WEBVTT - Buck Back From China 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.880 You are entering the freedom Hunt. The Buck is back 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.520 from China. Everybody very excited to be here with you. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.800 So many stories to tell you, so much to share. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.599 We will get into that, and also the latest on 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.520 the fight over who will be testifying on Capitol Hill. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.120 Does the administration win this latest battle over Don McGann 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.120 and whether he'll get to talk to Congress. We got 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.240 that and so much more coming up on The Buck 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.040 Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show where the 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.360 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:51.320 actionable intelligence. Make no mistakes American. You're a great American Again, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:01:04.880 the Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Hello, everybody, welcome, welcome, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.000 great to have you here on The Buck Sexton Show. Man. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.080 I I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to take a moment here. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.520 I missed you all very much. I missed doing this show. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.880 I love doing this show. Thank you for giving my 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.480 excellent guest host your attention last week and through yesterday 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.600 when I was still trying to get back on task 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.399 and get back on schedule. And here I am, and 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.600 I'm not going anywhere for a long time. So there 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.000 it is. Back from China. Fascinating trip over there, really 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:41.920 interesting timing because of all the back and forth over 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.959 the trade deal. You see now Google just broke I 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.760 think the last twenty four hours. Google is not going 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.320 to give all the software that it has been giving 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.680 to Huawei, which is a major Chinese telecommunications giant that 0:01:54.760 --> 0:02:00.880 people have very real national security concerns about. There are 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.560 those who think that Huawei and the race for five 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.160 G and these different battles that are playing out in 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.040 the technology space will have a major impact on not 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.400 just our economic competitiveness, but at some point in the 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.400 future in terms of US matching up against the Chinese, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.640 could have national security implications, very very serious stuff. So 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.920 I wanted to take some time that I know there's 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.639 some things going on in Capitol Hill. We've got some 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.480 updates on immigration and some other stories that I'm thrown 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.920 into the mix. Definitely have stuff to discuss all across 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.640 the news spectrum. But I wanted to start today because 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.720 I was gone for a week in China and spend 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.160 a little time sharing some of my observations and what 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.440 I saw, what I learned, and how that will I 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.880 hope provide a little additional context where all of us 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.160 here and our conversations going forward. I mean, let's just 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.640 start with this. China is the biggest economic and national 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:59.200 security challenge facing the United States, bar none, without question. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:05.960 It is absolutely clear. And there were different aspects of 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.280 my time there that were encouraging from what I saw 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.360 in different aspects that were discourding. Now, I did do 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.680 some of the tourists stuff, and I can share some 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:15.959 kind of more fun thoughts about that with you too, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.239 But I also was there for a two day conference 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.440 with a lot of experts on the Chinese economy, investing 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.640 in China, what China's going to do going forward, to 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.280 try to prop up or grow depending on who you 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.400 talk to. It's stock market and real estate prices. And 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.000 and here's what I'll say to you, just right off 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.760 the bat. The China that you may have in your 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.440 mind from watching as I did growing up, from watching movies. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.120 I know I've mentioned, which isn't even in China, Big 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.240 Trouble in Little China many times, which is a kind 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.120 of ridiculous but fun to watch movie. The notion you 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.560 may have of a China where you have people, millions 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.120 of people on bicycles and running around with rickshaws and 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.440 chickens that have just been had their heads chopped off 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.320 hanging in the windows, or you know whatever you've seen 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.880 in different China towns across the United States, and that 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.440 that would be some the China itself would be some 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.359 big version of it. No, it's not China. Now, I 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:22.120 was in Beijing and Shanghai. You have expensive automobiles all 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.080 over the place. You have a tremendous explosion in wealth, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.920 you have massive department stores full of all of the 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:36.640 most expensive luxury good it's a very consumer heavy, consumer 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.920 driven culture. I don't think it's very noticeable over there. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:46.000 It's also noticeable that there are many many high end 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:52.799 fake merchandise stores out there. They sell the different Louis 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.080 Vauton bags and fake rolexes and all these different fake 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.119 designer items. And it's in part because and I spoke 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.360 to some of the Chinese that I was interacting with 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.360 when I was there, and it's because not everybody can 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.720 afford this offense, so it's easier for them to just 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.440 you know, churn it out for everybody. And there's different 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.839 levels of the fakes. Is fascinating. I mean, it's also 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.000 illegal in this country. You know you can't do this. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.560 It's a trademark. It's the patent infringement or trademark infringement. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.680 It depends on what we're specifically addressing. But this is 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.880 a country that has brought hundreds of millions of people 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.640 out of poverty and essentially subsistence farming, and now they're 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.920 moving into the cities and massive numbers, and they are 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.719 going to be our competitor, There's no question about it. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.200 You can drive. I got on a high speed train 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.800 from Beijing to Shanghai. You can drive for an hour 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.799 and a half in Beijing in any direction and you'll 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.640 still see around you massive apartment buildings. I mean the 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.080 largest apartment buildings you would see in any American city. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.400 You'll see them in Beijing, and they're just sprawling. They're 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:04.880 all over the place. Some of the old stereotypes about 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.919 the or the old the old things that come to 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.760 mind about China. The smog very real. When I was 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.680 in Shanghai. You could just see it hanging in the 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.719 Airmy so, pollution is a is a major problem. Pollution 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.600 still not something that Chinese have gotten and a gutt 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.640 in a handle on I did not. And this was 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:29.440 interesting from a number of perspectives. I chose to go 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.680 in sterile, meaning that I showed up in China. Granted 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.800 I was there in a tourist capacity. I was not 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.040 there as a representative of either of my media organizations. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.520 I did go to a conference, but I wasn't I 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:46.279 wasn't acting as a journalist. I didn't bring a laptop, 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.719 I didn't bring a cell phone. Because we know it's 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.000 it's well established now that the Chinese, in particular, if 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.159 you work in the media, and in my case, somebody 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.360 who works in media and had a previous career as 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.440 an intelligence officer, you're gonna you're gonna be somebody who 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.960 is of high counter intelligence interests for the Chinese. And 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.080 that means that if you log onto their systems, if 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.000 you use your passwords, if you go to WiFi, you 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.240 are a target and you're living in their world. You're 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.200 living in their world. And that then brings me up today, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.520 waking up this morning excited that I get a chance 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.160 to to read in and get back into my routine 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.880 and do this show, the show that I love doing 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.360 for all of you so much. I see this pole 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:35.280 in the gallipole that you know four in ten Americans 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.720 is or four in ten Americans are ok are favorable 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.000 to socialism. And it's a reminder one of just how 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.080 little it seems that many of our fellow Americans have 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.720 learned about about history and about recent history and around 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.240 the world. But it's also an indicator that there's not 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.000 all there's there's a lack of understanding of what it 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.520 really means to live in a country where the government 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:07.600 has real control over economics, real control over over private property, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.720 the means of production. You know, they have that in China. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:15.200 And from a material prosperity side, the Chinese haven't getting 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.920 wealthier and wealthier. There's no question the Chinese have created 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.440 a much much larger what you would consider middle class. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.640 There's also a hyper elite of wealthy Chinese billionaires now. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.320 So from a material prosperity side, you really have one 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:35.199 party capitalism or a kind of one party hybrid of 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.840 capitalism and statism. But the statism component is still very strong. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.680 When you ask people about China, you know that you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.240 bring up the government, you get something mutter muttered about 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.360 you know, they mutter something about, oh well, you know, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.000 things are getting better and there's more prosperity all the time, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.520 and and he said, okay, well, but do you have 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.520 free speech? And I was told by some of the 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.760 China experts I talked to you over there, that you 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.360 have to keep in mind free speech something that we 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:09.520 hold very near and dear. An individual rights, individual protections 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.880 of those rights. That's what animates the American mind. That's 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.000 what gets us all excited about about being Americans. Know 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.480 that we have a society based upon the individual and 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.600 the relation of the individual with the state, and the 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:27.920 ability to appreciate and enjoy all these different freedoms laid 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.080 out first in the Constitution, but also in our political 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.880 and social culture. You can go to China and there's 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.840 not some clamoring for that, at least you're never able 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.520 to hear it. You know, who knows it's one point 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.439 four billion people. Just to stay that, you know, from 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.199 a small sample size of experts here or there or wherever, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.439 you can really get a sense of what the Chinese 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.960 people want. I don't think anybody really knows. I do 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.120 know that the economic prosperity is something that you cannot ignore. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.360 It's it's very very real. It has happened, and in 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.120 a sense, as an economic miracle. I mean to go 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.319 from when I was born, I think it's a seventy 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:10.160 billion to now, or yeah, seventy billion to seven trillion 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.120 dollars in GDP. I mean, that's just remarkable. It's a 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:19.199 remarkable rise of economic power and with that the military 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:24.360 power that comes along. But the individual there is not 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:30.320 the basis for the polity. Individual rights don't really exist. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.800 Your rights in China or whatever the government says they 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.040 are at any point in time. That's an unsettling thing, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.800 even for me as an American, to be in a 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.360 country like that where you recognize that you live your 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.000 life by the leave of the government. So interesting too, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.280 just a cursory overview of of Google Maps when I 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.280 was over there. Sorry, it wasn't Google Maps, of just maps, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.880 you know, using bay Do, which is their search under. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:57.880 You can't you can't use Google, you can't use Facebook, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.599 can use Twitter. Things are all blocked off. Part of 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.000 the Great Firewall. I went to the Great Wall too. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.240 We can talk about that in a moment. But you 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.800 see all this, the peoples this and the peoples that 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.560 in China, and they doth protest too much about how 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.160 everything belongs to the people. It belongs to the communist 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.120 part of the Central Committee, belongs to people in charge. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.440 They make the decisions. Some of those decisions have obviously 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:27.200 brought about a degree of economic prosperity, But economic prosperity 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.120 in the absence of individual freedom and property rights and 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.320 rule of law does not alone make for I think, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.680 a happy, healthy, and over the long term stable society. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.880 You need those other components human beings deserve. There's a 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.000 there's an obligation on the state to give basic rights 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.480 and freedoms. And when you have a society where that 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.240 has been swept aside, either with the consent at some 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.440 level of the people or just because their fear of 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.640 the big s state is so profound that they don't 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.840 even want to voice any of these concerns, you wonder 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.240 what else is this state capable of doing. What happens 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.840 to the surplus that they believe will be in just 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.319 a matter of years of twenty million unmarried Chinese men 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:24.559 of marriageable age, What do they do, what happens to them, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.840 what happens to this country? When what happens to China? Rather, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.560 when going forward they have an economic downturn, They've had 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.360 all this growth and all this prosperity over a number 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.080 of decades here, but things will change. What goes up 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.440 must come down. How does it destabilize them if all 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.120 of a sudden the Central Committee doesn't look like a 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.320 bunch of financial wizards who just make everybody wealthier and 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.600 happier all with them, or at least wealthier, I don't 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.280 know if they're happier. There is a lot. There's a 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.160 lot that we have to unpack here. I mean, China 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:02.679 is a fascinating, fascinating problem for US policymakers. I want 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.320 to talk to you about some of the attitudinal things 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.559 that I saw, some of the how I think the 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.880 trade deal will play out after speaking to a lot 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.200 of a lot of Chinese about about it and the 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.840 ones that are least willing to talk to me, so 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.199 we have much much ground to cover. Her team and 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.920 some other just fun anecdotes from what I saw there. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.120 And I'm again just so so so happy to be 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.800 back with all of you. I enjoyed my time overseas 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.200 and it was it was nice to switch it up, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.559 man that I missed doing this radio show. And I'm 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.040 so glad to be back. And I appreciate that you're 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.240 all listening, so let's hit it. Hit a quick beat here. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.200 We'll be back in a moment with much more on China. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:47.280 Stay with me. Just a bit of quick tips for 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.679 those of you that are wondering, Like, all right, Buck, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:49.840 you were in China. What do you want to tell 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.520 us about if you're going to visit. Many of them 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.079 have been to China a lot. Some of you've probably 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.840 lived there. Beijing. I think you do two days in Beijing, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 maybe three if you're as unless you have some other 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.040 reason to be there, two days, maybe three. Max. I 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.760 was there for five, two days in Shanghai. Beijing is 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.920 a massive city. Not to be unfair to it, but 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:17.920 it is something along the lines of a twenty million 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:23.320 person traffic jam. And the joke when I was there 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.920 was that everywhere you wanted to go, you'd ask a local, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.160 you know, how how far is it thirty minutes, and 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.440 thirty minutes means anywhere from forty five minutes to an 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.920 hour and a half. Anywhere you think about going in Beijing, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.640 you better be ready to just sit in traffic. There's 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.480 traffic everywhere. There's a lot of people that's putting it mildly, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.760 but it's not a really international city in the sense 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:51.600 that it is very much Chinese dominated and centric. And 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.760 I know it's the capital city of China's that'll make sense. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.600 But you know, you go to New York City, for example, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.040 and there's people from all over the world there, all 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.280 over the world. You go to Beijing and you're basically 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.640 going to walk around and see mostly people from China. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.080 There are some internationals, but it's not a truly it's 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.520 not a true global city. Shanghai a little more so, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:14.760 more visitors, more of an international feeling to it. Best 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.720 stuff to see in Beijing, stuff that I saw of 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.200 the Great Wall, which as soon as I posted a 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.480 photo that I knew some of you were going to 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.800 say this, you have the Great Wall, and people say, wow, Buck, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.600 do you mean that walls work? Yes? In fact, we 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:34.080 have known human civilization has known for a very very 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.640 long time that walls are quite effective at what they 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.640 are intended to do, either keep people in or keep 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.520 people out, or prevent the free movement between two points. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.080 Walls are quite good at that. It is a marvel 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.440 of engineering. When you go and see the Great Wall itself, 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.920 and I think they said, I didn't even know how 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.120 many thousands of miles because there's all these different sections 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.640 of wall and it wasn't built all at once, and 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.240 these histories something that I should I should probably brush 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.360 up on quite a bit. More fun parts about going 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.240 to the Wall though, is that you have a lot 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:13.120 of domestic Chinese tourists that go to these different historic sites. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.120 So Beijing has the cool history stuff for sure. The 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.920 Great Wall I think is top of the list of 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.000 the stuff I saw that was that was the coolest 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:27.600 it is. It is the most impressive single spot to 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.720 go and see if you're doing the touristy thing. But 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.560 you have these tourists from all over the rest of 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.800 China who many many of whom are able to travel 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.520 now because of the improvements in the economy, so it 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.400 might be their first time ever going to the Wall, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.520 especially for some of the older generation. And they did 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.440 like seeing Americans, They like seeing western as many of 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.800 them wanted to take photographs with me and take selfies 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.920 with me, and not because they're buck sex and show listeners, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.320 although they should be. But it was an interesting experience 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.040 for sure to see that. You also went to the 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.639 Forbidden City, which was interesting to be sure. Was definitely 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.239 uh it's worth seeing. I did not get to go 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:15.200 to Tianamen Square because it was closed for some security 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:16.800 reason or something. I don't know what it was, but 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.720 it was closed off to us. But the Forbidden City 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.399 where the Emperor, the Chinese Emperor lived was you know, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.560 you see it, you walk around, you kind of done it. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.720 But Beijing. And I'm just gonna say this, if you're 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.800 used to American Chinese food, you can get it in China, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.800 but you don't go. It's not like they've got general 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.280 sauce chicken everywhere and you're gonna order whatever you used 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.040 to ordering. It's a little bit different than that. The 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.240 food is fine after a few days it was. It's 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.959 not easy to be gluten free in China. I'll tell 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.080 you that you did not want to be a somebody 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.960 with Celiac disease because they really like brown sauce and 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.600 anything in a brown sauce basically has soy sauce, and 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:00.080 soy sauce has gluten. So that makes things tough. And 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.880 to my fair share of banquet dinners where I think 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.240 there was one where there was like an eight maybe 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.360 a ten course meal, you know, a good old buckster 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.160 was able to eat white rice. Oh yeah, I got 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.040 to eat some white mice. So those are some of 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.600 my tours and fists. You go to Shanghai, better food, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.280 It's fun down by the waterfront, more stuff going on there. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:22.880 If you're gonna if you're looking to kind of get 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.400 out and about I would say that a Shangha. Well, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.000 what does this all mean for the trade deal and 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.600 for the Trump administration? And you know enough of Bucks 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.520 Tourism guide here, We're gonna get into all of that 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.240 and then talk about the showdown over who's going to 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.480 testify in front of Congress, who's gonna win these cord battles, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.119 over what information the Democrats have access to? That and 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.120 more coming up. Remember when the left called the Green 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.760 New Deal bold? Or how about their bold defensive anti 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.080 semitism in the House. 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There you go, 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.120 I like that the d n CNN. The Justice Department 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.440 is trying to stave off an enforcement action against Attorney 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.240 General William Barr this week, making a rare offer to 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.879 out of the House Intelligence Committee review materials from Special 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.679 Counsel Robert Mueller's report if House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.960 agrees to back down. Last week, Shift shared that he 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.239 Schiff said that he would hold a business meeting to 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.720 take an unspecified action against the Department of Justice for 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.280 not providing the committee documents related to Volume one of 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.520 Mueller's report on links between the Trump campaign and the 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.120 Russian government. And so now the DJ's thinking maybe they're 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.040 going to have a different you know, they're going to 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.600 try to come to some sort of accommodation here. Okay, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.159 I want to go. I'm not done with China yet. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:49.120 I mean, I'm like I was there for a week. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.520 We I'm more to talking about on China. But I 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.800 just this is the latest from today and it's getting 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.560 a lot of getting a lot of attention, speaking a 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.840 lot of attention. Will also discussed the fight over abortion 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.040 and where all that's going, because I was gone for that, 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:03.679 so there's gonna be some Oh hey, I didn't get 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.480 a chance to talk to you about this, so I 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:06.880 want to take the time to talk to you about 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.359 it now, obviously because I missed all of you very much. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.320 And here's what we got going on with the Democrats. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.399 I've realized this as I was away and had a 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.720 lot of time to think and ponder, ponder the universe 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:26.000 in China. The Democrats, it doesn't really matter. I think 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.040 the political calculations here are not that clear that they 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.400 even know how all this will play out. No one 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.400 really knows, but they didn't even think they necessarily know. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.840 How do you get how do you really assass impeachment? 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.439 Let's just say let's start with that. I think what 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.760 three presidents have been impeached? Bill Clinton was impeached after 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.919 his reelection, So that doesn't really give you much of 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:54.640 a much of a way to compare things then and now. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.840 Because Trump would be at least theoretically impeached before trying 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.840 to be reelected president. Would it blow back or would 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.840 it take Trump down? Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.080 But what I do know is this the efforts that 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.320 the Democrats are going through here to try and take 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.359 all this information just pride from the hands of the Republicans, 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.120 take it out of you know, President Trump's senior most 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:24.000 advisor's minds, and just use the Congress to jam the 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:29.639 Trump administration up with just request for documents and appearances 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.360 and hearings and this and that, and this is all 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:38.679 a throwing the proverbial wooden shoe in the gears of 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.720 the factory, which is at least how some people say 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.160 the word sabotage came along, but I don't think that's 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.480 actually true. So don't don't take that one. See, this 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:48.359 is the problem with the internet. You read all this stuff, 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:50.280 you know, like, is that even true? I don't know. 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.600 I stought on the internet, and as we know, Abe 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:54.919 Lincoln once said, don't believe everything you see on the internet. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:59.760 So this is the Democrats though, the gears of sand 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:02.919