1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news You need to 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart Act or wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Is Nancy Pelosi really going to do this? 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Is she actually going to act like the border crisis 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump's fault. She thinks that that's going to work. 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: Maybe it will at least work well enough. Half the 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: country knows that, well, she's Nancy Pelosi and she lies 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: all the time. But the other half of the country 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: has got to figure out at some point that the 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: enormous surge at the border is coming at a time 12 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: when you can draw a straight line to connect it 13 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: between to connect the Biden administration with what's going on 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: down there. And now the numbers are becoming the problem 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,319 Speaker 1: right now, we're seeing the data is irrefutable, and that's 16 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: the big challenge that they have. That's the issue that 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: they have to deal with here. And Democrats are in 18 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: a little bit of a panic. They like this long term. 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 1: They don't want the short term ramifications. They don't want 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: to have to deal with what it means for the 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: American people to see that the border is effectively open 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: already that the border is out of control, which is 23 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: what's happening right now. And when you understand that this 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: is because of Democrats, you can see how that may 25 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: be a problem for them in the midterms, assuming they 26 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: can't get ambassy done by them, which they may very 27 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: well do. 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It's not clear that Democrats are willing to 70 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: say it at least, Right, So, how can you get 71 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: to the fixing of the problem when you will not 72 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: be honest about fixing the problem that you're not sure 73 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: even exists. Right? If you say, well, it's no big deal, 74 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: we're handling it, then you know that you can probably 75 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: get away with the resources you've got in place. Right, 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: But they say that's not a crisis yet, they're calling 77 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: for additional volunteers, they're sending down FEMA, They're doing all 78 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: of these things that indicate the situation is out of control. 79 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: That indicates that this is beyond what they even anticipated. 80 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,119 Speaker 1: And it couldn't be any more clear, quite honestly, why 81 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: this is happening. We all understand what's going on here. 82 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: You have a Democrat in office, Joe Biden, who is 83 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: controlled by the left wing handlers around him, and for 84 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: a legal immigrants, this is the best time to come 85 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: to America in the last twenty years. This is it 86 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: right now. You have an overwhelmed system. You have a 87 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: party in power at the federal government level that has 88 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: no interest in stopping or deporting you, wants to find 89 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: whatever reason it can to let you stay in the country. 90 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: And from there, you know, the numbers just keep going 91 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: up and up and up. So I understand why legal 92 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: immigrants are coming. But it's it's amazing to watch the 93 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: Democrats pretend like this is not obvious, that we can't 94 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: figure out what's going on here. Here is Pelosi, first 95 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: of all, doing the usual. Well what have I been saying? 96 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: Along when the economy starts to go south, which I 97 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: unfortunately believe will happen toward the end of this year, 98 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: even though it should be taking off like a rocket ship, 99 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: but you have trillions of dollars of spending going to 100 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: in many cases, you know, bureaucracies, nonproductive uses of capital, 101 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: Democrat state and city budgets getting a whole bunch of 102 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,679 Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. That's not gonna that's not gonna juice the economy, 103 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: that's not not gonna make the private sector hum. But 104 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: by the time that happens. You know what they'll be 105 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: saying whenever it occurs, they'll say, it's the Trump economy. 106 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: Which I can tell you this right now. At some 107 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: point I'll be playing this clip for you and you'll 108 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: be saying, oh, wow, Buck called it, because that the 109 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: assuming the economy goes badly, the pitch will be, oh, 110 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: we had COVID and the Trump economy, and so it's 111 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: not our fault. Same thing that you're hearing already with immigration, 112 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: that the system. They always say this, the system is broken. 113 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: This is the fundamental talking point whenever there's a real 114 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: crisis at the border. Here's what Pelosi, who was talking 115 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: about this over the weekend, says, play for yeah. Actually, 116 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: the facts of these there are more children, about sixty 117 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: seven hundred more children, unaccompanied children coming over the border. 118 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. What 119 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: the administration has inherited as a broken system at the border, 120 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: and they are working to correct that in the children's interests. 121 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: So please that the President, as a temporary measure, has 122 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: sent FEMA to the border in order to help facilitate 123 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: the children going from one seventy two hour issues into 124 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: where they are cared for as they are transferred into 125 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: family homes or homes that are safe for them to be. 126 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: So this again is a broken system, and all it's 127 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: all fine. Pelosi is telling you that they're doing a 128 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: great job with it. Meanwhile, when you look at the 129 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: actual numbers, it turns out that you have over four thousand, 130 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: over four thousand migrants migrant children in custody. That's a 131 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: pretty stunning figure, isn't I mean that that gives you 132 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: a sense You've got hundreds and hundreds a day who 133 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: are showing up and remember they're being sent by their adults, 134 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: parents or guardians to go to the border, knowing what's 135 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: actually happening here, knowing that there are risks involved in 136 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: all of this. They're moving through cartel controlled territory, and 137 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: it's hard for us to really think about this in 138 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: a way that if you if you haven't studied the 139 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: car tells you can't understand. They run the police force too, right. 140 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: They're more powerful than any local government authority along the border. 141 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: So when you say that the cartel controls the area, 142 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: it means that on the Mexican side of the border, 143 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: there's really nobody who's going to challenge that authority or control. 144 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: So that's how they can have risks, bands being put 145 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: on people to show that they've paid off the cartels. 146 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: This is all out of the open. No one's going 147 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: to stop them on that side of the border, not really. 148 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: And so you have parents who are sending children into 149 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: that system, exposing them to all kinds of terrible risks. 150 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: And I understand that these are adults who are desperate 151 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: and want better lives for their children, but it's a 152 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: very risky system, and we don't want to encourage this, right, 153 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: We don't want to encourage people to break the rules 154 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: in these ways. But that's exactly what Democrats are doing. 155 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: So when Pelosi says the immigration system is broken, that's 156 00:08:54,440 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: not true. Democrats change the enforcement priorities. They have the 157 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: the benefit of seeing what Trump was doing when this 158 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: happened the first time around. Remember there was a surge 159 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 1: of migrants under the Trump administration and it took time 160 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: to get it under control. But they figured out the 161 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: Remain in Mexico program and really enforcing the asylum rules 162 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: much more strictly, being much more willing to turn people 163 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: away at the border who are clearly coached and shouldn't 164 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: pass their credible fear test, essentially tightening the regulations that 165 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: are in place, and then with remain in Mexico, that 166 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: eliminated the whole incentive for adults. Because if you show 167 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: up at the border and you say I want asylum 168 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: in your country, and the American Border Patrol and well, 169 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: it's really Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says, okay, you get 170 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: to wait on the Mexican side of the border, will 171 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: bring you in for your hearing date. And if on 172 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: that hearing date you don't qualify for asylum, we're going 173 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: to deport you. That's a far less appealing proposition than 174 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: you show up, you flag down border patrol, you say 175 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: I want asylum. Now bring me a sandwich and I 176 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: want my you know, NGO appointed lawyer, and let me 177 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: let me free in the United States, and I promise 178 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: one day I'll show up at a court hearing that 179 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: might happen in two years. Does anybody really think that's 180 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: crossing the border right now that they're they're gonna have 181 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: to show up at that hearing. No. In fact, the bet, now, 182 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: the safe bet, is that there will probably be amnesty 183 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: before they even have to show up for their asylum hearing. 184 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: So when you understand the incentives, when you understand the 185 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: instructor of the incentives and the structure here, you can 186 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: see very clearly why we have the numbers at the 187 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: border that we do. You can understand right away how 188 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: we got to this point. And that's why Pelosi is 189 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:53,119 Speaker 1: just lying about this stuff. I mean, it's just it's absurd. 190 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: It's not that the immigration system it's is broken. It's 191 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: that Democrats won't use the system we have and keep 192 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: on interfering with it. I mean, what possible justification was 193 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: there for getting rid of the Remain in Mexico program 194 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: for those seeking asylum? Okay, what possible justification? You want 195 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: to make it easy for people to come here illegally, 196 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: You want your left wing open borders base to feel 197 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: like you got to win for them, and to give 198 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: you a sense of how desperate they're getting now and 199 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: how much they're willing to just say whatever they think 200 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: is going to work here. They'll say whatever they have 201 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: to in order to take the attention away from the 202 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: failures of the Biden administration or all this. They've come 203 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: up with some really creative reasons for why it's all happening, 204 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: right now, why are all these people crossing illegally in 205 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: the United States and record numbers. Here's Pelosi play five. 206 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: We have to also look to a Central American Mexico 207 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: and the rest, the corruption, that violence, all of that 208 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: so bad. My most recent trip to the Northern Triangle, 209 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: that would be Pendors, Guatemala, Hel Salvador. Oh, the impact 210 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: of the climate change. Mind you, these people were leaving 211 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: because of the drought. They couldn't farm, and they were 212 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: seeking other ways to survive. So there are many reasons 213 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: that go into this, but the fact is we have 214 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: to deal with it at the border and many of 215 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,359 Speaker 1: the people, some of the people coming there are seeking asylum. 216 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: And I always like to quote our friends in the 217 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: evangelical movement. At one of our rompeerings we had before 218 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: we had the majority the representatives said to us, the 219 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: United States refugee resettlement program is the crown duel of 220 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: American humanitarianism. These are not refugees. This is the fundamental 221 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: problem with the way the Democrats talking about it. I 222 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: want to be in America. There's a better economy and 223 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: better state benefits than there are in you know, a 224 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: whole lot of countries, all of the world, but notably 225 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: in this case El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. That is 226 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: not a refugee issue. That is an immigration issue. And 227 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: I don't again, I don't blame people. I have no animus, 228 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: I nothing. I don't feel like these are these are 229 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: bad people or anything like that at all. I understand 230 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: they want a better shot, but we've got to preserve 231 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: this thing called America. And part of that is the 232 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: rule of law and sovereignty and our legal immigration system. 233 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: That's really the big difference here. We're already taking in 234 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: a million people a year through the legal immigration system. 235 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: A million. That is a large cities worth of people 236 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: who are newly welcome to the American family through our 237 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: legal process, every year permanently. But now we're going to 238 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: add to this. I mean, what's the point of that 239 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: legal system? Are you're going to show up at the border. 240 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: And then, of course climate change, oh yes, climate change 241 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: is causing this. Notice how Democrats, it's like mad libs 242 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: with them, right, there's there's some empty spaces and you 243 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: just know they're going to fill in a few different worlds, 244 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: you know, climate change, equity, social justice, Trump is hitler. 245 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: You know they'll just put all this stuff in there. 246 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: It's the same nonsense from them all the time. I mean, 247 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: it's not climate change that's making immigrants come to the border, 248 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants crossing the border in record numbers right now, 249 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: because remember this isn't even the time of year with 250 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: the highest the highest level of crossing usually that comes 251 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: in in a couple of months. It's not climate change. 252 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: It's that Joe Biden and the open borders Democrats are 253 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: in charge. And everybody who's being honest knows that the 254 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: word is out now is the time Democrats are going 255 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: for amnesty, and so as far as they're concerned, the 256 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: more the merrier. But they have to play this double game. 257 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: They want more illegal immigrants to come to the country, 258 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: and they want to tell the American people, oh no, 259 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: don't worry, we're handling this issue in a humanitarian way. 260 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: What does handling it mean? Doesn't just mean they're letting 261 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: everybody in, because that's actually not what a majority of 262 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: the America can people want By handling it, they just 263 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: mean we're processing as quickly and as comfortably for these 264 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: illegal libigrants as possible. That's not what that's not what 265 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: the American people are most concerned about right now, you know, 266 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: when you think about sadly having to prepare for this again, 267 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: right and I know there's a lot of folks who 268 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: who think that, you know, due to climate change and 269 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: due to the globalization in general, it's inevitable we're going 270 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: to deal with more and more viruses like this. The 271 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: biggest lesson you're you're going to take away to prepare 272 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: for the next one. You know, there are a couple 273 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: of lessons, Chuck, there are. There are lessons domestically, there 274 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: are lessons public health wise, scientifically, Let's take global to 275 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: begin with, we have to have a better global health 276 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: security network of interconnectivity, of communication, of transparency so that 277 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: we are talking to each other all the time and 278 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: know what's going on. We also have to have a 279 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: continued investment in the science, if you want to look 280 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: chuck at one of that. The success story in this 281 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: terrible year has been the extraordinary, unprecedented advance with the vaccine. 282 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: Where you know, in January of twenty twenty we started 283 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: the process and eleven months later we had a highly 284 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: efficacious vaccine going into the arms of individuals, which is 285 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: going to be the answer to this. Together with public 286 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: health measures. With the public health measures. Yeah right, it's 287 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: the measures that we've been enforced it. We've been harassing 288 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: you about forever. The measures keep coming. Sure. Notice that 289 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: Chuck todd says because of climate change, there'll be more 290 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: viruses because of climate change, they'll be I mean, these 291 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: people are it is a cult. I mean, it's a 292 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: religious belief. There's going to be more viruses out there 293 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: that are spreading because of climate change. Really, because of 294 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: a one or two degree rise in celsius over the 295 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: next fifty years, that's the cause of the pandemics. I mean, 296 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: that's a pretty remarkable claim to make. But the way 297 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: this works is you can blame anything on climate change 298 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: as long as it's a bad thing, and everyone agrees 299 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: to the bad thing. It's like you're adding to the 300 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: bank of the badness of climate change. So people will 301 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: nod their heads, people will bleat like sheep, yeah, as 302 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 1: they're fine with it. Yeah. You know, whall man, why 303 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: why the stock market tournam today must be climate change? Man? 304 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you know, why why do we have all 305 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: these inequities in American society? Climate change? Or you can 306 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: blame anything on climate change and the liberal orthodoxy will 307 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: sign off on it. That's just the way it is, 308 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: because it's a it's a way of brainwashing everybody to think, 309 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, climate change does all these terrible things. 310 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: We have to take it so seriously. And you say, well, 311 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: Holland doesn't really do any of those things. How dare 312 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: you look at all the things it does? Not even 313 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: allowed to have it is discussion about it. I allowed 314 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: to get into it at all. But I want to say, 315 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're overwhelmed at the border, and what 316 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: you're finding out while they're saying that climate change is 317 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: causing that, what you're also finding out is that you know, 318 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: kids are in bad kids are in bad circumstances right now. 319 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: You know kids are not doing well at our southern border. 320 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: There are thousands of them in custody, and they're being 321 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: held in adult detention facilities in some cases and would 322 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: look like jails. Now. I bring this up because I remember, 323 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: I remember when during the Trump administration, it was the 324 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: kids in cages line that they would yell and it 325 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: was all about how much more moral Democrats were than Republicans. 326 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: That was all a fraud, right, We get that now 327 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: that's that's a fraud. They can say, oh it was so, 328 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: it was mean and it was immoral when it was 329 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: Trump doing it. Now it's just the logistics. It was 330 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: the logistics then too. Friends. They didn't have facilities set 331 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: up for children at the border because we had never 332 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: faced that before. And the fact that they were separating 333 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: adults from children is because when you arrest and process somebody, 334 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: that's what you do. So they weren't ready for it 335 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: because it hadn't happened before. We've already gone through all 336 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: of this and what Democrats are doing is unlearning those lessons. 337 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: And this is why ron Klain is out there saying, oh, 338 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: we're working so hard, so hard to make sure that 339 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: all the children are getting housed properly. Play eleven. So 340 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: we're working very very hard on this problem. We inherited 341 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: a real lack of capacity. It's hard to ramp up 342 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: that capacity. You can't just take children and put them 343 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: in a hotel room. They need to be in a 344 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: place where they are safely protected. They need in the 345 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: place with staff. The staff needs to be trained, the 346 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: staff needs to be licensed. You know, these are very 347 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: challenging needs that we are rapidly moving to excite, But 348 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: there's no question at this point in time under too 349 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: many children in these border patrol stations. Yeah, too many children, 350 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: kids in cages all over again. That's where we are now. 351 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: The media won't talk about it that way because they 352 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: don't want to hurt their buddy Joe Biden, who still 353 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: no press conference. What are we now? We're gonna get 354 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: to fifty days in no press conference. At this point 355 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: in the various presidencies that you had, Trump had given 356 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: like four or five press conferences. Obama had given two. 357 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 1: I think George W. Clinton gave five, George W. Bush 358 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: gave a couple. I mean, you know, everyone does a 359 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: press conference, the new president, trying to set the agenda, 360 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: trying to show people who's really in charge. Hiden Biden 361 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: still declining we can't or reclining. Perhaps he's just hanging out. 362 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: He can't actually appear before the American people and subject 363 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: himself to real Q and A. And we all know 364 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: the media will be for the most part, very gentle 365 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: with him. Why can't he give a press conference? He's 366 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: really so busy that he can't address the American people 367 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: from the White House. That's what we're supposed to believe, 368 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: so busy doing what exactly destroy or the border, making 369 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 1: sure that the rule of law is becoming a joke 370 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: at the US Mexico border. Because if that's his plan, 371 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: he is doing a great job. Cuomo's not going unless 372 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: Democrats pry his fingers from the governor's desk. It's up 373 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 1: on bucksexton dot com right now. Editorial I've written on 374 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: this thing. I mean, this is a remarkable political story 375 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: and it's one that should get your attention because of 376 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: so much of what it brings to bear. The media 377 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: being a bunch of dishonest tacks, the Democrat Party having 378 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: no moral authority really whatsoever, but then pretending that it does, 379 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: and ultimately the disaster of the disaster of the nursing 380 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: home situation, and just the Democrat lockdown policy in general, 381 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: which I'm gonna be trashing a whole lot more today. 382 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: But like I said, at bucksexton dot com, you can 383 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: check out the actual editorial, because here's what we know 384 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: has gone on. I mean, you've never had a faster 385 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: descent for a celebrated politician. I don't think. I don't 386 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: know if anybody who's gone from hero to zero in 387 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: politics as quickly as this guy. The only person that 388 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: I could think of maybe was John Edwards for a 389 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 1: period of time there, but Republicans never liked John Edwards 390 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: and he was always a slimy remember him, the ambulance 391 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: chaser who was going to be the Democrat presidential candidate. 392 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: You remember that guy. And then you know with the 393 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: with the lady who like sold you know, wind chimes 394 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: and dream catchers or whatever in the store. He had 395 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: an affair with her, and then he said that he 396 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: never cheated on his wife while she had cancer. He 397 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: only cheated on his wife while she was in remission 398 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: from the cancer, and she ended up dying from it. 399 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: That guy that democrats because Democrats are so moral and 400 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: ethical and good, and you know they hate Trump because 401 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: he's not an ethical person. But anyway, I've never seen 402 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: somebody really fall the way that Cuomo has, not as 403 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: quickly as he has. And there's a growing chorus here 404 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 1: of people that want that want him gone. Right. We've 405 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: gone from the love Gov and Cuomo sexual as terms 406 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: being used to describe this guy, and they we're even 407 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: talking about him running in twenty twenty. You remember that 408 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: now he's under siege on all sides, and the forces 409 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: that are demanding his ouster are closing in. This is 410 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: an astonishing turnabout for a guy who not long ago, 411 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: you remember this, he was doing victory laps on his 412 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: brother's CNN show, making jokes about who their mom liked 413 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: more and oversized Q tips and the whole thing. But 414 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 1: who's calling for him to be gone? Now? A lot 415 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: of Democrats are finally saying he should go, perhaps the 416 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: best one, because these two guys. You know, you know 417 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,160 Speaker 1: when two people you really don't like go out after 418 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,959 Speaker 1: each other in an argument. I'm sure you've ever you've 419 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: been in an office setting or maybe back in school 420 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: where two people you really don't like just lay into 421 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: each other. You know, verbally it can be it doesn't 422 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 1: have to be like a fistfight, but they're just, you know, 423 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: in each other's faces. I mean, it's kind of like 424 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: what Kissinger said about the Rana Rock War, where you 425 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: hope they could both lose. You know, you're you're watching 426 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: this and you're just going, I don't know who's gonna win, 427 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: but this is gonna be entertaining. And that's how I 428 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: feel about watching this. Particular politician Mayor Bill de Blasio, 429 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: formerly known as Warren Wilhelm. Yeah, I'm Germany Warren Vilhelm. 430 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 1: That was his name. In case he didn't know that 431 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: changed his name at like age twenty something. It wasn't 432 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: a little name change, right. You can say, oh, Buck, 433 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 1: your name is James buckman Sexton, which is actually true. Yeah, 434 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: but Buck is the name I've been called since I 435 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: was a baby. It's part of my middle name. It's 436 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: that's always been. But you know, he changed his whole name. 437 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: What you're allowed to do. I just like to point out, 438 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: Warren Wilhelm, that's a pretty intense one. He what are 439 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: you saying that Cuomo must resign? Plate twelve. He should 440 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: resign right now because he's holding up our effort to 441 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: fight COVID. He's literally in the way of us saving 442 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: lives right now. Do you believe that he and his 443 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: administration deliberately tried to cover up the scale of nursing 444 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: home deaths. I don't have a doubt in my mind. 445 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: Everything was about his public image, Everything was about his 446 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: political future. It was not about what people needed. And 447 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: by the way, it was about campaign contributions. The nursing 448 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: home industry, the big hospital systems. They gave him millions 449 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: and millions of dollars, and he went easy on him, 450 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 1: and he tried to cover up for everyone, not just him, 451 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: but his donors. And I think the investigations are going 452 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: to prove this, Margaret. This was a thoroughly corrupt situation 453 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: and he just needs to resign so we can actually 454 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 1: turn the page. And look, it's an optimistic time. As 455 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: you started out this morning, it's an optimistic time. We 456 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: got to put the past behind find us well, and 457 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo can lead us into the future. Well, we've 458 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: got the people to stay, ready to reopen, but we 459 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: need to get him out of the way to do it. 460 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio is in a pickup truck with oversized 461 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: wheels in Cuomo's front yard doing donuts right in the 462 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 1: middle of his prize Petunias. Never seen anything like this before. 463 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this is just he is going for it. 464 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: He's not just saying and I I give Cuomo, I 465 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: mean Deblasio credit here. There's such a focus on the 466 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: sexual harassment stuff when look, the sexual rassment stuff is bad. 467 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: Cuomo's creepy. He was obviously trying to use his power 468 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: and position to pressure some women. Maybe a little bit 469 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: here there. You know, it depends on the this specific 470 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: case we're talking about, and maybe he was a little 471 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: grabby sometimes. But you know, if if the sexual harassment 472 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: goes from you know, you know, hey, you look, you know, 473 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: you look in sexy in that dress, out of one too, 474 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: you know, ten is like holding a woman down or 475 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: drugging her and then and then sexually assaulting her. Right, 476 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: you know, what what Cuomo did is like, you know, 477 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: so far from what I've read, I could be missing 478 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: one or two? Is I don't know, a two or 479 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: three on the scale. I mean, it's not He's not 480 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: Bill Cosby, folks, He's not He's not Weinstein. You know, 481 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 1: he's not Harvey Weinstein. He's not these guys that that 482 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: did really i mean, criminal, vile stuff and got away 483 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: with it for such a long time. You know, he's 484 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: a he's a he's a dude who shouldn't be running 485 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: the government and for the state of New York. That's true. 486 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: But the much bigger scandal here, the much bigger scandal 487 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: is the nursing home situation. And what's fascinating to me 488 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: is that the Democrat media and the Democrat Party are 489 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: so focused on the sexual harassment thing, because they think 490 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: if they force him out over that, and you know, 491 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: there's a few different layers, a few different levels here. 492 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: If they force him out over the actual um, over 493 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 1: the sexual harassment stuff, then they get a win. They 494 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: get a moral win in their eyes. Oh see, we 495 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: pushed out like they did to Al Franken, who you know, 496 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: that was a pretty I'm not some Al Franken fan, 497 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: but that was a rough You know, that guy got 498 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: got fed to the wolves. He said, what exactly he 499 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: wasn't even he wasn't a senator at the time. What 500 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: was the he tried He tried to kiss a few 501 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: different women beforehand, I think was the was the main 502 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: you know, tried to sort of forcibly kiss a few women, 503 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: um before he was a senator, and that's what the 504 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: allegation was. And then he resigned or you know, Kristin 505 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: Gillibrand pushed him out. I think he always I can't 506 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: remember now, but I think he said that that wasn't true, 507 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: but it didn't matter, right it was he was pushed 508 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: out anyway. But the nursing home thing is so much worse. 509 00:28:54,480 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: This guy did an unthinkably stupid, reckless Dane Turish thing, 510 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: and then lied about it to the degree where he 511 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: acted like he was a hero for doing it. He 512 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: was a hero for his COVID leadership, got a a 513 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: seven million dollar I'm sorry, a seven figure, not seven 514 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: million dollars, a seven figure advance for his book on leadership, 515 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: got an Emmy, and he is the worst COVID response 516 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: governor in America. Gavin Newsom is maybe in second place, 517 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: pretty close, but Cuomo's the worst governor in America for 518 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: COVID response. And yet the Democrat media elevated him to 519 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: be a hero. It wasn't even like he was in 520 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: the middle of the pack or No, he was the exemplar. 521 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: And you know who else held him up, That little 522 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: fascist Fouci. He held him up too. He said, you know, 523 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: New York did it the right way. No, not true, 524 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: actually not even a little bit true, the opposite of 525 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: the truth. Fauci's a little, a little fraud. And you know, 526 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: I've been on to him for though, I've been on 527 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: to him for a year now. I mean, I've known 528 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: this guy was bad news. I could tell the way 529 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,959 Speaker 1: that he was always positioning himself. You know, the fact, 530 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: all you really have to know about Fauci, And I'm 531 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: putting aside the times he was wrong and all the 532 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: fear mongering and the contradictory nonsense he satada. All you 533 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: really have to know about Fauci is that somehow this 534 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: guy has been the point man for pandemic response for 535 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: the nation and the Democrat left hasn't attacked him once. 536 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: How is that possible? How is it feasible that, given 537 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: all the mistakes, all the disaster, all the catastrophe, they 538 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: haven't turned on Fauci. The Left hasn't gone after him 539 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: one time. It's because he's their man, and they know it. 540 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: He's their guy. I've seen it the whole time. He's 541 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: the reason Donald Trump didn't win re election, don't you 542 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: see it? But that same individual was propping up Cuomo 543 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: as a hero of the pandemic. Add that to the 544 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: list of reasons Fauci is the worst. Why is the 545 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: United States military, from official accounts from very senior level folks, 546 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: attacking a cable news commentator, in this case, Tucker Carlson. 547 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here? Can you imagine 548 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: for a moment that this had happened a few months 549 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,959 Speaker 1: back and people were trashing in the military. We're trashing 550 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: Rachel at Ao or Anderson Cooper or Chris Cuomo, whomever. 551 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: Under the Trump administration, it would have been considered a 552 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: huge leap toward fascism. But it's happening now in the 553 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: Biden administration and we're told, oh, don't worry about it, 554 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: not so fast. My buddy Champarnell is with us to 555 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: talk a bit about this. He's a former Army ranger, 556 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: saw intense combat in Afghanistan, wrote about it in his 557 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: book Outlaw Platoon. But you should get his latest book, 558 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: which is a thriller, One True Patriot, available on Amazon 559 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your book. Sean, my man. Good 560 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: to talk to you, Hey, Buck, thanks for having me. 561 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,479 Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm good man. So, so it's interesting 562 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden when Tucker Carlson speaks out against 563 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: female pant pregnant flight suits or pregnancy flight suits, which 564 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: is really what the issue was. That's what he was saying. 565 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,479 Speaker 1: You have all of a sudden, official accounts from like 566 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: Marine Expeditionary Forces. You've got very senior members of the 567 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: Marine Corps in other places in the United States military 568 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: bureaucracy who are putting out public videos from their official 569 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: accounts in uniform, attacking Tucker Carlson. What is this? Have 570 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: you ever seen anything like this before? I haven't, I 571 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: really truly have. And in fact, they train you, uh 572 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: to not make public statements while in the uniform from 573 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: official accounts. It's it's unprecedented, uh, this type of behavior, 574 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: and it really should concern every American, regardless of their 575 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: political party. And to circle back to what Tucker said, yeah, 576 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: it was about flight suits. I think what got many 577 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: of these folks up in arms was that he said 578 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,959 Speaker 1: pregnant women shouldn't shouldn't be fighting our wars. Right and 579 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: and and here's here's the thing, Buck, two things can 580 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: be true at the same time. You know, we value 581 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: women in the military. They make us stronger, they're a 582 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: force multiplier. But we can also recognize that pregnant women 583 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: women should not be in combat. It's actually and what 584 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: what blows my mind here, Buck, is that it's against 585 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: dood policy for pregnant women to serving combat. Anyways, we're 586 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,239 Speaker 1: making a big deal about this and somehow, you know 587 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: what these senior military leaders are doing, right, they're twisting 588 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: Tucker's words, which, in essence means they're pushing a propaganda 589 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 1: operation onto the American people by making it about women 590 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,280 Speaker 1: in the military. Right, women in the military make as stronger. 591 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: Diversity makes us stronger. Okay, but that's not what Tucker said. 592 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: He simply made a point about pregnant women serving in combat, 593 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: and that is against DOOD policy. Never mind the fact 594 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: that that I think these military leaders of the generals 595 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: and the sergeants major are incorrect about diversity being, you know, 596 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: the military's greatest strength. Of course, we are all stronger 597 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: with a multitude of different opinions and backgrounds, of course, 598 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: but it's the unity looking past that diversity that makes 599 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: us an elite fighting force. You know, I had the 600 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,720 Speaker 1: most diverse group of soldiers that you could possibly imagine, 601 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,919 Speaker 1: black servanext a white, Christian, Muslim, atheist, the liberals, conservatives 602 00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 1: all in the same foxhold. But if we focus on 603 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,879 Speaker 1: those differences every day in combat, we would all be dead. 604 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,760 Speaker 1: We would have never united. What makes our military exceptional 605 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: as we can unite beyond those many differences under a 606 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: common banner as Americans. It's not so, it's it's not 607 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: correct to simply just say, yeah, we're diverse in that 608 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: diversity makes us stronger. Yeah, it's part of it, but 609 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,439 Speaker 1: it's the unity that makes us stronger. And I guess 610 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: what really upsets me is that conservatives, buck primarily conservatives, 611 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: were probably some independence too, feel betrayed, I think in 612 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: many ways by many of the institutions in this country, 613 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: whether it's the media or the DOJ, or the FBI 614 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: or the Supreme Court. In the wake of the twenty 615 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: twenty elections, the military was one of the few institutions 616 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: left in this country that Americans, regardless of their political views, 617 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: trusts and holds in high esteem. And these senior leaders 618 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: are destroying that woke wokeness and woke woke dot mill. 619 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 1: We all got military email address in the It's only 620 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: a dot mail, but woke dot mel is destroying. How 621 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 1: bad is it? I mean, Sean, you served, and you 622 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: also have a lot of friends who served along with you. 623 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: But I'm sure you know people that are still in 624 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: And what I keep hearing is that's it reminds me 625 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: a little bit of what I say when I talked 626 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: to like college age kids who are conservatives who reach 627 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: out to me all the time from across the country, 628 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: and I say, look, it was college campuses were left 629 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: wing when I was there, right there was crazy. So 630 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: we had a there was a flag burning on my 631 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: campus right after nine to eleven because of the the 632 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: genocide of Native Americans and what those things have to 633 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: do with each other. By the way is you know 634 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,800 Speaker 1: this is like lunatics. But the point is it was 635 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: left wing. It was crazy. But now it's gotten even worse. 636 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: I mean, now you have conservative speakers that go to 637 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: campus that are physically attacked by mobs, and the you know, 638 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 1: the campus says, well, you know that's their speech equals violence. Anyway, 639 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: I'm bringing this up because from what I remember, and 640 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: I spent a fair amount of time around the military 641 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: as a as a CIA civilian in a Rock and Afghanistan, 642 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 1: and so I was on military bases for months and 643 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: months at a time, and it was there was a 644 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: wokenus then. I mean, I remember all the sort of 645 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: diversity propagandist stuff in military bases, in combat zones where 646 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: people were fighting and dying every day, like gott to 647 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: remind everybody diversities our strength. And I'm told that it's 648 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: worse now. And that's why I want to ask you 649 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,320 Speaker 1: that that people are saying no, it really has crossed 650 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: the line the same way the campuses now shouldn't get 651 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,440 Speaker 1: anyone's like alumni dollars, and people need to really rethink that, 652 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of campuses the military has crossed 653 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,479 Speaker 1: the woke rubicon, is what I'm hearing secondhand from people. 654 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: I want to know what you're hearing, well, yeah, yeah, 655 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 1: And I saw lots of friends in the seal team community, 656 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,320 Speaker 1: lots of friends in the infantry of special operations community, 657 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: in the military special forces guys. These guys are affected 658 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,080 Speaker 1: by a sort of woke culture less because they're on 659 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: and tip of the spear type units. But I will 660 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: tell you, man, like almost every commander and you and 661 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 1: I have talked about this. Generals and senior leaders in 662 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: the senior military for a long time. And I don't 663 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: know why, tend to be center left, but now they 664 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,719 Speaker 1: seem to be full fledged many of them seem to 665 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:29,399 Speaker 1: be full fledged leftists and woke progressives right. And many 666 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: of these guys and gals that I'm talking to that 667 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,439 Speaker 1: are still in are just like I'm keeping my head 668 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 1: down and I'm retiring after twenty or when I can 669 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: get out. Believe me, I will because it doesn't feel 670 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: like And this is what I've heard. A common theme 671 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: of what I've heard from many different people in many 672 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: different branches is that the military is not focused on 673 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,320 Speaker 1: the threats that we face globally, but diversity and inclusion. 674 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,160 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that that's not important, right every You 675 00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: want everybody unit to feel like a valuable part of 676 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 1: that fighting for us, right. But that's not to say 677 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,719 Speaker 1: that since standards must be met, PT scores have to 678 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: be passed, you have to meet a certain level of 679 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: physical fitness to remain in units. I'm not saying. All 680 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 1: I'm telling you here, Buck, is that many people in 681 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: the military feel like standards are eroding and the military 682 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: is not focused on the right thing. And what you're 683 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: seeing here on social media from these senior military leaders, 684 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: and I certainly do use that term loosely, is you're 685 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: seeing their focus in the wrong place, right, I mean, 686 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: how do we get to a point? Though? Sean, and 687 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,759 Speaker 1: we're speaking to my friend Sean Parnell. You all should 688 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: check out his book. He's a former Army ranger. His 689 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 1: book One True Patriot is out now. His latest thriller, 690 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,319 Speaker 1: Sean's Got a bunch of best sellers, Sean, I want 691 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,960 Speaker 1: to know what is it that has changed that now 692 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: it feels like there are four star generals and not 693 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 1: just like in the Air Force. I mean not to 694 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 1: be that guy, but you know there are four star 695 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 1: generals in the army and the Marines who it looks 696 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: like they would spell women with a Y, you know 697 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,279 Speaker 1: what I mean, or they would say latin X. What 698 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: the heck is going on? Yeah? Well, well I think 699 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: this is a this is a complicated question. But you know, 700 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,680 Speaker 1: the people that get promoted are always not the best 701 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: people for that job. And a meritocracy in the military 702 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:23,359 Speaker 1: lends itself to people who are not in combat positions 703 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: sort of puffing up their resume and reporting higher that 704 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,359 Speaker 1: everything's perfect and the hopes that they might get promoted, right, 705 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 1: And those people that spend their time on the base 706 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 1: or maybe never even deploying in the first place, your 707 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,800 Speaker 1: state side, and are focused on all the wrong things 708 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,319 Speaker 1: end up getting those promotions where guys that are out 709 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,439 Speaker 1: there in the field getting shot at every day say 710 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:49,280 Speaker 1: this isn't worth it and they get out. So over time, 711 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,080 Speaker 1: the people that were in the in the rear with 712 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 1: the gear getting the promotions and the people who actually 713 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: saw war up close and personal get out right. And 714 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,480 Speaker 1: that's why I think, you know, the major criticism of 715 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: some of the senior leaders in the Pentagon, and Rand 716 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 1: Paul just said something about this the other day. You know, 717 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,959 Speaker 1: Pentagon leaders focus too much on getting ourselves into these 718 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,759 Speaker 1: forever wars. Well, I mean, generals would be a lot 719 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,520 Speaker 1: more hesitant to thrust us into conflict if they themselves 720 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 1: were in the trenches at some point in their career 721 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: and saw the horrors of war up close and personal. Right, 722 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: I think part of the reason why we are in 723 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 1: this perpetual cycle of war is only on the rarest 724 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,720 Speaker 1: of occasions the real and true combat leaders make general 725 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 1: Like the days of patent, the patents of the world 726 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,400 Speaker 1: becoming general are over. If you're a general in today's 727 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: day and age, you are a politician first and foremost, 728 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,800 Speaker 1: and therefore beholden to this woke culture out of fear 729 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: of being canceled. Right Like Patton wouldn't exist in the 730 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,960 Speaker 1: military today. He'd be fired or not promoted or canceled, 731 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,120 Speaker 1: you know. So what we're left are. What we're left 732 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: with are general who play the game right, and we 733 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,680 Speaker 1: want warriors Sean like you, we don't want social justice 734 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 1: warriors running these things. So, Sean, are we ready for 735 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: a war with China if it comes? I mean, based 736 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: on the woke stuff we're seeing the attacking of Tucker 737 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,800 Speaker 1: Carlson by people in uniform from official military accounts for 738 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,839 Speaker 1: voicing his opinion, a lot of people are saying, we're 739 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,719 Speaker 1: not being serious about what the future threats are. We're 740 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: stuck in this wokeness mania. What do you see happening? 741 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,839 Speaker 1: I think that we are not ready for a war 742 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: with China. China is the greatest military threat I would 743 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: say that this nation has ever faced. Now. You know, 744 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 1: Nazi Germany in the Japanese at the height of World 745 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 1: War Two were formidable. But China's economy over the next 746 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,239 Speaker 1: decade is on the brink of overtaking hours and their 747 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: military is already bigger. Right, they have the largest naval 748 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,399 Speaker 1: force in the world. Do you dominate the seas? There's 749 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 1: a case to be made for you dominating the globe, 750 00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: And indeed that is what China's goal is. And so 751 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,240 Speaker 1: while they are focused on being the number one global 752 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: superpower deposing the United States, you know, we're we're focused 753 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,800 Speaker 1: on woke nonsense, right. And it's funny because even someone 754 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,200 Speaker 1: like Bill Maher is talking about this because it's a 755 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,719 Speaker 1: real threat. And so the answer is absolutely not. And 756 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,400 Speaker 1: even even the US military's own war games continually have 757 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,040 Speaker 1: them have us losing to China because we are not 758 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,239 Speaker 1: ready to fight a conventional war. We're just not right, 759 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,760 Speaker 1: and that that's primarily because we've been entrenched in counterinsurgency 760 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: in the Middle East for a long time and China's 761 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: more of a conventional threat. So there has to be 762 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,440 Speaker 1: a migration that takes place from a force that's capable 763 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,840 Speaker 1: of waging you know, asymmetric war in a counter insurgency 764 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,359 Speaker 1: environment to a force that can fight convention to leave, 765 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 1: and but that the focus needs to be on that. 766 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 1: That is a multi year process that requires millions of 767 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 1: dollars and training to sort of shift the focus of 768 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,680 Speaker 1: the force. And that is not happening. You want to 769 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,880 Speaker 1: know how I know it's not happening because you have 770 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,759 Speaker 1: somebody out there, command Sergeant Major Ben Lemon, and I'm 771 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,640 Speaker 1: saying his name because he's out there on Twitter from 772 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,680 Speaker 1: an official account saying that you know, Tucker, you would 773 00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,840 Speaker 1: you don't know? Trust me you'd know if the d 774 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,879 Speaker 1: D attacked you, what the hell is that? That is unprofessional. 775 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,200 Speaker 1: And by the way, if any of his soldiers did that, 776 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,000 Speaker 1: he's setting a very poor example for them, Buck, because 777 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,719 Speaker 1: if any of his soldiers did that, you know that 778 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 1: they would face UCMJ action in twenty four hours after 779 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,279 Speaker 1: posting something like that on social media. So not only 780 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,799 Speaker 1: is it a dangerous precedent, unprecedented really in our in 781 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: our nation's two forty plus a year of military history, 782 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,719 Speaker 1: but it's that's a horrible example for our troops. And 783 00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:01,280 Speaker 1: we're not focused on the right thing because China is 784 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,040 Speaker 1: is beating us right now and and we better start 785 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,120 Speaker 1: focusing on it. And I have to say, the the 786 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: willingness that the left has to pretend that there are 787 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,359 Speaker 1: are no gender differences in sports, it feels like that 788 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,799 Speaker 1: has largely now translated into the military. And as you say, 789 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,240 Speaker 1: as you've told me many times, Sean, you know women, 790 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,360 Speaker 1: women are are a valued and essential part of the 791 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:29,319 Speaker 1: United States Armed Forces. That said, when there were when 792 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,640 Speaker 1: they when they set up what was it the the testing, 793 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,439 Speaker 1: I believe it was d D A few years ago 794 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,920 Speaker 1: they tested a essentially females trying to go through what 795 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,200 Speaker 1: marines go through and their combat readiness and standards versus 796 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,399 Speaker 1: a comparable male unit. I mean, and it was just 797 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,000 Speaker 1: there was there were enormous obvious differences in you know, 798 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:55,839 Speaker 1: running times, wade, carried injury, everything, everything. I mean basically though, 799 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,359 Speaker 1: the women, after being put through the training, weren't at 800 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,839 Speaker 1: a combat combat readiness, combat effectiveness status. So yeah, yeah, 801 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,640 Speaker 1: well are we are we not allowed to talk about this? 802 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: I mean, because people look at this, they say, if 803 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 1: we don't deal with this now, the way we find 804 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,719 Speaker 1: this out, the hard way is we put out women 805 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:18,439 Speaker 1: into frontline combatant positions and they underperform and people die. Yeah, well, 806 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,640 Speaker 1: I mean we've already got women in those positions, and 807 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: and and my my thoughts on this are, you know, 808 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,759 Speaker 1: and an all volunteer force. I personally believe, hey, you know, 809 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: if you're if if you're a woman and you want 810 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,879 Speaker 1: to volunteer for the infantry, fine, you should have that opportunity. 811 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,200 Speaker 1: Like I've got a daughter, I want her to serve. 812 00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:35,600 Speaker 1: If she wants to serve, I want her to be 813 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,719 Speaker 1: able to serve in the way that she wants or 814 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,640 Speaker 1: an all volunteer force. But at the same time. If 815 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:46,839 Speaker 1: you volunteer for the infantry, one standard has to be met, right, 816 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,440 Speaker 1: because that's still you know, and garrison, and that's a 817 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,560 Speaker 1: physical training standard. Right. That standard has to be maintained 818 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,520 Speaker 1: whether you're a male or a female. And if you're 819 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,759 Speaker 1: a woman that can maintain that standard. Believe me, I've 820 00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,920 Speaker 1: met some women in the military that can outrun me. 821 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,920 Speaker 1: I've met some women in the military. They could probably 822 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,120 Speaker 1: outruck me. And if they can continue to continue to 823 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,960 Speaker 1: meet those standards, fine, they can be, they can be 824 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 1: in the bine. But the most important thing is they 825 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,120 Speaker 1: have to be able to meet the standard. And I 826 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,879 Speaker 1: think what you saw this last week is and this 827 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,799 Speaker 1: is what everybody's fear was about integrating a multi gendered unit, 828 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 1: especially combat units on the front line, is that the 829 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,040 Speaker 1: standard would not be maintained. And what you saw is 830 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,759 Speaker 1: the General Neutral PT test. Sixty five percent of women 831 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,879 Speaker 1: failed the General Neutral PT test, but administered and our 832 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,920 Speaker 1: woke military leaders said, well, we have to reevaluate the 833 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,319 Speaker 1: standards and make them more fair for women, and so 834 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,800 Speaker 1: that everyone's worst fears seem to be being realized. And 835 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,440 Speaker 1: more fair for women in this case means lowering the 836 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,319 Speaker 1: standards they can try to adjust the language. It means 837 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,600 Speaker 1: lowering the standards. Yes, yes, that's exactly right. Everyone was 838 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,240 Speaker 1: afraid that putting women in combat roles, in frontline leadership, 839 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,040 Speaker 1: in frontline positions, the standard would be compromised to accommodate. 840 00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,400 Speaker 1: And that looks like it's what's happening right now. I 841 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: worry about this man. We only got about a minute. 842 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,960 Speaker 1: But just the usage of our troops as props in 843 00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,560 Speaker 1: DC with this whole Qann coup threat that doesn't really exist. 844 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,080 Speaker 1: Just give us, give us your thirty seconds of what 845 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,960 Speaker 1: you see is going on here. Well, I'll tell you 846 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,280 Speaker 1: we've got twenty five hundred troops in Afghanistan and getting 847 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,200 Speaker 1: shot out every day. Right, we've got five thousand troops 848 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,480 Speaker 1: in DC. Where do you think, just by making those 849 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,960 Speaker 1: two comparisons between Afghanistan and DC, where do you think 850 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,279 Speaker 1: the focus of our military leaders is? Is it the 851 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,320 Speaker 1: external threats that our country faces on the day to 852 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 1: day basis, like threats that maybe we face in Afghanistan 853 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,320 Speaker 1: and definitely the threat we face from China, Or is 854 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,920 Speaker 1: it in like suburban Virginia in the wrong place. Yeah, 855 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,399 Speaker 1: it's domestic. It's wrong. Those troops need to be sent 856 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:46,240 Speaker 1: home and our capital needs to be reopened. Sean Parnell, Everybody, 857 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,360 Speaker 1: One True Patriot is the book Former Army Ranger, great novels, 858 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: and also if you haven't read out Wall Platoon, I'm 859 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,880 Speaker 1: a big fan. Sean, thanks so much, Man, appreciate you joining. 860 00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:57,120 Speaker 1: Thanks Buck