WEBVTT - Guest Host: Raheem Kassam 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.880 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:08.120 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.880 Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again the 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:23.880 Buck Sexton Show begins. Remember now, welcome to the Buck 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.640 Sexton Show. My name is Rahem Kasam, filling in for Buck. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.960 This Thursday, the twenty seventh of December two thousand and eighteen. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.959 The phone lines are opened here in the Freedom Hut. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:41.280 The phone number is one eight four four nine hundred Buck. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.400 That's one eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.479 We've got a great show for you this evening, and 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.600 I want you to be a part of it. Whatever 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.920 you have to say, whether it's about the government continuing 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.440 it's partial shutdown, who's at fault, whether you're from the left, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.400 the right, the middle, the moon, I want to hear 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:07.000 from you, guys and gals today. We've got a lot 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.120 of subjects to cover over the course of the next 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.720 couple of hours, so stick with us. But I wanted 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.760 to start with this. Over the last day or so, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.440 just when you thought the fake news media could not 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:28.000 get any worse, we find ourselves subjected to another dog 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:33.399 and pony show from CNN and NBC News this Christmas week. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.920 I want to quote the Washington Post, of all places 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:44.440 for you right now. The Post published an article today 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.880 by their media critic Eric Wemple, saying there were merely 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.640 seven hours and forty seven minutes left of Christmas Day 0:01:53.120 --> 0:02:00.000 when NBC News published this story the headline Trump becomes 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.680 first president since two thousand and two not to visit 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:09.120 troops at Christmas time. But even the Washington Post not 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.519 exactly noted for its Trump friendliness, even they are calling 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.800 out NBC for not just publishing demonstrably fake news, but 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.720 also for sticking to their story. They are standing by 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.840 that story as if the President of the United States 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.040 hadn't left the White House at all this week. Well 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.640 we know he did, of course, not just because of 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:35.519 the address in Iraq itself nor the stopover in Germany, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.400 but also because Air Force one, operating under a covert 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.440 call sign was actually physically spotted in the air above 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:48.520 Sheffield in the United Kingdom by some amateur plane enthusiasts. Yes, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.680 obviously the President did visit Iraq, unless there's some major 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.120 conspiracy whereby he really did all of that from the 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.560 basement of the White House. Maybe MSNBC. Maybe NBC will 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.120 be telling us that the shadows and the videos don't 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.239 line up quite right, or the flag was waving incorrectly. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:13.840 Maybe they're Iraq visit truthers, Iraq landing conspiracy theorists. Maybe 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.640 Lee Harvey Oswald acting in concert with President Trump shot 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:24.080 John F. Kennedy. Maybe what we do know, however, is 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:30.519 NBC hasn't apologized nor really retracted its grotesque fake news story. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.799 Oh they put a little disclaimer on it, something something 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.440 surprise visit not our fault, don't shoot the messenger. But 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:46.160 the damage, the intentional damage, I'll remind you, was already done. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.240 The damage was supposed to be incurred by President Trump 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.840 and his administration, as so many news stories a fashion 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:03.200 to do nowadays. Instead it backfired, leaving yet another mess 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.400 for the media, and specifically for NBC. You see, trust 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.840 in the media has been declining for some time now. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.840 Gallop the polling organization, found that between two thousand and 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.760 three and two thousand and sixteen, the percentage of Americans 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.560 who said they have a great deal or fair amount 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.479 of trust in the media fell from fifty four to 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:32.000 thirty two percent. Sixty nine percent of adults in the 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.200 current survey say their trust in the news media has 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.160 decreased in the past decade. Just four percent say their 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.960 trust is increased, and this week's incident muddies those already 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.920 murky waters further. While few were to know that Fir 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.159 Force one would take off in the dead of night 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:56.080 from Joint Base, andrews ms I keep saying, NBC appeared 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:02.080 so eager to criticize this president, getting one more dig 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.839 in at him over the Christmas period, that they couldn't 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.279 even wait until Christmas was well and truly over to 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.560 take their shot. Well, they missed again. Even the Washington 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.160 Post concurs. At the end of the analysis piece on 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.640 the subject today, author and media critic Eric Wemple concludes, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:28.359 quote correct the piece, NBC News or prepared to stand 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:35.640 legitimately accused of propagating fake news. And NBC weren't the 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.240 only ones this week to humiliate themselves over the president's 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.440 Iran visit. I want you to listen to the following 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.320 CNN commentators. I'm sorry I'm subjecting you to this. The 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:55.320 infamous Jim Acosta included their reactions and talking points over 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:00.000 the visit to US soldiers. Is really quite something to behold. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.359 Let's play that clip. Is that unusual to see the 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.040 president doing that on base? Does this run the risk 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.960 of the president, you know, facing some accusations that he's 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.280 turning some of this into a campaign stop? What are you? Well? 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.920 You know, this is very interesting. The pool reporters traveling 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.480 said that the troops brought the hats with them, including 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.360 one hat that said Trump twenty twenty. We will have 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.559 to see if that actually proves to be the case. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.880 The question is if they brought them or if the 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.159 president brought them? What commander allowed that to really happen? 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.280 Because this is very much against military policy and regulation. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.480 Troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.760 The US military is not a political force. And there's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.440 no question the saying Trump twenty twenty and make America 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.680 great again, those are political slogans of a Trump campaign. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.320 They are not governmental sayings to put to say the 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.560 least right and John, I mean, what would the concern 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.040 be if something like that is going on? Do you 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.039 think or is this just you know, a soldiers there 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.839 he's got a hat in his locker and he runs 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.479 over and says, hey, when am I gonna have another 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.440 chance for the president to sign one of these things. Yeah. Look, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.000 I mean it kind of blurs the line because the 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.040 Trump is his slogan and where's that, where's that? You know, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.280 where's that line? But Barb's right, it is in fact 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.920 a campaign slogan, that is a campaign item and is 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.600 completely inappropriate for the troops to do. Supposed to do it, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.400 not supposed to do this, and I'm sure that their 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.400 boss is seeing that. They're They're not going to be 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.520 happy about it. But look, the president has to take 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.840 some ownership of this too. Every time he's around military audiences, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.600 he tends to politicize it and he brings in complaints 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.160 and grievances from outside the realm of military policy. This 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.160 was wrong for him to do it as well. I'm 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.880 going to be really interested to see Jim when we 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.000 get video of his comments to the troops, his actual 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.880 speech at Aliside, and I hope that he didn't politicize 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.560 that those sets of remarks, But we'll have to wait 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.640 and see. We're gonna have to wait and see which 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.320 command or allowed that to happen. The military is not 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.520 a political fools. It was inappropriate. The bosses won't be 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.480 happy Trump has to take ownership over it. Listen to 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.440 the stretch in their voices much better if you can 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:12.120 go and watch that online. They are at such great pains. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.480 They know they're going to ridiculous lengths to implicate this 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:22.840 president in something, anything, even something is innocuous. Assigning baseball caps, Well, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.320 let the impeachment proceedings begin. Surely this is the gravest 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.960 deception ever foist upon the American people. Some soldiers wanted 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.880 their commander in chief's autograph and posed happily with make 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:42.200 America Great Again caps. The horror of it all. Meanwhile, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.040 on the southern border, of course, no one really cares 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.000 about the waves of mass illegal immigration coming into the 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.760 United States. Well, unless it's a migrant child that's suffering, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.120 of course, then they're all down there with their cameras 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.920 and their crews and the crocodile tears. Who've seen it 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.360 in Europe before, of course, during the crisis of twenty fifteen. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.640 Is it really any wander I ask you, that we 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.600 across the Western world have so little faith in our 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.440 media overlords. Now, can it really be that surprising to 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.440 the one time masters of the universe at this point 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.840 that they have sufficiently abused the trust of the public 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:29.120 to the extent that many are just switching off completely. I, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.120 for one, as somebody who regards journalism as a noble 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:39.240 profession stacked with ignoble operators, have lost all sympathy for 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:46.000 these people. M MSNBC, sure, NBC, CNN, to quote the 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.640 President of the United States, you are fake news. The 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.880 lines are open here one eight four four nine hundred 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.959 buck one eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.079 You're going to go to a quick break now when 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.839 we come back, more of your calls, and we've got 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.480 some great guests for you here on the Buck Sexton Show. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.040 Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Rahemkasam, filling 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.280 in four Buck Sexton from the Freedom Hut here in Washington, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.520 d C. The phone lines are open eight four four 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.600 nine hundred buck eight four four nine hundred two eight 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.760 to five. Want to go to the phone lines now, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.080 let's go to Charlie from Ocean City, Maryland. Charlie you 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.360 with us. Yes, I am saying you made you do. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.640 Thank you taking my call. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.600 little older citizen and I've been listening to all this 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.880 talk about building the wall, and it's very simple. Back 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.679 in the sixties, I was in the CBS and I 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.440 spent a couple of years in nom We built everything, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:51.480 and we have a wall in DC. It's the Vietnam Memorial, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:57.560 affectionately called the Wall. Now we can put a wall 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:03.560 in our border with the Sbees. It's all military. It 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.000 will be covered by military expense. The only problem is 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.440 the cbees cannot build in the United States unless it's 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.840 specified as training exercised. Could it be specified as a 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.000 training exercise? Sure, it could be. You're teaching the Cbees 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.240 how to build a wall. That sounds like a great 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.880 idea to me. What do you think? What do you 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:30.680 think the calculation is behind not going that route just yet? Well, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.680 I think I think the President in his staff is 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.000 looking for other means how to fund this because they 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:46.000 have contractors in mind who developed the prototypes and knowing 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.240 this building President, because he built all his life, he 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.880 can get this wall for much less than what is 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.680 publicly stated. Makes a lot of sense, Charlie, We're gonna 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.440 put that question to our next guest. Thank you so 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.240 much for the call. We have Colonel Rob Manus joining 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:10.360 us now on the line. A thirty two year combat 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.240 veteran in the Air Force, a B Wing Squadron Commander, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.040 Colonel Rob Manus, Thanks for joining us, Thanks for him 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.400 appreciate it you having beyond and just correct me if 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.200 I'm wrong. You also have a new show, is that right? 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.400 I do on the Blaze TV, The Rob Manis Show. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.120 You can find us on Facebook at the Rob Manis 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.079 Show or if you just follow me on Twitter at 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.280 Rob Manus. You can pick up the website that's m 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.400 A N E. S. S. Rob. I wanted to ask you. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.720 I wanted to get Charlie in there first. What do 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.720 you think of that idea? Is that feasible having the 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.680 military build a wall? Oh? Sure, it's feasible. We do 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.640 all kinds of things and call them training exercises in 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.120 order to not just to do them, but to get 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.360 value out of doing that. For instance, doing apply over 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.760 using multi aircraft at a NASCAR raise for a football 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.079 game costs a lot of taxpayers dollars, but the air 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.600 crew is getting and the maintenance personnel are getting training 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.559 out of that. So absolutely we could do that. The 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.040 question is do we use cbs, Do we use the 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.840 civil engineers in the Air Force the red horse folks 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.199 who are who are deployable, or use them all and 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.440 call it all one big training exercise. But absolutely possible 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.320 and feasible to do that. So in the first part 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.520 of this show, Rob I talked about the visit to 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.440 Iraq and the media's heads blowing up. Of course, NBC 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.120 accused the President of not having gone at all. They 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:51.040 now Iraq visit. Truth is. Then you also had CNN 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.240 talking about this, this massive, massive scandal that is surely 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.880 going to bring the government down, of President Trump signing 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.880 a baseball cap. I mean, as as somebody who has 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:07.000 spent the dominant part of their adult life in the military, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.920 how does it make you feel to hear the military 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.719 being politicized by the media in that sense? And is 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.600 there really any any smoking gun when it comes to 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.800 the president signing a baseball cap? I mean, this was ludicrous, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.280 isn't it. I mean two days worth of commentary about it. Oh. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.120 Absolutely not the set. But my buddy US Army retired 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.760 Colonel Kurt Slichter and I are both being trolled by 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.840 by CNN's paid hack on this issue, retired General Mark Hurdling, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.320 and he's been going back and forth with us pretty 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.560 much since last night about this and and tries to 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:51.280 say that it's a political, partisan, political activity and because 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.240 they were in uniform, it's illegally. I mean, he's sent 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.640 me copies of the regulation. I've had to cut pieces 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.440 out and show it to him. You know, a first 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.120 surprise that he's doing this, other than I know he's 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.840 a political hack for CNN and he's made by CNN 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.560 and that's what c any wants to do. But the 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.640 not funny part of it is they're attacking the troops 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.680 that are in combat on the ground in Iraq for 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.360 asking the President United States to autograph some items. You know, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.120 he happens to have the baga hat. None of that 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.920 is partisan, uh, And they have to be a uniform 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.280 because they're in a combat zone and he's the commander 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.920 in chief and if they want him to sign something, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.040 that's fine. Look, Barack Obama and Vice President Biden both 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.120 visited my last base that I commanded, the base on 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.960 in Out in New Mexico. That and we had we 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.680 had the troops and civilians, their government, savinians, people from 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.440 the base meet the airplane because they want they want 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.880 to meet the president and vice president of the United States. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.280 They're not partisan people. Uh, And they'd hand them all 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.320 kinds of things to get signed, and I really didn't 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.120 pay any attention to what they were handing him to 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.840 get signed because I didn't care. I'm not going to 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:05.560 attack the troops and deplete their morale by making it 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.480 a political issue when it's not. It's it's a commander 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.640 in chief visiting your base. Well that was even Barack 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.640 Obama on the way to an off based political event, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.480 you know. So it's just crazy. But CNN is telling 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.920 us these guys. CNN is telling us that the command 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.880 is going to be very upset and the bosses are 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.520 not going to be happy, and there's going to be 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.960 hell to pay for this. The reality is nobody's going 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.080 to care, right, nobody cares outside of that CNN studio, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.200 No nobody cares. And they're actually lying. And General Hurtling 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.920 is of using the facts from the ethics regulation that 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.400 he himself sent me the link to this morning, and 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.040 I had to cut out the part that talks about 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.560 they're prohibited from partisan political activities and engaging in that 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.840 and attending political events as a spectator if they're a 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.400 uniform when they're not a uniform. They can do whatever 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.160 they want, but that's not what the case is here. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.200 As the cases of Commandergy visiting combat forces, they happen 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.959 to have some items that they wanted him to get signed, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.520 and that's fine, and none of it was partisan. Those 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.960 items aren't even partisan. There's nothing about political parties even 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.120 on those items that they got signed by the guy. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.000 I think it's ridiculous. And they owe an apology to 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.560 the American forces in Iraq. You know, it really does 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.160 make me sad to see things like that happening because 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.520 we've seen that sort of attack on national morale is 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.439 what it really is. It's not just even about the 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.960 troops morale. So the troops morale reflects national morale as well, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.840 and they both play an integral part together. It's it's 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.919 it's it's a lattice. They overlap and to attack national 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.520 morale at Christmas no less, when the President is, as 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.560 you say, in a combat zone visiting the troops, which 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.040 is what they were complaining that he hadn't done. He 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.639 was kicking their boxes and and and this is what happens, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.360 Colonel rob manis we've got to leave it there because 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.800 we're up against the hard break. But I thank you 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.880 so much for joining us here on the Buck Sexton Show. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.200 You can catch Rob's work at rob Man s M 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.320 A n e SS dot com. Stay on the lines. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.840 We'll be right back for more callers after this break. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.520 Welcome back. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Raheem Kasam 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.680 filling in for Buck today live from the Freedom Hut. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.920 I have invaded the Freedom Hunt here in Washington, d C. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.879 The phone lines are open eight four four nine hundred 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.600 Buck eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.280 You know, I used to host a show over on 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:33.480 another another network, and the callers were the most important 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.600 part of the show for me. I really, I really 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.600 don't care what I have to say so much, which 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.840 is strange for somebody hosting a radio show. I am 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.080 really much more interested in what you guys have to say. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.919 But if you are interested in the long term or 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.280 the medium term, if you choose to unfollow me in 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:50.960 what I have to say, you can find me on 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.600 all the social media's as well. M Twitter at Raheem Kassam. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.800 It's rah e M k A S S A M. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.399 Same on Facebook and Instagram and all all of those 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.680 YouTube you name it. I'm on there quite a lot, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.560 probably a little too much. I want to go back 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.280 to the calls now. Nine one. Larry is in Ohio. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:23.280 Mister Larry, are you there? Yes, Regime Hope pronounced your 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:30.840 name right, yeah, absolutely, go right ahead, Larry, are you there? Yeah? 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.359 Can you hear us? We can hear you. Just fine, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:38.720 go right ahead with your point, okay, h They've been 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:44.879 talking about this war issue as a star in the 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:52.520 government shutdown. I ever read a idea, Let's have the 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:57.560 Ambassador of the United Seats meet with the ambassador of 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:08.040 Mexico and propose to them a radical idea of having 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:22.040 Mexico vote their people vote on joining the United States. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:28.159 As an inn action to New Mexico. We'll take that 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:34.359 twenty five billion for the wall and improve their infrastructure 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:44.040 and ours and send enough FBI, CIA of whatever, do 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:51.520 away with the cartel, and raise their standard of living 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:58.000 much higher than it is now. Well, I did not 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.240 expect that a democratic annexation of Mexico as a means 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.040 by which to stop mass, mass illegal immigration. But don't 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.920 you think if you were to do that, I mean, 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.560 you'd if they were to actually go ahead and do 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.400 something like that, you'd be creating millions of more American citizens. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.119 You don't think they just flood into the rest of 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.600 the US while their infrastructure is being improved. I mean, 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:26.680 I know we're talking theoretically here. Forard continues building cars 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:34.440 in Mexico and large companies in the United States continue 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:41.240 doing business in Mexico, they will be paid the same 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:49.480 as American workers. I think, I think, I think you'd 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.640 have to have a referendum within the United States as well. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.840 On that. I'm not sure that there'd be a great 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.720 a great taste for for for Mexico joining the US, Larry, 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.400 but I appreciate the radical thinking. Larry from Ohio. There 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.160 phone lines are open, ladies and gentlemen. Eight four four 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.880 nine hundred buck eight four four nine hundred two eight 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:16.760 two five. We have We have Dana from Lake City 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:21.800 in Florida. Dana, good afternoon, good evening. Hey, how are you? 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.960 Thank you for Dickie marcall, Hey my pleasure, go right ahead. Yeah, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.960 I'm My concern is with the president, and you know, 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.520 we have heard about fake news for a while. Well, 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:34.520 we were all just duped in the idea that he said, 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.639 you know, oh, I'm not going to go tomorrow, Lago, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:38.280 I'm going to stay in the White House where the 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:43.400 government shuts down. He even tweeted for me. And realistically, 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.000 this trip to Iraq had been planned for six weeks 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.800 in advance, and I feel like we were just duped. 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.200 We were supposed to feel sorry for his actions when 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.480 all the time there's a whole another scenario going on 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.439 behind the scenes. You know, well, do you think that 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.800 was do you think that was him fooling or part 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:02.439 of security protocol to make sure that you know the 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.720 trip wasn't leaked. The White House, for better or worse, 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:09.560 is a leaky place. That was his safeguard against the 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:14.000 trip leaking out. Now, that would be one way to 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.439 look at it. I suppose you don't like it. You 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.879 don't sound like you enjoyed that. But did you feel 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:23.879 empathy or sympathy for him when you read that? Poor me, 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:25.960 I'm in the White House will alone this Christmas? Is 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.919 that why you feel a bit dupe? Now? No, to 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.399 be honest with you, No, I didn't feel any sympathy. 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:33.480 I don't feel any sympathy for him at all. Frankly, 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:40.359 I would prefer a president with much more dignity and class. 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:43.360 But that's what we have, and that's what we're dealing with. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:45.960 That's an interesting point. Now you can probably tell that 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.639 I am a big fan of this president, and I 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.240 regard myself as as quite a dignified person. I'm sure 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:53.520 there are a lot of people out there who are 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.919 also dignified in regard themselves as such, but that do 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:01.360 like this president. Do you can you not see their 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:05.560 their point, The sort of Andrew Jackson esque brusqueness of 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.879 this president may be the only way they feel that 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:12.480 they can get anything done. Um, it would be nice 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.679 if that were a fact. But you know, in the 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.840 case of Andrew Jackson, he had a history of working 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:23.960 towards certain goals. Donald Trump's goals have been to take 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:28.359 advantage of real estate options, and realistically, there's in a 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:30.440 bank in this country that will loan him a dollar. 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:33.800 So that's why he's been learning, learning towards the Russians 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.640 in order, you know, increase his bank stake. Well, I don't, 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:39.880 I don't. I don't think that. I don't think there's 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:42.159 not a bank in this country that would lend him 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.679 a dollar. But I appreciate the fact that when you 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.600 when you have been in real estate for a long time, 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.119 and some projects succeed in some projects fail. Sure it 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:52.720 makes you a riskier investment, But you don't believe that 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.600 he has any tangible policy goals. I mean, there's been 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:58.840 sweeping change to the federal courts system under under him 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:02.080 so far? How been policies that have been enacted? Are 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:06.200 those accidents? Well? No, The only thing that truthfully he's 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:10.320 done since being voted in the Reblican party reboving your party, 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.960 has taken the lead and move things forward. He is 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:18.040 just a figurehead, if you will, at lowheart in my 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:23.080 opinion and realistically, he has done nothing but create controversy. 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.240 The Republicans are the ones running the show now, Dana, 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.119 can I ask if and you don't have to answer this, 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:33.320 but can I ask do you typically vote Republican or Democrats? 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:37.520