WEBVTT - Democrats regime change madness 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:15.640 You are entering the freedom hunt. The Democrats continue, they're 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:21.320 unfair and obviously partisan impeachment nonsense. There's also a lot 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.279 of anger right now about what the president has done 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.000 in Syria from left and right. I'll break that down 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.400 for you. And does testosterone have anything to do with masculinity? 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.040 Question for the ages coming up on The Buck Sexton Show. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.159 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.360 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.559 Make no mistake American. Ready, great, You're a great American 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:53.080 Again The Buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, He's a great guy. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:01:00.480 Now the impeachment Inquiry. Stay updated, stay in form with 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.440 up to the minute breaking news and analysis. There's only 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.720 one place for it all, cnn dot com slash impeachment. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.640 Only one place for it all, Impeachment Central of at CNN. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.520 Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Look, I like 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.960 that the left, the Libs, they're just being honest about 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.920 this stuff. Now, I prefer it that way. I prefer 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.440 that they would just show us that the impeachment of 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.480 the President of the United States is a game to them, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.759 It's a sports event. Really, they give us all these 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.959 talking points. They whine constantly about the need to protect 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.640 our sacred institutions, the sanctity of our democracy, and then 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.080 it's hey, let's put the impeachment scoreboard up on the screen. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:52.880 Let's see we can impeach this president. Nancy Pelosi changed 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.160 her Twitter avatar last night so that it would show 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.720 her standing up at a meeting with the President of 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:06.040 the United States on at least allegedly theoretically to discuss Syria, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.519 and she was pointing her finger at him, and Trump 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.800 said that she was being crazy. That doesn't surprise me 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.120 at all. The Democrats have been quite crazy all along. Here. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.880 My favorite part about this meeting. To keep in mind now, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.799 everything that we're discussing about Syria is also very much 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:32.440 affected by the democrats dishonest impeachment push, and everything that 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.160 we're discussing about impeachment right now is also being added 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.440 to by the whole Syria fiasco, where you have a 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:45.760 tremendous amount of dishonesty in the discussion from people all 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.520 across the national security apparatus, including a lot of conservatives, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.120 a lot of Republicans. I think some of them have 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.959 just forgotten the real context for what is happening in Syria. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.919 I think they don't really understand or aren't remembering clearly 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.920 what happened in that country and what is likely to 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.360 happen in that country if we were to stay. But 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.079 these things now are all very much tied together. My 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.880 favorite moment though, because, as you know, you come to 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.280 the Buck Sexton Show to learn to laugh and to 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.760 crush the commies. And my favorite part of the exchange 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.280 between Trump and the Democrats who came to meet him 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:30.680 at the White House was when you had Chuck Schumer claim, well, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.000 let's actually, can we hear from Chuck himself on this 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.640 better than me doing an impression of him? Play five? Please? 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:42.400 How can we let this happen? They didn't have any 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.120 good answer. This is appalling. The President had no plan, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.560 no real plan for containing ISIS other than relying on 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.680 the Syrians and the Turks. Then why did we spend 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.640 a decade, billions of dollars and lost lives in trying 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.000 to curtail Isis? If on a phone call, on a whim, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.560 the President is going to undo all of that and 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.240 turn this over to the Turks and the Syrians. I 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:15.440 would also say one other thing, he was insulting, particularly 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.719 to the speaker. She kept her cool completely, but he 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.800 called her a third rate politician. He said that the 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.680 there are communists involved, and you guys might like that. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.640 I mean, this was not a dialogue. It was sort 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:36.680 of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe, not focused on the facts, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.239 particularly the fact of how to curtail isis a terrorist 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:49.200 organization that aims to hurt the United States in our homeland. Oh, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.680 the best part of that, by farce, Trump apparently saying 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.120 that because there are commies involved here, ukamies meaning the 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.640 Democrats might like that. Pkks. I've told you is a 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.719 which you'd consider an old school seventies and eighties Marxist 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:11.120 separatist organization, terrorist organization. And so Trump worked in a 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.000 little a jab about Democrats being comedies. I'm sorry, that's 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.480 kind of funny. Not as funny as tweeting out a 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.839 nickelback clip with look at this photograph because Joe Biden 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.400 was golfing with a Bisma executive and hunter. Biden after 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.040 telling us that he had never had a conversation about it, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.520 that there had been no discussion about any of that whatsoever. Yeah, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.320 I guess they just talked about their talked about their 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.040 best putters or whatever. I don't know what people talk 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.400 about in golf, but there was another part of this discussion, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.960 or rather this Chuck Schumer monologue, and I thought was 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:52.679 worth noting President Obama and just you know, the President 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.440 of the United States did, in fact tweet out this 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.120 morning a quote from me, and the quote it's a 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.440 quote of my tweet. And here's what leader of the 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.520 Free World put out on his Twitter account this morning. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.159 About five hundred thousand human beings were killed in Syria 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.880 while Barack Obama was president and leading for a political 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.960 settlement to that civil war. Media has been more outraged 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.160 in the last seventy two hours over Syria policy than 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.560 they were at any point during seven years of slaughter, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.159 Buck Sexton, So that would be that would be me. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.960 This is the point that we have to remember as 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.880 we discuss all of this, as we discuss everything that's 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.479 going on right now in Syria, the Obama administration made 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.760 a decision not to put any US boots on the 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.360 ground in Syria. That was there. That was their big 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.840 contribution in foreign policy, and in fact, when they were 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.640 challenged on this issue, they fell back on the mantra, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.159 and it wasn't. It was actually a more profane version 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.760 of this, but don't do stupid stuff. Do you remember that? 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.320 And this came after that, was on Syria. Don't do 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.880 stupid stuff. That's the Obama administration. Even Hillary Clinton herself, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.040 how she came out and said that that's not an 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:14.520 organizing principle for foreign policy, A gentle way because remember 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:15.920 she thought she was going to be the next president 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.280 the United States when she was Secretary of State, saying 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.400 that stuff a gentle way of saying that. The Obama 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.720 team just thinks that they can dress up in action 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:30.240 as strategic brilliance. So they did nothing while Syria not 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:35.720 only became the isis a hotbed that then enslaved a 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.200 few million people for years, mass rapes, mass executions, torture, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:45.200 attempted genocide against the Kurds. All that happened on Obama's watched. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.560 And it happened right after Obama decided that we weren't 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.120 going to Remember, we had already broken Iraq. You know, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.720 you break it, you buy it, right, that was the 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.440 basic I think that was the Colin Powell ism. If 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.000 you break it, you buy it. So we had already 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.880 broken I Rock. We decided we were going to do 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.000 regime change in that country, so we were committed. Once 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.800 you've done that, you're committed. Right, We're not committed, although 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:13.560 I'll get into this the same way on Syria. But 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:19.520 the Obama administration didn't do anything worthwhile to stop the 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.600 rise of ISIS. In fact, they went as far the 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.400 ISIS fighters swept through Mosul, a very important city in 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.000 northern Iraq on the Tigris River that was the gateway 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.480 to Syria for I, well, gateway to Iraq for countless 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:39.199 suicide bombers from Syria during the US the major portion 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.480 of US military occupation of Iraq, and they got within 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.520 what thirty or forty miles or so of Irbil in Kurdistan, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.360 and at that point when the Islamic State was threatening 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.080 to completely overrun Kurdish cities, which would have led to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:02.559 mass atrocities, execution, total destabilization of already shaky Iraq at 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.920 the time. Then Obama goes, all right, we'll do an 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.080 air campaign, but we're gonna do it really slow, and 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.400 a lot of allies. Let's bring in the allies. They'll 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.000 do a lot of the fighting for US. No they won't. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.680 They'll do a lot of the heavy lifting from the sky. No, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.600 they won't. And all of a sudden, President Trump takes over. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:25.080 The Islamic State goes from a global threat that's supporting 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.120 and propagating ideology that is radicalizing people all the world, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.480 including here in America, you know, like Omar Matine, the 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.920 Pulse nightclub shooter, and the San Bernardino shooters, and Jihadis 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.079 who see the Islamic State as a clarion call to arms. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.640 That's all going on. And then Trump comes into office 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.400 and says, I got an idea. Let's just crush Let's 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.480 just crush Isis. Let's just do it, and let's work 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.240 with whoever can get the job done on the ground. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.959 In this case, it was the Kurds. And after that 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:01.280 destruction of the Islamic State, the eradication of the leadership 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.400 in or at least chasing them out of Rocca, if 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.559 not taking them out, the President has decided, Okay, well, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.600 now we have the issue not so much of defeating 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:15.440 ISIS as just a counter terrorism campaign, but of Syria overall. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.360 What do we do in Syria? What is our end 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.040 state goal? You have a lot of people who are 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.400 saying things right now that they think sound very smart, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:30.560 like well, we should have negotiated, negotiated what exactly that 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.960 all the regional partners would just destroy the Islamic state 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.560 for us. We've been trying to negotiate that for a 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.400 long time. We cannot trust the Turks, we cannot trust 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.600 the Russians, we cannot trust the Iranians, we cannot trust 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.200 the Syrians. So who exactly are we supposed to negotiate 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:51.360 with now? I'm also seeing a lot of complaints, a 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.319 lot of criticism that the President's plan is too hasty, 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.720 and there are people who are saying that that means 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.520 in of itself that the idea behind it is wrong. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.200 I disagree, and I know I'm kind of a lone 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.840 voice these days. There's not a lot of people that 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.680 are taking my side on this one, including on the right. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:17.600 We have to stop justifying continued US military presence in 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.880 countries where we do not have an immediate national security 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.400 interest and where things are going to continue in a 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.240 state of tension, a state of constant fighting, or just 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.120 get a lot worse and deteriorate. Where have we been 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.720 able to draw down successfully? And as I said, people 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.400 will point to a rock. That's a different case. People 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.400 will point to Afghanistan. Now, I think have greater to 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.160 have a stronger point to make because at Afghanistan we've 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.640 been there for what almost two decades now, and every 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.640 year it's well, conditions on the ground aren't good enough. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.520 All right, Well, maybe it's not about conditions on the 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.400 ground being good enough. Maybe it's the mission is over. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.960 Time to come home, or just accept that we're going 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.880 to have permanent military presence in active conflict zones, different 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.480 than having a base in a country at peace, and 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.960 that that's going to be our foreign policy forever, which 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.640 does feel a bit like empire, doesn't it. Let's all 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.760 be honest about that. I am confident that Asad's days 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.360 are numbered, the world will not waver. Assad must go. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.200 We both agree that Asad needs to go. It is 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.920 just further evidence that Asad has to go, he's no 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.600 longer legitimate, and that he needs to go for the 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.240 sake of the Syrian people. The time has come for 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.200 him to step aside. Assad is on his way out. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.040 We all need to be thinking about the day after Asad. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.240 Assad has lost all legitimacy, that his time has passed 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.040 present al Asad is lost legitimacy, that he needs to 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.760 step down. As I have said many times before, Asad 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.040 has lost all legitimacy and Asad must go. And he 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.640 has stated on equivocably that Asad has lost all legitimacy 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.920 and cannot conceivably continue to govern. Beside has lost all 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.880 legitimacy to government. We've also been clear that Asad has 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.200 lost all legitimacy to lead. What we've done is organize 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:19.559 the international community saying Aside has to go. Look at 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:24.520 all those democrats, the experts of the Obama Obama himself, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.480 the experts of the Obama administration telling you that Asad 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.679 must go. Oh, but it's not a question of regime 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.000 change in Syrie. We don't have to stay until there's 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.920 regime teams. Let me tell you this. Without regime change, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:42.240 the only real alternative is what is happening now, which 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.920 as we say, all right, we're out. Yeah, we can 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.800 still exert pressure, we can still try to tell whatever 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.880 you want in Turkey as an ally, what however you 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.840 want to describe it. Stop going after the Kurds. Stop 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 making things more difficult for everybody in the region because 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.199 of your own domestic political considerations, i e. You hate 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:09.840 that your people hate the PKK for understandable reasons. We 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.240 don't want to be in a position where we just 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.040 keep on waiting and don't accept that we're waiting for 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.079 something we're never gonna do, which is trying to topple uside. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.960 We have no interest in that. In fact, one thing, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.440 one lesson from the Syrian Civil War that people don't 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.640 seem to understand, or the experts I should say, haven't 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:31.080 taken away from it. What comes after a sad? What 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.720 would be in place of a sad? We're so sure 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.640 that it would not be something along the lines of 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:45.560 a Taliban in Syria, Chabbat al Nasra, al Qaeda, something 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.880 like that. No, the Islamic State, none of that is 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.280 a concern for us. What are we talking about here. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.640 We weren't able to get the job done without the 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.840 help of the Kurds because as there was such a 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:05.440 strong je hottest element in Syria, and one of the 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.479 problems we ran into was trying to arm Syrian Arabs 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:13.240 to fight against the Islamic State. Guess what they couldn't 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.640 do it without. Now there is about a half I 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.120 think or so of the Syrian Defense forces our Sunni Arabs, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.840 and then about half of them are Kurds. The SDF 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.280 point here being folks, we only have so many options. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.960 And the people who are right now the loudest voices 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.600 on how what Trump is doing is terrible sat by 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.760 and did nothing. In fact, in the case of Obama, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.800 really worse than nothing, because he declared a red line 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.760 and put the full force of the US government behind 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.560 that red line, said if you gas your own people, Assad, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.920 We're coming after you. Sad gas Syrians. Nothing happened, Nothing 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.560 got a speech from John Carey. Oh my, I'm sure 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:59.360 all the terrorists were frightened beyond belief. So just remember 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.920 that the people, the Ben Rhodeses and the John Kerries 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:08.360 and the Barack Obamas, they were wrong on Syria in 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.160 every respect, every day, every major issue. And now they're 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.880 the ones that are telling you, oh, Trump is a disaster, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.440 He's ruining Syria. People on the coming up in the 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.680 Democrat debate and claiming that the slaughter in Syria is 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.480 Trump's fault. Okay, if you want to say that Trump's 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.760 removal of about fifty US troops, that's what we're talking about. Here, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.840 by the way, from one area of northern Syria has 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.240 led to dozens, maybe scores, I don't know, maybe maybe 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.600 a few hundred casualties at this point. You could make 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.000 that claim, but then you also have to understand that 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.960 the Obama administration sat by and in fact worse in 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.240 a situation where hundreds of thousands of people were killed, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.520 international community being led by Obama, leader of the Free World, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.480 wasn't able to stop it at all. In fact, it 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.040 kept getting worse for the first few years when Obama 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.240 was supposedly handling this and bring this to a political settlement. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.399 But of course it was the policy of the Obama 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.800 administration that it was regime changed by people say, oh, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.520 don't talk about Obama, Yeah, because they don't want to 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.080 discuss what happened in Syria. Trump showed up defeated ISIS, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.199 and it's like, I'm gone. What had happened up to 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.639 that point? How How did ISIS even take all the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.240 territory that it did, become the force that it was 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.399 because Obama said it was the JV team, Remember JV team, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.000 nothing serious there. Well, it turned out he was quite wrong. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.400 The same people, though, who brought you leading from behind 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:43.399 in Libya, another disastrous regime change war. Let's topple that 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.720 regime wanted to do this in some way in Syria, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.000 weren't able to make it actually happen. And now they 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.880 walk around telling the president that the voters who put 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.240 him in power to stop doing this regime change, military 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.040 military policy in the Middle East that were they're supposed 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.480 to get ignored now by Trump. The bottom line is 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.760 the reckless decision of this president sends a very clear 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.359 message to those friends and to those partners, and that 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.399 is the American handshake doesn't matter. That we won't be 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.040 there for you when you need us. And that's a 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.240 dangerous message. And I'll make it much harder for us 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:27.000 to recruit partners, recruit allies, and work with people going 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.199 forward to secure our country. Even after all you have 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.639 seen isis prisoners free at all, the humanitarian disaster. You 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.160 don't have any regret for giving Urniwan the green light 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.600 to invade. I didn't give him a green light. Well 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.040 did you tell the thing as you just you know, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.040 when you make a statement like that is said deceptive, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.159 just the opposite of a green light. First of all, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.480 we had virtually no soldiers that they were mostly gone, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.919 just a tiny little group, and they would have been 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.720 in harm's ware. You have a massive army on the 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.160 other side of the border. But more importantly, I didn't 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.359 give him a green light. And if anybody saw the letter, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.000 which can be released very easily, if you'd like, I 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.480 could certainly release it. But I wrote a letter right 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.000 after that conversation, a very powerful letter. There was never 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:08.879 given a green light. They've been wanting to do that 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.520 for years, and frankly, they've been fighting for many, many years. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.320 And when you ask a question like that as very deceptive, John, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.199 it's almost as deceptive as you showing all of the 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.679 bombings taking place in Syria. And it turned out that 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.920 the bombing that you showed on television took place in Kentucky, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.720 So you know, and I'm not even sure that ABC 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.760 apologize for that, but certainly it was a terrible thing. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.840 I'm looking at this, I'd say, wow, that's pretty bad. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.240 And it was in Kentucky, it wasn't in Syrias. So 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:35.600 I don't know what you're going to do about that, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.760 but I think abco's an apology. This is where President 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.240 Trump is really at its best. When the media is 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:47.560 going after him. It's obviously it's obviously partisan. I mean, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.440 that was a speech disguised as a question. Now, how 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.720 could you do something so terrible? I think that's John 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.160 carl or ABC or I don't know what the guy's 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.640 name is, John something or other. And it points out 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.840 that ab SEE was so desperate to run catastrophic footage 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.439 of what has happened in northern Syria that they actually 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.320 ran an explosives demonstration from a gun range in Kentucky 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.879 on their biggest news shows. That's a That's a pretty 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.000 big whoopsie, isn't it. Why would they make such a 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.480 big mistake like that. There also was a mistake in 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.720 a readout I think it was from either The Washing 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.639 Post the New York Times, where Trump said that they 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.000 basically came out of the meeting thing that Trump claimed 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:30.760 that Syria is not our problem, but what he said 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.159 was actually the Syrian border on like our border is, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.240 you know, not our problem. They just they get things 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.800 wrong all the time that bash Trump because they're so desperate, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.800 desperate to bash the president, and they think that anything 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.200 that bashes the president is inherently good to report, even 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.520 if you have to correct yourself. It serves the purpose. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.280 This is the retweet and then follow up tweet phenomenon 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.359 of you know, Trump said something that's literally worse than Hitler, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.000 and then oh, actually Trump didn't say that, And the 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.440 first one gets fifty thousand likes, and the second one retweets, 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.520 and the second one gets five. This is how propaganda works. 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:12.840 The correction, the editor's note doesn't get anything near what 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:18.400 the initial allegations and accusations get. And this is a phenomenon. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.080 Did you ever see this in the Obama years? How 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.600 many major corrections did the New York Times the Washington 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.040 Post have to run when Barack Obama was president, and 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.360 specifically on items not just that dealt with his administration, 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.600 but that we're damaging to Obama. How many times did 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.600 that happen? Oh, the very smart journals want to tell 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.760 us if that's a coincidence. I suppose that's supposed to 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:43.280 be a coincidence. I think not. But now let's just 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:44.720 dig a little more into it. And I want to 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.439 get into the impeachment stuff too, and Pelosi and this 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.120 whole thing is such a sham and such a joke. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.920 It's out of control. But even people who are who 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.680 are crazy and very dishonest can be quite dangerous. And 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.440 one of the great ironies here is that the voices 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.920 in the Democrat Party who have been warning us about 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.920 the threats to our democracy because of Trump for years now, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.240 they are the ones that are actually threats to our 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.960 most sacred institutions. They're the ones who did not accept 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.480 the results of the twenty sixteen election, did not accept 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:16.879 the results of the two thousand election either, by the way, 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:23.520 and are preparing themselves to invalidate the twenty twenty election, 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.560 which Trump, I am very confident is going to win 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.440 even if they impeach him. That's why there's this desperation 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.639 to stop him, to do something, to sully him, to 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:35.320 ruin him before the American people can make it another decision. 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.720 That desperation is evident, not just in the impeachment frenzy, 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:44.080 but also in the way they're talking about Syria. A 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.080 few dozen US soldier How many US casualties have there 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:50.600 been as a result of the move of troops from 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.520 northern Syria? How many? The answer zero? Thank God, the 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.800 answer zero. Okay, So we were supposed to do what 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:04.119 we're supposed to stay and stay in exactly the positions 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:07.400 we're in until the Curds say that it's that they've 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:09.560 worked out a deal with Turkey. The Turks will break 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:11.200 that deal with the Kurds. The moment that we don't 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.639 have troops there, I think that's if we're just going 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:17.760 to be realistic about this, and maybe I do need 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.760 to write the article or get the word out there. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:24.760 After every military conflict we have made that we as 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.520 a country have made the decision that there's only so 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.160 much we can do, and you know, some people are 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.159 on the wrong side of the dividing line. Some allies 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:34.440 are gonna have defend or fight for themselves, and that's 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.280 just the way that it is. After every single conflict 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:43.159 that we fought in recent memory, World War two, Vietnam, 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.119 Korean War, Persian Gulf War one, go through all these conflicts, 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.680 I would want to ask the Obama administration official because 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.160 remember they're they're now the ones that are trying to 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:59.680 bring down Trump based on both the Ukraine Gate, which 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:01.960 is just a replay of Russia Gate Ukraine Gate thing, 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.040 and now on his decision to as commander in chief 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.440 withdraw troops from one area of a battlefield a very 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:12.440 small number of troops. They're acting. They are responding to 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:16.200 this as though it is of Pearl Harbor esque proportions. 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:20.280 They are pretending like moving. I've seen the report about 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:23.040