1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Mr garbutsch Off, tear down this wall. Either you're with 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: us where you were with the terrorists. If you've got 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you're 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: satisfied with trunk is not. When the President of the 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: United States take it to a bank together, we will 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: make America great again. We'll never sharend It's what you've 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: been waiting for all day. Buck Sexton with America now 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: joined the conversation called Buck toll free at eight four 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: four nine hundred Buck. That's eight four four nine hundred two, 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: eight to five, sharp mind, strong voice, Buck Sexton, Team Buck, 11 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Freedom Hunt. We are in the midst 12 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: now of a freestyle Friday. Great to have you here. 13 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: As always you want to call in eight four four 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: nine hundred Buck, eight four four nine hundred to eight 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: to five. So it happen, and today the big sit down, 16 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: the highly anticipated chat between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin, 17 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: and UH they were staring each other down. Oh there 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: we go. That's right. Just just you can just picture 19 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: now all the UH Soviet soldiers marching across Red Square 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: and there we go. So you could get a sense 21 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: of how the media set this whole thing up. But 22 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: it's a new Cold War as far as the media 23 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: is concerned, not because of anything other than Hillary losing 24 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: the election. They were pretty much okay with what happened 25 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,559 Speaker 1: in Ukraine while Obama was in office, the seizure of Crimea. Yeah, 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: there were some sanctions. They didn't make too much noise 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: about Russian intervention in Syria that involved a lot of 28 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: bombing of civilian areas of Syria as part of assistance 29 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: to the Assad regime, the client a client regime or 30 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: close close buddy of of Russia's. But now, of course 31 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: Russia is America's number one enemy if you believe the 32 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: media and the responses to a meeting. Let's just be 33 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: clear about this. The only people in the room for 34 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: this meeting, in this phase to face were Trump, Putin, Tillerson, 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: Laval the too, the Secretary of State and the Foreign 36 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: Minister of Russia respectively, and some translators. That's it. And 37 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: sure enough, after this meeting happens. And you can tell 38 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: by the way when you read the analysis of this, 39 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: some of it was clearly written before the meeting even happened, 40 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: right They just, oh, Putin showed what an amateur Trump is, well, 41 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: what are you basing that on, sir? I can just 42 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: tell but you don't even know what was said in 43 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: the meeting. I don't have to know what was said 44 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: in the meeting. I figure it out. I I have 45 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: a sense about these things. Uh righteth the pundits. So 46 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: that's what one debate that popped up right after this 47 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: whole thing happened today had to do with the following um. 48 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: This is from CNN. Trump opened the session by raising 49 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in 50 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the election. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in 51 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: an off camera briefing after the meeting. Russia asked for 52 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: proof and evidence it was involved, which the US did 53 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: not produce in the meeting. In fact, we have some 54 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: of what Secretary of State Tillerson said himself. The President 55 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: opened the meeting with President troop Odin by raising the 56 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 57 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen election. They had a very robust 58 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: and lengthy exchange on the sub The President pressed President 59 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President 60 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in 61 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: the past. Now, Lavrov spoke on camera force he was 62 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: speaking in Russian. The translation of it that was reported 63 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: is that President Trump said he's heard Putin's very clear 64 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: statements that this is not true, that the Russian government 65 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: didn't interfere in the elections, and that he accepts the statements. 66 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: That's all. And so now, of course, the way the 67 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: way the media treats this, not all of it, but 68 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: much of it. Um. The way that CNN is reporting 69 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: on this, for example, dispute begins after talk ends. That 70 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: that's the big takeaway, not for CNN that a an 71 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: agreement which could lead to a political settlement of the 72 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: Syrian conflict was put into play today. I'll tell you 73 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: more details of that, but no, the dispute. The dispute 74 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: begins after the talk ends, and they got a big 75 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: photo of Trump and Putin looking at each other. Um. 76 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: By the way, this is what This is a little 77 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: snippet of their meeting. President Putin and I have been 78 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: discussing various things, and I think it's going very well. 79 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: We've had some very very good boss. We're gonna haven't 80 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: thought now and We'll look forward to a lot of 81 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: very positive things happening. But we're rushing for the United 82 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: States and for everybody concerned. And it's an honor to 83 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: be with you. And that was the the overall tone, 84 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: and that was what was presented both before and after. 85 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: You've got two world leaders sitting down for for quite 86 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: quite a while having a talk, and people are just 87 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: inferring whatever they want from this. The big takeaways the dispute. 88 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: How is it a dispute when when lab rav is 89 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: saying that Trump accepts the statements, what's he going to do? 90 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: I would like to ask the pundits and the journe 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: the list out there who think that Trump somehow let 92 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: putting off easy in this meeting, which keep in mind, 93 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: we don't even know what was said. We just have 94 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: the Foreign Minister of Russia saying what his interpretation of 95 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: events were, and you have Secretary of State Tillerson giving 96 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: a quick read out of what was said in the meeting. 97 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: And they touched on Ukraine, cybersecurity, Syria, and yes, they 98 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: opened up with reports about the election interference. But I 99 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: would just want to ask the folks over at the 100 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: various newspapers and news outlets, news programs on TV. What 101 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: they think was supposed to happen here? How was this 102 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: supposed to go down? Exactly? Trump goes, well, you know, 103 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: you're you're a big you're a big liar Putin and 104 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: you're just you're the worst. What do they think he's 105 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: gonna do? Of course, lab Rov says, Trump accepts these statements. 106 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: What's the alternative they're they're gonna get into a fight. 107 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: Do we want to see them rip off their shirts 108 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: and arm wrestle? Is this gonna be like the WWF 109 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: gift that was so famous in the week? Of course, 110 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: not right. So I just want to know what the 111 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: expectations are from the media here. What do they really 112 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: think was gonna happen. They sat down, they talked about 113 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: some stuff. It was not reported specifically what they said. 114 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: But now, of course we're told that there's a dispute, 115 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: and you've got people that are writing all these opinion 116 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: pieces because it's a Friday, and they figure, well, you know, 117 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: they gotta write something about this, writing all these opinion 118 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: pieces on what their takeaways are from this, when when 119 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: in reality they don't know and there's not any major 120 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: dispute here. Um I would still, like I was saying, 121 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: I would like to know how how would the best 122 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: US president imaginable? How how would liberals? Okay, how about 123 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: this one? How would Brock Obama respond if he were 124 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: the one sitting down right now at this point in 125 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: time with Vladimir Putin? Well, we know what he said 126 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: to Medvedev not long ago. You know, after my election, 127 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: I'll have more flexibility in Medvedev was like, then google 128 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: transmideast of vlathermeter, and we're all just supposed to think 129 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: that that was fine, right, I mean, that was Obama saying, 130 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: I gotta present one thing to the American people so 131 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: I get reelected, But don't worry. Once I fool enough 132 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: of them on my foreign policy positions, then I can 133 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: change things around. That's all that is. And that's what 134 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: he's saying. You know, he's saying, I've got to play 135 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: politics here at home. I've gotta gotta gotta, you know, 136 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: trick some some fools into thinking that I'm more real 137 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 1: politique than I am more focused on uh, allies and 138 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: enemies and foreign policy that whatever the case may be. 139 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: He's just saying, it's a it's a head fake, right, 140 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: He's he was fooling. People said to medvedev On that 141 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: people who say hot Mike, but they really mean live Mike. 142 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: Hot Mike would be like, there's distortion on it, and 143 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: so it's alive Mike. But you know, it's a good rule. 144 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: All all mikes are always live. It's a rule to 145 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: live by, especially as we all carry microphones around in 146 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: our pockets all the time. So I don't know what 147 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: they expected from this meeting. You know, all these expectations. 148 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: You got the G twenty happening, and Trump also met 149 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: with Enrique Penna and Nieto, the president of Mexico. There's 150 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: there's some other major sit downs that happened on the 151 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: sidelines we'll get into also by the way of the 152 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: course of the show, I've got a whole bunch of things. 153 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: We'll talk about the hunt for leakers that's underway. We'll 154 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: discuss the G twenty, the crazy protests there. Uh, there's 155 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of some immigration stories that I want 156 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: to bring to your own immigration story in particular that 157 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: I want to bring to your attention that also looks 158 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: at the way Prosecutor's office is treat a legal lilian. 159 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: So a lot of ground and I've got some fun 160 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: guests joining later on in the show. Those will be 161 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: surprises for you. But you know, a lot of ground 162 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: to cover. But this is the main story, the day 163 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: that putin Trump sit down and the whole G twenty 164 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: and all this stuff. And you've got you know, Angela Merkel, 165 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: who's just like Guden. Talk everyone. It's Angela. I'm here 166 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: to make sure that all of your children behave. And 167 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: Angela is getting everyone together. Did she give some opening 168 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: opening comments? You know, I thought I had some opening 169 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: comments from Anglo Miracle, but oh there's a lot. Oh, 170 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: here we go the miracle handshake. I wanted. This is 171 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: this is what CNN was focusing on today. Let's play this. 172 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: You mentioned the awkward moments, Jeff, and it is notable 173 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: that the body language this time, that pictures are up 174 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: right now, they know better, different than perhaps we had 175 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 1: seen in the initial meetings between the President and the 176 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: German chancellor. Do you get the sense that the White 177 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: House was preparing for this, cares about the optics of 178 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: the meeting between these two leaders. Who've seen several um 179 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: sort of handshakes to go or rye uh, the one 180 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: that was for the worst between these two leaders came 181 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: in the Oval office. Uh, I am told that she 182 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: initiated the handshake by a pool reporter in the room, 183 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: that she initiated this handshake here. So, yes, optics always 184 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: matter in this case. I think we'd probably make more 185 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: of them now in the age of social media then 186 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: we used to. You know, Jeff, we just saw the 187 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: video again. We all can confirm that, yes, she did 188 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: seem to initiate the handshake. Her hand went out first 189 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: outreach physical literal outreach from Germany to the United States. 190 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: They have they have adult journalists on TV that are 191 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: that are doing a amateur body language analysis for us 192 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: in real time there, you know, So, so tell us 193 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: what's what's really going on there with that headshake? Is 194 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: that does that head shake show that there's been a 195 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: change in the White House's feelings towards miracle or is 196 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: this really a miracle pushing this one? I can tell 197 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: you what's going on here. And mircles are like Donald 198 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: John Hunt shake is very strong. It's a it's a 199 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 1: vigorous Hunt shakes. It's very nice to see you. For 200 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: you to said, like, you know, these are world leaders there, 201 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: they're shaking hands. I don't know what else to say 202 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: about it. But this is, uh, this is getting into 203 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 1: the This the silly part of the news cycle when 204 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: you have people that are analyzing a conversation that they 205 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: really know nothing about, that are trying to create controversy, 206 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,599 Speaker 1: controversy by saying there's some big dispute as to what 207 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: was said in the meeting, and also by somehow manufacturing 208 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: expectations in the public, are trying to among Democrats and 209 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: Trump haters that Trump didn't do enough for he he 210 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: went he went soft on Putin in this meeting, and 211 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: there was he somehow failed. You know, there's a level 212 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 1: of of ineptitude or inadequacy for Trump's foreign policy visa v. 213 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: Putin that's not based in anything that we know from 214 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: the meeting, just you know, because hashtag Trump. I mean, 215 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. They just want 216 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: to find reasons to criticize even when there's nothing there. 217 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: And this is not new, but with Trump it reaches 218 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: new heights. I mean, this is beyond anything we've ever 219 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: seen before. But there was one aspect of the sit 220 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: down of the meeting that was I'm sure worthwhile. And 221 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: we have additional reporting on the subject. That is the 222 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: state of play right now, circumstances on the ground in 223 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: Syria and the Russia US relationship, and possible coordination for 224 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: de escalating the Syrian Civil War. So why don't we 225 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: spend a bit of time. We'll talk about that. We 226 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: come back after the break, and I'm gonna maybe get 227 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: into some action movie quotes. We'll talk about G twenty protesters. 228 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: What are they protesting? Who knows? Oh? Build a Blasio. 229 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: New York City's mayor was hanging out with the protesters. 230 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: Also going to hit that She've got a lot of 231 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 1: show my friends eight four four buck. We'll be right back. 232 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: So Sally Yates was the acting Attorney General, you will recall, 233 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: and she refused to do her job, so she got fired. 234 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: And now, of course she's a hero that as I 235 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: said she would be. And I want to know what 236 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: the what the book advances now for Yates for standing 237 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: up to Trump, for being she was part of the resistance. Right, 238 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: she was a government employee and said, I'm not going 239 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: to do my job because I don't know. I worked 240 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: for executive branch, but I'm not gonna do that. Oh 241 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: and by the way, uh, does anyone want to just 242 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 1: take a step back and look at the fact that she, 243 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: as acting Attorney General, refused to enforce any part of 244 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: the travel ban. And now the Supreme Court has already 245 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: overturned this stay on the band from lower courts because 246 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: they think it on the merits, it looks like at 247 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: least some parts the travel ban are completely constitutional. So 248 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: Sally Yates apparently not great at the whole constitution reading thing, 249 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: which is not good for somebody who's the acting Attorney 250 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: general or was. But now, of course hero hashtag resistance. 251 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: And this is why I always tell you we need 252 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: more oversight of prosecutors. Prosecutors have They are the most 253 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: powerful figures, the least accountable figures in the United States 254 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: government by far. Federal prosecutors do all kinds of stuff, 255 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: and they if they decide that they want to make 256 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: your life miserable, your life is miserable. You're done, and 257 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: they'll probably bankrupt you even if you've done nothing wrong 258 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: and destroy your reputation. And hopefully you don't get caught 259 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: up in just the gear is the investigation, and you know, 260 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: get thrown in prison even though you've never committed a crime, 261 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: but they think that you've obstructed or your lied or whatever. Right, 262 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: So that's what you're dealing with with federal prosecution. There's 263 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: a reason why over federal prosecutions and in plea bargains, 264 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: because the system is stacked against you. Once the federal 265 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: prosecutor comes after, you're in big trouble. Okay, but back 266 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: to miss Yates here on Twitter. Uh, this is what 267 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: she put out today, which of course makes her right 268 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: here out of the residence. By the way, we will 269 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: get to the Syria deal and what's going on in 270 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: Syria and the national security components of of everything in 271 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: just a in just a moment. So so stay with me. 272 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: I know I said I'd hit that, and I have 273 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: not changed. I will not I will not forget um. 274 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: She tweeted A potus inexplicable refusal to confirm Russian election 275 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: interference insults career intel pros and hinders our ability to 276 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: prevent in the few in future. Okay, first of all, 277 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: he said that he thinks it's Russia, but you know 278 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: he's not. He leaves he's leaving open the possibility that 279 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: maybe somebody else was involved. Now does he know anyone 280 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: else is involved? Is he presented prevented or sorry, I presented, 281 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: not prevented, presented any evidence that somebody else isvolved though, 282 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: But he's essentially saying, look, yeah, I think Russia was involved, 283 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: but maybe other people were involved to you know, he's 284 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: also trying to move past this. And by the way, 285 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: is he really supposed to box himself in before he's 286 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: sitting down with the President of Russia by making a 287 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: statement that will obviously further antagonized relations with Russia, which 288 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: are already at a particularly low point right now? Is 289 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: that really the expectation. Let me put it to you 290 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: another way, Is that smart diplomacy? Is that wise? Is 291 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: that sound? But this is now what we're being told 292 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: by the former acting Attorney General, somebody who was at 293 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: one point the senior most law enforcement official in the 294 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: United States. And she's I mean clearly people say, oh, 295 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: she's a career. Respect that is clearly a partisan, right, 296 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: I mean, and now we we've known that all along, 297 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: But couldn't be any more obvious. I mean, this is 298 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: you better get ready the next Democrat administration. All of 299 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: a sudden, Sally Yates being talked about as a possible 300 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: you know, secretary of State or head of the FBI 301 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: or you know, attorney general actual attorney general. Uh So, 302 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: But that's one part of this. The other part of 303 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: it that I find interesting is how does Trump. Let's 304 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: say that Trump said, Okay, I'm a hundred percent sure, 305 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm a hundred percent sure it's Russian. By the way, 306 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: when you're talking about intelligence assessments, there's always there's always 307 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: some degree right, There's always some possibility. Remember we're talking 308 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: about an assessment, not a fact in assessment. There's always 309 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: some possibility that you're off. That's just the nature of 310 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: of the business, something that I haven't know about having 311 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: been in the intelligence business. There's always the possibility that 312 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: you're wrong. Um. But her whole insults career intel pros Um. No, No, 313 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't. Intelligence professionals should not have the hubris to 314 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: think that they are infallible and always right. And especially 315 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: when we get into the realm of you know, tracking 316 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: cyber Russia. I mean, this is complex up that honestly, 317 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: very few people even have access to the to the 318 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: real facts here, and very few people understand them. So 319 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: you add that into it all, but that that it 320 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: hinders our ability to stop this in the future. I 321 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: would like sally ate to defend that. I would like 322 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: someone to to offer to debate her on this point. 323 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: How does it make it harder for us to stop 324 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: this in the future? Trump says, yeah, I think it's Russia. 325 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: But I think it's Russia. Okay, So what does that 326 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 1: do that makes it more difficult for us to stop 327 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: Russia from hacking what Podesta and the d n c 328 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: s email accounts. It's just she's just feeding red meat 329 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: to the left wing base here. That's all this is. 330 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: Or feeding you know, soy glaze tofu to the left 331 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: wing base here. That's all this is. There's no there's 332 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: no rationale behind is. How does it make it harder 333 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: to prevent this in the future? Why? Because oh, we 334 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: won't have the political will you know, at some point 335 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: where you have to ask the Democrats we can play 336 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: the game they used to play with when Obama was 337 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: in office when it came to run, what do you 338 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: want to do? Go to war with Iran? Well, you know, 339 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: given their rhetoric on Russia, I think it's fair to 340 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: ask them the question, what what do you want to 341 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: do because the election meddling? You want to go to 342 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: war with Russia over this? I really don't think so. 343 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: The Freedom Hunt rocks online too. You can hang out 344 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: with Team Buck anytime. Plus can plus the latest news 345 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: and analysis go to buck Sexton dot com. That's buck 346 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: Sexton dot com. The Buck is back. President Trump and 347 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: President Putin met this afternoon for two hours and fifteen 348 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: minutes here on the sidelines of the G twenty. They 349 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 1: discussed important progress that was made in Syria. Ceasefire has 350 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: been entered into and think this is our first indication 351 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: of the US and Russia of being able to work 352 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: together in Syria. And as a result of that, we 353 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: had a very lengthy discussion regarding other areas in Syria 354 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: that we can continue to work together on to de 355 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: escalate the areas and the violence once we defeat isis 356 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: that would seem to be the real news from today, 357 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: the most important news item, not whether angela miracle took 358 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: two or three seconds to shake Trump's hand, not the 359 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: duration of the meeting as some indication of whether Trump 360 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: and Putin or getting along, or maybe they're just trying 361 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: to have a chat about the Russia collusion and how 362 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: how they can they can hide it after the fact. 363 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the media has lost so much 364 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: credibility at this point that I can't really put in 365 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: terms of analysis, I can't put anything past them or 366 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: are outside that the boundaries of what we could expect. 367 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: I did see someone alys this that well, because the 368 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: meeting went along, clearly Putin got the better of Trump. 369 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. What I can't 370 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: even get there trying to take the perspective of the 371 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 1: other side. That's how poor, that's how shoddy much of 372 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: the left press and uh progressive media analysis of everything 373 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: that Trump and his administration does has become. I can't 374 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: even make their Usually when people are are rational, insane, 375 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: I can make their argument even if I disagree with that. 376 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: I understand what the argument is with Trump. It's just 377 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: it's just I hate Trump. I hate over my head 378 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: in my hat. I mean, that's all that they That's 379 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: what it all comes down to. They just hate him. 380 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: Are raw. It's rage, It's it's a it's really a sickness. 381 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: It's it's pathological. It's a pathological hatred of Trump, and 382 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: that informs or rather distorts much of their judgment on 383 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: everything's going on. But the main item here, the important 384 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: thing that we should be spending more time thinking about 385 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: and if we're gonna talk foreign policy and G twenty. 386 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: And by the way, as I said to you, the 387 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: press loves all this stuff because they get to talk 388 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: about you know, they get to be like, well, this 389 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: foreign leader and that foreign leader, and you know, aren't 390 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: you impressed with how many foreign leaders? Like a name 391 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: off the top of my head? And it's how much 392 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: of this? What does the G twenty really do? What 393 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: does it mean? Oh? Yeah, the EU and Japan are 394 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: working on some trade agreement, and there's a few things 395 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: that are are noteworthy, I suppose, But overall, I mean 396 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: it sounds pretty boring. You know. It sounds like being 397 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: in a big, I don't know, big insurance conference somewhere. 398 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't sound that exciting to me. 399 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: No offense insurance agents. I just mean, you know, it's 400 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: not not exactly light in the world on fire, but 401 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: the press reports on it like it's you know, all 402 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: of a sudden, this is Churchill and and f dr 403 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: and and Stalin sitting down to divide up the world again. 404 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: I mean that that's not that's not what's happening here. 405 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: That's not what happened. But on Syria. Here is here's 406 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: the takeaway. Here's what we need to uh to understand 407 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: going forward for the conflict. The This is from the 408 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: Wallstaire Journal. The US and Russia agreed Friday on a 409 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: ceasefire in a violent corner of Syria, in a limited 410 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: deal that officials said was designed to show that two 411 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: powers are able to find ways to cooperate. The agreement 412 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: to secure a halt of fighting in southwest Syria came 413 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: as Russia's President Vladimir Putin President Donald Trump met for 414 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: the first time in Germany. If the deal is successful 415 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: with the first time, Moscow and Washington succeeded in implementing 416 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: a ceasefire together in Syria. So this is a big deal. Um, 417 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: it's starting off relatively small. It's just one part of 418 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: Syria where you have ASSAD forces backed by Russia anti 419 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: ASSAD forces backed by the United States that are in 420 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: close proximity to each other. In the past, we've had 421 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: efforts with Russia to make sure there's deconfliction. Essentially, we're 422 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: not going to blow up a place where we think 423 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: there could be Russians, and the Russians aren't going to 424 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,719 Speaker 1: blow up a place where I think that can be Americans. 425 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: But now the US has also shown a willingness to 426 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: defend on the ground our proxy force, our proxy forces, 427 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: even if it means attacking the Assad regime. So that's 428 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: that is an escalation and things have heated up as 429 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: a result of that. So now we're reaching out. We've 430 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: got this agreement with Russia and Russia and Jordan's and 431 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: Jordan of course being a neighbor of Syria that is 432 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: very much affected by this whole conflict, largely by the 433 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: refugee crisis. I've mentioned you before. I went to the 434 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: refugee camps in Jordan on the Syrian border some uh, 435 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: I don't know, a few years ago now through three 436 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: or three years ago, but that was when I was there. 437 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: I think it was the fourth largest city in Jordan 438 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: was a refugee camp, So that tells you something about 439 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: the size was over a hundred thousand people, and that 440 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: the jordans Ians are also part of our anti Isis efforts, 441 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: and it's the jordan Iians are also playing a role 442 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: here and helping to mediate and broker the ceasefire. Um. 443 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: So the US and Russia have agreed to this and 444 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 1: that goes into effect shortly. If it works, it could 445 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: be the beginning of further efforts to create safe zones, 446 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: to create areas where the conflict stops. And I think 447 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: the idea here would be that you while the while 448 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: the anti Isis fight is going on, this would allow 449 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: for the prevention of spillover conflict or religious escalation of 450 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: the conflict, which would be Assad's forces in Syria with 451 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: Russian backing and Russian air power up against the forces 452 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: that we are backing on the ground, the the predominantly 453 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:57,719 Speaker 1: Kurdish militia and the Assyrian anti regime forces that are 454 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: on the ground. We don't want them to start fighting 455 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: because what happens or We're gonna start shooting Russian planes 456 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: out of the sky. Russians gonna shoot a U. S 457 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: plane out of the sky. You can imagine how bad 458 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: that can get. So this is supposed to be a 459 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: means of preventing, uh, this conflict from spiraling into something 460 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: much much worse. Uh. Now, will the ceasefire holds? Will 461 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: it lead to more of these safe zones? Is it 462 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: really likely that this could be the beginning of much 463 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: more constructive relationship, a much more constructive relationship between the 464 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: US and Russia. We'll have to see, but this is 465 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: among the most important agenda items that Trump and Putin 466 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: could be discussing. They clearly talked about this today. This 467 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: has been in the works for a while. It was 468 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: time to coincide with this meeting. And as much as 469 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: all the Trump haters are gonna want to say that 470 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: this is evidence of Trump's soft spot for Putin, if 471 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: they pull this off, If if Tillerson and Trump are 472 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: able to get the Ussians to just be less destructive 473 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: in Syria and also prevent this from getting much worse, 474 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: as I said, by having assad forces against the forces 475 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: that we're backing, and all the possibilities for miscalculation and 476 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: escalation that are a part of that, it would be 477 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: a a real diplomatic win. You know, this was likely 478 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: a very constructive and positive meeting today from all I 479 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: think all fair minded accounts. It was comes after the 480 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: President gave a very good speech in Warsaw. Despite the 481 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: people that we're saying, oh, it's he was he was 482 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: giving it was like a dog whistle to white nationalism, 483 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: like wow, talking about Western civilization is now is now 484 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: white nationalism? I don't even know. Sometimes sometimes the craziest, 485 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: so overwhelming that you're just you're kind of frozen for 486 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: a second. Buy or like what this is what people 487 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: who are paid to think and write and speak are 488 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: saying about Western civilization Now that it's a it's really 489 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: a code word for white nationalism. Man. We we got 490 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: a lot of work to do in the school system 491 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: in this country. UM. Anyway, so that the Syria ceasefire 492 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: was an important Iteman and Secretary of State Tillerson said 493 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: as much. Our position continues to be that we see 494 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: no long term role for the Assaud family or the 495 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: assad regime. We just and we have made this clear 496 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: to everyone. We've certainly made it clear in our discussions 497 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: with Russia that we do not think Syria can achieve 498 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: international recognition in the future, even if they work through 499 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: a successful political process. The international community simply is not 500 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,719 Speaker 1: going to accept as Syria led by the Assaud regime. 501 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: And so if serious to be accepted and have a secure, 502 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: both secure and economic future, it really requires that they 503 00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: find new leadership. Now, let me just keep it keep 504 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: it real here, uh, The international community, and led by 505 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: the US, in many cases, rejects refuses to accept a 506 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: whole bunch of things right, the international community refuses to 507 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: accept North Korea, and yet North Korea still stands, and 508 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: the regime, the psychopathic crime family mafia state of the 509 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: Kim regime in North Korea continues on. We don't accept it, 510 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: international community completely condemns it. It's a pariahs state, but 511 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: yet it continues on. Have any number of problems you 512 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: can point around the world where you say, well, the 513 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: international community says no, But yeah, guess what doesn't really 514 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: change all that much, does it. So, while I think 515 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: Tillerson is telling the truth that we may not accept 516 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: in as SAD in Assad led Syria if we are 517 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: able to slow down the violence and and uh eliminate 518 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: the Islamic States control of territory and then have some 519 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: provisional security authority in place in places like in cities 520 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: like Rock and elsewhere in Syria, and the civil war 521 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: is pretty much coming to a halt in terms of 522 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: the violence. What leverage do we really think we're gonna 523 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: have to get a SAD to go? Then well, how 524 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: is that going to happen? So I just want to 525 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: tell you I do not see a future. While the 526 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: administration's official position maybe by the way it was the 527 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: position of the Clinton administration openly that that Saddam Hussein 528 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: shouldn't be the leader of Iraq. It wasn't until Bush 529 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: came along did that actually changed, right, But that was 530 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: the Clinton position was, you know, Saddam Hussein is I legitimate, 531 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't the lead of Raq. Okay, we had all the 532 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: sanctions regime and you know, oil for food and you 533 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: remember the nineties. Uh, none of that mattered really in 534 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: terms of who ran Rock until we finally went in 535 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: there with force. We're not going to do that in Syria. 536 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: We're not about to roll into Syria. I don't think 537 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: it's ever gonna happen, at least not in my well, 538 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: not in the next decade or so. We're not to 539 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: roll into Syria and tell Usad that he's got to go. 540 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: And short of that, how do you force him to go? 541 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: You exert pressure on Russia? How much pressure we're gonna 542 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: put on Russia to get them to tell us A 543 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: that he's got to be all done? Uh? What are 544 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: we gonna do there? Think about how much they've already 545 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: placed their bets on Assad. You think they want to 546 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: be part now along the way they're gonna say, sure, 547 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: we want a political settlement, we want to be constructive, 548 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: but the the imminent primary concern is to get the 549 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: conflict to stop taking people to stop dying. A half 550 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: a million people have died in Syria. So if the 551 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: Trump administration is able to work with the Russians to 552 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: have there be less violence in Syria and more stability 553 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: in parts of Syria and the beginning the piecemeal creation 554 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: of if not a piece at least a stalemate. You 555 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: think we're gonna upset the apple cart after after achieving 556 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: that by saying yeah, and by the way, Assad, you 557 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: gotta go mm hmmm, I would then this is probably 558 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: this is you know, a ways out. I mean, I'm 559 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: looking now a year or two out, but I just 560 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: I want to go on the record now and say 561 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: I do not see a future based on everything that's 562 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: happening in Syria. Assad's in a much better position now 563 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: than he was a few years ago. The civil war 564 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: has been going on for six years. Everyone Assad is 565 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: is in a better position now than he was during 566 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: the latter phase of the Obama's second Obama administration second 567 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,239 Speaker 1: term by a lot. He's got the Iranians backing him. 568 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,239 Speaker 1: The Russians backing him. Why is he gonna go As 569 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: far as Assad is concerned, I know he's you know, 570 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: he's also a mass murdering lunatic who's dropped I should 571 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: lunatic him. And he's actually acting rationally from his perspective. 572 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: He's just a bloodthirsty, cold blooded dude. But he's dropping 573 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 1: gas on his own people. He's doing all this stuff, 574 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: but he views himself and those around him as defending 575 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: his country from from gee hottest maniacs. And and if 576 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: the hottest maniacs are done, guess what, it's a huge 577 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: victory for Assad and the Allo white regime and the 578 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: you know, the Allo Whites that support him. And you know, 579 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: we're not gonna go in there and say sorry, you 580 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: gotta go now. I mean we might say it, we're 581 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: not gonna do anything about it. So nonetheless, a big diploma, 582 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: a big diplomatic step in the right direction if we 583 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: if we can have Russia not necessarily be constructive in Syria, 584 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: just less destructive. And today that was put in motion, 585 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: and it was put in motion by the Trump administration, 586 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: which will get minimal credit from the press, if any, 587 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: for this, and it may be saving lives everyone. That's right, Trump, Tillerson, 588 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: their policy, what they've been doing since coming into office, 589 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: maybe saving lives in Syria starting very soon, and maybe 590 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: the beginning of the end of that civil war. But 591 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: do you think anyone's gonna be talking about it and 592 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: writing about that way? Nope, Let's just talk more about 593 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: a Trump tweet and how he's so brash or whatever. 594 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: All right, uh, quick break here, much more coming. Stay 595 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: with me. You know, I feel like there should be 596 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: some camaraderie between me and Joe Scarborough, although he doesn't 597 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: know who I am, and I've never met him, but 598 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, because we're guys with side 599 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: swoop hair, although he's kind of he like makes it 600 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: go high up in the air these days. Uh. And 601 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: and probably I'm sure the guy likes boat sho, so 602 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: do I you know. So. And we're both at least 603 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: ostensibly Republicans. I mean, Joe is kind of like not 604 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: really Republican, but he was like a little he's a 605 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: little conservative. But he's one of these guys now that has, 606 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 1: as you know, this feud running with Trump and everything, 607 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: and that also I think has extended into his feeling 608 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: about the arrest of the media on the right in general, 609 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,320 Speaker 1: and he says stuff. He says stuff like this, President Trump, 610 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin talking about fake news in the deep state, 611 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: as well as unfortunately, some right wing commentators who have 612 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: aligned themselves with Vladimir Putin. So, um, you don't have 613 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: to go to Hamburg to hear what Vladimir Prutin is saying. 614 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: You can just tune into some shows on certain cable 615 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: news channels and hear it late at night saying the 616 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: same thing about fake news in the deep state. It 617 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: is really, really bizarre that some people on the far 618 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: right have now aligned themselves with Russia. People on the 619 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 1: far right have aligned themselves with Russia. I mean, it 620 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: is bizarre. People. You know, it was out and then 621 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: suck it recently and we're on the veranda, you know, 622 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: drinking a a south side and uh, you know, it 623 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: was just just appalling what I'm hearing about Trump and 624 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So you know, there you have it. 625 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: Um Joe, Morning Joe saying that there by the way, 626 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,279 Speaker 1: I think we all know who he's talking about. I'm 627 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and uh and in insert words 628 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,320 Speaker 1: in Morning Joe's mouth, but I think we all know 629 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: he's talking about and yeah, he he likes to take this, 630 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 1: uh this line now that the that the right is 631 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: aligned with Putin. That's there's a difference between saying that 632 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: you don't believe the nonsense from CNN and I wonder 633 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: when people will start to apologize, by the way, for 634 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: all of the unfounded allegations, all the attracted stories, and 635 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: also the the vitriol directed at those of us who 636 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: just sit around. We're sitting around like, okay, look, if 637 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,720 Speaker 1: you really think that Trump colluded with Russia, presents some evidence. 638 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: Just because Putin says something doesn't make it wrong. And 639 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: I feel like that has to be said at this 640 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:43,839 Speaker 1: point in time. Just because um Vladimir Putin is uh 641 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 1: not someone to be trusted, it doesn't mean that on 642 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 1: on every issue he's someone that we can't work with. 643 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: And by the way, I mean the Obimo iministration was 644 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: running around not just bowing and apologizing, but also reaching 645 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: out to the Iranians, Cuba, I mean regimes that have 646 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: done nothing but stick their thumb in our I for 647 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 1: a long time. And you know you didn't see the 648 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 1: media complaining about that, did you. But you know, oh, no, 649 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,879 Speaker 1: everything now with Putin, Scarborough others all saying that they're 650 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 1: that they're right wing commentators who are aligned with Putin, 651 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,959 Speaker 1: and I just think that this, this uh slander needs 652 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 1: to stop. No, it's not that people who are aligned 653 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: with Putin. It's that they don't believe. I mean, maybe 654 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: there's some who are, but you know they're That's not 655 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: what the predominant for those who are Trump defenders in 656 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,799 Speaker 1: the media, the theme that they're running with is not well, 657 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: Putin's great, we love what he does. It's just Putin 658 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: didn't throw the election, and Trump and Putin weren't colluding. Okay, 659 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,439 Speaker 1: that doesn't make Trump Putin's best friend. Let's talk about 660 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,879 Speaker 1: the G twenty riots. Will be right back. He's back 661 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: with you now, because when it comes to the fight 662 00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:03,439 Speaker 1: for truth, the fuck never stops. The G twenty in Hamburg, everyone, oh, yes, 663 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:10,800 Speaker 1: it is fantastic, wonder bar. But there has been some problems. 664 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: There have been protesters who are very very naughty. The 665 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 1: Latin things on fires are strong, the battles are being 666 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: very bad, and it makes me upset and I want 667 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,839 Speaker 1: to shed the tears because I don't like this. If 668 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 1: we're going to be protesting like the climate change and 669 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaker 1: the other very bad things outside. You need to do 670 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 1: this like civilized. You know, you can't be like running 671 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: around all, Oh, I'm so crazy. Look at what I'm 672 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: doing and I'm breaking the windshield and you know this 673 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: is not good. So you have the noise and the 674 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: fires and the craziness. Here, here's some audio everybody of 675 00:38:50,120 --> 00:39:06,240 Speaker 1: what's been going on at the G twenty A. Shame 676 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: on you, that's all. He's such shame on you. Why 677 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,800 Speaker 1: you're you're so terrible? All your world leaders, you're sitting 678 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: around you having these discussions about the problems of the world. 679 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: Why don't you fix it? Problems world leader, I'm going 680 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: to go out now and kicking us in a window 681 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: of a Starbucks to protest globalism. So I figured, okay, 682 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,000 Speaker 1: you know, let's be f It's easy to just be 683 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: like get a job hippie, you know, and talk about 684 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,879 Speaker 1: how these people don't know what they're doing and everything else, 685 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: and then I get it. Um but and I do 686 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 1: some of that, of course, because it's fun. But that 687 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,359 Speaker 1: all said, I wanted to dive a little deeper into 688 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: what this last last night was like. The Welcome to 689 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: Hell march or yesterday was the welcome to Hell march, 690 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,239 Speaker 1: and they're always saying, just like we always here with 691 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,879 Speaker 1: these protests, all the vast, vast majority of the protesters 692 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: are praiceful. Well it was a vast majority. I'm more paceful, 693 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 1: So I wanted to try to to dig a little 694 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,879 Speaker 1: bit into well, what what what is people protesting? I've 695 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: seen anti capitalist protesters, anti globalist protesters. So I went 696 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 1: to the BBC uh and they had a piece up 697 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: um and I'm like, okay, well the BBC, which is 698 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: left wing, right funded by the British government, but it's 699 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 1: left wing because you know, that's just the way it goes. 700 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,239 Speaker 1: And they have a piece up uh G twenty in Hamburger, 701 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: Hamburg who are the protesters? And what's fascinating is you 702 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,800 Speaker 1: read this piece and you don't get an answer to 703 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: the question, really, who are the protesters? You read the 704 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,799 Speaker 1: piece and you're like, all right, well, what are they? 705 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 1: What are they protesting about? You know? And there's there's 706 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: a section on how this isn't about Trump entirely, which 707 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,840 Speaker 1: is a fair point because back in London in two thousand, 708 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: in Toronto two thousand and ten, those g twenty summits. 709 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,640 Speaker 1: That was during the Obama Presidency's not Trump. People were 710 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: protesting all this and they were there was There's always 711 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: this group, as I say, the Black Block, which is 712 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: a tactic, not an actual protest group, but they show 713 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 1: up at these things and it's really a lifestyle like 714 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: it's it's a cultural thing. Now these uh these protests 715 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,120 Speaker 1: that pop up, whether it's Occupy Wall Street or the 716 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 1: uh the G twenty protests, World Trade Organization protests, or 717 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:36,520 Speaker 1: just what was the oh, the the big the pipeline protesters, 718 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,400 Speaker 1: the people who were protesting a standard what was the 719 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,440 Speaker 1: standing rock pipeline. You know, it turns into a kind 720 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: of a self righteous party. You know, celebrities stop in. 721 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,840 Speaker 1: There's a lot of drum circles and music and literally 722 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 1: I mean Occupy Wall Street. You go down there and 723 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: everyone you say heem and then you do see van 724 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,359 Speaker 1: seeing songs and it's like thin bamboo NANKI like, wow, 725 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: you like making all the printing of money. It's not cool. 726 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,200 Speaker 1: And I would ask them, I would ask the Occupy 727 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,320 Speaker 1: Wall Street protesters, and you know, I'm sure it's the 728 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: same thing with what you'd get if you were to 729 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 1: ask some of these cheat twenty protesters, including those who 730 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,439 Speaker 1: are and they're lighting cars on fire, and they're they're 731 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: squaring off against riot police. You ask them what they're 732 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,840 Speaker 1: all about, and you get all these different answers, and 733 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,640 Speaker 1: you said to yourself, well, don't you think that maybe 734 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,480 Speaker 1: dilution of your message is kind of a problem. If 735 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: you have a protest movement with a hundred different reasons 736 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: for the protest, do you really think you're gonna bring 737 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: about any change? And that brings me back to this 738 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 1: is just. It's a it's it's really a recreational activity 739 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: for these people, whether it's here or in Europe. This 740 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 1: is just and social media allows for this to be 741 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 1: even more fun because now for them, I mean, I 742 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,759 Speaker 1: don't think the stuff is fun, and it's certainly the 743 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,960 Speaker 1: cops are getting hit with bricks and molotov cocktails don't 744 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 1: think it's fun. But for them it's there's there's kind 745 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: of the excitement and the and the camaraderie that comes 746 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,760 Speaker 1: with squaring off against the man. You know, the fascist 747 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: police here wherever, wherever they are, you know, the fascist 748 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:10,240 Speaker 1: forces of of law and order. Um. Social media allows 749 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,320 Speaker 1: them to congregate more easily, so you can have a 750 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,960 Speaker 1: meet up of you know, to ye the humans, you 751 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,800 Speaker 1: get together and get citablic you know, nuclear weapons and 752 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 1: free Palestine, in climate change, in see if the wills 753 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,600 Speaker 1: and you know all and you just you can list 754 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: it all and everybody who wants to get in on 755 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 1: that action, including the anarchists, who you know, what are 756 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,719 Speaker 1: they all about. I don't know. I don't think they 757 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,000 Speaker 1: know either. They don't like police though, I'll tell you 758 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,359 Speaker 1: that I've noticed that with the anarchists not not into 759 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:45,240 Speaker 1: respecting police work. Um. But they can all gather together, 760 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,839 Speaker 1: and then of course there's the magnifying effect of their 761 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: actions or the the perception magnifying effect of social media 762 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 1: that they live stream this stuff. I mean, you can 763 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,000 Speaker 1: see it, right, So you know, whether you're in America, 764 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 1: then the chicks, yeah, or you know, you're in one 765 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,799 Speaker 1: of these European protests, they're like, oh, you know, it's 766 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,320 Speaker 1: a lot. I'm not set of all the you know, 767 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,719 Speaker 1: the that globalist you know, I mean, and they're like 768 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:15,839 Speaker 1: they're refusing to do nuclearize and it's it's imperialism, right, 769 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 1: and it's you know, all this other stuff. Wherever you are, 770 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:23,400 Speaker 1: it's kind of the same just mish smash of always 771 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: left is causing. You'll notice this, there's there's not a 772 00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,160 Speaker 1: lot of people who riot who are like, hey, i'd 773 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,680 Speaker 1: like smaller government, lower taxes, and less burdensome regulation. That 774 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,600 Speaker 1: doesn't that doesn't seem to happen anywhere. Uh, you don't 775 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,120 Speaker 1: get a lot of that. You always get people that 776 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,240 Speaker 1: want that. It's the same thing, the same self righteous 777 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,239 Speaker 1: and really unattainable causes. You know, people will protest and 778 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,480 Speaker 1: they'll get out there, they just protesting global inequality. What 779 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,360 Speaker 1: does that even? What does that even mean? There'll always 780 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: be global and equal always been a quality of different kinds, 781 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: and that's not something that's ever gonna go away. So 782 00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,200 Speaker 1: what really you know, a protest you would think should 783 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,800 Speaker 1: be about getting some change to come about. It should 784 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,040 Speaker 1: be a raising awareness at some level. It should be 785 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,359 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I just said raising awareness. That's not good 786 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,319 Speaker 1: because raising awareness is now a catch all on the left. 787 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 1: Anytime they do something and they there's no real rationale 788 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,279 Speaker 1: for other than just want attention, and they say they're 789 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,400 Speaker 1: raising awareness. Um, but it's really Uh. The more I 790 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 1: thought I've thought about it, the G twenty and and 791 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:29,160 Speaker 1: all the stuff going on there. It's social justice socializing. 792 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,160 Speaker 1: It's a way for leftists to meet each other, to 793 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,200 Speaker 1: hang out and to feel like they're part of some 794 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,759 Speaker 1: unending struggle against the fascist forces of I don't know 795 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,440 Speaker 1: what international governments or something. Um. What's always interesting me 796 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,200 Speaker 1: is is they usually want stronger international regulations, right, that 797 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,359 Speaker 1: they want a stronger climate change of chord, that they 798 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: want the forces of globalism in some ways to be 799 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: much stronger than they are. But they protest babilism and 800 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,239 Speaker 1: the oppression and the inequities that it causes. I don't know, 801 00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: see it's social justice socializing, or you could say maybe 802 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,719 Speaker 1: even it's uh these G twenty protests and all the 803 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,720 Speaker 1: stuff that goes along with it. It's like social justice 804 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,600 Speaker 1: social events. That's that's I think the most a much 805 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,879 Speaker 1: more apt way to describe it, because, like I said, 806 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,560 Speaker 1: I was the BBC and I'm like, well, what are 807 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: they what are they really protesting? Here's one uh, a 808 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,560 Speaker 1: woman who's with an environmental group from Germany told Reuters quote, 809 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,840 Speaker 1: we know that the people who cause the misery that 810 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: we have all over the world today, refugees, wars and 811 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,360 Speaker 1: so on, they are sitting right now in the G 812 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:45,360 Speaker 1: twenty and having a chat. Uh huh, I mean that's 813 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,960 Speaker 1: is it possible to have a more simplistic and and 814 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:55,720 Speaker 1: uh unhelpful view of the world And just yeah, because 815 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,160 Speaker 1: there are governments that are talking. We just want to 816 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,720 Speaker 1: talk about how there are problems in the world. Let's protest. 817 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,279 Speaker 1: I mean it's incoherent, it really is. But leftism these 818 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,080 Speaker 1: days always devolves into incoherences, just a question of you 819 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,160 Speaker 1: know when how far you push it? Um? Oh wait, 820 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,920 Speaker 1: we got build the Blasio. We got to talk about that. 821 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,359 Speaker 1: The mayor of New York City. Oh, this is fun. 822 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:19,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna hit it on the other side of the 823 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,440 Speaker 1: break team. Oh wait, but also before I go, it 824 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,520 Speaker 1: is actually movie quote Friday, everyone, I forgot action. We 825 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,080 Speaker 1: can kill it. Movies the coast and you get together, 826 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:35,840 Speaker 1: have a few left quote free your Fridays action movie. 827 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,840 Speaker 1: Quote Fridays, bring it eight four four n eight to 828 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 1: five eight four nine hundred buck your thoughts on this 829 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,319 Speaker 1: or your action movie quotes. All very much welcome. We're 830 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: gonna hit a quick break here. Team will be back 831 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,759 Speaker 1: in a few. Protests have gotten pretty out of hand. 832 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,440 Speaker 1: I'm seeing here that over there's reports of over a 833 00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: hundred police have been injured, are there? And you, of 834 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,400 Speaker 1: course I want to ask the question injured for for 835 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,840 Speaker 1: what I've been going over, How there's really no cause. 836 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,719 Speaker 1: How this is more of a a an activity at 837 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:16,320 Speaker 1: lifestyle choice, a a virtue, an exercise in virtue signaling 838 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,839 Speaker 1: and social justice socializing. That there's really no outcome that's 839 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,600 Speaker 1: supposed to happen or could happen from this that benefits anyone. Um. 840 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:29,080 Speaker 1: But it's it's acting out. It is really a collective 841 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:35,880 Speaker 1: tantrum by collectivists. It is leftists who are deciding to 842 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 1: pose as anarchists for the day. Um. And people are hurt. 843 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,400 Speaker 1: I mean their cops are getting hurt dealing with this. 844 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,120 Speaker 1: And sure enough, and I'm here in New York City 845 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,920 Speaker 1: and we've had all kinds of problems recently with our 846 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,319 Speaker 1: mass transportation system, which I know for those who don't 847 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,280 Speaker 1: live here like well Buck, I don't, that's not my problem, 848 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,080 Speaker 1: fair enough, um, But it's without it that the city 849 00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,200 Speaker 1: is paralyzed. I mean, you need mass transit it here 850 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,240 Speaker 1: to get around, and we've had all kinds of problems 851 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 1: and our mayor, who it should be noted, it was 852 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,040 Speaker 1: a close confidante of Hillary Clinton's for a long time. 853 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,040 Speaker 1: I think he ran her Senate campaign. In fact, Bill 854 00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: de Blasio, whom I believe along with Governor Mario Cuomo. 855 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,919 Speaker 1: Wait does it Mary Okano? It's uh, you know which 856 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,239 Speaker 1: Cuomo is it? Yeah, Chris Cuomo is the CNN guy, 857 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:27,359 Speaker 1: and then there's uh, is it Mario Cuomo or am 858 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,200 Speaker 1: I forgetting Yeah? I think so anyway, whatever Governor Cuomo 859 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:37,200 Speaker 1: have aspirations to go onto, perhaps even the highest office 860 00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,359 Speaker 1: of the land. Believe it or not. Um, I think 861 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,960 Speaker 1: that's I think that's in the cards, perhaps for both 862 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo and in his own mind Bill de Blasio, 863 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 1: that that they would make Andrew Cuomo. Sorry, Marriott, so 864 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,520 Speaker 1: I thought Mario was his dad. See, the political office 865 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:59,200 Speaker 1: in this country is unfortunately far too much a hereditary, 866 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:06,640 Speaker 1: hereditary commodity. It just gets passed down to people, right, Cuomo's, Kennedy's, Clinton's, 867 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, everyone's, everyone's just going to vote for these 868 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,200 Speaker 1: people because of their last name. And I'm sure at 869 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,839 Speaker 1: the state political level it's even it's even worse. But um, anyway, Yeah, 870 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,839 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, so he may run for the president some point, 871 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:24,359 Speaker 1: But okay, buck back on track. Build A Blasio, mayor 872 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,200 Speaker 1: of New York City, largest city in the country. The 873 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:33,000 Speaker 1: city's got lots of problems, and he is over in Germany, 874 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:38,440 Speaker 1: over in Hamburg, hanging out with protesters. And I just 875 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,360 Speaker 1: want to know who in New York City votes for 876 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,480 Speaker 1: this guy? I mean, I live here, and it's the 877 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,120 Speaker 1: question that I asked to ask about, like who votes 878 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,479 Speaker 1: for Nancy Pelosi? Iman? Who are the people that feel 879 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: good casting votes for these clowns? I don't I mean, 880 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,839 Speaker 1: they really don't tell me. I guess they people who 881 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,359 Speaker 1: know me know well enough to not inflict their their 882 00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,800 Speaker 1: political um nonsense on me. But I don't understand. And 883 00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:06,680 Speaker 1: by the way of war, build the Blasio's name, which 884 00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,680 Speaker 1: interesting he's in Germany at the G twenty protests. Bill 885 00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:17,279 Speaker 1: de Blasio's name is um Originally kais not kaiser Helm 886 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,480 Speaker 1: Warren Wilhelm. That was his that was his original name. 887 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,439 Speaker 1: He changed his name, and that's why I have said 888 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:32,279 Speaker 1: for many, for many years now that we should call 889 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,040 Speaker 1: him Kaiser Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm, because I think I'm pretty 890 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:42,600 Speaker 1: sure he changed. He changed his name because he realized 891 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,400 Speaker 1: that it's much more effective to run for the political 892 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,680 Speaker 1: office in New York City. If your name is you know, 893 00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 1: hey build a Blasio. Hey he build the blas he did. 894 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,040 Speaker 1: He grew up in the Bronx as opposed to my 895 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,120 Speaker 1: name is foreign Wilhelm. Yeah, I look, there's something wrong 896 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,479 Speaker 1: with her name Wilhelm. But you know, it just wasn't 897 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,360 Speaker 1: just didn't have the ring that he wanted to it, 898 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,680 Speaker 1: you know, so he decided to go with Bill de Blasio. Yeah, 899 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,720 Speaker 1: but now heous And I saw New York Post columns 900 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,520 Speaker 1: that I've been calling Kaiser Wilhelm for a long time. 901 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,040 Speaker 1: I saw New York Post columnists right these Kaiser will hum. 902 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,840 Speaker 1: So I'm happy that it's it's caught on because you know, 903 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,880 Speaker 1: he's a Kaisa and who's Alice and he's like, was 904 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,480 Speaker 1: always the protests and what is this guy doing over there? 905 00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,279 Speaker 1: So I mean, on the one hand, I feel like 906 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: this is now this shows you that the Democrat politicians 907 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,360 Speaker 1: in this country by and large just always have sympathy 908 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,800 Speaker 1: for protesters, right because of the I don't know, the 909 00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,440 Speaker 1: uh this is this is when I started making generalizations 910 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,720 Speaker 1: that I get in trouble with. But you know, because 911 00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,560 Speaker 1: of the whiny emotionalism that is so prevalent in the 912 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,040 Speaker 1: Democrat Party these days. I mean maybe I don't know 913 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,880 Speaker 1: it mean, is that why? Uh? And so they view 914 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:55,160 Speaker 1: protesters as a as a necessary outgrowth of Democrat audeology. Maybe, um, 915 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,000 Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why they always take it always 916 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,400 Speaker 1: gonna take the side of protesters. Protest as a uh, 917 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,320 Speaker 1: generally speaking, protest in the modern American or the contemporary 918 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,759 Speaker 1: American context is so much more dominated by leftists. Isn't 919 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,480 Speaker 1: that interesting? And I know people are probably making jokes 920 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,840 Speaker 1: themselves right now about how that's that's because like conservatives 921 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,759 Speaker 1: actually have, you know, families, they have to tend to 922 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,480 Speaker 1: in jobs, to get to and everything else. But you know, 923 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of union a lot 924 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,520 Speaker 1: of union organization of protests and union sending go Democrat. 925 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,160 Speaker 1: There's a lot of um, uh, you know, look a 926 00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,839 Speaker 1: lot of people. I remember seeing an occupied Wall Street 927 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: protest a a Columbia University professor that I knew, and 928 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,040 Speaker 1: I was just like, what is she doing here? You 929 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:38,680 Speaker 1: know what I mean? So, yeah, there are people that 930 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,800 Speaker 1: that get involved in this protest women stuff. But with 931 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,520 Speaker 1: Bill the Blasio right now over in Germany and the 932 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,839 Speaker 1: g twenty protests going on there. I remember, he's he's 933 00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,120 Speaker 1: not over there to like meet with world leaders, He's 934 00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,840 Speaker 1: over there to hang out with the protesters, you know, 935 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,640 Speaker 1: I mean he's he's pulling a you know, a U 936 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,160 Speaker 1: what is it. I'm trying to think of people that 937 00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,560 Speaker 1: like Michael Moore. I think they're trying to think of 938 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,719 Speaker 1: who else when the Occupied Wall Street protests hang out. 939 00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,880 Speaker 1: And I feel like Sean Penn probably did, or we 940 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,600 Speaker 1: know he was going out and hanging out with like 941 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:12,000 Speaker 1: South American dictators, um, you know Chavez, and so you 942 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: know he's over there. And in the meantime, people have 943 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,400 Speaker 1: pointed out that, you know, we just had and you know, 944 00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,719 Speaker 1: making a serious turn here in our conversation for a moment, 945 00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:25,600 Speaker 1: we just had a member of the NYPD assassinated by 946 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,520 Speaker 1: a cop hater here in town. And uh, you know, 947 00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:33,920 Speaker 1: a mother of three officer Mia Soda is Familia. I 948 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,520 Speaker 1: spoke about her earlier on in the week that just happened. 949 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,880 Speaker 1: And the NYPD is is rocked by that, and understandably so. 950 00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,680 Speaker 1: And they don't the police partment does not have a 951 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,200 Speaker 1: strong relationship with building with Mayor to Blasio, and he 952 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:50,800 Speaker 1: just decided that he's going to take up and go 953 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,200 Speaker 1: over and hang out with some protesters in Germany because 954 00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,520 Speaker 1: of what because climate change? I mean, this is a 955 00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,759 Speaker 1: reflection of a larger liberal mentality. Folk. Uh, this is 956 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,960 Speaker 1: you know, build a Blasio thinks that because he's a 957 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,200 Speaker 1: fan of of Bloombergie and bike lanes in the city 958 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,320 Speaker 1: or something, that he's single handedly responsible for combating climate changers. 959 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,400 Speaker 1: I don't even Again, they're so detached from reality that 960 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,399 Speaker 1: it becomes difficult to make their arguments right. They're they're 961 00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,640 Speaker 1: so full of nonsense that I'm like, what exactly is 962 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,960 Speaker 1: the point he's trying to make here? And given the 963 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,560 Speaker 1: bad relationship that the mayor has with the largest police 964 00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,040 Speaker 1: department of the country, and that a police officer was 965 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,480 Speaker 1: assassinate earlier this week, it just seems particularly tone deaf 966 00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,640 Speaker 1: right now for a mayor to decide to just get 967 00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,600 Speaker 1: up and go hang out with a bunch of protesters. 968 00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,560 Speaker 1: But you know this, you see this with Democrats at 969 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,839 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. Uh. You know honeymoon in the Soviet Union. Uh, 970 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:51,360 Speaker 1: you have build Alas did he I think he did hear? 971 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,920 Speaker 1: I think he honeymooned in Nicaragua Uh so just a 972 00:55:55,040 --> 00:56:00,120 Speaker 1: fondness for leftists all over the world is a i'm 973 00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,440 Speaker 1: in a common theme of of democrats, very senior democrats 974 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: in this country, right wherever they are all over the world. 975 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,560 Speaker 1: The leftists who want to you know, seize and redistribute 976 00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,200 Speaker 1: the wealth and and eventually destroy individual rights and property 977 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,640 Speaker 1: in law and order anyway. Uh, they just find that 978 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,880 Speaker 1: to be enticing for whatever reason, you know, whether it's 979 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,480 Speaker 1: Sanders or um build a Blasio or any number of it. 980 00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:24,920 Speaker 1: I mean, we could sit here and talk with Democrat 981 00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,560 Speaker 1: politicians who cozy up to a leftist dictators and leftist 982 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,960 Speaker 1: revolutionary movements for any number of reasons. Um. But yeah, 983 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,000 Speaker 1: he's uh, not my not my favorite. And it's for 984 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,200 Speaker 1: even for the city of New York, which obviously has 985 00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,200 Speaker 1: the politics of I don't know, it's New York is 986 00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,520 Speaker 1: almost not a part of America in terms of politics. 987 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,960 Speaker 1: It's so left wing that you can't even really put 988 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,160 Speaker 1: it on the on the American political spectrum in a 989 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,080 Speaker 1: lot of ways. Um, but people are finally taking notice 990 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,640 Speaker 1: of this, and it's just I think indicative of broader 991 00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,520 Speaker 1: prom the Democratic Party of you know, they'd rather go 992 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,600 Speaker 1: and hang out with protesters somewhere else and talk about 993 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,000 Speaker 1: climate change and feel like they're so righteous and smug 994 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,480 Speaker 1: instead of doing what they're being paid to do and 995 00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,440 Speaker 1: take care of problems here at home, real problems that 996 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,360 Speaker 1: real people have. We've got a lot more team back 997 00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:27,800 Speaker 1: in just a few buck is back. Everybody bucks back. 998 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,040 Speaker 1: It's more of America. Now. Throw in your two cents 999 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:35,440 Speaker 1: one eight four four nine hundred buck. That's one eight 1000 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:42,680 Speaker 1: four four to eight to five. An avalanche of national 1001 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:48,360 Speaker 1: security leagues. That's how a recent Republican authored Senate report 1002 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:55,600 Speaker 1: describes what has been a clear pattern of sharing sensitive information, 1003 00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,800 Speaker 1: classified information, assuming that the information is true, of course, 1004 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:06,920 Speaker 1: reportedly classified information in the media. And this is different, 1005 00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,640 Speaker 1: This is distinct from what we've seen with previous administrations. 1006 00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,520 Speaker 1: The twenty four page report is called State Secrets. How 1007 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,040 Speaker 1: an avalanche of media leaks is harming national security. The 1008 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,680 Speaker 1: report says that the series of leaks since Trump took 1009 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:27,760 Speaker 1: office or quote, unprecedented and potentially damaging. Now, it's a 1010 00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,600 Speaker 1: very interesting discussion when you get into leagues of national 1011 00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:36,120 Speaker 1: security information, because there is a nuance that is required here. 1012 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,040 Speaker 1: There is there are gray areas. Right, First of all, 1013 00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,760 Speaker 1: who is authorized to disclose the media and who is not. 1014 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,320 Speaker 1: That's an interesting debate in and of itself. Of course, 1015 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,000 Speaker 1: the president can disclose whatever he wants, But what about 1016 00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,640 Speaker 1: the president telling another senior official that that person is 1017 00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,720 Speaker 1: allowed to disclose information. You know, if the President tells 1018 00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:01,520 Speaker 1: the UH, the Director of National Intelligence the d n I, 1019 00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,800 Speaker 1: that he is allowed to tell the media the following 1020 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,760 Speaker 1: but you know, off the record, or rather requesting anonymity 1021 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,960 Speaker 1: as a source, is that a leak? But that's apart 1022 00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,120 Speaker 1: from the real thrust of this discussion or of this report, 1023 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,000 Speaker 1: which is that these are leaks that are specifically intended 1024 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:24,480 Speaker 1: to harm the administration. So forget about whether the president 1025 00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,920 Speaker 1: is talking where the president is allowing people in administration 1026 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,400 Speaker 1: to speak to the press. UH. This is an issue 1027 00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:36,360 Speaker 1: of the media trying to use information that it gets 1028 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,480 Speaker 1: from people within government who have classified access to try 1029 00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,320 Speaker 1: and hurt this president, to try to hurt this administration. 1030 00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:48,760 Speaker 1: And what's really troubling here is that there doesn't seem 1031 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,040 Speaker 1: to be much care at all given by some of 1032 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:56,120 Speaker 1: these news outlets. Two, um, the damage that has done 1033 00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:00,200 Speaker 1: to national security that affects all Americans, never mind just 1034 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,760 Speaker 1: the damage that's done to perceptions of Donald Trump or 1035 01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:08,480 Speaker 1: or his administration. UM. And I think that what we 1036 01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,560 Speaker 1: see is is clearly an orchestrated campaign among members of 1037 01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,200 Speaker 1: the media to reach out to people that they know 1038 01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:20,680 Speaker 1: who will give them information that is damaging about Trump. 1039 01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,800 Speaker 1: And you know, according to this report on Fox News, 1040 01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,600 Speaker 1: the Senate reports said eight seventy eight of the leak's 1041 01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,360 Speaker 1: concerned the probe into Russian election meddling and potential collusion 1042 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:35,680 Speaker 1: with the Trump campaign in the presidential election, revealing intelligence 1043 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:40,160 Speaker 1: community intercepts, FBI interviews, and intelligence grand jury subpoenas, and 1044 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,960 Speaker 1: the workings of a secret surveillance court. So so the 1045 01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,640 Speaker 1: leaks are are These are not whistleblower leaks, is what 1046 01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. These are not leaks that they're 1047 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:53,720 Speaker 1: identifying of government wrongdoing that the government was trying to 1048 01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,760 Speaker 1: cover up by saying, oh no, that's classified. That does 1049 01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,520 Speaker 1: happen sometimes, And you know, there's a there's a moral, ethical, 1050 01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,840 Speaker 1: and legal judgment that needs to be taken into account 1051 01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,720 Speaker 1: when there is true whistle blowing, when there's a real 1052 01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:12,080 Speaker 1: act of uh, letting the American people know what they 1053 01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,960 Speaker 1: what must be known, what should be known. UM. But 1054 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,840 Speaker 1: for people that are just trying to even a score 1055 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,920 Speaker 1: with Trump or that are trying to uh make the 1056 01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:25,680 Speaker 1: administration look bad and in the process taking actions that 1057 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,680 Speaker 1: are damaging to our national security. Uh, there needs to 1058 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:33,040 Speaker 1: be accountability. Um. We we've seen that there have been 1059 01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:37,800 Speaker 1: ill effects already of this leaking on the willingness of 1060 01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:43,600 Speaker 1: Ford of foreign intelligence partners to trust us. At least 1061 01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:46,200 Speaker 1: there's been news reports about that. There are concerns that 1062 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:50,200 Speaker 1: information that they share may end up in the press. Uh, 1063 01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:55,080 Speaker 1: there are concerns about the morality intelligence community itself as 1064 01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:59,080 Speaker 1: a result of this activity, because what happens is a politicization, 1065 01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:05,120 Speaker 1: a politicization of the very uh functions of the intel 1066 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:10,840 Speaker 1: community overall. When you feel like you're under scrutiny, and look, 1067 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,080 Speaker 1: I worked in the intelligence community. I work the CIA, 1068 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:16,000 Speaker 1: as you know. And when there's a sense that people 1069 01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,480 Speaker 1: who are probably very senior, who are either current or 1070 01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:23,360 Speaker 1: recently departed from government, are are using their access to 1071 01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:28,960 Speaker 1: information to play politics to settle partisan scores, that undermines 1072 01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,400 Speaker 1: the really good work and the important work that the 1073 01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,280 Speaker 1: intelligence community is doing day in and day out. And 1074 01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,360 Speaker 1: these are executive branch agencies, they do, in fact work 1075 01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,360 Speaker 1: for the president of the United States. Now, the president 1076 01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,760 Speaker 1: United States and the intelligence community work for the American people, 1077 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,240 Speaker 1: well aware of that, but there needs to be some 1078 01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,640 Speaker 1: respect for the chain of command here, and it's obviously 1079 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:55,040 Speaker 1: damaging to the relationship between the commander in chief and 1080 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,920 Speaker 1: the various of the seventeen intelligence agencies out there, the 1081 01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,720 Speaker 1: relationship with all of them when there's a lack of trust. 1082 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,520 Speaker 1: That is also unfair, by the way, for those who 1083 01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,360 Speaker 1: are just doing their jobs and who are not engaging 1084 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,360 Speaker 1: in these partisan games, who are not endangering national security 1085 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,760 Speaker 1: in order to uh tell their their buddies at the 1086 01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,840 Speaker 1: New York Times the Washington Post unflattering things about the 1087 01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:26,520 Speaker 1: Trump administration. So I have to say I understand the 1088 01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:31,360 Speaker 1: desire for a crackdown on on these leaks. I do 1089 01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:37,080 Speaker 1: think that except in egregious and clear cut cases, criminal 1090 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:41,960 Speaker 1: prosecution should be considered the the last resort, meaning that 1091 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,280 Speaker 1: for a lot of people, if the leak is not 1092 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,280 Speaker 1: something that's really damaging the national security, but it's something 1093 01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,000 Speaker 1: that violates the trust that's placed in them by the 1094 01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:55,400 Speaker 1: administration or by their role in government. Firing, suspension of clearance, 1095 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,000 Speaker 1: you know, there are there are intermediary steps that should 1096 01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:01,240 Speaker 1: be considered. And I know right now people just want 1097 01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:05,320 Speaker 1: there to be um leakers, to just get to get 1098 01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:09,000 Speaker 1: crushed because of all the politics rounding this. But you know, 1099 01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:11,720 Speaker 1: we we don't want to be in a situation where 1100 01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,400 Speaker 1: the administration is grabbing lower level people. This is always 1101 01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,800 Speaker 1: my concern and trying to make an example of them 1102 01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:24,919 Speaker 1: for what sometimes could be understandable, uh mistaken or even 1103 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:29,280 Speaker 1: innocent conduct that put in a certain light, looks questionable. Right, 1104 01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:31,880 Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's usually the little people here 1105 01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:36,160 Speaker 1: in the leak hunt game. It's usually the little people 1106 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,640 Speaker 1: who are crushed and the senior folks who are the 1107 01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,760 Speaker 1: ones playing the politics. Uh, they get away with this. 1108 01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:47,760 Speaker 1: They have the savvy and the political connections and also 1109 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:53,440 Speaker 1: the cover from the media to avoid real consequences for 1110 01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,960 Speaker 1: their activities. So I like to caution people about this 1111 01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,840 Speaker 1: because I know right now the passions are running high 1112 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,040 Speaker 1: for this, and and they should because some of the 1113 01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,800 Speaker 1: stuff that I've reading the newspaper is all I can 1114 01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:07,000 Speaker 1: think to myself is well, if that's true, who the 1115 01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,440 Speaker 1: heck thinks that they should be telling the press about that, 1116 01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:14,120 Speaker 1: that they should be putting this information out there that 1117 01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:19,280 Speaker 1: shouldn't be publicly known again if true, And it's really 1118 01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:23,160 Speaker 1: disconcerting to see that there are so many people out 1119 01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,560 Speaker 1: there in government or formerly in government who believe that 1120 01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,800 Speaker 1: they are the arbiters of what is covered by federal 1121 01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,920 Speaker 1: law in terms of information and what is not uh. 1122 01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:36,000 Speaker 1: And the partisanship is obvious, I mean, the anti Trump 1123 01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:40,040 Speaker 1: animus of many of these leaks. It couldn't be any 1124 01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,280 Speaker 1: more clear. So Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, said they're going 1125 01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,560 Speaker 1: to go after people. I wonder if they'll be able 1126 01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,280 Speaker 1: to find any of the really top level leakers. But 1127 01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:51,040 Speaker 1: this has had an effect, by the way, on the 1128 01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:55,800 Speaker 1: way that the government and the intelligence community interacts with 1129 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,760 Speaker 1: the press. And now everyone is is freaked out, and 1130 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,520 Speaker 1: there are all these concerns about exactly what I was 1131 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,080 Speaker 1: saying to you, really, which is the people who aren't 1132 01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,480 Speaker 1: really trying to leak anything. You know. There there there 1133 01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:10,360 Speaker 1: are innocent, normal contacts that occur between some government agencies 1134 01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,280 Speaker 1: and the media. There are press offices, there are people 1135 01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:17,240 Speaker 1: that are supposed to be talking to the media um 1136 01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,040 Speaker 1: and are authorized to do so, but even they're scared 1137 01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,640 Speaker 1: because of all of the fury surrounding the leaks right now, 1138 01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,040 Speaker 1: So we've got to keep an eye on this. Uh. 1139 01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,840 Speaker 1: It's obviously a concern when you've got national security being damaged, 1140 01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:34,440 Speaker 1: but there are different layers here, and we shouldn't just 1141 01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:37,800 Speaker 1: turn this into a partisan food fight. That will leave 1142 01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,680 Speaker 1: that to the other side team. We're gonna hit a break. 1143 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:53,680 Speaker 1: I'll be back with much more. Stay with me, get 1144 01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:55,160 Speaker 1: to talk to you, So they're gonna have to forgive 1145 01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,360 Speaker 1: me that when I press you on this. Um, you 1146 01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,880 Speaker 1: are a savvy guy. You are plugged in. You've been 1147 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,280 Speaker 1: around democratic politics a long time. You no doubt are 1148 01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,240 Speaker 1: having conversations behind the scenes. No doubt those conversations are 1149 01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,120 Speaker 1: being had, probably every day. Who is the leader of 1150 01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:13,360 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party right now? I think there are many 1151 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,840 Speaker 1: leaders of the Democratic Party. I will always defeat me 1152 01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,080 Speaker 1: a name, governor give me a name. I'm not gonna 1153 01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:19,920 Speaker 1: give you. I'll say the governors who are leading their 1154 01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:24,080 Speaker 1: states creating jobs, building infrastructure, bildy and education system that works. 1155 01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,840 Speaker 1: We have to balance our budgets. Unlike Washing they print 1156 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,560 Speaker 1: money and they still can't balance the budget. We create jobs, 1157 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:33,080 Speaker 1: we build infrastructure, we do education. Governors need to lead 1158 01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,760 Speaker 1: the way and listen I compliment the folks on Capitol Hill. 1159 01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,280 Speaker 1: We're doing what they're doing, but you know, we need 1160 01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,440 Speaker 1: some action out of Washington to help us compete on 1161 01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:44,440 Speaker 1: a global basis. Answer given by Governor Terry mccaulliff there 1162 01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:48,600 Speaker 1: from the question posed by or to the question posed 1163 01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:53,280 Speaker 1: by MSNBC's Katie tur who, as all of a sudden 1164 01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,160 Speaker 1: is now is now another one of these journalists that 1165 01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to listen to and pretend to know something, 1166 01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,840 Speaker 1: and I just want to know why. Um, But I 1167 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,160 Speaker 1: know I won't get an answer to that question either. 1168 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,320 Speaker 1: But mccauloff, who, of course gives the usually you know, 1169 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,040 Speaker 1: we're just gonna make jobs and yeah, yeah, you know, 1170 01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,240 Speaker 1: like we're gonna make the jobs in you know, governors, 1171 01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:17,160 Speaker 1: you're balancing your budgets and you know, it's just just pablum, right, 1172 01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:21,880 Speaker 1: It's it's claptrap. But I do think that the members 1173 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:26,200 Speaker 1: of the Democrat media, Democrat establishment who are honest about 1174 01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:33,240 Speaker 1: this are increasingly facing a recognition that they are not 1175 01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,400 Speaker 1: pushing for anything really other than Trump is evil. Trump 1176 01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:42,640 Speaker 1: is bad. The Special Council Investigent Investigation with Mueller is 1177 01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:47,040 Speaker 1: going to be the Democratic Party's salvation there doesn't seem 1178 01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,280 Speaker 1: to be much else that they offer up. They're they're 1179 01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:52,640 Speaker 1: not It's not clear to me if they want Obamacare 1180 01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,840 Speaker 1: to stay or to go. I think that there are 1181 01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,920 Speaker 1: arguments within the Democrat Party on both sides of where 1182 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:04,960 Speaker 1: they're the Republicans doing anything substantive to get rid of 1183 01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:09,720 Speaker 1: much of Obamacare would be a help or a hindrance 1184 01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:15,920 Speaker 1: to them come the midterm elections. So there an opposition party. 1185 01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,880 Speaker 1: Democrats are an opposition party to be sure. They want 1186 01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:22,760 Speaker 1: to stop Trump at every turn, but they also don't 1187 01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:27,360 Speaker 1: really seem to stand for anything right now that they're 1188 01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,120 Speaker 1: willing to at least make I see, now that's you 1189 01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:32,639 Speaker 1: cut that out of context book sections. There's the Democrats 1190 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,200 Speaker 1: don't stand for me. I don't mean that, but I'm 1191 01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:36,439 Speaker 1: saying that there's no message, there's nothing that they don't 1192 01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:41,320 Speaker 1: stand up publicly and promote anything in particular right now. 1193 01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,800 Speaker 1: And I think it's at least in part because they're 1194 01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,920 Speaker 1: just waiting for Republicans to fail, and they hope they 1195 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:51,439 Speaker 1: swoop in and pick up the pieces and then go 1196 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:55,320 Speaker 1: through the transfer of you know that then benefit from 1197 01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:58,040 Speaker 1: the transfer of power that will result, and then they'll 1198 01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,080 Speaker 1: have big ideas and agenda. But you know, part of 1199 01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,240 Speaker 1: the problem with all this for the Democrats is that 1200 01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:07,960 Speaker 1: we had eight years of Obama and much of the 1201 01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:12,439 Speaker 1: promise of the Obama administration, well, the promises that were 1202 01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,439 Speaker 1: fulfilled did not turn out the way that we were 1203 01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:20,840 Speaker 1: told they would, Obamacare being perhaps the most notable example 1204 01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:26,599 Speaker 1: of this. But also on immigration, Democrats can't be honest 1205 01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:28,519 Speaker 1: with the American people about what they really want when 1206 01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,559 Speaker 1: it comes to immigration. Democrats won't you say, we want 1207 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:38,559 Speaker 1: amnesty and we want effectively unrestricted immigration from the developing world, 1208 01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:42,200 Speaker 1: from the third world, because they are more likely to 1209 01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,640 Speaker 1: vote for the party of state benefits and state is 1210 01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:49,120 Speaker 1: um and therefore to help Democrats, they won't say that openly, 1211 01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:52,760 Speaker 1: but that really is ideologically their position. They still have 1212 01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,560 Speaker 1: to pretend so that they can compete in states like 1213 01:10:56,760 --> 01:11:00,760 Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Michigan, UH and Colorado, Otto. And you know, 1214 01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:03,080 Speaker 1: they still have to pretend that they believe in some 1215 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,439 Speaker 1: controls at the border. They still have to go through 1216 01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:10,879 Speaker 1: the whole song and dance of oh yeah, border security. 1217 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,679 Speaker 1: You know, we we we believe in that too. Because 1218 01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,400 Speaker 1: if the Democrat Party, if the progressive wing, if the 1219 01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:20,000 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi wing of the Democrat Party were honest with 1220 01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,880 Speaker 1: the American people, they would never win another national election. Ever, 1221 01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:29,280 Speaker 1: they they have to play this make believe game at 1222 01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,640 Speaker 1: election time in order to fool enough of those who 1223 01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:37,200 Speaker 1: are independents and undecided to go Democrat that they can 1224 01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:41,200 Speaker 1: then have power at the national level. And so this 1225 01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:43,360 Speaker 1: is the question that I think is going to continue 1226 01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:46,120 Speaker 1: to haunt the Democrat Party because they really only have 1227 01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:51,000 Speaker 1: a couple of options right now that have the name 1228 01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:56,599 Speaker 1: recognition and yes, the celebrity star power that Democrats relied 1229 01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,320 Speaker 1: on so heavily in the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton, Oh, 1230 01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:04,040 Speaker 1: I'll be your champ. Yet I'll be there next president. 1231 01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,760 Speaker 1: Just let me go for a third time. I mean, 1232 01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,960 Speaker 1: that's the Clinton brand is I mean, hey, maybe we 1233 01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,360 Speaker 1: could like repeal that whole thing about you know, you 1234 01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:17,120 Speaker 1: can only run twice and Bill can be president twice rather. 1235 01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, won two elections, maybe win a third, 1236 01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,000 Speaker 1: you know, so you get Hillary, you get Bill. The 1237 01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:26,599 Speaker 1: Clinton brand is not what it used to be. Hillary 1238 01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,880 Speaker 1: running a third time, I suppose it is possible, but 1239 01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:32,120 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, at that point, it's just it 1240 01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:36,360 Speaker 1: looks it goes from being inevitable to desperate, right, it 1241 01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:39,559 Speaker 1: was inevitable the first time. The second time, in a sense, 1242 01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,000 Speaker 1: it seemed even more inevitable because of the first time. 1243 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,800 Speaker 1: I think at least two Democrats, but a third time 1244 01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:47,120 Speaker 1: would just be desperation and it would be Wow, Hillary 1245 01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:50,680 Speaker 1: can't find anything else to do with her time. So 1246 01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,599 Speaker 1: the Clinton brand is damaged. You've got the Obama brand, 1247 01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:57,519 Speaker 1: which is still very potent for Democrats, and and certainly 1248 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:03,360 Speaker 1: the media in Hollywood are incredibly nostalgic for the Obama era. 1249 01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:08,200 Speaker 1: But again, Obama can't run for a third term. Not 1250 01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:11,720 Speaker 1: clear yet if Michelle Obama would make a run for 1251 01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:15,720 Speaker 1: Senate in Illinois. People are saying no, I don't think 1252 01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:17,760 Speaker 1: she could go straight to running for the presidency. But 1253 01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:21,080 Speaker 1: but in this day and age, maybe, But so the 1254 01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:25,960 Speaker 1: there's the possibility of the Obama brand becoming the the 1255 01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:29,960 Speaker 1: still once again the standard bearer, uh the the main 1256 01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,799 Speaker 1: brand of the Democrat Party. But I think that because 1257 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,719 Speaker 1: of the logistical problems where you can't have President Obama 1258 01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:38,240 Speaker 1: run a third time, they're not going to do that. 1259 01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:40,479 Speaker 1: And then you look at who else is out there 1260 01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:46,800 Speaker 1: and who they need to win in competitive states in 1261 01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,640 Speaker 1: the both in the mid terms and then in the 1262 01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,519 Speaker 1: next presidential election, and you know what you got, You 1263 01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:55,000 Speaker 1: got Terry mccauliffe. I mean, is that really supposed to be? 1264 01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,200 Speaker 1: Is that really supposed to be the answer to this question? 1265 01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,000 Speaker 1: And what is So you know, there's there's a personality 1266 01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:06,960 Speaker 1: deficit in the Democrat Party right now, and there's also 1267 01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:11,000 Speaker 1: I think an idea deficit, because you know, the stuff 1268 01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:16,120 Speaker 1: that they push for, climate change, transgender rights, the areas 1269 01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:20,040 Speaker 1: of policy that the Democrats and their and the progressives 1270 01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:24,160 Speaker 1: the media are the most energized about, and the stuff 1271 01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:26,640 Speaker 1: that gets all the attention on the blogs and in 1272 01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:30,519 Speaker 1: the in the media ecosystem. Most Americans just don't really 1273 01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:34,000 Speaker 1: care all that much, despite how much the Democrat Party 1274 01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:38,120 Speaker 1: wants them to care. They can't bring themselves to care 1275 01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,280 Speaker 1: because it doesn't really affect their lives all that much. 1276 01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:42,439 Speaker 1: And in fact, the only reason we even talk about 1277 01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,240 Speaker 1: it is because Democrats are always trying to jam this 1278 01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,240 Speaker 1: stuff in. The Democrat media is always trying to jam 1279 01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:52,200 Speaker 1: this stuff down our throats. And what we saw with 1280 01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:57,959 Speaker 1: Trump is that talking about uh, talking about American greatness 1281 01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:01,360 Speaker 1: and jobs and a strong onomy and a strong America 1282 01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,760 Speaker 1: and a country that is looking out for its own 1283 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,960 Speaker 1: and that privileges citizens above uh foreigners. And you know 1284 01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:13,400 Speaker 1: that's that resonates, and that's how you have somebody who's 1285 01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:16,200 Speaker 1: never held elected office defeating the quote inevitable candidate with 1286 01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:20,280 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. Democrats still have not learned the core lessons 1287 01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:22,320 Speaker 1: of the last election. I don't know if they will 1288 01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:25,000 Speaker 1: or not. They're just hoping that the ground shifts so 1289 01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,920 Speaker 1: much under the Trump administration that they don't need a 1290 01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,880 Speaker 1: cohesive message. But it was never clear why Hillary, including 1291 01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,519 Speaker 1: to Hillary herself, it was never clear why she was 1292 01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:37,799 Speaker 1: running for president. And right now I think the Democrat 1293 01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:41,240 Speaker 1: Party needs to ask the question, what if anti Trump 1294 01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:45,280 Speaker 1: hysteria is not enough? What if the American people want more? 1295 01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,080 Speaker 1: Who's going to make that case to them? Who's going 1296 01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:51,080 Speaker 1: to leave the Democratic Party with something other than Trump 1297 01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:54,720 Speaker 1: is the worst? Because he's not. So it's not gonna work. 1298 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,519 Speaker 1: We've got more team. We'll be back in just suffuse, 1299 01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:06,760 Speaker 1: stay with Welcome back to the Freedom hud On, an 1300 01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:10,120 Speaker 1: island of liberty where you're the party and it's full 1301 01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:15,200 Speaker 1: of fellow patriots. Buck Sexton kicks it off and say, 1302 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,080 Speaker 1: you think it was Russia, Your intelligence agencies have been 1303 01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,719 Speaker 1: far more definitive. They say it was Russia. Why won't 1304 01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:24,040 Speaker 1: you agree with them? And I'll tell you. Let me 1305 01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,080 Speaker 1: just start off by saying, I heard it was seventeen agencies. 1306 01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:29,280 Speaker 1: I said, boy, that's a lot. Do we even have 1307 01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:33,200 Speaker 1: that many intelligence agencies? Right? Let's check it. And we 1308 01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,760 Speaker 1: did some very heavy research. It turned out to be 1309 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,479 Speaker 1: three or four. It wasn't seventeen. And many of your 1310 01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:43,280 Speaker 1: compatriots had to change their reporting and they had to apologize, 1311 01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:46,160 Speaker 1: and they had a correct President Trump there yesterday at 1312 01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:50,479 Speaker 1: a press conference with the Polish Premier, taking questions from 1313 01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:54,439 Speaker 1: the press, and Trump saying quite rightly that in fact, 1314 01:16:54,560 --> 01:17:00,080 Speaker 1: the line about seventeen agencies was fake news, and that 1315 01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,160 Speaker 1: this is something that people should just understand now and 1316 01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,720 Speaker 1: not continue to push because it starts to feel like 1317 01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:10,679 Speaker 1: the press is just going along with a propaganda line, 1318 01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:14,000 Speaker 1: which of course is what has been happening here. Uh. 1319 01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:18,719 Speaker 1: And it comes after President Trump says this after last week, 1320 01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:23,559 Speaker 1: The New York Times put up the following correction, uh 1321 01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,000 Speaker 1: to a story. A White House Memo article on Monday 1322 01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:31,840 Speaker 1: about President Trump's deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly 1323 01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:35,120 Speaker 1: to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia 1324 01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:40,000 Speaker 1: orchestrated hacking attacks during last year's presidential election. The assessment 1325 01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:44,040 Speaker 1: was made by four intelligence agencies, the Office of the 1326 01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:48,080 Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal 1327 01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:52,320 Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency. The assessment 1328 01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:56,400 Speaker 1: was not approved by all seventeen organizations in the American 1329 01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:02,000 Speaker 1: intelligence community. Uh, this has not been something that just 1330 01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:05,160 Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. News organizations have been running with 1331 01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:09,800 Speaker 1: this four months. In fact, it's not even just the 1332 01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:15,599 Speaker 1: press that has been peddling this falsehood. The Russian government 1333 01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:24,280 Speaker 1: has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, 1334 01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:29,000 Speaker 1: American accounts of private people of institutions. Then they have 1335 01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:33,439 Speaker 1: given that information to wiki Leaks for the purpose of 1336 01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,240 Speaker 1: putting it on the internet. This has come from the 1337 01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:39,880 Speaker 1: highest levels of the Russian government, clearly from Putin himself 1338 01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:45,040 Speaker 1: in an effort as seventeen of our intelligence agencies have confirmed, 1339 01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:48,719 Speaker 1: to influence our election. So I actually think the most 1340 01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:53,839 Speaker 1: important question of this evening, Chris, is finally, will Donald 1341 01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,400 Speaker 1: Trump admit and condemned that the Russians are doing this 1342 01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:02,760 Speaker 1: and make it clear that he will not have the 1343 01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,519 Speaker 1: help of putin in it. I mean, as you can see, 1344 01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:09,840 Speaker 1: it's quite clear that this was a data point, or 1345 01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,800 Speaker 1: this was a fake a fake news data point that 1346 01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:17,479 Speaker 1: was used continuously by the left. Has been used to 1347 01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:21,759 Speaker 1: make it seem like there was an overwhelming consensus among 1348 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:24,080 Speaker 1: I mean, what like the Coast Guard too, I mean, 1349 01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,680 Speaker 1: everybody was in on this, apparently, all seventeen Intel agencies, 1350 01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:31,000 Speaker 1: to make it seem like it was such an iron 1351 01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:34,879 Speaker 1: clad assessment that there could be no deviation from it whatsoever, 1352 01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:40,439 Speaker 1: and that Trump was some kind of denialist about the 1353 01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:45,639 Speaker 1: Russian hacking because the seventeen Intel agencies had all come 1354 01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:52,000 Speaker 1: to this definitive, clear conclusion about it. Now, the the 1355 01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:56,160 Speaker 1: Russia hack has all has in some ways mirrored the 1356 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:59,880 Speaker 1: climate change debate, and that they try to intentionally the 1357 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:06,760 Speaker 1: left tries to intentionally oversimplify how how this is discussed, 1358 01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,640 Speaker 1: so that you're forced to make statements that are more 1359 01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:13,479 Speaker 1: sweeping than you intend. And this is all because of 1360 01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,639 Speaker 1: the control of the argument, the debate that they want 1361 01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:18,680 Speaker 1: to have. Let me let me break down for you 1362 01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,479 Speaker 1: what I mean. I know, I'm kind of running around 1363 01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:25,599 Speaker 1: into a bunch of different uh points here For example, 1364 01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,880 Speaker 1: they will say, well, Mr President, don't you believe that 1365 01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:31,840 Speaker 1: Russia hacked the election? What does that even mean? We've 1366 01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:34,720 Speaker 1: talked about this before. Hacked the election? Does that mean 1367 01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,679 Speaker 1: hacking into the voting machines? Does that mean changing votes? 1368 01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:41,960 Speaker 1: Does that mean changing the outcome? Because if it's any 1369 01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,400 Speaker 1: of those things, then that's a conspiracy without any evidence. 1370 01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:49,760 Speaker 1: That's a lie, that's not true, that's fake news. Is 1371 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:53,280 Speaker 1: it that? It is an assessment of the intelligence community 1372 01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,599 Speaker 1: and some aspects of the intelligence community, And really, as 1373 01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,519 Speaker 1: somebody who used to work for the Intelligence Commune, you're 1374 01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:04,760 Speaker 1: talking about a group of analysts from within that much 1375 01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:09,200 Speaker 1: larger community making this assessment who have made you know, 1376 01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:12,160 Speaker 1: in general, I'm talking not these not these individuals necessarily, 1377 01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,880 Speaker 1: but the intelligence community has made mistakes in the past. 1378 01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,200 Speaker 1: This is not news to anyone um and they're not 1379 01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:24,280 Speaker 1: entirely definitive, nor could they be about the full uh 1380 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:29,080 Speaker 1: scope of who is involved here, what the what the 1381 01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:33,160 Speaker 1: outcome effect was or was not. I mean, there's a 1382 01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:37,200 Speaker 1: lot of uncertainty and intelligence analysis just as a matter 1383 01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:41,240 Speaker 1: of course, that's that's reality. But by saying it's all 1384 01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,400 Speaker 1: seventeen agencies, they're overstating the case. This is similar. So 1385 01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:47,160 Speaker 1: so they asked, do you believe Russia hacked the election? 1386 01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,840 Speaker 1: It's like asking do you believe in climate change? Because 1387 01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:53,320 Speaker 1: they force you to give a very simple answer to 1388 01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:55,840 Speaker 1: a much more complicated question. If you say, well, yeah, 1389 01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:58,719 Speaker 1: I believe in climate change, but I think the climate 1390 01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:02,560 Speaker 1: change has been occurring natural really for centuries and in 1391 01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:06,320 Speaker 1: fact millennia, in fact, as long as the planet's been around, 1392 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,439 Speaker 1: and that human activity is almost certainly a very small 1393 01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,479 Speaker 1: part of it. And even if that were not the case, 1394 01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:16,840 Speaker 1: the costs of trying to offset the human activity and 1395 01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,320 Speaker 1: roll in climate change are not worth it for the 1396 01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:24,000 Speaker 1: benefits are outweighed dramatically by the cost. But they don't 1397 01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:25,720 Speaker 1: let you get to that part of the discussion. Just 1398 01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,160 Speaker 1: do you believe in climate change? If yes, then all 1399 01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,960 Speaker 1: of these things must follow. Do you believe Russia hacked 1400 01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:36,280 Speaker 1: the election? Uh? If yes, then of course it's uh, 1401 01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:42,080 Speaker 1: the president's illegitimate. This is all nonsense. It's it's fake 1402 01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:46,800 Speaker 1: what happened, or rather it's unjust what happened. And they 1403 01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:52,960 Speaker 1: do and the seventeen agencies line seventeen Agencies Agree was 1404 01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:59,000 Speaker 1: used as a means of trying to uh browbeat people, 1405 01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:03,280 Speaker 1: including on Trump himself, into making that more sweeping statement. 1406 01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:08,759 Speaker 1: So it's not for nothing that the seventeen agencies uh line, 1407 01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:10,720 Speaker 1: which which has become reflective. I mean, you still have 1408 01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:14,200 Speaker 1: just I think yesterday Katie tur one of the new 1409 01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:20,679 Speaker 1: up and coming newsreaders over at NBC, repeated this line 1410 01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:25,479 Speaker 1: on Twitter. People will just keep saying this, and of 1411 01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:30,559 Speaker 1: course that that factors into our assessment of fake news 1412 01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,400 Speaker 1: and how much fake news is out there, as it 1413 01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,439 Speaker 1: well should. But keep in mind that I played that 1414 01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:40,760 Speaker 1: Clinton audio for you, and the fact checking websites out 1415 01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:45,080 Speaker 1: there said that, yeah, she's telling the truth. They said 1416 01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:49,840 Speaker 1: that that she's right. USA Today headline, Yes, seventeen intelligence 1417 01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:55,120 Speaker 1: agencies really did say Russia was behind hacking. PolitiFact gave 1418 01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:59,320 Speaker 1: Clinton a true rating for what she said. What she 1419 01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:04,439 Speaker 1: said was completely false, inaccurate, untrue. I mean, I give 1420 01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,200 Speaker 1: the Washington Post some credit for taking some shots here 1421 01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:10,400 Speaker 1: at its rival, the New York Times. UH. Now that, 1422 01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:12,040 Speaker 1: of course the truth is out and no one can 1423 01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,840 Speaker 1: hide from it. You've got Eric Wemple writing for the 1424 01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,720 Speaker 1: Washington Post website, at the end of a piece where 1425 01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:22,120 Speaker 1: he breaks down what a just a continuous. Uh you know, 1426 01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,679 Speaker 1: zombie lie. The seventeen agencies line became. You just couldn't 1427 01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,720 Speaker 1: get rid of this line. Uh, he writes, whatever your 1428 01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:32,760 Speaker 1: take on fact checks, the media laundered and recited, recycled 1429 01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:36,360 Speaker 1: a Clinton talking point without too much exploration of the 1430 01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:42,040 Speaker 1: intricacies through which the intelligence community reaches its conclusions. Uh so, yeah, 1431 01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:46,680 Speaker 1: this was obviously nonsense. Seventeen agencies weighing. You know this, 1432 01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:49,960 Speaker 1: this was a very sensitive matter. I mean, do people 1433 01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:53,439 Speaker 1: realize the d e A and you know, the Drug 1434 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,760 Speaker 1: Enforcement Administration and the Coast Guard are part of that 1435 01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:00,160 Speaker 1: seventeen number. I mean so so yeah, they they really 1436 01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:01,880 Speaker 1: you know what, I want to know what's going on 1437 01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:05,800 Speaker 1: with Russian cyber hacking in a national election. I turned 1438 01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:09,439 Speaker 1: right to the experts of the Coastguard. Again, Coastguard, thanks 1439 01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,040 Speaker 1: for all you do, But this is probably not an 1440 01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:14,120 Speaker 1: area where I would think the Coast Guard would particularly 1441 01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:17,720 Speaker 1: weigh in. But why I repeat the seventeen number. I 1442 01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:19,479 Speaker 1: should note that now The New York Times, of course, 1443 01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:23,600 Speaker 1: is writing that Trump is misleading people by suggesting that 1444 01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,519 Speaker 1: because seventeen didn't agree, because only four agreed, and those 1445 01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:31,200 Speaker 1: four are very important agencies which is true. Um that 1446 01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:35,640 Speaker 1: somehow the Trump is the one guilty of dishonesty. But okay, no, no, no, 1447 01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:38,800 Speaker 1: that is a form of what about is um? That 1448 01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:43,599 Speaker 1: is a form of distraction from the facts at hand, 1449 01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:47,160 Speaker 1: Because if the number is not seventeen, people should not 1450 01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,360 Speaker 1: be saying it's seventeen. If Hillary Clinton in a presidential 1451 01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:53,920 Speaker 1: debate claims that it was seventeen because she was trying 1452 01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:56,880 Speaker 1: to stack the deck even further against Trump and his 1453 01:25:57,000 --> 01:26:00,160 Speaker 1: line of analysis and his thoughts on this, that's dishon us. 1454 01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:03,640 Speaker 1: That's wrong for fact checking websites to pretend that it 1455 01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:07,519 Speaker 1: was not dishonest and wrong just goes to the overall 1456 01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:12,040 Speaker 1: feeling of Americans have that the press cannot be trusted. Okay, 1457 01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:15,240 Speaker 1: and this is a very clear example of that, and 1458 01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:17,200 Speaker 1: that after the fact, they're trying to tell us, well, 1459 01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,240 Speaker 1: you know it was it was kind of true in substance. No, 1460 01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:22,920 Speaker 1: you don't get to name seventeen agencies when it's actually 1461 01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:26,120 Speaker 1: four and say that's accurate. That's not how this works media. 1462 01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:30,160 Speaker 1: And to say that because the four had quote as 1463 01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,320 Speaker 1: the Washington or the New York Times, rights your high 1464 01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,880 Speaker 1: confidence in the assessment, Like I was telling you This 1465 01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:38,240 Speaker 1: is an assessment made by a number of people within 1466 01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:42,719 Speaker 1: those agencies who are just working with the information at hand, 1467 01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:48,040 Speaker 1: and intelligence work is uh inherently imperfect. And I'm not 1468 01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:49,720 Speaker 1: I'm not saying Trump is saying by the way that 1469 01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:52,320 Speaker 1: Russia tried to meddle. He's he's not disagreeing with that. 1470 01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:54,400 Speaker 1: He's just saying it's not the full extent and if 1471 01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:56,839 Speaker 1: anyone else was involved, and there are some other questions 1472 01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:00,639 Speaker 1: out there about it, but the real and morton fact 1473 01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,960 Speaker 1: here everybody is that it was not seventeen agencies that 1474 01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,320 Speaker 1: the media ran with that for months. That it's become 1475 01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:10,000 Speaker 1: a knee jerk reflex for them to say seventeen intelligent 1476 01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:14,519 Speaker 1: agents seventeen in telligence agencies. It's just not true. And 1477 01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:20,200 Speaker 1: to pretend that somehow that lack of accuracy is meaningless 1478 01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:25,400 Speaker 1: in a discussion about the Trump administration's willingness to come 1479 01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:29,720 Speaker 1: to grip with facts is just so disingenuous, Right, Okay, Well, 1480 01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:32,000 Speaker 1: Trump has to be accurate in numbers, but the media 1481 01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:35,360 Speaker 1: don't because if they're right in substance somehow that's fine. 1482 01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,720 Speaker 1: It's just nonsense. And of course they let Hillary completely 1483 01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:42,000 Speaker 1: get away with saying this, and all it would have 1484 01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:45,920 Speaker 1: taken would be a quick cursory search of speeches given 1485 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:50,040 Speaker 1: by a senior former administration officials before Congress, and it 1486 01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,000 Speaker 1: would have been known that it wasn't seventeen agencies. But 1487 01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:56,200 Speaker 1: you see, the lie was useful. It was useful at 1488 01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:58,720 Speaker 1: the time. They ran with it. They didn't correct it, 1489 01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,320 Speaker 1: they didn't care. And now that they're caught, you know what, 1490 01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:03,720 Speaker 1: I think it's very hard for any American to come 1491 01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:07,160 Speaker 1: to conclusion other than if they could have, they would 1492 01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:10,920 Speaker 1: have done this whole thing again, because it's all about 1493 01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:15,560 Speaker 1: the cause. It's all about hashtag resistance. This media is 1494 01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,560 Speaker 1: not about facts, it's not about accuracy, and it's not 1495 01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:22,200 Speaker 1: about truth. Whenever any of those things get in the 1496 01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:26,080 Speaker 1: way of the agenda, hit a quick break here will 1497 01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:37,439 Speaker 1: be packed with much more. Team stated illegal immigrants are 1498 01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:39,920 Speaker 1: treated better in many cases that are vets, and it's 1499 01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:42,400 Speaker 1: not gonna happen anymore. I'm not gonna happen any That 1500 01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:45,960 Speaker 1: was Donald Trump on the campaign trail a while back, 1501 01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,519 Speaker 1: saying that well, illegal immigrants do get a special treatment 1502 01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:54,479 Speaker 1: from Democrats and that there are really privileges that come 1503 01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:59,080 Speaker 1: along with being an illegal in this country, you violate 1504 01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,800 Speaker 1: the law, and then you are in a protected at 1505 01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:05,080 Speaker 1: least as far as Democrats are concerned, and yes, unfortunately 1506 01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:08,880 Speaker 1: far too many Republicans, you are in a protected and 1507 01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:12,639 Speaker 1: special class. In fact, I've discussed this many times before 1508 01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:16,639 Speaker 1: on air. Illegals aren't just breaking the law by their 1509 01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:20,760 Speaker 1: presence in the country. It is usually the case that, 1510 01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:26,599 Speaker 1: in addition to the illegality of their status, UH, they 1511 01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:30,040 Speaker 1: also commit a whole variety of other crimes, most notably 1512 01:29:30,120 --> 01:29:36,040 Speaker 1: document fraud, lying on government forms, using and possessing false identification. 1513 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:40,439 Speaker 1: These are all crimes that U. S citizens get in 1514 01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:45,280 Speaker 1: trouble for, but with illegals it's just considered part of 1515 01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:49,600 Speaker 1: the situation that they find themselves in, as though a 1516 01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,840 Speaker 1: choice has not been made to be in the country illegally. 1517 01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:57,400 Speaker 1: But to that notion about whether illegals are treated better 1518 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,400 Speaker 1: than veterans used for a core to the v A 1519 01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:06,800 Speaker 1: and the UH severe shortcomings of the Veterans administration when 1520 01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:08,679 Speaker 1: it comes to taking care of our vets with health care, 1521 01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:12,040 Speaker 1: I would just want to point to an article in 1522 01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:15,680 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal that compares the treatment of illegals 1523 01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:19,439 Speaker 1: to just U. S. Citizens in general, including vets, including 1524 01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:23,680 Speaker 1: everybody just U s citizens and this should tell us 1525 01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:27,320 Speaker 1: a lot about the way that the Democrat Party, with 1526 01:30:27,880 --> 01:30:33,960 Speaker 1: its identity politics above almost all else UH, will conduct 1527 01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:38,080 Speaker 1: itself if back in power. Here's the piece. Some prosecutors 1528 01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:43,400 Speaker 1: offer plea deals to avoid deportation of non citizens. What's 1529 01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:48,120 Speaker 1: happening here is that illegals who commit crimes for which 1530 01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:53,640 Speaker 1: they could be prosecuted, UH find themselves prosecuted and and 1531 01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:58,120 Speaker 1: deported because of the crime, are being given in cases. 1532 01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:02,519 Speaker 1: We're not sure how many, yet they're certainly uh hundreds, 1533 01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:07,800 Speaker 1: if not thousands of these in major jurisdictions occurring each 1534 01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:10,320 Speaker 1: year based on what I see in the piece. But 1535 01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:14,439 Speaker 1: in illegal who commits a crime like say possession of 1536 01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,600 Speaker 1: as has mentioned this piece, crack cocaine may plead just 1537 01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:22,960 Speaker 1: to trespassing instead. And now, look, I'm I'm in favor 1538 01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:26,000 Speaker 1: of mercy in the justice system. I'm in favor particularly 1539 01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,920 Speaker 1: of second chances for first time offenders. I think there 1540 01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,120 Speaker 1: are far too many crimes on the books. I think 1541 01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:35,920 Speaker 1: that prosecution is often over zealous in this country, and 1542 01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:41,400 Speaker 1: that lives now because of the Google and instantaneous information 1543 01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:44,280 Speaker 1: era in which we live. Getting sent to prison for 1544 01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:49,040 Speaker 1: anything is for your career, for your life prospects, uh 1545 01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:52,320 Speaker 1: something of a of a death sentence for your career. 1546 01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:56,880 Speaker 1: I mean you cannot get a job afterwards. It's very hard, 1547 01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,640 Speaker 1: and this follows you around for life. And especially for 1548 01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:03,840 Speaker 1: non violent criminals, I think the penalties are often far 1549 01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:08,439 Speaker 1: too severe and the implications of the penalties are far 1550 01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:12,240 Speaker 1: too severe. So with all of that in mind, I 1551 01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:15,400 Speaker 1: just wanted to spend a few minutes getting into what's 1552 01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:18,880 Speaker 1: going on here with prosecutor's office. Remember, prosecutors have a 1553 01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:23,160 Speaker 1: tremendous amount of authority. They have a lot of ability 1554 01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:26,519 Speaker 1: to destroy people if they choose to do so. And 1555 01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:29,920 Speaker 1: so when we see prosecutors that are making decisions that 1556 01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:35,680 Speaker 1: privileges illegal immigrants, they are they are giving illegal immigrants 1557 01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:39,760 Speaker 1: a pass because of their illegality over what they would 1558 01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:43,360 Speaker 1: give US citizens. We've got a major problem here. It 1559 01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:49,719 Speaker 1: is unethical and it shows the politicization of prosecutors offices, 1560 01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:53,839 Speaker 1: which is one of the areas that should most concern 1561 01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:57,160 Speaker 1: all of us. Once we cannot trust the justice system, 1562 01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:01,280 Speaker 1: we cannot trust the government period full stop. There's no 1563 01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:04,360 Speaker 1: way around this. And when you see what's happening with 1564 01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:08,160 Speaker 1: some of these cases in particularly major cities where there's 1565 01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:12,799 Speaker 1: a large illegal immigrant population, and therefore the politics around 1566 01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:19,720 Speaker 1: illegal immigration are increasingly uh one sided, meaning that the 1567 01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:23,960 Speaker 1: Democrats strongholds of the major cities that have large legal 1568 01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:28,479 Speaker 1: immigrant populations. Uh, there is now no voice even of 1569 01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:34,080 Speaker 1: resistance to pushing for greater leniency, for legalization, for more rights, 1570 01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:38,640 Speaker 1: for more benefits for illegals. Uh. And now this is 1571 01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,160 Speaker 1: even extending based on this Wall Street Journal piece, and 1572 01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:43,400 Speaker 1: it just also makes sense when you think about the 1573 01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:47,639 Speaker 1: politics around it. Into prosecutors offices. So if a normal 1574 01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:53,840 Speaker 1: US citizen is caught with drugs and is going to 1575 01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:57,720 Speaker 1: have to face the drug penalty, they may have to 1576 01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:01,000 Speaker 1: just plead to a drug crime. But because drug crimes 1577 01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:04,080 Speaker 1: could be a deportable offense, somebody who is an illegal 1578 01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,160 Speaker 1: and has committed multiple crimes, let's say trespassing and drug 1579 01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:10,680 Speaker 1: possession like crack cocaine, uh, they may just get the 1580 01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,880 Speaker 1: trespassing charge, no drug charge whatsoever, not even a lesser 1581 01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:19,080 Speaker 1: drug charge for the plea agreement. And that then raises 1582 01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:22,160 Speaker 1: questions as to whether or not people who are illegals 1583 01:34:22,200 --> 01:34:25,519 Speaker 1: are getting special treatment over those who are in the 1584 01:34:25,640 --> 01:34:30,160 Speaker 1: country legally. Once our government starts treating non citizens better 1585 01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:33,000 Speaker 1: than citizens, and not just non citizens, people who are 1586 01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:36,680 Speaker 1: in the country in violation of our laws, as though 1587 01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:41,120 Speaker 1: that's a a privileged and special class that needs protection, 1588 01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:45,080 Speaker 1: I suppose protection from our own justice system. We should 1589 01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:51,120 Speaker 1: all be asking some very uh stern questions about just 1590 01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:52,920 Speaker 1: what the heck is going on in this country, and 1591 01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:57,800 Speaker 1: particularly the Democrat Party. If you can now claim that 1592 01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:02,040 Speaker 1: your illegality is some extenuating circumstance, that being an a 1593 01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:06,479 Speaker 1: legal alien in this country entitles you to a better 1594 01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:11,559 Speaker 1: to better treatment in the criminal justice system, then uh, 1595 01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:14,200 Speaker 1: somebody who's in the country legally than a US citizen 1596 01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:20,240 Speaker 1: because prosecutors have politicized this process and decided that deportation 1597 01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:24,320 Speaker 1: is mean, unjust, inhumane, whatever the case may be. Uh, 1598 01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:28,640 Speaker 1: we have a perversion of our justice system. We have 1599 01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:33,360 Speaker 1: a disgrace that is being perpetrated by those entrusted with 1600 01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,160 Speaker 1: tremendous state power, and we need to keep an eye 1601 01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,600 Speaker 1: on this. This has to stop. Illegal should not be 1602 01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:41,920 Speaker 1: treated better certainly than veterans. Illegal should not be treated 1603 01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:46,559 Speaker 1: better than citizens than people who obey our laws. Let's 1604 01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:48,000 Speaker 1: go into a quick break your team, I've got a 1605 01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:57,439 Speaker 1: lot more stay with Bug sextendent with America. Now, the 1606 01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:01,639 Speaker 1: Freedom Hut is fired up as Team Buck assembles shoulder 1607 01:36:01,720 --> 01:36:06,880 Speaker 1: to shoulder, shields high call in eight four four Buck, 1608 01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:13,400 Speaker 1: that's eight four four to eight to five. Hey, everybody, 1609 01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:15,439 Speaker 1: we're gonna switch it up now for a second. We 1610 01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:19,280 Speaker 1: are joined by my friend Jimmy Fayla. He is a 1611 01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,320 Speaker 1: New York City cab driver turned professional stand up comic 1612 01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:27,559 Speaker 1: and he's radio host of Off the Meter with Jimmy Fayla. 1613 01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:29,840 Speaker 1: An occasionally we get to hang out over at Fox News, 1614 01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:32,040 Speaker 1: Mr Jimmy Fayla. Great to have you on the program. 1615 01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:35,120 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton, we're getting the band back together. Look at that. 1616 01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:37,120 Speaker 1: We are, indeed, and my my favorite guy to hang 1617 01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:39,160 Speaker 1: out within the green room at Fox is now hanging 1618 01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:41,720 Speaker 1: out with me in the Freedom Hunt. Their synergy here. 1619 01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:45,120 Speaker 1: I love it. People think the green room at foxes 1620 01:36:45,160 --> 01:36:47,240 Speaker 1: like really happening place. It's just a bunch of people 1621 01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:51,120 Speaker 1: eating cheese. Yeah with that that cheese has been out 1622 01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:54,000 Speaker 1: there for a while. Yeah, there's a there are there's 1623 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:56,120 Speaker 1: a couple of pieces of cheese in the Studio D 1624 01:36:56,280 --> 01:37:00,920 Speaker 1: green room that voted for Carter. Wow. That that's where 1625 01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:02,600 Speaker 1: that blue fuzz comes from. I thought it was just 1626 01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,280 Speaker 1: a French thing, all right, So talk to me a bit, 1627 01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:07,280 Speaker 1: Jimmy about what you see happening in the meeting. And 1628 01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,600 Speaker 1: now it's it's isn't an amazing It is the the 1629 01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:13,559 Speaker 1: ultimate self licking ice cream cone. We've got the media 1630 01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:16,840 Speaker 1: just reporting on how people are treating the media. Wow, 1631 01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:19,240 Speaker 1: isn't that amazing? CNN is like doing this whole waa 1632 01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:23,960 Speaker 1: is me routine? Uh, They're in a weird spot man, 1633 01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:27,880 Speaker 1: because they they're officially now like we're watching an implosion 1634 01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:32,439 Speaker 1: right now. It's become this different thing like it was 1635 01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:34,800 Speaker 1: that you've kind of articulated it well. In the beginning, 1636 01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:37,400 Speaker 1: it was a war on Trump, but now they don't 1637 01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:40,200 Speaker 1: realize that it has become a war on themselves. Like 1638 01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:42,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of self inflicted wounds, Like did you 1639 01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:45,479 Speaker 1: see lost in all of this meme gate with them 1640 01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,519 Speaker 1: blackmail and the guy who posted the you know, the 1641 01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,360 Speaker 1: Trump beatdown video? Did you see the Abe Lincoln quote? 1642 01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:54,639 Speaker 1: Yesterday I talked about Abe Lincoln and and also Benjamin Franklin. 1643 01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:59,240 Speaker 1: Wrong quotes from CNN's amazing. It gets bad if I'm 1644 01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:02,679 Speaker 1: catching it. I went to community College. So I'm supposed 1645 01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:04,479 Speaker 1: to be signed, like I'm supposed to be the one 1646 01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:09,160 Speaker 1: making those quotes, not the editorial board at actual CNN. 1647 01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:10,800 Speaker 1: I was gonna send some of my buddies over there 1648 01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,200 Speaker 1: and emails saying it's like my man George Washington said, 1649 01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:17,000 Speaker 1: don't believe every quote you read on the internet. By 1650 01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,760 Speaker 1: the way, you know who's really benefiting from this too, though, 1651 01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:23,920 Speaker 1: is MSNBC, because they've done some things in the shadow 1652 01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:26,400 Speaker 1: of CNN. Like Joy read out of tweet on the 1653 01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:31,800 Speaker 1: fourth of July am Joy uh saying that today we 1654 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:37,720 Speaker 1: celebrate our independence from George the Third, who committed unconstitutional 1655 01:38:37,840 --> 01:38:41,680 Speaker 1: acts against our country. And Uh, I was like the 1656 01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:45,479 Speaker 1: cut list. I checked the constitution didn't happen until after 1657 01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:49,040 Speaker 1: the revolution. But I don't think anybody's keeping school like 1658 01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:52,320 Speaker 1: on that side, Like nobody's holding them accountable. You know, well, 1659 01:38:52,360 --> 01:38:55,280 Speaker 1: you know, unconstitutional on the left has just meant recently 1660 01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:58,720 Speaker 1: whatever Trump does. So that's like if it's a very 1661 01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:01,400 Speaker 1: broad term, it's kind of like fascism. In the eighties, 1662 01:39:01,479 --> 01:39:03,920 Speaker 1: you just anything you didn't like, you called fascist if 1663 01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:06,040 Speaker 1: you were in Europe or some people in this country. 1664 01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:09,200 Speaker 1: But but now yeah, you just say it's unconstitutional. You're like, 1665 01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:11,200 Speaker 1: but what, but you know, even if we're talking about 1666 01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:13,120 Speaker 1: what's going on with a foreigner and some other country, 1667 01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:15,040 Speaker 1: peoples like, oh you see what's going on. It's it's 1668 01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:17,880 Speaker 1: so unconstitutional what they're doing to his free speech rights 1669 01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:20,080 Speaker 1: in Cambodia or whatever. And you're like, well, I'm not 1670 01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:22,840 Speaker 1: sure they have the constitution over there. Yeah, that's not 1671 01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,960 Speaker 1: really a big thing. But uh yeah, it's it's a 1672 01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:28,360 Speaker 1: really wild time to be a lot, I guess is 1673 01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:31,280 Speaker 1: what we're trying to say, bucks accent. Is that wild 1674 01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,560 Speaker 1: stuff going on? Yeah? Well, what do you when do 1675 01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:35,040 Speaker 1: you think they figured this out? I mean I saw 1676 01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:40,080 Speaker 1: today Chris Saliza, who has half a million Twitter followers, 1677 01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:43,400 Speaker 1: uh he he he did this whole thing about how 1678 01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:48,000 Speaker 1: the premiere of Poland's wife reached out too, and Trump 1679 01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,320 Speaker 1: kind of made the hand Jester dinner shake her hand 1680 01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:53,000 Speaker 1: and she went but the but the the first lady 1681 01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:55,040 Speaker 1: of Poland basically reaches out to the first Lady the 1682 01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:58,000 Speaker 1: United States Melania, and then between the two of them 1683 01:39:58,040 --> 01:40:01,200 Speaker 1: they probably could converse in in fifteen different languages and 1684 01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:04,040 Speaker 1: and they and Trump gets a handshake after her. It 1685 01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:06,240 Speaker 1: was just a very I mean, you know, it was 1686 01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:08,439 Speaker 1: such a nothing that I don't know how anyone And 1687 01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:11,240 Speaker 1: Chris Eliza's guy's got a Twitter following a half a 1688 01:40:11,280 --> 01:40:14,000 Speaker 1: million big media reporter over at CNN whatever that means. 1689 01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:17,800 Speaker 1: He writes ah and giant capital letters and puts this 1690 01:40:17,880 --> 01:40:20,320 Speaker 1: out there for the whole world to see. And it's like, well, 1691 01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:23,719 Speaker 1: what is this are you? Are you just clowning yourself 1692 01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,640 Speaker 1: because you want attention. I don't understand. That's a lot 1693 01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:28,880 Speaker 1: of because that's what Jim Acosta is doing too, is 1694 01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:31,160 Speaker 1: he's just trying to contest every word out of their 1695 01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:34,920 Speaker 1: mouths because it elevates his profile if he gets dragged 1696 01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,080 Speaker 1: into a scrum. I mean, that's a lot of what 1697 01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:39,040 Speaker 1: this is like. They have to be aware, like I 1698 01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:43,639 Speaker 1: watched the handshake today because it got circulated, as you said, 1699 01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:47,519 Speaker 1: like the snub of the century Polish Polish first Lady 1700 01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:49,920 Speaker 1: shuts down Trump or you know how they like to 1701 01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:53,760 Speaker 1: say with Samantha By, Samantha By totally destroys Donald Trump. 1702 01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:56,439 Speaker 1: The only thing Samantha By has ever totally destroyed as 1703 01:40:56,479 --> 01:41:01,519 Speaker 1: my will to watch television, the ratings of TB Psychic. Yeah, 1704 01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,400 Speaker 1: I mean that's yeah, that's another destruction right there. But yeah, 1705 01:41:04,479 --> 01:41:06,800 Speaker 1: the actual that actual handshake, if we were having a 1706 01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,240 Speaker 1: fair assessment of it, it was it's what I call 1707 01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,040 Speaker 1: a pick six. Have you ever gone to shake somebody's 1708 01:41:12,080 --> 01:41:14,840 Speaker 1: hands and somebody else steps in and shakes their hand 1709 01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:16,640 Speaker 1: and like runs it back for a touchdown like you 1710 01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,320 Speaker 1: would in the NFL game. That's what that was. She 1711 01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:23,160 Speaker 1: was just turning to shake Melani's hand. First. She did 1712 01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:26,320 Speaker 1: come back to him, but it's reported in such a 1713 01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:29,559 Speaker 1: breathless fashion because I think what happened Buck is people 1714 01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:31,880 Speaker 1: don't have a gear like, they don't know how to 1715 01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:35,920 Speaker 1: cover Trump with any nuance. And what I'm amazed at, 1716 01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:39,040 Speaker 1: and this goes back to the election the election cycle, 1717 01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:42,840 Speaker 1: is he makes a lot of unforced errors, obviously, um 1718 01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:46,640 Speaker 1: and they'd look so much more credible if they just 1719 01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:49,400 Speaker 1: stuck to those errors in the in the areas where 1720 01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:52,559 Speaker 1: they really had him on something, as opposed to creating 1721 01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:55,160 Speaker 1: issues where there aren't any. Because if you look at 1722 01:41:55,200 --> 01:41:57,679 Speaker 1: the polls now, you can see that more people actually 1723 01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:00,320 Speaker 1: trust him than the media. Did you see that pr 1724 01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:02,640 Speaker 1: poll that came out two days ago? No, but I 1725 01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:05,280 Speaker 1: believe it because at this point, why would you believe 1726 01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:07,880 Speaker 1: at this point, believing the media is a leap of 1727 01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,880 Speaker 1: faith that I think people who spend enough time reading 1728 01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:14,519 Speaker 1: and watching and listening to media would not make no. Yeah, no, no, 1729 01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,439 Speaker 1: Like let's be fair, like it said, like the people 1730 01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:19,600 Speaker 1: in the poll trust of the media, and of that 1731 01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:23,960 Speaker 1: none of them work in media. Nobody, no one actually 1732 01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:25,599 Speaker 1: works in media. Was like, yeah, we trust the media. 1733 01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:27,800 Speaker 1: Point yeah, I see people in the New York Times 1734 01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:29,599 Speaker 1: in these other places they'll suggest, you know, a vast 1735 01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:32,280 Speaker 1: majority of our reporting is accurate, and I kind of 1736 01:42:32,439 --> 01:42:34,560 Speaker 1: want to want to have this discussion with them or 1737 01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,360 Speaker 1: maybe debate this publicly. Well, yeah, of course, in the 1738 01:42:37,479 --> 01:42:40,520 Speaker 1: internet era, you don't want to be the major newspaper 1739 01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:43,519 Speaker 1: that's just getting names and dates and and and the 1740 01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:47,120 Speaker 1: most basic straightforward facts wrong. But when people say they 1741 01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:48,800 Speaker 1: don't trust the media, they're not saying that they think 1742 01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:51,360 Speaker 1: that everything that the media rights is just false and 1743 01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:54,200 Speaker 1: a lie, but that there is an agenda, that the 1744 01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:58,479 Speaker 1: editorial decisions are partisan and politicized, and that they do 1745 01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:02,880 Speaker 1: things that are unethical while chasing that political agenda. That's 1746 01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:04,599 Speaker 1: where the lack of trust comes from. I always find 1747 01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:06,599 Speaker 1: it funny people are all vast majority of our reporting 1748 01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:10,839 Speaker 1: is accurate. Well, congratulations, I mean, what kind of standard 1749 01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:12,400 Speaker 1: is that though. That's like if you get pulled over 1750 01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:14,519 Speaker 1: by a cop and they're like, yeah, the vast majority 1751 01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:17,720 Speaker 1: of my drive home has been pretty darn good, sir, 1752 01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:20,840 Speaker 1: other than the three lawn ornaments that are under my 1753 01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:23,640 Speaker 1: front tires, the six beer cans that just fell out 1754 01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,400 Speaker 1: the window, the vast majority. And I wish that the 1755 01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:30,440 Speaker 1: that that they would recognize that when they're when they're sunburned, 1756 01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,679 Speaker 1: stomach belly flop in the shallow end of the pool. 1757 01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:38,240 Speaker 1: Mistakes are all with regard to Trump. People notice that, 1758 01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:41,040 Speaker 1: and there's a reason that they're making mistakes in that 1759 01:43:41,200 --> 01:43:44,439 Speaker 1: one area. Well, yeah, that is that's that's the agenda 1760 01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,479 Speaker 1: revealing itself. And that's what I was kind of saying 1761 01:43:46,520 --> 01:43:49,240 Speaker 1: in that point earlier, is that if they picked their 1762 01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:53,840 Speaker 1: battles with him, they wouldn't have exposed themselves. But yes, 1763 01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:58,240 Speaker 1: we're definitely at a point where people recognize Trump is 1764 01:43:58,320 --> 01:44:02,479 Speaker 1: getting treated differently than a normal president, Like and if 1765 01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:05,040 Speaker 1: you would have compared it to Obama, I mean, it's farcical, 1766 01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:08,080 Speaker 1: like a gym accost The question to Obama would have been, like, 1767 01:44:08,439 --> 01:44:11,400 Speaker 1: what's the hardest part about being so awesome, you know 1768 01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:13,160 Speaker 1: what I mean? That would be that that would be 1769 01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:15,920 Speaker 1: like a lead, that would be like a dagger like Brockably. Oh, 1770 01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:17,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, we all remember that Chris 1771 01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:20,760 Speaker 1: Matthews throw up the leg line. I mean, no one's 1772 01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:23,600 Speaker 1: forgotten this, you know. I I've said this before. I 1773 01:44:23,680 --> 01:44:26,240 Speaker 1: just think that the media hasn't yet acclimated to a 1774 01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:28,920 Speaker 1: world in which we don't need their fact checkers. We 1775 01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:31,720 Speaker 1: can just check the facts ourselves with the Google. It's 1776 01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:34,559 Speaker 1: not that hard. Yeah, that's the big problem they're running 1777 01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,479 Speaker 1: into now. And they were at a point and this 1778 01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:39,040 Speaker 1: is where it really will get interesting. Like I was 1779 01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:41,760 Speaker 1: alluding to this earlier, that CNN is kind of imploding 1780 01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,240 Speaker 1: because they can't come the grips with the fact that 1781 01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:49,080 Speaker 1: they couldn't stop him, and they didn't want to accept 1782 01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:52,839 Speaker 1: that they couldn't stop him post election, so they sold 1783 01:44:53,160 --> 01:44:55,720 Speaker 1: you know, their base a lot of elixers. Like I 1784 01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,960 Speaker 1: described the state of politics in the country now is 1785 01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,679 Speaker 1: like the Democrats on the left have a terminally ill 1786 01:45:01,760 --> 01:45:05,519 Speaker 1: patient and the people at the top of that keep 1787 01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,600 Speaker 1: selling them these fake faith healing electors. First, they were 1788 01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:12,000 Speaker 1: gonna pressure the electoral College. Then we have that Jill 1789 01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:14,479 Speaker 1: Stein recount going. Do you remember that's farce for a 1790 01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:17,360 Speaker 1: little while, then we were running this Russian racket. Now 1791 01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:20,560 Speaker 1: we're down to the amendment. That's the latest, you know, 1792 01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:23,280 Speaker 1: that's the latest faith healing maneuver they're you know they're 1793 01:45:23,320 --> 01:45:25,639 Speaker 1: pushing on their people, is that we're going to remove 1794 01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,400 Speaker 1: him because he's old and he's unfit for office. And 1795 01:45:28,479 --> 01:45:30,280 Speaker 1: then what are we gonna do. We're gonna run Biden. 1796 01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:33,000 Speaker 1: He'll be seventy eight, burning who's in his late hundreds. 1797 01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:36,679 Speaker 1: And uh, Hillary, who she? I think she's run it again. 1798 01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:39,360 Speaker 1: I don't think. I'm not sure she's done. I'm not 1799 01:45:39,400 --> 01:45:41,679 Speaker 1: sure she's gotten the message. I think that she still 1800 01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:43,960 Speaker 1: thinks we're ready for Hillary. But yeah, before I let 1801 01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:46,400 Speaker 1: you go, tell everybody about your special and Amazon Prime. 1802 01:45:47,160 --> 01:45:49,640 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, my my one hour special State of 1803 01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:52,559 Speaker 1: the Union. It's streaming on Amazon Prime. Um, and if 1804 01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:54,600 Speaker 1: you guys go check it out. I don't mean to 1805 01:45:54,640 --> 01:45:56,680 Speaker 1: break buck Sexton, but I get like a ten cent 1806 01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,439 Speaker 1: royalty from that, every one of you people that watch it. 1807 01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:01,800 Speaker 1: I think the Amazon deal, you know, because like a book, 1808 01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:04,360 Speaker 1: you get advance of the royalty. So take the apron off. 1809 01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:07,280 Speaker 1: Jenny Faylor, We're going out. I'm throwing a I'm throwing 1810 01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:09,360 Speaker 1: a dime, a dime in the hat for you, my friend, 1811 01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:12,360 Speaker 1: so I'll check it out myself. Jimmy Failor everybody a 1812 01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:15,800 Speaker 1: radio host of Off the Meter with Jimmy Paila. Mr Jimmy. 1813 01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:18,360 Speaker 1: Great to have you, a swer rock and roll man. 1814 01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:20,920 Speaker 1: I'll see you in the studio, d Buddy, Absolutely see 1815 01:46:20,920 --> 01:46:22,680 Speaker 1: you over at Fox and A Team. We're gonna hit 1816 01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:32,639 Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back al right, everybody, 1817 01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:36,160 Speaker 1: A special treat for you now. I'm joined by my 1818 01:46:36,360 --> 01:46:41,320 Speaker 1: friend Kamal Raviicant. He was a U. S. Army Infantry soldier. 1819 01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:45,480 Speaker 1: He climbed in the Himalayas. He has spoken to audience 1820 01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:49,200 Speaker 1: around the globe. He walked five and fifty miles across Spain, 1821 01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:52,280 Speaker 1: meditated with Tibetan monks, worked with some of the best 1822 01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:55,920 Speaker 1: people in Silicon Valley. And he's also a best selling author. 1823 01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:58,880 Speaker 1: His first book, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On 1824 01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:01,559 Speaker 1: It became a smell success. And he's got a new 1825 01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:02,920 Speaker 1: book out that we want to talk to him about. 1826 01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:06,759 Speaker 1: It's called Rebirth, a Fable of love, forgiveness and Following 1827 01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:08,840 Speaker 1: your Heart, which is available now on Amazon. Come all 1828 01:47:08,920 --> 01:47:12,040 Speaker 1: great to have you, sir, Thank you so much for 1829 01:47:12,120 --> 01:47:15,120 Speaker 1: having me Buck and and and rebirth. Right now, there's 1830 01:47:15,120 --> 01:47:17,680 Speaker 1: a special on Amazon for it, right so give me 1831 01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:21,000 Speaker 1: give me a sense of what the book's all about. Yeah, 1832 01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:23,080 Speaker 1: the special is actually two nine nine for the kindle, 1833 01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:26,600 Speaker 1: which is normally the Amazon picked as it's one of 1834 01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:28,599 Speaker 1: its top deals with July, which is quite an honor. 1835 01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:30,960 Speaker 1: And the book is actually about you know, a lot 1836 01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,240 Speaker 1: of the things I learned of life and a lot 1837 01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:35,679 Speaker 1: of life lessons I write about written in the story 1838 01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:38,280 Speaker 1: so that you know. So I we went these life 1839 01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:41,920 Speaker 1: lessons about forgiveness and love and letting go, moving forward 1840 01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:44,639 Speaker 1: with your life into a story that that I've lived, 1841 01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:47,280 Speaker 1: and I've based the book on, and it seems to 1842 01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:49,760 Speaker 1: be doing really well and serving his purpose of what 1843 01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:52,160 Speaker 1: I set out to do. Tell us a bit about you, 1844 01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:53,960 Speaker 1: by the way, I mean, you've had quite a life. 1845 01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:56,640 Speaker 1: Camel and Comal and I just started listening. Are are 1846 01:47:56,760 --> 01:47:59,720 Speaker 1: are good friends? And so I know quite a bit 1847 01:47:59,760 --> 01:48:03,120 Speaker 1: of his backstory. But those listening, don't You were in 1848 01:48:03,240 --> 01:48:04,920 Speaker 1: the you were in the army, and what was that? 1849 01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:06,600 Speaker 1: What were some of the lessons you you're you're a 1850 01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:09,680 Speaker 1: guy who shares your life philosophy and life lessons. What 1851 01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:11,280 Speaker 1: were some of the takeaways you had from your time 1852 01:48:11,320 --> 01:48:14,640 Speaker 1: in the army. Actually, one of the best lessons I've 1853 01:48:14,640 --> 01:48:16,479 Speaker 1: ever learned was when I was eighteen and I was 1854 01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:18,760 Speaker 1: shipped off to Fort Benning, you know, for boot camp, 1855 01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:21,000 Speaker 1: for infantry boot camp. And when you go there as 1856 01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,360 Speaker 1: the home of the Infantry, as a very famous statue 1857 01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:26,400 Speaker 1: there of the home of an infantry soldiers, a World 1858 01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:28,840 Speaker 1: War Two infantry soldier, and he looks like he's charging 1859 01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,120 Speaker 1: a position, but he's got his arm out and the 1860 01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:33,960 Speaker 1: motto is follow me, and that you know, like in 1861 01:48:34,040 --> 01:48:36,800 Speaker 1: Silicon Valley built companies out there now around a fund 1862 01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:39,719 Speaker 1: that investment companies, and you know any from like small 1863 01:48:39,800 --> 01:48:42,680 Speaker 1: companies to billion dollar companies. And when I talk to 1864 01:48:42,760 --> 01:48:46,320 Speaker 1: people at leadership, it's literally that motto follow me and 1865 01:48:46,439 --> 01:48:49,519 Speaker 1: that That's what I did, like when I built companies, 1866 01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:51,240 Speaker 1: and I got known as a guy who could just 1867 01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:53,280 Speaker 1: get like the very best people, and people asked me 1868 01:48:53,360 --> 01:48:56,000 Speaker 1: how like I lived that, Like you you go to 1869 01:48:56,080 --> 01:48:57,840 Speaker 1: sleep after your men, you wake up before your men, 1870 01:48:57,880 --> 01:48:59,400 Speaker 1: you eat after you men, You take care of them, 1871 01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:00,880 Speaker 1: I mean, but at the man, I mean the whole thing, 1872 01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:03,360 Speaker 1: men and women. But you know I was an infantry soldier, 1873 01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:05,479 Speaker 1: so that was only men. You just take care of 1874 01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:07,080 Speaker 1: your team better than you take care of yourself when 1875 01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:09,960 Speaker 1: you leave by example, that was such a great lessening leadership. 1876 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:11,760 Speaker 1: And I lived at eighteen years old. Man that one 1877 01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:14,720 Speaker 1: statue and Kamal is like the American dream everybody. He 1878 01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:20,280 Speaker 1: is an immigrant, an army soldier, an entrepreneur, and author. 1879 01:49:20,800 --> 01:49:22,760 Speaker 1: You're you're hitting, You're hitting things all over the place 1880 01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:25,400 Speaker 1: here on the list. Comal um, tell me about the 1881 01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:29,280 Speaker 1: uh the five and fifty mile walk across Spain, which 1882 01:49:29,320 --> 01:49:31,439 Speaker 1: I know is is talked about or written about in 1883 01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:36,280 Speaker 1: your book Rebirth. Yeah, it's an act ancient Catholic Christian 1884 01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:39,080 Speaker 1: pilgrimage called the Community of Santiago that people have been 1885 01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:42,880 Speaker 1: walking since the eleventh century. Kings and paupers, like millions 1886 01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:45,280 Speaker 1: and millions of people have walked it. And I end 1887 01:49:45,400 --> 01:49:47,560 Speaker 1: up walking it after my dad died when I was 1888 01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:50,280 Speaker 1: twenty five, and it was a transformer experience walking into 1889 01:49:50,280 --> 01:49:52,960 Speaker 1: the country where didn't speak a language and just walking 1890 01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:55,960 Speaker 1: following the footprints of all these people before me who 1891 01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,840 Speaker 1: just followed their faith and went somewhere, and a lot 1892 01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:01,360 Speaker 1: of them died along the way, unlike modern pilgrims. And 1893 01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:04,240 Speaker 1: it changed my life, and so I wrote this story 1894 01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:05,800 Speaker 1: based on that. And you know, it's still I think 1895 01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:08,000 Speaker 1: about a hundred thousand, two hund thousand people walk it 1896 01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:10,839 Speaker 1: every year in modern time, and it goes from Northway 1897 01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:12,600 Speaker 1: and northeast Spain all the way to the end of 1898 01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:16,360 Speaker 1: northwest Spain. Um. And what does one do during a 1899 01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:21,400 Speaker 1: fifty miles stroll. Well, it's a bit of a Yeah. 1900 01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:23,880 Speaker 1: It's like you get up and you walk west. You 1901 01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:25,880 Speaker 1: just get up every day, you walk to vineyards and 1902 01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:28,880 Speaker 1: you out there weak fields, You walk through cities, and 1903 01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:30,560 Speaker 1: you meet people along the way and you shave with 1904 01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:32,760 Speaker 1: each other's stories of your lives, and you change and 1905 01:50:32,840 --> 01:50:35,559 Speaker 1: you go together. Then your pace change and they leave 1906 01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:37,880 Speaker 1: you behind and you leave behind and you continue walking 1907 01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:40,680 Speaker 1: beat others. It's the perfect metaphorical life. And by the 1908 01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:43,200 Speaker 1: time you're done, it took me about thirty two days. 1909 01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:44,920 Speaker 1: But in those thirty two days, it was kind of 1910 01:50:44,920 --> 01:50:47,000 Speaker 1: like boot camp. You know, the guy who started was 1911 01:50:47,080 --> 01:50:49,799 Speaker 1: not the guy who ended. You are different, you've grown, 1912 01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:52,679 Speaker 1: You're a better version of yourself. We're speaking Kamal Rabbit kant. 1913 01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:57,080 Speaker 1: He is an Army veteran and also an entrepreneur and author. 1914 01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:59,960 Speaker 1: His latest book is Rebirth, A Fable of Love Forgiven 1915 01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,840 Speaker 1: and Following your Heart. Come on to touch on the 1916 01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,599 Speaker 1: Silicon Valley piece for for a moment here. What are 1917 01:51:06,640 --> 01:51:09,080 Speaker 1: some the most exciting things that are happening in that 1918 01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:13,519 Speaker 1: world of that incredibly high tech and fast paced world 1919 01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:18,919 Speaker 1: of of of technology right now? The best, biggest opportunity 1920 01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:20,600 Speaker 1: we're seeing is actually, you know, people have heard of 1921 01:51:20,640 --> 01:51:23,240 Speaker 1: things like bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and that is the biggest 1922 01:51:23,280 --> 01:51:26,280 Speaker 1: opportunity we're seeing. And it's not necessarily bitcoin, but it's 1923 01:51:26,280 --> 01:51:28,719 Speaker 1: the technology behind it, you know, which is called a blockchain, 1924 01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:32,240 Speaker 1: and basically all the smartest people I know in the valley, 1925 01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:34,280 Speaker 1: you know, and haven't been to a dot com blue 1926 01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:37,000 Speaker 1: myself and I was there doing Silicon Valley. Then this 1927 01:51:37,240 --> 01:51:39,240 Speaker 1: is like being in the mid nineties when the browser 1928 01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:41,760 Speaker 1: came out, and like what's getting built in, how that's 1929 01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:45,360 Speaker 1: going to transform everything? That's what's happening now. So that 1930 01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:49,240 Speaker 1: is the biggest, most exciting wild West creating crazy and 1931 01:51:49,280 --> 01:51:51,720 Speaker 1: the beginning is always wild West. And then what are 1932 01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:54,679 Speaker 1: some of the transformational technologies. And for for people listening 1933 01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:56,960 Speaker 1: who are all across the country, come all, what are 1934 01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:58,439 Speaker 1: the things that are going to change in their day 1935 01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,240 Speaker 1: to day lives the next few years based and what 1936 01:52:00,280 --> 01:52:02,799 Speaker 1: you're seeing because you're gonna with very high level contacts 1937 01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:07,559 Speaker 1: out in Silicon Valley. Yeah, I would say contracts, smart 1938 01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:12,120 Speaker 1: contracts to begin with legal contracts, business and business contracts, 1939 01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:15,800 Speaker 1: transfer off um funds from country to country. If you're 1940 01:52:15,800 --> 01:52:18,600 Speaker 1: doing business with a country, you know where it's like 1941 01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:20,880 Speaker 1: difficult to move currency you don't want to do with visa. 1942 01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:25,000 Speaker 1: Using these networks to just move money easily, seamlessly. Uh, 1943 01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:27,160 Speaker 1: that's going to be one very good use case of 1944 01:52:27,240 --> 01:52:30,880 Speaker 1: just moving money across borders legally but very very easily, 1945 01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:34,000 Speaker 1: way easier than using your bank or visa. That's coming 1946 01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:38,439 Speaker 1: um beyond that longer term is contracts. Any anything that 1947 01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:41,720 Speaker 1: requires a contract right now some legal parties sitting in 1948 01:52:41,760 --> 01:52:44,400 Speaker 1: the middle signing and keeping track of it. You can 1949 01:52:44,439 --> 01:52:49,360 Speaker 1: actually do in a mathematical way that cannot be uh forged, 1950 01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:52,160 Speaker 1: that's the main thing. It can't be forced. And so 1951 01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:54,200 Speaker 1: that's nothing coming. But I don't think it'll affect the 1952 01:52:54,360 --> 01:52:57,439 Speaker 1: average person for a while, will be more businesses. So 1953 01:52:57,600 --> 01:53:00,959 Speaker 1: the average thing right coming is just movement of currency. 1954 01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:04,439 Speaker 1: And also you know, in some ways, you know, when 1955 01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:08,240 Speaker 1: when the economies fall are like the recession happens, you know, 1956 01:53:08,320 --> 01:53:11,560 Speaker 1: things like gold go up higher. So certain cryptocurrencies that 1957 01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:14,439 Speaker 1: people they're almost kind of becoming like goal, like disital goal, 1958 01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:16,800 Speaker 1: those will go up significantly. So one thing I see 1959 01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:20,120 Speaker 1: people doing is you know, speculating and buying these kind 1960 01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:23,320 Speaker 1: of cryptocurrencies for the next recession. So then they'll shoot 1961 01:53:23,400 --> 01:53:25,360 Speaker 1: up and they'll make a lot of money. Comal Robert 1962 01:53:25,439 --> 01:53:28,840 Speaker 1: Kant is the author of Rebirth, a Fable of love, forgiveness, 1963 01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:32,200 Speaker 1: and following your heart. Check it out on Amazon. Is 1964 01:53:32,400 --> 01:53:35,360 Speaker 1: chosen as one of the Amazon Books of the Month. 1965 01:53:35,479 --> 01:53:37,559 Speaker 1: He's also the author by the Way of Love Yourself 1966 01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:39,320 Speaker 1: Like Your Life depends on It, which you can also 1967 01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,560 Speaker 1: get on Amazon. Comal my friend. Great to have you 1968 01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:44,439 Speaker 1: on the show, sir, Thank you so much for joining us. 1969 01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:48,519 Speaker 1: It was an honor. Thank you buck Uh team Uh. 1970 01:53:48,680 --> 01:53:50,479 Speaker 1: It is an honor to have you listening. Thank you 1971 01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:53,639 Speaker 1: so much for joining me here on the show. As always, 1972 01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:56,680 Speaker 1: if you haven't already, please do download the podcast. You 1973 01:53:56,720 --> 01:53:58,920 Speaker 1: can go on iTunes to do that. 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