WEBVTT - Chick-Fil-A Gets Plucked 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:16.000 You are entering the freedom hunt. Impeachment Hearing's day three 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.680 are upon us. Most of it's boring, but there were 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.400 some worthwhile parts we'll dive into together. Plus the revenge 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.200 of the interagency consensus. Did the DNC try to get 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.240 dirt from Ukraine? Phil chick fil A bends the knee 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.440 and is fart Gate now a thing that in more 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.519 coming up? This is the buck Sexton Show, where the 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.800 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:45.959 actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American Great, You're a great 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:53.840 American Again The buck Sexton Show begins. Analysts, remember no 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:01.360 welcome the buck Sexton Show. Everybody another day, another eachman inquiry. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:08.200 The inquisition continues on, Oh my, it is going to 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.000 be the case. It seems that Adam Schiff will tell 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.880 us the same story more or less every day. Now 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.119 he'll tell us the same thing day in and day 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.520 out as we are. Then I suppose going to just 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.840 cave and say anything, We'll do anything, Just please stop 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.520 this serious tone about the threat to our democracy from 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:37.120 Trump's phone call to Zelenski. That didn't change anything, no investigation. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.960 Ukrainians got the money for the aid and the weapons 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.320 that Trump would give them that Obama Wooden's But here 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:50.800 we are going through this nonsense yet again. I would 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.160 note that there was a lot of what we've seen before. Today. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:02:01.240 You had witnesses including Pence Vice and Pence's aid a 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.080 SIGNFOS State Department, Jennifer Williams, and also Lieutenant Colonel Vinmanton, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.080 hero of the hashtag resistance right now, Oh, isn't that 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:15.000 a surprise too? Exactly nobody, but he is out there 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.160 giving a lot of his opinions. She's giving her opinions 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.280 a little bit. She seems like she is not someone 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.480 who wanted to be caught up in this, but is 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.000 going to answer questions. He definitely, Vinman wants to be there. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.440 He's part of this thing. He got this running, he 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.200 got this in motion, so we already know what we're 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.839 dealing with here, which is also why he's very it's 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.839 very very touchy about making sure that, for example, he's 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.200 always referred to as Lieutenant Colonel Vinmanton, and even if inadvertently, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.800 for example, Devin Nunez just refercs him as mister Vinman, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.200 must correct him right away. Also showing up in full 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.560 dress uniform for his testimony, there's a lot of theatrics 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.840 around mister Vinman right now, and I would just remind 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.000 you that many of the same journos and Democrat members 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.440 of Congress who will try to use Vinman's service in 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.160 the military as a shield for many criticism for what 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.360 he is trying to do now, which has nothing to 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.600 do with his military service. He was at the National 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.560 Security Council, a body comprised of advisors to the president, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.400 mostly civilians. That's not his military service. He's there as 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.200 an advisory a member of an advisor committee to the president, 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.560 and in that capacity he absolutely can be criticized. But 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.240 many of the Democrats and the members of Congress who 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.440 want you to feel that Vinman is beyond criticism, how 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.080 how dare you critique his motives or motivations? Did they 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:50.960 feel that way about the ambush by hashtag resistance Obama 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:57.320 voting deep staters like Sally Yates setting up General Flynn 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.440 and then trying to get him not just fined which 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.040 they did, and ruined which they did, but sent to prison, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.280 which they are still rooting for. So when is military 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.920 service a shield against all criticism? Oh, when it's a 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.160 Democrat trying to take down the president. But if it's 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:18.039 somebody else, if it's somebody who's in Trump's good graces, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.760 somebody who is trying to help implement the Trump agenda, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.200 then military services no shield whatsoever. So I'm just glad 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.400 we established the double standards right up front. Let's be 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:33.000 very clear about those double standards. And also a well 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.840 I'll get into that in a moment. The backstory that 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:42.120 we keep getting from these different individuals. Vinmn, for example, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.880 even when often talked about how proud he was of 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.120 his dad and leaving the Soviet Union, and that's all fine, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:51.200 I just don't care, it doesn't matter. But you'll notice 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.760 that this is a recurring theme. Look at how honorable 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:59.680 and decent and wonderful these public servants are. Public servants 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.360 who have made it quite clear they objected to President 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.320 Trump's decision making on Ukraine. They didn't like that. For example, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.080 as Vinman said, he didn't use the talking points that 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.560 he was supposed to. Oh, how dare you not use 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.680 the talking points on the phone call that a bunch 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.080 of I used to prepare talking points the CIA for 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.560 you know, we would look at talking points for different 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.200 senior officials. I mean, this is not a This is 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.600 not an unusual activity. And guess what. Plenty of times 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.719 you know the CI director you write up talking points, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:35.080 He's like me, thanks, Who cares? Doesn't really matter. It's 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.760 there for the benefit of the decision maker, for the 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.600 person who is actually in the exchange, in the for ay, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.560 trying to accomplish a goal. You're just there in an 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.839 advisory role. But the backstory of DMan very important. The 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.760 backstory of these other officials that have come forward, the 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.599 ones who are clearly trying to advance the narrative of 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.520 inappropriate behavior that the president engaged in. Isn't that interesting? 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:06.640 Inappropriate is a very subjective way to talk about this, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.400 isn't it. I mean, I thought it was inappropriate for 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.080 President Obama, for example, to in a desperate attempt to 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.160 salvage some foreign policy legacy for himself, for his administration 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.400 and therefore for the handoff to Hillary Clinton to run 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.680 the Democratic Parties foreign policy going forward. I thought it 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.200 was wildly inappropriate for Obama to send pallets of cash, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.640 actual pallets of cash, to the terrorist regime in Tehran, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.320 all in an effort to try to curry favor with 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.960 them to get an Iran nuclear deal done that was 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.400 all about legacy for Obama and as we know, didn't 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:48.120 even last into the Trump administration. I thought that was inappropriate. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.360 I'm not saying Obama couldn't do it, although maybe he 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.640 should have gotten the Senate to ratify it as a 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.680 treaty so that the next president couldn't just say see 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.360 you later. But I think I don't think it's inappropriate. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.440 I don't think a lot of things are inappropriate. I 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:10.000 don't care what an NSC detail thinks about the president's conduct. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.960 I just don't care. I don't have to care. I 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.720 don't care, especially given that, why doesn't someone ask Viniman? 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.600 Maybe they will later on in his testimony, but why 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.400 doesn't someone point out that there's no credit being given 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.600 by these deep state elements to Trump for doing what 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.800 Obama would not do and what was so necessary sending 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.800 the Javelin missiles, which was a major It is a 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.560 provocation to the Russian government, but one that if you 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.080 want to help the Ukrainians you're going to have to 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.000 do if you're serious about it. But the backstory about 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.280 vin Men that we have to hear have to be 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.280 told that he also was advising Zelenski at one point 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.680 about how to interact with our government and the Trump 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.400 administration and perhaps to even ignore some aspects of the 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:03.000 Trump administration's requests. Is that not a bit of a 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.440 problem for people? Which team are you're playing for? When 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.920 you're doing that, you don't advise a foreign government about 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.800 how to do an end run on your own government 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.320 that you work for? Is request from a spirit of that? 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.960 That's you know, you don't tell a foreign government, hey, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.840 nullify whatever the commander in chief is asking of you. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.880 Don't worry about that. That came across in testimony today. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.920 I wonder how much focused the media you'll put on that. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.120 But my favorite moment, I mean, this is the best 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.800 thing that has happened so far in all this testimony. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:42.760 My favorite moment came when Devin Newness is asking for 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:47.880 a very important information about the chain of transmission of 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:54.360 information from VINMIN to anybody else who was involved in this. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.400 Please begin that, producer, Mark, what as you know the 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.880 intelligence community has? I haven't teen different agencies? What agency 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:08.120 was this individual from? If I could interject here, we 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.160 don't want to use these proceedings, it's our time, but 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.840 we need to protect the whistle blower, if please stop, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.400 I want to make sure that there's no effort to 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.000 out the whistle blower through the use of these proceedings. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.960 If the witness as a good faith belief that this 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.800 may reveal the identity of the whistle blower, that is 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.800 not the purpose that we are here for. And I 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:41.040 want to advise the witness accordingly, mister Vinman, you testified 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.160 in your deposition that you did not know the whistle 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:49.440 blower rank. Remember at Lieutenant Colonel Viman. Please ooh, clap 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.920 back at Devin Newness. How dare you? I mean, he's 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.680 obviously not trying to be disrespectful. I understand he's entitled 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.040 to have his rank said, but you know, just maybe 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.920 maybe slow your role a little bit. You're speaking too, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.360 They're speaking to Congress. They understand what they're dealing with. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:11.160 Here a few problems with this. Adam Schiff keeps saying 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.880 that the whistleblower has a statutory right to anonymity. That 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.640 is a lie. That is not true. The whistleblower, and 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.320 we could all read the statute. The whistleblower, at the 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.600 discretion of the Inspector General of the Intelligence community can 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.560 remain anonymous unless the Inspector General decides that it's probably 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.839 going to come out anyway, or the Inspector General decides 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.600 to pass it along to the Department of Justice because 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.719 it could be involved in a criminal prosecution. Someone explained 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.920 this to me. If what the president did is so terrible, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.280 then shouldn't it be referred to the Department of Justice 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.200 for possible prosecution? Or they won't do that because of 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.640 course the Attorney General was appointed by this president. But 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.839 they don't get to make that determination politically. They should 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.440 make it based on what the facts of the case 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:04.920 may be. Whistleblower is not entitled to ironclad anonymity. That's 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.600 just not accurate. They keep pretending that that's the story. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.079 People repeating this and saying this just not true. Plus, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.240 we've all already heard this name. We all we've all 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.440 been told by reputable in so far as they go 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.440 media outlets who this guy is. So now we are 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.920 to sit around and say we don't know. This is 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.800 Soviet style suppression of information in the public domain because 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.520 people are running a scam, because Schiff is running a 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.240 massive scam. But it gets so that's one part of this, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.680 But it gets a bit worse there's a special right 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.040 now that Adam Schiff has created for someone to just 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.160 say that they are not going to answer a question. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.520 They're under oath in front of Congress, not antwer question, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.600 not that they're not playing the fifth, they're not claiming 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.280 that there is an exemption for classified information. They're not 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.680 going to answer the question because maybe sort of kind 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.520 of it could lead to some people understanding who the 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:03.320 whistleblower is. That's a new one that gives the witness, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.400 I would note a lot of discretion. Well, can you 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.080 tell us what you had for breakfast last week? No, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.600 because got to protect the whistle blower's identity. How are 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.920 you going to challenge him on that subjective judgment of 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.520 the witness? Now answer what he wants, don't answer what 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.160 he wants. Is fine. This is why Schiff is disgusting 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.480 and this is a farce. But we have to go 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:29.319 through this farce together. But it gets better. Continue on 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.640 with the questioning from Congressman Newness. Please, Lieutenant Colonel Benman, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.520 you testified in the deposition that you did not know 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.040 who the whistleblower was. I do not know who the 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.560 whistleblower is. That is how is it possible for you 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:53.160 to name these people and then out the whistleblower. Per 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.719 the advice of my counsel, I've been advised not to 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:02.080 answer specific questions about members of the intelligence community. This 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.040 is Are you aware that this is the Intelligence Committee 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.640 that's conducting an impeachment hearing? Of course, I am. Wouldn't 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.560 the appropriate place for you to come to to testify 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.360 would be the Intelligence Committee about someone within the intelligence community. Frank, Remember, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.600 per the advice of my counsel and the instructions from 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.439 the chairman, I've been advised not to provide any specifics 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.440 on who I've spoken to withinside the intelligence community. What 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.959 I can offer is that these were properly cleared individuals, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.760 or was a properly cleared individual with a need to known. Well, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:44.600 this is I mean, you can really you can plead 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.480 the fifth, but you're here to answer questions, and you're 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.360 here under subpoena, so you can either answer the question 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.800 or you can plead the fifth And then Adam Shift 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.600 jumps in and says, no, no no, there's a special Shift 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.240 rule where you don't plead the fifth or which, by 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:01.560 the way, the reason they don't want that is because 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.439 of the optics of it. Why are you pleading the 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.640 fifth about who you talk to you with regard to 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.640 official government business when you're discussing with the House Intelligence Committee. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.479 Why what is what is the justification for that? Exactly, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.360 you're worried about self incrimination. You didn't do anything wrong, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:17.760 so why would you plead the fifth? There is no 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.160 reason to plead the fifth. There's also no reason for 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.720 him if he is telling the truth that Vinman does 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.840 not know the whistleblower, then there's no basis for him 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:33.000 to withhold information about who he spoke to because he's 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.080 gonna say, well, theoretically that could be the whistle blower. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.800 Here's reality. We all know that he is the one 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.640 who talked to the whistleblower. We just have to get 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.720 the proof. We just have to get it one hundred 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.000 percent because otherwise the shady Democrats will lie about it. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.960 So what is the likeliest scenario here? The likely scenario 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.120 is that Vinman told Charmela about the call, and then 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.880 these guys, you know, worked together and cooked up a 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.640 whole scheme. But then he's like, well, I don't know 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.080 if I'm going to be the one that raises the 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.200 complaint let's give you plausible deniability about whether or not 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.800 I'm the one who's bringing this complaint as the whistleblower. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:13.440 That's possible. Otherwise, why is he not discussing who he 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.160 told about the call? I mean, he claims that it 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:22.720 was a person with a need to know. He's just 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.320 he's just making a subjective determination there. Why would somebody 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.240 not on that phone call in the intelligence community have 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.119 a need to know about a presidential action? The president's 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:38.560 conduct is not reviewable under whistleblower's statutes by subordinate employees 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.160 inside the federal bureaucracy, So how can anyone have a 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.920 need to know about that? My friends, you see exactly 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:53.120 what this is. The Democrats are just twisting and contorting 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:59.080 the law and regulations in bad faith in order to 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.520 this narrative alive as long as possible that there was 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:09.200 just a honorable public servant who couldn't stand the inappropriateness 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.480 presidential phone call with another head of state that led 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.200 to no action and no consequence whatsoever. But they've got 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.920 to just keep this going in the media today, You're 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:24.120 gonna CNN, Oh my gosh, those whistleblowers were so I mean, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:29.280 rather witnesses were so believable. The best of this country 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.720 on display today against evil fascist Donald Trump. Worse than 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.840 a hitler, Donald Trump. We know exactly where this is going. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.840 It's appalling, sometimes even a little bit amusing because it's 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.600 so absurd. But we're going to be subjected to this continuously. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.640 And if you thought that today was boring, just wait 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.920 till they bring out the next round of witnesses. About 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.360 two weeks after that July tenth meeting, President Trump and 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.080 President Silinsky had their second call, the now infamous j 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.760 twenty fifth call. Colonel Ventman, what was your real time 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:08.639 reaction to hearing that call? Without hesitation? I knew that 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.640 I had to report this to the White House Council. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.159 I had concerns, and it was my duty to report 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:21.080 my concerns to the proper, proper people in the chain 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.560 of command. And what was your concern It was inappropriate. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:32.240 It was improper for the president to requested to demand 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:39.720 an investigation into a political opponent, opponent, especially a foreign power, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:46.359 where there's at best dubious belief that this would be 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:51.040 a completely impartial investigation, and that this would have significant 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.480 implications if it became public knowledge and it would be 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.560 perceived as a partisan play, it would undermine all Ukraine policy, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.720 and it would mine our next discurity. Those are all 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.719 opinions that have nothing to do with breaking any law, folks. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.600 All right, So we just heard from Lieutenant Colonel Vinman 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.920 a second ago there, and I was just getting into 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.920 how absurd this whole thing is. He's talking about how 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:23.400 the president's phone call was improper. Okay, says him, says you, Vinman, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.040 I say here, and I keep saying this, what is 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.520 improper about the president at when? When? When corruption is 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.120 a major issue, a consensus, interagency consensus issue for foreign 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.720 policy in Ukraine? What is improper about asking your counterpart 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.840 as the president United States to look into corruption including 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.439 and they keep saying this, this debunked conspiracy theory about 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.760 the about Ukraine interfering in the election, and the debunked 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.520 conspiracy theories of the of the right. I have to 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:02.080 wonder what was the right wing somehow able to take 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.960 over Politico because here's the story that they published in 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:13.880 twenty seventeen. Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire. KIV officials 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.000 are scrambling to make amends with the President elect after 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:23.600 quietly working to boost Clinton. Oh wait, but I thought 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.040 it's a debunked conspiracy. This hasn't been retracted. No one 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:32.399 said this is false. But this is Politico, a favorite 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:39.040 left wing website and magazine on politics. I'm confused. If 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.600 we had real journalists, there are some, but overwhelmingly we don't. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.400 If we had a real journalism profession in this country, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.960 we would have answers to the question already. Did Democrat 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.240 operatives Alexandra Chalupa's name keeps coming up? There are others 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.199 as well. Did Democrat operatives try to get information about 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.440 Paul manif than the Trump campaign chairman, from the Ukrainians 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.560 to use as dirt on him. We need a hard 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:12.560 and fast answer to that question. The Libs don't want 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.080 us to have one, because here's the problem. As much 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.440 as they will try to do the usual double standard 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.280 dance of oh but mana for it's so bad and 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.760 he went to prison. Yeah, but guess what, folks, That 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.560 would be foreign interference in the election, wouldn't it, And 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.400 in fact, it would be the party in power using 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:37.000 foreign relations as a tool of partisan politics against a 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.280 challenging a challenger presidential campaign. A little more from this 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.679 political piece. Since I'm feeling frisky today, let's do it. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.040 Donald Trump wasn't the only presidential candidate whose campaign was 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.760 boosted by officials of a former Soviet block country had 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:56.040 taken a shot there on Russia stuff. Ukrainian government officials 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.960 try to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:06.560 questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.320 a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.720 investigating the matter, only to back away after the election, 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.240 and they helped Clinton's allies research damaging information on Trump 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:29.720 and his advisors. A Politico investigation found end quote is 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.080 that who's responsible in conservative circles for that conspiracy? Is 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.320 that really Giuliani's fault? The political report of this in 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:41.880 twenty seventeen is John Solomon's fault? At Politico actually competitor 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.520 of the Hill where John was publishing his stories and 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.679 where I used to work, is it? I'm just wondering, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:53.120 did they make that happen or Oh, have you seen 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.640 any effort whatsoever to follow up on this to get 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.760 more information? Why don't we have people under oath to 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.720 defying about this? Because here's the for me, at least 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.960 even more interesting component the story here says that Ukrainian officials, 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.000 in an effort to curry favor with Hillary Clinton. Keep 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.919 in mind, everybody thought Hillary was going to win. So 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:15.880 if you're a foreign government that's used to a whole 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.720 lot of corruption like Ukraine is, and you know that 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:24.240 the incoming administration in twenty sixteen into twenty seventeen would 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.159 be in a position to really help or really hurt you, 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.800 would it perhaps be a smart play if you thought, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.359 because remember what the consensus was, ninety seven percent to 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.240 three percent, or whatever the New York Times had on 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.000 election day. If you were ninety seven percent sure in 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.560 your mind that Hillary Clinton was going to be the 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:43.760 next president of the United States, and you needed the 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:45.879 good graces of Hillary Clinton in order to fend off 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:51.960 the Russians, wouldn't you perhaps be willing to buy some 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:57.200 goodwill give a little information on a admittedly sketchy fellow 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:02.600 like Paul Manafort. Now I also will point out that 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.080 I think that the standard the Democrats have set up 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.479 of you can't have information from a foreigner, which they 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.040 don't abide by in any sense. Christopher Steal is a foreigner. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.080 The dossier was based on foreign sources, So I mean, 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.320 they're total frauds on that to begin with. But I'm 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.800 somebody who believes that if information is relevant to a 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:23.159 presidential campaign, information is relevant to a presidential campaign. I 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:28.000 think that this new way if a British tabloid newspaper 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.399 were to break a major story about a presidential candidate, 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:33.240 or are we supposed to say, up, can't see it, 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:37.119 foreign source, it's idiocy. This is a this is not 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.160 a standard that you could really apply. But the Liberals 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:43.600 have convinced themselves this is a real standard. But if 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:47.120 you're the Ukrainian government, wouldn't you or some people within 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:50.400 the Ukrainian government, wouldn't you think, hey, let's let's help 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.240 seal the deal here for seal the deal here for Hillary, 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:58.600 and maybe pass along information that looks bad for Trump. 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.199 Why do the Democrats so desperately not want confirmation of 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:06.200 this because it would blow an enormous hole in their 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:08.880 whole scam. And the scam is to pretend that only 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.159 Republicans do this sort of thing. The scam is to 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:16.640 pretend that they would never leverage foreign sources of information 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.600 in a presidential campaign. Oh my god, foreign interference in 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:27.200 our election. Oh no, the political story continues. Quote. A 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:30.399 Ukrainian American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:33.399 Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian embassy in 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.720 Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump top 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.879 campaign aide Paul Manafort, and Russia. According to people with 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.000 direct knowledge of the situation, the Ukrainian efforts had an 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:46.119 impact in the race, helping to force Manafort's resignation and 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.520 advancing the narrative that Trump's campaign was deeply connected to 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:55.280 Ukraine's vote to the east Russia. My friends, this is 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:59.000 part of the This is Politico, which is a major site, 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:04.000 left wing, a major site telling the American public in 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:11.000 twenty seventeen that Democrat collusion with Ukrainian sources was part 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:17.160 of the genesis of the whole Russia collusion narrative. Where 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:18.960 why do we believe that this is not true or 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.359 what what reason we have to believe? And keep in mind, 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:24.399 all of the senior Ukraine policy people at the time, 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:30.800 could people like Vin men and the various ambassadors who 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:33.160 have come forward, not Solomon because they hate him because 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:34.879 he's kind of pro Trump. He's a Trump appointee. But 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.520 the other ambassadors that came forward last week, the guy 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.560 with the big bow tie, I think it was Kent, 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:46.199 was his ambassador Kent. They could theoretically be implicated in 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:48.320 this too. They're the ones say, oh, my gosh, Trump 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:52.480 asked for an investigation of Ukraine. It's the most horrible 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:57.560 thing ever. But was it at least feasible? Is it 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:02.719