WEBVTT - Hero Dog Unites America 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:15.040 You are entering the freedom hunt. America falls in love 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.759 with a military super dog. A new witness emerges in 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.240 the whole Ukraine gate fiasco. What happened to the whistleblower? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.480 By the way Trump and maximum immunity claims, Sean Spicer 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.200 gets voted through California fires and utility company nonsense, China 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.440 has smart toilets, and Trump Turnbury not really a thing. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:36.960 We got that and much more coming up on The 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:41.360 Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.320 the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:50.920 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, You're a great 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:58.840 American Again The Buck Sexton Show begins. Analysts, remember no, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.680 Welcome to the Bucks. Back to the show, everybody, thank 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.800 you so much for being here. We have some things 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:11.040 to get to today, although I do I promise that 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.240 we're going to probably jump around more than usual because 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.360 there's not that one dominating news story that Everburn's also 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.679 focused on. I did want to take a moment just 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:24.880 to say that the Internet was a flame alight. The 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.600 Internet was on fire with all these photos of now 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.720 they said they I've seen the name. I don't want 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.319 to say the name because people are saying the name 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.280 might not be officially the name, and but a dog 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.000 that is credited with helping to chase down Abu Baker 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.800 al Baghdaddy has taken the hearts, has won the hearts 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.720 of the American people. There's a photo of that K nine, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.640 that K nine hero that's making the rounds all over 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.360 the place, and it's one of these moments where I 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.760 have to say, the American people love dogs so much, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.160 and I'm one of the American people who loves dogs 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.360 so much that I'm not sure that it's rational. But 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.040 I'm also sure that I don't care. Dogs are a gift. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.960 They're fantastic. Reminds me I probably need to get one, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.480 even though as a guy who lives solo, it's not 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.639 that easy to take care of them. I also believe 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.760 that it's likely that there will be a surge in 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:31.200 ownership of Belgian Malinois and Dutch shepherds. Those are the 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.800 two dogs that I think these days are most often 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.760 now I'm not a canine handler, so any of you 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.600 listening who know more about this, by all means let 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.359 me know. But I've met plenty of people in the 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.040 special operations community out in the field. Who those tend 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.720 to be the dog breeds that they have. There's also 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.240 German shepherds, obviously, but a lot of Belgian Malonois, a 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.359 lot of Dutch shepherds, And I mean those things when 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.680 you see them and they're well trained, they're like fur 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:59.960 rockets with teeth, and they're incredibly good at what they do, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.480 tracking down bad guys, getting into tight space, is moving 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.560 very quickly through buildings, tackling and grabbing the bad guys, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.440 even when they're armed. I think there's gonna be a 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.639 spike in ownership of those dogs. I'm a little concerned 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.120 that people at somebody who spent way too much of 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.520 his childhood reading through the American Kennel Club book and 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.560 learning all the different dog breeds and reading about their temperaments. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.560 If you get a bells in Malanma, you better know 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.840 what you're doing with a dog because they require a 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.840 firm hand, a master who establishes himself or herself as 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.520 the alpha, and they are working dogs. I'm I'm just 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.320 putting that X. I feel like people out I'm like, oh, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.440 look at this dog. They're amazing. There there can be 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.600 fantastic animals, no question about it. But you're not getting 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.640 a pug, you know, where the pug gets a little 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.920 out a lot and you're like, oh, little simy pug, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.600 Like this is a This is an animal that has 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.720 a purpose, is bred for a purpose, and that purpose 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.400 is to work to assist military law enforcement, to track 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.800 and to hunt down perpetrators. So there was a little 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.280 bit more fall it also yesterday from the media efforts 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.240 to take away from what is clearly a big Trump 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.040 national security victory. I know we spent a lot of 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.360 times yesterday, so I won't get into it for very long. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.560 But one of my favorites was when there was this 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.480 concern over why would President Trump not inform like Nancy 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.880 Pelosi or Adam Schiff about the raid before it happened? 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.240 And the truth is why, really, I'd put it in 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.960 the other direction. Why would he? I know people would 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.560 say that it's custom, but they keep saying the president's 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.640 a trader, So I think there's a degree of ill 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.080 will there that we'd have to recognize on both sides. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.120 But here's his answer. I mean, President Trump never want 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.080 to back away from the media trying to corner him. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.640 Here's his answer to why they didn't tell Democrat leadership 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:01.840 about the effort to the successful, hugely important raid against 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.400 Abu Baker al Baghdatti playclip too please. Well, I guess 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.279 the only thing is they were talking about why didn't 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.680 I give the information to Adam Schiff and his committee? 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.159 And the answerance because I think Adam Schiff is the 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.280 biggest leaker in Washington. You know that, I know that 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.160 we all know that. I do think a lot of 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.960 people would agree that Adam Schiff is a huge leaker 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.680 and a very dishonest and dishonorable guy. And of course 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.760 the media went apoplectic over this thing. They were still 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:36.600 so very very upset. How dare the president, the commander 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.680 in chief make this decision without getting the thumbs up 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.320 from not that she had to give a thumbs up, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:48.159 but but informing Nancy Pelosi beforehand. And then there was 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.520 the continued shock that I think that some of the 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.600 country had a lot of us expect nothing more than 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.160 this from the Washington Post, but there was a degree 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:04.119 of shock from some quarters over Wapouan Post saying that well, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:10.159 the whole Austere scholar obituary for Abu Baker all back Daddy, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.680 he was an Austere scholar, they claimed in the headline. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.880 It turns out his chief propaganda guy for the Islamic 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.600 State was also taken out. So clearly the Special Operations 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.520 community has a problem with Austere scholars. Our guys and 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.279 jaysok are our seals and Delta and rangers. They really 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.239 don't like Austere scholars in Syria. That's what we've found 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.880 out in the last few days. But Kelly on Conway, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:42.400 who I think would accurately describe as fierce, she's fierce 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:47.640 when she wants to be. She pointed out that would 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.280 WAPPO make such an error if it were about I mean, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.880 I said this too, and this is the obvious way 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.760 to illustrate the point. But it was funny to hear 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.920 a senior White House advisor get into it as well, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.040 that if somebody from the White House haven't forbid passed 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.960 away from natural causes, would the obituary in the Washington 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:11.600 Post make any effort whatsoever to be fair, to be favorable, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.080 even to be respectful. No, of course, not play us seventeen. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.720 I just want to say this last thing on behalf 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.360 of the president in the White House. This obituary was 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.640 a disgrace. And I would ask the Washington Post close 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.840 your eyes and pretend that al bag Daddy worked in 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.640 the Trump White House and then go rewrite true obituary. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:34.160 I bet you wouldn't be as kind. Wow, al bag 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.600 daddy worked in the White House. That would be a 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:42.600 bigger a bigger problem for the bigger issue. Perhaps a 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.560 bit of exaggeration, but it feels like not nearly enough. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.280 And now we move on today because they lost the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.040 battle to make this a problem about Trump's Oh no, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.680 there's one more thing where we keep hearing about how 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:03.040 well he almost jeopardized the mission his pullout decision from Syria. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.440 We keep hearing that that Trump was was so reckless 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:12.720 that this could have gone very bad, all because of Trump, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.280 even though I thought, isn't he the commander chief doesn't 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.240 even get credit if the economy is terrible, doesn't they 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.680 get the president and get credit for it or blame 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.040 for it? And the same thing if it goes really 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.080 well in a way that's not really directly linked to 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.360 any one particular person. The answers, of course, we know 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.160 this is the case. Presidents get more credit and more 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.000 blamed than they are due. That's just the way. Things 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.880 are true of generals of armies too, by the way, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.440 more credit than they deserve, more blame than they deserve, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:44.640 depending on the circumstances. But in this issue, on this issue, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.040 there are so many people in the media who have 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.520 really no understanding whatsoever of the military that or how 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.000 the military operates or functions. What will the military is 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.720 capable of that this this line I was seeing even 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.800 from some conservatives of oh, we would never be able 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.600 to do the strike we did if Trump had had 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.160 his way. Well, here's what. First of all, Trump did 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:08.600 get his way, and that's where the strike happened. But 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.959 here's General Mark Milly responding about the operational capabilities of 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.520 the United States military to pull off something like the 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.760 Abu Baker Bagh Daddy ray play sixteen. Can you explain 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.480 how difficult this operation would have been if you didn't 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.920 have troops or bass on the ground in Syria and 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.920 in Iraq. Well, we do have video photos. Who are 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.400 not prepared at this time to release those. They're going 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.240 through a declassification process. I think what you'll see here 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.040 in the coming days is we'll set up some operational 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.360 and taxi level preefings by Central command, and you'll be 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.960 provided some video and photos, etc. Of that been to 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.079 carry out this operation if he didn't have troops on 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.280 the ground. From an operational standpoint, the United States military 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.920 can strike any target anywhere, anytime. I want to put 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.360 that at the top of the show, just as a reminder, like, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.160 just have that as part of our opening. General Milliye 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:10.800 is saying, from an operational standpoint, we can hit anyone anywhere, anytime. Yeah, America. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.280 So that was a good answer to the question, I think, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.079 and hopefully we'll silence a little bit of the bad 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:23.080 faith criticism that's out there. Oh, speaking of bad faith criticism, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.640 Chuck Schumer noted counter terrorism expert also wanted to job, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.439 we're going to get to this Ukraine testimony and more 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.600 people opining over what a transcript means that we've already 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.440 seen and discussed at nauseum what the transcript says. But 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.040 oh gosh, well someone else's opinion on this, Like we're 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.120 really supposed to care. But here's what Chuck Schumer noted, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:52.240 counterterrorism expert, have you on the sarcasm there thinks about 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.440 the defeat of ISIS play fourteen? Please, we still need 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.400 a plan for the enduring defeat of isis not gone. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.000 We must include details on how we will deal with 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:10.160 escape prisoners. Nobody knows. These are evil people that want 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.040 to hurt us, and they can escape from the prisons, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.000 and Lord knows where they'll go, but we know a 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.680 good chunk of them will want to do damage to 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:25.000 our homeland. So far, the administration unfortunately has articulated no 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:31.680 coherent plan. Its top official, Secretary Pompeio, Secretary Espert, unable 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.000 to find time to even brief Congress. You all likely 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.960 could because they have nothing real to say, no plan. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:44.199 What was the coherent plan, Chuck Schumer? When President Obama 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.959 was running things and about a half a million people 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.920 died in Syria, a massive terrorist group took over hundreds 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:58.880 and hundreds of miles of territory and was enslaving, mutilating, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:04.439 and murdering at ill and engaging in external plotting, inspiring 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.920 attacks against European allies and against the American homeland. What 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:12.520 was the Obaba administration coherent plan? Oh? I remember, don't 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.880 do stupid stuff, and we're supposed to think that was smart. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.680 That was a brilliant strategic slogan, don't do stupid and 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:26.120 they didn't say stuff. By the way, it's almost like 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.280 everything now is just turned partisan for the Democrats, and 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.959 so nothing else really matters. You do start to get 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.880 that sense, don't you, Speaking of which the impeachment proceedings, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.520 and yet another person coming forward to tell us what 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.600 we've already the facts that we already know, but to 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:46.640 give another spin on it. Oh, there's a bit of 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.960 a trouble bubbling up over this one. Who exactly is 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:59.240 this official? Former National Security Aid Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.320 We will get into what he says about how old 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.840 now the walls are closing in on Trump. Now Trump 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.679 has gone too far. Now it's all, oh, no, no, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.520 none of that is true. None of that is true. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:16.280 But they never grow tired of this. The inmates and 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.640 the Democratic Party took over the asylum a long time ago. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.760 They do the same thing and expect the different result 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.920 and don't think that it's crazy. And so here we 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.520 are talking more about this phone call with President Trump 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:32.240 and the leader of Ukraine. We will get into this 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.080 in a second. The New York Times headline is supposed 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.520 to send shivers down the spines of people throughout the 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:43.719 Trump's supporting world official who heard Trump's Ukraine call reported 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.880 his concerns. This is Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vinmann, And now 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.959 is where we have to start this by saying, yes, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.400 he served honorably, Yes he's a Purple Heart recipient, and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.000 we thank him for his military service. That does not 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.400 mean and the media knows this, but this is a 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.520 very dishonest game they like to play that his opinion 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.240 about what is a clearly political matter holds any more 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:14.280 weight than yours, or mind or anybody else's. That he 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:19.280 has expertise in Ukraine policy does not matter. This is 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.040 a question of whether or not the President of the 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.280 United States did anything illegal in his phone call, and 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.520 the answer is most decidedly no. And then beyond that, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.760 to the president of the United States do anything that 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.080 was unbecoming of the commander in chief? And the answer 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.080 to that is the voters decide. I don't care what 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.720 Lieutenant Colonel Vinman thinks about the phone call. It does 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.880 not sway me one bit. But it is supposed to. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.480 He quote plans to tell about the way I read 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.880 his testimony this morning. I keep wondering this testimony gets 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.640 leaked out from all these people that are speaking behind 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.600 closed doors, almost like this has all been orchestrated by 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.080 Democrat and this is a sham and a scam. In fact, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:07.120 I believe this morning I saw Congressman Mark Meadows sharing 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.680 on Twitter that this may be moved from the Judiciary 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.200 Committee to the Intel Committee. It's ano they're going to 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.760 shift committees, I mean the shifty shift. They're just going 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.480 to play as many games as they can to control 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.400 the process. And in fact, one reason why they haven't 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.320 established a vote on the impeachment process. Yesterday they were 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.120 saying Nancy Pelosi was about to do it. Today they're saying, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:33.000 oh no, Pelosi says there is no impeachment process vote 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.360 that's gonna happen. I mean is that they're not really 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.640 sure because it has none of this has anything to 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.640 do with what is fair or ethical or decent. This 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.920 is all about what maximizes political benefit for Democrats and 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.760 helps them the most in twenty twenty against Donald Trump. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.400 Everything else is not a secondary, a non consideration. They 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:03.040 simply and truly do not care. And so now we 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.600 have the details of this, and much has been made 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:12.200 of VINMN, according to the New York Times, trying to 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.960 give advice to the Ukrainians about how to deal with 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:24.120 the United States government, and people have looked at this 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.720 and said, what the heck is that all about. You 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.880 should never be helping a foreign government figure out what 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.120 America is trying to do, especially if you're a senior 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:38.560 American government official. But this is now a repetition of 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.760 what we've already been told, which is that people don't 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.200 like Trump's Ukraine. People that had set up a Ukraine 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.760 policy on the previous administration, and those who have been 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.400 working for the National Security apparatus for many years on 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.920 this issue didn't like some of the most President Trump 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.320 was it was making. It's from the New York Times. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.640 Quoteman will testify that he watched with alarm as outside 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.560 influencers began pushing a false narrative about Ukraine that was 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.040 countered to the consensus view of American national security officials 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:15.280 and harmful to United States interests. End quote, guess what, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.920 Lieutenant COLONL. Vineman, I don't care that you think that 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.280 that's like your opinion, man, doesn't matter. You're allowed to 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.000 share it, sure, but this is not a high crime 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.520 or misdemeanor issue. This is a you don't like what 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.080 the president was doing issue, and Democrats have so conflated 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.760 these two things that they really believe if they're very upset, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.680 I mean, if they're like really really really upset about something, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.960 then it doesn't really matter if it's not actually a crime, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.320 because they're angry enough about it that it should be 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:55.159 a crime. And I think that's, in summary form, what 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.879 this whole impeachment thing is all about. They hate Trump 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.879 so much that their hatred self must be evidence of 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.960 the high crimes and misdemeanors constitutionally mandated. But it's not. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.880 Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show team. So continuing 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:13.080 on with this theme of the latest, oh my gosh, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.840 this new addition to the whistle blower. Wait, whatever happened 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.560 to the whistle blower? Why is it that the whistle 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.760 blower is not going to testify now? Just the written 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.760 statement No, no testimony from the whistle blower. Huh, Because 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.600 I remember in the early days of this when it 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.600 was all about truth and justice in the American way 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.840 according to Congressman Shift, I remember that it was of 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:40.600 course necessary for the whistleblower to testify. But then they 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.399 figured out the whistle Blower had coordinated with Adam Shift 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:48.080 before the complaint was made public, and that sort of 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.000 look kind of bad, almost like this was motivated by 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.240 partisanship and has nothing to do with actual crimes or 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.800 misdemeanors as reference in the constant, or high crimes and 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.600 misdemeaners as reference the Constitution, or just i'm crimes, which 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.680 was initially alleged as well. Remember that I haven't forgotten. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.000 This is the game they like to play. Oh, they 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.280 throw out some criminal charge, and everybody who knows anything 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.639 about the law or can just read a legal text goes, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.840 that's not true. That's not a criminal. You can't charge 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.280 the president with a campaign finance violation because he was 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.080 using the pressure of his office to get an outcome 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.920 that would benefit him politically. Because any president who uses 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.480 the pressure of his office with a foreign counterpart would 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.800 be getting on a major policy, you should be getting 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.040 some kind of benefit politically. Doing anything smart for the 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.679 president should not be illegal, which is effectively what that 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.399 interpretation of the law would mean. Up, the president just 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.240 signed this treaty going to help him at re election time, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.720 clearly getting a foreign benefit from that counterpart or a 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.480 benefit from that foreign counterpart. This is absurd. That was 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.600 the legal theory. Notice that you see this recurring in 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.680 mal luments, stretching that beyond comprehension. Oh, diplomats have bought 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.600 cheeseburgers a Trump hotel. They must own Trump's foreign policy. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.760 This is absurd. But this is really the case. They 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:14.920 make the usage of the Logan Act, the Logan Act 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:20.680 in order to have that interview with General Flynn entrapman 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.280 interview with the FBI. No one thought seriously they were 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.920 going to bring a Logan Act charge. But see they 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.760 use the pretense of a legal concern in order to 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.200 bring in the apparatus of the state, and then poke 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:38.160 around and the process becomes the punishment. Democrats excel at 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.919 this and they hate that it would be used in 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.160 the other direction. Oh no, you're not allowed to investigate. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.720 Even if there's a legitimate pretext for the investigation, or 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:49.600 rather a legitimate basis for the investigation, You're not allowed 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.800 to do that. We have more here. This is all 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:59.880 about Colonel Vinman's policy concerns. Again, I simply do not 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.240 care what his policy concerns are. I don't even find 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.320 them particularly interesting. He wants to do things one way. 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.200 Trump wants to do things another way. Trump's the commander 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.800 in chief. The NSC staff is not there to subvert 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.920 the will or the policy directives of the President of 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.320 the United States. I know they think they are. I 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.760 know the State Department thinks they are. I know all 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:23.520 these people that sit in boring Beijewald government offices all 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:28.320 across the DC metropolitan area believe that they are supposed 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.840 to thwart the will of the president because they know better. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:38.719 But that's not true. That's not how our system works. 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:41.480 That is not why they are sitting in those chairs. 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.040 And yet here we are New York Times continues. Colonel 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.439 Vineman was concerned, oh no, after he learned that the 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.479 White House Budget Office had taken the unusual step of 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.200 withholding the three ninety one million dollars package of security 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:59.160 systons for Ukraine that have been approved by Congress. They 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:03.560 got the money, folks, nothing happened. They keep on saying this, like, 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.000 oh my gosh, Ukraine, they were left on the front 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:10.800 lines without any without any bullets, without these security assistance 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:16.119 went through. And the Ukrainians during this whole ruckus that 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.119 we're talking about here, didn't even know that there was 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.360 a hold a review placed on that security assistance. So 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.639 how could you have been using the security aid to 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.000 force them to do something that would be illicit? And 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.320 I'm not even agreeing that it is a listit necessarily 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.800 I think there's a legitimate basis to investigate what the 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.800 Bidens were doing in Ukraine. I'm sorry, I know that 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:38.760 makes me a crazy person, even on the right. For 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.879 some people these days, I don't care. You know, is 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.720 this a little bit like cancel culture? Some conservatives have 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:49.160 figured out that the only way to begin to bring 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:51.679 things back to normalcies to say you're going to cancel. 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.679 We're gonna cancel, You're gonna have these crazy rules. You 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:59.560 have to live by these crazy rules. And if investigations 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:05.280 that are at least able to appear legitimate are going 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:07.479 to be a tool that Democrats throw at Republicans all 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.960 the time. If Republicans have an even more legitimate basis 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.840 for an investigation that just happens to negatively affects some 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:19.119 Democrat politicians, guess what too bad? Or we can just 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.199 allow one side to weaponize the law and have no 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:25.119 response to it whatsoever, which has been the reality. I mean, 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.399 we can go back to the Romney school of fighting 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.400 against the left. Just keep getting smacked around and say, well, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.120 but I'm really ethical when I'm getting slapped around, I'm 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:40.000 really a nice person while they are running roughshot over 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.280 the Constitution and taking away the rights of the people 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.080 that I said I would protect in my elected office. 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:50.600 But whoops, No, I don't want to be mean. Quote. 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.199 At least one previous witnesses testified that mister Trump directed 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.440 the aid be frozen until he could secure a commitment 0:23:56.440 --> 0:24:00.960 from Zelenski to announce an investigation of the bidens. While 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.399 Colonel Vineman's concerns were shared by a number of other officials, 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:04.919 some of whom have already testified. He was in a 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:09.159 unique position because he emigrated from Ukraine along with his 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:11.520 family when he was a child. He's fluent in Ukrainian 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:16.800 and Russian. Ukrainian officials sought advice from him about how 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:24.359 to deal with mister Giuliani, though they typically communicated in English. 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.240 Giuliani's an American working at the behests of the president. 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:30.719 I know that Libs and Democrats hate this, don't like this, 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.800 reject this doesn't change anything. Julian is an American and 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:40.639 he's the president's personal lawyer. He is working on a 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:44.400