Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. A melee at our
Speaker 1: southern border has people asking when are Democrats going to
Speaker 1: finally admit that we need border security? Looks like it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be anytime soon. The shutdown continues. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that. Plus Mitt Romney with a shot across the
Speaker 1: bow of the Trump administration and an op ed what
Speaker 1: is MIT thinking? That are more coming up on The
Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where
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Speaker 1: Just almost at three am in the morning, about one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty undocumented migrants quite violently engaged our border
Speaker 1: patrol agents. They breached the border fence. There they were
Speaker 1: in higher ground based on just the layout of the area. There.
Speaker 1: They were up upon a hill just over on the
Speaker 1: other side of that fence, moving women and children ahead
Speaker 1: of them, wrapped in blankets, trying to bring them over
Speaker 1: concertina wire that we had laid beyond the fence on
Speaker 1: the US side. And as our border patrol agents went
Speaker 1: down to try to not just apprehend the women and children,
Speaker 1: but a system so that they would not be injured
Speaker 1: by the wire. The migrants on the other side began
Speaker 1: hurling rocks and throwing rocks at our agents and also
Speaker 1: putting the migrants at peril as well. That's when they deployed.
Speaker 1: The non lethal uses of force dispersed that group and
Speaker 1: ultimately most of them did head back into Mexico. About
Speaker 1: two dozen or so were ultimately apprehended by our agent.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Saxton Show, everybody. I am back.
Speaker 1: I am so happy to be here with you. After
Speaker 1: a break, we'll talk more about this later on in
Speaker 1: the show. I want, I want to get right to it.
Speaker 1: I missed you all, but I missed doing this show,
Speaker 1: so let let me not stand on ceremony. There you
Speaker 1: had Customs and Border Patrol Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez saying,
Speaker 1: look what happened right around Christmas time. What happened at
Speaker 1: the border was a multi pronged incident, an effort to
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm sorry on New Year's desk, said Christmas
Speaker 1: right around New Year's not Christmas. This coordinated effort to
Speaker 1: overrun a sector of our southern border to assault police
Speaker 1: officers and to engage in this kind of aggressive lawlessness.
Speaker 1: You know, those who say it's not an invasion. I
Speaker 1: just want to know, what do you call a coordinated
Speaker 1: breach of a law enforcement barrier using projectiles and you know,
Speaker 1: various tactics of of disorientation against our law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1: What do we call that? Does anyone, anyone have any
Speaker 1: any idea? It's not showing up at a port of
Speaker 1: entry and saying, hey, I'd like to be an American.
Speaker 1: It's not that. It's certainly not going through our legal
Speaker 1: immigration process and showing your respect for this country. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the important things about being an immigrant is
Speaker 1: showing that you respect the laws of this country. You
Speaker 1: want to become a part of it. And if you
Speaker 1: want to become a part of the American family, that's great.
Speaker 1: There's the right way to do it, though, and only
Speaker 1: one political party cares at all about this anymore. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Democrats have a ban and they are they are
Speaker 1: complete frauds when it comes to border security, outright frauds.
Speaker 1: And Trump has done the right thing by pushing us
Speaker 1: into this shutdown. At least we're now having the fight
Speaker 1: at least we're going to have this debate publicly and
Speaker 1: we can see what a bunch of scheming, lying, hypocritical
Speaker 1: hyenas Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the open
Speaker 1: borders Democrat gang really are that The reporting on this,
Speaker 1: of course, focused on how these migrants were exposed to
Speaker 1: tier guys. Oh they're exposed to tier guys. How could
Speaker 1: anyone do anything so terrible? I'm glad that Border Patrol
Speaker 1: agent Rodney Scott wasn't going to just sit there and
Speaker 1: let this get said about the men of men and
Speaker 1: women of Border Patrol who are doing a difficult job
Speaker 1: and a very necessary one play clip two. Our agents
Speaker 1: responded with the least amount of force they possibly could
Speaker 1: to protect themselves in the border, and did actually secure
Speaker 1: the border in this area. One agent was hit in
Speaker 1: a square the face of the rock. Luckily he had
Speaker 1: his helmet and shield on and was not seriously injured,
Speaker 1: but the violence associated that Caerevanes continued, what would the
Speaker 1: open borders cowardly leftist dems like our border patrol to do?
Speaker 1: You know? I would like to ask them, I mean
Speaker 1: I would like to put them maybe through through an
Speaker 1: experiment here. What do they think would happen if if
Speaker 1: a normal American, any American anywhere in the country, walked,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty or thirty paces away from just a cop,
Speaker 1: any law enforcement officer, and through a rock, you know,
Speaker 1: a good be a big chunk of stone at the
Speaker 1: face of that law enforcement officer. Does anyone think that
Speaker 1: that person would get off, first of all, a lot
Speaker 1: worse than tear gas. I mean, if that officer catches
Speaker 1: up to that person and has you know, their their
Speaker 1: baton out. I mean they're going to go to work,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so this person's obviously now a threat try
Speaker 1: to hurt you. So if you close that distance between them,
Speaker 1: and you know, between the rock thrower and the officer,
Speaker 1: you know, officers got gotta take care of that threat.
Speaker 1: You get hit in the face with a rock, could
Speaker 1: knock you out, knock your teeth out, disfigure you give
Speaker 1: you a concussion, could kill you. It could kill you.
Speaker 1: And think of the mentality of people who want to
Speaker 1: come into America and would take an action against our
Speaker 1: law enforcement officers on the border that no American in
Speaker 1: his right mind would ever do on us soil. And
Speaker 1: I know, I know a lot, a lot of folks
Speaker 1: out there that you know, I have all kinds of
Speaker 1: different ideologies and notions about, you know, how they should
Speaker 1: interact with the cops. And I can tell you this,
Speaker 1: No no one thinks that they're going to be able
Speaker 1: to throw a rock at a cop without their being consequences.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody thinks that that's a situation that should
Speaker 1: be allowed, should be allowed to happen. I mean, just
Speaker 1: think of that mentality. And yet you know, here we are, here,
Speaker 1: we are with people that are trying to cross that
Speaker 1: our southern border of throwing rocks at officers and showing
Speaker 1: such blatant, just gross disrespect for our men and women
Speaker 1: in uniform. I like to remind you of this because
Speaker 1: I don't think it's nearly enough play. About a third
Speaker 1: of border patrol is comprised of veterans, A big percentage
Speaker 1: of border patrol or actually minority in particularly Latino American.
Speaker 1: And these are the people on the front lines who
Speaker 1: are getting rocks thrown at them. We're being told that
Speaker 1: who are being told that they're they're responsible for, you know,
Speaker 1: killing killing children at the border because they their face
Speaker 1: with this inundation. I mean, this this flood of people
Speaker 1: and this all stretches back to Obama and Democrat activists
Speaker 1: and the left promoting this idea of yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: come come to the border, come to the border. Here's how,
Speaker 1: here's when. Yeah. Obama, sure, he said we don't come
Speaker 1: to the border, and then he made sure that they
Speaker 1: would come to the border. Don't come to the border,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna make sure if you get here you
Speaker 1: can stay. Don't come to the border. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you do get here, your the rest of your
Speaker 1: family gets to stay too. You know, we'll do DOC,
Speaker 1: We'll do DAPPA, We'll do all these different executive authority
Speaker 1: based programs. Forget about the law, forget about Congress, the constitution.
Speaker 1: Democrats want this. They want this, and you know that
Speaker 1: there's a problem because they won't own up to the
Speaker 1: fact that this is what they want. They can't be
Speaker 1: honest with the American people about where they stand on
Speaker 1: the border. Tom Homan, who was ICE acting ICE Director,
Speaker 1: I've talked to him numerous times about about all these issues.
Speaker 1: You know, he's somebody who who really gets it on
Speaker 1: what we need to do. I mean, the border is
Speaker 1: in a crisis right now. We are having we are
Speaker 1: having riots, at our southern border of people who claim
Speaker 1: they want to come into this country. And notice how
Speaker 1: they're trying to overrun certain areas. Almost like you can
Speaker 1: have a more secure or less secure border based upon
Speaker 1: the resources and yes, the physical barriers present in that area.
Speaker 1: But home In had this to say about this, the
Speaker 1: rock throwing. He knows there's going to be more, and
Speaker 1: he knows it's going to get worse. Play three. If
Speaker 1: these illegal amiads are throwing stones everywhere, I think the
Speaker 1: use of tear gases, I'm an amused force necessary to
Speaker 1: protect themselves. I mean, and it's going to happen again.
Speaker 1: This is the second time it's happened. It's going to
Speaker 1: happen again. There's chaos in that border which the Democrats
Speaker 1: don't seem to grasp, and meanwhile the President is trying
Speaker 1: to get a fix for the border. Democrats all for nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, they say the border was ineffective border barrier.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the data data speak for yourself.
Speaker 1: Every place they had built a barrier, illeig immigration has decreased,
Speaker 1: that's a fact. Every place they built one percent effective.
Speaker 1: And as far as the cost of the wall, there
Speaker 1: will be offset quickly. In amount of money we will
Speaker 1: saving immigration detention, immigration courts, the cost of so social
Speaker 1: services to illegal aliens in this country, and the US
Speaker 1: citizen born children. If you look at the costs of
Speaker 1: illig immigration, it's aid over one hundred billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1: That is a fraction of what the president's asking for.
Speaker 1: So I truly believe the Democratic leadership understands this, but
Speaker 1: they're putting their political ambitions, their hatred for this Trump administration.
Speaker 1: They don't want to give this president a win at
Speaker 1: the expense of the safety of American people. I truly
Speaker 1: believe that. I think everything that Tom's saying there is accurate,
Speaker 1: and I would add to it. Democrats see this is
Speaker 1: the only issue they have to win on, and then
Speaker 1: they went on all the other issues. This illegal immigration
Speaker 1: is their pathway to a permanent political majority, their pathway
Speaker 1: to a one party state in this country, and that
Speaker 1: means that it takes precedence over everything else. How else
Speaker 1: can you explain how we spend so much time arguing
Speaker 1: with Democrats over the rights of people who aren't even Americans,
Speaker 1: who aren't even supposed to be here. Now, Democrats, oh many,
Speaker 1: they just all they want to talk about is illegal aliens,
Speaker 1: how we need to do more for legal aliens, bring
Speaker 1: more and don't call them illegal aliens, call them undocumented, DOCA, DABA,
Speaker 1: all these different programs. This is their their primary focus,
Speaker 1: you know, not dealing with the debt and deficit, not
Speaker 1: veteran homelessness, not you know, reforming our healthcare delivery systems
Speaker 1: in meaningful ways. You know, none of that, No, nothing
Speaker 1: that's going to affect Americans. They are first and foremost
Speaker 1: concerned with what they can do to help non Americans.
Speaker 1: And they wonder why there's a backlash against the elites.
Speaker 1: They wonder why we don't really trust them. And Homan's
Speaker 1: point one that I make regularly on this show, and
Speaker 1: it's important because you know, I need to say it,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of you need to hear it,
Speaker 1: because the mainstream media is just making it up as
Speaker 1: they go along on this Walls work. Of course they work.
Speaker 1: You are being lied to, and I know you know it,
Speaker 1: but it's easy to get numb to it. It's easy
Speaker 1: to become numb over time to the media's misrepresentations, to
Speaker 1: the falsehoods that they peddle about immigration, most notably on
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of a wall. You just you keep hearing it,
Speaker 1: and you know, look, I find myself occasionally I'll just
Speaker 1: blurt out, yeah, what are we doing about the undocumented?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that I just say that. It's not
Speaker 1: that I want to it's they say it. They keep
Speaker 1: repeating it. The mere repetition, the propaganda has an effect,
Speaker 1: and they keep telling you a wall that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: After a while you start to think, well, I guess
Speaker 1: there must be a question about walls work. Bullcrap. Walls work, obviously.
Speaker 1: And here's the fear. The Democrats have the American people,
Speaker 1: at least a strong majority of us, you know, the
Speaker 1: the sixty or seventy percent of us who at least
Speaker 1: can still be reasonable on some issues. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: about half of us are reasonable on most issues Republicans,
Speaker 1: and then there's maybe about sixty to sixty five percent
Speaker 1: of us who when it's really clear, we still kind.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately this you know, thirty to forty percent of
Speaker 1: the country is just wacko on their politics. Just they've
Speaker 1: bought all this nonsense and we're never going to be
Speaker 1: able to bring them back into reality. But for those
Speaker 1: of us that do operate in reality and want to
Speaker 1: be want to be correct something. We want to be right.
Speaker 1: Oh I was right, I was right. No, No, I
Speaker 1: want to be correct. I want the positions that I'm
Speaker 1: supporting to be the ones that have the out that
Speaker 1: bring the outcomes that I want, that have the intended effect.
Speaker 1: And a wall would be one of the great slapdowns
Speaker 1: of a Democrat lie of all time, because they once
Speaker 1: once it's up, and the numbers won't lie. You know,
Speaker 1: once it's up, we'll see that they've just been They've
Speaker 1: been clowning themselves on this one because there's both a
Speaker 1: thirst for power that drives a lot of this. They
Speaker 1: know if they keep the border open, and they keep
Speaker 1: this issue for reasons of identity politics and enlarging the
Speaker 1: state and pulling us apart as a as an American
Speaker 1: community that has shared values when it comes to respect
Speaker 1: for rule of law. And they're excited by all that,
Speaker 1: and they're also concerned. I'm not concerned that this is
Speaker 1: going to keep going. They love that it's happening. They're
Speaker 1: concerned that we may actually be able to end this
Speaker 1: scam because that's when the accountability kicks in, when we
Speaker 1: see how they've been lying on them. This is why
Speaker 1: the fight right now, the shutdown, this is necessary. This
Speaker 1: has to happen. You know, I wanted to happen when
Speaker 1: I thought Trump wasn't going through with it, those who
Speaker 1: listen to the the show, No, I was, you know what,
Speaker 1: off about it. I was mad. And the President's going
Speaker 1: He's going to the mount of this one and he's fighting.
Speaker 1: I hope he stays. I hope he does not cave.
Speaker 1: I'm still worried that he will. But so far, I
Speaker 1: gotta give credit where it's due, and he is fighting
Speaker 1: this fight. And man, it is gonna get uglier and
Speaker 1: uglier in the days ahead. I mean, they are gonna
Speaker 1: do everything they can because from there, from the left's perspective,
Speaker 1: the Democrats, if they can hold Trump off on this one,
Speaker 1: if they can withstand the pressure and finally have Republicans
Speaker 1: walk away with nothing. We're talking about five billion dollars. Mean,
Speaker 1: this should be easy, right walk away with nothing. It
Speaker 1: will just create a momentum for all of the most
Speaker 1: anti Trump lunatics going into the investigations and the hearings
Speaker 1: and the over all the stuff that we know is coming.
Speaker 1: I mean this year, man, I'm glad to have all
Speaker 1: of you, because this year is going to be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be rough in that regard. We're gonna be playing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be playing a lot of defense, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of shields eye for real coming up
Speaker 1: this year, so get ready for it. We get a
Speaker 1: lot more show. It is so good to be back
Speaker 1: here with you. I honestly missed it and I'm not
Speaker 1: going anywhere for a long time, so stick with me.
Speaker 1: I'll your back. It's so ridiculous. This is a system
Speaker 1: that we have, and nobody pointed it out until we
Speaker 1: came a law. So you end up in a court
Speaker 1: case to tell somebody normally it's like, hey, you're on
Speaker 1: our land, we don't want you, and you have to
Speaker 1: come through legally get out. So we catch, we do paperwork,
Speaker 1: we bring him to court. You could never have enough
Speaker 1: judges because you're talking about thousands, tens of thousands of people.
Speaker 1: You end up in trials, but the trials don't take
Speaker 1: place because what they have to do, because it's impossible
Speaker 1: to hold all of it. This is by law. This
Speaker 1: is by these idiotic laws given to us by largely
Speaker 1: by the Democrats, mostly by the Democrats, that we can
Speaker 1: change in one hour if people got together. These laws
Speaker 1: that Trump is talking about immigration laws, He's right, they're dumb,
Speaker 1: they're not working. They are invitations to abuse and bureaucratic
Speaker 1: inertia and fraud. And he's totally right, which is why
Speaker 1: a wall is just one step, a necessary one, but
Speaker 1: one step toward dealing with our legal immigration problem, one
Speaker 1: step in the process. You know, we also need a
Speaker 1: more streamlined process to deal with those who want asylum.
Speaker 1: We need to clamp down on all the fraud that
Speaker 1: goes on in people saying that they are have a
Speaker 1: credible fear for just being you know, Honduran. We need
Speaker 1: to get e verified. We need workplace enforcement, we need
Speaker 1: to end sanctuary cities. I mean, there's this whole laundry
Speaker 1: list of very important things, and that's why I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, if we can't get the wall, you start
Speaker 1: to wonder what's the point. I mean, if we can't
Speaker 1: even get that front line. You know, this is like
Speaker 1: saying I want I want you to have to secure
Speaker 1: a home. Let's put a lock on your front door.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I don't want a security system. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to, you know, have a weapon for
Speaker 1: home defense, preferably a firearm, maybe a shotgun, depends on
Speaker 1: what you want. You know, I want you to have
Speaker 1: all those things too. But let's start with a lock
Speaker 1: on your door. Right the wall is the lock on
Speaker 1: the door. If we can't get that, you have to
Speaker 1: wonder what do we even do about the rest of
Speaker 1: That's why this issue is so important, and yes it
Speaker 1: is worth a shutdown. I'll get more into that, and
Speaker 1: I'll also talk about this Romney Trump feud. I don't
Speaker 1: find it as interesting. I think the media is gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just a chance in the trash Trump's Oh
Speaker 1: look a Republican doesn't like Trump. I'll give you some
Speaker 1: some of my thoughts on that. There is an interesting
Speaker 1: foreign policy angle to it that I think you'll definitely
Speaker 1: want to hear. And then I've got a big third
Speaker 1: hour coming to tell you about the whole vacation. So well,
Speaker 1: it's a twelve days of Christmas we've had concluding the day,
Speaker 1: twelve days of a government shut down. He is desperate
Speaker 1: because he fears the Mull investigation. This serves as a
Speaker 1: distraction and Jan's up base that. Frankly, Chris doesn't like
Speaker 1: the federal government anyway. They could care less. His basically
Speaker 1: care less if the government is open. But think about
Speaker 1: this in terms of this wall. We just celebrated Christmas,
Speaker 1: or at least try to federal workers. I was reading
Speaker 1: online Time magazine to the piece some federal workers who
Speaker 1: aren't getting paychecks are having to return to Christmas gifts, okay,
Speaker 1: having to seek second jobs. Get ready for it. An
Speaker 1: endless stream of shutdown emotion theater is coming your way.
Speaker 1: You are going to hear all kinds of new stories about,
Speaker 1: you know, how this family couldn't you know this family
Speaker 1: because one of them are you know, the head of
Speaker 1: households of federal government employee. Couldn't get this mortgage they
Speaker 1: applied for that family, you know, couldn't afford little Timmy's braces.
Speaker 1: You know all these things, And I understand, I get it,
Speaker 1: you get it to that stinks. But I also know,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I feel for those people. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean that I'm not mocking their problems. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying the media is going to exploit their problems.
Speaker 1: Right now, the media's going to exploit the gap in
Speaker 1: pay it. And I would also note that, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to live in a country, or rather,
Speaker 1: we don't necessarily live in a country where we should
Speaker 1: expect it. If you work for the federal government, you
Speaker 1: are essentially unfireable and never miss a paycheck, which is
Speaker 1: the that is the expectation. I mean, you're not entirely
Speaker 1: you know, you can't break the law. I mean there's one,
Speaker 1: but generally, if you get a federal government job, you
Speaker 1: expect to have it for life and never miss a
Speaker 1: paycheck a pay period, which is not a luxury that
Speaker 1: the rest of the workforce gets at all. And I
Speaker 1: have been to, you know, been to offices on many
Speaker 1: a day where a lot of my friends and colleagues
Speaker 1: were told you no longer have a paycheck, and you
Speaker 1: longer you no longer have healthcare. And I've been there
Speaker 1: for those conversations. I've been there when that happens. That
Speaker 1: is not fun. I've been there one n told I
Speaker 1: don't longer have a job. So you know, there are limits.
Speaker 1: I think to how far people sympathy here will go
Speaker 1: for those folks who are that doesn't mean there should
Speaker 1: be no sympathy. I'm not trying to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a grinch jerk here, but they're going to really play
Speaker 1: this game, how the Democrats are going to just try
Speaker 1: to make this all about a SOB story. And I
Speaker 1: would offer this as the shutdown showdown continues on. There
Speaker 1: are very real economic and security and safety reasons why
Speaker 1: we need a more secure border. This is not without
Speaker 1: major costs, without major consequence. There are people who are
Speaker 1: losing their lives because the federal government cannot secure the
Speaker 1: border effectively. You know. There there was this incident that
Speaker 1: just happened with police corporal Ronald Singh over the bread
Speaker 1: I mean, just heartbreaking. And what we find out is
Speaker 1: that Gustavo Perez Ariaga was in the country illegally, had
Speaker 1: previous arrests, and is now in custody, you know, for
Speaker 1: allegedly killing this corporal Ronald Singh in California after a
Speaker 1: two day long manhunt. Now, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons that this is enraging. One of them is that
Speaker 1: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says that they have had no
Speaker 1: contact with this illegal immigrant. Okay, they have had no
Speaker 1: contact with them. How is that possible, Well, it's only
Speaker 1: possible because of the sanctuary city policy of the state
Speaker 1: of California, as well as all the cities of California
Speaker 1: that tries to actively stemy, I mean, tries to prevent
Speaker 1: law enforcement from effectively doing their jobs. That's what's going
Speaker 1: on here. That is why you could have somebody like this,
Speaker 1: who's this I mean, this guy is a criminal. This
Speaker 1: guy is a criminal. I'm by the way, I'm happy
Speaker 1: to see that seven other people have been charged with
Speaker 1: aiding this guy, this scum perez Ariaga for killing Corporal
Speaker 1: sing you know, I mean, here we have It's such
Speaker 1: an interesting story, isn't you have? Corporal sing A, a
Speaker 1: legal immigrant to this country. He immigrated from Fiji, always
Speaker 1: dreamed of becoming a police officer. He had a five
Speaker 1: month old son, and he joined the police force in Newman,
Speaker 1: California in twenty eleven. I mean, this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: this is who we want in the country. You know,
Speaker 1: I want corporal I want Corporal sings. I want people
Speaker 1: that obey the law, that take real responsibility for themselves
Speaker 1: their communities into their hands, that want to contribute, that
Speaker 1: want to be great Americans. I do not want Perez Ariaga,
Speaker 1: who's in the country illegally with a long rap sheet
Speaker 1: and now as a murderer. Okay, that's who we don't want,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm also important now. I bring this
Speaker 1: up because, yes, federal government employees in this shutdown are hurting,
Speaker 1: and I get that. But seventy thousand plus people ear
Speaker 1: are dying dying from opioid overdoses that are primarily that
Speaker 1: are primarily supplied by these drug cartels. How many thousands
Speaker 1: of people have been in the last five years assaulted, raped, murdered,
Speaker 1: been hit by a drunk driver illegal all from the
Speaker 1: illegal aliens in the country. How many thousands of people
Speaker 1: have suffered life altering or life ending incidents because of
Speaker 1: illegal aliens in the country. Once you start, you know
Speaker 1: this is what government's all about. It's about making difficult decisions.
Speaker 1: It's about weighing the benefits and the costs of different policies.
Speaker 1: This idea that somehow we're going to be able to
Speaker 1: get a border wall with an intransigent open borders radical
Speaker 1: left wing Democrat party without a real fight is a fantasy.
Speaker 1: They want the status quote to continue. They want a
Speaker 1: border that allows people who are not criminal masterminds far
Speaker 1: from it, to be deported and get back into the country.
Speaker 1: Five six, seven, ten times. Who knows they want sanctuary
Speaker 1: city policies to continue only in this area, only in
Speaker 1: this area of our law. Is there such a clear
Speaker 1: and obvious double standard. In fact, if you look at
Speaker 1: in a California, it's a really interesting case. And I'll
Speaker 1: talk more about Victor Davis Hansen later on this hour
Speaker 1: and an article that I read that he wrote, I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you about it. But how you know, California
Speaker 1: is essentially this the hyper nanny state with all kinds
Speaker 1: of regulations and environmental protections that everything. But if you
Speaker 1: go into illegal immigrant communities, you're you're you're able either
Speaker 1: people are able to have all kinds of trash on
Speaker 1: their lawn, They're able to park you know, campers in
Speaker 1: their backyard that don't have a permit, and you know,
Speaker 1: all that stuff goes out the window, all that stuff
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is I you know, we can't
Speaker 1: really enforce that, you know, because we're not We're not
Speaker 1: going to burden this community with the crazy laws or
Speaker 1: even the sensible laws of you know, the rest of California.
Speaker 1: I mean, there there are there's a two track legal
Speaker 1: system in place for illegal immigrates for their benefit, and
Speaker 1: the whole situation needs to be reassessed and looked at again. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll have more for you on this right after the break.
Speaker 1: They'll stay with me. Wall is effective, it's a crucial
Speaker 1: part of any kind of border security. Typical argument we
Speaker 1: hear from Democrats that it doesn't make sense, it's too expensive,
Speaker 1: it's medieval. Wait, you know, I'd like to hear some
Speaker 1: reasoning behind that. It's not too expensive. It's point one
Speaker 1: percent of our entire federal budget. Point one percent is
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. That's what five billion dollars ends
Speaker 1: up being. So it's really not about the money for them. Well,
Speaker 1: the president's not willing to compromise on or the outcomes.
Speaker 1: I think he's willing to negotiate inputs, whether it's more
Speaker 1: or less wall, more or less fencing, or slats or
Speaker 1: drones or technology. What he's not going to compromise on
Speaker 1: is the safety of the American family or the protection
Speaker 1: of the American economy. That's needed by ensuring that we
Speaker 1: don't just have flows and flows of illegal immigration with
Speaker 1: no ability to manage it, or ensure that it is
Speaker 1: economically beneficial to American citizens. So look, I know who
Speaker 1: the President is negotiating for. I don't really know who
Speaker 1: Democrats are negotiating. Are they really negotiating for illegal immigrants?
Speaker 1: During the final days of Republican control of the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives, we passed a plan that would have kept
Speaker 1: the government open and would have prioritized the safety, security,
Speaker 1: and mc well being of American citizens. So, if Nancy
Speaker 1: and Pelosian Democrats really believe in border security, if they
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we are a nation of laws,
Speaker 1: I'm eager to see their plan. Yeah, what are the
Speaker 1: Democrats really angling for it here? You know, it's worth
Speaker 1: asking that question. Sure that they oppose Trump because they
Speaker 1: just have to, in their eyes, oppose everything Trump does,
Speaker 1: right hashtag resistance. Okay, but the argument doesn't hold up.
Speaker 1: The argument they're making is nonsensible. First of all, as
Speaker 1: we know Democrats before this, the only issue that they
Speaker 1: ever wanted to cut any spending on was the military,
Speaker 1: which is one of the few things the federal government
Speaker 1: does that it really need to do and it's the
Speaker 1: only thing that can do it. So military spending they're
Speaker 1: willing to cut. But when it comes to securing our border,
Speaker 1: then all of us sudden, we find ourselves in this
Speaker 1: position where the Ocrats are cost conscious, their pinching pennies
Speaker 1: when it comes to the border. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: This is not a hard people today. I had a
Speaker 1: representative from the federal government federal government employee union come
Speaker 1: on on rising and I asked her she I don't
Speaker 1: think she was prickly fond about told her I used
Speaker 1: to work for the federal government. That didn't help. I
Speaker 1: was an essential employee, so I was funded, didn't matter.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to worry about these things. But I
Speaker 1: told her that, or I asked her, rather, you know,
Speaker 1: why should we even have unions representing the federal government workforce?
Speaker 1: And she looked at me like that was like I
Speaker 1: had three heads, like I was some space alien. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know that at the dawn of unions
Speaker 1: in this country, no less than and then FDR was like,
Speaker 1: I mean public sector unions, that would be crazy. We
Speaker 1: don't need that. That's just going to be essentially a
Speaker 1: legalized form of political theft, you know, corruption and theft
Speaker 1: from the town payer. And that's what it is. By
Speaker 1: the way, that's why you have so many states and
Speaker 1: municipalities that can't balance They can't balance their budgets because
Speaker 1: of the the can the reality of these public sector unions,
Speaker 1: that especially when it comes to benefits and pension plans,
Speaker 1: that's where the real that's where the real juices. They
Speaker 1: just put as much into them as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: It helps Democrats get elected, and it creates this self
Speaker 1: looking ice cream cone of tax tax the taxpayer more
Speaker 1: and take more money for you know, whether it's teachers
Speaker 1: or firemen or whomever. And then they organize and those
Speaker 1: unions push for those Democrats and it just keeps going
Speaker 1: around and around their round. That's why we don't want this.
Speaker 1: But you know, I understand that there are federal government
Speaker 1: employees that are being negatively affected by that's putting aside
Speaker 1: the union point for a moment. They're being negatively impacted,
Speaker 1: and that's that's unfortunate. You know, they didn't do any wrong,
Speaker 1: and many of them are doing their jobs, you know, honorably,
Speaker 1: even valiantly in the case of say border patrol, and
Speaker 1: not getting paid on time or not getting their full pay.
Speaker 1: And I believe they will get back pay. But there's
Speaker 1: there's some some issues here. And the federal government spends
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars and we're now going
Speaker 1: to be we're being told that this five billion dollars
Speaker 1: for the border is too much. Sure, the President has
Speaker 1: taken responsibility for the shutdown. I know that that's that's
Speaker 1: something that is being repeated on all the different news
Speaker 1: broadcast and it's true the press he said it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't unsay something on the president's behalf. I can't
Speaker 1: say that he did not make a very clear statement
Speaker 1: of I am responsible, not me. Well, that would be
Speaker 1: kind of cool, buck Sexton. Shutdown the government. No, No,
Speaker 1: President Trump is responsible for the shutdown. But the shutdown
Speaker 1: is happening. You know, you get you get down to
Speaker 1: how can you be responsible for this when all you're
Speaker 1: really saying is go with what the House bill is,
Speaker 1: Fund this, fund this effort to secure the border with
Speaker 1: the wall. As I've said to you, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not just that they don't want to give into Trump.
Speaker 1: Well that's i'd say sixty or seventy percent of why
Speaker 1: they don't want because they just can't give Trump the wind.
Speaker 1: They can't let Trump keep faith with his base and deliver.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's already keeping faith with his base by fighting,
Speaker 1: but if he delivers on this promise of the wall.
Speaker 1: Then we're in a hole. Then we're in a whole
Speaker 1: different territory in terms of twenty twenty and the president's
Speaker 1: prospects for reelection, right, I think he's a lock. He
Speaker 1: is ironclad if he manages to get this wall built
Speaker 1: in part even. But then there's the other component, which
Speaker 1: is if they if they start to build a wall
Speaker 1: in you know, they can do it the way we
Speaker 1: have it at the San Ya Cedro port of entry.
Speaker 1: You know, Tijuana had a few thousands Tijuana, as you've
Speaker 1: told me, many of you listen to show tell me,
Speaker 1: stop say Tijuana. Tijuana had over two thousand murders last year.
Speaker 1: I think was approaching three thousand. Has more murders than
Speaker 1: like the top ten US cities combined one Mexican city
Speaker 1: last year. It's a lot of rough stuff going on
Speaker 1: over there, and the drug war going on in Tijuana
Speaker 1: on the Baja Peninsula. But I digress. They could build
Speaker 1: a wall in one sector where there's a high level
Speaker 1: of illegal crossings, where there is road access and an
Speaker 1: urban or semi urban area that really needs a wall
Speaker 1: to short up. And then when they would be able
Speaker 1: to show us in three or six or nine months,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. After that barrier goes up, the precipitous
Speaker 1: drop in illegal crossings, which includes human smuggling, drug smuggling,
Speaker 1: all the other things that the other criminal activity that's
Speaker 1: around illegal crossings of the border, Then what's the Democratic argument,
Speaker 1: We're not going to spend money on this because we
Speaker 1: don't want the border to be secured. Because that's the
Speaker 1: truth of it. They don't want the border to be secure.
Speaker 1: They want the illegals to keep pouring in. They know
Speaker 1: that it puts pressure on the GOP. They know that
Speaker 1: the demographic realities of the United States are being shifted
Speaker 1: in dramatic and rapid fashion toward a permanent Democrat Party majority.
Speaker 1: And this is not not surprising at all that immigrants,
Speaker 1: never mind, the identity politics at the left plays with
Speaker 1: anybody that's considered non a you know, a non white
Speaker 1: or a what is it white, non hispanic, right, anyone
Speaker 1: who's not a white, non hispanic. And then also the
Speaker 1: needs that people have for state assistance, and that's just
Speaker 1: going to keep going up and up and up. And
Speaker 1: there's only one political party that has no qualms at
Speaker 1: all about being the party of big government and a
Speaker 1: big state and that is the Democratic Party, so they
Speaker 1: win on this. I would just note that there's an
Speaker 1: excellent Victor Davis Hansen piece, you guys. You guys all
Speaker 1: know that I really like VDH. But you know, he
Speaker 1: wrote on California, and it's really by the numbers, and
Speaker 1: I think I think it's a new piece. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's an old one that I saw. But he
Speaker 1: just says that this place is maybe it wasn't old
Speaker 1: piece I saw. Well, he lays it on it. He
Speaker 1: writes about California all the time. He's just saying it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's turning into like a Latin American
Speaker 1: stratified society. Latin American in the sense that it's similar
Speaker 1: to Brazil or any of these countries where the wealth
Speaker 1: gap is enormous, enormous between the rich and the poor,
Speaker 1: and the poor completely dependent on the large esse of
Speaker 1: the rich and there's no middle class. That's what's happening
Speaker 1: in California. But all right, we got to talk about
Speaker 1: this Romney Trump feud that dominated the headlines today. I'll
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Speaker 1: your first year. There's plenty of evidence that mister Trump
Speaker 1: is a con man, a fake. He's playing the members
Speaker 1: of the American public for suckers. He gets a free
Speaker 1: ride of the White House and all we get as
Speaker 1: allow as he had. Mit is a failed candidate. He failed,
Speaker 1: He failed horribly. That was a race that absolutely should
Speaker 1: have been one, and I don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 1: He creates scapegoats and Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls
Speaker 1: for the use of torture. This is the very brand
Speaker 1: of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.
Speaker 1: Portman Romney putman, I mean, I have a store that's
Speaker 1: worth more money than he is. Donald Trump is a phony,
Speaker 1: a fraud because promises are as worthless as a degree
Speaker 1: from Trump University. And he walks like a penguin onto
Speaker 1: the stage. You haven't seen like a penguin. So mid
Speaker 1: Romney and Donald Trump are not bf fine, we don't
Speaker 1: need them to be. We don't care. That doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: Mid Romney and Donald Trump don't have to get along,
Speaker 1: they don't have to like each other. But they are
Speaker 1: supposed to be playing for the same team. They are
Speaker 1: supposed to be aligned when it comes to policy and
Speaker 1: implementing a conservative vision for the United States and quite honestly,
Speaker 1: saving this country from falling into the progressive abyss from
Speaker 1: which it will never recover. That's what they should be
Speaker 1: United on and Mit Rammy just won this Senate race
Speaker 1: out in Utah. And I won't try to psychoanalyze too
Speaker 1: much what really motivates Mit at this point other than
Speaker 1: you know, he ran for president, he was governor of Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Now he's going to be a centator from Utah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, America doesn't need Mitt Romney. Look, I think
Speaker 1: Mit Romney would have been I'm on record for this.
Speaker 1: I think he would have been a good president, a
Speaker 1: lot better than Obama. I think he's I think he's
Speaker 1: a pretty ethical guy. He's obviously led an admirable family life,
Speaker 1: and he's been successful in business. And I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot about he's smart, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot about Mitt Romney that's good. He's great immigration, by
Speaker 1: the way, And I'm not going to just abandon that
Speaker 1: because right now he's interfewed with Trump. Mitt was good
Speaker 1: on immigration back in twenty twelve. Mit was a big,
Speaker 1: e verified guy. Look, these are just facts. Mitt was
Speaker 1: the self deportation guy. He knows he knows because he
Speaker 1: actually has an understanding of wages in business and how
Speaker 1: a balance sheet works. That, yeah, it hurts low wage
Speaker 1: workers to have just to have all this unskilled, non
Speaker 1: English speaking labor dumped on the country, you know. And
Speaker 1: it hurts the taxpayer too. He knows this. Anybody knows this,
Speaker 1: who thinks about it, even though they are all these
Speaker 1: think tanks. There's a huge open borders industrial complex that
Speaker 1: is telling so much, so many lives. And one of
Speaker 1: my favorites is, oh, well, immigrants, just add to GDP. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like saying, you know, more bodies in your house
Speaker 1: means more mouths to feed, so you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: buy more food. Okay, sure, But is that a good thing?
Speaker 1: What about? Yeah? GDP is good in that there's more
Speaker 1: stuff going on, But what is the downside of that
Speaker 1: added GDP? What are we paying out in tax dollars?
Speaker 1: What does it mean for our social and political fabric
Speaker 1: and for the assimilation processes we have? Oh, just adds
Speaker 1: to GDP. As you know that, this gets me very
Speaker 1: fired up, and I don't want to go too deep
Speaker 1: down this this rabbit hole. But Mitt was good on immigration,
Speaker 1: but he is bad on Trump as you just heard there.
Speaker 1: And his first major public act here at is January first.
Speaker 1: This is published the first day of the new year.
Speaker 1: And so this was planned in advance, and Mit is Look,
Speaker 1: I think MIT's running. Let's just get right to it.
Speaker 1: Let let's call it what it is. I think Mit
Speaker 1: is trying to prepare the groundwork for, you know, for
Speaker 1: him to run as a primary challenger against Trump, and
Speaker 1: he'll just he'll get he'll get crushed. And if he
Speaker 1: doesn't get crushed, and let's just say that he runs
Speaker 1: a run some third party candidacy, you know, it goes
Speaker 1: kind of the Ross Pero angle. He's just going to
Speaker 1: hand the presidency to the Democrats? Is that really? You know,
Speaker 1: you start to wonder at what point do the results
Speaker 1: just not matter to the never trumpers because they're so
Speaker 1: in love with their own sense of righteousness and their
Speaker 1: need to be right. At what point is it clear
Speaker 1: that the results just don't matter to them? And when
Speaker 1: I say results, I'm talking with things like do you
Speaker 1: want Do you want people that are going to be
Speaker 1: telling your ten year old that he or she is
Speaker 1: not a he or she but should be able to
Speaker 1: take Cormon therapary before they're even hitting puberty and have
Speaker 1: that mandated in schools as federal policy. You want people
Speaker 1: who think that we're all going to be better off
Speaker 1: if we just give more money to welfare programs and
Speaker 1: more money to the states in order to spend how
Speaker 1: they see fit. You know, take more money. But you
Speaker 1: think we're all gonna better off? You know, does do
Speaker 1: issues of life matter or not? Do we want abortion
Speaker 1: extremists appointed to the Supreme Court and running state legislatures?
Speaker 1: You know these things matter. There are consequences here. It's
Speaker 1: not just oh, well, you know, we need to we
Speaker 1: need to clear out the GOP. We need a cleansing
Speaker 1: of the GOP. I've heard Republicans say this, prominent ones.
Speaker 1: They've told me. I look at them as say, you
Speaker 1: think that the way to win the battle is to
Speaker 1: lose it. That's your grand plan, man, No wonder Obama
Speaker 1: had eight years in office. But mit Romney's first act
Speaker 1: is to right this right this op ed. And he was,
Speaker 1: as we all know, the twenty twelve nominee. And I was.
Speaker 1: I was supportive of him in twenty twelve. I was
Speaker 1: a a mid Romney supporter, no question about it. I
Speaker 1: thought he I thought he just annihilated Obama in the
Speaker 1: first presidential debate. And then Candy Crowley threw herself in
Speaker 1: front of Obama precious Obama to protect him in that
Speaker 1: second debate and kind of turned the tide for him.
Speaker 1: And what's wrong, by the way, and not just wrong
Speaker 1: to do so, but wrong in how she did it,
Speaker 1: meaning she was wrong on the facts. But you know
Speaker 1: the op ed that mid Romney has written here, I
Speaker 1: want to pull it apart a little bit. I want
Speaker 1: to pull it apart a little bit. And here's what
Speaker 1: it says. Quote, the Trump presidency made a deep descent
Speaker 1: in December. First of all, too much alliteration. He needs
Speaker 1: to tell the staff members that wrote this calm down
Speaker 1: with the triple D. Here a deep descent in December.
Speaker 1: The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattison, White House Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of
Speaker 1: lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us,
Speaker 1: and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been
Speaker 1: a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down.
Speaker 1: It is well known that Donald Trump was not my
Speaker 1: choice to the Republican presidential nomination. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And he goes in and then I saw these other appointments.
Speaker 1: They're going. Okay, let let's just stop here for a moment.
Speaker 1: Notice how the establishment GOP, what really, it seems has
Speaker 1: set them off is Trump's deviation from their prescribed foreign policy.
Speaker 1: You know, what really is just too much for them
Speaker 1: to handle is this idea that Trump does not have
Speaker 1: to play by the foreign policy rules that they have
Speaker 1: set out, you know, that he does not have to
Speaker 1: approach this as they would. Now, there's a lot to this.
Speaker 1: One is that the the elite GOP types, they they
Speaker 1: think of foreign policy as a realm where they they
Speaker 1: separate themselves intellectually and experientially from the Hoi POLOI. You
Speaker 1: need to be a certain kind of Republican to be
Speaker 1: a well traveled and worldly enough to really understand the
Speaker 1: ins and outs of foreign policy. You know. Meanwhile, I'd
Speaker 1: much rather hear from people who have served in the
Speaker 1: war zones and really know the ground truth about what's
Speaker 1: going on in Rock and Afghanistan than all these very
Speaker 1: arrogant neocon think tank types who just keep saying that
Speaker 1: what we're doing is working. When it's not working. It's
Speaker 1: not working Afghanistan, it is not working. Okay, And we
Speaker 1: could talk more about Iraq. I think the Iraqis. You know,
Speaker 1: here's something you've heard here. I should probably mark this
Speaker 1: down as a prediction. And where everyone's acting like, oh,
Speaker 1: with Iraq, it's all about what the US wants to do.
Speaker 1: I think the Iraqis are going to kick us out
Speaker 1: in the not too distant future. They want us out.
Speaker 1: There are people that are saying, this is why it's
Speaker 1: not South Korea, this is why it's not Germany. They
Speaker 1: don't want us there. They actually want us to leave,
Speaker 1: you know, in the Iraqi problem, and all all the
Speaker 1: idiots that were by the way, I was getting so
Speaker 1: many people yelling me about about Syria, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll get into that a moment. But all all these
Speaker 1: people they don't know the first thing about what's going
Speaker 1: on are They don't know how many Sodrists meaning supporters
Speaker 1: of Maktada Alsader there are in the Iraqi parliament. Soder
Speaker 1: was a guy that we should have taken out with
Speaker 1: a jadeam a decade ago. And he's a really bad
Speaker 1: dude with a lot of American soldiers blood on his hands.
Speaker 1: And his part is party within the Iraqi system, so
Speaker 1: you know, it is the most powerful party right now
Speaker 1: in the Parliament in terms of seats. Even this is
Speaker 1: whatever gets discussed though, this reality of oh Romney and
Speaker 1: these other goop folks that they act like they understand
Speaker 1: these things so well. They've made a mess, a mess
Speaker 1: of the Middle East for decades, for decades, for as
Speaker 1: long as I've been you know, out of college, these
Speaker 1: guys have just been mucking things up left and right.
Speaker 1: And it's just interesting that that this is what sets
Speaker 1: them off that Trump is debating from them a foreign policy,
Speaker 1: because I think that deep down there's a real concern
Speaker 1: that the Bush era elite GOP folks, um the you know,
Speaker 1: the advisors and the and the so called experts, they
Speaker 1: don't want everyone to realize how poorly they acquitted themselves
Speaker 1: when they were when they were in power. I mean
Speaker 1: it goes to that question. Obama was a disaster. The
Speaker 1: Obama's foreign policy can just be described as unserious. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not what people that understand the world would do.
Speaker 1: And that's true of his advisors, the true of his
Speaker 1: approach to Iran, It's true of his dithering on SI.
Speaker 1: You know, Obama just had the ability to sit back,
Speaker 1: do nothing, and how the media call him brilliant because
Speaker 1: he's so contemplative. It was a joke. But the Bush people,
Speaker 1: you know, the neo conservative types, you know rip Weekly Standard,
Speaker 1: they do not have a good record on this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I think they're particularly touchy about it because they
Speaker 1: don't want there to be a full accounting for just
Speaker 1: how wrong they've been. But then Romney goes into you know,
Speaker 1: let me, I'm gonna come back into this labe. We'll
Speaker 1: do more of this Romney op ed and I'll explain
Speaker 1: where I am on this. And I think it's important.
Speaker 1: Some of this dominated the news cycle, and the border
Speaker 1: to me and the Wall is so much more important
Speaker 1: than this feud with Romney and Trump, but it does
Speaker 1: illustrate him interesting dynamics when the GOP will be right
Speaker 1: back with this. But Romney's a freshman senator, so I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he's only a top pro publican because he
Speaker 1: was once the nominee and lost. I think eighty or
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the party supports Trump. I think
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where mid Romney's trying to accomplish. Well.
Speaker 1: I wish it could be more of a team player.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm surprised he did it this quickly. I
Speaker 1: was expecting something, but I was surprised he did it
Speaker 1: this quickly. And you know, look, I endorsed him. He
Speaker 1: thanked me very previously. It was very nice. But I
Speaker 1: am surprised because we've done a lot and he actually
Speaker 1: says it. I read his uped. He said it. You know,
Speaker 1: he agrees, and I don't think he would be able.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would have been able to do
Speaker 1: the tax cuts like I did. We got the greatest
Speaker 1: tax cuts ever. There's a very important little point that
Speaker 1: President Trump slipped in there about mid Romney after he
Speaker 1: comes out metaphorically guns blazing with this op ed, and
Speaker 1: it's that Romney sought Trump's indorsement. So just so we
Speaker 1: are all clear, Romney trashes Trump when Trump is running
Speaker 1: and then asks Trump for what we believe, the secretary
Speaker 1: of State job when Trump wins, and then asks Trump
Speaker 1: for his indorsement and wants his endorsement when he's running
Speaker 1: for Senate in Utah. And now his first thing is
Speaker 1: he comes out and trashes Trump. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of this op ed. I haven't gotten to this part
Speaker 1: of it yet. This op ed that Romney or his
Speaker 1: staff wrote, and it's the typical politician boilered plate about
Speaker 1: you know, our allies and our standing in the world
Speaker 1: and blah blah. But this stuff has no real meaning.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't tell you anything. America
Speaker 1: should be good. Thanks, I guess, I guess you've solved
Speaker 1: all the riddles. You know, a miracle should not be bad.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We understand what does that mean? But the
Speaker 1: part of this I find so interesting is Romney really
Speaker 1: focuses in on how character is essential, how character is
Speaker 1: such an important defining characteristic for the presidency. And you know,
Speaker 1: he even says that in the in the titles here,
Speaker 1: the president shapes that the public character of the nation.
Speaker 1: Trump's character falls short. What kind of character does somebody
Speaker 1: have who has no loyalty to those whom he asks
Speaker 1: for favors and for help? You know. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons why there have been plenty of times where I
Speaker 1: could have and look at it probably has hurt my
Speaker 1: career that I don't go after people more, including on
Speaker 1: my own side. It probably you know, I would get
Speaker 1: more attention, which this business is obsessed with attention if
Speaker 1: I would just the moment, you know, I think somebody's
Speaker 1: down and vulnerable that you know I don't particularly like
Speaker 1: in this business, I give them a kick. Or even
Speaker 1: if I do like them, I just know that you
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna pile on when they're at their weakest.
Speaker 1: But as I say to you, I don't. For me,
Speaker 1: it's a question of honor. I do own trash friends
Speaker 1: on air, and I also don't trash people that have
Speaker 1: have been allies of mine. You know, I believe in
Speaker 1: personal I believe in person an a loyalty over professional advancement.
Speaker 1: So what does what does Mit think he's doing here?
Speaker 1: When he asks Trump's for jobs, asked Trump for help,
Speaker 1: I know he'd probably said, oh well, I would. I
Speaker 1: would be serving the American people at the pleasure of
Speaker 1: the president. And Mid clearly has a very high opinion
Speaker 1: of himself, and I don't think it's completely without merit.
Speaker 1: I think I do think he's talented. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pretend that I'm some Mid hater. I'm not a
Speaker 1: Mid hater. I wish he had been president. I early
Speaker 1: in my career was pushing for Mid to beat Obama,
Speaker 1: but it just was I mean, it was never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's just the Obama phenomenon, and with the media just
Speaker 1: running running cover for him in every way, and the
Speaker 1: deck was so stacked against Romney. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he did. People now say, oh, he did a terrible job,
Speaker 1: he's a bad candidate. I think he actually a pretty
Speaker 1: pretty decent job all things considered him. Go back and
Speaker 1: watch that first debate. It was you know, It's why
Speaker 1: I realized debates don't matter all that much because Obama
Speaker 1: just was was smacked around by Romney on that stage.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter, didn't matter. So but this idea of character,
Speaker 1: I also I have a disagreement with a lot of
Speaker 1: my fellow conservatis, including conservatives I really like and that
Speaker 1: I really respect, you know, people at you know, National
Speaker 1: Review and people that I used to work with even
Speaker 1: at The Blaze, who are very anti Trump and really
Speaker 1: think that his character is truly deficient. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't refute their specific criticisms of the president. I think
Speaker 1: that would be foolish. I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's unfair to say the plea the president flies off
Speaker 1: the handle and over personalizes things and can be petty
Speaker 1: and all that. I think that's just objective reality. In
Speaker 1: a lot of cases. That said, I also don't take
Speaker 1: my moral cues from the President of the United States,
Speaker 1: and I haven't in a long time. This is a
Speaker 1: guy doing a job. That's it. I don't view this as, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, my children need to emulate the president the
Speaker 1: United States because was that the case under Clinton? Was
Speaker 1: that the case under Nixon? Johnson? JFK LBJ Well, I
Speaker 1: guess already said Johnson. Never mind, you add people like
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson in the mix, and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson, former President the United States. Huge racist, I
Speaker 1: mean real racist, I mean supporting the clan, thinking people
Speaker 1: of different skin color are less than racist. Racist, like
Speaker 1: the real kind of worst racist in president United States.
Speaker 1: There's a big building named after him at Princeton, a
Speaker 1: whole school named after him at Princeton for international relations
Speaker 1: no less, you know, mister League of Nations. That worked
Speaker 1: out great. So I don't. I don't agree with this
Speaker 1: idea that the president is this kind of moral leader. First,
Speaker 1: and I also think that and this is where Romney
Speaker 1: really loses people. All of a sudden, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: care that Europeans don't really like him. You know, he
Speaker 1: brought this up. You know, in this Pew research poll,
Speaker 1: how people eighty four percent of people used to think
Speaker 1: in Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, the American president would do
Speaker 1: the right thing, and now it's only sixteen percent. Here's
Speaker 1: what Trump said about that play fourteen when they say
Speaker 1: I'm not popular in Europe. I shouldn't be popular in Europe.
Speaker 1: If I was popular in Europe, I wouldn't be doing
Speaker 1: my job because I want Europe to pay. I don't
Speaker 1: care about Europe. I'm not elected by Europeans. I'm elected
Speaker 1: by Americans that had presidents and other people within administrations
Speaker 1: in the past that allowed them to get anyway. Like
Speaker 1: some of them would say, well, no one ever asked
Speaker 1: us to pay. We have negotiations going on with numerous
Speaker 1: countries right now. Is it to pay a lot? From's
Speaker 1: essential point here is why the heck should he care
Speaker 1: what the European populations think about him. He's not the
Speaker 1: president of Europe. He's a president of America. This is
Speaker 1: a revolutionary concept in this country. Apparently, here's one of
Speaker 1: these stories that as soon as I read it, I
Speaker 1: think to myself, these should get ten times the attention.
Speaker 1: Then it will. But for a whole bunch of reasons
Speaker 1: that I'm about to go into. It will be largely
Speaker 1: glossed over or ignored. It and it ties into too
Speaker 1: many things that we're discussing, and now ties into the
Speaker 1: fifth columnist Republicans who do the work of the left
Speaker 1: from inside the party and pretend that it's because they're
Speaker 1: so moral and so ethical, But as we've discussed with Romney,
Speaker 1: it's really just all about advancing their own very narrow,
Speaker 1: very immediate self interests. You know, they decide it. They're
Speaker 1: so worthy and decent and honorable when it's useful for
Speaker 1: them to bash Trump, But sometimes they don't need to
Speaker 1: bash Trump, so then they don't really care. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they go back and forth on this. It's
Speaker 1: not really about maintaining or enforcing a set of principles.
Speaker 1: It's just opportunism masquerading as being principled. And let me
Speaker 1: say before I get into this, and I know I'm
Speaker 1: keeping you on the edge here with what this new
Speaker 1: story is. It's important, it's it's big. Let me say that,
Speaker 1: you know, the elites, and especially the elites within the GOP,
Speaker 1: because that's still a thing. They're still there, They're still
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and still involved very much. They're just
Speaker 1: not openly running things the way they were before Trump
Speaker 1: came along. They think, and Romney among them, that they
Speaker 1: have to remind us of President Trump's ethical and personal
Speaker 1: failings as if we don't know. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of condescension in that. I know about Trump's failings. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know about the three wives, and I know about
Speaker 1: the porn star payoffs, and I know about all and
Speaker 1: we know whether you believe he did that or not,
Speaker 1: and you know, I kind of go back and forth
Speaker 1: on some of the aspects of that, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: clearly this was a guy who was a philanderer, and
Speaker 1: you know, I get all that, and look, no one's
Speaker 1: no one is perfect, and that shouldn't be you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to say that, well, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein, nobody's perfect, and then that can't just be
Speaker 1: a catch all that you use for everything. But we're
Speaker 1: not talking about somebody who did unpardonable and horrific, you know,
Speaker 1: murderous things. But I'm a guy that he's imperfect. He's
Speaker 1: a playboy, and I think that well, but we all
Speaker 1: know this, and that's why when the Romneys of their
Speaker 1: GOP come forward and say this to us, It says,
Speaker 1: though they think we need to be told that because
Speaker 1: we're either so much less principle than them, that we
Speaker 1: need to be scolded into caring, or that maybe we
Speaker 1: just are so out of touch, out of the loop,
Speaker 1: that we don't know. Well. I would just like to
Speaker 1: assure Romney and the rest that we know we know
Speaker 1: about the allegations and the realities of Trump's failings. It's
Speaker 1: that we also know that we want somebody who can
Speaker 1: serve an agenda that will benefit the American people, and
Speaker 1: that is a righteous and just agenda effectively, and that
Speaker 1: means that you've got to be able to engage in
Speaker 1: the messy, nasty game of politics. Okay, here's speaking of
Speaker 1: all that. This was on Fox News today. An associate
Speaker 1: of the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain shared with
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed News a copy of the unverified, sellacious opposition research
Speaker 1: dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump,
Speaker 1: according to a federal court filing earlier today. Now, McCain
Speaker 1: had on numerous occasions denied being the source for BuzzFeed.
Speaker 1: Remember BuzzFeed was the first one CNN reported on the
Speaker 1: existence of the dossier. BuzzFeed actually published the dossier, and
Speaker 1: now there are court cases about the legality of BuzzFeed's
Speaker 1: decision to do that, because, as we know, there were
Speaker 1: some falsehoods in there. Michael Cohen traveling to Prague and others.
Speaker 1: And this is the pp dossier. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the Golden Showers the President United States. It's just look,
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to describe it. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you what it is. I know, look, I know
Speaker 1: it's gross, but this is disgraceful that this was briefed.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I were still in the CIA and
Speaker 1: I found out that the DNI or the FBI director
Speaker 1: had taken some APO Hillary Clinton d NC paid for
Speaker 1: APO research document full of you know, third hand garbage
Speaker 1: Russian sourcing, and briefly to the President United States and
Speaker 1: what was essentially a blackmail operation. I remember, Comey wanted
Speaker 1: to keep his job, right, so Comy presents this to Trump.
Speaker 1: Wanted to suck up to him a little bit, but also,
Speaker 1: you know, because you got to be the one to
Speaker 1: break the news to him, but also to let him know,
Speaker 1: but we've got this on you. You know, this is
Speaker 1: out there. And then CNN somehow knew about this and
Speaker 1: was able to report on how it was briefed and
Speaker 1: it was essentially a form of laundering the dossier. Well,
Speaker 1: what we find out today from and we only found
Speaker 1: out about it because of this court filing, is that
Speaker 1: associates of John McCain, associates of John McCain, one in
Speaker 1: particularist Guy Kramer, allegedly passed along the dossier to the media.
Speaker 1: Now McCain, John McCain passed it on to the FBI,
Speaker 1: which you can decide for yourself whether that was wise
Speaker 1: or necessary under the circumstances. I mean, remember, this is
Speaker 1: just this is essentially a collection. This is a collection
Speaker 1: of rumors. There's no verification, no sourcing, no nothing on it,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it has actually been disproven or
Speaker 1: is unable to be proven, which in this case should
Speaker 1: be taken as nearly the same thing. And now we're
Speaker 1: being told that a McCabe associate, I mean sorry, a
Speaker 1: McCain associate was the one who made sure that the
Speaker 1: media had this to run with against Trump. We have
Speaker 1: we have to deal with friendly fire in the GOP
Speaker 1: in a way that Democrats just don't. And it's really pathetic.
Speaker 1: You know, we have to as conservatives, as Republicans, we
Speaker 1: always have to be ready for yet another person from
Speaker 1: within our own rank ranks to just shank a fellow
Speaker 1: Republican when nobody's looking, with an editorial, with a TV
Speaker 1: news appearance, or in this case, you know, behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: just to do it when nobody's looking. And Democrats just
Speaker 1: don't have this the same way. I mean, yes, you could,
Speaker 1: you could say that, you know, with Hillary and with
Speaker 1: Hillary and Bernie, that was unfair, but they weren't. They
Speaker 1: weren't destroying Bernie's political career always and forever. They just
Speaker 1: wanted Hillary to win. I'm not saying that justifies it,
Speaker 1: but it's different. This was spiked. This isn't somebody trying
Speaker 1: to run. Yeah, people run hard against candidates because they
Speaker 1: want to win races. This is somebody on my own team.
Speaker 1: A Republican is the only person that's going to prevent
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton from appointing a whole bunch of Ruth Bader
Speaker 1: Ginsburg clones the Supreme Court. The only person is going
Speaker 1: to save us from another eight years of Democrat misrule.
Speaker 1: And this is John McCain's people, and I'm sure with
Speaker 1: John McCain's full knowledge and consent passing along damaging oppo
Speaker 1: research to just to just to smear Trump. And I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna say, oh, it's it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: for the country, it's for patriotism. That's why, you know.
Speaker 1: And John McCain always because military service, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: say everything that he did was was great. No. I
Speaker 1: refused to play that game. His military service was great
Speaker 1: and honorable. What he does after that fair game for
Speaker 1: us to talk about. And he did a lot of
Speaker 1: things that were really just about him. It was really
Speaker 1: just about sticking his thumb in the eye of those
Speaker 1: who were overshadowing the greatness of John McCain from within
Speaker 1: his own party. There's no question that the Russians are
Speaker 1: a problem. We've known this a long time. The Russian
Speaker 1: government is not a friend of the United States, and
Speaker 1: there are very real concerns that we should all share
Speaker 1: about what the Russians are trying to do visa Americans
Speaker 1: and American interests. I don't get nearly as energized as
Speaker 1: many on the left to about all things Russia, because
Speaker 1: for them, it's just a it's gotten tied up in
Speaker 1: this whole narrative of why Hillary didn't win and it's
Speaker 1: because Russia stole the election and all this other nonsense,
Speaker 1: this fantasy that they have concocted. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that there is no problem with Russia. And we've seen
Speaker 1: yet another instance of this where an American who was
Speaker 1: in Russia to attend a wedding, an American named Paul Whalen,
Speaker 1: who's a US citizen, is now being held by the
Speaker 1: Russian government. He's being held in the Leffertovo Prison, which,
Speaker 1: as I understand, is a pretty hellish place, and he
Speaker 1: just got a visit, well, he got a visit from
Speaker 1: a US ambassador of Russia, John Huntsman, and the ambassador saying, look,
Speaker 1: we're going to get our guy out. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is I'm sure it's all nonsense, and the Russians are
Speaker 1: just doing this just because this is just a Russian
Speaker 1: thing to do, like to rub our noses and things.
Speaker 1: I'd like to cause problems where there are no problems.
Speaker 1: And obviously the lie about people, to lie about this
Speaker 1: man's activities, and you know, I don't know why they
Speaker 1: chose to grab him, but they've clearly grabbed this guy.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's one of these moments where
Speaker 1: you you got to remember that one part of us
Speaker 1: that you know that that should feel like we're all
Speaker 1: united in is we want the US government when you're
Speaker 1: traveling abroad, you want the US government to really go
Speaker 1: to bat for you and go to bat for its people. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, and when you're dealing with countries like
Speaker 1: Russia and China, you know, we've got leverage, but we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't get to dictate to them. We have to coax, cajole, bargain, negotiate,
Speaker 1: you know, threaten a little bit. But it's it's not
Speaker 1: an easy dance. And I certainly hope that we're able
Speaker 1: to get this guy Whalen out of prison soon. His brother,
Speaker 1: David Whalen wrote on Twitter that to quote, my brother
Speaker 1: was detained by the Russian government as an alleged spy.
Speaker 1: And you know it's just Whalen was a Marine Corps
Speaker 1: So not only we got an American that's being held,
Speaker 1: but a Marine Corps vet. He was in the Marine
Speaker 1: Corp from ninety two thousand and eight, deployed to a
Speaker 1: rock twice, was a staff sergeant, and he was discharged
Speaker 1: for bad conduct on charges related to larceny. It says,
Speaker 1: but look, he served his country and um, you know
Speaker 1: this just in no way, in no way does this
Speaker 1: strike me as anything other than the Russians trying to
Speaker 1: thumb their nose at us. They grabbed this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: just because I know that seemed so weird. Why were
Speaker 1: the Russians random the grab? They decided to grab somebody
Speaker 1: and they're holding him, um on BS on BS allegations
Speaker 1: and CNN. You'd think though, you know, and this is
Speaker 1: what what really got me all fired up. You think
Speaker 1: that here, here we got an American, a former marine.
Speaker 1: I know he was son it will be discharged, but
Speaker 1: you know he's a former marine. Would employ do a
Speaker 1: rock twice? All right? The guy made some mistakes, but
Speaker 1: he also served his country and you know he wore
Speaker 1: the uniform and you know, carried a rifle and showed up,
Speaker 1: you know, showed up for his country when it mattered.
Speaker 1: You know, he he should expect that. The journalists, right,
Speaker 1: the same journalist where I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it's so scary to be a journalist now and oh,
Speaker 1: Trump is destroying the First Amendment at all. You know,
Speaker 1: they're always whining about something Trump related, and they're always
Speaker 1: looking for solidarity with each other. Oh, you know, Trump
Speaker 1: is destroying journalism. You think that when there's an American
Speaker 1: being held unjustly in Russia, there would the focus would
Speaker 1: just be on telling the story and letting the American
Speaker 1: people know what's going on, but also that we need
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on this and pressure our government
Speaker 1: representatives to get our guy back. You know, we want
Speaker 1: our guy back. This We're not dealing with North Korea here, okay.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't expect the Russian regime to act
Speaker 1: like total psychopaths, although sometimes they can. And yet CNN,
Speaker 1: I mean you, you can't make this stuff up. CNN
Speaker 1: decided to to poke it and they got this guy's
Speaker 1: brother on TV and they ask, I can't you know what?
Speaker 1: I just want you to hear it. Remember, this guy's
Speaker 1: being held in a prison. Who knows if he's ever
Speaker 1: going to see us soil, see his family again. Who
Speaker 1: knows if he's gonna, you know, face the same fate
Speaker 1: as you know some of the other folks that the
Speaker 1: Russians have decided to go after and they've just you know,
Speaker 1: they look, people get beaten to death in Russian prisons,
Speaker 1: they get stabbed, and the Russians say, oh, we had
Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, terrible things happened in Russian prisons
Speaker 1: all the time. And CNN decides to ask the brother
Speaker 1: of this detained American former marine about social media posts
Speaker 1: about CNN. Play it. He had this social media account,
Speaker 1: the equivalent in Russia of Facebook. It's called VK and
Speaker 1: he's had it for thirteen years, and he had various
Speaker 1: postings on their pictures of him in Russia. I think
Speaker 1: the first one that we have is where he took
Speaker 1: like sort of rust and relaxation. Well, here's one. I
Speaker 1: wasn't planning to go to this one yet, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about this one. Here's one where he says just
Speaker 1: drinking coffee and watching fake news. Now I'm not taking
Speaker 1: this personally that he's pictured with CNN, but I just
Speaker 1: am wondering, is this a statement on his part somehow?
Speaker 1: What the heck does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 1: This guy is in a Russian prison on trumped up
Speaker 1: nonsense charges, you know, about being an alleged spy. Complete,
Speaker 1: complete crap, and you know who, his family must be
Speaker 1: absolutely horrified, terrified, And his brother is on with CNN
Speaker 1: the gold standard and TV journalism, which is a joke.
Speaker 1: And you have a CNN anchor saying, well, I'd really
Speaker 1: like to know you know, here I am standing in
Speaker 1: front your brother, standing in front of a photo calling
Speaker 1: CNN fake news? Did he call CNN fake news? You
Speaker 1: know what, there's a lot of fake news on CNN.
Speaker 1: CNN is a lie. CNN is a lie. Let's start
Speaker 1: from that. It is not an objective news organization, period
Speaker 1: full stop. It's all about laundering liberalism for people who
Speaker 1: are pathetically attached to this idea that they their version
Speaker 1: of events, their version of the news is just the truth.
Speaker 1: It's just objective journalism. It's not left wing propaganda. And
Speaker 1: CNN still tries to operate in this this ground that
Speaker 1: is a lie. It tries to hold this position on
Speaker 1: the news spectrum that is just no longer tenable. But
Speaker 1: think about this, this story. Is this they're going to
Speaker 1: ask about about whether he called sn in FA news?
Speaker 1: Does that mean that they don't want to tell his
Speaker 1: story anymore? Does that mean that now we don't have
Speaker 1: an American being held by Russian thugs that we need
Speaker 1: to be concerned about because because he said a mean
Speaker 1: thing about CNN, is that where we should take away
Speaker 1: from this. I just want to know why this overpaid,
Speaker 1: pompous CNN anchor is pushing on this issue to his brother.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just put myself in this guy's shoes.
Speaker 1: If one of my brothers, God forbid, I've got two brothers,
Speaker 1: two of the greatest guys you'd ever meet. If one
Speaker 1: of my brothers was being held by a foreign power
Speaker 1: and I was being interviewed in my capacity as a
Speaker 1: as a family member of somebody detained by that foreign power,
Speaker 1: and and CNN was like, well, is it is it
Speaker 1: true that you wrote that CNN is fake news? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd probably start dropping f bombs on live air, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, how dare you? And this is why people
Speaker 1: this is why people don't trust They don't trust CNN.
Speaker 1: They don't like CNN. Only people that still that for
Speaker 1: their own purposes so that they feel smart, that they
Speaker 1: feel like they're part of the elite in cool set.
Speaker 1: You know. Oh yeah, CNN, that's real journalism, Yeah really, yeah.
Speaker 1: Don Lemon is a real journalist. Idiot. You know, Bro Cuomo,
Speaker 1: Hey do I live Bro? You know he's a real journalist.
Speaker 1: He's the biggest draw they have right now for ratings.
Speaker 1: I mean, I give him credit. He somehow pulled off this.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. He's there's this swindle into
Speaker 1: think of the people that into convincing people that they
Speaker 1: should watch this guy as some kind of a source
Speaker 1: for news. I don't know. But yeah, CNN, we got
Speaker 1: an American former marine detained and CNN wants to know
Speaker 1: if he committed the unpardonable sin of calling CNN fake
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Speaker 1: Um that I can see I'm gab mark, good to
Speaker 1: see you. Oh gosh, yeah, who do we have here?
Speaker 1: It's brutal, folks, It's brutal. Elizabeth Warren has you know,
Speaker 1: put out this this little video of her just I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna get me a beer because I'm just like you.
Speaker 1: I'm just a Bruski drinking American, and I have no
Speaker 1: baggage that I bring to this whole thing at all.
Speaker 1: It's all great. Oh man, she has kicked off her
Speaker 1: presidential campaign. She's one of the earlier ones here to
Speaker 1: throw her her hat in the ring, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And everyone's looking at this and they're just saying, Wow,
Speaker 1: she's she I just think she has no chance. I
Speaker 1: don't know why she's wasting her time or everyone else's time.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's necessary for her to feel like she's still
Speaker 1: relevant in some way. You know. It's even though she
Speaker 1: knows she can't win, she's going to have some kind
Speaker 1: of an ill fated presidential campaign because she figures, you know,
Speaker 1: might as well go for it. But just this is
Speaker 1: someone who does not have the ability to easily connect
Speaker 1: with average Americans because she's someone who's built a career
Speaker 1: on fraud, really, which is what took place at Harvard.
Speaker 1: I mean, people that say that she's some great intellectual,
Speaker 1: they always say, well, it's because she was a professor
Speaker 1: at Harvard. Well, she was only professor at Harvard because
Speaker 1: she claimed to be a minority Native American professor, and
Speaker 1: as we found out from her one one twenty fourth
Speaker 1: Native American DNA result, she's not in any meaningful way
Speaker 1: a Native American. And I can just say that I
Speaker 1: think the President has it nailed here when he says, well,
Speaker 1: this is what he said about Elizabeth Warren running Clay
Speaker 1: clip bit, Elizabeth Warren will be the first. She did
Speaker 1: very badly in proving that she who is of Indian heritage.
Speaker 1: That didn't work out too well. You know, we'll see
Speaker 1: how she does. I wish her well. I hope she
Speaker 1: does well. I'd love to run against her. She says
Speaker 1: she's in the fight all the way. Mister president, do
Speaker 1: you do you really think she believes she can win?
Speaker 1: Well that, I don't know. You'd have to ask her psychiatrist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even think she believes she can win. But
Speaker 1: there are lots of reasons people run for the presidency
Speaker 1: even when they know that they have no shot. The biggest,
Speaker 1: most obvious and unnecessary own goal I think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in American politics was the fiasco of her of
Speaker 1: her DNA results. I've never seen anything like that. Nobody
Speaker 1: was there was no clamor for the results. Nobody was
Speaker 1: pushing to hear or see the results. And whomever I
Speaker 1: think it should be made public record, whomever on her
Speaker 1: advisory staff or whatever it is, whoever told her that's
Speaker 1: a good idea that that person it should be known
Speaker 1: so that nobody ever takes political Actually, don't forget that.
Speaker 1: We want as many Democrats as possible to listen to
Speaker 1: that person's That's a much better way to go about this.
Speaker 1: That's a much better way forward. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: ends up happening. Elizabeth Warren. Also, I saw this guy
Speaker 1: who is it in a Washington State The governor of
Speaker 1: Washington State is going to be running for president. He
Speaker 1: also put his he put Jay Insley, he put his name.
Speaker 1: I had never even heard of this guy. I would
Speaker 1: think it's funny. People say, Buck, you cover politics, how
Speaker 1: could you not have heard of you know, state assemblyman
Speaker 1: so and so or even Congressmen so and something like.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of these people, and most of them
Speaker 1: are not particularly relevant or important. Jay Insley, the governor
Speaker 1: of Washington State, it's going to be running. And this
Speaker 1: is what I think is so fascinating. He's a single
Speaker 1: a single focus candidate, according to the press reports out
Speaker 1: on him already, he's somebody who who really believes that
Speaker 1: there's only one thing that we have to pay attention to,
Speaker 1: or one thing you should pay attention to, and why
Speaker 1: you should vote for him, And who wants who wants
Speaker 1: to guess what it is? Is it the twenty two
Speaker 1: trillion dollars in death that we've piled up? Is it
Speaker 1: that America is? As I've started to read in a
Speaker 1: book by Charles Murray, Coming Apart, Coming Apart, we no
Speaker 1: longer have a shared culture between the various political ideologies,
Speaker 1: and we also actively are encouraged to hate each other
Speaker 1: for our political differences by the media, by the elites. No,
Speaker 1: it's none of those things, that's right. This single issue
Speaker 1: focus of his campaign of Washington State Governor Jay Ensley's
Speaker 1: campaign will be climate change. Oh yes, climate change. It
Speaker 1: really is an amazing state of affairs when you can
Speaker 1: have one political party in this country that takes the
Speaker 1: position that the single most important issue that we face,
Speaker 1: the most important thing of all, is something that the
Speaker 1: other side does not even concede is a little bit important,
Speaker 1: you know, just a just a tad important. Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: you know, because that's what I would say. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: climate has changing, the climate has always been changing, is
Speaker 1: you know, it's humanity playing a role in this. Is
Speaker 1: human behavior involved in some way and in accelerating the
Speaker 1: climate change? Maybe, But as I say, it's the same
Speaker 1: you get the same answer for me if if I said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if I walk into Yankee Stadium, or let's
Speaker 1: do a coverage state, if I walked into Dallas Cowboys Stadium?
Speaker 1: Have I changed the temperature of the stadium? I mean,
Speaker 1: theoretically it's it's imperceptible, right, but my body heat, I
Speaker 1: am another person in that stadium, and depends on I guess,
Speaker 1: on on how how effectively and at what level you
Speaker 1: could gauge the you know, that's what I mean. You know,
Speaker 1: have you changed the temperature of a swimming pool by
Speaker 1: pouring you know, a cup of hot tea into one end?
Speaker 1: Kind of? But not really? Have human beings changed the
Speaker 1: temperature of the globe in a meaningful way? I think
Speaker 1: the answers must certainly know. Anyway, I don't have to
Speaker 1: get into all that right now because the other side
Speaker 1: is just nuts looney tunes. Here's Bernie Sanders and I'll
Speaker 1: read it to you in sender knees. We must look
Speaker 1: at climate change as if it were a devastating military
Speaker 1: attack against the United States and the entire planet, and
Speaker 1: we must respond accordingly. End quote. He put that out
Speaker 1: on Twitter last night. We should respond to climate change
Speaker 1: as if it were a devastating military attack. I don't
Speaker 1: know if if he thinks that we need to nuke
Speaker 1: the climate, or if we're supposed to unleash our b
Speaker 1: one bombers on the coal industry. And I don't even
Speaker 1: know what he thinks he's trying to say. And this
Speaker 1: got thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of likes and retweets,
Speaker 1: and people just think it's it's it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: And then you have that that complete fraudster who's going
Speaker 1: to be making a big comeback this year, that fraudster
Speaker 1: known as Oh Gore. He's back and he's trying to
Speaker 1: push once again for well, his favorite pet issue. He
Speaker 1: was on the Daily Show. Here, I'll play it for you.
Speaker 1: There's an interesting report that came out last month from
Speaker 1: the UN, and in many ways I feel like Trump
Speaker 1: is using this as a arguments. It basically predicted, you know,
Speaker 1: hell on Earth, and it talked about how things are
Speaker 1: really going bad. But but the emissions gap was really interesting.
Speaker 1: That was released yesterday by the United Nations. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: what they said is the G twenty countries are collectively
Speaker 1: not on track to meet their unconditional emissions pledges for
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. So countries that are not on track to
Speaker 1: make it include Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EU twenty eight, Korea,
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the US right. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the EU right. So now Trump is arguing, if nobody
Speaker 1: else is meeting their requirements, why should the US put
Speaker 1: themselves at a disadvantage and you know, lose money and
Speaker 1: work with regulations, yes, when the rest world is not
Speaker 1: going to come to the table. Yeah. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: since the end of World War Two, there's been one
Speaker 1: leader of the Community of Nations, and that has been
Speaker 1: the United States of America. If we add our leadership role,
Speaker 1: then that lets some of the other country is off
Speaker 1: the hook. We really need it is the reassertion of
Speaker 1: US leadership and the good news. Leaders have the solutions available.
Speaker 1: We don't need any miraculous news. We have the logical brooch.
Speaker 1: You've got one, fine, we'll take it all right, which
Speaker 1: is just the same. It's the same crap from this guy,
Speaker 1: different day. Nothing changes. And this is the biggest this
Speaker 1: is the biggest scam ever. Go back and just you
Speaker 1: don't have to take my workfare. Go back and watch
Speaker 1: an Inconvenient Truth and you'll be like, this is laughable.
Speaker 1: The thing could and look at the date and time stamp,
Speaker 1: so these different models they have of you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, Florida underwater by you know, twenty thirty or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, go back and look at this.
Speaker 1: The predictions in that movie are laughable, and now we
Speaker 1: know they're laughable, but we're still supposed to think that
Speaker 1: this is going to happen in their right. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is that it's going to take for
Speaker 1: people to finally give up this uh, this this delusion.
Speaker 1: I mean that the climate change alarmists are living in
Speaker 1: a delusion. And there's a lot of day we talked
Speaker 1: about everyone's everyone's been bought off by big cole. Think
Speaker 1: about green energy or big oil, big coal, big oil, whatever,
Speaker 1: same thing. Think about the Democrat platform going forward, I
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna be running on a green energy new deal.
Speaker 1: I mean they really talked with this. They're trying to
Speaker 1: bring back FDR, who they love, even though he put
Speaker 1: the Japanese in internment camps. I mean, FDR somehow gets
Speaker 1: a pass for being, in a lot of ways a
Speaker 1: pretty terrible president. But they want to bring this back
Speaker 1: and make this the centerpiece of the Democrats going forward.
Speaker 1: It's going to be all these jobs. And you want
Speaker 1: to talk about cronyism and chrony capitalism. Green energy is
Speaker 1: rife with that crap. And if the Democrats come back
Speaker 1: into power, a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 1: very wealthy by making you pay more for your energy
Speaker 1: while they get sweetheart deals not by the free market
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Speaker 1: been a lot of names floated. None of them have
Speaker 1: been really solid or really pushed by any one sort
Speaker 1: of party. Bu parties are sent scrambling in this issue. Yes,
Speaker 1: that congressional district that we are talking about does is
Speaker 1: the most democratic district in the whole state of Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Or I'm sorry, Republican in the state of Connecticut, but
Speaker 1: there's more independent voters than voters that are affiliated with
Speaker 1: any party. So either party is going to have to
Speaker 1: work really hard in order to get people's votes in
Speaker 1: that district. And I think you know that you're right
Speaker 1: when you bring up the point a clip that we
Speaker 1: wanted to pull up of Bree Peyton doing what she
Speaker 1: was known to do it should be a writer and
Speaker 1: TV talking head, pundit analyst. She was a contributor at
Speaker 1: the Federalist website. Those of you who listened to the
Speaker 1: show No pretty well, because I go back quite away
Speaker 1: as with the founder, Ben Dominic and with Sean Davis,
Speaker 1: and so you know the Federalist well, Bree who was
Speaker 1: one of their not just star writers, but was increasingly
Speaker 1: a visible national presence on Fox News and an other places.
Speaker 1: She was a frequent guest on my panel on Hill TV.
Speaker 1: Bre passed away. As I'm sure many of you listening
Speaker 1: to this heard, it became a national news story that
Speaker 1: this incredibly kind, smart, very beautiful, twenty six year old
Speaker 1: conservative rising star just died died in a very short
Speaker 1: period of time. From what they believe is swine flew
Speaker 1: and I wasn't even aware that swine flu was something
Speaker 1: we still had to be on guard for it. It
Speaker 1: just this news came as a shock. I know it's
Speaker 1: been out there for a while, but I haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you about it yet. This
Speaker 1: came down on my birthday, I remembered. I went from
Speaker 1: receiving a slew of texts from friends, colleagues, family members,
Speaker 1: but friends and colleagues in the morning saying happy Birthday,
Speaker 1: to all of a sudden, there was a shift, and
Speaker 1: my phone all day was people trying to get the
Speaker 1: news to me of first that Bree was in dire
Speaker 1: straits in the hospital, and then that she had actually
Speaker 1: passed away. I saw a notification on Twitter that they
Speaker 1: were asking for thoughts and one of her her friends
Speaker 1: was asking for thoughts and prayers for Bree. And within
Speaker 1: thirty minutes I saw another another notification that she had
Speaker 1: passed away, and it was it. Look it rattled me,
Speaker 1: It rattled a lot of people that I know. She
Speaker 1: was in very good health. Last time I saw her,
Speaker 1: I was with Molly and Bree and her boyfriend. He
Speaker 1: came up and introduced himself to me. It was quite
Speaker 1: a quite a moment because he had actually been Bree's
Speaker 1: longtime boyfriend, had been an intern at the Blaze TV
Speaker 1: on my show on Real News there, so he knew
Speaker 1: a bit through that, and we had met each other,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe gosh five or six years ago now
Speaker 1: when he was an intern, and Molly and I had
Speaker 1: talked about meeting up for them with dinner, or meeting
Speaker 1: up with them for dinner, and now she's gone. I'm
Speaker 1: not somebody who pretends to have the words in situations
Speaker 1: like this. And I know I speak for a living
Speaker 1: and this is I'm a radio host. It's strange for
Speaker 1: me to say I don't have the words. But when
Speaker 1: someone who is that much of a positive presence in
Speaker 1: so many lives, who is making all the all the
Speaker 1: right decisions, has nothing but bright future ahead of her
Speaker 1: and so much upside and just so much to contribute
Speaker 1: in every way. I don't just mean to professionally, but
Speaker 1: in data to life. And Bree was a really sweet,
Speaker 1: really good person and a very Christian person, a believer
Speaker 1: and somebody who really practiced her faith. And for someone
Speaker 1: like that to be taken from us, to be taken
Speaker 1: out of my world here in DC, just as a
Speaker 1: colleague of hers, I can't imagine the sense of loss
Speaker 1: and grief that her family has her. She has many siblings,
Speaker 1: that her boyfriend has, that her close friends and people
Speaker 1: that have known her for many, many years feel. And
Speaker 1: I don't have any anything, you know, certainly don't have
Speaker 1: anything to make this seem any less terrible and tragic
Speaker 1: than it is. All I can say is that we
Speaker 1: are all on borrowed time. We don't know when it's coming,
Speaker 1: we don't know how it's going to come, but we
Speaker 1: will all we will all meet our end, and it's
Speaker 1: it's I took it as a real wake up call,
Speaker 1: and the fact that it occurred on my birthday obviously
Speaker 1: was just coincidental. But I think already I was in
Speaker 1: a contemplative mood and either thinking about what I've what
Speaker 1: I haven't achieved so far, and I know a lot
Speaker 1: of you probably have the same thing. I tend to
Speaker 1: be more negative on myself, more hard on myself for
Speaker 1: what I haven't done yet than what I have done.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about I'm thirty seven, and you
Speaker 1: know I needed to do this and neither that, And
Speaker 1: then I realized I got these messages about Brie, and
Speaker 1: I just thought the stuff that I'm wearing, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: What matters is you know who you are every day
Speaker 1: that you have and how you treat the people around you,
Speaker 1: how loving and loyal and dependable and kind you are
Speaker 1: to the people that you are dealing with, you're interacting with,
Speaker 1: that are your people every day, and what you do
Speaker 1: in the world, and how you decide to spend your
Speaker 1: energy and your time, That's what matters. Yeah, sure, we
Speaker 1: all we all want success, we all want recognition and
Speaker 1: all these different things, but we also don't know if
Speaker 1: we're ever going to just fall into a high grade
Speaker 1: fever and then a coma and then die one day.
Speaker 1: And it can I mean, if it happened to Breed
Speaker 1: in this way, it's just a reminder that it can
Speaker 1: happen absolutely any of us. Anyone listening to this, me, you, anyone.
Speaker 1: You just don't know. I mean, she was with family
Speaker 1: on Christmas and with friends the next day and everything
Speaker 1: was fine, and then she probably went to sleep feeling
Speaker 1: a little off and had never would have thought in
Speaker 1: a million years that it was swine flew and then
Speaker 1: woke up the next day, or maybe never woke up
Speaker 1: the next day, she was unresponsive when her roommate founder,
Speaker 1: so cherish every moment you have. I really mean that
Speaker 1: you think about what you're doing with your life right now,
Speaker 1: what you're doing every day, and focus more on how
Speaker 1: you contribute than you know how you could achieve more
Speaker 1: personalized goals. You know, who are you? Are you making
Speaker 1: the world around you better every day? And Bree, you
Speaker 1: are missed. So you may be asking yourself, well, what
Speaker 1: did you do Buck over this holiday break? Actually none
Speaker 1: of you are asking that, but let's just pretend for
Speaker 1: a second. Let's just assume for a moment that maybe
Speaker 1: some of you care. I hope you all had had
Speaker 1: a great time. The most unexpected gift that I got
Speaker 1: was actually from our friends at Black Rifle Coffee. They
Speaker 1: sent me a huge, really a war chest out of
Speaker 1: black Rifle goodies of all kinds. So Black Rifle Coffee
Speaker 1: dot com slash buck if you want to go get
Speaker 1: some for yourself. But I mean, I mean an actual
Speaker 1: large Black rifle wooden chest. They sent it to me
Speaker 1: to the Christmas gift. Those guys are awesome, so so
Speaker 1: kind of them, and it was one of the nicest
Speaker 1: gifts I've gotten in a long time as to what
Speaker 1: I did with my time. For those who're curious about that,
Speaker 1: I read a lot, I slept a lot, I read
Speaker 1: a lot. And the books that I read two books
Speaker 1: in their entirety. One is a history because obviously I
Speaker 1: tend to try to read a history book, a political
Speaker 1: or philosophy book, and that a general interest book at
Speaker 1: any given time. And the history book that I so,
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who does multiple books at once, meaning I
Speaker 1: do chapter by chapter of different things. I read The
Speaker 1: Sea Wolves by Lars Brownworth, which if you are in
Speaker 1: any way a fan of the show Vikings on the
Speaker 1: History Channel, or if you are a fan of the
Speaker 1: Last Kingdom I Am Utrid, son of Utred, you will
Speaker 1: be very into this book. It's essentially a much more
Speaker 1: detailed history of that same period of the Viking invasion
Speaker 1: of not just England but Ireland and the kingdoms of
Speaker 1: northern Germany and what was going on in that part
Speaker 1: of the world, and just some really interesting perspective on that.
Speaker 1: Also worth noting that this idea that the Vikings were
Speaker 1: this invincible army and would always beat everybody fought it,
Speaker 1: it's really not the case. In fact, well armed Saxon
Speaker 1: kingdoms were very able to confront and even sometimes defeat
Speaker 1: these Vikings. The real advantage the Vikings had was speed
Speaker 1: and mobility based on their ships and their seamanship, and
Speaker 1: they you know, if you look at a map of England,
Speaker 1: for example, we don't think of it this way, but
Speaker 1: England has rivers that essentially make much of even inland
Speaker 1: England proper accessible by the sea, certainly accessible by any
Speaker 1: narrow draft water vessel. And so the Vikings were able
Speaker 1: to for that at the time with lightning speed, hit
Speaker 1: different areas and they would go after soft targets. And
Speaker 1: the Vikings are really just a it was a culture
Speaker 1: of piracy. It was really a whole society built on piracy.
Speaker 1: And when you think of them more as pirates or
Speaker 1: experger with the big wooden shield and the and the
Speaker 1: acts and all that stuff. Then and they had better
Speaker 1: quality iron as well, which is obviously helpful for hand
Speaker 1: to hand combat back in the day. But the book
Speaker 1: that I really enjoyed a whole lot that I wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily thinking i'd like as much as I did, was
Speaker 1: by Tom Wright. And the book is The Billion Dollar Whale,
Speaker 1: and it is you got to read it. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is about this guy Joel, who managed to completely
Speaker 1: hoodwink some of the most sophisticated banks, investors, financial institutions
Speaker 1: in the world. And this guy is in his late
Speaker 1: in late twenties when he's doing this. He essentially used
Speaker 1: his social connections to set up a phony Bologny sovereign
Speaker 1: wealth fund in Malaysia, use some Saudi contacts, and then
Speaker 1: throw a bunch of big parties. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: this guy's hanging out with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Fox going
Speaker 1: on dates with Miranda Kerr, bought her eight million dollars
Speaker 1: of jewelry. She's the Australian supermodel for those of you
Speaker 1: don't know, used to be married to Orlando Bloom. And
Speaker 1: this guy funds the movie The Wolf of Wall Street
Speaker 1: with the ill gotten proceeds of this Malaysian one MDB
Speaker 1: sovereign wealth fund. He spends eighty five million dollars on
Speaker 1: parties in a less than twelve month period. Eighty five
Speaker 1: million on parties and travel and booze, and it was
Speaker 1: all all stolen money. It's an incredible story how this
Speaker 1: guy pulled it off, and you should check it out.
Speaker 1: So the billion dollars Whale highly recommend, and the Sea Wolves.
Speaker 1: For those of you that are into history, roll call
Speaker 1: coming up. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real,
Speaker 1: it's time for roll call. Well, Team, I have missed you,
Speaker 1: so it's great to be back here in the Freedom Hut.
Speaker 1: Thank you for allowing me a bit of a breather there.
Speaker 1: I know that the guest host that we had were
Speaker 1: very well received and people generally, we're quite pleased, I
Speaker 1: think with how that all turned out. So we will
Speaker 1: certainly keep Raheem and Ben and Harlan as well as
Speaker 1: the Godfather doctor Opelka. He's not a doctor, nor is
Speaker 1: he a godfather, but Mike is going to be joining
Speaker 1: in on all that too. So with that, I'm just
Speaker 1: happy to be back here with all of you and
Speaker 1: get a chance to do some roll call. Man, It's
Speaker 1: it's like i've It's like I've just been able to
Speaker 1: return home now. Good things, good times, Team Brad. Ryan's
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Buck. I hope you had a great
Speaker 1: holiday and got some rest. Yeah, Brad, I think I
Speaker 1: just slept for three days straight. At one point, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to know how much I wanted you to
Speaker 1: know how much I enjoyed all your guests, so it's
Speaker 1: especially Ben Weinearten. I think we could get our young
Speaker 1: up and comers and those interested in politics to take
Speaker 1: a moment and listening people like you and Ben, this
Speaker 1: world would be a much better place. I know you
Speaker 1: try to avoid the whole global warming topic, but I
Speaker 1: thought you might enjoy reading Bjorn Lomberg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Speaker 1: It's an older read from two thousand and one, but
Speaker 1: I found it very enlightening. Thanks again for a great show,
Speaker 1: and I wish you all the best in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Brad Well, Happy new year to you, Brad, and thank
Speaker 1: you for your kind message. I'll pass along your a
Speaker 1: kudos to my friend Ben wine Garden. I've known Ben
Speaker 1: for gosh, I don't know five or six years now.
Speaker 1: We go back quite a ways to when we were
Speaker 1: both at the Blaze. But he's a great guy, very sharp,
Speaker 1: very insightful fellow, and I'm glad that he did such
Speaker 1: a good job here when he was guest hosting. And Brad,
Speaker 1: in terms of getting the word out to the conservative youth,
Speaker 1: please tell any young conservative this goes for all of
Speaker 1: you listening. Please tell any young conservatives. You know, Hey,
Speaker 1: have you downloaded the Buck Sexton Show. It's a podcast
Speaker 1: you can download anytime you want on iTunes listen anytime
Speaker 1: you like. You can also listen to the iHeart app.
Speaker 1: So it's really easy for anybody to listen whenever they
Speaker 1: want to listen. And I hope you can spread the
Speaker 1: word Julie right, it's happy birthday, Buck. I heard you
Speaker 1: mentioned you have a birthday or did so? Hope it
Speaker 1: was great. I had a birthday the twenty first. Can't
Speaker 1: have you can't wait to have you live against She'll
Speaker 1: tie well, Julie, thank you, and it's great to be
Speaker 1: back live with all of you. And I'm just thankful
Speaker 1: to be still going strong here on radio. Thirty seven
Speaker 1: years young, thirty seven man, I'm as Miss Molly calls it,
Speaker 1: I'm the oldest thirty seven year old she knows, which
Speaker 1: is true. I'm starting to get creaky bones, I really
Speaker 1: do you know. I know everyone has their news resolution
Speaker 1: with getting back into shape. I'm going to find the
Speaker 1: energy to get back to the gym. I have not
Speaker 1: been lazy. I've just been over to hired. There's a difference, right,
Speaker 1: overtired is is when we're sorry. Lazy is oh? I
Speaker 1: finished work at five. I got there at you know,
Speaker 1: nine thirty this morning, and I just sat at a
Speaker 1: desk and now I just want to watch TV. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go to the gym. That's me being
Speaker 1: lazy overtired has I've been up since five am. I
Speaker 1: finished radio at nine pm, and I have not a
Speaker 1: lot of time in between. I can't go to the gym.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to overcome that. That's one of
Speaker 1: my resolutions for this year. I've got a few of them,
Speaker 1: but that's definitely one of them. At m Rights, I'm
Speaker 1: wondering in relation to the border, could we resurrect the
Speaker 1: private Tiers license to secure the border and add much
Speaker 1: needed incentive to stay at home. By the way, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Private tiers license, you mean essentially set up the border
Speaker 1: like for bounty hunters to grab illegals who cross. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Would they be using force? That could get very tricky,
Speaker 1: very quickly. But at least you are. You are thinking
Speaker 1: outside the box, Adam, and for that I give you thanks.
Speaker 1: Carolyn Writes, better start practicing your Elizabeth Warren voice. It's
Speaker 1: a different screech than Hillary Happy New Year. Wow. I
Speaker 1: raw I was a Harvard law professor, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want the redistribution of wealth, and I've got
Speaker 1: to find a way to kind of get into She
Speaker 1: has a there's a faint Midwestern twang, but it's mostly
Speaker 1: just her her unpleasant screech that that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: I'll have to think if I can do a really
Speaker 1: good Elizabeth Warren impression that doesn't just sound like a
Speaker 1: Hillary redux how wow. But we'll see. Um. I will
Speaker 1: keep that one mind. You know, I've never developed a
Speaker 1: Trump impression, and some of you asked me why that is.
Speaker 1: I just think there are so many bad Trump impressions
Speaker 1: out there that I don't want to fall into that
Speaker 1: category of being yet another dumpster fire of Trump impersonation.
Speaker 1: Tia writes, Hi Buck, happy belated birthday. I always love
Speaker 1: your show and love your high quality subs. When you're
Speaker 1: not with us. Raheem is a favorite. Of course. Just
Speaker 1: listen to Harland Harland Show on podcast and his show
Speaker 1: was outstanding, great guests, how to PAUSI frequently to take notes,
Speaker 1: but we still look forward to your return. Well to you.
Speaker 1: I like to have great feelings, you know, some in
Speaker 1: the radio business, there's a there's conflicting ideas in this
Speaker 1: conflicting advice. And I will tell you that some people
Speaker 1: take the opinion that they want to have people fill
Speaker 1: in for them that make the audience miss them. And
Speaker 1: this is a well, this is a longstanding, well known
Speaker 1: radio trick. You know. It's like you always want your
Speaker 1: understudy to be a level or two below if you're
Speaker 1: the lead, if you're the star on the play. I
Speaker 1: don't take that approach at all. I want the best
Speaker 1: fellains that we can get on the show. And that's
Speaker 1: why you know, I'm trying to get new people involved
Speaker 1: and have you and I listen to all of you,
Speaker 1: all of your feedback. I want this this time and
Speaker 1: this whether you're listening live, you're listening on the download,
Speaker 1: the podcast after the fact. I want this to be
Speaker 1: something you look forward to whether I'm here or not,
Speaker 1: but hopefully a little more look forward to it when
Speaker 1: I'm here. That's the plan, But I want you to
Speaker 1: like it no matter what. You know. A good example
Speaker 1: this is I used to fill in, as you know,
Speaker 1: for a Rush Limball, and I can tell you that
Speaker 1: to fill in for Rush is such an honor and
Speaker 1: is considered such a fantastic opportunity and such exposure, such
Speaker 1: a good stepping stone for your career, that even to
Speaker 1: be a fill in for Rush is very, very competitive.
Speaker 1: I know some of you're like, well, Buck, you know
Speaker 1: you and Mark Snein and Eric Ericsson, and you know
Speaker 1: there are a few others that I'm sure come to
Speaker 1: your mind right away. Yeah, But for every for everyone
Speaker 1: who's me, Mark or Eric or anyone else who's filled in,
Speaker 1: there are one hundred people that are hoping to fill
Speaker 1: in for Rush, that have pitched themselves to Rush's team,
Speaker 1: that you know are waiting in line to fill in
Speaker 1: for Rush. So I want that to be the vibe.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you that there are many more
Speaker 1: people that ask to fill in on this show than
Speaker 1: I'm able to accommodate, especially in the last twelve months
Speaker 1: or so, because you know, now that it's in national.
Speaker 1: It was one thing when it was digital only, but
Speaker 1: now that we're in national syndication and people have an
Speaker 1: understanding of how many individuals listen to the show live
Speaker 1: and on replay, they want to they want to get
Speaker 1: to speak to all the U folks. D Rites, Happy Birthday, Buck,
Speaker 1: a longtime listener, What are you coming back to the
Speaker 1: EIB microphone? Well, do you speak in of the EIB.
Speaker 1: There is a a longstanding policy of you can't be
Speaker 1: a Rush fill in if you have your own syndicated show,
Speaker 1: which which I understand. I mean, really, if you think
Speaker 1: about this way, it's it's a way of saying, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're going to be a fill in for Rush
Speaker 1: and you can promote your you're doing, that's great. But
Speaker 1: if you're going to fill in for Rush and you
Speaker 1: have your own show, you know you're promoting it on
Speaker 1: his air, that's his audience. You know, I understand why
Speaker 1: that's not something that's done. So the answer is, as
Speaker 1: long as this show is going, I don't think I'll
Speaker 1: be back at the EIB microphone. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that I'm not constantly in contact with those guys. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the EIB team Rush obviously at
Speaker 1: the head of it are you know, they are amazing
Speaker 1: and I have nothing but nothing but love and respect
Speaker 1: for those folks. Britney writes, hurry up and come back.
Speaker 1: The Freedom Hutt needs you. Brittany, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's very very kind. To you. Very nice
Speaker 1: to you to say, and I'm glad to be back Jennifer,
Speaker 1: whoa quite a long message here. Hello and happy birthday, Buck.
Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying your birthday on the holiday season
Speaker 1: with some well deserved R and R. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: heard by now about the Newman, California law enforcement officer,
Speaker 1: Corporal Singh, who was shot and killed at what I
Speaker 1: am onto Suber twenty six. This was the town I
Speaker 1: grew up in. When I was there mostly in the eighties,
Speaker 1: it was practically Mayberry and Andy Griffith show reference. The
Speaker 1: population was about thirty five hundred nowns around eleven thousand.
Speaker 1: My grandparents owned a small restaurant there. There were no stoplights,
Speaker 1: no fast food chains, and the fire department was made
Speaker 1: up of volunteers. This little town is in the heart
Speaker 1: of California's agricultural valley. As you can imagine, there are
Speaker 1: many Mexican immigrant laborers that lived there. Everyone that I
Speaker 1: know still lives or lived in Newman in the small
Speaker 1: towns that surround that, are just heartbroken by the loss
Speaker 1: of this law enforcement officer. He's the first who have
Speaker 1: been killed in the line of duty in Newman. I
Speaker 1: feel a sense of loss, even though I didn't know him.
Speaker 1: I pray for his young family. Buck. I've been listening
Speaker 1: to you since the Real News days on the Blaze.
Speaker 1: I look forward to listening to you when you come
Speaker 1: back to your show. I hope you give this topic
Speaker 1: the discussion deserves. This is everything right now. The man
Speaker 1: arrested for a killing, Corporal Sing, is an legal alien
Speaker 1: with ties to this Sereno gangs that has been busted
Speaker 1: for DUI's Corporal Sing was a legal immigrant who did
Speaker 1: everything in the proper manner to become a citizen and
Speaker 1: a law enforcement officer, and then he was killed in
Speaker 1: this way as sickening. I listen to every one of
Speaker 1: your shows. I appreciate all you're doing. Shields High, Jennifer Well.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Well said at all that, and you know it's
Speaker 1: it is, especially when you are from a community as
Speaker 1: tight en it as the one you're talking about, and
Speaker 1: you lose a law enforcement officer. It rattles the whole community.
Speaker 1: People definitely have a sense of unease and anxiety and
Speaker 1: honestly a little bit of fear when that happens. So
Speaker 1: I can understand why it's as upsetting to you as
Speaker 1: it is, and clearly this the problem of illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: It's just going to continue until we force political consequences
Speaker 1: and the Democrats and some of the Republicans who are
Speaker 1: aiding and abetting this whole process. Donna writes, Happy birthday, Buck.
Speaker 1: Mary Beth writes Happy birthday, Buck, and Donna says, it's
Speaker 1: the same birthday as your son. I hope that, in
Speaker 1: spite of the shocking loss of Bree, you had an
Speaker 1: awesome birthday. Enjoy your time off. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: your return. Love you original Saturday Squad. Donna, Well, Donna,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Thank all of you. I've got
Speaker 1: way more birthday messages than I can respond to here,
Speaker 1: but every single one of them was really appreciated and
Speaker 1: it meant a lot to read them. And that was
Speaker 1: I just took a kind of a day of, you know,
Speaker 1: chilling on my birthday. I did not really do anything
Speaker 1: particularly important, So thank you so much for writing to me,
Speaker 1: and it made the day a lot more special. And
Speaker 1: we've otherwise been and that's gonna be it for today.
Speaker 1: Wow another first show, first show in of twenty nineteen. Wow,
Speaker 1: how time does fly? Like I said, tell somebody this year,
Speaker 1: your resolution as a member of Team Buck is to
Speaker 1: get this month one new person to download this show.
Speaker 1: That's all I want for Christmas, all I want for
Speaker 1: my birthday. And I'm telling you we're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: amazing things with your help. So I just tell one person.
Speaker 1: Each one of you listening to this hey the Buck
Speaker 1: Sex and Show should check it out downloaded on iTunes,
Speaker 1: or listen to the iHeart app and without my friends
Speaker 1: until tomorrow and every day thereafter. She'ls high