WEBVTT - Stop Exaggerating Russian Actions 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:16.800 You are entering the freedom hunt. The hysteria around Russia 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 collusion continues on despite the lack of evidence. The media 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.000 is now desperate to convince people that non criminal activity 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.319 is criminal, that the president is guilty, and that there's 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.840 evidence that does not exist. They also don't want us 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.680 to find out what really happened in that interview with 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.040 General Flynn that led to those perjury charges. We got 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:38.880 that and more coming up on The Buck Sexton Show. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.880 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.080 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:52.800 What magno mistake American, You're a great American Again The 0:00:53.000 --> 0:01:05.080 Buck Sexton Show begins. No, welcome to the Buck section Show. Everybody. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.640 Great to have you here with me on this most 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:15.120 excellent Thursday. Excellent. We need to get ready for what 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.720 is going to be quite a year in twenty nineteen. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.280 Time time to batten down the hatches, my friends, Get 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.399 ready for the squall. Dig deep in the trench. It's 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.720 going to get so much uglier, It's going to get 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.560 so much crazier. How is that even possible at this point, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.800 It's hard to fathom, but I know it to be 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:45.880 the case. Unfortunately, a lot of very excited and over 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:56.120 excitable coverage today of this situation with Maria Boutina. Maria Boutina, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:01.840 who is this Russian gun rights activist, and now she 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:07.160 has pleaded guilty to conspiring conspiring here, according to the 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.120 Washington Post, with a senior Russian official, to infiltrate the 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.840 conservative movement in the United States as an agent for 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.959 the Kremlin from twenty fifteen until her arrest in July. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.040 She's the first Russian national who is convicted of influence, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 of trying to influence, seeking to influence US policy in 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.440 the run up to the twenty sixteen election. This is 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:38.359 being reported on by a credulous and ignorant media as 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.919 a spy has been found. This is being reported there 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.480 and they're using the word spy. Yahoo has called her 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:53.240 a spy. MSNBC. The main story on MSNBC just a 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.880 few moments ago when I was when I was doing 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.400 my last run of you know, the various sites that 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:00.880 I want to make sure or I go through every 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.480 time I come on air. The main story was, in fact, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:10.320 this Maria Boutina thing, and they were calling Maria Boutina 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.840 a spy. They were calling her a spy. Here's the 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.880 problem with that. She's not a spy. Now, that doesn't 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.720 mean what she did is okay, It doesn't mean that 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.560 what she did is, you know, just fine and dandy. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.840 But why, once again do they have to exaggerate. Why 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:36.720 is the media continuing its trend of pushing further than 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.600 the facts when it comes to anything relating to Russia, Trump, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.280 the election collusion, any of this stuff. Here's what really happened, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.560 based on the facts as we know them. Maria Boutina, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.880 a Russian national, came to America and was trying to 0:03:53.120 --> 0:04:00.440 gain influence in decision making circles, particularly the National Rifle Association, 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.160 but just in general American decision makers on the right, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.240 and wanted to open a back channel for communication for 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.680 the Russian government or for prominent Russians attached to the 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:18.280 Russian government. And here's how she's not a spy. One 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.520 she didn't ever try to access nor did she access 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.200 sensitive or classified information. She wasn't trying to steal info. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.800 Now maybe she would have eventually, but that's not the 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.120 that's not what the charges are. She was trying to 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.800 get close to people that have influence in America. This 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:44.279 is acting as a foreign agent. Now, this corresponds to 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.400 another charge that has come up in this whole Russian 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:52.240 collusion madness of failure to register as a foreign agent. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.600 Call it a FARAH violation Foreign Agent Registration Act. And 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.120 that's when you're in America and an American who is 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.520 trying to push for a foreign agents interest here in 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:11.880 America right now, if you are advocating on behalf of 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.679 let's say, you know, Saudi interests or Turkish interests or 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.800 Thie interests in America, but you're doing it openly, you're saying, hey, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.040 I really I'm advocating for Thaie interests in America. That 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.960 falls under FARAH. And that's the kind of thing where 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.560 usually when they catch you, or if that comes to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.240 the government's attention, they say, hey, hey, you know you 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.800 got a register? All right, you got a register. It's 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.359 essentially being a lobbyist. You're a lobbyist for a foreign government, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.120 you have to register, just like how if you're a 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.440 lobbyist period in our own government, you're supposed to register, right, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.080 So this is the equivalent of unregistered lobbying activity. Because 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.160 Maria Boutina was going around saying, hey, I'm Russian. I 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.479 want to open up a dialogue between America and Russia, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.160 and I want to be near decision makers and people 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.320 who are involved and have influence in the policy process 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.360 on behalf of Russia. That's a very different thing. This 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.400 is not espionage. This is not spying. This is not 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.520 like Anna Chabman. Anna Chapman was accused of being what 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.680 the KGB used to call an illegal which essentially was 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:27.120 a long, deep, long time, deep cover operative meant to 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.960 penetrate under false pretenses the very top levels of the 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.720 United States government, steal secrets and take it back to Moscow, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.240 pretending not to be a Russian right, pretending to be 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.120 something else. In this instance, Maria Buccino, this is somebody 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.200 who is walking around and saying, Hey, I'm Russian, and 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.720 I want to talk to people about how we can 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.719 get American Russia to agree on some stuff. She's facing 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.200 up to five years in federal prison now. And now, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.440 why is this so significant? By the way, for a 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.120 registration also came up in the general flintcase, but we'll 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.039 get to that in a moment. They're saying this is 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.440 so important because it ties together the NRA, GOP, and Trump, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:13.960 so the the three headed hydra that the left hate 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.600 so much. They hate the GOP, they hate the NRA, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.640 and wow do they hate Trump. And this lets them 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.680 tell this tale of a woman who was trying to 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.640 Was she successful in any of this? Did she manage 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.040 to influence US policy at all? You know? This is 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:36.000 this reminds me of the exaggeration of the impact of 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.920 some Facebook ads. You know when when they were asking 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.840 the Google executive Peach I, CEO of Google, earlier this week, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.400 how much money was spent by Russian associated accounts on 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.040 Google during the election. You know what he said, It 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:55.120 was something relines about four thousand dollars. Spending four thousand 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:00.160 dollars on Google to influence an election is like pouring 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.640 a cup of tap water in the ocean and saying 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.360 you're changing its temperature. Technically, you might have altered the 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.120 temperature somewhat, but it's not percept it's not something that 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:15.400 you could perceive, it's not something you could measure. Maria 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:20.520 Boutina did not shift any US policy. Okay, Maria Boutina 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.400 was entirely unsuccessful in this, which, by the way, is 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.040 why the Mueller probe didn't even handle this case. Handed 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:36.000 it off. This was not, in any way a major 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.760 case of espionage. This was not something that people should 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:43.000 be so excited about and so concerned about. But it 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.600 involves a Russian involves geop stuff and the elections. Oh, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.640 oh my gosh, it's such a big story. We are 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.240 living in a time of hysteria and delusion that is 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:01.480 embraced by an increasingly desperate establishment. And the establishment is 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.560 desperate because not only is their power coming coming under 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.920 assault and therefore its longevity is in question, but we 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.360 also now are free to ask questions about why are 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:18.800 these people the establishment? What is it about the elites 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.040 in government, in journalism and media that has put them 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.679 in that position? Should we believe them? Should we trust them? 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.280 Are they particularly good or competent what they do? No, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.439 they're not, and Trump exposes them, exposes them for not 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:40.559 being what they think they are, which is exceptional, which 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.480 is excellent at what they do. No, they just are 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:49.160 powerful and influential. But that's different. That's a very different thing. Indeed, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:50.640 you know, you can be the leader of a foreign 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.040 country because everyone thinks you're great, or you can be 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.240 the leader of a foreign country because you seize power 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.640 through brute force. Both cases, you're talking about a leader, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.520 but only one side of the ledger would you have 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.400 a situation where somebody could claim excellence and skill and 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.480 the other it's just force and power. And the Left 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.840 is obsessed with power and with the exercise of that power, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.079 and they'll use force to get there, and anyone who 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.520 challenges that is a target to be destroyed. And that's 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.160 why they have to come up with all these different narratives. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.719 Narratives meant to undermine the opposition, undermine the people who 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.000 are a threat to their power. Maria Boutina, for example, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:37.080 yet another individual who insaner times they would just say, okay, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.920 just get out of America. They'd probably just deport her 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.599 as they get out of America, go back to Russia. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.960 You know, you shouldn't be here trying to meddle in 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.240 our national conversation about anything in this way. You know, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.199 you're supposed to registers as an agent of a foreign country. Right, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.480 there's foreign registration for Americans, you know, being an agent 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.960 of a foreign power, and then there's being a foreigner 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.280 who's an agent of a or in power. Now General 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.120 Flynn didn't register UNDERFERA. There are a lot of people 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.040 in DC who have not registered UNDERFERRA, but they were 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:15.320 going to use that, I think as additional leverage against him. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.880 And this then brings me to what we see happening 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.160 through all the Russia collusion stuff. We see happening with 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.600 General Flynn, with all the people that have been caught 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:30.720 up Papadopolis and Cohen and Boutina and others. Now, and 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:37.680 that is when is the law strict, literal and harsh 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.960 and when is the law open to interpretation? Something that 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:47.880 we should look through with an ida mercy and decency 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:53.720 and second chances, And increasingly in the most politically tense 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:58.160 investigations in the country, what we find is that Democrats 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.800 always take the most strict, uncharitable, vicious, aggressive view of 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.760 the law, most literal interpretation of the law possible when 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.400 it is negative for a Republican and we always have 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.640 the reverse for Democrats, whether it's Hillary or you name it. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.080 The law is malleable, the law is open to interpretation, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.079 there's room to maneuver, and there's room for mercy. When 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:31.320 it's a Democrat who is that issue? This is fundamentally 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:36.959 destroying our sense. This Mueller probe, the hysteria around all things, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.920 Russia is destroying our sense that the law is impartially 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.000 applied when it comes to politics. We cannot run from this. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.240 We have to confront it. We will do more of that. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:52.480 In just a moment, he answered a bunch of questions, 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.040 a great number of them apparently, and the agents knew 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.439 that some of those those answers didn't fit very well 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.840 with what he knew. And what's fascinating about the information 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.160 we have is they made the conscious decision not to 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.280 raise those with him. So there is a certain feeling 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.040 of a trap here that obviously he never clued into. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.800 What's really troubling is not just the fact that they 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.199 proceeded to criminalize it, but that the initial agents apparently 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.080 did not believe he was intentionally lying, and they did 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.800 not recommend the charge. Now you now fast forward to 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.960 where we are now, and I can only imagine what 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.240 Flynn might be thinking and reading the recent filings, because 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.280 in one of the footnotes for Cohen, the prosecutors note 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.160 that he came in and made all types of false 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.160 statements about all types of stuff to investigators and then 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.800 simply says, a matter of factly, he then corrected those 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:47.320 statements and I could imagine Michael Flynn reading this thing. Well, Okay, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.400 what happened to my chance to correct? That's right, what 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.360 happened to Flynn's chance to correct? Who gets a second chance? 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.400 Who gets the benefit of the doubt? That is what 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.960 is an issue here. I'm so sick of all these 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.920 smarmy left wing lawyers and pseudo lawyers who send they 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.800 broke the law, pleaded guilty, taking this view of everything 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.880 involving Trump at Russia and collusion and the lies and 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.240 the perjury charges as though they've they've never seen how 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.840 criminal law actually functions. Some people get a lot of 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.640 the way, other people don't. If it's based on politics, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.640 that's a huge problem. Hillary had nine lawyers in the room, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.760 or there McCabe, who's a liar and a scoundrel and 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.160 was fired from the FBI for for those reasons. McCabe 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.200 made sure that Flynn didn't have any lawyer in the 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.560 room with him. Now, you don't need a lawyer. I 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.320 don't do that. We're just gonna we're just gonna talk 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.360 to you about this thing. Liberals played dirty, and that's 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.440 that's the that's the quick and dirty of what we're 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:55.240 really talking about here, and when you see how psychologically 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.440 traumatized they were by Trump's victory, and you go back 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.240 and just from member all the people crying at that 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.200 Hillary victory party that wasn't a victory, all the different 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.680 senior government employees who thought that they were going to 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.160 have eight years of a glorious Clinton administration and it 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.920 was gonna be so fantastic for their careers. And also 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:21.920 it was really a pinnacle moment for a certain kind 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.560 of liberal boomer that Hillary's eight years was going to 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:33.080 be a kind of golden era of Democrat liberalism in America, 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.120 and that that was stolen from them, and that it 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.480 was so unfair and so wrong, and they lashed out, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.320 and people within the government. It wasn't just outside a government. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.400 They lashed out too. And yet as I sit here, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:53.440 I still note that they have not produced any evidence 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:59.080 of collusion, and they are still going after people for 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.560 the petty of crimes. I mean, they're going after people 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.440 for for lies that don't really seem like lies. They 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.760 have all these shady dealings around figures in the government. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.960 I mean, Comey said just this past weekend, if the 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.960 administration was better organized, they never would have let Flynn 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.080 sit down with some FBI guys without the White House 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.640 Council present. You know, He's basically like, we slipped we 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.280 slipped a couple of guys in there. You know, we 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.840 slipped them under the radar. You're gonna do that to 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.720 the National Security Advisor, people say, oh, buck, But law 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.840 enforcement uses tricks and techniques and you know, essentially lying 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.880 all the time they gave people. Yeah, but they usually 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.160 don't do it without a criminal predicate to the National 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.360 Security Advisor and give me a break. Your law enforcement 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.240 could also theoretically exercise any warrant that they want to 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.440 if they can convince a judge to sign off on it. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.320 So you know, batter down your front door and you know, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.440 send in an armored carrier and three and a squat team. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.880 But you know, usually if they're just trying to find 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.200 out if you you know, are running a credit card 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:07.959 fraud scam or something, they don't do that. Discretion is 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:13.040 a necessary component of the justice system, right there has 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.560 to be good faith action from the people that are 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.520 entrusted with the power, and we're not seeing good faith action. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.960 And that's why I mean, I think Trump should look 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:26.400 Trump should pardon Flynn full stop Pardon General Flynn, Play thirteen. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.680 I never directed him to do anything incorrect or wrong, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.359 and he understands that. Look, he did some bad things 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.600 unrelated to me, in order to embarrass me. They cut 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.160 his turn down. How many people when they say, listen, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.680 if you embarrass the President of the United States will 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.720 give you a deal. Your father in law, your wife 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.120 will cut your jail. That's all it is. It's a 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.439 terrible system we have. It's going on right now with 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.879 General Flynn. The FBI said he didn't lie, but Muller 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.920 said he did lie. So they took a man who's 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.520 a general and a respected person and a nice man. 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.359 And I don't even know what he said about me, because, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.080 you know, maybe they scared him enough they don't make 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.440 up the story. But I have a feeling that maybe 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.360 he didn't. He's a tougher kind of a guy than Kohen. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.680 But they took a general that they said didn't lie, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.040 and they convinced him he did lie, and he made 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.880 some kind of a deal. And now they're recommending no time, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.400 you know why, because they're embarrassed that they got caught. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.160 I think he's the President's right on them on this one. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.320 He knows, you know. There Cohen can't prove the President 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.200 told him to do anything wrong. Cohen's the lawyer, he 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.080 should know better. Advice of counsel is a real thing. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.920 And what they did to Flynn, I just said again, 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:43.000 they did Flynn dirty. Remember why Mueller was set up. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.000 Muller was set up as a special consul to look 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.280 at was or any collusion and any influence of Raisha 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:57.920 through the Trump campaign and influencing the election. There's been 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.320 no evidence of collusion at this point. And if there's 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:06.760 anything about Kohne yesterday that indirectly affects the president, Remember 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.919 the information came from a guy that was a liar 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.000 and accused of lying to the Congress of the United States. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.800 So how much credibility do you want to put in 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.760 the words of a liar. It's a fair point from 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.720 Chuck Graslie. There one other thing before we move on 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.159 to some other topics, I want to talk to you 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.119 about the Women's March and how it's in the midst 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.919 of some some disarray. It's like the women's marches, and 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.280 they're not all marching in the same direction. There's some 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.280 problems there. Also, the Senate some some break news on 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.600 the Senate and Yemen and Kashogi. They're not They're not 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.240 gonna let this thing go, even though now it's it's 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.879 too late for people to realize because everyone has just 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.320 assumed that they spend so much time on Kashogi because 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.120 he must be a you know, a US person, meaning 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.119 either a citizen or a Green card holder. He's not. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.200 I was a visitor, the visitor of the country. Are 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.919 we responsible now for changing our foreign policy based on 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.840 anyone anywhere in the world that has something terrible happened 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.720 to them if they are a journalist, we we then 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.600 have to change our foreign policy in a whole region 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.399 because of it. That's the new standard. It's not a 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.639 very it's not a very wise standard, if in fact 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.359 that that is our standard. I mean, the world is 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.880 a dangerous place. I hate to be the bearer of platitudes. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.119 But there's one more thing here on the whole the 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.800 DOJ's conduct. And I'm happy that a judge, Judge Sullivan, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.679 sounds like he wants to see those three O two's. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.800 It seems very clear that with a seven month lag 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.040 between when the FBI had the initials sit down with Flynn, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.960 and when they filed the three O two and that 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.840 we've already seen reporting that the FBI agents did not 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.840 initially think that he lied and they didn't bring charges 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:53.040 right away, seems very clear that they just they fabricated 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.359 a pretext. You know, it's it's not that hard to 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.680 do this. It's not that hard to go through someone's testimony, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.040 and if you really really want to get them, find 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.000 something that is technically not accurate and say, well, you 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.160 say you misremembered, we say it's a lie. Guess what 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.920 their version is enough to get you prosecuted. And then 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.760 once they're prosecuting you, you're in a position where you 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:17.800 can either fight them and try to clear your name 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.960 and risk complete financial ruin and long prison sentence, or 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.960 you say, all right, I'll do whatever you say. I'll 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.120 do whatever you say. But here's something that I think 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.440 is worth pointing. This is from Bree Payton at the Federalist. 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.479 The Department of Justice white text messages between former FBI 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.199 employees Lisa Page and Peter Struck from their cell phones 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.320 before the Office of the Inspector General could review them. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:47.320 According to a new report from the DOJ watchdog Page 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.600 Instruct's involvement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has been 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.240 heavily scrutinized after it was revealed they had sent numerous 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.560 and to one another. Mueller has been tasked with looking 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.960 into whether or not Donald Trump and his campaign association 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.320 It's coordinated with Russian officials to steal the twenty sixteen 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.399 election away from Hillary Clinton. The eleven page report reveals 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.960 that almost a month after Struck was removed from Mueller's team, 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.720 his government issued iPhone was wiped clean and restored to 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:18.720 factory settings by another individual working Muller's office. Special Counsel's 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.240 records officer told investigators she determined it did not contained 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.040 records that needed to be retained, no substance of text, 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:33.199 notes or reminders. Wow, isn't that convenient? Inspector General just 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:35.760 has somebody look at Struck in Page's phones and go, yeah, 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.720 there's nothing here we need to retain. We're just gonna 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:44.680 we're just gonna get rid of it, okay, because we've 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.040 seen a lot of stuff from them that should have 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:48.760 been retained, and a lot of stuff that the FBI 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.440 didn't want to release. By the way, so somebody want 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:56.040 to explain that one to me. Oh, that's just a coincidence, right, 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:57.720 It's it's always this is what you get from the 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.960 anti Trump Hillary hers out there. It's always just a 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.600 coincidence when something like this goes down. You know when 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.879 Hillary used bleach bit on her own server. Hey, you 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:08.399 know that was just a mistake. You know what, like 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.119 wipe it like with a cloth, she said, like with 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:18.359 a cloth, wiping it. Hello, don't you miss her? Don't 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.320 you wish she was president? Oh? I know, I know 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.080 it could still happen. I still think she's you haven't 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.000 heard much better recently. I still think she's running as 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.880 much as everyone else thinks. That's crazy. Meanwhile, despite all 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:30.920 this stuff going on, there's at least one pull out 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.679 today that says that Trump is about as popular at 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:40.560 this point in his presidency as Obama was in his presidency. So, 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.320 you know, you've got the entire media saying Trump is 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:48.240 a criminal, actually saying Trump is a criminal, actively rooting 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.719 for his administration to collapse, people to go to prison, 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:53.680 Trump's son in law to be indict I mean son 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.359 rather to be indicted and his son in law to 0:23:55.359 --> 0:24:00.200 be indicted. And meanwhile, the president keeps in the fight. 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.640 I gotta give him credit. And he even likes the job. 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:07.439 Play fourteen. I love getting things done for the people. 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.480 It's a nasty job because I get hit so hard, 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:14.400 so unfairly by so many. I mean really unfairly. When 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.480 you look at what we've done with taxes, what we've 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:20.280 done with regulations, what we've done with China and national 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:24.080 defense and so many other things, including the environment. The 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.199 Paris Accord is not working out to well for Paris. 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.040 Take a look at what's happened, the struggling. That whole 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:33.320 country is burning down. Okay, So, and I was the 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.400 one that kept us out of the Paris Accord. If 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:37.520 I was in the Paris Accord, we would be paying 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:42.280 trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars for nothing, and I 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.520 wouldn't do that. And my people love the job I'm doing. 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:49.600 You know. The one thing, if I could get a 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.840 little wish for twenty nineteen, I would just like the 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:57.160 administration's critics to focus on policies that don't like instead 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:01.679 of this just craziness about Russia and payoffs and women, 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:05.760 and they're just all this nonsense. It's all inflated. It's 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:10.800 all exaggerated. They're connecting dots that aren't even there. You know, 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:13.399 tell me you don't like Trump because of the taxes. 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.119 Tell me you don't like Trump because you know of 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:18.480