WEBVTT - Trump Legacy Grows 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.000 This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.240 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.080 Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again The 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:26.880 buck Sexton Show begins an no, hey, everybody, welcome to 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.440 the buck Sexton Show. Great to have you with me 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.680 here in the freedom on honored, privilege and pleasure back 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.320 in the swamp. I gotta say I like Texas a lot. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.760 Texas is a great place. D C takes a little 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.360 more getting used to. There was a woman true story 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.040 I was having I was having breakfast before I came 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.800 back to the coast here, came back to the Acela Quarter. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.560 I was in Dallas, and you know that that jest 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.280 you make with your hand. Maybe you don't do this, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.440 but kind of like you're you know you're about to 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.040 sneeze and your head is cocked back and you're ready 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.440 to A woman walked past me and said, bless you 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.319 in advance. I just thought that was so nice. That 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.080 was the most Texas thing ever. Texas such a great place. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.560 So we've got a lot to discuss today. The President 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:22.280 of the United States is forcing the media into contortions 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.080 of desperation in their anti trump Mania that that are 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:32.480 almost hard to hard to explain, hard to describe. You see, 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:37.399 they go so all in against Trump that they've lost 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.560 all credibility, right, So that that's an important place for 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.480 us to start this conversation. We all know they're not 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.880 honest arbiters of what's going on. We know that the 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.840 reason fake news, the reason that that bothers them so 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.240 much is because they are, in fact, in many cases 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.320 guilty of fake news, are guilty of tremendous bias. And 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.320 it always those one way. If this were like a 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.480 law of averages thing, Once in a while, there'd be 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.880 some story about Trump that you'd read. You'd say, oh, wow, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.640 that's great, that's a really good thing for Trump. Then 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.920 he goes, oh no, it's not true. Oh bad stories 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.320 are not true all the time, right. They they do 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.560 belly flops into the shallow end of the pool with 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.640 their news reporting on Trump on a regular basis, and 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.480 we know why because he is a threat to their 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.800 sense of their own importance, to their careers, to their power, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.360 and they want to take him down. What made me 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.760 get into this frame of mind right away? Today they 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.000 wrote this piece in The New York Times about how 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:46.240 Secretary of State Pompeio, whom I have been an advocate 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.799 for your all along. I've written pieces on the Hill 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.640 dot Com talking about how I think Pompeo is a really, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.480 really good choice for this role. Trump is tied with him. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.240 He's just kind of an alpha dog and it's gonna 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.280 work well with Ump. And the whole thing makes like 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.679 it just makes a lot of sense to me. There's 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.000 a certain feel for these things you have to you 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.360 have to get you have to get a sense of 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.200 whether these are people who will be some patico given 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.600 their power. But the New York Times writes this piece, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.560 and I have to give credit to Fox for picking 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.800 this up, slamming Pompeio, saying, oh, he was away during 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.000 the Iran deal announcement, because this is Iran Deal. This 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.840 is Iran Deal collapse day two. Right. They haven't. They 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.440 haven't gotten rid of this hangover yet. They're still very 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.240 much in it. And it was it was just it 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.960 was so clear yesterday, all these different headlines and stories 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.280 are allies are all against this? How could Trump do this? 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.920 What's the plan for the future. They're so upset about it. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.560 They're so upset, uh, and so They also threw in there, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.080 where's the Secretary of State? Why is he not here? 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.600 Oh my gosh, there's a aster under my bod. I 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.560 mean they were really freaked out about it. Well, it 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:11.880 turns out the Secretary of State was meeting with the 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.480 North Korean So the Trump administration is not like, hey, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.200 we're just gonna handle Iran and forgive everything else. Oh no, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.680 that's right. The Secretary of State was meeting with his 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:28.560 North Korean counterparts. And this is also more news to 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.000 share with you, courtesy of President Trump. Quote, I am 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.960 pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Pompeo is 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.039 in the air and on his way back from North 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.080 Korea with the three wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.919 so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.400 Trump wrote, Secretary Pompeo and his guests will be landing 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.360 at Andrews Air Force Base at two am Eastern time, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:05:00.160 and I will be there to greet them. Very exciting, folks. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:09.320 This is libs worst nightmare. Trump is getting results. Now. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.960 I know there have been exchanges, and there's been different 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.320 administrations that have gotten gotten people released, but understand this. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.760 People who have taken the position up to this point 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.680 that there is no reason to believe there's any opening 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.600 or any change here with North Korea. How do they 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:33.080 explain this? They're trying to buy us off. Okay, well, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.159 at least we got back a few of our guys. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.280 At least it shows there is some good faith. And 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.000 you know what, I'm just gonna put this out there. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.320 I'm taking a wild guess because I don't know, but 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.840 I have a feeling unlike the Obama administration with Iran, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:56.719 we got these guys back without delivering pallets full of cold, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:05.520 hard cash for the psychopaths in charge. Wow. Trump was 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.440 supposed to be the destroyer of the economy, they told us, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:17.200 the bringer of fascism into this country, and a complete 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.640 and utter buffoon when it came to foreign policy. What 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.559 are they gonna do when the Iran deal gets renegotiated 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.680 on more reasonable terms. I'm not even saying favorable terms, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.880 just more reasonable terms for the United States. What are 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.640 they gonna do if North Korea is in fact the 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.080 opening that the Trump administration is hoping. They're sober minded 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.359 about it. They are, they have clear eyes, full hearts, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.560 can't lose. Uh, they are very much in a position 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.040 where they feel like there's so much more to lose 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.080 from not approaching North Korean this way than than if 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.760 they were to hang back and just play strategic patients. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.760 That was the game of the Obama administration. But you 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:08.000 can just feel the media's credibility evaporating with each of 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:13.080 these stories. You can just feel there's something of a 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.800 a quiet panic in the newsroom of the New York 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.960 Times the Washington Post. Because they can shape the narrative 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.080 to a certain degree, right, they can push events in 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.080 in one direction, or or they can talk about events 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.880 in one way or another. They can't really actually form 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.840 those events, although fake news allows them to do that. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.600 But once the truth gets out about really big things 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.640 the administration is doing that, Trump is going big league. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.800 If you will write, was it big leg or big league? 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.320 I was always so confused, and then I found out 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.400 and I think it was big league or no, was 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.280 it big le whatever? Both both accurate ways of saying. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:53.920 And I didn't know that big le was a word. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.240 I had to look that one up. So Trump in 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.920 fact taught me a word. It's not an easy thing 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:03.920 to do. But what will they do in the media 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.920 when it becomes irrefutable. And that's what we're heading toward, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:13.360 when it becomes irrefutable that this president, despite his lack 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.200 of of foreign policy credentials, despite the fact that you know, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.240 they was acting he's such an He did go to 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.480 an Ivy League school, which for other presidents, and somehow, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.280 you know, John John Curry went to Yale. Who cares, Right, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.760 John Carry's an income poop. But they'll say, oh, he 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.880 went to Yale. Uh. Trump went to Wharton, the business school, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.600 the University of Pennsylvania. But they still act like he's 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.760 the dumbest guy ever, right, successful businessman, and you don't 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.520 even run down the whole resume. But you know what 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.880 I'm saying here, They act like he has just no 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:53.240 clue about what's going on. But maybe his instincts or 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.720 just his willingness to see the world as it is 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.520 instead of what liberals do, seeing the world as they 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.200 wish it to be. Just maybe that's a better approach 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.160 than what we had seen in the past. Speaking honestly, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.600 which also means bluntly to the American people but also 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.080 to our foreign adversaries and allies. Right, this is the deal, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.960 guys and gals. This is what's going to be happening here. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:28.040 I think that Trump is on the precipice of creating 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.280 in two years. I'll give him until the end of 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.440 the year on this right before I could even make 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.320 a real judgment. So I'm not gonna come on here 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.400 next week and say we got it, we got one. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.160 It's from Ghostbusters when they get the first call, you know, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.560 Andy Potts, that's right. I remember the actress's name because 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.880 I've seen the movie that many times. She hits the 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.520 the bell. Ghostbusters also has great music. Anyway, I give 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:59.040 it until the end of the year before I can 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.640 say that he has, in fact achieved more in two 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.320 years than Obama achieved in eight and without mortgaging the 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.600 rest of our foreign policy interests in the process. This 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.280 is going to cause liberal nightmares in the media. This 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.640 is going to cause all kinds of problems because how 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.280 do they how do they walk it back after this one? 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.679 This is the area right, international relations, foreign affairs. All 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.360 of a sudden, Christian, I'm mom polls back on the 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:36.520 radio show. I like foreign leaders to sit and chat 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.280 with me to know and that world now has got 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.760 a guy showing up who's like, hey, sanctions. All right, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.400 let's talk sanctions. You guys gotta stop being jerks. There 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.320 will be less sanctions bout a being. It's not really 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.360 how Trump talks. But you know what I'm saying. What 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.640 does it do to to the think tank set They're 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.520 right near me here in d C. What does it 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:04.320 do to the case streets squad When Trump's greatest accomplishments 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.599 thus far could in fact be foreign policy related? It 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.160 will blow their minds. And I'm just very happy we 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.200 got some Americans coming home. Could you imagine the the 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:20.120 nightmare that would be getting stuck um being held? Getting 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.920 stuck makes it sound like you missed the last flight. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.720 Being held in North Korea as a prisoner for political purposes? 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.040 Can you imagine how terrifying that would be. A regime 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.559 that treats its own people in such a disgraceful fashion 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.599 is one that you would really, really not want to 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.680 be in the hands of as a political prisoner. All right, team, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.680 I really want to hear from you back from Dallas 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.120 eight four four to five here in the swamp, call 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.880 our swamp line eight four four nine eight to four, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.240 nine hundred buck. I want to talk to you about 0:11:54.760 --> 0:12:02.080 this charade, charade on the on the Hill earlier today 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.920 with the nominee to be the next CI director Hospital 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.200 and what the liberals are doing here. Yeah, you know, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.400 you know what's going on, a lot of grandstanding, a 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:18.760 lot of whining, a lot of pretentiousness from Democrats that 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.079 are trying to make the highlight reel in MSNBC. Uh, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.840 we will take Okham's razor to all that nonsense like 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:42.800 a chainsaw in just a few I don't believe that 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.880 torture works. We got valuable information from debriefing of al 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.480 Qaeda detainees, and I don't I don't think it's noble 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.640 whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. Gina Haspell, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.720 who's supposed to be, uh the next CIA director? My 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.959 my old home agents eat people who ask me, I 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.400 do not I have I have nothing specific to say 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.840 about Hasspell. Uh. So you know, people are like, hey, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.440 do you know, I don't. I have nothing specific to 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:16.120 say about hasspeal other than what is out there right 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.640 now from the testimony on the Hill and what's going 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.600 on as we're all seeing it in real time right 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.320 any anything anything that that that occurred with this nominee 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.760 to lead the agency before a few weeks ago. Literally 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.520 neither confirmed nor denied, know nothing about, have nothing to 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.480 say on. But I can talk about what's going on 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:42.480 in Congress, obviously, because she is getting a lot of 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:47.400 heat from the left over this. They're getting all all 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.559 worked up over what they call torture. Now, I don't 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.880 want to They like this debate, the laugh the Democrats. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.320 They like this because it makes them feel morally superior 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.120 to Republicans. Right. They like this because it makes them 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.800 feel like they have a way of undermining what is 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:13.280 clearly the superior national security credibility of the Republican Party 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.880 over the Democrat Party. Not the Republicans don't make a 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.720 lot of mistakes and do dumb things on national security, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.120 because they do. But Democrats sometimes you're like, which people 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.480 are getting mad at me for saying this? There are 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.800 some Democrats where I really do ask the question. I'm 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.640 talking about elected officials, you know, members of Congress, senior 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.480 advisors to Obama. I would want to ask, what side 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.120 are you want again? Because sometimes it feels like not 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.560 exactly playing for keeps for America. But they like the issue. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.280 Are the the debate around torture because it's so easy 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.760 now after the fact to make these claims about how 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.840 they were opposed to it. You get people like Pelosi 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.840 who are like, oh, I didn't know anything about I 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.200 was never brief drawing or anything. Yeah, and then you 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.240 have this big fight as you know between Congress and 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.960 well Democrats in the Senate and the agency. Uh, that's 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.560 spilled out into the press about who knew what when 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.800 about enhanced interrogation, and it was just all this stuff. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.480 It's a big mess. Ah. We have moved past this 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:16.359 now as an issue of of blame shifting, but Democrats 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.240 have it. They still think that this is a place 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.840 where they should really dig in and double down and 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.720 make it very clear that they think that they have 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.800 the moral authority on this issue. Although to be you know, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.560 to be fair. Um, John McCain, by the way, I 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.880 hope he's I hope he's doing as well as he 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.160 can under the circumstances. I know, you know, thoughts and 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.560 prayers to his family. Um. But John McCain is a 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.720 Republican has been one of the biggest opponents of the 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.400 enhanced interrogation technique program. So it's not just Democrats who 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.320 really against it, but the Democrats do it in a 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.680 way that's very self serving. Um. And and you know, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.520 I remember what it was like though, first weeks, months, 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.280 even years after nine eleven, we were literally under assault. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.040 And we think of it as well. You know, we 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.080 lost a few planes that day, a few thousand people 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.680 that day, But that was their best shot. If we 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.960 hadn't gone hard after all Quaida, there would have been 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.960 plane after plane going into buildings in the United States, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.160 and who knows what other targets they would have hit. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.840 They had big plans. We know about it. We know 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:32.440 they were going after multiple mass casualty incidents after nine eleven. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.680 That was the goal, that's what they were striving for. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.880 And in a very limited number of cases, the Enhanced 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:47.760 Interrogation Techniques program. Uh, that program was used in a 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:53.320 way that still some very senior, very respected people within 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.880 the CIA have come out publicly to say saved a 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.760 lot of lives and to say that it's torture when 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.000 someone is put through a process that is highly uncomfortable. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.439 I understand that, and and and it's nasty and uh, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.879 but to compare that to say, putting electrodes on somebody 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.440 where they could die, that seems to be a dishonest 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.119 approach to the problem, or at least a dishonest way 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.320 of discussing what's going on. People are water boarded in 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.400 some of our elite military survivor survival schools. That has 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.400 been done. We wouldn't cut off the fingers of our 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.240 our men and women in uniform who are training in 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.439 these programs. Right, that's torture. Uh. Enhanced interrogation is nasty, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.199 it's rough, but it's also be it was also being 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.120 used against terrorists. I mean, I can't help but step 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.040 back from this and say, I saw this this report today, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.800 at least that K s M College sheik Mohammed, the 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:59.360 nine eleven plotter. It's very opposed to Uh. Gina Haspell 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.080 as the next Eye director. Like, well, if there is 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.680 such a thing as getting the the endorsement of someone's 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.600 criticism and have it be resounding, I think there you 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.600 have it. Uh, why did the Democrats go through all this? 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.680 You know they did this with Pompeio. Oh, we're gonna 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.119 hold it up, and they're not gonna hold it up. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.360 What I really think they're gonna accomplish with Aspell. They 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.240 make a lot of noise about this. Well, they're gonna 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.960 end up getting somebody in the agency running it who 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.680 was either there during this at a at a at 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.440 a relatively senior, you know, level meeting that had occurred 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.800 while the person was working there, or they're gonna bring 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.800 somebody from the outside who feels like they're gonna say 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.680 the same things that hospital said today, which is, I 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:57.359 wouldn't allow this to happen again. He's holding the line 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:09.359 for America. Buck Sexton is act. How the heck is 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:14.840 it possible that NBC has come out? I mean, this 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:19.160 is on believable. How is it possible at NBC has 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.920 come out with the end results of their internal report 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.040 and they have quote no evidence indicating any NBC News 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:35.119 or Today Show Leadership, news HR or others in positions 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:40.040 of authority in the News division received any complaints about 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:46.240 Matt Lower's workplace behavior prior to November. This is after 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.359 a month long internal probe. They really expect us to 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.560 believe this? Huh By the way they went with they 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.240 didn't go with like some big law firm for what 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.280 I understand. I forget who it was that they brought in, 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.680 but people were immediately like, uh, you know you had 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.360 you have Tom Broke All recently or Tom Broke All 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:12.240 the guard who's famous for murdering the news like no, uh, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.760 you've got him out there now, also accused multiple women 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.080 or trom are polluting the the well. He hasn't pleaded 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.000 the fit, so I won't you know, I won't put 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.280 words in the men's mouth. But he's carn either convermed 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.160 nor or not. You know, he's out there acting like, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.639 you know, no big deal, he's got this covered. Although 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.560 I think the number of women that's always that's always 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.840 a thing folks. When there's one, you know, you gotta think, ay, 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.320 maybe this is paid back or this is some kind 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.520 of you know, somebody wants to get a payout or 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.639 you you just don't know. When there's a few and 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.560 they're on the record and there names, it's like, this 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.760 is a pattern. This is now Charlie Rose territory, and 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.280 sometimes it even goes into Weinstein territories. We saw with 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:02.080 Schneiderman so and then e C is also the same network, 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:08.320 mind you, that killed the Weinstein story, one of the 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:13.840 biggest news stories, one of the biggest journalistic bombshells to 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:19.520 drop in Certainly, I think all of seen I think 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.000 you could argue that the whole meat Too movement and 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.920 the articles that led to it, other than the Russia 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.080 Gate fantasy that the left has um, that was the 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.720 only this was the only real break in that coverage. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.160 I can remember, right, it was Russia Gate, Russia Get 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.960 all the time. Now it's Stormy Daniels on TV every 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.440 five seconds. They're making Stormy Daniels one of the most 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:42.719 famous people in the world. It's it's pretty astonishing when 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:48.399 you think about it. This former adult film star, porn star, whatever, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:54.680 this former porn star is now becoming a highly recognizable 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:59.040 and therefore marketable and monetizeable don't forget face because of 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:04.600 CNN's efforts, among others, MSNBC two but you know NBC. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.080 So I'm just saying that they broke with the the 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.840 wall to wall coverage of Russia collusion in order to 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.080 give just a little bit of, uh, you know, a 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.720 little bit of breathing room so they could run the 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.200 stories on the Me Too movement Harvey Weinstein, because the 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.800 Weinstein stuff was just it was jaw dropping. I remember 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:29.400 I remember reading it thinking, my gosh, this guy's a mediac. 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.600 He's a predator and a close friend of Hillary Clinton's, 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:36.879 by the way, a bundler for the Clintons. Yeah, people 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.440 heard the rumors. I think that Clintons heard the rumors too. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.959 But but NBC tried to kill that story because they 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:48.760 didn't want to tackle Weinstein, and they also didn't want 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.159 the second order implications of what that would mean you 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:56.359 bring down Weinstein, a lot of very powerful people in 0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:01.119 the media industry who you'd have to say, hold on 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:05.120 a second, Uh, what did they know about this? And 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:08.600 and so there's it's covering for more than just you know, 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:10.840 it's it's covering for more than just a connection from 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.840 Weinstein to the Clintons. It's just it's the whole media 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:19.600 apparatus out there now with NBC. Though. Yeah, Matt Lower 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.840 who has apologized somewhat right he said, I think he 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:24.720 said some of it was it was it was all consensual, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:26.639 because if it's not, you go to prison. So it 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.240 was all consensual. But yeah, he probably shouldn't have been 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.879 sleeping with interns, cheating on his wife with them, and 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.200 all the rest of it. You know. Yeah, maybe when 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:39.760 you're among the most powerful people in television news, if 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.040 not the most powerful anchor for a number of years. Uh, 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.920 maybe you shouldn't use your position to try and get 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:49.560 people who work on your show or work for your 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.120 company to sleep with you. Matt Lower, Yeah, that's that's 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.880 not a big shock. Uh, but now here we are 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.240 big internal review, bro call loer. You know these other 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.000 names that make by the way, there are other names 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.000 that may come up again in the future. I guess 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:10.640 Charlie Charlie Rose is CBS so different. But they're saying 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:14.680 there was nothing, nothing structural. You know what this is, folks. 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:20.240 This is their corporate alibi. In effect, we didn't know, 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:25.680 we didn't know, nobody knew, we didn't know. I think 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:31.480 they're lying. Yep. I do not believe them. I do 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:37.000 not think this is true. I know Andy Lack says 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.679 that are sent out this bro. He's the guy who 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:43.000 runs NBC, and he sent out the note on this 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:47.520 one or the report on this And I'm sorry, it's 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:53.080 just a little too convenient, a little too little, too 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:57.440 easy that Oh yeah, there was no culture of sexual 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:00.399 harassment that was covered up at NBC. There are. There 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:02.200 are a couple of reasons why this is really big 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:06.080 for them, Why I could from a standard of forget 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.879 about scruples or principles, what's best for NBC. I can 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:12.280 understand why they would lie. It makes sense for them 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.639 to lie about this. Two big reasons. Ready for this 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.200 we crack the knuckles as we dive into this one together. 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:25.480 First one liability. It's one thing for a woman to 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:27.439 come forward and say that so and so and I 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:30.240 had a consensual relationship, but he was in a position 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.560 of authority and come back years later. You can still 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.199 get sued and they can still see the company. But 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.399 in adds to the company's liability, and it's certainly going 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:43.360 to add to the zeros of any settlements that comes out. 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.040