1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. The Democrats are showing 2 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: us who they are, and it does not look good 3 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: if you believe in capitalism, free markets, and individual responsibility 4 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: and ingenuity. Ocasio Cortez seems to be the voice of 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: the far left. And then there's this all of a 6 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: sudden Schultz coming out causing some problems for them that 7 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: are more coming up on the Buck Sexton Show. This 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show where the mission or mission 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 10 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: no mistake American, You're a great American. Again the Buck 11 00:00:49,680 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to the Buck Sex and Show. Everybody, 12 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here, Thank you for 13 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: joining me. It is always an honor of privilege and 14 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: a pleasure. We're going to cover a lot of ground 15 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: that down the show. We'll talk about ending wars and 16 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: how Republicans seem to have a real problem with that 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: and Democrats only have a problem with it when a 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: Republican president wants to do it. That's not a surprise. 19 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: Whatever Trump is for, they are against. And then we'll 20 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: also be joined by a senior former senior DA officer 21 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: about this huge fentanyl bus at the border, and just 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: what can we do about the fentanyl, the fight against 23 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: fencyl and all these opioid overdoses. That's that'll be a 24 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: really interesting conversation. And I have to talk about some 25 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: of the latest lunacy from MSNBC and what they're putting 26 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: out there in the Russia collusion conspiracy theories. They just 27 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: won't they won't give it up. They just won't stop. 28 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: Every day, I feel like it's the same Rachel Maddow's 29 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: show in particularly or whatever I've seen it, which is 30 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: pretty infrequent, but it's the same show every night. It's 31 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: something something Russia, blah blah, Trump, twenty fifth Amendment, impeachment, Russia, Russia. 32 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how people watch this stuff so much. 33 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: I don't know who is watching this. It's so stupid people. 34 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: The people watching are not learning anything. It's not worth 35 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: their time. It's not true, but here we are. What 36 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: is true, though, is that the Democrats have gotten this 37 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: this unexpected and rude awakening from Schultz, a former CEO 38 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: of Starbucks, who is along with Michael Bloomberg, trying to 39 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: speak some sense to the Democratic Party, and the good 40 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: news for us, my fellow conservatives, is that the Democrats 41 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. They don't want to take 42 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: this sound fiscal advice from two people who do know 43 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: how to run a business. You say what you will 44 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: about Mike Bloomberg, say what you will about Schultz. They 45 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: know how to run a business, an incredibly effective, large 46 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: profitable business. And you've got to you've got to have 47 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: respect for that, right, I mean, you've got to be 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: able to look at what Howard Schultz has accomplished and say, Okay, well, 49 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: here's a guy who does have a real skill set, 50 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: a skill set that's not just demagoguery and telling stupid 51 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: people what they want to hear and then you know, 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: capitalizing on intersectional politics and identity politics and all the 53 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: rest of it. But but can really do something. I mean, 54 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: you are seeing now this happened today. People who are 55 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: trying to say that Schultz is not self made grew 56 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: up in a housing project. He's not self made because 57 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: the housing project, you see is paid forward taxpayer dollars, 58 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: and therefore he lived in subsidized housing. So it's not 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: true to call himself made. He is community made. He 60 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: is community made. Who does that begin to remind you 61 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: of who does that start to sound a little bit 62 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: like in terms of that approach to individual achievement. Play sixteen. 63 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you 64 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. 65 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we 66 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: had that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invest in roads 67 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: and bridges. If you've got a business that you didn't 68 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: build that, somebody else made that happen. If you've got 69 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: a business you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. Obama, 70 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: you see, he encapsulated the left wing socialist Democrat Party 71 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: mantra in one moment, in a way that is timeless, 72 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: because that's what they really think. They don't believe an 73 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: individual excellence and achievement and the meritocracy. That's all nonsense 74 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:15,679 Speaker 1: to them. It's all collective action, state intervention. And that's 75 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: why Schultz has been such a shake up for them. 76 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: That's what they don't like to hear this stuff about 77 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: a guy who brought himself up and did all this, 78 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: did all this on his own. They said, no, you 79 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: didn't do it on your own. We did it for you, 80 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: and therefore we can tell you what to think, what 81 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: to say. Your success is our success, Your success is 82 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: collective success. This is a recipe for the destruction of 83 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: the system that has brought so much incredible wealth to 84 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: this country. It's hard to fathom what it would have 85 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: been like in the world today if there had not 86 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: been an America leading the way for free markets, free enterprise, capitalism, 87 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: individual rights, rule of law. Democrats are willing to throw 88 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: that all in the bonfire of their progressive lunacy if 89 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: need be. That's why they're talking about taxes in this way. 90 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: They don't think the money is yours in the first place. 91 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: Taxes aren't the government taking from you. Taxes are what 92 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: you are allowed to get from the government. Scholtzen Blueberg 93 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: disagree play too. When I see Elizabeth Warren come out 94 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: with a ridiculous plan of taxing wealthy people, assert tax 95 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: of two percent because it makes a good headline, this 96 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: is what's wrong. I mean, you can't just attack these 97 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: things in a punitive way by punishing people. Number One, 98 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: I think the constitution lets you impose income taxes only, 99 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: so it probably is unconstitutional. Number Two, I don't know 100 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: of any country that has done that people earn money 101 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: to pay their taxes and then they don't have to 102 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: expect the government to come back and take some of 103 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: it away. You know, Mike Bloomberg on a lot of things, 104 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: he's terrible. At least he understands what a stupid idea 105 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: it is to try and institute this wealth tax. Although 106 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,679 Speaker 1: in principle, from a fairness perspective, it is more fair. 107 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: It is more fair than an income tax, that is true, 108 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: but you'd never be able to do it. But they're 109 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: not in the doing things game, the Democrats. They're in 110 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: the just say whatever you got to say to get 111 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: power game, and they're not in the celebrating individual achievement 112 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: frame of mind. They want to talk about all the 113 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: things that the Democrat programs and government assistance and all 114 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: that has done. Because if it was a collective achievement, 115 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: if Howard Schultz pulled himself up out of poverty because 116 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: of all the great things that left wing activist groups 117 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: have achieved with government programs or government housing, whatever it is, 118 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: then whatever he has we should be able to take 119 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,559 Speaker 1: from him. Whatever wealth he has is at our leave. 120 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: We let him have it, right, We being the collective 121 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: of the progressive status left. This is disconcerting. I mean, 122 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: this is going right. They were not expecting to have, 123 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: I think at this time, one the open advocacy for 124 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: infanticide by Democrats and two of the most major states 125 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: in the country. And two this unexpected challenge to core 126 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: left wing Democrat beliefs, that being that you can't just 127 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: tax people into oblivion and pretend like you don't have 128 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: to understand a balance sheet and costs and the ingo 129 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: the outgo and what's happening in a business. Those are 130 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: important factors in how you would run the government too. 131 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: But you know, you didn't build that. Howard Schultz didn't 132 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: make himself. The people that put together the project, that 133 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: took the taxes to fund it, they made him. I 134 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: also want today say that anyone who scrubs a toilet 135 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: works harder than Howard Schultze ever has. I'll tell you 136 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: I've scrubbed a lot of toilets. It's harder to run 137 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 1: Starbucks and it is to scrub a toilet. All right, 138 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: So the left needs to get a grip here. They're 139 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: kind of you know, rise up working class routine is 140 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: not gonna last very long unless they get tethered to 141 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: reality real soon and we will be right back as women. 142 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: That the pay gap and the wage gap is an 143 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: injustice that persists through secrecy, and it's an injustice that 144 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: persists to the present day. The Paycheck Fairness Act addresses, 145 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: among many things, two very critical ones. One is that 146 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: we cannot ask for salary history and pay people depending 147 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: on their salary history any more anymore, because it is 148 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: time we pay people what they are worth and not 149 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: how little they are desperate enough to accept. And that 150 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with their history. It has everything 151 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: to do with what they are worth today. This woman, 152 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: Okazia Cortez, is a just wild ignoramus on the economy 153 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: and really it doesn't know anything, does not know anything, 154 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: and it's becoming more and more apparent all the time. 155 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: And I tweeted out today it's obvious to me that 156 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: she's overpaid. Whatever she's making in Congress, it's too much. 157 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: But how would how would this be instituted? The notion 158 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: of a Paycheck Fairness app Act, And that the wage 159 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: gap is this injustice. The wage gap between men and 160 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: women is a myth. It's a myth. Libs keep talking 161 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,079 Speaker 1: about it. They pretend to care about science and facts. 162 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: There is no wage gap. If there were a wage gap, 163 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: which you would find is in jobs where they're are 164 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: that there's really very little difference in the quality of 165 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: the employee, you would have whole companies where all they 166 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: want to do is hire women. Because if you could 167 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: save twenty percent, So I think it's over twenty percent. 168 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: They say it's seventy Mike, what are the seventy seven 169 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: cents on a dollar? I think was it twenty three 170 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: percent something like that. That's, you know, whatever the myth is. 171 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: I think the myth probably changes every time, but I 172 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: think it's inn seventy seven or seventy two cents on 173 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: the dollar. For every every dollar manner and have you 174 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: could save twenty or thirty percent on your labor costs 175 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: for a business, you'd have a massive advantage. A lot 176 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: of businesses which people who have never run any or 177 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: don't know anyone who runs them, run on a pretty 178 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: pretty narrow margin. You know, there are some businesses where 179 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: it's a razor thin margin, and the idea that you'd 180 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: be able to just come along and say, well, you know, 181 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: this person should get paid X because well because what 182 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: because what? How how will you even know her? Thing 183 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: about how you shouldn't be able to ask for somebody's 184 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: salary history. I say to that a whole On a second, 185 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: isn't that an indicator of their what they have been 186 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: valued at in other workplaces for similar work? I mean, 187 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: isn't it relevant to the discussion. I don't think it 188 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: determines your whole you know, I don't think it terms 189 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: your whole worth. But this all comes from the lie 190 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: that people like to be told that they're not making 191 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: as much money as they think they should because somebody 192 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: else is holding them back for an unfair reason. And 193 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: life is not fair, business is not fair. That's all true. 194 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: We can start from that proposition. But it's not all 195 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: because somebody is a man or a woman or any 196 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: of these things. It's all more complicated than that. I mean. 197 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: But to pass a paycheck Fairness Act, this is just 198 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: going to be a huge invitation for all kinds of 199 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: lawsuits and for people to essentially come up with excuses for, 200 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: you know, why they don't negotiate well for themselves. But 201 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: I can tell you negotiating as somebody who has had 202 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: a negotiate a fair amount of his own employment contracts recently, 203 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: Negotiating deals requires not just judgment, but a little bit 204 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: of you've got to have some self confidence and also 205 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: a little tinge of assertiveness, not aggression, but assertiveness. It's 206 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: a skill. There's a reason why people who are very 207 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: good negotiators are paid for that. And obviously President Trump 208 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: takes a tremendous amount of pride in what he views 209 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: as his unparalleled skills of negotiation. Right, it is a skill. 210 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: It's not just something that anyone can do. And because 211 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: of the assertiveness factor as well, you're always going to 212 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: have people who are a little better at getting that 213 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: higher solider than somebody else because they're willing to look, 214 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: are they willing to walk away from the job. Are 215 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: they willing to say that they have another they have 216 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 1: another offer when they do? Yeah, seventy two cents in 217 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: the dollar. Proucer, Mike semi Hero. It varies, but that's 218 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: kind of considered the average. That's a massive savings. If 219 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: a man and a woman are equally qualified for a job, 220 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: and the only reason that you would hire the man 221 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: is because of a man. Anybody who's a capitalist with 222 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: an IQ over fifty would say, I'm just gonna hire women. 223 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna save almost thirty percent on my labor costs. 224 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: It's not that simple. Does not work that way, And 225 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,239 Speaker 1: this is where you start to get into that conversation 226 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: and a lot of people, including someone the right that 227 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't like to hear, which is, you know, men 228 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: and women also make different decisions. This is reflected in 229 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: how people say, oh, well, women are relegated to dominance 230 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: in lower paying jobs. That's not true. Yes, there are 231 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: a lot of women who are in nursing. There are 232 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: a lot of women who are in elementary school teaching. 233 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: That's true, and that's great. There are also women who 234 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: outnumber men by a pretty wide margin in the veterinary field, 235 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: which you make really good money. I mean, vets can 236 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: some ways have a better deal than a lot of doctors. 237 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: Do you make really good money? Is that because there's 238 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: anti male sexism in the veterinary field? Though, it's because 239 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: women are more drawn to that field than men are, 240 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: because biology matters, you know. This is this is when 241 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: you start to have to look at the cold hard 242 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: facts of existence in the world as it is, not 243 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: as liberals would like to pretend that it is. It's 244 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: so much easier to say that someone else is the 245 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: cause of Look, I have so many frustrations in life. 246 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: I have frustrations day to day. I have frustrations. You know, 247 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: this show should be on every single radio station in 248 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: the country. That hasn't happened yet. You know, I got frustrate. 249 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: Everyone's got their frustrations, right. But it's easier, and it's 250 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: understandable why we take take this approach. It's easier to 251 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: be told that the frustrations that you have, the feelings 252 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: you have of you know, either coming up short, or 253 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: it's not enough or whatever, all of that. It's easier 254 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: for that to feel like it is the result of 255 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: some externality. Somebody else is taking away what is truly 256 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: what should be you, or someone is taking away what 257 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: you would rightfully get if it were not for them. 258 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: You know, you didn't build that, right You didn't build that. 259 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: Everybody built it. Therefore we all should get a piece 260 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: of it. We all sho be able to take someone 261 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: from you because you only have it because we gave 262 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: it to you. That's one very effective way of politically 263 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: capitalizing on envy, telling a massive people that, Okay, you 264 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: don't like your job, you don't like your You know, 265 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: you don't like your station in life, you don't like 266 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: how things are going. It's not because of any choices 267 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: you made. And it's not because maybe you just haven't 268 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: been that lucky yet and needed to stay in the fight. 269 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: Somebody else is the reason for this. There, close mindedness, 270 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: their bigotry, their sexism, there or whatever, that's the reason 271 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: why you don't have that's a seductive argument. We want 272 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: to believe these things because it is much harder to 273 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: sell correct which requires self honesty. That's a much more 274 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: challenging thing people to do, and that's not sexy to sell. 275 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: And politics, folks, people don't like to hear really personal responsibility. 276 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: They don't like to hear life is. And I've said 277 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: this to people that are very close to me recently. 278 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: You know, the older I get, the more I realize 279 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: we are all just a compilation of our choices. We 280 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: are a compilation of our choices. Who you are as 281 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: a person is just really you are all the choices 282 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: you have made throughout life, better for worse. That's what 283 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: you know. How you treat people, how you treat yourself, 284 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: how you go about your day to day everything you 285 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: are just your choices, your actions and your words, your choices. 286 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: But if a politician come along and say, oh no, 287 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: that's not true. You're you're having these problems. You have 288 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: these frustrations because of someone else. This is why socialism 289 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: is so potent because of this, because socialism both pretends 290 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: to have the answers to all of your ills and 291 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: frustrations and pretend to be able to solve them in 292 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: a way that's going to be more more reultan more prosperity, 293 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: and be more fair and better for everybody. So why 294 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't you sell it? Why wouldn't you buy into this? 295 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you want to be a part of this? Right? 296 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: Socialism is appealing psychologically. That's why it's so important that 297 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: we pull it apart and tackle this based on the 298 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: substance and only mock it insofar as we have to, 299 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: or because we have to have a little fun when 300 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: AOC is talking. More coming up and we can all 301 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: almost every single person this country can acknowledge some privilege 302 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: of some type. You know, I'm a cisgendered woman. I 303 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: will never know the trauma of feeling like I'm not 304 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: born in the right body, and that that is a 305 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: privilege that I have, no matter how poor my family 306 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: was when I was born. But it's really hard for 307 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: some people to admit that they you know, it's part 308 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: of this weird American dream mythology that we have that 309 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: for a lot of in a lot of circumstances, isn't 310 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: as true, or isn't as clearly communicated as we like 311 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: for it to be, or we wish it were there. 312 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: You go more aoc Okazio Cortez in action here saying 313 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 1: things that kind of sounds smart, at least to liberals, 314 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: but when you drill down into them a little bit, 315 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: when when you look just beneath that surface levels, it's 316 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: complete silliness. It has no real meaning. Or rather, we 317 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: can start from the proposition of ask what does that mean? 318 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: She acknowledges her privilege because she was born sis gendered. Essentially, 319 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: what she's saying is, because I'm not suffering from gender dysphoria, 320 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: I have a privilege that I have to acknowledge. Now, 321 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: let's just start with this. Where does it end? Where 322 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: does privilege end? Is there attractive people privilege? Because I 323 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 1: think that for people that I know who are really 324 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: good looking, that makes their life easier than anything else 325 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: possible except for maybe, you know, having a lot of 326 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: family money. And maybe some people would even take being 327 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: really really good looking over having a lot of family money. 328 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: But the people that I know, we're really good looking. 329 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: Life is that? Is that a form of privilege that 330 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: has to be accounted for in political and social interactions? 331 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: Where does this stop? Do I have to acknowledge my 332 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: privilege because I don't suffer from multiple personality disorder? I 333 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: do have that. I do not suffer from multiple personality disorder, 334 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: which is a very rare condition as it turns out, 335 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: But I don't have that, So am I privileged? The 336 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: transgender community is, as a percentage of this country, very small, 337 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: but we talk about it a lot, don't we mean, 338 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats and the media have very clear and very 339 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: obvious agendas when it comes to the not just the 340 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, but specifically the trans community. Now gets a 341 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: lot of attention, and this is now trendy. It is 342 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: fashionable to say that being born cisgendered, which just means 343 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: you are either male or female. That's what cis gender is. 344 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you I got a bigger I got a 345 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: bigger actual functional vocabulary than ninety nine percent a leftist 346 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: that I meet, And I'm just not saying a hundred 347 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: percent that don't want to sound conceited, but it's actually 348 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I had to learn what the word 349 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: cisgendered meant two years ago. I said, what what is this? Cisgendered? 350 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: All of a sudden. But this is important to the 351 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: left because talking about privilege in any context, it is 352 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: really just a function of acknowledging the victim status of 353 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: someone else. And victim status is used by leftists, by 354 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: democrats in this country to transfer power from some groups 355 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: to others, because when you're a victim, you can make 356 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: a claim on your oppressor. So if you are a 357 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: victim of society because of the way you look, the 358 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: way you sound, the way you you know, your sexual orientation, 359 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: whatever it may be, the left then uses that and 360 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: it's it's especially effective against moral and decent people who 361 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: you know, want to do right by others and can 362 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: get guilted into things. It's particularly effective with them. But 363 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: they can transfer power then to these oppressed groups because 364 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: we owe it to them. It is owed to you 365 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: to have special legislation that protects you in this way 366 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 1: or that way, it is owed to you that we 367 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: change our tradition of free speech so that the words 368 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: we use do not offend people within a certain community 369 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: or any of the rest of it. This is a 370 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: core ludacy. I mean, this is why Trump was able 371 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: to win the You know, he doesn't talk about it 372 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: as much anymore, which I find a little frustrating. But 373 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: political correctness, which he used to call out by name, 374 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: is stifling, and people with any sense are really sick 375 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: of it. Just don't don't want to hear any more 376 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: of the nonsense from the PC police. Think that the 377 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: entire thing is completely overdone now and and is hurting 378 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: our culture. As I've discussed with you, it hurts comedy, 379 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: it hurts television and entertainment, and you know, just it 380 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: hurts our ability to discuss things. I'm not just saying 381 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: this because it's a lazy way of saying I could 382 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: say even funny or something I do on this show, 383 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: But there are a lot of times when there's a 384 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: joke that I want to make and I know I 385 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 1: can't make it because even if you're okay with it, 386 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: all it takes is one smarmy lib in the audience 387 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: who happens to be tuning in and then they want 388 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 1: to make some big thing and they write an email 389 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: to this you know, organization, and you know, then I 390 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: got all kinds of problems. But one other thing here 391 00:23:52,760 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: is on this competing categories of these competing categories of oppression, 392 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: which is what the and this is all intersectionality. This 393 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: is all just a discussion really of intersectionality. And Okazi 394 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: Courtez saying that she's privileged because she assist gendered. What 395 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: are we supposed to really do with that? You know, 396 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: I asked before, what does it mean? What do we do? 397 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: What action are we supposed to take? Is it really 398 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: enough for it's just to walk around and say, well, 399 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: you know, I recognize my privilege, and I recognize it, 400 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: so then I oh, our songs are okay, that's it. No, 401 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: they must want something with this. They must be asking 402 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: for people to recognize their privilege because they're at least 403 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: trying to get a change in behavior and probably to 404 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: bully people into either abandoning their own politics or adopting 405 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: the politics of the left. How would you measure this? 406 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: How would you gauge this? Okay, I'm very fortunate in 407 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: life because I am sis gender. Does that mean that 408 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: when I go up for a job against a transgender person, 409 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: that person should get that job? Is that? I think 410 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: there are a lot of lives would say yes. I 411 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: would note, and I mean this, if you were trying 412 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: to find a surefire way for your kid who might 413 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: just be on the bubble to get into you know, 414 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: Harvard or Yale or one of these places, if they're 415 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: close enough, if your son or daughter were close enough, 416 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: I'd say, have them apply as some kind of trans 417 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: rights activists. The school will take him. The school will 418 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: take him. It sounds like kind of a privilege to 419 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: me to be treated specially to be given special consideration 420 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: by the media and now increasingly by the government. But yeah, 421 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 1: that's she. It is a trendy thing to say I 422 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: have to recognize being sis gendered as privileged. No, it's 423 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: just recognizing your biology, which is in fact male or female. 424 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: Smart border security is not overly reliant on physical barriers. 425 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: There's not going to be any more money in the 426 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: in the legislation. What did you say today, Congress is 427 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what Congress does. I knew that he 428 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: wanted it all to himself. I mean, really, a president 429 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: who wants to have Congress to be completely irrelevant, and 430 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: how we meet the needs of the American people. Now, 431 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: to everybody who's wondering how this movie ends, it ends 432 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: this way. We're going to build a wall one way 433 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: or the other. I just talked to the President ten 434 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: minutes before I came up. The President's not doing anything crazy. 435 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: What's crazy is that they're fighting him after having voted 436 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: the way they did in the past. Who's right? Will 437 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: there be a wall or not? Will this wall get 438 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: done or at least get started and really get up 439 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: and running. I don't know. Team. I can't tell you that. 440 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: I have a real good prediction to make here. I 441 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: think that this goes to a national emergency declaration. Trump 442 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: tells the military to build a wall, build a fence, 443 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: and he is enjoined by probably the Ninth Circuit immediately, 444 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: and that stops him. And then this makes its way through, 445 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: and then I suppose the Supreme Court in maybe a year, 446 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: a year and a half, whenever it's going to be, 447 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court will have its say. I do think 448 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: that Trump will win. I think that the Statute about 449 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: a National emergency clearly makes clearly gives the president authority 450 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: from the Congress by its own passage of legislation to 451 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: do that, to do this kind of thing. But you know, 452 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: Pelosi is managing to position herself here as somebody who 453 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: is and and just a complete anti wall extremist. Not 454 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: a dollar from the wall, no money in the wall 455 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: in the legislation for a wall. Why why don't why 456 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: don't people ask her about this? Why isn't she being 457 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: asked to defend why that is? And notice that she's 458 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: also she's such a dishonest and just prototypical politician in 459 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: all the worst way to meet the needs of the 460 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: American people. Please, Nancy, let's slow your role with them. 461 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,959 Speaker 1: Meet the needs of the American people, all right, You 462 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: and your party don't believe in enforcing our borders. They 463 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: definitely don't believe in interior enforcement, which doesn't get talked 464 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: about at all. I mean that they are not in 465 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: favor of finding illegals and deporting them to their home countries, 466 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: which is what the law currently on the books that 467 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: Congress has pass says. They've given funding for fences and 468 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: walls in the or fences, walls, whatever it was in 469 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: the past, and now they've walked away from it entirely 470 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: and said that this is crazy. The walls that are 471 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: in plays work very well, the upgraded walls work incredibly well. 472 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: So I just don't think she really has She doesn't 473 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: have an honest argument to make, and so what you 474 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: get from her is just shameless, shameless demagoguery. And that 475 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: is the way of Nancy Pelosi. The shutdown is probably 476 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: not going to happen because we're going to get to 477 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: shut downtown time and everyone is going to say, all right, 478 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: Trump ended the last shutdown. We know Democrats aren't going 479 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: to be one be the ones who cave this time around. 480 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: So with that being the case, why not just go 481 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: right to a national emergency and start building this offense. 482 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: Trump does that. I think he's he's in very very 483 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: good shape for twenty twenty, and I think that he 484 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: will eventually be able to build a lot of that wall. 485 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is interesting enough because he's not really all 486 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: that hawkish on the border. He's not somebody who is 487 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: particularly anti illegal immigration, and for him to sort of 488 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: be out there taking the message to the people that 489 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,959 Speaker 1: Trump is all in on this and this is going 490 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: to happen I'd say I was a little bit. I 491 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: was a little bit surprised, not a lot, but a 492 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: little bit, and we will have to see how it goes. 493 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: By the way, there's also a care. I mean there's 494 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: the wall. I mean Trump gave this press conference today. 495 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: There's there's the wall, and there's the caravan. And these 496 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: are really important, really important issues that need to be 497 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: tackled playlif twenty. But we pay hundreds of millions of 498 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: dollars to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvadora, and then they 499 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: have caravans leaving that country coming up here. And by 500 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: the way, if you go to Tijuana and you take 501 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: down that wall, you will have so many people coming 502 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: into our country that Nancy Pelosi won't be begging for 503 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: a wall. Nancy Pelosi be begging for WALLI says, I 504 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: don't buy that, because Nancy Pelosi likes a legal immigration. 505 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: She is favorable to a legal immigration. But we do 506 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: give a lot of this money to Guatemala, Honduras, to 507 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: El Salvador. We give them foreign aid. And you know, 508 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: those countries are not going to be any less teaming 509 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: with people who want to get out because the countries 510 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,479 Speaker 1: are really bad shape, which means that what we do 511 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: at the border now is going to have ramifications for many, 512 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: many months down the line. There will be consequences to 513 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: decisions about a silent today that affect what's going on 514 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: in this country years from now, because immigration has long 515 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: term impacts, and these caravans that are coming up, we're 516 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: going to find out. I think that the caravans, one, 517 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: we're obviously coordinate with a lot of international NGOs, but 518 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: also that these caravans are being planned as a regular thing. 519 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: They say they do it because of safety and numbers 520 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: and it's a way of avoiding paying the smugglers fee. 521 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: But I also think that this is an idea that 522 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: came to them from outside, outside forces and said why 523 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: don't you guys do this? And that's how we got here. 524 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: So we need a fence to help stop people from 525 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,959 Speaker 1: being able to just march into the country in caravan fashion. 526 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: We also need it, and we're going to talk to 527 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: a d Age in the later on in the show, 528 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: we'll talk to him about what's going on with ports 529 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: of entry with the ability to find drugs. A huge, 530 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: huge fentanel seizure that occurred today, you know, the human 531 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: trafficking is a major problem, a major concern. Here's what 532 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: Trump said about today during a brief q and a 533 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: with the press, Play twenty two. Open borders are very 534 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: bad for our country. Crime comes in drugs, human traffic 535 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: in so many things. But let's talk about human trafficking. 536 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: You can't bring women or children through a port of 537 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,959 Speaker 1: entry where you have people looking into the back of 538 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: a car, a van, a truck. It has to go 539 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: out into the open areas where they drive into our 540 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: country like there's no problem. And that's exactly what they do. 541 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: They get off the main drag or the main road, 542 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: they make a right or left, and then they come 543 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: right into our country. They go through areas where there 544 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: is nobody. We need a border wall. If we don't 545 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: have a wall to stop them, nothing's going to stop them. 546 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: This isn't about technology, and this isn't about politics. This 547 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: is about practicality, and it's about security for our nation. 548 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: Democrats love to talk about how they want drones for 549 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: the border. I was at the left. Okay, let's say 550 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: you had let's say you had drones all over the border. 551 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: I mean, you had a drone, you know, everywhere when 552 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: you needed it. All the drone tells you is that 553 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: there are people crossing illegally. You can't continue to surveil them, 554 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: especially if they get into an urban or even a 555 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: suburban area. You can't continue your drones surveillance endlessly and 556 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: if you don't have the resources on the ground to 557 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: stop members. It's not just that people are crossing legally, 558 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: it's the speed of the crossing. Does jumping the fence 559 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: and getting the states, or you know, does running the 560 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: US Mexico border take you three or four minutes and 561 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: you know, considerable exertion, or is getting into America as 562 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: simple as hopping into a vehicle, you know, going real 563 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: fast over the border because there's nothing to block you, 564 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,239 Speaker 1: and then somebody tells you to get out, and then 565 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: you make a run for it and you're long gone 566 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: before border which will ever arrives. You know, these are 567 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: the complexities of the border debate that don't get reflected 568 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: at all in the media is talking about it and 569 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,879 Speaker 1: the media's coverage of how this all operates. But when 570 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: he's talking about human trafficking, he makes a very good point, 571 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: which is also that these human trafficking organizations that's you know, 572 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: they're not. They're not great at doing false, false paperwork 573 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: to try to get somebody in America. Right, they're not. 574 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: They're not forging, at least not that I'm aware of. 575 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: They're not forging passports for people for for human trafficking operations. 576 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: So the human traffickers are bringing people across the border illegally, 577 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: and they know that every time they do that, they're 578 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: taking some degree of risk. But you're not going to 579 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: go to a port of entry where they can check 580 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: ID and say sorry, you're not going to get in here. 581 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,359 Speaker 1: So this is what the fence ties into so many 582 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: other things. You know, if I if I said to 583 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: you that you know you need a roof on your 584 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: house because you don't have a roof yet, and you said, no, 585 00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 1: I don't need a roof, And I said, no you 586 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,399 Speaker 1: And he said, well, why do you need a roof? 587 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,359 Speaker 1: And I said, well, it's gonna keep it's gonna let 588 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: your house be warmer when you want it to be warmer. 589 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: It will also keep water and rain and you know 590 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,400 Speaker 1: the elements, it'll keep wild animals out of it. All 591 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: these different things. You have, all these different reasons you 592 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 1: really need a roof. Say well, Buck, I don't know. 593 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. That sounds like a lot of different 594 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: stuff that's not gonna so the roof. What you're saying 595 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: is the roof is not going to solve all my problems. 596 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,800 Speaker 1: That's kind of what Democrats do. We say, well, this 597 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: is a necessary improvement that will affect a lot of 598 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: other things. And the Laft says, well, if it's not 599 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 1: going to be perfect and fix everything, it's not worth doing. 600 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: And this is just not this is not discussing in 601 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: good faith. But we've got a lot coming up here 602 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: in our two teams, so stay with me. 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I'm sorry, 625 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 1: I just don't know what he said yesterday. Are you 626 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,800 Speaker 1: going to ask a new question or is it the 627 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: same old Sam? Notice how Pelosi there, I got a 628 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:18,479 Speaker 1: little testy, a little testy, And it's because she didn't 629 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: like being asked that question. Because while Pelosi is an 630 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 1: abortion a pro abortion extremist, because she has a far 631 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: left Lib Democrat. The whole edifice of abortion on demand 632 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: for nine months of the pregnancy is really only possible 633 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 1: if people don't have to answer questions, don't have to 634 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: tell the truth, and the American people don't know what's 635 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: going on. It's very important for Pelosi and her whole 636 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,440 Speaker 1: gang on the left to always use these words like 637 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 1: choice to obscure what's really going on, to avoid discussing 638 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,320 Speaker 1: the details of what the policies they support do legalize. 639 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: And I was pleased to see the outrage yesterday at 640 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: Virginia Governor Ralph Ralph Northam because what he said was 641 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,359 Speaker 1: one of the more horrific things I've heard any public 642 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: officials say in a very long time. But then the 643 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 1: spin machines went to work. I'm sure you have the usuals, 644 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: and you have Media Matters for America coming out to 645 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: try to defend north I mean, Media Matters is a 646 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: place where I do not respect the people that work there. 647 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: I think that if if you work for Media Matters, 648 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: which was founded by David Brock, it's it's only exists 649 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 1: as a tax advantage five O one C three left 650 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,839 Speaker 1: wing hit organization on conservatives. That's all Media Matters does. 651 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 1: It's written pieces about me, it's you know, posting stuff 652 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: about me in the past, and and it's it's a 653 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 1: trash bag organization. And any person of decency and honor 654 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: would choose not to work there. So media people who 655 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,839 Speaker 1: work at move on dot org to activists, a lot 656 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 1: of bad people there. These are places where there's a 657 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 1: lot of bad people. They of course leapt to the 658 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: defense of Ralph Northam and tried to rewrite and and 659 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,080 Speaker 1: re reposition what he said so that it wasn't just 660 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: an open and blatant endorsement of in fantasize, which it was. 661 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,800 Speaker 1: That's what it was. And in one of the most 662 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:29,120 Speaker 1: incredible ever versions of this, Republicans pounce. Idea. You know, 663 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: this is this is the the classic liberal propaganda technique 664 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: for different for different newspapers. And what they do is 665 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,879 Speaker 1: they say, you know, whenever a Democrat does something wrong 666 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,320 Speaker 1: and Republicans pointed out to them, they say, Republicans pounce. 667 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 1: That's always the that's always the description. Republicans pounce. It's never, oh, 668 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: this person as a Democrat did something bad that people 669 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: are rightfully calling out. It's reblicant. So here's here's an 670 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,720 Speaker 1: example of this though. The woman that we heard yesterday, 671 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: the Virginia delegate who talked about who has asked the 672 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 1: question in the Virginia State House about whether a baby 673 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 1: could be killed up to the moment of birth, meaning 674 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: that of the mother's giving birth the baby's coming out 675 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: of the birth canal under the law. And people say, oh, 676 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,239 Speaker 1: this would never happen. That does not matter, and who 677 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 1: knows if that's even true under the law. Would it 678 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,200 Speaker 1: be legal to do this? Okay, you could tell me, Buck, 679 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 1: it's legal to go out and kill a hundred people. 680 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: If you kill a hundred people, it's obviously murder if 681 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 1: you kill one person, But if you kill a hundred 682 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,319 Speaker 1: people will create a loophole. You could tell me, oh, well, 683 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: but no one's gonna go kill one hundred people for 684 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,040 Speaker 1: no reason, Buck, And I'd say, yeah, but why is it? 685 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 1: First of all, who knows if that's true? And second 686 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 1: of all, why is it legal? Why would we make 687 00:40:55,280 --> 00:41:02,720 Speaker 1: a murder legal? Doesn't make any sense. This Delegate Kathy Tran, 688 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 1: who was on the floor. She was wanting to answer 689 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: the question. The Washington Post wrote about this, and this 690 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,360 Speaker 1: is their headline. Okay, until this week, Delegate Kathy Tran 691 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,919 Speaker 1: was known for nursing her daughter on the House floor. 692 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:23,760 Speaker 1: Now Republicans are calling her a baby killer. The problem 693 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,800 Speaker 1: is not you see from the Washington Post perspective. The 694 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: problem is not that a woman got up and said 695 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,279 Speaker 1: that killing a baby that is being born is in 696 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: fact legal under the bill that she was trying to support. 697 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,759 Speaker 1: The problem is the big, mean Republicans who said that 698 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 1: that is what she said, and this is Soviet style propaganda. 699 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 1: This is as dishonest as and this is not an 700 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,720 Speaker 1: opinion piece. This is supposed to be a news piece 701 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: in politics on the Washington Post. Now Republicans are calling 702 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,120 Speaker 1: her a baby killer. Well, they're probably calling her a 703 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,640 Speaker 1: baby killer because she wants to make it legal to 704 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: kill babies. Also reminds me of how people were now. 705 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 1: They were trying to defend Northam by saying, because it's 706 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: got a lot of attention. I was. I was pleased 707 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 1: to see that I was not the only one who 708 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,040 Speaker 1: was completely outraged by this yesterday. But in order to 709 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,759 Speaker 1: try to make what Northam said not quite as bad, 710 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: you know, to make it not quite as as grotesque 711 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:27,359 Speaker 1: and distasteful and immoral and horrific, what they've said is, oh, well, 712 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,279 Speaker 1: he was only talking about babies with extreme when he said, 713 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,920 Speaker 1: you know, keep it comfortable while it's been delivered, and 714 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,960 Speaker 1: then figure out what to do. With it. I mean, 715 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,600 Speaker 1: it's it's it's chilling even to just say and just 716 00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 1: remember what he said. But now they're trying to tell us, oh, 717 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,680 Speaker 1: it's only for babies that have extreme birth defects. That 718 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,040 Speaker 1: was the way that they went today with you A 719 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,440 Speaker 1: planned parenthood jumped into action, all these different all these 720 00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: different left wing just awful, awful organization, and that's not true. 721 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,360 Speaker 1: Turns out that a large percentage of babies, for example, 722 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 1: with Down syndrome are aborted, and in a lot of 723 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,400 Speaker 1: cases you can't tell the baby has Down syndrome until 724 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 1: many months into the pregnancy. So this idea that nobody's 725 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,719 Speaker 1: ever going to just say I'm going to you know, 726 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,120 Speaker 1: the law says I can do this, I'm going to 727 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: do this is not accurate. I'm just glad that the 728 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,839 Speaker 1: people were holding the Democrats to some account. I also said, 729 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: people say, oh, it's only two states, it's not the 730 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:42,600 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. This is this is just disingenuous and stupid stuff. 731 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,240 Speaker 1: But when people are desperate, when they're desperate to believe 732 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 1: that what they what they have said, or what they 733 00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:56,440 Speaker 1: support is not a terrible and immoral thing, they'll just 734 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: say whatever they have to say. I mean, they'll do 735 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 1: whatever they have to do. And that's where that's where 736 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 1: Pelosi comes in. You know, that's where Pelosi is saying, oh, 737 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what he said. I think I think 738 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 1: she's lying. I think Nancy Pelosi is lying about not 739 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: knowing what Ralph Northam said. But she wants to dodge 740 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,960 Speaker 1: the question and just hope it goes away. I got 741 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,279 Speaker 1: one other thing I want to bring up for all 742 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:19,879 Speaker 1: of you before we change the topic. I'm not gonna 743 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 1: talk more about abortion today, but I wanted to. I 744 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,799 Speaker 1: wanted to follow up on yesterday's conversation. Where are all 745 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:33,800 Speaker 1: of these sanctimonious Christians? Where are all these sanctimonies Christians? 746 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:39,680 Speaker 1: A lot of anti Trump evangelicals, for example, anti Trump Catholics, 747 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,920 Speaker 1: where are they on this? You know they I've been 748 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,400 Speaker 1: hearing them make all this noise about how evangelicals you know, 749 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,759 Speaker 1: care about climate change too. There's not a lot of them. 750 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,600 Speaker 1: I know it's a small minority, but I hear these, 751 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 1: these these loud voices. Evangelicals care about climate change. Evangelicals 752 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: believe in in you know, a nation of immigrants. That's 753 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: what I'm is. Where are they on this? Where are 754 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 1: they those same voices, those authors, those those spokespersons for 755 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,040 Speaker 1: their in their mind at least their denomination, their faith 756 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 1: who go on TV. If they don't speak out on this, 757 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,720 Speaker 1: they have no credibility on any of those other issues. 758 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,080 Speaker 1: You know, if there's a point to a prominent Catholic, 759 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,840 Speaker 1: whether in the clergy or in the media or somebody 760 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,359 Speaker 1: who does media, if that person does not speak out 761 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,759 Speaker 1: against what's going on right now in the legislature, what 762 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,040 Speaker 1: was passed in New York and what is being passed 763 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:39,640 Speaker 1: in Virginia, they are frauds. They're frauds, and so I 764 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: won't I think that's something that we all do need 765 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,520 Speaker 1: to remember going forward when they lecture us about how 766 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,160 Speaker 1: you know Trump said Trump said uncouth things about women 767 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,399 Speaker 1: on a tape once. A lot of people have heard 768 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,200 Speaker 1: of the aa ARP. And you might already be a member, 769 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,239 Speaker 1: or somebody you know might be a member. But did 770 00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:02,640 Speaker 1: you know that the AAARP is basically the Bernie Sanders 771 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,720 Speaker 1: of senior political organizations? Right, it's all about government control 772 00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: of your healthcare, bigger taxes on middle class Americans. You 773 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,000 Speaker 1: don't want any of that stuff. How about I give 774 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,360 Speaker 1: you all the benefits of the AARP, but none of 775 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,480 Speaker 1: the progressive nonsense. I recommend AMAC. Why AMAC Well. AMAC 776 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,720 Speaker 1: is a great value for its members, discounts on car insurance, hotels, 777 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 1: roadside assistance, and your investment in AMAC allows AMAC to 778 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,160 Speaker 1: act for policy that is good for America and that 779 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,480 Speaker 1: is in line with your values. Join the Conservative Alternative. 780 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: Join AMAC, stand with them as they fight the good fight. 781 00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,239 Speaker 1: Become a member today, Join right now at AMAC dot 782 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:48,319 Speaker 1: us slash buck. That's am AC dot us slash buck. 783 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:53,480 Speaker 1: AMAC is better, better for you, better for America. And 784 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,920 Speaker 1: this isn't everybody. And I don't want to generalize the crowd, 785 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,600 Speaker 1: but I mean, you do. You see a lot of 786 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,560 Speaker 1: like angry faces, people that their sole purpose is to 787 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,279 Speaker 1: find the gotcha moment, to catch you. Their job is 788 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,719 Speaker 1: not to get information, which is what the briefing is 789 00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,359 Speaker 1: supposed to be, it's to trip you up. We think 790 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,520 Speaker 1: we have an amazing story to tell. We're not afraid 791 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,759 Speaker 1: to take tough questions, but we want to make sure 792 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,360 Speaker 1: that it's productive and that it's not for the purpose 793 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,400 Speaker 1: of destroying the president, distorting the message, or destroying the messenger. 794 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,600 Speaker 1: As we go through that process, Sarah Huckaby Sanders explaining 795 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,360 Speaker 1: there why they're not doing quite as many press conferences 796 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 1: as they used to. And I understand, I understand exactly 797 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,800 Speaker 1: why I think all of you do too. It's not 798 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:47,320 Speaker 1: about getting information. It just turns into a roast session 799 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,719 Speaker 1: for the lib audience that's watching and reading a lot 800 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,520 Speaker 1: of these outlets. And this is why the acosta ing 801 00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,040 Speaker 1: of the White House press briefing has really brought about 802 00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:05,000 Speaker 1: its demise. This just relentless crazy grandstanding from people who 803 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,600 Speaker 1: then turned around and act like, oh, well, I didn't 804 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,239 Speaker 1: do this, I didn't do anything that was that bad. 805 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,000 Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to push them and get quick no, 806 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 1: you're not. We know that, we know what you're doing. 807 00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,520 Speaker 1: We know what you're doing. You are trying to make 808 00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: a name for yourself. You're trying to get attention for yourself, 809 00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,000 Speaker 1: and the way to do it is by going after 810 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:27,440 Speaker 1: the administration. The hostility that you show to anybody attached 811 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,520 Speaker 1: to this administration is a way of building bona fidez 812 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:36,640 Speaker 1: on the left. And unfortunately, we still have an overwhelmingly 813 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:43,319 Speaker 1: left wing dominated media apparatus, and they have just beclowned 814 00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,759 Speaker 1: themselves over the course of the Trump presidency in that 815 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,640 Speaker 1: In that sense, I actually like this. I like that 816 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:56,120 Speaker 1: we see April Ryan and Acosta and others being so 817 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:02,880 Speaker 1: obviously respectful to White House people that are trying to 818 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,719 Speaker 1: give you know, trying to give messaging to the press corps. 819 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this is about the flow of information from 820 00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,200 Speaker 1: the White House of the press that the press is 821 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,759 Speaker 1: not really needed the way that it used to be. 822 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,320 Speaker 1: This is what is I know, this is really an athema. 823 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,399 Speaker 1: They don't want to hear this or the Washington Post. 824 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,040 Speaker 1: They're saying, oh, we need the press now more than ever. 825 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,920 Speaker 1: It's not really true. What you need are people that 826 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: are getting information and sharing information who are trustworthy. But 827 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,080 Speaker 1: you don't have to be a journalist to be able 828 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,719 Speaker 1: to do that. And journalists in general, I think are 829 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 1: way too full of themselves. I mean, they have this 830 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,320 Speaker 1: whole notion that without them democracy would cease to function. 831 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,439 Speaker 1: Anybody walking around now with a smartphone and a cell 832 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,920 Speaker 1: phone or Wi Fi connection is essentially able to be 833 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,000 Speaker 1: an instantaneous publisher of news and information, and a lot 834 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,640 Speaker 1: of people are exactly that. But you know, the White 835 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,640 Speaker 1: House could just put out put out its statements, but 836 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,040 Speaker 1: its policy to answer these the questions. The questions are 837 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,600 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly partisan, right, they are partisan attacks against the White House. 838 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,960 Speaker 1: So what's what's the point of this? You usually are 839 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,120 Speaker 1: seeing a focus during these hearings, are not hearing, sorry, 840 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:18,000 Speaker 1: during these briefings, hearings, briefings that's all blending together, a 841 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,920 Speaker 1: focus on questions that are not meant to illuminate anything 842 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,839 Speaker 1: for the benefit of the American people, but are meant 843 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,239 Speaker 1: to be an attack of some kind all the administration, 844 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:32,520 Speaker 1: are meant to undermine and beat down the administration in 845 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,480 Speaker 1: the public eye. So I totally understand why they're just 846 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,640 Speaker 1: they're sick of it. And I think that if nothing else, 847 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,239 Speaker 1: the Trump administration has forever changed the way that the 848 00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,960 Speaker 1: national press is going to be viewed by the American people. 849 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,719 Speaker 1: And that's a good thing because those of us who 850 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,600 Speaker 1: work in it know, and those of us who have 851 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,000 Speaker 1: spent time in these newsrooms have a full understanding of 852 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 1: just how conceited a lot of these national journals are, 853 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:03,200 Speaker 1: and also how vote both incredibly arrogant and deeply insecure 854 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,160 Speaker 1: they are at the same time. Because the whole profession 855 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,120 Speaker 1: has gone through a lot of change, and they they 856 00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,759 Speaker 1: have created this mythology which doesn't exist. I mean, I 857 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,600 Speaker 1: keep saying this, but it's really true. In the UK, 858 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,960 Speaker 1: journalists traditionally have been kind of viewed as as you know, 859 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,320 Speaker 1: people who are a little bit of scoundrels. You know. 860 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,400 Speaker 1: The newspaper Masthead itself may be very respected, but the 861 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,480 Speaker 1: journalists are usually fast talking, heavy drinking. And there's this 862 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:37,319 Speaker 1: kind of romanticized but also unromantic view in the UK 863 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:42,480 Speaker 1: of journalists throughout the twentieth century, and in the US 864 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,920 Speaker 1: we have this whole thing of journalists are almost their 865 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,640 Speaker 1: own They really do think of themselves as almost their 866 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,719 Speaker 1: own branch of government, you know. And you go back 867 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,360 Speaker 1: to the days of the American Founding and when you know, 868 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,840 Speaker 1: people that were utilizing the printing press were so essentially 869 00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,440 Speaker 1: you mean, you think of Thomas Payne, you think of 870 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,880 Speaker 1: some of these really you know, the American Aurora with 871 00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:07,080 Speaker 1: what Benjamin Benjamin Bach I think. You know, you look 872 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,080 Speaker 1: at these different papers that had such a big role 873 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,840 Speaker 1: in the in the in the founding and in getting 874 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,040 Speaker 1: the word out about what was going on with the 875 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,200 Speaker 1: revolution and in the early days of the Continental Congress. 876 00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,480 Speaker 1: But journalists haven't involved with the times. I mean, they 877 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 1: still cling to this idea today that they are a 878 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,200 Speaker 1: necessary bullwork against power. It's funny because the clowns that 879 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,320 Speaker 1: right for that crappy website. The bullwork definitely think of 880 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,880 Speaker 1: themselves this way. That's that never Trump thing where you 881 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,759 Speaker 1: got Charlie Sykes. I mean, I just my thing about 882 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,120 Speaker 1: my conversation with Charlie Sykes was he came on my 883 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,640 Speaker 1: show and he was just he was hostile in a 884 00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,880 Speaker 1: smug way without when it wasn't necessary. And I just 885 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,719 Speaker 1: I just don't like that. I don't like that. You know, 886 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: I have a pretty relaxed and somewhat irreverent way of 887 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:57,960 Speaker 1: talking to people, both on set and offset a lot 888 00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,680 Speaker 1: of the time, particularly Off said, and I don't I 889 00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:06,600 Speaker 1: don't like any of this unearned arrogance that a lot 890 00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,959 Speaker 1: of journalists bring the table and the bulwark in those guys. 891 00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,399 Speaker 1: I mean, look, psychs is not I mean stuff he writes, 892 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,560 Speaker 1: it is not good stuff. He says, it's not smart. 893 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. One of you told me. 894 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,759 Speaker 1: Somebody wrote me a message saying you used to listen 895 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,400 Speaker 1: to him in wisconsonant On radio, and it was it 896 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,480 Speaker 1: really was that an interesting show. I don't be shocked. 897 00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:28,800 Speaker 1: But this notion of the journalists are the people that 898 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,160 Speaker 1: present us with the information we need them. Without them, 899 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,239 Speaker 1: we would all be information starved or this is this 900 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,280 Speaker 1: is preposterous. I think the truth is that we probably 901 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,920 Speaker 1: have too many journalists in this country. We have too 902 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,040 Speaker 1: many people that are operating in this in this field 903 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,440 Speaker 1: and in this realm and not being honest. But what 904 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:49,720 Speaker 1: is they're trying to do, not understanding what the value 905 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,080 Speaker 1: is of their platform, and just hoping to cling to 906 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:57,120 Speaker 1: some older model where they're you know, one of the 907 00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,040 Speaker 1: reasons that they always they always complain about institutions and 908 00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,840 Speaker 1: how Trump is undermining institutions is because to journalists, the 909 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,759 Speaker 1: most important institution should probably in the United States is 910 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,120 Speaker 1: the free press. Now I could, I would actually say 911 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:17,120 Speaker 1: that that's a true statement, except a free press is 912 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,520 Speaker 1: not lib media outlets that have been an operation for 913 00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,440 Speaker 1: you know, whether anywhere from one hundred years to a year. 914 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,200 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that's not what a free press is. 915 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,200 Speaker 1: A free press is you and I can say whatever 916 00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,320 Speaker 1: we want, write whatever we want, and share information and 917 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,560 Speaker 1: criticize the government openly without government action. A free press 918 00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,200 Speaker 1: is not synonymous with the New York Times. That's not 919 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:44,480 Speaker 1: a thing. And that's where the journals, I think, run 920 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 1: into a a bit of trouble with reality because they 921 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,520 Speaker 1: are not a free press. There's plenty of press out there, 922 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,480 Speaker 1: There's plenty of different people that are publishing and sharing information, 923 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,400 Speaker 1: and as long as the government doesn't creckt down on 924 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,320 Speaker 1: that will be in good shape. So I think that 925 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,319 Speaker 1: the White as to taking the right movie. You're also 926 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:05,640 Speaker 1: going to see a big increase in the surrogate operations, 927 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,680 Speaker 1: and I mean the campaign, the Trump campaign is going 928 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 1: to be largely running a lot of the information out 929 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,640 Speaker 1: there to American people instead of Sarah Hugaby Sanders getting 930 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,920 Speaker 1: abused by these imbeciles from CNN and NPR and elsewhere. 931 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,600 Speaker 1: So that's what I see happening. Let's talk. I will 932 00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,799 Speaker 1: talk to you about, well a little more about dumb 933 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,200 Speaker 1: people in politics, but then we will discuss This resolution 934 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,560 Speaker 1: in the Senate has to do with what's going on 935 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,120 Speaker 1: in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan. You know, the intelligence 936 00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:39,359 Speaker 1: community put out this report, nothing really that, nothing really 937 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,800 Speaker 1: that new groundbreaking, you're interesting in it, But the Senate's 938 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,400 Speaker 1: using this now to do a little bit of you 939 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,920 Speaker 1: know telling us what they think that Trump administrations should 940 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:51,759 Speaker 1: be doing on foreign policy. Well, we'll break that down 941 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,480 Speaker 1: for you. Basically, they don't want to end the wars. 942 00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,239 Speaker 1: I got a problem with that. The people are doing 943 00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,919 Speaker 1: the shouting, almost universally, are the same people who said 944 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden shouldn't run because it was Hillary Clinton's turn. 945 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,640 Speaker 1: And they're the same people who put their thumb on 946 00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,440 Speaker 1: the scale for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders because he 947 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:13,759 Speaker 1: couldn't win, and they guaranteed us Donald Trump would never 948 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:21,440 Speaker 1: be elected. Say, when you look at where the race 949 00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,160 Speaker 1: is right now, Hillary Clintons going to be elected the 950 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,239 Speaker 1: forty fifth president of the United States, I think they 951 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,040 Speaker 1: need to spend some serious time preparing concession speech. The 952 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,319 Speaker 1: magnitude of the electoral catastrophe for Republicans that is upon 953 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,320 Speaker 1: them just really can't be overstated. The presidential race is 954 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,359 Speaker 1: effectively over. Hillary and Rotten Clinton will be the forty 955 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,160 Speaker 1: fifth President of the United States. Chuck Shermer will be 956 00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,440 Speaker 1: the majority leader of the United States Senate. And the 957 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,800 Speaker 1: only question that's still up in the air, what's the 958 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,200 Speaker 1: over under on the electoral college victory for Hillary Clinton. 959 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:56,920 Speaker 1: I think she's trending over four hundred, trending over four hundred. Yes, 960 00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:02,320 Speaker 1: so Democrats take the Senate. Yes, Democrats the House. The 961 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,759 Speaker 1: first person who addresses Hillary Clinton on Tuesday Night is 962 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:11,560 Speaker 1: Madam President elect. That matters is Donald Trump. Steve Schmidt 963 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:16,280 Speaker 1: might be the dumbest person on cable news. Steve Schmidt 964 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,360 Speaker 1: might in fact be the dumb you heard there. He's 965 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,200 Speaker 1: saying the same people saying this and that of the Democrats, 966 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:27,560 Speaker 1: now we're saying the wrong things about the election before. Right, 967 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:30,480 Speaker 1: the same people who were acting like they had all 968 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,040 Speaker 1: this insidery knowledge and they were the ones that really 969 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,720 Speaker 1: knew what was going on, those people are now telling 970 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,160 Speaker 1: you who's gonna win the Democratic primary. Meanwhile, Steve Schmidt 971 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,560 Speaker 1: made an imbecile of himself on TV. I mean, this 972 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,320 Speaker 1: guy ran the McCain campaign, and I knew that, you know, 973 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,400 Speaker 1: even before I was in media apology, I knew that 974 00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:51,120 Speaker 1: he was bad news because he's the only one. He's 975 00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,280 Speaker 1: played by Woody Harrelson in the HBO movie about called 976 00:57:55,360 --> 00:58:01,440 Speaker 1: Game Change, about the Sarah Palin period of the McCain campaign, 977 00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,520 Speaker 1: and he's the only one that has made to look 978 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,080 Speaker 1: good in that, which means that he clearly talked to 979 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,439 Speaker 1: all the Lib journalists and tried to cover his butt 980 00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,440 Speaker 1: and was making friends with people. And he goes on 981 00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,600 Speaker 1: the Real Time Bill Maher show and he says stupid 982 00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,400 Speaker 1: things there. He's just not a very smarter or ethical guy. 983 00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I've heard from people that worked on that 984 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,520 Speaker 1: campaign that he's just he was a constant leaker, constantly 985 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,720 Speaker 1: out for himself, didn't have any good ideas, you know. 986 00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,120 Speaker 1: And then afterwards, after then that campaign was very poorly run. 987 00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,560 Speaker 1: The McCain campaign was poorly run and got annihilated by Obama. 988 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:37,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't even close. McCain got crushed by 989 00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,439 Speaker 1: President Obama. And now he's going on TV and he's 990 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,120 Speaker 1: acting like he's somebody who can actually see the future. 991 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,360 Speaker 1: And I just feel like sometimes it's important to point 992 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,080 Speaker 1: out that these people, a lot of them, would go 993 00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:53,240 Speaker 1: on TV, especially these political consultant types, are frauds, their phonies. 994 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,640 Speaker 1: They don't really know anything, they're not smart, they don't 995 00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,640 Speaker 1: bring much to a conversation of anything. But that's not 996 00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,800 Speaker 1: even the dumbest thing that was said on MSNMEC in 997 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:07,360 Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. In fact, the dumbest and 998 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,280 Speaker 1: perhaps craziest thing said on MSNBC in the last twenty 999 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,120 Speaker 1: four hours comes from their number one, most highly paid, 1000 00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:24,840 Speaker 1: most revered television talent, Rachel Maddow, everybody who people talk 1001 00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,000 Speaker 1: about on the left like she's some kind of a 1002 00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,960 Speaker 1: god now because she's been able to beat Fox in 1003 00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,360 Speaker 1: the ratings certain nights, which is the left is, oh 1004 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,880 Speaker 1: my gosh, it's so amazing, you can beat Fox in 1005 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,560 Speaker 1: the ratings. But you know, you turn on MSNBC, turn 1006 00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:42,360 Speaker 1: on CNN, you're put in this weird loop of an alternate, 1007 00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:48,080 Speaker 1: alternate universe where Russia collusion is the single most important 1008 00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,720 Speaker 1: thing that has ever been discussed ever in any universe, 1009 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:55,480 Speaker 1: in any world ever. And this though last night was 1010 00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:59,880 Speaker 1: just the most desperate Let's take cold weather and may 1011 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,440 Speaker 1: get a Russian plot or a Russia a possible Russian 1012 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,720 Speaker 1: conspiracy I've ever heard in my life. And this is 1013 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:07,680 Speaker 1: an embarrassed but you should hear it. Plate twenty three 1014 01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,880 Speaker 1: National Intelligence telling us all in unclassified form, in black 1015 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,960 Speaker 1: and white, China and Russia can do this today now 1016 01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,080 Speaker 1: whenever they want to. In other words, we're relying on 1017 01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:23,200 Speaker 1: their good graces that they're not. And it is like 1018 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,400 Speaker 1: negative fifty degrees in the Dakotas Right now, What would 1019 01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,840 Speaker 1: happen if Russia killed the power in Fargo today? Right? 1020 01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,720 Speaker 1: What would happen if all of the natural gas lines 1021 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,640 Speaker 1: that serve as Sioux Falls just poofed on the coldest 1022 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:37,560 Speaker 1: day in recent memory and it wasn't in our power 1023 01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:39,560 Speaker 1: whether or not to turn them back on. I mean, 1024 01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,880 Speaker 1: what would you do if you lost heat indefinitely as 1025 01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,640 Speaker 1: the act of a foreign power on the same day 1026 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:49,640 Speaker 1: the temperature in your front yard matched the temperature in Antarctica? 1027 01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:54,120 Speaker 1: I mean, what would you and your family do? What 1028 01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:58,440 Speaker 1: if Russia, when it's so cold outside, shuts off our 1029 01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:03,520 Speaker 1: natural gas? This is crazy and you will be thinking yourself, Fuck, 1030 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,280 Speaker 1: why would you even It's just such a dumb thing 1031 01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:06,920 Speaker 1: to say. Why is she even going? Oh, that's right, 1032 01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:12,880 Speaker 1: because Russia fear mongering of any kind, even bizarre, detached 1033 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:18,880 Speaker 1: from reality. Russia fear mongering that is catnet for the 1034 01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:23,560 Speaker 1: MSNBC audience. They can't get enough Russia fear mongering. Really 1035 01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,280 Speaker 1: the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. But 1036 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,840 Speaker 1: there you go, more of that coming your way. My 1037 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:33,880 Speaker 1: amendment would acknowledge the plain fact that al Qaida Isis 1038 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:38,120 Speaker 1: and their affiliates in Syria and Afghanistan continue to pose 1039 01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,600 Speaker 1: a sirious threat to us here at home, and recognize 1040 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:47,760 Speaker 1: the danger of a precipitous withdrawal from either conflict. You know, 1041 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,120 Speaker 1: I support the President on this. I think to call 1042 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:54,520 Speaker 1: it a precipitous withdrawal after seventeen years is ludicrous. I mean, 1043 01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,080 Speaker 1: we've been there seventeen years. We need to learn as 1044 01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,920 Speaker 1: a country how to declare victory. We've got been law, 1045 01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,400 Speaker 1: we disrupted the people who attacked us. I was all 1046 01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,480 Speaker 1: for that. I think we need to continue to have 1047 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,760 Speaker 1: surveillance of the region, but I don't think we have 1048 01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,040 Speaker 1: to have soldiers there forever. We have to learn how 1049 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,080 Speaker 1: to declare victory. And frankly, I'm with President Trump in 1050 01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,440 Speaker 1: the sense that we're spending fifty one billion dollars a 1051 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,160 Speaker 1: year in Afghanistan. Let's spend some of that money at home. 1052 01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,000 Speaker 1: We'd have plenty of money for a wall if we 1053 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:23,640 Speaker 1: weren't building roads, bridges and everything else, gas stations, hotels. 1054 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,600 Speaker 1: We're building fifty one billion dollars worth of stuff in 1055 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,400 Speaker 1: Afghanistan every year. I'm for spending that money here at home. 1056 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:35,080 Speaker 1: It's disheartening to me that the GOP establishment, led by 1057 01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:40,560 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell here is so opposed to ending endless war. 1058 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,920 Speaker 1: And sure enough you have there are lunatics out there 1059 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,280 Speaker 1: like Max Boot who are saying, we need to view 1060 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,560 Speaker 1: this as a hundred year long conflict and so we 1061 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,280 Speaker 1: just should accept that we're gonna have troops in these 1062 01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:55,160 Speaker 1: countries for a hundred years. No, we don't need to 1063 01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:59,160 Speaker 1: accept that. Look, I'm the more I look at some 1064 01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:03,360 Speaker 1: of our military employments and places even like South Korea 1065 01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,800 Speaker 1: and Okinawa, and we got military and so many places 1066 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:08,840 Speaker 1: all of the world. I don't think we need to 1067 01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,120 Speaker 1: have quite the deployments that we do. I don't think 1068 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:12,680 Speaker 1: we need to have quite as many soldiers in as 1069 01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,720 Speaker 1: many places as we do. And the fact that the 1070 01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:24,320 Speaker 1: GOP still has this very obvious hesitancy to scale down 1071 01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:29,120 Speaker 1: combat zone deployments in places where you know we should 1072 01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,600 Speaker 1: be able to answer. Let me walk through the systematically. 1073 01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to take some of the partisanship and 1074 01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:38,040 Speaker 1: the people, oh I'm right now, you're a right, and 1075 01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,720 Speaker 1: all that stuff out of us. You can apply with 1076 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:46,400 Speaker 1: these very important questions of where we have military deployed 1077 01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,480 Speaker 1: in a combat So and you can apply some very 1078 01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:53,760 Speaker 1: straightforward frameworks for how to think about this. Here's one, 1079 01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:59,880 Speaker 1: what is the US national security interest of this deployment? Now, 1080 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,800 Speaker 1: if the US national security interest starts to fall very 1081 01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,440 Speaker 1: quickly into a discussion of well, we've been there and 1082 01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,720 Speaker 1: we need to show leadership and we need to make smart, 1083 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,520 Speaker 1: we need to do smart diploma. See and you know 1084 01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,080 Speaker 1: a lot of kind of buzzwords and honestly a lot 1085 01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,960 Speaker 1: of bs, it's a bad sign. The answer to what 1086 01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:23,800 Speaker 1: is the US national security interests should be a very clear, 1087 01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:28,920 Speaker 1: straightforward and that's not just what's the security interest, because 1088 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,120 Speaker 1: we're not supposed to be sitting around saying, well, if 1089 01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:37,720 Speaker 1: we stay in Afghanistan, it will help the remnants of 1090 01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,640 Speaker 1: the Northern Alliance, you know, the the Tajiks and the 1091 01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:46,400 Speaker 1: Uzbeks and Hazaras, who are you know, the back mone 1092 01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,600 Speaker 1: of the Northern Alliance. It'll help them stabilize the country 1093 01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:54,200 Speaker 1: against malign Taliban influence from the Pashtun regions in the 1094 01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,760 Speaker 1: south and the east. Now that's their national security interests, 1095 01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:01,240 Speaker 1: I mean our national national security interest. What's in our interest? 1096 01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,040 Speaker 1: And if it's, oh, we can't leave because the missions 1097 01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,560 Speaker 1: not dumb. Well, then I'll say, we'll explain to me 1098 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,600 Speaker 1: what the mission is again. You know, you have to 1099 01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:13,959 Speaker 1: avoid a tautology. You have to avoid going in, going 1100 01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,640 Speaker 1: after these foreign policy questions with essentially a series of 1101 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:21,000 Speaker 1: more questions. You know, we should be there because it 1102 01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:25,040 Speaker 1: sounds strategy to be there. Okay, why does it sound strategy, Well, 1103 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:30,480 Speaker 1: because we think that there's you know, there's a long 1104 01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,320 Speaker 1: term benefit to the region for stability. Okay, why is 1105 01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,760 Speaker 1: that long term benefits for stability in the region in 1106 01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,960 Speaker 1: our interest? You know, you keep chasing the answers with 1107 01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:40,720 Speaker 1: more questions, and I know it can be kind of 1108 01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,040 Speaker 1: a frustrating experience maybe, but I think it's a really 1109 01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:48,360 Speaker 1: important one because we should expect that those in our leadership, 1110 01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,800 Speaker 1: in our government who are sending young men and women 1111 01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,000 Speaker 1: into places where they're not you know, they're not just 1112 01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:57,200 Speaker 1: under some threat. They are still taking casualties. People are dying, 1113 01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,400 Speaker 1: people are being killed in these places. And you also 1114 01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:03,240 Speaker 1: add into that the cost. I'm amazed at how many, honestly, 1115 01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:07,560 Speaker 1: how many conservatives I know who are not anti Trump 1116 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,240 Speaker 1: but but very critical of Trump, who think that, you know, 1117 01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,160 Speaker 1: having a few thousand guys in the middle of the 1118 01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,440 Speaker 1: Syrian desert. Is you know, no big deal of the 1119 01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,320 Speaker 1: the cost of bringing in you know on c. One 1120 01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:20,680 Speaker 1: thirties or however else is that the cost of bringing 1121 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:25,320 Speaker 1: in the equipment of material is is amazingly high. This 1122 01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:27,840 Speaker 1: is not an inexpensive thing to do to set up 1123 01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:32,320 Speaker 1: two thousand American troops in a hostile foreign country that's 1124 01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:34,400 Speaker 1: in the midst of a civil war and keep them, 1125 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,360 Speaker 1: keep them secure and supplied and able to take the 1126 01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,320 Speaker 1: fight to the enemy. This is not a minor thing. 1127 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,680 Speaker 1: This is This is very This is a challenging and 1128 01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:50,480 Speaker 1: expensive thing, certainly expensive. So you ask these questions though 1129 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:57,160 Speaker 1: it and you you find yourself getting very unsatisfactory answers. 1130 01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,480 Speaker 1: You know, in the case of Syria, which you know 1131 01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:04,480 Speaker 1: I amount and I said that I opposed the somewhat 1132 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,680 Speaker 1: establishment conservative view on this, that oh, we have to 1133 01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:10,000 Speaker 1: stay there because the fight against ISIS is not over all, right, 1134 01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,880 Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting concept. The fight against ISIS is 1135 01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,720 Speaker 1: never going to be over. Isis is gehotism. It's just 1136 01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:19,400 Speaker 1: the iteration of a Gehottest idea that has spread around 1137 01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:22,200 Speaker 1: the globe to tens of millions of people. Now not 1138 01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,080 Speaker 1: tens of millions of them are our terrorists are gehottest. 1139 01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:30,040 Speaker 1: But they do believe in some version of a caliphate 1140 01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,240 Speaker 1: or a time will come when there will be a caliphate. 1141 01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,360 Speaker 1: And if we're going to be in Syria until Isis 1142 01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,720 Speaker 1: is entirely eradicated, we're going to be in Syria forever. 1143 01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,520 Speaker 1: That's so we need to understand what the standards are 1144 01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:44,880 Speaker 1: that are being applied here. If we're going to be 1145 01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,240 Speaker 1: in Syria until Isis is no longer, no longer is 1146 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,600 Speaker 1: this in that country, we are going to be there forever, 1147 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,040 Speaker 1: all right? If we're now you take this to it 1148 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,920 Speaker 1: another level of the Syria conflict. We're there to counterbalance 1149 01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:01,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people say this and they think they're 1150 01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,120 Speaker 1: very clever and very wise when they say it, and 1151 01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:08,680 Speaker 1: they're wrong. So we're there to counterbalance Iranian and Russian 1152 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,480 Speaker 1: actions in Syria. How are we going to do that? Exactly? 1153 01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,680 Speaker 1: They're flying in men and material whenever they want. We're 1154 01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,400 Speaker 1: not shooting their plans out of this guy. We're not shooting. 1155 01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,200 Speaker 1: We're not at war with the Assad regime. We're not. 1156 01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,040 Speaker 1: People liked it. People I think sometimes get confused and 1157 01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,679 Speaker 1: see think that we're in a war with the Assaud regime. 1158 01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,760 Speaker 1: We're not at war with the Assaud regime, So how 1159 01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,400 Speaker 1: are we going to counterbalance because we're gonna have Americans there? 1160 01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:36,439 Speaker 1: You think assad is going to play more nicely inside 1161 01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,719 Speaker 1: his own Country's killed five hundred thousand of his own people, 1162 01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:40,920 Speaker 1: or five hundred thousand people have been killed in it 1163 01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,720 Speaker 1: in his war for him maintaining power. We don't have 1164 01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:49,720 Speaker 1: that kind of sway, and we shouldn't. We shouldn't. So 1165 01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,960 Speaker 1: if we're there to counterbalance Iran and Russia, unless we're 1166 01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,439 Speaker 1: willing to go to war, unless we're willing to go 1167 01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,880 Speaker 1: to war with Iran and Russia over the Syria issue, 1168 01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,200 Speaker 1: that's a fan to see and we will be there forever. 1169 01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:05,439 Speaker 1: Here's another one, and this is the one that you 1170 01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,800 Speaker 1: really have to think about. And I think that I've 1171 01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:10,360 Speaker 1: thought more about it, and I came to this one. 1172 01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:16,200 Speaker 1: The Kurds. We've been very concerned about the Kurds, understandably 1173 01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,240 Speaker 1: so they've been good allies in this fight against the 1174 01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:22,920 Speaker 1: Islamic State, and we should, as a matter of principle, 1175 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,200 Speaker 1: as a matter of honor, want to take care of 1176 01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:31,519 Speaker 1: our allies. We're worried about the Turks, which also brings 1177 01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,400 Speaker 1: up this question of Turkeys a NATO allies. So why 1178 01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:36,639 Speaker 1: is it that we have to be so worried about 1179 01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:38,639 Speaker 1: a NATO ally going after another one of our allies. 1180 01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:42,120 Speaker 1: We've asked them very clearly, don't do that, Okay, So 1181 01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,240 Speaker 1: then we go to this other level. All right, fine, 1182 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,639 Speaker 1: we want to make sure that the Turks won't attack 1183 01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:52,360 Speaker 1: the Kurds. That means we have to stay forever. And 1184 01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:53,760 Speaker 1: when I stay forever, I mean no one knows what 1185 01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,200 Speaker 1: the worlds can look like in a one hundred years, 1186 01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,519 Speaker 1: but that means, you know, we're there for the next decade, easily, 1187 01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:02,120 Speaker 1: maybe the next few decades, because the Turkish Kurdish conflict 1188 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,400 Speaker 1: predates this whole mess in Syria by well decades and 1189 01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,880 Speaker 1: really centuries actually, I mean these are ethnic conflicts as 1190 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,800 Speaker 1: much as they are ideological and state level conflicts. The 1191 01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:19,080 Speaker 1: Turkic people against the Kurdish people, who have both been 1192 01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,720 Speaker 1: in the region for a very very long time. So 1193 01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:24,640 Speaker 1: you know, that's just in the sirial question. I mean, 1194 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:26,960 Speaker 1: I can break this down on any number of different 1195 01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,400 Speaker 1: foreign policy challenges or foreign policy issues, but you see 1196 01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:31,840 Speaker 1: what I mean, you have to be able to answer 1197 01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,400 Speaker 1: these simple questions. And I do not believe that the 1198 01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,760 Speaker 1: Republicans who are in favor of continued war in these 1199 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:42,240 Speaker 1: places have sufficient answers for these questions. I just don't 1200 01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:45,360 Speaker 1: believe it. I just don't think they've thought through it enough. 1201 01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:51,840 Speaker 1: I think that they haven't really given a given what 1202 01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:55,439 Speaker 1: they need to in terms of review of what has 1203 01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,320 Speaker 1: gone on here in the past and what the likelihood 1204 01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,000 Speaker 1: is of it changing in the future. I really, I 1205 01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:03,760 Speaker 1: really would like to see us and the war in 1206 01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,880 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and the warr's here now when we or the 1207 01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:09,439 Speaker 1: war in Syria and in a rock by the way, 1208 01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,200 Speaker 1: is there a chance that the Taliban, if this deal 1209 01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,960 Speaker 1: that we've apparently struck with them, that this might lead 1210 01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:20,840 Speaker 1: to the Taliban seizing power and being a major problem. Yeah, 1211 01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,439 Speaker 1: there is. There is that real possibility. But is that 1212 01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,240 Speaker 1: possibility going to be there at this point no matter 1213 01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:30,439 Speaker 1: what we do? Yes? I mean, it's just enough. It's enough. 1214 01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,280 Speaker 1: We have been at war since I was a soft 1215 01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:38,320 Speaker 1: more in college. We've been at war. This country has 1216 01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:43,400 Speaker 1: had troops in active combat zones for my entire adult life. 1217 01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,479 Speaker 1: And I'm looking at forty here pretty soon. So what 1218 01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,440 Speaker 1: does that say? You know, I think of Marcus Aurelius 1219 01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:56,479 Speaker 1: in that that scene. He was the actor he's actually 1220 01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,800 Speaker 1: passed away. He was a great actor and does a 1221 01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:00,960 Speaker 1: great job in the movie Glad to Eat, where he says, 1222 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,640 Speaker 1: you know, Maximus, you know we've had what is it, 1223 01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,519 Speaker 1: you know, two years of peace in twenty or you 1224 01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,080 Speaker 1: know whatever. I forget what the breakdown is. But he's like, 1225 01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,280 Speaker 1: I just I wanted all the means something, and you know, 1226 01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:16,160 Speaker 1: I brought the sword nothing more. And you know, you 1227 01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,479 Speaker 1: just think, why do we Why should we accept that 1228 01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:24,280 Speaker 1: we live in a state of perpetual military conflict. That's 1229 01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,320 Speaker 1: not the way this is supposed to be. And I 1230 01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:29,160 Speaker 1: know there are all these arguments about counterinsurgency and counter 1231 01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:33,840 Speaker 1: radicalism and all these things. No, I think we've had enough. 1232 01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,320 Speaker 1: I think these wars should end, and even if they 1233 01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:39,519 Speaker 1: end on terms that we don't like. We're not leaving 1234 01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:43,120 Speaker 1: because our soldiers lost. We're not leaving because our military 1235 01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:45,240 Speaker 1: was defeated. We're leaving because we don't have anything that 1236 01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,120 Speaker 1: we really need to do there anymore. And also it's 1237 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:51,200 Speaker 1: really just not our problem, and we need to be 1238 01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,200 Speaker 1: able to say that. 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A lot of ways 1265 01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:19,080 Speaker 1: that drug smugglers and the cartels try to get stuff 1266 01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:22,599 Speaker 1: across our border. Tunnels is one of the ways. Tunnels 1267 01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:26,320 Speaker 1: are expensive. Getting through open territory where there's no border 1268 01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,200 Speaker 1: patrol and no border fence. That's another way. And then 1269 01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:32,400 Speaker 1: of course there's ports of entry. What's the reality of 1270 01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:36,360 Speaker 1: trying to make this more difficult for the cartels and 1271 01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,800 Speaker 1: prevent this poison from pouring into our country, which as 1272 01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,920 Speaker 1: we know, is killing tens of thousands of Americans now 1273 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,240 Speaker 1: a year. We have somebody who can really answer these questions. 1274 01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,160 Speaker 1: We're joined by Derek Maltz, who's a former agent in 1275 01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:53,120 Speaker 1: charge of DA's Special Operations Division. Derek, thank you for 1276 01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:55,960 Speaker 1: giving us your time, Hey Buck, thank you very much 1277 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,479 Speaker 1: for having me on the show. I look forward to 1278 01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:01,759 Speaker 1: the conversation. So today, Hey, fentanyl was seized by border 1279 01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:06,519 Speaker 1: patrol in what is being called a record bust, and 1280 01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:11,200 Speaker 1: the amount of fentanyl here was was very high. It 1281 01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:14,479 Speaker 1: was one hundred and fourteen kilos of fentanyl, a kilo 1282 01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,000 Speaker 1: of fentanyl, pills, one hundred and seventy nine kilos of 1283 01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:22,000 Speaker 1: methamphetamine and in a tractor trailer. So this was at 1284 01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,800 Speaker 1: a port of entry. This has become a contentious part 1285 01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,240 Speaker 1: of the discussion of bord of security. Reason line, Derek, 1286 01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:30,920 Speaker 1: what's going on right now? How are the cartels getting 1287 01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:35,040 Speaker 1: stuff through the ports of entry? Okay, So first of all, Buck, 1288 01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,840 Speaker 1: let me just explain something with that fentinel seizure. The 1289 01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:41,080 Speaker 1: public must understand that one kilogram of fentanyl can kill 1290 01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,960 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand people. So it's been reported that this 1291 01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,320 Speaker 1: particular seizure could have killed fifty seven million people based 1292 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:52,320 Speaker 1: on the fact that two milligrams can kill an adult. Now, 1293 01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,880 Speaker 1: to answer you a question, I mean, obviously, the cartels 1294 01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:58,720 Speaker 1: are running a multi billion dollar enterprise and they're going 1295 01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,759 Speaker 1: to continue to blitch this country with their poison because 1296 01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,479 Speaker 1: there's a huge demand. So the country must focus on 1297 01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,400 Speaker 1: educating the public and the kids and everybody else regarding 1298 01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,280 Speaker 1: the dangers of these new chemicals. Because it's not like 1299 01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:15,680 Speaker 1: the old days where somebody smoke in some marijuana that 1300 01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:19,000 Speaker 1: has a very low THHC contact. You're talking about synthetic 1301 01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,479 Speaker 1: drugs that are made in labs in China. And the 1302 01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,600 Speaker 1: other thing that the public doesn't realize is there's a 1303 01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:28,360 Speaker 1: very dangerous relationship growing between the Chinese organizations and the 1304 01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:32,040 Speaker 1: Mexican cartels. Now, the scary part, book, is the cartels 1305 01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:34,719 Speaker 1: all throughout a country. They're in every one of our cities. 1306 01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:38,200 Speaker 1: They're in over fifty countries. So the Chinese not only 1307 01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,680 Speaker 1: are they making the chemicals to produce fent at all, 1308 01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:46,160 Speaker 1: but they also are sending toun quantities of precursors into 1309 01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,960 Speaker 1: Mexico to the ports. That's how they're making all this 1310 01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:54,200 Speaker 1: industrial quantities of meThe enemy. So you have a situation 1311 01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,720 Speaker 1: where as long as this demand, there's going to be 1312 01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,639 Speaker 1: ways to get it in the country. Now everyone talks 1313 01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,240 Speaker 1: about the southern border, but what people are not talking 1314 01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,160 Speaker 1: about is go back into the eighties with Miami and 1315 01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,240 Speaker 1: the Caribbean islands. They already have opened up some of 1316 01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:10,920 Speaker 1: those smuggling routes. Book, because they're smart, they know the 1317 01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:13,880 Speaker 1: US government is focused on the Southwest border, so they're 1318 01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,160 Speaker 1: pushing people over through the Caribbean and drugs. But on 1319 01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:19,479 Speaker 1: your question regarding the port of entry, one of the 1320 01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,840 Speaker 1: things the public doesn't understand is if there was a wall, 1321 01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,679 Speaker 1: the wall itself is not going to stop drugs smuggling. 1322 01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,560 Speaker 1: But what it's going to do is it's going to 1323 01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:30,439 Speaker 1: be able to focus resources from border patrol at the 1324 01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:34,080 Speaker 1: port of entries with the latest and greatest technology to screening. 1325 01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:36,559 Speaker 1: They can then do a better job and looking at 1326 01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,200 Speaker 1: every tractor trailer, every car, and they can do a 1327 01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,479 Speaker 1: much better job figuring out who these people are coming 1328 01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,040 Speaker 1: into our country. Right now, they're all over there. It's 1329 01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,080 Speaker 1: like the Wild West on the desert, I mean, on 1330 01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,120 Speaker 1: the on the border, and they can't keep up with it. 1331 01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:52,720 Speaker 1: It's just too the magnitude is too high. So what 1332 01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:55,479 Speaker 1: should we be doing then? I mean, how you know 1333 01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,720 Speaker 1: you're telling me they're using different routes, are going back 1334 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,639 Speaker 1: to the old kind of the old eighties Kane route 1335 01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:03,400 Speaker 1: right of through the Caribbean and then up into Florida. 1336 01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,240 Speaker 1: It feels like wherever we apply more research and this 1337 01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:10,120 Speaker 1: is a broader drug war question than just a border question. 1338 01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,160 Speaker 1: But Fentonel killed over seventy thousand America, or I should 1339 01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,880 Speaker 1: say Opioid's killed over seventy thousand Americans last year and overdoses. 1340 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:19,800 Speaker 1: Some percentage of that is obviously prescription drugs, which I 1341 01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,880 Speaker 1: know DEA has been cracking down on that too, and 1342 01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:26,679 Speaker 1: over prescribing of medications. A lot of it is illegal stuff. 1343 01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,960 Speaker 1: The cartels are making pills that look like pharmaceutical pills 1344 01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:32,439 Speaker 1: because it's an easier to sell them on the street. 1345 01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,479 Speaker 1: So what do we do here? I mean, were you 1346 01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,160 Speaker 1: were involved in trying to trying to stop this scourge. 1347 01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:40,200 Speaker 1: Some people look at look at they say, you know, 1348 01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:43,400 Speaker 1: we just can't win this fight. What do you say? Okay? 1349 01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:45,560 Speaker 1: So I say, go talk to the parents that of 1350 01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,120 Speaker 1: burying their kids because of a dying of fentanyl. So 1351 01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:50,479 Speaker 1: you've got to continue to fight. Law enforcement is one 1352 01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:53,360 Speaker 1: part of it. We have a much bigger problem. Unfortunately, 1353 01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,200 Speaker 1: after nine to eleven, our US government completely neglected the 1354 01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:01,160 Speaker 1: drug educationist is the commercials, they the role models from 1355 01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,360 Speaker 1: the public, you know, media and the sports. They should 1356 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,240 Speaker 1: have been doing way more education to the kids in 1357 01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,760 Speaker 1: middle school and elementary school to get them understanding the 1358 01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,519 Speaker 1: dangers of the stuff. The kids unfortunately thought, you know, 1359 01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,160 Speaker 1: taking mommy's prescription out of the medicine cabinet was fine 1360 01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:18,919 Speaker 1: because the doctor prescribed it. So there was the messaging 1361 01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:23,839 Speaker 1: was terrible, and unfortunately our country in Washington, they focus 1362 01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:25,880 Speaker 1: on the problem of the day instead of looking at 1363 01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,800 Speaker 1: long term strategies. They should have been educating the kids. 1364 01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:32,560 Speaker 1: Now we have like a runaway train, Buck, because we 1365 01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:34,080 Speaker 1: have a lot of catching up to do on the 1366 01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:37,920 Speaker 1: education side. But here's the thing. What nobody really talks 1367 01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,840 Speaker 1: about either, is that this is a very global issue. 1368 01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:44,040 Speaker 1: So now like we were very involved with the HESBLA 1369 01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,920 Speaker 1: and the cocaine cartels in Mexico and the millions of 1370 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,800 Speaker 1: dollars a month that we're making, U sending money out 1371 01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:52,800 Speaker 1: of the out of the US in the used car 1372 01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:57,280 Speaker 1: businesses to support Iran, to support HESBLA. So you know what, Buck, 1373 01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:00,559 Speaker 1: this is a much larger issue than people in Washington understand. 1374 01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,880 Speaker 1: You have terrorists increasingly turning to crime and criminal networks 1375 01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,759 Speaker 1: for their funding, and drug trafficking is generating four hundred 1376 01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,160 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year according to the UN. So we 1377 01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:12,240 Speaker 1: have to do a better job with all our international partners. 1378 01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:14,960 Speaker 1: We have to do a better job internally. You know, Buck, 1379 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:16,560 Speaker 1: I know this is no surprise to you because I 1380 01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,639 Speaker 1: know your background. But in America, we're still not sharing 1381 01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:24,080 Speaker 1: information across the agencies on these different threats. We have 1382 01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:27,599 Speaker 1: silos all over the place. We're losing leadership in different 1383 01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,960 Speaker 1: government agencies that are not holding people accountable. So until 1384 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:33,240 Speaker 1: we start doing some of that stuff and fixing the 1385 01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,200 Speaker 1: broken systems, you know, we're going to continue to have 1386 01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,960 Speaker 1: massive problems. Now, the good news is we have seen 1387 01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,600 Speaker 1: a lot better cooperation, We have seen some more successes. 1388 01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,960 Speaker 1: But honestly, Buck, because the demand is so high, the 1389 01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,479 Speaker 1: cartels are going to just keep pumping it. So that's 1390 01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:51,639 Speaker 1: why I've been very vocal recently that I think at 1391 01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:54,439 Speaker 1: this point in our country's history, we need to seriously 1392 01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:58,439 Speaker 1: consider designating the cartels as terrorists. Because the State Department 1393 01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,439 Speaker 1: has some criteria, and I reviewed this criteria very closely, 1394 01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,639 Speaker 1: and I don't see anything in that criteria that would 1395 01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:10,200 Speaker 1: prohibit prohibit the US of declaring them perish. If we 1396 01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,639 Speaker 1: declare them terrorists, then we can do a lot more 1397 01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,080 Speaker 1: with the US power that we have and some of 1398 01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:18,560 Speaker 1: the authorities that we have in the different agencies. This 1399 01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:22,160 Speaker 1: is not a law enforcement issue alone. Law enforcement has 1400 01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,679 Speaker 1: done a great job. They're out there working their butts 1401 01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:27,320 Speaker 1: off day in and day out the border patrol. They're 1402 01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:29,960 Speaker 1: very dedicated. They're not at home at their dinner table 1403 01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:32,280 Speaker 1: with their family. But the thing is, Buck, we have 1404 01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,880 Speaker 1: a way more comprehensive problem, and unfortunately, the sad part 1405 01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:38,880 Speaker 1: is that the politics get in the way. They're get 1406 01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:41,400 Speaker 1: into play because it's it's not about, like you know, 1407 01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:44,599 Speaker 1: keeping people out of a country, it's about keeping people alive. 1408 01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:48,040 Speaker 1: We're speaking to Derek Maulty is a former agent in 1409 01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:54,360 Speaker 1: charge of DA Drug Enforcement Administration Special Operations Division. Derek 1410 01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:58,479 Speaker 1: is the Mexican government as serious as it needs to 1411 01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:01,719 Speaker 1: be when it comes to fighting on the cartels. Buck, 1412 01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:04,040 Speaker 1: did you read the news yesterday? The president, the new 1413 01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,000 Speaker 1: president has basically said there is no war on drugs 1414 01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:08,880 Speaker 1: and he's no longer going to go let the military 1415 01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:13,280 Speaker 1: folks go after the bad guys. Now you know why that? Yeah? Sorry, 1416 01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:17,040 Speaker 1: go ahead, yes. So So basically, Buck, the successes we've 1417 01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:20,240 Speaker 1: had in Mexico is because of the brave marines that 1418 01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,759 Speaker 1: have gone out captured Chappo twice. They've killed or captured 1419 01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:25,960 Speaker 1: some of the high value targets for years for the 1420 01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:29,760 Speaker 1: DBA and Homeland Security in Mexico. The problem is now 1421 01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,040 Speaker 1: this president is going to take them out of the fight. 1422 01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,559 Speaker 1: So guess what. Now we're back to the corrupt federal police. 1423 01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:38,639 Speaker 1: If you saw some of the testimony in the Chappo 1424 01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:42,640 Speaker 1: Guzman case, it's mind boggling. The levels of corruption at 1425 01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,840 Speaker 1: the president level, at the high level officials in the 1426 01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:49,519 Speaker 1: Mexican government. It's beyond what I even knew, Buck And honestly, 1427 01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:52,760 Speaker 1: people say, oh, well, they're cooperatives, they're just making stuff up. No, 1428 01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:55,480 Speaker 1: they're not making it up because their stories are corroborated. 1429 01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:58,479 Speaker 1: And you know what, it's very very sad, and the 1430 01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,160 Speaker 1: country now has to re valuate how do we want 1431 01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:03,439 Speaker 1: to deal day to day with Mexico. I mean, there 1432 01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,160 Speaker 1: was some testimony in that federal court in New York 1433 01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,880 Speaker 1: about the Choppo trial, which you brought up, that suggested 1434 01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:12,880 Speaker 1: that the drug the drug cartel corruption in Mexico goes 1435 01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:16,280 Speaker 1: all the way up to the very top of the government. Yeah. Allegedly, 1436 01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:21,240 Speaker 1: last Mexican president received one hundred million dollars from Chopo's organization, 1437 01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:24,080 Speaker 1: the Cineloo cartel. They wanted to he wanted two hundred 1438 01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,679 Speaker 1: and fifty million, but they settled on one hundred million. 1439 01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:29,479 Speaker 1: And there was some other really detailed testimony about some 1440 01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:32,160 Speaker 1: of the other high level officials. And you know what 1441 01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,160 Speaker 1: I've been hearing about. That's the years when I was 1442 01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:37,559 Speaker 1: running a special operations division. We were helping to coordinate 1443 01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,839 Speaker 1: and synchronize the efforts of thirty different participating agencies around 1444 01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,600 Speaker 1: the world and around the country, and we used to 1445 01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:48,639 Speaker 1: always get, you know, compromised in Mexico. Like so even 1446 01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:50,960 Speaker 1: in the Choppo case, you know, I was, I was 1447 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,040 Speaker 1: still on the job when we captured him the first 1448 01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,920 Speaker 1: time in February of twenty fourteen, after he escaped from 1449 01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:59,120 Speaker 1: his house in the sewer system and everything like that. 1450 01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,679 Speaker 1: But what people don't realize, all the efforts to catch 1451 01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,960 Speaker 1: a chapel prior to that will compromise because the week's 1452 01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:10,280 Speaker 1: and the corruption and so you can't do this unless 1453 01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,280 Speaker 1: you have the cooperation from the law enforcement and the 1454 01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:15,519 Speaker 1: leadership in these different countries. So we have to we 1455 01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:18,960 Speaker 1: have a serious complex challenge ahead to figure out how 1456 01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:22,120 Speaker 1: do we best deal with our neighbors on the southern border, 1457 01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,439 Speaker 1: because it's getting really, really difficult and then you look 1458 01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:28,520 Speaker 1: at all these caravans and these people coming from Honduras, 1459 01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:31,280 Speaker 1: and the MS thirteen and these other problems coming into 1460 01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:34,400 Speaker 1: our country, and then the financial bird into our citizens. 1461 01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,679 Speaker 1: It's really really scary. Is this one one more for you, Derek? 1462 01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:39,959 Speaker 1: Is this is this the worst that the drug epidemic, 1463 01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:44,200 Speaker 1: any drug epidemic has been in this country? Well, from 1464 01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:48,080 Speaker 1: my opinion, yes, because here's why. Right now, the statistics 1465 01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,760 Speaker 1: are very misleading on the centinel and opioid desks. You 1466 01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,760 Speaker 1: know why because because nack Can is saving people every 1467 01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:56,720 Speaker 1: single day all over America. The first responders are a 1468 01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,919 Speaker 1: ministering nack Can. Now people are going out to CBS 1469 01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,400 Speaker 1: in Walgreens and they're buying their own knock Can, so 1470 01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:04,880 Speaker 1: they're not dying from this stuff because they have this 1471 01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:08,519 Speaker 1: awesome medicine, this knock Can. But here's the thing. We 1472 01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,720 Speaker 1: have now a meth crisis that no one really is 1473 01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:15,439 Speaker 1: even talking about in the national news. But like I said, 1474 01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:19,400 Speaker 1: China is sending chemicals to Mexican cartels and they're no 1475 01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:21,840 Speaker 1: longer producing one or two pounds at the time buck, 1476 01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,320 Speaker 1: They're producing hundreds and thousands, hundreds of pounds and then 1477 01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:27,559 Speaker 1: thousands of pounds. When I was a young agent, if 1478 01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:29,640 Speaker 1: he sees one pounds of meth in the country, it 1479 01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:32,400 Speaker 1: was a big case. Now there's season hundreds of pounds 1480 01:25:32,439 --> 01:25:35,080 Speaker 1: of meths. It's just mind boggling and yes, to answer 1481 01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:37,679 Speaker 1: your question, in my view, it's so out of control, 1482 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,000 Speaker 1: and it's partially to blame on a lot of people. 1483 01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:43,880 Speaker 1: But here's the bottom line. I don't want to blame 1484 01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:45,600 Speaker 1: the previous people. I want to make it better for 1485 01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:48,240 Speaker 1: the future. And right now we have a serious issue. 1486 01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,559 Speaker 1: People are just not focusing in on how significant. It's 1487 01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,640 Speaker 1: not a health issue, it's a national crisis. It's a 1488 01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:57,320 Speaker 1: national security issue. Well that's why we got you here 1489 01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,680 Speaker 1: on the show, so we can get people here are 1490 01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:02,880 Speaker 1: the true and pay attention. Lurs are tapping into these 1491 01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,200 Speaker 1: funds buck every day. I know Derek Mault's former DA 1492 01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:09,320 Speaker 1: Special Operations Division chief. Derek really appreciate your time that day, sir, 1493 01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,439 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Keep up the good work, buddy, team, 1494 01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:17,920 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Hiring can be really time consuming. 1495 01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,080 Speaker 1: You know you posed on a couple of different sites. 1496 01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:21,920 Speaker 1: Are you getting the best people? Are you making the 1497 01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:24,880 Speaker 1: best use of your time? Job sites that send you 1498 01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:27,360 Speaker 1: a lot of the wrong resumes. They're not smart. 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It's the coldest I've ever been. 1515 01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:26,519 Speaker 1: I think the word cold is not a proper way 1516 01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:31,120 Speaker 1: to define it. It's just unbelievably cold, and it's hard 1517 01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:35,760 Speaker 1: to take a breath in, expecting my lungs a little bit. 1518 01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,320 Speaker 1: There's not enough flaes for this kind of cold unless 1519 01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:41,000 Speaker 1: you're prepared to go to the Arctic. That's pretty freezy. 1520 01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:44,320 Speaker 1: Nothing that I haven't been through before. But you know, 1521 01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:46,559 Speaker 1: it's all good. It's just part of living in Minnesota. 1522 01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,640 Speaker 1: We like get called up here. I remember when I 1523 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:54,040 Speaker 1: was in Alaska and I asked people in Anchorage, which 1524 01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:55,880 Speaker 1: I know, We've got a wonderful station up there in 1525 01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,240 Speaker 1: Anchorage right now. It carries the show. I remember I 1526 01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:01,640 Speaker 1: was up in Alaska and they heard from more than 1527 01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:03,080 Speaker 1: one person. I was like, how cold is it here 1528 01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:04,400 Speaker 1: in the winter. They said, well, it's not as cold 1529 01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,920 Speaker 1: as Minnesota. It turns out Minnesota is the coldest state 1530 01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:09,639 Speaker 1: in the country. But right now there's a whole bunch 1531 01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:12,960 Speaker 1: of very very cold states. Producer Mike, what was the 1532 01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,160 Speaker 1: what was the record today? I know it got into 1533 01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,200 Speaker 1: like the negative negative thirty territory in some places. Is 1534 01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:21,280 Speaker 1: that the coldest I saw was negative thirty or thirty 1535 01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:27,000 Speaker 1: one in Chicago. In Rockford, Illinois, Yeah, this is where 1536 01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,360 Speaker 1: you know a couple of things here. First of all, 1537 01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,920 Speaker 1: oh yeah, here you go Rockford Illinois. We actually have 1538 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:37,240 Speaker 1: a little sound from that plicklip eight. Well, for starters, 1539 01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,160 Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to Rockford, Illinois, 1540 01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,640 Speaker 1: which hit their all time cold record temperature according to 1541 01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:45,040 Speaker 1: the National Weather Service negative thirty last night. That record 1542 01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:50,519 Speaker 1: stood since nineteen eighty two. That's pretty cold. It was 1543 01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:55,080 Speaker 1: about ten degrees here in DC, and my walk home 1544 01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,920 Speaker 1: I could be like an idiot, left my gloves and 1545 01:28:58,080 --> 01:28:59,960 Speaker 1: in the wrong coat, and so when I walked home 1546 01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:02,679 Speaker 1: I could barely feel my hands. I thought it was funny. 1547 01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:05,080 Speaker 1: There's some people decided that today was an opportunity to 1548 01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:09,080 Speaker 1: make some kind of a political statement of sorts over Well, 1549 01:29:09,360 --> 01:29:13,599 Speaker 1: you did have whereas it? Let's see, Elizabeth Warren, did 1550 01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,560 Speaker 1: we have? Yeah, here we go. Our children and grandchildren 1551 01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:18,320 Speaker 1: should grow up in a world where they can breathe 1552 01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,880 Speaker 1: the air and drink the water and go outside without 1553 01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:24,519 Speaker 1: risking their lives in extreme temperatures. It's time to protect 1554 01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,439 Speaker 1: our planet and pass a green new deal. Oh it's 1555 01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:32,080 Speaker 1: really cold outside. Past my stupid socialist energy program that's 1556 01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:34,599 Speaker 1: going to make the country much poorer and much crappier. 1557 01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,080 Speaker 1: This is what libs do. I take advantage of every 1558 01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:41,840 Speaker 1: opportunity to push stupid ideas. But this was interesting. I 1559 01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:45,400 Speaker 1: wasn't expected, you know. I interviewed Governor Matt Baban and 1560 01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,120 Speaker 1: I don't know a few months back, and I thought 1561 01:29:47,160 --> 01:29:50,880 Speaker 1: he was very very slick fellow, very very polished, very smooth, 1562 01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:55,160 Speaker 1: and he decided to take an interesting approach to the 1563 01:29:55,479 --> 01:30:00,720 Speaker 1: whole freeze freezing of America situation. I play clip one 1564 01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:02,320 Speaker 1: by the way, you'll be up. You'll be up late 1565 01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:05,960 Speaker 1: tonight with your kids because there's no school again. It's again, 1566 01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,640 Speaker 1: you know, now we cancel school for cold. I mean, 1567 01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:12,320 Speaker 1: it's deep freeze. A serious bit is come on now, 1568 01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:14,720 Speaker 1: I mean it. There's no ice going with it or 1569 01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:18,080 Speaker 1: any snow. I mean, what happens to America. We're getting 1570 01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,960 Speaker 1: soft terry, We're getting soft hosts a lot of money 1571 01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,200 Speaker 1: to heat those classrooms. Do you think they're not heating 1572 01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:29,040 Speaker 1: them anyway? You would like to think so. As a taxpayer, 1573 01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:31,280 Speaker 1: we would like to think so. But again, I do 1574 01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:34,200 Speaker 1: appreciate it's it's better to air on the side of 1575 01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:37,559 Speaker 1: being safe and I and I'm being only slightly facetious, 1576 01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:39,600 Speaker 1: but it does concern me a little bit that in 1577 01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,920 Speaker 1: America on this and any number of other fronts. We're 1578 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,840 Speaker 1: sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, 1579 01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,519 Speaker 1: you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in 1580 01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:52,599 Speaker 1: a warm place and just wait till it stops being hard. 1581 01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:58,800 Speaker 1: And that just isn't reality. Look at him, Yeah, exactly. 1582 01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,360 Speaker 1: Matt Devan is calling out people who don't want to 1583 01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:05,040 Speaker 1: go to school because it's too cold outside. If it 1584 01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:08,120 Speaker 1: were just a little cold, i'd understand. I think negative 1585 01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:11,439 Speaker 1: thirty though that probably that does make things a little 1586 01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:13,240 Speaker 1: bit harder. But I don't know. I mean, unless the 1587 01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:15,840 Speaker 1: travel is more dangerous and they can't and the heating 1588 01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:17,880 Speaker 1: system in the school can hill, which I'm sure it can. 1589 01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:20,840 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's got a point, Maybe he's onto something. 1590 01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:24,120 Speaker 1: This reminds me also, if I think I mentioned recently 1591 01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:28,280 Speaker 1: on the show that I had read I recommended to 1592 01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:32,799 Speaker 1: my dad that he read Endurance about the Shackleton Voyage 1593 01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:39,280 Speaker 1: Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic Antarctic continent, and the 1594 01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:42,080 Speaker 1: idea was that he was going to cross Antarctica on land. 1595 01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:46,800 Speaker 1: Never even got close spoiler alert, things go bad. And 1596 01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,080 Speaker 1: that book is one of these books where you gotta 1597 01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:51,640 Speaker 1: get into a little bit once you get into it, 1598 01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,679 Speaker 1: it's so messed up and so harsh and so surreal 1599 01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:59,519 Speaker 1: what these guys go through. That it's a great it's 1600 01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:01,720 Speaker 1: a great eight book. And you're reading is like, man, 1601 01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:05,680 Speaker 1: wherever I am, I am so lucky not to be 1602 01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:10,759 Speaker 1: subsisting on seal blubber and trying to keep my toes 1603 01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:14,519 Speaker 1: from like actually breaking off because they're so frost bitten. 1604 01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,240 Speaker 1: You know. It's it was intense, man, that book. It's 1605 01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:21,920 Speaker 1: from I think nineteen fourteen was when they right right 1606 01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:23,880 Speaker 1: at the at the beginning of World War One is 1607 01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:26,320 Speaker 1: when they take off for this voyage. And it's a 1608 01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:29,080 Speaker 1: timeless classic. It's a great book. I would really really 1609 01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:31,600 Speaker 1: recommend it to you. But that's all about you know, 1610 01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:34,120 Speaker 1: how long could you last living on an ice flow 1611 01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:39,080 Speaker 1: in arctic or antarctic temperatures? And the answer is you 1612 01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:41,040 Speaker 1: could last longer than you think, as long as you 1613 01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:44,759 Speaker 1: got a nice, good supply a whale blubber or seal blubber, 1614 01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:49,599 Speaker 1: which I'm currently trying to shed my seal blubber by 1615 01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:52,320 Speaker 1: eating a little healthier and getting the gym. But you know, 1616 01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:54,000 Speaker 1: as long as you got some of that, you're pretty 1617 01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:56,560 Speaker 1: much good to go. Man, you can and and some 1618 01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:01,800 Speaker 1: shelter and some fire making ability, but not exactly fun fun. 1619 01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:04,080 Speaker 1: So read the Shackling Voyage and stay warm. If you're 1620 01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:05,639 Speaker 1: out there listening to to one of those colder parts 1621 01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:10,840 Speaker 1: the country, Stay warm, team. We'll be right back. Stray 1622 01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:16,559 Speaker 1: about that story up the Active Empire who was much 1623 01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:21,479 Speaker 1: attacked with racist and that I can tell you who's horrible. 1624 01:33:21,560 --> 01:33:26,760 Speaker 1: I've seen it last night. I think that's horrible. It 1625 01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:29,840 Speaker 1: doesn't get worse as far as I'm concerned. So that 1626 01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:34,160 Speaker 1: was President Trump talking about this case that's gotten a 1627 01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:39,160 Speaker 1: fair amount of national media attention of this guy named 1628 01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:45,679 Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett. Now, in case you haven't heard of this before, 1629 01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:48,200 Speaker 1: let me tell you what's going on. You're Jesse Smollett 1630 01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:57,000 Speaker 1: was allegedly attacked around two am last Tuesday morning, and 1631 01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:02,439 Speaker 1: the story was that guys walked up to him. He 1632 01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:05,040 Speaker 1: said he was on the phone when he was attacked, 1633 01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:09,400 Speaker 1: and he was on the phone with his manager. I 1634 01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:11,679 Speaker 1: never heard of this guy, just smaller before. But anyway, 1635 01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:13,439 Speaker 1: he's on the phone his manager. He says he's attacked. 1636 01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:19,120 Speaker 1: His manager corroborates this and he said that a guy 1637 01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:23,080 Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, two guys came up to him and 1638 01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:26,720 Speaker 1: placed a noose around his neck, and I guess they 1639 01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:33,360 Speaker 1: they punched him, he said. And there are two suspects 1640 01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:35,599 Speaker 1: where filmed in a different camera, sitting on a bench, 1641 01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:38,800 Speaker 1: but on opposite sides from where Small it was. Look 1642 01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:41,479 Speaker 1: you read through the details. I can't. I don't want 1643 01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:43,280 Speaker 1: to read through the whole all of it right now, 1644 01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:45,840 Speaker 1: but you're read through the details, and it just is 1645 01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:49,240 Speaker 1: one of these cases where I can't tell you that 1646 01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:54,040 Speaker 1: this is a fraud, but I can tell you that 1647 01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:58,439 Speaker 1: it is certainly suspect based on a few things. There 1648 01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:00,479 Speaker 1: is the possibility that I would have to come back 1649 01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:03,040 Speaker 1: on this show in a week and say, I guess 1650 01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:07,800 Speaker 1: there were two random guys who yelled Maga Nation and 1651 01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:11,639 Speaker 1: put and punched a guy and then put a loose 1652 01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:14,680 Speaker 1: noose that they happened to just carry around with them 1653 01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:19,360 Speaker 1: around his neck. That is possible. I cannot tell you 1654 01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:23,120 Speaker 1: there's no way that that happened. But what I can 1655 01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:25,360 Speaker 1: tell you, though, is that some of the fact pattern 1656 01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:35,160 Speaker 1: here is a little bit suspicious. For example, the individual here, 1657 01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:39,040 Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett, was attacked at two am, but police were 1658 01:35:39,080 --> 01:35:43,080 Speaker 1: not called until two thirty five am and he was 1659 01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:46,120 Speaker 1: in his apartment, and I believe an associate that he 1660 01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:51,080 Speaker 1: was with called the police at two forty two, or 1661 01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:54,799 Speaker 1: rather officers arrived at two forty two, but his associate 1662 01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:58,160 Speaker 1: was with him, So there's quite a lag. Now you 1663 01:35:58,200 --> 01:36:00,160 Speaker 1: could say maybe he was he was shook up up 1664 01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:05,840 Speaker 1: and he was very, very concerned and rattled and all that. Again, 1665 01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:08,680 Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I'm not saying he's lying. I 1666 01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:12,599 Speaker 1: don't know. I am saying this is a national news story, though, 1667 01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:14,120 Speaker 1: and there are some things that don't really add up. 1668 01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:18,639 Speaker 1: He also still had this rope noose. This actor he's 1669 01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:22,120 Speaker 1: from the show Empire, if some of you may be 1670 01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:24,519 Speaker 1: familiar with that show. He still had the noose around 1671 01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:29,960 Speaker 1: his neck when the police arrived, which also just strikes 1672 01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,519 Speaker 1: me as as a very odd thing. If somebody forced 1673 01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:35,920 Speaker 1: a noose around your neck and assaulted you, and then 1674 01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:38,000 Speaker 1: you went home, would you just sit there with the 1675 01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:41,920 Speaker 1: noose around your neck for forty five minutes? I can't 1676 01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:46,200 Speaker 1: say impossible, but strikes me as very strange. And then also, 1677 01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:48,360 Speaker 1: and they have all the surveillance footage a police have 1678 01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:52,760 Speaker 1: gone through, and none of the surveillance footage shows any 1679 01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:55,200 Speaker 1: kind of assault taking place. A lot of surveillance cameras 1680 01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:57,679 Speaker 1: around where this happened, none of them show an assault 1681 01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:01,920 Speaker 1: taking place, so that's interesting to me. And then one 1682 01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:06,000 Speaker 1: more thing here. Smallletts said that he was on the 1683 01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:14,360 Speaker 1: phone with his manager, Brandon z Moore, and the police said, okay, 1684 01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:16,559 Speaker 1: since you were on the phone with your manager during 1685 01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:21,000 Speaker 1: this incident, give us your phone just so we can 1686 01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:23,640 Speaker 1: verify as part of the story what you're saying here. 1687 01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,160 Speaker 1: This is this is standard police worker when you give 1688 01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:30,200 Speaker 1: them facts to work off of and then they want 1689 01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:35,599 Speaker 1: to verify those facts. Here's something that's very strange. Jessie 1690 01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:40,760 Speaker 1: Smalllett wouldn't give the police his phone. Now, I'm sure 1691 01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:42,080 Speaker 1: that there are a lot of people that would want 1692 01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,280 Speaker 1: to come up with explanations for this, of maybe he 1693 01:37:44,320 --> 01:37:46,680 Speaker 1: had a privacy issue or something. But if you had 1694 01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:49,640 Speaker 1: been attacked and the police were verifying your story and 1695 01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:51,280 Speaker 1: they just wanted to look at your phone and your 1696 01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:53,600 Speaker 1: call log and see if it matched up with what 1697 01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:57,080 Speaker 1: you said, and then you didn't give the police your phone, 1698 01:37:57,080 --> 01:37:59,120 Speaker 1: I could tell you the cops would be pretty suspicious. 1699 01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,439 Speaker 1: And we also know that in this country, the left 1700 01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:06,560 Speaker 1: has created an environment where if you are in a 1701 01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:10,280 Speaker 1: victim category and something happens to you, or you say 1702 01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,400 Speaker 1: something happens to you and it turns out to not 1703 01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:15,360 Speaker 1: be true, they will give you a pass for what 1704 01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:20,920 Speaker 1: they call raising awareness. Is this another hate crime hoax 1705 01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,560 Speaker 1: that will be covered up with raising awareness or is 1706 01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:26,760 Speaker 1: this a real, bizarre and terrible attack. I don't know, 1707 01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:29,920 Speaker 1: but I can't tell you. I'm less confident in this 1708 01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:32,880 Speaker 1: being real than President Trump was when he answered that 1709 01:38:33,080 --> 01:38:38,200 Speaker 1: question the presser today. The show ain't over yet, folks. 1710 01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:58,000 Speaker 1: Here's where you take over keeping it real. Team Buck, 1711 01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:05,080 Speaker 1: It's time for roll Call. Roll Call. It is the 1712 01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:08,160 Speaker 1: time for the role of the call. Thank you all 1713 01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:12,639 Speaker 1: for writing in and being so helpful in this process, 1714 01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:14,560 Speaker 1: telling me what's going on with the show, what you like, 1715 01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:18,040 Speaker 1: what your thoughts are. Which eight for dinner last night? 1716 01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:24,759 Speaker 1: John starts us off here, Facebook dot com, slash Buck Sexton. 1717 01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:29,880 Speaker 1: If you want in on roll call, John writes. Wednesday's 1718 01:39:29,920 --> 01:39:34,519 Speaker 1: reference was to animal Farm. John, you are correct, four 1719 01:39:34,640 --> 01:39:39,840 Speaker 1: legs good, two legs bad. That is from roll of 1720 01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:42,040 Speaker 1: that stuff from Roll Call. It's from Animal Farm, another 1721 01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:46,200 Speaker 1: masterpiece of the most What are the most important books 1722 01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:49,240 Speaker 1: that a young person I think can read? And I 1723 01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:51,680 Speaker 1: mean nineteen eighty four is in a list of I 1724 01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:55,000 Speaker 1: think you could make of Maybe people would say one 1725 01:39:55,040 --> 01:39:57,120 Speaker 1: hundred books, but really ten books that you absolutely have 1726 01:39:57,280 --> 01:39:59,519 Speaker 1: to have read to have an understanding of the Western world. 1727 01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:03,360 Speaker 1: I think four is in that category, and certainly the 1728 01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:07,240 Speaker 1: contemporary Western World. And Animal Farm is a great book. 1729 01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:11,160 Speaker 1: And it's a quick read, so well worth. It's incredibly 1730 01:40:11,200 --> 01:40:15,439 Speaker 1: insightful about the nature of communism and authoritarianism, so it's 1731 01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:17,639 Speaker 1: worth it to go back. It's a good weekend read. 1732 01:40:17,680 --> 01:40:21,160 Speaker 1: You'll you'll read the whole thing in a day, Dave writes, 1733 01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:24,960 Speaker 1: buck Shields High. To me, AOC's comments on the rich 1734 01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:29,760 Speaker 1: are even more disturbing than you suggested. Her anti billionaire 1735 01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:33,880 Speaker 1: stance boils down to one thing. She's anti individual liberty 1736 01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:38,240 Speaker 1: and self determination. Under her ideology, certain levels of success 1737 01:40:38,320 --> 01:40:42,000 Speaker 1: and accomplishment are simply not allowed, and no discussion about 1738 01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:44,200 Speaker 1: how much good someone could do with the billions they 1739 01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:47,920 Speaker 1: create is considered. Being dumb enough to think bakers have 1740 01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:50,800 Speaker 1: an unfair share of pie is one thing, but this 1741 01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,920 Speaker 1: increasingly popular opinion on the left has graduated from pure 1742 01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:58,160 Speaker 1: ignorance to evil despotism, which touches on another topic from 1743 01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:01,479 Speaker 1: last night's show. Why does the left opposed Israel? It's 1744 01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:06,320 Speaker 1: simple because Christians are for it. Dave. As for your 1745 01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:11,880 Speaker 1: point about the popularity of the class warfare ideology of 1746 01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:15,559 Speaker 1: Ocazio Cortez and Warren and Bernie Sanders, I mean, it's 1747 01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:17,840 Speaker 1: not like Occasio Cortes is the only one. This is 1748 01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:21,160 Speaker 1: something that people on the left, which means the Democratic 1749 01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:26,760 Speaker 1: Party increasingly believes it is disturbing. It is disturbing because 1750 01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:30,439 Speaker 1: it shows an ignorance of how our economy works, but also, 1751 01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:37,000 Speaker 1: I think a disregard for understanding. It's not just that 1752 01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:39,080 Speaker 1: they don't know, it's that they don't care that they 1753 01:41:39,160 --> 01:41:42,920 Speaker 1: don't know because it feels good. It feels good to 1754 01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:47,000 Speaker 1: talk about how bad the billionaires are, right. It feels 1755 01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:50,760 Speaker 1: good for people to put themselves in a position where 1756 01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:53,360 Speaker 1: they can look down on those that they feel like 1757 01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,960 Speaker 1: have been looking down on them just because of their 1758 01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:01,600 Speaker 1: wealth or their status in society. And v is very powerful. 1759 01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:04,760 Speaker 1: I have been saying it for a long time. Envy 1760 01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:10,040 Speaker 1: is a very powerful political tool, really political weapon, and 1761 01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:15,160 Speaker 1: it is at the heart of the Democrat Democrat coalition 1762 01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:18,639 Speaker 1: and their project for retaking the White House. Adam writes, 1763 01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,200 Speaker 1: the reference was animal farm shields high. All right, Adam, 1764 01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:24,280 Speaker 1: you got it too, Well done, sir, well done, Philip 1765 01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:27,320 Speaker 1: Shield tabuck. The push for acceptance of ultra late term 1766 01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:32,639 Speaker 1: abortions is merely to desensitize us too evil. Over time, 1767 01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:35,000 Speaker 1: more and more vile things will be considered normal until 1768 01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,600 Speaker 1: such time as cannibalism is no longer taboo, and just 1769 01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:44,240 Speaker 1: when the food runs out soylent green phill in Montana, Philip, 1770 01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:50,040 Speaker 1: we have been desensitized. I think that's obviously and clearly 1771 01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:53,160 Speaker 1: the case. We have been desensitized when it comes to 1772 01:42:55,360 --> 01:42:58,439 Speaker 1: babies and what's being done to babies, the stuff that 1773 01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,760 Speaker 1: was not just under discussion, that was being proposed as 1774 01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:04,920 Speaker 1: law in Virginia and is law in New York State. 1775 01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:08,600 Speaker 1: It is in infanticide. We have to call things what 1776 01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:11,680 Speaker 1: they are. And this reminds me why I get so 1777 01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:17,840 Speaker 1: agitated and so obstinate on calling people who are men 1778 01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:21,920 Speaker 1: women and using the wrong pronouns. I don't like and 1779 01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:24,640 Speaker 1: I'm not okay with, and will not go along with 1780 01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:32,640 Speaker 1: the embrace of falsehood, even simple falsehoods, even simple falsehoods. 1781 01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:37,640 Speaker 1: You know, this is something in a in a totalitarian society, 1782 01:43:38,680 --> 01:43:41,080 Speaker 1: one of one of the marks of a totalitarian society 1783 01:43:41,280 --> 01:43:45,560 Speaker 1: is that everybody just to avoid, just to avoid the 1784 01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:50,360 Speaker 1: possibility of reprisals from the state against them, they don't 1785 01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:53,400 Speaker 1: just say things that are big things that are untrue. 1786 01:43:53,439 --> 01:43:55,920 Speaker 1: They start to say little things that are untrue as well, 1787 01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:58,760 Speaker 1: meaning that they'll just say whatever the regime tells them 1788 01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:01,720 Speaker 1: about everything. You know, your shoelaces are the best shoelaces 1789 01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,240 Speaker 1: anyone's ever made in the world. And people start walking 1790 01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:06,960 Speaker 1: around saying, yes, my shoelaces are the best shoelaces, not 1791 01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:09,320 Speaker 1: because they believe it, because they're afraid if they don't 1792 01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:12,479 Speaker 1: say it, they'll get in trouble. So that's something that 1793 01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:16,720 Speaker 1: I think that this reminds me of you. You give 1794 01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,080 Speaker 1: up a part of yourself, You give up something very 1795 01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:23,880 Speaker 1: important in your core when you're willing to say things 1796 01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:27,680 Speaker 1: are true that are not true and essentially embrace some 1797 01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:31,280 Speaker 1: kind of alternate reality because people in the power structure 1798 01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:39,400 Speaker 1: tell you too. So, Mike writes, as a former quarreling, 1799 01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:45,479 Speaker 1: I believe Robert McCoy would be a valuable resource for 1800 01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:48,320 Speaker 1: you on North and South Korea. Here's his latest publication, 1801 01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:52,040 Speaker 1: all Right, I've never I've never heard of this guy, 1802 01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:56,000 Speaker 1: but I will. I'll check it out. Thanks for standing along, Richard. 1803 01:44:57,080 --> 01:44:59,800 Speaker 1: I use my cast box as my go to podcast player. 1804 01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:02,000 Speaker 1: Listen to you warn there for well over the past year, 1805 01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:05,280 Speaker 1: and they have everything including Shield Shut and Freedom Hut 1806 01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:07,559 Speaker 1: You Jesse and Sean are just a hoot. I really 1807 01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:09,719 Speaker 1: really listen to both shows when I need an emotional 1808 01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:13,439 Speaker 1: boost Doctor doctor Rick. Well, thanks doctor Rick. Yeah, I 1809 01:45:13,520 --> 01:45:17,240 Speaker 1: want to do another Jesse and Sean show. That was fun, 1810 01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:19,120 Speaker 1: you know, and we got a lot of a lot 1811 01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:20,800 Speaker 1: of people downloaded that and that just we just did 1812 01:45:20,840 --> 01:45:22,439 Speaker 1: that for you know, for kicks. We just did that 1813 01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:24,760 Speaker 1: for fun. So I'd be happy to do that one. 1814 01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:26,639 Speaker 1: I do that again with those guys. I really don't 1815 01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:29,599 Speaker 1: want to get them all in the same place. Let's 1816 01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:35,959 Speaker 1: see what we have here morning, listening to your Kamala 1817 01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:39,559 Speaker 1: the Radical good Insight. Additionally, I am the machine the best. 1818 01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:41,840 Speaker 1: I share that as often as possible, So I guess 1819 01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:46,479 Speaker 1: andres you know that I'm the Machine is h is 1820 01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,439 Speaker 1: from a comedian. If you type in I'm the Machine 1821 01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:51,479 Speaker 1: in YouTube, you'll be able to see this guy's you 1822 01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:53,479 Speaker 1: know what I'll do it for, so you don't because 1823 01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm here Team I. I live to serve you. I 1824 01:45:57,880 --> 01:46:01,880 Speaker 1: am here to serve your adio needs. And so I'll 1825 01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:04,360 Speaker 1: tell you who the guy is that is I Am 1826 01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:09,640 Speaker 1: the Machine. Bert Kreischer does a stand up thing and 1827 01:46:09,840 --> 01:46:12,280 Speaker 1: you'll see him when you go on YouTube. His Russian 1828 01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:16,080 Speaker 1: Mafia's story is very funny. I highly recommend it, and 1829 01:46:16,200 --> 01:46:19,879 Speaker 1: now you'll all know the I'm the Machine reference. Travis, 1830 01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:22,639 Speaker 1: I listened to the podcast on Stitcher daily of absolutely 1831 01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:25,720 Speaker 1: zero issue downloading and listening. I just finished listening to 1832 01:46:25,880 --> 01:46:28,840 Speaker 1: barbaric Democrats pushing in fanticide. At the end, I heard 1833 01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:31,200 Speaker 1: you read another listener's message saying he listens on Stitcher 1834 01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:34,240 Speaker 1: and couldn't listen. Thought you might know not everyone's having issues. Hey, Travis, 1835 01:46:34,840 --> 01:46:37,439 Speaker 1: I'll take it man. Thank you. I appreciate that. I 1836 01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:40,760 Speaker 1: much prefer people being able to listen to this show. 1837 01:46:40,840 --> 01:46:43,240 Speaker 1: That we work very hard to put together every day 1838 01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:47,559 Speaker 1: and pull together, so it's important that the technology works. 1839 01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:50,880 Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me know. Steve writes, excellent show tonight. 1840 01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:52,719 Speaker 1: I love how you cover so many topics and issues 1841 01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:55,400 Speaker 1: every night. Got two conservative friends that started listening to 1842 01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:57,920 Speaker 1: you since Monday. Steve Man, you get a high five. 1843 01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:00,400 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. That means that means the world 1844 01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:03,439 Speaker 1: you certainly didn't disappoint and people gather the thoughts pretty quickly. 1845 01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:06,720 Speaker 1: Shields high Steve, that's awesome man. Thank you when your 1846 01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:09,560 Speaker 1: dog's really cute in the photo. And I appreciate you 1847 01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:13,800 Speaker 1: passing along. Passing along word to your friends. The single 1848 01:47:13,920 --> 01:47:17,080 Speaker 1: most most helpful thing that everybody, everybody can do for 1849 01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:18,840 Speaker 1: this show. Just tell a friend be like, hell, did 1850 01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,080 Speaker 1: you listen to podcast? You gotta just add the Bucksaction 1851 01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:23,800 Speaker 1: Show to your podcast lineup and see what they have 1852 01:47:23,960 --> 01:47:29,519 Speaker 1: to say. We got rev who writes, I'm an avid 1853 01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:32,960 Speaker 1: listener in Mobile, Alabama. Or no, this is Lonnie. Sorry, 1854 01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,439 Speaker 1: I listened to part of your show. Unfortunately, your program 1855 01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:38,280 Speaker 1: is sometimes cut short by something something called the Pelicans 1856 01:47:38,320 --> 01:47:40,720 Speaker 1: Football Talk or something like that. What I would like 1857 01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:42,240 Speaker 1: to know is is there a station in my area 1858 01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:45,479 Speaker 1: that won't preempt your show? Lonnie? Lonnie? Yeah, It's called 1859 01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:48,599 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app, which is free. Or you can 1860 01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:53,040 Speaker 1: also download the podcast on iTunes, which means you can't 1861 01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:55,080 Speaker 1: listen live, but you can listen right after the show. 1862 01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:58,400 Speaker 1: But the iHeart app if you download that to your 1863 01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:01,479 Speaker 1: smartphone and type in the Buck Saxton Show. And it's 1864 01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:03,160 Speaker 1: just it's just a stream there that you can listen 1865 01:48:03,240 --> 01:48:06,200 Speaker 1: live anytime you want. So if if your if your 1866 01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:10,400 Speaker 1: local station, it is preempting me for some BS sports show. Uh, 1867 01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:13,160 Speaker 1: just get around them by listening on the on the 1868 01:48:13,680 --> 01:48:18,920 Speaker 1: iHeart app All right, there you go. Um. Jim rights 1869 01:48:19,479 --> 01:48:21,439 Speaker 1: a collar to Mark Levin just before you came on 1870 01:48:21,560 --> 01:48:23,800 Speaker 1: and said this is nothing less than human sacrifice to 1871 01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:28,639 Speaker 1: Satan and paganism. I used to live in Annandale, Virginia, 1872 01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:31,120 Speaker 1: and I was born in Long Island, New York. I'm 1873 01:48:31,200 --> 01:48:34,560 Speaker 1: surprised about Virginia. Jim. It's it's a horrible thing that 1874 01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:37,040 Speaker 1: they're doing. And I will say I appreciate that this 1875 01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:40,760 Speaker 1: audience from what I'm gathering at the feedback, I know 1876 01:48:40,880 --> 01:48:42,680 Speaker 1: that talking about a boor shit and these issues is 1877 01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:46,160 Speaker 1: heavy and that people everyone's got enough of a burden 1878 01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:48,000 Speaker 1: to carry with their day to day and I want 1879 01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:49,639 Speaker 1: them to come to this show and know they're gonna 1880 01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:51,160 Speaker 1: learn stuff, but they're also going to be able to 1881 01:48:51,200 --> 01:48:53,760 Speaker 1: relax a bit. I mean, we talked about's important and 1882 01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:59,080 Speaker 1: there's some degree of an intellectual mobilization that we do 1883 01:48:59,240 --> 01:49:03,000 Speaker 1: here every day together but I also don't want people 1884 01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:06,400 Speaker 1: to get sad or too bummed out listening to any 1885 01:49:06,439 --> 01:49:08,559 Speaker 1: part of the show that said some things are too 1886 01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:10,960 Speaker 1: important and we just got to do it, And yesterday 1887 01:49:10,960 --> 01:49:13,080 Speaker 1: I thought was one of them. So the sense I'm 1888 01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:16,280 Speaker 1: getting from any of you is that you understood that, 1889 01:49:16,320 --> 01:49:18,439 Speaker 1: and you appreciate that, and I always try to balance 1890 01:49:18,479 --> 01:49:21,400 Speaker 1: it out as best as I can. Karen's hey, Buck, 1891 01:49:21,439 --> 01:49:23,960 Speaker 1: the news today of your podcast is truly disturbing. The 1892 01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:26,200 Speaker 1: infanticide issues right up there with people who used to 1893 01:49:26,240 --> 01:49:28,400 Speaker 1: burn their babies in the arms of Baal and the 1894 01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:30,959 Speaker 1: reason the children of Israel ended up going into slavery. 1895 01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:32,800 Speaker 1: We need to remember that as Christians and as a 1896 01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:37,080 Speaker 1: Christian nation, are we truly willing to sacrifice ourselves? Truly scary? 1897 01:49:37,120 --> 01:49:41,479 Speaker 1: I guess Obama's right. We are into Christian nation. Karen, Well, Karen, 1898 01:49:41,479 --> 01:49:44,479 Speaker 1: don't give up quite yet. This country is still an 1899 01:49:44,479 --> 01:49:49,559 Speaker 1: amazing place and it is still a predominantly Christian place, 1900 01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:51,800 Speaker 1: and it is too it's great benefit that that is 1901 01:49:51,880 --> 01:49:55,160 Speaker 1: the case. So let's just hope that we can keep 1902 01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:57,320 Speaker 1: fighting back in and do what is do. It is 1903 01:49:57,400 --> 01:50:00,120 Speaker 1: right not just for our country but for God as well. Oh, 1904 01:50:00,800 --> 01:50:03,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna close up shopping the Hut tonight. Team with that, 1905 01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:07,439 Speaker 1: I will talk to you tomorrow from ny See until 1906 01:50:07,520 --> 01:50:13,479 Speaker 1: next time. 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