WEBVTT - Pompeo Is A Pro 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:16.919 You are entering the freedom hunt. Former CI director Pompeo 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.960 is slated to be the next Secretary of State. Did 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.400 it go today when the Senate Democrats were waiting at ambush? 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.720 We'll get into that. Plus the latest on will Trump 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.960 or will he not respond to serious chemical weapons alleged 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.680 chemical weapons attack, Plus more on the Mueller probe, the 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.320 Cohen raid, Facebook is lying to you, and some updates 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.760 on the opioid epidemic. This is the Buck Sexton Show, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.840 where the mission or mission is to decode what really 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:52.880 matters with actionable intelligence. No mistake, American, You're a great 0:00:52.880 --> 0:01:02.800 American Again the Buck Sexton Show begins. Is no welcome 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.039 to the books that can show everyone. Great to have 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.520 you here with me. Thank you so much for hanging out. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.399 Always appreciative of your time. Excited to get into everything 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:18.280 that matters in our world today. The Pompeo hearing is 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.600 what I wanted to want to get into first, and 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.959 I gotta tell you I think this Pompeo guys really solid. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.040 I wrote a piece today on the On the Hill 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.600 dot com about the confirmation marks. By the way, I 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.480 was I even picked. It was published before the hearing 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.320 started and by name. I was able to say, well, 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.720 here's the playbook, and you know, Booker is gonna is 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.080 gonna Senator Booker is gonna make noise about Islamophobia. And 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.120 it's so when I say things are predictable, it's always 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.040 fun when I've actually predicted it. And I'm sure many 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.920 of you had the same thought, right, those of you 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.640 and by the way, those of you even care about 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.320 watching a Senate confirmation hearing. You know how many people 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.480 have ever been thumbs down in the entire history of 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.760 the Senate. There have been nine people who have gotten 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.320 that map. So it's not exactly high stakes poker for 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.560 most folks. It's pretty pretty straightforward. And there have been 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.680 a lot more who have withdrawn. So there's that right, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.320 can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen situation. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.680 But it's never been a secretary of state. I mean, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.600 usually someone who's gonna get up in the Secretary of 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.320 State role is is vetted, ready to rock, sign sealed 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.960 and delivered. It's generally not someone you're gonna go, well, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.440 we don't really know this guy is or gal um 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.600 and that's certainly the case with Pompeo. In a sane world, 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.320 let me just say, it's not even a close vote. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.600 In the sane world, all the Democrats would vote for 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.560 this guy too. Um And, and look, it hasn't gone 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.200 to a floor vote yet. It's it actually is gonna 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.520 be close. It's gonna be tight. You have Rand Paul 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.000 saying that he's not going to vote to confirm Pompeio, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.720 which I think is you know, it's I go back 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.959 and forth with Senator Paul, have interviewed many times. I 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.679 like the guy's ideas, and I also like his low key, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.960 kind of Kentucky surfer dude demeanor. I dig, I dig 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.200 all that, but I think sometimes it's it can be 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.880 a little self serving on the I'm the only sane 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:20.600 voice on presidential uh, you know, war powers and congressional authorization. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.280 So we'll see, we'll see if we can come around 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.400 to to my side of it on this one. I 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.560 doubt it though. And then there's just some Democrats who 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:34.040 were engaged in the most shameless of of shameless grandstanding today. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.760 But we expected, we expected that to be the case. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.520 Um And And Senator Corey Booker really lad the charge. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.760 He was the head of the Democrat ambush against Pompeio. Today, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.960 so I think it's likely he'll get through, but the 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.960 fact that it's even gonna be tight. They I think 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.600 the vote was sixty six thirty three. I think. Don't 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.480 quote me on that one, but I'm probably right because 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.720 they tend to be right. Um sixty six and like 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:04.960 I said, go to the Hill dot com you can 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.480 see my latest piece, or we actually put it up 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.040 on Facebook dot com to piece. Some of the folks 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.360 in d C were like, wow, it's like you understand Pompeio. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.680 I'm like, obviously, uh, but sixty six thirty three was 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.240 the vote with the Senate the last time, almost a 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.119 year ago to the day. I mean it was pretty 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.400 close or to the month of six thirty three to 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.760 make him the most powerful spy in the world. I know, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.159 we don't say spy, we say CIA direct here, but 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.320 you get what I'm saying, right, Spy master, if you 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.560 want to be a little more technical, chief bureaucrat of 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.720 an intelligence agency, if you want to be a little 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.960 more accurate, because that's actually what the job is. You're 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.599 a bureaucrat. You're a politician who does a lot of 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.120 managing down That's what the CIA director does. No karate chops, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.400 no exploding cuff links, no lasers coming out of your car, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.239 or even if you have those, you'd have to install 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.440 them yourself. I don't know, it's probably possible now, but 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.400 they voted sixty six thirty three for him. Now people 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:01.840 are saying, well, is it is it gonna is it 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.080 gonna happen? Is he gonna go through or not? It's 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.800 gonna be close. You got Senator McCain who's uh fighting, uh, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.720 fighting bravely against cancer right now, but he's not gonna 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.440 be there for for the vote you've ran, Paul. Remember, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.800 we only got what is not a lot of leeway here. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.200 But I think that you'll get some I think that 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:29.279 you'll get some Democrats who realized that sanity is the 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.800 better option here. As much as hash hashtag resistance is fun, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.560 remember all they can do with what they're gonna they're 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.719 gonna knock down this secretary of state. You know, the 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.640 next secretary of State should be if they don't make 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.200 if they don't put Pompeo through, you know, woman is 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:46.800 banning just to bathe in liberal tears. It would be incredible. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.159 Do I think Bannon should be Secretary of State? I 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.440 don't know the guy, probably not. The point is it 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.880 should always you always want to have the the the 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.120 ace up to sleeve, be like, hey, you guys don't 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.719 want to vote for Pompeo. I give you Steve Bannon 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.080 for Scretary of State, who wants a piece. So that's 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.600 what I that's what I think about all that. But 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.919 I mentioned Corey Booker, who I you know, I'm always 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.040 are Why are they not thinking about him? More? For you? 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.080 Hear Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, I know, both females, 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.520 So maybe for the Democrat identity politics machinery, that's obviously 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.119 really important, But you don't hear people talking about Corey 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.360 Booker for and I wonder why that is? Right He's 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.479 you think he's senator. You know, there's a lot of 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.560 stuff that Democrats would get excited about. So anyway, but 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.640 Corey Booker was not getting me excited to that. He 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.599 was really going after it. He was. And keep in 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:44.320 mind Pompeo has been on a charm tour and he 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.680 reached out even to Hillary Clinton herself just to say, hey, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.359 any advice you can give. He wants advice from wherever 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.080 he can get it. As long as it's the best advice. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.720 He reached out to every living Secretary of State in 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.680 advance of the hearing. Today, he has had the State Department, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:06.240 at his request, reach out to departed senior state employees 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.800 in order to say, hey, we'd love We know you 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.880 left and you didn't you weren't happy, unertiller soon we'd 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.480 love to have you back. And how much of this 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.520 have you seen reported of the media, By the way, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.520 you know it's there, but you're not getting a lot 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.920 of focus on this. And how many of you know, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.320 just off the top of you heard this guy that 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.080 was being skewered today by some Democrats, I mean mostly Booker. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.280 I think there were a couple others. I got a 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.160 little bit. Booker was really going after him. How many 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.760 know that he was a an army captain Harvard log Rad, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.040 number one in his class at West Point, very well 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:43.560 liked within the agency and Langley folks are not shy 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.200 about letting their thoughts be known about who runs the 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.680 so called seventh floor, the executive level, so he was 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.040 very well like there. You don't get any of that. Instead, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:59.800 you get treated to questions like this one about Islamophobia. Basically, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.960 when it comes to making sure that we don't have 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.960 a terrorists brewing in in places that where Muslims congregated. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.840 There's a special place, right, they have a they have 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.240 an opportunity. It's more than a duty, more than a require. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.440 It's an opportunity. Right to be treated as when someone 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.240 from another face says it, it can get characterized. Do 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.160 you think that Muslims in America who are in positions 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.880 of leadership have a different category of obligation because of 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.800 their religion? That's what I'm hearing you saying. I don't 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.839 see it. It's not an obligation, it's an opportunity. So 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.520 can we just back up for one second here, So 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.719 Corey Bookers basically so, so are you trying to tell 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:46.840 me that Muslims have some special place in preventing Islamic terrorism? Yeah, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.920 the answer is yeah. Actually, it's not saying that every 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.000 Muslim is an obligation to Most Muslims just want to 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.319 go about their lives and do what they do and 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.800 just be normal folks. But any Muslim who is either 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.360 in a leadership position in a community where there are 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.240 some radicals, are they're aware of radicalization, or any Muslim 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.559 who happens to know that someone has radicalized, Yeah, it 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.920 may be there. They're in a better position to one 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.640 know about it and to do something about it. So yeah, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.559 but it was just an effort to try to get 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:22.160 him on Islamophobia. That's just always remember this. The left 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.839 will go to the match not just in favor of 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.600 the civil rights of Muslim Americans and you know, we 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.240 we defend those and we support those two, but they'll 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.679 go to the match in order to make sure that 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.920 no one says anything that's a little too terse, even 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.360 about Islamists, people that believe in political Islam, that believe 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.520 in Sharia, you know, and they don't care about the 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.440 hypocrisy of selling out by doing so right, by soft 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.720 pedaling radical Islam, by pretending that there's not something specific 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.720 at this time in the world and a raise among 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.760 all religions. Islam has a unique problem set that unfortunately 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.560 affects all of us, even well outside of the Islamic faith. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.079 That's just a fact. But whenever you try to talk 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.680 about it, they want to shout you down and yell 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:17.200 that you're a bigot in islamophobe. And also, I can't 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:23.640 help but notice that there pro pro LGBT and uh 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:30.679 feminist and pro transgender agenda kind of gets lost by 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.040 the wayside when they're like, yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood not 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:38.440 so bad. It's no big deal. It's just in a side, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.560 But I think it's a worthwhile one. Oh, speaking of 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.920 the pro LGBT agenda, Corey Booker followed up with this one. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.160 When I was a politician, I had a very clear 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.400 view on whether it was appropriate for two same sex 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.640 persons to marry. I stand by that. So so you 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.120 do not believe it's appropriate for two gay people to marry, Center, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.920 I continue to hold that view. It's the same view, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.160 and so people in the State Department. I met some 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.200 in Africa that are married under your leadership, you do 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.199 not believe that that should be allowed that I believe 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.080 it's the case. We have married gay couples at the 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.600 say you should know I treated them with the exact 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.559 same set of right believe. Do you believe that gay 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.280 sex is a perversion? Yes? Or no? If I if 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.600 I can, if you yes, if you believe that gay 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.560 sex is a perversion, because this is what you sent 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.800 here Center one of your speeches. Yes or no? Do 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.600 you believe gay sex is a perversions and I'm gonna 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.839 give you the same answer I just gave you previously. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.200 My my respect for every individual, regardless of the sexual 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.360 orientation is the same. Now, Pompeo is a pro and 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.719 he handled all this very well today. But I got 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.120 a bunch of thoughts after the line of questioning from 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.520 from Booker. First of all, what does any of that 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.520 have to do What is his previous position on what 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.160 was called traditional marriage until about a year ago? Uh, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.240 what does that have to do with being Secretary of 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.160 State exactly? And if we were also now I mean, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.480 remember this is these are the rules the left of 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.000 the left are creating here. If we are going to 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.520 drum people out of public life, and we're gonna push 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.240 people out of positions of authority and government based on 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.160 previous positions on social issues that the left has gotten 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.480 the courts to agree with them, on the Supreme Court 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.280 to agree with them on on some of these issues, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.119 then that means that find me, a a prominent democrat 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.480 of the last ten years, can't be in office, can't 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.920 be a part of the conversation. Barack Obama traditional marriage 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.400 candidate in two thousand and eight, Hillary Clinton, traditional marriage 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.880 candidate until it was no longer politically until it became 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.920 politically inconvenient for then she switched of course. So it's 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.360 just a cheap shot that Booker is taking your just 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.079 a cheap shot. They knows the cameras are on and 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.120 this is gonna do. This is gonna get him on 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.040 the MSNBC highlight reel. He'll probably be on Maddow's show tonight. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.920 I'm actually gonn I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna guess, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.480 let's see, probably be on one of the MSNB She's 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.920 see shows tonight, just to take a few bows. Yeah, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.760 pummeling that that big at Pompeo who served in uniform, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.000 served as country honorably, was a great CIA director and 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.319 now wants to help the country actually be better off 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.800 around the world. Yeah that guy, go get him. This 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.640 is what we're up against with Democrats. This is the 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.080 way they play the game, as you know. Uh, so 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.280 we'll see Pompeo isn't through. He's not through the gauntlet yet. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.320 I think he will get through. But this is just classical. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.320 But they should leak that. But I really this is 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.880 you can call it buck foo, you know, instead of 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.800 kung fu they should, uh, you know, every every battle 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.200 is won before it's ever fought. That's Sun Sue. I 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.800 could do this all day. They should, uh, they should 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.400 leak that that Bannon is the next one. If you don't, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.240 if you don't give me Pompeo, we're great and they 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.200 and I want I want like vintage band and I 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.040 want big military jacket, hair down to like the small 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.240 of his back. You know, guy looks like he has 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.800 it showered in like a month, just came off a 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.040 park bench. I want him coming into the Senate hearing 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.440 room covered in old newspapers. I want that Bannon and 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.280 he's a street prowl. I look. The guys really interesting 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.400 and compelling when he talks. But that that's who they 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.679 should offer up as the replacement for Pompeio. If he 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.720 does not get through, that'll that'll get some folks in line, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.720 I think. So that's a little more on the Pompeio. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.200 Here a couple other things I wanted to get to 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.440 with this, because there's something about we haven't touched yet 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.800 on Russia and what came up today with regard to Russia, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:38.080 important confirmation, important new information from the former CI director 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.400 about Russia, that that is relevant to our discussions here. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.800 So we'll talk Russia, we come back and uh, and 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.880 then we've got to get into this. It's almost like 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.520 a countdown clock. I mean, some of the news news 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.920 organizations might have might as well as put down like 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.280 countdown to launch, because they're they're assuming, although I think 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.720 they're backing off it a little bit right now, they 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.480 are assuming that there will be a strike against Syria. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.840 I don't know any hour or any moment, I'll get 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.440 into more of why I think that's I hope that's 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.160 not the case. Uh, and we'll discuss some of all 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.280 the latest on Syria. So as always, we've got a 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.600 lot my friends on our docket here in the Freedom 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:33.480 Hunt will be right back. Well, I'm just saying. Michael Weinstein, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.880 who is a former Air Force officer who founded the 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.840 Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says that he has been seeing 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:45.840 increasing complaints from those inside the intelligence community under your leadership. So, um, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.560 I think there have been a number of concerns raised, man, ma'am, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.200 If I might please the number the number of we 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.600 call them no fear complaints. The statutory requirement decreased from 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:00.720 two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen by Buck Slab. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.600 I'm proud of that. That was like you never s 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:13.720 even to get John's actually very simple down under Pompeo's watch. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.760 Is that like a throwing star sound that we have nothing? 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.400 The buck slap is getting crazy, guys. It's like none 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.360 chucks in there. But it was a no, that's not 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.000 a boomerang. It's not Australians. No, no kung fu Australian movies. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.880 Uh or buck Foo that's a thing. I'm gonna stay 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.520 with that for a while. That's what we do on 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.440 radio buck fou um. So anyway, Pompeo, they tried to 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.040 come at him with that stuff, and they came with 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.200 the weak sauce and sure enough he slapped it down. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.560 That was Senator A. Jean Sheheen uh rhyming name is 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.640 always kind of a bold thing, you know. But Jean Sheheen, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.760 who was saying that there were more complainty Intel Community's like, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:59.440 actually down, but you're close, you're close, um and uh yeah, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.520 there's that. To keep in mind, I mentioned that we 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.639 would talk more about what is going on with the 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.639 Russia situation, and I definitely, definitely I want to do 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.199 that real quick. Let's get John from Atlanta in and 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.320 then we'll talk Russia and the hearing today on the 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.920 other side. Hey John, Hey Buck, I'm your podcast minion 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.600 from Atlanti. So I'm usually a day behind my podcast. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:28.640 What's up, John? Yeah? Oh brother, I've been upgraded. Nice. Now. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.560 I was thinking about, um, the case with Cohen and 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.240 the mission creep for lack of a better term, with 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.399 this investigation, and it would be really cool if Trump 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.879 just did a press conference and just said, look, this 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.720 has been going on for thirteen months, nothing has come 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.000 of it, and now it's going in every possible little 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.879 direction and it's getting in the way. And then he 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.000 pulls something out of the Clinton playbook and says, I've 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.399 got to get back to doing the job for the 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.719 American people. So from this moment right now, you have 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.240 forty eight hours to come up with physical evidence or 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:03.240 computer evidence or anything linking my campaign to Russian collusion 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.400 in forty eight hours time. Everyone aspired, do you think 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.080 Trump should just go? You think Trump should pull the 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.800 nuclear option here on the Mother probe. Yeah, And then 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.520 think about all like MSNBC, CB, CNN and Fox would 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.280 all have like these countdown clocks tours. I mean people 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.560 would actually be crying on air at MSNBC. There'll be 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.320 There'll be no shame over there. They would just there 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.959 would be like straight up lamentations and rending of garments, 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.560 gnashing of teeth on air at MSNBC. People. We I 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.720 think we'd actually see we'd actually see Chris Matthews just 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.879 like you know, a fifth of Johnny Walker, like right 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:44.120 there on air, like just just gone. He would freak out. Um. Anyway, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.639 thank you for calling in John Russia. What's going on 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:59.879 with it? We'll tell you after the break. He's holding 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:05.120 line for America. Buck Sexton is back. So this administration 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.160 has taken a series of actions to push back. That's 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.480 not my question. Let's start with My question is what 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.040 what behavior has the Kremlin shown that it indicates it 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:16.840 wants to get along with the United States. Is there 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.400 any gift shell? Please share it with Senator. I take 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.919 a backseat to no one with my views of the 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.760 threat that is presented to America from Russia. And if 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.199 I am confirmed as a Secretary State, I can assure 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.040 you this administration will continue, as it has for the 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.960 past fifteen month, to take real actions to push back 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:40.240 to reset the deterrence relationship with respect to Russia. Don't 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.600 let the media just slither away from this one, because 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.720 I think they're going to in the next few months. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.439 They're still going to pretend that Trump did something terrible 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.920 in the election and all. I'm not saying they're gonna 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:56.280 abandon that. But the notion that the Trump administration is 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:02.919 soft on Russia is increas saconly a talking point for 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:09.040 loons and loons only it's nuts. It is not just 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.520 an exaggeration of the facts, it is a denial of 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.840 the facts. In the other direction, Trump has gone after 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.560 Russia in his first twelve months in ways that matter. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.000 Not trying to you know, not trying to arm wrestle 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.119 Putin what he sees him at some international conference, not 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.439 going on TV and getting a panel of you know, 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.520 the fifteen analysts they have on at the same time 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.560 at sea and all go, oh, look at a strong 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.760 statement against Putin he just made. That's irrelevant, That doesn't 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:43.120 really matter. On what matters, Trump has been doing much 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:49.760 more than his predecessor did, much more. And looking at 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.640 Pompeo's role in all this, Pompeo is a Russia hawk. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.960 This is a guy who thinks Putin's bad news wants 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:00.840 to counteract and trust me, he was running the c 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.399 i A. He he knows that Russia has got gotten 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:06.800 into all kinds of bad stuff all over the world. 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.600 There's a particular and it's one that I have in 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:16.560 my own little now uh much lower down the food 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:21.119 chain way, but there's a particular uh sensibility and and 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.840 approach the world you get from being an intelligence officer, 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.159 military or civilian. You know, you see things a different 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.280 way because you're always looking at the underbelly. You're and 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.480 you're always looking for the underbelly, and you develop a 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:39.280 healthy cynicism and a useful skepticism in your approach to 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.199 international relationship. Everything. You know, all all kinds of stuff, 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.600 and Pompeio is well aware, I assure you of all 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.600 the the problems Russia's causing for US abroad. And I mean, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.720 once you start, if you dig into what the FSB 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.720 and the Federal Neus losbo bizo plas nasty, I know 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.520 that's cool, right, It's fun to say what the FSB 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.040 is up to. Uh, then you know even more that 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.920 these guys are very, very aggressive and that they are 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.600 working against us. All over the world in all kinds 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.560 of ways, including here at home. It's kind of amazing. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.840 I remember when they broke up that that spy ring 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.359 and there was the really like the really attractive Russian spy, 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.480 and I just yeah, Producer Mike's eyes just got like 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:30.200 like saucers over there. He was like, ah, but yeah, yeah, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.080 but that turned into like a tabloid story. That was 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:33.840 actually a real thing, right that that was a real 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.719 you know, this was a serious I know you know that, 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.159 but I just mean everyone's like they were just running 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.800 pictures of the of that one redhead spy all the time, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.479 the Russian in all the newspapers. But the Russians are 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.760 up to very shady stuff. So are the Chinese in 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:50.560 this country. But the Russians are up to all kinds 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.720 of shady stuff, um and and have been for a 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.640 very long time. Pompeo is aware of it. He knows 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:58.600 we have to counter and he knows how to counter it. 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.080 And I think it's interesting you you haven't had someone 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.480