31.759
<v Speaker 1>here is that no matter what the circumstances may be.

0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:34.960
<v Speaker 1>You know, if Trump came out and said that he

0:54:35.200 --> 0:54:37.879
<v Speaker 1>has managed to find a way that you could eat

0:54:37.880 --> 0:54:40.000
<v Speaker 1>all the cheeseburgers you want, never gained a pound, that

0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:42.000
<v Speaker 1>it would be healthy for you, the left would be

0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:47.560
<v Speaker 1>anti cheeseburger. They would say that cheeseburgers are racist and

0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:52.080
<v Speaker 1>evil and destroying the planet. So that's what we're up against,

0:54:52.120 --> 0:54:54.120
<v Speaker 1>your folks. More national security, come out up here in

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<v Speaker 1>just a moment to talk to you about the troop

0:54:56.360 --> 0:55:00.560
<v Speaker 1>draw it out in Syria and the Vietnam Kim Summit

0:55:00.680 --> 0:55:08.640
<v Speaker 1>coming up. You are now entering the Freedom hug Dable

0:55:08.719 --> 0:55:13.160
<v Speaker 1>Operation Center. All SENSI programs. Musky Caps strictly need to

0:55:13.239 --> 0:55:17.800
<v Speaker 1>know Team Buck is cleared and ready for a Buck brief.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a rough estimate about two hundred, not a

0:55:21.280 --> 0:55:25.600
<v Speaker 1>specific number. We're gonna We're in constant contact with our allies.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day, the President wants to

0:55:27.200 --> 0:55:29.360
<v Speaker 1>bring our troops home, and he's working towards that. He

0:55:29.440 --> 0:55:32.440
<v Speaker 1>wants to do that in a safe and peaceful way.

0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:34.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm always going to be happy with the President pulling

0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:37.879
<v Speaker 1>our men and women in harm's way out of harm's way,

0:55:38.080 --> 0:55:41.840
<v Speaker 1>and also doing so responsibly. I agree. I believe that

0:55:42.000 --> 0:55:44.960
<v Speaker 1>the two hundred that are remaining will keep Turkey out

0:55:45.000 --> 0:55:48.319
<v Speaker 1>of the Syrian conflict, will also keep Iron's ambitions at bay.

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<v Speaker 1>So this President, you deserve a lot of credit for

0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:55.080
<v Speaker 1>destroying the Caliphate, but we need an insurance policy to

0:55:55.160 --> 0:55:57.480
<v Speaker 1>make sure that they don't come back. And the Kurds

0:55:57.520 --> 0:56:00.840
<v Speaker 1>who helped us in the eyes of Turkey, THEYPG Kurds

0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:03.759
<v Speaker 1>or part of the PKK, we need a buffer zone

0:56:03.800 --> 0:56:07.080
<v Speaker 1>between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic forces so they don't

0:56:07.120 --> 0:56:08.960
<v Speaker 1>go to war. You don't want to end one war

0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:11.000
<v Speaker 1>and start another. We want to make sure is Sist

0:56:11.000 --> 0:56:14.200
<v Speaker 1>never comes back and Iran cannot get these old fills

0:56:14.360 --> 0:56:17.239
<v Speaker 1>that are in Syria. So by having a small US

0:56:17.320 --> 0:56:20.360
<v Speaker 1>presence will attract a lot of Europeans. It's time for

0:56:20.440 --> 0:56:23.040
<v Speaker 1>the Europeans to take the lead here, and that's what

0:56:23.200 --> 0:56:25.399
<v Speaker 1>this plan's about, is to put them in the lead

0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:27.840
<v Speaker 1>with our help. News today that President Trump is going

0:56:27.880 --> 0:56:32.279
<v Speaker 1>to keep two hundred troops in Syria. Obviously that's a

0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:36.240
<v Speaker 1>that's a small contingent. We have a much larger contingent

0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:39.840
<v Speaker 1>of a few thousand troops next door in Iraq. And

0:56:40.080 --> 0:56:45.000
<v Speaker 1>keep in mind, giving US navy and aerial assets that

0:56:45.120 --> 0:56:47.480
<v Speaker 1>can be deployed in the Mediterranean as well as other

0:56:47.600 --> 0:56:50.839
<v Speaker 1>bases in the region, we have no shortage of ways

0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:52.719
<v Speaker 1>to blow up stuff in Syria if we want to,

0:56:52.920 --> 0:56:55.799
<v Speaker 1>all right. So that's that's one thing that I think

0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:57.880
<v Speaker 1>often gets you know, Oh, if we don't have troops there,

0:56:57.960 --> 0:57:00.320
<v Speaker 1>what are we gonna do? Point it's thing on a

0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:02.920
<v Speaker 1>map America in Syria, and America can destroy it if

0:57:02.960 --> 0:57:04.920
<v Speaker 1>we want to. It's not always a good thing for

0:57:05.000 --> 0:57:08.960
<v Speaker 1>us to do it, but we have that capability to

0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:14.280
<v Speaker 1>keep this contingent of troops there. I understand the reasoning

0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:16.240
<v Speaker 1>behind this, and I understand why A lot of people

0:57:16.320 --> 0:57:17.920
<v Speaker 1>are favorable to it right now. We heard there from

0:57:17.960 --> 0:57:23.120
<v Speaker 1>Lindsay Graham, John James, Sarah Huckabee. Sanders announced this today,

0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:28.360
<v Speaker 1>and it's a slight shift in the presidents. Well, it

0:57:28.440 --> 0:57:30.120
<v Speaker 1>wasn't really a plan. It was a tweet from a

0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:32.480
<v Speaker 1>few weeks back where he said that we need to

0:57:32.480 --> 0:57:33.840
<v Speaker 1>get out of Syria and get out of Syria as

0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:38.040
<v Speaker 1>fast as possible. Here's why, here's the argument for us

0:57:38.080 --> 0:57:39.760
<v Speaker 1>to keep these troops in Syria. And then I'm gonna

0:57:39.760 --> 0:57:41.880
<v Speaker 1>make my argument as to why we need to get

0:57:41.920 --> 0:57:45.400
<v Speaker 1>out of Syria. We need, we need to leave Syria.

0:57:45.480 --> 0:57:49.960
<v Speaker 1>I think we can handle all of the different concerns

0:57:50.600 --> 0:57:55.160
<v Speaker 1>without a US military presence in Syria, because the presence

0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:58.440
<v Speaker 1>that we have now may seem small and manageable and fine.

0:57:58.920 --> 0:58:01.240
<v Speaker 1>When you have a small presence, the ability for that

0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:05.880
<v Speaker 1>to become a large presence is very real. And the

0:58:06.080 --> 0:58:09.080
<v Speaker 1>necessity for it to become a large presence under circumstances

0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:15.240
<v Speaker 1>that are not far fetched is also very real. Here's

0:58:15.240 --> 0:58:18.200
<v Speaker 1>why they want to step troops. There number one reason

0:58:18.280 --> 0:58:20.240
<v Speaker 1>that comes to mind, Although I think if you speak

0:58:20.680 --> 0:58:22.960
<v Speaker 1>two people on the military side, as I have recently,

0:58:23.440 --> 0:58:26.520
<v Speaker 1>they'll say that the biggest concern that they have is

0:58:26.600 --> 0:58:30.560
<v Speaker 1>they don't want to abandon the Kords who are fighting

0:58:30.640 --> 0:58:34.160
<v Speaker 1>alongside us in Iraq. I'm sorry, well, interroctive done the

0:58:34.200 --> 0:58:38.080
<v Speaker 1>two in Syria and fought bravely and fought well against

0:58:38.240 --> 0:58:42.760
<v Speaker 1>the psychopaths of the Islamic State. Okay, So, and that's

0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:49.000
<v Speaker 1>a real thing and American honor. There are global implications

0:58:49.120 --> 0:58:52.440
<v Speaker 1>for the honor that we either gain or lose in

0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:56.200
<v Speaker 1>the treatment of battlefield allies. I don't mean allies that

0:58:56.280 --> 0:59:00.280
<v Speaker 1>are like, Hey, we're gonna go to a Davos, a

0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:02.800
<v Speaker 1>Davos forum and talk about how we're going to ally

0:59:02.880 --> 0:59:05.720
<v Speaker 1>with you on climate change. I mean Kurds, and some

0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:07.600
<v Speaker 1>of you who are listening to the show, I know

0:59:07.720 --> 0:59:09.880
<v Speaker 1>for a fact have been out there with them, so

0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:12.280
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm talking about better than anybody else.

0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:18.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean Kurds who are on the front lines, taking incoming,

0:59:18.880 --> 0:59:22.760
<v Speaker 1>laying down fire against our enemy, alongside special US Special

0:59:22.840 --> 0:59:27.360
<v Speaker 1>Forces operators and alongside our guys. Those are allies, real allies,

0:59:28.160 --> 0:59:34.040
<v Speaker 1>and there's an understandable concern that if we weren't there,

0:59:35.240 --> 0:59:38.040
<v Speaker 1>then the Turks would launch air strikes against them because

0:59:38.080 --> 0:59:41.680
<v Speaker 1>they think that they are essentially the same. The Turks

0:59:41.760 --> 0:59:46.520
<v Speaker 1>believe that our Syrian allies, Kurdish Syrian allies, and the

0:59:46.720 --> 0:59:51.360
<v Speaker 1>Syrian democratic forces in Eastern Syria and Eastern and Northern

0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:59.400
<v Speaker 1>Syria predominantly are the same as the PKK Marxist separatist

0:59:59.520 --> 1:00:03.000
<v Speaker 1>terrorists that have been waging a thirty plus year struggle

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<v Speaker 1>against the Turkish government. So the Turks have a very

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<v Speaker 1>big problem with them. And this I understand all this.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the one part of it. The other part of

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<v Speaker 1>it is the fear that the Islamic State is going

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<v Speaker 1>to make some kind of a major comeback if we're

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<v Speaker 1>not there all right now. So that's really the read.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh and then there's another set of reasons that I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think are good reasons. But there are people who

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<v Speaker 1>say that we need to be there to counter Iranian influence.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's unrealistic, and I think it's also a

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<v Speaker 1>dangerous expansion of the mission set and the strategy that

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<v Speaker 1>we're approaching all this with that we're there because we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to try to broker a peace agreement with Assad.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's misplaced. I think that's just wrong. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not going to work, it's not going to happen. Assad

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<v Speaker 1>is not going anywhere. He's not going to negotiate with

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<v Speaker 1>Assyrian Democratic forces for you, for him stepping down or

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<v Speaker 1>anything else else. I mean, Syria, it was through a

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<v Speaker 1>civil war and the country has been chopped up into pieces.

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<v Speaker 1>But there is this notion of what we need to

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<v Speaker 1>counterbalance the other bad players Russia, Iran, Assad, Hesbollah. I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that we should be getting to that

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<v Speaker 1>game because they all already have troops on the ground

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<v Speaker 1>there ford operating bases. The Russians have had a naval

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<v Speaker 1>base in Tartus for I don't know how many decades

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<v Speaker 1>now in Syria, So we're not counterbalancing. How then, on

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<v Speaker 1>the way that we could do this without a true

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<v Speaker 1>presence there, meaning that we should scale down this two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred to essentially zero as soon as we can, That's

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<v Speaker 1>my opinion. We use the all the different military assets

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<v Speaker 1>that we have in the region if we need to

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<v Speaker 1>to back up Kurdish fighters on the ground, the Syrian

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<v Speaker 1>Democratic forces there, and keep in mind, we could always

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<v Speaker 1>have troops there that are non you know that that

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<v Speaker 1>are not being reported on, right, I mean, we could

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<v Speaker 1>always have operations going on there. That are not being

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<v Speaker 1>publicized quite the way. What we're talking about this contingent

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<v Speaker 1>is advisors and so on and so forth. But as

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<v Speaker 1>as long as we have the military presence that we

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<v Speaker 1>do in the region, we can give air cover, give

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<v Speaker 1>material support. We knew whatever we want in the in

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<v Speaker 1>this part of Syria, and I think we can accomplish

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<v Speaker 1>it without a troop presence there in terms of the

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<v Speaker 1>Turkish Kurdish, and that's necessary for the suppression of ISIS, right.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is people's worry about Iceis coming back, and

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<v Speaker 1>to that, I say, you're never going to completely eradicate

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<v Speaker 1>the Islamic State. A lot of them have apparently moved

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<v Speaker 1>into Iraq. Our foothold in Iraq is not as permanent

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<v Speaker 1>as some people think. I think the Iraqis get restless

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<v Speaker 1>with our presence there. So that's also worth keeping in mind.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's not a reason to try to You know,

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<v Speaker 1>right now we think Syria is more Syria we can

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<v Speaker 1>be in with troops because we're so stable in Iraq. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>what happens if that gets upended. I wouldn't want to

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<v Speaker 1>be that US troop contingent in Syria. If all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden we have to pull out of a rock.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's that, and then there's also trying to keep

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<v Speaker 1>the Turks out of the Syrian conflict and out of

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<v Speaker 1>air strikes on our our Kurdish friends and the Syrian

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<v Speaker 1>Democratic forces. Now, then I just say, we got to

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<v Speaker 1>make it clear to the Turks that you know, they're

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<v Speaker 1>not going to keep being a NATO country. We're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to play ball with them and help them out

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<v Speaker 1>on things that matter to them if they are going

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<v Speaker 1>to be spoilers and refuse to respect some of our

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<v Speaker 1>app Look, it's a request, it's an ask. We can't

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<v Speaker 1>make them do this, and we're certainly not gonna take

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<v Speaker 1>any military action against the Turkish Turkish forces on behalf

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<v Speaker 1>of Kurdish allies. I think. So then you get into

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<v Speaker 1>do you really want US troops to be a trip

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<v Speaker 1>wire there for the Turks? Essentially the Turks won't bomb

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<v Speaker 1>some of these encampments because they don't want to kill

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<v Speaker 1>American soldiers. Well, you're gonna keep American soldiers they're in

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<v Speaker 1>harms way, and the hopes of the Turks don't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like that plan. The biggest thing though, for me,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, so I try to work through some of

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<v Speaker 1>the pieces there, because it's obviously a very complicated situation.

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<v Speaker 1>The biggest thing for me is we need to stop

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<v Speaker 1>Our leadership needs to stop thinking that the answer to

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<v Speaker 1>problems abroad all the time is to send United States

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<v Speaker 1>military forces to calm things down, to chill things out,

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<v Speaker 1>to make problems go away. We don't need to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>We should not do that. And I think that Syria

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<v Speaker 1>is the beginning of the turning of the tide away

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<v Speaker 1>from Iraq, which has not been successful. Okay, we can

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<v Speaker 1>talk about Iraq as much as anybody wants. I was

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<v Speaker 1>in the CIA's Iraq office for years. Iraq is not

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<v Speaker 1>the success that we were promised, and it is not

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<v Speaker 1>a particularly stable country. It's okay, But Afghanistan, which we

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<v Speaker 1>are losing. We are losing in Afghanistan. We are going

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<v Speaker 1>to We're going to try to create some face saving

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<v Speaker 1>agreement with the Taliban where the Taliban is essentially left

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<v Speaker 1>in control of the country or part of the country,

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<v Speaker 1>and then eventually we'll be in control of half of

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<v Speaker 1>the country. All the Pashtun parts of Afghanistan are going

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<v Speaker 1>to be Taliban run. It's just a matter of when.

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<v Speaker 1>So that didn't work out for us. Enough is enough.

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<v Speaker 1>And I do think that there's a class of elites

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<v Speaker 1>in this country. And I mean that pretty specifically. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean I can actually name some of them, the Bill

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<v Speaker 1>Crystal and Max Boot. You know. Tucker Carlson wrote an

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<v Speaker 1>article about them recently where he referred to them as

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<v Speaker 1>the professional war peddlers, many of these Bush era, very

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<v Speaker 1>muscular foreign policy neocon types. I think that their ideas

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<v Speaker 1>have largely been or should be repudiated. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>they've dragged us into conflicts that have been far too

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<v Speaker 1>costly in terms of lives and in terms of blood

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<v Speaker 1>and treasure for the United States, and for what. For what?

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<v Speaker 1>We should be putting our troops in harm's way when

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<v Speaker 1>there is a clear US national security interest that we

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<v Speaker 1>must defend and that we know we're going in hard

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<v Speaker 1>and we're going in furiously. We should not be leaving

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<v Speaker 1>troops in places in unstable countries where the host government

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<v Speaker 1>either doesn't want us or there is no host government

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<v Speaker 1>really to speak of. We're propping up a host government

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<v Speaker 1>and hoping that we can cobble these countries together on

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<v Speaker 1>our own. That's just it's not a good policy. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not a good idea, and I think Syria is the

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<v Speaker 1>turning of the tide. I think people are going to

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<v Speaker 1>realize that Syria is a place where finally we start

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<v Speaker 1>to draw down. Don't allow this to drag on forever.

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<v Speaker 1>Draw down the Syrian our contingent in Syria, and let

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<v Speaker 1>this be someone else's problem. If it's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a problem, I think that that's now. I know there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of good faith debate on this. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of ways you can take this argument. But the

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<v Speaker 1>problem with you know, it's never going to be easy

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<v Speaker 1>to end an endless war, but the alternative is to

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<v Speaker 1>keep fighting an endless war. I'm not saying it's risk free.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying there's no chance Isis could come back.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying we need to not make Syria our mission

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<v Speaker 1>open ended for the foreseeable. It's a bad idea. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>be right back. We're making progress the presence in no hurry.

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<v Speaker 1>Particularly as long as things continue to move forward in

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<v Speaker 1>a positive manner and as long as the conversations continue

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<v Speaker 1>to go well again, we'll see what happens. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that the only one setting high expectations is probably the media,

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<v Speaker 1>because they're looking for reasons to attack this president. So

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<v Speaker 1>we have this summit coming up in Vietnam, where the

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<v Speaker 1>media is I mean, that was Sara Hugaby Sanders setting

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<v Speaker 1>it up properly. The media is going to do everything

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<v Speaker 1>they can to tell us that Trump has failed with

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<v Speaker 1>North Korea so far, and his summit is a bad idea,

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<v Speaker 1>this one on one meeting in Vietnam, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a fool on foreign policy and this is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be a disaster. That's what they're gonna say. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't believe it. That is the case. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>tell you what's going to happen quite yet because I'm

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<v Speaker 1>obviously it hasn't happened, and I don't believe anybody can

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<v Speaker 1>predict the future. Here's what Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham his

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<v Speaker 1>expectations for this, Lindsay Graham getting on a play in

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<v Speaker 1>the media these days, play fourteen. My expectations are to

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<v Speaker 1>give up his nuclear weapons over time, to convince him

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<v Speaker 1>that he is better off without a nuclear arsenal Denny

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<v Speaker 1>is with one, his nuclear weapons could fall in the

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<v Speaker 1>hands of people would actually use him if he would not.

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<v Speaker 1>The president is right to want this transition from a

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear North Korea to a non nuclear North Korea. Chairman

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<v Speaker 1>Kim's at the table because he's afraid of Trump. We

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<v Speaker 1>broke the Iran nuclear Agreement, which was putting Iron on

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<v Speaker 1>a pathway to the nuclear weapon, and we destroyed the

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<v Speaker 1>Caliphate and we got the Taliban at the table in Afghanistan.

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<v Speaker 1>Why we've been strong in the face of adversity. Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has been the opposite of Barack Obama. The reason

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<v Speaker 1>the Taliban's at the table. Kim's at the table as

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has shown strength. Now we've got to close the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate what Lindsay Graham is staying there. He's wrong

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<v Speaker 1>on Afghanistan. That's and anybody I know who knows Afghanistan

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<v Speaker 1>well and whose opinion that's respect. I gotta tell you

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<v Speaker 1>we are not at the table in Afghanistan because we're

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<v Speaker 1>doing so much better. Obama raised the troop levels to

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<v Speaker 1>over one hundred thousand there, took the fight to the

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<v Speaker 1>Taliban in Kandahar, and Helmond did not. You know, yeah,

1:10:00.640 --> 1:10:04.080
<v Speaker 1>our troops beat our troops beat their guys. But at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the day, we didn't stabilize the country.

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<v Speaker 1>But back to North Korea here, So I just I

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<v Speaker 1>have to know Lindsay Graham. I think I think Lindsay

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<v Speaker 1>Graham is wrong. Sometimes it's not wrong on Kavan, although

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<v Speaker 1>I love you forever for that. With Lindsay, Lindsay gets

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<v Speaker 1>a big he gets a big special paddle the back

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<v Speaker 1>for that one. But on North Korea, I can't say

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<v Speaker 1>he's wrong. I don't think that Kim Jong gun will

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<v Speaker 1>give up his nuclear weapons. I think that nuclear weapons

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<v Speaker 1>are central to the belief system of the North Korean

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<v Speaker 1>Communist Party. I think that nuclear the nuclear deterrent is

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<v Speaker 1>really the reason for that and the reunification of the

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<v Speaker 1>Korean peninsula by force. By the way, that is why

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<v Speaker 1>the North Korean regime exists. So it will not eliminate

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<v Speaker 1>it's reason for being. It will not give it up.

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<v Speaker 1>I know that that. And you might ask me a buck,

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<v Speaker 1>where does that leave us? I don't know, But I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think the North I don't think that Kim jongan

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<v Speaker 1>is gonna give up their nukes. I just don't see

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<v Speaker 1>it happening. That said, I think that Trump is right

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<v Speaker 1>to try, and if I or him, I would certainly

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<v Speaker 1>want to try, because the alternative is pretty horrific down

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<v Speaker 1>the line, pretty horrific. He also hasn't given up anything

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<v Speaker 1>in the process this whole thing of Oh by meeting

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<v Speaker 1>with him, you legitimize him. He's the leader of North Korea.

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<v Speaker 1>We can hold our breath and pretend he's not the

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<v Speaker 1>leader of North Korea. But what good does that do.

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<v Speaker 1>He is the leader of North Korea, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>we do well to live in that reality. He has

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<v Speaker 1>not fired off any missile since Trump approach him with

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<v Speaker 1>these overtures. I think that that's at least some version

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<v Speaker 1>of progress here, and we'll have to see. But I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to blow smoke here. Do I think the

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<v Speaker 1>North kore is gonna give up their nukes? No? I

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<v Speaker 1>do not. I do not see that happening, And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that Trump is going to make a very good

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<v Speaker 1>faith effort to get there. We will see how it goes.

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<v Speaker 1>But he doesn't lose anything by trying, because he's kept

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<v Speaker 1>all the sanctions in place and he's not buying off

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<v Speaker 1>the North Koreans like Obama bought off the Iranians. Got

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<v Speaker 1>a really interesting idea to talk to you about in

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<v Speaker 1>a moment here. What makes a good job and how

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<v Speaker 1>do you make a job better that's coming up. AARP

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<v Speaker 1>is a big organization. People have heard about it. It's

1:12:17.600 --> 1:12:19.880
<v Speaker 1>been around for a long time. But you know what

1:12:20.000 --> 1:12:24.080
<v Speaker 1>people don't know about AARP. It's actually pretty left wing supported.

1:12:24.160 --> 1:12:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Obamacare used its sway and its access on Capitol Hill

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<v Speaker 1>to push for the Affordable Care Act and has stood

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<v Speaker 1>against tax cuts for middle class Americans and small business owners.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I recommend AMAC. Why AMAC well. AMAC is

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<v Speaker 1>car insurance, hotels, roadside assistance, and it advocates for seniors

1:12:46.760 --> 1:12:50.240
<v Speaker 1>with conservative policies that you agree with. They want to

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<v Speaker 1>fix social Security, they want to fix the border, They

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<v Speaker 1>want to put us on a sustainable footing when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to government spending. This is the seniors organization for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Stand with AMAC as they fight the good fight by

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<v Speaker 1>AMAC is better, better for America. What makes people happy?

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<v Speaker 1>It's an existential question if one ever existed, right, why

1:13:24.320 --> 1:13:26.320
<v Speaker 1>are we here? What are we trying to accomplished? Don't worry,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that here on this radio show right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to be able to solve that. I know

1:13:30.880 --> 1:13:32.479
<v Speaker 1>there are some hosts. You'd be like, WHOA, let me

1:13:32.560 --> 1:13:36.000
<v Speaker 1>tell you I know everything. No, I don't actually have

1:13:36.160 --> 1:13:37.720
<v Speaker 1>all the answers. I have a lot of them, but

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have all of them. I read this piece

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<v Speaker 1>though it was actually it was in the New York Times.

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<v Speaker 1>I must I must admit I do read the Times.

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<v Speaker 1>I read the enemy's publications. Don't think that, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>I leave that undone. But the piece is called Wealthy,

1:13:53.960 --> 1:13:59.080
<v Speaker 1>Successful and Miserable, The Future of Work, Wealthy, Successful and Miserable,

1:13:59.640 --> 1:14:02.360
<v Speaker 1>and it says that the upper echelon it's by Charles

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<v Speaker 1>Duhigg says the upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege

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<v Speaker 1>to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>seem to make them happy at work. And it just

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<v Speaker 1>goes into a story about a guy who went to

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<v Speaker 1>Harvard Business School, graduated in the early two thousands, when

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<v Speaker 1>there was a sense of just incredible optimism, hyper capitalism

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<v Speaker 1>in America, so much wealth creation, and if you were

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<v Speaker 1>on a certain track, if you went to these Ivy

1:14:30.640 --> 1:14:33.080
<v Speaker 1>League schools, and by the way, this is all for

1:14:33.120 --> 1:14:34.479
<v Speaker 1>those of you who don't care about any of that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get to what this matters for all of us

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<v Speaker 1>in a moment. But went to these fancy schools, you

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<v Speaker 1>were on this pathway to extreme wealth and happiness and

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<v Speaker 1>access and freedom and all these great things. Well, this

1:14:50.920 --> 1:14:53.080
<v Speaker 1>individual has written this piece about how he went to

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<v Speaker 1>his Harvard MBA Harvard Business School reunion. It's fifteenth reunion.

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<v Speaker 1>He just went to it this past summer. And what

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<v Speaker 1>was so interesting is that here is this group of

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<v Speaker 1>people who, if you were to segment off a cohort

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<v Speaker 1>of individuals who have just been incredibly lucky to have

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<v Speaker 1>graduated from Harvard Business School in America in the early

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<v Speaker 1>two thousands, you are in the one one millionth of

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<v Speaker 1>one percent of humanity. I mean you are super lucky,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean for all time in terms of the prospects

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<v Speaker 1>that you have for wealth, for opportunity and just But

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<v Speaker 1>what's so interesting, and many of you know where this

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<v Speaker 1>is going, is guess what a lot of really unhappy

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<v Speaker 1>people in his Harvard Business School class fifteen years later.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of people who, despite what would be referred

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<v Speaker 1>to as privilege by many people on the left these days,

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<v Speaker 1>despite this, what is true privilege, going to Harvard and

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<v Speaker 1>the business school and graduating and getting all these big jobs.

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<v Speaker 1>But there are people that are still miserable. He said

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<v Speaker 1>that there were people who quote complained about jobs that

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<v Speaker 1>were unfulfilling, tedious, or just plain bad. One classmate described

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<v Speaker 1>having to invest five million dollars a day, which didn't

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<v Speaker 1>sound terrible until he explained that if he put only

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<v Speaker 1>four million dollars to work on Monday, he had to

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<v Speaker 1>scramble to play six million dollars on Tuesday, and his

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<v Speaker 1>co workers were constantly undermining one another in search of

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<v Speaker 1>the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work done among

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<v Speaker 1>people he didn't particularly like. He earned about one point

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<v Speaker 1>two million dollars a year and hated going to the office.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like I'm wasting my life, he told me.

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<v Speaker 1>When I die, is anyone going to care that I

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<v Speaker 1>earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels

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<v Speaker 1>totally meaningless. He recognized the incredible privilege of pay and status,

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<v Speaker 1>but his anguish seemed genuine. If you spend twelve hours

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<v Speaker 1>a day doing work you hate, at some point it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter what your paycheck says. He told me, there's

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<v Speaker 1>no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I think this probably has It's probably really resonates with

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of you listening. It resonates with me and

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<v Speaker 1>I you know, as early don't make one point two

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<v Speaker 1>million dollars a year. But the point is that if

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<v Speaker 1>you are spending a lot of your time doing something

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<v Speaker 1>that you that you don't have a passion for, you

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<v Speaker 1>feel as meaningless. It ceases to matter what they're paying

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<v Speaker 1>you for it, because this is your life, this is

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<v Speaker 1>your time, this is what you are doing with yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Time is the one commodity that you cannot get more

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<v Speaker 1>of and you can never get back. So what do

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<v Speaker 1>you do every day? And this is why I think

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<v Speaker 1>our society, as much as I'm not somebody that goes

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<v Speaker 1>on and rails against a materialism in American society, it

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<v Speaker 1>is a problem. It is a problem. I can tell

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<v Speaker 1>you that I've had jobs. You know, one of the

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<v Speaker 1>most fulfilling and fun jobs I ever had was being

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<v Speaker 1>a JV soccer coach, high school soccer coach for my

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<v Speaker 1>high school. In two thousand and four, I was a

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<v Speaker 1>JV soccer coach at Regis High School in New York

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<v Speaker 1>City and I think I was paid for the season.

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<v Speaker 1>I forget it might have been like twelve hundred dollars

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<v Speaker 1>or something like that. It wasn't, you know, a twelve

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<v Speaker 1>week season, and maybe maybe it was two grand I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know it was. It was a little honorarium. It

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<v Speaker 1>was not a salary salary, but it was a great gig.

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<v Speaker 1>I was doing another gig at the Council on Foreign

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<v Speaker 1>Relations at the time, Council on Four Relations, the Illuminati,

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<v Speaker 1>the Builderbergs, but I was there, and then I did

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<v Speaker 1>the whole coaching thing. And coaching was great, and if

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<v Speaker 1>I could make a living doing it, I would love

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<v Speaker 1>to do it. But I don't think I could have.

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<v Speaker 1>And I also think that there were limitations on how

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<v Speaker 1>good a coach I would have been able to I

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<v Speaker 1>would have been able to become give and that I

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't a college or professional athlete myself, unless you count rowing,

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<v Speaker 1>which is not really You're not really an athlete. You're

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<v Speaker 1>just a masochist who wants to ruin ruin your days.

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<v Speaker 1>But the point about wasting your life no matter how

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<v Speaker 1>much money you make, I think that really should matter

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<v Speaker 1>to people. But it matters up to a point. You

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<v Speaker 1>need there are all these different studies about happiness and

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<v Speaker 1>about fulfillment, and you need a certain amount of money

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<v Speaker 1>because I've also been in the position where you don't

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<v Speaker 1>have money for things you need money for, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I have been in my late twenties when I realized

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<v Speaker 1>I can't do you know, I can't afford to have

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<v Speaker 1>a surgery for example, that a doctor has recommended that

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<v Speaker 1>I have. I just don't have the money. So I

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<v Speaker 1>know what that's like. That's stressful. You don't want that either. See,

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<v Speaker 1>I think most of the studies I've seen say that

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<v Speaker 1>you know your your relative happiness, and you know, up

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<v Speaker 1>to fifty or seventy five thousand dollars a year of

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<v Speaker 1>income in America, you know it's making seventy instead of sixty.

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<v Speaker 1>That feels good. You like that, you know, making sixty

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<v Speaker 1>instead of fifty, you know, making fifty and so on

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<v Speaker 1>and so forth, but making you know, one hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>sixty instead of one hundred and fifty. Hey, it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>really matter that much. And once you can imagine you

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<v Speaker 1>get up into the millions, it really doesn't matter that

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<v Speaker 1>much to people. I mean, it's the work is the work,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you hate what you're doing and you think

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<v Speaker 1>it's meaningless. You can't get around that. And it was

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<v Speaker 1>interesting that there are all these people that he goes

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<v Speaker 1>through in this in this article who have had the

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<v Speaker 1>most on a resume basis, on a you know, looking

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<v Speaker 1>at their their pathway from an outsider's perspective, they've had

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<v Speaker 1>this incredible run and they hate it and they hate it.

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<v Speaker 1>An overall job satisfaction has gone down. In the mid

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighties, According to this piece, sixty one percent of

1:20:53.800 --> 1:20:57.000
<v Speaker 1>workers said that they were satisfied with their jobs. Since then,

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<v Speaker 1>as of twenty ten, forty three percent of workers are satisfied.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a big that's a big drop. Only forty three

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<v Speaker 1>percent of workers are satisfied, less than half. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that there's a lot that drives this um. There are

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<v Speaker 1>there are people that will point you to two different things.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they'll they'll point you to how you're always

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<v Speaker 1>uh here. He mentioned some of this article oppressive hours,

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<v Speaker 1>political in fighting, the competition created by globalization, the internet,

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<v Speaker 1>and the always on culture. You carry your phone around,

1:21:33.360 --> 1:21:35.320
<v Speaker 1>they can reach you. You carry your email around, they

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<v Speaker 1>can reach you. Right, You've got that going on all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. Something more more to this as well, though

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<v Speaker 1>I think that we are increasingly as a society people

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<v Speaker 1>are seeing the financial where with all of those around

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<v Speaker 1>them that they're seeing, you know, it's like keeping up

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<v Speaker 1>with the Joneses thing. They see what other people do

1:21:56.080 --> 1:21:57.719
<v Speaker 1>and what they can do, and they think to themselves,

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<v Speaker 1>why don't I have that, instead of thinking do I

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<v Speaker 1>have what I need and what I want? And understanding

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<v Speaker 1>that your own expectations are the only expectations that really

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<v Speaker 1>matter for these things. But dissatisfaction, even for people who

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<v Speaker 1>are very financially well off, is pervasive. Now I want

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<v Speaker 1>to pause because I want to come back and say

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<v Speaker 1>that there's some real upside that there are two lessons

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<v Speaker 1>that he gets into in this piece, which I will

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<v Speaker 1>post on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton so you

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<v Speaker 1>can all see it. But there are these two lessons

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<v Speaker 1>that he gets into that I think will really stick

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<v Speaker 1>with because we're not going to talk anymore about oh,

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<v Speaker 1>the hedge fund manager who says his life is meaningless

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<v Speaker 1>but he's worth millions of dollars. You may find that interesting,

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<v Speaker 1>you may not, but it's just a way of getting

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<v Speaker 1>into this piece because there are other people who find

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<v Speaker 1>their lives really interesting and really have meaning. Their work

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<v Speaker 1>lives have meaning in a way that may be surprising

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<v Speaker 1>to hear, probably be inspiring to hear. And then also

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<v Speaker 1>the people that find work and find their roles that

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<v Speaker 1>are the right ones for them. There's something very interesting

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<v Speaker 1>that they all have in common, or that many of

1:23:07.680 --> 1:23:10.960
<v Speaker 1>them have in common, and it's not what you would expect.

1:23:11.080 --> 1:23:14.080
<v Speaker 1>And I think that will also this article. I found

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<v Speaker 1>this article inspiring, not the part I've told you about

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<v Speaker 1>have a fulfilling job and to find a fulfilling job

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<v Speaker 1>and then to be fulfilling in that role? Right? What

1:24:37.640 --> 1:24:39.920
<v Speaker 1>do you? What are some of the lessons from this

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<v Speaker 1>piece team that was written in the New York Times

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<v Speaker 1>about how there are a lot of wealthy elite professionals

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<v Speaker 1>who are really miserable with what they do even though

1:24:50.160 --> 1:24:54.200
<v Speaker 1>they're financially successful. Money. You need enough money to be happy.

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<v Speaker 1>This is my This is my role. This is not

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<v Speaker 1>from the species. You need enough money, but money doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>make you happy. Tons of times I've known people who

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<v Speaker 1>are who are deeply unhappy. I've known people who were

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly wealthy, who are like Trump level wealthy. I've known,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, children of Trump's generation who are incredibly wealthy,

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<v Speaker 1>and they were on all kinds of you know, serious medication,

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<v Speaker 1>or they were self medicating with drugs. You'd say, how

1:25:20.760 --> 1:25:22.439
<v Speaker 1>is that? Well, you know your life is so easy,

1:25:22.479 --> 1:25:27.439
<v Speaker 1>why aren't you happy? Because it's not enough. People need purpose.

1:25:27.520 --> 1:25:28.880
<v Speaker 1>And one of the things I talk to you about

1:25:29.000 --> 1:25:31.240
<v Speaker 1>is and it's a lot of things that I say

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<v Speaker 1>on this radio show are also ways to solidify my

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<v Speaker 1>own thinking. And it's my own way of reminding myself.

1:25:37.680 --> 1:25:40.040
<v Speaker 1>How do you derive happiness, enjoy from your day to day?

1:25:40.760 --> 1:25:43.040
<v Speaker 1>How are you making yourself better? How are you treating

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<v Speaker 1>the people around you? How are you contributing in a

1:25:45.280 --> 1:25:50.800
<v Speaker 1>way that is positive? Right? And I don't get into

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<v Speaker 1>the spiritual side of it as well, but I think

1:25:52.320 --> 1:25:55.280
<v Speaker 1>when you're doing those things, you're also obviously serving, serving

1:25:55.360 --> 1:25:58.120
<v Speaker 1>God and being a good Christian, and you know, these

1:25:58.160 --> 1:26:01.439
<v Speaker 1>things all tied together. But a couple of things come

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<v Speaker 1>up in this piece that really were noted in me.

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<v Speaker 1>One is he cites this study about again, this isn't

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<v Speaker 1>this New York Times piece about a bunch of janitors,

1:26:13.360 --> 1:26:17.720
<v Speaker 1>janitors who were working in a hospital, and some of

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<v Speaker 1>them were incredibly happy with their jobs and their janitors.

1:26:22.720 --> 1:26:24.920
<v Speaker 1>Now janitors, and I always and I say this, and

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<v Speaker 1>I mean this, you know I any work that you

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<v Speaker 1>do that is contributing and that is honorable and you

1:26:31.479 --> 1:26:34.879
<v Speaker 1>were receive a paycheck for is something that deserves respect.

1:26:36.080 --> 1:26:39.120
<v Speaker 1>And janitors are certainly in that capacity. In fact, janitors

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<v Speaker 1>in New York City, not to get into this, they

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<v Speaker 1>make over one hundred grands, So start with that. I

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<v Speaker 1>know in New York City public school janitors make with

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<v Speaker 1>overtime over one hundred thousand dollars. Let that one sit

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<v Speaker 1>there for a second. It's a lot more money than

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<v Speaker 1>I made in my first many years of work. But

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<v Speaker 1>so janitors, though, in this one hospital, they love their job.

1:26:57.240 --> 1:27:00.960
<v Speaker 1>Why because they didn't see their job, according to this study,

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<v Speaker 1>as just tidying up in this hospital unit for people

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<v Speaker 1>that were dealing with really serious brain injuries. A lot

1:27:08.479 --> 1:27:11.960
<v Speaker 1>of the patients were actually in comas. The janitors, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>they changed the bed pans, they picked up trash, but

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<v Speaker 1>some of the janitors would move pictures around on the

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<v Speaker 1>wall and would try to leave things in the room

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<v Speaker 1>looking particularly nice and make little changes because they believed

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<v Speaker 1>quote a subtle stimulation in the unconscious patients environment might

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<v Speaker 1>speed their recovery. One of the janitors also said, quote,

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<v Speaker 1>I enjoy entertaining the patients. That's not really part of

1:27:41.800 --> 1:27:43.800
<v Speaker 1>my job description, but I like putting on a show

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<v Speaker 1>for them. She would dance around, tell jokes, tell jokes

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<v Speaker 1>to families sitting doing bedside vigils. She would try to

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<v Speaker 1>cheer them up. She would try to distract them from

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<v Speaker 1>the pain and uncertainty that surrounded them. That's right, janitors

1:27:58.160 --> 1:27:59.960
<v Speaker 1>who were showing up with their job and doing a nest,

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<v Speaker 1>sorry job with just the usual janitorial stuff, but also

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<v Speaker 1>view themselves as healers, view themselves as helpers. And for

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<v Speaker 1>any of you who have ever been by a sick relative,

1:28:11.280 --> 1:28:16.960
<v Speaker 1>you know that human decency and human contact and warmth

1:28:17.120 --> 1:28:20.639
<v Speaker 1>and kindness even from strangers can really mean a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's one part of this is that you know

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<v Speaker 1>you can be a janitor, which is great. You can

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<v Speaker 1>also be a janitor who views himself or herself as

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<v Speaker 1>someone who is contributing beyond their role, and that's where

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of happiness comes from. I'll tell you this

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<v Speaker 1>in my high school, there was a janitor named Jimmy.

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<v Speaker 1>And anybody who's listening to went to my high school

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<v Speaker 1>knows I'm talking about. There was a janitor named Jimmy.

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<v Speaker 1>And every single morning when I was when I was

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<v Speaker 1>a student at this high school, he would wait outside

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<v Speaker 1>for he was cleaning the street and know tiding up

1:28:54.240 --> 1:28:56.519
<v Speaker 1>in things, but he would and every kid who walked

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<v Speaker 1>into that school he would high five on the way

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<v Speaker 1>and say, how you doing. He high fived everybody who

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<v Speaker 1>went in. And I'm gonna tell you, I had some

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<v Speaker 1>days in that school where I wasn't particularly happy to

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<v Speaker 1>be there. I was always happy to see Jimmy, and

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<v Speaker 1>you always felt like, it's all right, I got Jimmy here,

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<v Speaker 1>and he would give you a high five. Jimmy was

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<v Speaker 1>a janitor. Jimmy was a lot more than a janitor,

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<v Speaker 1>though not that just being a janitor is not enough,

1:29:17.000 --> 1:29:18.920
<v Speaker 1>but he chose to make it more. We all can

1:29:19.000 --> 1:29:21.519
<v Speaker 1>make that choice to be more. One other interesting lesson

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<v Speaker 1>in this piece that I think really matters, really really

1:29:23.880 --> 1:29:26.880
<v Speaker 1>struck a note with me because I've had a non

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<v Speaker 1>traditional career and I've had as many rejections and letdowns

1:29:30.840 --> 1:29:34.679
<v Speaker 1>and shutdowns as as anybody could in media. Oh maybe

1:29:34.680 --> 1:29:35.960
<v Speaker 1>one day I'll tell you about all the people in

1:29:36.000 --> 1:29:37.880
<v Speaker 1>media who should have hired me, who should have hired me,

1:29:37.960 --> 1:29:40.600
<v Speaker 1>who didn't, who passed me over, who promised me. And

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<v Speaker 1>I've only been doing this for about nine years at

1:29:42.880 --> 1:29:45.240
<v Speaker 1>eight and nine years now, and even before that, all

1:29:45.240 --> 1:29:47.280
<v Speaker 1>the jobs I applied for that I didn't get, or

1:29:47.439 --> 1:29:51.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, tons of that. What this one author says, though,

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<v Speaker 1>is that when he found people who were really happy

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<v Speaker 1>in their jobs, really happy and they felt like they

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<v Speaker 1>had a good job, not just because the pay a

1:30:01.240 --> 1:30:04.920
<v Speaker 1>good job, because they felt it was meaningful, they tended

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<v Speaker 1>to be the people who had to struggle to figure

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<v Speaker 1>out who they were and how they were going to

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<v Speaker 1>get there. That the people that went through these elite

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<v Speaker 1>institutions and had these gold plated resumes and went to

1:30:16.960 --> 1:30:22.439
<v Speaker 1>the most esteemed institutions, they didn't really they didn't really

1:30:22.840 --> 1:30:26.080
<v Speaker 1>care that much about their jobs. They get paid a lot,

1:30:26.160 --> 1:30:28.600
<v Speaker 1>but it doesn't really feel like much to them. But

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<v Speaker 1>the people who end up getting rejected and they fail

1:30:31.680 --> 1:30:36.280
<v Speaker 1>and they have to find that avenue, that that pathway

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<v Speaker 1>for themselves. They have to be creative, they have to

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<v Speaker 1>be entrepreneurial, they have to take risks, they have to

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<v Speaker 1>try things that people that are handed or that earned

1:30:45.520 --> 1:30:47.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm not trying to say they were handed, but that

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<v Speaker 1>earned their gold plated opportunities through the systems in place,

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<v Speaker 1>would never take too risky. Look, I got into and

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<v Speaker 1>this is I got into some of the best business

1:30:57.600 --> 1:31:00.439
<v Speaker 1>schools in the world. So the NBA program thing here

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<v Speaker 1>really really struck a chord with me, and I said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, I'm going to roll the dice on

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<v Speaker 1>this media thing. If I had spent years at a

1:31:07.920 --> 1:31:09.920
<v Speaker 1>hedge fund before that, would I have done that? Probably not.

1:31:10.080 --> 1:31:12.280
<v Speaker 1>Now I do a job that I can honestly say,

1:31:12.400 --> 1:31:16.000
<v Speaker 1>doing this radio show, I love my job. And I

1:31:16.040 --> 1:31:17.840
<v Speaker 1>don't love all the things I do in media. This

1:31:18.120 --> 1:31:21.080
<v Speaker 1>radio show, I love my job. It matters to me,

1:31:21.200 --> 1:31:24.800
<v Speaker 1>This audience matters to me, and that is something that

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<v Speaker 1>is really special and I recognize it a special and

1:31:28.280 --> 1:31:31.240
<v Speaker 1>it was really hard to get here. But this notion

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<v Speaker 1>that the struggle, the struggle to find that meaningful position

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<v Speaker 1>for yourself and by though it's not just professional, I

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<v Speaker 1>think this is true of people's lives, to the struggle

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<v Speaker 1>to find out who you are and what makes you

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<v Speaker 1>happy is a necessary part of the process for most people,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think I think at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 1>to embrace that idea of fighting to get where you

1:31:55.680 --> 1:31:57.680
<v Speaker 1>need to be. That there's going to be setbacks, that

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to be problems. It's not all going to

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<v Speaker 1>be clear guys and wonderful sailing. Just know that if

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<v Speaker 1>you stick to who you are and your values, and

1:32:08.320 --> 1:32:11.800
<v Speaker 1>you're resilient and you fight, you'll get to a place

1:32:11.840 --> 1:32:14.200
<v Speaker 1>where you're happy. Which doesn't mean we don't all get

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<v Speaker 1>to be president. We all don't all get to be

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<v Speaker 1>professional athletes, but we can't all be the best version

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<v Speaker 1>of ourselves if we keep trying. That's what I took

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<v Speaker 1>away from this. We can be the janitor who's helping

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<v Speaker 1>to heal people with brain damage. We'll be right back.

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<v Speaker 1>Ain't no party like a Team Buck party, because a

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<v Speaker 1>Team Buck party don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned

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<v Speaker 1>up to eleven. It's time for a roll call. Doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>that guy kind of sound like optis Prime? It's time

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<v Speaker 1>for roll call? You know what I mean? Anybody John?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you ever watch The Transformers? Yeah? Did years ago?

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Bays stuff? No, all right, I mean if we really,

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<v Speaker 1>if we really have to get into it, Transformers or ThunderCats.

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<v Speaker 1>I really like ThunderCats too. I think that would have

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<v Speaker 1>to be my choice, ThunderCats. I think I go ThunderCats

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<v Speaker 1>over Transformers. But I know we've just probably set the

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<v Speaker 1>airwaves on fire. People like no Transformers, optimist Prime, and

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<v Speaker 1>some of you are like Buck, what are you talking about?

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<v Speaker 1>Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton. Because it is a Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>and because I am excited to get to the weekend,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna do a double roll call where we get

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<v Speaker 1>to because you have so many messages in the inbox

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<v Speaker 1>here that we have not gotten to from the week

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<v Speaker 1>so we'll try to get to a bunch of them.

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<v Speaker 1>So easy, just go to Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton

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<v Speaker 1>and send a message. Let me know what you think

1:33:55.600 --> 1:33:59.080
<v Speaker 1>of the show. Things we've been working on. Come out

1:33:59.120 --> 1:34:01.840
<v Speaker 1>to the coast, A few laughs, all that good stuff,

1:34:02.000 --> 1:34:06.559
<v Speaker 1>All right, Seth writes Buck. Did you know the Wendy

1:34:06.640 --> 1:34:09.600
<v Speaker 1>Walls that advertises a podcast in between your segments is

1:34:09.680 --> 1:34:12.960
<v Speaker 1>the same Wendy Walls who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment

1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:15.679
<v Speaker 1>in twenty seventeen. What is she doing on your show?

1:34:16.160 --> 1:34:18.240
<v Speaker 1>Even so, I'm enjoying your show as much as ever.

1:34:18.560 --> 1:34:23.680
<v Speaker 1>From seth M. Yeah, I don't know what ads are

1:34:23.760 --> 1:34:26.560
<v Speaker 1>running on some of them. I mean, there are sponsors,

1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:28.680
<v Speaker 1>my friend, and then there are radio ads that run

1:34:28.760 --> 1:34:31.000
<v Speaker 1>on stage, and so I don't I'm on one hundred

1:34:31.000 --> 1:34:35.280
<v Speaker 1>and twenty five six something like that, one hundred and

1:34:35.280 --> 1:34:38.360
<v Speaker 1>twenty some odd stations across the country. I do not know.

1:34:39.000 --> 1:34:41.120
<v Speaker 1>So if you're if you're calling me, or if you're

1:34:41.160 --> 1:34:45.360
<v Speaker 1>gonna send me a message because Bob's Waterbed in East

1:34:45.439 --> 1:34:48.080
<v Speaker 1>Tallahassee is not getting it done for you, they're probably

1:34:48.320 --> 1:34:51.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I don't know. They're not a sponsor of mine.

1:34:52.040 --> 1:34:55.160
<v Speaker 1>I can't speak to Bob's Waterbed of East Tallahassee, So

1:34:55.400 --> 1:34:57.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't you know what I mean? Like this is

1:34:58.880 --> 1:35:02.160
<v Speaker 1>local stations can do different things. The sponsors that I know,

1:35:02.920 --> 1:35:05.040
<v Speaker 1>I know the CEOs, I know the companies I use,

1:35:05.120 --> 1:35:07.840
<v Speaker 1>the products. That's a different that's a different situation. So

1:35:07.920 --> 1:35:10.960
<v Speaker 1>I can't speak to this. I don't know who Wendy

1:35:11.000 --> 1:35:12.759
<v Speaker 1>Walsh is. I don't know any about what you're talking about,

1:35:12.760 --> 1:35:14.320
<v Speaker 1>and I really don't. I'm not trying to be coy,

1:35:15.280 --> 1:35:18.840
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, ads they're a good thing capitalism. I love

1:35:19.200 --> 1:35:23.760
<v Speaker 1>I love all sponsors for shows like this that are

1:35:23.760 --> 1:35:27.040
<v Speaker 1>good shows. Brad right, dear Buck. With all the talk

1:35:27.120 --> 1:35:30.519
<v Speaker 1>from democratic hopeles about how great socialism is and how

1:35:30.640 --> 1:35:32.640
<v Speaker 1>great it will be to stand in breadlines like the

1:35:32.680 --> 1:35:35.840
<v Speaker 1>past days of the USSR, I haven't heard one word

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<v Speaker 1>on how they or any other politician plans to tackle

1:35:38.800 --> 1:35:43.599
<v Speaker 1>our raising or our rising rather national debt crisis. At

1:35:43.680 --> 1:35:46.000
<v Speaker 1>what point are they going to realize these spend spend

1:35:46.080 --> 1:35:49.160
<v Speaker 1>spend mentality is killing our economy and our nation. I

1:35:49.280 --> 1:35:51.240
<v Speaker 1>hate to sound like an alarmist, but the hens are

1:35:51.320 --> 1:35:54.320
<v Speaker 1>going to come back to rouse someday. But there's a

1:35:54.439 --> 1:35:59.080
<v Speaker 1>fox in the henhouse waiting for them. Would you like

1:35:59.240 --> 1:36:01.040
<v Speaker 1>your I would like your thoughts on this and what

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<v Speaker 1>we can do to help this great nation of ours

1:36:02.760 --> 1:36:06.920
<v Speaker 1>before it's till it. Have a great week in Shields High. Brad.

1:36:07.000 --> 1:36:11.800
<v Speaker 1>You're correct, I mean, you're right. The spending is out

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<v Speaker 1>of control. And when people would argue, oh, it's not

1:36:15.120 --> 1:36:17.080
<v Speaker 1>out of control, book, well, it's about a trillion dollars

1:36:17.160 --> 1:36:19.840
<v Speaker 1>this year, close to a trillion dollars this year, or

1:36:19.880 --> 1:36:22.599
<v Speaker 1>I should say for the last fiscal year. We're twenty

1:36:22.640 --> 1:36:27.400
<v Speaker 1>two trillion dollars in debt, and this much is for sure.

1:36:28.120 --> 1:36:31.920
<v Speaker 1>When a financial crisis of that magnitude, that is that

1:36:32.120 --> 1:36:36.519
<v Speaker 1>structural and foundational, when it is clear to anybody who's

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<v Speaker 1>paying attention that it's a really, really big problem, it

1:36:39.240 --> 1:36:43.280
<v Speaker 1>has to be dealt with. It's too late now, the

1:36:43.640 --> 1:36:47.000
<v Speaker 1>problem we have in this country. And remember I came

1:36:47.160 --> 1:36:50.280
<v Speaker 1>into media, I left the CIA and came into media

1:36:50.920 --> 1:36:53.000
<v Speaker 1>at the time of the rise of the Tea Party.

1:36:53.080 --> 1:36:57.760
<v Speaker 1>So I remember when conservatives were very much concerned with

1:36:59.240 --> 1:37:02.120
<v Speaker 1>the debt and the deficit, and this was a major

1:37:02.400 --> 1:37:05.920
<v Speaker 1>national issue. That issue has only gotten worse, my friends,

1:37:06.520 --> 1:37:09.519
<v Speaker 1>and I do think that there's a disconnect here between

1:37:09.560 --> 1:37:14.960
<v Speaker 1>the recognition of national debt as a structural and strategic

1:37:15.520 --> 1:37:18.280
<v Speaker 1>not just economic, but national security threat as well. My friends,

1:37:18.320 --> 1:37:21.200
<v Speaker 1>if our economy starts to crap out, guess what you

1:37:21.280 --> 1:37:25.200
<v Speaker 1>think that China becomes more or less emboldened, You think

1:37:25.240 --> 1:37:27.519
<v Speaker 1>that other enemies around the world are more or less

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<v Speaker 1>likely to move against us in all kinds of ways.

1:37:32.400 --> 1:37:35.640
<v Speaker 1>So I think that's a very Look, your point is

1:37:35.720 --> 1:37:39.160
<v Speaker 1>very well taken, and you're not an alarmist, You're correct.

1:37:39.400 --> 1:37:42.920
<v Speaker 1>I bring it up here on the show but you know,

1:37:43.040 --> 1:37:46.320
<v Speaker 1>it's tough I discuss issues I compared to other radio

1:37:46.360 --> 1:37:49.120
<v Speaker 1>shows that I don't listen to often, but I've listened

1:37:49.120 --> 1:37:52.400
<v Speaker 1>to enough to know I try to cover. I try

1:37:52.439 --> 1:37:55.080
<v Speaker 1>to cover as much as I can in terms of

1:37:55.160 --> 1:37:58.519
<v Speaker 1>subject matter. A lot of people just go either all

1:37:58.640 --> 1:38:00.720
<v Speaker 1>in on how much they love Trump, are all in

1:38:00.840 --> 1:38:03.080
<v Speaker 1>and how much they hate Trump, and that's a successful

1:38:03.360 --> 1:38:05.439
<v Speaker 1>and radio it's mostly how much they love Trump, and

1:38:05.560 --> 1:38:08.720
<v Speaker 1>that's a successful business model for them. And I am

1:38:08.760 --> 1:38:11.840
<v Speaker 1>a capitalist, so I can appreciate that. But I know

1:38:12.000 --> 1:38:14.080
<v Speaker 1>that I feel like when I talk about the debt,

1:38:14.160 --> 1:38:17.599
<v Speaker 1>people just it's not in the zeitgeist right now. It's

1:38:17.960 --> 1:38:21.240
<v Speaker 1>twenty two trillion dollars. You know, maybe it is worth it.

1:38:21.360 --> 1:38:24.760
<v Speaker 1>Maybe this is the show. And I have as you know,

1:38:24.880 --> 1:38:28.240
<v Speaker 1>I've worked with Stansbury, research with Porter Stansbury. He's a

1:38:28.439 --> 1:38:33.280
<v Speaker 1>brilliant financial mind. His whole team incredibly brilliant guys. They know,

1:38:33.479 --> 1:38:36.080
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they'll tell you they publish on this that

1:38:36.400 --> 1:38:42.920
<v Speaker 1>we are heading for an economic and financial calamity, so

1:38:43.840 --> 1:38:46.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, and so I can leverage their research and

1:38:46.439 --> 1:38:48.680
<v Speaker 1>their knowledge and I'm just telling you it's coming. But

1:38:49.040 --> 1:38:51.960
<v Speaker 1>I feel like, you know, people there's so much that

1:38:52.080 --> 1:38:54.800
<v Speaker 1>I want to talk to this audience about. And I

1:38:54.960 --> 1:38:57.960
<v Speaker 1>don't want to go too deep on a subject or

1:38:58.240 --> 1:39:00.920
<v Speaker 1>hit a subject too often that people just, you know,

1:39:01.040 --> 1:39:02.800
<v Speaker 1>for whatever reason, they don't really want to hear about it.

1:39:02.880 --> 1:39:05.840
<v Speaker 1>But maybe maybe that should change here, maybe we get

1:39:05.880 --> 1:39:08.280
<v Speaker 1>it going. And I am here in DC, in the swamp.

1:39:08.360 --> 1:39:10.160
<v Speaker 1>I have a lot of swamp contacts. I have friends

1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:13.200
<v Speaker 1>in the White House. I mean, you know it. I

1:39:13.240 --> 1:39:15.760
<v Speaker 1>can get word up the chain. But the politics of

1:39:15.840 --> 1:39:18.720
<v Speaker 1>this are it is popular to spend money on the

1:39:18.840 --> 1:39:22.600
<v Speaker 1>stuff that you want to spend money on. You know,

1:39:22.920 --> 1:39:27.120
<v Speaker 1>That's that's the reality. It is popular to spend money

1:39:27.160 --> 1:39:29.880
<v Speaker 1>on stuff you and and it's unpopular to say, let's

1:39:30.000 --> 1:39:33.520
<v Speaker 1>raise the retirement age, let's have means testing for Social Security,

1:39:34.000 --> 1:39:37.240
<v Speaker 1>Let's you know, change Medicare so there's more cost saving.

1:39:37.360 --> 1:39:40.040
<v Speaker 1>You know, all this, all this stuff, no one wants

1:39:40.080 --> 1:39:42.880
<v Speaker 1>to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that, even my own,

1:39:42.920 --> 1:39:45.960
<v Speaker 1>even my generation, the generation below me, who are the

1:39:46.040 --> 1:39:47.880
<v Speaker 1>ones that are going to be saddled with those debts? Anyway,

1:39:47.920 --> 1:39:50.080
<v Speaker 1>as you can tell, I've been brad. You touch the

1:39:50.120 --> 1:39:52.800
<v Speaker 1>nerve here because I've been rambling on about your question

1:39:52.880 --> 1:39:54.640
<v Speaker 1>about the debt for some time, but I have not

1:39:54.840 --> 1:39:58.640
<v Speaker 1>forgotten the Tea Party movement and what it stood for

1:39:59.000 --> 1:40:02.800
<v Speaker 1>and the truth of the message. And they were right.

1:40:04.000 --> 1:40:06.920
<v Speaker 1>They were right. They won't necessarily they weren't necessarily right

1:40:07.120 --> 1:40:12.000
<v Speaker 1>within eight years, but on a longer horizon they are correct.

1:40:12.080 --> 1:40:15.160
<v Speaker 1>It is a mathematical certainty. And if the US all

1:40:15.200 --> 1:40:17.719
<v Speaker 1>of a sudden runs into a debt crisis where people

1:40:17.800 --> 1:40:20.439
<v Speaker 1>no longer believe that we can pay our obligations, we

1:40:20.560 --> 1:40:23.120
<v Speaker 1>lose our reserve currency status. We are in a world

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<v Speaker 1>I've heard. Okay, I must move on. I cannot keep

1:40:25.720 --> 1:40:29.519
<v Speaker 1>drilling down into this, David writes the Buckman, which is

1:40:29.560 --> 1:40:33.320
<v Speaker 1>indeed my legal name, buck the You don't have to

1:40:33.360 --> 1:40:37.719
<v Speaker 1>do but Buckman shields ye podcast listener, love the show.

1:40:38.280 --> 1:40:40.120
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate your your segment last then, and how

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<v Speaker 1>fundamentalist Islam is by far a more immediate threat to

1:40:43.080 --> 1:40:46.519
<v Speaker 1>this nation than white nationalists. Are there any civilian accessible

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<v Speaker 1>resources for those kind of statistics and numbers anywhere or

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<v Speaker 1>that you specifically recommend? Well, Dave, the FBI stats are

1:40:54.280 --> 1:40:56.479
<v Speaker 1>a good place to start. I will just tell you,

1:40:56.600 --> 1:40:59.879
<v Speaker 1>though you have to read into the stats. For example,

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<v Speaker 1>you look at hate crimes and you see, and this

1:41:02.520 --> 1:41:06.360
<v Speaker 1>isn't about radical Islam or white nationalist terrorism, but you

1:41:06.439 --> 1:41:08.559
<v Speaker 1>look at the hate crime statistics and you'll see, wow,

1:41:08.640 --> 1:41:12.040
<v Speaker 1>eight thousand hate crimes. That's more than you probably would

1:41:12.080 --> 1:41:14.000
<v Speaker 1>have guessed, right there, eight thousand hate crimes the year.

1:41:14.040 --> 1:41:17.479
<v Speaker 1>But then when it does the breakdown, something like twenty

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<v Speaker 1>to twenty five percent of them are essentially comments, and

1:41:25.520 --> 1:41:28.080
<v Speaker 1>then another fifteen or twenty percent I mean, I'm forgetting

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<v Speaker 1>the specific numbers, but vandalism, so it's comments, vandalism and

1:41:31.920 --> 1:41:36.559
<v Speaker 1>simple assault, and assault does not necessarily include a physical assault, right. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's a huge portion of them, so the number

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<v Speaker 1>when you really get down to it, is a lot less.

1:41:44.479 --> 1:41:46.600
<v Speaker 1>And then and if you're talking about hate crimes that

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<v Speaker 1>end in a murder, now you're fortunately, thankfully for this country.

1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:53.400
<v Speaker 1>But then the numbers actually quite small. But when people

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<v Speaker 1>think hate crimes, they don't think somebody scrawled a swastika on,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, a cemetery in some small town somewhere. That's

1:42:03.439 --> 1:42:06.000
<v Speaker 1>usually not what they're thinking, and that is counted as

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<v Speaker 1>a hate crime. They're thinking, you know, someone is brutally

1:42:10.000 --> 1:42:13.840
<v Speaker 1>attacked because they're gay or somebody is is attacked by

1:42:14.800 --> 1:42:17.240
<v Speaker 1>racists who don't like somebody, you know, who are hateful

1:42:17.240 --> 1:42:19.639
<v Speaker 1>towards somebody because they're black. I mean, that's what hate

1:42:19.680 --> 1:42:23.040
<v Speaker 1>crime makes you think of, right, and those are obviously heinous.

1:42:24.280 --> 1:42:27.080
<v Speaker 1>Hate crime is not usually what you think of when

1:42:27.120 --> 1:42:30.519
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about somebody who takes a roll of toilet

1:42:30.560 --> 1:42:33.160
<v Speaker 1>paper and makes a swastika in a dorm on the floor,

1:42:33.600 --> 1:42:35.920
<v Speaker 1>probably late at night to be an idiot. That was

1:42:35.960 --> 1:42:38.280
<v Speaker 1>a real thing, by the way, that that was investigated

1:42:38.280 --> 1:42:39.720
<v Speaker 1>as a hate I remember there was a hate crime

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<v Speaker 1>at Georgetown University many years ago where a guy who

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<v Speaker 1>was and I might get some of the details wrong

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<v Speaker 1>here because this was I don't know, over maybe maybe

1:42:48.479 --> 1:42:51.839
<v Speaker 1>almost twenty years ago now, a guy grabbed a manure

1:42:53.080 --> 1:42:56.519
<v Speaker 1>and just like ran across campus with a manure in

1:42:56.600 --> 1:42:59.240
<v Speaker 1>his hand, and he was really drunk, and they thought

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<v Speaker 1>that and I think he'd opt it when they were

1:43:00.840 --> 1:43:02.680
<v Speaker 1>chasing him, and so it was a hate crime. I mean,

1:43:03.120 --> 1:43:06.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, there's a big variation of hate crimes, so

1:43:06.520 --> 1:43:09.000
<v Speaker 1>you have to look into the statistics and you'll see

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean. Same with terrorism. Terrorism, And this is

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<v Speaker 1>why I got on this rent terrorism for example, can

1:43:16.320 --> 1:43:20.640
<v Speaker 1>cover eco terrorists who let a few ferrets out of

1:43:20.640 --> 1:43:24.880
<v Speaker 1>their cages at a testing facility. Well, okay, that's not good.

1:43:25.120 --> 1:43:28.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, obviously you shouldn't. That's property, and

1:43:28.840 --> 1:43:30.240
<v Speaker 1>what's going to happen to the wall. I guess the

1:43:30.240 --> 1:43:32.160
<v Speaker 1>ferrets are better off not being tested on. But you

1:43:32.200 --> 1:43:35.439
<v Speaker 1>get what I'm saying. But when you think of ideological terrorism,

1:43:35.520 --> 1:43:40.040
<v Speaker 1>you're thinking of murder, bombing, attempts, you know, assassinations. You're

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<v Speaker 1>not thinking of lighting an suv on fire somewhere, or

1:43:44.640 --> 1:43:50.040
<v Speaker 1>engaging in some form of hateful, you know, hateful conduct.

1:43:50.320 --> 1:43:52.040
<v Speaker 1>That's usually what we think of his terrorism. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to let our wonderful sponsors get a word

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<v Speaker 1>in here for just a moment, and when we come back,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll finish up Roll Call and I'll send you off

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<v Speaker 1>on a fantastic weekend. All right, back with part two,

1:44:06.080 --> 1:44:09.840
<v Speaker 1>Partdieu of Roll Call. Whatever I think of Partdieu, I

1:44:09.920 --> 1:44:13.360
<v Speaker 1>think of hot Shots, Part Dieu. Man Charlie Sheen, I

1:44:13.400 --> 1:44:15.920
<v Speaker 1>remember when Charlie Sheen was really like in his heyday.

1:44:16.520 --> 1:44:18.960
<v Speaker 1>Wall Street is one of the movies I've seen as

1:44:19.040 --> 1:44:23.519
<v Speaker 1>many as any other movie in existence. And now Charlie Sheen.

1:44:23.880 --> 1:44:27.400
<v Speaker 1>What a what a fall from I don't know if

1:44:27.439 --> 1:44:29.600
<v Speaker 1>it was from Grace, but just what a fall that

1:44:29.720 --> 1:44:33.960
<v Speaker 1>guy's had. All Right, Max writes, Hi, Buck, could you

1:44:34.040 --> 1:44:37.120
<v Speaker 1>explain to me something I'm confused about with the investigations

1:44:37.160 --> 1:44:40.840
<v Speaker 1>into Trump? I assume the government can't legally investigate someone

1:44:40.920 --> 1:44:44.320
<v Speaker 1>for purely political reasons. What is required to open a

1:44:44.439 --> 1:44:48.800
<v Speaker 1>criminal versus counterintelligence versus congressional investigation? What is needed in

1:44:49.080 --> 1:44:51.640
<v Speaker 1>these cases to issue a subpoena. Since you've worked in

1:44:51.680 --> 1:44:54.360
<v Speaker 1>law enforcement, the CIA and as a journalist covering politics,

1:44:54.400 --> 1:44:57.519
<v Speaker 1>I figured you are unusually qualified to explain this well, Max,

1:44:57.560 --> 1:44:59.200
<v Speaker 1>thank you, and I think that is correct. I am

1:44:59.520 --> 1:45:02.519
<v Speaker 1>more qualified then certainly about ninety five percent of the

1:45:02.680 --> 1:45:06.320
<v Speaker 1>pundits and journals out there on this matter. And what

1:45:06.439 --> 1:45:08.400
<v Speaker 1>I can tell you is that we are now seeing

1:45:09.040 --> 1:45:16.320
<v Speaker 1>that the bar for our counterintelligence investigation is actually very low.

1:45:17.520 --> 1:45:20.320
<v Speaker 1>That it's really up to the discretion of the people

1:45:20.520 --> 1:45:23.960
<v Speaker 1>in positions of authority at places like the FBI, And

1:45:24.120 --> 1:45:27.800
<v Speaker 1>if they want to push for a counterintelligence investigation, they

1:45:28.360 --> 1:45:32.479
<v Speaker 1>can do it, you know, they can get account There

1:45:32.560 --> 1:45:36.479
<v Speaker 1>were reports in ABC News from months ago, and it's

1:45:36.520 --> 1:45:41.200
<v Speaker 1>resurfaced recently that the FBI opened up a counterintelligence probe

1:45:41.240 --> 1:45:45.000
<v Speaker 1>into Jeff Sessions. Now that hasn't been confirmed, but that

1:45:45.160 --> 1:45:49.240
<v Speaker 1>was the ABC News report Jeff Sessions, folks for being

1:45:49.280 --> 1:45:53.679
<v Speaker 1>a Russian, a Russian agent. If you think that Jeff

1:45:53.720 --> 1:45:57.200
<v Speaker 1>Sessions is a Russian agent, you are not smart. I

1:45:57.280 --> 1:45:59.840
<v Speaker 1>don't care what title you have, I don't care how

1:46:00.000 --> 1:46:01.799
<v Speaker 1>many years on the job you have at the FBI.

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<v Speaker 1>If you think, and let me also say this, people say, oh, Buck,

1:46:04.560 --> 1:46:07.879
<v Speaker 1>you haven't seen the evidence. Oh if there was evidence

1:46:08.320 --> 1:46:11.560
<v Speaker 1>that would make the investigation of Jeff Sessions as a

1:46:11.640 --> 1:46:15.720
<v Speaker 1>Russian asset not seem crazy, trust me, you would know

1:46:15.800 --> 1:46:19.920
<v Speaker 1>about it. Trust me, that would have been leaked. So Max,

1:46:19.960 --> 1:46:23.120
<v Speaker 1>the answer your question is that there's a whole bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of specific standards for a criminal, a criminal versus counterintelligence

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<v Speaker 1>versus congressional investigation. You get into reasonable suspicion and probable cause,

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<v Speaker 1>and there are terms of art that apply here. But

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<v Speaker 1>for counterintelligence specifically, it's really up to the discretion of

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<v Speaker 1>the people at the FBI, at the DOJ. It is

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<v Speaker 1>a discretionary issue. And remember, not only is there discretion involved,

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<v Speaker 1>they also can hide the information. They can hide the

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<v Speaker 1>investigation as classified from the public. So there's almost no

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<v Speaker 1>accountability for counterintelligence investigations, almost none, which is why we've

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<v Speaker 1>also seen Will bring up, oh the fiz accord, the

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<v Speaker 1>fisichord authorize these investigations of Carter Page. That I always

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<v Speaker 1>want to say, Okay, so what anybody who thinks that

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<v Speaker 1>Carter Page is a Russian asset is also a moron,

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<v Speaker 1>an absolute moron. And you see them, they go on TV,

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<v Speaker 1>they think they're so smart. They're not. Alan writes Buck,

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<v Speaker 1>you were spot on regarding Jesse Smollett. Thank you, Alan,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad it's nice to get a little credit for it.

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<v Speaker 1>I doubt if any of the MSM or celebs who

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<v Speaker 1>commented early on will apologize. My big question is where

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<v Speaker 1>is Jesse getting the money to pay for all his

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<v Speaker 1>lawyers and his crisis management teams. He doesn't have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of personal wealth, any ideas, Alan, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what his personal wealth is. I do

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<v Speaker 1>know that for some people there's probably just a professional

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<v Speaker 1>incentive to be a part of the Jusse team in

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<v Speaker 1>some way, and he was making from what I saw you,

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<v Speaker 1>close to a million dollars a year on that show,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm sure he does some other things here and there,

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<v Speaker 1>so I mean he's got some resources. This guy's not poor.

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<v Speaker 1>It's got a lot more money than I do. So

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm sure he can manage to pay some

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<v Speaker 1>lawyers for a bit. But we'll see. Brittany writes, can

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<v Speaker 1>you recommend some books on American history? Nothing too dry? Please? Well, Brittany,

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<v Speaker 1>I would also recommend that you, you know what, I

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<v Speaker 1>will I will post your I will post your ask

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<v Speaker 1>on the Facebook page, and so other people on the

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<v Speaker 1>team can weigh in as well, because we have so

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<v Speaker 1>many astute I mean, there are a lot of people

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<v Speaker 1>listen to the show who are deeper on I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>gonna bit a deeper on American history than I am.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, they really get into it, especially certain periods.

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<v Speaker 1>Civil War. I like the Revolutionary period a lot. That

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<v Speaker 1>one I'm pretty good on, but my Civil War knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody thinks our World War two expert, and very few

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<v Speaker 1>people actually are. But I'm pretty good on World War

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<v Speaker 1>two and World War One. If you're looking for a

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<v Speaker 1>book on American history, here's one. American Caesar by William Manchester.

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<v Speaker 1>It's about Douglas MacArthur. It's a phenomenal book. Phenomenal book

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<v Speaker 1>and really will tell you some naching stuff about the

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<v Speaker 1>Second World War. So my pick for this week would

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<v Speaker 1>be American Caesar by William Manchester, Professor Emeritus at Wesleyan University.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he died. Also is a great two biography

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<v Speaker 1>or two volume biography of Churchill that I'd recommend you,

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<v Speaker 1>but try American Caesar. Let me know what you think.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it for today's show. Team, have a fantastic weekend.

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<v Speaker 1>Shield's high