WEBVTT - California Lawlessness 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:16.000 Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.439 us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.360 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you're 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.720 satisfied with Trump is not president of the United States, 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.080 take it to a bank. Together. We will make America 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.760 great again. You'll never sharender. It's what you've been waiting 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.000 for all day The buck Sexton Show. Join the conversation 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.120 called buck Toll free at eight four four nine hundred Buck. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.200 That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:54.360 The Future of talk radio buck Sexton. Ultimately, you and 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.520 other like minded people on your board feel that sanctuary 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.959 status is unc institutional. Well, it is unconstitutional. I mean 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.119 I realized there are a lot of states that don't 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.200 care to live by certain rules in the federal government 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.319 or or the Constitution if they disagree with it. Last 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.800 I checked, it's not optional even if you don't like 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.280 the outcome, and it puts our law enforcement personnel in 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.560 a very awkward spot. They have to uphold the Constitution 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.200 and the log They swear to do that. I swore 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.039 to do that when I took the oath, and uh, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.400 California has decided to poke the President and his administration 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.880 in the eye, and I'd rather they just not involve us. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.360 The Sanctuary City showdown continues. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.319 Great to have you here, oh man. The fight over 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.280 immigration is intensifying. Now, a few things to put out 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.920 there right right away. I've got to look a bit 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.640 deeper into whether Trump has a means of building building 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.320 the wall without actually having to get specific congressional funds 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.200 for I know every bee saying it. I don't see 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.280 how it's possible. But I'm I'm seeing stuff left and 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.600 right about how we're not not I'm on the political left, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.000 you know what I mean. I'm seeing reports out there 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.120 of Trump could do this in Amat. We'll see that 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.360 would be some amazing. That would be four D chess, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.239 it would it will be eight D chess. I don't 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.440 even know what that looks like, but it's some crazy chest. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.000 It looks like it's out of a nightmare. But there 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.919 there'll be nuts if he could pull that off. I 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.120 don't know how he's gonna do that. But there's another place, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.600 or a couple of places where the immigration fight continues on, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.920 and if nothing else, it is important for us to 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.320 have clarity on it going into the mid terms. I 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.880 mentioned the issue of sanctuary cities, and be very careful 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.200 as I say that, especially when you say sanctuary city 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.240 showdown on a live radios. That's not something you want 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.680 to say ten times real fast. Trust me, don't do it, folks, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.440 Trust me on that one. You're gonna have to apologize 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.680 in front of your kids. Whoops, mommy said something she 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.560 didn't mean to. Uh. But sanctuary city showdown is ongoing, 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.520 and you've got actual cities in California that are saying, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.360 you know what, we want to opt out of this mess. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.360 We we don't believe that California's state legislature should be 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.560 able to pass laws that directly contravene the spirit, if 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.120 not the law, of the federal government when it comes 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.919 to immigration. Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it to 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.079 you straight. I like the resistance here, hashtag crazy sts no, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.400 the hashtag resistance. I like what they're doing. I like 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.000 that it's part of conversation. But states have police powers, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.880 not cities. States are gonna win this fight. I think 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.560 I'm just telling you the truth. And you know what, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.080 we should get My buddy Jeff, you know, the big 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.720 big j Mr Sessions. We'll have the Attorney General come 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.640 back on the show and explain to us how he 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.600 thinks this can play out legally in the course, because 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.960 I completely agree with him that this is just utter lawlessness. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.160 In the case of California, it's just sheer utter lawlessness 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.760 that they are totally okay with because they're like Hemi 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.520 and they live everybody like Langy. By the way, my 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.360 ratings in California are probably going off a cliff right now, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.800 But you know, I love you, my fellow California Conservatives. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.680 Don't you understand You're like me, but the West Coast version. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.760 You're a Republican behind enemy lines or Conservative behind enemy lines. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.200 You're like Buck but with a tan and eating more healthfully. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.920 You know that's you're You're the West Coast branch of 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.440 the freedom Hunt. So I'm not I'm not making fun 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.320 of you, guys and gals. I'm talking about your friend Tad. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.040 You know, who drives a Prius, were's a lot of 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.360 hemp based clothing as a pet therapist, drinks a lot 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.960 of things that require a blender but just look like 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.159 green mush and thinks he knows about politics based on 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.520 the latest Kardashian tweet, that's not who you should be 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.800 getting your political analysis from. As you know. Unfortunately, those 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.560 folks make up a plurality of your state, a massive 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.400 majority of your state, and they're the ones determining policy. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.480 So the sanctuary issue, I think in California, the fight 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.520 between the state and the federal government is going to 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.160 be a close from the fight between some of these 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.160 cities and the state, I think the state's gonna win. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.760 I'm just saying, you can do things that the state 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.799 doesn't mind. So New York City, for example, has even 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.680 more restrictive gun laws than New York State does because, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.000 to borrow from Governor Cuomo, nobody needs a bazooka to 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:31.200 kill a deer. Fact check true, um, but nonetheless, and 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.239 no one has a bazooka. But you get all that. Uh, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.000 you look at what New York City does. New York 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.880 State's okay with it. That's why if they thought it 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.599 contradicted what was coming out of our state capital, Albany. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.479 In the case of California, Sacramento be an issue. Keep 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:49.560 in mind, though, there's another big area of immigration focus 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.039 right now that is fascinating for what it says about 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.360 the political parties and our our national conversation right now. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.520 And I think the federal government will win. The state 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.839 of California is challenging the federal government including a question 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:11.360 in our ten years census. Right constitutionally mandated. You gotta 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.880 have a census every ten years. Gotta do apportionment of 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.920 the various uh members of the House or the seats 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.719 for the House of Representatives. You don't actually apportion the members. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.960 That would be weird, like put me down, but you 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.120 know you've got actually on a map decide where which 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.360 dates have which representatives and where what the districts are. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.880 This matters a lot for that. It also matters a 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.800 whole lot the census data for federal funds for grant money, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.000 so that the stakes here are pretty high. Last time 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.360 we had this was by the way, it costs thirteen 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.080 billion dollars. It seems like a lot for handing out 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.000 a questionnaire. I mean, there's a lot of people in 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.520 this country, but there it is done on paper. I 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.400 think maybe you can do it online now too. I 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.840 gotta check, but you would think that the thirteen billion 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.080 with a B is a it's a lot of money 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.560 for a census. I think that at six and workers 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.200 as well. The Census, uh, the Census Bureau. You know, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.680 it's this like they're Super Bowl folks. Is it's big 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.120 time for them. They want to take it from the 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:15.560 friend zone to the end zone in game time. The 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.480 song Lyric'm assuming some of you will get anyway, it's 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.920 a big deal for them. And the big problem right 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:29.000 now is over the inclusion of a question about citizenship. See, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.120 this is what's so fascinating right the way the census works. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.080 And I really dug into this one today. I may 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.440 have spent way too much time reading about the census. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:37.960 And you know where it comes from. By the way, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.320 it used to have a question about citizenship of some 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.280 kind or another from like eighteen. So there's a long 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.000 period there where hey, like, are you actually a citizen? 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.720 Because they do just count persons. And then the strateches 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.560 stretches back all the way to the clause of the 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.440 Constitution about three fits. And you know, there's there's a 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.840 whole other part of the American legacy that you see 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.960 in the in the issue of this is you know 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.840 what an Article two, Section one. I think I'm doing 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.160 that from memory. Don't yell at me. Constitution super geniuses. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.880 If I got that one wrong. I think it's Article two, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:16.040 Section one. Um. But the census is necessary for apportionment 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.960 of the House. It's also, you know, we have to 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.560 worry about what the Senate because, as we all know, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.160 even Rhode Island gets two senators. Why, it's a little 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 quirk of history. That's right. We don't have an affiliate 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.480 and Rhode Island right now. So I'm just like, whatever, whatever, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.040 Rhode Island take your two senators speak grateful. Um, Actually 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.199 we might have it. I'm sorry if we do have 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.959 a Rhode Island affiliate. I love you guys that I'm 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.959 totally kidding about your two senators that you probably don't need. Um. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.719 Massachusetts is not just gonna swallow you up any day now. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.280 But back to the census. The question about citizenship has 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.520 set off all kinds of alarms and problems and oh 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.920 my gosh, because here's what the Democrat Party really has become. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.200 It is no longer just a pro amnesty party. It 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.880 is a pro illegal immigration party. They don't think illegal 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.480 immigration is a crime, they don't think it's a problem. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.160 They want all people that are currently quote undocumented, which 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.120 is a term they've invented for people who are legal 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.360 aliens to be legalized, and any future illegal aliens they 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.800 will also make an effort to legalize. So they are 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:26.240 ideologically and open borders party, although they're not a day 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.240 a de jure open borders party, right. They won't advocate 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:35.319 for the laws to change to make us open borders, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.880 but they want the continuation of what we have, which 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.960 is legal immigration amnesty, illegal immigration amnesty. That's the cycle 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.160 that they like. It empowers them. So why are they 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:51.400 so upset about the census, Well, they don't want to 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:57.040 question about illegal well about citizenship status, because they say 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.160 it will frighten people in and not answering the question. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.360 I want to tell you there's a whole another reason 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.439 why they don't want the question about citizenship to be 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.480 on the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau data. And 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.479 that's why the state of California and now Eric Schneiderman, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.640 the very annoying attorney genre from the state of New York, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.880 some of the most populous states in the country, are 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.080 challenging the federal government on this preemptively to stop it 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.320 from being included in the Census. I will tell you 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.679 why they're doing this, but I'm gonna have to tell 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.600 you after the break because we are deep dive. We 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.400 are going wild here. We're having a census party, and 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.240 it's getting Craig Kray up in the Freedom hund Right now. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.480 We will be back with much more on that eight 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.000 four four to five. If you want to call in 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.400 eight four four nine buck, stay with me. This is 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.959 a question that's been included in every census since nineteen 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:53.160 sixty five, with the exception of when it was removed. Uh. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.400 This is we've contained this question that's provided data that's 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.560 necessary for the Department of Justice to protect voters, uh 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.920 and specifically to help us better comply with the Voting 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.480 Rights Act, which is something that is important in a 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.280 part of this process. UH. And again, this is something 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.760 that has been part of the census for decades and 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.160 something that the Department of Commerce felt strongly needed to 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.960 be included. Against. So they have the Press Secretary Sarah 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:25.559 Cooby Sanders talking about the the justification for including the question, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:30.440 which is that historically it has generally overwhelmingly been included, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.679 but also it's necessary under I think Section two of 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.160 the Voting Rights Act has to do with minority representation 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.920 and protecting minority voting. They have to know what's going 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.920 on in different districts if they're going to be in 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.800 compliance the federal government complying with the Voting Rights Act, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.440 the parts of it that still apply. Remember there was 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.559 a truncation of the Voting Rights Act a few years back, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.960 which sent the left into fits of frenzy. But nonetheless, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.000 here's what's really going on. Though, you guys ready for this? 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.640 Y'all ready for this? Do do? There's a music thing 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.040 we didn't have it. I don't have it. I can't 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.000 make the music sound. Let's just get past that buck. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.720 So here's what's really going on with the census. Democrats 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.640 want the number to be as high as possible, which 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.839 means they want as many illegals as possible, especially in 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.960 a place like California. They want the number high as 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.360 possible for the reasons of apportionment, but also federal funding 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.640 and all the different good is the federal government distributes. Right, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.240 if you've got a county that has a hundred thousand people, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.840 well that's you get stuff based on the formula that 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.240 the government has for those hundred thousands. If you have 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.640 a hundred fifty thousand, you're gonna get more stuff. So 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.880 if California wants the other states, including states that are 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.800 not sanctuary jurisdictions that are not full of millions of 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:02.080 illegal aliens, to pay for their or emergency room visits, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.280 to pay for their school system, to to be giving 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.040 them additional federal funds, they need the illegals to be counted. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.360 They want the illegals to be counted the problem. So 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.280 so they don't want the inclusion, they say, because it'll 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.320 scare people off. I don't know if it'll really scare 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.920 anybody from answering one or the other one. I think 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.280 you can just leave the question blank. And two it's 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.079 the last question on the survey, so people have already 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.680 filed out all this stuff, and the last one they'll 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.720 have a thing about citizenship status. And I'm sure they'll 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.320 just have a you know, uh, you know, a little 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.720 clause about you know neither or does not apply or 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.000 no answer or whatever, or you just leave it blank. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.000 You know what, really scary thing happens to you if 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.000 you don't fill out your citizenship I'm sorry, you're a 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.760 census forms. I think they can send someone to hand 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.320 it to you, and then if you really want to 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.760 play hardball, they can find you a hundred dollars. No 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.480 one's going to prison over this one. Folks when they 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.480 start talking about ever so scared, Oh, I'm so scared, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.920 the census workers are coming for me. You know, if 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.800 you're worrying about the census workers coming for you need 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.200 to have a whole other bunch of talks. Time to 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.680 check and see how you're doing. Um. But the other 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:10.960 part of it is that if you had let's say 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.640 a high degree of compliance with the census in California, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:24.280 including the question about illegal aliens um, including that question, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.840 then you'd be able to see how many illegals are 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.920 actually in California. And you know, we're told time and 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.320 time again all the government has a number. They know 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.080 the number. The numbers clear, you know, the worry about it, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.800 They've got it, and no big deal. Come out to 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.000 the coast, have a few laughs. They pretend like they 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.720 have a really good hand on this. I'm of the 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.400 school and I know that some of our esteemed friends 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.160 in this debate, who are true experts market corpying from 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.840 Center Immigration Studies, among others, believe that the eleven and 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.480 twelve million number is is accurate. I think it's higher 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.680 than that UM, and I have a whole rationale or 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.360 reasoning of as to why that is. UM. Whenever there's 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.440 something the government wants to be a lower number, trust me, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.520 they undercount it, right. So that's just a basic rule. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.800 Whenever that's it's bad for the number to be higher, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.200 the government magically finds a way to pretend the number 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.680 is lower, uh than it actually is. So I think 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.160 illegal immigrations know different than that. But also if people 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.960 really had a renewed sense of how many illegals are 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.800 in for example, Los Angeles County, then I think they 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.120 want to know, well, what is this costing us folks? Yeah, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.560 and and and if there's federal dollars being directed See 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.080 this is one really comes down to, if there are 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.800 federal dollars that are specifically being increased for these areas 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.000 of the country because of their illegal alien populations, which 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.680 in a state like California, it's in the millions. I 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.480 don't know how many millions, but in terms of the percentages, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.880 it's a large percentage of the overall state now is illegal. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.880 I don't want to throw out a number because I 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.800 might be overestimating it in my head. And while I 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.760 like to think I'm human Google, occasionally I do make mistakes. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.200 But there are some There are some people who are 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.960 seeing what's happened in California and understanding that they want 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.360 the money, but they don't want the data, meaning they 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.280 don't want people to really know how many illegals are. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.640 Actually what do we got, producer Mike uh And this 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.080 is going back to the estimated between two point three 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.360 five and two point six million undocumented immigrants. In fairness, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.760 I was gonna say three millions, so, you know, close, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.800 But that's you're you're you're looking at getting in the 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.160 neighborhood of me. You know what, what what's the population 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.360 of California? I'm gonna keep a human Google needs to 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:50.000 keep turning to actual Google here. I think it's thirty 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.800 five million, nish thirty to thirty five million? What do 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.760 we got, producer Mike millionamn, close enough that I give 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.400 it to myself. I showed my war work. I get 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.600 half credit at least on the math test. Thirty thirty 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.520 nine millions, So let's say it's roughly three million. Okay, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.200 I'm not saying it's but that's a large portion of 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.160 the state, but that number is low. That number is low, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.000 No way, it's actually and they say two points six, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.680 but I think they're unaccount undercounting by at least would 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.200 be my guests, and they don't want people to really know. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.320 But here's what you see happening. The Democrat Party is 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.600 now the party of illegal aliens, which means the Democrat 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.760 Party privileges the interests of non citizens or in the 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:38.879 country illegally over legal US citizens. And if this fight 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.760 over the census question continues, that we may also see 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:50.040 is in fact a situation where the government is privileging 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.199 the interests of order. The government in California would be 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.960 privileging the interests of illegal aliens over the interests of 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.360 minority communities in this country who are specifically protected under 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.639 the Voting Rights Act. It just goes to show you 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.240 where the priorities the Democrat Party are. Now. Forget about Americans, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:14.160 forget about minorities, forget about African Americans. In this context, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.400 the Democrat Party concerned first and foremost with non American 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:26.200 illegal aliens. We'll be back. Fox News has the conservative 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.040 piece of the Real Estate sewed up and has thrived 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.600 on that and done incredibly well. I will say what 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.639 has happened there in the post Roger Rails world is 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:42.080 somewhat shocking. Frankly, it is really state run TV. It 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.879 is a pure propaganda machine and I think does an 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.960 incredible disservice to this country. Oh boy, I'm excited. Time 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:57.040 for some bucks laps here for Mr Mr Zucker, there 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.160 we go. Who is the my technically my four were 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.000 boss at CNN, although I don't know if he would 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.840 know me if I walked into the room, and I 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.640 don't care, But but he threw the first punch here 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.160 in the Fox News wars. You know, usually the corporate 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.119 executive types stay out of this because they understand that 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.160 the moment the guys at the very top start rolling 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.879 up the sleeves and throwing punches, the second this turns 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:27.240 into a bit of rhetorical pugilism. It's a throwdown. Um. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.399 That's when you, in fact, can have all the rest 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.000 of the organization deciding that they're also going to get 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:37.360 in on it, if you know what I mean, They're 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.040 also going to throw down quite a bit. And there's 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.560 so much that's a problem here. Okay, there's so much 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.879 that's wrong with what was just said, but let me 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.879 just start from the perspective of what CNN was for 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.720 the eight years of the Obama administration. If you went 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:59.720 on CNN and you were insufficiently uh favorable towards Obama, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.760 if you did not show him reverence, you were automatically 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.920 suspect in the eyes of the entirety of the leadership there, 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.040 and the producers that would book you for the shows, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.080 and as all the different hosts. In fact, the hosts 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:18.200 of the various CNN shows were incredibly close to senior 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:23.200 Obama administration officials, both personally in many cases professionally. It 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.560 was as close as you can be in the media, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.879 I think, without actually working in the West wing. That's 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.560 where CNN was an MSNBC during the Obama years. There 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.760 was no effort whatsoever to really call to account the 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.280 Obama administration lies. He was like, oh what lies. Oh, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.120 I don't know, Like, if you like your health care plan, 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.960 you can keep it. And also if you were and 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.000 I was so I speak from experience here, if you 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:54.240 were a conservative over at CNN, you were always being 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.359 either subtly or not so subtle a fashion undermined. You 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.320 were contly being underlined. You were there to be a 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.400 clay pigeon. If you did too well, you would get 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.480 put on ice, you'd be sent on injured Reserve. And 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.040 for CNN right now to have its head haunt show 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.639 out there throwing stuff in the direction of Fox News, 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:22.560 when CNN has just engaged in among the most appalling 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.480 weeks of journalism or months of journalism I've ever seen 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.920 with regard to the gun issue, is particularly rich. It's 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.479 crazy that CNN thinks they can lecture anyone on anything 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.080 at this point in time, considering that they set up 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.560 a gun town hall that was the the equivalent of 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.480 some kind of show trial. It really was. It was 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.680 a show trial. It was let's bring out people who 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.440 will defend the Second Amendment, who will have an honest 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:56.840 conversation with this frenzied anti gun mob. And do you 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.080 have to remember what I say and you know it's true, 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:00.920 because when I say it, left just get really mad 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.240 at me. When I talk about the truth of the 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.080 anti gun movement, I get all this victriol from the 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.720 left when I say things like anti gun sentiment is 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.520 really about anti gun owner sentiment. They get so angry 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.560 because it's true, and they don't like it when people 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.920 speak the truth about what's really going on in their minds, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.840 why they take the positions they do, why they feel 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.920 the way they do about all these various gun control 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:31.439 issues and debates that come up. But you had Marco Rubio, 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.840 Dana Lash, you had individuals showing up for that CNN 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.400 town hall, which was really, as I said, a televised 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:42.920 show trial and just a a two minutes hate against 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:46.840 gun owners. It's not gonna change any policy in any 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.639 meaningful sense. It's not gonna save anyone's lives, any lives. 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:54.680 It's just going to be exactly what it was, an 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:59.560 effort to play Kate the frenzied, ignorant anti gun base 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:04.560 that comprises most of CNN's viewership. They're proudly ignorant. I mean, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:08.600 these are the chainsaw batonet people, right. Oh, why do 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.560 I gotta know about the chan saw band nuts with 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:14.880 the Buzuka machine lasers on it. You say, well, that's 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.399 not really a thing. Oh, it's always about the minutia 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.200 with you children are dying. Well, I'm just trying to 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:22.520 be clear. If you want to pass a lot of 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.520 band something you should probably know what you're trying to ban, right. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.760 You know, this would be like if somebody said, yeah, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.480 let's just let's just ban let's just ban opioids. This 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:34.000 is ban them all, And I said, well, hold on 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.920 a second. Some opioids are actually really useful for people 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:41.760 for medicinal purposes. Some give people their lives back, allow 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.879 them to function instead of being chronic pain. Some opioids 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:51.520 are incredibly useful during and after or after generally but surgery. Right, 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:53.840 Oh no, let's just ban them. Don't you care about 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.879 all the people losing their lives, Well, of course I 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.359 care about the people losing their lives. But you know, 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:00.720 if you're saying, just ban opioid, I'm gonna say that's 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.600 a bad idea. If you're saying just band guns or 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.119 band handguns or band rifles, I'm gonna say that's a 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:09.480 bad idea. But CNN doesn't want to get lost in 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:14.520 those distinctions. It's a network that has just gone from 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:20.080 one storyline to another. Not meant to illuminate different aspects 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:24.960 of Democrat policy. Not meant to give people a both 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.520 sides understanding of what the Trump administrations up to. They 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:33.280 are a political Action Committee devoted to undermining and destroying 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:37.159 this presidency. That's it. They will do fake news as 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:39.200 they have in the past, in order to get there. 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.160 They are unapologetic about the bias that they have. In fact, 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.840 they unlike MSNBC, which will kind of sort of admitted. 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:49.840 I mean, they know they're leftist at MSNBC, CNN doesn't 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.800 think it has a bias, which in many ways makes 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:56.680 it even worse. In many ways, I find that more 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.800 bothersome than what we see from other places. You know, no, 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:02.760 no one admits that. No one thinks I should say 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.840 that Vox or Slate or the Huffing and Post doesn't 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:08.719 have a point of view. They don't understand that their 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.040 point of view is insane and they're practically communists. But 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:13.920 nonetheless they've got a point of view. CNN thinks it's 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.199 still the gold standard in journalism. I could say here 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.399 and just tell your story after story about the stuff 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.640 that I heard on air, off air, behind the scenes, 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:27.920 always playing games. They didn't realize what they were doing. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.679 And this is fundamental, This is important for all of 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:35.040 you listening. They kept putting the Trump people on TV, yes, 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.399 because of ratings, but also they thought that Trump and 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.399 all of his defenders in the media, of which I 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:44.960 was won by the way after the primary. Uh, they 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:49.719 thought that they were creating us and and and idiotic, 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.480 and if they would just put them on air, it 0:25:52.480 --> 0:25:57.320 would expose how awful they were to the people that 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.000 watch CMN. So it was a two fur. You get 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:04.159 great ratings and you're just letting these these pro Trump 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:09.320 clowns embarrassed themselves. What they didn't understand was that people 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:12.520 saw this and they thought, Wow, this guy's actually really 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.560 he's really making sense, He's got something. What they didn't 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:19.400 understand was that when they had their anchors say things like, oh, 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:22.639 Anderson Cooper, Mr super journalist, Donald Trump would take a 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.440 dump on a desk, and you would defend it. That's 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:26.600 a quote from him when he was on air on 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:30.560 National TV. Oh yeah, this this the second coming of 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.879 Edward R. Murrow right there, Anderson Cooper, when he's not 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:35.840 drunk on New Year's Eve, he's doing a great job 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:39.239 on air. You know, he said that on TV. And 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:43.200 it's because over time it just became hard to get 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:46.440 attention for the different ways that people at CNN could 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:51.320 try to undermine and humiliate Trump. Supporters on air, and 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:53.080 so he finally just lent one fly there. But there 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:55.400 were other times too. I remember when he went after 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.280 Andy Dean and basically said, you know, your little punk life, 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:00.920 you've never done any thing like I've done. It was 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:03.880 a really nasty exchange with Andy Dean, who's a friend 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:05.600 of mine, a good guy. By the way, I actually 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:09.679 used to be a host of radio show. UM, so 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:13.640 the bias is very clear. And then just real quickly. 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:18.520 I won't spend much time on this, but Fox News 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.880 has people who are very supportive of Trump, people who 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.000 are kind of supportive of Trump, people who are opposed 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:27.800 to Trump, and they are all on air and they 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:30.360 are all treated with respect. I cannot say the same 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.439 thing for CNN. Pro Trump people are ridiculed there. And 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:38.000 it's CNN's fault and CNN's loss and CNN's poor judgment 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:41.280 that they thought by putting Trump people on TV during 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:45.920 the campaign, they were assuring Hillary's victory and whoops, it's 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:50.040 not how it turned out as uh, as you can see. 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:52.359 I do not I do not appreciate. I do not 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:55.399 think we all need to hear the lecture from Mr 0:27:55.520 --> 0:28:00.880 Zucker on Fox News as state TV and it's it's 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:05.120 particularly galling a team. We've got a lot more show 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:08.000 coming up here. Uh, phone lines are open eight four 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:12.520 five eight four four. Buck Also, don't forget you can 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:15.359 tweet at me throughout the show if you'd like at 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:17.320 buck Sexton on Twitter. I'm hoping some of you sign 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.159 up for Twitter. It's actually really cool platform. Hce you 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:23.679 start using it, and certainly Facebook, Facebook dot com slash 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:26.280 buck Sexton. We'll be right back. Do you think in 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.679 showing these kids so often as often as we we 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:33.080 all do, we're doing actually them a disservice because the 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:37.000 policy is actually what's going to change this The passion 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.760 I fear will just sound like noise after a while 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:44.200 and people will tune it out. Disservices is a strong word. 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:47.160 But when I was interviewing David Hogg only ten days 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:49.600 after the massacre, Uh, there were a few times I 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:51.840 wanted to jump in and and say, let's let's correct 0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:54.760 that fact. That's so interesting. And at one of the 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:57.959 times I did, and other times I did not. So 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:01.400 there you have my friend sc cup over at over 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:05.200 at hl N sister network, CNN, who is one of 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:09.000 the very few loan conservatives over there and and she 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:11.560 is treated with respect. She has her own show on 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:13.920 hl N, so it's the sister network to see an N. 0:29:14.040 --> 0:29:17.480 But she's asked a very important question of Brian Salter, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:20.320 who has a show of Mind You on CNN and 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:23.640 whom I My one experience with him was was he 0:29:23.720 --> 0:29:26.400 tried to ambush me in a taped interview and got 0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:28.720 so buck slapped and so taken to school that the 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.280 the interview never saw the light of day. They never 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:33.360 aired it, and wouldn't even tell me they weren't going 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.200 to air it two days later when I said, hey, 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:39.560 whatever happened that interview was overtaken by breaking news. It's 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:42.400 a Sunday morning. This was supposed to air on Sunday morning. 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:44.480 I don't think there was any breaking news in the 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.080 last couple of hours since you guys were all planning 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:49.240 on running this. Because he keep it as like that, 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:52.320 But well, what do you know about terrorism? Then why 0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:54.640 would this be a terrorisis? Like, I don't know. I 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:57.920 might have brief the president on issues relating to counter 0:29:58.000 --> 0:30:00.200 terrorism when I was in the Central Intelligence Aide, see 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.200 his Office of counter Terrorism and then the Office of 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:06.040 a Rock Analysis. Maybe I might know something about it 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:08.960 enough to talk about it on CNN without an anchor 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.960 coming at me with that stuff that that my week's 0:30:12.080 --> 0:30:14.480 us has been thrown back at my face. I'm so sad. 0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:18.719 Now Stelter is not not among the more impressive journalists 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:21.520 over there. He also walks around all the time wearing 0:30:21.600 --> 0:30:24.680 new balanced sneakers with his suit on. Which are you, 0:30:24.680 --> 0:30:28.200 Steve Jobs? No wear some real shoes, all right, Stelter, 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:32.320 I'm somebody's all about comfortable shoes. Don't wear shoes that say, hey, 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:34.719 I'm too cool at my place of work to have 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:37.200 to wear real shoes with this suit. You can say 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:39.440 this is petty, but I'm just enjoying making fun of 0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:42.600 Selter a little bit. Okay, So, uh we we have 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:45.040 the admission there though, and this was what was important, 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:49.280 admission that they just don't really challenge the kids. You see. 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:51.600 That's why the kids are so perfect for the purposes 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:56.080 of the propaganda that's out there, the uh March for 0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:58.480 Our Lives and then never again moving all this different 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:02.479 stuff because the demo crats can use it in whatever 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:06.000 way they want whenever they want. You know, they're experts 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.040 when they sound good, they're just kids. When they make 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:11.960 fools of themselves. They're people of great gravitas and authority 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:14.640 when they're pushing the left wing line. There, He'll be 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:19.120 me into the kids that whenever the media decides on 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.040 on the one hand, of the voices of reason and 0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:23.200 wisdom on the other hand, that is going to change 0:31:23.240 --> 0:31:29.360 a generation. On the other hand, uh, they are the 0:31:29.520 --> 0:31:32.240 kids who we can't be mean to because they've been 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:37.320 through a trauma. Right. So looking at this now you 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:39.600 see the way the game is playing out time and 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:42.680 time again with this. It's not new. They did this. 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:46.600 The Democrats did this with a handful of nine eleven widows, 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:48.680 and everyone was very, oh gosh, how could you call? 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:50.480 You know, there are a few people that are in 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:53.560 campaign commercials for John Kerry and acting like they can't 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:56.800 be challenged on foreign policy because there are among the 0:31:56.840 --> 0:32:00.560 thousands of people who lost family members on on eleven 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:02.960 and now here we are at this And I would 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:05.240 note that the one of the survivors of the Bota 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:10.360 Clon massacre, which saw I believe over a hundred killed 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:12.880 that day you had suicide bombing at the Stad de France, 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:15.680 I was actually at seeing then covering it as an 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:18.280 analyst at the time when it was breaking news and 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:20.400 you had all these so I remember the night very well, 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.400 and you had all these different stories about how horrific 0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:27.320 the Bota Clon massacre was. And you've got a survivor 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:30.680 of that saying that he thinks these kids are acting 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:35.720 like they're acting like, uh, you know, punks. Basically, he 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:39.520 thinks it's completely He calls them pathetic. I'm trying to 0:32:39.560 --> 0:32:42.120 find the oh and and and vile. I'm trying to 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:43.959 find the direct quotes from him. Now. It was the 0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:48.440 Eagles of Death metal frontman Jesse Hughes. He's been getting 0:32:48.440 --> 0:32:50.440 attention now for so so what do we say to 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:53.200 this in response? He was there from one of the 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:57.959 most horrific brutal terrorist massacres who happen in the West 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.080 in memory, all right, other than nine eleven and Battle 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.480 Clown massacres up there, and like probably the top ten 0:33:03.600 --> 0:33:07.440 or fifteen in terms of number killed. And so does 0:33:07.480 --> 0:33:09.800 does he get a special place in terms of his 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:13.560 opinions on this is? Is he treated with reverence and deference? 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:17.640 Of course not, because he's not a useful tool for 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:23.120 the left. He is not someone who does what they 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:24.960 want him to do. Therefore, he does not get the 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:27.520 special protections. One more. I wanted to get this in 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:28.920 before we get to the next hour. We're gonna talk 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:31.800 about Russia coming up, right, I know, get excited Russia time. 0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:37.600 Uh here is uh CNN, I'm really going after see 0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:41.000 it is. I've got some unresolved CNN issues. Apparently I 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:42.800 need to go sit down with my therapist and be like, 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:45.440 CNN was so mean to me, and I just feel 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:48.760 like I just want some CNN closure because they just 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.360 were I mean, it's not really like that. I smacked 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:53.280 around all the people that they actually let me get 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:56.000 near in terms of on air, but they kept mending 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:57.640 of them away from me. You know, they were smart. 0:33:57.680 --> 0:33:59.720 I give him credit for that. There were some that 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:02.640 were we're dodging me on the Hillary Clinton story in particular, 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:04.200 because it's like, well, I had a t S clearance 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:05.640 and actually know the rules in the law on this. 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.919 You're putting a bunch of political hillary hacks on TV 0:34:09.080 --> 0:34:10.880 who want jobs. Who do you think is going to 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:13.000 look smarter on TV? Like, let's keep this buck kid 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:16.920 off to the side. Please. Uh he he looks twenty 0:34:16.960 --> 0:34:19.080 maybe on a good day. But they'll still believe him 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:21.000 because he actually knows what the heck he's talking about. 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:24.680 But polling says some things that they don't like over 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:35.360 at CNN, so uh of people, despite allegations of affairs, 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:41.920 forty two of people UM are approving of Trump at 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:47.520 this point in time, UM, which is actually right about 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:51.759 right about where he was, right about where he's been 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:54.239 all along. So they keep running these stories. They keep 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:58.640 running the different iterations of you know, playboy bunny and 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:01.719 the affair and all this other stuff off and it 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:05.240 doesn't affect Trump's approval, right, And the ratings are terrible 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:07.160 over at CNN, by the way, So what are they 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:10.640 really doing. They are on an a hab like quest. 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:14.239 Trump is CNN's white whale. We could have a lot 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:16.719 of fun with that, and CNN is a hab and 0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:19.720 they are never given this thing up. The polling shows 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:21.759 that's not working so far, but they don't care. They 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:25.120 don't care. Our maytee with the higher poon. I don't 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:26.560 know if that's really what they have sounds like, but 0:35:26.600 --> 0:35:28.799 you know what I mean, Our to Russia coming up. 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:48.160 Stay with me. He's back with you now, because when 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:51.560 it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:56.480 This is twenty nations, including many nations in Western Europe, 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:58.800 which is a history of being somewhat soft on Russia, 0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:01.279 as well as the Stern Block nations for the former 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:04.640 Soviet satellite states, and the United States is leading the 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:07.520 way in this in terms of the number of expulsions. Look, Eric, 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:09.719 I'm a I'm an old piece through strength guy, and 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.640 I always will be. When one nation does something inappropriate, 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:16.560 messes with international order and law, it is entirely right 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:20.720 and you must retaliate. We retaliated. We need to do more. 0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:24.080 But this is very appropriate, felt familiar, felt a bit 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:26.800 like old times. Now, look look at what just happened. 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:30.319 We're tough on Russia. We acted in concert with our 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:34.879 allies globally. The United States took a leadership role, very 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:38.359 untrumpion and so I'm I'm very happy to see it. 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:42.200 In response to the President's leadership, several additional countries and 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:45.799 NATO have followed up with similar actions since our announcement. 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:49.280 As of this morning, over twenty five countries all around 0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:52.600 the world have expelled one hundred and fifty Russian intelligence 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:56.640 officers hiding under diplomatic cover in their countries. As we 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:59.400 have said before the United States is open to building 0:36:59.440 --> 0:37:02.919 a better relationship with Russia, but the Russian government must 0:37:03.000 --> 0:37:07.480 understand that there are serious consequences for its destabilizing actions. 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:11.560 Trump takes on the bear, welcome back to the buck, 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:14.760 Sex and show everybody we had just in that little 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:19.200 little sound bite we ran there, we had a former 0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:24.399 Bush administration, White House Press secretary, former CIA director in fact, 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:28.000 my boss, I remember Mike. There's a good dude. Actually, 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:30.560 I like Mike. I want to be Remember I want 0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:32.080 to be like Mike. By the way, that was such 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:34.240 a big campaign. I didn't want to be like Mike 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:37.120 in that I wanted to run the agency. But nonetheless, 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:41.479 Hayden was a good guy. And uh then you also 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:45.400 sarahuckeby Sanders of this administration. But you're noticing a trend here, folks. 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:49.720 Not a surprise at all. Right, A lot of action 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:53.359 taken on Russia by this administration. Action that is real. 0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:57.480 It's not just words. It's not sitting around talking go 0:37:57.600 --> 0:38:01.480 under summits giving interview, used to friendly press outlets, going 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.759 on MSNBC. You know we're gonna work together, bambministration is 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:06.759 gonna do things. We're gonna make it better. We're gonna 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:10.240 work and we're gonna stop Russian. Uh. This is actually 0:38:10.239 --> 0:38:13.080 Trump saying, okay, you know, you want to poison somebody 0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:15.320 with nova chalk in the UK, one of our closest 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:17.800 allies in the whole world. There's there's gonna be consequences, 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.560 and they're going to be tailored to what is a 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:25.440 a response one would expect in this situation. Right, We're 0:38:25.440 --> 0:38:27.839 not just it's not okay they use nova chalk. Now 0:38:27.880 --> 0:38:32.400 we're about to, you know, land a marine expeditionary force 0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:37.440 in St. Petersburg. But it is saying, hold on a second, 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.640 this is not okay. You guys gotta knock this stuff off. 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:42.200 See it's interesting, isn't it. You have so many people 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:45.840 that refer to Putin as a thug. You'll hear that 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:51.359 a lot. You'll hear about how You'll hear about how 0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:53.399 Putin is such a thug, he's such a bad guy. 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:58.800 And then what they don't understand is they want a 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:03.760 you win, multi e lateral, sit down, drink tea Davo 0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:10.360 style push back to whatever Putin is doing. And the 0:39:10.560 --> 0:39:13.000 trump bean approach is much more you know, look, I'm 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:15.280 not gonna sit here and give all kinds of bluster 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:17.759 about how I don't like what Putin did in the elections, 0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:20.319 I don't think. But when he steps out of line, 0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:22.160 you know, he steps out of line, he's gonna get smacked. 0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:25.360 And that's what happened here, right, This is I'm sure, 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.000 producer Mike, these are the same rules in certain neighborhoods 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.719 in Philly. You go to the outer boroughs in New York, 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:33.040 in Staten Island, for example, you step out of line, 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:35.759 you get smacked. Right, This is the Trump approach to 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:39.840 dealing with Russia. And sometimes there's a genius in simplicity, 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:43.200 or at least there's an effectiveness in simplicity. And I 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:47.319 think with with Trump on international affairs, because he isn't 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:51.239 trying to trying so hard to impress people with these 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:57.240 degrees from various UH international relations institutes. A Fletcher School 0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:01.080 at Toughs, George George Town's School of Foreign Service, the 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:05.000 Walsh School, JOHNS. Hopkins School of Advanced in International Studies, 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.319 Columbia's School of International Public Affairs SEA. But I mean, 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:10.160 go through all these places, You're like, Buck, why do 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:12.360 you know about these things? Who do you think you know? 0:40:12.440 --> 0:40:14.920 These are people who go work in government. They're working. 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:17.000 They go from these schools and they go they become 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:19.960 the bureaucrats. Who are, you know, working at the State Department, 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:24.440 working at the you name it. And the truth is, 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:25.759 for a lot of them, it would just be better 0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:28.880 to have some to focus on a life experience instead 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:31.600 of getting a master's degree. That's the equivalent of a 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:34.120 lot of reading assignments that you could do on your 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:35.799 own if you just had the time and the discipline. 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:40.760 That's that's just that's the deal. So Trump is taking 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:44.960 this approach, and now you're seeing a shift in at 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.839 least that the punditocracy on the Russia issue. For now. 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:50.080 They will abandon this in a few weeks and we'll 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:52.960 be back to you know, Trump. You know, it's like 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:56.200 miss It's like Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the silarium. 0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:59.360 You know, it'll be Trump and putin stuffing ballot boxes 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:03.040 in Wisconsin. That's gonna be where they take us. Just 0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:05.800 give it some time for now. Though there's a little 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:09.560 bit of mm hmmm, what are we to make of this? 0:41:09.880 --> 0:41:11.640 What are we supposed to do about the fact that 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:15.000 one of the dominant narratives from the media all along 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:21.480 has been, oh, do we have it Erry, the hunt 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:23.080 for Roud October M's like always gets me in the 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:27.400 mood for Russia analysis. So thank you Brandon on the board. 0:41:28.440 --> 0:41:32.960 Now I'm now, I'm really ready to go. So one 0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:36.880 of the main storylines all along has been that the 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:41.000 Trump approach to Russia is tainted by either their ability 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:46.839 to blackmail him or some bizarre and inexplicable favoritism that 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:49.120 Trump has when it comes to Russia. You know, all 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:54.040 these different things, and yet all in the actual policy issues, 0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:57.640 Trump has been willing to do things that his predecessor 0:41:57.719 --> 0:41:59.520 Obama was not willing to do. And I think it's 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.480 in part because of the my my thesis here for 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:07.680 Trumps international relations. What pulse? Who's pulse? Or that. That 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.400 was one of my favorite moments with now famous for 0:42:10.480 --> 0:42:14.440 very different reasons, lawyer Michael Cohen's who's pulse? You've got poles? 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.000 I got pulse? Who's pulse? On CNN? It was great. 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:21.240 The anchor was like, the pulse, who's pulse? You've got poles? 0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:24.359 They're wrong by the way those poles, Uh, the step 0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:26.719 out of line, you get smacked. That's how you deal 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.640 with bullies. That's actually how you deal with a KGB thug. 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.439 You get all these reporters running around saying he's a thug, 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:37.319 he's a thug, and yet you don't have any way 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:40.960 to deal with that that's effective. And you've also got 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:43.080 to look at this from the perspective of let's assume 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:45.040 that what we all hear about Putin all the time 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.120 is is true. All all I can know about Putin 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:49.640 is what I've read about him. I have not yet, 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:53.160 despite comy bears and treatise on my behalf, I have 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.920 not yet gotten an invitation to the Kremlin to hang 0:42:56.920 --> 0:43:02.680 out with Putin, to go shirtless, uh, deer hunting and 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:06.759 go right around on. I don't know, elephants, whatever else 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:08.240 he's got. I know they don't have elephants in Russia, 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:09.600 but you know he does all those cool things all 0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:11.880 over the world. Right this is they've created a cult 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:16.680 of personality around him. It's a it's very clear that 0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:20.480 he is the guy. He has now melded into the 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:23.279 state in a similar way to the Chinese premier Hijin Ping. 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:28.279 But how do you deal with somebody who is aggressive 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:30.960 in a bully, Well, you stand up to them, you 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.120 don't give them a you don't give them an excuse 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:36.360 to escalate necessarily. But if a bully pushes you, you 0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:38.439 push back. If if a bully pushes you, you you don't 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:42.919 necessarily try to wind up and give him a Chuck 0:43:42.960 --> 0:43:46.719 Norris style roundhouse kick to the nose, because one you'll 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:49.360 probably miss. Because high kicks are generally very ineffective in 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.279 street fights from what I've seen and been told by 0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:54.480 people who are trained in these matters. And if you 0:43:54.480 --> 0:43:55.960 think about it, it it makes sense. If I tried to 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:58.720 throw a high kick, I would pull a hammy, no doubt. 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:00.799 You know I'm getting up there, I'm getting all and 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:02.920 that's not cool. No matter what kind of fights you're in, 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:05.680 you'ren't gonna go hold up, hold up, I just pulled something. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.920 But you don't want to escalate beyond what the bully 0:44:09.040 --> 0:44:13.440 is already doing. And that's why we're expelling diplomats. This 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.600 is there aren't that many things in our tool kit. 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:18.760 Keep that in mind. We were already doing sanctions punishing 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:25.040 Russia economically, we are already taking diplomatic actions against them. 0:44:25.120 --> 0:44:30.000 And remember that the single most important thing we have 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:35.160 done to box in the Russian States ambitions abroad and 0:44:35.320 --> 0:44:38.680 to push back on Putin's belligerence. The single most important 0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:42.200 thing I would argue is the share revolution in this 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:46.560 country that has brought the price of oil down so 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:49.759 much that the Russian economy, which is really a one 0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:51.760 trick pony, I mean, Russia is kind of like Saudi 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:56.799 Arabia plus the kgb um. That's the most important thing 0:44:56.800 --> 0:45:00.680 that we've done, and that was done. Remember this, what 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:03.360 is it. The barrel of oil right now is sixty 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:06.200 four dollars. I Remembermber when it was like a hundred 0:45:06.280 --> 0:45:08.880 twenty dollars. Yeah, and you you'd actually fill up a 0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:11.920 gas tank. You're like, my camera, just eight fifty dollars. 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:17.480 You're like, oh my gosh, very expensive stuff. Uh. The 0:45:17.520 --> 0:45:25.800 most important thing we've done is through essentially US prosperity, technology, innovation, ingenuity, energy. 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:28.520 That's been more important than any other policy we've had. 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:31.880 It's also the reason now Venezuela is in a terrible 0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:34.800 place of despair. But it's what's collapsed the Venezuelan regime, 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.360 the Iraqi regime. People don't often give them credit for this, 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:39.840 and this is just an aside for those of you 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.920 who are rock watchers and care but the Iraqis were like, no, no, 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:45.040 we're not going to budget for a very high price 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:47.399 of oil going into the future. At least some years ago. 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:50.799 They seemed to have a little bit of foresight with 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:55.040 their budgeting, right, they didn't prepare for nothing but high 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:58.040 prices and oil for the foreseeable. It also is bringing 0:45:58.080 --> 0:46:01.399 about some degree re of reform in the Middle East. 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:05.360 I would note there's more of that, and this is 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:08.640 all the result of the private sector really in the 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:13.400 United States. So our most formidable weapon against a country 0:46:13.400 --> 0:46:16.800 that still has thousands of nuclear weapons, a very capable 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:22.920 advanced military, and not necessarily delusions of grandeur, but defer 0:46:23.200 --> 0:46:26.560 definitely an inflated sense of its importance on the world stage, 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:33.840 has just been allowing our oil companies and our technology 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:38.000 to bring down the price of oil dramatically. Because remember this, 0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:41.439 the Russian oil industries are are state essentially state owned, 0:46:41.480 --> 0:46:43.840 state backed enterprise. I mean there's some private sector of 0:46:43.840 --> 0:46:46.640 a near but it's really the state makes all the decisions. 0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:50.640 State is ros Neft in these other oil oil conglomerates. 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:56.160 They are essential for funding Russian government operations. I think 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.160 Russia has a flat tax by the way, I think 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:02.480 it's like ten or fiftent Hey if it works for Russia, um, 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:05.400 but they have not been able to refit and and 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:07.399 build out their military the way they'd like to because 0:47:07.400 --> 0:47:09.520 they don't have the capital to do it. So I 0:47:09.600 --> 0:47:12.080 just think that's a story that doesn't get told very much. 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:14.319 And oh, by the way, one of the reasons it's 0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:17.719 not told to you and we we don't you don't 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.320 have a media telling this is to the United States. 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:22.680 Has thanks to all the folks listening who work in 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:26.759 the ural industry, and thanks to those scientists in the 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:32.799 private sector and and researchers who have created this revolution 0:47:32.880 --> 0:47:35.200 in shale oil technology, we can get so much more 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:37.120 and it's so it gets put on the market cheaply. 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:41.680 And uh, this has changed geopolitics more than any policy 0:47:41.719 --> 0:47:44.040 I can think of in the last well in the 0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:47.880 post nine eleven era, really and for the better. And 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.880 you don't hear about it because, oh, that's right, the 0:47:50.920 --> 0:47:55.799 Obama administration opposed it every step of the way. No 0:47:55.800 --> 0:47:58.680 no offshore drilling, no drilling on federal land, no drilling 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.200 on in or fracking is bad. Remember when there was 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:03.440 that whole effort to say that fracking was gonna poison 0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:05.120 all of our drinking water. There was a guy who 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:08.879 made some documentary, total total wacko, by the way, I've 0:48:08.880 --> 0:48:10.480 seen him on I can't remember his name right now, 0:48:10.520 --> 0:48:13.359 but it was gas Land. I think it was gas 0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:15.400 Land was the name of the documentary. So, I mean, 0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:18.920 it's like maybe ten years ago. You know, I'm human Google, 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:20.680 but I'm imprecise. You know, you gotta fact check the 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:22.319 human Google over here, which I guess it means I'm 0:48:22.320 --> 0:48:26.200 not actually Google. But the whole premise is that you 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:29.360 got everybody with all this gas underground and shale oil, 0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:33.040 and we're all gonna it's all gonna poison us, right, Mike, Yeah, 0:48:33.040 --> 0:48:36.040 that guy running around, We're all are drinking water is 0:48:36.040 --> 0:48:38.440 all getting poisoned because of shale. Oh, we need to 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:41.719 pass legislation in New York to protect the well the 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.879 New York Watershed from shale. It's it's all. It's not true. 0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:49.800 This has all been complete. Sky is falling. I was 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:51.920 gonna say Silence of the Lambs, it was actually boy 0:48:51.960 --> 0:48:53.960 who cried wolf. That's what I meant to say. I'm 0:48:54.000 --> 0:48:56.239 getting my I'm mixing metaphors in a big way. No, no no, 0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:59.000 sid it uses the low shot or it gets the hose. 0:48:59.080 --> 0:49:04.520 That's a very different, very different metaphor to use. So yeah, 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:08.880 um boy, who cried wolf? Though with the shale oil situation, 0:49:09.000 --> 0:49:11.680 is is apt. They were saying it would be so 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:13.680 bad it would poison our drinking water. Meanwhile, if you 0:49:13.719 --> 0:49:17.880 want to see why Vladimir Putin is a lot of 0:49:17.920 --> 0:49:22.080 bluster and isn't nearly as effective on the world stage 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.799 as he would like to be, forget about anything and 0:49:24.880 --> 0:49:27.320 including honestly, Trump policy up to this point. And Trump's 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:29.319 done good stuff, but he hasn't been in office that long. 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:32.480 Bringing the price of oil down dramatically and having the 0:49:32.560 --> 0:49:38.560 United States become the world's energy producing superpower is a 0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:40.840 single most important thing, and that was done over the 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:46.200 strenuous objections of the Obama administration, of the environmentalist lobby 0:49:46.200 --> 0:49:50.520 of the Democrat Party. So thanks for nothing, lefties, No 0:49:50.640 --> 0:49:53.560 surprise there. I don't mean that like for people who 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:56.839 are left handed. 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The alternative is you 0:51:55.239 --> 0:51:58.160 don't do it. It causes you some temporary pain with 0:51:58.239 --> 0:52:03.000 people who tomorrow aren't gonna matter, and you have a 0:52:03.120 --> 0:52:07.239 campaign that understands it. In a difficult time. You did 0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:12.640 something right. Um, and you know that's important. I mean 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:14.680 it doesn't mean anything. We can't do anything for you 0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:17.839 specifically or anything like that, but you, uh, you know 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:21.000 that you did the right thing. So that's George Stephanopolis. 0:52:21.040 --> 0:52:24.200 As a flashback included in the Freedom Hunt packet Today 0:52:24.239 --> 0:52:27.520 producer Mike what what was the context for this? By 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:29.160 the way, when when was this going on? This is 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:31.560 way back in the day. This is Stephanopolis, the political 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:35.480 operative threatening a journalist. It sounds like, yeah, it's actually 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:39.960 from thementary called the War Room. Um it was. It 0:52:40.000 --> 0:52:46.759 took place during um the president presidential campaign. Interesting, Yes, 0:52:46.760 --> 0:52:51.839 Stephanopolis a guy who was somehow able to transition from 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:55.200 being a straight up political operative to to a newsman. 0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:58.720 And everyone's like, oh, he's just a newsman. H Mmm, 0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:01.279 how does that work? That reminds me. You know what 0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:04.200 I got this week? Actually, I'm gonna see chap a Quittic. 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:07.719 I'm gonna that is on my list of things that 0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:10.560 I need to see. I'm excited that someone made her, 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:13.320 or I'm thankful probably even a better word, that somebody 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:16.400 made a movie about what happened in Chapa Quittic with 0:53:16.440 --> 0:53:20.840 Teddy Kennedy. It is somewhat astonishing, though, that here we are, 0:53:21.560 --> 0:53:25.680 this many years later, and it's only after Teddy Kennedy 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:30.200 has passed away and there's really not a Kennedy that's 0:53:30.480 --> 0:53:33.719 in the stable that's supposed to take over. You know 0:53:33.800 --> 0:53:36.520 that the Kennedy throne and the fact that there's even 0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:40.120 a Kennedy throne is terrible, folks. I am opposed to 0:53:40.120 --> 0:53:42.400 political dynasties, I really, you know, it's one of the 0:53:42.560 --> 0:53:44.520 one of the big problems I have with with Jeb. 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:47.319 I didn't like it about George w not gonna lie. 0:53:47.800 --> 0:53:51.600 I hated about the Clintons, And I think we need 0:53:51.640 --> 0:53:53.720 to be consistent on this one. One of the biggest 0:53:53.760 --> 0:53:57.120 things that separates the right from a left in this country, 0:53:57.160 --> 0:54:03.040 conservatives from liberals, is our are our willingness to say 0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:05.640 things even when we don't want to or even when 0:54:05.680 --> 0:54:06.960 it's not the most fun thing to say, because we 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:08.680 don't want to be hypocrites. Right, we need to hold 0:54:08.680 --> 0:54:11.239 onto that. It's important. I'm saying we're perfect. I'm just 0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:14.480 saying the left embraces hypocrisy means to an end whatever 0:54:15.080 --> 0:54:17.279 you know, what's fine in one case is not fine, 0:54:17.280 --> 0:54:18.800 and the other depends on whether it's a D or 0:54:18.800 --> 0:54:21.200 an R by the person's name. And we see this 0:54:21.280 --> 0:54:26.280 with the whole fiasco over Trump and the alleged affairs 0:54:26.360 --> 0:54:30.160 versus the way they treated Clinton, the way they treated Kennedy, 0:54:30.280 --> 0:54:34.799 the JFK and Teddy Kennedy Um, the way that they 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:40.480 covered for uh. John Edwards wouldn't touch that story for 0:54:40.560 --> 0:54:45.680 the longest time, and that was really he is the 0:54:45.719 --> 0:54:47.520 fact that he was so close to being president is 0:54:47.520 --> 0:54:50.080 really to this day still one of the one of 0:54:50.120 --> 0:54:53.640 the moments where I start to question this, this whole 0:54:53.680 --> 0:54:56.200 experiment we call America, like, you're gonna make this ambulance 0:54:56.280 --> 0:55:01.440 chaser who's lying to everybody repeatedly all TV about cheating 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:04.320 on his cancer stricken wife who he uses at campaign 0:55:04.400 --> 0:55:07.200 rallies for sympathy. I mean, the whole thing was just 0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:13.080 beyond appalling. But the media was, you know, they do 0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:15.880 whatever they want to do. All this stuff. The Stephanopolis thing, 0:55:15.880 --> 0:55:18.640 I just I never heard Stephanopolis gets so fierce. That 0:55:18.719 --> 0:55:40.960 was that was interesting. He's back with you now, because 0:55:41.000 --> 0:55:43.600 when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:49.880 never stops. Oh boy, the Facebook stuff continues here. I've 0:55:50.560 --> 0:55:53.120 I will give myself a little paddle the pack because 0:55:53.120 --> 0:55:56.240 while everybody else was, oh my gosh, Facebook is combing 0:55:56.400 --> 0:55:58.560 for you, I was like, Facebook has been doing this 0:55:58.600 --> 0:56:02.560 all along, folks. It's not new. There is There is 0:56:02.719 --> 0:56:08.960 nothing about Facebook aggregating your your data and using it 0:56:09.000 --> 0:56:11.400 and trying to sell it at a profit that is 0:56:11.400 --> 0:56:14.400 it any way different. And I'm happy that we're finally 0:56:14.400 --> 0:56:17.360 seeing what's going on here. By the numbers those of 0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:20.680 you listening to this show, I think I want to 0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:23.359 say of the Country is on the problem with doing 0:56:23.360 --> 0:56:25.120 statistics off the top of your head. You know, I'm 0:56:25.160 --> 0:56:27.560 just it's a freestyle three hour radio show and I 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:29.960 just say things. I think of the Country has a 0:56:29.960 --> 0:56:33.319 Facebook account. Maybe it's I don't know. I'm gonna take 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:35.960 a mulligan on this one. It's a lot though most 0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:38.680 of you listening have a Facebook account. I don't know 0:56:38.680 --> 0:56:40.239 how much you use it or not, but it is. 0:56:40.400 --> 0:56:44.279 It is the dominant social media platform by far in 0:56:44.440 --> 0:56:49.200 terms of overall usage and percentage of people who are 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:54.040 are involved with Facebook in some way. So it's it's 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:57.000 a b a myth, okay, and it's got a tremendous 0:56:57.000 --> 0:56:59.080 it really. It has the budget of a pretty good 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:04.439 sized country. And it is a a force in economics, 0:57:04.480 --> 0:57:07.640 a force in in our economy in ways that we're 0:57:07.680 --> 0:57:11.000 just beginning to really understand. But here's the latest on this, 0:57:11.080 --> 0:57:13.799 and this one's courtesy of p J Media. I saw this, um, 0:57:15.440 --> 0:57:19.040 I saw this one on Drudge and he goes as 0:57:19.040 --> 0:57:27.040 follow us quote Cambridge Analytical Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wiley appearing 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:31.080 before a committee of British MPs on Tuesday. So that 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.480 Facebook has the ability to spy on users in their 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:39.360 homes and offices. The British Parliament is investigating Cambridge Analytica's 0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:44.080 involvement in the Brexit election. MP Damian Collins, who chaired 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:48.720 the committee, asked, why is you know, Wiley? Yeah, whether 0:57:48.800 --> 0:57:52.160 Facebook has the ability to listen to what people are 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:55.240 talking about in order to better target them with ads. Quote, 0:57:55.560 --> 0:57:58.680 There's been various speculation about the fact that Facebook can, 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:02.120 through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen into what 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:04.760 people are talking about and discussing and using that to 0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:09.120 prioritize the advertising as well. Other people would say no, 0:58:09.200 --> 0:58:11.280 they don't think it's possible. It's just that the Facebook 0:58:11.320 --> 0:58:13.440 system is so good at predicting what you're interested in 0:58:13.480 --> 0:58:17.000 that it can guess. He asked for Wiley's thoughts on 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:20.480 the possibility, and Wiley said, there's audio that could be useful, 0:58:21.160 --> 0:58:23.760 just in terms of are you in an office environment, 0:58:23.800 --> 0:58:26.919 are you outside? Are you watching TV? Facebook mean, while 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:29.480 denies allegations that its app listens in on people. Look, 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:32.760 I'm gonna tell you this, Siri, I don't trust Siri, 0:58:33.480 --> 0:58:36.120 I don't trust Alexa. I turn all those things off 0:58:36.880 --> 0:58:39.000 because when series on on my phone and I'm not 0:58:39.080 --> 0:58:42.680 some paranoid guy. Are you paranoid? Sexton? Are you ready 0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:47.200 for what's coming? Bill? The Burgh's camp trails. Oh yeah, 0:58:47.240 --> 0:58:48.640 it's nothing. Just look at them up at the sky. 0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:53.920 There's nothing there, just camp trails. Nothing, nothing happened. But no, seriously, 0:58:54.360 --> 0:58:57.480 I turn off of what what not? Alexa? Alexe is 0:58:57.520 --> 0:59:01.200 the other one, right? Alexe is all it? Alexa? Are 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:03.440 you working for the government? Alexa? That was one of 0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:05.080 my favorite clips. If we have that, By the way, 0:59:05.080 --> 0:59:07.200 should we should play that just because it's fun. He's 0:59:07.200 --> 0:59:10.840 an incredible performance artist. I give him credit for that. Um. 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:14.480 But the serie thing, the serie thing, I sound like, oh, 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:17.760 the serie thing on my phone. It's hard to press 0:59:17.800 --> 0:59:20.920 the buttons and I can't get it to work. Dad, 0:59:21.240 --> 0:59:26.480 nabb it. But the serie whatever it is, app function. 0:59:26.520 --> 0:59:29.560 I believe the serie function did this thing when I 0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:31.040 got a phone that actually had it on, where all 0:59:31.040 --> 0:59:33.240 of a sudden it would go like no, like I 0:59:33.280 --> 0:59:37.280 do not know where the pizza party is. I'm like, whoa, whoa, 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:40.240 No one's talking to you. It would it's occasionally maybe 0:59:40.240 --> 0:59:41.680 this is just a malfunction on my phone, but it 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:44.160 would pick up, you know, if you left it on, 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:45.880 or if I left it on, it would pick up 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:48.640 what I had said and would respond to it. And 0:59:48.680 --> 0:59:51.120 I'm sure there's some techy explanation for this or whatever, 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:53.200 but that to me means it has to have an 0:59:53.200 --> 0:59:56.720 active microphone on while I'm talking. And if it has 0:59:56.760 --> 0:59:59.560 an active microphone on, you've got a couple of possibilities. 0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:03.560 One is that at least it is very possible that 1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:06.800 somebody could hack into your phone and be listened to everything, 1:00:07.320 --> 1:00:12.000 and they would hear my long conversations, uh with miss 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:15.000 Molly about how I really just think that this is 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:19.000 the best aoli for my frozen chicken tenders, which is 1:00:19.040 --> 1:00:22.000 pretty much my I have a few weaknesses in life. Bacon, 1:00:22.560 --> 1:00:27.200 frozen chicken tenders, chocolate, whole milk, tequila that's pretty and 1:00:27.280 --> 1:00:29.080 wine those are that's the list. Really. If you give 1:00:29.120 --> 1:00:32.520 me all that, I'm in pretty owing steak, obviously, but 1:00:32.520 --> 1:00:34.440 I'm in pretty good shape. If you're giving all those things, 1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:37.240 maybe you can put some greens on my plate so 1:00:37.280 --> 1:00:42.640 I seem healthy. Uh. But I didn't like that this 1:00:42.680 --> 1:00:46.720 would pick up the words that I was that are 1:00:46.720 --> 1:00:48.880 were the words that I was saying the things that 1:00:48.920 --> 1:00:52.560 I was saying, and it would get processed through some 1:00:52.680 --> 1:00:56.160 kind of you know, computer algorithm, and it would it 1:00:56.200 --> 1:00:59.600 would make decisions based on what I was saying, and 1:00:59.640 --> 1:01:03.600 it did necessarily wait for me to prompt it. So 1:01:04.200 --> 1:01:07.120 if we were thinking about this from a counterintelligence perspective, 1:01:07.200 --> 1:01:10.120 let me just say this would be you have to 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:11.800 think of this as a nightmare. Right. You're gonna walk 1:01:11.840 --> 1:01:16.160 around with it with a microphone that is always enabled 1:01:17.120 --> 1:01:19.480 and that is always connected to the web or to 1:01:19.560 --> 1:01:23.000 your cell phone, to the cell towers, and you're just 1:01:23.080 --> 1:01:26.080 hoping that not only is there good enough encryption to 1:01:26.080 --> 1:01:28.960 stop hackers, but you're trusting any company that you put 1:01:28.960 --> 1:01:30.920 an app on your phone that they're not going to 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:35.760 misuse or abuse this data. Now, you know, I would 1:01:35.800 --> 1:01:37.880 say that I'm sounding a little paranoid, but I also 1:01:37.920 --> 1:01:40.360 know people who really do the thing. And producer Mike 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:42.919 Brandon either you do this where they put the piece 1:01:42.960 --> 1:01:45.760 of tape on there on the top of their computer 1:01:45.840 --> 1:01:47.480 where the camera is because they know that it can 1:01:47.480 --> 1:01:50.280 be turned on and turned off. I think a lot 1:01:50.280 --> 1:01:51.840 of this is kind of like the local news stories 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:54.880 you'll see where it's like can somebody hack into your 1:01:54.920 --> 1:01:56.680 baby monitor and they had put up a photo of 1:01:56.680 --> 1:01:58.920 like some creepy guy in a sweatshirt and just you know, 1:01:59.040 --> 1:02:01.480 you can't see his face. They're like News at eleven. 1:02:01.600 --> 1:02:04.400 It's like, yeah, of course somebody could hack into a 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:07.640 a baby monitor, I guess technologically speaking, but I think 1:02:07.640 --> 1:02:09.760 they're doing a bit of fearmongering to get people to 1:02:09.800 --> 1:02:12.400 tune in. You know, it's like is your toothpaste killing you? 1:02:12.960 --> 1:02:16.880 News at eleven. There's a lot of that. But you know, 1:02:17.080 --> 1:02:19.760 you start thinking about what is really possible in this 1:02:19.800 --> 1:02:22.520 world we live in now and how we all uh 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:27.720 we all carry around with us active microphones, we carry 1:02:27.760 --> 1:02:32.320 surveillance devices on us. You know, if you were if 1:02:32.320 --> 1:02:38.200 you were trying to walk around East Germany Circle and 1:02:38.840 --> 1:02:43.040 Vistazi was able to give you a device that could 1:02:43.080 --> 1:02:47.040 that was a recording device, a locational device, a video device, 1:02:48.840 --> 1:02:50.360 and you could have it with you at all times. 1:02:50.360 --> 1:02:52.680 The Stasi would have been like, oh my gosh, this 1:02:52.800 --> 1:02:56.360 is crazy, but they would have been very happy because 1:02:56.360 --> 1:03:00.760 it's much more, uh, it is much more effect of surveillance. 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:02.960 And they were even able to do with their enormous 1:03:03.000 --> 1:03:06.800 network of informants, which I then, now I have to 1:03:06.800 --> 1:03:09.720 give you my requisite plug for the Lives of Others 1:03:10.360 --> 1:03:14.000 das Leben Derander. In a few of you actually speak 1:03:14.000 --> 1:03:16.080 fluent German, and whenever I do anything in German on 1:03:16.080 --> 1:03:18.160 the show, you completely call me out on Facebook. So 1:03:18.160 --> 1:03:20.920 I'm prepared for that. That's fine, but it's it's a 1:03:20.960 --> 1:03:24.080 wonderful movie The Lives of Others. Highly highly recommended. I 1:03:24.120 --> 1:03:25.920 recommend that it to somebody recently and he told me 1:03:25.920 --> 1:03:27.680 he fell asleep during it. I'm not gonna lie to you. 1:03:28.120 --> 1:03:30.520 I'm never gonna think of the same way again. He's 1:03:30.560 --> 1:03:32.360 off the list now now I don't know. I'm not 1:03:32.360 --> 1:03:35.160 I'm not recommending any to him anymore. I recommended Win 1:03:35.320 --> 1:03:37.320 River and he's all like, oh, book, you're a genius. 1:03:37.360 --> 1:03:39.120 Then I'm like, all right, we're gonna bring up to 1:03:39.160 --> 1:03:40.440 the big time. Now we're gonna put you in a 1:03:40.480 --> 1:03:44.080 foreign language situation with the lives of others, things like yeah, 1:03:44.080 --> 1:03:46.800 I fell asleep during it. I was like, oh, you 1:03:46.920 --> 1:03:49.600 insult me, sir. If you get a chance, I would 1:03:49.640 --> 1:03:53.320 highly recommend you see it. But we need to understand 1:03:53.320 --> 1:03:56.320 that these platforms like Facebook and the technology that we 1:03:56.360 --> 1:03:59.080 carry around with us. It all comes with risks. It 1:03:59.200 --> 1:04:03.360 all is changing the way we interact, you know, I 1:04:03.440 --> 1:04:05.160 keep saying it, and it's gonna it's gonna be like 1:04:05.200 --> 1:04:08.440 the drug cartels and opiate overdoses. I was saying that 1:04:08.480 --> 1:04:09.800 for quite a while on the show. I'm like, no 1:04:09.840 --> 1:04:12.200 one else is saying it. Now everyone's saying so like, wow, Buck, 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:16.600 how'd you know? Uh, the biggest change in crime and 1:04:16.640 --> 1:04:18.880 criminal behavior in this country we've seen over the last 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.360 thirty or forty years is there. I don't care anyone 1:04:21.400 --> 1:04:23.920 said they could talk broken windows theory. They you know, 1:04:24.000 --> 1:04:26.280 you could. You could read freakonomics and which I think 1:04:26.360 --> 1:04:29.080 is garbage on this issue. But there's a and you 1:04:29.080 --> 1:04:33.320 can say whatever you want. It's technology. It's that you 1:04:33.360 --> 1:04:38.320 are carrying around the ability to in real time photograph, 1:04:38.680 --> 1:04:43.640 live stream video, communicate with text, message with GEO, locate 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:46.320 all of us all the time, and we're all connected. 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:49.520 You can speak to a non one one operator in 1:04:49.560 --> 1:04:52.240 a matter of seconds. All of us can all the time. 1:04:52.960 --> 1:04:55.040 I mean, maybe this is a bad thing. And heaven 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:58.080 forbid any of these stuff about radiation and like carrying 1:04:58.160 --> 1:05:01.400 radiation in your pocket. You know, it's there's there's some 1:05:01.480 --> 1:05:03.480 there's actually some you want to talk about conspiracy, oh, 1:05:03.520 --> 1:05:04.800 I got one for you. But if you want to 1:05:04.800 --> 1:05:10.640 talk about conspiracies, the possible destructive effects of selling their 1:05:10.680 --> 1:05:16.160 technology as it as it uh as it affects uh 1:05:16.480 --> 1:05:19.360 tumor growth and and cancer and things like that. That's 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:22.200 people say it's it's not bad for you, and it's fine, 1:05:22.280 --> 1:05:23.800 But then all the people are like, well there was 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:26.640 this study, and you know, who really knows how all 1:05:26.640 --> 1:05:29.760 this stuff affects you. I have big concerns about it. 1:05:29.960 --> 1:05:32.400 Um Over the long term, I started to see people 1:05:32.400 --> 1:05:35.960 who who are like carrying around radiation shielded phones now 1:05:36.000 --> 1:05:37.960 and stuff. I've seen some there's some stuff out there 1:05:38.320 --> 1:05:42.040 which hey, at least it is definitely a conversation start. 1:05:42.080 --> 1:05:45.440 If you're on a date, she's like, what's that, and 1:05:45.480 --> 1:05:50.800 you're like, don't worry about that, honey, it's my radiation shield, 1:05:51.240 --> 1:05:53.160 you know what I mean. I've got one that's actually 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:55.480 from my computer that I you know, I guess you 1:05:55.480 --> 1:05:57.440 gotta protect what's precious in life. So I put it. 1:05:57.520 --> 1:05:59.080 You gotta put it across your lap. We put the 1:05:59.120 --> 1:06:02.080 laptop on top of it. There you go. Um. We 1:06:02.080 --> 1:06:04.680 were talking about Facebook. I think in Facebook Analytica. But 1:06:04.960 --> 1:06:08.320 things took a little of a turn, and I just 1:06:08.400 --> 1:06:10.640 was sharing you some of Buck's philosophy of all the things, 1:06:11.240 --> 1:06:16.200 Buck's theory of everything. If you will probably too soon, um, 1:06:16.200 --> 1:06:20.640 eight four four to five eight four buck, I'll be 1:06:20.720 --> 1:06:46.480 right back. Yeah. Occasionally I like to share some stories 1:06:46.520 --> 1:06:52.680 with you that are are uplifting, actually, um, and I 1:06:52.800 --> 1:06:55.080 like to be able to sit here and tell you 1:06:55.120 --> 1:06:56.920 about something that makes us off a little bit good. 1:06:57.160 --> 1:07:04.480 You know. Usually Facebook is is a a place, UM, 1:07:04.520 --> 1:07:06.520 a place or or a Twitter is a place where 1:07:06.520 --> 1:07:08.960 you'll see all kinds of nastiness and people just say 1:07:09.000 --> 1:07:11.400 that they say really mean things to each other and 1:07:11.440 --> 1:07:15.160 they're just big, mean meanings and it's not cool. You know. 1:07:15.200 --> 1:07:18.560 You get a lot of that. Um. Usually that's the 1:07:18.600 --> 1:07:23.280 case with Facebook. But sometimes, as you know, I was 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:26.080 beating up on it a lot before, but sometimes they 1:07:26.120 --> 1:07:29.160 can be a place for good. Nice things happen, right, 1:07:29.520 --> 1:07:33.440 People actually build there. And I'm being smug about all this. 1:07:33.840 --> 1:07:36.120 There's a lot of people. They're nice. People are nice 1:07:36.160 --> 1:07:38.200 on social media. That's what you're kind of funding out. 1:07:38.440 --> 1:07:40.280 People who are actually good people in their day to 1:07:40.360 --> 1:07:43.200 day lives are good people on social media, people who 1:07:43.200 --> 1:07:47.280 are angry and hateful and spiteful that tends to come 1:07:47.320 --> 1:07:50.560 across in the way that they interact with others. And 1:07:50.600 --> 1:07:52.640 I'm sure all of you listening know what I'm talking about. 1:07:52.800 --> 1:07:55.880 It has never crossed my mind. For example, two even 1:07:55.920 --> 1:07:58.960 before I was in public life in some capacity, you know, 1:07:59.080 --> 1:08:03.000 being a radio dude, But it would never cross my 1:08:03.040 --> 1:08:07.840 mind to write something really mean about public figures appearance 1:08:07.880 --> 1:08:10.200 and send it to them, right, particularly to do that 1:08:10.400 --> 1:08:13.720 for a lady. I just think that's terrible. And people 1:08:13.720 --> 1:08:16.240 do that stuff, do it all the time. I used 1:08:16.240 --> 1:08:18.599 to see. I used to get angry on behalf of 1:08:18.640 --> 1:08:21.599 some of my colleagues at The Blaze who were women 1:08:22.160 --> 1:08:25.559 who would get stuff written to them that was there 1:08:25.640 --> 1:08:29.360 was just it would embarrass any normal person to write 1:08:29.400 --> 1:08:32.880 such a thing. But there's good stuff too that happens 1:08:32.880 --> 1:08:35.160 in social media. And I just wanted to note, Uh, 1:08:35.200 --> 1:08:38.960 this is a this is a nice a nice story. Um. 1:08:39.000 --> 1:08:45.040 This comes courtesy of Fox News and Shannon Bream, who 1:08:45.160 --> 1:08:47.559 is over at Fox and has her own show at 1:08:47.800 --> 1:08:51.120 eleven o'clock at eleven o'clock at night and is one 1:08:51.120 --> 1:08:53.760 of the there there are some very very nice people 1:08:53.760 --> 1:08:55.960 in this business. Shannon is one of the nicest people 1:08:56.000 --> 1:08:59.120 I have met in in media, and she's very likely 1:08:59.120 --> 1:09:02.360 one of the nicest believe I think you would meet anywhere. 1:09:02.560 --> 1:09:07.439 I mean, she's a really, really kind, down to earth person. Um. 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:10.960 She put out the following on Twitter. Need your help, 1:09:11.000 --> 1:09:14.920 Twitter Verse, trying to help a young boy who is dying. 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:18.840 He probably has just days and all he wants is 1:09:18.880 --> 1:09:22.840 a greeting from one of the Avengers. If you have 1:09:23.200 --> 1:09:27.280 a celebrity connection, please let me know. Otherwise, could you 1:09:27.320 --> 1:09:31.719 please help out with a retweet? So forty thousand plus people. 1:09:31.760 --> 1:09:34.080 I don't even know what the numbers right now, but 1:09:34.200 --> 1:09:37.000 as of this article, forty thousand plus people and this 1:09:37.080 --> 1:09:39.519 was from five hours or no a few hours ago, 1:09:40.439 --> 1:09:42.800 had retreated it. I was among them. Um. If I 1:09:42.840 --> 1:09:44.680 had a connection to Holly what I would have reached out, 1:09:44.680 --> 1:09:47.800 But I don't. But within a few hours, Chris Evans, 1:09:48.080 --> 1:09:53.880 who plays Captain America, and Paul Bettany, who played Vision 1:09:54.240 --> 1:09:58.920 in The Avengers, reached out publicly to Shannon and said 1:09:58.960 --> 1:10:03.120 that they were uh willing to help. Chris Evans said 1:10:03.120 --> 1:10:06.800 happy to d M me and Paul Bettany said, I'm 1:10:06.880 --> 1:10:11.760 the purple one. Dm ME, and then Ryan Reynolds, who's Deadpool, 1:10:11.920 --> 1:10:15.240 said I'm more of a reverse a reserve Avenger, but 1:10:15.360 --> 1:10:19.920 happy to help h d m ME And I also 1:10:20.000 --> 1:10:23.200 saw uh, the guy from and I feel badly now 1:10:23.200 --> 1:10:25.960 that I forget Jeremy Renner who's from wind River, but 1:10:26.000 --> 1:10:29.479 he's also of the you know, the guy with the 1:10:29.520 --> 1:10:32.320 bow and arrow Avenger. He wrote, I saw the tweet 1:10:32.360 --> 1:10:34.840 that he put out, you know, suited up and and 1:10:34.880 --> 1:10:40.360 ready to go. Um. So you know, people are are 1:10:40.439 --> 1:10:43.080 stepping up, and it was just it was really nice. 1:10:43.240 --> 1:10:45.160 It was a really nice thing to see. I know 1:10:45.240 --> 1:10:47.760 this isn't gonna change the world or national policy, but 1:10:48.160 --> 1:10:50.960 you know, you've got a boy who's running short on 1:10:51.080 --> 1:10:54.840 time and his and his wish, his his biggest wish 1:10:54.920 --> 1:10:57.680 right now is to meet one of the Avengers. And 1:10:57.760 --> 1:11:00.360 it's uh, you know, we beat up on Hollywood a lot, 1:11:00.400 --> 1:11:02.840 as we should, and I hold them to account for 1:11:02.920 --> 1:11:05.720 the things they say in public life, but it's it's 1:11:05.800 --> 1:11:08.000 nice to see that some of these guys and and 1:11:08.120 --> 1:11:12.479 gals uh stepped up. Fox News is reporting that a 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:17.160 batch of videos have been sent from the various Avengers, 1:11:17.160 --> 1:11:21.640 so they've recorded videos, you know, suited up and Elizabeth 1:11:21.640 --> 1:11:24.160 Olsen who was Oh she was also I think in 1:11:24.439 --> 1:11:28.439 uh she was in wind River. Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, 1:11:28.560 --> 1:11:32.960 Paul Rudd as Aunt Man. They're all sending greetings to 1:11:33.000 --> 1:11:37.439 this boy, and uh, it's very nice to see this happen. 1:11:37.600 --> 1:11:40.840 Shannon tweeted out, thank you everyone. Major progress has been 1:11:40.840 --> 1:11:43.000 made because of you. A special assist coming in from 1:11:43.120 --> 1:11:47.040 Jake Tapper. Hey, thanks to Jake Tapper. You know I've 1:11:47.200 --> 1:11:50.679 I will say this. I don't know. Jake never had 1:11:50.680 --> 1:11:52.760 me on the show, we've never interacted. I've actually heard 1:11:52.800 --> 1:11:55.080 he's a good guy. So you know, I'm not gonna 1:11:55.120 --> 1:11:58.760 talk smack about him other than criticizing some of his 1:11:58.800 --> 1:12:00.559 positions on air. But I've heard he's a good He's 1:12:00.560 --> 1:12:02.840 a good guy. See. I'll say this about democrats I 1:12:02.880 --> 1:12:04.680 disagree with. They won't say it about people like me, 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:06.200 even if they don't know me, or even if they 1:12:06.200 --> 1:12:08.240 know that everyone who's pretty much ever worked with me 1:12:08.320 --> 1:12:11.160 is like, yeah, he's he's at least honorable and trustworthy 1:12:11.160 --> 1:12:12.640 and a good dude. You know, you don't have to 1:12:12.680 --> 1:12:15.599 like me, but there are some things that are just true. Um, 1:12:15.800 --> 1:12:18.200 but God bless Shannon for getting this going. I mean, 1:12:18.200 --> 1:12:20.080 she's one of the great ones over at Fox. If 1:12:20.080 --> 1:12:22.120 you guys, I'm basically doing a you know, a little 1:12:22.240 --> 1:12:24.679 public service announcement for her now too. But if you haven't, 1:12:24.720 --> 1:12:27.120 you know, check out her show. She's she's everything that 1:12:27.160 --> 1:12:29.320 you'd expect from TV, and she's helping out this young 1:12:29.320 --> 1:12:32.200 boy and it's a really nice thing. And thanks to 1:12:32.240 --> 1:12:33.840 all the Avengers who are doing it too, And I 1:12:34.120 --> 1:12:35.640 just hope that it brings a lot of joy to 1:12:35.680 --> 1:12:37.880 this young man who you know, has had a has 1:12:37.920 --> 1:12:40.439 had a tough go um and it's just nice to 1:12:40.439 --> 1:12:43.800 see social media being used to not tear someone down 1:12:43.840 --> 1:12:46.640 and do damaging, nasty things. Everything got said. You know, 1:12:46.720 --> 1:12:50.720 we we can leverage these technologies for good things. We 1:12:50.840 --> 1:12:54.120 can use these technologies to make people feel better about themselves, 1:12:54.200 --> 1:12:56.240 feel a little happier, to be in touch with loved ones, 1:12:56.240 --> 1:12:59.679 with friends, teach people thing, to spread knowledge to It's 1:12:59.680 --> 1:13:02.479 amazing easy, but it's just a reflection of who we 1:13:02.520 --> 1:13:05.200 are and how we choose to act. We've got a 1:13:05.240 --> 1:13:08.680 lot more coming up, team, including a zinky Secretary of 1:13:08.720 --> 1:13:13.200 the Interior and the diversity issue. G four Tequila is 1:13:13.240 --> 1:13:17.599 the pinnacle of Master distiller Felipe Camarina's passion for crafting 1:13:17.760 --> 1:13:33.360 truly great. He's back with you now because when it 1:13:33.400 --> 1:13:36.639 comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. 1:13:38.120 --> 1:13:41.200 This is a wom star. Why are we giving it 1:13:41.360 --> 1:13:44.599 any credibility? The fact that she now wants to come 1:13:44.600 --> 1:13:50.120 out with a story because she's afraid of her children? Goodness, 1:13:50.200 --> 1:13:53.320 would you tell the kiddos about your full time job. 1:13:53.720 --> 1:13:56.240 I know that when I voted for him, I wasn't 1:13:56.360 --> 1:14:00.760 voting for a quiet boy. Someone is looking shopping for 1:14:00.800 --> 1:14:03.600 these people to come out of the woodwork because it 1:14:03.760 --> 1:14:06.559 is demeaning to our president. You can throw all that 1:14:06.600 --> 1:14:09.280 stuff up in our face as many times as you want, 1:14:09.880 --> 1:14:12.200 but that means that we will work harder for Trump. 1:14:12.320 --> 1:14:14.599 Is that not so, lady? That's correct. This is the 1:14:14.640 --> 1:14:18.880 media defining the narrative the people. We the people are 1:14:18.880 --> 1:14:22.360 ready to define the narrative. You're looking for a way 1:14:22.400 --> 1:14:26.599 to impeach my president that I worked very hard for. 1:14:27.560 --> 1:14:29.559 Welcome to our three of the buck Sexton showing my 1:14:29.640 --> 1:14:34.719 friends that was a collection of Trump supporters, Lady, Trump 1:14:34.720 --> 1:14:37.519 supporters who are just not having it with the whole 1:14:37.560 --> 1:14:42.360 story d annuals narrative. They do not care, or if 1:14:42.360 --> 1:14:45.080 they care, it would be fair to say they only care, 1:14:45.120 --> 1:14:47.479 and so much as they think that the media is 1:14:47.520 --> 1:14:53.360 being deeply hypocritical about this and the allegations are either 1:14:53.439 --> 1:14:58.240 unfounded or unimportant to them as voters for for Trump. 1:14:58.800 --> 1:15:02.200 There is a special kind of gall that is on 1:15:02.320 --> 1:15:06.320 display when you see a situation like this where you 1:15:06.439 --> 1:15:09.960 have many of the people pushing the story over at 1:15:09.960 --> 1:15:13.880 the different networks a non Fox media. Many of those 1:15:13.920 --> 1:15:16.960 who are pushing the story the hardest were among the 1:15:17.080 --> 1:15:23.880 most stalwart defenders of Clinton during the effort to try 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:26.439 and cover up what was really going on with Clinton, 1:15:26.479 --> 1:15:28.880 and not just the philandering, but the sexual harassment lying 1:15:28.920 --> 1:15:34.280 under oath, the sexual assaults. This they don't care though, 1:15:34.479 --> 1:15:36.920 now that they were covering up for Clinton and that 1:15:37.880 --> 1:15:41.160 now they're on on the war path against the Trump 1:15:41.200 --> 1:15:45.120 administration doesn't matter to them. It's all about a purpose. 1:15:45.160 --> 1:15:46.640 You know, we had a clip that I didn't get 1:15:46.640 --> 1:15:48.080 a chance to play for you yesterday, but there was 1:15:48.120 --> 1:15:55.000 a young journalist who's talking about how journalism is actually activism. 1:15:55.040 --> 1:15:56.960 Can producer, Mike, if you if you grab that one 1:15:56.960 --> 1:15:59.120 from yesterday, let me know, because I thought it was 1:15:59.200 --> 1:16:03.080 so important for everyone to hear that that's really the 1:16:03.160 --> 1:16:06.759 mentality now, and that's becoming more and more the case 1:16:07.680 --> 1:16:11.360 that it's out there for us all to see journalism 1:16:11.400 --> 1:16:16.479 as activism is becoming the inescapable reality of a vast 1:16:16.520 --> 1:16:20.439 majority of the media outlets that are out there. So 1:16:20.640 --> 1:16:22.679 when that all of a sudden is the case, when 1:16:22.720 --> 1:16:28.040 you don't have professional ethics anymore, you have ideological goals? 1:16:28.600 --> 1:16:33.479 What is not what? What is no longer acceptable? If 1:16:33.640 --> 1:16:38.080 it is okay for people to do whatever they can 1:16:38.160 --> 1:16:42.519 to stop Trump, then isn't it fair to say that 1:16:42.560 --> 1:16:46.720 we've seen the end of the notion of journalism as 1:16:46.760 --> 1:16:51.240 a major force in American politics? Right? If they embrace activism, 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:56.120 they're openly about being activists because they can't hide it anymore. 1:16:56.120 --> 1:16:58.040 I mean, they can only play games for so long. 1:16:58.320 --> 1:17:01.639 If they do that, then don't we think it's fair 1:17:01.680 --> 1:17:09.080 to say that journalism is really atory, it's it's an 1:17:09.120 --> 1:17:13.880 anachronism or becoming an anachronism. Now on the actual story 1:17:14.000 --> 1:17:17.240 Daniels thing for a second a few days. One is 1:17:18.439 --> 1:17:21.120 I gotta say, if if in fact that that this 1:17:21.240 --> 1:17:23.920 is true, let's all let's all get on the same 1:17:23.920 --> 1:17:27.400 page without I know you already. It's it's it's bad conduct. 1:17:28.000 --> 1:17:30.640 It is. It is reprehensible, it's not okay, it's not 1:17:30.720 --> 1:17:32.720 a not a not an all right thing to do. 1:17:32.840 --> 1:17:34.680 To be a married man with a newborn baby. Be 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:38.799 a merryman, period, but merryman, newborn baby, and you're running around. 1:17:39.280 --> 1:17:42.439 So if you believe that Trump did this, we all 1:17:42.439 --> 1:17:45.559 need to understand it's reprehensible behavior. But it doesn't mean 1:17:45.560 --> 1:17:47.960 that I can't support the agenda anymore and that he's 1:17:48.560 --> 1:17:51.400 no longer a good politician doesn't change the view of 1:17:51.439 --> 1:17:54.479 what the actual platform is and what the goals are 1:17:54.520 --> 1:17:56.320 for the country. If you don't believe it, of course, 1:17:56.360 --> 1:17:59.120 well then you just think this is a media smear campaign. 1:17:59.160 --> 1:18:03.000 And but i's we can all agree the conduct is bad. Oh, 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:06.080 we've got this play play the activist. This is she's 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:08.519 from like the the Eagle journal or something. What was 1:18:08.560 --> 1:18:11.559 it called Eagle I believe it was the Eagle Eye. Oh, 1:18:11.560 --> 1:18:14.160 that sounds kind of intense. Play it out of Parkland 1:18:14.200 --> 1:18:18.640 students becoming activists journalists. Do you see a difference right 1:18:18.640 --> 1:18:21.920 now between journalism and activism and what you're doing? I 1:18:21.920 --> 1:18:24.840 think that for me, the purpose of journalism is to raise, 1:18:25.320 --> 1:18:27.760 you know, the voices of people that maybe don't have 1:18:27.800 --> 1:18:29.559 a voice. And so I think that in its own right, 1:18:29.640 --> 1:18:33.000 journalism is a form of activism. And I think that 1:18:33.280 --> 1:18:35.840 there is distinctions for me, um, you know, as a 1:18:35.880 --> 1:18:37.960 journalist and also as someone that wants to demand change. 1:18:38.200 --> 1:18:40.280 But I think that the partnership of the two is 1:18:40.320 --> 1:18:42.639 the only reason that we are able to make a change. 1:18:43.479 --> 1:18:46.800 Journalisms great. Can you answer this Christian from me? I'm 1:18:46.840 --> 1:18:50.200 the one with the show one seeing variance, doth reportice 1:18:50.240 --> 1:18:55.400 what she said, journalism is a form of activism. Okay, Well, 1:18:55.439 --> 1:18:59.960 in that case, journalism is a form of politics. Journalist 1:19:00.120 --> 1:19:01.880 was a former propaganda. You know, we we could play 1:19:01.960 --> 1:19:05.760 this game all day. But I actually, I'm not trying 1:19:05.760 --> 1:19:08.400 to put that young woman down. I think she's articulating 1:19:08.400 --> 1:19:11.519 what they all think. She's just saying it. And you 1:19:11.560 --> 1:19:13.960 see it with everything we talked about here on the show, 1:19:13.960 --> 1:19:15.880 whether it's all the way from Stormy Daniels to Trump 1:19:15.920 --> 1:19:18.439 is in Russia's pocket too, Oh my gosh, the trade 1:19:18.439 --> 1:19:20.759 war is gonna destroy this country. Oh my gosh. Trump 1:19:20.840 --> 1:19:23.320 is you know, the worst president in the history of presidence, 1:19:23.360 --> 1:19:27.800 all of it. You see it on display constantly, and 1:19:28.880 --> 1:19:30.519 it's it's never going to be the same. There's no 1:19:30.600 --> 1:19:32.519 putting the genie back in the bottle, so to speak. 1:19:33.240 --> 1:19:34.840 Is that a microaggression now, by the way, the whole 1:19:34.880 --> 1:19:37.600 genie in a bottle thing is that like an appropriation 1:19:37.920 --> 1:19:41.439 of of Mid East culture. It's so few people even 1:19:41.479 --> 1:19:44.840 know it comes from Arabian nights. And you know, there's 1:19:44.840 --> 1:19:47.120 actually a backtra It's not from Aladdin. Disney didn't just 1:19:47.160 --> 1:19:50.799 come up with this out of nowhere, but Arabian Nights. 1:19:51.840 --> 1:19:55.160 Remember that. It's amazing. That was like not really close, 1:19:55.240 --> 1:19:57.600 but it was okay. It kind of it kind of 1:19:57.600 --> 1:19:59.120 gotten you in the mood for a second for some 1:19:59.240 --> 1:20:02.559 Aladdin I had a professor a long time ago who 1:20:02.800 --> 1:20:06.679 used to go on this this tirade or Tara Day 1:20:06.920 --> 1:20:10.000 if you're really fancy. Uh no one says that book. 1:20:10.560 --> 1:20:12.000 But he used to go on this tirade where he 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:16.439 would talk about how uh there was so much of 1:20:16.479 --> 1:20:19.760 what Edward said the Columbia University professor of Middle East 1:20:19.760 --> 1:20:23.280 from Studies called Orientalism, which is the other iizing of 1:20:23.320 --> 1:20:26.720 those from the East. And like Princess Jasmine in the 1:20:26.760 --> 1:20:29.400 movie Aladdin is basically dressed as a as a bellied 1:20:29.439 --> 1:20:33.040 answer slash harem girl, which the princess would not dress 1:20:33.120 --> 1:20:37.280 like effectively A yeah, yeah, Maybe we'll talk about the 1:20:37.360 --> 1:20:39.800 all the ways that Aladdin is offensive to the left 1:20:39.840 --> 1:20:41.960 another day. That's kind of a fun conversation. That's a 1:20:42.000 --> 1:20:44.880 fun one too, they get into So anyway, team, I've 1:20:44.880 --> 1:20:46.639 got a whole lot more for you this hour, including 1:20:46.920 --> 1:20:51.000 Zinky is in trouble for not loving diversity enough. He's 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:53.360 the Secretary of the the Interior. Well he's also a former 1:20:53.400 --> 1:20:55.320 steal a guy is awesome. We'll talk about that and 1:20:55.520 --> 1:20:58.200 much more coming up here in just a few minutes. 1:20:58.680 --> 1:21:02.280 Stay with me. 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It's important for us to see 1:22:13.880 --> 1:22:18.360 it because it's the truth about all this gun grabber stuff. 1:22:19.040 --> 1:22:21.719 You know that they play the same game every time. 1:22:21.760 --> 1:22:23.720 We know what the game is, right, Oh no, we 1:22:23.760 --> 1:22:26.639 just want common sense gun reforms. And you know whose 1:22:26.680 --> 1:22:30.840 streets are streets? You know, they say it's about activism 1:22:30.880 --> 1:22:33.679 and listen to the youth and a revolution against violence 1:22:33.720 --> 1:22:37.120 and blah blah blah all that. But then you start 1:22:37.200 --> 1:22:42.479 to see some people that are actually advocating from prominent positions. Uh. 1:22:42.560 --> 1:22:49.800 You see some people who are well clear on what 1:22:49.840 --> 1:22:53.200 they want, which is they want to repeal the Second Amendment. 1:22:53.960 --> 1:22:56.360 They don't want to tinker with it, they don't wanna 1:22:56.720 --> 1:22:58.439 nibble around the edges. They don't want to cut the 1:22:58.479 --> 1:23:02.439 cookie into pieces. They wanted to be gone, Googie monster. 1:23:02.960 --> 1:23:08.080 They wanted to be gone. And The Times published in 1:23:08.160 --> 1:23:11.200 order to make that case as strongly as they possibly could, 1:23:12.160 --> 1:23:17.920 The Times published in editorial by none other then the 1:23:18.120 --> 1:23:25.160 retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Now in perfect 1:23:26.520 --> 1:23:30.280 this is as as classic as it gets. Folks, John 1:23:30.320 --> 1:23:34.040 Paul Stevens, repeal the Second Amendment is the title. But 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:35.920 this is the most New York Times thing ever. At 1:23:35.920 --> 1:23:40.000 the top of the article they and this is featured 1:23:40.040 --> 1:23:42.960 on their editorial page. It just went up. What was 1:23:43.000 --> 1:23:46.840 it today? I think, um, they've got a picture of 1:23:46.840 --> 1:23:50.479 a must get in a picture of and a R 1:23:50.560 --> 1:23:55.240 fift or maybe it's a holl whatever they're calling it. 1:23:55.240 --> 1:23:59.120 It's all rifle. But at the bottom they had to 1:23:59.160 --> 1:24:02.200 append this correction to this New York Times piece. An 1:24:02.200 --> 1:24:08.000 earlier version of a picture captioned with this article misidentified 1:24:08.040 --> 1:24:12.200 the eighteenth century firearm depicted It is a musket, not 1:24:12.600 --> 1:24:19.160 a rifle. What a shock here we have the New 1:24:19.280 --> 1:24:23.240 York Times in an editorial. They're literally saying they want 1:24:23.240 --> 1:24:25.640 to get rid of the Second Amendment. I mean they 1:24:25.640 --> 1:24:29.280 are actually just coming out and saying it, you know, 1:24:29.520 --> 1:24:33.400 get rid of the Second Amendment. And they misidentify a 1:24:33.439 --> 1:24:35.880 firearm at the top of the article, and not by 1:24:35.960 --> 1:24:37.720 like a little bit. You know. It's not like they said, oh, 1:24:37.720 --> 1:24:39.519 it's an A R fifteen and it's actually an M 1:24:39.600 --> 1:24:42.680 for you know, something like that. No, no, no, you know, 1:24:42.760 --> 1:24:45.160 people make mistakes. I used to remember when I worked 1:24:45.160 --> 1:24:48.280 at The Blaze, at the website, and we would all 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:51.440 joke around about how you could get away with typos 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:53.439 here and there. You know, you make an error. We're 1:24:53.479 --> 1:24:55.840 posting a lot of stories all day. This was the 1:24:55.880 --> 1:24:59.080 old days, the Blaze dot com. And uh, you know 1:24:59.120 --> 1:25:04.519 I was. I was hired as an assistant assistant editor 1:25:04.720 --> 1:25:08.840 for Nashal for intelligence and technology, I think, And I 1:25:08.880 --> 1:25:09.960 was like, all right, first of all, I don't really 1:25:09.960 --> 1:25:12.240 know any about technology. Second of all, I'm the national 1:25:12.240 --> 1:25:13.960 security guy, so why don't we call it that? So 1:25:14.040 --> 1:25:16.960 we changed it in time. But anyway, uh, but I 1:25:16.960 --> 1:25:20.439 remember the one thing that you could not could not 1:25:20.560 --> 1:25:24.719 get away with making any mistakes on was firearms related. 1:25:24.840 --> 1:25:29.880 If you found yourself, if you find yourself riding in 1:25:30.000 --> 1:25:31.920 fields with the sun on your face. Do not be 1:25:32.000 --> 1:25:35.240 alarmed for you r in Elysium. No, but if you 1:25:35.320 --> 1:25:43.479 found yourself writing something that was incorrect about firearms, um, 1:25:43.600 --> 1:25:49.160 then you would very quickly have a pie the pylon 1:25:49.360 --> 1:25:53.080 to end all pylons of how could you be so stupid? 1:25:53.120 --> 1:25:58.120 Like people would completely lose it on you, and you know, 1:25:58.280 --> 1:26:01.400 sure enough you would change it and it'd be fine. 1:26:01.680 --> 1:26:05.200 I think somebody once identified a two forty two forty 1:26:05.240 --> 1:26:11.280 golf it as a an M sixty and that and 1:26:11.320 --> 1:26:14.200 that was an issue that was a problem. So but 1:26:14.360 --> 1:26:16.000 now I want to get in the substance of this 1:26:16.240 --> 1:26:20.479 editorial that John Paul Stevens actually wrote for The Times. 1:26:21.439 --> 1:26:24.000 So hey, yeah, this uh, as I was saying this, 1:26:24.000 --> 1:26:27.200 this John Paul Stevens thing is is amazing. But um, 1:26:27.320 --> 1:26:29.000 let me let me read you a little bit of 1:26:29.000 --> 1:26:30.960 of the case that he makes in it, and then 1:26:31.000 --> 1:26:34.360 we'll get into it in some more detail. Uh. He writes. Quote, 1:26:34.520 --> 1:26:37.120 during the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice 1:26:37.120 --> 1:26:42.800 from nineteen sixty, no judge federal or state, as far 1:26:42.800 --> 1:26:46.000 as I'm aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited 1:26:46.040 --> 1:26:49.639 coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:56.040 Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign. Began 1:26:56.120 --> 1:27:00.200 their campaign claiming that federal regulations of farms curtailed Second 1:27:00.240 --> 1:27:05.479 Amendment rights. Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the n r 1:27:05.520 --> 1:27:09.519 A as perpetrating quote, one of the greatest pieces of fraud. 1:27:09.880 --> 1:27:12.559 I repeat the word fraud on the American public by 1:27:12.560 --> 1:27:15.559 special interest interest groups I've ever seen in my lifetime. 1:27:16.439 --> 1:27:19.799 So he cites this what one judge was saying back 1:27:19.960 --> 1:27:23.160 in you know, I don't know wherever it was, nineteen 1:27:23.240 --> 1:27:27.280 sixties or something. And then he goes into the d 1:27:27.360 --> 1:27:29.360 C v. Heller decision two thousand and eight, the one 1:27:29.360 --> 1:27:31.519 time the Supreme Court has really looked at the issue 1:27:31.520 --> 1:27:35.839 specifically of ken a municipality in that case, the District 1:27:35.840 --> 1:27:38.559 of Columbia where our federal government space. Can it just 1:27:38.560 --> 1:27:42.439 say no guns, no guns for you? Can I do that? 1:27:43.360 --> 1:27:48.120 And d C v. Hellertel told us that no, in fact, 1:27:48.120 --> 1:27:50.479 the government can't just say you do not have any 1:27:50.600 --> 1:27:54.759 right to own a firearm because we say so. And 1:27:55.160 --> 1:28:00.640 that I think it's something that particularly added tates and 1:28:00.760 --> 1:28:08.479 irritates liberals now, um, because uh, because now they have 1:28:08.560 --> 1:28:13.439 to just be very wildly hypocritical returning to a theme here, 1:28:13.479 --> 1:28:18.120 folks about whether or not Supreme Court precedent is settled. 1:28:19.240 --> 1:28:21.719 Is it settled? You'll notice they'll say Roe v. Wade 1:28:21.800 --> 1:28:23.760 is a constitutional right. Now, Roe v. Wade is a 1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:29.480 Supreme Court decision. It's not a constitutional right. And no realistic, 1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:34.400 honest assessment of what the Constitution says in any way 1:28:35.520 --> 1:28:38.240 indicates that Roe v. Waight is, or that the right 1:28:38.240 --> 1:28:41.880 to abortion is a constitutional right. But they'll speak of 1:28:41.880 --> 1:28:44.280 it as though this is as settled as it gets. 1:28:44.320 --> 1:28:46.160 This is as settled as the you know, the world 1:28:46.240 --> 1:28:50.439 is not flat, but d c. Heller, which just happened 1:28:50.479 --> 1:28:52.800 a few years ago, so it's happening in our current 1:28:52.800 --> 1:28:55.840 political context. Right, it's not doesn't feel like a long 1:28:55.880 --> 1:28:59.000 time ago because it wasn't a long time ago. That 1:28:59.120 --> 1:29:02.640 doesn't how that doesn't really count the same way for them. 1:29:02.720 --> 1:29:07.599 That doesn't really uh doesn't really rate for them. That's 1:29:07.640 --> 1:29:10.400 just a bad decision. Well, which is it is a 1:29:10.400 --> 1:29:13.200 Supreme Court decision on something like the right to bear 1:29:13.400 --> 1:29:18.360 arms binding and important going forward? Or is it just 1:29:18.520 --> 1:29:22.080 important when you think it is when you say it is. 1:29:23.240 --> 1:29:29.240 There's such a dishonesty at the heart of a lot 1:29:29.280 --> 1:29:32.000 of what goes on with the liberal discussion about firearms. 1:29:32.040 --> 1:29:33.800 And that's why I like to see the John Paul 1:29:33.840 --> 1:29:36.600 Stevens column, because he's just coming out and saying it. 1:29:37.000 --> 1:29:39.559 His argument is crap. They can't even get the name 1:29:39.600 --> 1:29:41.760 of a frigging gun right at the top of the thing. 1:29:42.200 --> 1:29:44.120 But at least he's like, you know, I would just 1:29:44.160 --> 1:29:47.320 like to ban firearms. I want to ban the Second Amendment, 1:29:47.400 --> 1:29:50.080 get it, get rid of it, no more repeal it. 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:53.479 You say to yourself, all right, well, at least we're 1:29:53.479 --> 1:29:56.280 gonna have a discussion now about whether or not that 1:29:56.320 --> 1:29:59.600 should happen. There's such a dishonesty at work with the 1:29:59.640 --> 1:30:05.000 liberal efforts to do the incremental Oh, no more magazines 1:30:05.040 --> 1:30:07.160 with more than ten rounds. They love to call them clips, 1:30:07.160 --> 1:30:08.479 and we love to make fun of them when they do. 1:30:08.520 --> 1:30:11.160 But you know what I mean, no more magazines above 1:30:11.200 --> 1:30:17.479 ten rounds. No more uh cosmetic features on a are 1:30:18.280 --> 1:30:21.200 variant rail systems, you know, no more four grips, no 1:30:21.320 --> 1:30:24.639 more uh well, no more bump stock. I'm actually okay 1:30:24.640 --> 1:30:26.320 within no more bump stocks. You know, some some people 1:30:26.400 --> 1:30:27.800 yell at me for that, but I'm like, you know what, 1:30:28.640 --> 1:30:30.839 bump stock is kind of ridiculous. It's really a technique 1:30:30.840 --> 1:30:32.920 for firing more than it is actually in addition to 1:30:32.960 --> 1:30:37.559 a weapon. And nonetheless, but this is this is a 1:30:37.600 --> 1:30:39.680 reminder that those of us who say to you they 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:41.360 actually want to just band guns and they should be 1:30:41.400 --> 1:30:43.920 honest about it, are telling you the truth. They're the 1:30:43.920 --> 1:30:45.800 ones who are dissembling. They're the ones who are not 1:30:45.840 --> 1:30:48.920 telling the truth when they pretend that all they really want, 1:30:49.000 --> 1:30:51.760 all they really want is common sense gun reform. All 1:30:51.800 --> 1:30:54.880 they want is some changes around the margins that won't 1:30:54.920 --> 1:30:58.200 really affect anything, that won't really upset anyone, and it's 1:30:58.320 --> 1:31:02.719 just not that big a deal. That's a very big 1:31:02.760 --> 1:31:07.000 deal actually, because the incrementalism is meant to change the 1:31:07.120 --> 1:31:09.400 culture around guns. It's meant to change the way you 1:31:09.439 --> 1:31:12.639 think about firearms. And as I keep saying to you, 1:31:13.640 --> 1:31:15.240 it's more that they just don't like the people that 1:31:15.280 --> 1:31:17.920 own guns than anything else. And I get in trouble 1:31:17.920 --> 1:31:21.320 for it. That's fine, it's the truth. They think that 1:31:21.400 --> 1:31:24.439 gun owners are toothless hillabilities who watched Nascar, and so 1:31:24.520 --> 1:31:27.640 if they can antagonize gun owners by saying that the 1:31:27.680 --> 1:31:30.880 second ammage should be repealed or even just more limited 1:31:30.880 --> 1:31:35.080 than any other constitutionally protected right. They're more than willing 1:31:35.439 --> 1:31:39.000 to do so, more than willing, you know, they are 1:31:39.040 --> 1:31:44.320 absolutely in favor of doing everything that they can up 1:31:44.320 --> 1:31:48.720 to and including lying pressure campaigns. And you've got a 1:31:48.760 --> 1:31:51.120 former Supreme Court justiceh's just saying with all the other 1:31:51.240 --> 1:31:54.880 all the other lives out there, belief really, which is 1:31:54.920 --> 1:31:56.720 that the right to bear arms is not really a right, 1:31:57.040 --> 1:31:59.679 that the n r A is effectively a domestic terrorist 1:31:59.760 --> 1:32:06.360 or zation or whatever the latest defamatory statement is. And uh, ultimately, 1:32:06.920 --> 1:32:08.559 as we look at this, we need to understand what 1:32:08.600 --> 1:32:10.439 the other side really wants and what we're dealing with here. 1:32:11.200 --> 1:32:14.360 So I think that, uh, it's good, it is good, 1:32:14.479 --> 1:32:16.160 and you should read this. It's good that we saw this, 1:32:16.200 --> 1:32:17.280 and you should read this. At a tromp in the 1:32:17.280 --> 1:32:19.360 New York Times where we finally get some honest in 1:32:19.360 --> 1:32:21.920 the left. They don't want common sense gun reforms. They 1:32:21.960 --> 1:32:26.759 want to ban your guns. Were right back with Zinky 1:32:27.040 --> 1:32:38.080 and diversity, stay with me. He's holding the line for America, 1:32:38.280 --> 1:32:41.559 Buck Sexton, his back. I knew that they would go 1:32:41.640 --> 1:32:45.240 after Secretary of Interior Zinky. I mean, the guy's uh 1:32:45.640 --> 1:32:50.479 a former Navy Seal. He's way too pro America and 1:32:50.560 --> 1:32:54.920 pro freedom for the Democrat left to just let things slide. Right, 1:32:55.000 --> 1:32:58.439 he's got he's tied to the Trump administration. They're gonna 1:32:58.479 --> 1:33:01.640 find a way to go after him. But if you 1:33:01.640 --> 1:33:03.840 look at this guy's record, if you know his background, 1:33:04.520 --> 1:33:07.280 there's really not much of an opening. He's clearly a patriot, 1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:11.639 He's an honorable guy, well respected. I've actually done a 1:33:11.680 --> 1:33:14.160 podcast or two with him in the past as we 1:33:14.280 --> 1:33:17.720 were co guests, and he's a it's just a good man, 1:33:17.760 --> 1:33:21.759 a good American, and they're going after him, folks, on 1:33:21.760 --> 1:33:24.760 on what grounds? By the way, what is the easiest 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:29.960 way to attack any member of the administration who is 1:33:30.080 --> 1:33:33.519 in a position of managerial authority? What do you know 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:39.080 you'll be able to make a case about insufficient devotion 1:33:39.320 --> 1:33:44.160 to diversity? Oh? Yes, of course. It's just always there 1:33:44.200 --> 1:33:46.960 for them, isn't it. You know, whenever they need some 1:33:47.040 --> 1:33:53.080 way to attack, they know that insufficient devotion. Remember, I'm 1:33:53.120 --> 1:33:57.519 not saying even uh, dismissing diversity. I'm not even saying 1:33:58.400 --> 1:34:02.840 being an opponent of diversity outright is what they're looking for. 1:34:03.120 --> 1:34:07.280 You just if you don't pray to the diversity gods, 1:34:07.400 --> 1:34:11.000 so to speak. If you aren't someone who bends the knee, 1:34:11.600 --> 1:34:14.760 you are a target. If you speak out about the 1:34:14.920 --> 1:34:19.040 witch hunt mentality surrounding anyone in any federal agency or 1:34:19.080 --> 1:34:24.160 really anywhere who is not sufficiently devoted to diversity, then 1:34:24.680 --> 1:34:27.559 you get yourself into trouble. And I always start with, well, 1:34:27.600 --> 1:34:31.840 what is diversity exactly? They talk about insufficient diversity at 1:34:31.880 --> 1:34:35.200 these institutions, and then I'll say, like, for example, the 1:34:35.320 --> 1:34:39.599 Department of the Interior, which is what Ryan Zinky is 1:34:39.680 --> 1:34:45.599 in fact the director of our secretary of And when 1:34:45.600 --> 1:34:49.479 you look at the numbers, there is minority representation or 1:34:49.560 --> 1:34:54.960 minority employees at these places, at places like the Interior Department. Uh, 1:34:55.040 --> 1:34:57.280 they're just saying it's insufficient. Well, I always want to say, 1:34:57.320 --> 1:35:00.360 how do we know if it's sufficient? Folks? We can't 1:35:00.360 --> 1:35:05.200 have quotas. Remember, quotas are unacceptable because quotas are an 1:35:05.200 --> 1:35:09.519 open admission of the elimination of merit in the process. 1:35:09.560 --> 1:35:12.040 You can't say we have to have a certain number 1:35:12.080 --> 1:35:15.120 of X and Y and z and not say that 1:35:15.160 --> 1:35:22.479 you're adjusting the merit requirements for getting different jobs. And 1:35:22.560 --> 1:35:27.760 so what you have is okay if only of the 1:35:27.800 --> 1:35:31.479 Department of the Interior's minority and thirty four percent of 1:35:31.520 --> 1:35:34.320 the United States is minority. Let's I'm making those numbers up, 1:35:34.320 --> 1:35:36.400 by the way, but they're roughly there there in the 1:35:36.520 --> 1:35:40.200 in the ballpark of accurate. So you're saying that's insufficient 1:35:40.280 --> 1:35:44.599 minority representation. But do we have to have the exact number? 1:35:45.240 --> 1:35:47.120 Do we have to have more than the number would 1:35:47.160 --> 1:35:49.960 be as a percentage of the U s population to 1:35:50.120 --> 1:35:56.720 make up for historical wrongs? Who decides what sufficient attention 1:35:57.040 --> 1:36:01.760 and devotion to diversity really is? The answer is it's 1:36:01.800 --> 1:36:04.600 really just a dividing line between left and right in 1:36:04.600 --> 1:36:08.880 this country. It is used as a concept against conservatives. 1:36:09.120 --> 1:36:13.400 It's not really a concept that actually has any definable 1:36:14.160 --> 1:36:17.559 limits or definable goals. And by the way, what does 1:36:17.640 --> 1:36:21.479 Zinky even do to come under fire, so to speak? 1:36:21.520 --> 1:36:25.360 From the left? Here? CNN writes this piece sources Zinky 1:36:25.439 --> 1:36:29.719 tells employees diversity isn't important. That's not really what he said. 1:36:29.960 --> 1:36:32.559 According to the piece itself, let me read to you 1:36:32.600 --> 1:36:36.519 from this CNN hit piece, because that's what it is. Quote. 1:36:36.560 --> 1:36:40.879 Three high ranking Interior Interior officials from three different divisions 1:36:40.960 --> 1:36:43.840 said that Zinki has made several comments with a similar theme, 1:36:44.240 --> 1:36:48.680 saying diversity isn't important, or I don't care about diversity, 1:36:48.800 --> 1:36:52.280 or I don't really think that's important anymore. Each time, 1:36:52.680 --> 1:36:56.000 Zinki followed with something along the lines of what's important 1:36:56.400 --> 1:36:59.000 is having the right person for the job, or I 1:36:59.080 --> 1:37:01.439 care about excels and I'm going to get the best 1:37:01.479 --> 1:37:04.679 people and you'll find we have had the most diverse 1:37:04.720 --> 1:37:09.280 group anyone's ever had. Uh So, what's the problem, folks? 1:37:09.960 --> 1:37:12.719 This was a big story yesterday they were covering on CNN, 1:37:12.720 --> 1:37:16.559 covering in other places. When you look at what was 1:37:16.600 --> 1:37:20.720 actually said here, not only is it not a problem 1:37:20.880 --> 1:37:26.120 I agree with Zink, does that mean I'm insufficiently devoted 1:37:26.160 --> 1:37:29.920 to diversity. He's saying that he wants the best people 1:37:29.960 --> 1:37:32.240 for the job, and he said we have the most 1:37:32.280 --> 1:37:35.240 diverse group anyone's ever had. So he's saying I look 1:37:35.280 --> 1:37:39.160 for the best and and we actually have a very 1:37:39.200 --> 1:37:44.000 diverse staff relative to other Department of Interior staffs. And 1:37:44.080 --> 1:37:46.640 he's still in trouble though, because he's not allowed to 1:37:46.640 --> 1:37:50.280 say things like I don't care about diversity. You know, 1:37:50.520 --> 1:37:55.200 this whole notion of social justice versus merit is at 1:37:55.240 --> 1:37:57.760 the heart of so many leftist policies. It's clearly at 1:37:57.760 --> 1:38:02.519 the heart of affirmative action and the concept of diversity. 1:38:02.560 --> 1:38:04.120 The look I saw it. I remember when I was 1:38:04.160 --> 1:38:08.559 overseas and seeing up on the walls of military bases 1:38:08.600 --> 1:38:11.360 in a war zone, my friends posters with things like 1:38:11.400 --> 1:38:16.839 diversity is our strength. No, that's not true. The strength 1:38:16.840 --> 1:38:20.800 of the United States military and military is the courage, bravery, 1:38:20.840 --> 1:38:25.560 and skill of those wearing the uniform, those carrying arms 1:38:25.640 --> 1:38:29.240 for their country. Uh. Diversity is not the strength of 1:38:29.240 --> 1:38:32.360 the United States military. And that kind of brainless propaganda 1:38:33.080 --> 1:38:37.000 is pretty widespread within the diversity movement. It's really not 1:38:37.120 --> 1:38:41.360 unusual at all to read slogans about diversity that make 1:38:41.439 --> 1:38:45.759 you think to yourself, this is idiotic, This makes no sense. 1:38:46.080 --> 1:38:49.120 I don't even know what they're really trying to say, 1:38:49.360 --> 1:38:53.439 other than to hammer at home that you have to 1:38:53.720 --> 1:38:56.679 you have to be part of team diversity, which really 1:38:56.720 --> 1:38:59.960 just means you will do whatever is necessary to play 1:39:00.080 --> 1:39:04.639 kate the politically correct dictates of the left, whatever their 1:39:04.680 --> 1:39:06.960 whims may be, at any point in time, you have 1:39:07.040 --> 1:39:12.040 to say sir, yes sir, or ma'am yes, ma'am, or there, yes, 1:39:12.280 --> 1:39:14.880 there because with a Z now or or an X 1:39:14.920 --> 1:39:17.639 by the way, because I don't want to be mis 1:39:17.640 --> 1:39:21.800 gendering people. Right, Yeah, big D diversity. We're going to 1:39:21.880 --> 1:39:25.479 continue to fight against the nonsense concept here in the 1:39:25.520 --> 1:39:29.680 Freedom Hut. Uh. We will be right back with some 1:39:29.840 --> 1:39:34.479 roll call. Oh man, it's been a long day. It's 1:39:34.520 --> 1:39:36.200 been fun here in the Hut though, but just a 1:39:36.200 --> 1:39:39.200 lot of stuff. I did America's Newsroom this morning, Brett 1:39:39.200 --> 1:39:43.080 Bears Panel tonight, and then Kennedy Show How Do I 1:39:43.120 --> 1:39:46.439 Do It? All the magic of media, My friends. I 1:39:46.439 --> 1:39:48.400 hope you got a chance to check that out, and 1:39:48.439 --> 1:39:50.800 if you didn't, we'll put it up on Facebook so 1:39:50.920 --> 1:39:55.400 you can see the latest analysis and all things that 1:39:55.720 --> 1:39:58.559 I'm up to. And with that, let's hear what you're 1:39:58.640 --> 1:40:01.240 up to. Oh, you know what means it's time for 1:40:01.439 --> 1:40:18.599 some row call. Team, It's time for roll call. All right. 1:40:18.640 --> 1:40:24.479 We have Isaac who has written about the uh, the 1:40:24.720 --> 1:40:29.880 what he calls the white South African genocide, and it 1:40:29.960 --> 1:40:32.479 is about the white farmers in South Africa. He says, 1:40:32.520 --> 1:40:36.320 please try to get the media to start talking about this. Well, Isaac, 1:40:36.720 --> 1:40:40.800 I've been talking about the violence against white farmers. Genocide 1:40:40.800 --> 1:40:44.439 would be too strong and an inaccurate a term at 1:40:44.439 --> 1:40:48.280 this point. But there has been a long and concerted 1:40:48.320 --> 1:40:53.280 campaign of violence and intimidation against white farmers in Zimbabwe 1:40:53.400 --> 1:40:58.000 formerly Rhodesia under the reign of Mugabe, who just came 1:40:58.040 --> 1:41:01.200 to an end some months ago. So this is something 1:41:01.240 --> 1:41:03.840 we have to be on the lookout for, um and 1:41:03.880 --> 1:41:06.400 I will continue to talk about it here in the Hut. 1:41:07.280 --> 1:41:10.599 We have next up here Susannah, who says, hey, Buck, 1:41:10.680 --> 1:41:14.560 passing along a message from my original Saturday Squad husband Oss, 1:41:15.360 --> 1:41:18.320 who introduced me to you regarding music for Roll Call. 1:41:18.439 --> 1:41:22.760 He likes the original drumming, bringing everyone to attention, I'm 1:41:22.800 --> 1:41:26.080 okay with anything, just you don't go anywhere. Love the 1:41:26.120 --> 1:41:30.080 show and appreciate you and your insight shields. Hi Susannah, 1:41:30.080 --> 1:41:32.439 thank you so much. And yeah, well we'll mix it 1:41:32.520 --> 1:41:34.760 up a bit. We could get a little bit of 1:41:35.920 --> 1:41:38.559 that old school drummer music thrown in there for you. 1:41:38.960 --> 1:41:42.360 So we will keep everyone on their toes because that 1:41:42.520 --> 1:41:45.400 is how we roll in the hut. That's how we do, 1:41:46.200 --> 1:41:49.880 as the kids say. Jen writes the following, Buck, is 1:41:49.960 --> 1:41:53.880 this a budget or a bill? It seems from what 1:41:53.960 --> 1:41:56.160 I've read, Trump does not have to spend the money 1:41:56.240 --> 1:42:00.080 as allocated because this is not truly a budget per se. A. 1:42:00.439 --> 1:42:03.000 You know, Jen, I'm digging down into this because I 1:42:03.040 --> 1:42:05.920 want to make sure that I know the full facts 1:42:05.960 --> 1:42:10.439 about what level of discretion the president has within the 1:42:10.439 --> 1:42:14.160 budget that had or within the the bill that has 1:42:14.200 --> 1:42:17.760 been passed which contains many budgetary measures. So this is 1:42:17.800 --> 1:42:21.880 a level of uh intra governmental complexity that I'm gonna 1:42:21.880 --> 1:42:23.800 have to deep dive into this and spend a bit 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:27.200 more time on it. But you raise a very important point, 1:42:27.320 --> 1:42:32.400 and thank you for your support of the show. Chris 1:42:32.400 --> 1:42:34.880 writes what Happened to Shields High Podcast. I drove a 1:42:34.920 --> 1:42:37.880 truck at night and really enjoyed it. Chris, it's coming back. 1:42:38.120 --> 1:42:40.600 If I could only just lay out all of the 1:42:40.720 --> 1:42:43.600 First of all, I really appreciate your enthusiasm for I 1:42:43.640 --> 1:42:46.960 love doing it. It just takes up my entire well 1:42:47.080 --> 1:42:48.920 part of the week and then weekend. I end up 1:42:48.960 --> 1:42:52.240 reading multiple books for each episode, and I love doing it. 1:42:52.280 --> 1:42:54.800 But it will come back and it will be a 1:42:54.840 --> 1:42:58.320 whole series, and you're just you're just gonna have to 1:42:58.320 --> 1:43:00.599 ask for your patients. I hope you all and forget 1:43:00.760 --> 1:43:04.720 about the shields high podcast, and uh we we will 1:43:04.760 --> 1:43:06.879 get that. I can't leave it with the the Ottoman 1:43:06.920 --> 1:43:11.120 Turks taking Constantinople and that's just the end, right, Oh No, 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:16.400 in the wars of Christendom and Islam in the Renaissance period, 1:43:17.439 --> 1:43:19.360 we are gonna, We're gonna make our way through the 1:43:19.400 --> 1:43:23.000 whole thing. So I'm getting there, thank you very much. So, 1:43:23.160 --> 1:43:28.559 Chris James writes, low gluten hosts are available, but not 1:43:28.680 --> 1:43:32.799 gluten free hosts. My wife has very bad Cilia celiac disease, 1:43:32.840 --> 1:43:35.760 and she can receive a gluten free host or low 1:43:35.800 --> 1:43:38.880 gluten host once a week without ill effects. But there 1:43:38.880 --> 1:43:42.360 there is not a gluten free host available. The bread 1:43:42.439 --> 1:43:46.160 cannot be pure wheat and stick together without gluten. A 1:43:46.200 --> 1:43:51.040 good traditional priest will be happy to provide it. I'm 1:43:51.080 --> 1:43:53.559 not taking I'm look, folks, I'm gonna. I'm not taking 1:43:53.560 --> 1:43:56.439 any chances on low gluten. I want no gluten. So 1:43:57.280 --> 1:44:01.160 bucks tummy is very important. I of my eternal salvation 1:44:01.280 --> 1:44:04.599 is also really important, But so is my tummy. So 1:44:04.640 --> 1:44:06.479 I gotta figure out a way to handle this, and 1:44:06.680 --> 1:44:08.400 I'll get back to you when I have more answers. 1:44:09.320 --> 1:44:13.000 Uh Dale rites, Hey Buck thanks so much for the 1:44:13.040 --> 1:44:15.960 tip on the New York Times series on the Vegas Shooter. 1:44:16.360 --> 1:44:19.360 It was eerie all right, especially so since I was 1:44:19.400 --> 1:44:23.080 staying at the Attached Delano and hanging at the Mandalay 1:44:23.120 --> 1:44:26.680 and quite possibly had passed this creep in the passageways 1:44:26.720 --> 1:44:30.080 while I was there on business. I came back Thursday morning, 1:44:30.360 --> 1:44:33.840 I never realized he had been the place all week. Dale. 1:44:33.880 --> 1:44:36.640 I do recommend that everybody who has the time and 1:44:36.640 --> 1:44:41.640 inclination check out those New York Times video pieces that 1:44:41.680 --> 1:44:43.519 have been put up on the website that have to 1:44:43.560 --> 1:44:50.679 do with, uh, the Vegas shooters seven day just calm 1:44:50.760 --> 1:44:55.760 walking around preparation for his mass murder spree. It's I 1:44:55.760 --> 1:44:57.559 don't know why The New York Times got the exclusive 1:44:57.600 --> 1:45:00.320 on It's another thing that just somewhat surprised me. But 1:45:00.920 --> 1:45:03.040 it's worth watching if you get a chance. It really is. 1:45:04.439 --> 1:45:08.719 Kevin is up next, Hey Buck, great show as always. 1:45:09.360 --> 1:45:12.439 Uh since the o G Saturday shows, Oh Wow, o 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:15.600 G Saturday or OSS, I just want to let you 1:45:15.640 --> 1:45:18.120 know that your oh for two With answering that roll 1:45:18.200 --> 1:45:21.760 call question about the Twitter thread from Friday three three. 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:26.479 It was by Alexandra de Sanctis of National Review. Uh, 1:45:26.560 --> 1:45:29.680 to revisit the error. Wow, Kevin's plunging a knife in 1:45:29.720 --> 1:45:32.360 and twisting it now you had said Daily Wire or 1:45:32.360 --> 1:45:37.519 the Federalist. Nice try. Mr Sanctus is one of the 1:45:37.560 --> 1:45:41.679 most prodent up prodent pardon me ardent pro life voices 1:45:41.680 --> 1:45:44.080 out there in case you want to have someone talk 1:45:44.120 --> 1:45:47.639 about such issues. All the best, Kevin. Kevin is completely correct. 1:45:48.040 --> 1:45:49.840 He's calling me out, and he's right to do so. 1:45:50.160 --> 1:45:53.360 I was wrong. It wasn't the Federalist. It was National Review, 1:45:53.640 --> 1:45:56.120 and it was Alexander de Sanctists and it's a very 1:45:56.120 --> 1:46:02.120 important Twitter thread. Uh. Next we have Heidi, who writes 1:46:02.640 --> 1:46:05.920 just recently transfer here to University of Southern Florida, and 1:46:06.120 --> 1:46:09.639 I am in the United States Marine Corps Officer program here, 1:46:10.200 --> 1:46:13.040 like I was at my last university. Here, I find 1:46:13.080 --> 1:46:17.320 myself the only conservative and the only Christian in the program, 1:46:17.360 --> 1:46:19.920 which is somewhat surprising considering most of the people I 1:46:19.960 --> 1:46:23.200 know in the military are conservative Christians. Anyway, thanks for 1:46:23.240 --> 1:46:25.320 all you're doing. I don't know what I do without 1:46:25.320 --> 1:46:28.920 the daily broadcast from the Freedom Hut, Truth to Power 1:46:29.439 --> 1:46:32.280 and Shields High. Thank you so much. Hidi. First of all, 1:46:32.280 --> 1:46:36.880 thank you for what you're doing in the USMC Officer program. 1:46:37.680 --> 1:46:43.320 Great to hear that young ladies patriots like yourself are 1:46:44.080 --> 1:46:46.360 joining up in the core. So that's just really cool. 1:46:47.000 --> 1:46:49.040 And uh, thank you very much for your support of 1:46:49.040 --> 1:46:52.200 the show. And you know, you're probably you probably have 1:46:52.400 --> 1:46:55.120 more like mine conservatives around you than you can tell 1:46:55.240 --> 1:46:58.720 right now. It's often just a question of whether they're 1:46:58.720 --> 1:47:03.000 willing to expose themselves, you know, whether they're willing to 1:47:03.040 --> 1:47:05.759 be public about it. A lot of people keep it quiet, 1:47:06.400 --> 1:47:09.040 and I know I do. And in social settings, people 1:47:09.080 --> 1:47:13.120 would generally have very little idea until I know them 1:47:13.160 --> 1:47:15.880 about what I think of the world. I've gotten very 1:47:15.920 --> 1:47:18.360 good as a New Yorker at I'm talking about in 1:47:18.400 --> 1:47:21.479 superficial quick you know, hey, how you doing? Oh hey, 1:47:21.520 --> 1:47:23.200 I'm fine. You know when your voice goes all high 1:47:23.200 --> 1:47:25.200 when you say, oh hey, what's going on? Oh hey, 1:47:25.240 --> 1:47:27.479 how are you? You know, one of those greetings, not 1:47:27.560 --> 1:47:30.320 like an old friend or someone you know, but oh hey, Bob, 1:47:30.360 --> 1:47:31.840 it's been a while. What's going on Bob? You know? 1:47:31.920 --> 1:47:35.040 Oh hey, Buck, hey how are you? Uh? I tend 1:47:35.120 --> 1:47:37.160 not to get into the gosh, can you believe what's 1:47:37.160 --> 1:47:41.040 going on with these uh gun marches across the country 1:47:41.080 --> 1:47:44.280 anti gun marches. It's just not worth it to put 1:47:44.360 --> 1:47:47.840 myself through the frustration of listening to all the ignorance. Hey, 1:47:47.880 --> 1:47:50.000 how are you doing? Oh yeah, it's great. You know, Buck, 1:47:50.040 --> 1:47:51.479 What are you working on these days? Oh? You know, 1:47:51.640 --> 1:47:54.960 lots of stuff, real busy. I've gotten really good at that, 1:47:55.479 --> 1:47:59.040 at the non conversation conversation when I'm in a very 1:47:59.080 --> 1:48:02.600 blue place like New York City, and unless I know 1:48:02.680 --> 1:48:05.120 it's a friendly I just keep it all on the 1:48:05.280 --> 1:48:08.400 I'm polite. I talked about dogs and food and I 1:48:08.479 --> 1:48:11.640 leave it there. You know, maybe the weather, but I 1:48:11.760 --> 1:48:13.559 try not to get into the global warming part of 1:48:13.560 --> 1:48:19.240 the weather. Next up here we have Doug, who writes 1:48:19.880 --> 1:48:22.479 Hi Buck. After suffering through the hype and rhetoric surrounding 1:48:22.479 --> 1:48:25.679 Saturday's events in d C, I just wanted to suggest 1:48:25.720 --> 1:48:28.719 our word for the day should be occuocracy. It gives 1:48:28.760 --> 1:48:31.280 me chills each time I see a clip showing these 1:48:31.320 --> 1:48:34.599 kids were setting the mantra this is what democracy looks like. 1:48:35.120 --> 1:48:40.200 No children are constitutional. Republic incorporates a democrats structure of 1:48:40.200 --> 1:48:46.479 represent democratic structure of representative government, not dictate via mob rule. Yes, 1:48:46.560 --> 1:48:50.360 Oculocracy is actually something I wrote about in Occupy American 1:48:50.479 --> 1:48:52.839 Spring and the book I wrote as a cub reporter 1:48:52.920 --> 1:48:55.400 at The Blaze Gosh almost seven years ago. Now, I 1:48:55.479 --> 1:48:59.800 specifically got into the ococracy of Occupy Wall Street. So 1:48:59.880 --> 1:49:03.320 I was oclocracy before oclocracy was cool. It's a fun 1:49:03.360 --> 1:49:06.920 word to say, by the way. With that, I think 1:49:06.960 --> 1:49:08.800 we're in a perfect place for me to close down 1:49:08.800 --> 1:49:11.679 the Freedom Hunt for the evening. Thank you so much 1:49:11.680 --> 1:49:13.519 for being here with me team. It is the best 1:49:13.520 --> 1:49:16.960 part of my day every single day. I'm gonna go 1:49:17.040 --> 1:49:21.559 home now and probably eat a whole bunch of red 1:49:21.600 --> 1:49:25.759 meat because I have some very delicious grass fed hamburger 1:49:25.800 --> 1:49:27.960 beating the fridge that I'm going to just probably eat 1:49:27.960 --> 1:49:29.960 about a pound up and uh, and then I'll get 1:49:29.960 --> 1:49:32.600 ready for tomorrow's show. I usually fall asleep reading for 1:49:32.760 --> 1:49:34.599 this show and I look forward to it every night. 1:49:34.840 --> 1:49:37.960 Please tell your friends download the podcast. It's just on 1:49:37.960 --> 1:49:42.040 iTunes at the Buck Sexton Show until tomorrow night, my friends, 1:49:42.040 --> 1:49:45.040 No matter what comes your way, Shields high