WEBVTT - Trump Gets Credit For Baghdadi 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:15.880 You are entering the freedom hunt. President Trump announces the 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.680 death of Abu Baker al Baghdaddi, the head of the 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.119 Islamic State. What does this mean for the fight in 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.480 Syria against ISIS? What does it mean for Trump's foreign policy? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.000 How did the media react to this? We've got that 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.120 and oh so much more coming up on The buck 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.239 Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show. For the 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.559 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:44.520 actionable intelligence. Magnom mistake America, You're a great American Again, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:52.280 The buck Sexton Show begins analyst, He's a great guy. Now, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.640 Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody, welcome, Welcome. President 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.720 Trump made an announcement. Please play. Last night, the United 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:07.360 States brought the world's number one terroist leader to justice. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:15.440 Abu Bakar al Beghdaddi is dead. He was the founder 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.280 and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.600 organization anywhere in the world. The United States has been 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:30.800 searching for Baghdaddy for many years. Capturing or killing Baghdaddy 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:36.120 has been the top national security priority of my administration. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:43.119 US Special Operations Forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:49.760 raid in northwestern Syria and accomplished their mission in grand style. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:57.120 The US personnel were incredible. I got to watch much 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:04.400 of it. No personnel were lost in the operation, while 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.560 a large number of Bagdaddies, fighters and companions were killed. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:16.760 With him, President Trump telling the nation, telling the world 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.800 the very good news that the leader of the Islamic 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:25.160 State is no more. These days and are incredibly polarized 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.560 political climate, there are very few moments, very few opportunities 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.600 when you would expect there to be a true bipartisan 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:40.120 coming together. But I remember, and the parallels between these 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:46.000 two incidents will be a theme as we discussed this today. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.040 I remember when under the Obama administration, Osama bin Laden 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.360 was killed, and I remember that announcement, seeing on TV 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:03.040 jubilant reporters, seeing people dancing in the street chanting USA USA. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.560 And now understandably, there was a greater psychological attachment, a 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:13.000 greater sense of justice delivered when Ubl was killed, because 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.200 he was the mastermind of the nine eleven attacks that 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:20.639 killed almost three thousand of our fellow Americans. But there 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.720 was an understanding that this was a good thing, that 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.640 justice had been delivered, and there was something of a 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.920 respite from the nasty partisan politics that define almost everything 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.560 in the news these days. You would think you would 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.720 think that when Abu Baker al Baghdati is taken out 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.320 by US special operators, people keep saying special forces. I've 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.160 seen it reported as Delta Force. But when this happens, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.280 shouldn't we have a pause in the partisan warfare. Shouldn't 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.200 we have a moment where we say enough is enough? 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.960 With all of that, this was a good thing. First 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.680 line of credit goes to our military, goes to those 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.520 in the special operations community who very clearly put their 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.640 lives in the line for this raid and for many 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.200 other raids and just in the day to day national 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.760 security protection of this country. But the credit does make 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.000 its way up to those who gave the order. The 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.920 credit also filters through the intelligence community, which I think 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.679 these days could certainly use quite a bit more public 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.320 confidence and respect, given the way that it has been 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:37.480 shamelessly politicized against President Trump. But simply put, my friends, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.880 this is a big win. It's a win for America, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.320 for Trump, for special operations, for the intelligence community, and 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.760 for Syria, the Middle East, the world, human decency, basic 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.880 human rights, any sense of justice. This guy was a 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:04.200 monster individual, was a rapist, a mass murderer, a torturer, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:10.640 a sadist, and yet the way that the press reported 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.600 on him was such a window into what they really 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:20.359 care about and what they really think. Astonishing stuff, hard 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.560 to believe, and I truly mean that. Over the weekend, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.240 I was at Politicon in Nashville, which was a fun event. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.800 It was mostly fun for me to see some members 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.600 of Team Baku showed up and thank you so much 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.840 for those of you who did, but also to see 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.200 some of my media peers. I have to tell you 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:43.320 this headline, which has gotten so much attention from the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:52.120 Washington Post was so bizarre, a moral and just It's 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.880 hard to explain how anyone could think this way. But 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.480 the Washington Post initially called Abu Bakar al Baghdadi a 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.760 terror in chief. I responded on Twitter yesterday to this 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.720 because they change that headline to the following. Abu Baker 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:12.360 al Baghdaddi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:18.360 dies at forty eight. A. Yeah, austere. You could say 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.360 he was pretty strict, you know, he would you saw 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.119 your head off if you didn't do what he wanted. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.480 So I guess that's I guess that's one description of him, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:33.839 austere religious scholar. Another post had to walk this back, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.400 change the headline right away. But that was not the 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.040 only place I would know where there were very strange 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.560 descriptions in what was a Washington Post obituary of a 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.440 butcher of men, women and children in the Middle East, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.719 doing so under the mantle of Islam, bringing tens of 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.159 thousands of recruits. Okay, this isn't I know in this country. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.640 If you have a white nationalist rally somewhere with ten 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.200 morons who show up, we're told that they're about to 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.200 overthrow the country. Meanwhile, when you're looking at the Islamic state, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.160 you actually had a Jihadis who brought together tens of 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.800 thousands of recruits from all over the world, took over 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.440 an area that reigned over at least three or four 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:20.920 million inhabitants and required a multinational coalition, led of course 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.920 by the United States, but also with some very good 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.560 ground finding from our friends the Kurds on the ground. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.880 But as terrible a human being as you're going to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.560 find anywhere in the Washington Post, in its obituary of this, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:40.160 Abu Baker al Baghdatti referred to him, wrote quote, mister 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:49.240 Baghdaddy maintained a canny pragmatism. End quote. M I guess enslavement, genocide, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.440 mass murder. Some people would find a way to describe 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:59.400 that as pragmatic if you're a psychopath. Another quote from 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.480 the obituary, Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, near 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.680 sighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.280 free time at the local mosque. Now end quote, you 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.400 could tell me that back. Come on, they're doing an obituary. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.440 They're trying to give a full picture of who this 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.800 monster was. They understand that. As I read through this obituary, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.120 I could not help but think that if they were 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.600 writing an obituary, if the Washington Post is writing an 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:28.000 obituary of say, Brett Kavanaugh, there would have been more 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:33.199 acid tongued attacks. There would have been more nasty, undermining, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:39.240 viciousness about a future Kavanaugh obituary, for example, Then you 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.760 would see in this piece about a mass murderer, not 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.520 about an entirely decent and brilliant family man who is 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.600 the worst nightmare of liberals precisely because of his intellect, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.040 his morality, and his decency. No, no, Abubakar al bag Daddy. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.880 They can find another way to look at him. If 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.520 you think that that's the only case, by the way, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:03.240 I would bring you the way that Bloomberg another major 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.920 news outlet, you know, multi billion dollars. These are huge 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:12.000 news outlets, employing thousands of journalists, tremendous resources. How about 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:18.640 just terrorist mastermind killed? Congrats special Forces or special operations. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.800 Congrats US military and the Trump White House. Sorry they 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.000 get credit for there's the same way that Obama did 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.960 his whole walk out in front of a microphone and 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.600 look what I did. Bin Laden's gone. I'm amazing. Now 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.040 that covered up for a tremendous amount of incompetence in 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.319 the counter terrorism fight from the Obama administration. In fact, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.280 it was reported that some of the seals that were 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.359 a part of that raid on Bin Lan's compound set afterwards. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:52.120 We just got Obama reelected by taking out Osama, And 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.160 I think that there was some degree of truth to that. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.840 I don't think it was wholly the case that that 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.800 was why Obama got reelected, but a major line of 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.360 attack on foreign p play matters would have been the 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.760 ineptitude and the inability of the Obama administration to even 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.440 see who the good guys are and who the bad 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.400 guys are. It was a way to shut down that 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.280 criticism at a key moment for the Obama administration. They 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.480 shut it down by saying, Oh, I'm sorry, Obama, the 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.360 guy who killed bin Laden isn't tough enough on terrorists. Well, no, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.439 actually turned out he wasn't tough enough on terrorists. Do 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.760 you remember all the mass casualty attacks that were happening 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.280 abroad and here at home jeehottest attacks inspired by the 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.120 Islamic State. No, I don't think he was tough enough 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:39.280 on terrorism. They always pointed also to his usage of drones. Well, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.640 that was because we were being told that drones were 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.480 a precision tactic and that that was all that was needed. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.600 Of course, that wasn't all that was needed. Drones are 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.720 not a strategy, and drones come with their own collateral 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:56.400 damage and issues. But Bloomberg tweeted out the following about 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.000 Abu Baker Albuaghdaddi, Islamic State leader albu Baker al Baghdaddi 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.439 transformed himself from a little known teacher of Charanic recitation 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.240 into the self proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:10.080 squats of Syria and Iraq. Wow, I wonder what his 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.000 favorite color was? Did he have a cat? What was 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.880 the cat's name? This is how they talk about as 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.600 vicious a terrorist mastermind as you would find anywhere, as 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.280 vicious has been Lauden just didn't manage to get in 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.160 a sneak attack on us before we knew we were 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.920 at war, But as vicious as Osama in law and 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.120 in fact, the Islamic State used tactics that were so severe, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.240 so extreme that there were even al Qaeda members who 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.200 reportedly felt that it might be too much, might turn 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.960 some members of the uma of the Islamic community against 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.280 the Islamic State. And yet here we have reporters in 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.480 more than one instance. And also, and I'm about to 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.319 get into the this is just the way they report 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.360 on Baghdaddy. I will transfer this into how did they 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.360 factor Trump into all this? And then we'll discuss what 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.240 does this mean about Syria. Wasn't it just a week 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.720 ago we were being told that Trump had no idea 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.040 what he was doing in Syria. He's ruined everything, He's 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.520 left all the Kurds to die, The whole regions up 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.440 in flames now because of Trump, all this hysteria from 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:14.160 so called foreign policy experts. I would note, my dear 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.319 friends and colleagues here in the freedom hunt with me. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.040 Did we take that position? Were we in hysterics about 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.160 how the counter terrorism fight is over because of Trump's decision, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.240 How everything has fallen apart, We've lost all of our gains, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.160 We've abandoned the Kurds for all eternity, We've handed over 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.360 all of our credibility to the Turks and the Russians. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.600 Were we taking that position? Who looks foolish this week? 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.480 Not us, not in here a lot of other people. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.720 Though perhaps it's because some of us actually worked on 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.079 these issues and have an understanding of the underlying dynamics, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.920 and also have some interest in the history not just 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.880 of the region, but of US actions in the region 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.440 and what comes as a result of them in the 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.520 immediate and long term. Make no think about it, This 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:06.560 was a big win for America, for civilization. Really, it 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.600 does not end the fight against terrorism, It does not 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.240 even end the fight against the Islamic state. But it 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.960 is an important moral and psychological victory in a battle 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:19.360 that is largely moral and psychological, But the media wasn't 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.120 really necessarily sure what team they were on. Sometimes were they? 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.800 How do we report on this? Don't want this to 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.680 be too much of a win for Trump. Let's focus 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.880 on that for a moment. How does Trump factor in 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.640 to what is the single biggest takeout of a terrorist 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.360 since been lauden and is certainly on the same plane 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.040 as the mission against oslom bin Laden? But what do 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.000 they think of Trump in this whole thing? Bag Daddy 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:46.200 and the losers who worked for him, and losers they are. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:51.280 They had no idea what they were getting into. In 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:57.160 some cases they were very frightened puppies. In other cases 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:02.600 they were hardcore killers. President of Trump minced no words 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.640 when he was talking about the operation against Sababah al Baghdatti. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.120 And also though we i'll refer to him as al Baghdatti, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.120 of course that means the guy from Baghdad. It's not 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.160 really his name, so to speak, but it's really a 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.520 place name that he took as part of his his numdager. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:27.840 But Baghdaddy did not die well, and the President had 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:33.120 no problem telling the entire world about this. Producer Mark, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.480 please play a clip ten where the President gives some 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.280 specifics about this. He died after running into a dead 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.400 end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:50.040 Whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, I believe. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.320 He also went on to say that he died like 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.320 a like a Oh here we go, play thirteen. He 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.560 did someone who has caused so much hardship and death, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.560 a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.680 and death, has violently been eliminated. He will never again 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:14.200 harm another innocent man, woman, or child. He died like 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.800 a dog. He died like a coward. The world is 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:24.640 now a much safer place. Died like a dog, the 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:30.440 President said. This then resulted in the usual people coming 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.600 out of the out of the woodwork to say that 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.760 this was a bad idea, that there should not be 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.160 this kind of spiking of the football. And in fact 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.720 I saw some supposed national security experts saying that in 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:50.240 comparison to what happened with bin Laden, this is far 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.880 There are far too many details that are being shared. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.560 This was a pathetic criticism that was initially because the 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.200 first impulse of many people in the media is not oh, Wow, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.640 this thing happened. What does this mean for Syria and 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.200 for the region and for America. The first impulse is, oh, no, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.720 this is a Trump win. How do we make it 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.440 seem like not as much of a Trump win? It 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.840 is clear from the way it was reported. It's clear 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.520 from the analysis pieces as well as the hard news. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.040 The first concern of American journalists writing about this, by 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.240 and large was to make sure that Trump did not 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.440 get a big win out of this. That also, there 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.320 wasn't a sense of whiplash in the public from Trump 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.280 has ruined our Syria policy. Oh wait, he just called 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.600 for the mission to get rid of the head of 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.520 the Islamic State. What do we do now? How do 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.520 we spin that now? Primary concern this is why people 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.640 don't trust the press. Why they don't trust the media, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.920 because they should not trust the press. They should not 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.840 trust the media. They show you who they are time 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:57.000 and again. As Bush once said, Fomi once can't get 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.240 fooled again. You know that's how Bush said it. I 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:01.800 kind of like the way he said it. I also 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.640 think that his usage of the term decider was excellent. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.640 And then there was what was the word that he 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.840 made up? A word, and it was a great word 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:15.680 on them forgetting what it was now misunderestimated. He was misunderestimated, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.720 that is for sure. The truth here is that President 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.040 Trump does get credit, should get credit from any fair 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.720 minded press and any fair minded American. But there's a 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.760 desperate attempt to make it seem like this is something 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.600 other than that. The comparison to the Ben Laden raid 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.720 that I've seen many in the media making is interesting 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.600 because they say Trump gave away too many details. Trump 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.679 gave away too many details of this raid. There's been 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.200 Laden raid. There were orders in the Obama administration. It 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.119 basically just sit down and like, open up the books 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.240 and tell the zero dark thirty filmmakers whenever they wanted 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.360 to know. People were writing books about the whole thing. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.800 I mean that it was leaking, Like I said, it 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.199 wasn't even leaks. They were they were told to do it, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.639 just sharing all the information. He was a sick and 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:07.360 braved man and now he's gone. Bagh Daddy was vicious 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.399 and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:18.560 way as a coward, running and crying. Now people are 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.399 claiming as well that there's the secrecy complaint. They were 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.120 all that. You could almost line them up right away 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.359 after this, within hours of this, within minutes of this raid, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.200 which any normal person would react you with, wow, that's 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.960 that's great work by the military intelligence community. And gould 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.000 call President Trump. That's really it. Maybe start chanting USA 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.400 on the streets or wherever you are if you want. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.720 But that's the way normal people react, and said the 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.320 way the press reacts is to sort of try to 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.879 be fair to Abu Baker lah blagh Daddi and be 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.520 as unfair as possible the President Trump in terms of 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.800 the credit that he would get in the circumstance. There 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.320 were complaints about secrecy around this, that the President isn't 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.600 allowed to talk about the raid. Well, the raid already happened. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.440 Abu Baker Lah Baghdad, he's dead. They're announcing that the 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.960 raid happened. Trump wasn't giving away any tactics, techniques, or procedures. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.640 Trump wasn't giving away anything that would help the enemy. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.640 Next time I heard the press conference, he's saying there 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.280 that chasing down a tunnel. Guess what the bad guys know, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.680 Abu Baker is dead. They sent a big detachment of 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.280 special operations to go get him. This is not something 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.040 that once it's happened, it's not doesn't remain some big secret. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.800 You know, we're not trying to hide this from ISIS. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.840 They're well aware of it. But another criticism that I 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:35.160 thought was just so clear in its desperation, the desperation 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:40.640 of preventing a full benefit political benefit for President Trump 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.520 out of this whole situation, was that they were there 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.359 was a lack of respect, a lack of respect that 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.399 Trump showed by the way he talked about this, and 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.159 I even saw I think it was the former and 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.639 I worked for morale at the at the CIA, the 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.760 former deputy director there. I remember. I think he was 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.000 one that went on CBS and said, you know that 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.680 there were such an effort to be respectful to Bin 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.640 Lauden and they gave him an Islamic burial. Um. Okay, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.480 that's one way to see it. There's also the they 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.320 blew his head off, took photos of him, and then 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:24.840 dumped his body in the ocean. So there's that. I'm 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.320 not sure that there's any jihadas who's gonna say, whoa 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.840 they were really? First of all, Buba Baghdaddi suicided himself 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.560 with a suicide vest we'd even get into that detail. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.200 I killed three of his own children, reportedly ran into 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.000 a tunnel broad kids with him. It's gonna be it's 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.760 gonna be tough for him when he wakes up after 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:47.480 his so called martyrdom and there's there's no virgins. There's 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.359 something else waiting for him on the other side. I 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.600 can assure you of that. But the complaints about this 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.199 like we weren't as we weren't as gentle or as 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.240 as gentlemanly, I should say, with Abu Baker, because is 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:04.680 in charge as it worth bin Laden, the seals blew 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.399 blew a hole in bin Laden's head, and then the 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.160 military dumped his body at sea after what was reportedly 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:17.800 a brief you know Islamic ritual. Not not exactly a 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.239 warm and fuzzy situation, as it shouldn't have been, right 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.119 they would end they killed this guy. I mean, you know, 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.440 war is hell. He's not even a warrior, he's a terrorist. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.360 End of story. What's the big problem here? But there 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.960 were looking, they were looking for ways, looking for things 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:37.960 to say, anything that could convince the general public, or 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.080 really just that would feed the mania of democrats and 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.160 anti trumpers. Out there that it's not possible for Trump 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.879 to do anything that's really good. And that's what you 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.159 saw from the press here. There must be even when 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.080 Trump Sometimes we'll make jokes about how if Trump were 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.479 to cure cancer, you know, if Trump came out and said, hey, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.520 my administration, working with the CDC and private researchers, we 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.840 have at all cancer. We joke around, and we're not 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.639 even really that much joking these days. We woke around 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:08.960 that there would be think pieces on vox dot com 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.960 if you know why cancer has an important Darwinian role. 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.919 I mean, there would be crazy stuff because anything Trump 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:19.040 does can't be good. So you have to find some way, 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.680 you know, some way to frame it so that Trump 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.960 is the worst person in history is still the takeaway 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.480 for that audience. And that was happening even with this, 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:38.080 even in this moment of time. It's it's sad to 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.880 see this, and it was particularly sad that it wasn't 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.640 just the press. Now Washington, d C, where I used 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.639 to live, I've lived. I've lived a good chunk of 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:48.359 my life in Washington, d C. So I know the 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:53.400 swamp very well. I know the swamp creatures far too well. 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.359 And DC because it is largely now the population of 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:02.879 DC is an appendage of federal government largesse. They are there, 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:07.200 generally speaking, because of all of the money, the consolidation 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:11.280 of power and money in our federal capital. This is 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.399 not what the founders had in mind. This is not 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:15.600 the way it's supposed to be. But unfortunately there's a 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.159 reason why. I think it's might even be seven of 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.480 the top ten wealthiest counties per capita in the United States, 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.440 just ring Washington, d C. And you got to go 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:28.760 out in the suburbs to get your multimillion dollar mansion 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:32.240 if you're a contractor or a lobbyist or someone who's 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:37.560 real job is essentially influenced peddling inside the Beltway. But 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.119 over ninety four percent, I think it was. It's definitely 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.080 over ninety I think it was over ninety four percent. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.360 Might have even been ninety six percent of Washington DC 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:50.000 voters went for Hillary Clinton in the last election who 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.680 worked for the federal government. So if you work for 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.520 the federal government and you were living in Washingt DC, 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:02.879 you went for Hillary. DC is a political monoculture for 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.359 the permanent state, not just for the Deep state, but 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:10.280 the permanent state. The bureaucracy. And you got a sense 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:12.119 of that when last night President Trump was at and 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.560 producer Mark fortunately likes baseball, so he had to tell 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:18.720 me that there was the World Series going on and 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:22.760 apparently the DC team is in it, the Gnats, which 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:24.639 sounds like a bunch of small flies. Do you not 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:27.440 even know the name of the Washington the Nationals? No, no, 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:31.639 I'm hip, I know the things. But but there was 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:35.160 this moment last night when the President of the United 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:40.200 States is at a baseball game right after the announcement 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.200 of or you know, within hours of the announcement that 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:45.879 Abu Bakara, like Daddy, has been killed by our elite military. 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:50.320 And this is how people in our nation's capital, some 0:24:50.520 --> 0:25:06.480 of them at least responded play clip eighteen. Please. There 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:10.240 was booing. There were people there chanting lock him up 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.679 about the President of the United States. Now it goes 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:16.680 out saying these people are childish and they're morons. But 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:19.560 unfortunately they're all over DC, and they think they're really 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:24.080 wise and superior intellectually. They think that they're the ones. 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:27.320