WEBVTT - Hollywood Elite Cheat Scheme 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.480 You are entering the freedom hunt. Federal prosecutors are charging 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:23.280 dozens of people with a massive college admission scheme to cheat. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.400 Oh my, this is going to be pretty incredible. We 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.280 get into the details, folks. You want to hear about this? 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.440 What does it say about the elites in our society 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.200 and the so called meritocracy of the university? Who got 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.840 that for you? Plus the border, the damn's love of socialism, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.840 and so much more coming up on The buck Sexton Show. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.120 This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.320 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.040 Mag no mistake, America. You're a great American Again the 0:00:54.200 --> 0:01:01.600 buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy? Did buck Sexton? Now? 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.759 A central defendant in the scheme, WILLIAMS. Singer will plead 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:11.520 guilty today to charges of racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering, conspiracy, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.960 conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.200 Between roughly twenty eleven and twenty eighteen, wealthy parents paid 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.479 Singer about twenty five million dollars in total to guarantee 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:31.760 their children's admission to elite schools, including Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:37.800 the University of Southern California, the University of Texas UCLA, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.520 and Wake Forest. Beyond enriching himself, Singer used that money 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.960 to bribe college officials, Division one coaches, college exam administrators, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.800 all to secure admission for the children of his clients, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.560 not on their merits, but through fraud. Singers Foundation purported 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.320 to be a charitable organization, but was actually a front 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.800 Singer used to launder the money that parents paid him, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.000 of which you would then take a portion and dole 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:11.000 it out his bribes. Two coaches and others. Welcome to 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.200 the Buck Sexton show Man. I love it when we 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.040 get a story that we can really sink our teeth 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.320 into that is not Russia COLLUSI. It is not one 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.280 of these things that we've been covering, you know, day 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.919 in and day out for a couple of years now, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:29.160 and this is one of them. This is pretty incredible stuff, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.760 and there's some important lessons to take from all this, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.760 just just to give you a sense we're talking about here. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:39.359 So college admissions, as we know, are hyper competitive. Those 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.720 of you who have kids, you know these days, and 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.239 I don't have kids, so I gotta take your word 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.600 for it. But now these days it's like you're you're 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.239 getting them out of diapers and already you got to 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.640 think about like, oh are they going to prep for 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.400 the SATs? You know, it's just turned into this arms 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.760 race and it's out of control. And let me just 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.920 say to you that from what I have now seen 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.079 from I can't speak really as much of the generation 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.359 above me. I think that the credentialing system of the university, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.960 which is all it is the university now, is a 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.119 credentialing system. It doesn't there is no guarantee of your 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.280 level of education. Where you go to school does not 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.360 mean you are smart, does not mean that you have 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:19.680 some great background that anything. I have personal and professional 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:24.080 experience with brilliant people who went to community college or 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.560 went to no college. And I have personal and professional 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.000 experience with people who went to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Gale, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:37.680 you name it, who were pompous idiots. So it's a 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.560 credentialing system because it's all we got, really, But when 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.240 you dig into it a little more, what you find 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:49.840 out is that it is imperfect at best, way beyond imperfect. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:57.880 And that's when you look at legacy admissions, affirmative action admissions, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.680 college athletics recruiting. You know, there's all these different ways 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:07.600 people get in being the best oboist in Northern Alaska. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.080 I mean, there's a lot of ways that you can 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.280 get into these schools, and a lot of them that 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.160 do not involve being what you would think of as 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.880 the most academically capable. And remember, and don't even get 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.240 me started on this whole world. We need to have 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.080 athletic recruiting. Why these aren't minor league sports teams? Who cares? 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.240 These are educational facilities. I mean, when you think about 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:31.920 all the money and all the stuff that's going into 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.760 the and I know people love their college sports, but 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.920 they should be treated as minor league minor league team 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.599 and people should get paid. But we'll get into that 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.000 discussion another time. So let's get into this though, this 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.480 massive fraud that involves that's right. An actress that I 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.520 have a certain fondness for Laurie Laughlin from Full House. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.000 She is among one of those charge those of you 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.040 who around my age. I don't care what you say 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.960 you've seen full House, all right, actresses Felicity Huffman of 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.160 Desperate Housewives, I can honestly say I have never seen 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.479 a full episode of that show. I have seen clips, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.800 I've never watched a full episode. I do not have 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.320 to turn into my man. Card and Lori Laughlin from 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.800 Full House, they are among those who are charged. It's 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.760 a twenty five million dollar fraud where people were finding 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.400 ways to cheat to get their kids into college. Now, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:31.520 the ways that they cheated were pretty amazing. Aunt Becky 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.080 from Full House, that's Lory Laughlin paid five hundred thousand 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.200 dollars in bribes, according to this indictment, and created fake 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:45.159 photos of their daughter as a rowing competitive crew star 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.480 to get into USC. First of all, I mean, I 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.360 didn't know that it it was that competitive to get into USC. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.680 And I'm not trying to be a jerk. I just 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.839 five hundred grand seems like a lot. But beyond that, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.320 I rode crew. So I just think it's funny that 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.960 somebody is photo shopping. I mean, this was this was 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.880 a an intentional fraud, photo shopping their kids so that 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.359 they can get into school. I mean, this would be 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.640 like me saying I'm in a world class climber and 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:18.000 just photoshopping a photo of buck with the swoop. Probably 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.000 have to put a helmet on there, you know, at 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.760 the top of kill him and Jaro or something. And yeah, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.839 producer Mike is like five hundred k. The kid must 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.080 have not been so bright because that's a high price 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.960 for for usc. But you know, all of a sudden, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.200 I m a climber and kill him and jar I 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.000 mean you you really have to look at some of 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.400 the stuff that these people were doing. It's amazing. There 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.600 was a coach women's soccer coach at Yale. It took 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.680 four hundred thousand dollars because one of the scams was 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.560 to pay off a coach. I mean, this is all 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.720 a big A lot of it was bribery. Some of 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.120 it was cheating on test taking and but but a 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.320 lot of it was bribery driven. So this one, you know, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:03.560 this this one coaching group, this one person that was 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.480 at the heart of all this, the operation. Yeah, it 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.040 paid admission test administrators and so people would change the 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.880 scores they got. Oh I didn't get a twelve hundred, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.560 I got a fifteen fifty on the SAT. They would say, right, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.360 that's pretty easy. It's changed the number. It's just cook 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.320 the books. They would pay students to take the test 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.280 for somebody else. That's another scam that they've pulled. But 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.360 some of my favorites involved the coaches, because all the 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.200 coach has to do is say, oh, this is a 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.679 I want to recruit this person for an athletic team, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.880 and that depending on the sport, like women soccer at Yale. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.480 It's probably not enough to just wave you in, but 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.600 it's going to help a lot. Coach took four hundred 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:48.040 thousand dollars for that. Now, you know, you look at 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.520 this and you say to yourself. First of all, people 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.720 really want their kids to get Oh. Another one, they 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.120 really want their kids to get in the school. But 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:01.520 a media executive from Nevada allegedly created a a photo 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.880 of her son as a pole vaulting champion to get 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.480 him into USC. I mean, this is amazing. Yes, my 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.640 son is a world champion pole vaulter and really wants 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.559 to go to USC. Meanwhile, the kids never pole vaulted 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:23.000 in his life. Another one. It has to do with 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.680 phony learning disabilities. Oh and my friends, I can tell 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:32.240 you from New York City this was rampant when I 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.880 was in high school, absolutely rampant. I knew so many 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:41.079 people who were pino good ish students, mediocre to good 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.880 students at private schools in New York City in high 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.160 school where you know, the arms race to get into 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.199 an IVY or something like an IVY was just this 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.640 was existential for people. I have to get into an 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.680 IVY except Cornell because Cornell's an IVY. But it doesn't 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:04.360 really count. WHOA take that one. And I know the 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.319 Cornell people, they always come at me and they call, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.480 you know, come at me. I know. I know. Amerst 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.880 isn't good. Amerst isn't as good as Williams. See, we 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:16.600 can all play these games. But they set up these 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:22.200 fake learning disabilities so they would have untimed testing and 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.959 then also have other provisions made for them. But here's 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.400 the beauty of the untimed testing system for people with 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.200 fake and those of you who have real learning disabilities. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.920 I'm not talking about you and I and you're listening 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.560 right now to a nationally syndicated radio host who was 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.360 bottom of his class in grammar school until about the 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.319 fifth or sixth grade and had had a speech impediment. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.600 So trust me, I need an additional work, additional help. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.120 I needed, you know, after school tutoring. I needed speech therapy. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.880 So I'm all for making sure that everybody gets their 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.800 fullest chance and that. But I'm talking with people that 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.040 are faking again. I mean, imagine if I was going 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.160 around as a little kid pretending to have a speech 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.640 impediment so that I get out of certain classes. That's 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.600 what these people are doing. And we're talking about millions 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.920 and millions of dollars. Now do I really care about 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.240 any of this in the sense that shouldn't even really 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.520 go to prison for this? I mean, it is a fraud, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:21.600 But you're defrauding college admissions processes? Is that a criminal act? 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:27.199 You know? If I submit a resume that's embellished for 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:28.839 a job and I get that job and I'm doing 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.000 the job pretty well, do they have the right to 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.400 throw me in prison because I lie to get the job. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.080 You know, I do have a level of discomfort with that, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.800 because some of these people are facing like really serious 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:47.760 federal charges conspiracy, fraud. But the bigger takeaway from all 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.640 of this, The bigger takeaway from all this is that 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.640 one our our society is just far too obsessed with 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.840 the brand names of these schools and all of that. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:07.160 Right that we need to stop thinking that where you 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.600 go to college determinents. First of all, even people that 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.079 go to fancy schools will tell you that where you 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.760 go to grad school, it's much more important where you're 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.520 going to undergrad anyway, and that a lot of people 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.640 should think much more about going to a solid state 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.839 school program for undergrad and then go for if they 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.080 want to get that next credential. You know, you really 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.760 want to shoot for the stars for grad school. But 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.000 even that, people taking a lot of debt. And I 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.480 speak to with somebody who is in the media, one 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.480 because I love it, but I'm not part of me 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.600 is also I just didn't want to take on a 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.440 couple of hundred thousand dollars a loans to go to 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.640 business school. I want to do that. I want to 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.720 get paid, i want to work. I want to grow 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.520 as as an employee and as a as a professional person. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.520 I'm not looking to take on a lot of debt 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.640 because I wasn't really show it anyway. So on the 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.040 one hand, we need to just stop this. And you 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.480 know that I've been saying this for a long time. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.320 This is not new. But the obsession with brand value 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.280 in these schools, it's just too much because it's not 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.160 even true. I mean, there are people who buy their 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.480 way and this is what you're seeing here. They buy 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.720 their way into these schools. They get in because of 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.800 affirmative action rules, because of legacy rules. Although no one 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.040 ever likes to hear this, the legacy admits generally have 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.640 near the same SAT scores as the overall admitted class. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.240 They just get a nod. People don't like to hear 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.000 that because they like to think that, oh, that's what 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.920 the you know, the the affluent, you know, the rich kids, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.280 that's their version of affirmative action. You always hear kind 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.559 of not really, I'm not saying the legacy is okay, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.360 but at least that's more transactional. Speaking of transactional, also 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.880 to the point about this not being that criminal, I 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.760 gotta say, you know that you can get into it. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.120 I don't know how many of you know this or not. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.559 I know this because I knew people that their families 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.600 did this for them. You can write a check and 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:59.160 get into Harvard. This is well understood, and it costs 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.440 you think a few million dollars essentially, but you do 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.200 it through the Advancement Office. You do it in a 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.679 way that it's a gentlemanly bribe. Really, what's happened here 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.280 is the colleges have been cut out of it, and 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.800 other people are getting you know, the athletic coach has 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.280 taken the cut instead of the advancement office and then 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.560 putting your name on some room of a library right 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.240 for four or five million bucks. I mean you could 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.280 have You could send an illiterate to Harvard if you've 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.840 got a big enough checkbook. It's true, it's true. But 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.600 then there's the part of this I think you're really 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.880 you all see this too, and you know where I'm going. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.040 The whole notion we have in this country that we 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:40.400 should be taking orders from and listening to this cast 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:46.040 of elites, and that their elitism comes from this credentialing system. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.840 This has been called into question for a while, but 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.040 now we really see that they're not as special as 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:57.679 they think they are. They're not as amazing, brilliant, wise 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.199 worthy as we were all led to believe. In fact, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.680 I think one of the greatest destabilizing factors in the 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.400 developed world right now, in the first world in the West, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.960 is that because of the Internet and our instantaneous exposure 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.840 to the thoughts and acts and ideas of each other, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.080 which can come with some certainly some drawbacks, we now 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.800 see that these are not This isn't some cast of 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.680 elites that should be running the country. That every individual 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.840 should be judged on his or her merits, not where 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.520 where they went to school, what names are associated with them. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.960 That's not who we want to be making our decisions, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.480 and that the elites are not nearly as skillful and adept, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.400 not just at running this country, but at driving our culture, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:57.880 at being involved in the most important ways, in those 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.880 aspects of life that we all have to live by 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:05.200 without getting a say in. Really, so the whole system 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.280 is up for question right now. The whole system is 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.320 up for debate. And I know that this is just 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.320 one case of this fraud, but I assure you this 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.120 is not the only one. And in many ways this 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.680 has been going on for a long time, and yet 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.880 we are all still supposed to bow. Oh, you have 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:28.320 a PhD in you know, women's in gender studies from Yale. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:33.280 You must be really smart. No, no, not true. And 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.000 I definitely don't want you to just run the country 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.600 because of that. Maybe you're smart, maybe you're not. Kind 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.880 of all depends. I've got some more details on this 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:57.480 and much more coming up. Team stay with me, So 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.800 you know, you look at so many of the people 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.240 that are at the upper echelons of government, and in 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.400 increasingly it's been the case in finance for a while, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.280 and you see that there are all these people that 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.680 they're big claim to fame is where they went to school. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:16.800 This is where I also get to say, and this 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.480 is never popular, but you know, for the boomers out there, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:26.720 getting into Harvard today is statistically about ten times harder 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.120 I think than getting into Harvard in the nineteen sixties, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.640 just in terms of the numbers of applications and the 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:38.120 overall percentages, both the testing percentages and the percentages of 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.320 those who get in. So these now have become this 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.040 is all a globalized marketplace. Our schools are a global commodity. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:53.600 People from Shanghai and people from you know, Dhaka want 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:59.040 to go to Harvard in Stanford and Yale and apparently USC. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.120 I know, I'm I'm gonna get some USC. I'm just kidding. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.159 USC is great. It's great school. I know. Although it 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.359 was funny, I can't, I cannot tell a lie. There 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.840 was a whole thing about how the federal government, in 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.560 this indictment laid out, you know, in order to you know, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.600 because they will establish the different players in the indictment. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.639 And they had this listing of all the schools and 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.160 it was, you know, Stanford University, a very selective private university, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.560 Yale University a very select or, highly selective private university, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:37.480 Georgetown University, a highly selective private university. USC a private university. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.240 That actually happened in the Actually, oh no, I'm sorry. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.800 It wasn't USC. I'm sorry, USC. I'm messing with you 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.560 too much. It was you. You see, San Diego was 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.520 the one that I think got got the got dunked 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:57.240 on accidentally by the federal government. UC San Diego all College. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.800 That's what they That's what they said. It was pretty funny. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.320 They didn't meet it that way. They didn't mean it 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.840 that way, I'm sure, but it was. It was pretty amusing. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.760 But this is this is forcing a very necessary conversation 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.240 about you know, we need to stop thinking that these 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.280 schools are producing the leaders of the future and all 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.400 this stuff, that there's this elitism and sorting that goes 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.440 on at the top universities has become almost fetishized by 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.080 our system. And I don't know what. I can't tell 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.280 you what it means to go to one of these 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.320 schools that all these people were paying millions of dollars. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.240 Lots of people that go to them don't have very 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.359 successful careers and don't end up being very happy, and 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.560 plenty of people that don't go to fancy schools or 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.680 college at all end up being very happy and doing great. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.320 So it is always up to the individual. But this 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.240 just goes to show you how competitive and out of 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:59.720 whack the system is. Right now, he's holding the line 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.640 for America. Buck Sexton is back. The central and most 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.560 serious question in this investigation, the reason Robert Mueller started it, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.840 is did the current president of the United States assist 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.520 the Kremlin in an attack on our democracy? And if 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.119 Mueller after two years, comes back and says I don't 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.760 have the evidence to support that charge, that's a reckoning. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.040 That's a reckoning for progressives and Democrats who hope that 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.600 Muller would essentially erase the twenty sixteen election. It's a 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.280 reckoning for the media. It's a reckoning around the country if, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:35.720 in fact, after all this time, there was no collusion. Yeah, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:42.320 it's a reckoning, your darn right, it is. So I'm 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.440 hearing that there's a little bit of a delay from 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:49.080 the DOJ in finalizing the Muller report has to do 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:54.200 with a senior DJ employee who doesn't want to They 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.240 want to wait till he's gone to release the report, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.360 but they don't want to He doesn't want to leave 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.600 until the report's been released. So there's a little bit 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.320 of a chicken and egg issue here with when this 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.120 thing's going to come out, because some of the people 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.359 at the DJ are not gonna look so good with 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.679 all of this. But I want to tell you, the 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:17.600 more I thought about it after our show yesterday, the 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.080 more clear it is to me that I think they're 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.480 going to impeach Trump. I'm sorry, I'm not buying this. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.000 Oh no, we're not going to peach him. I think 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.080 this is a head fake. And let me tell you why. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.560 They have been telling us the president is a traitor. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.120 They have been telling us the president is a racist, 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.240 who supports neo Nazis, who supports white nationalists, who has 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.400 sexually assaulted dozens of women. I mean, they have so 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:46.239 many horrific allegations against this president that is it is 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.520 truly hard to keep track of them. It's hard to understand, 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.879 you know, it's hard to remember all of them at 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.800 any given time, and now now they're going to say 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.720 that they want to be reasonable. No, no, no, no, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.560 They just don't want to be accused of verdict first 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.720 trial later. They don't want it to be obvious from 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.800 their own statements that they've been ready to take down 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.800 Trump all along. And I have some voices to add 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.800 into the mix here to that end, and that and 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.040 that essentially what it would tell us if the Mulla 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.320 report comes out doesn't have anything and they impeach him, 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.600 and we know they're going to impeach him without finding 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.320 anything new already and their other investigations, it just means 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.000 that they were always going to impeach him, which doesn't 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.640 look good for them. It does not look like they 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.159 are being honest, which they are not. Obviously they're a 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.960 bunch of lying lunatics. But it makes it too clear 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.919 they're not being honest in this whole process. And that's 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.160 where I think you should That's where our friend Andy 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:03.720 McCarthy comes in play five Pelosi to carry the message 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.040 to the public that no, no, no, we're not here 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.960 just to impeach Trump. While that's going on under the 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.800 radar Madler's Committee and Shift's committee will go about the 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.640 business of trying to dig into anything that could conceivably, 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:22.320 in their minds be a high crime and misdemeanor. Yeah, 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.080 on the one hand, you've got Pelosi saying, oh, no, 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.639 there's not going to be there's not going to be impeachment, 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:31.560 and we're not going to go through that process even 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.560 though we could. But yet you have all these other 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:38.119 investigations going on. So this is just disingenuous. I mean, 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.960 it is very obvious what's going on here. They're trying 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.560 to one hedge their bets because what if they really 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:49.960 don't get anything at all from these other investigations. And two, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:54.080 they have to make it seem like they are respecting 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.400 the process and going through the process and not just 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:02.639 jumping to the conclusion that they want at the end 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:05.520 of the process. They have to make it seem like 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:10.760 this is a real investigation and not just a political 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:12.760 which hunt, which is what it has been all along. 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:20.320 And that's where Maxine Waters, for example, is, let's just say, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:24.479 to be kind too straightforward in how she views this 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:29.360 to I think tell the party line correctly, and she 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.720 says that they're already there with what they need to get. 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.240 Trump play for but I believe that we have everything 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.920 that it needs to basically impeach him. Yeah, I believe that, 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:45.200 and you're absolutely right. We're depending on mister Muller, depending 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:48.760 on mister Mueller. But where we have everything we need 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.600 to impeach him, well, which is it? I need to 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:53.560 know which one of those things? Is what the Democrats 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.119 are actually saying here, Because if they have everything they 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:59.320 need them, then they're not depending on mister Muller, that's 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.200 pretty clear. But if they're waiting for Muller's report, that 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:06.800 means that they should respect the end result of the 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:10.439