WEBVTT - Deep State Corruption 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.640 Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.040 us or you were with the terrorists. If you got 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.840 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.079 are satisfied with President of the United States, take it 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.200 to a bank. Together, we will make America great again. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.440 It's what you've been waiting for all day. The Buck 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.480 Sexton Show joined the Conversation called Buck Toll Free at 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.240 eight four four nine hundred Buck. That's eight four four 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.720 nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.720 Buck Sexton. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Thank 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.440 you so much for hanging out. Pleasure and a privilege 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.400 to have you joining me here in the Freedom Hut. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.959 We have a freestyle Friday and Effect, which means we're 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.039 going to cover a whole bunch of different things throughout 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.360 the show, getting some serious stuff, have some fun, and 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.800 of course a little bit of St. Patrick's Day celebration 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:17.360 coming up later on. So we have a couple of 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.199 main news stores. I wanted to get to today and 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.759 that has to do with the latest on the investigation McCabe. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.560 I think we're on McCabe firing watch though right this 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.880 could happen. It may occur even while we are on air. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.520 There is the chance that we will bring you then 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:43.840 the the on air as it happens, or as it's reported, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.800 at least breaking news about the firing. And so that's 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.680 just just keep that in mind that we might be 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.840 spicing up this Friday show a little bit with some 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.440 some breaking news there. And I would say about the 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:03.920 McCabe firing, usually I would refrain from having any sort 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.680 of a celebratory tone or and I'm not by the way, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.160 I would not celebrate it. I think it may be justice, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.400 but I would not celebrate it. There's a difference. But 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.920 usually i'd be a little more sympathetic to a multi decade, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:22.320 multi decade government servant who was about to get his pension. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.800 It seems a little intense, But then you realize two things, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.400 or at least I realized two things as I think 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:34.040 about this. One. The conduct must be really egregious for 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.440 the Inspector General of the FBI to feel that a 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.120 termination at this stage of McCabe's career is necessary. We 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.040 don't know what the conduct is yet, so I can't feel, well, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.520 we don't even know if he's gonna get fired, right, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.919 But worried to be fired, and we don't know for what. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.959 Not clear to me if it's a bit stern, or 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.400 if it's exactly what has called for without knowing the 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.200 facts I leaned toward. It must have been really bad 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.760 if they're thinking about of this. But then there's the 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.680 the other component of this. I guess I'm getting into 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.760 the McCabe stuff. I'm switching the script here. I know 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.840 I this is all just a show that comes together 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.000 in my head. So it's not like we write it 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.480 all out beforehand and we've got blocks and different segments 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.160 like on TV, and now we have to have this 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.440 person on right. I can do whatever I want. The 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.000 Freedom hunt is a free flowing it's almost like a 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.720 living organism, my friends, all of us together. So the 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.120 McCabe firing main fact happened. The other reason that I 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.600 find myself feeling a little bit like, hey, I can't 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.800 I can't feel too much sympathy for the possible firing 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.880 of McCabe is that other people who may in fact 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:52.960 have suffered from McCabe's partisan actions have been ruined in 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.560 this process of figuring out what happened and who was 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.400 doing what at the d O j FBI, Russia lusion, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.040 the Muddler probe, all this stuff, right, all these different 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.360 pieces that are coming together, and it's hard to feel 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.600 all that much sadness for somebody who may have not 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.760 just stood by but being a part of trying to 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.560 ruin other people's lives. It troubles me that we have 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.279 now come to a place in our political discourse where 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.120 we seem to and when when I say we, I 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.120 mean a lot of Americans, not really you with me. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.160 A lot of Americans seem to just want whoever disagrees 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.480 with them to be charged with the crime. And I 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.920 would say, well, it's different with Hillary, because it's not 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.040 that we didn't conjure up Hillary's crime. She committed them 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.839 and they were real and she got away with it. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.680 But they still want to lock up people on the 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.159 other side of the aisle for minor crimes or perhaps 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.880 even no crime at all. You had to Dershoitz, I 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.880 Alan Dershowitz speaking about this and this comparison earlier today, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.800 the Harvard law professor, I'm sure many of you are 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.040 familiar with. Here's what was said. General Flynn led guilty 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.480 to lying to investigators. A lot of people say Hey, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.440 look he did. General Flynn did no worse than what 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.920 Mr McCabe did and he lost everything. Is that a 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.520 fair comparison. No, he shouldn't have pleaded guilty. If he 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.200 wasn't guilty, he obviously pleaded guilty. That ends the matter. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.120 But I haven't heard anything about McCabe acknowledging or admitting anything. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.840 And absent and admission, I think you need proof, so 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.960 you know, just saying he shouldn't have pleaded guilty. But 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.080 the fact of the matter is that when you face 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.080 down federal prosecutors in the federal government and they have 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.760 you on one of these things, and they may be 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.560 hiding exculpatory information, they may be colluding behind the scenes, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:59.520 what choice do you really have. I've spoken to friends 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.520 of mine on prosecutor prosecutorial side about this, and they'll say, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.120 you know, if we offer you a deal, you don't 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:11.120 take it because the federal sentences are stiff, they are rough. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.640 I mean, it's easy for Dershowitz to say this, but 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:19.560 but the reality is that for Flynn, for Flynn, if 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.880 he had not taken a deal, he could have gotten 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.839 the max. Maybe who knows, they could say, oh, there's 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.760 extenuating circumstances. At a minimum, who's gonna serve a year 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.560 or two in prison prison for lying about a non crime? 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.120 And now we have McCay more and more information. By 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.960 the way, I have a story, big story that it's 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.320 actually the main story on I believe on Fox News 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.799 right now as we go on air um on Fox 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:50.839 News dot com. Yes it is struck page texts reveal 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:56.599 personal relationship between FBI official judge recused from the Flynn case. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.400 We have Sean Davis joining us later on in the 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.680 show today with that information. He is the co author 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.760 with Molly Hemingway of this piece. They have the text 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.600 messages that show this very strange relationship between a d 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.600 o J. Lawyer, FBI agent who was, keep in mind, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.880 the director of counterintelligence at FBI, or maybe he was 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.040 a deputy director, but very senior counterintelligence officer at the FBI, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.840 involved in the Hillary email investigation, involved in the Mueller 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.920 probe in the other stages, had to be pushed out 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.320 of the Mueller probe, and he had a relationship with 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.560 the fins a court judge that seems very very shady. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.600 In fact, it was the same judge who presided over 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.600 the guilty plea of General Flynn. So to Dershowitz's point, Okay, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.120 the process is the process, But what if the process 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:53.480 is tainted? What about the Ted Stevens situation? Um, what 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.760 about that where you had a senator who was railroaded 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.840 by partisan esecutors, whether it was because they didn't like 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.520 Republicans or because they just wanted to get a scalp. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.560 That's on the record, that's clear they hit evidence. So yeah, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.200 Stevens was facing all these charges, they had exculpatory evidence 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.240 on the center from Alaska, and by the way, that 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.920 then led to the Democrats picking up that Senate seat, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:25.000 which was necessary for the passage of Obamacare. Understand. I 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:30.480 guess you'd call the political butterfly effect here. If prosecutors 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.640 going after Ted Stevens can result in a situation where 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.240 Obamacare can be passed, we need to take these things 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.920 very seriously when you're talking about corruption cases at a 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.360 high level, and it doesn't get any higher than a 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:47.160 presidential campaign, and the presidential administration that we are currently 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.880 is currently embattled. Um Ari Fleischer took a slightly different 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:58.600 tone than Dershowitz today. Remember him from the Bush administration Look, 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.360 there's only one way to do this, and it's by 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.440 the book. If there is precedent, If the SBI Inspector 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.440 General has previously fired people, meaning they did not get 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.319 any of their pension, they should follow that president. If 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.960 there are examples where they're mitigating circumstances, do they apply here? 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.520 Taking away a man's pench and a woman's pension who 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.760 has been a lifelong government bureacrat is a heavy, heavy 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.079 sentence shouly be imposed if it's deserved. The facts in 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.880 this case seemed to suggest it's deserved. We got to 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.640 know what they are, and I think that we're going 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.600 to be finding out he relatively soon. I think he's 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.959 gonna get fired. I set it today on Outnumbered on 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.720 the Fox News couch. I believe McCabe is gonna get fired, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.360 which is rare. I remember when I was at the NYPD, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.199 there was a case, it was some time before I 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.760 got there, about um a guy who had missus subpoena 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.640 power miss you subpoena power in order to get the 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.360 records of either next wife or an ex girlfriend. I forget, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.079 but that's a bit. I mean, there's a huge no no. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.679 And he had been on for a long time, and 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.520 I think he loves I think he I don't remember now. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.079 I think he lost his pension. I'm pretty sure he 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:14.200 did force appoenaing the phone records, so that's this can happen. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.000 And it is really for a government servant, short of 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.760 criminal sanction, it's the it's the ultimate, the ultimate punishment 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.000 because if you're if you're close to getting and this 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.080 guy's days from getting his pension, this is what you've 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.720 been looking forward to and waiting for for a long time. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.480 So we will see. But I think he's gonna get 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.319 He's gonna get canned. Jonathan Turley, the law professor, he 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.079 also spoke about this, And I'm just trying to give 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.600 you a variety of feelings and opinions on this one. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.240 I actually meant to go to Turley first, but I 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.040 went to Dershwitz instead. Who's you never know what you're 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.360 gonna get with the Dirsh. You know, the Dirsh is uh. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.960 He's kind of a wild man. Sometimes sometimes you're with him, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.120 sometimes you're not. Turley, he's he's a steady player in 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.599 the legal analysisiety. Here's what he had to say. The 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.839 real is strange thing about all of this is that 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.080 McCabe so far has been worried more about pensions than prison. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.240 That's not the choice that was given to Michael Flynn. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:15.160 Michael Flynn, if you recall, was charged with false statements, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.640 even though Comey's investigators reportedly believed that Flynn didn't intend 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.040 to mislead them. That's not, apparently the conclusion of the 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:29.439 Inspector General with regard to McCabe. He's very important. The 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:35.800 FBI Inspector General, from what we know, claims that there 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.480 was a lack of candor from McCabe with regard to 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.880 his statements to investigators. Winning the FBI's Inspector General team 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.679 about what happened when it came to the when it 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.599 came to discussions with the media, and perhaps anything that 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.920 had to do with other the Hillary email investigation and 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.839 or looking into the Clinton Foundation, and a lack of 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:07.800 candor is a bureaucratese way of saying lied. But you'll 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.360 notice how important words are, right, extremely careless versus gross 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.199 negligence that kept Hillary out of prison, and courtesy of 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:24.600 lanky weird ocomy, changing just those words was exculpatory. Oh well, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:30.920 she wasn't grossly negligence. She was just extremely careless. Andy McCabe, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.120 he's at a different category, different standard because he wasn't lying, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:42.440 he was just lacking candor. Oh you'll see how lacking 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.040 candor Freendie McCabe may or may not result in disciplinary sanction, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.520 but a judgment call about the veracity about the truthfulness 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.240 of General Michael Flynn. A judgment call was made that 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.800 he should be criminally prosecuted for it. And if it 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:02.199 was a judgment call, my friends, don't you think he 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.199 should have gotten the benefit of the doubt. That's what 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.840 we keep seeing time and again from all of these investigations, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.000 Hilary's emails, the Clinton Foundation, Russia collusion, all of it. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.079 The Democrats somehow always gets the benefit of the doubt, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:25.680 and then some the Republican, the person tied to Trump. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.440 It's what the doubt of the benefit, whatever we would 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:34.160 call it, gets the raw end of the deal, the 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.360 raw end of the deal. And this happens with too 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.480 great a consistency and too great a frequency for it 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.880 to be a coincidence. This is the deep state that 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.800 we talked about. This is the corruption that grew to 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.800 the very top of the Department of Justice and the FBI, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.319 and we are just beginning to get some of the 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.679 truth here. We're just beginning to see this for what 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.319 it really was. We'll have we got more on this. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.240 And also people are WHOA Russia. Russia's getting interesting right now. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.480 They they have retaliated. I'll give you the details on that. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.280 You have to stay with me. But also it is Friday, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.160 so John, let's not leave people out who want to 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:21.480 get in on the I'm putting action movie. People keep 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.320 asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.000 but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. Quote, you have 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:37.200 a right to be. Friday's don't come fo eight four 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.040 four n eight to five my friends eight four four 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.760 buck talking more about shady d O J stuff, McCabe's 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.560 pension on the line, and then Russia, all that more 0:14:49.680 --> 0:15:03.960 coming up. The behavior, if it's manifested into action with 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.240 your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation one 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.960 way or the other, then that I mean that that's 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:15.400 borderline criminal behavior, manipulating an investigation. I think I think 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.880 that this i G Report is going to be particularly impactful, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.400 more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.080 think you're gonna see some pure TNT come out in 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:29.240 this in this i G report. That was Chris Swecker, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.800 who was an assistant who was the assistant director of 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.520 the FBI. He was on Fox News actually right after it, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.720 right after I was on today and making some some predictions. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.320 I totally agree with them. And there is something there's 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.760 There are criminal statutes that can apply. Just because you're 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.080 in government doesn't give you a free pass with stuff. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.120 We all know that. Obviously with classified information you have 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:57.560 criminal ramifications for that, but also official misconduct. Uh, and 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.440 it doesn't just have to be fraud. If you do 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.080 something really really bad and use your authority as a 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.040 government employee to do it, getting fired is not the 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.960 worst thing that can happen to you. There are other 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.720 things that can happen to you too, So I think 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.240 everyone needs to remember that with this whole FBI situation 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.080 as well. We have to see what comes out. I 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.360 think the the i G report will be made public 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.840 so we will know. Um. Jesse in Jackson, Mississippi, Hey, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:29.880 Jesse Gratings, book Sels high brother shield Side Jesse. I 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.880 just had to call him, mess with you a little bit. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:38.880 I happen to be watching Outnumbered this morning on Fox. Yeah. Nice, okay, Yeah, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.480 I love that show. You know, it's funny because I 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.920 watch you on TV and it's it amazes me because 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.200 you look like you're about to graduate from high school. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.000 You're a very young looking guy to have the experience 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.320 and the knowledge, and I'm almost forty man, as Miss 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.200 Molly keeps reminding me, I'm up, I'm getting up there. Yeah, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.600 but I mean you look like a kid. But I 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.200 said there, And I watched you right on the verge 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.720 of losing your cool with Marie Harf, and I'm like, well, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.560 he's gonna choker any minute now, you know, I gotta 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.480 I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you something. People 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.520 don't I don't think they know this, but it's actually 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.600 it's actually all love because Marie and I go way back. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.760 I've known Marie for we figured out date on set 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.159 for twelve years. Marie's a friend of mine. We have 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.800 a lot of mutual friends in Calm. We knew each 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.680 other back in d C. Marie Harf, who you see 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.600 on Fox all the time, is an old friend of mine. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.280 Jillian Turner, who you also see on Fox News, she's 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:33.639 a friend of mine from when I lived in d 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.320 C and I was with the agency. So some of 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.880 the some of the other national security punits you see 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.159 out there were literally my social group in d C. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.000 Which is pretty funny when you think about it. Yeah, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.240 I mean you went from smiling to roll in your 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.760 eyes so eventually looking like you wanted to choker. Well, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.720 well can we stay? Let's let's you know, let's just 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.200 no no, no need for choking imagery here. I look, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.239 I think we got it got a little. It got 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.360 a little testy today sometimes, but it was all within 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.560 the It was all based on the substance. And I 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.679 gotta say I think I was actually much more. Uh, 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.280 some of my my colleagues were having a much more 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.840 strenuous debate than I was having with any of them. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.600 There was off to my left, things were getting really 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.399 feisty for those you want to go back and see it. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.120 I mean, look, sometimes I get a little spunky on TV. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:22.960 What can I tell you? Jesse? Hey, but I know 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.879 you're just giving me a little bit of the rough stuff. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.600 But it's all in love. Good to tell. Jesse's laugh. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.119 He's having a good laugh. Jesse's got a good laugh. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.760 Shields hide brother. Thank you for calling in eight four 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.119 or four to five. You want to chat with me, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.000 please give me a ring. We got lines open here. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.280 We got a bunch of phenomenal guests line up. I 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.480 think we got three guests line up on the show 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.000 later on coming up. So just keeping you on your 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.400 toes team can't keep you bored on Friday. It's gonna 0:18:46.400 --> 0:19:01.159 be fun. He's holding the line for Ama Buck set 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.000 his back. We want to get to the bottom of it, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.200 and we're really upset when you see at the highest 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.720 levels of the d J and FBI individuals who are 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.359 trying to turn their departments essentially into a political arm 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.399 of the DNC and Hillary Clint campaign that needs to 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.440 be investigated. Yes it does. Shoes is gonna be only 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.880 other foot folks. The pendulum can swing the other way 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.760 with using investigations as a weapon of politics, and in 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.000 this case, I think it's justified. I don't even I'm 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.240 not even looking at this from the cynical perspective, although 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.680 we could. You got the party in powers getting hound 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.720 with all these investigations. Oh yeah, they want to play 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.520 that way. Maybe we should play that way. Maybe two 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:44.160 can play at that game. I think it's about time. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.920 They think that the Mulla probe should stretch on for 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.360 two three four years. Yeah, just more and more investigations. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.080 Witnesses people losing their life savings, trying to defend themselves, 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.240 leaks to the just, to the CNN, Lucy, and then 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.760 they would probably love that. It's so fancy, Lucy. And 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:07.200 then he's Manafique, but Washington Post, New York Times, all 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.760 these others, and maybe we should just start investigating them. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.080 See how they like it. You know, do one to 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.800 others might be a lesson. We need to teach the 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.240 Democrat deep state do one to others a reminder of 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.280 the Golden Rule via federal investigation. It could be it's 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.760 it's away, folks, It's one method. We could try it, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.880 all right, lots of lines, lit, I think every line 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.520 is let. All right, let's get into it. We have, uh, 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:38.680 first up, Horace in Columbia, South Carolina. Hey Horse, Hey Buck, 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.840 how's it going, man? It's good? Thank you for your call, sir, Yes, sir, so, 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.320 your show yesterday was very timely, uh with with the 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:53.320 pole topic of liberals not wanting to use facts to debate. Yes, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.639 the psychology of liberal host or progressive hostility right, So 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.840 with the whole gun can fold debates coming up again, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.399 I mean I've lived through this as many times as 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.080 you have. I've tried to step outside of my box 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.720 and say, Okay, do they have a coherent argument somewhere 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.720 like Glenn Vick's control book on our side or John 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.119 Watt's books? Is there anything you could point me to 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:25.880 where they have any sort of factual this is our 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.960 side on gun control and why we want it. I 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.520 I can't think of what the the single seminal work 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.480 would be on the left for gun control off the 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.719 top of my head, but I would say that if 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:39.200 you want to know what they think and what the 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.320 arguments are that they use. I actually have a web browser. 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.000 This is true. I have a web browser that is 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.280 just bookmarked with and filled with all of my leftist 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.359 reading material. So I go on Huffing and post Slate, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:54.760 New York Times Watch, which was really interesting to me 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.080 because part of that article I told you about about 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.680 the psychology of of hostility and debates was we know 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.000 their side and they don't know ours. I actually spend 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.600 a good portion of my time every day reading how 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:13.480 the left explains to their own different arguments and ideas 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.240 and what their positions are so that I really understand 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.560 them so so really, I think the best place to 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.199 go would just be do a search in the New 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.480 York Times editorial page of on guns, same thing the 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.399 Washington Post, and you'll see a consolidation there of what 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:32.600 the progressive view is. In terms of any one book, 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.840 I don't know of. I don't know of a liberal 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.399 that has tackled the issue of gun control from the 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.919 perspective of let's go all in because here's the thing, horace, 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.399 they don't want to put down on paper for the 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.600 most part, what the real goal is, which is confiscation 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.320 and the elimination of the Second Amendment. Remember that there's 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.879 a there's a dishonesty that's inherent in a lot of 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.720 the liberal arguments against guns, and that they won't tell 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:59.359 us what they really want, which is confiscation. I've found 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.320 it hard, you know, I fortnelt from guns and looked 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:05.439 at just what is their stance on the abortion? Can 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:10.199 they give a coherent here is why they can't they? Oh, 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.159 they would point you to they would point you to 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:15.600 the judicial opinion Roe v. Wade. I think is probably 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.760 there you're right, I agree with you, but I'm just 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.560 saying that's probably what they would say. And you'll notice, 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.159 I mean, the arguments that they use in favor of abortion. 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.200 It's a lot of buzzwords and a lot of sloppy thinking. 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.760 It's very weak. Even honest liberals that I know will 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.639 say that Roe v. Wade is garbage legal interpretation, but 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.280 they still agree with the They agree with the outcome, 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.760 but they know that it's bad law exactly. Yeah, you know, 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.840 well it is uh and you know, look, this is 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:44.840 oh wow. I'm just noticing now they're they're running the 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:48.400 text messages between Page and Struck on TV as we're 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:49.639 on the air. Horse. We'll have to get to that 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.200 in a second. But as as for you know what, Horse, 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:53.639 let me give this some thought. You know, whould be 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.320 the guy to ask. I will, because I'm in contact 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.400 with him. I'm in contact directly with John Lott. I'll 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.280 send him a message and say, hey, what's the best 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:06.159 one place counter argument book on basically pro gun control? 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:07.600 And I'll see what he says and if I get 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:09.359 an answer to let you know, how about that? I 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:11.199 appreciate it. Yeah, you can just mention it on your 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:13.680 show absolutely rock and roll. Brother, Thank you for calling 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:16.359 and have a great Sympatrick staying a good weekend. Let's 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:20.400 take Uh. We've got so many wonderful colors here today, 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:25.800 Herb in New Jersey? What up, Herb? Hey Shields high, 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:29.919 Buck Fields High, Herb. I have just two quick comments 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:32.399 before I get to my point. First of all, during 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.280 your opening monologue, yeah me chuckle a couple of times, 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.480 and I thought to myself, Man, Buck is such a 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:40.560 fun guy to hang out with, even if only on 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:45.440 the radio. Thank you. I appreciate you're certainly you're certainly welcome. Um, 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:50.000 it's it's a great show. UM. My second comment is um, 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.000 and you know try I hope you're wearing a hat 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.560 to keep your head from swelling up here we go. UM. 0:24:56.280 --> 0:25:02.159 Because of your background, you see so many things that 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.320 most of us will never see. And when you're offering 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:10.000 your analysis on the air, uh being on radio or TV, UM, 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.919 you know you're doing so from a lens that sees 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:17.160 things a little bit deeper than most of us will 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:20.240 ever understand. And for that, I just want to thank 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:22.840 you for what you do uh here on the air 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:25.919 with us. So you're very kind. Her thank you. Now 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:30.760 going to my point, UM, you know I I believed 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:34.680 and fully supported and still do uh President Trump. UM. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.800 And in particular, um uh you know I was encouraged 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.760 by his promise to drain the swamp. Now, in the 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:49.800 case of Mr McCabe, if he doesn't instruct Attorney General 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:55.800 Sessions to make sure that Mr McCabe is fired, um 0:25:56.480 --> 0:26:02.399 as a message to all the other bad um that 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:04.280 you think that would be disappointing and that would be 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:09.199 failing to uphold Trump's promise of draining the swamp. Right, Yeah, well, 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:12.240 I can agree with you in principle, although the way 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:14.720 that this works is actually the President doesn't have any 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:18.320 direct say over this because it falls under civil service rules. 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.160 It's actually not something the President weighs in on. Specifically. 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:25.120 That said, the i G report, I believe has already 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:29.800 recommended firing. It's up to It's up to the Attorney General. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:31.600 So the i G, of course the Inspector General for 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:35.800 listening the a G. The Attorney General can decide that 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:38.760 he's going to go with the recommendation or not, So 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:43.040 it's really herb in Attorney General Sessions is hands whether 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:46.000 this is going to be a firing or not, and 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:47.920 we will have to see and thank you for the 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:49.960 kind words, sir. She'ld tie and have a great weekend, 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:56.920 a great St. Patrick's Day. Let's take Steve in Biloxi, Mississippi. Hey, Steve, 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:01.400 Steve here a TV. But I don't hear you. Where 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:06.359 are you, my friend? I think Steve taking nap. Steve's 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:10.399 disappeared on us. Oh he's listening on delay maybe and 0:27:10.520 --> 0:27:12.800 he says that, Buck, all right, Steve, we'll come back 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:14.719 to you. Maybe we'll try that. Let's get to uh, 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:18.600 look at Kenny up in Boston, our brother in Boston. Kenny, 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:21.480 what's going on? Hi? Buck? What's up? I got a 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:24.760 movie quote that may be pertinent here. Uh something last 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.560 week you said kinda disappointed me. You said something about 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.760 old movies stink or something to that. I think I said, 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:34.600 hold hold up, hold hold your horses, Kenny. I said, 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:38.200 black and white movies are overrated. And I stand behind that. 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:43.080 I just you know, John is literally pulling out the 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:46.440 gong on me right now. I have a quote from 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.000 a black and white movie, and I will tell you 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:50.720 the year of it. I'll give you a hint. Nineteen 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:53.600 fifty seven. It's a action movie. It's a war movie. 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:56.640 I consider all war movies to be action movies. It's 0:27:56.680 --> 0:28:01.240 a quote within a quote, so, uh, protagonist is quoting 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:07.080 an English writer named Samuel Johnson, and our protagonist says, well, 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:12.280 Samuel Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:24.159 And you know the movie you got me? What is it? 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:29.000 It's a movie called Paths of Glory. It's by Stanley Koprick, 0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:33.679 a fantastic director. And the protagonist was Kirk Douglas speaking 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:36.600 that I highly recommended. It's a World War one movie, 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:39.520 and there are very few World War one action movie. 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:42.440 This movie is is great. I think I should give 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.040 it a look one time, and I think you will 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:47.600 like this. And it's very realistic and it's very realistic 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:51.600 uh um war scenes. You know, pass the gloria. I'll 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:53.440 check it out. Thank you very much, Kenny for calling 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:57.160 in shields. How do you, buddy? Uh? You know, I've 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.160 got a whole list of Maybe I'll go back and 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:01.720 I'll try some more black and white movies just so 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:04.840 I can really put some meat on the bones of 0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:06.640 my criticism here. You know, if I'm gonna be a 0:29:06.680 --> 0:29:08.880 contrary the thing about being a contrarit is you. You 0:29:08.960 --> 0:29:11.920 gotta come prepared for battle. And I know that people 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:13.680 think that black and white movies are good. It's like 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:17.360 whenever I tell everybody that Bruce Springsteen is super overrated, 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:21.360 I'm it's accurate, right, exactly, It's just accurate. But the Springsteen, 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:23.080 I know, we've had some New Jersey people calling, and 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:26.400 the Springsteen fans come after you like the Beyonce mafia 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:29.200 comes after you like you are just at their mercy. 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:31.160 So you better be ready to be like, oh yeah, 0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:33.800 Why is it that he only has two songs you 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:35.840 can name off the top of your head? You know 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:39.760 you just I have the deep breath on this one. 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:42.760 Don't even get me started on Bob Dylan. Oh he's 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:46.840 the words smith of his generation. Please. Dylan sings about 0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:52.440 as well as as gurgling gurgen speaks. Mr jam Remary 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:55.720 singer song for Nick Soon. All right, we're gonna roll 0:29:55.720 --> 0:30:10.080 in a quick break. We'll be right back. We don't 0:30:10.080 --> 0:30:13.160 have any personnel changes at this time. But the president 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:16.120 shouldn't be bound because Democrats and in the Senate can't 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.160 do their job. If the president wants to be able 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:19.760 to make a change because he feels like it's the 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:22.240 right thing for the American people. His hands shouldn't be 0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:24.840 tied because Democrats failed to do what they were elected 0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:28.520 to do. This president was elected to put forward policies 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:31.760 and push those policies forward with the team that he selects, 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:33.800 not the team that the Democrats think he should have. 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:36.480 That's not how the system works. And just because they 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:38.800 don't want the president to have his full team, that 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:41.200 doesn't mean if he decided to make changes, he shouldn't 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:44.200 be able to. At this rate, the United States Senate 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:49.120 would take eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees. 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:53.160 Eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees. In 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:57.240 the first entire term of the George H. W. Bush administration, 0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:00.440 his entire four years, he faced one close your vote. 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.320 In the entire four years of the Clinton administration, he 0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:09.040 faced ten cloture votes. Under the George W. Bush administration, 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:13.400 the entire first term, he faced four closure votes. Barack 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:18.720 Obama face seventeen is in first entire four years. We 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:23.400 have faced seventy nine in our first fourteen months. This 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:28.000 is very important, folks. Those two sound bites, you are 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:33.680 getting a sense of how the Democrats are are stocking 0:31:33.760 --> 0:31:36.040 the pond and pulling fish out of it, if you will. 0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:39.080 They are, on the one hand, saying there's chaos, there's 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:42.040 all these unfilled slots, all these news stores, Washing Post 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:44.800 New York talks, Oh my gosh, we don't have enough 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:49.200 bureaucross what's gonna happen to us? Muffle? You've got the crumpets. 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.320 And then you find out that they won't let the 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:57.760 administration fill a lot of those slots. The numbers don't lie. 0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:01.240 Cloture votes are what is it's it's the term used 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.520 in the Senate for essentially shutting it down so there's 0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:07.880 no vote, right, That's that's what they do. It prevents 0:32:07.960 --> 0:32:11.680 there from being a vote on the nominees. Uh. And 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:15.920 they're just they're in the minority, but they're shutting it 0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:18.760 down time and again so on. So you actually have 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:25.920 Democrats complaining about how there aren't enough Trump administration staffings 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:28.160 that are getting filled, their staffers that are being pulled 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:31.960 in for these roles, while the Senate Democrats, with Chuck 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:35.480 Schumer leading them, are doing every literally everything in their power, 0:32:35.920 --> 0:32:39.320 not like theoretically they're actually are doing everything that they 0:32:39.400 --> 0:32:44.280 can to stop nominees from getting through. So they're they're 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:47.360 on they're on both sides of the transaction here. Yeah, 0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:50.880 they're they're like they're they're lighting there. They're taking matches 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:52.400 and throwing them into the house and then running the 0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:55.320 streets saying, oh my gosh, there's no fire department here. 0:32:55.600 --> 0:32:58.560 It's like, well, maybe stop blighting the house on fire. 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:00.680 That would be a better would be a better way 0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:06.280 to go. But the storyline about personnel and about the 0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:10.160 White House, look, I've seen the stories. To mc master, 0:33:10.320 --> 0:33:14.080 the National Security Advisor may not be long for this administration. 0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:15.840 But you know what, he's a four star general. He's 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:18.600 got a very distinguished career. He's a very well regarded guy. 0:33:18.640 --> 0:33:20.760 He's gonna be fine. You know, he served for a year. 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:24.200 Maybe we'll move on to something else. Chilkin at the 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:28.360 Veterans Affairs I think he might want to keep a 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:31.960 cardboard box handy in his office. I think right likely. 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:35.520 And who's the other I don't think Kelly's going I 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:38.360 don't buy that. I see that reporting. No way Trump 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:40.800 likes Kelly. Kelly Kelly and Trump, I don't. I don't 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:43.680 see that. People are saying it. But Nope, there may 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:47.520 be some people inside the White House that would like 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:51.360 to see Kelly go. I won't speculate on that, but 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:53.800 I'm sure you could probably take some guesses. Maybe some 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.080 people that are not not thrilled with Kelly right now. 0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:01.040 But that doesn't mean Trump's gonna say goodbye to him, 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:04.920 so I doubt that. But speaking of departures, this has 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:07.200 been reported all over the place. I actually say I'm 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:10.560 telling you this story out of some sympathy. So this 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:16.120 is multiple sources confirming that Rex Tillerson, and I'm only 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.440 I'm not telling you this to be gross, but you're 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:20.200 gonna probably see it. It's getting a lot of play 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:24.560 right now on social media. Rex Tillerson was fired while 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:29.719 he was in the lou That's how we found out 0:34:30.680 --> 0:34:34.279 he was in the Privy and the reason he was, 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:37.520 and he was told by Kelly, the White House Chief 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:39.799 of Staff. While he was in the lou. I saw 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:42.919 this headline. I thought, well, that's this is just weird 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:46.320 on so many levels. Tillerson had picked up a stomach 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:49.160 bug on his Africa trip, and so he was in 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:51.600 rough shape. And I just say this because I have 0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:55.240 I have been in that same spot stomach bug in Africa. 0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:56.680 Let me tell you things you never want to have 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:58.600 to tell anybody that you know, you never want to 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:00.120 have to say the words I've got to I m 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:04.520 acbug while I'm in Africa. Uh, and he got really sick. 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:06.800 So I feel badly for him, and it just makes me. 0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:10.279 It just reminds me that you can think you are tough, 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:12.359 you can think you are cool, but if you get 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.680 hit with the wrong kind of you eat some undercooked 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.880 meat in the third world country, my friends, you you 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:24.439 have a new sense of humility. Oh yeah, I don't. 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:27.080 I don't care who you are. You find me the 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:30.719 toughest dude. You find me the world's strongest man. And 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.239 he eats some uh, some bad kebab in uh, you know, 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:39.120 eat some bad kebab in Afghanistan. Oh, it's all over. 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:42.200 He's gonna have a rough couple of days. So I 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:44.799 feel badly for tellers everyone reporting on the story, because 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:46.320 you know, they're all laughing about how he was on 0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:50.719 the you know, on the porcelain throne while while he 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.440 was dethroned. But it was because he was dealing with 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:56.920 some food poisoning in Africa, which is I've I've been 0:35:56.960 --> 0:35:59.879 there with rough, rough stuff. So anyway you see that story, 0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:01.560 I at least know what's going on because the headlines 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:05.320 are all like fired while on the pot. There you go. 0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:07.719 It's not not the way the most secretaries of state 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:09.200 would want to go out. But also I would note 0:36:09.239 --> 0:36:12.759 that the reporters a little bit of glee and oh yeah, 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:15.920 this is you know, the the ignominious ending directs Tillerson's 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:19.120 tenure as Secretary of State. But hey, look happens to 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:33.480 the best of us, right, happened to me. The President 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.280 has also shown that he's been extremely tough on Russia 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:40.560 throughout his administration, and I think particularly you saw that 0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:43.279 today in the Russia sanctions that were put forward. I 0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:47.280 think you can see what the administration's viewpoint is simply 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:49.680 by looking at the actions that we took today by 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:53.239 placing new sanctions on Russia. Welcome back to the Buck 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:57.040 Sexton Show. There you had Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking about 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:01.480 the actions the White House taken against Russia, which is 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:05.399 scaring everyone so much. It's like we're entering some new 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:09.800 phase of a Cold war. People are so deeply concerned 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:13.120 about where all this is heading. And oh, yeah, there 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:18.000 you go. Something particularly about the All All Mile Russian 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:22.520 choral group is like, you know, you can just see 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:25.400 a submarine with a big hammer and sickle on it, 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:28.279 getting ready to bring the world to the brink of annihilation. 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:32.480 So I still think that's also the best Tom Clancy movie. 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:35.240 Tom Clancy book made a new movie Hunt for October. 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:39.879 So the Trump administration has come out with some new 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:43.879 actions against Russian last couple of days, more sanctions. They've 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:48.279 put the thirteen Russians indicted by Mueller's probe actually on 0:37:48.360 --> 0:37:52.360 the sanctions list. So that's pretty you know that that's 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:53.719 a gimme. I don't think that's a hard one to 0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:57.480 pull off. But also Russia has accused I'm sorry, the 0:37:57.480 --> 0:38:01.960 Trump administration has accused Russia of campaign of cyber attacks 0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:07.880 targeting the US power grid. This is from nprs website, 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:10.440 but the news here is pretty straightforward. The reporting similar 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:14.040 across platform, so just bear with me. This is NPR quote. 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:20.080 Since at least March, Russian hackers attempted to infiltrate numerous 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:27.760 sectors of American infrastructure, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, 0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:31.200 and manufacturing. According to a Department of Homeland Security report 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:34.799 published on Thursday. The announcement came as the White House 0:38:34.840 --> 0:38:38.880 impost sanctions against nineteen Russians and five entities for allegedly 0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:44.680 interfering in u S presidential election and other cyber attacks. 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:52.480 Let me state that this is not new Russia probing 0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:56.320 our cyber defenses trying to find ways in. This is 0:38:56.719 --> 0:39:01.759 the new surveillance for or future warfare. This is what 0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:06.440 we can expect to be happening with any adversary going forward. 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:11.080 They want to map out our electronic networks of all 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:14.879 kinds and if possible, not just know where things are 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:18.680 and know what we have, but also shut it down 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:23.080 when the time comes. Think about it if you had 0:39:23.120 --> 0:39:24.319 and this is where some of you I know are 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:26.719 probably yelling about e m p s as well, But 0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:30.440 given the way that we fight wars today, if you 0:39:30.520 --> 0:39:35.640 were able to shut off an adversary's electric grid, even 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:40.160 for a couple of hours, what kind of advantage that 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:42.759 would give you? Right? Think about what that would mean. 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:45.359 The panic that you set off and people say all 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:47.799 back that the military has you know, redundant power source 0:39:47.920 --> 0:39:50.400 isn't all right? But think about what what happened in 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:54.120 the civilian areas while that was going on, and any 0:39:54.200 --> 0:39:57.760 military strike that would be conducted with even a partial 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:01.440 power outage, are partial black out would just seem magnified 0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:05.399 in the mind of those that had, you know, those 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:07.040 that were in the dark basically right, and the rest 0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:09.839 of the country as well. And the Russians have been 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:11.799 working on this for a while. They've been they've been 0:40:12.040 --> 0:40:17.840 experimenting and probing for some or some time. So people 0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:20.200 are going to obviously look at this and be concerned, 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:23.160 as they should be. Let's not blow this out of proportion. 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:27.000 The problem comes in a sense with understanding what proportion 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:30.560 really is. I think that's fair to say, how do 0:40:30.640 --> 0:40:34.959 you respond to Russia poking around in our power grid? 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:40.320 What is a real what what is a realistic and 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:44.520 fair response to that. We've we're trying diplomatic stuff, We've 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:48.840 tried sanctions, We're putting additional sanctions on them. See, Russia 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:52.560 can't be blocked off from the world. Russia can't be contained. 0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:55.399 Look at what's going on, even with North Korea, where 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:59.520 you have a vast majority of the world states that 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:02.399 matter are that's probably a very unpc thing to say, 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:04.960 but on the global stage, only certain countries really really 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:08.480 make a difference on security policy. And now we're all 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:10.600 unique snowflakes and we're all equal in God's eyes. But 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.759 I'm talking about countries and power politics here. Ah, the 0:41:16.360 --> 0:41:19.640 North Koreans are able to get around sanctions and they 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:24.399 can't even be effectively cut off from global markets from 0:41:24.480 --> 0:41:29.560 cyber activity. You know, containment is never perfect, and containment 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:34.000 is even harder with a country the size of Russia 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:38.279 and the importance of Russia. And you've got Putin is 0:41:38.320 --> 0:41:43.279 about to coast to a fourth I believe victory as presidents, 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:44.920 so he's who are going to be dealing with for 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:50.040 the foreseeable future. That's why as we look at these 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:54.560 different polkes and prods that we are getting from the Russians, 0:41:55.600 --> 0:42:00.239 we need to understand that everything we do has to 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:02.840 take into account that there will be follow on actions 0:42:02.880 --> 0:42:04.840 from the Russians and that they have their own ways 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:08.640 of making things more difficult for us. People are talking 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:10.600 about how this is a second Cold War. I think 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:14.120 that's overblown. Although I didn't read a book some years 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:17.000 ago about the new The New Cold War was the 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:21.600 title of the book. It's different now. The Russians aren't 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:25.839 waging some campaign for international Communism as they were when 0:42:25.880 --> 0:42:29.120 they were the Soviet Union. But they do seek to 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:33.680 regain some sense of lost glory. I always remember the 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:35.520 words of a Polish friend of mine that I've stuck 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:38.960 with me that nothing brings Russians together like suffering. It 0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:45.200 has been a phrase that provided necessary context and wisdom 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.440 for a lot of what I see going on with 0:42:47.560 --> 0:42:53.160 Putin's regime. We see all this aggressiveness from the Nova 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:57.000 Chalk poisoning in the United Kingdom to what the Russians 0:42:57.080 --> 0:42:59.600 have done in Syria. They didn't even really blink an 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:04.200 eye when two hundred Russians reportedly up to two Russians 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:09.000 were killed fighting as paramilitaries alongside Syria as a sad regime. 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:13.840 So but we we see this reporting, we think to ourselves, Russia, 0:43:14.040 --> 0:43:17.960 such a becoming such a pariah and the international community 0:43:18.120 --> 0:43:21.120 and you know, the at the United Nations and other places, 0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:26.160 it's so out of what is the what are expectations 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:29.719 for great powers? And all the all those things you 0:43:29.800 --> 0:43:33.360 can throw in there. Meanwhile, Putin has actually got a 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:36.880 lot of support inside the Russian inside the Russian population, 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:41.160 among the Russian population, and much of what we see 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:45.640 as necessary responses to his aggressiveness plays out in Russia 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:48.160 like we are all ganging up on them, trying to 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:52.400 prevent them from establishing their own spheres of influence. And 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:54.239 you know, this is where you start to get into 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:58.000 the the tribalism that does exist among nation states, right, 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:01.520 the sense that people have an allegian to country, and 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:04.640 the Russian people feel like in the post Soviet era, 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:07.759 they've gotten a raw deal and they want somebody who 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.080 pushes back, punches back, fights back for them, and many 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:12.960 of them think that that is Putin. There was a 0:44:13.040 --> 0:44:16.320 profile done a while ago. I can't remember which magazine 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:18.160 it was in, but it was of what essentially what 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:21.799 Putin's day to day is like. And he starts off 0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:26.600 reading the working man's newspaper in Russia. You know, he started, 0:44:26.640 --> 0:44:30.760 I don't mean look like the workers Party, communist apparatic newspaper. 0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:33.719 I mean like what you know, the equivalent I'm gonna 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:35.480 I was gonna name some papers here, but I don't 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:38.080 want to, you know, but the equivalent here of of 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:42.239 a tabloid daily that you know, folks would read quickly 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:44.400 on the subway on their way to work. That's what 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:47.840 he starts with. For Russians in Russian, Right, that's what 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:50.120 he wants to know. What is the what is the 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:52.959 every day that the working man in Russia think about things, 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:56.840 what's on his mind. And a lot of the stuff 0:44:56.840 --> 0:45:00.279 that we see going on doesn't matter a bit, you know, 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:04.279 this stuff that's happened really in Syria And Nope, that's 0:45:04.440 --> 0:45:10.000 if anything, that's just Russia upholding its obligations to its 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:12.840 friends and allies and partners. Right, that's the way that 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.879 it is viewed inside the country at some level. Yeah, 0:45:15.960 --> 0:45:18.520 they hide dead bodies from the people of Russia. They 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:21.279 don't want them to know how deep the entanglements are. 0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:23.800 And there's a lot of propaganda going on with all this. 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:26.239 But we need to understand what we're really dealing with 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:28.640 here on the other side of the table. This is 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:33.000 not a country that is waiting to have a This 0:45:33.120 --> 0:45:34.719 is not a country that is just waiting any day 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:38.760 now for things to get much more Americanized and everything 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:42.960 to just be great. There's a certain pride and sense 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:46.000 of being under siege that unites the Russian people. Like 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:48.680 I said, nothing brings them together like suffering, and they 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:50.920 feel like the international community is being unfair to them. 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:54.200 Right now, they're being victimized by it. This is certainly 0:45:54.239 --> 0:45:55.880 the narrative that Putin is. I mean, look, this is 0:45:55.920 --> 0:45:58.160 all what I'm telling you is kind of the out 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:01.080 of the RTI propaganda playbook. I'm not saying this is true. 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.920 I'm just saying this is what is disseminated from the 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:07.520 Kremlin on down and is believed pretty widely in Russia. 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:10.080 And so it's with that that you have to now 0:46:10.160 --> 0:46:13.680 look at us, with our media talking about all these 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:20.520 election hackings and these sanctions, and the American media's anti 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:25.839 Russia obsession, which has been so inflamed because of their 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:29.680 anti Trump obsession, makes it look like we are a 0:46:29.719 --> 0:46:33.920 little hysterical over there. So there there's a sense that 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:35.960 we've lost a little bit of credibility I think with 0:46:36.000 --> 0:46:38.279 the Russian population, or at least with some segment of it, 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.320 that we are always looking for some reason to be 0:46:41.600 --> 0:46:46.600 upset at Russia, sometimes very much justified, as in the 0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:51.880 case of the nov chuck Uh neurochemical poisoning that occurred. 0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:55.560 But another stuff with all the different news reports, I mean, 0:46:55.680 --> 0:47:01.160 how you see so much more of Vladimir Putin on CNN. 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:04.480 His name is said with so much greater frequency. Then 0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:06.440 you will see the photo of or hear the name 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:10.240 of Hijin Ping, the dictator of China now folks president 0:47:10.320 --> 0:47:14.360 for life. Okay, no more George Orwell's animal farm. A 0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:17.040 lot of words banned from the Chinese Internet now because 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:21.480 they don't want people to be describing accurately what jin 0:47:21.600 --> 0:47:24.920 Ping has become. That's a country with a billion people, 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:29.720 second largest economy in the world, and has big plans 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:32.120 for its future, plans that are going to conflict with 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:35.879 ours at some point. But the American media is much 0:47:36.000 --> 0:47:39.279 more concerned with making making it seem like Russia is 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:42.240 lurking in every or Putin is lurking in every corner, 0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:45.080 and the Russians are trying to drag us into some 0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:48.239 kind of Cold war two point oh or maybe even 0:47:48.280 --> 0:47:53.280 three point oh. Now this this new phase. The Trump administration, meanwhile, 0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:56.560 which has gotten so much heat, it's gotten so much 0:47:56.600 --> 0:47:59.640 pushback for not doing enough on Russia, has done a 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:03.160 lot on Russia in the last few weeks and really 0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:07.040 over the course of the administration. I've mentioned to the 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:11.960 provision of Javelin anti tank missiles to the Ukrainian National 0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:16.080 Army to fight against Russian backed and Russian just Russian 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:21.120 UH separatists in eastern Ukraine. There's also now sanctions that 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:25.880 have been expanded upon against Russian entities and individuals because 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:29.319 of some of what they have, some of what they've done. 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:33.239 It depends on we're talking about election meddling stuff, were 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:38.839 now the cyber attacks. But it's gonna be it's gonna 0:48:38.880 --> 0:48:42.000 be tricky going forward because everything that we do, the 0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:45.239 Russians have their own ways of responding to it, and 0:48:45.600 --> 0:48:48.440 ultimately the sanctions that were put in place, and I'll 0:48:48.480 --> 0:48:51.440 just say it, it's not gonna do it. Friends. It's 0:48:51.440 --> 0:48:53.839 actually a few entities. Is a big country, all right. 0:48:53.920 --> 0:48:56.800 I think us population in Russia thought I had a 0:48:56.920 --> 0:49:00.800 hundred twenty million. How do you live in Russia? I 0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:03.480 don't even know, Mike, let me know. Usually I know 0:49:03.560 --> 0:49:06.239 populations pretty I'm pretty good with them. But I think 0:49:06.280 --> 0:49:09.960 Russia is like a hundred twenty million. I'm guessing. Um, 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:14.000 it's interesting to familiarize yourself with country populations. Then you 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:16.399 have it is that what is it? You say? Under 0:49:16.480 --> 0:49:20.160 a seventy million? Under seventy so it's huge. But actually 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:22.360 I was gonna say a hundred twenty million, No, alright 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:24.360 under seven he so I was a little off. I 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:27.160 think Thailand has seventy million. There's some countries that are surprising. 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:30.800 Pakistan is a hundred and twenty million, Nigeria has a 0:49:30.880 --> 0:49:32.640 hundred and forty million, more like a hundred and fifty 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:35.440 or hundred sixty probably now. Actually there's some countries you'd 0:49:35.440 --> 0:49:38.400 be like, whoa, we've got a lot of people. Um. Anyway, 0:49:38.640 --> 0:49:43.440 back to Russia. Uh, we gotta watch ourselves here because 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:46.600 the media is really agitating for a very aggressive response 0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:50.080 that the Trump administration has been responsible and how they 0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:54.880 have reacted to these provacations. But let's let's keep our 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:56.880 you know, are I on the price here, which is 0:49:57.680 --> 0:49:59.360 we just want things to be the best they possibly 0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:02.960 can be for America, for our people. We don't want 0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:05.600 to be brought into any foreign wars or conflicts, uh, 0:50:06.160 --> 0:50:08.440 period full stop, and we really want to try to 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:14.200 avoid it. And we gotta have much greater concern about 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:16.360 what the future looks like with China than Russia. Russia, 0:50:16.480 --> 0:50:19.120 we have there's enough cultural middle ground with us, and 0:50:19.960 --> 0:50:21.680 just give it some time. It's still very early. The 0:50:21.719 --> 0:50:23.760 Silvia Union wasn't that long ago. I think we're actually 0:50:23.800 --> 0:50:27.359 moving right. Maybe not right now, but in general, if 0:50:27.400 --> 0:50:29.120 you look at the last forty years or so, we're 0:50:29.120 --> 0:50:32.280 moving in the right direction China. I think we're actually 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:35.359 seeing things. He's gonna get gonna get rough, gonna get tough. 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:40.239 I am barish on the future of what US China 0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:42.799 relations are gonna look like going forward. By the way, 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:45.120 we got Sean Davis joining us to talk about this 0:50:45.200 --> 0:50:48.960 huge story about these Struck page texts that reveal a 0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:52.880 personal relationship between the between Struck and a judge. A 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:55.439 judge woid to recuse himself from the case of General 0:50:55.480 --> 0:50:57.279 Michael Flynn. Shawn is going to be joining us here 0:50:57.360 --> 0:50:59.600 on the show in just a few minutes. He and 0:50:59.680 --> 0:51:02.080 Molly having We broke that story on the Federalist dot 0:51:02.120 --> 0:51:05.720 com and now it is all over the place except 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:09.239 on CNN. UM, what a surprise. They're not covering it. 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:27.200 Oh wow, what a shock. The President is going to 0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:30.600 continue fighting for the American worker. He's also working with 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:35.040 a number of individual countries UH and negotiating on areas 0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:38.440 of national security where we can work together. UH. And 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.759 there's some flexibility there, and we're continuing to have those 0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:44.000 conversations and will continue through the next part of the 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:46.320 end of next week, which is when I believe the 0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:49.359 deadline happens. You know, I've got all freaked out about 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:52.360 the tariff situation, and I saw my conservative friends in 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:55.040 the media, including a lot of a lot of those 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:58.319 that are are quite honestly brilliant, and uh, I really 0:51:59.080 --> 0:52:00.719 like their work and like the people, and they were 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:04.000 just hammering Trump on the old tariff's thing. And I've 0:52:04.000 --> 0:52:07.000 been trying to give you just the the full picture. 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:09.040 I'm not saying I think tariffs are great. I'm not 0:52:09.120 --> 0:52:11.239 saying I think tariffs are terrible. I'm saying, you know, okay, 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:13.400 I understand why people are opposed to them, and I 0:52:13.480 --> 0:52:16.520 know what we we've talked about the econ one on 0:52:16.600 --> 0:52:19.799 one aspect of it. But I saw very instinct piece 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:23.400 from Derek Scissors over to AI. We might have him 0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:26.360 next week, hopefully we reach out to Derek where this 0:52:26.560 --> 0:52:28.960 was exactly the kind of thinking that I was trying 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.480 to bring to this show, which is all right, everyone, 0:52:32.400 --> 0:52:34.880 cool your jets, calm down a little bit, all right. 0:52:34.920 --> 0:52:36.360 I'm not talking to you know. I'm saying this in 0:52:36.440 --> 0:52:39.280 like the general you sense, not to my beloved audience. 0:52:39.760 --> 0:52:42.160 But this whole notion that tariffs are gonna like destroy 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:44.600 the economy and a trade war and everything. The tariffs 0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:48.000 that we're talking about are very small and on a 0:52:48.200 --> 0:52:51.520 very small part of the economy. That's the shortened version 0:52:51.560 --> 0:52:53.920 of this piece that Scissors wrote from me. Actually, I 0:52:54.000 --> 0:52:58.000 think he's very smart. Scissors is very sharp on trade. 0:52:59.480 --> 0:53:04.560 John choked. That's awesome. You you guys could see if 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:06.560 a John just like spat his coffee all over the 0:53:06.640 --> 0:53:08.840 place is great. Yeah, that's right. That was a want 0:53:08.880 --> 0:53:12.680 want from Buck, but I got John with it. Happy Friday, John, 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:16.960 make sure your caffeinate. Um. So anyway, they will have 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:19.279 Scissors on the That's like the highlight of my day. 0:53:19.320 --> 0:53:21.120 But I got John to spit out his coffee there 0:53:21.200 --> 0:53:23.719 with that. One earlier day, I had a want on 0:53:24.880 --> 0:53:27.759 Outnumbered on Fox News. They're like, what do you think 0:53:27.840 --> 0:53:31.400 of Lamb? And I was like, Lamb is a wolf 0:53:31.480 --> 0:53:34.160 in Republican clothing. And they were like what. I'm like, Yeah, 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:36.680 that was a little stretched. That didn't really I mean, 0:53:36.719 --> 0:53:38.360 it makes sense, but you gotta think about it too 0:53:38.440 --> 0:53:41.440 long and then you're kind of just like, you know, 0:53:41.600 --> 0:53:45.640 wolf in sheep's clothing, lamb Republican lamb pretending to you know, 0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:47.840 you get it. I know you're like, Buck, move on, 0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:51.799 I'm moving on. I'm moving on. Just a preview what's coming, 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:53.560 because we've got a lot here. I know, there's this 0:53:53.640 --> 0:53:57.120 big story about the text messages between Struck and Page 0:53:57.280 --> 0:53:59.680 about a judge on the FISA courts. You got FBI 0:53:59.840 --> 0:54:03.080 d o J talking about some weird stuff involving a 0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:05.640 fires a court judge involved with the Michael Flynn case. 0:54:06.040 --> 0:54:08.640 Oh is this all a coincidence? I don't think. So 0:54:09.160 --> 0:54:10.880 we've got Sean Davis joining us in just a few 0:54:10.920 --> 0:54:13.680 minutes on that. We're also looking to see if McCabe 0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:17.200 actually does get fired, which I still think is gonna happen, 0:54:17.280 --> 0:54:19.640 but it might happen. What if it just happened with 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:22.080 a Trump tweet. What if he tweets out like right 0:54:22.080 --> 0:54:24.320 before he has a burger and goes to bed like, McCabe, 0:54:25.200 --> 0:54:29.200 you're fired. I mean I think no, he ca actually 0:54:29.239 --> 0:54:30.560 can't do it, but you know, would be funny if 0:54:30.600 --> 0:54:35.120 he did it. Anyway, So we're watching Thank you John, 0:54:36.000 --> 0:54:39.480 So we're watching, uh, see if that actually ends up happening. 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.640 And then I've got to Emily Snati joining with just 0:54:41.760 --> 0:54:46.400 some fun uh banter, because that's what we do with Msnati, 0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:49.400 which he's on, and we'll be joined also by a 0:54:49.440 --> 0:54:53.000 federal from the Washington Free Beacon later on Mr Sonny Bunch. 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:55.960 I'm gonna star Sonny Bunch. He'll be joining us talk 0:54:56.000 --> 0:54:58.680 about Netflix and TV and then we'll have a phenomenal 0:54:59.600 --> 0:55:04.800 roll call with some bagpipes Laddie. So basically, at this 0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:06.960 point do you realize how awesome the show is going 0:55:07.040 --> 0:55:09.120 to be until the end, So there's no reason if 0:55:09.120 --> 0:55:11.239 you to do anything except finish it out. And oh yeah, 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:26.239 hall a friend about it. He's holding the line for 0:55:26.360 --> 0:55:34.759 America buck sext in his back seg scoop today on 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:37.360 The Federalist. You know it's one of our favorite sites. 0:55:37.680 --> 0:55:40.920 It is the Federalist dot com. It's co founded by 0:55:41.400 --> 0:55:45.120 Ben Dominic and Sean Davis. We have Sean Davis with 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:48.040 us now and he's going to talk to us about 0:55:48.120 --> 0:55:52.520 this this this major story. Here's the headline. Peter Struck, 0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:55.200 remember him, the FBI agent with the shady text messages, 0:55:55.680 --> 0:56:01.000 had personal relationship with recused judge in the Michael Flynn case. 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:05.399 Sean great to have you back with us, great could 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:06.960 be here. Thank you for having me tell me a 0:56:07.040 --> 0:56:10.680 bit about Well, actually, no walk us through because there's 0:56:10.719 --> 0:56:13.040 some complexities here and there's a lot going on. But 0:56:13.120 --> 0:56:15.360 this is a big story you guys have on the federalists. 0:56:15.440 --> 0:56:17.279 Tell us what's going on, how it might have really 0:56:17.320 --> 0:56:22.239 affected the Michael Flynn case. So, uh, my colleague Molly 0:56:22.320 --> 0:56:26.320 Hemingway and I obtained a bunch of text messages between 0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:29.120 Lisa Page and Peter Struck used to the former FBI 0:56:29.280 --> 0:56:32.520 agents and attorneys who are extremely involved in both the 0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:37.080 Clinton case, the dossier Carter Page case, and as it 0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:39.680 turns out, maybe even the Flint case. And what we 0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:43.000 saw in these text messages between them was the fact 0:56:43.160 --> 0:56:46.480 that Peter Struck apparently had a personal friendship with Judge 0:56:46.520 --> 0:56:51.160 Rudolph Contraras, who he and Lisa Page referred to as Rudy, 0:56:51.920 --> 0:56:55.400 to the point that they even schemed over texts about 0:56:55.480 --> 0:56:59.239 how they could get in contact and talk with him 0:56:59.760 --> 0:57:02.960 at her he was appointed a vice federal surveillance of 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:06.080 court judge, and how they could privately get together with 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:10.200 him in ways that wouldn't trigger a required recusal of 0:57:10.320 --> 0:57:13.560 him from various cases. At one point. They even suggested 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:16.880 a cocktail party that they would invite him to where 0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:19.120 they could talk to him and that would be much 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:22.320 better than at one on one conversation. They even used 0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:25.640 the phrase, we have to have cover for these meetings. 0:57:25.920 --> 0:57:28.760 So it's a it's a pretty big blockbuster, especially since 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:33.200 this judge is the one who accepted Mike Flynn, former 0:57:33.240 --> 0:57:37.160 Trump National Security advisors guilty plea and then was removed 0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:40.280 from the case just days after that. So there are 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:43.680 all kinds of questions about whether that case was properly handled. 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:45.760 You know, it was Peter Strock who was one of 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:48.240 the agents who interviewed one at the White House in 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:53.000 January seventeen, So this, this blockbuster bombshell, raises a whole 0:57:53.080 --> 0:57:56.480 bunch of questions about what was going on with that case. Sean, Usually, 0:57:56.560 --> 0:57:59.000 when when one of these stories breaks, the first thought 0:57:59.040 --> 0:58:02.440 that goes through my mom mind is what they're going 0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:05.040 to say to try to counteract the momentum here, what 0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:07.320 they're going to say to explain this away, what the 0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:11.200 excuse will be based on. And we're you know, we're 0:58:11.200 --> 0:58:13.680 talking to the guy. Folks Shawn and Molly Hemingway over 0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:15.760 the federalists are the ones who have access to these 0:58:15.800 --> 0:58:18.640 text messages. Based on what's in those texts, Can you 0:58:18.760 --> 0:58:21.960 even conjure up why an FBI agent would be saying 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:25.360 to his paramour, who's a d o J lawyer, we 0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:28.200 need cover for a meeting. If it's just an innocent 0:58:28.520 --> 0:58:33.640 beer among government employees, why would anyone talk that way? Well, 0:58:33.880 --> 0:58:36.200 it's interesting we ask ourselves the same questions, you know, 0:58:36.320 --> 0:58:39.120 what are the innocent explanations for this? But the thing 0:58:39.200 --> 0:58:42.160 that we found most disturbing, in addition to the actual 0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:45.480 substance of the messages, that to exchange with the Department 0:58:45.520 --> 0:58:48.400 of Justice to actually withheld this from Congress. In the 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:52.000 records that they had provided the Congress of these text messages, 0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:57.520 d o J redacted every single mention in conversation about this. 0:58:57.800 --> 0:58:59.840 Despis a judge who ended up presiding over the flee 0:59:00.000 --> 0:59:04.760 as was recused, So that right there communicates UH with 0:59:04.920 --> 0:59:08.040 the fancy lawyers. Look called men's rea a guilty mind. 0:59:08.720 --> 0:59:11.240 And it's like I said earlier, it raises a whole 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:13.320 bunch of questions. Why were they hiding that from Congress? 0:59:13.360 --> 0:59:16.320 If there's if there's no there there, then there would 0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:18.040 be no reason for them to hide it, and yet 0:59:18.200 --> 0:59:20.880 hide it they did. Um. But because we were able 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:24.000 to obtain these texts where those redactions were not included, 0:59:24.320 --> 0:59:25.960 we were able to get a full picture of what 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:28.240 was going on there. And it doesn't look good when 0:59:28.280 --> 0:59:30.640 you have two FBI agents who have already been involved 0:59:30.720 --> 0:59:33.640 in uh, you know, who knows how many shenanigans over there. 0:59:33.960 --> 0:59:36.800 When you have them conspiring to clude with this judge 0:59:36.960 --> 0:59:40.440 in secret, scheming ways to to have cover to have 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:45.080 these conversations, it, from my viewpoint, it all but screams 0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:47.040 that you have to have a special prosecutor here to 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:49.720 this agency clearly cannot be trusted to police itself. Was 0:59:49.760 --> 0:59:52.440 being a Shawn Davis. He's the co founder of the Federalist. 0:59:52.880 --> 0:59:55.040 He is co author of a piece that's up right now. 0:59:55.160 --> 0:59:56.800 It is the Main Store and the Federalists, and it 0:59:56.920 --> 0:59:59.400 is getting a lot of attention, as it should. Peter 0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:05.880 Struck had personal relationship with recused judge in Michael Flynn case. Sean, 1:00:06.080 --> 1:00:08.960 at this point, you know, you mentioned the idea of 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:11.640 a special prosecutor from the d J. I've got kind 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:14.960 of a twofold statement slash question for you. One is 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:17.320 that it feels to me, like, if there's ever a 1:00:17.400 --> 1:00:20.400 place where we need a special prosecutor, it would be 1:00:20.680 --> 1:00:23.400 to look at conduct within the d o J that 1:00:23.560 --> 1:00:26.760 is highly shady, considering the d o J is usually 1:00:26.880 --> 1:00:30.360 the additional layer of you know, anti corruption overwatch we 1:00:30.440 --> 1:00:32.440 have over the rest of the federal government. Right so 1:00:32.560 --> 1:00:35.560 to me, it seems like the special counsels particularly needed 1:00:35.640 --> 1:00:39.360 here for this kind of situation. And then also the 1:00:39.560 --> 1:00:42.640 Michael Flynn guilty plea is looking more and more like 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:45.960 a Ted Stevens redux. Like this guy, I'm not sure 1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:49.440 how exactly it happened, but there's plenty of evidence pointing 1:00:49.520 --> 1:00:54.680 toward Flynn gott sandbags somehow here. Well, it's so fascinating 1:00:54.760 --> 1:00:57.200 that you bring up Ted Stevens because the judge who 1:00:57.320 --> 1:01:00.280 is assigned to this case after a contrarist was moved 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:02.840 from it is the same judge who took over the 1:01:02.920 --> 1:01:07.560 Steven's case, Tim At Sullivan. Yeah, images, oh, he's the man. 1:01:07.720 --> 1:01:10.760 I love Sullivan, go ahead, yeah, And Sullivan does not 1:01:10.960 --> 1:01:13.400 mess around. He did not mess around in the Steven's 1:01:13.480 --> 1:01:17.160 case where there was just massive prosecutorial misconduct, stuff that 1:01:17.240 --> 1:01:19.320 was never disclosed to the defense that should have been 1:01:19.800 --> 1:01:22.720 and he has already issued a pretty remarkable order to 1:01:22.840 --> 1:01:26.240 Mueller's prosecution team that they had better turn over to 1:01:26.520 --> 1:01:30.480 him the judge, all material exculpatory evidence that they have 1:01:30.600 --> 1:01:33.600 in their possession that they had at any time, including 1:01:33.720 --> 1:01:36.560 during their plea negotiations. And he notes in a footnotes 1:01:36.600 --> 1:01:39.000 that a number of federal courts have held that withholding 1:01:39.080 --> 1:01:42.960 that information from a defendant, even during a plean negotiation, 1:01:43.120 --> 1:01:45.680 you know it hasn't gotten a trial is a miscarriage 1:01:45.720 --> 1:01:49.360 of justice that would uh raise the Supreme courts ire. 1:01:49.680 --> 1:01:53.080 So Sullivan isn't messing around the whole thing with Flynn 1:01:53.120 --> 1:01:56.160 looks fishy, especially with computer. Struck was apparently the one 1:01:56.200 --> 1:01:59.720 who who wrote up the notes of the interview with Flynn. Um, 1:02:00.400 --> 1:02:02.880 you know, Flynn may be guilty. I don't know, Um 1:02:03.120 --> 1:02:05.240 that you know, he knows and the Lord knows. But 1:02:05.520 --> 1:02:07.880 what I care about is as an actual fair process 1:02:08.120 --> 1:02:10.600 ording the constitution playing out here, and I'm beginning to 1:02:10.680 --> 1:02:13.280 wonder if that was actually given to him. I think 1:02:13.320 --> 1:02:15.800 it's also important for everyone to hear that the judge 1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:19.480 that we're talking about, that Peter Struck was talking to 1:02:19.880 --> 1:02:23.360 his uh paramore. I can't think of a better word lady. 1:02:23.400 --> 1:02:25.600 He was having a you know, a side thing going 1:02:25.680 --> 1:02:29.920 on with um Lisa Page. Judge Rudolph Contreras was on 1:02:30.040 --> 1:02:32.880 the physichord, and that comes across in there in the 1:02:32.960 --> 1:02:36.680 text messages between Page and Struck. It's like, oh, wow, 1:02:36.880 --> 1:02:41.560 Rudy's on the physi cord. Now, isn't that important? Slash interesting? 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:46.360 Oh it's It's fascinating, especially since it was that fights 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:52.120 the court which in October issued a warrant to surveile 1:02:52.480 --> 1:02:54.920 Carter Page, an American citizen who hadn't have been accused 1:02:54.960 --> 1:02:58.760 of any wrongdoing, to spy on him, based largely on 1:02:59.000 --> 1:03:02.000 claims in a dacier which no one has verified at 1:03:02.040 --> 1:03:05.800 this point, put together by a foreign asset who is 1:03:05.800 --> 1:03:08.400 paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. So, I mean, that 1:03:08.520 --> 1:03:11.000 whole thing stunk to high heaven already, and now you 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:13.720 throw in the fact that these two FBI agents who 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:16.640 are knee deep and all this nonsense, we're also conspiring 1:03:16.680 --> 1:03:18.680 to collude with the judge on that court at the 1:03:18.720 --> 1:03:21.400 same time. I just don't know how you can with 1:03:21.520 --> 1:03:23.840 a straight face say that we don't need a special 1:03:24.040 --> 1:03:26.120 prosecutor to unwind all this and figure out what the 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:29.120 heck was going on speaking about not with a straight face. 1:03:29.240 --> 1:03:31.120 I spoke earlier today to a friend of mine it 1:03:31.240 --> 1:03:34.280 used to be in the intelligence community, and and she 1:03:35.080 --> 1:03:36.960 we had a little bit of back and forth because 1:03:37.480 --> 1:03:41.360 I was like, you know, this carter Page situation, the guy, 1:03:41.560 --> 1:03:43.200 and I don't mean to put him down, but he 1:03:43.320 --> 1:03:46.560 seems so clownish, and there have been no charges against him, 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:49.120 and he seems to me to be the wrong the 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:53.960 aggrieved and wronged party here. Yet the entire Democrat justification 1:03:54.560 --> 1:04:00.640 for utilizing the most impressive, intrusive and there for frightening 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:05.880 surveillance apparatus on the planet against a presidential campaign is 1:04:06.040 --> 1:04:09.520 Carter Page, who still do this day? I'm like, what 1:04:09.760 --> 1:04:11.959 were the what do they find about carter Page? Shawan? 1:04:12.160 --> 1:04:14.520 To me, it just seems like we've gone beyond the 1:04:14.640 --> 1:04:17.560 realm of this is a serious This is a serious 1:04:17.600 --> 1:04:20.960 position for them to hold. That's somehow carter Page justified 1:04:21.040 --> 1:04:25.720 all this stuff. No, it's crazy, like Paul Manafford, Fine, 1:04:25.920 --> 1:04:28.120 I get it, Rick Gates, I get it. But yet 1:04:28.160 --> 1:04:30.520 those aren't the guys they spied on. It was carter Page, 1:04:30.880 --> 1:04:32.960 who I don't know, the guy. I've never spoken to him. 1:04:33.200 --> 1:04:36.040 He he seems kind of a loon, but he's totally 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:38.320 upfront with his policy views. He's like, yeah, I think 1:04:38.360 --> 1:04:40.720 the U. S Should change with false and Russia. The 1:04:40.880 --> 1:04:44.720 speech he gay, which apparently UH necessitated him being spied on, 1:04:45.200 --> 1:04:47.480 was it a venue in an event where Obama had 1:04:47.520 --> 1:04:50.480 spoken the year previously and it was all public online. 1:04:50.800 --> 1:04:52.480 The idea that they had to spy on this guy 1:04:52.560 --> 1:04:54.440 to figure out what he thought, or that he had 1:04:54.520 --> 1:04:57.640 somehow been offered a multibillion dollar steak and a Russian 1:04:57.760 --> 1:05:01.000 energy company. You'd have to be any tunes to actually 1:05:01.040 --> 1:05:04.160 buy into that, and yet that's what our federal surveillance 1:05:04.160 --> 1:05:08.240 apparatus ostensibly bought into. I also refuse to believe this 1:05:08.560 --> 1:05:11.800 this justification for all the things we're talking about that well, 1:05:11.920 --> 1:05:15.280 there's more on Page. We just don't know if at 1:05:15.360 --> 1:05:17.800 this stage of the game, with everything that has leaked, 1:05:17.840 --> 1:05:21.120 with everything that has been released officially as well, if 1:05:21.160 --> 1:05:24.560 there was something we'd say, oh wow, Carter Page actually 1:05:24.680 --> 1:05:26.920 was into some stuff that really did warrant this kind 1:05:26.960 --> 1:05:29.919 of attention. I am a d percent sure we would 1:05:29.960 --> 1:05:32.920 know about that at this point. Oh yeah, I mean 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:36.640 that that that whole UH surveillance deep state law en 1:05:36.680 --> 1:05:39.280 worcement deep State. They leaked like a sieve. Yeah, and 1:05:39.600 --> 1:05:42.200 I think you're right. If if there were anything to 1:05:42.360 --> 1:05:44.800 his background that they could have used to their advantage 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:47.360 to defend their actions, we would have heard about it 1:05:47.440 --> 1:05:50.520 on CNN long ago. And just one more thing, Sean 1:05:50.600 --> 1:05:52.560 and everyone should go read this piece and the Federalists 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:54.280 and we'll link to it on on buck sex and 1:05:54.360 --> 1:05:57.160 dot com. Uh. Do you think we're gonna get some 1:05:57.240 --> 1:06:00.439 answers here about Judge Contraris and his relationship? It's struck. 1:06:00.560 --> 1:06:02.440 Is there a process that you can see in place 1:06:02.560 --> 1:06:04.600 right now that may get us what we need here? 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:08.560 I don't know that the judiciary for very good reason. 1:06:08.640 --> 1:06:12.720 It's generally kind of resistant to any sort of external pressure. Um. 1:06:12.920 --> 1:06:16.000 And especially in his recusal with Twinn that wasn't related 1:06:16.040 --> 1:06:17.840 to his fice the duties where you have these fice 1:06:17.880 --> 1:06:21.840 the courts set up explicitly by Congress to help them 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:25.520 provide oversight. Um. I'll be interested to see how the 1:06:25.600 --> 1:06:29.400 judiciary responds. I honestly doubt that they're gonna respond much 1:06:29.520 --> 1:06:32.440 at all. But it calls into question the integrity of 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:35.840 the court and the decision making process. They have their Um, so, 1:06:36.000 --> 1:06:37.600 I think for their own good and for their own 1:06:37.640 --> 1:06:40.240 benefits from the integrity of their system, they should come 1:06:40.320 --> 1:06:42.480 forward and actually be honest about the reasons why he 1:06:42.640 --> 1:06:45.080 was refused. Um. Whether that will happen, I think is 1:06:45.120 --> 1:06:48.200 anyone's guest real quick. Sean St. Patrick's day plans are 1:06:48.360 --> 1:06:53.800 what in the Davis household? Oh gosh, I don't know it. 1:06:53.880 --> 1:06:55.680 We'll take it. We'll take it, you know. I mean, 1:06:55.720 --> 1:06:57.440 if you're not dancing around dressed like a leprech con, 1:06:57.600 --> 1:06:59.400 that's fine, Sean. We're not gonna be doing that here either. 1:06:59.480 --> 1:07:02.240 But you know, saw people get very festive, Sean Davis. 1:07:02.320 --> 1:07:04.600 Everybody got a young family man. We're not gonna be 1:07:04.640 --> 1:07:07.680 doing anything festive. Fair enough. You got to catch up 1:07:07.680 --> 1:07:10.280 on some sleep. The Federalist dot com is the site, 1:07:10.360 --> 1:07:13.520 Sean Davis, Molly Hemingway. They are the authors. Check it out. Sean, 1:07:13.560 --> 1:07:16.400 thank you so much for making the time. Thank you buck. 1:07:16.920 --> 1:07:20.240 Today we're gonna be rolling into ah our three coming 1:07:20.360 --> 1:07:23.720 up here in just a few minutes. So that's where 1:07:23.720 --> 1:07:27.720 things are gonna get spicy. Or St. Patrick's Day is 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:30.400 going to be more of a theme, I think because 1:07:30.400 --> 1:07:32.919 it is a freestyle stay with me, We'll be right back. 1:07:47.840 --> 1:07:50.600 I knew this would happen, folks. I knew it was 1:07:50.720 --> 1:07:53.400 just a matter of time as soon as you saw 1:07:54.480 --> 1:07:58.400 some of the dating apps, because now that's really that's 1:07:58.440 --> 1:08:00.600 where they got the pulse of our culture is the 1:08:00.680 --> 1:08:02.560 dating apps, right, that's lets you know what's going on 1:08:02.760 --> 1:08:05.120 with the kids, with the cool people. You know, when 1:08:05.120 --> 1:08:06.680 I say the kids, I mean people in their twenties, 1:08:06.720 --> 1:08:08.800 because now I'm in my thirties and it feels like 1:08:09.640 --> 1:08:12.040 it feels like it's just all a passively behind that dude. 1:08:12.080 --> 1:08:14.560 You know, my back hurts, my elbows hurt, everything hurts, 1:08:14.880 --> 1:08:17.680 thirty six sore all over the place. I don't even 1:08:17.720 --> 1:08:19.639 do anything. You know, some people actually have an excuse. 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:24.559 But anyway, the dating apps they banned people from, as 1:08:24.600 --> 1:08:26.080 I said, a few of the dating apps, not all 1:08:26.080 --> 1:08:28.320 of them. And I'm sure there's like you know, duck 1:08:28.439 --> 1:08:31.400 hunters need Love dot Com. I'm sure there's other dating 1:08:31.439 --> 1:08:33.559 sites where this is not a problem. But some of them, 1:08:33.600 --> 1:08:36.960 if you have any kind of a firearm, you are 1:08:37.439 --> 1:08:40.000 you're banned, right or they shut down your account, whatever 1:08:40.000 --> 1:08:43.680 it is. They take disciplinary action, with the exception of 1:08:43.920 --> 1:08:46.680 people who are law enforcement or military. Thankfully they're not 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:50.160 that dumb. But as I said, what about hunters, you 1:08:50.240 --> 1:08:52.000 know people that want, Hey, you know, I'd like to go. 1:08:52.160 --> 1:08:55.719 I'd like to go shoot some birds, maybe my future 1:08:55.800 --> 1:08:59.720 lady love or future um Man love, if you're the 1:08:59.800 --> 1:09:04.200 lady that's, or or any combination thereof. Uh want somebody 1:09:04.280 --> 1:09:07.160 that will go, you know, go duck hunting to or 1:09:07.280 --> 1:09:10.280 go perhaps shoot some grouse with the twenty gauge if 1:09:10.320 --> 1:09:12.479 one has the aim and accuracy for such a thing. 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:19.040 And sure enough, the anti gun photo fervor has already 1:09:19.720 --> 1:09:23.000 spread to the point of absurdity. This is from n 1:09:23.080 --> 1:09:26.080 J dot Com New Jersey dot Com. What's up, Jersey 1:09:26.320 --> 1:09:29.040 in the house. I feel like you guys should know 1:09:29.240 --> 1:09:31.879 you're all welcome here for our St. Patrick's Day festival 1:09:31.920 --> 1:09:34.200 in New York City because ours is way more awesome 1:09:34.240 --> 1:09:36.240 than anything in New Jersey. But we love you New Jersey. 1:09:36.400 --> 1:09:38.080 We love you. You're like our cousin that we invite 1:09:38.120 --> 1:09:40.120 over on the holidays, and this is one of them 1:09:40.320 --> 1:09:42.599 to come to New York and come party with us. 1:09:43.479 --> 1:09:45.439 All right, here's what New Jersey dot Com says. Though 1:09:45.640 --> 1:09:49.639 a New Jersey school district that allegedly suspended to high 1:09:49.680 --> 1:09:53.240 school students this week over a gun photo taken during 1:09:53.560 --> 1:09:57.200 during a family visit to a private shooting range. Is 1:09:57.280 --> 1:10:00.439 facing community backlash and the threat of a law lawsuit 1:10:00.840 --> 1:10:05.439 over district policies. The photo of four rifles, ammunition clips, 1:10:05.520 --> 1:10:07.760 and a gun duffel bag was shared by one of 1:10:07.840 --> 1:10:11.360 the students on the social media app Snapchat with the 1:10:11.479 --> 1:10:15.960 caption fun day at the Range. A screen capture of 1:10:16.080 --> 1:10:19.320 the image made the rounds among other students and later 1:10:19.439 --> 1:10:22.479 brought to the attention of Lazy Township High School officials. 1:10:23.200 --> 1:10:28.280 Students received a five day in school suspension for violating 1:10:28.320 --> 1:10:31.720 the school's policy on weapons possession. You know, I have 1:10:32.200 --> 1:10:36.120 adorable photos of me when I'm like twelve years old 1:10:36.200 --> 1:10:39.840 with my brothers and my dad and we're out at 1:10:39.920 --> 1:10:42.120 the range. I think actually in that photo, I think 1:10:42.280 --> 1:10:45.680 we might have been gosh, I think it was. I 1:10:45.760 --> 1:10:49.000 think it was an Idaho. But we're out of a range, 1:10:49.840 --> 1:10:52.479 and you know, we're firing at twenty two. We're not maniacs, 1:10:52.520 --> 1:10:54.240 you know. We we don't have twelve year olds fireing 1:10:54.280 --> 1:10:56.320 Bazukas or something. You know. It's but we got a 1:10:56.360 --> 1:10:59.320 twenty two. It's a little bolt action. What's the big 1:10:59.400 --> 1:11:02.640 deal and it's nice time spend with the families, all 1:11:02.680 --> 1:11:07.120 of you know. But these policies now have become bonkers 1:11:07.200 --> 1:11:10.559 because everyone has allowed themselves to get so emotionally wrapped 1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:15.080 up in this moment. They're forgetting that one. There's about 1:11:15.160 --> 1:11:18.040 sixty million gun owners in the country who are perfectly 1:11:18.120 --> 1:11:21.679 law abiding, patriotic. Not only are they okay as neighbors, 1:11:21.960 --> 1:11:25.719 you want them as your neighbors. They make the neighborhood safer, 1:11:25.880 --> 1:11:29.200 and they make the country in the event of tyranny freer. 1:11:29.320 --> 1:11:32.920 I know the liberals snicker at that, but it's just true. Uh, 1:11:33.640 --> 1:11:37.479 that's something that we need to remind the country, if 1:11:37.520 --> 1:11:39.280 I think right now, because when you get kids that 1:11:39.280 --> 1:11:42.240 are getting suspended for being at the range with parental supervision, 1:11:42.760 --> 1:11:45.679 there's no way that the teachers didn't know that that's 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:49.040 what's going on. But the sure enough the policies in 1:11:49.160 --> 1:11:52.840 place and how people are getting getting in trouble because 1:11:52.920 --> 1:11:56.559 they went to arrange. You have a school district policy now, 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:58.759 and this is I'm sure not just in New Jersey. 1:11:59.200 --> 1:12:03.439 You have a school this policy that is punishing kids 1:12:04.080 --> 1:12:09.120 for completely legal, legitimate and you would even say family 1:12:09.280 --> 1:12:14.360 bonding behavior. You know what's next? You know, are are 1:12:14.439 --> 1:12:18.400 they gonna start suspending kids that go horseback riding because 1:12:18.479 --> 1:12:21.720 it's horse slavery? And Pete is gonna get upset. I mean, 1:12:21.840 --> 1:12:25.880 this is just out of control. I knew this would happen. 1:12:26.760 --> 1:12:28.880 So the school district is gonna get sued, and it 1:12:28.960 --> 1:12:31.599 should get sued. Needs to get rid of this policy. 1:12:31.640 --> 1:12:33.920 There needs to be some sanity here. Yeah, okay, you 1:12:33.960 --> 1:12:37.519 don't want kids that are posting threats or threatening photos. 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:39.800 But a day at the range with your with your 1:12:39.840 --> 1:12:44.520 siblings and your parents, that's not threatening. That's like America, 1:12:45.360 --> 1:12:59.200 New Jersey. Get with it. We'll be right back. He's 1:12:59.280 --> 1:13:01.600 back when you out, because when it comes to the 1:13:01.720 --> 1:13:06.639 fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Well, the fun 1:13:06.800 --> 1:13:09.360 is about to come to a dead end. Who is 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:13.080 the competition next? KGB guy top mother gotta left on 1:13:13.120 --> 1:13:18.639 his right leg named Satovski Valentine Dmitrovichakowski here you know him. 1:13:19.640 --> 1:13:22.680 I gave him a lynch. Hey, father, I ask him, 1:13:26.720 --> 1:13:29.280 if I risk my neck for you when I got 1:13:29.320 --> 1:13:31.920 a chance to kill englishman? Is your father a ghost? 1:13:32.720 --> 1:13:34.800 Do you converse with the Old Mighty in order to 1:13:34.880 --> 1:13:44.400 find his equal. An irishman is forced to talk to God. Yes, Father, everything, Okay, 1:13:44.880 --> 1:13:55.800 I didn't want my God. You got to come by no. 1:13:58.760 --> 1:14:01.320 Welcome to our three of the buck Sexton Show, everybody. 1:14:01.680 --> 1:14:04.479 That was our little St Patrick's Day montage for all 1:14:04.560 --> 1:14:06.880 of you. Something I was thinking about today. We were 1:14:06.920 --> 1:14:09.920 trying to pull some things together. And by the way, 1:14:09.960 --> 1:14:11.880 extra points if anything, you can figure out what all 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:16.760 three of those movies were. All three are well now 1:14:17.439 --> 1:14:24.200 two were playing, two are Irish actors, um one is 1:14:24.600 --> 1:14:26.679 a don't know, I'm not even getting this right. Actually, 1:14:27.080 --> 1:14:29.479 well there too. They're supposed to be Irish in the movie, 1:14:29.560 --> 1:14:32.680 and the third is obviously Scottish, and then you have 1:14:33.640 --> 1:14:36.840 uh whatever, you get the idea. The point is I 1:14:38.680 --> 1:14:42.280 I was thinking about the best action movie quotes and 1:14:42.400 --> 1:14:47.280 the best stuff you could pull from Irish specific movies. 1:14:47.439 --> 1:14:50.479 And there's so much more in our pop culture that's uh, 1:14:50.720 --> 1:14:54.040 Scottish based than Irish. Is really interesting. And you look 1:14:54.120 --> 1:14:58.160 at movies and Joe you know, obviously, uh all the 1:14:58.360 --> 1:15:01.639 all the Mike Meyers stuff is from the Austin powers 1:15:01.720 --> 1:15:06.679 of Scottish. And then you also have Braveheart Scottish. Although 1:15:06.720 --> 1:15:08.599 there's an irishman in it, which I just gave away. 1:15:08.600 --> 1:15:11.040 I'm giving away all the clips now. Um, you know, 1:15:11.160 --> 1:15:15.280 you look through this and the most famous Irish action 1:15:15.680 --> 1:15:20.320 actors in at least from what I know, are You 1:15:20.360 --> 1:15:22.960 gotta say Pierce Braslon even though he's playing a brit 1:15:23.120 --> 1:15:26.760 when he plays James Bond. And then Liam Neeson, who's 1:15:26.760 --> 1:15:29.519 also Irish by the way, that's it. People would say 1:15:29.560 --> 1:15:33.240 Colin Farrell, And I'm just like Colin Farrell ruins movies. 1:15:33.320 --> 1:15:35.320 Actually that's his job. His job is to be in 1:15:35.360 --> 1:15:37.880 a movie and ruin it, and keep being in movies 1:15:37.920 --> 1:15:39.559 and keep ruining them over and over again and keep 1:15:39.560 --> 1:15:42.000 getting big movie roles. And you know Dayton Supermodels the 1:15:42.040 --> 1:15:45.519 whole thing and ruining the movies. You know, I'm okay 1:15:45.560 --> 1:15:47.639 with the guy who's actually good at his job, enjoying 1:15:47.720 --> 1:15:51.679 all the fruits of his labor um, but actually don't 1:15:51.800 --> 1:15:54.400 stink and he's in movie after movie where he is 1:15:55.640 --> 1:15:58.880 the worst. So we put a little bit of St 1:15:58.920 --> 1:16:01.000 Patrick's day montage it for you. But I really try 1:16:01.040 --> 1:16:04.080 to think about it. What who is the great Irish 1:16:04.680 --> 1:16:08.800 hero in American pop culture? And if you're thinking about 1:16:08.840 --> 1:16:12.000 great characters that are actually Irish and not British or Scottish. 1:16:12.920 --> 1:16:16.320 So there's room there somewhere. And huh, you don't have 1:16:16.640 --> 1:16:19.960 you don't have as much so many different Scottish characters 1:16:20.240 --> 1:16:23.200 in our even in the Wonder Woman movie, for example, 1:16:23.439 --> 1:16:26.920 in Wonder Woman, the sniper guy Scottish and the whole 1:16:26.960 --> 1:16:29.799 thing right, he's not Irish. You don't have as many irishman. 1:16:29.800 --> 1:16:31.240 Don't know what's going on with that, all right, So 1:16:31.560 --> 1:16:34.000 I hope you're enjoying your St. Patrick's Day weekend as 1:16:34.000 --> 1:16:37.240 it's getting started, folks, We've got quite a third hour here. 1:16:37.280 --> 1:16:39.360 We're gonna be joined by a sunny bunch from the 1:16:39.439 --> 1:16:43.200 Washington Free Beacon. He just is talking about Netflix and 1:16:43.240 --> 1:16:44.720 all the different shows you can watch. You know, I 1:16:44.800 --> 1:16:47.360 love that topic. Lug. It's the third hour, it's a Friday. 1:16:47.479 --> 1:16:49.760 We gotta we gotta ease into the weekend a bit. 1:16:49.840 --> 1:16:51.880 We also have Emily's a notty joining us in just 1:16:52.040 --> 1:16:54.519 a few minutes, and she's going to be talking to 1:16:54.640 --> 1:16:59.000 you all about what the uh. Some of the stories 1:16:59.120 --> 1:17:01.360 that either well some of them are the ones you've missed. 1:17:01.600 --> 1:17:05.360 And then also they'll be certainly one story that we 1:17:05.439 --> 1:17:07.920 have an update on from her, but she'll and she'll 1:17:07.920 --> 1:17:10.400 share with us because we'll ask her what her Saint 1:17:10.439 --> 1:17:13.640 Patrick's Day plans are. You know, I feel like people say, 1:17:13.680 --> 1:17:17.000 don't say St. Patty's Day, and I want to say, 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:20.599 I understand why Patty Wagon is offensive, but I feel 1:17:20.600 --> 1:17:23.240 like Irish people, at least Irish Americans. I can't speak 1:17:23.240 --> 1:17:26.040 for Irish people. Irish are actually kind of a bunch 1:17:26.080 --> 1:17:28.080 of left wing socialists. I know, people don't like the 1:17:28.200 --> 1:17:30.320 it's you go, you go to our my friends. I 1:17:30.400 --> 1:17:32.200 had a buddy who was, you know, studying an Nowland 1:17:32.240 --> 1:17:35.559 for years and he's like, uh, it's not like Irish Americans. 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:38.799 You get a certain you know. Yeah, we got Quinn 1:17:39.400 --> 1:17:41.680 Is sitting in here, also known as Mike producer. Mike 1:17:42.360 --> 1:17:44.920 John is not Irish, but I'm half and you know 1:17:44.960 --> 1:17:47.640 what I'm talking about. It's a very different deal. When 1:17:47.680 --> 1:17:49.479 you have actual Irish people. They're like, yeah, I love 1:17:49.600 --> 1:17:53.200 I love Cuba. They're like, whoa, Yeah, I've recently met 1:17:53.240 --> 1:17:56.960 a fellow quinlan um friend of a friend who is 1:17:57.320 --> 1:18:01.320 exactly what you just described, and yeah we were not related. Um, 1:18:03.479 --> 1:18:06.200 you know, they don't really like America. You're like, whoa, 1:18:06.720 --> 1:18:09.720 what's up with that. You know, Irish American people were 1:18:09.760 --> 1:18:13.280 all like, yeah, bro fighting Irish, Notre Dame, drinking beer, 1:18:13.479 --> 1:18:17.200 loving each other America, but of Irish descent. You go 1:18:17.400 --> 1:18:21.120 over to Ireland, They're just like, stop appropriating our culture. 1:18:21.720 --> 1:18:23.800 You know what I mean, it's really not what It's 1:18:23.840 --> 1:18:26.000 not what people think it is. You're right on points 1:18:26.000 --> 1:18:28.040 exactly the way it is. So you know, this is 1:18:28.160 --> 1:18:30.360 this is you live and learn folks, you live in them. 1:18:30.400 --> 1:18:31.960 This is like what I spent a summer in Greece, 1:18:32.400 --> 1:18:34.200 and I thought I'd be like, oh hey if I 1:18:34.400 --> 1:18:38.040 stole paco like uzo and dancing, and I mean there 1:18:38.120 --> 1:18:40.320 was plenty of that, but there's also a lot of 1:18:40.400 --> 1:18:42.840 like America ruined our country with that coup back in 1:18:42.920 --> 1:18:45.080 the day or whatever, and they still protest about it. 1:18:45.160 --> 1:18:48.240 I'm like, guys, get it together, why don't you pay 1:18:48.320 --> 1:18:53.839 some taxes. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's you know, Unfortunately, 1:18:53.880 --> 1:18:56.760 I don't think I think Team Buck Greek American is 1:18:56.800 --> 1:18:59.320 a strong force. I don't think Team Buck Greece is 1:18:59.360 --> 1:19:01.720 that strong. So I think we're okay there because a 1:19:01.760 --> 1:19:03.280 lot of the Greeks that are like, hey, I want 1:19:03.280 --> 1:19:05.200 to make a lot of money and be successful and 1:19:05.280 --> 1:19:06.880 you know, better future of my children. They are like, 1:19:06.920 --> 1:19:11.040 we're gonna leave this Teloponnese where no one really pays access. Um. 1:19:11.439 --> 1:19:14.479 So there's so there's that, but a lot of anti 1:19:14.520 --> 1:19:18.040 American graffiti in Greece. So I've got a random story 1:19:18.080 --> 1:19:19.559 for to throw in the mix here before we get 1:19:19.600 --> 1:19:21.760 our friend Emily's nadi on. I don't know if you've 1:19:21.800 --> 1:19:25.000 seen this or not, but there's a sheriff who is 1:19:25.400 --> 1:19:27.760 I believe he's yeah, based on a oh no, Alabama. 1:19:27.800 --> 1:19:31.680 I was gonna say, Georgia, who don't worry, Georgia, You're good, Alabama. 1:19:32.120 --> 1:19:36.000 This is on you. Sheriff defends self after public outrage 1:19:36.080 --> 1:19:40.960 over seven forty dollar beach house pocketing money from innate 1:19:41.120 --> 1:19:45.280 food fund. You gotta love this dude. This guy figured 1:19:45.280 --> 1:19:47.479 out he's the uh. I don't know how to say 1:19:47.520 --> 1:19:50.080 this Etowah or Edawah. I don't know e t o 1:19:50.320 --> 1:19:53.679 w a H, but the let's say Edowah. Edowa County 1:19:53.720 --> 1:19:58.719 Sheriff Todd Entrikin is like, the law says that whatever 1:19:58.880 --> 1:20:02.320 money that is not used to feed inmates can be 1:20:02.479 --> 1:20:05.519 used for the sheriff's purposes. So he took that to 1:20:05.640 --> 1:20:07.160 be you know, I feel like a lot of people 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:10.519 would think, yeah, you know, ballistic inserts for vests and 1:20:10.680 --> 1:20:14.200 like additional canine units and you know things like that. 1:20:14.479 --> 1:20:17.960 You know, a police memorial fun, that's where you think 1:20:18.040 --> 1:20:22.320 the money would go. No, he bought a almost million 1:20:22.360 --> 1:20:25.040 dollar beach house three quarters of million dollars. And what 1:20:25.120 --> 1:20:27.639 I love about this guy you almost have to respect 1:20:27.720 --> 1:20:30.439 the hustle and just the shamelessness. He was like, yeah, 1:20:30.560 --> 1:20:33.240 that's what the law says. I'm I'm not apologizing for it. 1:20:33.800 --> 1:20:36.960 This guy's got real estate assets. He makes ninety dollars 1:20:36.960 --> 1:20:39.720 a year, it's public record. He's got real estate assets 1:20:40.200 --> 1:20:43.880 in the in the millions. He owns one point seven 1:20:43.920 --> 1:20:47.240 million dollars of real estate and when asked about this, 1:20:47.360 --> 1:20:53.040 including uh, multiple homes, and he was like, yeah, that's right, son, 1:20:53.280 --> 1:20:56.559 that's what the law says. And what he's not back. 1:20:56.760 --> 1:20:59.280 Usually public officials where they have something like this happened, 1:20:59.280 --> 1:21:02.120 they're kind of like like maybe we should like I 1:21:02.240 --> 1:21:05.040 will make restitution or no. No, this guy's like, that's 1:21:05.080 --> 1:21:08.000 what the law says. You chumps didn't change the law. 1:21:08.400 --> 1:21:11.880 So Papa needs a new beach house. And that's it. So, 1:21:12.280 --> 1:21:14.559 you know, Usually I see these stories of public officials 1:21:14.640 --> 1:21:17.559 engaging corruption or graft or whatever, and I'm like, how 1:21:17.720 --> 1:21:19.840 dare you, sir? And this one I'm trying, like, Wow, 1:21:20.479 --> 1:21:22.640 this guy's a straight up hustler. He's like, that's what 1:21:22.720 --> 1:21:25.080 the law says. I want a beach house. I want 1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:29.760 to sit out there drinking homemade kai burns and being 1:21:29.840 --> 1:21:33.320 fancies Alabama Sheriff. This guy's this guy's got some good taste. 1:21:33.360 --> 1:21:35.200 He's got almost some you know, three quarters of a 1:21:35.240 --> 1:21:37.560 million dollars beach house. That sounds pretty nice, but it 1:21:37.640 --> 1:21:39.479 just goes to show you, folks, you all got you. 1:21:39.920 --> 1:21:42.640 I almost went into it, y'all. There by accident appropriate 1:21:42.800 --> 1:21:48.280 so much am Irish appropriating, Southern appropriating, you know, gosh, 1:21:48.479 --> 1:21:50.080 and if I start doing an accent, people be like, 1:21:50.120 --> 1:21:52.400 you suit your figure from Manhattan. They don't have accents, 1:21:52.439 --> 1:21:56.439 so I can't appropriate anything right now. Anyway, this Sheriff's 1:21:56.479 --> 1:21:59.360 obviously bad. What he did. He probably is taking food 1:21:59.479 --> 1:22:01.880 out of the out of prisoners. At some level, we're 1:22:01.920 --> 1:22:05.760 making a crappier food. But apparently he legally can do it, 1:22:05.840 --> 1:22:08.120 which is pretty amazing, all right, we got more to 1:22:08.160 --> 1:22:29.800 stay with me, everybody. It's been quite a week in 1:22:29.960 --> 1:22:32.920 the news cycle, and there's some stories that we want 1:22:32.960 --> 1:22:35.040 to follow up on or that we haven't even gotten 1:22:35.120 --> 1:22:37.680 a chance to talk to you about yet. And for 1:22:37.880 --> 1:22:40.759 that we are joined by our friend Emily's A Nati. 1:22:40.920 --> 1:22:44.160 She is a senior editor at Daily wire dot Com. 1:22:44.360 --> 1:22:47.560 You could follow her on the Twitter at e. M 1:22:48.200 --> 1:22:56.720 Zanati Mrs a Nati. Hey, what's up. It's good. It's good, 1:22:56.800 --> 1:22:59.200 so so happy for to Happy St. Patrick's Day. You're 1:22:59.200 --> 1:23:02.760 in Chicago. I am. This is like our Nashville, this 1:23:02.880 --> 1:23:05.040 is our big day. So I've got to tell you something. 1:23:05.600 --> 1:23:08.080 Savannah Georgia was talking a little smack when I was 1:23:08.120 --> 1:23:11.200 down there about a week ago. They claim to have 1:23:11.400 --> 1:23:14.639 the second biggest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the country. 1:23:15.000 --> 1:23:16.600 And I don't even have the heart to ask is 1:23:16.640 --> 1:23:19.080 it after Chicago or after New York? Because if it's 1:23:19.080 --> 1:23:20.960 after New York, which I'm assuming it is, it means 1:23:21.040 --> 1:23:24.880 they think they're beaten out the Windy City. I'm gonna 1:23:24.920 --> 1:23:28.240 have to go live. Yeah, I will venture downtown to 1:23:28.840 --> 1:23:33.760 to show Savannah Georgia how much of a disaster Chicago is. 1:23:34.200 --> 1:23:37.320 I mean, the river literally gets turned green, right right, 1:23:37.439 --> 1:23:40.160 that's the first order of business. Tomorrow At eight thirty 1:23:40.200 --> 1:23:42.920 in the morning, they pour some stuff in the river 1:23:43.040 --> 1:23:45.479 that turns it green, and then we have an endless 1:23:45.720 --> 1:23:49.040 parade and then everyone goes up to Wrigley Fields and 1:23:49.160 --> 1:23:51.280 just get drunk for the rest of the night. Is 1:23:51.360 --> 1:23:53.919 there is there Irish? I should probably know this, considering 1:23:53.960 --> 1:23:56.960 I'm roughly half Irish in terms of background. Is there 1:23:57.040 --> 1:24:03.160 Irish cuisine? I what do you we got? Producer Mike 1:24:03.200 --> 1:24:06.880 looking at me, saying, yes, what's Irish cuisine? Dude? What 1:24:07.000 --> 1:24:09.559 do we got now? Emily, do you know of any 1:24:09.600 --> 1:24:13.559 Irish cuisine? Yeah? I mean I've had Irish breakfast, which 1:24:13.640 --> 1:24:17.040 is like sausage and eggs and corn beef and cabbage obviously. 1:24:17.240 --> 1:24:19.640 Oh yeah, that's right, corned beef. All right. That's their 1:24:19.760 --> 1:24:24.759 that's their contribution to the culinary world. Take it alright? Alright, 1:24:24.800 --> 1:24:29.160 well let's get into the Okay, Oh, this story broke 1:24:29.240 --> 1:24:32.639 my heart this week, the dog on the plane. Yeah, 1:24:33.360 --> 1:24:35.560 what's the latest on this? I saw somebody see I 1:24:35.800 --> 1:24:39.200 said right when it broke that the that the airline 1:24:39.439 --> 1:24:45.320 is it attendant or we don't say steward dress anymore, right, attendant? Yes, 1:24:45.400 --> 1:24:48.000 thank you, the flight attendant. I was gonna say airline attendant. 1:24:48.040 --> 1:24:52.439 The flight attendant, uh said she or rather we were 1:24:52.520 --> 1:24:54.960 told by reporting that she knew it was a dog 1:24:55.000 --> 1:24:57.080 put up there. Anyway to me that could be an 1:24:57.080 --> 1:24:59.360 animal cruelty case. Do we have any updates on this? 1:25:00.400 --> 1:25:03.320 We don't, other than the United has now apologized and 1:25:03.439 --> 1:25:06.759 the actual owners of the dog have spoken out saying 1:25:06.920 --> 1:25:09.679 that they told that the stewardess or a flight attendant 1:25:10.000 --> 1:25:12.400 that it was definitely a dog. You could hear the 1:25:12.520 --> 1:25:15.120 dog that when they put the dog into the overhead 1:25:15.160 --> 1:25:18.160 compartments that the dog barked for about an hour straight. 1:25:18.720 --> 1:25:21.560 So it seems strange to you that now United is 1:25:21.600 --> 1:25:23.919 coming back and saying this was all a tragic accident 1:25:24.160 --> 1:25:26.840 and her slight attendant had no idea there was a 1:25:26.920 --> 1:25:29.080 dog in the bag. She just saw the bag that 1:25:29.160 --> 1:25:32.320 didn't fit under the seat. It's it's a bizarre story, 1:25:32.400 --> 1:25:35.120 and it keeps getting weirder because it sounds like this 1:25:35.320 --> 1:25:39.639 dog really wanted out, and nobody on the plane seemed 1:25:39.680 --> 1:25:43.639 to say anything. Yeah, I'm somebody who you know any 1:25:43.720 --> 1:25:45.760 any cruelty to dogs? And I just want I just 1:25:45.800 --> 1:25:48.240 want to fight someone. I get very very angry about it. 1:25:48.320 --> 1:25:50.280 And when I'm told that there's or when I'm reading 1:25:50.840 --> 1:25:53.280 that there was a dog that was making noise to 1:25:53.320 --> 1:25:56.160 get out of there, I feel like the stewardess. I'm sorry, 1:25:56.520 --> 1:25:58.360 I didn't actually mean that. I feel like the airline 1:25:58.360 --> 1:26:01.160 attendant must have no one and figured, well, he's got 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:04.559 enough air up there. Who cares? Which is terrible? Which 1:26:04.640 --> 1:26:06.960 is awful? Yeah, which is awful. And it is a 1:26:07.160 --> 1:26:11.759 airless compartment. It is not served by the planes material 1:26:11.880 --> 1:26:14.880 so you just you can't breathe if you're locked into 1:26:15.400 --> 1:26:18.639 a compartment that's typically meant for baggage. Those dogs. Are 1:26:19.000 --> 1:26:21.519 you paid to put your dog or cat in their 1:26:21.560 --> 1:26:23.720 soft carrier under the seat in front of you. So 1:26:23.800 --> 1:26:26.639 it's kind of shocking that an airline attendant that would 1:26:26.880 --> 1:26:30.000 know these rules and know that United has asked people 1:26:30.040 --> 1:26:32.240 to pay that extra hundred and twenty five dollars to 1:26:32.280 --> 1:26:35.479 bring your pet on board, would still manage to do this. 1:26:35.640 --> 1:26:39.200 It's it's scary, but United actually has a horrible track 1:26:39.320 --> 1:26:43.720 record when it comes to animals. Since this time last year, 1:26:43.920 --> 1:26:47.960 something like twenty four animals have died on board planes, 1:26:48.479 --> 1:26:51.160 and eighteen of those animals have been on United. So 1:26:51.520 --> 1:26:53.160 if you have a dog or cat, you may want 1:26:53.160 --> 1:26:56.599 to think about flying United. Before you fly United, come 1:26:56.640 --> 1:27:00.400 fly the Soviet Union. Fly United. That's the way. That's 1:27:00.400 --> 1:27:02.080 what they should call it, something like that. You know 1:27:02.400 --> 1:27:06.200 it's it's the worst. I really can not. I'm trash 1:27:06.360 --> 1:27:08.600 United left variety, you know what, they deserve it all right, 1:27:08.600 --> 1:27:10.479 but let's move on to one more. Actually got a 1:27:10.520 --> 1:27:14.360 couple more here we have the snake whisperer is no more. 1:27:14.600 --> 1:27:19.120 Emily tell us what happened? Read So apparently in Malaysia 1:27:19.240 --> 1:27:22.120 there are so many snakes, so many king cobras, which 1:27:22.120 --> 1:27:25.040 are the world's most deadly snake, so many of these 1:27:25.160 --> 1:27:28.240 that they have snake whispers attached to fire departments, so 1:27:28.360 --> 1:27:30.400 that when you find a king cobra in your backyard, 1:27:30.520 --> 1:27:33.400 you actually have to call this person. I obviously am 1:27:33.439 --> 1:27:35.280 never moving to Malaysia. I don't know if there was 1:27:35.320 --> 1:27:37.320 any reason to move to Malaysia, but that is not 1:27:37.560 --> 1:27:41.559 happening now. This guy was phoned in to take care 1:27:41.600 --> 1:27:44.960 of a snake got bit. He is the world foremost 1:27:45.000 --> 1:27:48.280 snake handler. He was even on Malaysia's got Talent or 1:27:48.280 --> 1:27:51.639 America's got talent one of those to showcase his snake handling, 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:55.880 and he got bit and sadly he passed away yesterday. 1:27:56.000 --> 1:27:59.040 He was the world's foremost snake charmer. I feel like 1:27:59.200 --> 1:28:03.200 this reminds me a little bit of the the guy 1:28:03.320 --> 1:28:06.760 who with the Australian what's his name, Steve, you know 1:28:09.360 --> 1:28:13.879 Hunter and then he finally got taken out by a stingwright. 1:28:13.920 --> 1:28:17.040 It's like, if you're around very dangerous animals enough, I 1:28:17.120 --> 1:28:20.280 don't care how much expertise you have, they are animals, 1:28:20.560 --> 1:28:23.479 you will sneeze and get bitten. I mean, something will happen. 1:28:24.520 --> 1:28:26.680 And the funny thing about Steve Irwin was that he 1:28:26.760 --> 1:28:31.200 actually died swimming with animals that are not particularly dangerous, 1:28:31.320 --> 1:28:34.400 like sting rays are dangerous, but it's very rare to 1:28:34.479 --> 1:28:37.599 get hit by one like that. And he just pressed 1:28:37.640 --> 1:28:40.240 his luck one too many things. And this was the 1:28:40.320 --> 1:28:44.719 same thing in the A order, which was also highly unlucky. 1:28:44.840 --> 1:28:48.880 As these things go, um okay, so onto something else. 1:28:49.360 --> 1:28:53.639 Uh A. You've got a lot of coverage of adult 1:28:53.720 --> 1:28:56.479 film stars, as they are sometimes referred to or on 1:28:56.600 --> 1:28:59.519 CNN constantly now porn stars. That's the way they always 1:28:59.520 --> 1:29:03.640 refer to the an adult film star was ordering a 1:29:03.760 --> 1:29:08.040 pizza from Dominoes and then things got weird. Well I mean, 1:29:08.120 --> 1:29:10.519 I guess it got weird for real life, but it 1:29:10.640 --> 1:29:12.560 sort of sounds like what would happen in one of 1:29:12.600 --> 1:29:14.680 her movies. I don't know, I've never seen one. I 1:29:14.840 --> 1:29:18.479 just I you know, I've heard thing. So the delivery 1:29:18.640 --> 1:29:22.360 driver gave her her pizza, then a couple of hours later, 1:29:22.520 --> 1:29:25.919 decided to text her and offered her two hundred dollars 1:29:26.080 --> 1:29:32.519 to perform for him. He stole her information off of 1:29:33.000 --> 1:29:36.519 one of the pizza box ordering forms, kept her receipt, 1:29:36.560 --> 1:29:38.640 and then texted her later on like it was no 1:29:38.760 --> 1:29:41.599 big deal. And can we just tell everybody at home 1:29:41.720 --> 1:29:43.720 listening to this Emily as they're getting ready for their 1:29:43.760 --> 1:29:46.760 Friday evenings, are already off on their weekends. What was 1:29:46.840 --> 1:29:50.600 the single greatest part of the whole story that Dominoes 1:29:50.720 --> 1:29:55.040 was involved in? Here, Dominoes offered for her trouble to 1:29:55.160 --> 1:29:59.840 give her a free order of cinnamon Stix. This re 1:30:00.080 --> 1:30:03.840 in the deal. This woman claimed she was literally proposition 1:30:03.960 --> 1:30:06.880 for money by the delivery guy and which she called 1:30:06.920 --> 1:30:11.679 a complaint. The manager offered her an order of cinnamon sticks, folks, 1:30:11.800 --> 1:30:16.680 So customer customer service propositions, Yeah, if you are propositions 1:30:16.760 --> 1:30:20.160 by your Domino's delivery driver, do have sex for money? 1:30:20.760 --> 1:30:23.160 The best you're going to do from Domino's is a 1:30:23.240 --> 1:30:26.479 free dessert before we let you go off onto your weekend. Emily, 1:30:26.479 --> 1:30:28.400 We're assuming you're gonna have a more fun answer to 1:30:28.439 --> 1:30:30.640 this question than our last guest, Sean Davis when we 1:30:30.760 --> 1:30:34.879 love from the Federalists, who basically was like partying St. Patrick's. 1:30:34.880 --> 1:30:37.080 Get out of here. I've got things to write. What 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:39.519 are you doing? What is the Nazi household up to 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:42.519 for St. Patrick's Day? You know we're in Chicago. We 1:30:42.640 --> 1:30:44.240 have no choice. We're going to have to go get 1:30:44.320 --> 1:30:47.240 some green beer. At some points, I I get caught 1:30:47.280 --> 1:30:49.519 up in the middle of it. I have red hair, 1:30:50.080 --> 1:30:53.519 so obviously this is my holiday, regardless of whether I 1:30:53.560 --> 1:30:56.040 am at all Irish according to twenty three and me. 1:30:56.400 --> 1:30:58.640 So I'm definitely going to get some green beer. Be 1:30:58.760 --> 1:31:01.679 careful because you know people that have kissed me I'm Irish, 1:31:01.800 --> 1:31:06.599 buttons on. It's a microaggression and cultural appropriation. It is cultural. 1:31:06.640 --> 1:31:09.120 I'm gonna have to carry my DNA results with me 1:31:09.280 --> 1:31:11.439 so that I am not accused of cultural appropriation, and 1:31:11.560 --> 1:31:13.560 you're better than Elizabeth Warren. But we already knew that 1:31:13.720 --> 1:31:16.080 Emily's a naughty everybody. Great to have her from the 1:31:16.160 --> 1:31:19.200 Daily Wire. Emily, have a fantastic weekend and enjoy your St. 1:31:19.240 --> 1:31:22.840 Patrick's Day. Thank you to alright, team, we're going to 1:31:22.920 --> 1:31:25.599 roll into a break. We've got so much more this hour. 1:31:25.760 --> 1:31:39.200 Stay with us and we'll be right back. He's holding 1:31:39.280 --> 1:31:45.719 the line for America Buck Sex in his back. Welcome 1:31:45.720 --> 1:31:48.120 back team, our three of the buck Sex and show 1:31:48.200 --> 1:31:51.600 in effect here, I often say to you all that 1:31:52.280 --> 1:31:55.080 I'm going to spend my weekend watching Netflix or Netflix 1:31:55.120 --> 1:31:58.320 and Amazon and perhaps HBO, because that is what I do, 1:31:58.520 --> 1:32:00.800 because I am not as fun and interesting as I 1:32:00.840 --> 1:32:04.240 should probably be. Nonetheless, Ms Molly still likes me, and 1:32:04.920 --> 1:32:06.920 there's still things to discuss. For those of us who 1:32:06.960 --> 1:32:09.640 watch a lot of television, are we in fact in 1:32:09.720 --> 1:32:12.840 a golden age of TV? We've got somebody who's got 1:32:12.920 --> 1:32:16.559 expertise on this, and that he has written a major 1:32:16.640 --> 1:32:20.080 piece for the Weekly Standard on its sunny Bunch joins 1:32:20.160 --> 1:32:22.640 us now he is the executive editor of the Washington 1:32:22.840 --> 1:32:24.799 Free Beacon. He's got a piece though in the weekly 1:32:24.880 --> 1:32:28.600 Standard overload, will any shows from the golden age of 1:32:28.720 --> 1:32:31.120 TV and your Sonny, thank you for joining us? Yeah, 1:32:31.160 --> 1:32:33.519 thanks carrying me on? Alright, So, I often say that 1:32:33.600 --> 1:32:35.760 I feel like the state of cinema right now is 1:32:35.960 --> 1:32:38.640 borderline crap. But the state of TV shows is so 1:32:38.800 --> 1:32:41.840 incredible that it's like all over the place. You can't 1:32:41.840 --> 1:32:44.519 even keep up with it. What say you, sir, Well, 1:32:44.640 --> 1:32:46.879 this is the problem, right, is that you can't actually 1:32:46.960 --> 1:32:49.360 keep up with it. There's so much good TV out there, 1:32:49.360 --> 1:32:51.040 you know. One of the one of the headlines I 1:32:51.080 --> 1:32:53.519 proposed for this piece was fifty seven thousand channels and 1:32:53.560 --> 1:32:57.040 everything on right, a play on the old Bruce Springsteening 1:32:57.040 --> 1:32:59.679 song fifty seven channels and nothing on. Like, the idea 1:32:59.800 --> 1:33:05.040 here is we have so much good too, great TV 1:33:05.280 --> 1:33:08.080 mostly good. There's a lot of kind of mediocre middle 1:33:08.200 --> 1:33:10.479 that we can we can discuss the difference between the 1:33:10.520 --> 1:33:12.360 great and the good later, but the you know, the 1:33:12.520 --> 1:33:14.559 the idea here is, there's just so much to watch 1:33:15.400 --> 1:33:19.200 that what what's going to end up lasting? Right? T 1:33:19.360 --> 1:33:21.600 V TV is a TV and all art really is 1:33:21.680 --> 1:33:26.280 a is a What lasts is what you can read 1:33:26.400 --> 1:33:28.080 over and over again. What you can share with other 1:33:28.120 --> 1:33:30.040 people over and over again, movies that you can watch 1:33:30.160 --> 1:33:32.880 time and again. A TV show, even a great TV show, 1:33:33.000 --> 1:33:35.240 you know, like The Sopranos, probably my favorite TV show 1:33:35.240 --> 1:33:39.240 of the last twenty years. Uh, sitting down to rewatch that, 1:33:39.479 --> 1:33:43.000 that's the ninety investment. Who has time for that? So 1:33:43.240 --> 1:33:45.320 the idea of this pieces. Look, there's a lot of stuff. 1:33:45.920 --> 1:33:48.839 Uh what does it mean to even form a canon 1:33:49.479 --> 1:33:52.760 of great art? And can you form a canon of 1:33:52.880 --> 1:33:56.280 great TV? I just I'm not a dent short as possible. 1:33:57.000 --> 1:33:59.920 What are the greatest five TV shows of the last 1:34:00.080 --> 1:34:02.360 twenty years? Since you have obviously done the deep dive 1:34:02.400 --> 1:34:06.240 in the research here. Uh, well, I mean, what would 1:34:06.320 --> 1:34:09.719 my five personal favorites be. It's a it's a slightly 1:34:09.760 --> 1:34:12.559 different question, right, but I would I would go with, uh, 1:34:13.720 --> 1:34:17.040 the Sopranos, which I just mentioned, The Shield, which is 1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:19.120 a is a great show that was on effects. It 1:34:19.240 --> 1:34:21.519 kind of, in my opinion, it kind of really kicked 1:34:21.560 --> 1:34:23.400 off this boom of great TV shows. It was the 1:34:23.439 --> 1:34:26.679 first of the big basic cable shows to to reach 1:34:26.960 --> 1:34:29.599 uh not a large audience, but a but an important 1:34:29.600 --> 1:34:33.280 audience and influential audience. UM, I would say The Simpsons 1:34:33.600 --> 1:34:36.720 is probably one of one of my one of my 1:34:36.800 --> 1:34:40.479 five favorite TV shows, uh, Deadwood. Deadwood, I think is 1:34:40.680 --> 1:34:42.720 if I was going to pick one show that will 1:34:42.800 --> 1:34:45.840 end up lasting, it would probably be Deadwood. And we 1:34:45.920 --> 1:34:50.439 can discuss why in a sec. But the fifth show 1:34:51.520 --> 1:34:53.000 I would go with the comedy. I would go with, 1:34:53.439 --> 1:34:57.439 let's say Veep. I love Veep. Interesting. You don't have 1:34:57.560 --> 1:35:02.160 the the usual Breaking Bad or the Wire on the list. Well, 1:35:02.240 --> 1:35:05.599 you know, I like the Wire, but I don't love it, uh, 1:35:05.760 --> 1:35:08.000 and I like Breaking Back a lot. I think Breaking 1:35:08.040 --> 1:35:09.400 Bad is one of these shows that kind of picked 1:35:09.479 --> 1:35:12.439 up steam as it went. And one of the reasons 1:35:12.520 --> 1:35:14.120 that did this, and I kind of discussed this in 1:35:14.160 --> 1:35:16.760 the piece a little bit, is because of the way 1:35:16.840 --> 1:35:19.639 streaming helped save it and bring it to a bigger audience. 1:35:20.000 --> 1:35:22.040 You know, if if you look at the evolution of 1:35:22.120 --> 1:35:25.240 TV over the last twenty years or so, you see 1:35:25.479 --> 1:35:30.080 a medium that has grown by picking up new distribution 1:35:31.000 --> 1:35:34.000 methods and and when you when you're looking at say 1:35:34.400 --> 1:35:37.120 pay cable, you have the Sopranos, those shows. But then 1:35:37.240 --> 1:35:39.400 the expansion of basic cable was a big one, bringing 1:35:39.439 --> 1:35:41.720 in f X and bringing in a m C where 1:35:41.760 --> 1:35:44.439 you kind of uh, you you created you had a 1:35:44.560 --> 1:35:47.240 much wider audience base because these channels were on so 1:35:47.320 --> 1:35:49.920 many networks or there were in so many uh so 1:35:50.040 --> 1:35:52.640 many homes and people didn't have to pay extra for them. 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:55.960 They were just on the basic cable packages. And then streaming, 1:35:56.040 --> 1:35:59.519 of course, you know streaming Netflix and Amazon Prime. These 1:35:59.560 --> 1:36:02.479 are the are two massively popular services that are in 1:36:02.640 --> 1:36:07.880 hundreds of millions of homes, and uh they have pioneered 1:36:07.920 --> 1:36:10.840 kind of a new distribution model. Netflix in particular. You know, 1:36:10.960 --> 1:36:13.439 the thing about Netflix is that they don't just release 1:36:13.479 --> 1:36:15.320 a new show every couple of weeks. They released a 1:36:15.320 --> 1:36:17.160 new show and they released all the episodes of that 1:36:17.240 --> 1:36:20.479 show at once, and that has drastically changed how people 1:36:20.560 --> 1:36:23.879 watch TV. I mean this, this whole idea of binging. 1:36:24.040 --> 1:36:26.040 You know, when is binging ever been a good thing, 1:36:26.479 --> 1:36:28.320 But now it is. It's just kind of taken for 1:36:28.400 --> 1:36:30.920 granted that you binge watch a TV show and you 1:36:31.080 --> 1:36:32.560 that's how you catch up with it, That's how you 1:36:32.960 --> 1:36:34.559 kind of keep in touch with the culture. That's how 1:36:34.640 --> 1:36:36.240 you know what to talk about at the water cooler. 1:36:36.600 --> 1:36:39.160 Sonny Bonch, the executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon, 1:36:39.240 --> 1:36:42.080 thank you so much for joining us, sir. Yeah, thanks 1:36:42.120 --> 1:36:44.400 turning me on. Alright, team, we're rolling too a break, 1:36:44.439 --> 1:37:02.920 will be right back. Well. Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day, 1:37:03.040 --> 1:37:05.759 my friends, and I hope you've got some fun plans. 1:37:05.920 --> 1:37:09.479 Perhaps you're going to drink some beer with green food 1:37:09.560 --> 1:37:12.639 coloring in it, and hopefully you won't be walking through 1:37:13.360 --> 1:37:16.439 too much of what was formerly beer with food coloring 1:37:16.479 --> 1:37:19.200 in it in the streets, although people tend to get 1:37:19.200 --> 1:37:22.240 a little sloppy on St. Patrick's Day in some places, 1:37:22.360 --> 1:37:25.560 as you know. And there's finally, ah, there's finally some 1:37:25.640 --> 1:37:29.559 pushback against the cultural appropriation. Uh and and it turns 1:37:29.560 --> 1:37:32.679 out that yeah, there aren't in fact any lepri cons. 1:37:32.760 --> 1:37:35.840 That's not a real thing that's out there. So maybe 1:37:36.479 --> 1:37:39.519 maybe we should stop associating on with leprecons and fairies 1:37:39.560 --> 1:37:42.000 and sprites and other things. I don't know. Personally, I 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:45.920 kind of like it. Then again, there's quite a separation 1:37:46.080 --> 1:37:50.440 between actual Irish people and now the generations of Americans 1:37:50.520 --> 1:37:54.320 that at one point came from Irish or some mixed 1:37:54.800 --> 1:37:57.880 stock like me. So I hope you've got some fun 1:37:57.920 --> 1:38:00.280 plans tomorrow. I'm gonna be laying low if I can 1:38:00.360 --> 1:38:03.360 because I am right on the parade route. My apartment 1:38:03.920 --> 1:38:06.880 is going to be rocking. I mean, the windows are 1:38:06.960 --> 1:38:10.960 going to be rattled with the sounds of the bagpipers 1:38:11.040 --> 1:38:14.360 that are out there, and there's no escape for me. 1:38:14.560 --> 1:38:16.439 So I might as well just put on a kilt 1:38:17.160 --> 1:38:20.200 and get into it. So with that, I will now 1:38:20.280 --> 1:38:22.400 turn our attention to what you have to say, my 1:38:22.560 --> 1:38:32.680 friends with some roll call team Buck, it's time for 1:38:32.880 --> 1:38:37.639 roll call. I really do feel like we're looking over 1:38:38.560 --> 1:38:41.519 Emerald Green Fields and all the rest of it the 1:38:41.560 --> 1:38:44.320 moment that bagpipes has come up. But like I've said, okay, yeah, 1:38:44.360 --> 1:38:46.960 there we go, it's enough. Bagpipes are amazing for about 1:38:47.160 --> 1:38:50.040 thirty seconds. I originally said five minutes, and people like 1:38:50.120 --> 1:38:52.080 that's way too long, and then I rethought, you know, 1:38:52.760 --> 1:38:55.839 bagpipes are probably something you want for about thirty seconds. 1:38:56.040 --> 1:39:00.560 I think that's fair. So now let's it into it. 1:39:00.760 --> 1:39:03.920 Brian writes the following. By the way, if you want 1:39:03.920 --> 1:39:06.439 to be a part of roll Call Facebook dot com 1:39:06.680 --> 1:39:10.400 slash buck Sexton, make sure you follow the page, by 1:39:10.439 --> 1:39:12.320 the way, and then you can send me your thoughts. There. 1:39:12.760 --> 1:39:15.960 All right, Brian, he's up first here, He writes, savor 1:39:16.040 --> 1:39:19.280 the Flavor. Nice Tommy Boy reference, great show, love the 1:39:19.360 --> 1:39:22.160 deep dive into the mind of the social justice warrior. Well, Brian, 1:39:22.240 --> 1:39:24.799 thank you so much. I do a lot of research 1:39:24.840 --> 1:39:27.120 throughout the day and and my mission is to always 1:39:27.200 --> 1:39:29.680 bring you things as much as I can that you 1:39:29.760 --> 1:39:31.720 won't hear anywhere else. And there are things that you 1:39:31.840 --> 1:39:34.120 want to hear, because I know that you've got a 1:39:34.160 --> 1:39:36.720 lot of options out there for people to give you 1:39:36.760 --> 1:39:40.160 their opinions. I try to do more research than all 1:39:40.160 --> 1:39:42.479 the rest of them and try to be more original 1:39:42.640 --> 1:39:46.040 than most of them. If well, I'll just say most 1:39:46.080 --> 1:39:48.360 of them. So thank you very much for joining the show. 1:39:48.360 --> 1:39:50.720 And yes, that was Savor the Flavor was a very 1:39:50.840 --> 1:39:53.320 subtle Tommy Boy reference I've made yesterday on the show 1:39:53.800 --> 1:39:56.600 about being wrong. Turns out, by the way, that I 1:39:56.680 --> 1:39:59.840 gotta give producer Mike a code read because Fox News 1:40:00.000 --> 1:40:04.479 reported that McCabe's birthday is in fact this Sunday. That 1:40:04.720 --> 1:40:06.840 was the report from Fox News, Which is why he 1:40:07.000 --> 1:40:09.879 because when he hits fifty, that's when he can retire. 1:40:10.240 --> 1:40:13.600 It's an age it's an age restriction, so which, by 1:40:13.640 --> 1:40:16.679 the way, it seems pretty young to retire, right I'm 1:40:16.720 --> 1:40:18.760 hoping when I'm fifty that I'm gonna be hitting my 1:40:18.880 --> 1:40:22.160 max bench press. I'm not looking to retire at fifty fifty. 1:40:22.200 --> 1:40:24.760 It's like I'm just gonna be getting started, like the 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:28.679 next chapter of Buck. Alright, Jason is next up here. 1:40:28.840 --> 1:40:32.720 He writes, Oh wow, he took a photo of the 1:40:32.800 --> 1:40:37.160 Blue Cat Lodge, which is featured in which is featured 1:40:37.200 --> 1:40:40.360 in the show Ozark. And it turns out it's a 1:40:40.400 --> 1:40:43.320 real place, which is pretty cool. Did not did not 1:40:43.439 --> 1:40:45.920 know that? Well, thank you very much. Al Right, Next 1:40:46.040 --> 1:40:49.800 up here, Uh, we have Mark, who writes, when I 1:40:49.880 --> 1:40:52.679 was in high school, I had a teacher named Mary 1:40:52.720 --> 1:40:55.960 Elizabeth Sexton, and she was fantastic. She was one of 1:40:55.960 --> 1:40:58.840 the nicest people you've ever met. After I graduated, I 1:40:58.920 --> 1:41:00.720 was in the Marines. I stopped by to visit her 1:41:00.720 --> 1:41:02.559 a couple of times when I was home on leave. 1:41:02.960 --> 1:41:05.960 I've wondered many times what happened to her. I'm an 1:41:05.960 --> 1:41:08.800 old guy, graduated high school in sixty one, so she 1:41:08.920 --> 1:41:11.320 would probably be eight ish if still with us. I 1:41:11.400 --> 1:41:15.160 wonder if she is a relative of yours, and if so, 1:41:15.280 --> 1:41:16.720 could you tell me a little bit about her. Here 1:41:16.840 --> 1:41:20.080 is a picture she seems like a very nice lady, Mark. 1:41:20.240 --> 1:41:23.839 I cannot say that I'm aware of any relations. Sexton 1:41:25.120 --> 1:41:28.880 is an occupational surname which I think a lot of 1:41:28.960 --> 1:41:31.439 people are surprised when they hear a sexton as the 1:41:31.520 --> 1:41:34.400 person who collects money in a church. He's the the 1:41:34.520 --> 1:41:38.320 lay person who works in a church. Uh digs the 1:41:38.360 --> 1:41:42.200 graves in fact, so I'm like grave digger. You know 1:41:42.320 --> 1:41:44.080 you can get like all the flames coming out of 1:41:44.120 --> 1:41:48.360 the side of my giant four by four grave digger. 1:41:48.680 --> 1:41:51.120 Isn't that a thing? Right that? Yeah, that's one of those, 1:41:51.960 --> 1:41:55.360 isn't it? Bigfoot and great monster trucks. That's not think enough? 1:41:55.360 --> 1:42:00.240 Thank you, Monster truck rallies Sexton the grave digger. Uh 1:42:00.400 --> 1:42:02.960 so yeah, there you go. But we also collect the 1:42:03.000 --> 1:42:05.400 money and are generally hopefully nice people to just say 1:42:05.439 --> 1:42:07.840 hi to in the church. That's what sextons are. So 1:42:07.920 --> 1:42:10.439 I'm affiliated with the church my friends in some way. 1:42:11.040 --> 1:42:14.720 All right, Um, next up here? Oh wow, we got 1:42:14.840 --> 1:42:17.720 so many, so many messages coming in. Thank you all. 1:42:17.760 --> 1:42:19.360 I really appreciate them. I will read all of them 1:42:19.400 --> 1:42:20.680 even if I don't. If it doesn't make it on 1:42:20.760 --> 1:42:24.840 air today, do not fret. There will be more opportunities 1:42:24.920 --> 1:42:26.840 and I will certainly read them. And this guy t 1:42:27.040 --> 1:42:29.080 J gets a huge high five because he actually has 1:42:29.080 --> 1:42:33.519 a shields high T shirt on in his Facebook photo 1:42:33.640 --> 1:42:36.920 and also with his very lovely wife. I'm I'm assuming 1:42:36.960 --> 1:42:40.600 could be girlfriend, but his wife, uh, and that makes me. 1:42:41.000 --> 1:42:44.800 That reminds me we're gonna be revamping and reworking on 1:42:44.920 --> 1:42:47.720 merchandise in the Team Bucks store. I've actually just been 1:42:47.800 --> 1:42:49.880 talking today to our design team about that we're gonna 1:42:49.920 --> 1:42:53.960 make some really cool stuff for and maybe even partner 1:42:54.080 --> 1:42:57.080 up with some folks to so really, really Nito, I 1:42:57.200 --> 1:43:01.439 just said, NTO, that's the first really hip hip things 1:43:01.600 --> 1:43:05.000 in the team Buck store. So, t J wrights Buck, 1:43:05.080 --> 1:43:07.040 you're so far out of your game trying to talk 1:43:07.120 --> 1:43:12.000 about cattle. Steer equals full grown mail that was castrated 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:15.639 as a calf. Cows, while usually a term for cattle, 1:43:15.760 --> 1:43:19.200 is specifically a female. On that note, it's not uncommon 1:43:19.280 --> 1:43:22.080 to have Rocky Mountain oyster festivals out here in the Midwest. 1:43:22.560 --> 1:43:24.920 Rocky Mountain oysters are actually not bad. I think I 1:43:25.040 --> 1:43:28.280 put them above chicken gizzards. Well, thank you for schooling 1:43:28.360 --> 1:43:31.560 me on steer. I will be among the first to 1:43:31.680 --> 1:43:35.600 admit I will be the first to admit that I 1:43:35.720 --> 1:43:38.360 do not know anything about livestock, so we do not 1:43:38.520 --> 1:43:43.360 come across a lot of that here in Manhattan, where 1:43:43.439 --> 1:43:48.320 I grew up. Um next up here, Bill, Bill Wrights, 1:43:48.439 --> 1:43:51.600 Buck Love the show. Can you give us the progressive 1:43:51.680 --> 1:43:54.879 mentality article link once more tonight? Please seem to perfectly 1:43:55.160 --> 1:44:00.200 encompass the left and their approach to debate shields high. Bill. Absolutely, Lee, 1:44:00.320 --> 1:44:03.320 and you are very helpful. Reminder, I forgot to tweet 1:44:03.360 --> 1:44:04.800 that out last night. I'll share it with you. The 1:44:04.840 --> 1:44:08.000 Psychology of Progressive Hostility producer Mike. We gotta put that 1:44:08.080 --> 1:44:09.840 up on buck sex and dot com and also on 1:44:09.960 --> 1:44:12.559 Facebook so everyone can read it because I went through 1:44:12.600 --> 1:44:17.200 it in some detail last night on the show. Uh, 1:44:17.479 --> 1:44:23.160 let's see what else we have here, Kirk, He writes Buck, 1:44:23.520 --> 1:44:26.600 thanks for speaking out on Stephen Hawking. Yes, he was 1:44:26.720 --> 1:44:31.160 brilliant and showed incredible courage persevering through a l s. However, 1:44:31.320 --> 1:44:33.960 for the left to cast him as the genius of 1:44:34.040 --> 1:44:38.599 our time regarding astrophysics and the universe is irresponsible. Then again, 1:44:38.680 --> 1:44:40.760 what's new? I find one of the greatest minds in 1:44:40.800 --> 1:44:44.920 astrophysics is actually a Jesuit priest father Robert Spitzer. He 1:44:45.040 --> 1:44:49.040 combines faith and reason. He discusses the expanding universe theory, 1:44:49.200 --> 1:44:53.240 which even most atheistic scientists are on board with. Simply put, 1:44:53.360 --> 1:44:55.960 if the universe is expanding constantly, there has to be 1:44:56.080 --> 1:44:58.920 a beginning. You hear nothing about this in the mainstream 1:44:58.920 --> 1:45:02.679 because it challenges this sacred big bang. Thanks for speaking 1:45:02.760 --> 1:45:05.240 up again where it counts. Kirk from Houston, Will Kirk, 1:45:05.320 --> 1:45:08.240 thank you very much. I'm glad you appreciated me taking 1:45:08.240 --> 1:45:11.719 a little bit of a diversion or digression into Hawking. 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:15.400 And like I said, I I am somebody who you 1:45:15.560 --> 1:45:17.799 I would not be able to help my future children 1:45:17.880 --> 1:45:20.679 with their high school geometry homework, but I do read 1:45:20.720 --> 1:45:23.479 and think a lot about these things. And Hawking has 1:45:23.560 --> 1:45:29.280 become or became more a media celebrity than a scientist 1:45:29.520 --> 1:45:32.720 in a lot of ways. All right, here we go. 1:45:32.960 --> 1:45:36.360 Whoa uh, Jackie writes Buck Love your show, been with 1:45:36.400 --> 1:45:39.439 you many years now, just listening to last night's show, 1:45:39.720 --> 1:45:41.920 and I have to speak up. I have a friend 1:45:41.960 --> 1:45:44.000 who's a flight attendant and always asked her the other 1:45:44.080 --> 1:45:47.560 side of the story. There's always another side. For the 1:45:47.640 --> 1:45:50.040 most part, the airlines are not the ones handing down 1:45:50.080 --> 1:45:53.200 the ridiculous rules and regulations that government is. No, you're you're, 1:45:53.240 --> 1:45:55.080 I I get it. I know the f a A. 1:45:55.760 --> 1:45:58.400 Absolutely true. And I'm glad that Jackie is pointing this 1:45:58.520 --> 1:46:01.919 out because while we come down really hard on the airlines, 1:46:02.320 --> 1:46:05.320 the really stupid regulations, the ones that are like, don't 1:46:05.439 --> 1:46:08.880 use your kindle during takeoff because it's gonna interfere with 1:46:09.040 --> 1:46:11.680 our systems, which is that was the rule for years. 1:46:11.720 --> 1:46:13.960 They finally got rid of it because it was so stupid. 1:46:14.439 --> 1:46:16.320 But that comes from the uh, the f A A. 1:46:17.120 --> 1:46:19.840 And so the f A should get its fair share 1:46:20.040 --> 1:46:23.559 of hostility as well. And Jackie writes that she has 1:46:23.600 --> 1:46:28.599 two carpet sharks donut dournut turnut turnut, turnut, turnut turnut 1:46:28.760 --> 1:46:32.880 carpet sharks. Um check out Caruso the celebrity docks and 1:46:33.000 --> 1:46:35.800 on Facebook he is quite the celebrity. Love my doxies. 1:46:35.920 --> 1:46:38.920 Keep up the good work, Thank you, Jackie. And uh, 1:46:39.040 --> 1:46:41.000 you know, I'm I'm fond of carpet sharks as long 1:46:41.040 --> 1:46:42.519 as they don't try to eat me. It's when they 1:46:42.560 --> 1:46:47.160 try to eat me then I get a little sad. Uh. So, oh, 1:46:47.280 --> 1:46:49.880 we've got an inner. We've got one International team Buck, 1:46:49.880 --> 1:46:51.360 and then I got to close up the Freedom Hunt 1:46:51.360 --> 1:46:53.760 for the weekend and go, I'm gonna pretend like I'm 1:46:53.760 --> 1:46:55.960 gonna party over St. Patty's Day and drink I'm such 1:46:55.960 --> 1:46:58.800 a teetotler man, I'm gonna at least producer Mike's wearing 1:46:58.840 --> 1:47:01.800 a green shirt. Um, I got nothing on, although I 1:47:01.840 --> 1:47:05.320 wore my green tie today on Trish Reagan's show on 1:47:05.439 --> 1:47:09.240 Fox New Fox Business and during Outnumbered Rocket of green 1:47:09.320 --> 1:47:13.120 tie with Shamrocks on it. No less, that's right, that's 1:47:13.160 --> 1:47:17.200 like plus three points for Ireland and Sarah Huckaby Sanders 1:47:17.240 --> 1:47:21.280 in the press conference today also very pleasant shade of green. Alright, 1:47:21.479 --> 1:47:24.720 Hannah from Israel is right, and I love the International 1:47:24.760 --> 1:47:27.280 team Buck. When you mentioned on Wednesday's show that your 1:47:27.320 --> 1:47:30.200 podcast was good for a commute, I said, yes, out loud. 1:47:30.600 --> 1:47:32.920 I commute once a week from across Israel from the 1:47:33.000 --> 1:47:35.320 north to the middle of the country to visit family. 1:47:35.720 --> 1:47:37.639 It's a two and a half hour drive each way, 1:47:37.680 --> 1:47:39.960 and your podcast makes me look forward to the time 1:47:40.040 --> 1:47:42.000 in the car you make it could be a very 1:47:42.080 --> 1:47:45.880 unpleasant trip something I actually look forward to. Thank you well, Hannah, 1:47:45.960 --> 1:47:48.640 thank you very much. That's a very kind note. And 1:47:48.760 --> 1:47:50.880 it is my honor and privilege to be able to 1:47:51.320 --> 1:47:54.920 keep you company as you are traversing the great state 1:47:55.120 --> 1:48:00.280 of Israel or the country thereof. Uh, so, thank you 1:48:00.360 --> 1:48:03.040 so much, everybody. I've just realized now I've gotta shut 1:48:03.120 --> 1:48:04.920 down the Freedom Hunt for the day, but we'll be 1:48:05.040 --> 1:48:07.840 back on Monday and every day next week. We've got 1:48:07.920 --> 1:48:11.040 some exciting stuff already in the works. I'm gonna be 1:48:11.240 --> 1:48:13.400 very mean and make producer Mike work on things all 1:48:13.520 --> 1:48:15.679 weekend that are gonna make the show sound even cooler. 1:48:15.760 --> 1:48:17.400 But he's he's down because I'm gonna send him some 1:48:17.439 --> 1:48:20.120 guinness so I'll have something to to help him drown 1:48:20.200 --> 1:48:23.240 the sorrows. And John, make sure that you come up 1:48:23.479 --> 1:48:25.800 rested and ready. You're in every day next week, my friend, 1:48:26.200 --> 1:48:29.120 Happy St. Patty's Day to the crew here. I'm sorry St. 1:48:29.200 --> 1:48:31.400 Patrick's Day, but I'm irish. I can say whatever I want. 1:48:31.800 --> 1:48:34.040 Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you at home, 1:48:34.360 --> 1:48:36.360 and uh that's how that's what we're gonna do it. 1:48:36.439 --> 1:48:39.240 Oh Um, I thought I had an announcement, but I 1:48:39.280 --> 1:48:42.120 actually don't. Basically, go on Facebook, go on Twitter, follow me, 1:48:42.160 --> 1:48:45.040 there if you're not already, semi thoughts for the show 1:48:45.320 --> 1:48:49.040 going forward, and uh, have a great holiday weekend. Everybody 1:48:49.120 --> 1:48:52.240 celebrating whatever way you see fit. If that includes just 1:48:52.360 --> 1:48:54.280 sort of doing what you always do and not paying 1:48:54.280 --> 1:48:57.400 attention to this celebration of Irish American nous, well that's 1:48:57.439 --> 1:49:00.280 fine too. See you on Monday shoot time.