WEBVTT - Syria Is Not Our Fight 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:17.360 You are entering the freedom hunt. Will we strike at 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:22.800 Assad in Syria? Also the Mueller probe looking for information 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.960 tied to the Access Hollywood tape. It's getting crazier and crazier. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.760 Plus Paul Ryan and not running for re election. The 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.320 Speaker of the House is Dawn after this term. We've 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.800 got that plus a whole lot more coming up. This 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.120 is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:45.159 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.040 no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, The buck 0:00:49.080 --> 0:01:01.520 Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everyone. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.800 Great to have you here with me. I wanted to 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.399 lead off with Syria today. I there's a whole bunch 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.320 of other stuff that we've got to get to. The 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:15.360 the Comy World media tour that's gonna be both a 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.480 subject of a lot of discussion and mockery on the 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.200 show and and a source of some some headaches for me. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.840 I'm sure, because, oh, comey, I understand Colly. That's the thing. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.199 I know. I know the the cloth from which he comes. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:33.800 If you will, I I understand that kind of sanctimonious bureaucrat. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.680 Having worked with some very sanctimonious bureaucrats in my day. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.600 But that will have to wait for just a little bit. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.160 Plus some stuff coming out of the Mueller probe that 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.360 you know here here the breaking news on CNN. I 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.240 can always turn the the anti Trump resistance as presented 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:53.440 by the anti Drum resistance sponsored by CNN sources. FBI 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.240 raid sought Trump's communications with his lawyer Michael Cohen regarding 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:03.200 the Access Hollywood tape. You know, I see happening here. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:10.519 There's an effort underway to now look into UH politics 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.240 as a criminal matter. I don't mean that they're trying 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.679 to criminalize political differences. That's what the whole Muller probe 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.920 is all about. But this is about looking at the 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.680 ins and outs of what people do in politics and 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.240 try to find a way to put it into a 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.120 statute or or find a statute that applies that they 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.239 can bring criminal charges. But as I said, that will 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:35.440 have to wait. That will have to wait a little bit. Um. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.639 I'm pretty frustrated on the serious situation. Frustrated for a 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.880 number of reasons. The first is that there's a lot 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:49.400 that demands our attention more so then than what's going 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.520 on in Syria in any given day. It's just the truth. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.440 And this has been the case for years now. I 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.800 so rarely see any worthwhile discussion or analysis of Syria, 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.760 especially on TV. You just have everyone doing a lot 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.040 of moral preening and posturing over you know, yeah, a 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.400 shot so bad and he's just terrible guy. We we 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.800 know that, or this is not it's not an additive statement. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.840 It's not helpful the conversation r It's like it's like 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.239 people who go on TV and they want to talk 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.680 about how Putin is a thug or it's all everyone says, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.280 Putin is a thug. Okay, well what does that? What 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.080 do we do about that? What does that mean? What 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.560 are the next steps? If the US was to have 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.120 a more productive relationship with Russia, then we should do 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:36.240 what the following? What is the following serious? I feel 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.280 like we haven't somehow as a country. And it's at 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.440 least in the leadership class. It's a it's a bipartisan 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.920 failing right now. Actually, the leadership class, I mean the 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:52.320 people that are elected representatives. They seem to have this 0:03:52.600 --> 0:04:01.440 impulse to flex US military might abroad and make a 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.880 statement in a part of the world where this is 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:11.200 just it's for show. It's not going to be meaningful. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.760 And then I also have some questions about all the 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.359 all the statements and the and the news reports that 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.760 we accept as fact. But have we not learned the 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.920 problems of trying to rebuild someone else's country for them, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.920 or trying to hold it together, or trying to stop 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:34.719 it from descending into civil war? My generation now and 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.640 and the generation above me, but my generation has been 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:44.039 engaged in active combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan now 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.400 for over a decade, in the case of Afghanistan, going 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.360 on two decades now, right, I mean, this is going 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:57.720 on for a very long time. We are not about 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.480 to fix Afghanistan. In fact, Afghanistan is getting worse. Another 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.120 thing that's not very much reported on, in part because 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:07.240 nobody wants to hear it. I think really nobody. If 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.799 the media can find a way to make it Trump's fault, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.880 they will. But Afghanistan is deteriorating and is getting worse. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.400 And we we don't even want to know how much 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.600 Iranian and Russian and other influence there is in Afghanistan 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.520 assisting the Taliban. It's a nightmare, Okay, Iraq right now 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.960 is quiet down a bit. They've managed to avoid the 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.240 descent into hell that would come from a an open 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:38.400 sectarian conflict between the Sunny Shia and kurd three primary 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.720 ethno sectarian factions inside of Iraq, so that we've we've 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.680 calmed that down. The Islamic state is suppressed. They're they're 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.560 not completely eradicated, they're suppressed. And now we've got Syria 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.640 where no one has a plan that's even worth listening to. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.359 Right now, no one really knows anything other than, you 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.640 know what, the Assad regime is better than the alternative, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.280 but no one wants to say it. They don't want 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.159 to say it. They don't want that to be It 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.599 just feels wrong because I saw it such a bad guy, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.120 because Asad is a is a genocidal dictator or murderer, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:19.320 all this stuff, which is all all true. But what 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.280 do we really think is going to be accomplished by 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.800 firing a bunch of missiles into a country with which 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.440 we are not at war that we don't even know 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.760 who we want to to win the war? Right now? 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.200 In Syria, we really don't. We don't have a faction 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.760 that we think could run the country, and we also 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.560 have a nuclear power Russia in this case that has 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.760 troops there, and we have U S troops in harm's way. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.240 All of that together there and in response to a 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:52.839 chemical weapons attack that killed for over forty people, made 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.000 five hundred six was the latest I saw today. We're 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:02.360 gonna do what exactly, We're bombs some air fields. Why 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.880 because we we have to draw a line at at 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.400 the usage of chemical weapons. Uh, there have been plenty 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.240 of times in our recent past. Word, by the way, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:15.840 we did not enforce that. And the last time we 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.560 did this, this is quite obvious, it did not have 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.840 the intended effect. As in, if you believe that Asad 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.680 use chemical weapons a year ago, somehow, almost exactly a 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.280 year to the day, he's using chemical weapons now, I 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.520 also would want to know what the motivation would be 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:37.119 for the dictator of Damascus to do this. The regime has, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:42.120 despite all odds, managed to hold on, hold power and 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.360 hold back the advance of what is primarily a g 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.160 Hottest uprising against him. Now. I know there was a 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.840 time when it was protest movements and the Free Syrian Army, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.840 and but the reality is that right now the g 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:00.520 hottests are the primary anti Assad coalition, And I'm not 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.160 just and that by that, I don't just mean the 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.600 Islamic State. There are all these other factions that are 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:12.160 hard line Islamists, and the people of Syria that are 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.160 still in a side controlled areas do not want those 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.800 rebels to take over. They do not want them to 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.800 be in charge. So our firing off missiles is based 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.880 upon an emotional response. I think it was a year 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.760 ago that the president, the reports were at least that 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.840 the president was swayed by by his daughter, by Ivanka, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.880 to to enforce the red line that Obama had not enforced. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.840 And I can understand the symbolism at the time of 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.000 doing it, and I will not pretend I will not 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.160 rewrite history. I thought that it was the right move 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:46.480 at the time, under the circumstances. But we did it. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.439 We drew a line, we enforced the line. Now we 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.560 started asking the question, Okay, well, it clearly didn't deter 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.679 future be future bad behavior. So the only way that 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.199 you could even make a case that in what now 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.760 it's been reported as I'm on air an imminent missile strike, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.280 the United States firing off probably a bunch of Tomahawk missiles, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.160 and you know, annihilating some air fields, maybe some other 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.440 military depots of the Assad regime. The only way you 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:17.439 could justify it as a military maneuver would be if 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.920 you went bigger, right, if you went for more here, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.680 if this was not just a show of force and 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.800 a show of accountability against the Assad regime. But you're 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.360 you're gonna really make it hurt you. You're gonna really 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:39.320 hamper Assad capability, which means this means escalation. This means 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.880 something a lot bigger. And we don't have enough of 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.199 a read on what the aftermath of that would look 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.600 like in Syria. We don't know what would come two 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.840 with the Assad regime, with the rebels if we were 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.720 to go hard and heavy after Assad. And that's why 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.800 when I heard Lindsay Graham said a um that Assan 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.600 should be a target, I slop that down. I think 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.240 that that's I think it's a bad idea. I think 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.560 it's honestly reckless. I think Lindsay Graham has never been 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.800 impressive to me. I just don't think he's an impressive guy. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.400 Maybe he's a really nice guy, I don't know. I 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.160 think his analysis is pretty crappy most of the time. UM, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.400 and I think that at some key points as well, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.480 he all of a sudden stops being particularly conservative. He's 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.560 back out there though he really wants, he wants us 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.199 to blow some stuff up. He needs to go big 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.600 because the side has divided the president, and he has 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.200 divided the international communities, divide human decency, and now is 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.680 the time for this guy to pay a heavy, heavy price. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.679 And anything short of that, I think will embolden him 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:49.320 and others, anything short of going big after a son, right, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.720 I mean, isn't what Graham's on the Senate Form Relations 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.439 Committee or the Senate which which committee's you don't even know. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.080 Let me know if you think he's on one of them. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.880 He fancies himself a foreign policy savant, go big. Anything 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.520 less than that would embolden him. Okay, so so proportional 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.199 response to what happened there, which is what they tried 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.520 the last time again almost exactly a year ago, that 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.280 would make things worse. I don't know what world Lindsey 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.120 Graham is living on. I don't know what recent US 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.319 history is informing his decision making, but I think that's 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.280 a terrible idea. I think it's a terrible idea. Look, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.160 people will point to this, and I know they will 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.760 General Maddis and they'll say, well, if you know Maddis, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.360 who's very well respected and like, I have a lot 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.440 of respect for the guy too, but his job is 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.319 to execute the orders given to him by the commander 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.920 in chief, President Trump, who is I think still being 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.440 swayed by people one way the other on this issue. Mean, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.080 here's what Mattis said about this earlier today. We're still 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:58.280 affesting the intelligence, ourselves and our allies were still working 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:06.920 on this an we stand ready to provide military option 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:12.400 tof they're appropriate, as the President determined. Yeah, it's up 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.600 to the president. I hope that Trump just this time around, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.520 decides that they will condemn it in a statement. But 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.800 it's just not worth the risk. Here. We've got it. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.679 We've had a larger U. S. Troop presence than we 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.839 did a year ago. The ground truth has changed from 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.320 what it was a year ago. And we did this once, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.720 we enforced the red line. Once it didn't stop them. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.439 I know there are also people who will say, and 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:42.040 I I am open to the argument, why would a 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.440 sad even do this? Why would have sat to use 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:50.240 chemical weapons? He's he's winning in this part of Eastern 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.400 it's really the suburb east of Damascus. He's winning in 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.480 this area, So why use chemical weapons at this point? 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.560 And and had the international community that had essential really decided, 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.400 you know what, we're gonna let us Ode do his 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:08.640 thing and he's better than the alternative. It's so reckless 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.600 and so dumb for us odd to do this that 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.680 it makes me think maybe we're missing something here. And 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.000 you know me, I don't do conspiracies, although a lot 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.520 of folks find conspiracy very interesting. But if there were 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.560 an opportunity for a false flag op, or rather if 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.120 you were looking to do a false flag op, this 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.800 would be a a compelling one to pull off, get 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.800 the whole international community focus to get on Syria. And 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.880 I mean, if you're the jihadest, or you're any of 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.320 these Islamist militias. By the way, people, don't you see 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.360 all these punts that they have no idea, they don't 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.320 understand when insertaincies, like they haven't been near this. A 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.480 lot of these senators, honestly, they just read about this 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.719 stuff in books. They show up like once a year 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.120 in the green zone in the rock and they're like, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.040 look at me, I'm tough. I wore a flak jacket 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.480 for five minutes. The truth here is that you have 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.600 people that are actually gonna define that have been defecting 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:05.200 continuously from Assan's forces to the other side. You've had 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.640 a lot of of of attrition both ways. So who 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.560 knows who's got what? We have no idea. People say, oh, buck, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.240 we have great intelligence in the ground, what's going on 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.200 in Syria? No, we don't. I can tell you that too. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.960 It's a lot that we don't know. So we're gonna 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.240 do what. We're gonna fire off a bunch of missiles 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.720 and calls the whole storm there. What if Russia said 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.520 they're gonna shoo him down by the way, Now, we're 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.360 gonna get into that. We're gonna get into a test 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.320 of wills with Russia over Syria. Here's another truth that 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.720 no one wants to tell you. We care a lot 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.800 less about what's going on in Syria than Russia does. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.720 That's just what's going on there. We don't like to 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.560 say it, we don't like to hear it, but that's 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.120 that's truth. Once again, I don't understand. We've had such 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.440 a rough go of trying to put together a couple 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.560 of Muslim majority of countries. I'm not even should Libya 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.160 to right Libya rock Afghanistan. We've been going through this 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.520 and going through this and asking our our best fellow 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.240 Americans to do all this actual work to put their 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:13.080 lives online and suffer casualties and and PTSD, and we're 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.960 gonna even tempt fate on this again for Syria. I'm sorry, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.880 we're too late for Syria. We are, and we shouldn't 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.960 pretend we're not. And we shouldn't put our men and 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.520 women in uniform in a position where they can't win 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.560 this fight. It's not their fight and they shouldn't be 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.200 there in the first place. Now, I'm not talking about 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.560 the special forces we already have there. Now, they're assistant 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.920 ground forces that are are aligned with our objective, which 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.040 was to destroy Isis. I'm talking about we're gonna get 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.680 rid of a SAD if that's still the plan to 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.440 get rid of ASAD. Now you're talking full scale invasion. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.240 Now you're talking about a big military force there. The 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.760 terrible idea. It is a nightmare. We need to learn lessons, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.960 and we need to elect people in this country who 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.160 understand what the heck they're talking about. And we'll look 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.000 at recent history and draw important conclusions about our national 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.880 security from it. Do not get us dragged into Syria. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:07.720 All right, hit a quick break. Your team will be 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:16.000 back with much more. I hope that the United States 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.680 is going to move sufficient forces into the region that 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.080 the Russians won't do anything fullish. The fact is, if 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.320 we mass our power, they can't possibly compete with us 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.240 in the region. And we need to communicate very clearly 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.200 the Putent that if the President has made the decision, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.040 if his British and French allies have made a decision 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.120 to go along with him, uh, that we are not 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.600 going to tolerate any Russian interference, and that we have 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.040 far more power in that area than they do, and that, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.840 if necessary, will use it. I don't think we should 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.760 allow Putin to have any illusion about trying to bluff us. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.240 I think we, we Americans have got to get back 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.400 to a habit that we're prepared to defend our civilization 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.200 and defend our country. And that means if you come 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.000 up against some dictator trained by the case GB and 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.760 he thinks he can blush you, you want. I gotta 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.880 say that a lot of TV tough guy talked there 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.960 from Newton, whom I is a very smart guy and 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.720 I respect, but he's wrong on this one. Move forces 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.160 into the region over Syria. Russia has been there for years. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.680 Russia has spet SNAs in place, Russia has intel officers 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.399 in place in large numbers, my friends. And it's not 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.600 just Russia. The Iranians are there too, Iranni and i 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.439 r g C, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, they're they're they're working, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:35.560 they are embedded with and working with Assad's forces. What 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.520 does he mean We're going to show them that, you know, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.000 we're in charge and Syria we're not, and we're not 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.840 going to be. We are nowhere near as invested as 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.760 the Russians or the Iranians are and what's going on 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.800 in Syria? Move sufficient forces into the region, I mean 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.879 to do what exactly? This is what I mean. I 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.600 you know, NW just fell into it. I'm sure that 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.119 was probably a Fox News segment, I'm guessing, and it 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.639 sounds good on Fox News. You know, forces in the region, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:11.080 confront Russia, show putin who's boss? What do you think 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.880 has been going on in Syria for the last oh 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.600 six years? They've been there? Right? We decided We're gonna 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.639 go after ICE's, but we're gonna leave us sod alone. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.560 That has been the policy. That is, that is the 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:28.119 truth of what has happened. Uh, we're not about to 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.600 decide that that's not the that's a terrible, terrible idea. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.280 And we do not want to get into some kind 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.000 of you know, squaring off with squaring off with the 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.240 Russians at Syria. We really don't. Um. They will play 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.320 very dirty, and we just it's just not our fight. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:04.480 He's holding the line for America is back. I've got 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.200 to talk to you about the latest on the uh 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:13.640 Mueller probe. It's just just it's outrageous stuff. Um swamp 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:19.159 is thick and smelly and stanky and bad. It's it 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.199 keeps getting worse. I came into this. I know the swamp. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.399 I lived in d C. I worked for the federal government. 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.040 I got all kinds of friends and colleagues and politics. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.280 I know people on both sides of the aisle, and man, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.320 the swamp is bad news. But it's even it's even 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.119 messier and deeper and worse than I thought. That's what 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.160 we're fine, especially on the government side. The deep state 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.439 is h is a real thing that we have to 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.240 contemt with. But before I move on all that, we 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.000 got some calls coming. I want to take them because 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.560 they want to discuss Syria. Uh So I wanted to 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.000 hear from them. And we'll move on to the next 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:57.240 stuff We've got to first. Kent in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hey, hey, Ken, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.360 how are you doing doing good? Buck? Thanks for taking call. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.960 Bad it's a bad day in uh in North Carolina. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.639 Apparently we're gonna lose you on the local radio station 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.160 down here sometime in May. I believe that's a shame. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.320 That's a shame. Uh an unwise decision, But folks are 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.159 allowed to make their own decisions. What can I tell you? 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:19.639 But anyway, go ahead, Kent. Yeah, I'm going about this 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.440 whole Syrian thing. And as you were, you were discussing 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.360 earlier that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Assad 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.560 to use chemical weapons when he's basically won the war, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.240 and and Trump recently stated that we're gonna be pulling 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.920 our forces out of Syria. It's not logical in any way. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.560 And even if that guy is an evil dictator or 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.920 what have you, he's not a dumb man. He's an 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.680 a surgeon who speaks multiple language and has been groomed 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.080 to run a country. He's not an idiot. And I 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.360 read a report today I'm a lunch break from from 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.080 zero Hedge, and while the source it came from a 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.360 public statements made by some made by the Russians, and 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.119 they had basically stated that they send inspectors in and 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.800 they couldn't find anything. And they were basically claiming, I mean, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.320 it's a conspiratorial and put it into context as is 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.159 coming from the Russians, so you know that needs to 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.200 be taken into account. But but they were basically claiming 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:19.199 that some international uh like health organization, some some I 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.760 can't remember exactly. They referred to him as white helmets, 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:26.920 but people who do internet. There's actually a documentary on them. Well, anyway, 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:31.480 they were saying they were basically creating the conspiracy that uh, 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.600 these people basically staged the whole thing to create basically 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.600 the propaganda to keep uh, the United States involved. And well, 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.080 I don't like to get too conspiratorial at times. That 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.600 does make more sense than Assad doing a chemical weapons 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.560 attack when everything's going in his favor. And a second 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.520 point I would like to make is I read uh, 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:54.800 more of a mainstream news article. I went and tried 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.120 to find some mainstream news articles see what they were 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.080 talking about. And there was an individual from one of 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.160 these organizations who was quoted as saying that he smelled 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.280 colorine after some barrel bombs were dropped. And and two 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.960 quick points about that couring gas. Whenever it was used 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.520 in World War One, it was it was a It 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.600 was a by product that the Germans had from the 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.080 from I believe it was a die industry. Don't quote 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.600 me on that, but basically they did not use it 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.560 in explosives. They kept it in canisters, waited for the 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.639 wind to be blowing in the right direction, they opened 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:28.800 up these canisters and then there was this big green 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.800 cloud that came in the trenches of the enemy. And 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.199 I recall one time I spent some time in the 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.560 military and I was talking with an E. O. D 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.200 guy who they know a thing or two about explosives, 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.960 and he was saying that colorine cannot be used effectively 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.479 in the explosives. But and it had something to do 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:49.720 with the heat. Yeah, a lot of it burns off. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:51.560 I mean, some of the bad guys in the rock 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:53.680 and and Syria have been trying to use chlorine bombs 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:55.720 for a while. They did it an Anbar province years 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.000 and years ago. I remember the first time. But but 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:05.879 basically the entire thing it smells extremely fishy. And while 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.520 you know, I want to be headstant to believe, you know, 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:12.040 a conspiracy that is created by some some guy from Russia, 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:15.040 you know, part of the Russian government, it is more 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.600 logical than what our media is saying. And I don't know, 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.960 I'd just like to yeah, well, I'm trying to touch 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:22.920 on a lot of the subject matter that that you're 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.000 bringing to the forefront here, can't. I would just say 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.600 that the timing is very suspicious, very strange that there's 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.359 been a pretty much an acceptance of a if not 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.760 a US withdrawal entirely from Seraman. The president himself was like, yeah, 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:38.800 we gotta get out of Syria. He's right on that, 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.160