WEBVTT - Shameless Media 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.960 Mr garbutsch Off, tear down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.400 us or you were with the terrorists. If you got 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.159 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.079 are satisfied with is not when the President of the 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.680 United States take it to a bank. Together, we will 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:35.240 make America great again. You'll never sharender. It's what you've 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.120 been waiting for all day. The Buck Sexton Show. Join 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.680 the conversation called Buck Toll free at eight four four 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.000 nine hundred Buck. That's eight four four nine hundred to 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.280 eight to five The future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.200 My friends and I stared down the barrel of an 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.040 Air fifteen the way you have not. We have seen 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.720 this weapon of war mow down people we know and 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.880 love the way you have not. How dare you tell 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.600 us we don't know what we're talking about. Never again 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.720 should a student be silent, fight unshot. Never again should 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.959 anyone fear going to school. The time for change wasn't now. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.880 The time for change was years ago. Are you for 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.959 taking steps to save us? Or are you for taking 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.160 n r A blood money? We are not letting the 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:32.160 United States be run by that terrorist organization. Welcome to 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.440 Buck Sex and Show. Everybody you just heard of. There 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:40.560 a number of students getting together, Uh, students, teachers, coaches, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.800 counselors getting together at schools across the country from what 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.240 I understand, but particularly those who were involved directly in 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.040 Florida speaking out there. There's now a broader movement to 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:59.080 involve other schools. There's talk about a a walkout, UM 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.360 that may maybe occurring. This is from this is expected 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.960 to be occurring perhaps later on. UM. You have students 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.080 that are gathering together saying that it's time to change 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.960 our gun laws. Will you address this a bit yesterday? 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:23.680 And there's something going on here, It's not normal to 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.160 expect that there would be so much vitriol. Let's understand this. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.040 I get it. You have students that are traumatized. Specifically, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.160 we're talking now about those who are actually at the 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.200 high school in Parkland when this mash shooting happen. And 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.080 I understand that there's psychological trauma to be dealt with, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.440 that the community needs to come together, that these students 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:51.040 deserve our support. I think I hear that there's also 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:58.480 similar efforts to get students activated in their political activism 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.840 across the country. It makes me think, Okay, so this 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.960 is now turning into a movement, or they're trying to 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.800 turn it into a movement. M hmm. What is so 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.639 different about this time and this incident from others? I'm 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.920 asking the questions I don't necessarily have the answers. What 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:23.320 is it about this incident specifically that makes the students 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.600 that are speaking up and and being given considerable air 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.320 time by the national news media. What is it that 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.640 makes them so angry, specifically towards the n r A. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.360 The n r A is the focus of so much 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:43.520 of the anger here, the National Rifle Association. I remember 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.200 being a high school student and I would not have 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.440 pretended to know much at all about the n r 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.360 A or what it does. Um. We're also seeing a 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.800 very clear effort in the media to create an in 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:03.680 vulnerability for the speech of students that were either at 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.760 that school or just now. Any student who comes forward 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.920 and wants to speak on behalf of those students, he's 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:14.040 also going to be given this the same invulnerability for 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.520 their comments and statements. It doesn't have to be accurate, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.600 doesn't have to be true, doesn't have to make sense 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.320 because it comes from a place of victimhood, because they've 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.080 been victimized because a group of students were murdered in 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.000 cold blood by a psychopath. And I haven't really heard 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.080 enough of that word used, and I think I'd like 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.480 to return later in the show into why I use 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.880 it and what some of the real implications are for 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.640 our understanding of this mass slaughter. When we use terms 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.279 like psychopaths, we should also use terms like evil and 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.320 understand how it applies in this case. I don't mean 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.039 in a general sense. I mean in as scientific a 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.800 way as possible, evil as a term used by the 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.480 those who spend their lives trying to understand the psychological 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.080 processes of the brain, can't come up with a coherent 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.880 or rational explanation for why an individual acts the way 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.200 he or she does, and is left with nothing more 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:19.480 on a clinical level. Then the diagnosis a diagnosis of 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:27.559 evil that I think is far and away the most 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:33.720 accurate description of Nicholas Cruz and what occurred on that day, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.760 And I can return to more specificity on that in 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.359 a moment. But the the I or the fury of 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:47.120 these students is directed towards the National Rifle Association as 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:52.760 the bad guy here. The National Rifle Association that the 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.719 students are young, that they can't vote, that they don't 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.400 have a background, or even a baseline. For get about 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:01.680 a background, No one to expect you have to have 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.920 a PhD and gun studies to have an opinion here. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:09.960 But it is usually a necessity and a national level 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.599 policy discussion to have a baseline of knowledge about the issue. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.919 Right if I were running around and I were sixteen 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.640 years old, and I said that I wanted us to 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:26.839 have a much lower tax rate, and somebody asked me, well, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.880 do you know what the top tax rate is right now? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.920 And I said, I have no idea. People would be 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.280 less likely to take my policy proposal seriously in this 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.839 instant instance, though, because they have suffered a tragedy, or 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.560 because a community a school has suffered a tragedy, we 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.440 are to listen without responding. And that's actually not how 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.800 policy discussion works. It's not how the First Amendment worked, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.640 It's not how we could arrive at any constructive solutions 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.840 to this problem. Nobody really wants to be lectured by 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 a group of kids that seem very angry at an 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.160 organization that has nothing to do with what just happened. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.400 It is not the fault of the n r A. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:16.800 I would note that if you're going to blame the 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.040 n r A, you might as well blame the manufacture 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.960 of the rifle and claim that they are the ones 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:25.160 responsible for this. The seller of the gun, even though 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.760 he did it completely legally, he must be responsible for this. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:33.680 The person that manufactured the rounds, use the actual ammunition, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.360 they're they're responsible for this. No, no no, no, no. You 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.600 cannot erode moral culpability here in the name of some 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.320 political agenda. The only person responsible for the heinous acts 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:51.160 in Florida last week is Nicholas Cruz. There are people 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.320 who could have done more to stop it. There is 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.400 certainly a discussion that we are having now about what 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.040 should have been done to stop it. But I'm not 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:08.680 seeing a lot of reasonable, good faith discussion in the 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.760 national media about what should result from this in terms 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.960 of law changes to law. Now, what I'm seeing is 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:23.160 the vilification of an organization that just represents law abiding 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 gun owners, of whom there are, as you know, tens 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.760 of millions, let's say, roughly sixty million in the country. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.320 It's a pretty fair estament. Over three d million firearms 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.720 in private hands in the United States is also the estimate, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.960 you got sixty million people, You've got a handful of 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.320 terrible school shootings. It seems to me like we're now 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.040 supposed to just sit back and allow the left because 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.920 we know that there is a hand behind this. We 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.400 know that the media is part of this construct and 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.760 part of this narrative that asked dispersions to cast blamee 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:07.520 on sixty million long binding gun owners here and much 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:12.040 of the intelligentsias such as it is, and the left 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.000 is coming out with the same stuff they've said in 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.720 the past. It was wrong then, it's wrong now. But 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.800 they think that by emotionalizing the moment, by making this 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.400 a time of emotional blackmail, listen to the sobbing children 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.440 on this policy issue, or else you're a bad person, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.480 then the ideas and arguments that have failed in the 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.560 past will get through because we'll all be scared because 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.720 we don't want to be bad people, because we are caring, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.120 because we are considerate, because we do want our kids 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.240 to be safe. We want all kids to be safe. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.400 Notice how the issue somehow becomes a separation between those 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.760 who want to stop child uh stop the shootings in school, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.760 school shootings and those who don't There's no such thing 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.720 as a constituency that doesn't want to stop school shootings. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.680 So why is that the tone that this takes almost 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.599 automatically after one of these events. After one of these instances, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:20.319 we're hearing that students are planning more protests and walkouts 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.559 from class. Well, I'd like to know what the specific 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.559 demands are here, But I would also note that this 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.679 is not how policy is made. Yeah, that they are 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.719 allowed to raise whatever objections they want, right, they have 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.040 first moment rights to we we know this, But what 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.680 the media is doing is very underhanded and what many 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.959 of the supporters of the narrative that's being presented, which 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.920 is that the n r A is the problem here. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.880 Forget about dealing with mental health, forget about background, forget 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.360 about all that the n r A is the problem. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.000 They want to they want to take down and take 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.400 a part of the National Rifle Association. And there's just 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.559 no way that there aren't elements of the left, adults 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.560 with money and funding and connections who are tied into this. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.280 I just don't see how it. At a minimum, you've 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.199 got the major broadcast networks other than Fox that are 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.120 just running with this as though they are a political 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.720 action committee, CNN, MSNBC another. So right then and there, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.440 I can tell you that they're giving a lot more 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.360 airtime to young people on this issue than they would 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.880 young people on other issues. As I said, you do 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.520 not tend to hear a lot of interviews of the 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.080 families of those killed by illegal aliens in this country 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.680 on CNN. CNN anchors do not ask the children of 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.160 those killed by illegal aliens on TV as they are crying, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.720 what do you think about illegally? Should we have fewer 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.640 illegal aliens in the country? Crying child who lost his 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.400 dad to a drunk driver, a legal alien who has 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.280 been deported you know, fifteen times or whatever the number is. No, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.600 they don't do that because they're forming narratives, and they 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.680 don't like that one, this one. They like the notion 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.600 that the n RA is behind a mass slaughter of 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.240 children at a school of school shooting. It is deceptive, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:12.559 it's disgusting, it's unfair, and yet that's the plan. They 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.199 figure that if they are able to create an environment 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.679 of fear, then the arguments don't really matter anymore. This 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:25.840 is where the Left actually excels at promoting a a 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.800 an approach to an issue, a feeling, a sensibility around it, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.520 where it's not about the specific issues or the arguments, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.760 it's just about, Oh, I don't want to be I 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.120 don't want to be on the wrong side of that. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.200 To bar from Obama, you don't want to be on 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.320 the wrong side of history, as he used to constantly say. So, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.679 now all of a sudden, we're seeing the first breaches 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.720 in the wall. We're seeing the breaks in the day. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.559 You're seeing people that are saying, hold on, maybe you know, okay, fine, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.160 this time we will do something. The administration sounds like 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:01.040 they're they're going to do something. Is it because we 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.640 have come up with new ideas? Maybe there are some 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.400 that I haven't really heard much of before, and we'll 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.040 talk about them. But is it really just another instance 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.640 of the left creating an environment of moral blackmail. You 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.679 better be with us on this, you better do what 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.840 we say on this issue, or you're a bad person, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.520 or you don't care about children getting shot. That is 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.960 the underlying message of the left right now. And whether 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.360 you know or not that their policy are that the 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.640 an assault rifle band or background check expanse or any 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.800 of this is useless. Is irrelevant because you don't want 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.280 to be a bad person. You don't want to be 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.200 on the wrong side of history. This is what they're 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.320 trying to do right now. They've tried it in the past. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.440 It has failed, will it fail this time on the 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.640 issue of guns. It's worked on other things. You look 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.440 at the context for discussion of any number of issues. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.000 I mean, you look at what the left did by 0:13:55.200 --> 0:14:00.400 weaponizing discussions of race and racism for political per is 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.840 over the course of decades, very effective for them. It 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.800 finally started to they finally kind of overplayed their hand 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.959 in the last you could argue ten or fifteen years 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.120 maybe where it didn't have the same accusations of racism, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.959 didn't have the same punch as they used to. Now 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.240 there are other things that are career enders for people 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:23.600 that are just weaponized politics, right, accusations in place of argument. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.240 They're trying to do that on guns right now. It's 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:32.640 not about having a an exchange of ideas about a 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.280 second amendment about the right to bear arms. No, it's 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.920 are you a good person or do you want do 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.200 you want children to not be shot in school? Yes 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.520 or no? If the answer is yes, you don't want 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.320 the new shot in school. Then you have to do. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.800 Then you have to give the left it's gun control agenda. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.480 You have to cave. You have to give in no 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:55.280 questions asked, Well, I'm not I'm not playing that game. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.280 I'm not going along with that. I want policy that's 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.880 based on reason and argument and sound logic. And no, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.640 I'm not going to be cowed into silence because people 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:13.880 have suffered a personal tragedy or we're near a tragedy 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.080 in the case of many of these students, that that 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.000 gives you sympathy. It does not give you a greater 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.520 understanding and wisdom about national level policy than other people. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:29.720 It just doesn't. And I think the media is shameless 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:36.400 exploitation of tragedy involving miners, tragedy involving children. Here is 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.520 just yet another reason why we should we should always 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:45.400 maintain a healthy disrespect and disdain for the mainstream media. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.200 I'll be uh, I want to know what you think 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.960 about all this. We're gonna get into the specifics that 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.120 are out there. Eight four four eight to five eight 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.560 four four buck bump stock band, what do you think 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.600 a R fifteen band? If you're under third, what do 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.280 you think improving background checks, whatever that means. You know, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.160 we can go down this whole list. We'll talk about 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:08.800 some of them. I want to know what you think 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.680 as well, so light up the lines will be right back. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:21.120 I was talking about how we should have not ostracized him. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:26.120 You didn't know this case, Okay, we did. We know 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.480 that they're baby, that they are mental health issues. And 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.320 I am not a psychologist, but we need to pay 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.960 attention to the fact that this isn't just a mental 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:44.840 health issue. About we stopped blaming the victims for something 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.960 that was the shooter's fault. I don't think anyone's blaming 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.000 the victims. I don't really know what that young woman 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.320 who's been given a national media platform is referring to. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.280 But you'll notice from the tone of some of the 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:05.720 students that they are angry and they are expressing. Some 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.800 of them the ones that I'm seeing that are getting airtime. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.800 I remember. This reminds me of after nine eleven. A 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.800 lot of people that we're affected by nine eleven. I 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.600 remember being at school finding out whether I was in college, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.439 finding out whether or not my uncle made it out 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.480 of one of the towers. I didn't know for the 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.800 first few hours a friend of mine, a young woman 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.040 I had known since I was in the fourth grade, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.000 found out that day that her sister died. And I 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.879 was there at the school, you know, when when the 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.919 news came down. Um, But I also remember that there 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.320 were people who decided that it was time to start 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.560 cutting campaign commercials for the Democrat Party and for John 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.160 Kerry and saying, you know, see, it was Bush's fault. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.760 And then when you'd say, well hold on a second, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.920 well hold on whoa, It's like, oh, how dare you? 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.680 You know, they remember that the whole And I'll due 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.600 credit to Ann Coulter for being the one who's willing 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.960 to say hold on, these these aren't v nine eleven widows. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.080 These are four widows of nine eleven. There's a lot 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.760 of other a lot of other widows and widowers and 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.240 you know, children lost their parents. It's you know, we're 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.920 not hearing from them, We're just hearing from the four 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.399 and the representative of the whole group. Always be careful 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.879 about this. You know, media is very slippery on this 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.920 issue when it comes to exploiting tragedy for political ends. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.920 There are the producers and the bookers on these shows 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:30.639 at CNN MSNBC. They are making decisions based upon who's 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.320 going to give them the most anti Trump, anti n 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:40.680 R A shout fast, so then they're sanctimonious, ignorant anchors 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.040 can go, oh will you don't feel like the children's 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.320 tragedy deserves to be heard? And the whole thing, we 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.520 know how the game is played, we know how they're 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.040 doing this, and this is what they're up to. By 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.920 the way, I mentioned before they I stumbled for a 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.399 second because I want to make sure I had the 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.200 right date. And seeing there's a plan, there are plans 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:04.120 going forward for a major march akin to in terms 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.000 of size, the Women's March. It will be an anti 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.760 uh anti gun march. I don't know what if they 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.960 have an official name yet, a gun control legislation March 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.760 or you know whatever they're gonna call it for march, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.880 a march on March. And there are others as well, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.639 And they've got tens of thousand people signing petitions and 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.080 this is now becoming a point of political mobilization and 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.840 action for the Democrat left. You're also seeing stuff like 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.640 a billboard in Louisville, Kentucky that somebody vandalized with huge 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:39.280 writing it says kill the n r A. So there's 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.720 something wrong here, my friends. We are going to dig 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.240 into it together and we'll talk more about what's happening. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:20:00.560 Right after this break. He's holding the line for America. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.959 Buck Sexton is back, and I think that it's really 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.000 important that we come together now since adults are not 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.159 doing it for us. I remember the first time I 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.359 heard about Sandy Hook. I remember talking about Virginia attacks. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.200 That will be different because the people who are deeply 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.320 affected by the shooting, the people who saw it, are 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.560 the people speaking out. Because we keep telling them that 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.040 if they accept this blood money there against the children, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.399 they say, that's topper. Gun laws do not decrease gun violence. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:35.200 We call we could just play all day news clips 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:41.320 of teenagers, kids who are telling us what gun control 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.880 policy should be, saying things about gun laws that are 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.800 not true. I couldn't believe yes or seeing at CBS 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.280 left up the tweet about how it's easier to get 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.800 an a R fifteen than to buy cold medicine. That's 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.560 not just fake news, it's malicious news. They're really trying 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.960 to turn up the heat on this problem, turn up 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.840 the heat on the debate make this nasty, Make it 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.160 not a problem that we have to solve as a country, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.320 as a as a nation. Make it a US versus them. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.840 You heard it, and that young woman she said, you know, 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.560 it's either you're with the children or you're against them. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.159 With them or against them. This is a this is 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.919 a repeat. You'll hear more and more of that. You 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.960 either want to stop child murder in school or you don't, 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.280 That's what they'll say. But there's no one who wants 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.240 kids to get shot in school, no one. So what 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.080 are they talking about? Why do they have to be 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:41.200 so inflammatory? Here's something to keep in mind, my friends, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.280 as we go forward and continue to cover this. How 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:50.879 is it that the passions on this issue are even 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.959 more elevated right now with greater distance from the actual 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:56.879 event than they were in the first forty eight hours. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.680 Why are the kids that are speaking about this becoming 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.399 more aggressive? Why are we seeing signs kill the n 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:09.040 r A in Louisville Now? Why are we hearing these 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.800 refrains like you're with the children or you're against them. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.280 You either want to stop child murder in school or 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:20.040 you don't. Now days after the event, I just think 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.600 it stands to reason that if this were based on 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:28.679 the emotions of the moment, you would hear the most 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.480 over the top inflammatory rhetoric and these accusations at the 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.640 n r A. You'd hear it more in the beginning, 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:39.600 and then it would turn into a policy debate. But no, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:44.679 actually you're hearing this stuff now. It's getting worse. The anger, 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.320 the rage from one side of the political spectrum to 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:53.000 the other over guns is escalating as we have distance 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.760 from the event. That doesn't make sense, doesn't make sense 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:04.360 unless unless there is a guiding hand behind this, unless 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:09.320 there's more going on here than just spontaneous student protests 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:13.520 over gun control and gun violence. I'm not saying that 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.480 these kids don't believe it. I'm sure they do. But 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.000 then again, there's a reason why we don't let sixteen 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.280 year olds vote on national policy issues. There's a reason 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.840 why they don't get to pick our representatives, and there 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:29.480 there's a basis for all of that. You know, the voting. 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:31.679 It should be sixteen, maybe it should be twelve. Do 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.840 we have five year old voting? We have journalists who 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:40.119 seemed to think that it was respectable and responsible to 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.960 use their children as props as anti Trump attacked vessels. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.320 You know, my daughter came up to me and said, 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.359 why does Donald Trump hate women? Mommy? And she's only three. 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.400 I don't think that your daughter said that at three, 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:54.720 but a lot of journalists were doing that. Those of 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.240 you who are paying close attention to the the commentary 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.040 at during the election, we'll remember that was a trend 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:05.399 for a while. There's a trend going on here, but 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:11.920 it seems that it's getting angrier as we get further 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.280 from the event. And I don't believe it's because of inaction. 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:18.119 In fact, I think that the Trump administration has shown 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:22.760 I know they have shown quite a willingness to discuss 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.439 these issues and look at them. Here's the President himself. 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:33.199 Safety is a top priority for my administration. That is 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:36.639 why when governors from across the nation visit the White 0:24:36.640 --> 0:24:40.439 House next week, we will be discussing at great length 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:44.440 what the federal and state governments can do to keep 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:51.120 our students safe. This includes implementing common sense security measures 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:56.720 and addressing mental health issues, including better coordination between federal 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:00.440 and state law enforcement to take swift action and when 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:05.760 there are warning signs. President is taking this issue very seriously. 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.679 He's listening to what's being said. He's going over the 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:12.040 proposals that are out there now. He says, state and 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:14.800 federal and local, we're working on it. We are. He's 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:16.879 not saying there's nothing. I'm not going to hear it. 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:21.680 Everything is fine. And yet you turn on the news 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.840 and you'll hear students who are being elevated into the 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:31.880 national discussion, who are saying stuff like to the president. 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:35.320 And I think that it's really important that we come 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:39.040 to the president. The ball is in your cordinal. You 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:41.800 are either with us or you are against us. If 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:43.960 you are against us, then that means you are signing 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:47.240 our death certificates. You are letting more children die every day. 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.800 There is no middle ground here. You are either with 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:52.680 us and helping children survive, helping children feel safe to 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:54.760 go to school, or you are against us. We are 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.159 very confident because unlike every other you get the idea 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:01.560 that was a seventeen year old. Mr. President. You're with us, 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:05.200 you're against you, you're signing children's debt certificates. If you 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:11.080 don't ban a R fifteen, that's really that's what we're 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:14.560 supposed to take away from this. That's quite a lot 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:17.000 of culpability, A lot of blame that's put on the 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:19.400 president for something that he has nothing to do with. 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:23.639 Keep in mind that Congress would have to pass the 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:27.000 legislation first, and yet it's all put at the feet 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:29.600 of Trump. You see, this is what's really happening here. Everyone. 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:33.200 Do we think that there would be quite the same tone, 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:36.399 quite the same approach if you had a Democrat president? Now, 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:39.760 of course not. This issue of guns is now being 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:45.080 tied into the issue of hashtag resistance. Gun control is 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:49.160 now being hijacked by the left, by the institutional left, 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:53.720 the money, the movers and shakers, the sauros Is, the MSNBC's, 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:57.359 the CNNs, and the rest of them, in order to 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:03.960 mobilize progressive elements of our society against the Trump administration. 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:06.560 In yet another way, it's yet another front of the 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:11.920 never Trump, anti Trump war. It immediately becomes about the president. 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.400 And that's why there's so much fury behind this movement 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:19.800 and this effort right now. That's what's different from the 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:23.960 school shooting versus other school shootings. And and you have 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:27.720 a president who's willing to say, we should actually address 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:29.680 this in whatever way we can, let's talk about it, 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:32.119 and they're saying Oh no, you're the blood is on 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:38.120 the president's hands. There's a particular anger right now. There's 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:43.520 a particular rage about gun control because Donald Trump is president. 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:48.639 That's what's going on here in the background. I'm not 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:52.119 saying that that's what's got all these students fired up. 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:54.560 Some of them or I'm sure being told things by adults. 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:59.280 Others are being are being encouraged to whatever their initial 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:00.840 impulse is about this, and a lot of them are 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:02.879 I'm sure the ones from the school. Keep in mind, 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:05.040 I'm talking about in general, because this is now a movement. 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:06.920 This is beyond the school. So now we've gotta listen 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:09.199 to kids that are marching that didn't even go to 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:11.600 the school. Now, all kids have a special say in this, 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:14.840 as long as they're pro gun control. They're not just 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:18.840 mobilizing for the school, They're mobilizing for all schools. This 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:25.080 is now going to turn into a student movement of sorts. Ah. 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:28.080 Now it all starts to fit together, doesn't it. It's 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:31.000 about a whole lot more than one school shooting and 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:38.080 the government's response to it. You are seeing the apparatus 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:46.320 of the left in action and mobilizing through the exploitation 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:50.680 of a terrible event in which seventeen young people were 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:54.720 murdered in school by a classmate who was a psychopath, 0:28:55.120 --> 0:29:00.320 who was evil. And yet I'm hearing so much about 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:01.920 how the n r A is murder. The n r 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:04.760 A is guilty of murder. Trump is going to have 0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:06.280 blood in his hands if he doesn't do what the 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.920 kids are demanding. This is not how sound policy has 0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:12.200 made and this is not how adults have discussions. It's 0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:15.560 how the left wants the discussion to go though, and 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:17.760 we will see more and more of their fingerprints all 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:20.160 over this. Keep in mind as we go along here, 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.440 as we expose what's really happening, they will say the 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:27.080 nastiest things. They'll say that you are either with the 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:29.480 children or against them. You either want to stop child 0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:32.360 murder or you don't care. You're complicit in child murder 0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:35.840 if you don't do what they say. I mean, this 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:42.680 is ideological hostage taking. It's a disgrace, and it's really 0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:45.280 what's going on. All right, I want to hear from 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:49.200 you eight four four, eight to five. We will take 0:29:49.240 --> 0:30:05.960 some calls right after this break. All right, every single 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:07.680 line is lit here in the Freedom Hut. So let's 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:10.120 rack and stack and take some calls. But first I 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.800 just wanted to note that I got a piece of 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.560 information from one of our own here in the hut. Brandon, 0:30:15.600 --> 0:30:17.520 who's running the board today, told me something, just to 0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:20.080 give you a sense of how far and wide the 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.120 tentacles of a tragedy like this go, Brandon, tell him, 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:25.920 tell them what you told me. I unfortunately know one 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:28.600 of the teachers that was killed in the in the shooting. 0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.360 When the name started to come out, Um, I hadn't 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:34.200 spoken to Scott Beagle since high school. Went to high 0:30:34.240 --> 0:30:37.040 school with him, Long Island, dix Hills High School, Half 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:39.640 holl Hills High School, East Long Name. Uh, so he 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:42.640 was your classmate. He was my classmate plenty classes. I 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:45.120 hadn't spoken to him since, so, I mean, it's an acquaintment. 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:46.640 He was your high school class man and he but 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:48.760 I remember him being such a sweet and nice kid. 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:50.400 So I remember as soon as I saw his face 0:30:50.400 --> 0:30:52.280 and name, I know that I know. And he was 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:53.960 one of the He was one of the heroes of 0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:55.280 the incident, right. He was one of the ones who 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:58.080 ran to open the door to to save some kids. 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:01.880 He was the geology teacher who opened his unlocked door 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:04.560 to let more students in, and before he can relock it, 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:07.000 that's when he got shot. And they're saying that his 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:13.080 body blocked the door from more casualties. So he's a hero, 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:14.680 and uh, I don't know if you want me to say. 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:18.360 His wife apparently gave a little brief statement because Scott jokingly, 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.520 I guess, said something that if he was ever killed 0:31:20.640 --> 0:31:23.720 in any of these situations, so by the quote, you'll 0:31:24.040 --> 0:31:26.520 he never believed that would have happened. Promise me, if 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:28.840 this ever happens to me, you will tell them the truth, 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:31.040 tell them what a jerk I am, and don't talk 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:33.960 about the hero stuff. So of course his wife, he 0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:36.920 was saying that as a joke to his wife, thinking 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:39.160 that this would never happen to him. So when his 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:42.400 wife spoke, she still read that she did. Yes, yes, 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:45.160 all right, Brandon, thank you for sharing that that you 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:48.320 know that personal connection with all this. All right, let's 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:50.160 get into your call, folks. We've got every line lit, 0:31:50.200 --> 0:31:51.480 like I said, so we got a lot to go 0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:56.440 to here. Vincent in Greensboro, North Carolina, Hey, Vincent, Hi, Bud, 0:31:57.000 --> 0:32:01.320 I'm sorry to hear, but loss of his friend there, 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:06.680 that's Uh, horrible to hear. Um. I just couldn't help. 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:09.880 But I've been listening to this topic now for days 0:32:09.960 --> 0:32:14.120 on just about every radio show there is, and I 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:18.200 don't remember any time where somebody screamed and yelled for 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:20.120 what they wanted when they were a kid, and they 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:25.840 just got what they wanted because they demanded it. Um. 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:30.520 But I feel like this's just a program because these protesters, 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:32.640 like a lot of the protesters we've seen in the 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:36.320 last couple of years, to me, just looked like bankrolled 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:41.880 protesters that really are uh dupes. Uh, they're pretty much 0:32:42.000 --> 0:32:45.120 A lot of them will say whatever they're told, maybe 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:46.880 some of them believe it. Do you think some of 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:49.320 this anti gun stuff, whether a current or what we're 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.680 going to see, is AstroTurf. It's not. This is not 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:58.040 the grassroots exactly, because I don't I don't remember meeting 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:01.200 too many people who agree with that. Somebody you say, oh, well, yeah, 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:04.840 there's guns are dangerous, blah blah blah, but a lot 0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:07.320 of people will never flat out say there they want 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.680 to give up their their firearms. It is a god 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:15.560 given right to hone one uh not just because it's 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:18.040 written down in the Constitution. Of the Bill of Rights, 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:22.920 and uh, uh, well, Vincent, I appreciate you sharing thoughts 0:33:22.960 --> 0:33:25.720 and thank you for calling in, Sir, Shields High. Let's 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:29.360 take Uh, we've got a lot of calls coming from 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:31.400 North Carolina. We got a whole bunch of North Carolina 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:33.040 calls here. Well, it's all right, we'll take one more 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:34.480 and then we'll take it up and I'll take it 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:37.080 up to Boston. We gotta get lots of different geographical 0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:40.080 regions in North Carolina is very very heavy on the 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:42.880 lines right now. Um, we love you North Carolina. Mike 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:47.960 in North Carolina, Hey, buddy, Hey Buck, I totally agree 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:51.280 with everything Vincent said on the ellin of rules. Um, 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:54.200 so let me get took it. Um. She said that 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:58.520 people wouldn't be killed with a knife. Me and Lissashi killed. Well, 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:02.240 he defeated thirty men by so um taking the swords 0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:07.800 away from Japan. Uh. During the that time, spawn ningas 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:11.319 and so the assassination was ran rapid. And to get 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:14.319 to the last bit about Japan, Tojo said, Uh, the 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.640 reason we have our Second Amendment rfle a rifle behind 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:22.000 every blade of grass, right, thank you, yes, sir, that's 0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:26.640 why they couldn't invade America. Yeah, yeah, Mike, thanks for 0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:29.320 calling it from North Carolina, Man Shields. Hi John, and 0:34:29.600 --> 0:34:34.239 also Greensboro, North Carolina. Hey John, how are you doing, Buck, 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.680 I'm good. Thank you for a call that was calling 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.120 about the gun control also, yeah, of course, man, that's 0:34:40.160 --> 0:34:42.439 the that's the issue. Do your issue of the hour, 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:46.600 go for it. We all need to hear the word control, 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:49.839 because that's what it's all about. We never hear all 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:53.720 of this left is crying when any other person, child, 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.759 adult is killed any other way. We just had a 0:34:56.840 --> 0:34:59.719 child killed by a drunk illegal alien last week, and 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:02.440 we're to sail in North Carolina. I'm still waiting for 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.160 a politician to cry over that child. John. I'm just 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:08.600 I'm gonna guess you haven't seen anyone, anyone in the 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:11.520 family of that child killed interviewed on CNN and a 0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:15.239 national news broadcast on the issue of legal aliens. Yeah, 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:18.560 no alcohol band, no eagle alien band, no, no, no 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:22.040 kind of band, and no tears. Yeah. I mean the 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.880 politicization of this, of this by the left, I mean, 0:35:24.920 --> 0:35:30.040 to use child victims in a sense as as issues 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:35.560 or as as politicized policy weapons. It's just so tasteless. 0:35:35.560 --> 0:35:39.480 But that's what they're doing exactly. And then the other 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:42.920 thing is, let's talk about making the school safety. I 0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:45.640 have to barcode with my fingerprints in and out of 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:49.319 work every time I go into parking lot. If I 0:35:49.360 --> 0:35:51.359 go into where our truck drivers come like to use 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:53.319 the restroom, I got a barcode to get back in 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:57.879 the building. It works fine. Oh, we got about six 0:35:57.960 --> 0:36:01.160 hundred people working here Tilton the times a day. It works, 0:36:01.200 --> 0:36:03.799 in and out, in and out, in and out. And 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:07.879 then we could have some the concealed carry holders taking 0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:13.160 additional course and carry the faculty carry on campus. And 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:15.080 I would also add, you know, if you get to 0:36:15.200 --> 0:36:17.960 concealed carry older's you also got have people, you know, 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:20.239 it could be kind of a package training we do 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:25.360 individuals that also understand more about de escalating physical confrontations. 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:27.719 In general, you get more teachers that are also trained 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:30.000 as first responders. I mean, I I think I think 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:31.960 there's a whole lot of ways that we could consider 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:35.560 trying to make school look. Schools among the softest of 0:36:35.600 --> 0:36:39.319 soft targets, right, They're they're wide open generally speaking to 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:42.840 the to the public. Uh, you've got you know, kids 0:36:42.920 --> 0:36:45.440 that can't defend themselves. Especially you're talking about an armed 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.080 to sound active shooter situation. So yeah, I think it 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:49.840 makes a lot of sense to talk about, especially in 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:51.960 areas where you think that. I mean, look, this isn't 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.840 just this isn't a school with with thirty students. There 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:57.279 is a school with almost three thousand, right, I mean 0:36:57.320 --> 0:37:00.920 this is a really big institution and one armed guard 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:05.920 on the premises one for three thousand. My college had 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:09.239 sixteen hundred students, had its own police department, if we 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:11.640 want to go, had its own on campus, and they 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:15.200 were all armed officers and they were all deputized under 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:18.680 Massachusetts state law. Uh, they were armed. And I think 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:22.759 we had for a campus of sixteen hundred six officers 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:25.239 on any given time, you know. So they just by 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:27.839 way of comparison, they got three thousand kids and they 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:29.799 only had one one officer. And John, thank you for 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:34.040 calling in from Greensborough. H one more Kenny and Boston Kenny. 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:35.239 We got about a minute, but I want to get 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:37.120 you in before we get going with some other stuff. 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:40.520 You're go ahead, right, how you doing? Um? I'm seeing 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:45.640 a parallel being revealed between this Sparkland gun control movement 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:49.359 and the Me Too movement in the sense that they 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:53.120 both have a they want to call this non political 0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:56.520 and then engage in politics, and then they want to 0:37:56.560 --> 0:38:01.040 forbid any questioning or uh, going after the victims at 0:38:01.040 --> 0:38:04.080 all in any you know anything. You have to just 0:38:04.200 --> 0:38:07.000 listen to them and were they wanted as as a 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.719 with a me too movement, and accusation becomes tantamount to 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:14.840 a conviction. And all of that shows me that I 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:18.320 think that's all that's the Me too movement is largely 0:38:18.360 --> 0:38:21.440 being orchestrated by the left. Yeah, I see the parallel 0:38:21.440 --> 0:38:23.480 to Kenny. It's in a student observation. 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After the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:55.480 I directed Attorney General to clarify wha there's certain bub 0:39:55.520 --> 0:40:00.359 stock devices like the one used in Las Vegas are 0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:06.520 illegal undercurrent law. That process began in December, and just 0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:11.080 a few moments ago I signed a memorandum directing the 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:16.200 Attorney General to propose regulations to ban all devices that 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:21.560 turn legal weapons into machine guns. Welcome back to the 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:23.600 buck Sex and show everybody. In the last hour, we 0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:30.440 talked about the student protests and the growing movement to 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:34.759 call for gun control in the aftermath of the park Land, 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:38.800 Florida school shooting. And now we just had President Trump 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:42.600 talking today about what he's willing to do in response, 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:46.200 or what he's willing to consider. At least we are 0:40:46.280 --> 0:40:49.840 looking at, or I should say, the federal government is 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:54.520 now looking at the issue of an a R fifteen ban, 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:57.320 which I don't think we'll ever go through. UM. Today, 0:40:57.400 --> 0:41:01.040 in fact, the Florida state legislature voted out a proposal 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:05.440 to ban a OUR fifteens, and sure enough the media 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:10.080 was there and taking photos of children from the Parkland 0:41:10.120 --> 0:41:13.640 High School that were in attendance. Douglas, I forget the 0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:17.719 school where the shooting occurred. Marjorie Stoneman. Douglas and the 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:21.240 kids were very upset about the bill not going through. 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:25.000 But this is the process now we have. This is 0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:27.240 the way laws are actually made. It is not based 0:41:27.320 --> 0:41:30.319 upon whoever has the most passion in the moment. It 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:36.319 is based upon a yeah, democratic legislator, democratically elected legislature 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:41.040 taking action or not. So they did not pass an 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:44.040 air fifteen band in Florida. They're now turning to state 0:41:44.239 --> 0:41:47.680 and they say local bands if they can't get a 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:51.960 federal band. This is also what brings me to the 0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:55.759 There are very well connected and financed adults who are 0:41:55.800 --> 0:41:58.759 pushing this agenda and using children as props to get 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:02.160 what they want. That has happening right now. There is 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:04.600 no way that all of a sudden, here we are, 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:09.040 days after the event. You have these policies that are 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:14.239 just agreed upon at the grassroots student level, that are 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:18.240 all of a sudden now mobilized and getting a lot 0:42:18.280 --> 0:42:21.960 of national level press. Do we really think a lot 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:24.840 of high school kids generally know the difference between state 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:30.040 and local firearms laws and where the federal ban would 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:33.239 end and the local band would begin, etcetera, etcetera. I 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:36.600 don't think so. This is being fed to some students, 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:40.719 or rather the agenda is being promoted through students as 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:45.480 vessels for the message, because the students are not to 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:49.560 be contradicted publicly because they are victims. That's the game 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:53.640 that the Democrats play. It's disgraceful they are using traumatized 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.960 children as props in a political fight. But here we are. 0:42:57.040 --> 0:43:00.759 That is what they are doing. You're also noticing that 0:43:00.800 --> 0:43:05.799 many of the journalists out there that are pushing the 0:43:06.000 --> 0:43:11.279 different politicians, Democrats, etcetera, that are pushing for action just 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:15.040 expose that they do not particularly view the Second Amendment 0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:18.720 is really a part of the constitution. They just don't 0:43:18.760 --> 0:43:21.440 think that that it counts the same way as other stuff. 0:43:21.480 --> 0:43:25.120 And that's how you get people like uh Well as 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:28.200 a finance reporter, usually at CNBC, but he he has 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:32.680 an idea for how we could handle the gun problem. 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:35.400 The scariest part of these conversations with so many of 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.839 them said, you know what, I like the idea. There's 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:39.680 part of us that actually would like to do something 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:42.680 like this, but we are scared about two things. Part 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:45.520 of it is we're scared about the the economic potential 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.200 boycott that could happen, both from the n r A 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:50.279 and gun owners who say, you know what, if JP 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:52.240 Morgan does this, we're we're not going to use their cards. 0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:54.880 The other thing that's even more nerve racking, though, is 0:43:54.920 --> 0:43:56.520 a lot of them said, you know what, I don't 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.000 want to put my employees in harm's way. I actually 0:43:59.000 --> 0:44:01.520 think that there could be an incident if we were 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:03.080 to do this. I don't want to bring attention out 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:06.719 to ourselves. And that's a very very scary thing, you know. 0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:13.640 Now he was talking about banks not working with or 0:44:13.719 --> 0:44:17.960 refusing to work with companies who sell guns, and as 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:19.839 if that's not enough, Keep in mind now that would 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:22.680 be imagine if if you had this with any other 0:44:22.719 --> 0:44:27.400 constitutionally protected right, you know, using that you had that 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:33.560 kind of discrimination going on by major institutions that are 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.880 tremendously fed federally regulated. And don't even get me started 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:41.279 on it. Uh you know, where to banks and in 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:43.800 the and the federal government begin as a whole other question. 0:44:44.880 --> 0:44:47.120 But also notice how it's not enough merely to just 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:51.279 say that he thinks that there would be issues with 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:57.360 a effectively a financial system boycott of firearms manufacturers and 0:44:57.440 --> 0:45:02.279 gun sellers, cutting them off um the financial markets because 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:06.000 of their constitution constitutionally protected right to bear because people 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:07.759 want to bear arms, and because they to do so, 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:09.040 they need to be able to sell them. Look at this, 0:45:09.120 --> 0:45:12.440 they want to regulate out of existence the Second Amendment. 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:15.280 We see them say this, we see this get support, 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:16.480 and then they turn and say, oh no, no no, we 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:19.479 just want common sense. Remember that was the Obama line, 0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:22.400 common sense gun reform. Then you say, well, it's not 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:25.560 common sense because it won't work. So that's nonsensical. What 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:30.200 you're talking about doesn't make sense. Oh well, in that case, 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:32.920 you just want dead children. You're a bad person. Do 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:34.840 what I say, or else I'll tell everybody you just 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:37.040 don't care about dead children. That's that's the way the 0:45:37.040 --> 0:45:40.359 Democrats are advancing the advancing the ball on this one 0:45:40.360 --> 0:45:43.560 of my friends, that's what they are doing. And it 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:47.240 is very troubling, very troubling. Indeed, it's not going away 0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:50.960 because this is now a movement. This is instead of 0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:53.680 the Women's March, You're going to have the gun control March. 0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:59.960 This will be the manifestation of the resistance hashtag resist 0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:05.000 since anti Trump left, using children as the vanguard, so 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:08.239 that anyone who contradicts them on a policy level, who 0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:10.800 makes the counter argument, I'm not saying to do it 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:12.560 in a mean way. I'm not saying call the kids. 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:14.960 You know you're I'm not gonna call. Remember, we're going 0:46:15.080 --> 0:46:17.480 way beyond just the kids who are at the Marjorie 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:20.160 Douglas School. Now, now we're talking about just kids in 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.920 general at schools. They're gonna be organized for this purpose. Thousands, 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:27.000 perhaps tens of thousands of students across the country doing 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:31.320 walkouts and marches and rallies, but they're all going to 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:33.520 be put under this rubric of well, well, they're the 0:46:33.560 --> 0:46:37.000 next victims unless we take action. Don't you want to 0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:40.400 prevent them from being victims? Aren't you anti gun violence 0:46:40.400 --> 0:46:43.560 in schools? Oh? I guess I am, Well, then you 0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:45.680 better do what we say. Ban the a R fifteen 0:46:45.760 --> 0:46:48.200 nationally banned the air fifteen at the state level, which 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:51.360 I would know other states have done. I live in 0:46:51.360 --> 0:46:54.680 New York State. In fact, here, the way that it's 0:46:54.800 --> 0:46:59.359 ended up being implemented they've created because they haven't been 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:01.520 semi on the rifles because they can't get that through. 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.680 So now you just have New York State compliant a 0:47:05.000 --> 0:47:07.600 R variants, which if you've seen, are not particularly pleasing 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:09.120 to the eye, but function the same way in air 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:15.120 fifteen does just no collapsing stock, uh, no carrying handle. 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:19.480 I think maybe they mandated some changes to the real system. 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:23.480 I don't know, but there's there's some a R compliant 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:28.839 New York State a R compliant guns that are being sold, 0:47:28.880 --> 0:47:31.799 that have been sold, and in Connecticut they banned, They 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:33.360 banned air fifteen, said you have to turn them in. 0:47:33.400 --> 0:47:36.799 They just went with confiscation, and it's estimated that there 0:47:36.840 --> 0:47:40.560 are over a hundred thousand I think now technically illegal 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:45.000 a rs in the state of Connecticut, just because because 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:47.600 there's you know, the sheriffs aren't gonna go and kicking 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:50.520 indoors I guess and taking firearms from people that they 0:47:50.600 --> 0:47:53.000 legally purchased and they're legally allowed to have a gun. 0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.440 But in Connecticut they said, well, we're gonna you have 0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:59.439 to turn it in now, and a lot of people 0:47:59.480 --> 0:48:04.120 didn't turn the men. So there's that. Ah, this is 0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:06.560 where this whole discussion is going. Just understand the politics 0:48:06.560 --> 0:48:08.520 beyond it now. I know we've got a lot We 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:10.759 took some calls in the last hour on guns and 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:14.000 gun control and this issue. Um, we're going to continue 0:48:14.000 --> 0:48:15.640 talking to this yere on the show. I don't want 0:48:15.640 --> 0:48:17.960 to spend too much of our time tonight on this 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:19.839 because we're gonna be back on it tomorrow and this 0:48:19.920 --> 0:48:22.640 is now front and center. It has replaced immigration. I 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:26.080 thought at this point in February, team we'll be talking 0:48:26.080 --> 0:48:29.879 immigration immigration. Nope, we have moved to gun control now. 0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:31.759 And so this will be a continuing theme here on 0:48:31.800 --> 0:48:33.080 the show. So if you don't get a chance to 0:48:33.120 --> 0:48:34.719 talk to us about it today, if you're calling in 0:48:34.840 --> 0:48:36.279 or you've been waiting on hold, I know a lot 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:40.120 of you have. I promise there'll be lots of opportunities 0:48:40.160 --> 0:48:43.200 going forward because this is now a focus of the 0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:46.239 left and we have to engage on this to make 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:50.440 sure that bad policy does not result. Um. But coming 0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:51.840 up in this hour, I just want to give you 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:53.920 a sense where we're going a little more on the 0:48:55.239 --> 0:49:00.279 the Russian troll factory and what's real and it's not 0:49:00.360 --> 0:49:04.839 with all that, and what's serious analysis and what's hysterical hyperbole. 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:09.640 Then we will talk about the latest casualty of the 0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:13.319 Mueller investigation. A lawyer who had nothing to do with 0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:17.120 anything but said the wrong thing to Mueller. Whoops. Now 0:49:17.160 --> 0:49:21.160 he's facing federal felony. He's a citizen of the Netherlands. 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:23.359 By the way, I think this is interesting in the US. 0:49:23.920 --> 0:49:26.399 US extends federal law to pretty much everybody it can 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:30.520 all over the world. It's it's an interesting thing. Um. 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:32.080 You know, this is where you start to see other 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:35.320 countries come on, right, But Us' is like Oh no, 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:37.439 we're gonna this is when you start to make laws 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.560 about meddling and meddling elections and just wait till that 0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:45.760 blows back on us. Trust me. But this lawyer who 0:49:45.880 --> 0:49:49.400 is now stand is taking a plea deal and also 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:52.360 one of Manaforts associates. So we've got some upbates in 0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:55.200 mull investigation. But I think in some way his most 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:57.839 interesting coming up this hour and it will be later on. 0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:00.239 We have a guest joining as a lawyer to talk 0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:03.320 about uh. And I see now some of the networks 0:50:03.600 --> 0:50:05.120 I had planned this interview all day. I see some 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:06.920 of the networks have actually run interviews on this in 0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:11.440 the last hour or so. What if the fix was 0:50:11.480 --> 0:50:15.759 in against General Flynn. What if they actually knew that 0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:19.400 he wasn't intentionally lying or doing anything that was a crime, 0:50:20.560 --> 0:50:23.440 but they decided that it was essential to get Flynn 0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:28.360 in order to create the appearance of legitimacy for the 0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:30.680 rest of the Muller probe of Trump's people and all 0:50:30.680 --> 0:50:32.960 the rest of it. Right, what if they stacked the 0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:36.040 deck to go after General Flynn. What if they were 0:50:36.080 --> 0:50:38.080 going for his scalp and they cheated to do it. 0:50:38.440 --> 0:50:43.839 I mean the prosecutors can't prove that yet, but there 0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:48.080 is an argument that we may in fact find out 0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:50.200 whether or not that happened, and there's some reason to 0:50:50.200 --> 0:50:53.040 believe that it did. There's some reason to believe that 0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:55.759 it did. We are going to look at that later 0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:59.400 on in this hour because Flynn maybe withdrawing there's there's 0:50:59.480 --> 0:51:03.920 some word out that Flynn maybe withdrawing his guilty plea. 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:07.680 Why would he do that? Well, there's a judge that's involved, 0:51:07.719 --> 0:51:09.719 the very important judge, a judge who was one of 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:12.359 the few who has held the status and yes, even 0:51:12.360 --> 0:51:15.920 the deep staters to account in the past, Judge Emmitt Sullivan. 0:51:17.280 --> 0:51:20.839 He is saying that the FBI has to produce information 0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:25.880 here about the Flynn guilty plea, all of the information. 0:51:26.000 --> 0:51:30.680 Perhaps that will be very interesting because I have a 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:33.719 feeling and we will talk about why that this may 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:39.880 uncover that Flynn got the flip side of Hillary Clinton justice. 0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:42.360 You see, with Hillary and her top aids, it was 0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:44.160 how do we bend the law, how do we bend 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:48.120 over backwards to do everything we can to make sure 0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:52.520 that there's zero legal jeopardy here. We have seen not 0:51:52.640 --> 0:51:59.520 just the converse of that process, the the flip side 0:51:59.520 --> 0:52:05.880 of that goin but with the same actors involved, Peter Struck, 0:52:07.000 --> 0:52:12.320 James Comey, Deputy Director McKay, but the same people involved. 0:52:13.239 --> 0:52:15.440 We see how they do the one trial or the 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.320 one case. We see how they do the other case. 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:21.160 You know which of these things is not like the other? Oh? Well, 0:52:21.280 --> 0:52:25.560 one involves a Republican president. One involves the hope, the 0:52:25.760 --> 0:52:29.880 singular hope of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton. Hmm. Looks 0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:33.439 like they were treated quite differently. We will get into 0:52:33.480 --> 0:52:35.040 that later on this hour. 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Essentially, it's 0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:03.160 so fial media marketing campaign with ninety people, a couple 0:55:03.160 --> 0:55:06.040 of million dollars a few million dollars behind it, um, 0:55:06.160 --> 0:55:09.280 run by people who have, you know, a bare grasp 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:11.680 of the English language and not a full understanding of 0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:15.120 who they're targeting, what they're targeting. Um. I think if 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:17.200 you think about that in terms of just a normal 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:20.439 marketing campaign, that's not going to be a very good 0:55:20.440 --> 0:55:23.399 bang for your book. There's not a lot of people saying, well, 0:55:23.480 --> 0:55:26.239 let's let's hold back. You know, maybe it's not all 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:30.040 of that big of a deal. Maybe it's not all 0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:32.239 that big of a deal. You know. He makes some 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:35.319 really really worthwhile points in there too, about how it 0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:38.360 is the case that people were able to tell generally 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:41.080 who these troll accounts were and what was going on 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:44.560 because in a lot of them the grasp of English 0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:49.319 wasn't even very good. Well, voll Trump, he is best though, 0:55:51.000 --> 0:55:54.879 love hug and kisses Kremlin. I mean, come on, it's 0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:58.080 just wasn't going to be that effective no matter what. 0:55:58.200 --> 0:56:05.320 It was minuscule when compared to the massive media echo 0:56:05.440 --> 0:56:08.960 chambers on both sides when it comes to the election, 0:56:09.320 --> 0:56:11.320 it's just complete nonsense. But here we we got a 0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:13.400 guy who's want to say, look at maybe people shouldn't 0:56:13.680 --> 0:56:16.160 shouldn't just totally freak out about this, And yeah, that's 0:56:16.160 --> 0:56:19.080 all I'm trying to say about this too. We shouldn't 0:56:19.080 --> 0:56:21.600 freak out about It's not that big a deal. People 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:24.600 want to make it a big deal because Hillary lost. 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:26.040 But you see, this is what it brings us back 0:56:26.080 --> 0:56:29.160 to the point about how they were willing to overlook 0:56:29.200 --> 0:56:31.759 it when they thought Hillary was gonna win, because that 0:56:31.960 --> 0:56:34.520 was their their actual judgment at the time. Not that 0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:37.319 big a deal, don't rock the boat. Hillary is gonna win. 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:41.000 We'll forget all about this. That was their real feeling 0:56:41.040 --> 0:56:44.000 about it. If you don't believe me, just remember this. 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:50.600 There's President Obama said, there is no serious person out 0:56:50.600 --> 0:56:53.719 there who would suggest somehow that you could even you 0:56:53.760 --> 0:56:59.000 could even rig America's elections, in part because they're so 0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:03.520 decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There's no evidence 0:57:03.920 --> 0:57:07.279 that has happened in the past or that there are 0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:11.280 instances in which that will happen this time. And so, uh, 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:14.480 I'd invite Mr Trump to stop lining and go try 0:57:14.520 --> 0:57:16.560 to make his case to get votes, and if he 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:21.040 got the most votes, then it would be my expectation 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:25.040 of Hillary Clinton to offer a gracious concession speech and 0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:30.040 pledge to work with him to make sure the American 0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:34.080 people benefit from an effective government. What Obama said there 0:57:34.160 --> 0:57:37.200 is all true. Actually, hey, look, I give credit. I 0:57:37.280 --> 0:57:40.880 give credit where it's due. Some people are just you know, 0:57:41.320 --> 0:57:45.040 raw raw whatever they think. You know, the conservative populace 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:46.520 movement wants to hear. Right now, I just tell you 0:57:46.560 --> 0:57:49.560 what I think in any given moment, and what Obama 0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:51.240 said there is true. It being very very hard for 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:53.240 any one person reging election, be very hard to reg 0:57:53.240 --> 0:57:57.280 an election period. It would be I mean, if you, 0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:01.080 for example, we're to make sure that there was no 0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:03.400 voter I D in place in a whole lot of states, 0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:05.840 and you know, I mean that that would at least 0:58:05.840 --> 0:58:07.400 make it easier. I'm not saying you could, but it 0:58:07.440 --> 0:58:11.080 make it easier. But nonetheless, it would be very hard 0:58:11.120 --> 0:58:14.960 to do alright, realistically, and they knew this, and they 0:58:15.040 --> 0:58:18.440 knew it before and they know it now. But they're 0:58:18.520 --> 0:58:23.000 just so self indulgent when it comes to their anti 0:58:23.000 --> 0:58:27.560 Trump rage that they'll justify anything with it. And that's 0:58:27.560 --> 0:58:29.840 why this whole troll factory. So, I mean, it's funny, 0:58:29.840 --> 0:58:32.640 you know. I was just explaining to a Miss Molly 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:35.080 a little bit about this, and she's one of the 0:58:35.080 --> 0:58:38.200 great things about our relationship. But she's not somebody who's political. 0:58:38.480 --> 0:58:40.120 You know, she's she's up on what goes on in 0:58:40.160 --> 0:58:42.960 the world, but she's not. It's just she's got other 0:58:43.000 --> 0:58:44.600 things in her mind. It's great and I don't go 0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:46.120 home and have to you know, oh, did you read 0:58:46.120 --> 0:58:48.000 the latest piece in the Weekly Standard. I'm like, no, no, 0:58:48.320 --> 0:58:50.760 it's not it's not how it goes. I was explaining 0:58:50.760 --> 0:58:52.760 this to her and she's kind of like, wait, what, 0:58:53.200 --> 0:58:58.560 how many people? How much money? What? And I was like, yeah, exactly. 0:58:59.400 --> 0:59:01.800 It's a it's a kind of what situation like this 0:59:01.880 --> 0:59:04.120 is not what they're trying to make it into. And 0:59:04.200 --> 0:59:08.840 that's what is so so exasperating. That's a good word 0:59:08.840 --> 0:59:13.160 for EXASPERA gosh, it's so tired of it. But we 0:59:13.240 --> 0:59:15.560 gotta keep fighting Fox, gotta get the shield high because 0:59:15.560 --> 0:59:18.800 they're they're gonna push on this. This is all about remember, 0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:22.680 all about impeachment and long term all about it. That's 0:59:22.720 --> 0:59:25.160 why they are clinging to the narrative because if they 0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:27.280 are able to they don't. They're not going to get 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:30.040 removal unless they win the Senate and the House. But 0:59:30.160 --> 0:59:33.080 even if all they can manage is to, let's say, 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:36.680 take the House, which I think is unlikely, but that's 0:59:36.680 --> 0:59:39.480 what they're hoping, they'll they'll impeach to the president on 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:43.120 this issue even without a Muller. A Muller never mind 0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:45.120 a smoking gun with anything. I mean, I didn't even 0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:48.080 mention it yet I gotta talk about it. Right after this, 0:59:48.080 --> 0:59:51.200 this latest guy that Muller got, everyone just like, what 0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:56.200 is what is this? Why are we even so he 0:59:56.400 --> 0:59:58.360 he was I have to look, I have to give 0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:02.240 you the details. It's so insignifican again and so nonsensical 1:00:02.680 --> 1:00:04.640 in the broader scope of what Mueller is supposed to 1:00:04.640 --> 1:00:07.280 be looking for here with Russia collusion, that you're forced 1:00:07.320 --> 1:00:10.000 to sit around you say to yourself, what are we 1:00:10.000 --> 1:00:13.280 even spending our tax dollars on here? With he's some 1:00:13.440 --> 1:00:15.960 Dutch lawyer who said something that no one cares about. 1:00:16.040 --> 1:00:33.800 The FBI is now facing prison time. Is crazy. He's 1:00:33.880 --> 1:00:36.240 back with you now because when it comes to the 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:40.920 fight for truth, the fuck never stops. When you return 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:43.120 an indictment that no one is ever going to be 1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:47.080 tried on, um, you do it because you're trying to 1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:50.520 craft a narrative or make a statement. And I think 1:00:50.920 --> 1:00:55.280 what happened with Mueller's case is the original collusion angle 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:59.600 that they were proceeding on, which is that the Russians 1:00:59.600 --> 1:01:03.080 hacked the election and that Trump may have been or 1:01:03.120 --> 1:01:06.600 Trump people may have been complicit in the hacking, is 1:01:06.640 --> 1:01:10.240 something that a they don't have evidence of and be 1:01:10.560 --> 1:01:13.480 even if they hadn't, they couldn't prove in court. That's 1:01:13.480 --> 1:01:17.800 a big hole in a collusion case. What Mueller probably 1:01:17.840 --> 1:01:21.320 wanted to do was put to rest any claim that 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:26.000 Russia hadn't actually uh interfered with our election, and I 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:29.240 think this indictment is an attempt to do that, But 1:01:29.360 --> 1:01:32.560 it's far afield from what the original collusion allegation was. 1:01:32.880 --> 1:01:35.040 As our friend Annie McCarthy, who was just laying out 1:01:35.040 --> 1:01:37.720 some of his thoughts on Fox News about the Muller 1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:42.520 and Diamond from last week. Very important that we all 1:01:42.600 --> 1:01:46.680 understand they're creating a narrative with all this that Mueller 1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:52.959 is actually bringing a federal case against thirteen Russians, really 1:01:52.960 --> 1:01:55.200 as part of the news cycle. That's what this is about. 1:01:55.320 --> 1:01:57.960 This is it's a news story. It's not actually a 1:01:58.040 --> 1:02:00.760 federal prosecution is not going to go anywhere. The mean anything, 1:02:01.120 --> 1:02:06.040 never going to get these guys. And as I've said 1:02:06.000 --> 1:02:07.440 to you also, I think there's a whole bunch of 1:02:07.440 --> 1:02:12.040 other problems with information warfare as a charge that a 1:02:12.080 --> 1:02:17.960 federal prosecutor, effectively federal prosecutor is is levying against another 1:02:18.040 --> 1:02:22.880 country and what that means for our country. And do 1:02:22.960 --> 1:02:29.160 we ever meddle? I don't know. I think maybe sometimes 1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:33.840 it might have happened somewhere just saying the meddling. But 1:02:34.760 --> 1:02:37.320 you have the Mueller probe continuing on. As we discussed 1:02:37.400 --> 1:02:40.800 last week, there was there were the indictments, and then 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:43.960 today you have two more bits of information add into 1:02:43.960 --> 1:02:51.480 all this. One you have a colleague of Paul Manaforts 1:02:51.640 --> 1:02:55.320 Gates who has been flipped, we are told who has 1:02:55.360 --> 1:02:58.040 been flipped and is going to testify against Maniport and 1:02:58.080 --> 1:03:00.360 they're gonna be They're gonna try to nail them on 1:03:00.400 --> 1:03:04.760 some fraud stuff and some wire fraud, bank stuff, you know, 1:03:04.960 --> 1:03:09.200 just things that have nothing to do with Russia collusion. Nothing. 1:03:10.520 --> 1:03:14.040 But I've I've said this along you those of you 1:03:14.080 --> 1:03:16.120 who have been listening to the show for a while 1:03:16.240 --> 1:03:19.640 and now over a year on air here in National syndication, 1:03:19.680 --> 1:03:21.080 those have been listening to me for a while now. 1:03:22.040 --> 1:03:25.000 I have been very consistent on this point. This is 1:03:25.040 --> 1:03:28.160 going to grind along, and it's gonna chop up the 1:03:28.200 --> 1:03:31.880 lives of a whole bunch of folks that have nothing 1:03:31.920 --> 1:03:35.000 to do with conspiring with the Kremlin to mess with 1:03:35.080 --> 1:03:38.640 a U. S election. But the left just wants they 1:03:38.680 --> 1:03:40.720 just want to feed bodies into the system that they 1:03:40.800 --> 1:03:45.120 just want scalps. They want people to be punished so 1:03:45.280 --> 1:03:50.320 that there is some sense of wrongdoing from the Trump camp, 1:03:50.360 --> 1:03:51.800 right just because if if anyone goes to pre it 1:03:51.840 --> 1:03:55.160 doesn't matter. What for if it's tax evasion, which may 1:03:55.240 --> 1:03:58.400 very well be involved in the Menaphort charge, well then 1:03:58.960 --> 1:04:01.920 they're bad people that around Trump. Keep Menaphort got canned 1:04:02.120 --> 1:04:05.320 during the campaign. It's not Trump's fault. If Manaford was 1:04:05.480 --> 1:04:08.720 doing shady stuff in Ukraine beforehand and whatever. And as 1:04:08.760 --> 1:04:14.360 we all know, the Trump campaign was a little bit 1:04:14.400 --> 1:04:19.360 of an improvisation. I could say that an improvisation. And 1:04:19.400 --> 1:04:21.560 some of the people that were affiliated with an associate 1:04:21.560 --> 1:04:23.160 with the Trump campaign. And this also goes to a 1:04:23.200 --> 1:04:25.440 lot of the never Trump sentiment. You know, all the 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:29.200 in the political world, the so called best and brightest 1:04:29.240 --> 1:04:31.400 and most connected, we're not going to work for Trump. 1:04:31.400 --> 1:04:34.360 At the beginning. I know because I know a lot 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:36.880 of those folks. They were running over to the Rubio 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:43.800 and Cruise campaigns and Jeb Bush, although Jeb Jeb exclamation 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:48.120 point fizzled out pretty quickly. But it was Rubio and 1:04:48.120 --> 1:04:51.240 Cruz that were attracting the political high rollers so to speak, 1:04:51.320 --> 1:04:53.080 in the in the early days, not Trump. And that's 1:04:53.080 --> 1:04:55.240 why Trump put such a premium on loyalty, because he 1:04:55.240 --> 1:04:57.520 he was really able to see, you know, who's who's 1:04:57.560 --> 1:04:59.680 with me? You know, it wasn't just who's with me 1:04:59.720 --> 1:05:01.439 because you think I'm gonna win, Who's with me because 1:05:01.440 --> 1:05:03.919 they believe? But that meant that there were other people 1:05:03.960 --> 1:05:06.400 who were just opportunists, and Manafort was one of them, 1:05:06.480 --> 1:05:10.000 right manaforts Like yeah, sure, Donald, like I'll come and 1:05:10.080 --> 1:05:11.840 ride this way for a while with you. Why not, 1:05:12.080 --> 1:05:14.760 you know? And if I'll do it for some shady Ukrainians, 1:05:14.760 --> 1:05:17.640 I'll do it for you, right who cares well? Now? 1:05:17.680 --> 1:05:21.720 Manaforts in a in some trouble. Innocent until proven guilty, 1:05:21.760 --> 1:05:24.120 but it looks like he's in a rough spot. Then 1:05:24.160 --> 1:05:25.960 you get this other guy today, and I have to 1:05:25.960 --> 1:05:27.560 read this to you, so I get to make sure 1:05:27.560 --> 1:05:30.320 I get all the specifics clear. The son in law, 1:05:30.320 --> 1:05:33.200 according the Washington Post, here son in law of Russian 1:05:33.680 --> 1:05:37.439 Uh well, here's what the opening paragraph is. The Dutch 1:05:37.480 --> 1:05:40.880 son in law of one of Russia's wealthiest men pleaded 1:05:40.880 --> 1:05:44.320 guilty Tuesday and Federal court in Washington to making false 1:05:44.360 --> 1:05:50.880 statements in Special Counsel Mueller's probe of Russian interference in 1:05:49.920 --> 1:05:55.920 the US presidential election. Alex van der Zwan was charged 1:05:55.960 --> 1:05:59.120 with line to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates. 1:05:59.120 --> 1:06:02.240 Who's that who served as a top official on President 1:06:02.240 --> 1:06:06.400 Trump's campaign and a longtime business partner of former campaign 1:06:06.480 --> 1:06:12.120 chairman Paul Manafort. Based in London, Venders Juan worked for 1:06:12.160 --> 1:06:15.840 the law firms Scatting Arts, very famous, very high end 1:06:16.040 --> 1:06:18.960 uh law firm well known here in New York City. 1:06:18.960 --> 1:06:20.680 A lot of my law school buddies wanted to go 1:06:20.720 --> 1:06:23.960 work there, which worked with Maniford and Gates when they 1:06:24.000 --> 1:06:27.720 served as political consultants in Ukraine. Uh So, this guy 1:06:27.800 --> 1:06:31.720 is thirty three years old and he's pleaded guilty to 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:35.200 a felony. We don't know what his punishment's going to be. 1:06:35.240 --> 1:06:37.840 He could serve up to six months in prison. But 1:06:37.880 --> 1:06:39.400 now he's a convicted film which I would know what 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:41.600 means that at least under US law. I mean he's 1:06:41.640 --> 1:06:46.960 a Dutch citizen. Under US law, he could uh not 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:49.120 practice law anymore as it convicted flans. I don't know 1:06:49.200 --> 1:06:52.280 how that affects him in Europe, but who knows. But 1:06:52.400 --> 1:06:55.440 here's the thing he talked about when he last spoke 1:06:55.480 --> 1:06:57.680 to Gates, and he was off by like a month. 1:06:58.920 --> 1:07:01.960 And they're saying that, you know, that's a big deal. 1:07:01.960 --> 1:07:04.720 It's an ice facing a federal criminal charge. What does 1:07:04.720 --> 1:07:08.400 this vendor's wound guy have to do with anything? Who knows? 1:07:08.440 --> 1:07:13.800 But Mueller's just he's just out taking people down. You 1:07:14.080 --> 1:07:15.840 you know, say what you will about this. You can't 1:07:15.920 --> 1:07:18.960 look at this and not think, how does the Mueller? 1:07:19.080 --> 1:07:21.720 How do Mueller's tactics compared to the FBI's tactics with 1:07:21.760 --> 1:07:24.280 Hillary's emails. Just always keep that in the back of 1:07:24.280 --> 1:07:26.880 your mind and I think you'll understand what's really work here. 1:07:26.920 --> 1:07:34.160 Speaking of which Flynn, was Flynn ambushed? Did they stack 1:07:34.240 --> 1:07:39.000 the deck? Did they cheat to get Flynn's scalp. We'll 1:07:39.040 --> 1:07:42.080 talk about that in just a few minutes. So there's 1:07:42.120 --> 1:07:46.720 been a lot of reporting on Russia collusion last few days. 1:07:46.760 --> 1:07:50.160 There's this whole indictment of the thirteen guys tied to 1:07:50.200 --> 1:07:54.040 the troll factories and the sock puppet maneuvers, all the 1:07:54.040 --> 1:07:55.919 stuff you've seen on Facebook, what we've been talking about 1:07:55.920 --> 1:07:59.080 here on the show. But there's something else that's happening 1:07:59.080 --> 1:08:03.040 in the legal world right now that touches on these 1:08:03.080 --> 1:08:07.640 investigations over Russian interference and theoretical collusion and all this 1:08:07.720 --> 1:08:10.960 other stuff that has to do with the status of 1:08:11.280 --> 1:08:15.400 General Michael Flynn's plea plea do you? So, let's bring 1:08:15.440 --> 1:08:17.479 on somebody who has particular inside in this. We have 1:08:17.560 --> 1:08:20.600 Margot Cleveland with us. She is a senior contribute to 1:08:20.600 --> 1:08:23.320 the Federalist and a lawyer who served nearly twenty five 1:08:23.400 --> 1:08:26.639 years as a career law clerk for federal Apple appellate 1:08:26.720 --> 1:08:29.320 judge and and AGC professor in the College of Business 1:08:29.320 --> 1:08:31.720 at University of Notre Dame. And you are involved in 1:08:31.760 --> 1:08:35.160 this case, Margot, Well, I'm involved in the sense that 1:08:35.240 --> 1:08:38.479 I've been researching it after I started seeing the media 1:08:38.640 --> 1:08:43.080 just ignore all of these problems that have been coming out, 1:08:43.720 --> 1:08:47.360 and when I dug into it more, I realized that 1:08:47.520 --> 1:08:51.200 there is a huge issue of whether or not in 1:08:51.520 --> 1:08:55.320 the plea agreement there was information with help from Flynn. 1:08:55.560 --> 1:08:57.400 Hold On, let me just tell everybody what the title 1:08:57.439 --> 1:09:00.120 of Margot's pieces here, It's how a plea re per 1:09:00.160 --> 1:09:04.960 soul from Michael Flynn could uncover more federal corruption. Margot, 1:09:05.120 --> 1:09:07.439 I read your whole piece. It's really interesting, I think 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:11.160 very important. I'm somebody who it's very agitated about the 1:09:11.200 --> 1:09:18.240 possibility of federal overreach and prosecutorial misconduct, and this seems 1:09:18.280 --> 1:09:21.639 like it's at least possible right now and trending towards 1:09:21.760 --> 1:09:25.120 likely that there's something going on here with this. Can 1:09:25.160 --> 1:09:28.760 you walk us through what's what what may in fact 1:09:28.800 --> 1:09:30.599 be the case with this Flynn plea deal, and why 1:09:30.600 --> 1:09:34.400 you're seeing it that way? Okay, sure, So after he 1:09:34.560 --> 1:09:38.280 put guilty. Within a week, the judge who accepted his 1:09:38.360 --> 1:09:42.519 guilty plea was taken off the case and a new 1:09:42.640 --> 1:09:46.600 judge was given the case, which by itself, that was 1:09:46.680 --> 1:09:50.360 pretty mysterious. Usually if there's a procusal, it would happen 1:09:50.600 --> 1:09:53.559 before they accept a plea deal. So that was the 1:09:53.560 --> 1:09:58.040 first thing that kind of came out as weird. And then, um, 1:09:58.040 --> 1:10:00.720 it was last week there was a ending order that 1:10:00.800 --> 1:10:02.439 was entered in the case and it was the first 1:10:02.439 --> 1:10:05.320 time I took a look at it, and it required 1:10:05.320 --> 1:10:09.799 the government to turn over any exculpatory evidence to Flynn. 1:10:10.479 --> 1:10:13.759 And at that point it was actually a revised standing order. 1:10:13.880 --> 1:10:16.840 The judge had done it back in December, I think 1:10:16.880 --> 1:10:19.200 it was. And when I looked at a little bit more, 1:10:19.240 --> 1:10:22.040 I thought, you know what, if there is this evidence 1:10:22.080 --> 1:10:25.519 that's not out there, this judge has given the green 1:10:25.600 --> 1:10:28.639 light that this is the basis to withhold the guilty play, 1:10:28.680 --> 1:10:32.160 I'm sorry to withdraw a guilty plate. Now whether or 1:10:32.240 --> 1:10:35.479 not the government withheld evidence, I don't know. We'd have 1:10:35.600 --> 1:10:37.599 to wait to see what comes out. But you've got 1:10:37.600 --> 1:10:39.880 to keep in mind who the players are in the 1:10:39.880 --> 1:10:44.120 Flynn case. So we had that FBI duel the ones 1:10:44.160 --> 1:10:47.280 who were texting back and forth, and one of those 1:10:47.520 --> 1:10:51.840 was the individual who had actually interviewed Flynn, which is 1:10:51.880 --> 1:10:54.360 what he was charged with line to the FBI on 1:10:55.120 --> 1:10:58.439 So you look at that, and he originally, the FBI 1:10:58.560 --> 1:11:02.120 agent had originally said he didn't think Flynn was lying. 1:11:02.640 --> 1:11:06.320 Mure set he didn't think Flynn was lying. But then 1:11:06.479 --> 1:11:10.120 Flynn gets indicted on this. So can you how could 1:11:10.120 --> 1:11:12.639 that be possible? Margot? I mean, you've got how could 1:11:12.720 --> 1:11:16.519 some FBI d o J officials think that someone did 1:11:16.520 --> 1:11:19.599 not lie and then that person is charged with lying 1:11:19.800 --> 1:11:23.320 for the circumstances under review. That just seems you know, 1:11:23.520 --> 1:11:25.519 how much faith can we put in the process when 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:28.040 one FBI guy goes, no, there's no lie and another says, yeah, 1:11:28.080 --> 1:11:30.840 I think there's a lie, right, And and that's the 1:11:30.880 --> 1:11:36.360 part that's really concerning, that you have those statements and 1:11:36.400 --> 1:11:38.720 then he gets charged. Now it could be that they 1:11:38.760 --> 1:11:42.439 had more evidence that contradicted something he said in the 1:11:42.479 --> 1:11:46.519 interview that came out later, or that showed that he 1:11:46.680 --> 1:11:50.720 really didn't forget the scenario that was that was some 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:54.560 of the testimony, that he didn't recall something, or the inconsistent, 1:11:54.800 --> 1:11:57.599 see would be something that maybe he forgot, so who knows, 1:11:57.760 --> 1:12:00.680 maybe they discovered something else. But when you look at 1:12:00.720 --> 1:12:03.559 all the players that were involved in this, they've got 1:12:03.600 --> 1:12:08.719 all of this stuff coming out that is throwing questions 1:12:08.760 --> 1:12:13.680 about their credibility. And if this comes forward, now the 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:17.000 government has to turn over the savidence. And it sounds 1:12:17.080 --> 1:12:20.240 like that Flynn took the plea deal before he was 1:12:20.280 --> 1:12:24.759 given some of this exculpatory evidence. So again we don't 1:12:24.800 --> 1:12:29.200 know yet what this evidence is. But the judge who said, 1:12:29.280 --> 1:12:33.479 on this case, excuse me, who is currently honest? Judge Sullivan? Right, 1:12:33.600 --> 1:12:36.519 Judge Sullivan. Yeah, he's He's a very interesting guy with 1:12:36.560 --> 1:12:39.240 some of his previous decisions too. He is not friendly 1:12:39.280 --> 1:12:42.479 to the government playing games with this exactly. He is 1:12:42.520 --> 1:12:46.759 the judge who when he discovered the withholding of evidence 1:12:46.800 --> 1:12:49.800 in Steven's in the in the Senator to Steven's case 1:12:49.800 --> 1:12:55.599 in Alaska, right, exactly exactly, he was irate. He ordered 1:12:55.600 --> 1:13:00.360 an investigation. He did not tolerate it. So if there 1:13:00.439 --> 1:13:04.679 is nothing, I will absolutely trust Sullivan. So if Sullivan 1:13:04.760 --> 1:13:09.120 comes out and it clears it, I have no concerns 1:13:09.120 --> 1:13:12.360 about the flint component of it is it is it 1:13:12.360 --> 1:13:15.000 a settled matter? And we're speaking to Margot Cleveland. Everyone 1:13:15.080 --> 1:13:19.200 senior contribute to the federalist and she's a lawyer, Margot, 1:13:19.240 --> 1:13:21.760 is it a federal is a federalist? Sorry? Is it 1:13:21.840 --> 1:13:26.320 settled law that you if you take a plea deal 1:13:27.200 --> 1:13:30.400 exculpatory evidence that it's found later does not matter? How 1:13:30.439 --> 1:13:33.080 does that work? So essentially forever listening, if they the 1:13:33.120 --> 1:13:35.639 Feds come to me and say you're looking at five years, 1:13:35.800 --> 1:13:38.840 or you plead guilty today and you'll get a six 1:13:38.880 --> 1:13:41.640 month suspended sentence, and if it came out you know 1:13:41.680 --> 1:13:44.200 two weeks after that that the Feds actually knew I 1:13:44.240 --> 1:13:48.640 was innocent all along. Does that matter? It depends on 1:13:48.760 --> 1:13:51.559 where you are. This is an issue that is not 1:13:51.680 --> 1:13:54.400 resolved in the court yet. And that was one of 1:13:54.400 --> 1:13:57.840 the things that I found interesting about Judge Fullisan standing order. 1:13:58.479 --> 1:14:00.720 But the lower courts are actually is split on this. 1:14:01.080 --> 1:14:05.320 The Supreme Court has never said whether or not withholding 1:14:05.320 --> 1:14:11.160 exculpatory evidence in a plea case will result in the 1:14:11.240 --> 1:14:14.640 plea being thrown out. If it's withheld and you go 1:14:14.720 --> 1:14:17.519 to trial, you get a new trial. But in a 1:14:17.560 --> 1:14:21.240 plea case, the courts have different views but this is 1:14:21.280 --> 1:14:26.519 where it's key Judge Sullivan. Sullivan's view is that you 1:14:26.600 --> 1:14:30.280 must turn this evidence over, and if you don't, that 1:14:30.520 --> 1:14:33.760 is a basis for a plea to be withdrawn. He 1:14:33.920 --> 1:14:36.559 is a district court judge in d C. And there 1:14:36.560 --> 1:14:40.120 are at least two, if not three, district court cases 1:14:40.160 --> 1:14:42.639 in d C that have held that. And again that's 1:14:42.680 --> 1:14:44.760 one of the key points that I was trying to 1:14:44.800 --> 1:14:47.800 make in this in this article, trying to take the 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:51.040 kind of mushy legal stuff and make it pretty clear 1:14:51.120 --> 1:14:56.400 that in his court, if they withheld material exculpatory evidence, 1:14:56.439 --> 1:14:59.800 it would be a basis to withdraw a plea. So 1:15:00.120 --> 1:15:02.200 if it does get with drawn, we're going to know 1:15:02.280 --> 1:15:05.280 there's some problems there. But if it does get withdrawn, 1:15:05.280 --> 1:15:07.000 I mean, Margot, I know you're you're you're a lawyer's 1:15:07.000 --> 1:15:08.720 you're keeping it right on the straight and error here, 1:15:08.720 --> 1:15:10.400 But I'm gonna come out and say, if they withdraw 1:15:10.439 --> 1:15:13.280 the plea, it's because Flynn was getting hosed and this 1:15:13.360 --> 1:15:15.640 was a setup. That's what that means to me. You 1:15:15.640 --> 1:15:18.160 don't have to agree with that, but that's how I see, right, 1:15:18.200 --> 1:15:21.559 and I don't think that's necessarily the case. Flynn might 1:15:21.720 --> 1:15:24.960 have planned for valid reasons, maybe he knew he did 1:15:25.000 --> 1:15:28.000 something wrong, or he might have planed for invalid reasons 1:15:28.040 --> 1:15:31.519 that he was concerned about what it would do to 1:15:31.560 --> 1:15:36.160 his family and the long process, So it could have 1:15:36.200 --> 1:15:39.480 gone one way or the other from a personal standpoint. 1:15:39.640 --> 1:15:41.479 And then how how often does it defend in the 1:15:41.640 --> 1:15:45.400 federal case change a guilty plea unless there's new information 1:15:45.479 --> 1:15:48.080 that would change the status of their I mean, just 1:15:48.880 --> 1:15:52.160 how I've never heard of that happening. Well, it actually 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:54.400 happens where they try to do it a lot, and 1:15:54.400 --> 1:15:59.680 and usually it's not these high profile cases. But from 1:15:59.720 --> 1:16:02.479 my perspective, the bigger issue if he would draw us 1:16:02.479 --> 1:16:05.920 the plea is that the evidence was withheld. So you 1:16:05.920 --> 1:16:08.439 can kind of look at it two ways. There's the 1:16:08.439 --> 1:16:13.000 Flynn matter of him personally, and then there's a matter 1:16:13.040 --> 1:16:17.439 of what does this say about the prosecutors involved in 1:16:17.479 --> 1:16:20.439 the case. And I think the second issue is the 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:25.400 one that has broader ramifications. Obviously to Flynn it matters, 1:16:25.439 --> 1:16:30.240 but the broader ramifications if he is able to withdraw 1:16:30.320 --> 1:16:33.439 the plea is that this process was corrupted. That's what 1:16:33.600 --> 1:16:35.240 That's what I mean. It would seem to me pretty 1:16:35.280 --> 1:16:38.200 clear that we're dealing with a bunch of prosecutorial headhunters here, 1:16:38.240 --> 1:16:39.960 which is not a good thing when you're talking about 1:16:39.960 --> 1:16:44.400 an open ended, massive special counsel investigation. Oh. Absolutely, And 1:16:44.400 --> 1:16:46.920 and just to clarify, what I mean is Flynn could 1:16:46.960 --> 1:16:50.000 have done something wrong, whether or not the prosecutors were 1:16:50.000 --> 1:16:54.559 good or bad. But the problem of the plea going 1:16:54.600 --> 1:16:57.759 through in this context is it is showing that there 1:16:57.800 --> 1:17:01.720 would be broader corruption if this providence was withheld. And 1:17:01.800 --> 1:17:03.680 I do want to make one more point here that 1:17:04.040 --> 1:17:08.280 this is really tying into the whole Phis A Court process, 1:17:08.320 --> 1:17:12.160 which really triggered my interest in this when I read 1:17:12.200 --> 1:17:16.479 the House memo that came out and then the Grassly 1:17:16.560 --> 1:17:20.240 Grand memo. The process of the five A Court was 1:17:20.320 --> 1:17:24.960 completely abused from what they said in those memos, and 1:17:25.040 --> 1:17:26.800 I wrote a couple of articles on that that you 1:17:26.800 --> 1:17:29.360 can take a look at it the federalists. But this 1:17:29.560 --> 1:17:33.120 all is going to a broader problem with how the 1:17:33.200 --> 1:17:36.160 Department of Justice is handling things, or I should say, 1:17:36.200 --> 1:17:39.160 select individuals. And to me that shocking because I've known 1:17:39.240 --> 1:17:43.720 some U S. Attorney's assistants, attorneys who have the most integrity, 1:17:43.840 --> 1:17:45.799 and to me, this is what is the most disturbing 1:17:45.840 --> 1:17:48.000 about it. But when we saw from the Ted Stevens thing, 1:17:48.040 --> 1:17:50.680 for example, Senators Ted Stevens, if that doesn't happen, by 1:17:50.680 --> 1:17:53.080 the way, we probably don't have Obamacare. For everybody listening, 1:17:53.160 --> 1:17:56.280 a bunch of federal prosecutors knew that he had expeltatory 1:17:56.320 --> 1:18:00.160 evidence and they hit it. It was terrible exactly. They 1:18:00.160 --> 1:18:01.799 literally were like, oh, we know this guy is innocent, 1:18:01.920 --> 1:18:03.960 let's nail him anyway because he's got in our next 1:18:03.960 --> 1:18:05.840 to his name and he's a senator from Alaska. That's 1:18:05.880 --> 1:18:08.840 what happened there. Margot Cleveland, everybody check out her piece 1:18:08.960 --> 1:18:12.840 how a plea reversal from Michael Flynn could uncover more 1:18:12.880 --> 1:18:15.599 federal corruption. It is really compelling reading. It's up on 1:18:15.920 --> 1:18:18.400 the Federalist dot com. Margot, please stay with it and 1:18:18.400 --> 1:18:19.880 if you have updates, we would love to have you 1:18:19.920 --> 1:18:23.240 back to explain what's going on here. Okay, great, sounds wonderful, 1:18:23.280 --> 1:18:25.439 Thanks so much, Thanks so much, Margot. Alright, team, we're 1:18:25.439 --> 1:18:27.320 gonna roll into a break. We come back. We are 1:18:27.320 --> 1:18:31.280 going to talk with our friend Sean Davis about what's 1:18:31.320 --> 1:18:36.360 going on with the various fixes that are or whether 1:18:36.360 --> 1:18:39.320 the fixes or not, the various actions that people are 1:18:39.320 --> 1:18:42.960 talking about on guns in the as a result of 1:18:43.000 --> 1:18:44.920 the tragedy and Florida. We'll get into that more. Stay 1:18:44.960 --> 1:18:48.240 with me, Welcome back everyone. So we have been talking 1:18:48.240 --> 1:18:51.160 a lot about guns here in the Freedom Hunt because 1:18:51.160 --> 1:18:54.160 of what happened in Florida. This is the center of 1:18:54.280 --> 1:18:57.599 the national policy discussion right now. It's not immigration, it's 1:18:57.600 --> 1:19:00.639 not even Russia right now. It is in fact, guns, 1:19:00.680 --> 1:19:04.840 the Second Amendment, gun control, what to do about school shootings. 1:19:05.320 --> 1:19:07.840 So there are proposals now on the table. Unlike in 1:19:07.880 --> 1:19:11.439 some previous shootings, there are at least real ideas that 1:19:11.439 --> 1:19:13.639 are being forward and not by everyone, but by some, 1:19:14.120 --> 1:19:16.960 and therefore we should spend some time looking at them 1:19:16.960 --> 1:19:19.439 and judging them on their merits. And to help us 1:19:19.479 --> 1:19:22.040 do that now we have Sean Davis. He is co 1:19:22.240 --> 1:19:24.800 founder of The Federalist. The Federalist dot com is one 1:19:24.840 --> 1:19:27.320 of my favorite commentary sites. You guys should all be 1:19:27.400 --> 1:19:29.400 quite familiar with it. Shawn's the co founder and he 1:19:29.479 --> 1:19:32.960 joins us now. Sean, thank you so much, Thank you 1:19:33.000 --> 1:19:36.080 for having me. Can you just let's let's work through 1:19:36.120 --> 1:19:40.200 what are some of the the biggest takeaways in terms 1:19:40.200 --> 1:19:43.880 of policy from the horrible tragedy in Florida. I mean, 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:46.200 I can throw some of your way Sean also, if 1:19:46.200 --> 1:19:48.360 there's any I'm leaving out, but I just wanted to 1:19:48.400 --> 1:19:53.000 start with, what do you think about age restrictions for 1:19:53.080 --> 1:19:55.000 buying an A R. I'm seeing that get a lot 1:19:55.040 --> 1:20:01.760 of play. I think they're utterly silly, devoid of information 1:20:02.120 --> 1:20:06.720 on who's responsible for the bulk of mass shootings, and 1:20:06.880 --> 1:20:10.920 just you know, fundamentally at odds with what we know 1:20:10.920 --> 1:20:13.559 about how criminals work and about how human nature works. 1:20:13.640 --> 1:20:15.760 For example, rost out that at the New York Times said, 1:20:16.160 --> 1:20:18.400 you know what, because all these shooters are young men, 1:20:18.479 --> 1:20:22.360 we shouldn't let anyone under thirty by an a R fifteen, 1:20:22.760 --> 1:20:26.360 which number one. It's just it's so silly. There's so 1:20:26.439 --> 1:20:30.280 many other guns out there that are are more powerful, 1:20:30.400 --> 1:20:35.519 have a bigger range, better terminal ballistics, and yet d 1:20:35.640 --> 1:20:40.799 a R has captured UH gun controllers imagination for some reason. 1:20:40.880 --> 1:20:43.320 And then the other issues, looking at the actual data 1:20:43.320 --> 1:20:46.840 of who commits mass shootings in the US, you would think, 1:20:47.000 --> 1:20:51.080 looking at news coverage that it's always alienated young men, teenagers, 1:20:51.160 --> 1:20:53.800 early twenties, and that's just not the case. In fact, 1:20:53.880 --> 1:20:56.479 the majority fifty five percent of mass students in this 1:20:56.560 --> 1:21:00.280 country are committed by middle aged men. Men between the 1:21:00.320 --> 1:21:04.400 ages of thirty and fifty is the majority of mass 1:21:04.400 --> 1:21:07.479 shootings in the US. So these age based restrictions, they 1:21:07.600 --> 1:21:10.960 are their wild attempts to try to come up with 1:21:11.120 --> 1:21:14.280 some way, somehow to ban this gun or that gun, 1:21:14.320 --> 1:21:16.759 but they're just not rooted in the reality of what's happening. 1:21:17.000 --> 1:21:19.599 I think that's the You've made a number of points 1:21:19.640 --> 1:21:21.760 and everybody should keep in mind, but the the the 1:21:21.800 --> 1:21:24.840 one that sticks out the most for me is that 1:21:25.040 --> 1:21:27.559 this would not go to the heart of the problem 1:21:27.640 --> 1:21:32.360 because you're not even necessarily going to legally never mind 1:21:32.439 --> 1:21:34.880 their illegal possession of weapons, which we know is always 1:21:34.880 --> 1:21:36.960 also an issue that comes in here, but too legally 1:21:36.960 --> 1:21:39.759 possessed weapons. People in the age range of mass shooters, 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:41.599 there will be plenty of them that will be able 1:21:41.640 --> 1:21:44.000 to get them. As you said, so people over thirty 1:21:44.000 --> 1:21:46.360 are engaged in plenty of mass shootings too, So that 1:21:46.400 --> 1:21:49.800 wouldn't stop the problem. Okay, So that one doesn't seem 1:21:49.840 --> 1:21:52.120 like it that that falls in that category for me, Shaun. 1:21:52.160 --> 1:21:54.479 If people say, well, how big a deal is it? 1:21:54.680 --> 1:21:57.439 I would also point out that there's no way it 1:21:57.439 --> 1:21:59.840 would stop at just the a R fifteen because the 1:22:00.200 --> 1:22:02.959 you ban or you you have an age based restriction 1:22:03.000 --> 1:22:06.519 for the a R. People would rightfully say, well, it's 1:22:06.520 --> 1:22:08.360 not really that different from a lot of other rifles, 1:22:08.400 --> 1:22:10.320 and then bam, you'd have a list of like fifty 1:22:10.360 --> 1:22:15.280 to rifles minimum right there. There's no saving a gun 1:22:15.360 --> 1:22:19.479 controller um, because you know, once you get grant the 1:22:19.479 --> 1:22:21.280 principle that it's okay to band this gun or that 1:22:21.360 --> 1:22:25.639 gun or this calibra, that caliber, there's no limiting principle 1:22:25.720 --> 1:22:29.759 on it. Um. And I guess we've talked about this before. 1:22:29.880 --> 1:22:32.280 My big complaint with this debate is it's not actually 1:22:32.320 --> 1:22:35.200 about guns. It's not about gun control. What we are 1:22:35.240 --> 1:22:38.960 having is a debate with guns is proxies about human nature. 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:41.439 In the nature of man. There are people on one 1:22:41.439 --> 1:22:43.759 side of the debate who thinks that if you congest 1:22:44.439 --> 1:22:47.880 regulate these tools have the right mix of laws, you 1:22:47.920 --> 1:22:51.440 can regulate out of the heart of man an inclination 1:22:51.560 --> 1:22:53.760 or ability to do evil. And then on the other 1:22:53.800 --> 1:22:56.559 side you have people who say, you know what, people 1:22:56.600 --> 1:23:00.519 have been murdering each other for the entirety of human history. Uh, 1:23:00.560 --> 1:23:03.840 you know, going back to the very beginning, and the 1:23:03.840 --> 1:23:08.519 most wicked, devastating tool of death that has ever been 1:23:08.520 --> 1:23:12.640 devised is the wicked human heart. And rather than pretending 1:23:12.680 --> 1:23:14.800 like we can just put these things under lock and 1:23:14.880 --> 1:23:17.280 key and then bad people won't want to do bad things, 1:23:18.080 --> 1:23:21.200 maybe we should give good people the ability to defend 1:23:21.240 --> 1:23:24.920 themselves against the bad people. The whole debate, I would 1:23:24.920 --> 1:23:27.240 I would agree with with everything that you just deserted. 1:23:27.280 --> 1:23:28.920 I would also add to it that I think that 1:23:29.080 --> 1:23:34.000 guns becomes also an ideological proxy battleground for the cultural 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:36.519 left and the right that it's just a way of showing, 1:23:36.840 --> 1:23:40.840 you know, the people and Blue strongholds coastal areas and 1:23:41.000 --> 1:23:43.760 Democrats strongholds of the country, they don't like people who 1:23:43.760 --> 1:23:45.840 own guns. They actually they think that people who own 1:23:45.880 --> 1:23:48.320 guns are roobs and hillbillies and their gross and so 1:23:48.400 --> 1:23:49.960 this is one of the reasons why it becomes such 1:23:50.000 --> 1:23:52.759 an emotional issue for them, because it's a way of throwing, 1:23:52.920 --> 1:23:56.000 you know, throwing some stuff at the other guys. No, 1:23:56.320 --> 1:23:58.839 I think that's exactly right. It's it's a cultural chivalist 1:23:59.040 --> 1:24:01.240 um and in fact, in a lot of quarters, especially 1:24:01.240 --> 1:24:03.960 in media, you know, we mock people on the left 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:06.400 for not knowing the slightest thing about guns and just 1:24:06.520 --> 1:24:11.000 messing up in embarrassingly bad ways, basic stuff like at 1:24:11.000 --> 1:24:13.920 one point USA Today said a hot new accessory creation 1:24:14.240 --> 1:24:16.120 the chains I knew you're gonna go with the chainsaw 1:24:16.160 --> 1:24:18.760 on the rail system. That's my favorite too. How can 1:24:18.800 --> 1:24:21.800 I not go after the chainsaw? Theyonet so, but they 1:24:22.040 --> 1:24:25.719 that ignorance is almost a badge of a badge of courage. 1:24:25.720 --> 1:24:29.599 It signifies that they are not going to solely themselves, um, 1:24:29.920 --> 1:24:32.920 but by getting into the mud with these icky, knuckle 1:24:33.040 --> 1:24:37.240 dragging buck tooth hillbilly gun clingers, and you know they're 1:24:37.520 --> 1:24:39.800 they are so much more high minded they don't even 1:24:39.800 --> 1:24:42.519 need to learn about I've said this and I'm so 1:24:42.560 --> 1:24:44.599 happy that someone someone agrees with me. Sean, I've been 1:24:44.600 --> 1:24:48.840 saying that it is viewed as an issue where it's 1:24:48.880 --> 1:24:51.320 the only issue I know of in journalism where to 1:24:51.439 --> 1:24:54.719 be wrong is actually to score points among your own 1:24:55.040 --> 1:24:58.200 because it shows your disdain for the issue. It's like 1:24:58.360 --> 1:25:00.720 it's the equivalent of if a of the announcer ever 1:25:00.760 --> 1:25:03.439 brings somebody on TV and doesn't have their name right, 1:25:03.800 --> 1:25:06.160 that's like the most one oh one thing ever, and 1:25:06.200 --> 1:25:07.880 you can assume that a lot of times they would 1:25:07.880 --> 1:25:09.599 only do it because I don't even care to know 1:25:09.720 --> 1:25:12.320 this person's name with the gun with the anti gun 1:25:12.320 --> 1:25:14.560 crowd in journalism, they didn't even care to know the 1:25:14.560 --> 1:25:17.280 difference between automatic and a semi automatic because it doesn't 1:25:17.280 --> 1:25:20.920 matter because they're all bad. That's actually the mentality they have. 1:25:22.000 --> 1:25:24.280 It is, it is, and they'll get mad at you 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:26.200 if you nitpick them on stuff like that, like, oh, 1:25:26.320 --> 1:25:29.600 because I didn't know this was a Ruger versus a Rimington's, 1:25:29.640 --> 1:25:33.040 and I can't regulate guns that when it's actually no. 1:25:33.600 --> 1:25:36.720 The last time you tried this, you regulated guns by 1:25:36.800 --> 1:25:40.120 feature and you put stupid features on there that had 1:25:40.160 --> 1:25:43.519 absolutely nothing to do with anything, and then patted yourselves 1:25:43.560 --> 1:25:45.439 on the back for having done a real good job. 1:25:45.800 --> 1:25:47.840 And in fact, one of the people who backed that 1:25:48.520 --> 1:25:51.880 fault weapons ban, Carolyne McCarthy New York, was asked on 1:25:52.000 --> 1:25:55.400 National TV about one of those cosmetics features that was 1:25:55.439 --> 1:25:57.360 listed and banned in the law, and it was with 1:25:57.439 --> 1:25:59.800 Tucker Carlson. He said, okay, you you banned a barrel 1:25:59.840 --> 1:26:02.360 for out what's the barrel shroud? And she himmed in 1:26:02.439 --> 1:26:04.800 hod it was appeared she had no idea what it was. 1:26:05.080 --> 1:26:07.360 And finally she said, oh, it's the shoulder thing that 1:26:07.479 --> 1:26:11.240 goes up. Like, you can't have people with that level 1:26:11.240 --> 1:26:15.760 of knowledge writing into law specific definitions that banned this 1:26:15.880 --> 1:26:17.760 thing or that thing. You actually have to know what 1:26:17.800 --> 1:26:20.200 you're doing, just as you wouldn't want a mechanic who 1:26:20.200 --> 1:26:22.320 didn't know the difference between a ranch and a screwdriver 1:26:22.439 --> 1:26:25.439 taking apart your engine. It's just dumb. And also let 1:26:25.439 --> 1:26:28.160 me that these bands they put in place, people can 1:26:28.200 --> 1:26:30.599 get arrested for this stuff. I think that's often lost here. 1:26:30.640 --> 1:26:33.320 It's not like we're no longer offering this product at 1:26:33.360 --> 1:26:36.240 your local CDs or something. If they put a magazine 1:26:36.240 --> 1:26:39.120 ban in place in a certain state, they will arrest 1:26:39.160 --> 1:26:42.800 people for that there. And in looking back again at 1:26:42.800 --> 1:26:45.280 the nineties four law, they had things on there like, 1:26:45.360 --> 1:26:47.400 you know, if it has a bayonet lug, not even 1:26:47.400 --> 1:26:49.960 a beyonet, a bayonet lug, it's ban. Or if it 1:26:50.040 --> 1:26:53.800 has a muzzle break or a collapsible stock, well, you 1:26:53.840 --> 1:26:56.040 know what people did to get around it is they 1:26:56.080 --> 1:26:57.880 would pen and weld the stock, and then they would 1:26:57.920 --> 1:27:00.760 pen and weld level device under the barrel cut off 1:27:01.080 --> 1:27:04.720 suddenly it's compliance. The gun functionally was no difference than 1:27:04.760 --> 1:27:06.719 it was before. I want to ask you. We're speaking 1:27:06.720 --> 1:27:09.240 to Sean Davis of The Federalist, Everybody's co founder of 1:27:09.280 --> 1:27:11.640 the Federalist. You can check out his latest on the website. 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:14.599 UM one that that is getting a lot of attention. 1:27:14.640 --> 1:27:16.160 And then I think is a is a good faith 1:27:16.200 --> 1:27:19.360 effort and at least worthy of discussion. Well, I guess 1:27:19.360 --> 1:27:22.720 they're all worthy discussion, but worthy of perhaps further investigation. 1:27:23.160 --> 1:27:26.439 Is David French in National Review. Although he said it's 1:27:26.439 --> 1:27:30.040 not his idea, he's forwarding the proposal for a temporary 1:27:30.080 --> 1:27:33.360 restraining order for the purchase of firearms. What say you, 1:27:33.439 --> 1:27:38.400 Sean Davis, and correct me if I'm wrong. He was 1:27:38.439 --> 1:27:41.960 talking about related to mental health. Correct, yes, sorry, So 1:27:42.000 --> 1:27:43.559 I should have explained it. So it's a it's a 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:46.639 it's a temporary straining order based on a mental health 1:27:47.160 --> 1:27:50.120 adjudication to prevent somebody for a period of time for 1:27:50.120 --> 1:27:51.720 forgetting a gun. They'd have to go in front of 1:27:51.720 --> 1:27:54.920 a cord. There obviously be some So this was essentially 1:27:55.800 --> 1:27:57.920 a version of a much because it's very hard to 1:27:57.960 --> 1:28:00.640 get somebody adjudicated mentally incompetent, which is a good thing 1:28:00.680 --> 1:28:02.479 because we actually don't want people to be able to 1:28:02.479 --> 1:28:04.920 be locked away unless there's very good reason. But this 1:28:04.960 --> 1:28:07.000 would be to say, hey, look, the same way that 1:28:07.120 --> 1:28:10.919 you can't have a gun because of a domestic violence 1:28:11.000 --> 1:28:13.880 conviction in the past, or if you've ever been the order, 1:28:14.080 --> 1:28:15.880 have you ever been under a protective order? I believe 1:28:15.880 --> 1:28:19.519 there's also some restrictions in some states. UH in this case, 1:28:19.600 --> 1:28:21.400 if the people around you think you're nuts, you can 1:28:21.400 --> 1:28:22.960 go before a judge that they can say, all right, 1:28:23.000 --> 1:28:27.120 you for this period of time, no gun for you. 1:28:27.120 --> 1:28:29.439 You know, I like David French a lot. I know 1:28:29.479 --> 1:28:32.400 where he's coming from. UM. In principle, I don't have 1:28:32.439 --> 1:28:35.320 a problem with his idea. I think that's fine. In practice, 1:28:35.360 --> 1:28:39.479 I have lots of concerns because it's there's just so 1:28:39.520 --> 1:28:42.600 many things that go into the details of that. You know, 1:28:42.680 --> 1:28:45.639 what's going to re required, what's the evidentiary standard, what's 1:28:45.640 --> 1:28:49.200 your ability UM to go and argue your own case 1:28:49.240 --> 1:28:50.680 in court. If it turns out a bunch of co 1:28:50.800 --> 1:28:54.080 workers or neighbors who are mad at you, UM have decided, 1:28:54.160 --> 1:28:56.160 you know, they don't like these gun humps, so they're 1:28:56.160 --> 1:28:58.960 gonna get this guy's guns taken away, but assuming it 1:28:59.000 --> 1:29:01.800 could all be done in a good faith way where 1:29:01.840 --> 1:29:06.680 you can mitigate or eliminate the the chances of chicanery 1:29:06.920 --> 1:29:09.640 or revenge based targeting of gun owners. I don't have 1:29:09.680 --> 1:29:11.320 a problem with it. I think that I think it's 1:29:11.360 --> 1:29:14.360 totally fair what I wish we would do, however, rather 1:29:14.400 --> 1:29:17.160 than everyone trying to come up with clever new laws 1:29:17.160 --> 1:29:19.479 to put on the books, I really do wish we 1:29:19.520 --> 1:29:21.560 would enforce the laws that we have now, because what 1:29:21.680 --> 1:29:24.200 we had in Florida was a kid who told me 1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:27.479 envisited thirty nine times he had put on YouTube that 1:29:27.520 --> 1:29:29.640 he wanted to shoot up at school. All his classmates 1:29:29.680 --> 1:29:32.000 knew it, the FBI knew it, and they did nothing. 1:29:32.280 --> 1:29:33.840 So what on earth is a new law going to 1:29:33.920 --> 1:29:35.600 do when you have a regime which we saw in 1:29:35.640 --> 1:29:38.439 Florida where all of the warning signs were there, everyone 1:29:38.520 --> 1:29:40.519 knew this guy was a ticking time bomb and nobody 1:29:40.520 --> 1:29:43.960 didn't think about it. Jean, is there anything that you 1:29:44.000 --> 1:29:46.040 think that really was there anything that's at the top 1:29:46.080 --> 1:29:47.519 of your list before we let you go, that you 1:29:47.560 --> 1:29:51.360 think should be done here in response to the shooting? Yeah? Absolutely, 1:29:51.600 --> 1:29:54.240 I think, um, knowing what we do about each cowards 1:29:54.280 --> 1:29:57.679 to love targeting defense with people who can't shoot back, um, 1:29:57.680 --> 1:29:59.920 knowing what we do about that. Maybe we should stop 1:30:00.000 --> 1:30:03.439 making our schools completely defenseless and soft targets. Maybe we 1:30:03.479 --> 1:30:06.519 should give teachers and employees and administrators who are already 1:30:06.560 --> 1:30:09.639 licensed by the state to carry a concealed weapon. Maybe 1:30:09.680 --> 1:30:13.120 they've gone through extra training. You're already trusting these people 1:30:13.160 --> 1:30:16.240 with your children all day long. It's about time we 1:30:16.360 --> 1:30:18.880 give people who are already trained and licensed to do 1:30:18.920 --> 1:30:21.680 this stuff the right to protect the children under their 1:30:21.760 --> 1:30:24.760 charge while they're at school. Let's stop broadcasting to these 1:30:24.800 --> 1:30:27.360 evil cowards so they can go into these gun free 1:30:27.439 --> 1:30:30.040 zones and turn them into free fire zones and start 1:30:30.040 --> 1:30:31.960 sending the message that if you set foot on this 1:30:32.080 --> 1:30:34.439 campus with a gun intent on doing harm, we're going 1:30:34.479 --> 1:30:37.559 to put you down. Sean Davis, co founder of the Federalists. 1:30:37.600 --> 1:30:40.800 Check out the Federalist dot com for more of their writing. Sean, 1:30:40.840 --> 1:30:42.880 always appreciate you make the time. My friend talks soon. 1:30:43.680 --> 1:30:46.240 It's a pleasure, sir. Thank you say we're gonnaroll into 1:30:46.240 --> 1:30:50.040 a quick break. Will be right back. So I see 1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:53.320 that Jay Law was initially reported, and for those who 1:30:53.360 --> 1:30:56.880 are not into this kind of stuff, I'm assuming that 1:30:56.920 --> 1:31:00.360 a very small percentage of this audience subs ribs to 1:31:00.439 --> 1:31:04.080 People magazine or reads US weekly. My only connection to 1:31:04.120 --> 1:31:06.479 pop culture is Miss Molly. She keeps me informed, so 1:31:06.520 --> 1:31:10.160 I don't say things like, you know, who are who 1:31:10.160 --> 1:31:12.720 are the Kardashians again or whatever. She makes sure that 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:14.760 I know what's going on in the world other than 1:31:15.360 --> 1:31:20.280 politics and national security and political philosophy and whatnot. But 1:31:20.360 --> 1:31:23.760 it turns out that Jay law Jennifer Lawrence, actress of 1:31:23.800 --> 1:31:27.840 many films, is not taking a break from acting for 1:31:28.000 --> 1:31:29.840 the I initially thought she was, and I came on, 1:31:29.880 --> 1:31:32.719 I was gonna say, oh no, because you know, truth 1:31:32.800 --> 1:31:36.040 be told him kind of a jailaw fan. You know, 1:31:36.800 --> 1:31:40.240 I appreciate, I celebrate her whole catalog. I think it's 1:31:41.160 --> 1:31:44.880 it's got a nice, nice body of work. Um. And 1:31:44.960 --> 1:31:49.200 yet here we are being told in advance that we 1:31:49.240 --> 1:31:53.040 can expect there to be some politics coming out of 1:31:53.280 --> 1:31:56.560 Miss ms Lawrence the next year because activism to celebrities, 1:31:56.600 --> 1:31:59.960 they never do activism. That's not at least I never 1:32:00.160 --> 1:32:01.840 hear about. Maybe that's a better way to put it. 1:32:01.880 --> 1:32:05.360 I never hear about activism that isn't in the realm 1:32:05.560 --> 1:32:10.040 of progressive virtue signaling. Why can't we have more celebrities 1:32:10.040 --> 1:32:13.800 whose activism is I want to, you know, raise lots 1:32:13.800 --> 1:32:16.680 of money for charter schools in the inner city. I 1:32:16.760 --> 1:32:21.280 want to raise lots of money for uh A specific 1:32:22.320 --> 1:32:25.000 cancer research program or whatever it is, all these good things. 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:28.120 I mean, you know, I'd like to see more really 1:32:28.160 --> 1:32:31.519 big name celebrities out there that are are raising money 1:32:31.560 --> 1:32:34.439 for you know, St. Jude's. Why is it that we 1:32:34.479 --> 1:32:38.240 always have these celebrities that are global warming I got 1:32:38.240 --> 1:32:40.439 to go to international summits and talk about global warming, 1:32:40.840 --> 1:32:45.160 or you know, it's it's always a transgender rights global warming, 1:32:45.720 --> 1:32:49.840 just something that's in the progressive vanguard. I would have 1:32:49.880 --> 1:32:52.080 so much more respect for what they're doing if they 1:32:52.200 --> 1:32:56.519 leverage their celebrity for something that was just clearly of 1:32:56.640 --> 1:33:02.560 public benefit and not some form of brand enhancement for themselves. 1:33:03.400 --> 1:33:05.759 Because when you do things like you know, Leonardo DiCaprio 1:33:05.880 --> 1:33:09.439 with this whole climate change thing. The guy's literally flying 1:33:09.439 --> 1:33:11.160 around the world on his private jet to go to 1:33:11.200 --> 1:33:14.960 climate change meetings. You know, talk about this and they're 1:33:15.000 --> 1:33:16.360 not to be mean, but I mean, I don't even 1:33:16.360 --> 1:33:19.880 think the guy. I think it's unlikely the guy has 1:33:19.920 --> 1:33:22.080 like a tenth grade reading level, and yet he's gonna 1:33:22.160 --> 1:33:25.559 lecture the whole world on the most among the most 1:33:25.560 --> 1:33:31.720 complicated scientific issues facing the international community today. Although I 1:33:31.760 --> 1:33:34.280 don't think it's really I don't think the answer is 1:33:34.280 --> 1:33:36.160 that complative. The answer is we don't really have to 1:33:36.160 --> 1:33:38.240 do anything, and it's gonna be fine. But I know 1:33:38.280 --> 1:33:41.439 people yell at me for that. Don't use the paper bags, buck, 1:33:41.640 --> 1:33:48.040 don't use them. Why what's gonna happen? The earth will mouth? Uh? Anyway, 1:33:48.040 --> 1:33:50.479 So Jay Law is gonna be doing activism next year. 1:33:51.360 --> 1:33:54.160 I saw that today. She's good. I mean, I like 1:33:54.240 --> 1:33:57.360 Jay Law. Not not quite as good as Jessica Biel, 1:33:57.520 --> 1:33:59.839 but she's close. You know, they're they're in a similar 1:34:00.479 --> 1:34:03.840 similar category. Um, And I'm gonna switch out to George 1:34:03.840 --> 1:34:07.200 Clooney before I get myself into trouble. And George Clooney 1:34:07.560 --> 1:34:12.040 is also talking about doing more politics. Now they're saying 1:34:12.040 --> 1:34:15.080 maybe even Clooney twenty. Now here's the thing about that, 1:34:17.160 --> 1:34:20.240 And just this is not a knock on the Trump presidency. 1:34:20.360 --> 1:34:26.559 It's just a statement of reality. Until now, when a 1:34:26.920 --> 1:34:31.880 well known celebrity said he or she was thinking about 1:34:31.960 --> 1:34:35.439 running for the presidency. It was an understandable reaction for 1:34:35.479 --> 1:34:39.920 a lot of us to just say, oh, that's a 1:34:40.120 --> 1:34:42.920 version of brand enhancement, right, this is a lot of 1:34:42.920 --> 1:34:46.479 free press, and you know, they'll get their name out there. 1:34:47.120 --> 1:34:49.760 But remember, if we're gonna be honest about it. When 1:34:49.800 --> 1:34:52.559 Donald Trump was first running in this twenty six cycle, 1:34:52.600 --> 1:34:55.519 a lot of people said that about Trump. A lot 1:34:55.600 --> 1:34:57.880 of people. I remember that White House corp White House 1:34:58.240 --> 1:35:01.280 or was it the White House cor Respondence dinner where 1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:04.960 Obama made a Trump joke or was it the other Yeah, 1:35:05.000 --> 1:35:07.479 I think like the Smith dinner. I forget what it's called. Anyway, 1:35:07.479 --> 1:35:09.360 they made a joke about Trump, you know what I'm 1:35:09.360 --> 1:35:11.479 talking about. Yeah, they made he made some joke about Trump. 1:35:11.520 --> 1:35:13.960 Obama did, and Trump was just like, oh really, it 1:35:14.040 --> 1:35:17.880 was the correspondence dinner. Yeah, that's right. And and Trump 1:35:18.000 --> 1:35:22.439 was just like, oh really, oh really. And then later 1:35:22.439 --> 1:35:24.920 when he started to run, people were like, this is 1:35:24.960 --> 1:35:28.080 all a publicity stunt. Well, clearly it wasn't. Because he's 1:35:28.120 --> 1:35:30.759 now the president of the United States. That just means 1:35:30.800 --> 1:35:34.400 that when you've got a celebrity, now whether it's Clooney 1:35:34.560 --> 1:35:38.600 or Oprah or any of them. You are in a 1:35:38.640 --> 1:35:41.160 position where you gotta at least look at it on 1:35:41.200 --> 1:35:46.040 the merits and say, okay, maybe maybe what would George 1:35:46.040 --> 1:35:50.360 Clooney be a formidable political candidate? I'm not sure, but 1:35:50.400 --> 1:35:54.040 I can't say definitely not because the guy looks like 1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:57.200 a political candidate, which unfortunately means a lot these days 1:35:57.760 --> 1:36:00.639 because of our mass media environment. It's all chain so much, 1:36:00.680 --> 1:36:03.800 hasn't it. You know, did anybody in like eighteen eighty 1:36:03.920 --> 1:36:06.320 know what the president even looked like or sounded like. 1:36:06.439 --> 1:36:08.559 I mean a few people did, but for the most part, 1:36:09.040 --> 1:36:11.479 you voted for a platform. You have some rough idea 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:13.639 of what you know this guy or that guy stood for. 1:36:13.720 --> 1:36:16.400 Maybe you heard him at a speech, you know. I 1:36:16.439 --> 1:36:18.679 mean back in the day, the presidents were like doing 1:36:18.680 --> 1:36:20.559 their own dry cleaning, and it was a very different, 1:36:20.680 --> 1:36:24.479 very different environment. Now it's all about mass media. Now 1:36:24.479 --> 1:36:30.639 it's all about the propaganda involved here, and uh, well, 1:36:30.640 --> 1:36:32.840 it's propagand if you think it's a bad thing, it's 1:36:32.880 --> 1:36:35.519 just public relations. If you think it's a good thing, 1:36:36.720 --> 1:36:38.880 but you have celebrities that are gonna increasingly get an 1:36:38.880 --> 1:36:41.120 apolot there's no question about it. They're gonna get into politics. 1:36:41.800 --> 1:36:46.439 That's gonna be a result of Trump's success, just a 1:36:47.040 --> 1:36:50.840 side effect, you could say, of a reality TV star 1:36:51.360 --> 1:36:54.080 what she was, who is now the commander in chief 1:36:54.120 --> 1:36:56.320 and the leader of the free world. I don't think 1:36:56.360 --> 1:36:59.360 that j Law is gonna go quite in that direction, 1:36:59.400 --> 1:37:01.320 but I'd be I'd be torn, you know, there's a 1:37:01.320 --> 1:37:02.880 part of me that would be like, come on, Jay Law, 1:37:02.960 --> 1:37:04.960 we can make you a conservative. Yet, although I'm sure, 1:37:04.960 --> 1:37:09.360 I'm sure her politics are very progressive and annoying, and 1:37:09.360 --> 1:37:11.400 I'm okay with some level of that. I'm all right 1:37:11.520 --> 1:37:15.360 with people that have their own beliefs and thoughts but 1:37:15.439 --> 1:37:19.280 aren't too aggressive about mixing the platform they have for 1:37:19.439 --> 1:37:24.240 one thing, in this case, acting with their political political 1:37:24.720 --> 1:37:27.559 prescriptions for the rest of us. But we know that's 1:37:27.600 --> 1:37:29.360 not how it goes That's not how it goes down. 1:37:29.439 --> 1:37:32.719 They always they always try to, oh I'm at the oscars, 1:37:32.760 --> 1:37:34.920 let me make my political speech now, right, It's not 1:37:35.000 --> 1:37:38.040 like they're generally separating these things out. So we'll see 1:37:38.640 --> 1:37:42.040 Jane Law, Clooney, probably some others out there are going 1:37:42.080 --> 1:37:43.840 to get into the game too. We'll see where all 1:37:43.880 --> 1:37:46.799 this ghost team. Um, we're gonna talk to you about 1:37:47.760 --> 1:37:50.639 stress in a moment. Got some thoughts on it. Stay 1:37:50.640 --> 1:37:53.479 with me. I like to share a little bit of 1:37:54.720 --> 1:37:57.360 wisdom that I've acquired in my thirty six years on 1:37:57.360 --> 1:38:00.439 this earth. A lot of you were like, yeah, whipper snapper, 1:38:01.000 --> 1:38:03.360 double that number and then listen to your wisdom. But nonetheless, 1:38:03.400 --> 1:38:05.920 I think that I have picked up some things. Maybe 1:38:06.000 --> 1:38:09.040 I'm sharing it for my my younger millennials, my not 1:38:09.120 --> 1:38:12.960 yet gray bearded millennial listeners, and some others. But one 1:38:12.960 --> 1:38:15.680 of the things that I've I've come to understand as 1:38:15.720 --> 1:38:19.639 I get older, is that it is on you as 1:38:19.680 --> 1:38:22.800 an individual to figure out what works for you in 1:38:22.880 --> 1:38:26.400 terms of managing stress. I don't think there's nearly enough 1:38:26.840 --> 1:38:29.519 that is talked about. There's nearly enough talk in our 1:38:29.560 --> 1:38:34.160 society about this specific issue. And when you look at 1:38:34.200 --> 1:38:38.000 any number of ailments out there, you see that stress 1:38:38.240 --> 1:38:42.240 is a direct contributor and in some cases, I would 1:38:42.280 --> 1:38:45.040 I would argue the root cause of some of the 1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:49.000 problems that you see out there. I mean, stress obviously goes. 1:38:49.240 --> 1:38:53.080 Cardiac events are related to stress, and heart heart disease 1:38:53.720 --> 1:38:58.200 and UH and cancer are still you know, the two 1:38:58.360 --> 1:39:03.760 big lethal diseases that we have to worry about in 1:39:03.800 --> 1:39:07.880 this country, but stresses in everyday life, and it's really 1:39:07.880 --> 1:39:09.960 important to get a sense of how you can manage 1:39:09.960 --> 1:39:12.120 it yourself. I just I'm thinking about it because the 1:39:12.160 --> 1:39:14.680 average American, according to this study that was linked up 1:39:14.680 --> 1:39:17.559 on the Drudge Report today, the average American has sixty 1:39:17.720 --> 1:39:21.479 bad days a year according to the survey, which means 1:39:21.600 --> 1:39:25.120 you spend two months a year thinking that you're having 1:39:25.120 --> 1:39:28.320 a bad day. So it's it's more than just having 1:39:28.360 --> 1:39:31.760 a case of the mondays, because that would be fifty two, right, 1:39:32.240 --> 1:39:35.880 So it's so you get you're averaging over we the 1:39:35.880 --> 1:39:40.639 American people are averaging over one bad day each week. 1:39:41.439 --> 1:39:45.240 And eighty percent of those twenty four hour periods that 1:39:45.280 --> 1:39:48.280 are ranked in this survey as stressful are from work 1:39:48.360 --> 1:39:51.920 related stress, which I would have assumed. There's other stuff 1:39:51.960 --> 1:39:54.360 too that are that are cited in the study illness, 1:39:54.360 --> 1:40:00.280 financial worries, feeling unclean or disheveled. Now, I've had some 1:40:00.360 --> 1:40:03.559 days where I felt unclean or disheveled in the office 1:40:03.600 --> 1:40:06.479 that ruined my day in my previous career before media, 1:40:06.920 --> 1:40:09.120 but I have to tell you that those were self 1:40:09.160 --> 1:40:12.719 induced um, I had no one to blame but myself 1:40:12.800 --> 1:40:15.640 for wearing the same clothing to the office the next day. 1:40:15.920 --> 1:40:18.120 The headache that I may or may not have been 1:40:18.200 --> 1:40:21.920 nursing was the result of active decision making on my part. 1:40:22.680 --> 1:40:26.280 And while I may have been in throbbing and lingering 1:40:26.439 --> 1:40:30.040 pain for the day at the office, in my earlier days, 1:40:30.080 --> 1:40:32.080 sometimes it was worth it. I'm just saying there were 1:40:32.120 --> 1:40:34.680 times when it was. It was an even trade off, right. 1:40:34.720 --> 1:40:37.959 It's like misery at work, keeping the waste paper basket 1:40:38.000 --> 1:40:42.240 close and still worth it, still worth it. Not anymore 1:40:42.320 --> 1:40:45.040 now I'm like, oh my gosh, somebody, somebody tries to 1:40:45.040 --> 1:40:47.080 get me to drink more than two glasses of anything. 1:40:47.120 --> 1:40:49.800 I'm like, oh god, come on, what's going on here. 1:40:50.120 --> 1:40:52.960 I know I'm a I'm a lightweight, but it is 1:40:53.000 --> 1:40:54.720 what it is. You got you gotta understand who you are. 1:40:54.960 --> 1:40:57.759 You know, know thyself to thine own self be true, 1:40:57.920 --> 1:41:01.599 said the buffoon halona Us in Hamlet. People always think 1:41:01.600 --> 1:41:03.559 Hamlets said it. No, you know who you know who 1:41:03.600 --> 1:41:07.800 corrected us as a country on that one share from Clueless. 1:41:08.000 --> 1:41:10.880 That's why we all know that line now, see very 1:41:10.880 --> 1:41:14.400 important movie. So anyway, so you get sixty seven per 1:41:14.439 --> 1:41:20.720 cent of an individual's uh se percent rather of an 1:41:20.760 --> 1:41:23.639 intervitor's dissatisfaction or any given day was related to sleep. 1:41:24.400 --> 1:41:26.920 You gotta get enough sleep. This is you know. My 1:41:26.960 --> 1:41:29.320 parents told me this growing up all the time, and 1:41:29.360 --> 1:41:31.679 they were totally right. And I would stay up super 1:41:31.800 --> 1:41:32.800 late and then I have to get up. And I 1:41:32.840 --> 1:41:36.360 remember going and going into my high school and just 1:41:36.800 --> 1:41:39.400 feeling day after day like I was in some zombie 1:41:39.439 --> 1:41:41.519 state of about to fall over any minute. Its because 1:41:41.560 --> 1:41:43.040 I didn't getenough of sleep. I go to bed, like 1:41:43.200 --> 1:41:46.040 to two o'clock in the morning. Mom's listening, She's like, really, 1:41:46.040 --> 1:41:48.040 you're up that late. Yeah. Sometimes I would just stay up. 1:41:48.520 --> 1:41:51.799 Parents are go to bed, like watch TV, watch HBO 1:41:51.920 --> 1:41:54.439 at two am. There was some interesting stuff on HBO 1:41:54.439 --> 1:41:57.280 a two am. So anyway, I would stay up super late. 1:41:57.280 --> 1:42:00.320 It's really really bad for you. We all have this us. 1:42:00.800 --> 1:42:04.920 We all have our our achilles heel, whether it's financial, 1:42:05.000 --> 1:42:09.360 whether it's just dealing with workplace situations, or any number 1:42:09.360 --> 1:42:11.439 of things. How you manage it is one of the 1:42:11.479 --> 1:42:15.200 most important things in life. It really is, I mean 1:42:15.320 --> 1:42:20.360 not important on an existential being, a virtuous, worthwhile person level. 1:42:20.360 --> 1:42:23.920 But important on a how you're taking care of yourself, 1:42:24.720 --> 1:42:26.280 and I finally taken care of yourself. It is so 1:42:26.400 --> 1:42:28.720 very very important. I used to think certain things were 1:42:30.280 --> 1:42:33.920 maybe a little frivolous or oh no, no, no, You've 1:42:33.920 --> 1:42:36.439 got to find what whether if you gotta get some 1:42:36.520 --> 1:42:39.400 outdoors time to paint, if you gotta watch birds, if 1:42:39.439 --> 1:42:41.720 you The main thing they talk about in here is 1:42:41.760 --> 1:42:44.360 actually getting to the gym, which I know all of 1:42:44.439 --> 1:42:47.400 us are like, uh gosh, I mean I have the 1:42:47.439 --> 1:42:49.200 same thing. I'm like, I gotta go to the gym. 1:42:49.320 --> 1:42:52.559 I feel like a hamster on a wheel, a hamster 1:42:52.800 --> 1:42:55.280 that you know shouldn't have eaten so many bacon cheeseburgers 1:42:55.280 --> 1:43:00.200 this week that all said, I've never left the him, 1:43:00.200 --> 1:43:01.960 and I always trying to remind myself of this. It's 1:43:02.000 --> 1:43:05.160 like one of the struggles that I have day day 1:43:05.160 --> 1:43:07.360 to day. I've never gone to the gym and left 1:43:07.360 --> 1:43:09.040 the gym, been like I wish I hadn't done that, 1:43:10.040 --> 1:43:12.920 And yet and yet every day I'm like, I'm kind 1:43:12.920 --> 1:43:14.360 of tired. I got a lot of I got a 1:43:14.439 --> 1:43:16.120 radio show to get ready for. I don't think I 1:43:16.120 --> 1:43:18.960 really want to do this. Probably the most important single 1:43:19.200 --> 1:43:22.240 stress relief you can do and and in fact, ah, 1:43:22.800 --> 1:43:26.280 sleeping is is critical, right, Sleeping is really really really essential. 1:43:26.360 --> 1:43:28.120 And that means also if you have to take catchup 1:43:28.200 --> 1:43:30.560 naps the next day, twenty minute naps. They've done a 1:43:30.600 --> 1:43:33.160 lot of study on it, really really important. You don't 1:43:33.200 --> 1:43:34.600 have to call it a CS tho. We don't have 1:43:34.600 --> 1:43:36.479 to make this some big cultural event, you know, it 1:43:36.520 --> 1:43:40.760 doesn't necessarily have to involve uz uzo and like lying 1:43:40.800 --> 1:43:43.120 out in the sun by the beach, although that sounds 1:43:43.120 --> 1:43:45.120 really nice actually now, but like it doesn't have to be. 1:43:45.160 --> 1:43:48.040 I'm thinking of Greek he has to the only place 1:43:48.040 --> 1:43:49.720 I've ever really spent much time where they had that. 1:43:49.800 --> 1:43:52.720 But um, the other thing that you should keep in 1:43:52.720 --> 1:43:55.240 mind is that for people actually who are older now, 1:43:55.760 --> 1:43:58.640 they are finding more and more that weight bearing exercise 1:43:59.600 --> 1:44:05.200 is critical, really good for your for your sense of 1:44:05.240 --> 1:44:07.880 well being, really good for your physical and for your 1:44:07.880 --> 1:44:10.760 mental health. I think that we haven't yet made this 1:44:10.800 --> 1:44:13.120 switch as a culture because people think of weight training 1:44:13.200 --> 1:44:16.760 generally as some guy who like has no knack who's 1:44:16.800 --> 1:44:18.920 in the gym and is trying to lift some giant thing. 1:44:19.640 --> 1:44:21.519 But it doesn't have to be heavyweights. But it's just 1:44:21.640 --> 1:44:26.040 resistance training for older people. And so anybody fifty five 1:44:26.080 --> 1:44:29.840 and above, resistance training means you're gonna be you know, 1:44:30.560 --> 1:44:34.519 limber and spry and energetic and on it longer. And 1:44:34.560 --> 1:44:38.400 the research on all this is very compelling. So and 1:44:38.400 --> 1:44:42.320 it also is really helpful for dealing with stress people. 1:44:42.360 --> 1:44:44.040 And this survey also said they have a drink when 1:44:44.040 --> 1:44:47.720 they're really stressed. You know, sometimes sometimes you've got to 1:44:47.720 --> 1:44:50.200 sit back and have a a glass of whatever your 1:44:50.200 --> 1:44:53.080 favorite is. You know, it's all about it's all about moderation. 1:44:53.560 --> 1:44:55.719 I believe the ancient Greeks referred to it as metron, 1:44:55.960 --> 1:44:58.880 a state of perfect balance. They tried to achieve this 1:44:58.960 --> 1:45:04.160 in all things physically, philosophically. Oh yes, sometimes you just 1:45:04.200 --> 1:45:07.760 bring ancient Greece into a conversation because and I think 1:45:07.800 --> 1:45:10.960 I just did that. But it is important to achieve balance. 1:45:11.080 --> 1:45:13.800 So I'm just saying, we're all stressed folks. We've all 1:45:13.800 --> 1:45:16.599 got our stuff, family, stress, work, stress, everything else. If 1:45:16.600 --> 1:45:20.000 you've got less than sixty rough days a year, you're 1:45:20.000 --> 1:45:22.800 doing well. According to this study, most folks have about 1:45:22.840 --> 1:45:27.040 sixty bad days a year, and regardless of whether it's 1:45:27.040 --> 1:45:29.200 a hundred bad days, or ten bad days. How you 1:45:29.240 --> 1:45:33.000 deal with them is just critical because I'm telling you know, 1:45:33.000 --> 1:45:37.719 because constructive ways of relieving stress means you'll have fewer 1:45:37.760 --> 1:45:40.280 bad days. I don't care what the sign says in that, 1:45:40.320 --> 1:45:44.160 I just know that that's true. So some some free 1:45:45.560 --> 1:45:48.680 Graybeard millennial life wisdom on the show today. We are 1:45:48.680 --> 1:45:51.040 going to run into a quick break and we'll be 1:45:51.200 --> 1:45:54.439 right back. Well. I tend not to talk about the 1:45:54.520 --> 1:45:57.120 weather here on the show because you've got a lot 1:45:57.120 --> 1:45:59.000 of other radio stations that do that. But I'm just 1:45:59.080 --> 1:46:03.360 gonna gloat for us second that it is uh so 1:46:03.479 --> 1:46:06.680 gorgeous right now in New York City. I think it's 1:46:06.720 --> 1:46:08.840 in the high sixties right now. I mean it is. 1:46:08.880 --> 1:46:12.760 It is crazy warm in this town, which for this 1:46:12.800 --> 1:46:16.800 time of year feels is very very very unexpected. I'm 1:46:16.800 --> 1:46:19.160 hoping that wherever you're listening across the country, you also 1:46:19.240 --> 1:46:23.880 maybe took the chance to go outside and see if 1:46:23.920 --> 1:46:27.840 you could enjoy a little white zin. You know, yeah, 1:46:27.880 --> 1:46:30.840 at sixties six degrees here in New York, so you know, 1:46:30.840 --> 1:46:33.320 across the country, I'm assuming it's got to be pretty warming. 1:46:33.360 --> 1:46:36.080 Some places, I think, oh yeah, we're getting crushed with 1:46:36.200 --> 1:46:38.880 like a winter storm in a couple of days. That 1:46:38.880 --> 1:46:41.439 sounds about right. Yeah, that's what I thought. I was 1:46:41.479 --> 1:46:43.759 all happy for a moment here. I was gonna maybe 1:46:43.760 --> 1:46:46.640 go up to the roof of my building tonight. And 1:46:46.640 --> 1:46:49.400 it also makes me want to make snarky remarks about 1:46:49.439 --> 1:46:52.479 global warming. One of the problems that I've always had, 1:46:52.560 --> 1:46:56.000 Never mind the inaccuracies around the previous predictions and all 1:46:56.040 --> 1:46:59.599 the hysteria of people who are just so deeply, deeply 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:05.800 concerned earned with global warming, I'm still flabbergasted. Fun word 1:47:05.800 --> 1:47:08.200 that we should throw around more that when you ask 1:47:08.320 --> 1:47:10.800 somebody of the stature of say Melinda Gates of the 1:47:10.880 --> 1:47:15.200 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the richest people in the 1:47:15.240 --> 1:47:17.519 world or in the top two or three. I think 1:47:17.600 --> 1:47:20.479 sometimes depending on how what kind of day Bezos is having, 1:47:20.479 --> 1:47:23.599 he may be number one, but among the very richest 1:47:23.600 --> 1:47:26.439 people in the world. And you ask Bill and the 1:47:26.479 --> 1:47:28.519 Lindia Gates with their biggest concern is and they're trying 1:47:28.520 --> 1:47:33.240 to deal with h diseases like malaria and others, and 1:47:33.320 --> 1:47:35.640 sure enough you'll find out that it is it is 1:47:35.680 --> 1:47:39.040 climate change that is their number one concern. Speaking to 1:47:39.040 --> 1:47:40.960 a friend of mine about this, earlier today. I just 1:47:41.000 --> 1:47:43.960 couldn't believe it, he said there, and I'm like, wow, 1:47:44.720 --> 1:47:49.040 people at that level, with that access to expertise and 1:47:49.080 --> 1:47:54.439 knowledge and information, and sure enough, but it would be nice. 1:47:54.520 --> 1:47:57.240 Or the reason I bring this up is that much 1:47:57.280 --> 1:48:00.800 of the country would be in great shape if it 1:48:00.880 --> 1:48:04.240 got an average of two or three degrees a year warmer. 1:48:04.680 --> 1:48:06.720 And people say all the seas would rise. We got 1:48:06.720 --> 1:48:09.720 a lot of land will be all right. Land has 1:48:09.760 --> 1:48:14.080 been shifting continuously, as we know, over time, and there 1:48:14.160 --> 1:48:17.120 is no such thing as a perfect temperature. There's no 1:48:17.200 --> 1:48:20.920 such thing as global homeostasis. To bring back a word 1:48:21.080 --> 1:48:23.759 from anatomy class, which is your body trying to maintain 1:48:23.800 --> 1:48:28.719 an equilibrium homeostasis. It's fun to throw it out there sometimes, like, hey, 1:48:29.200 --> 1:48:33.559 how are you feeling? I hit my homeostasis today. Oh really, 1:48:34.080 --> 1:48:36.800 as a matter of fact, I did. Anyway, it's warm here. 1:48:37.720 --> 1:48:40.040 It's not global warming, but it will be fine with 1:48:40.080 --> 1:48:42.920 me if it were. Uh. So there you have it, 1:48:43.000 --> 1:48:46.960 all right, Let's get to some Let's get some roll call. Please, 1:48:49.040 --> 1:48:52.760 Team Buck, it's time for roll call. I love our 1:48:53.360 --> 1:48:57.960 voiceover guy. His voice is awesome roll call. So let's 1:48:57.960 --> 1:49:02.880 get it going here. Uh, Daniel writes in with the following, Hey, Buck, 1:49:03.439 --> 1:49:05.719 are there going to be more episodes of Shields High? 1:49:05.840 --> 1:49:08.040 The fourth step fourth episode was the last one I 1:49:08.080 --> 1:49:11.679 listened to back in January. I've been itching to hear more, Daniel. 1:49:11.720 --> 1:49:14.360 The answer is yes. The problem is there's just not 1:49:14.520 --> 1:49:17.519 enough Buck to go around these days. I'm I'm running ragged, 1:49:17.640 --> 1:49:19.400 as they say, trying to keep up with all my 1:49:19.479 --> 1:49:23.439 various responsibilities and obligations. And Shields High as a labor 1:49:23.479 --> 1:49:26.760 of love. I just put it out there because I 1:49:26.840 --> 1:49:29.720 like it and and you have asked for it, and 1:49:29.800 --> 1:49:33.240 that's why we It's a it's an additional product that 1:49:33.280 --> 1:49:35.320 we've done here in the Freedom Hunt, and it's just 1:49:35.400 --> 1:49:38.240 out there for people to listen to and folks to 1:49:38.360 --> 1:49:40.439 enjoy and who believe in the brand. I'm actually gonna 1:49:40.439 --> 1:49:43.040 be speaking to a friend this week, someone I work with, 1:49:43.080 --> 1:49:45.200 about whether we might be able to find an even 1:49:45.240 --> 1:49:48.000 better home for it on buck Sexton dot com, and 1:49:48.040 --> 1:49:50.400 the idea being that then I could also add links 1:49:50.439 --> 1:49:53.320 and reading material and make it a really more fully 1:49:53.360 --> 1:49:59.400 interactive experienced photos and or really paintings, not photos of paintings. Right, 1:49:59.400 --> 1:50:01.680 there's no photo graphs that I know of in the 1:50:01.720 --> 1:50:05.760 fifteenth century at least. Uh no photographs back then, and 1:50:06.000 --> 1:50:09.160 uh yeah, So thank you for your your question about it, 1:50:09.200 --> 1:50:11.559 and I know I'm I really enjoy doing it too. 1:50:11.600 --> 1:50:13.160 But as you can imagine, it takes up quite a 1:50:13.160 --> 1:50:14.880 bit of time. And the more you guys spread it 1:50:14.920 --> 1:50:16.840 around we look at the numbers, the more folks listen 1:50:16.920 --> 1:50:19.640 to it and and share it and interest there is 1:50:19.680 --> 1:50:22.400 the easier days for me to ask the bosses here 1:50:22.439 --> 1:50:26.479 to let me devote time and resources to it. Glenn, 1:50:27.160 --> 1:50:30.599 Glenn is the next up at bad Here Netflix, Amazon 1:50:30.720 --> 1:50:36.559 suggestion Longmire is great, but have you tried Justified? Timothy 1:50:36.600 --> 1:50:41.400 Oliphant is the star, although the co star, Walton Googin's 1:50:41.920 --> 1:50:45.080 his character Boyd, is great. I think it is on 1:50:45.120 --> 1:50:47.600 Amazon Prime. Yes, I can tell you, Glenn, I have 1:50:47.800 --> 1:50:51.280 tried Justified. I got a few episodes in and did 1:50:51.280 --> 1:50:54.680 not finish it for reasons that I cannot think of 1:50:54.760 --> 1:50:58.719 right now. I probably just got distracted with something else. Um, 1:50:58.760 --> 1:51:00.679 but I've heard very good things and what I saw 1:51:00.800 --> 1:51:02.679 was very good, so I'll probably go back and check 1:51:02.720 --> 1:51:05.680 it out again. It had a great pilot, which is 1:51:05.720 --> 1:51:08.880 so essential both in getting a show made from a 1:51:08.920 --> 1:51:13.000 production standpoint, and then in drawing people in to listen 1:51:13.080 --> 1:51:16.840 to it. Uh. Next we get Michael here with oh, 1:51:16.840 --> 1:51:19.400 but thank you, I would not for the for the suggestion. 1:51:19.600 --> 1:51:21.479 Miss Molly and I are are going back and forth 1:51:21.520 --> 1:51:25.679 now between the marvelous Mrs Mazel, which I highly recommend, Brandon, 1:51:26.360 --> 1:51:28.360 uh and Mike. But Mike's not here right now in 1:51:28.400 --> 1:51:32.160 the room. Have you seen it? No, I'm telling you 1:51:31.920 --> 1:51:34.640 that you have Netflix right yeah. Oh no, it's on 1:51:34.640 --> 1:51:37.240 Amazon Prime. Do you have Amazon Prime? No? See, that's 1:51:37.240 --> 1:51:40.519 the thing I would recommend the marvelous Mrs Mazel to 1:51:40.560 --> 1:51:43.920 any of you are listening. It's Uh, it's fun for me, 1:51:44.000 --> 1:51:45.640 especially because a lot of it is filmed in and 1:51:45.680 --> 1:51:48.719 around places I know in New York City. Ah. Then 1:51:48.760 --> 1:51:52.599 there's also Ozark, which I'm liking more than I thought 1:51:52.640 --> 1:51:55.080 I would. If you liked Breaking Bad, as I said, 1:51:55.120 --> 1:51:57.760 you have to check out Ozark. I really should get 1:51:57.800 --> 1:52:00.559 like Netflix to sponsor the show. I'm like a Netflix fiend, 1:52:00.880 --> 1:52:04.000 old books, Netflix and take out food. That's pretty much 1:52:04.400 --> 1:52:07.240 the center of my fun wheelhouse. That's that's what gets 1:52:07.320 --> 1:52:11.120 me going. Oh and coffee, of course, black rifle coffee. 1:52:11.520 --> 1:52:13.880 I feel like garths sometimes in Wayne's World, when he's 1:52:13.880 --> 1:52:16.519 got the spot, he's got all the sponsor gear on. Yeah, 1:52:16.560 --> 1:52:19.080 that's right. We were in bed. You need copeat sponsors. 1:52:19.120 --> 1:52:21.559 He's covered in reebok And that's one of the great 1:52:21.600 --> 1:52:24.080 Waynes World is a great movie too. Um, but I 1:52:24.120 --> 1:52:26.639 do drink black rifle. I love it, and I love coffee. 1:52:26.960 --> 1:52:31.760 Next up here is James. Um. I've been solving New 1:52:31.840 --> 1:52:35.280 York Times styled cross words for about four decades. One 1:52:35.320 --> 1:52:39.320 of the most frequently used abbreviations uh in the grades 1:52:39.479 --> 1:52:43.960 is n r A. Clueing comes off as Second Amendment defenders, 1:52:44.120 --> 1:52:49.200 Warren Lapierre's organization, peace loving Group, etcetera. I've practically written 1:52:49.200 --> 1:52:51.439 in n r A over three to five written in 1:52:51.600 --> 1:52:54.759 pardon me, over three to five thousand times in the grids. 1:52:55.520 --> 1:52:57.760 That's that seems like a lot. So my question to 1:52:57.800 --> 1:53:00.120 you is can I expect to see n r A 1:53:00.200 --> 1:53:03.559 reclude or use less often in the puzzles? Why can't 1:53:03.560 --> 1:53:05.559 the New York Times be more likely more like the 1:53:05.640 --> 1:53:11.479 daily twenty square inches of decency of plumb, thought, provoking, ingenuity, etcetera. Uh, 1:53:12.040 --> 1:53:14.799 great job on your show, Buck and shields high, James, 1:53:14.800 --> 1:53:17.880 I have a confession to make. I have never done 1:53:17.920 --> 1:53:22.080 a crossword puzzle in a newspaper I think. Ever, it's 1:53:22.080 --> 1:53:24.320 actually just not something I've ever done. So I have 1:53:24.479 --> 1:53:28.040 no knowledge, background, or insight to offer on this whatsoever. 1:53:28.080 --> 1:53:32.040 I'm just not a crossword puzzle guy. I did play 1:53:32.080 --> 1:53:35.240 some chess growing up, so I enjoyed chess, and I'm 1:53:35.439 --> 1:53:38.280 better at chess than I let on. I always downplay, 1:53:38.360 --> 1:53:40.519 like I can barely play because I like to hustle people. 1:53:40.560 --> 1:53:43.360 You could call me a chess shark. That means that 1:53:43.720 --> 1:53:48.479 you know I wear like a shiny leather, shiny leather 1:53:48.600 --> 1:53:51.840 vest and a pocket protector at the same time. Yeah, 1:53:51.920 --> 1:53:55.640 what's up, chess shark? Uh? But anyway, I was I 1:53:55.680 --> 1:53:58.439 was thinking of one of those those jackets that people 1:53:58.520 --> 1:54:01.439 used to wear and like the seventies that are I 1:54:01.479 --> 1:54:03.080 don't know, I is it vinyl. I don't know if 1:54:03.080 --> 1:54:05.240 it's whatever it is. I was trying to, like, like 1:54:05.439 --> 1:54:07.719 with the wide collar and the big chain and everything 1:54:07.920 --> 1:54:09.880 with leisures. Yeah, like a leaser, So I got a 1:54:09.960 --> 1:54:13.800 leaser shoe. Well, lease your suit while I'm playing chess. 1:54:13.800 --> 1:54:15.680 So therefore I also wear my pocket protector because I 1:54:15.680 --> 1:54:19.120 don't want to get ink stains in my shirt pocket. Yeah. 1:54:19.240 --> 1:54:25.240 Next up we have uh Jen who is Oh? Jen 1:54:25.400 --> 1:54:27.200 is asking me if I can do an interview for 1:54:27.240 --> 1:54:31.479 her international TV news outlet. Well, um, I don't know, Jen. 1:54:31.600 --> 1:54:33.600 I just saw this now, so let me get back 1:54:33.600 --> 1:54:35.880 to you in a few minutes. I don't even know 1:54:35.920 --> 1:54:38.440 what this is, what this is talking about. I'll have 1:54:38.480 --> 1:54:41.240 to check this. Sometimes this happens, folks. Producers reach out 1:54:41.280 --> 1:54:44.680 to you on Facebook and they're like, hey, you want 1:54:44.680 --> 1:54:46.680 to come to The BBC tends to do that. So 1:54:46.720 --> 1:54:49.320 whenever I see the BBC writing me on Facebook, it's like, hey, 1:54:49.320 --> 1:54:52.160 they missed Sexton. Just wondering perhaps you could give us 1:54:52.200 --> 1:54:54.440 five minutes of your time to come on the radio 1:54:54.480 --> 1:54:57.800 show later. We're hoping you can give this a former 1:54:58.280 --> 1:55:04.120 Central Intelligence age see Perspective on the following I'm all 1:55:04.200 --> 1:55:07.800 BBC emails are read in my head in that voice. 1:55:07.840 --> 1:55:12.400 That's how I just assume that's how they go. So, oh, 1:55:12.480 --> 1:55:15.280 here we go. Paul Paul's writing into chied me a 1:55:15.320 --> 1:55:18.080 little bit. That's okay, Paul, remember the team you can. 1:55:18.520 --> 1:55:22.040 I want friendly and constructive criticism to just not all 1:55:22.120 --> 1:55:26.520 caps profane criticism. But Paul writes in in very very 1:55:26.560 --> 1:55:29.600 friendly manner. Change the narrative, Buck, quit talking about the 1:55:29.680 --> 1:55:34.840 Russian collusion, and start talking about the Trump economic success. Paul. 1:55:34.880 --> 1:55:37.160 I certainly try to do that, and I will keep 1:55:37.200 --> 1:55:40.240 trying to do that. So let's just say that I 1:55:40.280 --> 1:55:44.840 appreciate the helpful reminder. Without my friends, Freedom Hunt is 1:55:45.000 --> 1:55:47.360 closing up for the day. Thank you, as always for 1:55:47.440 --> 1:55:53.640 being here until next time, which is tomorrow. Shields High