WEBVTT - Mueller's Mass Hysteria

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<v Speaker 1>You are entering the freedom hunt. It's finally done. The

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<v Speaker 1>Muller report has been handed in Breaking news as we

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<v Speaker 1>go on air. Muller's probe is finished, my friends, What

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<v Speaker 1>does that report contain? Will we find out and will

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<v Speaker 1>there be accountability for the lies, lies and more lies

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<v Speaker 1>that the Democrats and their media allies have told about

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<v Speaker 1>this whole fiasco. That and more coming up on the

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<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show where

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<v Speaker 1>the mission or mission is to decode what really matters

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<v Speaker 1>with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, He's a great guy. Sexton. No,

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<v Speaker 1>we have confirmed that a letter was sent to the

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<v Speaker 1>chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary

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<v Speaker 1>committees notifying them that the Special Counsel Robert Muller investigation

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<v Speaker 1>was completed. Let me just read for a second from

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<v Speaker 1>that text. It says, quote Special Counsel Robert Mueller the

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<v Speaker 1>third has concluded his investigation of Russian interference. But this

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<v Speaker 1>is the important part. Well, Attorney General William Barr says,

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<v Speaker 1>quote he may be in a position to ad buyse

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<v Speaker 1>you the committees of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as

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<v Speaker 1>soon as this weekend. So this is the first time

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<v Speaker 1>that we've had an indication that the Attorney General may

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<v Speaker 1>be able to move very quickly in terms of releasing

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<v Speaker 1>some information and the findings to Congress. What's not in

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<v Speaker 1>the letter so far that we've seen is a timetable

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<v Speaker 1>for a public release. Welcome to the buck Sex then

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<v Speaker 1>show quite a Friday breaking news situation here, folks. The

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<v Speaker 1>Mueller report has done no more indictments. Oh oh, you

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<v Speaker 1>mean they're not going to prosecute the president. You mean

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<v Speaker 1>that Hillary's not really going to get to be president

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<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden after all. Oh No, we've known

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<v Speaker 1>this day would come, and it is here, and damn

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<v Speaker 1>it feels good to be right team we've been. Just

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<v Speaker 1>take a moment, take a little moment, you know, do

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<v Speaker 1>a little little chin wagging and stretch stretch out a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, you know, just take a little strut around

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<v Speaker 1>the office or around the kitchen or wherever you are,

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<v Speaker 1>and just just remember, we knew it. We knew it.

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<v Speaker 1>The delusional left did not know it. They thought that

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<v Speaker 1>Trump was finished and Mueller's on him, and Mueller's I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>people built careers for themselves around this lie. People became

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<v Speaker 1>a household names around this nonsense. And no new indictment.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what that means. That means that there was

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<v Speaker 1>no collusion, folks, there was no collusion. It's not there,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not real, it's not a thing. And now you

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<v Speaker 1>will see so many people running for cover for a

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<v Speaker 1>few days, not for long, because there will unfortunately be

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<v Speaker 1>no real media accountability for all the frauds, all the

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<v Speaker 1>peddlers of lies and fiction and smears meant to take

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<v Speaker 1>down Trump and just to feed the malignant psychosis of

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<v Speaker 1>the far left in this country that now runs the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrat Party, that is the Democrat Party. And do you

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<v Speaker 1>think that anyone will will apologize for what they've done

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<v Speaker 1>or say that they were wrong about Trump and they

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<v Speaker 1>got caught up in the moment. And no, this was

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<v Speaker 1>a mass hysteria, a mass hysteria that's swept tens of

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<v Speaker 1>millions of people into it and has come at a

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<v Speaker 1>tremendous cost to the country, to the Trump administration's ability

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<v Speaker 1>to conduct its business, to govern well, to enact the agenda.

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<v Speaker 1>So in that sense, I also say this with with

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<v Speaker 1>rage and with sadness. I mean, yes, there's relief and

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<v Speaker 1>there's happiness. We were right and it's done. So just

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<v Speaker 1>take a moment. Team, it's been two years in coming.

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<v Speaker 1>We've been talking about this for two frigging years, and

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<v Speaker 1>now it's over. No more. Muller. Who who's the next

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<v Speaker 1>person he's going to and died? Oh is he? What

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<v Speaker 1>does he have on Trump? Oh? What? The Russians? This

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<v Speaker 1>the Russians, that, Russia, Russia, Russia. Finally, this insanity of

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<v Speaker 1>at least the Special Council is coming to an end.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a good day. It's a good day for America.

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<v Speaker 1>I would also note that I think you and take

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<v Speaker 1>something from the fact that this is being dropped on

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<v Speaker 1>a Friday in late March, as some of my colleagues

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<v Speaker 1>online have pointed out, while March madness is going on,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is a government Friday post five pm news

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<v Speaker 1>dump situation. If this report said that the President United

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<v Speaker 1>States should be criminally charged. Now I know they've said

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<v Speaker 1>there's no indictments, but even if you know, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to take the position that maybe they suggest that

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<v Speaker 1>the president could have been indicted but will not be indicted,

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<v Speaker 1>and we don't know what's in the report yet. But

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<v Speaker 1>if that were the case, trust me, they wouldn't wait

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<v Speaker 1>until a Friday afternoon or evening to let this thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Let this thing go, No way, I'm going to have

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<v Speaker 1>to really take a beat and think about how much

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<v Speaker 1>how much twitter curb stomping I plan to do of

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<v Speaker 1>insane luecheck libs who have been running around with this

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<v Speaker 1>for days from days for years now, and they should

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<v Speaker 1>be held to account. I do not believe they will

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<v Speaker 1>be held to account, but they should be. What they

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<v Speaker 1>did was reckless, what CNN did weaponizing itself against the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump presidency by being the center of this conspiracy theory

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<v Speaker 1>about Trump working with the Russians to steal an election

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<v Speaker 1>from Hillary Clinton as though the as though the presidency

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<v Speaker 1>was her property. That, my friends, is not not something

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<v Speaker 1>that we should let go lightly. That is not something

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<v Speaker 1>that we should forget. And I do hope that there's

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<v Speaker 1>an opportunity here for a reckoning. But the Muller report

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<v Speaker 1>is in the Special Council is done. This National Nightmare

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<v Speaker 1>has at least ended a very destructive chapter. And take

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<v Speaker 1>a moment for yourself. For those of you who have

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<v Speaker 1>been listening to this show, those of you across the

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<v Speaker 1>country to just remember we were right all along. These

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<v Speaker 1>people at New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, all

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<v Speaker 1>the different left wing websites and move On and all

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<v Speaker 1>media matters and these crappy, terrible, disgusting smear machines, they

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<v Speaker 1>were wrong. We were right. They were full of it.

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<v Speaker 1>We were full of truth. You deserve, we deserve a

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<v Speaker 1>moment of victory on this one. We don't know what's

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<v Speaker 1>in that report. We'll no more details soon, but we

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<v Speaker 1>do know this. There was no collusion, and that's what

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<v Speaker 1>this was all about. I've got more on this. Stay

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<v Speaker 1>with me. Think of it. I have a deputy appoints

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<v Speaker 1>a man to write a report on me to make

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<v Speaker 1>a determination of my presidency. People will not stand for it. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>with all of that being said, for two years, we've

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<v Speaker 1>gone through this nonsense. Because there's no collusion with Russia.

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<v Speaker 1>You know that better than anybody. And there's no obstruction.

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<v Speaker 1>They'll say, oh, well, wait, there was no collusion. That

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<v Speaker 1>was a hoax, but he obstructed in fighting against the hoax. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>think about that one for a second. Trump is right, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>He's been right on this one all along. Okay, Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is correct, his detractors, his haters. The Momulla Report is done,

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<v Speaker 1>which means there are no more indictments. Now people are

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<v Speaker 1>gonna say, oh, look, shiny object, shiny object. The Southern

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<v Speaker 1>District maybe is too that has the mandate of Russia

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<v Speaker 1>collusion is finished and there are no more indictments that

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<v Speaker 1>have been handed down, which means that, guess what, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no collusion, which we have known all along.

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<v Speaker 1>And now you're gonna have a lot of people who

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<v Speaker 1>have a tremendous professional investment in this who we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>try to come up with a way to explain to us.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, CNN producer Mike was telling me

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<v Speaker 1>that one this thing broke, CNN has got a panel

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<v Speaker 1>of like everybody and their grandma, and they're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>trying to talk about this. CNN has zero credibility on this,

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<v Speaker 1>zero none whatsoever. Nobody should be listening to what CNN

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<v Speaker 1>has to say about Russia collusion because they've been putting

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<v Speaker 1>hysterical liars on TV for two years. And just for

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<v Speaker 1>the record, not to jump in here, but I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's the first time that anybody on CNN has smiled

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<v Speaker 1>in the year twenty nineteen. I just want to say that, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>but Mike, why are they smiling? There's no collusion. They're

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<v Speaker 1>just happy that it's out. They I don't know, they

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<v Speaker 1>don't I don't even think they know why they're smiling.

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<v Speaker 1>It's well, I mean, I guess maybe maybe they're happy,

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<v Speaker 1>like you know, when sometimes criminals want to get caught.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, the con is over now, right, the CNN,

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<v Speaker 1>all these people, when people wrote books about how collusion

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<v Speaker 1>is you know, going to break down this presidency, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is Watergate and all this stuff. Do any of

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<v Speaker 1>those people get to get mocked publicly? Do we get

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<v Speaker 1>to say that this has been an embarrassment all along.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we get to point out that they have been

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<v Speaker 1>completely detached from reality for the last two years, and

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<v Speaker 1>they've been doing so in bad faith in order to

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<v Speaker 1>take down a president's You know, will there be any

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<v Speaker 1>consequences for this? I would like to say yes. I

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<v Speaker 1>think the answers probably no. And we all know why

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<v Speaker 1>this happened, what this came from. Right, they could not accept.

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<v Speaker 1>They were too deranged with hatred for Trump and oh

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<v Speaker 1>all the laws of not having Hillary Hello be president

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<v Speaker 1>of the United States? They just couldn't handle it. Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is right, This was all an excuse, play clip. They

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<v Speaker 1>came up with an excuse for losing an election. This

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<v Speaker 1>should never happen to another president because most presidents wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be able to take it. I know the politicians, I

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<v Speaker 1>know the president. I know, I know what we're dealing with.

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<v Speaker 1>Most people wouldn't be able to take it. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>tell you something, where what happened to me should never

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<v Speaker 1>happen to another president of the United States because I

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<v Speaker 1>depend on this right here, mind not other people. They

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<v Speaker 1>have treated me so viciously. They have treated me so badly,

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<v Speaker 1>and we did nothing wrong. You look at the other

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<v Speaker 1>and all of these people you hear about that had

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<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with Russia, Russia, collusion, nothing. It's all

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<v Speaker 1>a big hoax. It's a witch hunt, and it's a hoax.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a witch hunt. It is a hoax, and

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<v Speaker 1>I want accountability for it. I don't know if we'll

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<v Speaker 1>ever get it. I mean, these people that have been

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<v Speaker 1>running around with this theory, these so called serious journalists,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, seeing that has just been a dumpster fire

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<v Speaker 1>on this just the worst. I mean, let's let's just

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<v Speaker 1>be real about this. Folks, The dominant news story of

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump presidency of the last two years has been

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<v Speaker 1>a media hoax. I don't think the media should ever

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<v Speaker 1>recover from this. I don't think we should ever be

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<v Speaker 1>forced to take them seriously again. If we ever took

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<v Speaker 1>them seriously, they have covered themselves in dishonor. And now

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to act like we're supposed to accept this.

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<v Speaker 1>And there were people who were paid analysts on the

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<v Speaker 1>on the left wing network, which is everything except for Fox.

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<v Speaker 1>They're paid analysts are going on TV who we're suggesting

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<v Speaker 1>that the president's children might go to you know, might

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<v Speaker 1>get federally prosecuted, that the president's going to be impeached,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even removed from office, that the president himself might

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<v Speaker 1>go to prison over this prison over what I'll never

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<v Speaker 1>forget when the President told me in the Oval office,

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<v Speaker 1>Russia collusion is just a who would even do it?

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<v Speaker 1>It's such a stupid idea, you remember, stretching back to

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning of the Special Council investigation, That's what I

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<v Speaker 1>was saying. This doesn't even make sense as a plan.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not even a you know, if Trump is a

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<v Speaker 1>bank robber, this is like showing up to a bank

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<v Speaker 1>where you know the vault is empty. Who would do that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not even a good plot to steal an election.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't work, and it

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't work, and it would be incredibly risky, and the

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<v Speaker 1>chances of being caught are so very high. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>one thing that you have to keep this in mind.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going to try to tell you that maybe it's

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<v Speaker 1>maybe there still was collusion, maybe this still happened. They

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<v Speaker 1>have to keep digging and looking more. If Robert Muller

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<v Speaker 1>and the very aggressive demo crap prosecutors that he pulled together,

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<v Speaker 1>spending tens of millions of dollars, if they didn't find collusion.

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<v Speaker 1>Anybody who tells you that maybe there was still collusion

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<v Speaker 1>is nuts. Anyone who tells you that we need Congress

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<v Speaker 1>now to spend its time and resources trying to investigate

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<v Speaker 1>this thing more thoroughly is either a liar or just crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>Muller had unlimited ability to pull phone records, pull emails,

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<v Speaker 1>get all the content, pull all the business transactions, all

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<v Speaker 1>the bank records, bring witnesses in, put them under oath,

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<v Speaker 1>prosecute them, send them to prison if they didn't tell

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<v Speaker 1>the truth. What more could realistically be done? The answers

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<v Speaker 1>nothing unless the goal here is twofold cover up for

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<v Speaker 1>this lie, and then move on to further harassment, cover

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<v Speaker 1>up this absolute disgrace perpetrated by the Democrats against this president,

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<v Speaker 1>and then quickly transition into we need his tax returns,

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<v Speaker 1>we need to investigate more, and oh, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe there's still Russia collusion. This whole thing is the

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<v Speaker 1>biggest political scandal of my lifetime. It's something that should

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<v Speaker 1>really make people think long and hard about not just

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<v Speaker 1>the media, but the core of the Democratic Party. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>is the Democratic Party a serious ethical I know you're

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<v Speaker 1>laughing already, but but really, you know, do they do

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<v Speaker 1>they operate with any good faith whatsoever? I mean, this

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<v Speaker 1>is how they oppose a president. This is how they

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<v Speaker 1>they show their political opposition by trying to weaponize the

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<v Speaker 1>investigative functions of the federal government against the commander in

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<v Speaker 1>chief and use their media allies and their lackeys and

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<v Speaker 1>the mainstream press to create this this fabricated story. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we really I I have a couple of drinks this

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<v Speaker 1>weekend and just let this whole thing settle. We have

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<v Speaker 1>been through an ordeal as a country and for what

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<v Speaker 1>for what, So that you know, Rachel Maddow has some

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<v Speaker 1>just lunacy to share with her rapidly left wing audience

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<v Speaker 1>every night, so that Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer can

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<v Speaker 1>pretend to be just journalists looking for the truth, and

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<v Speaker 1>CNN can put all these former deep staters on its payroll,

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<v Speaker 1>all in an effort to try to find ways to

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<v Speaker 1>take down Trump. This is what they've done, this is

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<v Speaker 1>what they've offered up. I mean, they should be ashamed,

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<v Speaker 1>but unfortunately they are incapable of shame. It's one of

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<v Speaker 1>the traits that Democrats have that makes them very resilient.

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<v Speaker 1>We will not let them scurry away from this one.

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<v Speaker 1>We will not let them just pretend that this never happened.

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<v Speaker 1>They need to be made to own If they are

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<v Speaker 1>not going to pay for it, at least they have

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<v Speaker 1>to own it for the next two years. We need

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<v Speaker 1>to make sure that the last two years matter for

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<v Speaker 1>the next two years, going into the twenty twenty election

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<v Speaker 1>because or the next whatever it is now you know,

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen months, because this has been a this has been

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<v Speaker 1>an abject catastrophe of lies, falsehoods, and so many people

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<v Speaker 1>believed this. Why is it that you and I knew?

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't think there was no collusion. I knew there

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<v Speaker 1>was no collusion. Why did we Well, it's kind of like,

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<v Speaker 1>how did I know Jesse Smollett was lying? And the

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<v Speaker 1>left just couldn't figure that out? You know, at what

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<v Speaker 1>point is it clear that there is a wisdom, knowledge,

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<v Speaker 1>and sanity disparity between the right and the left. How

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<v Speaker 1>much crazier would they have to be? How much more

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<v Speaker 1>delusional and ideologically driven in defiance of reality would they

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<v Speaker 1>have to be before we'd be able to say, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what, we're not really dealing with the people playing

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<v Speaker 1>with a full deck, so to speak, over here, that

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<v Speaker 1>the left really has lost its mind and that should

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<v Speaker 1>be scared everybody because now the far left is in

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<v Speaker 1>control the Democratic Party. Are we talking more about that

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<v Speaker 1>here in just a moment, But yes, the Mola report

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<v Speaker 1>has been handed in. With my Republican colleagues, they say

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<v Speaker 1>things and I'm like, what does that have to do

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<v Speaker 1>with what we're talking about? And like the person's like

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<v Speaker 1>in charge of National flood Insurance program. We're like, what

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<v Speaker 1>an the woman said yes or no and yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>she goes, yes, you're really good at just saying a

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it's weird and like yeah, yeah, kind of

0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.760
<v Speaker 1>this Fox News lunacies and is like in the well,

0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.879
<v Speaker 1>like we're voting on like gun reform, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>I think it. I think it is interesting. Have you

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<v Speaker 1>met with a lot of inner party resistance. Yeah, Congressional

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<v Speaker 1>hearings are not a Beyonce concert. You know, most powerful

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<v Speaker 1>democrat in the country, folks, right there, number one right now,

0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.200
<v Speaker 1>a woman who I have yet to hear her say

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<v Speaker 1>a single insightful thing about anything. And I think that,

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<v Speaker 1>with the way the media treats her, is just yet

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<v Speaker 1>another data point for why we should not take the

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<v Speaker 1>media very seriously, because they do not view their job

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<v Speaker 1>as as challenging power. They are all vessels for the

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<v Speaker 1>aggrandizement of AOC. They view their role as finding ways

0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.440
<v Speaker 1>to make her look even more fantastic. We'll talk later

0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.800
<v Speaker 1>on in the show about what she said in Time

0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:06.840
<v Speaker 1>magazine and some of the the just idiocy on display.

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<v Speaker 1>But I can't get away from the fact that we've

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<v Speaker 1>been told that so many stories about how Trump is is,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, not as rich as he says, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>intellectually incurious and he never reads and he does watch TV.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you know, if the Democrats put forward the

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<v Speaker 1>my proverbial you know, PhD in astrophysics, Navy seal who

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<v Speaker 1>just wants to better run the welfare state in this

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<v Speaker 1>country and have a more humble foreign policy with less interventionism,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, is willing to secure the borders with

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<v Speaker 1>and not promote amistic well that now you can't be

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<v Speaker 1>a damage. See this is a problem the Democrats. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what, I just talked myself out of this whole thesis.

0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.280
<v Speaker 1>They can't put forward a normal candidate or impressive candidate.

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<v Speaker 1>They have to put forward this. This is this is

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<v Speaker 1>who they are. I think that we as conservatives have

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of denialism here, I know I do.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes I keep thinking that they're going to snap out

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<v Speaker 1>of it and go back to there. The Democrat Party

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<v Speaker 1>has been socialist in its ethos for a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>increasingly aggressively socialist. But at least they used to have

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<v Speaker 1>to to play the game a little bit and make

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<v Speaker 1>enough of the country think that they care more. They

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<v Speaker 1>care about workers, and they care more about your healthcare.

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<v Speaker 1>And this was always the you know, they're the party

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<v Speaker 1>of the nice people who want to do the government's

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<v Speaker 1>going to help you. The government's going to be your friend,

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<v Speaker 1>it's going to it's going to assist you. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I just have got to say that it's it's very,

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<v Speaker 1>very frustrating that we are now in a position where

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<v Speaker 1>everything that we said was going to happen with the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats about how they would be the party of socialism

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<v Speaker 1>and that would be calling for single payer has come true,

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<v Speaker 1>and the media just blows past that, like what our

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<v Speaker 1>conservatives are we a bunch of wizards? Can we tell

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<v Speaker 1>the future? Now? We've understood what the game plan is

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<v Speaker 1>here for a long time, but now they're finally at

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<v Speaker 1>the point where they can't hide it anymore. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>now now we see that left to their own devices,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrat Party is now the party of Democrat socialism.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not Stalinists. Yes, they're not hardcore communists that are

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<v Speaker 1>going to set up a central committee, but their central

0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.960
<v Speaker 1>committee is really just a dispersed one. It's a very

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<v Speaker 1>broad communist central committee. The Democrats, their central committee is

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the barons of Silicon Valley and the heads

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<v Speaker 1>of media media organizations, and there you know, the billionaires

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<v Speaker 1>that are pushing climate change and major lifestyle choices on

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<v Speaker 1>people that are actually gonna have to live with the

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<v Speaker 1>conse of it, unlike the billionaires. So you know, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit, there's a there's shadows of that, there's

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<v Speaker 1>little flavors of that, but they're not yet hardcore, and

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<v Speaker 1>they're not going to be anytime soon, I think hardcore Stalinists,

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<v Speaker 1>although on speech they're getting. You know, I kind of

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<v Speaker 1>go back and forth on some of the stuff. I

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<v Speaker 1>talk myself into what I think is the real essence

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<v Speaker 1>of where the Democratic Party, well where it is now,

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<v Speaker 1>but also where it's going, and I just think that,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they can't they can't help themselves, you know, AOC.

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<v Speaker 1>As much as I want to believe that Okazio Cortez

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<v Speaker 1>is some kind of aberration, that she is a departure

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<v Speaker 1>otherwise solid Democrat Party norms, now what's happened is she

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<v Speaker 1>is the Democrat Party. Now. Pelosi is just a part

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<v Speaker 1>of the machinery of the Democrat Party. But the person

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<v Speaker 1>at the controls who's deciding where the machine's gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>and what it's gonna do, that's now AOC. Bernie Sanders,

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth Warren and some of these other prominent Democrats that

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<v Speaker 1>you're seeing like Corey Booker, Kamala Harris. They are going

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<v Speaker 1>to be drawn further and further into that that you

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<v Speaker 1>are not going to see this snap into the center.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's why I think Biden when he does get in,

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<v Speaker 1>I know, the pole show and being pretty strong, but

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<v Speaker 1>it'll be clear to people who are astute observers pretty quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Biden is going to look like the old

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<v Speaker 1>the old guy who is that's right, you know what's

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<v Speaker 1>coming doing a belly flop into the shallow end of

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<v Speaker 1>the pool. I mean, it's just not gonna work. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna work. He's not compelling, he's not in the

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<v Speaker 1>zeitgeist at all. You know. The only way he maybe

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<v Speaker 1>makes it work is this idea that was floated this

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<v Speaker 1>week of Stacy Abrams kind of like Beto and that

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<v Speaker 1>another Democrat who lost but we're still supposed to think

0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:09.480
<v Speaker 1>is a winner anyway and doesn't even accept that she lost.

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<v Speaker 1>Abrams may run on the bottom side of the ticket,

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<v Speaker 1>and Biden says that it may say that he'll only

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<v Speaker 1>serve one term, and so then you get the optics

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<v Speaker 1>of a nationally recognizable African American female politician as the

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the person in waiting essentially to be the

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<v Speaker 1>president as the VP. You know, the idea that she'd

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<v Speaker 1>it will be handed off to her in twenty twenty four,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe hers to run with in twenty twenty four, and

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<v Speaker 1>that Biden would retire after four years as president. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the only way that I think that Biden really has

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<v Speaker 1>a chance of being president. I do not, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think people care enough about the VP. Look what

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<v Speaker 1>happened John McCain and Sarah Palin. I don't think that

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<v Speaker 1>people care enough about the VP for that strategy to work.

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<v Speaker 1>I think everyone realizes the VP is you know, VP

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<v Speaker 1>is there in case of VP is not exactly blowing

0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:11.280
<v Speaker 1>people's minds. We'll be right back, Governor. Some of your

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<v Speaker 1>male competitors have vowed to put a woman on the ticket,

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<v Speaker 1>yes or no? Would you do the same, Well again,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, but I think that we should be Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll ask you another question. How come we aren't asking

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<v Speaker 1>the question? I don't, I don't, but half couple we're

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<v Speaker 1>not asking. We're not asking more often the women who

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<v Speaker 1>should be willing to put a man on the ticket

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<v Speaker 1>when we get to that point. So that was I know,

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<v Speaker 1>we played that for you yesterday. And just I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>Hickenloper seems like kind of a dork, you know, not

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<v Speaker 1>that far left from what I understand. I don't really

0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:49.440
<v Speaker 1>know much about him, but this is an interesting and

0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:53.000
<v Speaker 1>interesting little moment because that you know, it was just

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<v Speaker 1>the thing about hick and Looper that got attention this week.

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<v Speaker 1>People got really really upset about this. And and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>noticing that this trend on the left, it's look at

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<v Speaker 1>there's there has been a a hyper ventilating victimhood that

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<v Speaker 1>is at the heart of feminism for a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, feminists have thought for a long time that

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<v Speaker 1>they are you know that that women and I mean

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<v Speaker 1>in recent years. I'm not talking about when women did

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<v Speaker 1>not have equal rights, which was which was wrong, and

0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:26.600
<v Speaker 1>but you know that has been corrected. Women do have

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<v Speaker 1>equal rights. And in fact, if you go into family

0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.720
<v Speaker 1>court now, which you will find is that women actually

0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:35.000
<v Speaker 1>have in some legal contexts more rights than men. Family

0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:41.560
<v Speaker 1>courts are incredibly skewed toward females over males, for just

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<v Speaker 1>just because the mom is is the one who is

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<v Speaker 1>more likely to get custom of the kids just because

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<v Speaker 1>right So, on a legal basis, women actually have more

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<v Speaker 1>rights than men in some contexts, and in general have

0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:57.480
<v Speaker 1>the same rights. But there's still this, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>the and I think it really comes from the boomer

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<v Speaker 1>finists out there, who, unfortunately a lot of them, I think,

0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.679
<v Speaker 1>have some regrets about how certain things when certain things

0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:10.600
<v Speaker 1>have gone, certainly regrets about Hillary Clinton not winning the

0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:13.520
<v Speaker 1>twenty sixteen election. There's a bitterness. I mean, feminism and

0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:19.720
<v Speaker 1>bitterness are very much intertwined. And also feminists don't have

0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:25.119
<v Speaker 1>a sense of humor, which is another really undesirable, unlikable

0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:28.520
<v Speaker 1>trait of feminism. They just nothing is funny to a feminist, right.

0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:31.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, you hear the joke about the feminist and

0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:35.320
<v Speaker 1>the other feminists. You know, that's not funny, that's the joke.

0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:40.360
<v Speaker 1>Here's what the media said about Hey, Hick and Looper. Look,

0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.520
<v Speaker 1>he made a kind of goofy look, you know, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>we should ask if the men will be on the two,

0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:46.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, But he actually kind of got it a

0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:48.680
<v Speaker 1>little bit of a truth there, which is why why

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<v Speaker 1>am I required to have a female as a vice president?

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<v Speaker 1>Why don't I just have the best person for the job.

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<v Speaker 1>Right and the media got upset about this. Play three

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<v Speaker 1>John hick and Looper's answer about the possibility of a

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<v Speaker 1>female running mate sparking backlash. I don't know what the

0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:05.040
<v Speaker 1>heck he was talking about. There are a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats who feel that women haven't been given their just due,

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<v Speaker 1>so when Hickenlooper says things like that, he's basically dismissing

0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:14.800
<v Speaker 1>those concerns. Craig, I don't even know how to reply

0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:17.320
<v Speaker 1>to that. I mean, forty five presidents have been men.

0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:19.360
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think that speaks for itself. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's just one of those answers that you really grown at.

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<v Speaker 1>I certainly did when I saw it. I think I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna send Governor Hickenlooper copy of those place mats with

0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:36.040
<v Speaker 1>all the president's faces on them that are all men. See.

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<v Speaker 1>This is at the center of why identity politics is

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<v Speaker 1>an intellectual failure, and we'll always fall into self contradiction,

0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:52.160
<v Speaker 1>We'll always fall into hypocrisy and an inability to defend

0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:55.840
<v Speaker 1>itself as as an ideological system, and so therefore it

0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:58.120
<v Speaker 1>will just go on attack. It will always go at

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<v Speaker 1>hominem Right, identity politics cannot stand because it isn't based

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<v Speaker 1>in a principle that is defensible. If in fact, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the case that we should have a president who is

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<v Speaker 1>a woman just because we have not had a president

0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:18.240
<v Speaker 1>or a vice president who is a woman, then shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>it also be the case that we have a duty

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<v Speaker 1>to have the next forty five presidents be women. Don't

0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:26.520
<v Speaker 1>we have to balance it out? I mean, if if

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to take the position that it's not in

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<v Speaker 1>the here and now, when we are actively deciding a question,

0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:37.000
<v Speaker 1>and you know, in twenty nineteen in America, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>about who is the best and who the people choose

0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:42.840
<v Speaker 1>for the job, that gender should matter as a as

0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:46.520
<v Speaker 1>a factor, a perhaps deciding factor in that. Why shouldn't

0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:50.040
<v Speaker 1>gender matter for the next forty five When is it enough?

0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:53.800
<v Speaker 1>This is why the left also gets very uncomfortable with

0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:56.360
<v Speaker 1>the idea of quotas. They want the appearance of a

0:30:56.440 --> 0:31:00.440
<v Speaker 1>quota thought without the admission of a quota existing, because well,

0:31:00.440 --> 0:31:03.240
<v Speaker 1>how the moment that you say that you have a quota,

0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:05.760
<v Speaker 1>you're not basing something on merit, or in this case,

0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:07.400
<v Speaker 1>you're not basing it on the will of the people.

0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.880
<v Speaker 1>You're mandating something that is external from that, will you're

0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:15.920
<v Speaker 1>mandating something that is different from the meritocracy or what

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<v Speaker 1>have you. Right there, there's a separation of the of

0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:22.959
<v Speaker 1>principle here that occurs. So when they when they bring up,

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.000
<v Speaker 1>you know, why don't you have a woman a woman

0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:28.160
<v Speaker 1>who will be on your on your ticket? And he's like, well,

0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:31.240
<v Speaker 1>why do what do I have to you know, he

0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:34.680
<v Speaker 1>said it like in a goofy way, But the point

0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.680
<v Speaker 1>is valid, which is does he have to Is this

0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:40.000
<v Speaker 1>now a requirement? I mean, why is he being asked that?

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<v Speaker 1>And now I don't think it's a problem that Donna

0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:48.840
<v Speaker 1>bash Do not call her Dana, it's Donna bash. Um.

0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:51.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's a problem that she has a

0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:52.920
<v Speaker 1>journal has asked him, and it's fine she can say

0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:54.520
<v Speaker 1>should you have a woman on your ticket? But I

0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:56.480
<v Speaker 1>think it's funny is that the media got angry at

0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.200
<v Speaker 1>him for saying it's kind of a silly it's kind

0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:04.080
<v Speaker 1>of an unimportant, silly question because it either you either

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<v Speaker 1>want the best person for the job. And this is

0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:08.600
<v Speaker 1>why identity politics, whether it's based on gender or race,

0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:12.640
<v Speaker 1>or sexual orientation or anything else, always runs into this issue.

0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.120
<v Speaker 1>They want to tell us that it's the best person

0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:18.200
<v Speaker 1>should get the job. But then when we say, okay,

0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.880
<v Speaker 1>well how do we how do we determine who the

0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:23.160
<v Speaker 1>best person is for the job, they say, well, you know,

0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:26.160
<v Speaker 1>we really need a person who looks like X, we

0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:31.600
<v Speaker 1>really want a person who is of why background. But

0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:36.840
<v Speaker 1>that that doesn't that's a superficial characteristic. That's not that's

0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:41.920
<v Speaker 1>not within the wheelhouse of how we're supposed to decide this.

0:32:42.040 --> 0:32:44.840
<v Speaker 1>That's a that's an externality that you're now saying should

0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:48.880
<v Speaker 1>perhaps even be the decisive factor. This is always the

0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:52.120
<v Speaker 1>problem with identity politics. It's always the problem with the

0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:56.480
<v Speaker 1>intersectional left. They want you to they want to create

0:32:56.600 --> 0:33:03.400
<v Speaker 1>the anxiety around accusations of sexism, accusations of racism, and

0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:05.959
<v Speaker 1>so people will act accordingly. You know, you're always going

0:33:06.000 --> 0:33:10.440
<v Speaker 1>to get the tie goes to the aggrieved minority, the

0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:13.800
<v Speaker 1>aggrieved sex, the aggrieved sexual oritation, whatever it may be,

0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:16.239
<v Speaker 1>and in a lot of cases a lot more than

0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:18.440
<v Speaker 1>just the tie. But if you bring that up and say, well,

0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:21.080
<v Speaker 1>hold on a second, is this I mean, for example,

0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:25.720
<v Speaker 1>if you have a talk with any Democrat about whether

0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:30.239
<v Speaker 1>it was an advantage for Barack Obama to be an

0:33:30.240 --> 0:33:33.680
<v Speaker 1>African American running for president. They look at you like

0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:37.360
<v Speaker 1>you're crazy. Now, I'm not saying that as an African

0:33:37.360 --> 0:33:40.800
<v Speaker 1>American Barack Obama did not overcome a lot of adversing

0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:43.480
<v Speaker 1>in his life. I'm not African American, and I'm sure

0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:49.400
<v Speaker 1>he did. But this pretense that it wasn't a differentiating

0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:55.480
<v Speaker 1>and overwhelmingly viewed as positive, groundbreaking historical characteristic of Obama,

0:33:55.560 --> 0:34:00.600
<v Speaker 1>that yes, he was black, is delusional. But the left

0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:05.640
<v Speaker 1>still they all, I mean, they they claim that the

0:34:05.680 --> 0:34:09.320
<v Speaker 1>fact that he was black was a disadvantage in the election,

0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:12.880
<v Speaker 1>and all the evidence is to the contrary, which speaks

0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:16.719
<v Speaker 1>to I think the you know, it's all to the good,

0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:20.759
<v Speaker 1>and I'm glad that the American people are what we are,

0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:23.879
<v Speaker 1>which is open minded and tolerant, and you know, we

0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:27.040
<v Speaker 1>aren't nearly as sexist, racist and all these other things

0:34:27.080 --> 0:34:31.480
<v Speaker 1>as the left wing media would have us believe. But

0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:33.640
<v Speaker 1>I mean, let's just can we at least be honest

0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:36.440
<v Speaker 1>about these things? When is something an advantage? You know,

0:34:36.719 --> 0:34:39.959
<v Speaker 1>they'll tell you vote for this person because of their

0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:43.600
<v Speaker 1>gender or their you know, their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation.

0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:47.160
<v Speaker 1>But when you say, okay, so they have an advantage, Now,

0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:51.640
<v Speaker 1>because of that, you're told no, no, you can't say that. Well,

0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.440
<v Speaker 1>which is it? I just want to know. Can we

0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:56.960
<v Speaker 1>have clarity on this? If you're telling me it's a

0:34:56.960 --> 0:35:00.279
<v Speaker 1>reason to vote for a person that's an advantage, that

0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:04.560
<v Speaker 1>that's not a disadvantage. And if you're telling me, or

0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:06.279
<v Speaker 1>you're telling Hick and Looper that he has to have

0:35:06.640 --> 0:35:09.000
<v Speaker 1>a woman as vice president, jo't also tell him that

0:35:09.040 --> 0:35:12.240
<v Speaker 1>he's picking the vice president because that's the best person.

0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:14.720
<v Speaker 1>Because if you were picking the best person, you wouldn't

0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:16.319
<v Speaker 1>tell him he has to pick a woman. You see,

0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:21.319
<v Speaker 1>this is the incoherence of identity politics laid bare for you.

0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:23.719
<v Speaker 1>And people in the media. They don't grapple all this

0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:27.240
<v Speaker 1>stuff in any in any serious sense, in any serious way.

0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:32.680
<v Speaker 1>And that's why I have so much fun making fun

0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:36.160
<v Speaker 1>of their silliness on a regular basis. But wow, our

0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:39.799
<v Speaker 1>Friday is already rolling along. Your team, we have much

0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:45.640
<v Speaker 1>more to go. I'll be right back. So I interviewed

0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:51.359
<v Speaker 1>a Democratic candidate for the presidency today, and I gotta

0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:53.880
<v Speaker 1>tell you a team it was actually, it was actually

0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:58.960
<v Speaker 1>pretty pretty intriguing. This fellow. Um, I think his policies

0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:02.800
<v Speaker 1>would if enact, did his broad you know, major policies

0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:06.640
<v Speaker 1>would be really bad for the country. But I think

0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:11.040
<v Speaker 1>he is an earnest and sharp guy, and I can engage.

0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:14.200
<v Speaker 1>I can engage with leftists who want to engage in

0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:16.520
<v Speaker 1>good faith. Always I'll engage with anyone who wants to

0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:18.279
<v Speaker 1>engage in good faith. Right if someone wants to sit

0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.879
<v Speaker 1>down and tell me that we need to kill all

0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.600
<v Speaker 1>the cows and get off of fossil fuels and they

0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:26.239
<v Speaker 1>want to talk about it, I'll do that if if

0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:29.200
<v Speaker 1>they want to take that position, kill all the cows,

0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:31.400
<v Speaker 1>no more fossil fuels. And if I don't agree, it's

0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:34.359
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a racist, big as sexist. That's not really

0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:39.840
<v Speaker 1>a useful exercise. To his credit, Democratic candidate for the presidency,

0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:44.640
<v Speaker 1>Andrew Yang is in the I want to talk category,

0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:47.680
<v Speaker 1>and so we had a sit down today. It was

0:36:47.719 --> 0:36:52.560
<v Speaker 1>on rising the left right, liberal slash conservative. Both sides

0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:55.399
<v Speaker 1>show that I do at the Hill, and we had

0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:57.560
<v Speaker 1>to have an interesting talk. So first it was on

0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.680
<v Speaker 1>universal basic income, which he calls the free m dividend,

0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:04.840
<v Speaker 1>and the idea there is that there will be a

0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:09.480
<v Speaker 1>massive program of a thousand dollars a month for everyone

0:37:09.520 --> 0:37:11.799
<v Speaker 1>in the United States over the age of eighteen. I said,

0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:13.719
<v Speaker 1>how will you found this? He said, well, well, we'll

0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:17.800
<v Speaker 1>tax some of these super successful Silicon Valley companies and

0:37:18.160 --> 0:37:21.240
<v Speaker 1>other industry and probably Wall Street, maybe a special internet tax.

0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:26.279
<v Speaker 1>So that will be a massive program, incredibly expensive and

0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:29.040
<v Speaker 1>a massive tax to pay for it. But at least

0:37:29.080 --> 0:37:32.160
<v Speaker 1>he's saying, no, we're going to really tax the you know,

0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:34.319
<v Speaker 1>tax that you know what out of things. I mean,

0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:36.480
<v Speaker 1>we're going to really go for it. But you're all,

0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:38.279
<v Speaker 1>everyone's gonna get a check, no matter who you are,

0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:39.640
<v Speaker 1>you gonna check every month in the government for a

0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.200
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars. So I think this is a good idea. No,

0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.080
<v Speaker 1>because the thousand's going to turn into Okay, well some

0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:46.839
<v Speaker 1>people should get two thousand, and then some people should

0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.239
<v Speaker 1>get three thousand, and then you know it whenever you

0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:51.719
<v Speaker 1>create an entitlement and then you start haggling over how

0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:54.279
<v Speaker 1>much bigger the entitlement gets. So I don't think it's

0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:58.680
<v Speaker 1>a good idea. But it's not a bizarre idea. It's

0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:03.720
<v Speaker 1>not like the Green New Deal crazy level of ideas.

0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:08.360
<v Speaker 1>He also wants medicare for all, and I keep saying

0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:13.760
<v Speaker 1>that in a world where we don't care about the debt,

0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:17.200
<v Speaker 1>Medicare for a world we don't care about the debt.

0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:21.000
<v Speaker 1>And if you don't care about rationing and shortages in care,

0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:23.799
<v Speaker 1>if you don't care about waiting six months to see

0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.560
<v Speaker 1>your doctor, then we could do Medicare for all. The

0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:28.600
<v Speaker 1>problems with it are that you're gonna wait forever because

0:38:28.600 --> 0:38:31.480
<v Speaker 1>they'll be rationing, and it's going to blow a massive

0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:37.160
<v Speaker 1>hole through an already sinking ship of a debt. It's

0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:40.160
<v Speaker 1>going to be completely you know, we're gonna be at

0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:42.960
<v Speaker 1>thirty trillion dollars before you know it, I mean fast.

0:38:43.840 --> 0:38:47.000
<v Speaker 1>If we do Medicare for all, it's gonna be wildly expensive.

0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:49.399
<v Speaker 1>But if you're willing to wait, and you're and he

0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:52.080
<v Speaker 1>understands this is very expensive, you know, he says, we

0:38:52.120 --> 0:38:56.200
<v Speaker 1>already spend more than other countries on care. And to that,

0:38:56.239 --> 0:38:58.399
<v Speaker 1>I say, first of all, Americans, and they never want

0:38:58.400 --> 0:39:00.680
<v Speaker 1>to talk about this in folks. I gotta as I

0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:06.080
<v Speaker 1>sit here and I'm thinking about the gluten free pizza

0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:08.200
<v Speaker 1>that I'm going to be eating tonight and the gluten

0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:11.840
<v Speaker 1>free pasta that I may be ordering, Americans are not

0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:16.080
<v Speaker 1>as healthy as their European counterparts. We require. This is

0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:17.719
<v Speaker 1>a fact that don't get mad at me. I'm not

0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:19.880
<v Speaker 1>telling you, hey, put down that cheeseburger and eat some

0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:24.160
<v Speaker 1>tofu because I'm not a communist. But Americans are not

0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:30.080
<v Speaker 1>as healthy as are the Europeans, and so we automatically

0:39:30.080 --> 0:39:33.080
<v Speaker 1>have higher healthcare costs because of that. And we also

0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:38.000
<v Speaker 1>have better outcomes of particularly for cancer treatment, than anybody

0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:40.200
<v Speaker 1>over there. So if you get really sick, you want

0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:42.680
<v Speaker 1>to be in America. If you get a little sick,

0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.319
<v Speaker 1>you might want to be in Europe. But Americans tend

0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:48.040
<v Speaker 1>to be sicker than their European counterparts. And oh, by

0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:50.640
<v Speaker 1>the way, one of the reasons that our healthcare costs

0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:55.400
<v Speaker 1>is so high is prescription drug prices. And that's just chronyism.

0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.360
<v Speaker 1>That's not a function of you know, Medicare or Medicaid.

0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:02.239
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's just legislation and regulations that are in

0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:07.360
<v Speaker 1>place that allow these companies to just benefit themselves in

0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:11.000
<v Speaker 1>a way that he's egregious. That's that is what's happening.

0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:13.359
<v Speaker 1>You know, they sell it for different prices around the world,

0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:14.560
<v Speaker 1>but they sell it for in a much, much, much

0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:17.239
<v Speaker 1>higher priced here to extract as much as they can

0:40:17.239 --> 0:40:18.880
<v Speaker 1>have the out of the American market. I mean, there

0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:21.680
<v Speaker 1>is some and the Trump administration knows this. There's some

0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.480
<v Speaker 1>regulatory reform that has to happen. There no question about it.

0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:31.000
<v Speaker 1>So Medicare for all he likes. Again, he knows the

0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:33.680
<v Speaker 1>ups and that he doesn't accept the downsides that I

0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:35.200
<v Speaker 1>brought up to him, but he at least is aware

0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:37.279
<v Speaker 1>of them. This guy, look, this guy Yang, he went

0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:40.840
<v Speaker 1>on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's a People are calling his

0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:45.279
<v Speaker 1>supporters the Yang gang. He's an interesting guy, and you know,

0:40:45.320 --> 0:40:48.320
<v Speaker 1>he's very polite, he's he's not he doesn't run around

0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:50.719
<v Speaker 1>calling everybody a racist. And I'm biggetting everything else. So

0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:53.839
<v Speaker 1>I found him far more interesting to talk to than

0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:56.840
<v Speaker 1>some of the other Democrats that I've come across recently,

0:40:57.719 --> 0:41:01.880
<v Speaker 1>way less interested, incuring, at least based on my interview

0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:05.279
<v Speaker 1>with them today, lecturing people on you know how just

0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:09.680
<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump is some horrible monster and racist and everything else.

0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:13.440
<v Speaker 1>And then his other big ideas, and this ties into

0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:16.440
<v Speaker 1>the universal basic income, is that automation is going to

0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:20.040
<v Speaker 1>get rid of millions and millions of jobs within the

0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:23.120
<v Speaker 1>next ten years. And even if we have the displacement

0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:27.479
<v Speaker 1>of those jobs filled in other ways, it'll take a while.

0:41:27.520 --> 0:41:29.360
<v Speaker 1>It'll be highly disruptive, and we need to be prepared

0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:33.719
<v Speaker 1>for it. I think that's a that is also a

0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:36.040
<v Speaker 1>serious argument. Now I'm not sure that the answer does

0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:39.080
<v Speaker 1>it just give people? Bunny and I don't. And I

0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:41.400
<v Speaker 1>also don't believe that anybody can really predict the future.

0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:44.439
<v Speaker 1>You can, you should prepare for the future based on

0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:48.360
<v Speaker 1>your best predictions, but nobody can really predict the future.

0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.040
<v Speaker 1>So on automation though, and he loved the book Rise

0:41:53.080 --> 0:41:55.319
<v Speaker 1>of the Robots, which I have, and I'm embarrassed to

0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.839
<v Speaker 1>tell you I have it in my stack right now.

0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:00.200
<v Speaker 1>I have not gotten to it yet, but it is

0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:02.759
<v Speaker 1>in my read stack. I got to get through this

0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.680
<v Speaker 1>book on the Lost City of the of the Monkey God.

0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:09.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm never reading another book about archaeology. Oh you know,

0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:11.759
<v Speaker 1>all these archaeologists are like, I had to sleep in

0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.560
<v Speaker 1>this little tent and there were snakes outside. Ooh you know.

0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:16.320
<v Speaker 1>And then I found a big mound that maybe was

0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:19.359
<v Speaker 1>used for burial purposes. I just I got to get

0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:22.000
<v Speaker 1>to a point in life where I see my thing is,

0:42:22.000 --> 0:42:25.680
<v Speaker 1>I won't bail on a book. I rarely will bail

0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:28.319
<v Speaker 1>on it. I because I think that i've I've like

0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.160
<v Speaker 1>given up, but I won't let the book if it's

0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:31.719
<v Speaker 1>a bad book. I don't want to let it win

0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:34.520
<v Speaker 1>by saying I'm not going to read this book anymore.

0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 1>But then you get stuck reading a bad book for

0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:39.160
<v Speaker 1>hours and hours and hours, especially if it's bad. You

0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.840
<v Speaker 1>really are you know, I have very few books that

0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:44.920
<v Speaker 1>I've only gotten halfway through and then finished off. So

0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:48.120
<v Speaker 1>so you know, the young thing was it worthwhile exchange? Today?

0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:50.399
<v Speaker 1>I tell you, I really I found him to be um.

0:42:50.880 --> 0:42:52.759
<v Speaker 1>I disagree with them on everything, but it was it

0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:55.600
<v Speaker 1>reminded me that it's possible to think that a leftist

0:42:55.640 --> 0:42:57.880
<v Speaker 1>is wrong about everything and not want to scream at

0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:00.520
<v Speaker 1>them to stop being a psycho lib that know nothing.

0:43:00.960 --> 0:43:04.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, he's he's he's thoughtful about being wrong, which

0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:06.759
<v Speaker 1>I can appreciate. Then he's got some other ideas I'm

0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.279
<v Speaker 1>just gonna tell you get me real excited. And the

0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:12.360
<v Speaker 1>Federalist pulled some of these together. He wants a national

0:43:12.480 --> 0:43:16.000
<v Speaker 1>texting line to report annoying robo calls. I think the

0:43:16.080 --> 0:43:18.120
<v Speaker 1>robo calls are specifically set up to go off on

0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:21.160
<v Speaker 1>my phone while I'm doing this radio show. And I

0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:23.680
<v Speaker 1>cannot tell you how many times I have in my

0:43:23.680 --> 0:43:26.160
<v Speaker 1>head had to stifle a curse and throwing my phone

0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:30.040
<v Speaker 1>at the wall because I'm about to just reach that

0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.200
<v Speaker 1>that moment of I've been building to that one thought

0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:35.960
<v Speaker 1>that's coming during the monologue, and it's and then you know,

0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:40.279
<v Speaker 1>on my desk and it's a robo call. I mean,

0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:43.239
<v Speaker 1>I can tell it's a robo call. So I like

0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:47.760
<v Speaker 1>that idea. He got into an exchange with Ben Shapiro

0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:52.120
<v Speaker 1>about ending infant circumcision, and we asked him about that

0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:57.480
<v Speaker 1>today and this was just on Twitter, but he thinks

0:43:57.520 --> 0:44:00.200
<v Speaker 1>that circumcision isn't something it's not the health benefits are

0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:02.920
<v Speaker 1>not clear. These obviously male circumcision we're talking about here,

0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:05.879
<v Speaker 1>and whenever, just talking about it kind of makes me think, oh,

0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:09.759
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna be honest with you. But you know,

0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.799
<v Speaker 1>it's an idea and it's something that he might be

0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:17.080
<v Speaker 1>talking to people about. And then he also thinks that

0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:21.040
<v Speaker 1>we should have the American Mall Act to deal with

0:44:21.080 --> 0:44:24.520
<v Speaker 1>the fact that malls are turning into ghost towns, which

0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:26.399
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if the government really has a role

0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:27.919
<v Speaker 1>in that. I think that real estate will get sold

0:44:27.960 --> 0:44:31.520
<v Speaker 1>to other other use and that'll be fine. But anyway,

0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:33.319
<v Speaker 1>he's a thoughtful guy. So you know, I'm not just

0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:36.040
<v Speaker 1>here to just trash libs. I'd like to engage in ideas,

0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:38.680
<v Speaker 1>and he's a guy with ideas, so we engage in

0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:41.279
<v Speaker 1>them and explain why they are wrong. But I'm glad

0:44:41.320 --> 0:44:43.120
<v Speaker 1>that he spent his time with us today. I did

0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 1>appreciate it, and team will be right back well. The

0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:52.680
<v Speaker 1>Trump administration has behaved precisely the opposite of the way

0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:56.399
<v Speaker 1>that the Obama administration behaved during the Green the Green

0:44:56.440 --> 0:45:01.120
<v Speaker 1>effort in Iran. Instead of shutting the people, we've supported them.

0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Instead of denying the rights of the people of Iran,

0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:06.759
<v Speaker 1>we're supporting the rights of the people of Venezuela. We're

0:45:06.800 --> 0:45:09.440
<v Speaker 1>committed to this. We're going to stay the course. There

0:45:09.440 --> 0:45:12.040
<v Speaker 1>are multiple elements to this effort. There's the political element,

0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.719
<v Speaker 1>there's the economic element. We are desperately trying to get

0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:19.080
<v Speaker 1>humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela. We're committed to

0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:24.400
<v Speaker 1>helping Venezuela the region deny Madure of the opportunity to

0:45:24.520 --> 0:45:28.240
<v Speaker 1>engage in this thuggish behavior that has been so harmful

0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.640
<v Speaker 1>to ordinary Venezuelans. We're determined to achieve this outcome, and

0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:34.760
<v Speaker 1>we're optimistic that we can get there at some point,

0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:38.680
<v Speaker 1>I would imagine things will change, but we really haven't

0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:41.080
<v Speaker 1>done the really tough sanctions yet. We can do the

0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.359
<v Speaker 1>tough sanctions and all options are open, so we may

0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:46.280
<v Speaker 1>be doing that, but we haven't done the toughest of sanctions.

0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:49.600
<v Speaker 1>As you know, we've done I would say, right down

0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:52.160
<v Speaker 1>the middle, but we can go a lot tougher if

0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:57.640
<v Speaker 1>we need to do that. Venezuela is still very much

0:45:58.640 --> 0:46:01.160
<v Speaker 1>in the balance. No one really knows it hangs in

0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:05.080
<v Speaker 1>the balance. What's going to happen here? Is it going

0:46:05.120 --> 0:46:07.000
<v Speaker 1>to be Guido? Is it going to be Maduro? Who

0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:10.279
<v Speaker 1>is left standing at the end of this. You have

0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:14.920
<v Speaker 1>Vice President Pence writing in the Miami Herald the following

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<v Speaker 1>Early yesterday morning, in Venezuela, armed members of Nicholas Maduro's

0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:21.200
<v Speaker 1>secret intelligence for US broke into the homes of government

0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:25.960
<v Speaker 1>officials connected to the only legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guido.

0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:30.040
<v Speaker 1>Maduro's thugs threatened their lives and those are their family members,

0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:34.920
<v Speaker 1>and they brutally kidnapped Roberto Marrero, President Guido's chief of staff.

0:46:35.640 --> 0:46:38.520
<v Speaker 1>Even now, mister Marrero is being held against his will

0:46:38.560 --> 0:46:41.880
<v Speaker 1>in an undisclosed location. The United States calls for the

0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:46.680
<v Speaker 1>immediate release of Roberto Marrero. We will not tolerate Morrero's

0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:50.240
<v Speaker 1>imprisonment or the intimidation of the legitimate government of Venezuela,

0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:55.920
<v Speaker 1>and those responsible must be held accountable. Maduro must release

0:46:56.600 --> 0:47:00.600
<v Speaker 1>Marrero now. This egregious violation of the rule of law

0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:04.560
<v Speaker 1>is only the most recent example of Maduro's brutality and despotism.

0:47:05.000 --> 0:47:07.520
<v Speaker 1>Last month, the world watched as the dictator danced in

0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:11.440
<v Speaker 1>Caracas while his henchmen murdered civilians and blocked truckloads of

0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:14.600
<v Speaker 1>food and medicine designed or destined for the suffering people

0:47:14.680 --> 0:47:18.640
<v Speaker 1>of Venezuela. Just a few weeks before his inauguration, Maduro's

0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:22.200
<v Speaker 1>intelligence forces arrested interim President Guido in a shameless attempt

0:47:22.239 --> 0:47:27.359
<v Speaker 1>to bully him into silence. Fortunately they failed. Maduro's got

0:47:27.360 --> 0:47:30.399
<v Speaker 1>to go is what Vice President Pence is saying here,

0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:33.879
<v Speaker 1>and it is the United States government's official policy now

0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:36.040
<v Speaker 1>that he has been for a while, that he must go.

0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:42.360
<v Speaker 1>But dictators, thugs, despots, they tend not to go particularly quietly.

0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:46.520
<v Speaker 1>And I can't say that I would expect anything different

0:47:46.560 --> 0:47:51.520
<v Speaker 1>here from Maduro. And this is where I'm caught in

0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:55.759
<v Speaker 1>this push pull in my brain between wanting to do

0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:59.640
<v Speaker 1>more to help ensure the best outcome here for a

0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:02.280
<v Speaker 1>country where there are legits, there are real US interests,

0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:04.759
<v Speaker 1>and not not just humanitarian interest, but we do have

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:08.520
<v Speaker 1>an interest in access to Venezuela and oil reserves, that's

0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:13.160
<v Speaker 1>just and oil markets, that's just the truth. We also

0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:15.640
<v Speaker 1>have a humanitarian interest in trying to help ease the

0:48:15.680 --> 0:48:22.520
<v Speaker 1>suffering of people who are malnourished, can't get medicine, murders skyrocketing,

0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:27.359
<v Speaker 1>no rule of law in the streets, and tyranny increasingly

0:48:27.719 --> 0:48:32.680
<v Speaker 1>holding them in its grip. So I feel all of

0:48:32.719 --> 0:48:35.680
<v Speaker 1>those things very acutely. But I also, though, have this

0:48:36.480 --> 0:48:40.200
<v Speaker 1>sense that we just don't need to take on another

0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:43.799
<v Speaker 1>problem set for ourselves that's really somebody else's problem. I

0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:46.879
<v Speaker 1>mean the diplomatic relations, the basic actions that we're taking

0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:50.480
<v Speaker 1>in Venezuela. I think it's the right move, but we

0:48:50.560 --> 0:48:52.640
<v Speaker 1>got to have clear lines about how far are willing

0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:55.239
<v Speaker 1>to go here and when Trump is saying there that

0:48:55.320 --> 0:49:02.319
<v Speaker 1>there may be additional additional sanctions, okay, sanctions, fine, but

0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:07.600
<v Speaker 1>beyond that we have to start looking at when when

0:49:07.600 --> 0:49:11.520
<v Speaker 1>are we doing too much and making something more more

0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:14.759
<v Speaker 1>our problem than it should be. Then you also have

0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:18.200
<v Speaker 1>some leftists in this country who are still they still

0:49:18.320 --> 0:49:21.200
<v Speaker 1>look they can't really just I mean, they will say

0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:24.759
<v Speaker 1>they're worried in a sense about what I'm worried about,

0:49:24.760 --> 0:49:29.160
<v Speaker 1>which is us mission creep in Venezuela taking on more

0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.560
<v Speaker 1>of this for ourselves. But I really just think that

0:49:31.560 --> 0:49:34.880
<v Speaker 1>that's a cover for them because they have a sympathy

0:49:35.560 --> 0:49:39.880
<v Speaker 1>for Majuro based on the aims of the Bolivarian Revolution,

0:49:39.960 --> 0:49:44.960
<v Speaker 1>which is a social justice based approach to government. That's

0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:49.120
<v Speaker 1>at the very root of this that the you know

0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:53.280
<v Speaker 1>North Americans by that, I mean you know us, northe

0:49:53.320 --> 0:49:57.359
<v Speaker 1>Americanos or whatever, that we are the reason for so

0:49:57.480 --> 0:50:02.920
<v Speaker 1>much of the economic disparity and deprivation in Venezuela previously.

0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:04.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean, now I think that's a harder case to make,

0:50:04.680 --> 0:50:08.440
<v Speaker 1>or are they still Maduro still makes that case and

0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:12.120
<v Speaker 1>it's our fault, It's on us, and that if only

0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:16.520
<v Speaker 1>the greedy landowners and business owners were brought to heal

0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:18.799
<v Speaker 1>by the government, everybody would have plenty of food and

0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:20.960
<v Speaker 1>they'd all just be kind of hanging out and you know,

0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:23.000
<v Speaker 1>in the country would be like one big beach party

0:50:23.080 --> 0:50:26.880
<v Speaker 1>or something that is a massive failure. We all know this.

0:50:27.320 --> 0:50:30.040
<v Speaker 1>There are these leftists that come across in America, in

0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:36.000
<v Speaker 1>the media in particular, who just won't accept that Maduro

0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:37.759
<v Speaker 1>is a really bad guy and has got to go that.

0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:42.799
<v Speaker 1>They still hold to this idea that you know, he

0:50:42.960 --> 0:50:45.640
<v Speaker 1>is legitimate, even though the election that is the only

0:50:45.640 --> 0:50:49.279
<v Speaker 1>reason he's even technically considered the president was fraudulent. And

0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:52.319
<v Speaker 1>I haven't come across anyone who disagrees with that assessment.

0:50:53.440 --> 0:50:57.080
<v Speaker 1>But I also spoke today to a an author of

0:50:58.800 --> 0:51:03.640
<v Speaker 1>author of a book about Afghanistan, and it's written a

0:51:03.680 --> 0:51:06.680
<v Speaker 1>book about bou Burggall, and essentially he's using bou Burggall.

0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:08.719
<v Speaker 1>From what I gathered from the interview, I haven't read

0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:11.400
<v Speaker 1>the book and I don't plan to. To be fair,

0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:15.120
<v Speaker 1>I did not find it a particularly compelling pitch. But

0:51:15.239 --> 0:51:18.840
<v Speaker 1>the book is about bou Burggall, and he's this author

0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:22.879
<v Speaker 1>and his and his co author have decided to make

0:51:23.080 --> 0:51:31.280
<v Speaker 1>Burgdall something of a a cautionary tale about the US

0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:38.240
<v Speaker 1>strategic mistakes in Afghanistan. Essentially, but Burggall was the result

0:51:38.360 --> 0:51:43.520
<v Speaker 1>of bad US policy ideas and bad strategy, and really,

0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.879
<v Speaker 1>you know, it doesn't hurt, It doesn't had he didn't

0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:49.359
<v Speaker 1>have a critical word to say about Burggall today. This guy, now,

0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:51.600
<v Speaker 1>he wasn't his co author as a veteran, He wasn't

0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:54.320
<v Speaker 1>a veteran today who I was talking to. But I

0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.160
<v Speaker 1>also had to sit there and say, I don't agree

0:51:57.200 --> 0:52:01.640
<v Speaker 1>with using Burggall as a you know, his situation as

0:52:01.640 --> 0:52:03.279
<v Speaker 1>a metaphor. That's what I was the word I was

0:52:03.280 --> 0:52:07.200
<v Speaker 1>looking for before for the entire situation of Afghanistan. But

0:52:07.960 --> 0:52:13.719
<v Speaker 1>I do think that as we are now in ongoing

0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:23.000
<v Speaker 1>open negotiations with the Taliban, and in fact our negotiating,

0:52:23.280 --> 0:52:27.120
<v Speaker 1>according to this author today with some of the very

0:52:27.200 --> 0:52:32.759
<v Speaker 1>people that we traded for bo Bergdahl from the Taliban,

0:52:34.840 --> 0:52:38.239
<v Speaker 1>that Afghanistan is one of these This is where I'm

0:52:38.239 --> 0:52:40.279
<v Speaker 1>gonna need Trump. We're gonna talk more about how Trump

0:52:40.320 --> 0:52:42.319
<v Speaker 1>will just pull the trigger. Other people won't do it

0:52:42.320 --> 0:52:45.319
<v Speaker 1>on foreign policy, but Trump will pull the trigger. I

0:52:45.360 --> 0:52:47.759
<v Speaker 1>need him to pull the trigger on Afghanistan because we've

0:52:47.760 --> 0:52:51.040
<v Speaker 1>got it, we're done, and then we're done. Doesn't mean

0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:54.440
<v Speaker 1>all right, everybody, you know, load up the C one

0:52:54.520 --> 0:52:57.759
<v Speaker 1>thirties and you know we're all coming home tomorrow. But

0:52:57.880 --> 0:53:01.760
<v Speaker 1>it does mean in the next twelve months leaving full stop,

0:53:01.800 --> 0:53:04.480
<v Speaker 1>we are gone. We will have an embassy there, We'll

0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:07.440
<v Speaker 1>have some training forces here and there. But this notion

0:53:07.520 --> 0:53:10.600
<v Speaker 1>of a permanent eight thousand man or seven thousand men

0:53:10.719 --> 0:53:15.400
<v Speaker 1>military presence in Afghanistan, for which that indicates that we

0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:19.360
<v Speaker 1>have a permanent responsibility for the national security state of

0:53:19.440 --> 0:53:22.880
<v Speaker 1>that country, that just needs to end. I mean, we're

0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:26.040
<v Speaker 1>already negotiating with the Taliban. We are negotiating, and people

0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:28.239
<v Speaker 1>don't want to say this. We are negotiating with terrorists.

0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:31.360
<v Speaker 1>That's happening. We're not supposed to do that. But Trump,

0:53:31.400 --> 0:53:34.600
<v Speaker 1>I think just as you will see a full US

0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:38.080
<v Speaker 1>withdrawal during the Trump presidency from Syria. I do believe

0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:41.280
<v Speaker 1>he will do that, even though the foreign policy smart

0:53:41.280 --> 0:53:43.640
<v Speaker 1>set doesn't like that. They want, you know, Syria to

0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.880
<v Speaker 1>be another forever war. I think that Trump might also

0:53:47.280 --> 0:53:50.560
<v Speaker 1>finally be the one who ends the war in Afghanistan.

0:53:50.600 --> 0:53:58.040
<v Speaker 1>I certainly hope. So you are now entering the Freedom

0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:02.960
<v Speaker 1>Huntechnical Operations Center, all sense of programs Musky Caps strigurely

0:54:03.040 --> 0:54:07.239
<v Speaker 1>need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for

0:54:07.280 --> 0:54:12.000
<v Speaker 1>the Buck brief figure. We got some time to dive

0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:16.880
<v Speaker 1>into some national security issues on this Friday, and for

0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:20.040
<v Speaker 1>that we are joined by my friend Adam Crado. He

0:54:20.239 --> 0:54:23.239
<v Speaker 1>is a senior writer for National security international Affairs at

0:54:23.280 --> 0:54:27.600
<v Speaker 1>the Washington Freebeacon. He has a piece today about Congresswoman

0:54:27.640 --> 0:54:31.600
<v Speaker 1>Ilahan Omar in which he writes the following, Elan Omar

0:54:31.680 --> 0:54:38.080
<v Speaker 1>holding secret fundraisers with Islamic groups tied to terror. Adam,

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<v Speaker 1>great to have you on. Thanks for having me. I

0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:46.239
<v Speaker 1>appreciate him. All right, what's going on with this freshman congresswoman? Yeah,

0:54:46.280 --> 0:54:49.120
<v Speaker 1>look so so everybody I think is pretty aware of

0:54:49.160 --> 0:54:53.440
<v Speaker 1>her comments accusing Jewish people and pro Israel members of

0:54:53.520 --> 0:54:57.120
<v Speaker 1>Congress of having dual loyalties. You know, these age old

0:54:57.160 --> 0:55:00.920
<v Speaker 1>anti Semitic tropes that she seems quite un apologetic for.

0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:04.239
<v Speaker 1>And I think what's so fascinating is that now with

0:55:04.320 --> 0:55:07.920
<v Speaker 1>the radical anti Israel and anti Semitic left, she seems

0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:10.560
<v Speaker 1>to be raising quite a bit of money. She's become

0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:13.600
<v Speaker 1>a darling to these groups, and they're at least too

0:55:13.680 --> 0:55:18.040
<v Speaker 1>so far that she's spoken to under cover of secrecy.

0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:20.480
<v Speaker 1>That means these events are not open to the press.

0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:23.720
<v Speaker 1>Even if you want to attend, you cannot, and video

0:55:24.040 --> 0:55:27.120
<v Speaker 1>is hidden from the public on it and these two groups.

0:55:27.160 --> 0:55:30.040
<v Speaker 1>One of them is called Islamic Relief that is an

0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:34.279
<v Speaker 1>international charity that for quite some time has been accused

0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:38.360
<v Speaker 1>of having links to Hamas, the terror group, and actually

0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:41.720
<v Speaker 1>has been banned by several countries for these terror tizes,

0:55:41.760 --> 0:55:45.080
<v Speaker 1>including Israel and other ones. The second group you're probably

0:55:45.080 --> 0:55:49.759
<v Speaker 1>familiar with CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CARE

0:55:49.920 --> 0:55:53.640
<v Speaker 1>was an unindicted co conspiracy, a conspirator in a massive

0:55:53.719 --> 0:55:57.160
<v Speaker 1>terror fundraising case. And of course there a rhetoric on

0:55:57.320 --> 0:56:01.319
<v Speaker 1>Israel is what you would expect, accusing the Jewish state

0:56:01.320 --> 0:56:04.319
<v Speaker 1>of war crimes, these kinds of things, so naturally you

0:56:04.360 --> 0:56:07.479
<v Speaker 1>can see why she would be invited to speak. And

0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:10.600
<v Speaker 1>what I find so curious about that is that she's

0:56:10.880 --> 0:56:14.840
<v Speaker 1>actually raising money off of her anti Semitism and anti

0:56:14.880 --> 0:56:17.839
<v Speaker 1>Semitic comments. And I think one of the problems the

0:56:17.840 --> 0:56:21.120
<v Speaker 1>sources I spoke to are pointing at is that this

0:56:21.239 --> 0:56:25.239
<v Speaker 1>has done in secrecy. There's no access to reporters, and

0:56:25.280 --> 0:56:27.440
<v Speaker 1>I think that's very bad. I would like to wonder,

0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:30.240
<v Speaker 1>in addition to what she's saying in public that's anti

0:56:30.280 --> 0:56:33.440
<v Speaker 1>Semitic and anti Israel, what could she possibly be saying

0:56:33.440 --> 0:56:38.359
<v Speaker 1>in private to these primarily Islamic Muslim audiences. I think

0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:43.239
<v Speaker 1>that's concerning. Now, what has changed, Adam in your estimation

0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:47.800
<v Speaker 1>about where the Democrat Party is because we just had

0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:53.520
<v Speaker 1>this whole dust up, this whole kerfuffle over elan Omar's comments.

0:56:53.520 --> 0:56:56.839
<v Speaker 1>Would it comes to Israel? And it seems like from

0:56:56.840 --> 0:57:00.200
<v Speaker 1>what you're telling me, no one nothing has changed to

0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:02.080
<v Speaker 1>know and expects you to change in terms of her

0:57:02.080 --> 0:57:05.680
<v Speaker 1>conduct or really how she talks about Israel. No. Look,

0:57:05.719 --> 0:57:09.680
<v Speaker 1>I mean she's being rewarded by that far left radical

0:57:09.680 --> 0:57:13.120
<v Speaker 1>element of the Democratic Party that actually is becoming more

0:57:13.120 --> 0:57:16.000
<v Speaker 1>of the standard bearer of the party rather than the

0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:20.680
<v Speaker 1>vocal minority. And I'd like to tell people we could

0:57:20.840 --> 0:57:23.240
<v Speaker 1>see this coming right. This is not a surprise. I

0:57:23.320 --> 0:57:24.800
<v Speaker 1>know a lot of people are like, oh my god,

0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:28.720
<v Speaker 1>people who are actually members of Congress are making anti

0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:32.880
<v Speaker 1>Semitic and wildly anti Israel comments. But I would point

0:57:32.960 --> 0:57:37.240
<v Speaker 1>to the twenty twelve Democratic National Convention and even further back.

0:57:37.520 --> 0:57:42.160
<v Speaker 1>They removed pro Israel language from their platform. They removed

0:57:42.360 --> 0:57:47.680
<v Speaker 1>the issue of God, and delegates booed the mention of Israel. There. So, look,

0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:51.840
<v Speaker 1>this vocal minority for some time has been gaining traction.

0:57:51.880 --> 0:57:54.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, we can even look at somebody like Bernie Sanders,

0:57:54.920 --> 0:57:58.640
<v Speaker 1>this socialist who's a darling of the far Democratic left.

0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:01.680
<v Speaker 1>Two of his top advice, as I recently wrote, our

0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:05.760
<v Speaker 1>longtime anti Israel activists who actually worked at the Center

0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:08.480
<v Speaker 1>for American Progress when it was embroiled in an anti

0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:12.680
<v Speaker 1>Semitism scandal. So you can see where they're plucking these

0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:15.160
<v Speaker 1>people from. And it's not just the new ones like

0:58:15.400 --> 0:58:22.160
<v Speaker 1>Omar and Rashida Talib and Orcasio Cortez's, it's really infiltrated

0:58:22.200 --> 0:58:26.040
<v Speaker 1>the entire Democratic Party as a whole. You have a

0:58:26.200 --> 0:58:30.480
<v Speaker 1>number of Democrat twenty twenty contenders who are not going

0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:35.600
<v Speaker 1>to be going to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

0:58:35.640 --> 0:58:38.240
<v Speaker 1>this year, the APAC conference, which usually is kind of

0:58:38.240 --> 0:58:41.680
<v Speaker 1>a who's who in American foreign policy. This this conference.

0:58:42.160 --> 0:58:46.640
<v Speaker 1>Here's betto Aurora saying why he's skipping play sixteen. I'm

0:58:46.760 --> 0:58:52.240
<v Speaker 1>here in South Carolina. I'm here in front of people

0:58:52.600 --> 0:58:56.280
<v Speaker 1>who will decide who the Democratic nominee is, who are

0:58:56.280 --> 0:58:58.600
<v Speaker 1>going to decide this next election, who will decide who

0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:01.320
<v Speaker 1>will defeat President Trump, and then bring this country together.

0:59:02.200 --> 0:59:05.080
<v Speaker 1>That's the best way for me to spend this time,

0:59:06.000 --> 0:59:09.000
<v Speaker 1>so a non answer. Really basically, there's other stuff I

0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:11.800
<v Speaker 1>can do, okay, but you're not going to APACK and

0:59:11.920 --> 0:59:16.280
<v Speaker 1>people are noticing that. And it's not just Robert O'Rourke.

0:59:16.400 --> 0:59:21.919
<v Speaker 1>You also have a number of others including Amy klobaschar

0:59:22.440 --> 0:59:27.480
<v Speaker 1>and who else is on Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Gearson,

0:59:27.560 --> 0:59:29.960
<v Speaker 1>Jilla Brand, Elizabeth Warren. They are not going, I mean

0:59:30.160 --> 0:59:33.440
<v Speaker 1>the name really, the who's who of Democrat candidates. What's

0:59:33.440 --> 0:59:36.080
<v Speaker 1>going on here, Adam. Look, it shows you how the

0:59:36.120 --> 0:59:38.960
<v Speaker 1>party has morphed. Israel used to be very much a

0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:42.560
<v Speaker 1>threshold issue, and that means for both parties. Once the

0:59:42.600 --> 0:59:46.760
<v Speaker 1>plurality of voters saw that a person was sufficiently pro Israel,

0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:49.680
<v Speaker 1>that means they understand the importance and the history of

0:59:49.720 --> 0:59:53.240
<v Speaker 1>the US Israel military alliance fell it benefits both countries.

0:59:53.320 --> 0:59:55.960
<v Speaker 1>People usually moved on. But this is no longer the

0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:58.040
<v Speaker 1>case for the lift and this is why you see

0:59:58.040 --> 1:00:02.280
<v Speaker 1>the divide in APACK. There is more of a reward

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<v Speaker 1>and intentive to boycott with these people. Think is you know,

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<v Speaker 1>these nefarious Jews controlling foreign policy because it resonates with

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<v Speaker 1>that far left wing of the party that is now

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<v Speaker 1>more mobilized and more likely to turn out in an election.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think we could actually find ourselves in a

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<v Speaker 1>place and just looking what's happening in the region now

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<v Speaker 1>where we have a president, a democratic president, who does

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<v Speaker 1>not understand and put value in that US Israel alliance,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's really coming at a bad time considering what's

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<v Speaker 1>happening with Iran in the region, in Syrian, Yemen elsewhere,

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<v Speaker 1>and certainly with its terror proxies like has Bola Hamas.

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<v Speaker 1>They are all increasingly building on Israel's borders, and a

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<v Speaker 1>president who doesn't understand that is really going to jeopardize

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<v Speaker 1>the Jewish state. We're speaking of. Adam Crado of the

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Free Beacon. Adam, can you tell me what happened?

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<v Speaker 1>This didn't get much play today, but something's going on

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<v Speaker 1>because everyone's waiting for the Maula report on you with

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<v Speaker 1>bated breath. What happened? Were they r on today? You

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<v Speaker 1>taught me some interesting stuff went down. Yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're right. People don't pay nearly enough attention to this.

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<v Speaker 1>The Iran nuclear issue still is ongoing while we've pulled

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<v Speaker 1>out of that agreement. Of what we see is Europe

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<v Speaker 1>scrambling to save the deal and actually develop that channel

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<v Speaker 1>ways to continue doing business with Iran and skirt us sanctions.

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<v Speaker 1>Off of that, the State's Department sanctioned a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>Iranian entities. These are shell companies and individuals, and what

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<v Speaker 1>they do is they operate on an illicit procurement network

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<v Speaker 1>that continues to bring in nuclear technology and nuclear know

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<v Speaker 1>how into the Islamic Republic. So als of that, what

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<v Speaker 1>we've seen now, the State's Department revealed is that in fact,

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<v Speaker 1>Iran never stopped its nuclear weapons program. It merely pressed pause,

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<v Speaker 1>and all of the people, all of the technology, all

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<v Speaker 1>of that infrastructure continues to be working, continues to be there.

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<v Speaker 1>And what we found is all they really need to

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<v Speaker 1>do is play at any given moment and continue that

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<v Speaker 1>march to nuclear weapons. So we see now the Trump

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<v Speaker 1>administration sanctioning their scientists, shell companies that operate this illicit

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<v Speaker 1>procurement network. I would say, covering the State Department for

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<v Speaker 1>a while, I'm usually critical of them, but this is

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<v Speaker 1>actually a very very strong move that's going to help

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<v Speaker 1>choke off those illicit back channels. All right, Saint Department

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<v Speaker 1>doing some good stuffy, Yeah, well, by the way, well,

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump administration also as spoken or President Trump spoken

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<v Speaker 1>about the Golon Heights bring us up a speed on that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>So the Golon Heights contested territory on Israel's northern border,

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<v Speaker 1>annexed from Syria several decades ago following a war. The

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<v Speaker 1>Golon has kind of sat in limbo for quite some time,

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<v Speaker 1>but we're seeing it become particularly important because of what's

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<v Speaker 1>happening in Syria, the spill out of militants into Lebanon

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<v Speaker 1>and also Syria up on the northern border, and also

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<v Speaker 1>Iranian militants affiliated with his Ball and other militant groups

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<v Speaker 1>also kind of amassing on that border. So the israelities

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<v Speaker 1>have really made a push, not just with the Trump

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<v Speaker 1>administration but with Congress to see a formal recognition that

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<v Speaker 1>this territory is not in limbo, it actually belongs to Israel,

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<v Speaker 1>and that would allow the US to send military equipment,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly for use against these terrorists on the northern border,

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<v Speaker 1>something that of the US government cannot do at this

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<v Speaker 1>point because it doesn't recognize the goal On Heights. So

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<v Speaker 1>more and more that area I've fight there, it's beautiful,

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<v Speaker 1>but more and more that area is unmanageable because of

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<v Speaker 1>the spread of militants from Syria and of course Lebanon

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<v Speaker 1>where his bowler rules. Adam craid to everybody Washington Free

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<v Speaker 1>Beacon to read his latest Adam always great to have

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<v Speaker 1>you all men. Come back soon. Absolutely, it's my pleasure.

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<v Speaker 1>Team will be right back. The United States believes that

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<v Speaker 1>negotiations should result in two states with permanent Palestinian borders

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<v Speaker 1>with Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine.

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<v Speaker 1>We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be

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<v Speaker 1>based on the nineteen sixty seven lines, would mutually agreed swaps. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty seven lines. So relinquishing the goal on heights Obama, huh,

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<v Speaker 1>is that the way you think it should go? This

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<v Speaker 1>is how prime that was. Back in twenty eleven, President Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>who was really a break from the bipartisan foreign policy

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<v Speaker 1>consensus about the US relationship with Israel and especially the

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<v Speaker 1>sensitivities around or the sensitivities with Israel and some of

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<v Speaker 1>its hostile neighbors also known as its neighbors. Obama said that,

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<v Speaker 1>and then net and Yahoo had this to say about Obama.

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<v Speaker 1>The at least self described. I'm sure foreign policy stage.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's Manyah Who's response to Obama fifteen. I think for

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<v Speaker 1>there to be peace, Palestinians will have to accept some

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<v Speaker 1>basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared

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<v Speaker 1>to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back

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<v Speaker 1>to the nineteen sixty seven lines because these lines are

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<v Speaker 1>indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that

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<v Speaker 1>have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have

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<v Speaker 1>taken place over the last forty four years. So then yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, yeah, Obama, that was he was saying

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<v Speaker 1>that at the United Nations, so it was in this country.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, Obama doesn't know what he's talking about, which

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be the first time. Well, I bring you the Trumpster,

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<v Speaker 1>my friends, because as of yesterday, Trump with a tweet

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<v Speaker 1>and now it is the policy of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>government at the United States has said that the goal

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<v Speaker 1>on heights, which we just talked to Adam about, which

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<v Speaker 1>is this area of major national security, strategic importance to

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<v Speaker 1>Israel because if the bad guys have it, guess what

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<v Speaker 1>they can from an elevated position, not just surveil, but

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<v Speaker 1>rain down rockets and artillery and all kinds of very

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<v Speaker 1>very bad stuff right into Israel proper. And when you

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<v Speaker 1>have the Syrian Civil War continuing on as is and

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<v Speaker 1>no realistic prospect of that ending anytime soon. Guess what,

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<v Speaker 1>that's unacceptable. So President Trump just said, you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>We're just going to tell our friends Israel that we recognize, well,

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the world may not recognize that, we

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<v Speaker 1>recognize that Golan is now a part of Israel's territory.

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<v Speaker 1>Fly thirteen. I've been thinking about doing it for a

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<v Speaker 1>long time. It's been a very hard decision for every president.

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<v Speaker 1>No president has done it. This is sovereignty, this is security.

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<v Speaker 1>This is about regional security. It's not about Naton now

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<v Speaker 1>who's reelection. No, I don't. I wouldn't even know about that.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't even know about that. I have no idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Hear he's doing okay. I don't know if he's doing

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<v Speaker 1>great right now, but I hear he's doing okay. But

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<v Speaker 1>I would imagine the other side, whoever's against him, is

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<v Speaker 1>also in favor of what I just did. Every president

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<v Speaker 1>has said do that. I'm the one that gets it done.

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<v Speaker 1>He's right, Folks, gotta give credit where it's due. The

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<v Speaker 1>president took action on this issue, and foreign policy is

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<v Speaker 1>one of those realms where the commander in chief has

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of leeway and therefore also a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>responsibility for what happens. It is really in the commander

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<v Speaker 1>in chief's hands what happens in these situations in many cases,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, this is just another time when Trump

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<v Speaker 1>being Trump really pays dividends because other leaders are all,

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<v Speaker 1>we need to have a study and a committee, we

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<v Speaker 1>need to keep talking about this, and no, no, actually,

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<v Speaker 1>this is just what needs to happen. And it reminds

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<v Speaker 1>me of the controversy over moving the embassy to Jerusalem,

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<v Speaker 1>which even from my time in government, I remember people saying, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it would be such a big deal if the US

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<v Speaker 1>ever moves the embassy to Jerusalem, the whole Arab world,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, everyone will be up in arms. And Trump

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<v Speaker 1>came in, he goes, you know what Israel is an ally,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a country. Their capitals Jerusalem. It's always going to

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<v Speaker 1>be Jerusalem. So we're just gonna put the embassy there, Okay, thanks,

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<v Speaker 1>And he was right, he was right. Sometimes cutting through

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<v Speaker 1>the nonsense is in fact, this single most important thing

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<v Speaker 1>that the foreign policy echo chamber should strive for. Right

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes just getting out of this consensus driven opinion making

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<v Speaker 1>and saying here's what needs to go down, here's what

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<v Speaker 1>reality is, and doing it and just take action. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the right move. Trump did that with the embassy, and

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<v Speaker 1>you'll notice the whole Middle East isn't in flames. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>they moved the embassy to Jerusalem. I mean they used

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<v Speaker 1>to have a consulate there and the embassy was in

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<v Speaker 1>Tel Aviv. But your embassy is supposed to be in

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<v Speaker 1>the capital city. So yes, they're symbolism to it. And

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<v Speaker 1>now the symbolism is the right symbolism, which is that

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<v Speaker 1>the embassy is in the capital city of Israel. That's

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<v Speaker 1>just the way it should be, the way it is

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<v Speaker 1>now because of Trump. And now with the goalon hights,

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<v Speaker 1>the same thing happened. So I mean, I just tell

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<v Speaker 1>you that there's really very little, there's really very little

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<v Speaker 1>that you can point to when it comes to Trump

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<v Speaker 1>in Israel that he could be doing that, that he

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<v Speaker 1>should be doing differently, if anything. And yet we were

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<v Speaker 1>told all along that oh, it's uh, you know, he

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't know what he's doing and he's gonna make all

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<v Speaker 1>these mistakes. And no, actually, sometimes a person who comes

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<v Speaker 1>in with fresh eyes and common sense and an approach

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<v Speaker 1>that isn't looking for all of you know, all of

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<v Speaker 1>his peers, and the fancy newspapers say, oh what, what

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<v Speaker 1>brilliant state craft? Right? So many of these people we've

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<v Speaker 1>been led to believe are some kind of foreign policy genius,

1:10:04.479 --> 1:10:08.600
<v Speaker 1>they're not. They the results speak for themselves, and the

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<v Speaker 1>results are poor. And when you look back on what

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<v Speaker 1>we were told all along, it was often through this

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<v Speaker 1>prism of the very same people that are part of

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<v Speaker 1>that foreign policy consensus making. Right, everyone's got to agree

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<v Speaker 1>this is a good idea. Well, if you go along

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<v Speaker 1>with that, they write nice things about you. If you don't,

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<v Speaker 1>they write bad things about you. And everyone has an ego,

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<v Speaker 1>especially politicians. And so there's this, well this understandable drive

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<v Speaker 1>for people to do what they think they'll be praised

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<v Speaker 1>for doing. Trump moved the embassy. It was the right move,

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<v Speaker 1>move the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. And now

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has decided to just push aside all the nonsense

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<v Speaker 1>and say, Golon Heights, Israeli territory. Well done. Trump, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe not getting everything right all the time on all things.

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<v Speaker 1>But on this one, let's call it. Let's call it

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<v Speaker 1>like it is. He got it done. I'm the one

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<v Speaker 1>that gets it done. Oh, she's on the cover of

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<v Speaker 1>Time magazine. Everybody aoc Alexandria o'casio Cortez, and I love this, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>this game that they play of Why you're conservative so

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<v Speaker 1>obsessed with her? Why is the left so obsessed with her?

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<v Speaker 1>Why has she become such an icon of progressivism without

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<v Speaker 1>really doing much of anything and without knowing much of anything. Well,

1:11:33.160 --> 1:11:37.840
<v Speaker 1>that never slows down places like Time magazine that has

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<v Speaker 1>written a over three thousand word just to call it

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<v Speaker 1>a puff pieces, an insult to puff pieces. But she

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<v Speaker 1>complained in this in this piece which was which was astonishing.

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<v Speaker 1>That quote. An entire generation which is now becoming one

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<v Speaker 1>of the largest electorates in America, came of age and

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<v Speaker 1>never saw American prosperity. I have never seen that or

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<v Speaker 1>experienced it really in my adult life. That's that's a

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<v Speaker 1>quote from this article on Ocasio Cortez, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the piece then talks about how she took out loans

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<v Speaker 1>when she went to bu She graduated in twenty eleven

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<v Speaker 1>with twenty five thousand dollars in student debt. Then she

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<v Speaker 1>went and worked at an educational nonprofit and did some

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<v Speaker 1>side gigs as a bartender, and through her twenties lived

1:12:32.560 --> 1:12:37.599
<v Speaker 1>paycheck to paycheck. Okay, everybody, I lived paycheck to paycheck

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<v Speaker 1>throughout my twenties as well, and was not making very

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<v Speaker 1>much money at all. I don't understand how this is

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<v Speaker 1>some big sob story, or rather that it would justify

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<v Speaker 1>the feeling, the sentiment that she expressed here that there's

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<v Speaker 1>never been real prosperity and her in her adult lifetime.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just that's just a bizarre statement. It just flies

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<v Speaker 1>in the face of reality. Why would she think that. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got complaints too. You know, the boomers never want

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<v Speaker 1>to leave their jobs. They've got too much debt. They

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<v Speaker 1>have to service the debt. They want to stay in

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<v Speaker 1>their cushy positions. They don't want to retire. I mean,

1:13:16.720 --> 1:13:19.080
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of so there's not as much headroom

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<v Speaker 1>in a lot of places, and the industry is changing

1:13:21.920 --> 1:13:25.080
<v Speaker 1>because of technology much more rapidly than it was in

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<v Speaker 1>previous decades. That is also the case, and there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of things that we can point to the housing market.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, the joke that I tell sometimes is the

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<v Speaker 1>one thing you know, millennials can't ruin is the housing

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<v Speaker 1>market because they can't get into the housing market. All

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<v Speaker 1>all of these things are are fair points for discussion.

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<v Speaker 1>But this country and the benefits that we have now

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<v Speaker 1>as a result of the wealth that has been created,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we're spoiled. I mean we are spoiled in

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<v Speaker 1>this country now. We live in a time and it

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<v Speaker 1>depends on also how you want to gauge it, right,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to look at this through the full

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<v Speaker 1>scope of human history. The average American, the average American

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<v Speaker 1>is so healthy, well fed, well off and comfortable that

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<v Speaker 1>you would make a medieval king green with envy, isn't

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<v Speaker 1>that is? That's the color your term when you're envious, right,

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<v Speaker 1>Green with jealousy, Green with envy. So thank you, John,

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<v Speaker 1>just making sure you know we are able to walk

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<v Speaker 1>around now and order whatever product we want want off

1:14:36.840 --> 1:14:39.760
<v Speaker 1>the foam we have that has more computing power than

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<v Speaker 1>the entire you know, NATO Alliance in nineteen fifty did

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<v Speaker 1>and talk to people all over the world for almost

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<v Speaker 1>no cost, read anything we want to read, usually for free,

1:14:52.680 --> 1:14:56.879
<v Speaker 1>learn anything we want to learn, usually for free, and

1:14:57.320 --> 1:15:00.439
<v Speaker 1>you know, have a video instant video con tap with

1:15:00.479 --> 1:15:02.800
<v Speaker 1>loved ones almost you know it, certainly anywhere in the

1:15:02.840 --> 1:15:06.200
<v Speaker 1>United States, almost anywhere in the world these days, and

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<v Speaker 1>are more able than ever to move around and work

1:15:11.720 --> 1:15:14.599
<v Speaker 1>from home and all. You know, so there's so much

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<v Speaker 1>that any you look at the cost of a few

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<v Speaker 1>things have gotten really bad. Healthcare and education, and oh

1:15:20.840 --> 1:15:23.880
<v Speaker 1>that's right, those are two areas where there's a lot

1:15:23.920 --> 1:15:30.960
<v Speaker 1>of government regulation, intervention, oversight. But consumer products are incredibly inexpensive.

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<v Speaker 1>But see, here's the thing. People don't like to hear

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<v Speaker 1>about how things are good. People don't like to hear it.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you may right now, I don't know any

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<v Speaker 1>like aah buck, you know it's not that good. Look,

1:15:40.479 --> 1:15:42.280
<v Speaker 1>We've all got stuff, you know. I mean, I woke

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<v Speaker 1>up this morning and my ankle just really hurts for

1:15:45.000 --> 1:15:47.559
<v Speaker 1>no reason. And you know, stuff happens, right, We've all

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<v Speaker 1>got our things, you know, we all have our struggles

1:15:51.080 --> 1:15:52.679
<v Speaker 1>that I'm not trying to say, oh, everything is great.

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<v Speaker 1>Just be quiet. You're lucky. You're not, you know, dying

1:15:55.200 --> 1:15:57.360
<v Speaker 1>of bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>not a helpful frame of reference. Either. But for Jasio

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<v Speaker 1>Cortez to say that there's no American prosperity, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>that's just that's just silly. I mean, this is a

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<v Speaker 1>a I think you could say, an objectively stupid and

1:16:11.600 --> 1:16:15.839
<v Speaker 1>bizarre thing to say. And yet she is still hailed

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<v Speaker 1>as somebody who really gets this generation coming up. And

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<v Speaker 1>I do worry a little bit that the millennials who

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<v Speaker 1>are beneath, who are who are below me in the

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<v Speaker 1>age bracket, you know, not quite the graybeard that I am.

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<v Speaker 1>The millennials who are coming up because they're idols, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>in politics and in media, have moved so far left.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet they're going to believe this stuff. They're going to

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<v Speaker 1>believe that America is this country of deprivation now compared

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<v Speaker 1>to what it should be when you have more, Give

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<v Speaker 1>me a metric and I'll show you, if not that metric,

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<v Speaker 1>something very similar to it that proves that this country is.

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<v Speaker 1>We are getting wealthier and more osperus all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just happening. And now it won't go on a

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<v Speaker 1>straight line. I do think that we're due for our

1:17:08.439 --> 1:17:13.040
<v Speaker 1>recession of some kind soon, and my worry is that

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<v Speaker 1>that recession will be politically exploited by the Left. The

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<v Speaker 1>timing will be perfect for a Sanders or Occasio Cortes

1:17:22.280 --> 1:17:26.800
<v Speaker 1>like person to come along and say, see, you know,

1:17:26.880 --> 1:17:30.280
<v Speaker 1>the fat cats were lying to you all along, and

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<v Speaker 1>now we're gonna we're gonna really, you know, soak it

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<v Speaker 1>or soak them and stick it to them. You could

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<v Speaker 1>soak it to them. I guess that'd be kind of

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<v Speaker 1>a fun. Sister and is a word, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>found that out? Yes, oh did we I did google

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<v Speaker 1>that when I was on Arrow. Okay, just making sure

1:17:45.360 --> 1:17:47.680
<v Speaker 1>everyone knows. Sister is a word. You just don't hear

1:17:47.720 --> 1:17:50.559
<v Speaker 1>it very often, but there has to be another, a

1:17:50.600 --> 1:17:53.960
<v Speaker 1>word like brethren. And we've we've actually made up a

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<v Speaker 1>few words on the show that I think should be

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<v Speaker 1>entered into the you know, Miriam or Websters or whichever

1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:03.599
<v Speaker 1>dictionary people think is the best one. So AOC gets

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<v Speaker 1>to go around and say things that are just untrue

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<v Speaker 1>and no one will really challenge her. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>that it's a very clear symbol of the intellectual bankruptcy

1:18:17.320 --> 1:18:20.679
<v Speaker 1>of the Left that they have as their most prominent

1:18:20.760 --> 1:18:24.639
<v Speaker 1>intellectual somebody who is an anti intellectual and doesn't even

1:18:24.640 --> 1:18:27.280
<v Speaker 1>know it. She's not saying yeah, I don't read a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of books, but you know, I've got a good

1:18:29.560 --> 1:18:33.880
<v Speaker 1>gut instinct on this matter. She's somebody who talks about

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<v Speaker 1>these issues in the language of a person who wants

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<v Speaker 1>to be considered smart, but does not actually have the

1:18:38.960 --> 1:18:43.320
<v Speaker 1>knowledge to back any of it up. And that is,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, what's really concerning isn't what you know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>what you know that ain't so. And that is the

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<v Speaker 1>case with Okazio Cortez and the way she talks about

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<v Speaker 1>socialism and a whole host of issues that are associated

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<v Speaker 1>with it, so that millennials have never tasted did prosperity,

1:19:01.040 --> 1:19:03.880
<v Speaker 1>don't know, it's we're quite prosperous. I mean that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the housing market, which the government has also been very

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<v Speaker 1>involved in. I have some criticisms of how the government

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<v Speaker 1>has decided to make housing almost a right in this country,

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<v Speaker 1>and there have been parts of that are that are problematic.

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<v Speaker 1>There have been aspects of that that you know, almost

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<v Speaker 1>melted down the economy before. But sure enough, things are

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<v Speaker 1>things are actually going okay right now. And I just

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<v Speaker 1>wish that we could get one interviewer to sit down

1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:38.080
<v Speaker 1>with Okazio Quartz and ask her some real questions about

1:19:38.080 --> 1:19:41.439
<v Speaker 1>some real things. Just one one interviewer would be nice,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, say, okay, so how are we going to

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<v Speaker 1>pay for these things? What do you really think we

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<v Speaker 1>should do? Do you think that she could manage to

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<v Speaker 1>get through an interview on the Green New Deal without

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<v Speaker 1>a complete meltdown? I think the answer is no, because

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<v Speaker 1>she doesn't understand the science, she doesn't understand the economics.

1:19:58.720 --> 1:20:02.599
<v Speaker 1>It's just all all part of the cultural left right.

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<v Speaker 1>The left believes in climate change, they believe in this

1:20:06.040 --> 1:20:08.920
<v Speaker 1>Green New Deal, this kind of feel good ism in

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<v Speaker 1>place of knowledge, experience, and history. That is, that's a

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<v Speaker 1>troubling thing. And you see different points, not just in

1:20:17.240 --> 1:20:19.960
<v Speaker 1>our history but in history more generally. When you have

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<v Speaker 1>young and foolish people who are able to rally the

1:20:23.280 --> 1:20:27.960
<v Speaker 1>masses behind foolish ideas, we had to do a bad place.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I want to talk to you about Sweden

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit and socialism and how Sweden is not

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<v Speaker 1>a socialist country. I'll make the case coming up. It's

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<v Speaker 1>always fun when I see an article out there that

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<v Speaker 1>deals with the subject in some detail that I've talked

1:20:45.800 --> 1:20:49.840
<v Speaker 1>you about here on the show. Capitalism Saved Sweden is

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<v Speaker 1>this piece that I saw that from the American Institute

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<v Speaker 1>for Economic Research. You've heard me say this, I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>many times, and is one of those moments when I

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<v Speaker 1>guess I'll be repeating myself for a second. But Sweden

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<v Speaker 1>is not a socialist country. Folks, do not listen to

1:21:09.439 --> 1:21:11.759
<v Speaker 1>the left wing Democrats who try to tell you otherwise.

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<v Speaker 1>Do not listen to them. Sweden is not a left

1:21:14.280 --> 1:21:19.360
<v Speaker 1>wing country. Sweden is in fact a very free market

1:21:19.520 --> 1:21:25.799
<v Speaker 1>and capitalist oriented country that also has a large social

1:21:26.120 --> 1:21:29.240
<v Speaker 1>welfare state or large safety net, however you want to

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<v Speaker 1>say it. That's what the truth or Sweden is now Sweden.

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<v Speaker 1>In this piece, it's written by Michael Munger, and he

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<v Speaker 1>goes into some detail here about how Democrats play this

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<v Speaker 1>game and they've really been doing it since the twenty

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen I'm sorry twenty yes, twenty sixteen election, when Bernie

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<v Speaker 1>Sanders was pejoratively referred to by people like me as

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the mayor of Stockholm, because they'd say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>we can't do universal healthcare, we can't do this or that,

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<v Speaker 1>because you know, they would say, look at Sweden, look

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<v Speaker 1>at Denmark, and then we're supposed to accept that. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>then clearly, if it works there, it can work here.

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<v Speaker 1>But what works there isn't what democrats say works there,

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<v Speaker 1>and in fact, and this is where this piece really

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<v Speaker 1>comes in handy about how capitalism saves Sweden. Sweden was

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<v Speaker 1>in the seventies a more accurately described as a socialist country.

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<v Speaker 1>You had a lot of government control of industry, so

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<v Speaker 1>the government was running large sectors of industry. Essentially, the

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<v Speaker 1>government was running businesses, very important, very large businesses, and

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<v Speaker 1>unsurprisingly doing a terrible job of it. And he gives

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<v Speaker 1>us definition here of state ownership and control of the

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<v Speaker 1>means of production, state direction of production decisions, and direct

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<v Speaker 1>state control of education and employment decisions of individuals. That's socialism,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, And then he tries to, in this very

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<v Speaker 1>astute analysis break down the differences between socialism and capitalism.

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<v Speaker 1>But we're going to have to really do a good

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<v Speaker 1>job going into this election season understanding what's what when

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<v Speaker 1>it comes to socialism and capitalism, because if we get

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<v Speaker 1>lazy with the definitions and with our analysis, the other

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<v Speaker 1>side is going to get away with a lot. Sweden

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<v Speaker 1>was a socialist country in the seventies and couldn't make

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<v Speaker 1>it work. And then decided to become a very free

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<v Speaker 1>market based economy. The idea was, if you let the

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<v Speaker 1>markets decide economic activity in the country, you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>be much much wealthier, much more efficient. Everyone will be

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<v Speaker 1>better off. And then with that greater wealth and productivity,

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<v Speaker 1>they've decided to have a very large and some would

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<v Speaker 1>say a bit of largess in their social safety system

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<v Speaker 1>that they have, which means it's free college and free healthcare.

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<v Speaker 1>Is really what Sweden has that people usually point to

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<v Speaker 1>as something that we could emulate. But if you really

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<v Speaker 1>look at Sweden, it is the sixth most protective country

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<v Speaker 1>in the world when it comes to private property rights.

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<v Speaker 1>The US is the twenty fifth most protective. Sweden is

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteenth most capitalist country in the country. Based on

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<v Speaker 1>the metrics assessed in this piece from the Heritage Foundation

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<v Speaker 1>Index of Economic Freedom Freedom, Sweden is in the top

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen most capitalist nations prout shrewd and shrewd and shrewden

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<v Speaker 1>in terms of property rights, financial freedom, and business freedom.

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<v Speaker 1>Most sectors are largely unregulated, and the freedom to move

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<v Speaker 1>capital make Sweden among the most capitalist nations in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Piece goes on quote Sweden fully privatize his pension system

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<v Speaker 1>moving defined benefit to defined contribution. There's a means tested

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<v Speaker 1>add on guaranteed pension top up for the least well off.

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<v Speaker 1>But the first line system is personal pension accounts invested

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<v Speaker 1>in one of these seven hundred private index funds managed

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<v Speaker 1>by private fund managers. It is the most privatized pension

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<v Speaker 1>system by far in all of Europe. Sweden has a

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<v Speaker 1>one one hundred percent universal voucher system for education. Folks.

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<v Speaker 1>Sweden rejected socialism and decided that it would really in

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<v Speaker 1>the eighties and nineties go on a very free market

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<v Speaker 1>and pro capitalism path and has become a very well

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<v Speaker 1>off country as a result. But when you look at

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<v Speaker 1>the way business itself is conducted in Sweden, it is

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<v Speaker 1>free market, it is not directed by the state. It

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<v Speaker 1>is in no way socialist. They just have a redistribution

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<v Speaker 1>of income via high taxation to pay for a large

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<v Speaker 1>welfare state. Now the other part, So that's that's one

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<v Speaker 1>important point here that we have to get down. And

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<v Speaker 1>Sweden is not a socialist country. People who say it

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<v Speaker 1>is don't know what they're talking about, and it just

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<v Speaker 1>as a country that has is very free market but

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<v Speaker 1>has a large social welfare state. You've heard me say

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<v Speaker 1>this before, but this is an in depth analysis here

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<v Speaker 1>at this American Institute for Economic Research piece. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>this is one of these wonky think tank pieces that

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<v Speaker 1>I come across that's really really useful, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>this will be important for you when you're talking to

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<v Speaker 1>your friends, especially if you know you've got you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have that friend. I don't care where you are across

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<v Speaker 1>the country is the hey man, I have Bernie Sanders supporter,

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<v Speaker 1>and I just think we just free this and free that,

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<v Speaker 1>and Sweden does it. In Sweden's great. You can say, well,

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<v Speaker 1>Sweden's not socialism, my friend, Sweden is not a socialist country,

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<v Speaker 1>and very few socialist countries well refer to themselves as

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<v Speaker 1>stalinist socialist countries. They want to be democratic socialism they want.

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<v Speaker 1>But the main difference, for example, between what happened in

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<v Speaker 1>Venezuela from an economic perspective from a government control perspective

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<v Speaker 1>in Sweden is that in Venezuela the government ran industries

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<v Speaker 1>and set price controls. The government said you can charge

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<v Speaker 1>this for this product, didn't care what the market said.

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<v Speaker 1>That caused enormous pressures on different businesses that then cause

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<v Speaker 1>them to collapse. When they collapse and did not have

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<v Speaker 1>products to sell, the government blamed the greedy capitalists who

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<v Speaker 1>were not allowed to set their own prices in Venezuela.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's how you had the downward spiral. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a top down spiral because it was a truly socialist

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<v Speaker 1>economy that they that the Majuro government was operating, or

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<v Speaker 1>at least there were aspects of it that were accurately

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<v Speaker 1>described as socialist. So you know, Sweden is not what

1:27:55.640 --> 1:27:57.560
<v Speaker 1>they say it is. Don't let them get away with it.

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<v Speaker 1>And then on top of that, the middle class in

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<v Speaker 1>Sweden pays about sixty percent in taxes, So understand that

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<v Speaker 1>part of this argument, and you'll be able to, i think,

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<v Speaker 1>fight back against all the people that say, oh, we

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<v Speaker 1>could afford this. It's just the evil, greedy Republicans don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to do this. Oh no, no, no, no, it's

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<v Speaker 1>not going to be the millionaires and the billionaires who

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<v Speaker 1>are paying for all this. You will be paying for

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<v Speaker 1>free college for everyone, free healthcare for everyone, including illegal

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<v Speaker 1>aliens by the way, and the one hundred thousand a

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<v Speaker 1>month that are coming across the border right now. You

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<v Speaker 1>will be paying for all of that we paying for

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<v Speaker 1>all of the largess of the federal bureaucracy, of the

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<v Speaker 1>Department of Education, of the university system that has become

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<v Speaker 1>so bloated and I think turning out in so many

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<v Speaker 1>cases such an inferior product when it comes to real education.

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<v Speaker 1>But at least at least we should all be on

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<v Speaker 1>the same page with It's not a socialist country. And

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<v Speaker 1>if you want the welfare state that you have in Sweden,

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<v Speaker 1>you better start telling everybody you're gonna pay sixty percent

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<v Speaker 1>in taxes. Let's see how that goes over in twenty twenty,

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<v Speaker 1>Team Buck, it's time for roll call, man. It's starting

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<v Speaker 1>to get nice outside. Everybody. It's a roll call for

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<v Speaker 1>the springtime. I have to say, am looking forward to

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<v Speaker 1>being able to walk around in a T shirt again.

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<v Speaker 1>It'll be it'll be a nice change of pace. Put

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<v Speaker 1>away all the heavy winter clothing, the winter boots and

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff. Let's get to your thoughts, elks. We're

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<v Speaker 1>doing a double roll call so we can hear from

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<v Speaker 1>everybody we can today, Facebook dot com, slash Buck saxon

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<v Speaker 1>if you want your thoughts to be heard. Coast to Coast,

1:29:58.760 --> 1:30:01.559
<v Speaker 1>which is also the name a radio show. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>Lanny Rights, I'm sorry, Buck, but I'm so sick of

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<v Speaker 1>hearing Betto's name uttered every day. Lanny, I'm like, suck

1:30:11.200 --> 1:30:15.439
<v Speaker 1>of it too, because I just want everybody to hold

1:30:15.560 --> 1:30:19.759
<v Speaker 1>hands and just be friends with each other. Robert Francis

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<v Speaker 1>O'Rourke is his name. I've heard other conservatives call him

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<v Speaker 1>by that name, and doctor seb Gorka calls him Bob.

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<v Speaker 1>I wish you would too. I heart your show. Don't

1:30:31.160 --> 1:30:36.200
<v Speaker 1>be mad, but you know you gotta stop talking about Betto. Alright, alright, alright, fine, fine,

1:30:36.280 --> 1:30:38.280
<v Speaker 1>we have a little fun with Betto. It was really

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<v Speaker 1>the week of the Betto, and maybe next week will

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<v Speaker 1>be the week of the Yang or the week of

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<v Speaker 1>the Harris or something. Somebody else will be in the

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<v Speaker 1>center of the in the center of the storm. Dwayne

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<v Speaker 1>Buck refers to Buck his buck all the time. Well, Dwayne,

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<v Speaker 1>I know that's kind of the joke, is it, my friend,

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<v Speaker 1>Ken Buck, FYI, if you get a chance to this

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<v Speaker 1>lecture by activist David Hogg, I will not listen to

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<v Speaker 1>the lecture by activist David Hogg because he does not

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<v Speaker 1>know anything and I do not care what virtue signaling

1:31:17.840 --> 1:31:22.559
<v Speaker 1>and nonsense he cares to spew. I've heard enough. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I know that he doesn't know what he's talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's a nasty and dishonest person. So there you go.

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<v Speaker 1>Kent buck Avit podcast listener, been listening since your Real

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<v Speaker 1>News days. Recently, I've been debating with my conservative friends

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<v Speaker 1>about the crisis on our southern border, and one of

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<v Speaker 1>my friends sent me a link to your op ed

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<v Speaker 1>on The Hill on the same subject. Your Peace helped

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<v Speaker 1>make my point that due to the dangers of fental

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<v Speaker 1>and migration en mass, we have an emergency the likes

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<v Speaker 1>of which the US has not had to deal with before.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for all you do. Keep up the good fight,

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<v Speaker 1>Shields High Well. Kent from oss original Saturday Squad. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you so much for being with me all these years,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm so glad that the piece I wrote for

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<v Speaker 1>The Hill dot Com was able to help you make

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<v Speaker 1>a sound argument on this issue. The border is in

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<v Speaker 1>very bad shape right now. We do not have a

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<v Speaker 1>secure border at all, and in fact, the laws are

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<v Speaker 1>being exploited in order to make sure that we do

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<v Speaker 1>not have an orderly We don't have the immigration system

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<v Speaker 1>that we have been promised that's what's really going on.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't have the immigration system that the American people

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<v Speaker 1>generally think that we do, and that should really concern everyone.

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<v Speaker 1>That should be something that gets all people who care

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<v Speaker 1>about the direction of this country in the future of

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<v Speaker 1>this country paying much more at tension. Chris definitely a

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<v Speaker 1>deal breaker if she is a Democrat in dating l ol,

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<v Speaker 1>have a great weekend. Thanks. I don't know. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if I can agree with that. Sometimes the political

1:33:06.360 --> 1:33:11.200
<v Speaker 1>passion turns into the other passion, you know, sometimes it's

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<v Speaker 1>good to be talking to a democrat. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>also work in an organization where there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats around me at the Hill, so and I've become

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<v Speaker 1>very close friends with a number of them. So I've

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<v Speaker 1>I've learned to to get along with Democrats. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it depends on what kind of democrat you know they're

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<v Speaker 1>they're the Democrats that you can have conversations with the

1:33:32.000 --> 1:33:34.840
<v Speaker 1>Democrats you can't. If people really believe that the world's

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<v Speaker 1>going to end in ten years from climate change, then

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's really it is tough at that point

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<v Speaker 1>to have a meaningful exchange with them. It is difficult

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<v Speaker 1>to find a common ground there. But if somebody really

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<v Speaker 1>believes that we should have a more Norwegian or Swedish

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<v Speaker 1>style safety net than what we already have, and they

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<v Speaker 1>believe in I don't know, free college, maybe I can.

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<v Speaker 1>I can at least talk to them about that. And

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<v Speaker 1>these are ideas that have big downsides that most Democrats

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<v Speaker 1>just pretend to not understand. But I can kind of,

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<v Speaker 1>I can get there. I can at least have that

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<v Speaker 1>chat with him. Richard, Right, Shields Hie Theater nine thousand

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<v Speaker 1>must happen. It sounds amazing. I would love to see

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<v Speaker 1>you with some Special Forces folks critique movies, or what

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<v Speaker 1>about you with cop movies and some YPD folks? Are

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<v Speaker 1>you with some CIA folks? Many options, keep making awesome things.

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<v Speaker 1>Shields him, you know, Richard, I love the idea, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to get down to do an event with

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<v Speaker 1>a former Special Operations guy in Florida where we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to bring in another a marine and we're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>do something kind of like what I laid out. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just a question of scheduling it, but I do think

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<v Speaker 1>it'd be a lot of fun. To be fair on

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<v Speaker 1>the MYPD side, I was never a cop I was

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<v Speaker 1>never actually a police officer or detective, so my experience

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<v Speaker 1>was very specific to working as a counter terrorism specialist

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<v Speaker 1>in the Intelligence division. So it was really it was

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<v Speaker 1>an analytic role. It was a lot of a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of meetings, a lot of conversations with lawyers, stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 1>But still would be cool and I'd love to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>We have to sit down with some of the old

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<v Speaker 1>if I could get some of the crusty old detectives

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<v Speaker 1>and sergeants that I know from the NYPDA to do

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<v Speaker 1>that with like a cop show, that would be a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of fun. But would have to edit it before

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<v Speaker 1>and it would take a little production work. But I'm

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<v Speaker 1>glad you liked the basic idea Autumn, right, Buck, love

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<v Speaker 1>the show Autumn. You have fantastic taste in radio programming.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm looking for good, historically accurate books to read. I

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<v Speaker 1>remember you talking about one that was on Cortes. What

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<v Speaker 1>was it called? When I google books about Cortez, the

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<v Speaker 1>top suggestion was books about Alexandria Ocasio Quartet is not

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<v Speaker 1>sure I'd have the ability to hold my lunch down

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<v Speaker 1>if I if I had to read that. Now, the

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<v Speaker 1>book that I read, you know, which which I think

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<v Speaker 1>that you will. You will enjoy is and I'm pulling

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<v Speaker 1>up right now so I give you the exact title.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it is. The name of Cortes is in

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<v Speaker 1>the name of the book, obviously, but it's uh yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Conquistador Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of

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<v Speaker 1>the Aztecs by Buddy Levy is the book that I read.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a really good read. I mean, you will enjoy it. Cortes,

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<v Speaker 1>You can make a case, and I think it's a

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<v Speaker 1>strong case that Hernan Cortes was the most like like,

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<v Speaker 1>beat the odds from a military campaign perspective, beat the

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<v Speaker 1>odds more than any other figure in history. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>saying that that's a definitive statement, but you could certainly

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<v Speaker 1>make the case that what he did to show up

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<v Speaker 1>with a few hundred guys and take on a massive

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<v Speaker 1>empire with with millions of inhabitants and straight up conquer

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<v Speaker 1>it is astonishing. And it took a lot more than

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<v Speaker 1>just the guns and steel and horses that they showed

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<v Speaker 1>up with, though of that was certainly very very helpful. Autumn.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm also a big fan of the of Roger Crowley,

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<v Speaker 1>who does books on really the period of the Renaissance

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<v Speaker 1>in the Mediterranean and the wars between Christian and Muslim

1:37:33.280 --> 1:37:37.080
<v Speaker 1>states and the Christian Muslim world. That my favorite is

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<v Speaker 1>Empire of the Seas. But he also wrote a book

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<v Speaker 1>on the fall of content Toople that I've read. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>really so if you go on Amazon, look up Roger Crowley.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a British guy. He's written some really great books

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<v Speaker 1>and very much enjoy those. Richard. Enjoy catching your show

1:37:51.400 --> 1:37:53.680
<v Speaker 1>whenever I can. I also want to let you know

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<v Speaker 1>that I live in a neighboring community of South Bend

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<v Speaker 1>and Mayor Pete Buddha Chik. I've heard you struggle to

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<v Speaker 1>pronounce his name, and many in the media do, since

1:38:03.280 --> 1:38:06.760
<v Speaker 1>we hear it all the time on our local news,

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to help you out. It should be pronounced Buddha, judge,

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<v Speaker 1>Buddha judge. Okay, you can hear it. Pronounce the link

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<v Speaker 1>on the right at the beginning of this video. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>Buddha judge, Buddha judge. I can do that, all right.

1:38:18.400 --> 1:38:22.160
<v Speaker 1>I got that one. A lot of hard names to pronounce.

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<v Speaker 1>It's Beto, not beeto, Buddha judge, not Buddha jig. Who

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<v Speaker 1>else is Kamala not Kamala. There's a lot. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot that you have to pay attention to. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a tricky business. I work in this media world.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it's difficult stuff. Tomas writes, Beeto, I see,

1:38:43.240 --> 1:38:47.080
<v Speaker 1>I just did it, Beto Darnet buck code read yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Beto is a valley girl before your time. Maybe no, Thomas,

1:38:50.400 --> 1:38:52.559
<v Speaker 1>I know what a valley girl like tale Like, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>like whatever, because like I just want to go shopping

1:38:55.600 --> 1:38:59.160
<v Speaker 1>and every place you go has valet. Yeah, I know

1:38:59.240 --> 1:39:02.280
<v Speaker 1>what valley girls are. I grew up watching so many

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<v Speaker 1>movies in the nineties, and in the nineties there was

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<v Speaker 1>nothing cooler than California and Los Angeles specifically, like everyone wanted,

1:39:09.160 --> 1:39:10.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, Beverly Hills nine O two and oh and

1:39:10.800 --> 1:39:15.479
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff. LA was the Promised Land. Now LA's nice,

1:39:15.600 --> 1:39:18.240
<v Speaker 1>but a lot of traffic And I am not somebody

1:39:18.280 --> 1:39:21.639
<v Speaker 1>who enjoys sitting around in a car and not moving fast,

1:39:21.720 --> 1:39:24.840
<v Speaker 1>So I'm not sure that that's the move for me.

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<v Speaker 1>We will do some more Role Call team coming up

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<v Speaker 1>in just a moment. Double dose of role call is

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<v Speaker 1>your way right now. It's not coming your way. It

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<v Speaker 1>is here, Matthew. Democrats want to lower the voting age

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<v Speaker 1>to sixteen because sixteen year old kids are so mature.

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<v Speaker 1>But Democrat, But Democrats, Democrats. We could start called, oh

1:39:52.080 --> 1:39:55.800
<v Speaker 1>are you a Democrat? Democrats say guns sales should be

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<v Speaker 1>raised from eighteen to twenty one because young adults are

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<v Speaker 1>too immature. I say, put it on the same ballot.

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<v Speaker 1>If you vote sixteen year olds are mature, then they

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<v Speaker 1>get to vote and buy guns. We'll see, Matthew. What

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<v Speaker 1>you have is called a principle, or you have consistency.

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<v Speaker 1>And liberals don't aspire to consistency. They embrace hypocrisy as

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<v Speaker 1>long as it is on the pathway to power, because

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<v Speaker 1>there's no way around that. It is an inconsistent thing

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<v Speaker 1>to say that you should vote when you're sixteen, but

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<v Speaker 1>you can't own a gun until you're twenty one. There's

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<v Speaker 1>no And I will say it right now before some

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<v Speaker 1>of you said, well, book, what about the drinking age.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe the drinking age should be eighteen. I believe

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<v Speaker 1>that eighteen is an adult. An adult is an adult

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<v Speaker 1>as an adult, eighteen is an adult. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>that the drinking age being twenty one really allows for

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<v Speaker 1>a kind of fetishization of it's a tough word to say,

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<v Speaker 1>of drinking on college campuses, and it becomes this kind

1:40:51.760 --> 1:40:55.000
<v Speaker 1>of naughty, oo cool thing to do. I also think

1:40:55.040 --> 1:40:58.800
<v Speaker 1>that our country could probably have some really worthwhile conversations

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<v Speaker 1>in general about alcohol across the board. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>alcohol enjoyed the right way is a very nice thing.

1:41:05.680 --> 1:41:07.280
<v Speaker 1>I like a glass of wine, as you know. I

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<v Speaker 1>like good tequila. But when I think back to the

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<v Speaker 1>I think back to the way that things operated on

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<v Speaker 1>the college campus that I was on, at least when

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<v Speaker 1>I was a student, and it was just nuts. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>people were functioning alcoholics for four years, really drinking. I mean,

1:41:22.600 --> 1:41:25.679
<v Speaker 1>if you're getting wasted four or five nights a week,

1:41:25.800 --> 1:41:28.760
<v Speaker 1>that's not normal. It's not good for you. And I

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<v Speaker 1>would offer that there should be a much better, much

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<v Speaker 1>better conversation for young people about how look, it slows

1:41:35.720 --> 1:41:38.839
<v Speaker 1>you down, especially if you're really into being physical and active.

1:41:38.960 --> 1:41:41.280
<v Speaker 1>It's terrible for you. And there's all kinds of stuff

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<v Speaker 1>Drinking too much. I'm talking about not just drinking, drinking

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<v Speaker 1>to excess. Anything to excess is bad. That's why you

1:41:47.520 --> 1:41:50.200
<v Speaker 1>call it excess. Although I don't know. Maybe the show

1:41:50.640 --> 1:41:53.519
<v Speaker 1>suffers from an excess of awesome and we just have

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<v Speaker 1>to accept that. Jim just want to drop a line

1:41:59.280 --> 1:42:03.040
<v Speaker 1>saying I'm shields high. Well, Jim, I'm with you man.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much, appreciate you writing in good to

1:42:07.280 --> 1:42:13.960
<v Speaker 1>talk to you. Much much obliged. Let's see here, Marina

1:42:14.640 --> 1:42:16.960
<v Speaker 1>rights freedom dividend. If they're going to give out all

1:42:17.000 --> 1:42:20.639
<v Speaker 1>that money, why not just end income taxes. Besides, isn't

1:42:20.640 --> 1:42:23.519
<v Speaker 1>the standard income deduction twelve thousand dollars that's got a

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<v Speaker 1>play a role in the big picture where they're going

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<v Speaker 1>with all this. For those who earn enough to file

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<v Speaker 1>and take the deduction, consider that you're consider that your

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<v Speaker 1>twelve thousand oss. Marina. Yeah, Marina. Look the freedom dividend,

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<v Speaker 1>which Andrew Yang, whom I interviewed today at some length.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an idea that appeals to people. It's always though,

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<v Speaker 1>when you start to get to the costs and how

1:42:45.080 --> 1:42:49.040
<v Speaker 1>you'd enact this, that things get yes, more complicated, more difficult.

1:42:49.120 --> 1:42:52.120
<v Speaker 1>It sounds great, give people money, they'll spend money. Everyone

1:42:52.240 --> 1:42:54.679
<v Speaker 1>has some money. No one's going to be destitute anymore.

1:42:55.160 --> 1:42:57.360
<v Speaker 1>But we do have a lot of social welfare programs

1:42:57.400 --> 1:43:00.559
<v Speaker 1>in place. Already we have a trillion dollar well fair state,

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<v Speaker 1>and yet we still have people in poverty in this country.

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<v Speaker 1>Poverty itself is a very interesting area of study for

1:43:09.479 --> 1:43:14.000
<v Speaker 1>social scientists. Every society will always have people that are

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<v Speaker 1>considered poor and that will be considered impoverished in some form,

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<v Speaker 1>I think in many In many ways, the best thing

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<v Speaker 1>you can hope for is the elimination of true poverty

1:43:24.600 --> 1:43:30.360
<v Speaker 1>like subsistence living where people are dangerously close to dying

1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:33.760
<v Speaker 1>a preventable disease on a regular basis, not having enough

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<v Speaker 1>food to eat a dangerous level, not having a safe

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<v Speaker 1>place to live. Because the version, for example, of poverty

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<v Speaker 1>in America is very different from what you'd get and

1:43:43.600 --> 1:43:47.519
<v Speaker 1>say Bangladesh, our version of poverty, or in West Africa

1:43:47.920 --> 1:43:50.320
<v Speaker 1>poverty that I have seen up close and personal myself,

1:43:50.439 --> 1:43:53.840
<v Speaker 1>that is in a completely different league from what is

1:43:53.840 --> 1:44:00.640
<v Speaker 1>considered poverty here in the United States. Brian rights, but

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<v Speaker 1>keep up the great work and my business I tend

1:44:03.080 --> 1:44:04.920
<v Speaker 1>to be in the Bahamas, I deal a lot of clients.

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<v Speaker 1>I noticed a disturbing trend with regards to Chinese interests

1:44:08.800 --> 1:44:11.920
<v Speaker 1>in the country so very close to our shores. In

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twelve, the Chinese came into Nassau with Chinese labor

1:44:14.640 --> 1:44:17.799
<v Speaker 1>and built a soccer stadium as part of their stadium

1:44:17.880 --> 1:44:21.080
<v Speaker 1>diplomacy program they do all over the world. Now they

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<v Speaker 1>have built a deep water port sub base down there,

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<v Speaker 1>a brand new secure marina with twenty foot high electrified

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<v Speaker 1>fencing topped by razor wire and huge lights to eliminate

1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:35.880
<v Speaker 1>a massive concrete pad. There are two large barracks. My

1:44:36.040 --> 1:44:38.479
<v Speaker 1>unknown friend tried to get close on his boat and

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<v Speaker 1>was waived to leave immediately by a guard in a

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<v Speaker 1>military uniform. China is prepping for war in twenty years. Sadly,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not joking. China builds port in the Bahamas. I

1:44:50.160 --> 1:44:52.479
<v Speaker 1>gotta look into this interesting, Brian. Yeah, and China is

1:44:52.520 --> 1:44:54.559
<v Speaker 1>taking the long view, and we are not in this country.

1:44:54.600 --> 1:44:58.120
<v Speaker 1>And China wants to supplant us as the global hedgemon.

1:44:58.320 --> 1:45:01.960
<v Speaker 1>And we think that China just to be friends. That's

1:45:02.080 --> 1:45:04.120
<v Speaker 1>not the case. And we're going to learn the hard

1:45:04.160 --> 1:45:09.519
<v Speaker 1>way that long term planning beats short term handshaking any

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<v Speaker 1>day of the week. Bob right, Oh, I used to

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<v Speaker 1>work for the ncuble A, so need to jump in

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<v Speaker 1>on your rant On College athletics. First of all, I

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<v Speaker 1>believe nine of the NCAA revenue, which is really only

1:45:23.720 --> 1:45:28.320
<v Speaker 1>from basketball football championship is outside the NCAA is distributed

1:45:28.400 --> 1:45:31.120
<v Speaker 1>back out to the schools. The remainder is used to

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<v Speaker 1>run all eighty seven championships and enforcement. As you can imagine,

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<v Speaker 1>D three women's water polo is not a moneymaker. Also

1:45:37.880 --> 1:45:39.519
<v Speaker 1>keep them on the title nine factors in here, So

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<v Speaker 1>any money you spend against men's sports, you have to

1:45:42.200 --> 1:45:45.080
<v Speaker 1>spend equally in women's sports. Essentially, you can fund men's

1:45:45.080 --> 1:45:47.040
<v Speaker 1>football and basketball and then twenty women's sports and you

1:45:47.080 --> 1:45:51.080
<v Speaker 1>will have to drop all other men's sports to equal out. Sorry,

1:45:52.200 --> 1:45:54.320
<v Speaker 1>need it to let you know, No, Bob, I know that.

1:45:54.880 --> 1:45:57.080
<v Speaker 1>I also though, just to have a this is a

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<v Speaker 1>philosophical difference that I have with people who think that

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<v Speaker 1>they should be changing admission standards to bring in athletes

1:46:02.720 --> 1:46:04.640
<v Speaker 1>at schools. I disagree with that. I think that that

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<v Speaker 1>should not be done. Then there's the broader conversation about

1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:09.560
<v Speaker 1>does this actually make money for the schools? Usually it

1:46:09.640 --> 1:46:12.240
<v Speaker 1>does not. But I'll have to leave that. Everybody. You've

1:46:12.280 --> 1:46:15.000
<v Speaker 1>got some homework this week, and your homework. Have a

1:46:15.160 --> 1:46:18.840
<v Speaker 1>fantastic week. And really enjoy yourself. Rest, relax, come back

1:46:18.880 --> 1:46:22.400
<v Speaker 1>on Monday ready for action. Until then, shield tie