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Speaker 1: eight four four nine zero zero Buck. That's eight four
Speaker 1: four nine zero zero two eight two five. We've got
Speaker 1: a great show lined up for you today. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the the latest stories coming out about
Speaker 1: Google and their lies. I'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the latest with Alexander Accascio Cortez as well. Of course,
Speaker 1: we'll be focusing in a large part on the shutdown,
Speaker 1: which is dominating the minds of the media at the moment,
Speaker 1: and we're going to get into why specifically the media
Speaker 1: needs to keep pumping up this shutdown. CNN obviously carrying
Speaker 1: a shutdown clock live on the side of the screen there.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many of you actually watch the
Speaker 1: NN anymore, but for those of you that don't, that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I'm talking about the March for Life
Speaker 1: which is coming up as well as well as that Gillette,
Speaker 1: advertisement want to hear from all of you guys about that,
Speaker 1: And if you haven't heard about it, well, we'll get
Speaker 1: into it with my good buddy Terry Shilling in the
Speaker 1: next hour as well. But for now, I want to
Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys the question, who would
Speaker 1: have thought that a conservative journalist hopping her house's border
Speaker 1: wall and erecting a caravan on her lawn would only
Speaker 1: be the second greatest troll that Nancy Pelosi was on
Speaker 1: the receiving end of this week. Yes, that's right. You
Speaker 1: may have seen the images and footage of the conservative
Speaker 1: independent journalist Laura Luma highlighting the new Speaker of the
Speaker 1: House is hypocrisy over the past few days. She has
Speaker 1: a wall on her house and you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: go into her house. But that pales in comparison to
Speaker 1: what happened between Miss Pelosi and the President of the
Speaker 1: United States Donald Trump today. Due to jet out of
Speaker 1: town on a military plane earlier on to Brussels, Egypt,
Speaker 1: and extends Afghanistan. Miss Pelosi and her Democratic delegation were
Speaker 1: grounded by President Trump following her own petulant attempts to
Speaker 1: stop him addressing the nation in a State of the
Speaker 1: Union address in just a few weeks. Yes, Miss Pelosi,
Speaker 1: if you want to be childish, if you want to
Speaker 1: play politics with the apparatus of the state, two can
Speaker 1: play that game. It seems. A terse and frankly hilarious
Speaker 1: letter was sent out by the White House today for
Speaker 1: Nancy's attention. I'll read it to you now, Dear Madam Speaker.
Speaker 1: Due to the government shutdown, I am sorry to inform
Speaker 1: you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has
Speaker 1: been postponed. We will reschedule this seven day excursion when
Speaker 1: the shutdown is over. In light of the eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand Great American workers not receiving pay, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate.
Speaker 1: I also feel that during this period it would be
Speaker 1: better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and
Speaker 1: joining the strong Board security movement to end the shutdown. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial,
Speaker 1: that would certainly be your prerogative. I look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you soon, and even more forward to watching our
Speaker 1: open and dangerous southern border finally receive the attention, funding,
Speaker 1: and security it so desperately deserves. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 1: That is some top level trolling from the President, But
Speaker 1: as with most things he does, whether or not you
Speaker 1: see it or whether or not you get it, it
Speaker 1: had a meaning a message to it. No, Miss Pelosi,
Speaker 1: you may not grandstand on this shutdown while refusing to
Speaker 1: negotiate and hot footing it out of the country. And no,
Speaker 1: Miss Pelosi, just days after your Democrat buddies returned from
Speaker 1: sunning themselves on the beaches of Puerto Rico at the
Speaker 1: behest of lobbyists, you may not use the military to
Speaker 1: travel around the world, no doubt wishing to grandstand there
Speaker 1: as well. In other words, not so much you're fired
Speaker 1: as you're grounded. Of course, President Trump offered Miss Pelosi
Speaker 1: the chance to fly commercial for her trips. We'll see
Speaker 1: if she takes them up on that. But what is
Speaker 1: effectively turning to a tip for tat between the two
Speaker 1: biggest political figures in the country right now was only
Speaker 1: finally called childish when it came to CNN analyzing the
Speaker 1: President's moves today. Now we know that historically the President
Speaker 1: of the United States isn't actually obliged to perform a
Speaker 1: State of the Union life from the US Congress. He
Speaker 1: could simply send a letter or a video or perhaps
Speaker 1: a series of tweets. But Miss Pelosi's attempts to stop
Speaker 1: the President addressing the nation from the pulpit of the legislature,
Speaker 1: you drew no such ire from CNN, though that was
Speaker 1: reserved purely for President Trump. Let's play clip nine if
Speaker 1: we can well, our nation's capital has officially become a
Speaker 1: playground Brook. The President has responded in sort of a
Speaker 1: childish way, is the only way to describe it. To
Speaker 1: the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to her letter, essentially saying
Speaker 1: that the say the Union will be postponed or she
Speaker 1: asked that to be submitted in writing if the government
Speaker 1: is still shut down. This is the letter right here
Speaker 1: from the President. The Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, I guess,
Speaker 1: in lieu of having actual briefings here at the White House,
Speaker 1: just tweeted this out it, says Madam Speaker, due to
Speaker 1: the shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your
Speaker 1: trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We
Speaker 1: will reschedule this seven day excursion when the shutdown is
Speaker 1: over and lighted the eight hundred thousand great American workers
Speaker 1: not receiving pay. I'm sure you would agree that postponing
Speaker 1: this public relations event is totally appropriating childish, says Jim Acosta.
Speaker 1: I think I agree more with Senator rand Pool on this.
Speaker 1: On let's play clip four. I think that's a real
Speaker 1: affront to the American people. And what I would suggest
Speaker 1: is that Sarah McConnell's in charge of the Senate, let's
Speaker 1: host it in the Senate. If this will be the
Speaker 1: first time in history that the House would deny a
Speaker 1: president the forum of speaking. If she's going to do that,
Speaker 1: let's hold it in the set. So where do you
Speaker 1: stand on all of this? A new pole shows, for
Speaker 1: whatever those are worth, that the President is actually losing
Speaker 1: some support from his base over this shutdown? Is that accurate?
Speaker 1: Is that fair? Are you one of those people I
Speaker 1: want to hear from you? Eight four four nine hundred
Speaker 1: two eight two five, eight four four nine hundred buck
Speaker 1: or do you think all is fair in love and Wall? Yes,
Speaker 1: I said wool as in border Wall eight four four
Speaker 1: nine hundred two eight two five is the number either way.
Speaker 1: One thing I found particularly intriguing is that in the
Speaker 1: same parts you know, they've been pumping them out all week,
Speaker 1: only about twenty four percent of Americans say that they've
Speaker 1: been affected or had a family member affected by the shutdown.
Speaker 1: Could the Democrats be shooting themselves in the foot here
Speaker 1: in a much larger sense than just the tactics surrounding
Speaker 1: this particular shutdown. Could they be proving the I guess
Speaker 1: hard line libertarians right the ron Poles who have been
Speaker 1: saying for decades that government is bloated, far too big,
Speaker 1: and pointing to plenty of evidence to back that up
Speaker 1: along the way, showing that government is too large. That's
Speaker 1: what the Democrats are doing here, and that hardly anyone
Speaker 1: notices when it is shut down, apart from the government workers,
Speaker 1: many of whom are apparently extraneous. You know, I've spoken
Speaker 1: to a lot of people in this administration over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, in departments all across Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: and they tell me they're actually finding that the staff
Speaker 1: that are in attendance, you know, the workers that are
Speaker 1: needed to keep the department sticking over, are actually finding
Speaker 1: it easier to work and getting more done because they're
Speaker 1: not being stopped, thwarted, frustrated by careers, people who have
Speaker 1: made their careers in government, people who do not back
Speaker 1: this administration, people who are there for the sake of
Speaker 1: a job rather than there for the sake of the service,
Speaker 1: and certainly not for the sake of doing the administration
Speaker 1: any favors. That's what I'm being told, and there was
Speaker 1: a very interesting article along those lines in the Daily
Speaker 1: Caller this week as well. But those are just my views. Again,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. Eight four four nine
Speaker 1: hundred buc okay eight four nine hundred two eight two five.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to a quick break now. When we
Speaker 1: come back, Alan Bakari, the tech editor of Breitbart dot Com,
Speaker 1: will be joining us to talk about the latest stories
Speaker 1: Visivie Google. It's fascinating stuff. You've got to hear what
Speaker 1: these guys are doing and more importantly, how they're miss leading.
Speaker 1: It seems. More importantly, I want to get to your
Speaker 1: calls as well, so make sure you get on the lines.
Speaker 1: This is the buck Sexton Show. I'm Raheemcassam will be
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Speaker 1: name is rahemcasan guest hosting live from the Freedom Height
Speaker 1: and Washington, DC. I love that the call boards are
Speaker 1: lighting up already. Just hang there a moment. We've got
Speaker 1: Alan Bacari on the line, the tech editor for Breitbart
Speaker 1: dot Com. Alum, good evening to you. A going to
Speaker 1: be very very well. Where where in the world are
Speaker 1: you right now? Alam? I'm partly in London. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us so late in the evening. There not
Speaker 1: at all, Alam, So walk us through these phenomenal Google
Speaker 1: exclusives that you guys have been breaking over the past
Speaker 1: couple of days. Um, you you have. You have effectively
Speaker 1: found that Google, the Google CEO, has been telling FIBs
Speaker 1: perhaps over what he told Congress regarding the company's intervention
Speaker 1: in search results. Is that right? Well, what sum up
Speaker 1: I told Congress under oath last month was that Google
Speaker 1: does not manually intervene on any search result. What I
Speaker 1: found thanks to a leak discussion for it from inside
Speaker 1: Google that was passing me from a source inside of
Speaker 1: the company that we published yesterday and Bright Art News
Speaker 1: is that Google does regularly engage in manual interventions on
Speaker 1: most of its platforms in including Google Assistant, Google Home, occasionally,
Speaker 1: It's main organic search engine, and also YouTube. What we
Speaker 1: found was that YouTube actually adjusted search results for, among
Speaker 1: other things, abortion and abortions. When you search for those
Speaker 1: terms on YouTube. Now what will pop up is a
Speaker 1: bunch of left win propaganda, essentially from buzz seeds from
Speaker 1: the John Oliver Show from CNN, and those are all verified,
Speaker 1: handpicked sorces by Google. And one of BS sources leaked
Speaker 1: to us a message which showed that Google made an
Speaker 1: adjustment to a fire to a blacklist file that it
Speaker 1: keeps on controversial YouTube search terms. So whenever it wants
Speaker 1: to promote the mainstream media the file left media in
Speaker 1: a certain search result, they will add a first term
Speaker 1: to this blacklist file. And the result of that change
Speaker 1: was that numerous pro life videos which previously featured in
Speaker 1: the top ten search results for abortion on YouTube disappeared
Speaker 1: from the top ten. Even more incredible is the circumstances
Speaker 1: under which that happened. The change was made to the
Speaker 1: internal fire that adjusted the search results a few hours
Speaker 1: after a Slate journalists got in touch with Google's press
Speaker 1: tin to complain about the prominence of pro life videos.
Speaker 1: So Google actually did this in response to a lesson
Speaker 1: why the complain there there's too much pro life content
Speaker 1: in the search results on YouTube. Wow, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to unpack there. And there's there's a whole load of
Speaker 1: these blacklist search terms that appear in your article, which
Speaker 1: is entitled for those who are looking for it, the
Speaker 1: Smoking Gun. Google manipulated YouTube searches for abortion. Maxine Waters
Speaker 1: and David Hogu tell us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: other search terms and what has been you know, effectively
Speaker 1: covered up or or you know, buried by Google across
Speaker 1: their platforms, and then talk to us a little bit,
Speaker 1: alum about the implications of this for Google and specifically
Speaker 1: the Google CEO. I mean, if he was lying to Congress,
Speaker 1: let's say, that's a pretty big deal, isn't it. It
Speaker 1: certainly is a big deal, aren't By the way that
Speaker 1: that quote the smoking gun that we have in their headline,
Speaker 1: those aren't my words. That's what a Google employee said
Speaker 1: about the company adjusting a search resolves. It was in
Speaker 1: the leag message past to us Google's own employees. They're
Speaker 1: calling as a smoking gun and like as as you said,
Speaker 1: there are a whole number of other search terms that
Speaker 1: we released as part of the league. So they also
Speaker 1: adjusted search terms for Maxine Waters, the Democratic congresswoman. They
Speaker 1: adjusted search terms for David Hoggy, progressive anti gun activist.
Speaker 1: They're adjusting search terms, ways did and another post in
Speaker 1: the thread. So it isn't just on YouTube. Google about
Speaker 1: has huge teams. Those are the words of Google employee.
Speaker 1: Huge teams moderating search and Google Home, Google Assistant and organic,
Speaker 1: Google Search resolves and super According to his post, sometimes
Speaker 1: that involves training automatic classified for algorithms that will automatically
Speaker 1: moderate the results. And sometimes it will just involve like
Speaker 1: a manual action just going in and changing them. And
Speaker 1: said they do that on search terms that are prone
Speaker 1: to a hyperbolic and controversial and offensive concept. Obosina, I'm
Speaker 1: not entirely I'm not a tour confidant in how Google
Speaker 1: defines those terms hyperbolic, controversial, offensive. You know, the far
Speaker 1: less company in Silicon Valley, They're going to define those
Speaker 1: terms very very broadly. The implications, Yeah, it talk to
Speaker 1: us about pahi and what it means. Yeah, in terms
Speaker 1: of the implications, you know, I'm hesitant. I'm not a
Speaker 1: legal expert, so I'm hesitant to say this, you know
Speaker 1: there's something some crime committed here because you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have the legal knowledge about myself. I'm just a journalist.
Speaker 1: But you know, Senator Josh Holly asked the person on
Speaker 1: Twitter yesterday, is this persury? I mean, that's it's certainly,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what it is or it isn't,
Speaker 1: it certainly looks bad. And that's that's a question. That
Speaker 1: a new senator is coming in the former County General
Speaker 1: of Missouri, so well, I mean, hold on, alum, I
Speaker 1: this seems like a pretty big deal. And I've been
Speaker 1: through this story and I've looked at your sourcing and
Speaker 1: I've looked at them, the quotes and the links and
Speaker 1: all of the comments and things that you've taken out
Speaker 1: of the out of the blacklist. It all checks out.
Speaker 1: I've got a pretty keen eye for these things, having
Speaker 1: been an editor for many years. Why am I only
Speaker 1: seeing when I Google this? Why am I only seeing
Speaker 1: this story on bright bar and the Daily Mail? Where
Speaker 1: where is the coverage in all the tech mags, the
Speaker 1: tech blogs. Where is the coverage on the mainstream news, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the tech blogs. I mean they're essentially pr
Speaker 1: for Silicon Valley at this point. You know, Silicon Valley companies,
Speaker 1: you know, do a great deal to win their favor.
Speaker 1: I think the headline at Diverge yesterday was a story
Speaker 1: about epexe. This has happened before, we ep yes, like
Speaker 1: online pet that right, the big story at the left
Speaker 1: wind texture outlet. I think the same deal with Past Technica,
Speaker 1: Rico Tech Club, all these all these outs that are
Speaker 1: supposedly there to hold Silicon Bag to accounts, but are
Speaker 1: really just ignoring any wrongdoing that their engage in at
Speaker 1: the moment, and that's happened before and other Google stories.
Speaker 1: We relieve they just don't care. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's partly because you know, they're in bed with
Speaker 1: the tech cameralis there's off partly because they agree with censorship,
Speaker 1: they agree with blacklisting. You know, these duds are all
Speaker 1: leftling journalists. In fact that they have any criticism of
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley, of any of big tank it's usually that
Speaker 1: they're not censoring enough. Normally the headlines are you know,
Speaker 1: Why is an Alex Journ's band? Why Why isn't this
Speaker 1: all that conservative commentator band yet? That's that's the agenda
Speaker 1: of the left wing tech press and those of the
Speaker 1: maintor immediate as well. Alum, we've got about thirty seconds
Speaker 1: to go here. Just just walk us through why this
Speaker 1: is important. Do a little reset for us. Why should
Speaker 1: we be paying attention to the tech sector? Well, Google,
Speaker 1: for which is what the story is about. Is you know,
Speaker 1: the most biggest search engine on the Internet doesn't really
Speaker 1: have a competitor. And if Google starts, you know, link
Speaker 1: with elections and fiddling with politics, they can have a
Speaker 1: massive impact on voters and the outcomes of elections without
Speaker 1: us even noticing. Because there's no paper trail, there's no
Speaker 1: there's no other sight, and there's nothing we're to keep
Speaker 1: these companies in check or even know when they're doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. It's extraordinary. Staff, Alam, Just tell people
Speaker 1: where they can find more of this work from you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can find all my articles at brightbat dot com. Right,
Speaker 1: but Patty can form me on Twitter at Libertarian Blue.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Alan Bakari. This is the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Raheem Kassam, stay on the lines one your calls
Speaker 1: after this short break. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Rahem Casalm here in the Freedom Hut in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: Coming to you guys on the phone lines now eight
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Speaker 1: Eastern Line one. Bill is in West by God, Virginia. Bill.
Speaker 1: Are you with us? Yes, sir? Hey you doing that? Bill?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Hey? This shotgun could end really quickly if
Speaker 1: these union members you know of the the government union
Speaker 1: that if they get ahold of their government or their
Speaker 1: their leaders, are union leaders to go to Congress because
Speaker 1: Congress probably owes these the unions a deal for supporting
Speaker 1: them and the elections of Hit and Toll. Hey, we
Speaker 1: want to be paid, you know, tell Congress, well, you
Speaker 1: guys are being paid, why not us? How quickly do
Speaker 1: you think that would that would speak things along? Bill?
Speaker 1: I think it would be quicker than anything. And there's
Speaker 1: the Congress and the union leaders are using their membership
Speaker 1: as paused in that there there's just cheff in the
Speaker 1: heck out of their members. How long has it been
Speaker 1: Bill since since labor unions? I mean, I'm speaking from
Speaker 1: a UK perspective. The labor unions are so very PC
Speaker 1: and and and uh you know, establishment left rather than
Speaker 1: rather than what you know, you used to have effectively,
Speaker 1: which were which were pretty strong and fierce advocates, albeit
Speaker 1: most of them on the political left. For as you
Speaker 1: say they're members, how long has it been since since
Speaker 1: they were really useful for their members? Well, they're shaft
Speaker 1: one right now that you're right. They haven't been in
Speaker 1: the forefront for their their members at all. They've they've
Speaker 1: suck it to them and at it. I just can't
Speaker 1: believe if I was a member, I'd be on my
Speaker 1: leadership to go after Congress after we put our money
Speaker 1: into membership dues to support of the people in Congress
Speaker 1: and their elections, and at I'd say, hey, we don't
Speaker 1: want to do without money. You guys, aren't you guys?
Speaker 1: Owe us Bill in West Virginia, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the call here on the Buck Sexton Show. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Tony in Harrisburg. Tony you with us, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm here right, You're doing a great job. You're my
Speaker 1: favorite filling for the buckster. Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: And Tony your checks in the mail. Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: want to let you know that this is one person
Speaker 1: who is so it's just so proud of our president.
Speaker 1: President Trump is a breath of fresh air, and people
Speaker 1: just are not used to his intractable uh confidence. You know,
Speaker 1: typically when the Republicans are in the White House, you know,
Speaker 1: they they try so hard to be liked by the
Speaker 1: Democrats who may be in charge of the House at
Speaker 1: the Senate at the time, and they just uh you know,
Speaker 1: power in in in fear, you know that they may
Speaker 1: not be liked or accepted by the left. And Donald
Speaker 1: Trump says, I don't care, you know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care if you liked me or not. I let
Speaker 1: me play Devil's advocate. Unplay devil's advocate, Tony. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know where I stand on next But but but
Speaker 1: we will play this game anyway. Um And I do,
Speaker 1: by the way, want um people who disagree with me
Speaker 1: and Tony Um to call in. I want I want
Speaker 1: anti Trump people. I want people who think this president's intractability,
Speaker 1: as Tony puts it, is a bad thing. I want
Speaker 1: you to call in as well and make your case.
Speaker 1: That's that's fair, and that's how we do things here.
Speaker 1: Eight four four, nine hundred buck. So get on the lines, Tony.
Speaker 1: What do you say to the polls that have come
Speaker 1: out that show actually President Trump is taking a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hit amongst his own base over not
Speaker 1: the shutdown as in and of itself, but now the
Speaker 1: length of the shutdown. I would say my response is,
Speaker 1: I don't trust the polls necessarily. I think that, but Tony,
Speaker 1: they got it so right in twenty and sixteen. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't trust the polls, and even if they are
Speaker 1: trying to do a sincere job of reflecting the public sentiment,
Speaker 1: the public is not Donald Trump. The public is not
Speaker 1: used to having this kind of intractability there they are,
Speaker 1: you know, they're used to having to try to go
Speaker 1: along to get along, and that's the natural reaction, you know.
Speaker 1: But Donald Trump's not having any of it. So I
Speaker 1: would say that, you know, he's not like the majority
Speaker 1: of Americans. He has a confidence and a resolute spirit
Speaker 1: that most people just don't have. So he's staying the
Speaker 1: course and it's going to pay big dividends in the end.
Speaker 1: Tony in Pennsylvania. Thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 1: Here on the Buck Sexton Show Line two, Charlie is
Speaker 1: in one of my favorite places, Ocean City, Maryland. Charlie,
Speaker 1: you willis. Yeah, I'm here in Ocean City, Maryland. We're blue. Anyway,
Speaker 1: when I heard about Trump grounding Pelosi, now I kind
Speaker 1: of gathered that she was either boarding the plane or
Speaker 1: getting ready to or or something. Right, she was on
Speaker 1: her way, well, on her way. There was a bus.
Speaker 1: There was an air Force bus that was being loaded
Speaker 1: up with the congressional delegation. It was, it was already
Speaker 1: on its way, and I think it did a few
Speaker 1: laps of a few laps of the Capitol Hill and
Speaker 1: came right back. Well, I would love somebody to have
Speaker 1: their smartphone and record her reaction when she couldn't do
Speaker 1: what she wanted, because these politicians do not understand. Trump's
Speaker 1: a builder. I was in the building business all my life,
Speaker 1: and I understand he operates on common sense and he's
Speaker 1: not a politician. And that's what I really really enjoy
Speaker 1: about him. He expects things done. So you you were,
Speaker 1: you were gleeful about the tip for tat nature of
Speaker 1: this Pelosi saying, you know, we're gon we're gonna stump
Speaker 1: you from doing the State of the Union or or
Speaker 1: you know, recommend that it's delayed or what have you.
Speaker 1: And I guess maybe you agree with me, maybe you don't.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm being unfam maybe I'm not. But I guess
Speaker 1: the average Republican would have sort of taken that on
Speaker 1: the chin or try to find a compromise, or apologized
Speaker 1: or demurred away from the argument. President Trump and his
Speaker 1: White House said, m okay, you want to play that game.
Speaker 1: You're not going anywhere. Yeah. Well, I've heard suggestions that
Speaker 1: he can kind of hold not a rally, but kind
Speaker 1: of like that and give the State of the Union
Speaker 1: address in there. That is that is entirely true. There
Speaker 1: is no there is no obligation for the president to
Speaker 1: give a State of the Union address to Congress. It
Speaker 1: just happens to be a tradition, I believe, starting with
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson in nineteen thirteen, but before that, I believe
Speaker 1: the president really only submitted a letter or a written
Speaker 1: report to Congress. How about how about my idea there, Charlie,
Speaker 1: what about a series of tweets He's actually learn at
Speaker 1: that and I guarantee you with Pelosi. I've seeing her
Speaker 1: face when she was shut down, and now if our
Speaker 1: president tweets on that oh Man sheet, she'll blow her mind. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking to Laura Luma later on
Speaker 1: in the program as well. Laura trolled Nancy Pelosi this
Speaker 1: week by jumping her border wall around her house and
Speaker 1: erecting a migrant caravan on her lawn. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to speaking with Laura about that. I know she's
Speaker 1: got some more plans to highlight the wall hypocrisy out there. Hey,
Speaker 1: Charlie in Maryland, thank you so much for the call
Speaker 1: here on the Buck Sexton Show. The phone number here
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Speaker 1: You might notice that I do read that out a lot.
Speaker 1: I am a firm believer in the call in. I
Speaker 1: am a firm believer that I don't have all the answers,
Speaker 1: and that my opinions count for well, probably a little
Speaker 1: bit less than yours actually, because you are citizens of
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Speaker 1: your country. So get on the lines. Give me both
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Speaker 1: live from the Freedom Hut in downtown Washington, DC. Quick break. Now,
Speaker 1: when we come back, my bestie Sarah Sealup, a publicist
Speaker 1: here in Washington, d C, on the line to discuss
Speaker 1: one of my favorite subjects of this week. Alexandria Ocacio Cortez,
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Speaker 1: is Rahem because I'm filling in for Buck Sexton today.
Speaker 1: Joining me on the line now one of my favorite
Speaker 1: publicists in Washington, DC, Sarah Selip, joining us, Sarah, good evening. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see about that, you know, we'll see how the
Speaker 1: interview goes. Sarah. I wanted to get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Alexander Occassio Cortez because everyone's talking about her, but actually
Speaker 1: we're talking about talking about her, We're not actually talking
Speaker 1: about what she portends, what she means, the threat which
Speaker 1: I think she pretends for the United States. And I
Speaker 1: want to play I was on Fox last night, and
Speaker 1: of course you know me, Sarah, I want to play
Speaker 1: a clip of myself from Fox last night and get
Speaker 1: your response to it, because I think people are missing
Speaker 1: something here, or at least conservatives are missing something here.
Speaker 1: They want to laugh at her and joke about her
Speaker 1: and dismiss her. And we did that in the United
Speaker 1: Kingdom to a man called Jeremy Corbyn a few years ago. Now,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labor Party and
Speaker 1: is in a very very close situation, as people have
Speaker 1: probably seen with regards the whole Brexit scenario to actually
Speaker 1: taking over the reins of government. Let's play clip eight.
Speaker 1: We have had in charge of the Labor Party now
Speaker 1: a hardline socialist Jeremy corbyt and you guys need to
Speaker 1: take Alexander Arcassio Cortez. The Democrats need to take a
Speaker 1: more seriously and treat her as more of a danger
Speaker 1: than Conservatives do, because actually what Jeremy Corbyn has done
Speaker 1: in the Democrat Party, in the Labor Party, rather, he
Speaker 1: cannot get his party to take power. Even if he
Speaker 1: won an election, he wouldn't hold the confidence of Parliament
Speaker 1: at the moment. And if you allow somebody who's clearly
Speaker 1: read rules or radicals, and who's clearly well versed on
Speaker 1: Mark Lilla's once on future Liberal to take over both
Speaker 1: the cultural and she's very good at the cultural take
Speaker 1: of both the cultural and the policy orientation of the party.
Speaker 1: You won't get those reins back. Now, that was my
Speaker 1: warning to the Democrats, but actually the warning for the
Speaker 1: country I think is, you know on the Black Swan events, Sarah,
Speaker 1: that somebody like that does come to power, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a pretty dire situation, isn't it. Yeah, absolutely so
Speaker 1: when it comes to something like AFC, you see that
Speaker 1: she has a perfect grasp of what it means to
Speaker 1: take the lead of the cultural aspect. You see it
Speaker 1: every day with social media, the fact that she's likely
Speaker 1: trending in all times. She will tweet something and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden she's everywhere. I mean, she has a
Speaker 1: better grasp on it than most of the people in Congress.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you have a freshman congress person
Speaker 1: come in and you know they're not really acquainted with
Speaker 1: the policy, but they have a mastery of reaching their
Speaker 1: constituents and new voters gen Z, you know, there's kind
Speaker 1: of sort of a threat to the rest of Congress,
Speaker 1: like how are they going to a doubt it? And
Speaker 1: that's how she rises to power. So what I was
Speaker 1: thinking last night as well, before that panel, you know,
Speaker 1: not particularly in the weeds on policy or process really
Speaker 1: good at populism. It reminds me of someone who took
Speaker 1: over the Republican Party a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen how that's gone. That is, given
Speaker 1: Donald Trump hergemony over the right now, I perhaps I
Speaker 1: believe that's a good thing because I am a Trump
Speaker 1: style nationalist and have been for a great many years.
Speaker 1: But for the Democrats who want to keep their you know,
Speaker 1: control of their party, AOC as we know her now
Speaker 1: poses a massive threat in that sense, doesn't she right?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so if you look back, even going beyond Trump
Speaker 1: to the Obama campaign, he was probably one of the
Speaker 1: first people to actually adopt social media as a huge
Speaker 1: campaign platform. And you know, with conservative they obviously understand
Speaker 1: what's going on. You know, tweets are, from the pr standpoint,
Speaker 1: extremely valuable. If you misspell one thing, people will write
Speaker 1: thousands of articles about it, like Hamburger exactly, or coves
Speaker 1: or whatever the nicknames of the day. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I think. I think the Democrats are in for a
Speaker 1: really rocky time with with AOC. And actually it makes
Speaker 1: me concerned that the future of the country kind of
Speaker 1: rests on whether or not the Democrats can weed out
Speaker 1: the extreme miss within their own ranks. I don't perhaps
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't take great, you know,
Speaker 1: great comfort in that happening, given given where these guys
Speaker 1: are going at the moment. But you know, let's talk
Speaker 1: about that cultural element to this. She's massive on Instagram.
Speaker 1: She says horrendous things like run a train on the
Speaker 1: progressive agenda and by the way, ladies and gentlemen out there,
Speaker 1: if you don't know what that means, do not look
Speaker 1: it up. Okay, just no googling that right now, or
Speaker 1: do it from a private private session in your browser. Um,
Speaker 1: you know she but she gets it. She gets how
Speaker 1: to connect and more than anything, Sarah, she gets how
Speaker 1: to pretend she's Alexandria from the block right exactly. So
Speaker 1: she's just so relatable. Whether you're you know, a Democrat
Speaker 1: or Republican. Everybody admires how she takes a hold of
Speaker 1: social media. You tune in to watch her instant part
Speaker 1: recipe you want to cover the next lipstick that she
Speaker 1: talks about, which when she released it last year, saying
Speaker 1: this is my favorite listig of all time, It's fought
Speaker 1: down within minutes. She's a perfect mix between an Instagram
Speaker 1: influencer and a politician, and that's what works so well
Speaker 1: for her, and it worked well, you know, it's worked
Speaker 1: well for a lot of people. That reminds me of
Speaker 1: Nigel Farage. Nigel had this tie and this coat in
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom where the tie said I legitimate, non carborundum.
Speaker 1: It means don't let the bastards grind you down. And
Speaker 1: when people saw him wearing that tie, that tie hold
Speaker 1: out online across the board. And the same thing with
Speaker 1: his camel head coat, which Sarah, you probably see me
Speaker 1: wearing quite a lot. It comes from the Nigel Farage
Speaker 1: school of fashion and and same that way. You know,
Speaker 1: the these this European style populism is now making real,
Speaker 1: real inroads into the United States, and both the Republican
Speaker 1: and the Democrat establishments have been caught with their pants
Speaker 1: down on these things. Where do you see AOC going
Speaker 1: just in the last minute or so we've got with
Speaker 1: you here over the next couple of months. I think
Speaker 1: most people are a little bit obsessed, and I confess
Speaker 1: to being that way myself, So I really want to
Speaker 1: understand where you think she's going with this. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see the same thing from a fashion perspective from
Speaker 1: Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle when they would sell out
Speaker 1: items in minutes on Jake Crue, Maximara Barbary, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1: But with ASC it seems that she's on an upward trajectory.
Speaker 1: Consistency has been her thing. She stayed almost exactly the
Speaker 1: same with messaging. She will reach out to the same
Speaker 1: people in the same way, or attack people on Twitter
Speaker 1: in the same way. It just works for her. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work for everyone, and even for the Democrats. But
Speaker 1: she knows what she's doing and she knows how to
Speaker 1: master all of the platforms, so I don't see her
Speaker 1: stopping anytime soon. Sarah, just tell people where they can
Speaker 1: find more of your thoughts on all things political and cultural.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter at Sarah sellip esk
Speaker 1: lip of computer. It's my last name Insard within each
Speaker 1: Sarah Selupa. Thank you so much for joining us. I
Speaker 1: think I might make you our cultural correspondent here whenever
Speaker 1: I'm guest hosting on this show. That would be amazing.
Speaker 1: I would love that. All right, Sarah sell out with there, ladies,
Speaker 1: LL make sure you're following her on Twitter. The phone
Speaker 1: number here is eight four four nine hundred buck eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred two eight to five one more
Speaker 1: of her calls. In the next hour, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking to Ned Ryan from American Majority, Jenkins, Republican strategist,
Speaker 1: Terry Schilling from the American Principles Project, and of course
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm Raheem Kassam. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show live from the Freedom Hut. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: after this short break. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Buck Sexton Show, broadcasting from the Freedom
Speaker 1: Hunt here in Washington, d See. My name is Rahem Kasam,
Speaker 1: filling in for Monsieur Sexton this evening. The phone lines
Speaker 1: are open eight four four nine hundred buck eight four
Speaker 1: four nine hundred two eight two five. In case you
Speaker 1: missed the first hour, I think it was good. We
Speaker 1: talked about Google and the FIBs that the Google CEO
Speaker 1: may may have ended up telling Congress about whether or
Speaker 1: not they intervene in individual search results. Big implications there,
Speaker 1: given that you know that is a search engine monopoly
Speaker 1: really and they shape the entire the entire Internet people's research.
Speaker 1: What it's going into your news, what you're consuming is news,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Talked a little bit about Alexander
Speaker 1: Accassio Cortez with my good buddy Sarah Salop had some
Speaker 1: great calls from you guys. So don't let me down
Speaker 1: this hour either. Eight four nine hundred U c K.
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me if you think I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: if you think I'm right. We opened with this latest
Speaker 1: troll I think from President Trump perpetrated against Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: pulling her off the military bus about to go on
Speaker 1: a little trip, a little trippy trip across to Brussels,
Speaker 1: Egypt and Afghanistan, and after she played politics with the
Speaker 1: State of the Union, President Trump said, no, no, Nancy,
Speaker 1: you will not be taking a military plane abroad. He
Speaker 1: will stay right here in Washington, DC and negotiate with me. Well,
Speaker 1: he can't force her to negotiate, but he can ground her.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what he's done. I'm want to bring in
Speaker 1: my friend Ned Ryan, he's the CEO of American Majority,
Speaker 1: which you can find out more about American Majority dot com. Ned.
Speaker 1: Good evening, thanks for joining us, Hey, great to be
Speaker 1: word rahem Ned. I think I did a good summary
Speaker 1: there of what's gone down today, But the bigger picture
Speaker 1: is CNN's upset that we're still in shutdown here in DC.
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you I haven't really noticed, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: This has been one of the arguments I've been making
Speaker 1: raheem outside of DC, outside of the Aselic Corridor, most
Speaker 1: of the American people have literally not been impacted one
Speaker 1: bit by the fact that eight hundred thousand federal government
Speaker 1: employees have been sent home, are being furloughed. And I
Speaker 1: think it begs the question if about forty of the
Speaker 1: federal government employees have been sent home and most Americans
Speaker 1: don't even notice, why aren't we having a conversation about
Speaker 1: the size of our government? Because I would make an argument,
Speaker 1: and I think the longer that the shutdown goes on,
Speaker 1: the stronger the argument becomes. Do we really need as
Speaker 1: much government as we have? Do we need to have
Speaker 1: nearly two million federal government employees we're spending one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty six billion a year on Do we really
Speaker 1: need over four hundred and thirty department's agencies and sub agencies?
Speaker 1: And I think this shutdown is making a very compelling
Speaker 1: argument that in fact, we don't in fact, our lives
Speaker 1: are not affected by it, and in fact, our government
Speaker 1: needs some serious reform and we need to start thinking
Speaker 1: about shrinking it. Good point, well made. I want to
Speaker 1: make the case also that you know, there are obviously
Speaker 1: the majority of those eight hundred thousand people affected by
Speaker 1: this government shutdown will be good people, you know, right,
Speaker 1: they are normal, ordinary people, and my heart goes out
Speaker 1: to them that they are going through this. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, government work comes with benefits
Speaker 1: and it comes with pitfalls. You know, it comes with
Speaker 1: some level of security in some senses and a level
Speaker 1: of insecurity in others, and it should be no different
Speaker 1: from from you know, having the insecurity that you have
Speaker 1: in a job in the private sector or if you're
Speaker 1: a contractor or so on and so forth. There is
Speaker 1: no you know, you are not owed anything by the taxpayer.
Speaker 1: You have opted to do that job. And again my
Speaker 1: heart goes out to you if you're one of those
Speaker 1: government workers who don't know where the next paychecks coming
Speaker 1: from or when it's going to come. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you knew that, didn't you going into this thing.
Speaker 1: And and ned I also just want to put to
Speaker 1: you this um you know, the science of government argument
Speaker 1: is a really good one to be raising right now.
Speaker 1: And as we approached the thirty day mark of this
Speaker 1: of this shutdown, are the Democrats shooting themselves in foot
Speaker 1: because of course they love big government. You know, put
Speaker 1: what Bill Bill Clinton, bill government, Bill Clinton said about
Speaker 1: the era of big government being over aside for a second,
Speaker 1: because that didn't happen. The Democrats are sort of leading
Speaker 1: Americans down that path to going old. I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't need all these people, no, I think so absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think that the longest thing goes on, they're actually
Speaker 1: making arguments to show again we don't need as much
Speaker 1: government as we have. And the thing I'd pushed back
Speaker 1: a little bit on with you Raheem as the fact,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand you know that people are not
Speaker 1: getting paychecks. Let's also remember that many times when these
Speaker 1: shutdowns end, federal government employees are made whole. At the
Speaker 1: same time, the ones that really suffer are the government contractors.
Speaker 1: They're not made whole. You know why, because they're private
Speaker 1: sector companies. They're not going to be bailed out and
Speaker 1: made whole by taxpayer dollars. And the other point I
Speaker 1: would make on this is we now have the most
Speaker 1: job openings that that we've maybe even had in our
Speaker 1: entire history. But it's five six million job openings. I
Speaker 1: would make the argument again, let's have the conversation about
Speaker 1: the size and role of government at the same time.
Speaker 1: These eight hundred thousand people market forces. If we truly
Speaker 1: believe that there are market forces and we're now seeing that,
Speaker 1: maybe perhaps there's a potential to have a market force
Speaker 1: say hey, we don't need as much government. There are
Speaker 1: five to six million job opportunities for those eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people where they could actually go into the private
Speaker 1: sector and actually really experience what it means to be
Speaker 1: in the private sector. Because I'm telling you, Raheem, I
Speaker 1: have been in DC about twenty years. I can guarantee
Speaker 1: you that there are many federal government employees. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's redundant. There's a lot of overlap. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw the Daily callerpiece just a few days
Speaker 1: ago in which somebody was making the argument and really
Speaker 1: explaining what a lot of these federal government employees are
Speaker 1: doing day to day. It's about process, it's about new
Speaker 1: task force, it's about creating new agencies. All they're seeking
Speaker 1: to do is put in time, get their pay, and
Speaker 1: expand the role of government. I think we need to
Speaker 1: have a serious conversation. And I'm sorry that they're a
Speaker 1: part that they might get caught in this, but the
Speaker 1: future of our country. We're twenty two trillion dollars in debt.
Speaker 1: We are now looking at annual deficits of a trillion
Speaker 1: in twenty years, raheem. If we do not stop this,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about forty trillion in national debt.
Speaker 1: Debt is unsustainable. No country, not even the United States,
Speaker 1: can sustain that. That's true. No countries ever sustain that
Speaker 1: level of debt. Okay. So with all that in mind, ned,
Speaker 1: what should this president be doing in your estimation? And
Speaker 1: how long does this go on for? I think it
Speaker 1: goes as long as it needs to. I mean, what
Speaker 1: we're really this is the amazing part to me, Raheem.
Speaker 1: We're talking about one eighth of one percent that he
Speaker 1: is asking for in regards to funding this five point
Speaker 1: seven billion for the wall. Democrats in the past five
Speaker 1: years ago voted for forty six billion, eight billion specific
Speaker 1: for a wall. They're obviously deeply hypocritical. I think Trump
Speaker 1: holds out as long as he needs to until they
Speaker 1: come to the table and they negotiate. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think that he should even go to the point of saying,
Speaker 1: under the Immigration and Nationality Act, if you guys will
Speaker 1: not negotiate with me, I will shut down the entire
Speaker 1: southern border until you've come to the negotiating table. I
Speaker 1: think this is his chance to go and just say
Speaker 1: we're going to have this conversation not only about the wall,
Speaker 1: but we're going to actually reform and fix our immigration system,
Speaker 1: which I would actually argue with him is so broken
Speaker 1: as to not even really be a system. And the
Speaker 1: other thing I'll say about this, in regards to the
Speaker 1: State of the Union, Trump should go down to the
Speaker 1: border and he should find the biggest venue he could find,
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people, and he should get his State of
Speaker 1: the Union address live on television in front of fifty
Speaker 1: thousand people and blow the socks off Nancy Pelosi. That
Speaker 1: would be awesome. That would indeed be awesome, But it
Speaker 1: also is a little predictable. And this president, I mean
Speaker 1: in the sense that we're all predicting it right that
Speaker 1: he should do it. This president tends to pull things
Speaker 1: even further out of left field than that any any
Speaker 1: I mean, see, I was going with the whole from
Speaker 1: Air Force one. I don't care well I was. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, to do a Twitter State of
Speaker 1: the Union, you know, whatever it takes. And I think
Speaker 1: the reason when you're winning, when you are winning a debate,
Speaker 1: you put your opponent out there to basically hang themselves,
Speaker 1: to basically undo themselves. The fact that Nancy Pelosi is
Speaker 1: I think deeply concerned about giving Trump that platform for
Speaker 1: the State of the Union to actually go directly to
Speaker 1: the American people and again make that argument why we
Speaker 1: need to have the wall, why we need to have
Speaker 1: immigration reform. She's not winning this debate, but I think
Speaker 1: what she's done is actually going to put Trump on steroids.
Speaker 1: I think whatever he's going to do, it will magnify
Speaker 1: his audience tenfold. And so I think what she's actually
Speaker 1: done is not only shown that she's not winning the debate,
Speaker 1: She's going to make Trump's speak wherever he gives it,
Speaker 1: that much more powerful. And I think with a really
Speaker 1: much begger audience, ned Ryan, tell tell our audience where
Speaker 1: they can find more of your work, tweets and and
Speaker 1: anything else you want them to see and things you
Speaker 1: don't want them to see. Well, you know that they
Speaker 1: can see whatever they want to see, Ned, Ryan any
Speaker 1: d r Yu on r yu and on Twitter. American majority.
Speaker 1: Dot org actually is where they can find out more
Speaker 1: about our sorty trainings. Um but yeah, no, Christ said
Speaker 1: dot com. Yeah, but you know what, American majority, they
Speaker 1: can google it, they can find it. Don't google it.
Speaker 1: We don't use Google anymore. We use duct go. I
Speaker 1: use duct dot go yea, yeah, I use ductorgo. I
Speaker 1: don't Google. And I wish I could have talked about
Speaker 1: Google some more. But they need to be broken up.
Speaker 1: Alphabet Inc. Needs to be broken up for the good
Speaker 1: of the American people. Well, I'll tell you what next time,
Speaker 1: next time I'm in this hot seat in the Freedom Heart,
Speaker 1: You're going to come on and talk about the dominance
Speaker 1: of these nefarious tech companies. But Ned, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us here on the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for him. Eight four four nine hundred buck eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred two eight two five is the
Speaker 1: number here? Was Ned wrong? Was Ned right? Did I
Speaker 1: ask the important questions? What would you say to this
Speaker 1: president if you had his ear for just a moment,
Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe he's listening this evening. Good evening, mister President.
Speaker 1: If you are right, we're gonna go to a quick
Speaker 1: break now. When we come back, Jen Kerns, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be talking more about this shutdown, but I want your
Speaker 1: calls to get on the lines and be on the triggers.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Raheem Gassam. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Rahem Gassam, broadcasting live from the Freedom Heart here
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. We're talking all things shut down
Speaker 1: this hour. If you want to have your say, eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine hundred
Speaker 1: two eight two five is the number here. I'm joined
Speaker 1: now by my good friend at Jen Kerns, Republican strategist Jen.
Speaker 1: Good evening. Hello, Raheem, how were you, Jen? I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be talking to my brother from
Speaker 1: another mother. Jen. We had another one of our brethren
Speaker 1: on the line a moment ago, Ned Ryan was joining
Speaker 1: us to talk about all of this and where it's
Speaker 1: going to. Let me get your thoughts right now. Ned's
Speaker 1: position is that it's good the shutdown is good in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, because it is showing a
Speaker 1: lot of Americans how little government they actually need in
Speaker 1: their lives, how a little these federal workers, and no
Speaker 1: offense to them on a personal level. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the institutions that they represent being bloated. They are unfortunately
Speaker 1: caught up in all of this mess. But how little
Speaker 1: that is actually needed. And where is this going to stop?
Speaker 1: Ned says It'll go on as long as it needs to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. And I think President Trump
Speaker 1: here is showing his reaganesque side, you know, as Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: who he had a total of I think seven or
Speaker 1: eight shutdowns. I think it was eight during his eight years,
Speaker 1: and you know, he didn't care what people thought, he
Speaker 1: didn't care what the press set And I think that
Speaker 1: is very much a page that that Trump is taking
Speaker 1: yet again out of the Reagan books. And look, if
Speaker 1: you look at the core issue of this, you know,
Speaker 1: the mainstream media today is trying to make everybody think
Speaker 1: that the American people don't care about border security and
Speaker 1: that Trump's numbers are actually coming down. And I looked
Speaker 1: at the various polls that were out today, the Washington
Speaker 1: Post poll, the Marist poll, the NBC News Washington Well
Speaker 1: three journal polls give you. Those were all the same
Speaker 1: polls that had Hillary Clinton up eighteen points on October sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. They all said she was going to win
Speaker 1: in the landslide. And how that changed in a period
Speaker 1: of two weeks. I look at the other poles. Does
Speaker 1: that really matter here? If you look at the Rasmusan pole,
Speaker 1: they were one of only three posters that got the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen elections, right, I think they're the most accurate.
Speaker 1: They showed that an overwhelming number of Americans are concerned
Speaker 1: about border security, and in fact, one out of four Americans,
Speaker 1: even during the shutdown, would contribute their own money to
Speaker 1: build the border wall. You have other poles. Out AP
Speaker 1: poll which has slightly center left, taken just before the shutdown,
Speaker 1: shows border security has now moved into among the top
Speaker 1: five concerns for the American people. You look at the
Speaker 1: Gallup poll, which is a gold standard and polling reported
Speaker 1: that border security had actually moved into the top two
Speaker 1: concerns for Americans just after the twenty eighteen mid terms.
Speaker 1: After Nancy Pelosi won back that gabble and finally an economist.
Speaker 1: Yugov poll shows that a whopping sixty two percent of
Speaker 1: Americans actually view illegal immigration not border security. The actual
Speaker 1: word used was illegal immigration as either a very serious
Speaker 1: problem or a somewhat serious problem, and only seven percent
Speaker 1: of Americans seven percent believed that illegal immigration was quote
Speaker 1: not a problem. So that shows me President Trump has
Speaker 1: the win in his sales here. He can let this
Speaker 1: go on for a protracted battle if he wants. What
Speaker 1: if the cases I'm just playing devil's advocate here. What
Speaker 1: if the case is actually I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: playing devil's advocate, maybe I do believe this. What if
Speaker 1: the case is that the public season right on the
Speaker 1: issue but wrong on the tactics. Well, look where we've
Speaker 1: seen the American sentiment really has not changed that significantly
Speaker 1: on President Trump. And look at he has been right
Speaker 1: on virtually every issue since he was sworn in as president.
Speaker 1: You look at the economy, You look at the stock
Speaker 1: market has gone to record levels. They said the stock
Speaker 1: market was going to tank within seventy two hours of
Speaker 1: his inauguration, didn't happen. You look at jobs. He's brought
Speaker 1: jobs back to America in every sector, Women's unemployment down
Speaker 1: seventeen year low, Overall unemployment down seventeen year low, African
Speaker 1: American unemployment down a fifty year low since they began
Speaker 1: recording the rate. So you can look at this and say,
Speaker 1: you know, the American people, you know, it has shown
Speaker 1: up in polls that they don't like how he says something.
Speaker 1: They certainly like what he's actually doing, and I think
Speaker 1: that sentiment will start to come through in the polls here.
Speaker 1: They may not like this tit for tat sending letters
Speaker 1: back and forth between he and Nancy Pelosi, but at
Speaker 1: the core, they do like that border security, as I
Speaker 1: just said, and they do like that he's standing tough
Speaker 1: and standing up to the position. And look, anyone that's
Speaker 1: surprised that the government is shut down right now has
Speaker 1: not been paying attention. He ran on the concept of
Speaker 1: draining the swamp, and that is precisely what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I think it's a secondary battle here. I think he
Speaker 1: did shut the government down over the border wall. But secondarily,
Speaker 1: this does fit, you know, the list of a hundred
Speaker 1: things that he wanted to check off his campaign promises list.
Speaker 1: This does fit one of those items in there that
Speaker 1: he's going to check off and say, look, I kept
Speaker 1: my promise to the American people. I went to Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: and I helped drain the small Just funnily, Jen, I
Speaker 1: want to ask a hypothetical question here because I think
Speaker 1: in late December let down first loomed and the bars
Speaker 1: in on Capitol Hill started serving shutdown cocktails. I had
Speaker 1: one of them. That was before my dry January. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'll talk to you guys about that a
Speaker 1: little later in the program. But when that happened, I
Speaker 1: guess we thought, hey, you know, this will last a week,
Speaker 1: two weeks, maybe a little longer. We're going on some
Speaker 1: time now, an unprecedented amount of time. Now in your estimation,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen this stuff, you study very closely.
Speaker 1: How much longer can this realistically? I don't mean you know, theoretically,
Speaker 1: in a in a you know, if he needs to
Speaker 1: do it since, but how much longer do you think
Speaker 1: the White House allows this to go on before having
Speaker 1: to change tax somewhere. I truly believe Raheem dieted go
Speaker 1: on for sixty five or seventy days without President Trump
Speaker 1: losing much in the polls. I think five to seven
Speaker 1: points max. And look I've studied this for fifteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, you didn't see the Democrats crying in their
Speaker 1: beers at the Capitol Hill bars when Barack Obama closed
Speaker 1: down the government in October twenty thirteen. You know, it's
Speaker 1: so funny. Democrats are so up in arms over this
Speaker 1: and they hate it because Trump has done it. But
Speaker 1: look at the history. Barack Obama shut down the government
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. His shutdown was actually worse than President
Speaker 1: trump shutdown. His was a complete shutdown, whereas Trump's is
Speaker 1: only a partial shutdown. By the numbers, Obama furloughed far
Speaker 1: more employees, more than eight hundred thousand workers under barackton
Speaker 1: you've got to jump here. It's a hard break. So
Speaker 1: that's all music. And yet more than a million asked
Speaker 1: to work without pay. So thank you, Jen Kearns. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show, Live from the Freedom Hind, Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. We'll be right back. Welcome back. It's the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show broadcasting life from Washington, d C. The
Speaker 1: phone lines are open eight four four nine hundred eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred to eight two five and speaking
Speaker 1: of which, want to go to line one. Anthony in Pennsylvania. Anthony,
Speaker 1: are you with us? Yes, I am, sir. How you
Speaker 1: doing that doing well? Sir? Take us away? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: you've got the mic, Anthony, go ahead. I think Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is at a maker break point now. He must
Speaker 1: stay the course because if the Democratic Party, having just
Speaker 1: taken the House, realizes that they can roll him over
Speaker 1: on this, then the wall will never get built. This
Speaker 1: would be a harbinger of persistent defeat, this of course
Speaker 1: being you know, the wall and the border security being
Speaker 1: probably the primary thing now this administration is concerned with.
Speaker 1: If it rolls over on this, Anthony was saying, don't
Speaker 1: roll over and everything else, then all President Trump has
Speaker 1: to do is say I took an oath to preserve, protect,
Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution of the United States. And even
Speaker 1: places that don't teach the Constitution anymore, they teach children
Speaker 1: to memorize the preamble and feel that they've studied the Constitution.
Speaker 1: The preamble of the Constitution states that we the people
Speaker 1: to provide for the common defense. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: he's doing right here. He's providing for the defense of
Speaker 1: the nation. He's providing for enforcement of the borders. That's
Speaker 1: a federal function that's enumerated in the Constitution. That's not discretionary,
Speaker 1: that's mandated. So what he's doing by insisting on this
Speaker 1: border defense is merely upholding the oath that he took
Speaker 1: as president. You know, I think about this quite a lot. Antony.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a very good point, because on
Speaker 1: the run up to the twenty and sixteen election, we
Speaker 1: would hold over and over again that Donald Trump doesn't
Speaker 1: know anything about the Constitution. Donald Trump doesn't know anything
Speaker 1: about America. He's just he's just a loudmouth New Yorker
Speaker 1: who got a big donation from his dad. And it
Speaker 1: turns out that whether it's intentional or just as as
Speaker 1: as a consequence of nature, he seems to be the
Speaker 1: only one, even sometimes within his own party, who is
Speaker 1: actually sticking to what is required of him per his oath.
Speaker 1: When I was very young and I was in school,
Speaker 1: I remember there was a poem that I read and
Speaker 1: it was called mean And I see, the most stupid
Speaker 1: thing that's ever said about conservatives, right after using the
Speaker 1: word hateful as an adjective, is mean spirited. And I
Speaker 1: remember this one passage from a poem. I can't remember
Speaker 1: the author the poem's name was mean, and I will
Speaker 1: never forget. Mean is the coward's favorite game in which
Speaker 1: the winner shifts the blame. And that's what the Democrat
Speaker 1: they're doing. We see, you know, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer ed al say never a dime, not a dime,
Speaker 1: We won't give one penny for the wall. Then the
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News comes on. You know, Donald Trump refuses
Speaker 1: to compromise on the border security, and mean is the
Speaker 1: coward's favorite game in which the winner shifts the blame.
Speaker 1: And it appears the willing accomplices in the mainstream press
Speaker 1: are allowing the Democrats to shift the blame. Oh I
Speaker 1: love that. Thank you for the call. Anthony there in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Let's go to line too. Jim is in Boston. Jim,
Speaker 1: good evening, Good evening, raheem, thank you for taking the call.
Speaker 1: Absolutely just a frame of reference. I actually used to
Speaker 1: work for Speaker of Ause O'Neil years ago under him
Speaker 1: and Reagan, and what was interesting was they could read
Speaker 1: to disagree on certain things, but it was all about
Speaker 1: getting business done. And unfortunately today they're so polarized. So
Speaker 1: my thought is, or my suggestion to President Trump would
Speaker 1: be to hold out until March, when the debt ceiling
Speaker 1: has to be raised, and use that as a leverage
Speaker 1: point again to actually force them to start negotiating in
Speaker 1: good faith instead of turning around and saying we're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything. Now. For those of us Jim
Speaker 1: like me, I will confess who don't understand the process
Speaker 1: that that would that would entail. Just walk us through
Speaker 1: what happens in March and how the president could could
Speaker 1: leverage that. As you say, so, he's got They're going
Speaker 1: to need to pass a bill to increase the debt ceiling.
Speaker 1: The government a run out of money, and very much
Speaker 1: like letting Nancy Pelosi not fly on government planes, He's
Speaker 1: going to turn around, with the Senate's help to say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: if you want to do this, you need to get
Speaker 1: my buying. You need to also get the buying of
Speaker 1: the Senate. And now we really need to solve this
Speaker 1: problem if you want to keep the government actually going
Speaker 1: and raise the debt ceiling so that the government has money.
Speaker 1: And if they're going to play this game of chicken
Speaker 1: with him, whoever swerves first is going to lose. And
Speaker 1: I think Democrats are so ingrained in keeping their base
Speaker 1: with the power of the purse, they're going to have
Speaker 1: to turn around and say, listen, we need to make
Speaker 1: a deal here and for five billion dollars, which is
Speaker 1: a pitting they're going to have to come through, especially
Speaker 1: when you consider that all of these knuckleheads have have
Speaker 1: gone ahead and voted for massive um you know, border
Speaker 1: funding in the past, and now just because the name
Speaker 1: in the White House is Trump, they're going to stand
Speaker 1: against him. I think the only way for him to
Speaker 1: do it or get them to take notice is when
Speaker 1: it comes down to they need him. With regard to
Speaker 1: the debt sailing, Jim would I would love to connect
Speaker 1: with you if you hang on the lining and try
Speaker 1: and get one of our producers to get get your
Speaker 1: details so I can I can connect with you off
Speaker 1: off air as well. It's Jim in Boston with an
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic call pointing out some extraordinary things there about
Speaker 1: the debt ceiling. Extraordinary in the sense that when I
Speaker 1: asked the question earlier about how long the president can
Speaker 1: keep this shutdown going, Jen Kerns told me effectively up
Speaker 1: until much she said, another another thirty days or so,
Speaker 1: without really seeing much of a problem in sure enough.
Speaker 1: That takes us into Jim's theory there that we can
Speaker 1: take this right up until the dead ceiling has to
Speaker 1: be raised again. Maybe that's the plan. Maybe that's been
Speaker 1: the plan all along by this administration. More leverage their
Speaker 1: way comes. Who knows. Eight eight four four nine hundred bark,
Speaker 1: that's eight four four nine hundred two eight two five
Speaker 1: is the number here. And I tell you, the quality
Speaker 1: of the calls today, just like every day that I'm
Speaker 1: the guest host of this show, is supremely high. I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope you guys all know how much I appreciate
Speaker 1: it and how much I learned from you guys out
Speaker 1: there as well. So if you're, you know, a first
Speaker 1: time caller, never called in before, now now's the chance.
Speaker 1: The bar. The bar is set high, and I think
Speaker 1: I think that should be something we all reach for.
Speaker 1: And I agree with Jim as well when he said that,
Speaker 1: now we used to actually talk to one another, and
Speaker 1: that's what I aim to do with these shows. That's
Speaker 1: why I aimed to do yesterday with my Democrat opponent
Speaker 1: on the Laura Ingram Show last night on Fox. Mostly
Speaker 1: because I believe the arguments and the right is on
Speaker 1: my side, and so I go into it with that
Speaker 1: level of confidence. But also because what what does it
Speaker 1: help us to be at each other's throats all the time,
Speaker 1: to reject the idea of understanding one another and where
Speaker 1: we're all coming from. You see, when I talk privately
Speaker 1: to people about these things, we seem to be able
Speaker 1: to do it like grown adults. It just so happens
Speaker 1: that when the cameras are on or the radio Mike's
Speaker 1: heart people want to grandstand and pull back into their
Speaker 1: own little corners. Well more people have been doing today
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Alexandro Accassio Cortez once again. And she
Speaker 1: does know how to get coverage, and she does know
Speaker 1: how to get coverage out of me. She said, she
Speaker 1: goes a hunting in the Senate for Mitch McConnell. Can't
Speaker 1: find him, can't find him in the cloakroom, can't find
Speaker 1: him on the floor, can't find him in the office.
Speaker 1: Nowhere to be seen. She went to the wrong place.
Speaker 1: She was supposed to go to the Senate Majority leaders office.
Speaker 1: She ended up just going to the general Senate offices.
Speaker 1: But I suspect that she knew that, and that she
Speaker 1: was doing that to get the coverage of her walking
Speaker 1: around the Senate going where's Mitch, Where's Mitch, Where's Mitch?
Speaker 1: And sure enough, here I am playing right into her
Speaker 1: hands giving her the coverage. This is the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Rheim because some were broadcasting live from Washington, DC
Speaker 1: in the Freedom Heart. We're going to take a quick
Speaker 1: break now. When we come back, Terry Shilling from the
Speaker 1: American Principles Project and more of your calls, we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Raheem Kassam,
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from the Freedom Hunt in downtown Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: I realized earlier I didn't tell you where you can
Speaker 1: read it more from Jen Kerns. Let's at Jen Kerns
Speaker 1: k e r n S on Twitter and Jen Kerns
Speaker 1: dot com. She was the Republican strategist we had on
Speaker 1: earlier in this hour talking about the government shutdown. I
Speaker 1: want to pivot now to Terry Shilling. He's the ahead
Speaker 1: of the American Principles Project and a dear friend of mine. Terry.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Hey, Raheem, thanks for having me and I'm
Speaker 1: excited of the year. Well, thank you for being on.
Speaker 1: I realize you're in mid transit at the moment, so
Speaker 1: I'm grateful that you can join us. It's a short
Speaker 1: segment we've got at the bottom of this hour, so
Speaker 1: let's jump right into it. The March for Life is tomorrow, Terry,
Speaker 1: what's the March for Life? It's the biggest pro life
Speaker 1: of then the country. Every year, around the anniversary of
Speaker 1: the Rogue Way decision, hundreds of thousands of pro home
Speaker 1: so active go to washingt NBC to show Congress and
Speaker 1: the President that the right to life is a fundamental
Speaker 1: issue here and that we need to protect everyone from
Speaker 1: conception until natural death. So I have seen this now
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. We don't really have anything
Speaker 1: like it from back where I'm from, and I suppose
Speaker 1: there's the similar things in France, A couple of other
Speaker 1: countries do it. But I mean, this is a vast,
Speaker 1: vast thing, massive, massive numbers, huge array of events around it.
Speaker 1: But even still back in twenty seventeen, I believe the
Speaker 1: Women's March, the leftist pink hatted March, got around two
Speaker 1: hundred times the level of coverage than the massive, massive
Speaker 1: March for Life did. Terry Waite is that it's just
Speaker 1: because we obviously have a slanted media across of century,
Speaker 1: and you know they don't like to cover the March
Speaker 1: for Life and how many people show up. But the
Speaker 1: other reason, I think, though, if I'm being honest about it,
Speaker 1: that the March for Life happens every year and hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of people come, and I think that the
Speaker 1: media has probably just gotten used to it. It's it's
Speaker 1: not abnormal for hundreds of thousands of people to come
Speaker 1: in January to March for Life. It was something more newsworthy,
Speaker 1: I think as a restaurant. Oh, I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: Women's March wasn't newsworthy, don't get me wrong, but two
Speaker 1: hundred times more newsworthy. No, I think that's a fair criticism.
Speaker 1: It is Terry. We we shot in time, and I
Speaker 1: want to get to your toxic masculinity. If you don't mind,
Speaker 1: let me just get the producers to play this clip
Speaker 1: from this Gillette advert that came out this week against masculinity?
Speaker 1: Is this the best a man can get? As well?
Speaker 1: Problem we can't hide for harassment is taking off. It's
Speaker 1: been going on far too long. What I actually thinks
Speaker 1: she's trying to say, making the same old excuses, but
Speaker 1: something finally changed allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassments once,
Speaker 1: but she says, and there will be no going back,
Speaker 1: because we we believe in the best in men. Men
Speaker 1: need to hold other men accountable. Well that's a Gilette advert.
Speaker 1: If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that I
Speaker 1: immediately threw my Gillette razor out terry. Is your masculinity toxic?
Speaker 1: And can you be better? Oh? Man? You know, I
Speaker 1: think the big problem with that ad is that it
Speaker 1: wasn't written by men. It was written by radical feminists,
Speaker 1: who you know, have always looked down on masculinities. And
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, obviously the stuff that they
Speaker 1: label or lay out in the ad does need to
Speaker 1: be addressed. And but I don't think that that's a
Speaker 1: product of masculine I think that that's a rejection of masculine.
Speaker 1: You know, a masculine man does not objectify women, A
Speaker 1: masculine man doesn't bully people. A masculine man actually stands
Speaker 1: up for women, and a real man stands up to bullies.
Speaker 1: And so I think the heart of it is it's interesting,
Speaker 1: but it was just written by the wrong people. I
Speaker 1: could write a much better ad that'd be more effective,
Speaker 1: it would get the point across. So maybe that's a
Speaker 1: project you and I should work on our heam or
Speaker 1: we could not and say we did. This is a
Speaker 1: great radio terry. It's it's one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of people now tossing out the
Speaker 1: Gillette raises, some people even saying they won't consume any
Speaker 1: Procter and Gamble Goods products anymore, which is a very
Speaker 1: difficult thing to achieve, actually, when you consider just how
Speaker 1: much that company owns. Is that the right response to this?
Speaker 1: How do you? How do you feel? And do you
Speaker 1: own any gilette products terry? You do you now or
Speaker 1: have you ever owned any gilette products terry? Have you?
Speaker 1: No shames? Sir? I look, I've been I've been using
Speaker 1: the Dollar Shape club for the past ten years. Is
Speaker 1: not an advertisementility? No, no, no, I'm not average. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry they should give you money though, um, but no, listen,
Speaker 1: I haven't used gialette and I think already guys have
Speaker 1: swift from gilette products to the Dollar Shape clubs. So
Speaker 1: they knew they had to do something really controversial to
Speaker 1: get the whole country talking about them. Yeah, most of
Speaker 1: my friends are just choosing the next beer now over
Speaker 1: Gilette raisers. So well, we'll see how that works out
Speaker 1: for them and their wives. You have some very very
Speaker 1: curious friends, my friends, and I suppose they're friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I suppose they're friends by proxy for me, which should
Speaker 1: should be worried about. Terry, tell Alreudience a little bit
Speaker 1: about the American Principles Project and where they can follow
Speaker 1: your work. Look, we're a very simple group. We work
Speaker 1: on federalism and families, so we get the federal coming
Speaker 1: out of the way that the family can throw up
Speaker 1: and prosper and allow for maximum amount of liberty and freedom.
Speaker 1: And we can find us at on the web at
Speaker 1: APPFDC dot org and we'll be coming out with some
Speaker 1: really interesting reports here pretty soon making the political argument
Speaker 1: for creating strong families. Strong families tend to vote more
Speaker 1: with liberty and mind and a conservative and you know,
Speaker 1: weak families tend to vote as liberals, and so I
Speaker 1: think their way to turn the centure around is to
Speaker 1: encourage and strengthen more strong families. You hear that, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Terry Shilling just called your families week. If
Speaker 1: you're a liberal, what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 1: You're gonna get on the phones eight four four nine
Speaker 1: one hundred buck eight four four to nine under two
Speaker 1: eight two five and let Terry have it. We're up
Speaker 1: against the break here. But when we come back, do
Speaker 1: you want to talk to you about my latest column
Speaker 1: for the American Spectator magazine. It's about this dry January
Speaker 1: I've undertaken, and of course more of your call, So
Speaker 1: stay on the line. I'm Raheem Kassam. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. It's the bug Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm ahem Pusam, broadcasting live out of Washington, DC, and
Speaker 1: I can't believe two hours have gone already, just the
Speaker 1: last hour to go here. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: leave because it just started snowing outside again, and I
Speaker 1: tend to I'm a walker, and I tend to like
Speaker 1: walking the I guess it's like a forty five minute
Speaker 1: walk home for me from here, and now I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it in the snow, which will be extra fun.
Speaker 1: I might just hang around here in studio and wait
Speaker 1: till it subsides a little bit. See if anybody tries
Speaker 1: to kick me out of the building, maybe we'll just
Speaker 1: sleep here overnight. I've got to be back here at
Speaker 1: the boarding anyway. Right the phone lines are open eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred buc K eight four four nine
Speaker 1: hundred two eight two five. We've been talking about the
Speaker 1: shutdown in the past couple of hours. Also, if you
Speaker 1: miss the first hour, do go back and listen. Lots
Speaker 1: of interesting stuff in there about what Google's up to
Speaker 1: behind the scenes in suppressing conservative information now as it
Speaker 1: turns up in search functions, not just on Google dot Com,
Speaker 1: but on all their other products as well, like YouTube.
Speaker 1: Really interesting stuff there from my friend Alan Paccari over
Speaker 1: at bright bart Tech, who actually got a leak from
Speaker 1: inside Google about all of that. So make sure you're
Speaker 1: plugged in and understanding what's going on there. We talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about AOC Alexandra Accacio Cortez two, and
Speaker 1: the story of the day is that despite our next guest,
Speaker 1: who is none other than the conservative independent journalist Laura Luma,
Speaker 1: despite her bounding over Nancy Pelosi's home wall and erecting
Speaker 1: a migrant caravan type situation dally on her lawn wasn't
Speaker 1: the worst troll Miss Pelosi has gone through this week.
Speaker 1: That accolade belongs to the President of the United States,
Speaker 1: who today revoked her military plane that she was going
Speaker 1: to take to go to Brussels in Egypt and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: I'm a very stable genius. He is a very stable genius.
Speaker 1: By the way, mister producer, I love when you guys
Speaker 1: do that. So any time you want, you jump in
Speaker 1: with mister Trump. In my ear, we've got the phone
Speaker 1: lines open, and we've got some callers on the line,
Speaker 1: so I want to go to them now. Line one.
Speaker 1: Charles is in Indiana. Oh, good evening to you. How
Speaker 1: are you doing. I'm very well, Charles, take us away, okay.
Speaker 1: I'm a retired Fort certain US Army twenty four years Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for the ideal for the president. There's a
Speaker 1: stadium in Washington, d C. Let's do the State of
Speaker 1: Union in the stadium. Whoa, oh, hold on water, open
Speaker 1: access to the public. As a matter of fact, that's
Speaker 1: the way it should be. It's the state of the Union.
Speaker 1: It's it's our union. Now let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: Charles M filling a stadium in Trump Country might be easy?
Speaker 1: Is that so easy in Washington, d C? Well we
Speaker 1: can just move it to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, I agree with that, but but fill it
Speaker 1: because I would drive towards it. It's um, it's I
Speaker 1: think it's an idea at least from what I hear
Speaker 1: that is in the mix at the moment. Either a
Speaker 1: rally type or, as you say, a stadium type event
Speaker 1: where the president takes the state of the Union to
Speaker 1: the people. It would send quite a message, wouldn't it, Charles?
Speaker 1: You take it to the enemy. Absolutely, Charles, thank you,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead. Our president is a lion. And
Speaker 1: what I'm going to say is to survive in a
Speaker 1: nation of sheep ruled by wolf owned by pigs, you
Speaker 1: must become a lion. He is our lion. Charles. Inspirational
Speaker 1: stuff there. Thank you so much for the call. Let's
Speaker 1: let's ask Donne in Alabama what he thinks of it
Speaker 1: all Dawn, Good evening, Welcome to the show. Good evening, raheem,
Speaker 1: how are you doing the night? I'm all right, I'm well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I'm I'm embracing myself too. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: I know, and I love I tell you what. I
Speaker 1: love Alabama and I love the Alabama accent. I'm not
Speaker 1: coming onto you. I especially like it on women. No,
Speaker 1: let you understand my male thing is good. So go
Speaker 1: right ahead, don take us away. Yes, sir, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to remind this country, and you know, those of
Speaker 1: us that think about little things, our penny, the smallest
Speaker 1: denomination that we've got as God on the top of it.
Speaker 1: In God we trust. We've built this country based on that.
Speaker 1: I know I'm opening a kind of worms here, but
Speaker 1: if you look at the wall that we've got that
Speaker 1: we're proposing that Trump wants to build for us, we
Speaker 1: are allies of the single most important nation on the
Speaker 1: face of this earth. That city has a wall around
Speaker 1: it for a reason is to protect us. President Trump said,
Speaker 1: the ones you love, but also your enemies, to keep
Speaker 1: them out. This extension of our border, in my heart,
Speaker 1: I believe is an extension of that wall in that city.
Speaker 1: And I know you know where I'm talking about. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: I've been I love my country. I love my country.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you if I reach in my pocket
Speaker 1: right now, I gotta pay in my pocket, and I'll
Speaker 1: give it to President Trump. If it's my last one
Speaker 1: to build this um, well, you know, don't I often joke.
Speaker 1: I often joke because I'm I'm a British and I'm
Speaker 1: a British citizen, and I am a conservative, and in
Speaker 1: in Britain, being a conservative means you would technically or
Speaker 1: should be a monarchist as well. So I often joke
Speaker 1: with my American friends, who are typically Republicans in this
Speaker 1: in the stricter sense, not in the party political sense,
Speaker 1: but in the sense that you are a republic I
Speaker 1: often joke because most of them are are God fearing
Speaker 1: Christians as well. I say, it's not the Republic of Heaven,
Speaker 1: it's the Kingdom of Heaven, and therefore that's why I Brobodochus.
Speaker 1: But it also applies to what I mean. I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: But it also applies to what you're saying, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think of the pearly gates, and you did
Speaker 1: open account of worms with God, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: run with it. When you think of the pearly gates,
Speaker 1: the pearly gates have to be you know, attached to something.
Speaker 1: They're not just It's not just gates that means heaven
Speaker 1: is walled off, right, I mean heaven is walled off
Speaker 1: from sin and sinners. Correct, Yes, sir, absolutely. And if
Speaker 1: you you mentioned Google earlier, and I know I'm stepping
Speaker 1: out lamb right here, I may regret it, maybe not.
Speaker 1: But if you google law on the present, google now
Speaker 1: that the things that comes up is about a building.
Speaker 1: You know, your home. You got a door in your home.
Speaker 1: You can walk your door to night. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: let some stranger just walk into your home and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I need a cup of water or a meal to eat,
Speaker 1: you know, unless you unless you are willing to let
Speaker 1: them in. But they need to knock on the door first.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't just walk into somebody's home and
Speaker 1: expect them to give you what they've got. Somebody the
Speaker 1: shirt off my back, but don't take it from me,
Speaker 1: you know. And isn't that I mean, I've I've That's
Speaker 1: exactly how I feel about Americans in general, perhaps the
Speaker 1: most generous people on this earth. But don't you try
Speaker 1: and take something from them. They'll give it to you,
Speaker 1: but don't you try and take it. Don't In Alabama?
Speaker 1: What a great call line to Noel? Is it? Nolan,
Speaker 1: Virginia Beach. Yeah, hey, no, how's it going? Oh? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: Well take us away. It's good to see the freedom
Speaker 1: huts in good hands. And as far as the Democrat,
Speaker 1: the Democrats trying to beat Chump, they're not going to
Speaker 1: beat him because he can wait them out. And they're
Speaker 1: impotent already because just like Republicans they before, when the
Speaker 1: Republicans had the House, Democrats had the sent they weren't
Speaker 1: able to get anything done. So I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: going to beat them, no way. So I mean, is
Speaker 1: it but is it? Is it an impasse? Or is
Speaker 1: the White House in charge? Well? I think the way
Speaker 1: I was then in charge. But I mean, the Dems
Speaker 1: are trying to say, okay, we're just going to deny
Speaker 1: him the funding. And like I said, he could do
Speaker 1: the emergency declaration and take it from there. But and
Speaker 1: he's trying to go the right route. But you're the
Speaker 1: only thing transigent Democrat, that's what he expects. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get anywhere. Do you think the National
Speaker 1: Emergency is coming? I hope so, because I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just find it hard to believe that the public
Speaker 1: can't after seeing all the pictures of the demon's partying
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. They're not mad at them, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to go partying in Davos as well. And the
Speaker 1: World Economic Forum this week too. Noel in Virginia Beach,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the court God. I love
Speaker 1: these calls today, ladies and gentlemen. Keep them rolling in
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred b U c K eight
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Speaker 1: you reach me at the Freedom Heart. My name is
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Speaker 1: I believe, mister producer, and by writing saying is back tomorrow, correct,
Speaker 1: I'm being told, okay, good, because the fans need the
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Speaker 1: if you're interested. That's my plug for myself for the
Speaker 1: time being. We've got Laura Luma joining us in just
Speaker 1: a moment. Quick break. Now, we'll be right back with
Speaker 1: more Buck Sexton Show in just a moment. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton's Show. My name is Jerehim Kasam,
Speaker 1: filling in for the Great Buck here today in the Washington,
Speaker 1: DC studios. It's snowing outside again here in DC. The
Speaker 1: government is still shut down. Nancy Pelosi is grounded by
Speaker 1: President Trump. But as I said in the first in
Speaker 1: the first segment of this show a couple of hours ago,
Speaker 1: it's not the only time Nancy Pelosi's been trolled. This week.
Speaker 1: I'm delighted to say we have on the line joining
Speaker 1: us now a good friend of mine, somebody whose work
Speaker 1: I have both followed and supported over the years, conservative
Speaker 1: independent journalist Laura Luma joins us now. Lura, good evening,
Speaker 1: Good evening, Thanks for having me Raheim. Hey, absolutely, Laura,
Speaker 1: you are doing God's work out there, not least in
Speaker 1: trolling Nancy Pelosi. Tell us a little bit about what
Speaker 1: you did this week in you know, just a humanitarian action,
Speaker 1: I thought, right, yeah, So, you know, Nancy Pelosi of course,
Speaker 1: has been very stubborn with President Trump and isn't budging
Speaker 1: at all when it comes to approving five billion dollars
Speaker 1: in the budget so that we can have a wall built,
Speaker 1: because you know, we have an absolute humanitarian crisis and
Speaker 1: everyone's welcome here. And Nancy and Chuck they want open borders,
Speaker 1: and you know, they believe that asylum is a human right.
Speaker 1: And so I decided to go to California and I
Speaker 1: drove to Nancy Pelosi's multimillion dollar Napa Valley mansion and
Speaker 1: I met a little alien amigos, and we decided to
Speaker 1: hop her fence and make a sanctuary in her arts
Speaker 1: because everyone is welcome here, you know. And we had
Speaker 1: a little fiesta and Lacasta day Nancy, and it was
Speaker 1: really wonderful, and we pitched a little tent and we
Speaker 1: wrote on the tent in red letters, immorality, because you know,
Speaker 1: walls are an immorality, all right, and that's Nancy's favorite words.
Speaker 1: And so it was really nice. You know, I met
Speaker 1: these these illegals. They were from Mexico and Guatemala, and
Speaker 1: one of them even told us they had a criminal record,
Speaker 1: So you know, it doesn't matter though facts don't matter.
Speaker 1: What matters is morality, and walls are in immorality. So
Speaker 1: everyone is welcome here, even Ms thirteenth. We said that
Speaker 1: last week. No, that it doesn't matter if she gets
Speaker 1: everything faction correct, as long as she believes she's doing
Speaker 1: the moral thing. Do you think that relativism is bleeding
Speaker 1: into the Democrat Party at large at the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just an absolute absurdity at
Speaker 1: this point in time. And I think that I think
Speaker 1: that it's not even they're not making an effort at
Speaker 1: all to conceal their hate. True. I mean, what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now, every single move, everything that they're doing
Speaker 1: is out of spite for President Trump and just pure
Speaker 1: partisan politics. So even if it goes against the security
Speaker 1: of this country. So, I mean, we're at a point
Speaker 1: now where if Donald Trump were to say, you know,
Speaker 1: I you know, I would like to I would like
Speaker 1: to deport this individual because what we already thought, right
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump, for example, when he deported a Nazi,
Speaker 1: an actual Nazi from New York City right and the
Speaker 1: left criticized him because ICE is the groups that deported
Speaker 1: this Nazi. So Donald Trump literally deported a real life
Speaker 1: Nazi from this country, and the left was complaining about
Speaker 1: it because they wanted to demonize him for supporting ICE.
Speaker 1: So no matter what he does right, whether he's supporting Nazi,
Speaker 1: supporting terrorists, finding the cure for cancer, finding the cure
Speaker 1: for AIDS, the left in this country is just hell
Speaker 1: bent on making his life misery. Of course canceled. You know,
Speaker 1: the State of the Union a judge, you didn't want
Speaker 1: a President Trump attending. Yeah, but now her junkards, her
Speaker 1: junkard has been canceled. Now, Laura, I want to put
Speaker 1: this to you, and I mean it in a in
Speaker 1: a in a complimentary way. Okay, Um, you are gas
Speaker 1: lighting the left like Alexandra Accassio Cortez gas lights the right.
Speaker 1: You have this ability. I mean you have been deep
Speaker 1: personed across Twitter and and Patreon and all these things.
Speaker 1: You have been had your accounts banned and removed. You
Speaker 1: famously handcuffed yourself to Twitter HQ to highlight the assault
Speaker 1: on conservatives that the Silicon Valley is undertaking. But you
Speaker 1: still manage to trend on Twitter, and you manage to
Speaker 1: trend on Twitter this week as well. You know, is
Speaker 1: this really going to come down to the things that
Speaker 1: you're doing, which is you know, effectively fighting a mass
Speaker 1: culture war and attracting mass attention to these things with
Speaker 1: direct action. Yeah, that's exactly what my plan is, because
Speaker 1: of course you're right. I have been banned, I have
Speaker 1: been depersoned, and there is an active assault on me
Speaker 1: and many others in this country who are conservative, and
Speaker 1: an attempt to silence us so that we don't have
Speaker 1: a voice and you know, not even just a say
Speaker 1: on social media. They're coming after us financially, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get us banned. But I'm not going to go away.
Speaker 1: So every single time they try to silence me, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take it up a notch. Right, And when
Speaker 1: I handcuffed myself to Twitter, the left row articles like
Speaker 1: death of a Provocateur and they said, well, Laura's done
Speaker 1: for her, her career is done, She's going to fade
Speaker 1: into irrelevancy. Well, I don't call trending number one on
Speaker 1: Twitter and leading an illegal alien caravan into the speaker
Speaker 1: of the House is front lawn in other words, the
Speaker 1: third most powerful politicians in this country's front yard and
Speaker 1: getting illegal aliens to try to open her door. Being irrelevant, right,
Speaker 1: And if I'm so irrelevance, and why are they so
Speaker 1: obsessed with me and writing articles about me every single day?
Speaker 1: Agree more, Laura, Well, see it's only January. It's only January.
Speaker 1: Wrecking kicking up twenty nineteen. I filmed a video in
Speaker 1: my bed a couple days ago when I said, stay tuned.
Speaker 1: You know, my next video on my first video of
Speaker 1: the year is going to be talked about on every
Speaker 1: single news channel. And what do you know? It was
Speaker 1: a trended number one. And this is only January. My
Speaker 1: goal is to trend number one every single month this year.
Speaker 1: And come on, come on, give us, give us, give
Speaker 1: us a little hint. Where's the next one? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have a few more fiestas to throw. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of rich democrats to have really nice classes.
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of the megos. I met
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I was down in the border
Speaker 1: in Mexico. I met a lot of amigos who are coming.
Speaker 1: We got forty thousand people right here. I got to
Speaker 1: put these people up in some place, you know, they
Speaker 1: need sandwiches. Laura tell, tell the audience, Laura, tell the audience,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure everyone out there right now wants to
Speaker 1: follow you, but it's kind of difficult. Where can they
Speaker 1: still follow you? And how can they support your work? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 1: So you can subscribe to my website, Laura Lumur dot us.
Speaker 1: And then you can also follow me on Instagram at
Speaker 1: lumured because that's what Nancy Pelosi had happened to her
Speaker 1: and she got loomar. And you can support my work
Speaker 1: on PayPal still PayPal dot me slash Laura Luma. But
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in a place where all these companies
Speaker 1: are banning me, and so if you don't want to
Speaker 1: support PayPal um, you can mail me a check the
Speaker 1: old fashioned way, right they have. That's what it's coming
Speaker 1: to move me. They have tried to move me into
Speaker 1: the stone age of using snail mail. But you can
Speaker 1: send me a nice note. Just don't send me any
Speaker 1: like Rice and you know or anything you know that
Speaker 1: would kill me. Just you send me money in nice letters.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I don't have much money anymore, Laura.
Speaker 1: I'm impoverished. Now I'll send you a box of chocolates,
Speaker 1: Laura Luma, Citizens chocolats. Yeah, citizens, exactly. You're the only
Speaker 1: You're the only You're You're the only Rocke email ever
Speaker 1: write notes too, That's for sure, Laura Luma, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joy to us here on the Buck
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this short break. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton's show. I'm Rahemcasan, broadcasting live from
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hut in Washington, DC. Coming back to you
Speaker 1: guys on the phone lines. Now, we'll start with Paul
Speaker 1: in upstate New York. Paul, good evening, Good evening, Rain.
Speaker 1: You're doing a great job in buck Well. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. I appreciate it greatly. Paul, the Mike's yours. Okay,
Speaker 1: I barked end in a place that I know several
Speaker 1: Trump supporters, and I heard you say earlier that his
Speaker 1: support waned a little bit with him backing off on
Speaker 1: you know, that's what we're supposed to believe. The Poles
Speaker 1: are telling us. Yeah, Pauls are full of it. I've
Speaker 1: never heard I've never heard more support in my entire
Speaker 1: her life. Wow. I even hear it from I even
Speaker 1: hear support from people who didn't like Trump that they
Speaker 1: believed that he should stick to his guns because this
Speaker 1: is what he ran on. We have a we have
Speaker 1: a senator in upstate New York who she has a
Speaker 1: tendency not to tell the truth. And her she promised,
Speaker 1: you would serve four years if you won election. By
Speaker 1: the way, there's no way I would vote for her.
Speaker 1: But she won, and two weeks after she promised it,
Speaker 1: she's throwing her head in the ring running for the
Speaker 1: president United States. So that means her first thing she
Speaker 1: did was lie before she ran. But Paul, But Paul,
Speaker 1: she felt the divine providence, you know, the hand of
Speaker 1: history on her shoulder. You surely can't you know when
Speaker 1: when something like that intervenes quite clearly. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: standing at a church parking lot because they just helped
Speaker 1: out at the church. Well I didn't help out the
Speaker 1: church I'm picking my son up from he was in
Speaker 1: the church with a boy Scout meeting. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: I went to the Believe me when I tell you
Speaker 1: there is no divine intervention for her. It's the other
Speaker 1: It's it's the other end. It's the other end of
Speaker 1: that spectrum that she's going to end up in. Who
Speaker 1: oh boy, Well, Paul, thank you for conveying your your
Speaker 1: patron's views to us here on the Bucks Exton Show.
Speaker 1: You heard Paul. There, ladies and gentlemen. The support increasing
Speaker 1: and intensifying for President Trump during this shutdown standoff. Let's
Speaker 1: ask Ruth in Illinois Online three what she thinks about
Speaker 1: this all. Ruth, good evening. Hi, nice talk to you.
Speaker 1: Great to talk to you, Ruth. It's all it's all yours.
Speaker 1: Take us away. Hello, Yeah, go right ahead, Okay. I
Speaker 1: just mind his say in regards to the letter that
Speaker 1: the President wrote to Pelucy. They're calling it childish. I see, checkmate.
Speaker 1: And why he's respanding in kind? He's he's to me
Speaker 1: that was a response she should have gotten. And why
Speaker 1: why do you I mean she tried to stop him
Speaker 1: or may well end up stopping him. Giving the State
Speaker 1: of the Union address from Congress in a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks time. Why do you think that President Trump responded
Speaker 1: in kind rather than just saying, well, we're going to
Speaker 1: go give the speech anyway. Do you think this is
Speaker 1: a show of force and a show from his end
Speaker 1: that he ain't backing down anytime soon. Well, it seems
Speaker 1: to me that he had said it one time when
Speaker 1: she looked like she might be the speaker, that he
Speaker 1: said he would like to get along with her, and
Speaker 1: he would very much try to do so. But yes,
Speaker 1: you warned to play games, he could play the massle.
Speaker 1: He did say that. He did say that, I recall that.
Speaker 1: So you're fully behind this. How long do you foresee
Speaker 1: the shutdown going on for? And and how does it
Speaker 1: affect you? Does it? Does it make you more in
Speaker 1: his corner less in his corner? How do you? How
Speaker 1: do you? How do you process this? Well? I I
Speaker 1: have barn his carter, so it's I to say. But
Speaker 1: I definitely am still there, and I am I think
Speaker 1: he's our only hope anyway. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 1: see um the other side getting in completely in control
Speaker 1: like President and the Senate would be the worst thing
Speaker 1: that could happen. To our country. Okay, so Ruth one
Speaker 1: one word answer to this. Does he win or does
Speaker 1: he lose? On this? He'll win Ruth in Illinois predicting
Speaker 1: it there. Thank you very much for the call here
Speaker 1: on the Buck Sexton Show. Um, I have an article
Speaker 1: out in the Americans say today that actually I wrote
Speaker 1: last week and only managed to get around sending it
Speaker 1: filing it to a reputable outlet yesterday. It's called because
Speaker 1: I was having a little fun with the title, Here's
Speaker 1: how dry January makes me better than you, little little
Speaker 1: little dig there. But it's it's effectively a thousand words.
Speaker 1: Also that sounds like a lot, but it's about a
Speaker 1: four minute, five minute read about a process that I
Speaker 1: go through every year now, which is called dry January.
Speaker 1: It's a very British invention which began in I think
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. I picked it up three years ago where
Speaker 1: I said to myself, look between the December Christmas boozy
Speaker 1: parties and well the rest of my boozy life, I
Speaker 1: needed a detox period. And not only did I need
Speaker 1: a detox period this year because I went especially heavy
Speaker 1: in December, but I needed a detox period because the
Speaker 1: year last year was very very very difficult. I mean
Speaker 1: I was on a plane almost every other day going
Speaker 1: somewhere else in the world to meet some political leader
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, just just doing the day job.
Speaker 1: And I would medicate with poor sleep, lots of booze,
Speaker 1: poor food, etc. Etc. So towards the end of last year,
Speaker 1: I decided, Okay, it's time to get in shape. And
Speaker 1: I've become a little bit evangelical about dry January and
Speaker 1: my little fitness kicks. So I wanted to I wanted
Speaker 1: to write about that. I'm thirty two years old, if
Speaker 1: you're wondering, but I felt like I was fifty five
Speaker 1: years old, if I'm honest with you, between the between
Speaker 1: the cigarettes and the gins and the wine and everything
Speaker 1: else that I was doing. So this month, I, on
Speaker 1: January first, gave up smoking cigarettes forever. I will still
Speaker 1: treat myself to a guard and a pipe from time
Speaker 1: to time because you don't inhale those and there are
Speaker 1: fewer chemicals and so on and so forth. And this
Speaker 1: is where I get some of you tweeting at me saying, no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. It's a myth, but that's the way
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. But no more cigarettes for me. And
Speaker 1: gone off the booze for January. Now, I thought it
Speaker 1: would be very, very difficult. It usually is quite difficult,
Speaker 1: so difficult in fact, that I give myself three cheat
Speaker 1: days in the month if I really need them, on
Speaker 1: the basis that I give fifty pounds sterling, which is
Speaker 1: about seventy ord dollars to charity per day that I cheat. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm delighted to inform you that I have cheated zero
Speaker 1: days this month so far, and I intend not to
Speaker 1: at all, what with fewer than two weeks left to go.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to, I guess I wanted to extol
Speaker 1: the virtues of it to you guys, if I might
Speaker 1: for a moment. You know, you lose weight. The average
Speaker 1: dry January participant loses I think about four or five
Speaker 1: pounds over the course of the month. I've lost more
Speaker 1: than that because going to the gym every day. At
Speaker 1: the moment as well, liver function improves, chances are getting
Speaker 1: cancer declines almost immediately. And you know my experiences with it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I struggled to sleep a little because I was using
Speaker 1: alcohol as means by which to knock me out. I've
Speaker 1: had a little a few withdrawal symptoms, get a little
Speaker 1: bit twitchy here and there, and I am hungry a lot,
Speaker 1: But I guess that's probably partly because of the workouts
Speaker 1: as well. But I suppose my favorite part of it
Speaker 1: is that, you know, well, come February first, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: which I intend to call wet February, but come February first,
Speaker 1: and especially during the Christmas period, where you've got all
Speaker 1: these parties to go to and family to see it, etc.
Speaker 1: And the egg nog and the wine and the champagne
Speaker 1: and the beer is flowing, you can be a little
Speaker 1: bit more loose about it, or loose about it without
Speaker 1: feeling as guilt because you know that you're getting that
Speaker 1: detox in January, don't you know. If you want to
Speaker 1: read my column on it, it's up at the American Spectator,
Speaker 1: that spectator dot org on the world Wide Web. It's
Speaker 1: called Here's how Dry January makes Me better than you.
Speaker 1: It came out a few hours ago, and he's getting
Speaker 1: good reception from my friends. A couple of the Puritan
Speaker 1: in the comic, A couple of the Puritans in the
Speaker 1: comments section say it's a disgusting article. It shouldn't even
Speaker 1: be there talking about hole horrible things like booze. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about that. If you don't mind,
Speaker 1: and if you do, sorry too late. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to a quick break now. When we come back. Ian Walters,
Speaker 1: who's one of the execs at the American Conservative Union,
Speaker 1: they've got a big conference coming up called see Pack,
Speaker 1: the Conservative Political Action Conference. It will actually be my
Speaker 1: tenth See Pack this year. If Ian allows me to attend,
Speaker 1: we'll ask him live on air, put him on the spot.
Speaker 1: Is henna? Is he gonna let me in? I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking to a good buddy of mine, Ian
Speaker 1: Walters in just a moment, stay too. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back here on the buck Sexton Show after this break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Rahee Kasam,
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Washington, d C. The last few moments here,
Speaker 1: I wanted to spend it with my good buddy, Ian Walters,
Speaker 1: the communications director at the American Conservative Union. Ian Good
Speaker 1: evening him, how do you do, my friend? I do
Speaker 1: very well. As you know, I m You've got Seapack
Speaker 1: coming up, which I know elicits great excitement and nausea
Speaker 1: within you. It's architect check mostly true. Tell us about Seapack,
Speaker 1: tell us why people should be involved, And as I
Speaker 1: promised the audience I would do, I want to put
Speaker 1: you on the spot and say, it's going to be
Speaker 1: my tenth year attending Seapack. Will you let me in
Speaker 1: the front doors? We'll have to see how you behave
Speaker 1: for the rest of the rest of the buck Sexton show.
Speaker 1: My gut says, and I'm not my gut is not
Speaker 1: often wrong that there will be a Rahim Kassam sighting
Speaker 1: Seapack in all right, warm or another. So tell us
Speaker 1: what is seapack Ian Well, thank you? What is Seapack?
Speaker 1: Because we've got very little time, so you stop flattering
Speaker 1: me and start start pitching Seapack. What is it, who's coming,
Speaker 1: what are the speakers? Who are the speakers you've announced
Speaker 1: so far? And why should people take the what I
Speaker 1: call Well, I was born into a Muslim family, right,
Speaker 1: and I left Islam ten years ago. But the pilgrimage
Speaker 1: I do every year is to Seapack, And why should
Speaker 1: other people do that pilgrimage? Nah? Well. Seatpack, of course,
Speaker 1: stands for the Conservative Political Action Conference and it's the
Speaker 1: largest annual gathering of conservatives on the planet Earth. We've
Speaker 1: been putting this together since nineteen seventy four and it's
Speaker 1: where Ronald Reagan got his start before he was president.
Speaker 1: And the event was really founded as an avenue for
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan's style of conservatism to have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: go mainstream and to bring people together conservatives of all stripes.
Speaker 1: And we've remained true to that vision as much as
Speaker 1: we can. It is overwhelmed in the past fifteen years
Speaker 1: with students. We're somewhere between fifty percent and fifty five
Speaker 1: percent every year, with a lot of college students who
Speaker 1: are very excited, who are active on their campuses. That
Speaker 1: being said, this is an event for everybody. Oftentimes people
Speaker 1: will come up to this all who can go to Seatpack.
Speaker 1: Can I go to seapack where hem? Everybody can go
Speaker 1: to sea Pack And all you have to do is
Speaker 1: go to seapack dot org and get yourself a ticket,
Speaker 1: and we want to have all of your listeners and
Speaker 1: friends there this year. One of the first speakers we
Speaker 1: announced was broadcast legend Mark Levin his wonderful wife Julie Strausse.
Speaker 1: Levin gave a presentation last year on immigration and what
Speaker 1: activists have to do in order to save the republic.
Speaker 1: And Mark is very sophisticated and understands that young people
Speaker 1: are often the battleground, that a lot of the fights
Speaker 1: conservatives fights are generational. Uh my folks, UH fought the
Speaker 1: fights of their generation. You and I are fighting the
Speaker 1: fights of our generation. And uh and my kids and
Speaker 1: God willing one day your kids will will will fight
Speaker 1: the fights and we'll pass the torch to them. Don't
Speaker 1: you don't you wish that stuff on me? Oh oh,
Speaker 1: come on, she'll be She'll be a lucky girl. That's spression,
Speaker 1: but one of the wonderful aspects of it. And if
Speaker 1: you were to just read the mainstream media press reports
Speaker 1: of this thing, you would get the wrong impression. You
Speaker 1: would think that we were all dancering around with horns
Speaker 1: and tales and doing god knows what. But the fact
Speaker 1: is I am doesn't get reported. Is what a fantastic
Speaker 1: and positive and good energy type of eventnesses. There's a
Speaker 1: very you know, the professional term would be, well, it's
Speaker 1: a great networking opportunity, which is, but on a human level,
Speaker 1: it is a designed specifically to remind conservatives of all
Speaker 1: stripes that you're not alone, and that throughout the year
Speaker 1: you ought to stay in contact with each other, share resources,
Speaker 1: and that when we work together we can we can
Speaker 1: achieve great things. And especially when we take on the left.
Speaker 1: Our registration numbers are up significantly this year, and folks
Speaker 1: have asked me, well, why do you think that is?
Speaker 1: And when it's all said and done, we'll do post
Speaker 1: events surveys and have better data on it. My sense
Speaker 1: is that something happened um in Laton twenty eighteen with
Speaker 1: the Brett Kavanaugh hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Speaker 1: where conservatives understood what the left was about and that
Speaker 1: they were about destroying and pushing off the grid. The
Speaker 1: folks that are in alignment with you and I and
Speaker 1: I think we're enjoying a moment in American conservatism where
Speaker 1: we're getting over petty squabbles. We understand what's at stake,
Speaker 1: we understand what the other team is seeking to achieve,
Speaker 1: and we're ready to fight. We're ready to do it
Speaker 1: with smiles on our faces. Well, look, Ian, that's all
Speaker 1: well and good, but when the bloody hell is it
Speaker 1: February twenty seventh to March second, that's February twenty seventh
Speaker 1: to March second. We are forty some days away from
Speaker 1: this extravaganza. It is a four day event. The first
Speaker 1: day is dedicated to activism training, where we have the
Speaker 1: best campaign trainers and media trainers in politics assembled and
Speaker 1: all of our attendees are welcome to learn from these
Speaker 1: guys take notes. It's a dynamic classroom setting where you
Speaker 1: get equipped with the skills that you can take back
Speaker 1: home to be successful in your communities and figure out
Speaker 1: how to organize people to stand up for what you
Speaker 1: believe in. Look, you know people will be thinking, Raheym,
Speaker 1: why have you just let somebody on to advertise for
Speaker 1: the last segment of this show? And the truth is
Speaker 1: because I really truly believe in it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I don't receive any payment or inducement to do so.
Speaker 1: I have been going now this will, as I say,
Speaker 1: be my tenth year in attendance and whether as in
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, and I've spoken there, but
Speaker 1: I've also learned so much from attending the events and
Speaker 1: attending the panel discussions, meeting people. I can honestly say,
Speaker 1: with my hand on my heart, Ian that without seapack
Speaker 1: in the American Conservative Union. There would be no Rahem kassam.
Speaker 1: Now you now you have to wear that around your
Speaker 1: neck unfortunately for the rest of your life. But you
Speaker 1: know it's true. I would have made never made the friends,
Speaker 1: never made the inroads I've made into conservative media and
Speaker 1: political spheres were it not for what you guys do.
Speaker 1: So we've got about five seconds left, so just say
Speaker 1: thank you and goodbye and thank you goodbye, and I
Speaker 1: hope that all of you will join us. Go to
Speaker 1: seatpack dot org to learn more. That was Ian Waltz
Speaker 1: as a great friend of mine and a wonderful musician.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you look him up online you'll
Speaker 1: find more of his work. And of course you know
Speaker 1: you can't spell Walter's without wall, so we love me
Speaker 1: even more. This has been the Buck Sexton Show. I
Speaker 1: have been and will remain. Raheem Kasam. You'll be joined
Speaker 1: by the best a man can get tomorrow, Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to the wonderful, brilliant
Speaker 1: production staff of this program. They're absolutely brilliant, and you
Speaker 1: guys all have a great evening.