1 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. It's finally done. The 2 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: Muller report has been handed in Breaking news as we 3 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: go on air. Muller's probe is finished, my friends, What 4 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: does that report contain? Will we find out and will 5 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: there be accountability for the lies, lies and more lies 6 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: that the Democrats and their media allies have told about 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: this whole fiasco. That and more coming up on the 8 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show where 9 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 10 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again, 11 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, He's a great guy. Sexton. No, 12 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: we have confirmed that a letter was sent to the 13 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary 14 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: committees notifying them that the Special Counsel Robert Muller investigation 15 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: was completed. Let me just read for a second from 16 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: that text. It says, quote Special Counsel Robert Mueller the 17 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: third has concluded his investigation of Russian interference. But this 18 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 1: is the important part. Well, Attorney General William Barr says, 19 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: quote he may be in a position to ad buyse 20 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: you the committees of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as 21 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: soon as this weekend. So this is the first time 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: that we've had an indication that the Attorney General may 23 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: be able to move very quickly in terms of releasing 24 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: some information and the findings to Congress. What's not in 25 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: the letter so far that we've seen is a timetable 26 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: for a public release. Welcome to the buck Sex then 27 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: show quite a Friday breaking news situation here, folks. The 28 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: Mueller report has done no more indictments. Oh oh, you 29 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: mean they're not going to prosecute the president. You mean 30 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: that Hillary's not really going to get to be president 31 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: all of a sudden after all. Oh No, we've known 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: this day would come, and it is here, and damn 33 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: it feels good to be right team we've been. Just 34 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: take a moment, take a little moment, you know, do 35 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: a little little chin wagging and stretch stretch out a 36 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: little bit, you know, just take a little strut around 37 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: the office or around the kitchen or wherever you are, 38 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: and just just remember, we knew it. We knew it. 39 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: The delusional left did not know it. They thought that 40 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: Trump was finished and Mueller's on him, and Mueller's I mean, 41 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: people built careers for themselves around this lie. People became 42 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: a household names around this nonsense. And no new indictment. 43 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: You know what that means. That means that there was 44 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: no collusion, folks, there was no collusion. It's not there, 45 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: it's not real, it's not a thing. And now you 46 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: will see so many people running for cover for a 47 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: few days, not for long, because there will unfortunately be 48 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: no real media accountability for all the frauds, all the 49 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: peddlers of lies and fiction and smears meant to take 50 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: down Trump and just to feed the malignant psychosis of 51 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: the far left in this country that now runs the 52 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: Democrat Party, that is the Democrat Party. And do you 53 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: think that anyone will will apologize for what they've done 54 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: or say that they were wrong about Trump and they 55 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: got caught up in the moment. And no, this was 56 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: a mass hysteria, a mass hysteria that's swept tens of 57 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: millions of people into it and has come at a 58 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: tremendous cost to the country, to the Trump administration's ability 59 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: to conduct its business, to govern well, to enact the agenda. 60 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: So in that sense, I also say this with with 61 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: rage and with sadness. I mean, yes, there's relief and 62 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: there's happiness. We were right and it's done. So just 63 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: take a moment. Team, it's been two years in coming. 64 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for two frigging years, and 65 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: now it's over. No more. Muller. Who who's the next 66 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: person he's going to and died? Oh is he? What 67 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: does he have on Trump? Oh? What? The Russians? This 68 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: the Russians, that, Russia, Russia, Russia. Finally, this insanity of 69 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: at least the Special Council is coming to an end. 70 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: It's a good day. It's a good day for America. 71 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: I would also note that I think you and take 72 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: something from the fact that this is being dropped on 73 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: a Friday in late March, as some of my colleagues 74 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: online have pointed out, while March madness is going on, 75 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: and this is a government Friday post five pm news 76 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: dump situation. If this report said that the President United 77 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: States should be criminally charged. Now I know they've said 78 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: there's no indictments, but even if you know, if you're 79 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: going to take the position that maybe they suggest that 80 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: the president could have been indicted but will not be indicted, 81 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: and we don't know what's in the report yet. But 82 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: if that were the case, trust me, they wouldn't wait 83 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: until a Friday afternoon or evening to let this thing. 84 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: Let this thing go, No way, I'm going to have 85 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: to really take a beat and think about how much 86 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: how much twitter curb stomping I plan to do of 87 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: insane luecheck libs who have been running around with this 88 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: for days from days for years now, and they should 89 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: be held to account. I do not believe they will 90 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: be held to account, but they should be. What they 91 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: did was reckless, what CNN did weaponizing itself against the 92 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: Trump presidency by being the center of this conspiracy theory 93 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: about Trump working with the Russians to steal an election 94 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: from Hillary Clinton as though the as though the presidency 95 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: was her property. That, my friends, is not not something 96 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: that we should let go lightly. That is not something 97 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: that we should forget. And I do hope that there's 98 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: an opportunity here for a reckoning. But the Muller report 99 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: is in the Special Council is done. This National Nightmare 100 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: has at least ended a very destructive chapter. And take 101 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: a moment for yourself. For those of you who have 102 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: been listening to this show, those of you across the 103 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: country to just remember we were right all along. These 104 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: people at New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, all 105 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: the different left wing websites and move On and all 106 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: media matters and these crappy, terrible, disgusting smear machines, they 107 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: were wrong. We were right. They were full of it. 108 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: We were full of truth. You deserve, we deserve a 109 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: moment of victory on this one. We don't know what's 110 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: in that report. We'll no more details soon, but we 111 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: do know this. There was no collusion, and that's what 112 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: this was all about. I've got more on this. Stay 113 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: with me. Think of it. I have a deputy appoints 114 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: a man to write a report on me to make 115 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: a determination of my presidency. People will not stand for it. Now, 116 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: with all of that being said, for two years, we've 117 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: gone through this nonsense. Because there's no collusion with Russia. 118 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: You know that better than anybody. And there's no obstruction. 119 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: They'll say, oh, well, wait, there was no collusion. That 120 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: was a hoax, but he obstructed in fighting against the hoax. Okay, 121 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: think about that one for a second. Trump is right, folks, 122 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: He's been right on this one all along. Okay, Trump 123 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: is correct, his detractors, his haters. The Momulla Report is done, 124 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: which means there are no more indictments. Now people are 125 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, look, shiny object, shiny object. The Southern 126 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: District maybe is too that has the mandate of Russia 127 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: collusion is finished and there are no more indictments that 128 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: have been handed down, which means that, guess what, folks, 129 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: there was no collusion, which we have known all along. 130 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: And now you're gonna have a lot of people who 131 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: have a tremendous professional investment in this who we're gonna 132 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: try to come up with a way to explain to us. 133 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, CNN producer Mike was telling me 134 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: that one this thing broke, CNN has got a panel 135 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: of like everybody and their grandma, and they're like, oh, 136 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: trying to talk about this. CNN has zero credibility on this, 137 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: zero none whatsoever. Nobody should be listening to what CNN 138 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: has to say about Russia collusion because they've been putting 139 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: hysterical liars on TV for two years. And just for 140 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: the record, not to jump in here, but I think 141 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: it's the first time that anybody on CNN has smiled 142 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: in the year twenty nineteen. I just want to say that, Well, 143 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: but Mike, why are they smiling? There's no collusion. They're 144 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: just happy that it's out. They I don't know, they 145 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: don't I don't even think they know why they're smiling. 146 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: It's well, I mean, I guess maybe maybe they're happy, 147 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: like you know, when sometimes criminals want to get caught. 148 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: You know, the con is over now, right, the CNN, 149 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: all these people, when people wrote books about how collusion 150 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: is you know, going to break down this presidency, and 151 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: this is Watergate and all this stuff. Do any of 152 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: those people get to get mocked publicly? Do we get 153 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: to say that this has been an embarrassment all along. 154 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: Do we get to point out that they have been 155 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: completely detached from reality for the last two years, and 156 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: they've been doing so in bad faith in order to 157 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: take down a president's You know, will there be any 158 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: consequences for this? I would like to say yes. I 159 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: think the answers probably no. And we all know why 160 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: this happened, what this came from. Right, they could not accept. 161 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: They were too deranged with hatred for Trump and oh 162 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: all the laws of not having Hillary Hello be president 163 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: of the United States? They just couldn't handle it. Trump 164 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: is right, This was all an excuse, play clip. They 165 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: came up with an excuse for losing an election. This 166 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: should never happen to another president because most presidents wouldn't 167 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: be able to take it. I know the politicians, I 168 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: know the president. I know, I know what we're dealing with. 169 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: Most people wouldn't be able to take it. Let me 170 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: tell you something, where what happened to me should never 171 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: happen to another president of the United States because I 172 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: depend on this right here, mind not other people. They 173 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: have treated me so viciously. They have treated me so badly, 174 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: and we did nothing wrong. You look at the other 175 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: and all of these people you hear about that had 176 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: nothing to do with Russia, Russia, collusion, nothing. It's all 177 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: a big hoax. It's a witch hunt, and it's a hoax. 178 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: It is a witch hunt. It is a hoax, and 179 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: I want accountability for it. I don't know if we'll 180 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: ever get it. I mean, these people that have been 181 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: running around with this theory, these so called serious journalists, 182 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: I mean, seeing that has just been a dumpster fire 183 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: on this just the worst. I mean, let's let's just 184 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: be real about this. Folks, The dominant news story of 185 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: the Trump presidency of the last two years has been 186 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: a media hoax. I don't think the media should ever 187 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: recover from this. I don't think we should ever be 188 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: forced to take them seriously again. If we ever took 189 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: them seriously, they have covered themselves in dishonor. And now 190 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: they're going to act like we're supposed to accept this. 191 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: And there were people who were paid analysts on the 192 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: on the left wing network, which is everything except for Fox. 193 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: They're paid analysts are going on TV who we're suggesting 194 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: that the president's children might go to you know, might 195 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: get federally prosecuted, that the president's going to be impeached, 196 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: maybe even removed from office, that the president himself might 197 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: go to prison over this prison over what I'll never 198 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: forget when the President told me in the Oval office, 199 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: Russia collusion is just a who would even do it? 200 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: It's such a stupid idea, you remember, stretching back to 201 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: the beginning of the Special Council investigation, That's what I 202 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: was saying. This doesn't even make sense as a plan. 203 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: It's not even a you know, if Trump is a 204 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: bank robber, this is like showing up to a bank 205 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: where you know the vault is empty. Who would do that. 206 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: It's not even a good plot to steal an election. 207 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't work, and it 208 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't work, and it would be incredibly risky, and the 209 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: chances of being caught are so very high. And that's 210 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: one thing that you have to keep this in mind. 211 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: They're going to try to tell you that maybe it's 212 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: maybe there still was collusion, maybe this still happened. They 213 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: have to keep digging and looking more. If Robert Muller 214 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: and the very aggressive demo crap prosecutors that he pulled together, 215 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: spending tens of millions of dollars, if they didn't find collusion. 216 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: Anybody who tells you that maybe there was still collusion 217 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 1: is nuts. Anyone who tells you that we need Congress 218 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: now to spend its time and resources trying to investigate 219 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: this thing more thoroughly is either a liar or just crazy. 220 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: Muller had unlimited ability to pull phone records, pull emails, 221 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: get all the content, pull all the business transactions, all 222 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: the bank records, bring witnesses in, put them under oath, 223 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: prosecute them, send them to prison if they didn't tell 224 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: the truth. What more could realistically be done? The answers 225 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: nothing unless the goal here is twofold cover up for 226 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: this lie, and then move on to further harassment, cover 227 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: up this absolute disgrace perpetrated by the Democrats against this president, 228 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: and then quickly transition into we need his tax returns, 229 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: we need to investigate more, and oh, by the way, 230 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: maybe there's still Russia collusion. This whole thing is the 231 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: biggest political scandal of my lifetime. It's something that should 232 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: really make people think long and hard about not just 233 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: the media, but the core of the Democratic Party. I mean, 234 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party a serious ethical I know you're 235 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: laughing already, but but really, you know, do they do 236 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: they operate with any good faith whatsoever? I mean, this 237 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: is how they oppose a president. This is how they 238 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: they show their political opposition by trying to weaponize the 239 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: investigative functions of the federal government against the commander in 240 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: chief and use their media allies and their lackeys and 241 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: the mainstream press to create this this fabricated story. You know, 242 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: we really I I have a couple of drinks this 243 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: weekend and just let this whole thing settle. We have 244 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: been through an ordeal as a country and for what 245 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: for what, So that you know, Rachel Maddow has some 246 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: just lunacy to share with her rapidly left wing audience 247 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: every night, so that Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer can 248 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: pretend to be just journalists looking for the truth, and 249 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: CNN can put all these former deep staters on its payroll, 250 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: all in an effort to try to find ways to 251 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: take down Trump. This is what they've done, this is 252 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: what they've offered up. I mean, they should be ashamed, 253 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: but unfortunately they are incapable of shame. It's one of 254 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: the traits that Democrats have that makes them very resilient. 255 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: We will not let them scurry away from this one. 256 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: We will not let them just pretend that this never happened. 257 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: They need to be made to own If they are 258 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: not going to pay for it, at least they have 259 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: to own it for the next two years. We need 260 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: to make sure that the last two years matter for 261 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: the next two years, going into the twenty twenty election 262 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: because or the next whatever it is now you know, 263 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: eighteen months, because this has been a this has been 264 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: an abject catastrophe of lies, falsehoods, and so many people 265 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: believed this. Why is it that you and I knew? 266 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: I didn't think there was no collusion. I knew there 267 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,719 Speaker 1: was no collusion. Why did we Well, it's kind of like, 268 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: how did I know Jesse Smollett was lying? And the 269 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: left just couldn't figure that out? You know, at what 270 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: point is it clear that there is a wisdom, knowledge, 271 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: and sanity disparity between the right and the left. How 272 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: much crazier would they have to be? How much more 273 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: delusional and ideologically driven in defiance of reality would they 274 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: have to be before we'd be able to say, you 275 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: know what, we're not really dealing with the people playing 276 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: with a full deck, so to speak, over here, that 277 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: the left really has lost its mind and that should 278 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: be scared everybody because now the far left is in 279 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,719 Speaker 1: control the Democratic Party. Are we talking more about that 280 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: here in just a moment, But yes, the Mola report 281 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: has been handed in. With my Republican colleagues, they say 282 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: things and I'm like, what does that have to do 283 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: with what we're talking about? And like the person's like 284 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: in charge of National flood Insurance program. We're like, what 285 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: an the woman said yes or no and yeah, and 286 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: she goes, yes, you're really good at just saying a 287 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: I mean it's weird and like yeah, yeah, kind of 288 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: this Fox News lunacies and is like in the well, 289 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: like we're voting on like gun reform, and I'm like, 290 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: I think it. I think it is interesting. Have you 291 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: met with a lot of inner party resistance. Yeah, Congressional 292 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: hearings are not a Beyonce concert. You know, most powerful 293 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: democrat in the country, folks, right there, number one right now, 294 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: a woman who I have yet to hear her say 295 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: a single insightful thing about anything. And I think that, 296 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: with the way the media treats her, is just yet 297 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: another data point for why we should not take the 298 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: media very seriously, because they do not view their job 299 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: as as challenging power. They are all vessels for the 300 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: aggrandizement of AOC. They view their role as finding ways 301 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: to make her look even more fantastic. We'll talk later 302 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: on in the show about what she said in Time 303 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: magazine and some of the the just idiocy on display. 304 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: But I can't get away from the fact that we've 305 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: been told that so many stories about how Trump is is, 306 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: you know, not as rich as he says, and he's 307 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: intellectually incurious and he never reads and he does watch TV. 308 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: You know, you know, if the Democrats put forward the 309 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: my proverbial you know, PhD in astrophysics, Navy seal who 310 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: just wants to better run the welfare state in this 311 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: country and have a more humble foreign policy with less interventionism, 312 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: and you know, is willing to secure the borders with 313 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: and not promote amistic well that now you can't be 314 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: a damage. See this is a problem the Democrats. You 315 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: know what, I just talked myself out of this whole thesis. 316 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: They can't put forward a normal candidate or impressive candidate. 317 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: They have to put forward this. This is this is 318 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: who they are. I think that we as conservatives have 319 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: a little bit of denialism here, I know I do. 320 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes I keep thinking that they're going to snap out 321 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: of it and go back to there. The Democrat Party 322 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: has been socialist in its ethos for a long time, 323 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: increasingly aggressively socialist. But at least they used to have 324 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: to to play the game a little bit and make 325 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 1: enough of the country think that they care more. They 326 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: care about workers, and they care more about your healthcare. 327 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: And this was always the you know, they're the party 328 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: of the nice people who want to do the government's 329 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: going to help you. The government's going to be your friend, 330 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: it's going to it's going to assist you. And you know, 331 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: I just have got to say that it's it's very, 332 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: very frustrating that we are now in a position where 333 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: everything that we said was going to happen with the 334 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: Democrats about how they would be the party of socialism 335 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: and that would be calling for single payer has come true, 336 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: and the media just blows past that, like what our 337 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: conservatives are we a bunch of wizards? Can we tell 338 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: the future? Now? We've understood what the game plan is 339 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 1: here for a long time, but now they're finally at 340 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: the point where they can't hide it anymore. You know, 341 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: now now we see that left to their own devices, 342 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party is now the party of Democrat socialism. 343 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: They're not Stalinists. Yes, they're not hardcore communists that are 344 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: going to set up a central committee, but their central 345 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: committee is really just a dispersed one. It's a very 346 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: broad communist central committee. The Democrats, their central committee is 347 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: you know, the barons of Silicon Valley and the heads 348 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: of media media organizations, and there you know, the billionaires 349 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: that are pushing climate change and major lifestyle choices on 350 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: people that are actually gonna have to live with the 351 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: conse of it, unlike the billionaires. So you know, there's 352 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: a little bit, there's a there's shadows of that, there's 353 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: little flavors of that, but they're not yet hardcore, and 354 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: they're not going to be anytime soon, I think hardcore Stalinists, 355 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: although on speech they're getting. You know, I kind of 356 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: go back and forth on some of the stuff. I 357 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: talk myself into what I think is the real essence 358 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: of where the Democratic Party, well where it is now, 359 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: but also where it's going, and I just think that, 360 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, they can't they can't help themselves, you know, AOC. 361 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: As much as I want to believe that Okazio Cortez 362 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: is some kind of aberration, that she is a departure 363 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: otherwise solid Democrat Party norms, now what's happened is she 364 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: is the Democrat Party. Now. Pelosi is just a part 365 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,719 Speaker 1: of the machinery of the Democrat Party. But the person 366 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: at the controls who's deciding where the machine's gonna go 367 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: and what it's gonna do, that's now AOC. Bernie Sanders, 368 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren and some of these other prominent Democrats that 369 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: you're seeing like Corey Booker, Kamala Harris. They are going 370 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: to be drawn further and further into that that you 371 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: are not going to see this snap into the center. 372 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: And that's why I think Biden when he does get in, 373 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: I know, the pole show and being pretty strong, but 374 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: it'll be clear to people who are astute observers pretty quickly. 375 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 1: I think Biden is going to look like the old 376 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: the old guy who is that's right, you know what's 377 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: coming doing a belly flop into the shallow end of 378 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: the pool. I mean, it's just not gonna work. It's 379 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: not gonna work. He's not compelling, he's not in the 380 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: zeitgeist at all. You know. The only way he maybe 381 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 1: makes it work is this idea that was floated this 382 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: week of Stacy Abrams kind of like Beto and that 383 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: another Democrat who lost but we're still supposed to think 384 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: is a winner anyway and doesn't even accept that she lost. 385 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: Abrams may run on the bottom side of the ticket, 386 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: and Biden says that it may say that he'll only 387 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: serve one term, and so then you get the optics 388 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: of a nationally recognizable African American female politician as the 389 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: you know, the person in waiting essentially to be the 390 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: president as the VP. You know, the idea that she'd 391 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: it will be handed off to her in twenty twenty four, 392 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: maybe hers to run with in twenty twenty four, and 393 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: that Biden would retire after four years as president. That's 394 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: the only way that I think that Biden really has 395 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: a chance of being president. I do not, and I 396 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: don't think people care enough about the VP. Look what 397 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: happened John McCain and Sarah Palin. I don't think that 398 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: people care enough about the VP for that strategy to work. 399 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: I think everyone realizes the VP is you know, VP 400 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: is there in case of VP is not exactly blowing 401 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: people's minds. We'll be right back, Governor. Some of your 402 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: male competitors have vowed to put a woman on the ticket, 403 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: yes or no? Would you do the same, Well again, 404 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: of course, but I think that we should be Well, 405 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: I'll ask you another question. How come we aren't asking 406 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,239 Speaker 1: the question? I don't, I don't, but half couple we're 407 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: not asking. We're not asking more often the women who 408 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: should be willing to put a man on the ticket 409 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: when we get to that point. So that was I know, 410 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: we played that for you yesterday. And just I mean, 411 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: Hickenloper seems like kind of a dork, you know, not 412 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: that far left from what I understand. I don't really 413 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: know much about him, but this is an interesting and 414 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: interesting little moment because that you know, it was just 415 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: the thing about hick and Looper that got attention this week. 416 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: People got really really upset about this. And and I'm 417 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: noticing that this trend on the left, it's look at 418 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: there's there has been a a hyper ventilating victimhood that 419 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 1: is at the heart of feminism for a long time. 420 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: I mean, feminists have thought for a long time that 421 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: they are you know that that women and I mean 422 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: in recent years. I'm not talking about when women did 423 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: not have equal rights, which was which was wrong, and 424 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: but you know that has been corrected. Women do have 425 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 1: equal rights. And in fact, if you go into family 426 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: court now, which you will find is that women actually 427 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: have in some legal contexts more rights than men. Family 428 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: courts are incredibly skewed toward females over males, for just 429 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: just because the mom is is the one who is 430 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: more likely to get custom of the kids just because 431 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: right So, on a legal basis, women actually have more 432 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: rights than men in some contexts, and in general have 433 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: the same rights. But there's still this, you know, the 434 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: the and I think it really comes from the boomer 435 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: finists out there, who, unfortunately a lot of them, I think, 436 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: have some regrets about how certain things when certain things 437 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: have gone, certainly regrets about Hillary Clinton not winning the 438 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election. There's a bitterness. I mean, feminism and 439 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: bitterness are very much intertwined. And also feminists don't have 440 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: a sense of humor, which is another really undesirable, unlikable 441 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: trait of feminism. They just nothing is funny to a feminist, right. 442 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: You know, you hear the joke about the feminist and 443 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: the other feminists. You know, that's not funny, that's the joke. 444 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: Here's what the media said about Hey, Hick and Looper. Look, 445 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: he made a kind of goofy look, you know, maybe 446 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: we should ask if the men will be on the two, 447 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: you know, But he actually kind of got it a 448 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: little bit of a truth there, which is why why 449 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: am I required to have a female as a vice president? 450 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: Why don't I just have the best person for the job. 451 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: Right and the media got upset about this. Play three 452 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: John hick and Looper's answer about the possibility of a 453 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: female running mate sparking backlash. I don't know what the 454 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: heck he was talking about. There are a lot of 455 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: Democrats who feel that women haven't been given their just due, 456 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: so when Hickenlooper says things like that, he's basically dismissing 457 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: those concerns. Craig, I don't even know how to reply 458 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: to that. I mean, forty five presidents have been men. 459 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that speaks for itself. I think 460 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: it's just one of those answers that you really grown at. 461 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: I certainly did when I saw it. I think I'm 462 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: gonna send Governor Hickenlooper copy of those place mats with 463 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: all the president's faces on them that are all men. See. 464 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: This is at the center of why identity politics is 465 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: an intellectual failure, and we'll always fall into self contradiction, 466 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: We'll always fall into hypocrisy and an inability to defend 467 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: itself as as an ideological system, and so therefore it 468 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: will just go on attack. It will always go at 469 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: hominem Right, identity politics cannot stand because it isn't based 470 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: in a principle that is defensible. If in fact, it's 471 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: the case that we should have a president who is 472 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: a woman just because we have not had a president 473 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: or a vice president who is a woman, then shouldn't 474 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: it also be the case that we have a duty 475 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: to have the next forty five presidents be women. Don't 476 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: we have to balance it out? I mean, if if 477 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: we're going to take the position that it's not in 478 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: the here and now, when we are actively deciding a question, 479 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: and you know, in twenty nineteen in America, it's not 480 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: about who is the best and who the people choose 481 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: for the job, that gender should matter as a as 482 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: a factor, a perhaps deciding factor in that. Why shouldn't 483 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: gender matter for the next forty five When is it enough? 484 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: This is why the left also gets very uncomfortable with 485 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: the idea of quotas. They want the appearance of a 486 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: quota thought without the admission of a quota existing, because well, 487 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: how the moment that you say that you have a quota, 488 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: you're not basing something on merit, or in this case, 489 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: you're not basing it on the will of the people. 490 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: You're mandating something that is external from that, will you're 491 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: mandating something that is different from the meritocracy or what 492 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,239 Speaker 1: have you. Right there, there's a separation of the of 493 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,959 Speaker 1: principle here that occurs. So when they when they bring up, 494 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: you know, why don't you have a woman a woman 495 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: who will be on your on your ticket? And he's like, well, 496 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: why do what do I have to you know, he 497 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: said it like in a goofy way, But the point 498 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: is valid, which is does he have to Is this 499 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: now a requirement? I mean, why is he being asked that? 500 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: And now I don't think it's a problem that Donna 501 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: bash Do not call her Dana, it's Donna bash. Um. 502 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a problem that she has a 503 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: journal has asked him, and it's fine she can say 504 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: should you have a woman on your ticket? But I 505 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 1: think it's funny is that the media got angry at 506 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: him for saying it's kind of a silly it's kind 507 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: of an unimportant, silly question because it either you either 508 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: want the best person for the job. And this is 509 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: why identity politics, whether it's based on gender or race, 510 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: or sexual orientation or anything else, always runs into this issue. 511 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: They want to tell us that it's the best person 512 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: should get the job. But then when we say, okay, 513 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: well how do we how do we determine who the 514 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: best person is for the job, they say, well, you know, 515 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: we really need a person who looks like X, we 516 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: really want a person who is of why background. But 517 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: that that doesn't that's a superficial characteristic. That's not that's 518 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: not within the wheelhouse of how we're supposed to decide this. 519 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: That's a that's an externality that you're now saying should 520 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: perhaps even be the decisive factor. This is always the 521 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: problem with identity politics. It's always the problem with the 522 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: intersectional left. They want you to they want to create 523 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: the anxiety around accusations of sexism, accusations of racism, and 524 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,959 Speaker 1: so people will act accordingly. You know, you're always going 525 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: to get the tie goes to the aggrieved minority, the 526 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: aggrieved sex, the aggrieved sexual oritation, whatever it may be, 527 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,239 Speaker 1: and in a lot of cases a lot more than 528 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: just the tie. But if you bring that up and say, well, 529 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: hold on a second, is this I mean, for example, 530 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: if you have a talk with any Democrat about whether 531 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,239 Speaker 1: it was an advantage for Barack Obama to be an 532 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: African American running for president. They look at you like 533 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: you're crazy. Now, I'm not saying that as an African 534 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: American Barack Obama did not overcome a lot of adversing 535 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: in his life. I'm not African American, and I'm sure 536 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: he did. But this pretense that it wasn't a differentiating 537 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: and overwhelmingly viewed as positive, groundbreaking historical characteristic of Obama, 538 00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: that yes, he was black, is delusional. But the left 539 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: still they all, I mean, they they claim that the 540 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,320 Speaker 1: fact that he was black was a disadvantage in the election, 541 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: and all the evidence is to the contrary, which speaks 542 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: to I think the you know, it's all to the good, 543 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: and I'm glad that the American people are what we are, 544 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,879 Speaker 1: which is open minded and tolerant, and you know, we 545 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: aren't nearly as sexist, racist and all these other things 546 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: as the left wing media would have us believe. But 547 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: I mean, let's just can we at least be honest 548 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: about these things? When is something an advantage? You know, 549 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,959 Speaker 1: they'll tell you vote for this person because of their 550 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: gender or their you know, their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation. 551 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: But when you say, okay, so they have an advantage, Now, 552 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: because of that, you're told no, no, you can't say that. Well, 553 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: which is it? I just want to know. Can we 554 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: have clarity on this? If you're telling me it's a 555 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: reason to vote for a person that's an advantage, that 556 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: that's not a disadvantage. And if you're telling me, or 557 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: you're telling Hick and Looper that he has to have 558 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: a woman as vice president, jo't also tell him that 559 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,240 Speaker 1: he's picking the vice president because that's the best person. 560 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 1: Because if you were picking the best person, you wouldn't 561 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: tell him he has to pick a woman. You see, 562 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: this is the incoherence of identity politics laid bare for you. 563 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: And people in the media. They don't grapple all this 564 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,240 Speaker 1: stuff in any in any serious sense, in any serious way. 565 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: And that's why I have so much fun making fun 566 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: of their silliness on a regular basis. But wow, our 567 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: Friday is already rolling along. Your team, we have much 568 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: more to go. I'll be right back. So I interviewed 569 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:51,359 Speaker 1: a Democratic candidate for the presidency today, and I gotta 570 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: tell you a team it was actually, it was actually 571 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: pretty pretty intriguing. This fellow. Um, I think his policies 572 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 1: would if enact, did his broad you know, major policies 573 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: would be really bad for the country. But I think 574 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: he is an earnest and sharp guy, and I can engage. 575 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: I can engage with leftists who want to engage in 576 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: good faith. Always I'll engage with anyone who wants to 577 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: engage in good faith. Right if someone wants to sit 578 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 1: down and tell me that we need to kill all 579 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: the cows and get off of fossil fuels and they 580 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: want to talk about it, I'll do that if if 581 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: they want to take that position, kill all the cows, 582 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: no more fossil fuels. And if I don't agree, it's 583 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 1: because I'm a racist, big as sexist. That's not really 584 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: a useful exercise. To his credit, Democratic candidate for the presidency, 585 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: Andrew Yang is in the I want to talk category, 586 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 1: and so we had a sit down today. It was 587 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: on rising the left right, liberal slash conservative. Both sides 588 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 1: show that I do at the Hill, and we had 589 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: to have an interesting talk. So first it was on 590 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: universal basic income, which he calls the free m dividend, 591 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: and the idea there is that there will be a 592 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: massive program of a thousand dollars a month for everyone 593 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: in the United States over the age of eighteen. I said, 594 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 1: how will you found this? He said, well, well, we'll 595 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 1: tax some of these super successful Silicon Valley companies and 596 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,240 Speaker 1: other industry and probably Wall Street, maybe a special internet tax. 597 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: So that will be a massive program, incredibly expensive and 598 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: a massive tax to pay for it. But at least 599 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: he's saying, no, we're going to really tax the you know, 600 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: tax that you know what out of things. I mean, 601 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: we're going to really go for it. But you're all, 602 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: everyone's gonna get a check, no matter who you are, 603 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 1: you gonna check every month in the government for a 604 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So I think this is a good idea. No, 605 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: because the thousand's going to turn into Okay, well some 606 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: people should get two thousand, and then some people should 607 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: get three thousand, and then you know it whenever you 608 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: create an entitlement and then you start haggling over how 609 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: much bigger the entitlement gets. So I don't think it's 610 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: a good idea. But it's not a bizarre idea. It's 611 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:03,720 Speaker 1: not like the Green New Deal crazy level of ideas. 612 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 1: He also wants medicare for all, and I keep saying 613 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,760 Speaker 1: that in a world where we don't care about the debt, 614 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 1: Medicare for a world we don't care about the debt. 615 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: And if you don't care about rationing and shortages in care, 616 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,799 Speaker 1: if you don't care about waiting six months to see 617 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 1: your doctor, then we could do Medicare for all. The 618 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: problems with it are that you're gonna wait forever because 619 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 1: they'll be rationing, and it's going to blow a massive 620 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: hole through an already sinking ship of a debt. It's 621 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: going to be completely you know, we're gonna be at 622 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: thirty trillion dollars before you know it, I mean fast. 623 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,000 Speaker 1: If we do Medicare for all, it's gonna be wildly expensive. 624 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,399 Speaker 1: But if you're willing to wait, and you're and he 625 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: understands this is very expensive, you know, he says, we 626 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,200 Speaker 1: already spend more than other countries on care. And to that, 627 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: I say, first of all, Americans, and they never want 628 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: to talk about this in folks. I gotta as I 629 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: sit here and I'm thinking about the gluten free pizza 630 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: that I'm going to be eating tonight and the gluten 631 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: free pasta that I may be ordering, Americans are not 632 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: as healthy as their European counterparts. We require. This is 633 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 1: a fact that don't get mad at me. I'm not 634 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,880 Speaker 1: telling you, hey, put down that cheeseburger and eat some 635 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: tofu because I'm not a communist. But Americans are not 636 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: as healthy as are the Europeans, and so we automatically 637 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,080 Speaker 1: have higher healthcare costs because of that. And we also 638 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 1: have better outcomes of particularly for cancer treatment, than anybody 639 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: over there. So if you get really sick, you want 640 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 1: to be in America. If you get a little sick, 641 00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 1: you might want to be in Europe. But Americans tend 642 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,040 Speaker 1: to be sicker than their European counterparts. And oh, by 643 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: the way, one of the reasons that our healthcare costs 644 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,400 Speaker 1: is so high is prescription drug prices. And that's just chronyism. 645 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,360 Speaker 1: That's not a function of you know, Medicare or Medicaid. 646 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: I mean, that's just legislation and regulations that are in 647 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,360 Speaker 1: place that allow these companies to just benefit themselves in 648 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 1: a way that he's egregious. That's that is what's happening. 649 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,359 Speaker 1: You know, they sell it for different prices around the world, 650 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: but they sell it for in a much, much, much 651 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: higher priced here to extract as much as they can 652 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: have the out of the American market. I mean, there 653 00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: is some and the Trump administration knows this. There's some 654 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 1: regulatory reform that has to happen. There no question about it. 655 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:31,000 Speaker 1: So Medicare for all he likes. Again, he knows the 656 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: ups and that he doesn't accept the downsides that I 657 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 1: brought up to him, but he at least is aware 658 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,279 Speaker 1: of them. This guy, look, this guy Yang, he went 659 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,840 Speaker 1: on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's a People are calling his 660 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: supporters the Yang gang. He's an interesting guy, and you know, 661 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,320 Speaker 1: he's very polite, he's he's not he doesn't run around 662 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 1: calling everybody a racist. And I'm biggetting everything else. So 663 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,839 Speaker 1: I found him far more interesting to talk to than 664 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: some of the other Democrats that I've come across recently, 665 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,880 Speaker 1: way less interested, incuring, at least based on my interview 666 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 1: with them today, lecturing people on you know how just 667 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is some horrible monster and racist and everything else. 668 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: And then his other big ideas, and this ties into 669 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,440 Speaker 1: the universal basic income, is that automation is going to 670 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 1: get rid of millions and millions of jobs within the 671 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 1: next ten years. And even if we have the displacement 672 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,479 Speaker 1: of those jobs filled in other ways, it'll take a while. 673 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: It'll be highly disruptive, and we need to be prepared 674 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,719 Speaker 1: for it. I think that's a that is also a 675 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,040 Speaker 1: serious argument. Now I'm not sure that the answer does 676 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 1: it just give people? Bunny and I don't. And I 677 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,400 Speaker 1: also don't believe that anybody can really predict the future. 678 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,439 Speaker 1: You can, you should prepare for the future based on 679 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,360 Speaker 1: your best predictions, but nobody can really predict the future. 680 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: So on automation though, and he loved the book Rise 681 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,319 Speaker 1: of the Robots, which I have, and I'm embarrassed to 682 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,839 Speaker 1: tell you I have it in my stack right now. 683 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 1: I have not gotten to it yet, but it is 684 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 1: in my read stack. I got to get through this 685 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,680 Speaker 1: book on the Lost City of the of the Monkey God. 686 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 1: I'm never reading another book about archaeology. Oh you know, 687 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,759 Speaker 1: all these archaeologists are like, I had to sleep in 688 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: this little tent and there were snakes outside. Ooh you know. 689 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,320 Speaker 1: And then I found a big mound that maybe was 690 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: used for burial purposes. I just I got to get 691 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: to a point in life where I see my thing is, 692 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 1: I won't bail on a book. I rarely will bail 693 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,319 Speaker 1: on it. I because I think that i've I've like 694 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,160 Speaker 1: given up, but I won't let the book if it's 695 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: a bad book. I don't want to let it win 696 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 1: by saying I'm not going to read this book anymore. 697 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: But then you get stuck reading a bad book for 698 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,160 Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours, especially if it's bad. You 699 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,840 Speaker 1: really are you know, I have very few books that 700 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 1: I've only gotten halfway through and then finished off. So 701 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: so you know, the young thing was it worthwhile exchange? Today? 702 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,399 Speaker 1: I tell you, I really I found him to be um. 703 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,759 Speaker 1: I disagree with them on everything, but it was it 704 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: reminded me that it's possible to think that a leftist 705 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 1: is wrong about everything and not want to scream at 706 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 1: them to stop being a psycho lib that know nothing. 707 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,200 Speaker 1: You know, he's he's he's thoughtful about being wrong, which 708 00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 1: I can appreciate. Then he's got some other ideas I'm 709 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 1: just gonna tell you get me real excited. And the 710 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,360 Speaker 1: Federalist pulled some of these together. He wants a national 711 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: texting line to report annoying robo calls. I think the 712 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: robo calls are specifically set up to go off on 713 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: my phone while I'm doing this radio show. And I 714 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: cannot tell you how many times I have in my 715 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,160 Speaker 1: head had to stifle a curse and throwing my phone 716 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 1: at the wall because I'm about to just reach that 717 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 1: that moment of I've been building to that one thought 718 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,960 Speaker 1: that's coming during the monologue, and it's and then you know, 719 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 1: on my desk and it's a robo call. I mean, 720 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 1: I can tell it's a robo call. So I like 721 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,760 Speaker 1: that idea. He got into an exchange with Ben Shapiro 722 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,120 Speaker 1: about ending infant circumcision, and we asked him about that 723 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,480 Speaker 1: today and this was just on Twitter, but he thinks 724 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: that circumcision isn't something it's not the health benefits are 725 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,920 Speaker 1: not clear. These obviously male circumcision we're talking about here, 726 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,879 Speaker 1: and whenever, just talking about it kind of makes me think, oh, 727 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,759 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be honest with you. But you know, 728 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,799 Speaker 1: it's an idea and it's something that he might be 729 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 1: talking to people about. And then he also thinks that 730 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 1: we should have the American Mall Act to deal with 731 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: the fact that malls are turning into ghost towns, which 732 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if the government really has a role 733 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:27,919 Speaker 1: in that. I think that real estate will get sold 734 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: to other other use and that'll be fine. But anyway, 735 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,319 Speaker 1: he's a thoughtful guy. So you know, I'm not just 736 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,040 Speaker 1: here to just trash libs. I'd like to engage in ideas, 737 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,680 Speaker 1: and he's a guy with ideas, so we engage in 738 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: them and explain why they are wrong. But I'm glad 739 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: that he spent his time with us today. I did 740 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:49,080 Speaker 1: appreciate it, and team will be right back well. The 741 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 1: Trump administration has behaved precisely the opposite of the way 742 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,399 Speaker 1: that the Obama administration behaved during the Green the Green 743 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: effort in Iran. Instead of shutting the people, we've supported them. 744 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: Instead of denying the rights of the people of Iran, 745 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,759 Speaker 1: we're supporting the rights of the people of Venezuela. We're 746 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,440 Speaker 1: committed to this. We're going to stay the course. There 747 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: are multiple elements to this effort. There's the political element, 748 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,719 Speaker 1: there's the economic element. We are desperately trying to get 749 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela. We're committed to 750 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:24,400 Speaker 1: helping Venezuela the region deny Madure of the opportunity to 751 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,240 Speaker 1: engage in this thuggish behavior that has been so harmful 752 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,640 Speaker 1: to ordinary Venezuelans. We're determined to achieve this outcome, and 753 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,760 Speaker 1: we're optimistic that we can get there at some point, 754 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,680 Speaker 1: I would imagine things will change, but we really haven't 755 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 1: done the really tough sanctions yet. We can do the 756 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,359 Speaker 1: tough sanctions and all options are open, so we may 757 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,280 Speaker 1: be doing that, but we haven't done the toughest of sanctions. 758 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 1: As you know, we've done I would say, right down 759 00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,160 Speaker 1: the middle, but we can go a lot tougher if 760 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:57,640 Speaker 1: we need to do that. Venezuela is still very much 761 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,160 Speaker 1: in the balance. No one really knows it hangs in 762 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,080 Speaker 1: the balance. What's going to happen here? Is it going 763 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,000 Speaker 1: to be Guido? Is it going to be Maduro? Who 764 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,279 Speaker 1: is left standing at the end of this. You have 765 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,920 Speaker 1: Vice President Pence writing in the Miami Herald the following 766 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,680 Speaker 1: Early yesterday morning, in Venezuela, armed members of Nicholas Maduro's 767 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 1: secret intelligence for US broke into the homes of government 768 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,960 Speaker 1: officials connected to the only legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guido. 769 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: Maduro's thugs threatened their lives and those are their family members, 770 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,920 Speaker 1: and they brutally kidnapped Roberto Marrero, President Guido's chief of staff. 771 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,520 Speaker 1: Even now, mister Marrero is being held against his will 772 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,880 Speaker 1: in an undisclosed location. The United States calls for the 773 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:46,680 Speaker 1: immediate release of Roberto Marrero. We will not tolerate Morrero's 774 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,240 Speaker 1: imprisonment or the intimidation of the legitimate government of Venezuela, 775 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:55,920 Speaker 1: and those responsible must be held accountable. Maduro must release 776 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 1: Marrero now. This egregious violation of the rule of law 777 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,560 Speaker 1: is only the most recent example of Maduro's brutality and despotism. 778 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,520 Speaker 1: Last month, the world watched as the dictator danced in 779 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,440 Speaker 1: Caracas while his henchmen murdered civilians and blocked truckloads of 780 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,600 Speaker 1: food and medicine designed or destined for the suffering people 781 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,640 Speaker 1: of Venezuela. Just a few weeks before his inauguration, Maduro's 782 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,200 Speaker 1: intelligence forces arrested interim President Guido in a shameless attempt 783 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:27,359 Speaker 1: to bully him into silence. Fortunately they failed. Maduro's got 784 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,399 Speaker 1: to go is what Vice President Pence is saying here, 785 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,879 Speaker 1: and it is the United States government's official policy now 786 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,040 Speaker 1: that he has been for a while, that he must go. 787 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:42,360 Speaker 1: But dictators, thugs, despots, they tend not to go particularly quietly. 788 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,520 Speaker 1: And I can't say that I would expect anything different 789 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,520 Speaker 1: here from Maduro. And this is where I'm caught in 790 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,759 Speaker 1: this push pull in my brain between wanting to do 791 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,640 Speaker 1: more to help ensure the best outcome here for a 792 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,280 Speaker 1: country where there are legits, there are real US interests, 793 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,759 Speaker 1: and not not just humanitarian interest, but we do have 794 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,520 Speaker 1: an interest in access to Venezuela and oil reserves, that's 795 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:13,160 Speaker 1: just and oil markets, that's just the truth. We also 796 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,640 Speaker 1: have a humanitarian interest in trying to help ease the 797 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:22,520 Speaker 1: suffering of people who are malnourished, can't get medicine, murders skyrocketing, 798 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:27,359 Speaker 1: no rule of law in the streets, and tyranny increasingly 799 00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:32,680 Speaker 1: holding them in its grip. So I feel all of 800 00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,680 Speaker 1: those things very acutely. But I also, though, have this 801 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,200 Speaker 1: sense that we just don't need to take on another 802 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,799 Speaker 1: problem set for ourselves that's really somebody else's problem. I 803 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,879 Speaker 1: mean the diplomatic relations, the basic actions that we're taking 804 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,480 Speaker 1: in Venezuela. I think it's the right move, but we 805 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: got to have clear lines about how far are willing 806 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,239 Speaker 1: to go here and when Trump is saying there that 807 00:48:55,320 --> 00:49:02,319 Speaker 1: there may be additional additional sanctions, okay, sanctions, fine, but 808 00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: beyond that we have to start looking at when when 809 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,520 Speaker 1: are we doing too much and making something more more 810 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,759 Speaker 1: our problem than it should be. Then you also have 811 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,200 Speaker 1: some leftists in this country who are still they still 812 00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,200 Speaker 1: look they can't really just I mean, they will say 813 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,759 Speaker 1: they're worried in a sense about what I'm worried about, 814 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 1: which is us mission creep in Venezuela taking on more 815 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,560 Speaker 1: of this for ourselves. But I really just think that 816 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:34,880 Speaker 1: that's a cover for them because they have a sympathy 817 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: for Majuro based on the aims of the Bolivarian Revolution, 818 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:44,960 Speaker 1: which is a social justice based approach to government. That's 819 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,120 Speaker 1: at the very root of this that the you know 820 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,280 Speaker 1: North Americans by that, I mean you know us, northe 821 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:57,359 Speaker 1: Americanos or whatever, that we are the reason for so 822 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:02,920 Speaker 1: much of the economic disparity and deprivation in Venezuela previously. 823 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,560 Speaker 1: I mean, now I think that's a harder case to make, 824 00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:08,440 Speaker 1: or are they still Maduro still makes that case and 825 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,120 Speaker 1: it's our fault, It's on us, and that if only 826 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:16,520 Speaker 1: the greedy landowners and business owners were brought to heal 827 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,799 Speaker 1: by the government, everybody would have plenty of food and 828 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,960 Speaker 1: they'd all just be kind of hanging out and you know, 829 00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,000 Speaker 1: in the country would be like one big beach party 830 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,880 Speaker 1: or something that is a massive failure. We all know this. 831 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,040 Speaker 1: There are these leftists that come across in America, in 832 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:36,000 Speaker 1: the media in particular, who just won't accept that Maduro 833 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:37,759 Speaker 1: is a really bad guy and has got to go that. 834 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,799 Speaker 1: They still hold to this idea that you know, he 835 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,640 Speaker 1: is legitimate, even though the election that is the only 836 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:49,279 Speaker 1: reason he's even technically considered the president was fraudulent. And 837 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,319 Speaker 1: I haven't come across anyone who disagrees with that assessment. 838 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,080 Speaker 1: But I also spoke today to a an author of 839 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,640 Speaker 1: author of a book about Afghanistan, and it's written a 840 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,680 Speaker 1: book about bou Burggall, and essentially he's using bou Burggall. 841 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,719 Speaker 1: From what I gathered from the interview, I haven't read 842 00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: the book and I don't plan to. To be fair, 843 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,120 Speaker 1: I did not find it a particularly compelling pitch. But 844 00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,840 Speaker 1: the book is about bou Burggall, and he's this author 845 00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,879 Speaker 1: and his and his co author have decided to make 846 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:31,280 Speaker 1: Burgdall something of a a cautionary tale about the US 847 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:38,240 Speaker 1: strategic mistakes in Afghanistan. Essentially, but Burggall was the result 848 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:43,520 Speaker 1: of bad US policy ideas and bad strategy, and really, 849 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,879 Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't hurt, It doesn't had he didn't 850 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,359 Speaker 1: have a critical word to say about Burggall today. This guy, now, 851 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,600 Speaker 1: he wasn't his co author as a veteran, He wasn't 852 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,320 Speaker 1: a veteran today who I was talking to. But I 853 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,160 Speaker 1: also had to sit there and say, I don't agree 854 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,640 Speaker 1: with using Burggall as a you know, his situation as 855 00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,279 Speaker 1: a metaphor. That's what I was the word I was 856 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:07,200 Speaker 1: looking for before for the entire situation of Afghanistan. But 857 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:13,719 Speaker 1: I do think that as we are now in ongoing 858 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:23,000 Speaker 1: open negotiations with the Taliban, and in fact our negotiating, 859 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:27,120 Speaker 1: according to this author today with some of the very 860 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:32,759 Speaker 1: people that we traded for bo Bergdahl from the Taliban, 861 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,239 Speaker 1: that Afghanistan is one of these This is where I'm 862 00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,279 Speaker 1: gonna need Trump. We're gonna talk more about how Trump 863 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,319 Speaker 1: will just pull the trigger. Other people won't do it 864 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,319 Speaker 1: on foreign policy, but Trump will pull the trigger. I 865 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,759 Speaker 1: need him to pull the trigger on Afghanistan because we've 866 00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,040 Speaker 1: got it, we're done, and then we're done. Doesn't mean 867 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,440 Speaker 1: all right, everybody, you know, load up the C one 868 00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,759 Speaker 1: thirties and you know we're all coming home tomorrow. But 869 00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,760 Speaker 1: it does mean in the next twelve months leaving full stop, 870 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,480 Speaker 1: we are gone. We will have an embassy there, We'll 871 00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,440 Speaker 1: have some training forces here and there. But this notion 872 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,600 Speaker 1: of a permanent eight thousand man or seven thousand men 873 00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:15,400 Speaker 1: military presence in Afghanistan, for which that indicates that we 874 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,360 Speaker 1: have a permanent responsibility for the national security state of 875 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,880 Speaker 1: that country, that just needs to end. I mean, we're 876 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,040 Speaker 1: already negotiating with the Taliban. We are negotiating, and people 877 00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,239 Speaker 1: don't want to say this. We are negotiating with terrorists. 878 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,360 Speaker 1: That's happening. We're not supposed to do that. But Trump, 879 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: I think just as you will see a full US 880 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,080 Speaker 1: withdrawal during the Trump presidency from Syria. I do believe 881 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,280 Speaker 1: he will do that, even though the foreign policy smart 882 00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,640 Speaker 1: set doesn't like that. They want, you know, Syria to 883 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,880 Speaker 1: be another forever war. I think that Trump might also 884 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,560 Speaker 1: finally be the one who ends the war in Afghanistan. 885 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:58,040 Speaker 1: I certainly hope. So you are now entering the Freedom 886 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,960 Speaker 1: Huntechnical Operations Center, all sense of programs Musky Caps strigurely 887 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:07,239 Speaker 1: need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for 888 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:12,000 Speaker 1: the Buck brief figure. We got some time to dive 889 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:16,880 Speaker 1: into some national security issues on this Friday, and for 890 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,040 Speaker 1: that we are joined by my friend Adam Crado. He 891 00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,239 Speaker 1: is a senior writer for National security international Affairs at 892 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,600 Speaker 1: the Washington Freebeacon. He has a piece today about Congresswoman 893 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,600 Speaker 1: Ilahan Omar in which he writes the following, Elan Omar 894 00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:38,080 Speaker 1: holding secret fundraisers with Islamic groups tied to terror. Adam, 895 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,279 Speaker 1: great to have you on. Thanks for having me. I 896 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:46,239 Speaker 1: appreciate him. All right, what's going on with this freshman congresswoman? Yeah, 897 00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,120 Speaker 1: look so so everybody I think is pretty aware of 898 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:53,440 Speaker 1: her comments accusing Jewish people and pro Israel members of 899 00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,120 Speaker 1: Congress of having dual loyalties. You know, these age old 900 00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,920 Speaker 1: anti Semitic tropes that she seems quite un apologetic for. 901 00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,239 Speaker 1: And I think what's so fascinating is that now with 902 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,920 Speaker 1: the radical anti Israel and anti Semitic left, she seems 903 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,560 Speaker 1: to be raising quite a bit of money. She's become 904 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,600 Speaker 1: a darling to these groups, and they're at least too 905 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:18,040 Speaker 1: so far that she's spoken to under cover of secrecy. 906 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,480 Speaker 1: That means these events are not open to the press. 907 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,720 Speaker 1: Even if you want to attend, you cannot, and video 908 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,120 Speaker 1: is hidden from the public on it and these two groups. 909 00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,040 Speaker 1: One of them is called Islamic Relief that is an 910 00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:34,279 Speaker 1: international charity that for quite some time has been accused 911 00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,360 Speaker 1: of having links to Hamas, the terror group, and actually 912 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,720 Speaker 1: has been banned by several countries for these terror tizes, 913 00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:45,080 Speaker 1: including Israel and other ones. The second group you're probably 914 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:49,759 Speaker 1: familiar with CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CARE 915 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,640 Speaker 1: was an unindicted co conspiracy, a conspirator in a massive 916 00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,160 Speaker 1: terror fundraising case. And of course there a rhetoric on 917 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,319 Speaker 1: Israel is what you would expect, accusing the Jewish state 918 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,319 Speaker 1: of war crimes, these kinds of things, so naturally you 919 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,479 Speaker 1: can see why she would be invited to speak. And 920 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,600 Speaker 1: what I find so curious about that is that she's 921 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,840 Speaker 1: actually raising money off of her anti Semitism and anti 922 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,839 Speaker 1: Semitic comments. And I think one of the problems the 923 00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,120 Speaker 1: sources I spoke to are pointing at is that this 924 00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:25,239 Speaker 1: has done in secrecy. There's no access to reporters, and 925 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,440 Speaker 1: I think that's very bad. I would like to wonder, 926 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,240 Speaker 1: in addition to what she's saying in public that's anti 927 00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,440 Speaker 1: Semitic and anti Israel, what could she possibly be saying 928 00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:38,359 Speaker 1: in private to these primarily Islamic Muslim audiences. I think 929 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:43,239 Speaker 1: that's concerning. Now, what has changed, Adam in your estimation 930 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,800 Speaker 1: about where the Democrat Party is because we just had 931 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:53,520 Speaker 1: this whole dust up, this whole kerfuffle over elan Omar's comments. 932 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,839 Speaker 1: Would it comes to Israel? And it seems like from 933 00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:00,200 Speaker 1: what you're telling me, no one nothing has changed to 934 00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,080 Speaker 1: know and expects you to change in terms of her 935 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,680 Speaker 1: conduct or really how she talks about Israel. No. Look, 936 00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:09,680 Speaker 1: I mean she's being rewarded by that far left radical 937 00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,120 Speaker 1: element of the Democratic Party that actually is becoming more 938 00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,000 Speaker 1: of the standard bearer of the party rather than the 939 00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,680 Speaker 1: vocal minority. And I'd like to tell people we could 940 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,240 Speaker 1: see this coming right. This is not a surprise. I 941 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:24,800 Speaker 1: know a lot of people are like, oh my god, 942 00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,720 Speaker 1: people who are actually members of Congress are making anti 943 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,880 Speaker 1: Semitic and wildly anti Israel comments. But I would point 944 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:37,240 Speaker 1: to the twenty twelve Democratic National Convention and even further back. 945 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:42,160 Speaker 1: They removed pro Israel language from their platform. They removed 946 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:47,680 Speaker 1: the issue of God, and delegates booed the mention of Israel. There. So, look, 947 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,840 Speaker 1: this vocal minority for some time has been gaining traction. 948 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,840 Speaker 1: I mean, we can even look at somebody like Bernie Sanders, 949 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,640 Speaker 1: this socialist who's a darling of the far Democratic left. 950 00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,680 Speaker 1: Two of his top advice, as I recently wrote, our 951 00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,760 Speaker 1: longtime anti Israel activists who actually worked at the Center 952 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,480 Speaker 1: for American Progress when it was embroiled in an anti 953 00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,680 Speaker 1: Semitism scandal. So you can see where they're plucking these 954 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,160 Speaker 1: people from. And it's not just the new ones like 955 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:22,160 Speaker 1: Omar and Rashida Talib and Orcasio Cortez's, it's really infiltrated 956 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,040 Speaker 1: the entire Democratic Party as a whole. You have a 957 00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:30,480 Speaker 1: number of Democrat twenty twenty contenders who are not going 958 00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:35,600 Speaker 1: to be going to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 959 00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,240 Speaker 1: this year, the APAC conference, which usually is kind of 960 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,680 Speaker 1: a who's who in American foreign policy. This this conference. 961 00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:46,640 Speaker 1: Here's betto Aurora saying why he's skipping play sixteen. I'm 962 00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:52,240 Speaker 1: here in South Carolina. I'm here in front of people 963 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,280 Speaker 1: who will decide who the Democratic nominee is, who are 964 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,600 Speaker 1: going to decide this next election, who will decide who 965 00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,320 Speaker 1: will defeat President Trump, and then bring this country together. 966 00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,080 Speaker 1: That's the best way for me to spend this time, 967 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,000 Speaker 1: so a non answer. Really basically, there's other stuff I 968 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:11,800 Speaker 1: can do, okay, but you're not going to APACK and 969 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,280 Speaker 1: people are noticing that. And it's not just Robert O'Rourke. 970 00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:21,919 Speaker 1: You also have a number of others including Amy klobaschar 971 00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,480 Speaker 1: and who else is on Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Gearson, 972 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,960 Speaker 1: Jilla Brand, Elizabeth Warren. They are not going, I mean 973 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,440 Speaker 1: the name really, the who's who of Democrat candidates. What's 974 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,080 Speaker 1: going on here, Adam. Look, it shows you how the 975 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,960 Speaker 1: party has morphed. Israel used to be very much a 976 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,560 Speaker 1: threshold issue, and that means for both parties. Once the 977 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,760 Speaker 1: plurality of voters saw that a person was sufficiently pro Israel, 978 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,680 Speaker 1: that means they understand the importance and the history of 979 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,240 Speaker 1: the US Israel military alliance fell it benefits both countries. 980 00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,960 Speaker 1: People usually moved on. But this is no longer the 981 00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,040 Speaker 1: case for the lift and this is why you see 982 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,280 Speaker 1: the divide in APACK. There is more of a reward 983 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:06,120 Speaker 1: and intentive to boycott with these people. Think is you know, 984 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,840 Speaker 1: these nefarious Jews controlling foreign policy because it resonates with 985 01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 1: that far left wing of the party that is now 986 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,000 Speaker 1: more mobilized and more likely to turn out in an election. 987 01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,200 Speaker 1: And I think we could actually find ourselves in a 988 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,360 Speaker 1: place and just looking what's happening in the region now 989 01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,800 Speaker 1: where we have a president, a democratic president, who does 990 01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,760 Speaker 1: not understand and put value in that US Israel alliance, 991 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,680 Speaker 1: and that's really coming at a bad time considering what's 992 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:37,440 Speaker 1: happening with Iran in the region, in Syrian, Yemen elsewhere, 993 01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,160 Speaker 1: and certainly with its terror proxies like has Bola Hamas. 994 01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,640 Speaker 1: They are all increasingly building on Israel's borders, and a 995 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,400 Speaker 1: president who doesn't understand that is really going to jeopardize 996 01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,680 Speaker 1: the Jewish state. We're speaking of. Adam Crado of the 997 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,720 Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon. Adam, can you tell me what happened? 998 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,080 Speaker 1: This didn't get much play today, but something's going on 999 01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,120 Speaker 1: because everyone's waiting for the Maula report on you with 1000 01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,440 Speaker 1: bated breath. What happened? Were they r on today? You 1001 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,400 Speaker 1: taught me some interesting stuff went down. Yeah, you know, 1002 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,160 Speaker 1: you're right. People don't pay nearly enough attention to this. 1003 01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,920 Speaker 1: The Iran nuclear issue still is ongoing while we've pulled 1004 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,720 Speaker 1: out of that agreement. Of what we see is Europe 1005 01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,480 Speaker 1: scrambling to save the deal and actually develop that channel 1006 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:23,120 Speaker 1: ways to continue doing business with Iran and skirt us sanctions. 1007 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,520 Speaker 1: Off of that, the State's Department sanctioned a bunch of 1008 01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:30,040 Speaker 1: Iranian entities. These are shell companies and individuals, and what 1009 01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:33,240 Speaker 1: they do is they operate on an illicit procurement network 1010 01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,480 Speaker 1: that continues to bring in nuclear technology and nuclear know 1011 01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,320 Speaker 1: how into the Islamic Republic. So als of that, what 1012 01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,720 Speaker 1: we've seen now, the State's Department revealed is that in fact, 1013 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:49,400 Speaker 1: Iran never stopped its nuclear weapons program. It merely pressed pause, 1014 01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,480 Speaker 1: and all of the people, all of the technology, all 1015 01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:57,439 Speaker 1: of that infrastructure continues to be working, continues to be there. 1016 01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,520 Speaker 1: And what we found is all they really need to 1017 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,840 Speaker 1: do is play at any given moment and continue that 1018 01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,840 Speaker 1: march to nuclear weapons. So we see now the Trump 1019 01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 1: administration sanctioning their scientists, shell companies that operate this illicit 1020 01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:15,400 Speaker 1: procurement network. I would say, covering the State Department for 1021 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,800 Speaker 1: a while, I'm usually critical of them, but this is 1022 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,480 Speaker 1: actually a very very strong move that's going to help 1023 01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,920 Speaker 1: choke off those illicit back channels. All right, Saint Department 1024 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:28,360 Speaker 1: doing some good stuffy, Yeah, well, by the way, well, 1025 01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:32,240 Speaker 1: the Trump administration also as spoken or President Trump spoken 1026 01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:35,400 Speaker 1: about the Golon Heights bring us up a speed on that. Yeah, 1027 01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:39,200 Speaker 1: So the Golon Heights contested territory on Israel's northern border, 1028 01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,600 Speaker 1: annexed from Syria several decades ago following a war. The 1029 01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:47,480 Speaker 1: Golon has kind of sat in limbo for quite some time, 1030 01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,760 Speaker 1: but we're seeing it become particularly important because of what's 1031 01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:55,480 Speaker 1: happening in Syria, the spill out of militants into Lebanon 1032 01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,480 Speaker 1: and also Syria up on the northern border, and also 1033 01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,840 Speaker 1: Iranian militants affiliated with his Ball and other militant groups 1034 01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,440 Speaker 1: also kind of amassing on that border. So the israelities 1035 01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,840 Speaker 1: have really made a push, not just with the Trump 1036 01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:12,880 Speaker 1: administration but with Congress to see a formal recognition that 1037 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:17,600 Speaker 1: this territory is not in limbo, it actually belongs to Israel, 1038 01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,640 Speaker 1: and that would allow the US to send military equipment, 1039 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,600 Speaker 1: particularly for use against these terrorists on the northern border, 1040 01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,320 Speaker 1: something that of the US government cannot do at this 1041 01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,280 Speaker 1: point because it doesn't recognize the goal On Heights. So 1042 01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:34,720 Speaker 1: more and more that area I've fight there, it's beautiful, 1043 01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,360 Speaker 1: but more and more that area is unmanageable because of 1044 01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,520 Speaker 1: the spread of militants from Syria and of course Lebanon 1045 01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:45,560 Speaker 1: where his bowler rules. Adam craid to everybody Washington Free 1046 01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,360 Speaker 1: Beacon to read his latest Adam always great to have 1047 01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,240 Speaker 1: you all men. Come back soon. Absolutely, it's my pleasure. 1048 01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:58,480 Speaker 1: Team will be right back. The United States believes that 1049 01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:04,240 Speaker 1: negotiations should result in two states with permanent Palestinian borders 1050 01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:09,680 Speaker 1: with Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. 1051 01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,600 Speaker 1: We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be 1052 01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:19,439 Speaker 1: based on the nineteen sixty seven lines, would mutually agreed swaps. Yeah, 1053 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:25,080 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven lines. So relinquishing the goal on heights Obama, huh, 1054 01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,720 Speaker 1: is that the way you think it should go? This 1055 01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,400 Speaker 1: is how prime that was. Back in twenty eleven, President Obama, 1056 01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:38,080 Speaker 1: who was really a break from the bipartisan foreign policy 1057 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:41,520 Speaker 1: consensus about the US relationship with Israel and especially the 1058 01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,720 Speaker 1: sensitivities around or the sensitivities with Israel and some of 1059 01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:51,360 Speaker 1: its hostile neighbors also known as its neighbors. Obama said that, 1060 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:55,600 Speaker 1: and then net and Yahoo had this to say about Obama. 1061 01:04:55,600 --> 01:05:00,800 Speaker 1: The at least self described. I'm sure foreign policy stage. 1062 01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:04,760 Speaker 1: Here's Manyah Who's response to Obama fifteen. I think for 1063 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:09,439 Speaker 1: there to be peace, Palestinians will have to accept some 1064 01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,880 Speaker 1: basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared 1065 01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:18,760 Speaker 1: to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back 1066 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,880 Speaker 1: to the nineteen sixty seven lines because these lines are 1067 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:28,600 Speaker 1: indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that 1068 01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,280 Speaker 1: have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have 1069 01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,040 Speaker 1: taken place over the last forty four years. So then yeah, 1070 01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:37,760 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, Obama, that was he was saying 1071 01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:40,440 Speaker 1: that at the United Nations, so it was in this country. 1072 01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,120 Speaker 1: He's like, Obama doesn't know what he's talking about, which 1073 01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:47,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't be the first time. Well, I bring you the Trumpster, 1074 01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:50,960 Speaker 1: my friends, because as of yesterday, Trump with a tweet 1075 01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:54,520 Speaker 1: and now it is the policy of the United States 1076 01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:58,479 Speaker 1: government at the United States has said that the goal 1077 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,600 Speaker 1: on heights, which we just talked to Adam about, which 1078 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:05,560 Speaker 1: is this area of major national security, strategic importance to 1079 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,280 Speaker 1: Israel because if the bad guys have it, guess what 1080 01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,200 Speaker 1: they can from an elevated position, not just surveil, but 1081 01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:16,520 Speaker 1: rain down rockets and artillery and all kinds of very 1082 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,120 Speaker 1: very bad stuff right into Israel proper. And when you 1083 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:23,280 Speaker 1: have the Syrian Civil War continuing on as is and 1084 01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:27,360 Speaker 1: no realistic prospect of that ending anytime soon. Guess what, 1085 01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:32,360 Speaker 1: that's unacceptable. So President Trump just said, you know what, 1086 01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:37,280 Speaker 1: We're just going to tell our friends Israel that we recognize, well, 1087 01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:38,920 Speaker 1: the rest of the world may not recognize that, we 1088 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:44,480 Speaker 1: recognize that Golan is now a part of Israel's territory. 1089 01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,840 Speaker 1: Fly thirteen. I've been thinking about doing it for a 1090 01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,720 Speaker 1: long time. It's been a very hard decision for every president. 1091 01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:53,040 Speaker 1: No president has done it. This is sovereignty, this is security. 1092 01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,640 Speaker 1: This is about regional security. It's not about Naton now 1093 01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,640 Speaker 1: who's reelection. No, I don't. I wouldn't even know about that. 1094 01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:00,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know about that. I have no idea. 1095 01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,760 Speaker 1: Hear he's doing okay. I don't know if he's doing 1096 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,360 Speaker 1: great right now, but I hear he's doing okay. But 1097 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:08,840 Speaker 1: I would imagine the other side, whoever's against him, is 1098 01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,800 Speaker 1: also in favor of what I just did. Every president 1099 01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,280 Speaker 1: has said do that. I'm the one that gets it done. 1100 01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:20,440 Speaker 1: He's right, Folks, gotta give credit where it's due. The 1101 01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:24,680 Speaker 1: president took action on this issue, and foreign policy is 1102 01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,000 Speaker 1: one of those realms where the commander in chief has 1103 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,040 Speaker 1: a lot of leeway and therefore also a lot of 1104 01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:35,080 Speaker 1: responsibility for what happens. It is really in the commander 1105 01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,240 Speaker 1: in chief's hands what happens in these situations in many cases, 1106 01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,560 Speaker 1: and you know, this is just another time when Trump 1107 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:46,320 Speaker 1: being Trump really pays dividends because other leaders are all, 1108 01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,200 Speaker 1: we need to have a study and a committee, we 1109 01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,400 Speaker 1: need to keep talking about this, and no, no, actually, 1110 01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,440 Speaker 1: this is just what needs to happen. And it reminds 1111 01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:59,960 Speaker 1: me of the controversy over moving the embassy to Jerusalem, 1112 01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,880 Speaker 1: which even from my time in government, I remember people saying, oh, 1113 01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,160 Speaker 1: it would be such a big deal if the US 1114 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,760 Speaker 1: ever moves the embassy to Jerusalem, the whole Arab world, 1115 01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:12,040 Speaker 1: you know, everyone will be up in arms. And Trump 1116 01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,840 Speaker 1: came in, he goes, you know what Israel is an ally, 1117 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,320 Speaker 1: it's a country. Their capitals Jerusalem. It's always going to 1118 01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:19,759 Speaker 1: be Jerusalem. So we're just gonna put the embassy there, Okay, thanks, 1119 01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:25,000 Speaker 1: And he was right, he was right. Sometimes cutting through 1120 01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:31,760 Speaker 1: the nonsense is in fact, this single most important thing 1121 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:36,439 Speaker 1: that the foreign policy echo chamber should strive for. Right 1122 01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:41,000 Speaker 1: sometimes just getting out of this consensus driven opinion making 1123 01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,240 Speaker 1: and saying here's what needs to go down, here's what 1124 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:48,559 Speaker 1: reality is, and doing it and just take action. That's 1125 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,280 Speaker 1: the right move. Trump did that with the embassy, and 1126 01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,559 Speaker 1: you'll notice the whole Middle East isn't in flames. Oh no, 1127 01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,200 Speaker 1: they moved the embassy to Jerusalem. I mean they used 1128 01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:01,559 Speaker 1: to have a consulate there and the embassy was in 1129 01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,439 Speaker 1: Tel Aviv. But your embassy is supposed to be in 1130 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,680 Speaker 1: the capital city. So yes, they're symbolism to it. And 1131 01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:09,160 Speaker 1: now the symbolism is the right symbolism, which is that 1132 01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:12,640 Speaker 1: the embassy is in the capital city of Israel. That's 1133 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:14,680 Speaker 1: just the way it should be, the way it is 1134 01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,760 Speaker 1: now because of Trump. And now with the goalon hights, 1135 01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:20,800 Speaker 1: the same thing happened. So I mean, I just tell 1136 01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:26,759 Speaker 1: you that there's really very little, there's really very little 1137 01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:30,000 Speaker 1: that you can point to when it comes to Trump 1138 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,559 Speaker 1: in Israel that he could be doing that, that he 1139 01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:36,679 Speaker 1: should be doing differently, if anything. And yet we were 1140 01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,720 Speaker 1: told all along that oh, it's uh, you know, he 1141 01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:42,680 Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's doing and he's gonna make all 1142 01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,639 Speaker 1: these mistakes. And no, actually, sometimes a person who comes 1143 01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:50,280 Speaker 1: in with fresh eyes and common sense and an approach 1144 01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,960 Speaker 1: that isn't looking for all of you know, all of 1145 01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,479 Speaker 1: his peers, and the fancy newspapers say, oh what, what 1146 01:09:56,640 --> 01:10:00,280 Speaker 1: brilliant state craft? Right? So many of these people we've 1147 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,559 Speaker 1: been led to believe are some kind of foreign policy genius, 1148 01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:08,600 Speaker 1: they're not. They the results speak for themselves, and the 1149 01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,720 Speaker 1: results are poor. And when you look back on what 1150 01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:14,559 Speaker 1: we were told all along, it was often through this 1151 01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,800 Speaker 1: prism of the very same people that are part of 1152 01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,880 Speaker 1: that foreign policy consensus making. Right, everyone's got to agree 1153 01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,719 Speaker 1: this is a good idea. Well, if you go along 1154 01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,000 Speaker 1: with that, they write nice things about you. If you don't, 1155 01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:30,040 Speaker 1: they write bad things about you. And everyone has an ego, 1156 01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:35,400 Speaker 1: especially politicians. And so there's this, well this understandable drive 1157 01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:38,439 Speaker 1: for people to do what they think they'll be praised 1158 01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,360 Speaker 1: for doing. Trump moved the embassy. It was the right move, 1159 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,000 Speaker 1: move the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. And now 1160 01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,360 Speaker 1: Trump has decided to just push aside all the nonsense 1161 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:54,000 Speaker 1: and say, Golon Heights, Israeli territory. Well done. Trump, you know, 1162 01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:56,759 Speaker 1: maybe not getting everything right all the time on all things. 1163 01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,640 Speaker 1: But on this one, let's call it. Let's call it 1164 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,280 Speaker 1: like it is. He got it done. I'm the one 1165 01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:07,160 Speaker 1: that gets it done. Oh, she's on the cover of 1166 01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:16,920 Speaker 1: Time magazine. Everybody aoc Alexandria o'casio Cortez, and I love this, uh, 1167 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,080 Speaker 1: this game that they play of Why you're conservative so 1168 01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,599 Speaker 1: obsessed with her? Why is the left so obsessed with her? 1169 01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:29,280 Speaker 1: Why has she become such an icon of progressivism without 1170 01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:33,080 Speaker 1: really doing much of anything and without knowing much of anything. Well, 1171 01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:37,840 Speaker 1: that never slows down places like Time magazine that has 1172 01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:43,880 Speaker 1: written a over three thousand word just to call it 1173 01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:47,680 Speaker 1: a puff pieces, an insult to puff pieces. But she 1174 01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:52,520 Speaker 1: complained in this in this piece which was which was astonishing. 1175 01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:56,599 Speaker 1: That quote. An entire generation which is now becoming one 1176 01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,320 Speaker 1: of the largest electorates in America, came of age and 1177 01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:04,840 Speaker 1: never saw American prosperity. I have never seen that or 1178 01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:08,280 Speaker 1: experienced it really in my adult life. That's that's a 1179 01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:13,880 Speaker 1: quote from this article on Ocasio Cortez, and you know, 1180 01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:16,759 Speaker 1: the piece then talks about how she took out loans 1181 01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:19,920 Speaker 1: when she went to bu She graduated in twenty eleven 1182 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:26,040 Speaker 1: with twenty five thousand dollars in student debt. Then she 1183 01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,000 Speaker 1: went and worked at an educational nonprofit and did some 1184 01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:32,559 Speaker 1: side gigs as a bartender, and through her twenties lived 1185 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:37,599 Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck. Okay, everybody, I lived paycheck to paycheck 1186 01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:41,120 Speaker 1: throughout my twenties as well, and was not making very 1187 01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:44,920 Speaker 1: much money at all. I don't understand how this is 1188 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:49,320 Speaker 1: some big sob story, or rather that it would justify 1189 01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:53,240 Speaker 1: the feeling, the sentiment that she expressed here that there's 1190 01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:58,479 Speaker 1: never been real prosperity and her in her adult lifetime. 1191 01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:03,240 Speaker 1: That's just that's just a bizarre statement. It just flies 1192 01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,639 Speaker 1: in the face of reality. Why would she think that. Look, 1193 01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:10,160 Speaker 1: I've got complaints too. You know, the boomers never want 1194 01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:12,839 Speaker 1: to leave their jobs. They've got too much debt. They 1195 01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,439 Speaker 1: have to service the debt. They want to stay in 1196 01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,720 Speaker 1: their cushy positions. They don't want to retire. I mean, 1197 01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:19,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of so there's not as much headroom 1198 01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,880 Speaker 1: in a lot of places, and the industry is changing 1199 01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,080 Speaker 1: because of technology much more rapidly than it was in 1200 01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:29,519 Speaker 1: previous decades. That is also the case, and there's a 1201 01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,799 Speaker 1: lot of things that we can point to the housing market. 1202 01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,479 Speaker 1: You know, the joke that I tell sometimes is the 1203 01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:36,639 Speaker 1: one thing you know, millennials can't ruin is the housing 1204 01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:41,040 Speaker 1: market because they can't get into the housing market. All 1205 01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:43,960 Speaker 1: all of these things are are fair points for discussion. 1206 01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:48,960 Speaker 1: But this country and the benefits that we have now 1207 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,839 Speaker 1: as a result of the wealth that has been created, 1208 01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:57,160 Speaker 1: you know, we're spoiled. I mean we are spoiled in 1209 01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:00,439 Speaker 1: this country now. We live in a time and it 1210 01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,720 Speaker 1: depends on also how you want to gauge it, right, 1211 01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,439 Speaker 1: if you want to look at this through the full 1212 01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:10,320 Speaker 1: scope of human history. The average American, the average American 1213 01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:15,559 Speaker 1: is so healthy, well fed, well off and comfortable that 1214 01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:21,800 Speaker 1: you would make a medieval king green with envy, isn't 1215 01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:23,760 Speaker 1: that is? That's the color your term when you're envious, right, 1216 01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:26,760 Speaker 1: Green with jealousy, Green with envy. So thank you, John, 1217 01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:30,760 Speaker 1: just making sure you know we are able to walk 1218 01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:36,840 Speaker 1: around now and order whatever product we want want off 1219 01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,760 Speaker 1: the foam we have that has more computing power than 1220 01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:43,760 Speaker 1: the entire you know, NATO Alliance in nineteen fifty did 1221 01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,479 Speaker 1: and talk to people all over the world for almost 1222 01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:51,920 Speaker 1: no cost, read anything we want to read, usually for free, 1223 01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:56,879 Speaker 1: learn anything we want to learn, usually for free, and 1224 01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:00,439 Speaker 1: you know, have a video instant video con tap with 1225 01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:02,800 Speaker 1: loved ones almost you know it, certainly anywhere in the 1226 01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:06,200 Speaker 1: United States, almost anywhere in the world these days, and 1227 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:11,639 Speaker 1: are more able than ever to move around and work 1228 01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:14,599 Speaker 1: from home and all. You know, so there's so much 1229 01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,479 Speaker 1: that any you look at the cost of a few 1230 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,760 Speaker 1: things have gotten really bad. Healthcare and education, and oh 1231 01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,880 Speaker 1: that's right, those are two areas where there's a lot 1232 01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:30,960 Speaker 1: of government regulation, intervention, oversight. But consumer products are incredibly inexpensive. 1233 01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,320 Speaker 1: But see, here's the thing. People don't like to hear 1234 01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:36,479 Speaker 1: about how things are good. People don't like to hear it. 1235 01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:37,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you may right now, I don't know any 1236 01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:39,960 Speaker 1: like aah buck, you know it's not that good. Look, 1237 01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:42,280 Speaker 1: We've all got stuff, you know. I mean, I woke 1238 01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:44,960 Speaker 1: up this morning and my ankle just really hurts for 1239 01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,559 Speaker 1: no reason. And you know, stuff happens, right, We've all 1240 01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:51,080 Speaker 1: got our things, you know, we all have our struggles 1241 01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:52,679 Speaker 1: that I'm not trying to say, oh, everything is great. 1242 01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:55,160 Speaker 1: Just be quiet. You're lucky. You're not, you know, dying 1243 01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:57,360 Speaker 1: of bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. I mean, that's 1244 01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,360 Speaker 1: not a helpful frame of reference. Either. But for Jasio 1245 01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:04,760 Speaker 1: Cortez to say that there's no American prosperity, I mean, 1246 01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:08,280 Speaker 1: that's just that's just silly. I mean, this is a 1247 01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,559 Speaker 1: a I think you could say, an objectively stupid and 1248 01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:15,839 Speaker 1: bizarre thing to say. And yet she is still hailed 1249 01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:21,840 Speaker 1: as somebody who really gets this generation coming up. And 1250 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:26,200 Speaker 1: I do worry a little bit that the millennials who 1251 01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,160 Speaker 1: are beneath, who are who are below me in the 1252 01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:30,880 Speaker 1: age bracket, you know, not quite the graybeard that I am. 1253 01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,800 Speaker 1: The millennials who are coming up because they're idols, you know, 1254 01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:38,120 Speaker 1: in politics and in media, have moved so far left. 1255 01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,840 Speaker 1: Yet they're going to believe this stuff. They're going to 1256 01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:47,280 Speaker 1: believe that America is this country of deprivation now compared 1257 01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:51,000 Speaker 1: to what it should be when you have more, Give 1258 01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:54,799 Speaker 1: me a metric and I'll show you, if not that metric, 1259 01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:58,080 Speaker 1: something very similar to it that proves that this country is. 1260 01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,400 Speaker 1: We are getting wealthier and more osperus all the time. 1261 01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:05,320 Speaker 1: It's just happening. And now it won't go on a 1262 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,400 Speaker 1: straight line. I do think that we're due for our 1263 01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:13,040 Speaker 1: recession of some kind soon, and my worry is that 1264 01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:17,120 Speaker 1: that recession will be politically exploited by the Left. The 1265 01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:22,080 Speaker 1: timing will be perfect for a Sanders or Occasio Cortes 1266 01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:26,800 Speaker 1: like person to come along and say, see, you know, 1267 01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:30,280 Speaker 1: the fat cats were lying to you all along, and 1268 01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:32,880 Speaker 1: now we're gonna we're gonna really, you know, soak it 1269 01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,920 Speaker 1: or soak them and stick it to them. You could 1270 01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:37,360 Speaker 1: soak it to them. I guess that'd be kind of 1271 01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:39,960 Speaker 1: a fun. Sister and is a word, by the way, 1272 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,679 Speaker 1: found that out? Yes, oh did we I did google 1273 01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:45,360 Speaker 1: that when I was on Arrow. Okay, just making sure 1274 01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,680 Speaker 1: everyone knows. Sister is a word. You just don't hear 1275 01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,559 Speaker 1: it very often, but there has to be another, a 1276 01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,960 Speaker 1: word like brethren. And we've we've actually made up a 1277 01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:55,479 Speaker 1: few words on the show that I think should be 1278 01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:59,360 Speaker 1: entered into the you know, Miriam or Websters or whichever 1279 01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:03,599 Speaker 1: dictionary people think is the best one. So AOC gets 1280 01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:06,160 Speaker 1: to go around and say things that are just untrue 1281 01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:09,880 Speaker 1: and no one will really challenge her. And I think 1282 01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:17,240 Speaker 1: that it's a very clear symbol of the intellectual bankruptcy 1283 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:20,679 Speaker 1: of the Left that they have as their most prominent 1284 01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:24,639 Speaker 1: intellectual somebody who is an anti intellectual and doesn't even 1285 01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,280 Speaker 1: know it. She's not saying yeah, I don't read a 1286 01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,559 Speaker 1: lot of books, but you know, I've got a good 1287 01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:33,880 Speaker 1: gut instinct on this matter. She's somebody who talks about 1288 01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,320 Speaker 1: these issues in the language of a person who wants 1289 01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,880 Speaker 1: to be considered smart, but does not actually have the 1290 01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:43,320 Speaker 1: knowledge to back any of it up. And that is, 1291 01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,599 Speaker 1: you know, what's really concerning isn't what you know, it's 1292 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,800 Speaker 1: what you know that ain't so. And that is the 1293 01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:50,799 Speaker 1: case with Okazio Cortez and the way she talks about 1294 01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:56,840 Speaker 1: socialism and a whole host of issues that are associated 1295 01:18:56,840 --> 01:19:00,960 Speaker 1: with it, so that millennials have never tasted did prosperity, 1296 01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,880 Speaker 1: don't know, it's we're quite prosperous. I mean that, you know, 1297 01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,160 Speaker 1: the housing market, which the government has also been very 1298 01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,839 Speaker 1: involved in. I have some criticisms of how the government 1299 01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:15,240 Speaker 1: has decided to make housing almost a right in this country, 1300 01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,320 Speaker 1: and there have been parts of that are that are problematic. 1301 01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,240 Speaker 1: There have been aspects of that that you know, almost 1302 01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:27,559 Speaker 1: melted down the economy before. But sure enough, things are 1303 01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,479 Speaker 1: things are actually going okay right now. And I just 1304 01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:34,320 Speaker 1: wish that we could get one interviewer to sit down 1305 01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:38,080 Speaker 1: with Okazio Quartz and ask her some real questions about 1306 01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,439 Speaker 1: some real things. Just one one interviewer would be nice, 1307 01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:43,600 Speaker 1: you know, say, okay, so how are we going to 1308 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,760 Speaker 1: pay for these things? What do you really think we 1309 01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,000 Speaker 1: should do? Do you think that she could manage to 1310 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:51,120 Speaker 1: get through an interview on the Green New Deal without 1311 01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:55,759 Speaker 1: a complete meltdown? I think the answer is no, because 1312 01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,640 Speaker 1: she doesn't understand the science, she doesn't understand the economics. 1313 01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:02,599 Speaker 1: It's just all all part of the cultural left right. 1314 01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:06,000 Speaker 1: The left believes in climate change, they believe in this 1315 01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,920 Speaker 1: Green New Deal, this kind of feel good ism in 1316 01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:14,479 Speaker 1: place of knowledge, experience, and history. That is, that's a 1317 01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:17,240 Speaker 1: troubling thing. And you see different points, not just in 1318 01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,960 Speaker 1: our history but in history more generally. When you have 1319 01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,240 Speaker 1: young and foolish people who are able to rally the 1320 01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:27,960 Speaker 1: masses behind foolish ideas, we had to do a bad place. 1321 01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,519 Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to talk to you about Sweden 1322 01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,280 Speaker 1: a little bit and socialism and how Sweden is not 1323 01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:39,320 Speaker 1: a socialist country. I'll make the case coming up. It's 1324 01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:42,400 Speaker 1: always fun when I see an article out there that 1325 01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,760 Speaker 1: deals with the subject in some detail that I've talked 1326 01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:49,840 Speaker 1: you about here on the show. Capitalism Saved Sweden is 1327 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,280 Speaker 1: this piece that I saw that from the American Institute 1328 01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:57,479 Speaker 1: for Economic Research. You've heard me say this, I'm sure 1329 01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:00,960 Speaker 1: many times, and is one of those moments when I 1330 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,520 Speaker 1: guess I'll be repeating myself for a second. But Sweden 1331 01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:09,320 Speaker 1: is not a socialist country. Folks, do not listen to 1332 01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:11,759 Speaker 1: the left wing Democrats who try to tell you otherwise. 1333 01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:14,280 Speaker 1: Do not listen to them. Sweden is not a left 1334 01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:19,360 Speaker 1: wing country. Sweden is in fact a very free market 1335 01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:25,799 Speaker 1: and capitalist oriented country that also has a large social 1336 01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:29,240 Speaker 1: welfare state or large safety net, however you want to 1337 01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:33,639 Speaker 1: say it. That's what the truth or Sweden is now Sweden. 1338 01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:38,080 Speaker 1: In this piece, it's written by Michael Munger, and he 1339 01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,479 Speaker 1: goes into some detail here about how Democrats play this 1340 01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,920 Speaker 1: game and they've really been doing it since the twenty 1341 01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:48,200 Speaker 1: sixteen I'm sorry twenty yes, twenty sixteen election, when Bernie 1342 01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:53,000 Speaker 1: Sanders was pejoratively referred to by people like me as 1343 01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,960 Speaker 1: you know, the mayor of Stockholm, because they'd say, oh, 1344 01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:58,640 Speaker 1: we can't do universal healthcare, we can't do this or that, 1345 01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:02,000 Speaker 1: because you know, they would say, look at Sweden, look 1346 01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:05,559 Speaker 1: at Denmark, and then we're supposed to accept that. Well, 1347 01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,080 Speaker 1: then clearly, if it works there, it can work here. 1348 01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:13,800 Speaker 1: But what works there isn't what democrats say works there, 1349 01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:15,960 Speaker 1: and in fact, and this is where this piece really 1350 01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:19,559 Speaker 1: comes in handy about how capitalism saves Sweden. Sweden was 1351 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:26,879 Speaker 1: in the seventies a more accurately described as a socialist country. 1352 01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:30,680 Speaker 1: You had a lot of government control of industry, so 1353 01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:34,760 Speaker 1: the government was running large sectors of industry. Essentially, the 1354 01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:38,760 Speaker 1: government was running businesses, very important, very large businesses, and 1355 01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:44,960 Speaker 1: unsurprisingly doing a terrible job of it. And he gives 1356 01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:48,360 Speaker 1: us definition here of state ownership and control of the 1357 01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:52,400 Speaker 1: means of production, state direction of production decisions, and direct 1358 01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:59,520 Speaker 1: state control of education and employment decisions of individuals. That's socialism, 1359 01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,080 Speaker 1: all right, And then he tries to, in this very 1360 01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:07,160 Speaker 1: astute analysis break down the differences between socialism and capitalism. 1361 01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:09,800 Speaker 1: But we're going to have to really do a good 1362 01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:15,960 Speaker 1: job going into this election season understanding what's what when 1363 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,880 Speaker 1: it comes to socialism and capitalism, because if we get 1364 01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:24,679 Speaker 1: lazy with the definitions and with our analysis, the other 1365 01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:28,479 Speaker 1: side is going to get away with a lot. Sweden 1366 01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:31,720 Speaker 1: was a socialist country in the seventies and couldn't make 1367 01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:35,519 Speaker 1: it work. And then decided to become a very free 1368 01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:40,040 Speaker 1: market based economy. The idea was, if you let the 1369 01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:44,439 Speaker 1: markets decide economic activity in the country, you're going to 1370 01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,439 Speaker 1: be much much wealthier, much more efficient. Everyone will be 1371 01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:51,320 Speaker 1: better off. And then with that greater wealth and productivity, 1372 01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:56,320 Speaker 1: they've decided to have a very large and some would 1373 01:23:56,360 --> 01:24:01,280 Speaker 1: say a bit of largess in their social safety system 1374 01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:03,839 Speaker 1: that they have, which means it's free college and free healthcare. 1375 01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:07,680 Speaker 1: Is really what Sweden has that people usually point to 1376 01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:10,880 Speaker 1: as something that we could emulate. But if you really 1377 01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:16,479 Speaker 1: look at Sweden, it is the sixth most protective country 1378 01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,160 Speaker 1: in the world when it comes to private property rights. 1379 01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:24,560 Speaker 1: The US is the twenty fifth most protective. Sweden is 1380 01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:29,479 Speaker 1: the nineteenth most capitalist country in the country. Based on 1381 01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:33,639 Speaker 1: the metrics assessed in this piece from the Heritage Foundation 1382 01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:38,360 Speaker 1: Index of Economic Freedom Freedom, Sweden is in the top 1383 01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,759 Speaker 1: fifteen most capitalist nations prout shrewd and shrewd and shrewden 1384 01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,599 Speaker 1: in terms of property rights, financial freedom, and business freedom. 1385 01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,840 Speaker 1: Most sectors are largely unregulated, and the freedom to move 1386 01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:55,200 Speaker 1: capital make Sweden among the most capitalist nations in the world. 1387 01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:59,599 Speaker 1: Piece goes on quote Sweden fully privatize his pension system 1388 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:04,439 Speaker 1: moving defined benefit to defined contribution. There's a means tested 1389 01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:08,120 Speaker 1: add on guaranteed pension top up for the least well off. 1390 01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:12,680 Speaker 1: But the first line system is personal pension accounts invested 1391 01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:16,080 Speaker 1: in one of these seven hundred private index funds managed 1392 01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:20,160 Speaker 1: by private fund managers. It is the most privatized pension 1393 01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:24,640 Speaker 1: system by far in all of Europe. Sweden has a 1394 01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:30,479 Speaker 1: one one hundred percent universal voucher system for education. Folks. 1395 01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:36,680 Speaker 1: Sweden rejected socialism and decided that it would really in 1396 01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,080 Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties go on a very free market 1397 01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:44,439 Speaker 1: and pro capitalism path and has become a very well 1398 01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:47,479 Speaker 1: off country as a result. But when you look at 1399 01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:51,720 Speaker 1: the way business itself is conducted in Sweden, it is 1400 01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:56,240 Speaker 1: free market, it is not directed by the state. It 1401 01:25:56,400 --> 01:26:01,440 Speaker 1: is in no way socialist. They just have a redistribution 1402 01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:04,599 Speaker 1: of income via high taxation to pay for a large 1403 01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:08,360 Speaker 1: welfare state. Now the other part, So that's that's one 1404 01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:11,600 Speaker 1: important point here that we have to get down. And 1405 01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:15,479 Speaker 1: Sweden is not a socialist country. People who say it 1406 01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,840 Speaker 1: is don't know what they're talking about, and it just 1407 01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,080 Speaker 1: as a country that has is very free market but 1408 01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,160 Speaker 1: has a large social welfare state. You've heard me say 1409 01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:24,400 Speaker 1: this before, but this is an in depth analysis here 1410 01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:30,680 Speaker 1: at this American Institute for Economic Research piece. You know, 1411 01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:32,560 Speaker 1: this is one of these wonky think tank pieces that 1412 01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:35,920 Speaker 1: I come across that's really really useful, and I think 1413 01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,680 Speaker 1: this will be important for you when you're talking to 1414 01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:39,439 Speaker 1: your friends, especially if you know you've got you're gonna 1415 01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,759 Speaker 1: have that friend. I don't care where you are across 1416 01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,519 Speaker 1: the country is the hey man, I have Bernie Sanders supporter, 1417 01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,280 Speaker 1: and I just think we just free this and free that, 1418 01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:51,760 Speaker 1: and Sweden does it. In Sweden's great. You can say, well, 1419 01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:55,920 Speaker 1: Sweden's not socialism, my friend, Sweden is not a socialist country, 1420 01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:00,280 Speaker 1: and very few socialist countries well refer to themselves as 1421 01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:04,240 Speaker 1: stalinist socialist countries. They want to be democratic socialism they want. 1422 01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:08,280 Speaker 1: But the main difference, for example, between what happened in 1423 01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:12,839 Speaker 1: Venezuela from an economic perspective from a government control perspective 1424 01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:16,240 Speaker 1: in Sweden is that in Venezuela the government ran industries 1425 01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:19,639 Speaker 1: and set price controls. The government said you can charge 1426 01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:23,599 Speaker 1: this for this product, didn't care what the market said. 1427 01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:28,439 Speaker 1: That caused enormous pressures on different businesses that then cause 1428 01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:30,439 Speaker 1: them to collapse. When they collapse and did not have 1429 01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:34,400 Speaker 1: products to sell, the government blamed the greedy capitalists who 1430 01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:36,720 Speaker 1: were not allowed to set their own prices in Venezuela. 1431 01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:40,280 Speaker 1: And that's how you had the downward spiral. It was 1432 01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:44,520 Speaker 1: a top down spiral because it was a truly socialist 1433 01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:49,120 Speaker 1: economy that they that the Majuro government was operating, or 1434 01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:51,639 Speaker 1: at least there were aspects of it that were accurately 1435 01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:55,560 Speaker 1: described as socialist. So you know, Sweden is not what 1436 01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:57,560 Speaker 1: they say it is. Don't let them get away with it. 1437 01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:01,000 Speaker 1: And then on top of that, the middle class in 1438 01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:07,720 Speaker 1: Sweden pays about sixty percent in taxes, So understand that 1439 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:10,680 Speaker 1: part of this argument, and you'll be able to, i think, 1440 01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:12,920 Speaker 1: fight back against all the people that say, oh, we 1441 01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:17,200 Speaker 1: could afford this. It's just the evil, greedy Republicans don't 1442 01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:19,320 Speaker 1: want to do this. Oh no, no, no, no, it's 1443 01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,880 Speaker 1: not going to be the millionaires and the billionaires who 1444 01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:24,880 Speaker 1: are paying for all this. You will be paying for 1445 01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:29,599 Speaker 1: free college for everyone, free healthcare for everyone, including illegal 1446 01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,080 Speaker 1: aliens by the way, and the one hundred thousand a 1447 01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,400 Speaker 1: month that are coming across the border right now. You 1448 01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:37,280 Speaker 1: will be paying for all of that we paying for 1449 01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:42,560 Speaker 1: all of the largess of the federal bureaucracy, of the 1450 01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:47,240 Speaker 1: Department of Education, of the university system that has become 1451 01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,760 Speaker 1: so bloated and I think turning out in so many 1452 01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:55,040 Speaker 1: cases such an inferior product when it comes to real education. 1453 01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:59,120 Speaker 1: But at least at least we should all be on 1454 01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,760 Speaker 1: the same page with It's not a socialist country. And 1455 01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:04,439 Speaker 1: if you want the welfare state that you have in Sweden, 1456 01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:07,400 Speaker 1: you better start telling everybody you're gonna pay sixty percent 1457 01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:10,320 Speaker 1: in taxes. Let's see how that goes over in twenty twenty, 1458 01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:31,040 Speaker 1: Team Buck, it's time for roll call, man. It's starting 1459 01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:35,160 Speaker 1: to get nice outside. Everybody. It's a roll call for 1460 01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:39,320 Speaker 1: the springtime. I have to say, am looking forward to 1461 01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:40,960 Speaker 1: being able to walk around in a T shirt again. 1462 01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:44,000 Speaker 1: It'll be it'll be a nice change of pace. Put 1463 01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:46,479 Speaker 1: away all the heavy winter clothing, the winter boots and 1464 01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:48,720 Speaker 1: all that stuff. Let's get to your thoughts, elks. We're 1465 01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:50,760 Speaker 1: doing a double roll call so we can hear from 1466 01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:54,759 Speaker 1: everybody we can today, Facebook dot com, slash Buck saxon 1467 01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:57,759 Speaker 1: if you want your thoughts to be heard. Coast to Coast, 1468 01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,559 Speaker 1: which is also the name a radio show. By the way, 1469 01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:06,400 Speaker 1: Lanny Rights, I'm sorry, Buck, but I'm so sick of 1470 01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:11,120 Speaker 1: hearing Betto's name uttered every day. Lanny, I'm like, suck 1471 01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:15,439 Speaker 1: of it too, because I just want everybody to hold 1472 01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:19,759 Speaker 1: hands and just be friends with each other. Robert Francis 1473 01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:22,960 Speaker 1: O'Rourke is his name. I've heard other conservatives call him 1474 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,920 Speaker 1: by that name, and doctor seb Gorka calls him Bob. 1475 01:30:27,240 --> 01:30:31,120 Speaker 1: I wish you would too. I heart your show. Don't 1476 01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:36,200 Speaker 1: be mad, but you know you gotta stop talking about Betto. Alright, alright, alright, fine, fine, 1477 01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:38,280 Speaker 1: we have a little fun with Betto. It was really 1478 01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:42,120 Speaker 1: the week of the Betto, and maybe next week will 1479 01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,600 Speaker 1: be the week of the Yang or the week of 1480 01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:49,120 Speaker 1: the Harris or something. Somebody else will be in the 1481 01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:53,599 Speaker 1: center of the in the center of the storm. Dwayne 1482 01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:57,880 Speaker 1: Buck refers to Buck his buck all the time. Well, Dwayne, 1483 01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:00,599 Speaker 1: I know that's kind of the joke, is it, my friend, 1484 01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:05,240 Speaker 1: Ken Buck, FYI, if you get a chance to this 1485 01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:09,840 Speaker 1: lecture by activist David Hogg, I will not listen to 1486 01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:12,560 Speaker 1: the lecture by activist David Hogg because he does not 1487 01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:17,519 Speaker 1: know anything and I do not care what virtue signaling 1488 01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:22,559 Speaker 1: and nonsense he cares to spew. I've heard enough. I mean, 1489 01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:24,840 Speaker 1: I know that he doesn't know what he's talking about, 1490 01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,560 Speaker 1: and he's a nasty and dishonest person. So there you go. 1491 01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:35,000 Speaker 1: Kent buck Avit podcast listener, been listening since your Real 1492 01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:38,679 Speaker 1: News days. Recently, I've been debating with my conservative friends 1493 01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:41,320 Speaker 1: about the crisis on our southern border, and one of 1494 01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:43,200 Speaker 1: my friends sent me a link to your op ed 1495 01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:46,639 Speaker 1: on The Hill on the same subject. Your Peace helped 1496 01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:49,200 Speaker 1: make my point that due to the dangers of fental 1497 01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:52,880 Speaker 1: and migration en mass, we have an emergency the likes 1498 01:31:52,920 --> 01:31:55,360 Speaker 1: of which the US has not had to deal with before. 1499 01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,479 Speaker 1: Thanks for all you do. Keep up the good fight, 1500 01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:04,360 Speaker 1: Shields High Well. Kent from oss original Saturday Squad. Thank 1501 01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,280 Speaker 1: you so much for being with me all these years, 1502 01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,120 Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that the piece I wrote for 1503 01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,400 Speaker 1: The Hill dot Com was able to help you make 1504 01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:15,360 Speaker 1: a sound argument on this issue. The border is in 1505 01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:18,680 Speaker 1: very bad shape right now. We do not have a 1506 01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:22,080 Speaker 1: secure border at all, and in fact, the laws are 1507 01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:25,400 Speaker 1: being exploited in order to make sure that we do 1508 01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:29,080 Speaker 1: not have an orderly We don't have the immigration system 1509 01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:32,720 Speaker 1: that we have been promised that's what's really going on. 1510 01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:35,840 Speaker 1: We don't have the immigration system that the American people 1511 01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:40,960 Speaker 1: generally think that we do, and that should really concern everyone. 1512 01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:45,240 Speaker 1: That should be something that gets all people who care 1513 01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:47,160 Speaker 1: about the direction of this country in the future of 1514 01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:52,840 Speaker 1: this country paying much more at tension. Chris definitely a 1515 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:58,000 Speaker 1: deal breaker if she is a Democrat in dating l ol, 1516 01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:01,280 Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Thanks. I don't know. I don't 1517 01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:06,200 Speaker 1: know if I can agree with that. Sometimes the political 1518 01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:11,200 Speaker 1: passion turns into the other passion, you know, sometimes it's 1519 01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:13,040 Speaker 1: good to be talking to a democrat. I mean, I 1520 01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:16,360 Speaker 1: also work in an organization where there's a lot of 1521 01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,280 Speaker 1: Democrats around me at the Hill, so and I've become 1522 01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,240 Speaker 1: very close friends with a number of them. So I've 1523 01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,800 Speaker 1: I've learned to to get along with Democrats. I think 1524 01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:27,960 Speaker 1: it depends on what kind of democrat you know they're 1525 01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:31,920 Speaker 1: they're the Democrats that you can have conversations with the 1526 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,840 Speaker 1: Democrats you can't. If people really believe that the world's 1527 01:33:34,880 --> 01:33:37,760 Speaker 1: going to end in ten years from climate change, then 1528 01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:40,800 Speaker 1: I think it's really it is tough at that point 1529 01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,080 Speaker 1: to have a meaningful exchange with them. It is difficult 1530 01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:49,080 Speaker 1: to find a common ground there. But if somebody really 1531 01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:53,599 Speaker 1: believes that we should have a more Norwegian or Swedish 1532 01:33:53,680 --> 01:33:57,639 Speaker 1: style safety net than what we already have, and they 1533 01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:02,439 Speaker 1: believe in I don't know, free college, maybe I can. 1534 01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:04,040 Speaker 1: I can at least talk to them about that. And 1535 01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:08,200 Speaker 1: these are ideas that have big downsides that most Democrats 1536 01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:11,760 Speaker 1: just pretend to not understand. But I can kind of, 1537 01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,000 Speaker 1: I can get there. I can at least have that 1538 01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:19,920 Speaker 1: chat with him. Richard, Right, Shields Hie Theater nine thousand 1539 01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:22,720 Speaker 1: must happen. It sounds amazing. I would love to see 1540 01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,920 Speaker 1: you with some Special Forces folks critique movies, or what 1541 01:34:26,040 --> 01:34:29,439 Speaker 1: about you with cop movies and some YPD folks? Are 1542 01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:33,240 Speaker 1: you with some CIA folks? Many options, keep making awesome things. 1543 01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:39,439 Speaker 1: Shields him, you know, Richard, I love the idea, and 1544 01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:42,439 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get down to do an event with 1545 01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:48,040 Speaker 1: a former Special Operations guy in Florida where we're going 1546 01:34:48,080 --> 01:34:50,640 Speaker 1: to bring in another a marine and we're trying to 1547 01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:53,200 Speaker 1: do something kind of like what I laid out. It's 1548 01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:54,720 Speaker 1: just a question of scheduling it, but I do think 1549 01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:56,360 Speaker 1: it'd be a lot of fun. To be fair on 1550 01:34:56,439 --> 01:34:59,080 Speaker 1: the MYPD side, I was never a cop I was 1551 01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:05,640 Speaker 1: never actually a police officer or detective, so my experience 1552 01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:09,720 Speaker 1: was very specific to working as a counter terrorism specialist 1553 01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:12,880 Speaker 1: in the Intelligence division. So it was really it was 1554 01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:16,479 Speaker 1: an analytic role. It was a lot of a lot 1555 01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,680 Speaker 1: of meetings, a lot of conversations with lawyers, stuff like that. 1556 01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:23,080 Speaker 1: But still would be cool and I'd love to do that. 1557 01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:25,200 Speaker 1: We have to sit down with some of the old 1558 01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:27,080 Speaker 1: if I could get some of the crusty old detectives 1559 01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:29,120 Speaker 1: and sergeants that I know from the NYPDA to do 1560 01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:31,600 Speaker 1: that with like a cop show, that would be a 1561 01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:33,840 Speaker 1: lot of fun. But would have to edit it before 1562 01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:35,479 Speaker 1: and it would take a little production work. But I'm 1563 01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:40,360 Speaker 1: glad you liked the basic idea Autumn, right, Buck, love 1564 01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:44,800 Speaker 1: the show Autumn. You have fantastic taste in radio programming. 1565 01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:48,600 Speaker 1: I'm looking for good, historically accurate books to read. I 1566 01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,280 Speaker 1: remember you talking about one that was on Cortes. What 1567 01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:55,720 Speaker 1: was it called? When I google books about Cortez, the 1568 01:35:55,920 --> 01:36:00,880 Speaker 1: top suggestion was books about Alexandria Ocasio Quartet is not 1569 01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:04,599 Speaker 1: sure I'd have the ability to hold my lunch down 1570 01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,760 Speaker 1: if I if I had to read that. Now, the 1571 01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:13,280 Speaker 1: book that I read, you know, which which I think 1572 01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:16,120 Speaker 1: that you will. You will enjoy is and I'm pulling 1573 01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:17,880 Speaker 1: up right now so I give you the exact title. 1574 01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,479 Speaker 1: I mean it is. The name of Cortes is in 1575 01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:23,679 Speaker 1: the name of the book, obviously, but it's uh yeah. 1576 01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:28,240 Speaker 1: Conquistador Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of 1577 01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:32,439 Speaker 1: the Aztecs by Buddy Levy is the book that I read. 1578 01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:37,040 Speaker 1: It's a really good read. I mean, you will enjoy it. Cortes, 1579 01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,080 Speaker 1: You can make a case, and I think it's a 1580 01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:47,760 Speaker 1: strong case that Hernan Cortes was the most like like, 1581 01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:51,240 Speaker 1: beat the odds from a military campaign perspective, beat the 1582 01:36:51,280 --> 01:36:54,320 Speaker 1: odds more than any other figure in history. I'm not 1583 01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:57,160 Speaker 1: saying that that's a definitive statement, but you could certainly 1584 01:36:57,200 --> 01:37:00,320 Speaker 1: make the case that what he did to show up 1585 01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:03,880 Speaker 1: with a few hundred guys and take on a massive 1586 01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:07,639 Speaker 1: empire with with millions of inhabitants and straight up conquer 1587 01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:12,599 Speaker 1: it is astonishing. And it took a lot more than 1588 01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,599 Speaker 1: just the guns and steel and horses that they showed 1589 01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:19,120 Speaker 1: up with, though of that was certainly very very helpful. Autumn. 1590 01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm also a big fan of the of Roger Crowley, 1591 01:37:24,200 --> 01:37:29,800 Speaker 1: who does books on really the period of the Renaissance 1592 01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:33,200 Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean and the wars between Christian and Muslim 1593 01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:37,080 Speaker 1: states and the Christian Muslim world. That my favorite is 1594 01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:40,120 Speaker 1: Empire of the Seas. But he also wrote a book 1595 01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:42,160 Speaker 1: on the fall of content Toople that I've read. I'd 1596 01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:44,639 Speaker 1: really so if you go on Amazon, look up Roger Crowley. 1597 01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,320 Speaker 1: He's a British guy. He's written some really great books 1598 01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:51,360 Speaker 1: and very much enjoy those. Richard. Enjoy catching your show 1599 01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:53,680 Speaker 1: whenever I can. I also want to let you know 1600 01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:57,080 Speaker 1: that I live in a neighboring community of South Bend 1601 01:37:57,479 --> 01:38:00,840 Speaker 1: and Mayor Pete Buddha Chik. I've heard you struggle to 1602 01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,240 Speaker 1: pronounce his name, and many in the media do, since 1603 01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:06,760 Speaker 1: we hear it all the time on our local news, 1604 01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:09,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to help you out. It should be pronounced Buddha, judge, 1605 01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:13,439 Speaker 1: Buddha judge. Okay, you can hear it. Pronounce the link 1606 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:14,840 Speaker 1: on the right at the beginning of this video. All right, 1607 01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,360 Speaker 1: Buddha judge, Buddha judge. I can do that, all right. 1608 01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:22,160 Speaker 1: I got that one. A lot of hard names to pronounce. 1609 01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:29,320 Speaker 1: It's Beto, not beeto, Buddha judge, not Buddha jig. Who 1610 01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:35,000 Speaker 1: else is Kamala not Kamala. There's a lot. There's a 1611 01:38:35,080 --> 01:38:36,760 Speaker 1: lot that you have to pay attention to. You know, 1612 01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:39,160 Speaker 1: it's a tricky business. I work in this media world. 1613 01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:43,200 Speaker 1: You know, it's difficult stuff. Tomas writes, Beeto, I see, 1614 01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:47,080 Speaker 1: I just did it, Beto Darnet buck code read yourself. 1615 01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:50,360 Speaker 1: Beto is a valley girl before your time. Maybe no, Thomas, 1616 01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:52,559 Speaker 1: I know what a valley girl like tale Like, I mean, 1617 01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:55,360 Speaker 1: like whatever, because like I just want to go shopping 1618 01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:59,160 Speaker 1: and every place you go has valet. Yeah, I know 1619 01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:02,280 Speaker 1: what valley girls are. I grew up watching so many 1620 01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:04,360 Speaker 1: movies in the nineties, and in the nineties there was 1621 01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:09,120 Speaker 1: nothing cooler than California and Los Angeles specifically, like everyone wanted, 1622 01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:10,800 Speaker 1: you know, Beverly Hills nine O two and oh and 1623 01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:15,479 Speaker 1: all that stuff. LA was the Promised Land. Now LA's nice, 1624 01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,240 Speaker 1: but a lot of traffic And I am not somebody 1625 01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:21,639 Speaker 1: who enjoys sitting around in a car and not moving fast, 1626 01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:24,840 Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that that's the move for me. 1627 01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:28,080 Speaker 1: We will do some more Role Call team coming up 1628 01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:35,920 Speaker 1: in just a moment. Double dose of role call is 1629 01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:38,360 Speaker 1: your way right now. It's not coming your way. It 1630 01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:43,719 Speaker 1: is here, Matthew. Democrats want to lower the voting age 1631 01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,919 Speaker 1: to sixteen because sixteen year old kids are so mature. 1632 01:39:47,439 --> 01:39:52,040 Speaker 1: But Democrat, But Democrats, Democrats. We could start called, oh 1633 01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:55,800 Speaker 1: are you a Democrat? Democrats say guns sales should be 1634 01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:58,160 Speaker 1: raised from eighteen to twenty one because young adults are 1635 01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:01,280 Speaker 1: too immature. I say, put it on the same ballot. 1636 01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,240 Speaker 1: If you vote sixteen year olds are mature, then they 1637 01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:06,360 Speaker 1: get to vote and buy guns. We'll see, Matthew. What 1638 01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:09,760 Speaker 1: you have is called a principle, or you have consistency. 1639 01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:15,320 Speaker 1: And liberals don't aspire to consistency. They embrace hypocrisy as 1640 01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:19,639 Speaker 1: long as it is on the pathway to power, because 1641 01:40:19,760 --> 01:40:22,559 Speaker 1: there's no way around that. It is an inconsistent thing 1642 01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:24,840 Speaker 1: to say that you should vote when you're sixteen, but 1643 01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:26,920 Speaker 1: you can't own a gun until you're twenty one. There's 1644 01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:29,080 Speaker 1: no And I will say it right now before some 1645 01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:31,000 Speaker 1: of you said, well, book, what about the drinking age. 1646 01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:35,240 Speaker 1: I believe the drinking age should be eighteen. I believe 1647 01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,280 Speaker 1: that eighteen is an adult. An adult is an adult 1648 01:40:37,320 --> 01:40:40,840 Speaker 1: as an adult, eighteen is an adult. And I think 1649 01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:44,160 Speaker 1: that the drinking age being twenty one really allows for 1650 01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:48,400 Speaker 1: a kind of fetishization of it's a tough word to say, 1651 01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,720 Speaker 1: of drinking on college campuses, and it becomes this kind 1652 01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:55,000 Speaker 1: of naughty, oo cool thing to do. I also think 1653 01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:58,800 Speaker 1: that our country could probably have some really worthwhile conversations 1654 01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:02,920 Speaker 1: in general about alcohol across the board. I think that 1655 01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:05,599 Speaker 1: alcohol enjoyed the right way is a very nice thing. 1656 01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:07,280 Speaker 1: I like a glass of wine, as you know. I 1657 01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:10,280 Speaker 1: like good tequila. But when I think back to the 1658 01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:14,400 Speaker 1: I think back to the way that things operated on 1659 01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:16,479 Speaker 1: the college campus that I was on, at least when 1660 01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:18,640 Speaker 1: I was a student, and it was just nuts. I mean, 1661 01:41:18,760 --> 01:41:22,600 Speaker 1: people were functioning alcoholics for four years, really drinking. I mean, 1662 01:41:22,600 --> 01:41:25,679 Speaker 1: if you're getting wasted four or five nights a week, 1663 01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:28,760 Speaker 1: that's not normal. It's not good for you. And I 1664 01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:32,400 Speaker 1: would offer that there should be a much better, much 1665 01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:35,679 Speaker 1: better conversation for young people about how look, it slows 1666 01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:38,839 Speaker 1: you down, especially if you're really into being physical and active. 1667 01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:41,280 Speaker 1: It's terrible for you. And there's all kinds of stuff 1668 01:41:41,680 --> 01:41:44,240 Speaker 1: Drinking too much. I'm talking about not just drinking, drinking 1669 01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:47,439 Speaker 1: to excess. Anything to excess is bad. That's why you 1670 01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:50,200 Speaker 1: call it excess. Although I don't know. Maybe the show 1671 01:41:50,640 --> 01:41:53,519 Speaker 1: suffers from an excess of awesome and we just have 1672 01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:59,240 Speaker 1: to accept that. Jim just want to drop a line 1673 01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:03,040 Speaker 1: saying I'm shields high. Well, Jim, I'm with you man. 1674 01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:06,479 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, appreciate you writing in good to 1675 01:42:07,280 --> 01:42:13,960 Speaker 1: talk to you. Much much obliged. Let's see here, Marina 1676 01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:16,960 Speaker 1: rights freedom dividend. If they're going to give out all 1677 01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:20,639 Speaker 1: that money, why not just end income taxes. Besides, isn't 1678 01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:23,519 Speaker 1: the standard income deduction twelve thousand dollars that's got a 1679 01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:25,320 Speaker 1: play a role in the big picture where they're going 1680 01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,240 Speaker 1: with all this. For those who earn enough to file 1681 01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:30,080 Speaker 1: and take the deduction, consider that you're consider that your 1682 01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:34,960 Speaker 1: twelve thousand oss. Marina. Yeah, Marina. Look the freedom dividend, 1683 01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:38,280 Speaker 1: which Andrew Yang, whom I interviewed today at some length. 1684 01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:42,040 Speaker 1: It's an idea that appeals to people. It's always though, 1685 01:42:42,680 --> 01:42:45,000 Speaker 1: when you start to get to the costs and how 1686 01:42:45,080 --> 01:42:49,040 Speaker 1: you'd enact this, that things get yes, more complicated, more difficult. 1687 01:42:49,120 --> 01:42:52,120 Speaker 1: It sounds great, give people money, they'll spend money. Everyone 1688 01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:54,679 Speaker 1: has some money. No one's going to be destitute anymore. 1689 01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:57,360 Speaker 1: But we do have a lot of social welfare programs 1690 01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:00,559 Speaker 1: in place. Already we have a trillion dollar well fair state, 1691 01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:03,320 Speaker 1: and yet we still have people in poverty in this country. 1692 01:43:04,240 --> 01:43:08,960 Speaker 1: Poverty itself is a very interesting area of study for 1693 01:43:09,479 --> 01:43:14,000 Speaker 1: social scientists. Every society will always have people that are 1694 01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:18,280 Speaker 1: considered poor and that will be considered impoverished in some form, 1695 01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:21,040 Speaker 1: I think in many In many ways, the best thing 1696 01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:24,559 Speaker 1: you can hope for is the elimination of true poverty 1697 01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:30,360 Speaker 1: like subsistence living where people are dangerously close to dying 1698 01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:33,760 Speaker 1: a preventable disease on a regular basis, not having enough 1699 01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:36,120 Speaker 1: food to eat a dangerous level, not having a safe 1700 01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:41,280 Speaker 1: place to live. Because the version, for example, of poverty 1701 01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:43,479 Speaker 1: in America is very different from what you'd get and 1702 01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:47,519 Speaker 1: say Bangladesh, our version of poverty, or in West Africa 1703 01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:50,320 Speaker 1: poverty that I have seen up close and personal myself, 1704 01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:53,840 Speaker 1: that is in a completely different league from what is 1705 01:43:53,840 --> 01:44:00,640 Speaker 1: considered poverty here in the United States. Brian rights, but 1706 01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:03,040 Speaker 1: keep up the great work and my business I tend 1707 01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:04,920 Speaker 1: to be in the Bahamas, I deal a lot of clients. 1708 01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:08,800 Speaker 1: I noticed a disturbing trend with regards to Chinese interests 1709 01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:11,920 Speaker 1: in the country so very close to our shores. In 1710 01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:14,559 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the Chinese came into Nassau with Chinese labor 1711 01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:17,799 Speaker 1: and built a soccer stadium as part of their stadium 1712 01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:21,080 Speaker 1: diplomacy program they do all over the world. Now they 1713 01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:24,280 Speaker 1: have built a deep water port sub base down there, 1714 01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,360 Speaker 1: a brand new secure marina with twenty foot high electrified 1715 01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:31,759 Speaker 1: fencing topped by razor wire and huge lights to eliminate 1716 01:44:31,880 --> 01:44:35,880 Speaker 1: a massive concrete pad. There are two large barracks. My 1717 01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:38,479 Speaker 1: unknown friend tried to get close on his boat and 1718 01:44:38,600 --> 01:44:41,080 Speaker 1: was waived to leave immediately by a guard in a 1719 01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:45,439 Speaker 1: military uniform. China is prepping for war in twenty years. Sadly, 1720 01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:50,120 Speaker 1: I'm not joking. China builds port in the Bahamas. I 1721 01:44:50,160 --> 01:44:52,479 Speaker 1: gotta look into this interesting, Brian. Yeah, and China is 1722 01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:54,559 Speaker 1: taking the long view, and we are not in this country. 1723 01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:58,120 Speaker 1: And China wants to supplant us as the global hedgemon. 1724 01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:01,960 Speaker 1: And we think that China just to be friends. That's 1725 01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,120 Speaker 1: not the case. And we're going to learn the hard 1726 01:45:04,160 --> 01:45:09,519 Speaker 1: way that long term planning beats short term handshaking any 1727 01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:15,400 Speaker 1: day of the week. Bob right, Oh, I used to 1728 01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:17,880 Speaker 1: work for the ncuble A, so need to jump in 1729 01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:19,920 Speaker 1: on your rant On College athletics. First of all, I 1730 01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:23,639 Speaker 1: believe nine of the NCAA revenue, which is really only 1731 01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:28,320 Speaker 1: from basketball football championship is outside the NCAA is distributed 1732 01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:31,120 Speaker 1: back out to the schools. The remainder is used to 1733 01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:34,400 Speaker 1: run all eighty seven championships and enforcement. As you can imagine, 1734 01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:37,800 Speaker 1: D three women's water polo is not a moneymaker. Also 1735 01:45:37,880 --> 01:45:39,519 Speaker 1: keep them on the title nine factors in here, So 1736 01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:42,120 Speaker 1: any money you spend against men's sports, you have to 1737 01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:45,080 Speaker 1: spend equally in women's sports. Essentially, you can fund men's 1738 01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:47,040 Speaker 1: football and basketball and then twenty women's sports and you 1739 01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:51,080 Speaker 1: will have to drop all other men's sports to equal out. Sorry, 1740 01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:54,320 Speaker 1: need it to let you know, No, Bob, I know that. 1741 01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,080 Speaker 1: I also though, just to have a this is a 1742 01:45:57,120 --> 01:45:59,280 Speaker 1: philosophical difference that I have with people who think that 1743 01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,639 Speaker 1: they should be changing admission standards to bring in athletes 1744 01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:04,640 Speaker 1: at schools. I disagree with that. I think that that 1745 01:46:04,720 --> 01:46:07,719 Speaker 1: should not be done. Then there's the broader conversation about 1746 01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:09,560 Speaker 1: does this actually make money for the schools? Usually it 1747 01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:12,240 Speaker 1: does not. But I'll have to leave that. Everybody. You've 1748 01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:15,000 Speaker 1: got some homework this week, and your homework. Have a 1749 01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:18,840 Speaker 1: fantastic week. And really enjoy yourself. Rest, relax, come back 1750 01:46:18,880 --> 01:46:22,400 Speaker 1: on Monday ready for action. Until then, shield tie