WEBVTT - Sancti-Comey 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:16.720 You are entering the freedom hunt. Thoughts on the Comy 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.320 interview from over the weekend. Of course, we'll discuss those, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.000 my friends. Also, the state of California is balking at 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.640 sending National Guard to help out on the border. We'll 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.000 get into that and update on the aftermath of air 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.800 strikes in Syria. And of course, in the third hour, 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.040 we'll talk about what wokeness is doing to your favorite 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.080 TV shows and movies that are more coming up. This 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.360 is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:49.400 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.280 no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again the Buck 0:00:53.320 --> 0:01:03.600 Sexton Show begins. Analysts, remember no one, welcome, my friends 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.680 to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm coming to you live 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.880 from California. I'm visiting out here in Los Angeles for 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.800 for a few days this week. Very much enjoying my 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.640 time out here. We have a lot to get to. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.240 This Comy thing was you know, I I promised that 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.480 I'm not going to spend too much time this week 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.520 talking talking about Comy or or sank to Comy as 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.800 I like to call him, because the sanctimony with this 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.360 guy is it is a tornado of sanctimony every time 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.440 he appears on TV. This interview was was hard to 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.040 take and many ways hard to watch. But I feel 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.760 like I've known comys in my day. I think a 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.840 lot of us have. And if you if you understand 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.880 who this guy is, then everything starts to make sense. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.600 If you really put into context who this individual, who 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.720 he reminds you of, who he operates like in your 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.120 own life, you be like, yeah, I've known some I've 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.000 known some comys in my day. Uh. And just as 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.400 as I mentioned before, we've got some some more stuff 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.920 on Syria to talk about. Also California and the National 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.640 Guard going to the border. That's that's gonna be an 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.480 interesting piece as well. So here's here's what I got 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.840 for you on the whole comy thing went on for 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.359 a long time. I went back today and read through 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.200 the transcript of it too, and not a lot of 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.600 news breaking in this, but if you look between the lines, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.560 if you read between the lines a bit, you find 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.720 that is a very problematic figure. This this Mr Komy 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:35.400 fellow and has at various points in his career taken 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:41.560 actions and made decisions that a non Komy would probably 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.200 be ruined for I mean, this guy, he's a a 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.400 savvy political infighter, make no mistake about it. You know, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.640 he is the boy scout who will stab you in 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.239 the back. So you think, oh, this guy, you know, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.000 anyone can trust him. Then all of a sudden, Ah, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.720 what's that in my back? What happened? You didn't see 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.400 it coming because it came from Comy. I want to 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.520 break down those some of his And this is who 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.120 he is, right, that's what his the vibe, the feeling 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.680 you get about this guy. You know, I've told some 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.120 of my friends recently that he's the one who, you know, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.520 if you weren't late, for if you weren't caught by 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.519 the dean when you were late for school, he was 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.160 the one who would just like give the Dina heads 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.040 up that you were late. You know, is he right? Yeah? 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.840 I mean technically maybe, But is it helpful? Is is 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.400 that is that the cool thing to do? Is that 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.160 the right move? Is that showing good judgment? No? I 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.640 don't think the world's a better place because you didn't 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.160 get away with being ten minutes late to first period. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.720 You know, it's who Comey is. He's He's America's hall monitor. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.800 It's not somebody that I have a lot of admiration 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.200 or respect for, and that's putting a modeling, not someone 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.880 that I can honestly stomach spending too much time reading 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:55.640 about or or analyzing. But we'll do some of it today. Um. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.720 He also reminds me of some of the government employees 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.920 I knew who were really quick to point out if 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:09.960 anyone had violated even the most arcane regulation, even the 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.640 most minute in the NYPD that had the patrol guy 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.039 this big thick guide and you always knew. And this 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.760 was told me by different sergeants on on the force 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.640 that I worked with in my time there. You know, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.760 you knew if somebody was on your on your side 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.080 or not, based on how deep in the weeds they 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.080 go in the patrol guy to find something to get 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.680 you onto Jammu Up. I remember a guy telling me that, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.479 you know, when he worked in the equivalent of the 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.400 Internal Affairs Bureau, there were the guys who I think 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.440 m IPD and I even forget. I think they call 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.880 it an investigations or whatever, but and it's it's the 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.040 it's what in the movies that have they know we're 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.320 from the Internal Affairs and all the all the good 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.640 guy cops who played by the road instet of rules 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.400 or super hostile to them. That's not how it works 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.159 out in real life internal affairs. In real life every 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.600 goes yes, sir, what do you need? Um? But there 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.120 were the guys who would as part of the internal 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:11.400 affairs component, they would get you on having your addresses 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.320 of the m y p D. If your address changed 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.920 and you didn't officially updated on your driver's license. They 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.760 make a big deal of that. Does anyone really care? 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.359 Are you not an effective law enforcement officer because the 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.560 records have you at the wrong address or something? If 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:25.960 you move because people move in New York all the 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.359 time because the rents are so expensive, and you know 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.599 you've got really no choice. Um. But you know that's 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.640 those Those are the differences between the people that you 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.640 can count on and the people that you can't write, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.599 those who would go to the depths of of the 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.160 patrol guy to find a way to get you. And 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:51.840 that's who Comy is, except for himself, very clear about 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.080 that in this interview as well. He'll he'll find a 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.400 way to justify sending anyone else down the river, throwing 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.320 someone else under the bus. But he was always just 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.480 acting from the most pure motives. He was always the 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.640 guy who when he was breaking the rules, he was 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:14.719 doing it actually for the best possible intentions. That's what 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.560 he was really all about. So with that here, let's 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.000 get into some of the specifics from his his interview, like, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.000 for example, where he talked about the the leak of 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.800 information that he had Comey leaks some stuff play clip one. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.240 Presidents tweeted innumerable times calling you a leaker. What's your 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.160 response to President Trump? Look, it's true. I mean I'm 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.080 the one who testified about it. That's how people know 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.119 about it. I gave that unclassified memo to my friend 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.279 and asked him to give it to a reporter. That 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.039 is entirely appropriate. Why not do it yourself? Why not 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.000 do it openly, transparently, For one very practical reason. At 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.000 the end of my driveway was a horde of media, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.560 and my thought was, if I give it to one reporter, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.960 then what's my answer to all the others about why 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.880 I won't answer their questions. That's not an answer that 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.520 that doesn't cut it right, because I wanted to be fair. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.279 This is what I mean by you know, he's the 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.520 guy who the rules really apply to everyone else, but 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.200 not really to him. But he's he's holier than thou, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.200 but he gives himself an indulgence when necessary. I had 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.280 to have a cutout give it to the paper because 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.440 I didn't want to seem unfair. Well, then you're cut out. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.240 Is the guy who's being unfair, but you're the one 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.760 who empowered him. So how does that make any difference? 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.800 The answers, of course it doesn't. He's also stating that 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.280 the memo is unclassified. Well, according to Chuck Grassley in 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.840 the Senate, that's not true. And beyond that, even if 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.560 it's unclassified, the fact of the matter is that he 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:48.240 was using his access as the FBI director two wage 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.040 a personal war against the president to indulge a personal 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.280 vendetta against the person who he answered to in the 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.920 executive chain of command. There's this weird there's this weird 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.800 theory that the media has been running around with it 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.720 like the d o J and the FBI are are 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.920 really their own branch of government. And I think that 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.080 what's been on earth and all of this in part 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.840 is that they think of themselves as their own branch 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.480 at the very top level at least, I mean not 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.920 the rank and file, but you know, FBI director or 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.480 attorney general. They think that they are in a separate 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.280 category of government. They're not just another executive branch employee. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.120 And I think that that led to a very troubling 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.840 and obvious hubrists with people like James Comey. I mean, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.600 this guy really thinks that he's just got a better 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.280 way all the time, and when he breaks the rules, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.000 it's because he knows the rules so very well. When 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.400 he does something that's wrong, it's because, oh, it's just 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.280 so right. It's really kind of a got a kind 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.680 of while when you think about it. Um. But so 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.240 he admitted that he leakes he leaked stuff, and he 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.920 says it's unclassifiedable. We'll see, we'll see. There are other 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.439 parts of the interview I think where we got a 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.720 much better sense even of how self serving all of 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.280 his justifications really are. One of the parts of it 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.640 that made me the most annoyed because he's not the 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.880 only one who has done this. You've had this from 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.160 former cy I director Brennan as well, but that they'll 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.440 suggest that like maybe Russia has got something on Trump, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.880 still maybe they've got something on them, and given their 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.160 level of access to government information, including all kinds of 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.480 sensitive collection platforms that are out there, and investigations for 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.120 the FBI side of things too on national security related matters. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.000 This suggestion, when you've just left that role, that there 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:46.079 maybe something that is compromising the President United States. He's 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:51.560 wildly irresponsible. It just is people can sit around and say, oh, no, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.840 you know, tell me he's he's great and he's doing 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.320 his best, and he just wants to serve his country. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.200 And I see this and I say to myself, Uh, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.679 he really is acting like a wounded, uh, wounded and 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.040 aggrieved high school kid here who gets to just lash 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.760 out and cause problems for the country because he has 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.000 problems with how he was fired. And I would know 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.360 it's not like he was fired in and it was 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.960 you know, he's out on his butt on the street 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.000 and he can't make a living. You know, I can't 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.079 can earn a dollar. The guy had plenty of ways 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.560 that he used to work. Doesn't talk about this very much. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.679 I've brought it up here on the show. He worked 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.160 at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.240 as an advisor for a while. I've told you in 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.000 part why I think that decision was made because he 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.520 was friends with pre Berrara, who was making a name 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.480 for himself as the U S. Attorney for the Southern 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.480 District of New York by going after very prominent hedge 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.559 funds on insider trading with insider trading probes and charges 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.640 in some cases. So it's a it's a good insurance 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.640 policy to have a guy on the payroll who could 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.440 get on the phone or maybe meet for lunch with 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.640 the U S Attorney and be like, hey, my guys 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.439 are good. You know. That's all you have to say. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.199 By the way, nothing technically illegal about that, right. If 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.760 you're friends with the U S. Attorney and he says, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.240 you know, hey, how are things going at that place, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.880 he goes, oh, yeah, my guys are all They're all good, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.199 they don't do anything bad. There's nothing illegal about that, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.840 And the U S Attorney gets the message without having 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.720 to get the message. Maybe he wants to be in 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.120 on the uh gonna be an advisor to a major 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.600 hedge fund, later, wants to be on the board of 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.280 some companies, or in the case of pre Varr, wants 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.760 to run over to CNN and be a CNN analyst 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.320 right away. And apart joined the hashtag resistance, which is 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.920 what he has done. Um, but this is this interview 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.400 went on. It was a full hour when for a 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.160 long time and Stephanopolis, who I have to say, And 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.400 I don't mean this in a mean way, but Stephanopolis 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.000 is one of the great mysteries to me. I don't 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.120 understand how he has the job that he has. I 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.319 could not be I mean, yeah, he's a Clinton operative. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.680 He knows a lot of the Clinton people, and I 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.680 get that there are connections, but the fact that they 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.240 think they have to pay this guy a hundred million 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.280 dollars to to ask a lot of questions that anyone 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:05.840 would ask him, by the way, to not ask some 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.120 questions that should have been asked. What were some of those? 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.400 I'll get into all that and more. I want to 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:12.880 hear from all you folks if you would like to 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.520 chat with me, not even California. So it's always nice 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.840 to hear from the team when I'm on the road 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.319 eight four four eight to five eight four or four 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.280 nine hundred bucks. So we're gonna get into a little 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.440 more because there's some very important stories that intersect with 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.360 this coming interview, right, So it's not just me sitting 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.520 here making fun of him for being a lanky, weirdo 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.000 with no self awareness, although that's a part of it too. Uh. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.400 There are some some stories that we get a little 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.560 additional insight on or information that well, a whole bunch 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.360 of different stories that that came into this interview. So 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:43.600 we'll do some of that this hour, and then I'll 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.080 talk to you about the National Guard situation with California 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.960 and the border, how Trump's actually doing versus how the 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.560 media pretends he's doing with the country, with the economy. Uh. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.920 Follow up on the serious strikes. I'm still um skeptical 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.480 of how useful or or important they were in the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.600 grand scheme of things. In the third hour, some random topics. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.120 I think we'll be talking about sugar wokeness and how 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.719 it affects the way that we couldn't like sugar. That's 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.520 a topic, Oh it is on this show. Uh. And 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.199 there's one other thing that I was hoping to talk 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.040 to you about the third hour, and I'm totally blanking 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:18.640 what it is now, but it's gonna be amazing that much, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.680 I can promise you. All Right, team hitting a quick break, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:34.760 We'll be right back. This is a man without courage. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.720 He didn't have courage to tell the President to his 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.600 face he was wrong. Instead, he leaked it. He didn't 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.000 have courage to walk out of the meeting, which he 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.640 said was an improper meeting when he was in the 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.480 presence of the president. He showed no courage. Look, I 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.760 think one of the reasons that the President talks to 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.320 me from time time as I tell him exactly what 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.319 I think. At every point in time, I told Obama 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.560 what I thought, I told Clinton what I thought. If 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.000 you're the head of the FBI, you gotta look the 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.320 president in the eye and you have sas president, you're wrong. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.319 I agree with the dirsh I've been staying on a 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.199 lot like it. But it's true. Comy is is posing 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.559 as some kind of moral hero all the time. Let 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.800 in reality he's really kind of a self serving snake. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.680 Why not Why do you have to get fired? Let's 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.040 just start with let's start with some of these very 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.680 basic questions. Why don't you get fired? Why couldn't he resign? 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.040 If Trump is, as he says, such a stain on 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.640 government and the FBI and all the others, all the 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:37.840 other really really terrible stuff that Comey says about the 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.480 current president United States, Why don't you get pushed out? 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.680 Wouldn't it seem like a pretty straightforward thing to say, Oh, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.720 hold on a second, Um, if he was so bad, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.520 then I think it's fair to say that you should 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.360 have known he was so bad. And the way for 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.080 a public official to stand on principle is not to 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.120 try to protect his or her job and uh perks 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.280 and prerogative, but actually to say, hold on, I'm gonna 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.240 say this is wrong now and have an impact by resigning, now, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.560 you know. I just I thought it was um very 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:22.120 telling that in all this talk with Comy, by the way, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.000 it never comes across that this is a guy who, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.600 when it might go against his interests, is brave what 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.880 it might go against his interests, will speak truth to power. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.080 And there were so many things he said that we're 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.200 also just complete another craft. I mean going into the 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:42.760 transcript here for a second. Uh, he said, Well, for 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.360 a bunch of reasons. It's sort of built over the 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.240 course of the investigation. First of all, we had the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.320 problem that President Obama had twice publicly basically said there 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.720 was no there there in an interview with Fox on 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.200 Fox in an interview in sixty minutes. I think both 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.280 times he said that George step Anopolis and he said, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.320 so that's his Justice Department. Stephanopolis says, did that surprise you? 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.360 It really did surprise me. He's a very smart man 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.760 and a lawyer, and so it surprised me. He shouldn't 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:14.880 have done it. It was inappropriate. So Obama saying that 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.600 there was no there there in the Hillary investigations inappropriate. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.440 Did Comey ever, stopped to think that maybe it's more 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:26.320 than inappropriate. Maybe it was effectively a command given two 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.520 Laretta Lynch and whoever else was at d o J 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:34.040 involved in this to make sure that this happened that way. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.840 You know, if you think about it in another context, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.920 if somebody went on TV, let's say that the CEO 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.200 of a company, and you know, he was like, well, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.960 everybody should sell all of my uh my top company officers, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.520 they should all sell their stock, and they did that 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.400 before there was gonna be some really bad news. Uh, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.680 that would be a problem, right. People would say, well, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.880 I mean, you know it's uh the lead guy is 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.680 adding a tony here. That's really bad. And by the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.600 way that I mean, if it's inside information or something. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.359 Somebody could go to prison for that, but it would 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.400 be considered a signal. It doesn't matter if he says 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.240 it's the individual. If he's like, yeah, I mean look, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.240 if I held stock, I'd sell it right now. That's 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.920 all you need, all the all the necessary folks who 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.640 know what's going on, they would take that as okay, Well, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.240 the guy at the top is saying, you know, sell, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.960 so we gotta sell. And when the guy at the 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.240 top in this case, Obama says there's no they're they're 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.000 guess what. Who who at the d J. Let's let's 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.280 like walk this back for a second. Who the d 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.080 J is gonna say? You know what? Obama just told 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.440 the whole country that Hillary's email investigation is like a 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.120 is a nothing burger, But I would like to make 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.040 it a sudden something burger with cheese. I would like 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.440 to add some special sauce and grilled onions to the 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.160 something burger that I'm going to make of Hillary's email investigation. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.640 I don't think anyone's gonna do that. Then we could 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.920 all agree, right, I'm not I'm not pushing too far here. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.520 I'm not going off and it never never land. There's 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.280 no one at the d O Jay, who, after Obama 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.560 had publicly said there's nothing going on, there was going 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.359 to say otherwise full stop. Your life would have been 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.440 made miserable. Oh you would have Can you imagine the 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.320 d It doesn't matter what level you are, all of 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.239 a sudden, you're gonna get all of your all your 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.960 communications audited. Your family. You know your family is gonna 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.760 have people parked outside their house. You know, reporters are 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.960 gonna be all over the whole thing. So what did 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.040 call me do? He goes along to get along? Meanwhile, 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.320 he's the last honest cop in America even there was 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.320 never actually a cop, you know what I mean. He 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.600 acts like he was Mr FBI g Man kicking indoors. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.080 That was also not something he was ever doing. Comy 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.920 is a politically connected lawyer, and that's it. And that's 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.399 what came across in the interview. We got a lot 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:59.919 more stay with me. He's holding the line for America Bucks. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.440 Next it is back a couple of years back, he 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.359 gave a speech saying, if we fall in love with 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.879 our own virtue, we can go sideways. At any point 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.040 over the last two years, did you fall prey to that? 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.399 Did you fall in love with your own virtue. I 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.399 don't think so, but I worried about it constantly. And 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.960 the guard rail for that, because that's a big worry 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.439 I have about myself, was to surround myself with people 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.240 who will hit that, hit at the certainty, hit at 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.440 the pride, to make sure I've thought about things well. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.919 I'm gonna teach. I'm gonna travel around and speak about leadership, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.720 but I want to offer them a vision of here's 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.920 what it should look like. Values matter. This president does 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:46.920 not reflect the values of this country. He I don't 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.320 know if you call this. He's too virtuous to fall 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.240 in love with his own virtue. That was his answer, 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.560 And that is how he feels about it. By the way, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.400 that comy can't hear you over the sound of how 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.879 awesome he is. That's what he's trying to tell you. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.679 M This guy is a real piece of work, really 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.520 is Uh. That's not a problem that normal people have. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.880 Are they falling in love with how how virtuous they are? 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.199 And I think somebody I would tell you this. And 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:21.640 I have friends who are on the prosecutorial side, federal prosecutors, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.119 some people who are very actually very close friends of 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.800 mine are prosecutors and uh, and they struggle with this, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.639 you know, they struggle with what's what's fair, what's just 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.760 and not just? Well, that's what the rules are. The 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.680 rules are the rules. Put that person away for twenty years. 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.399 The rules are the rules. Because they know that the 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:45.080 rules are subject to interpretation, there are gray areas. Some 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.720 people get the benefit of the doubts. Some people what 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:50.800 I had, I had a Jesuity used to say, the 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.600 doubt of the benefit is that a thing? I don't 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.520 know if that's a thing or not. The doubt of 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.880 the benefit, um, but you know what, what we're going 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:02.760 for with that, and you comey is reflective of a 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:07.600 system that I think very obviously has been corrupted. It's 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.400 been corrupted in some very serious ways. I was asked 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.600 earlier today, you know, what do you think about This 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.919 was by a friend out here in California. What do 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.320 you think about the swamp? I said, well, let's just 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.919 take a step back for a moment. When you have 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:27.000 had the intense politicization of academia, college campuses, colleges across 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.360 the country, and universities, of law schools, of graduate schools, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.920 and of the media, entertainment media more so than than 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.000 anything else. But news media too, although I don't know, 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:41.720 maybe their neck and neck. I mean they're both nine 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:48.000