Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Chow podcast, make sure
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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. With crime out of control
Speaker 1: in major cities across the country, it appears some voters
Speaker 1: might start to hold prosecutors accountable. This week, San Francisco's
Speaker 1: ultra progressive district Attorney Chesa Budan is facing a recall
Speaker 1: election so he could be removed from office. That's right,
Speaker 1: San Francisco is turning against its very progressive da to
Speaker 1: the tide, really be turning against the far left criminal
Speaker 1: justice reform effort. I'll answer that, and tonight's hold the line.
Speaker 1: Welcome to hold the line. I'm Buck Sexton. You may
Speaker 1: have seen over the weekend there were a lot of
Speaker 1: mass shootings that occurred in places like Chattanooga, Tennessee, and
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and a whole range of other cities. Multiple
Speaker 1: people shot, many cases old, dozens wounded. Here's just a
Speaker 1: CBS news headline. At least thirteen were killed dozens wounded
Speaker 1: in weekend mass shootings across the US. Horrendous and unthinkable,
Speaker 1: is of course the quote here, and that's true. Accept
Speaker 1: it is not unthinkable in so far as this happens
Speaker 1: pretty frequently. You look at what goes on in a
Speaker 1: normal weekend in Chicago. This has become far too routine
Speaker 1: in this country. So yes, it is horrendous. But the
Speaker 1: reality is we are going through a continued surge in
Speaker 1: violent crime in this country, and it's from shootings, murders,
Speaker 1: the worst kinds of violent crimes all the way down
Speaker 1: to the day today. Anarchy of lawlessness and people feeling
Speaker 1: like they can get away with breaking laws with impunity.
Speaker 1: I mean, for example, this was just in New York City,
Speaker 1: a Dwayne Reid store here where an individual stole from
Speaker 1: the store, returned ten minutes later after being engaged in theft,
Speaker 1: after being a shoplifter to attack staff with a bike chain.
Speaker 1: And he's got to know that he's on video. He's
Speaker 1: not even wearing a mask, doesn't care. Figures. You know,
Speaker 1: worse comes to worse, he'll get arrested and he'll be
Speaker 1: out within a couple of hours, and then he'll have
Speaker 1: some progressive in the distric Attorney's office here in New
Speaker 1: York who says, oh, well, we don't want to make
Speaker 1: that guy's life too hard. So you know, let's give
Speaker 1: him another chance, and then we'll give him another or
Speaker 1: after he gets arrested again, and then another after he's
Speaker 1: arrested again. This is what is playing out in cities
Speaker 1: all across the country, and progressive prosecutors, as in far
Speaker 1: left Democrats, are at the heart of all of it.
Speaker 1: People are starting to figure it out. It's not just
Speaker 1: defund the police that has made our criminal justice system
Speaker 1: so much weaker than it previously had been. It's also
Speaker 1: the progressive prosecutor movement and their desire to end what
Speaker 1: they call mass incarceration, which means just let people out
Speaker 1: of prison, don't punish them as severely for offenses that
Speaker 1: everybody realizes are bad. But you know, social justice is
Speaker 1: more important than criminal justice. That has become the de
Speaker 1: facto mantra of the libs in these prosecutors offices who
Speaker 1: are making these decisions. Well, Psi Boudan, who has turned
Speaker 1: San Francisco into something approximating an urban hellhole. He is
Speaker 1: finally facing voters who have realized what a mess he
Speaker 1: has made of their city. On Tuesday, come up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Boudan faces voters in a recall election backed by business
Speaker 1: owners who are unhappy with his performance, to say the least.
Speaker 1: Poles indicate his austerers, supported by the majority of residents
Speaker 1: in the incredibly left wing city that has seen a
Speaker 1: spike in murder as well as other crimes across the country.
Speaker 1: So this could be the beginning of some accountability for
Speaker 1: what is a shockingly stupid, reckless, dangerous idea pushed by
Speaker 1: the left that well, if we just have fewer people
Speaker 1: in prison, we'll have a better, safer society. That's not true.
Speaker 1: Are in prison because they are a danger to their
Speaker 1: fellow human beings. That's where they should be. If people
Speaker 1: are career criminals, or if people are are habitual violent
Speaker 1: or serious offenders, they should be taken out of society
Speaker 1: or they can no longer prey upon their fellow human beings.
Speaker 1: This is pretty straightforward stuff. We've learned this over many,
Speaker 1: many decades. You could argue, stretching back throughout human history,
Speaker 1: you have to punish those who violate the laws and
Speaker 1: hurt their fellow human beings in society. Democrats say, well,
Speaker 1: we want to limit that as much as possible. Let's
Speaker 1: cut that down, let's cut it in half. What does
Speaker 1: that result in, Well, what we see now all across
Speaker 1: the country. Remember, in twenty twenty, you had a thirty
Speaker 1: percent national spike in the murder rate in this country,
Speaker 1: the biggest one year increase in the history of recording
Speaker 1: murder rates in the United States. Okay, that's what the
Speaker 1: BLM movement, progressive prosecutors and defund police has led to. Finally,
Speaker 1: there may be a little glimmer of sanity here. Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal writing that a successful recall of mister Budan
Speaker 1: would mark a significant setback in what has been called
Speaker 1: the progressive prosecutor movement. Progressive prosecutors include distric attorneys of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, New York County, which encompasses Manhattan, Chicago's
Speaker 1: Cook County, in Philadelphia, all places where homicides went up
Speaker 1: during the pandemic and a lockdowns. Yeah, this was very predictable, right,
Speaker 1: but they did it anyway, and then they lied to
Speaker 1: us to want to remind everybody that while the numbers
Speaker 1: started to show substantial increases in homicides and violent crime
Speaker 1: in these cities, you know what the progressives were saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the pandemic, as if people being told to stay
Speaker 1: home and not interact with each other because there is
Speaker 1: a disease that we are much more concerned about them
Speaker 1: than we are now. That was spreading would result in
Speaker 1: more murders. That doesn't make sense. It should result as
Speaker 1: it did in many countries around the world actually and
Speaker 1: fewer murdered. But that was the lie they initially told us.
Speaker 1: And as I've said, this was the result of decisions,
Speaker 1: like prosecutorial decisions to not actually punish people seriously when
Speaker 1: they break the law in a serious fashion. Here's a
Speaker 1: group that shows you to drop in misdemeanor and felony
Speaker 1: prosecutions in San Francisco drops off heavily when Chessa Boudan
Speaker 1: is sworn in in twenty twenty. So Chessa Boudan's idea
Speaker 1: as a progressive prosecutor, let's be very clear on this,
Speaker 1: was I'm just going to prosecute fewer people. They'll be
Speaker 1: even more crimes going on, which is what happened. But
Speaker 1: he's going to prosecute That has to be understood. You
Speaker 1: have an increase in crime, you have a drop in prosecution.
Speaker 1: Why would that be the case. Well, because the ideology
Speaker 1: of the left is that the criminal justice system is unfair.
Speaker 1: Central to this is that it is racist because a
Speaker 1: disproportionate number of the people that are prosecuted in major
Speaker 1: cities in this country are racial minorities. And because of
Speaker 1: that statistic, they say, We're just going to prosecute fewer
Speaker 1: people that will somehow bring justice or balance of the system.
Speaker 1: This is crazy, but this is what they have decided
Speaker 1: to do. And we have all seen the suffering, disproportionately,
Speaker 1: by the way, suffering of law abiding minorities in communities
Speaker 1: all across the country where there's been this spike in crime.
Speaker 1: They suffer more than anybody else as a result of this.
Speaker 1: But Chessai Budan is out there saying, oh no, it's
Speaker 1: it's really the Republican billionaires that are trying to recall me,
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to use the talking Points watch.
Speaker 1: They registered the domain for the recall the week I
Speaker 1: was corn into office. But as the pandemic war on
Speaker 1: and people got more and more upset at the changes
Speaker 1: in our lives, it was a really easy opportunity for
Speaker 1: Republican billionaires to fund a movement that, as you said,
Speaker 1: does have some support from Democrats. Some support from democrats. Remember,
Speaker 1: the progressive prosecutors in these cities they didn't replace Republicans.
Speaker 1: They replaced other Democrats who were just not entirely insane
Speaker 1: when it came to the criminal justice system. But the
Speaker 1: activist left, the progressive left in the Democrat Party decided
Speaker 1: that they would push for George Soros with his tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars given to these das. That's a
Speaker 1: matter of public record. You can check it. That's not
Speaker 1: a conspiracy. It's true. They decided just prosecute and punish
Speaker 1: less and see what happened. Well, we've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of people have been murdered, shot, raped, assaulted, carjacked, thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands more than we would expect in a normal
Speaker 1: year in this country because of these ideas. But the
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Speaker 1: As the left continues to push its gender ideology in
Speaker 1: schools and across the nation, we now see even more
Speaker 1: corporations hopping on board. Latest victim to the woke army
Speaker 1: is Pizza Hut. Newsweek reports the restaurant's new reading club
Speaker 1: bookt program, which targets grades pre kde is sixth grade,
Speaker 1: has some books focusing on the LGBTQ community on its
Speaker 1: website in light of celebrating Pride Month. So how do
Speaker 1: we hold a lot to make sure our children aren't?
Speaker 1: You know? Part of an agenda here Joining me now
Speaker 1: to discussed is New York Post columnist Carol Marco with
Speaker 1: Carol good to see It, Get to see Buck. So
Speaker 1: let's start with this one, the lgbt LGBTQ Plus book
Speaker 1: Julian Is a Mermaid. In the spirit of Julian Is
Speaker 1: a Mermaid, This irrepressible picture book celebrates drag kids, individuality,
Speaker 1: and self confidence from the perspective of a fabulous wig.
Speaker 1: You're a parent, What the heck is going on here? So?
Speaker 1: What's funny is is that I know exactly what this
Speaker 1: book is because in Brooklyn it was frequently distributed for
Speaker 1: free in my kids' schools, and so we ended up
Speaker 1: with at least two or three copies of this book.
Speaker 1: I've seen it up close, I know exactly what's in it,
Speaker 1: and it has absolutely no place being distributed anywhere, especially
Speaker 1: by Pizza Hut. So I think we've really gotten to
Speaker 1: a crazy place where a child doing drag is somehow okay.
Speaker 1: And you know, the videos emerged this weekend of parents
Speaker 1: taking their kids to a drag show in Dallas, which
Speaker 1: was sickening. I don't understand how this persists and how
Speaker 1: it's all acceptable. I mean, we're showing people the footage here,
Speaker 1: it's honestly, I mean it's so depraved. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have adult males and there's even worse footage and photos
Speaker 1: than this that's been circulated. Adult males gyrating and dancing
Speaker 1: dressed up as women. They're not women, they're men, and
Speaker 1: obviously in drag. And there's even photos of small children
Speaker 1: putting dollar bills in the g string of one of
Speaker 1: these performers. There is a sign that people may have
Speaker 1: seen in the background that says. You tell me, I
Speaker 1: mean something, you tell me what it says. It's not
Speaker 1: going to lick itself, Carol, What the hell is going
Speaker 1: on here? Yeah? And the thing is that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of these parents would understand just how wrong
Speaker 1: this was. If it were actual women doing these performances.
Speaker 1: You couldn't take a strip club right. And you know, look,
Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong New Yorker like you. I had, you know,
Speaker 1: been to clubs in my twenties where drag queens perform,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, fine, but it's not for children.
Speaker 1: It just can not be for children. Some things are
Speaker 1: not for children. Alcohols not for children. Vegas is not
Speaker 1: for children, drag shows not for children. Why do you
Speaker 1: think there is? Because this is a clear movement of sorts.
Speaker 1: I mean, the activists are pushing this in New York City.
Speaker 1: I member, my family sent me a photo of in
Speaker 1: the local public school, right, I mean not even know
Speaker 1: there were si public schools in my neighborhood, but there are.
Speaker 1: Apparently they were advertising a rag you know, drag queen
Speaker 1: story hour for kindergarteners. I mean, by the way, it
Speaker 1: always seems to be for kindergarteners and like third graders,
Speaker 1: first graders. What is this right? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the idea is like, oh, they're colorful, they're glittery, like
Speaker 1: why not? Well, why not is because it's inappropriate for children.
Speaker 1: Drag shows are generally adult material. They're usually quite sexy.
Speaker 1: They have this element absolutely of sexuality to them. And
Speaker 1: if we wouldn't allow a female stripper to come in
Speaker 1: and dance on the pole and just be like, look,
Speaker 1: she's also glittery and look at her shoes and it's amazing,
Speaker 1: then why would we allow men to do it in
Speaker 1: drag That makes absolutely no sense to me. Here's one
Speaker 1: of the the drag queen saying that they're exposing kids
Speaker 1: to drag shows is beneficial. Watch. I think it was amazing.
Speaker 1: I never get to like perform in front of children.
Speaker 1: It's like performing in front of children. I have like
Speaker 1: six other younger siblings, so it was it was very emotional.
Speaker 1: I loved it. It was probably one of the best
Speaker 1: shows I've ever done. Here's the thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: that there is any kind of issue with exposing childre
Speaker 1: into this, because especially if you if your child is
Speaker 1: in the community or you may think they are. I
Speaker 1: just think that drag is educational fuel. Drag is such
Speaker 1: like an art form. There's so much dancing, there's hair,
Speaker 1: there's wigs, there's makeup. There's so many things that kids
Speaker 1: will like, will love to experience with. So I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of kids will want to like dabble
Speaker 1: in everything that's going on in like drag. There's so
Speaker 1: much there. Carol Um, I think these people are honestly,
Speaker 1: I think they're mentally ill um But but beyond that
Speaker 1: idea that they don't generally get to perform for kids, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's by design, you know, point show for kids. It's
Speaker 1: also look, burlesque is an art form. Rate I actually again,
Speaker 1: I quite like drag, and I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with it for grown ups. I just think it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: when you aim it at kids. It's like so many
Speaker 1: other things. You can go to a burlesque show and
Speaker 1: be like, wow, that's pretty cool and that, you know,
Speaker 1: for grown ups to watch, But then you wouldn't take
Speaker 1: your six year old because it's inappropriate. My radio co
Speaker 1: host that Ray said, you know, he's got small kids.
Speaker 1: He's like, if I took my eight year old to
Speaker 1: a strip club, even if the women kept you know,
Speaker 1: didn't get you know, didn't take off their clothing. Everybody
Speaker 1: would think that I was you know that that you know,
Speaker 1: he'm speaking the first person, he's some kind of degenerating child.
Speaker 1: Services would come and talk and yeah, yeah that would happen.
Speaker 1: So so why does this make it? I mean, I think, why,
Speaker 1: why would this be okay? I think it's not okay.
Speaker 1: I think though, there was something that was really interesting
Speaker 1: in one of those drag performers when they were talking
Speaker 1: about this, that they're drag kids in the audience, as
Speaker 1: if there's already kids who, without adults training them to
Speaker 1: do this, would throw on wigs and glitter and gy
Speaker 1: rate their body parts in a way. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like these people are crazy, right. It is absolutely fed
Speaker 1: to them by adults. There's no way a kid wakes
Speaker 1: up and decides to do this on their own. Every
Speaker 1: few years they tell the story of a various drag kid,
Speaker 1: and there's absolutely no way that that kid discovered what
Speaker 1: to do without a grown up pointing them in that direction.
Speaker 1: I just it's all really sad and sickening, and it
Speaker 1: really is. It's meant to blur the lines of gender
Speaker 1: and you know, the whole what is a woman conversation
Speaker 1: right now stems from exactly this kind of thing where
Speaker 1: we're no longer sure what a woman is because the
Speaker 1: gender lines have been so blurred by the way is
Speaker 1: you probably have seen, Carol, the Biden administration is tying
Speaker 1: school lunch funding to including the transagenda as though it's
Speaker 1: a civil right and part of Title nine. You're a
Speaker 1: governor in the state of Florida who wish you could
Speaker 1: be everybody's governor pushing back on this watch. We're prepared
Speaker 1: for what Biden throws our way. And you know, yes,
Speaker 1: part of it's the inflation and the gas. Part of
Speaker 1: it are intentionally destructive policies like trying to deny school
Speaker 1: lunch programs for states that don't do transgender ideology and
Speaker 1: the schools, I mean, give me a break, totally off
Speaker 1: as rocker to be doing that. We're fighting on that,
Speaker 1: don't worry. So we're just prepared to be able to
Speaker 1: defend the taxpayers and the hard working people in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida. And I couldn't be prouder for doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of him. It's really it's a unique experience
Speaker 1: for me. To have a politician that I think is
Speaker 1: great and he happens to be my governor, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: That never happens. I've never had a politician that I
Speaker 1: thought was really, you know, doing what I wanted him
Speaker 1: to do, So it's great. It's the preservation of normalcy
Speaker 1: that I'm always talking about with Florida. It's not that
Speaker 1: Florida is doing something crazy. It's literally just trying to
Speaker 1: preserve a normal life that we used to understand before
Speaker 1: we got to the Biden and ministration. Using birthing person
Speaker 1: as if that's okay to replace the word from other
Speaker 1: like it's it's just back to sanity, and that's what
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis pushes and I'm all for it me too, Carol.
Speaker 1: Good to see it. Thanks to see you, Buck. Federal
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more. Hold the line. Almost
Speaker 1: a year after the formation of the House Select Committee
Speaker 1: investigating the January six protests on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are
Speaker 1: set to take their case public this week, but it
Speaker 1: appears they have some work to do with the American public.
Speaker 1: According to a new NBC News poll, just forty five
Speaker 1: percent of Americans say Donald Trump is solely or mainly
Speaker 1: responsible for the rioters who overtook the Capitol, versus a
Speaker 1: combined fifty five percent who say the former president is
Speaker 1: only somewhat responsible or not really responsible at all. It
Speaker 1: looks like the time. Looks like time has been on
Speaker 1: Trump side rather here with the reaction senior counsel at
Speaker 1: the Article three project, Will Chamber will than actually being
Speaker 1: with us, thanks for having me. So we're supposed to
Speaker 1: think that there's going to be massive prime time revelations
Speaker 1: coming later this week. But January sixth, I feel like
Speaker 1: CNN has been talking about January six pretty much every
Speaker 1: day or every other day for going on eighteen months. Now.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know what's the game plan here.
Speaker 1: I mean, they got to figure out some way to
Speaker 1: distract from the state of the economy. Right you have
Speaker 1: massive inflation, unprecedented Baby formula shortage, extremely high gas prices,
Speaker 1: and Biden's approval rings or something in the forties, and
Speaker 1: there's no switch now that the Biden administration can flip
Speaker 1: to fix these problems that they themselves created in the
Speaker 1: first place. I mean, it's just it's too long to
Speaker 1: you know, once you shut down a baby formula plan
Speaker 1: takes a little whar for that plan to get back running,
Speaker 1: for example. So I think the point here is just
Speaker 1: to create something that could get people in great Republicans
Speaker 1: and then wanted to come out and vote for Democrats
Speaker 1: in November. And so we've got to go sit through
Speaker 1: a committee about January six which really, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it was just a riot. It was
Speaker 1: just a riot. Yep. They finished their business and had
Speaker 1: the capital running as usual within a few hours. This is,
Speaker 1: in terms of the public opinion here a shift from
Speaker 1: an NBC poll when it comes to the perception of
Speaker 1: January sixth, just after the riots, fifty two percent of
Speaker 1: people said that Trump was mainly responsible. So it feels
Speaker 1: like will with the passage of time, there's either been
Speaker 1: just a lack of sustained interest in this and also
Speaker 1: an unwillingness to continue to buy the narrative that Trump
Speaker 1: was responsible for everything that went down that day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the classic issue that really just
Speaker 1: only motivates serious partisans, right, the only people on the
Speaker 1: left who deeply care about January sixth still, you know,
Speaker 1: six months on, no, sorry, eighteen months on, let's think,
Speaker 1: let's clear, eighteen months on from the event, RPR. Serious
Speaker 1: Democrat partisans, those the people who are going to turn
Speaker 1: out in anyway, normal people have other things going on
Speaker 1: with their lives than to care about a brief riot
Speaker 1: eighteen months ago, even where even if the riot was
Speaker 1: interrupting something important, it's just it was still just a riot.
Speaker 1: And I think ultimately the Democrats have made a huge
Speaker 1: mistake investing so much time and energy into this when
Speaker 1: the real way that they would have actually had a
Speaker 1: chance of holding on to the Congress in twenty two
Speaker 1: and perhaps the presidency in twenty four governed the country, well,
Speaker 1: they've just lost sight of that. January sixth committee has
Speaker 1: been split behind the scenes where over what actions to
Speaker 1: take after the public hearings. Some members want big changes
Speaker 1: on voting rights, apparently even they say they want to
Speaker 1: abolish the electoral college, while others are resisting proposals to
Speaker 1: over haul the US election system. So it feels like
Speaker 1: for some of them it's let's just push, They'll just
Speaker 1: push to remake the country because you know, January sixth
Speaker 1: insurrection and some other Democrats behind the scenes are saying
Speaker 1: and there are limits too, are crazy, Like it's actually
Speaker 1: self defeating at some point to be that insane. I
Speaker 1: like that you're referring to Liz Cheney as another Democrat
Speaker 1: because that's accurate and it should actually be proper style
Speaker 1: for American news outlets. Yeah, so you have Liz Cheney
Speaker 1: on the one hand, who's trying to say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I am I am the only representative from Wyoming, and
Speaker 1: getting rid of the electoral college would definitely weaken the
Speaker 1: overall power of my states. So you know, even even
Speaker 1: though I really don't like Trump and the Republicans, I
Speaker 1: just you know, she has like some part of her
Speaker 1: that's like, as the only representive Wyoming, I couldn't conceivably
Speaker 1: do that, which I guess, you know whatever, Like that's
Speaker 1: a low bar for a Republican representative for Wyoming. Whatever,
Speaker 1: I guess We'll do. We take it, do we care.
Speaker 1: None of these proposals would ever get anywhere. All the
Speaker 1: radical stuff would get shot down in the Senate anyway,
Speaker 1: because they don't have the votes. So it's sort of.
Speaker 1: It really is. Ultimately, the debate about what actually is
Speaker 1: in the Committee report is just one of those non important,
Speaker 1: non relevant dates like, oh no, the January six Committee
Speaker 1: made recommendations that were too aggressive. Well, if they're aggressive,
Speaker 1: then the Senate would reject them anyway that it just
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, nobody on the Household Committee
Speaker 1: is more committed than Representative Cheney. It seems to pursue
Speaker 1: Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol, but she
Speaker 1: does oppose, to your earlier point, some of the more
Speaker 1: sweeping election law reforms that Democrats and the Committee democrats
Speaker 1: are essentially thing, Yeah, let's just remake the country because
Speaker 1: you know January six, and lets Chaney's like, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is just about my personal vendetta with Trump. Let's
Speaker 1: not get let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Let's
Speaker 1: focus on my priorities. I hate Donald Trump, and I
Speaker 1: want to get him. That's why I'm only to work
Speaker 1: with you Democrats. Like, Okay, I don't feel like we
Speaker 1: should give her too much credit for merely not being
Speaker 1: primarily opposing a complete remaking of our federal system. Liked good,
Speaker 1: good for you, golf clap and in the end, and
Speaker 1: obviously the media aftermath of what happened last week, wanted
Speaker 1: to get your take on Peter Navarro, who was a
Speaker 1: senior Economic advisor for trade to the Trump administration. I saw.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's video of him where he says
Speaker 1: that not only did they not only they arrest him
Speaker 1: because he didn't respond to a Jen six committee subpoena,
Speaker 1: they actually, you know, they cuffed him, They went to
Speaker 1: his I think they went to his place of work,
Speaker 1: and he says they even put him in leg irons
Speaker 1: at one point, and they know they processed him and
Speaker 1: everything else. He says, they could have just called me
Speaker 1: and said, come down, surrender yourself and we'll go through
Speaker 1: the process. But you know, they want that whole show
Speaker 1: trial vibe apparently will Yeah. No, I mean we need
Speaker 1: to first. I mean it leads to two obvious conclusions. First,
Speaker 1: we need just a complete wholesale like top to bottom
Speaker 1: clearing out a DJ right, Like, how did that get improved?
Speaker 1: There's no way it should have been improved. This is
Speaker 1: like the most white collar of white collared crimes, not
Speaker 1: the kind of no threat of violence, no reason to
Speaker 1: be breaking out any of the serious, serious restraints or yeah,
Speaker 1: they restrained this man, they cuffed him because you know,
Speaker 1: Peter Navarre, who is Trump's trade representative, might attack somebody
Speaker 1: because he didn't respond to a subpoena for a BS investigation.
Speaker 1: About do we need to do to get Democrats to
Speaker 1: realize that they need to tone it down? Like I
Speaker 1: think maybe we need to when we take power in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, like have like put Hunter Biden in
Speaker 1: the stocks in the middle of the mall or something
Speaker 1: like that, like just like some ridiculous thing where we
Speaker 1: just parade formerly prominent Democrats and just do public shamings
Speaker 1: like they did in Game of Thrones? Like what do
Speaker 1: we have to do to get you guys to not
Speaker 1: to act like normal people to realize that you just
Speaker 1: can't unilaterally do this stuff to Republicans without us doing
Speaker 1: something in return. I seriously, there has to be some
Speaker 1: consequence for this and the way that it's it's not
Speaker 1: merely that they're going after people for contempt of Congress,
Speaker 1: which nobody's done in forty years, but they're doing it
Speaker 1: in the most heavy handed, aggressive, authoritarian way possible, as
Speaker 1: though they'll never be out of power again. And I
Speaker 1: think we need to just yet another reminder that when
Speaker 1: when Republicans retake power, it's not enough to stop the abuses.
Speaker 1: There has to be some punishment, right like that, you know,
Speaker 1: at a minimum, anybody who responsible for that decision, you know,
Speaker 1: to put Navarro and like iron should be fired and
Speaker 1: blackball from the government. And there needs to be a
Speaker 1: lot more of that, you would think so, and yet
Speaker 1: it feels like we live in crazy times, Will but
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing us a bit of sanity, my friend,
Speaker 1: of course, always going to talk to you. Gas prices
Speaker 1: hit another record high today, and news from Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: is that they'll be increasing the price of crude oil.
Speaker 1: After the break, the First TVs T and A Low
Speaker 1: stops by to explain why America might be headed for
Speaker 1: a Jimmy Carter era style oil crisis. Right, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: Each morning, the President of the United States receives a
Speaker 1: highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country.
Speaker 1: It's called the President's Daily Brief, or PDB. It's delivered
Speaker 1: by America's spies and analysts. Well, now you can hear
Speaker 1: your very own PDB in the form of a podcast
Speaker 1: hosted by me Brian Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer.
Speaker 1: Each morning at six am Eastern, I'll bring you fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty minutes of the most important issues facing the country,
Speaker 1: giving you the critical intelligence and analysis you need to
Speaker 1: start your morning. The price of gasoline hit another record
Speaker 1: high today. Nationwide, a gallon of gas is costing drivers
Speaker 1: four dollars and eighty six cents on average. In some states,
Speaker 1: including California, Washington, and Oregon, the average price has risen
Speaker 1: to over five dollars per gallon. Eye prices at the
Speaker 1: POMP are being caused in part by the skyrocketing price
Speaker 1: of oil at a oil topped one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: dollars per barrel on news that Saudi Arabia would be
Speaker 1: sharply hiking prices for customers around the world. Join me
Speaker 1: now with our analysis of the energy situation around the
Speaker 1: world and here at home. Is commentary writer for The
Speaker 1: Washington Examiner and contributor to the first TV Tiana Lo Tana.
Speaker 1: What's up, hey, Buck? You know that one twenty number.
Speaker 1: If you had told us six months ago that we'd
Speaker 1: be regularly hitting one twenty once in March and now
Speaker 1: again in June, I would not believe it, especially considering
Speaker 1: that it's not even the worst part of the summer
Speaker 1: yet just wait until July. Yeah, So, what's what's happening
Speaker 1: in the global market internationally that is causing prices right
Speaker 1: now in particular to spike once again. So Biden wants
Speaker 1: us to believe that it's all the so called Putin
Speaker 1: price hike. But consider this, Russian oil imports only comprise
Speaker 1: somewhat seven percent of America's daily oil consumption, so that
Speaker 1: doesn't explain all of it. It's a combination of the
Speaker 1: fact that Biden decided to isolate, you know, our global
Speaker 1: allies like Saudi Arabia, who are now you know, a
Speaker 1: pivotal part of OPEC plus, which is the Middle Eastern
Speaker 1: cartel that has the ability to artificially jack up prices,
Speaker 1: and his administration's decision to limit the number of drilling
Speaker 1: leases that it's allowing. It's signal to the market that
Speaker 1: it's going to be very restrictive in how much oil
Speaker 1: can be drilled. It is not. People talk about the
Speaker 1: pistone xel pipeline, and that's true that that mattered, but
Speaker 1: it mattered as much as the signal as it did
Speaker 1: you know, the actual development of oil that would happen
Speaker 1: in you know, three to four years from now. The
Speaker 1: issue is that drilling oil is expensive. Distributors don't want
Speaker 1: to set up new sites of drilling if the federal
Speaker 1: government's just going to shut them down, So they don't
Speaker 1: want to take a big bet on more oil expansion,
Speaker 1: knowing that at any moment Biden is signaling that he
Speaker 1: might just withdraw a permit or withdraw permission to drill.
Speaker 1: So what do you have Biden hamstringing our domestic ability
Speaker 1: for supply and instead now in a very embarrassing about
Speaker 1: face for his foreign policy turning around. You know, on
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he said that he wanted to make Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabia a quote global pariah, not using to realize that
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia has actually been a very helpful and useful
Speaker 1: ally in pivoting power away from Iran and China. And
Speaker 1: now he's trying to go to Saudi Arabia, to Riyad,
Speaker 1: to go on bended knee, to beg Mohammed bin Salmon
Speaker 1: to jack up oil production and bring down prices. So
Speaker 1: OPEC has apparently increased its output, so shouldn't Adamy for
Speaker 1: the folks at home, result in prices dropping or just
Speaker 1: too soon. Well, it remains to be seen, right, we
Speaker 1: do want you know, the basic formula. Oil markets are
Speaker 1: very elastic in the sense that if you have more supply,
Speaker 1: then those prices will go down. But you still have
Speaker 1: the Russia situation, which is reading havoc in Europe. You know,
Speaker 1: in Germany because of oil inflation is well into the
Speaker 1: double digits. So it's not just you know, quote unquote
Speaker 1: supply chains. But why is it affecting us so much?
Speaker 1: You know, gas prices are now double what they were
Speaker 1: when by took office, So Russia doesn't explain it because
Speaker 1: gas prices were on their way up long before Putin's
Speaker 1: invasion into Ukraine. So some of it also just has
Speaker 1: to do with you know, Saudi Arabia was really the
Speaker 1: key OPEC member state that was sort of favorable to
Speaker 1: the United States. A lot of those other Middle Eastern
Speaker 1: nations did not see it in their interests to help
Speaker 1: us out at all. To all the credit that for
Speaker 1: all that, you know, liberals like to criticize Jared Kushner
Speaker 1: him him fomenting a pretty positive relationship with MBS did
Speaker 1: work very well. In our favor. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: a period of time at Pete Covid in July twenty
Speaker 1: twenty when oil futures went into the negatives because we
Speaker 1: had so much supply. But now we'll see they can
Speaker 1: release a little more oil, but it's not doing enough.
Speaker 1: You still have to offset all of Europe that was
Speaker 1: reliant on Russian oil, and you still have to And
Speaker 1: we're still waiting on how much confidence domestic producers have
Speaker 1: in their ability to drill. If they think Biden is
Speaker 1: going to be lucy with the football continually pulling it away,
Speaker 1: they will not have any incentive and we will be
Speaker 1: once again dependent on four an oil. And last I
Speaker 1: checked last night checked drilling in the Middle East doesn't
Speaker 1: somehow reduce or doesn't somehow admit fewer greenhouse gas emission.
Speaker 1: It is just as bad for the global climate change phenomenon.
Speaker 1: So it's really just domestic hypocrisy on the Biden administration's part.
Speaker 1: So President Biden was scheduled and visit the Middle East
Speaker 1: this month, including the Saudi stop. That trip was postponed
Speaker 1: until next month. Do we know what happened? So, according
Speaker 1: to Politico and another report in the New York Times.
Speaker 1: Biden has had this personal animus towards MBS over the
Speaker 1: whole Jamaica Shogi thing, and mainly because he committed to
Speaker 1: this position in the Primaria as a way to signal
Speaker 1: to Democrat worried that he was too squishy, that this
Speaker 1: is his way of opposing Trump, because in the end,
Speaker 1: everything in our politics just comes back to Orange Man bad.
Speaker 1: But advisors are saying, if you do not want to
Speaker 1: piss off everyone betting that the Interior Department limits American drilling,
Speaker 1: then you have to go to Saudi Arabia. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: Biden's position on Saudi Arabia has never made much sense
Speaker 1: considering that you have no Biden saying that he wants
Speaker 1: to make Saudi Arabia prior estate. But still the US
Speaker 1: having Saudi Arabia, it's number one purchaser or client of arms,
Speaker 1: the fact that we have totally backed to warren Yemen
Speaker 1: without congressional approval. So it's not as though Biden actually
Speaker 1: did anything to take vengeance for the death of Jamalka
Speaker 1: Shogi who may or may not have been a sorry agent.
Speaker 1: But it's just that he just wants to have the maximum,
Speaker 1: you know, war of the words piss off MBS and
Speaker 1: think that there will be no direct consequences. And right
Speaker 1: now the consequences are all of us are paying at
Speaker 1: the pump. I mean, in some states minimum wage doesn't
Speaker 1: cover two gallons of gas. So so tina to that end.
Speaker 1: Just for folks at home, what actually matters to them?
Speaker 1: Are we looking at gas lines allow the Carter era?
Speaker 1: Are we looking at shortages even more than we've already seen?
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the gas picture looking like this summer?
Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly think so, especially hopefully people have
Speaker 1: transitioned away from diesel cars, which I know we're all
Speaker 1: the rage with environments about fifteen years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything about this is remnant of the Carter administration. The
Speaker 1: only difference is at least Carter had a Chairman of
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve who actually had the ponies to raise
Speaker 1: rates on time. Right now, interest rates are one percent.
Speaker 1: When interest rates were lack or when inflation was last
Speaker 1: at eight point three eight point five percent, Paul Volper
Speaker 1: brought up, you know, interest rates into the double digits.
Speaker 1: So that is how behind the curve that bet is
Speaker 1: on inflation. So I think it's going to be worse
Speaker 1: than the Carter administration. But that just because I'm a pessimist,
Speaker 1: and that's why you have to be here. Buff Joseph
Speaker 1: Reality courtesy of Tina Always going to see Thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us, Thank you buck. Elon Musk maybe rethinking
Speaker 1: his acquisition of Twitter. We'll have that store a few
Speaker 1: in quick hits, stay with us. Elon Musk may be
Speaker 1: souring on his potential acquisition of Twitter, and a Canadian
Speaker 1: HR professional says HR departments and recruiters are trying to
Speaker 1: put conservatives out of work. We have these stories, any
Speaker 1: quick kits. Let's get right to it. Look, there's very
Speaker 1: few things that recently have freaked out the left and
Speaker 1: the lives more than the prospect of Twitter becoming a
Speaker 1: free speech platform, meaning that there would be very clear rules.
Speaker 1: You can't do things that are illegal, you can't say
Speaker 1: things that are legal, etc. But beyond that, you could
Speaker 1: share disfavored opinions, maybe even quote misinformation, which as we know,
Speaker 1: ends up a lot of time being right anyway. And
Speaker 1: the left completely panicked about that because Elon Musk is
Speaker 1: the richest man in the world and he says that
Speaker 1: he's going to buy Twitter. Well, unfortunately, that may not
Speaker 1: actually happen. We'll see. Here's a letter from Musk, who's
Speaker 1: threatening to walk away from the Twitter deal. He said
Speaker 1: based on Twitter's behavior to date and the company's latest correspondence.
Speaker 1: In particular, mister Musk believes the company's actively resisting and
Speaker 1: thwarting his information rights under the merger agreement. This is
Speaker 1: a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement,
Speaker 1: and mister Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom including his
Speaker 1: right not to consummate the transaction and his right to
Speaker 1: terminate the merger agreement. So this is concerning to those
Speaker 1: of us who are hoping that this may open a
Speaker 1: pathway for Twitter to be a true free speech platform.
Speaker 1: If must doesn't buy it, then Twitter goes back to
Speaker 1: its old habits, most likely of suppressing conservative and doing
Speaker 1: everything in its power to elevate the ideology of the
Speaker 1: left as though it is sacrosanct truth. Of course, it's
Speaker 1: not the case. They were wrong about so much during COVID.
Speaker 1: They've been wrong about so much that it's hard to
Speaker 1: even begin to list it all out here. But Elon
Speaker 1: buying Twitter would be a great thing for free speech.
Speaker 1: A great thing for our republic in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: if it doesn't happen because they're playing games and because
Speaker 1: the woke libs are trying to mess up the deal,
Speaker 1: then well be a loss for all of us. So
Speaker 1: let's hope it goes through. But by the way, Elon
Speaker 1: also caught our eye over the weekend because he asked
Speaker 1: an important question that he shared a meme that says
Speaker 1: things I'll never see in my life, and it had
Speaker 1: photos of a dragon, a dinosaur, and a unicorn. And
Speaker 1: also it says the Epstein Maxwell client list. He added,
Speaker 1: the only thing more remarkable than DJ not leaking this
Speaker 1: list is that no one in the media cares. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that seem odd? Well, yes, it does seem quite odd,
Speaker 1: doesn't it Given the history of the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: in recent years of leaking very sensitive information for political purposes. Certainly,
Speaker 1: doesn't it seem like this is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that might just get out there. Don't we have some
Speaker 1: right to know who was involved in this way? Who
Speaker 1: was involved with Epstein and Maxwell? Is that something that
Speaker 1: could be public record? I mean, we don't know if
Speaker 1: it actually did anything criminally, but who was on that list?
Speaker 1: We want to ask them some questions like why are
Speaker 1: you on the list? But that never somehow makes it
Speaker 1: to the light of day. I wonder why, notice how
Speaker 1: they set up I'm just gonna tell you this is
Speaker 1: my analysis of that. You had Maxwell and Epstein with
Speaker 1: a massive surveillance operation and clearly meant to entrap some
Speaker 1: of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
Speaker 1: And yet none of that surveillance data, none of the
Speaker 1: blackmail material has ever even been spoken about, never mind
Speaker 1: shared with the public. Is so interesting in a criminal investigation,
Speaker 1: isn't it all? Right? Now, here's a Canadian HR professional
Speaker 1: who tells conservatives that recruiters in HR will get them
Speaker 1: fired for their politics. Yeah, you don't say, watch I'm
Speaker 1: a recruiter. It's a small, small, small industry, smaller than
Speaker 1: you'd think. Same with HR. So if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a job, or maybe trying to keep a job, maybe
Speaker 1: just maybe think about what you're putting on social media. Again,
Speaker 1: freedom fighters, I know you're not really big with stats,
Speaker 1: and you know facts aren't your thing, you know, But
Speaker 1: what I can tell you, what is the fact is
Speaker 1: that recruiters talk, and recruiters, like the majority of Canada
Speaker 1: don't agree with you. Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1: Do you have any of guesses, any guesses what that means?
Speaker 1: What that means is that if you need a job,
Speaker 1: you might not get one. If you want to keep
Speaker 1: a job, you might not get to do that. They're telling, yeah,
Speaker 1: you better tell the line of the left wing agenda
Speaker 1: here or else not gonna get a job. I could
Speaker 1: fire from your job. Here you go, folks, they've infiltrated everything,
Speaker 1: including hr as every tonight told the line the nose
Speaker 1: spinoos of Bill O'Reilly is next feels high. Each morning,
Speaker 1: the President of the United States receives a highly classified
Speaker 1: briefing on the most important issues facing the country. It's
Speaker 1: called the President's Daily Brief, or PDB. It's delivered by
Speaker 1: America's spies and analysts. Well, now you can hear your
Speaker 1: very own PDB in the form of a podcast hosted
Speaker 1: by me Brian Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer.
Speaker 1: Each morning at six am Eastern, I'll bring you fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty minutes of the most important issues facing the country,
Speaker 1: giving you the critical intelligence and analysis you need to
Speaker 1: start your morning.