WEBVTT - Deep State Deep Dive 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:16.680 You are entering the freedom much huge GDP number today, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.160 looks like the economy under Trump is doing just great. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.160 Joe Biden's talking about a fight for the soul of America, 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.040 But what the heck is he really talking about? Does 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.159 he even know? And George Papadopolis, the man at the 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.840 center of the Russia collusion delusion, He's going to spend 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.640 a good chunk of time list today to tell us 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.240 what really happened as a target of the deep state. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.360 Attamore coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.320 the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:50.680 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, Bring You're a 0:00:50.720 --> 0:01:02.200 great American again, The Buck Sexton Show begins. No, it's 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.479 a blowout number. You know. I'll just say Trump policies 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:11.720 to rebuild the economy, lower taxes, regulations, opening energy trade reform. Look, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.360 this stuff is working. The first quarter is supposed to 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.440 be the worst quarter of the year, so it comes 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.520 in at three point two percent tells me, among other things, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.720 that the prosperity cycle we have entered into is continuing. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.560 It's strong, it's got legs, and it's got momentum. And frankly, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.440 It's going to go on for quite some time. This 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.319 is the new Trump economy. Some people don't like that, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.200 or they don't agree with that. I respect the differences, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.399 but I'll tell you I think the Welcome to the 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.000 Buck Sex and Show blowout number here on a Friday, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.640 GDP grow three point two percent the first quarter. Just 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.040 a reminder, you know. I like to spend some time 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.760 on the show to make the case to all of 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.480 you that President Trump is in fact doing a very 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.360 good job overall as president. Not perfect. Some stuff I 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.680 would want it differently, but certainly not what the left 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.240 is telling you. It's a fight for the soul of 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.200 the nation and what are we gonna do? And how 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.200 are we ever gonna live for four more years of Trump. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.160 I do worry about what the psychological damage will be 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.200 to the left if Trump does win reelection, and I 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.560 think right now he is in a very strong position. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.280 I know a lot can change between now and then. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.920 I do worry about a cyclical recession. I'm gonna keep 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.919 saying it because I'm hoping it won't come true, and 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.679 if I say it, it it won't happen. But Trump as 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.520 commander in chief, Trump as a steward of the American economy, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.680 and with the ideas and the policies that he's pushing, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.840 things are actually going pretty well. There is a lot 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.200 of there is a lot of sense of optimism and growth. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.799 And meanwhile the left is running around saying all kinds 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:53.639 of just crazy stuff, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:03:01.200 increasingly embracing at least socialist tone, if not socialist intent. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.520 And that's why I like to hear from a man 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.320 Larry Couldlow. He's just He's great, isn't he Couldlow really 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.360 is a very effective communicator, very very charming guy and 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.760 smart understands the economy really well. Here's here's what he 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.079 says about this idea of the Democrat left and can 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:23.080 they really win pushing all this socialist nonsense playclibit. I 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.280 mean the socialist winning. The Democratic Party can't win. They 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:31.160 cannot win. No, nobody wants to u Universal Healthcare cup 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:36.320 GDP by fifteen percent, the Green New Deal, which would 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.720 destroy I mean nobody that that socialist message is a 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:46.440 sure loser. I hope he's right, I really do. I 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.520 think he is right. But we have a long time 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.800 and the medium and it think think about how much 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.280 ferocity they direct at Trump on a regular basis, we 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.200 think about their willingness to try to come up with 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.800 a lot of different ways to just make Trump make 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.360 a negative news cycle for Trump. I mean, honest analyzes 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.640 of media coverage of this president usually put negative coverage 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.400 around ninety percent. So most of the major media outlets 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.719 when they run a story on Trump, nine out of 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.000 ten times, it's just obviously negative. Now they're going to 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.880 have their second opportunity in the post Russia collusion delusion 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.320 situation of the Mulla report already being out, and after 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.840 the Billy Bush tape, and after the campaign finance porn 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.640 star payoffs. I mean, they've they've thrown all this stuff 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.480 at Trump and they just can't beat him. They just 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.400 can't figure out how to do it yet. So there's 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.560 going to be a particular desperation you can smell it, 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.320 you can feel it coming from the left in order 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.680 to stop this president from getting four more years. And 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.400 I don't know, and I really mean this, I don't 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.800 know if they will be able to psychologically handle for 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.320 more years of Trump. He's already broken them, so what's 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.320 he going to do break them again? Can they be rebroken. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.040 Is there going to be another night like that night 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.480 when Trump defeated Hillary, when they're all these people gathered 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.880 together for their big coronation party of whoever the Democrat 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.200 is supposed to be. We don't really know yet. Right 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.359 now people say Biden, I don't think that's going to last. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.920 But we'll talk more about where I am on Biden. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.360 Can Democrats handle former years of Trump? Well? What will 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.360 some of them actually start to flee to Canada or 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.440 who knows where. I don't know if anyone really has 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.440 the answer, because the way that they have responded to 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.719 this president so far is just it does feel like 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:45.280 and look like a form of psychosis. And Biden launching 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.839 his campaign the way he did, talking about Charlottesville right away, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.240 and this pretense that we're gonna have a return to 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.720 normalcy when I don't even know what normalcy is supposed 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:59.320 to be. The Obama years were normalcy. The Obama administration's policies, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.520 the bowing to dictators, the giving palettes of cash for hostages, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.760 the Iranians, after completely abandoning some of the fundamental precepts 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.360 of US foreign policy in the Middle East because you 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.360 didn't want to upset the Iranian mulas, that that's return 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.560 to normalcy. You know, you didn't build that demonizing job 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.440 creators or those who build well for themselves and others 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.880 through the fruits of their labor, that that's what we 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.000 want to go back to. It doesn't seem like something 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.200 that anybody should be particularly excited about. What will Biden's 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:33.880 policies be. I don't even know if Biden knows what 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.839 his policies and the economy are supposed to be. He's 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.719 one of these guys who has been in living off 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.640 the off of the public's checkbook for a very long time, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.040 I think thirty or forty years now. He's never really 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.559 had a private sector job. In that sense, he represents 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.960 much of what was rejected in the last election, that 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:57.920 the politics of the permanent political class, and Biden's already 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.800 I don't even get me started on how you know, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.400 was essentially an unlicensed and unwanted massage therapist for anybody 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:09.320 within arm's reach for the last twenty years or so. Yeah, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.720 that's right. What are his economic policies going to be? 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.880 A good Low brought up what he thinks Biden, well, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.760 he thinks of Biden doesn't even know what Biden's gonna do. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.320 Play nine. What I don't know is whether Joe Biden 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.120 will run on the kinds of pro growth economic policies 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.320 that Donald Trump is put in place, and whether Vice 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.800 President Biden will work to keep the prosperity cycle going. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.600 Joe Biden's a blue collar guy. I get that. But 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:43.960 here's the point. Under President Trump, blue collar workers are booming. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.640 Blue collar employment is booming the best since I was 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.880 here last in the nineteen eighties, Wages are booming. Will 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.840 mister Biden promote growth policies or will he promote you know, 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.760 big centralized government collective as policy like the rest of 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.720 his party. We'll have to wait and see. A strong 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:09.720 economy is usually a big winner come election time. That's 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.880 all said. I mean, what are the policies that Biden 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.600 is going to push, less prosperity, higher taxes. We know, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.160 because that's the Democrats love to do that. What do 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.440 they really think is going to be a compelling pitch 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.080 for Joe Biden on the economy? All this class warfare 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.920 stuff appeals to the left wing base, but people that 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.560 are just trying to do the right thing, pay their bills, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.800 pay their mortgage, pay their rent. They don't. They don't 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.040 just want to hear about the millionaires and the billionaires. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.560 They want to hear about how they're going to have 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.360 opportunity and the government's going to take its boot off 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.000 their neck and its hand out of their pocket. Biden 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.600 going to provide that. Biden is kind of a cipher 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.280 and no one really knows what he thinks about a 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.800 lot of this stuff because he's not somebody who has 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.720 a particular philosophical position on anything. It's just what does 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.959 it do for Biden at any given time. Old school 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.600 politics for an old school dude. I don't think it's 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.520 going to be enough in case Hillary Clinton loses. If 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.680 she loses, we've got an insurance policy. Well that was 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.040 the insurance policy. Now she lost, and now they're trying 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:18.199 to infiltrate the administration to really it's a coup. I 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.360 think it's far bigger than Watergate. I think it's possibly 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.120 the biggest scandal in political history in this country. So 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.160 let's see how high it goes up. Because it's inconceivable 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.480 when it goes to Clapper, Brennan, Comy, these people, I 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.040 would imagine that some other people maybe a little bit 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.280 higher up also knew about it, and maybe a lot 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.640 higher up. We know who he's talking about. The president 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.240 there is starting to prepare the American people for the 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:46.880 truth that I believe is going to come out very 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.720 soon that President Barack Obama at the time knew a 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.360 whole lot about what was going on and did nothing 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.040 to stop it. I think what we will see is 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.679 that President Barack Obama, well I'll get more into this 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.480 later on the show, but I just this idea that 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.920 it was a coup, that this was something that we 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:14.080 need to understand fully to prevent in the future. That is, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.400 we have to stay on this because the left is 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.199 absolutely not going to want to get to the truth, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.439 because the truth is that they tried to cheat in 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.760 the election that they always they claimed that Trump was 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.040 the cheater. The reality is the Left was the cheat, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.080 was the cheater. The progressive Left were the ones who 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:42.200 were pushing this whole story and engaging in the deceptions. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.679 Perhaps before the fives accord, I think very likely, almost 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:50.120 certainly that occurred. I think that the progressive Left has 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.160 so much to be ashamed of, but they're not ashamed 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.000 of anything, because I don't think they're really capable of shame. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.680 That's not something that's really in their vocabulary. And that's 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.160 why when the President uses this language when he says 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.520 it's a coup and it's far bigger than Watergate. Good good. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.719 That is what we That is how we should talk 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.400 about this. We're gonna have a whole conversation later on 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.160 in the show about the kind of words the left 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.040 wants us to use now in the ways that they 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.560 try to control the language. But I mean, I'm just 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.959 here to tell you that, you know, we have used 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.240 their verbiage. They insisted that we say collusion for two 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.280 years and then when we said no collusion, so well, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.240 collusion is not really a thing. I mean, they'll just 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.560 change the rules as they go along. They'll change the rules. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.720 And now that the great hope of the Democrat left 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.800 is and I think that there there may be a 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.040 great irony here that the effort to take down Trump 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.720 may help ensure his reelection. But the Democrat left believes 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.720 that this was rather that Joe Biden is somebody who 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.760 can make can make it all happen, and he can 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.280 defeat Trump. He's the one. And this is Trump talking 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:07.680 about his soon to be perhaps number one opponent, on 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.080 the Democrats side. Play clip two. When you look at Joe, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.040 I've known Joe over the years, He's not the brightest 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.160 light bulb in the group. He talked about the way 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.920 the world is today. Well, I'll tell you the way 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.319 the world is today is we have a strong military, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.640 We have choice for our veterans. We have the biggest 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.040 tax cut in the history of our country. We are 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.079 a country respected again the country. As much as the 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.319 left wants to believe it's going to hell in a handbasket, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.360 the country is doing well. We do not have the 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.360 Occupy Wall Street movement popping up in city after city, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.880 you know, deciding they're going to set up these Marxist 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:52.040 encampments and demand changes to policy and send Antifa running 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.319 around to break things and threaten people and act all crazy. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.959 We don't have the Black Lives Matter movement marching around 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.800 the city saying that hops or racist who are murdering 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.800 black young black men for sport, for effectively for entertainment, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.840 or out of out of some deep seated racism. This 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.079 is what was being said under the years of the 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.960 Obama administration that I was at the rallies. I actually 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.079 remembered debating Van Jones on this, and he tried to 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.520 say that, oh, that's not what said. I said, I 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.800 have photos of the placards, I have video of the chance. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.960 I know exactly what was being said at Black Lives 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:30.200 Matter rallies. You know, racist cops murdering, racist pigs. Terrible, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.719 terrible stuff. That's all that's gone away, at least for 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.440 now under the Trump administration. In what way was the 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.840 country unified under the Barack Obama years? So this is 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:46.760 where when Biden does this whole oh the soul of America? 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.480 Where was this this bringing together? Yeah, there was a 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.760 moment there in the early stages of the Barack Obama 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.280 presidency where you have this historic rise of a of 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.760 a president, first African American president. You know, there was 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.000 I'm not going to deny reality. There was a moment 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.079 there where I think you had a particularly high level 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.040 of excitement and enthusiasm for a new president. But then 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.280 Obama started making decisions as president, started doing things, started 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.240 pushing policies and ideas, and that did not bring the 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:21.840 country together. Obamacare, for example, was as partisan an exercise 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.480 as you could possibly have from the legislative branch. Obamacare 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.080 was not about bringing people together or unifying them. It 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:36.800 was about making the Republicans wallow and suffer in silence. Remember, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.440 elections have consequences. It was we won, you lose. Take it. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.840 That's what the Democrat attitude was. And I think Trump 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.960 is absolutely right when he points this out and that 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.360 this soul of American nonsense from Joe Biden, it's just 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.760 pathetic play. For so when Biden makes the same and 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.080 talking about the soul, I mean the soul. Take a 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.960 look at the Obama you know, I heard somebody say 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.000 before that there was s dissension and division. People forget 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:08.000 there was tremendous division during the Obama administration, tremendous division. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.080 We actually have great spirit right now. We do have 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.280 good spirit right now. We also have good jobs numbers, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:19.720 good stock market, good employment numbers. You know, everything is 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:26.000 is trending in the right direction, everything except perhaps the border. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.960 I know, you know, I'm not going to go a 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.040 whole show without bringing up where we are on the border. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.760 I'm very troubled by this. Border Patrol Chief Brian Hastings, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:40.120 who I've interviewed numerous times, had this bombshell to drop. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.400 And just as numbers, you know, they can tell us 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.960 to ignore numbers. The Democrats can say that doesn't really matter. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.560 Numbers do matter. Play clip six. As of yesterday, four 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.400 hundred and forty thousand apprehensions along the Southwest border. We 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.240 need a change in in the current outdated laws that 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.400 we're dealing with for this current graphic, in this crisis 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.840 that we have four hundred forty thousand apprehensions along the 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.960 southwest border, no end to this insight. The courts are 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:16.880 blocking Trump. The Democrats are complicit in the massive illegal 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.200 invasion in this country. They're not willing to take this on. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.680 They don't want it to change. So I'm not I'm 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.920 not sitting here to tell you everything's all just fantastic 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.640 in Trump's America. But I do think it's better than 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.120 what we had going on in Obama's America. I think 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.400 that there's a very clear case to be made for that. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.000 And really, what upsets the liberals the most it's just 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.280 Trump and his tweets. I keep asking, what's the terrible 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.640 thing that Trump has done? What has made people's lives 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.320 markedly worse in this country? And I get nothing. I 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.360 get all his tweets are mean. He says mean things 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:52.200 to Jim Acosta really that that's now the barometer for 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.600 whether the president is literally worse than a hitler, as 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.600 they always say. I don't think so, my friends. We 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.360 need to talk a bit more about the revelations of 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.160 regarding the deep state. I know these Struck page text 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.359 messages now have come out and people are looking at 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.520 those again. And there's the suggestion that Struck, a senior 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.480 FBI agent, may have wanted to establish contacts in the 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.280 administration during the transition in order to essentially set people up. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.120 I think is what we believe was going to happen, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.400 just like they did too, General Flynn, right, they were 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.040 trying to take people down, and it was partisan and 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.119 it was all done in bad faith. I want to 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.120 talk to you about Maria Boutina coming up here because 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.800 she just got sentenced today officially in federal court. I 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.560 might have a slightly different take on that than a 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.320 lot of other folks. And then in the second hour 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.400 to day on the show, we got George Papadopolis, who's 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.920 going to join us, and I'm gonna let him really 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.760 tell you his story, because remember he was central, he 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.080 was the New York Times, a Washington Post. They said 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.040 Papadopolis was the reason the FBI got this whole collusion 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.600 investigation started. That is crap, and we will get into 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.600 why and hear it from him. She had nothing to 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.560 do with the Muller investigation. The Muller team was aware 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.439 of Maria, they were with this case. The interviewed her 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.200 as part of the cooperation, and obviously she didn't appear 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.920 anywhere in the Muller report. I found it curious that 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.399 that was mentioned that what she did was during the 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.280 time of Russian election interference has led by the judge, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.800 when in fact, had she been involved in any of that, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.560 I would imagine Special Council Muller would have mentioned it 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.480 somewhere in his four hundred pages if she had anything 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.280 to do with it, But he should not. Maria Bouttina, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:40.399 remember that name. Maria Butina was the young Russian woman 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.760 red hair, and if you kind of remember, you can 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.720 visualize because she was in the papers a lot for 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:49.160 a few days, and she led to this this frenzy 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.800 of speculation in the press about how there was a 0:18:52.960 --> 0:19:01.360 Russia NRA collusion axis. You know, there was this massive 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.000 plot to run Russian assets through the NRA, and then 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.440 you know, use that to influence our election or something. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.280 All this stuff, and it got even worse. There was 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.320 a suggestion, based on what and now is recognized as 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.760 a joke, that she wrote to an American you know, acquaintance, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.760 that she was trading sex for access. I mean they 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.440 called her essentially a prostitute and a spy, and that 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.960 was completely unfair. I mean, they smeared this woman. The 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:37.520 press smeared her, the prosecutors initially smeared her. And now 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.400 she's she's been sentenced today to eighteen months, with nine 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.600 of them counted towards the time, already served eighteen months 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:51.960 for being an unregistered foreign agent of Russia. Now, let 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.240 me say this, the register, the registration of a foreign 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:01.000 agent is an area of the law where you usually 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:06.639 would not see this kind of very aggressive prosecution. I 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.000 believe she was held in solitary for all too just. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.840 I might have a check on that, but that that's 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.760 a hallmark of the Muller probe and all the people 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.880 involved here. Now, Maria Bucchina was not actually a part 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.840 of them. She was not a Mueller specific target. They 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.760 spun that off to I think the eastern district of 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.680 New York, the Eastern District of Virginia. But there was 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.080 all this stuff about how she was, you know, working 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.320 through the NRA and the collusion and this not the 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.240 other thing. And when push comes to shove, Maria Bouttina 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.800 was essentially working on and she was, according to the 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.119 indictment and her guilty plea, doing this at the behest 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.600 of the Russian government. But she was supposed to make 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:50.280 friends in America and then have back channels for communication 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.159 to try to improve US Russian relations. Now could that 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.159 be I'm not naive. Could that be an opening for, 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.360 you know, an easy opening to commit espionage down the line? Sure? 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.359 Of course? Could that have been her intent all along? Yeah? Maybe? 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:12.080 Did she Maria Boutina commit any act of or try 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.600 or conspire to commit any act of espionage to get 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.960 her hands on classified information, to work to thwart the 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.199 legitimate either processes of the government, or to in some 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:29.879 way involve herself in the election. No, none of that happened. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.480 None of that happened. She was effectively doing what we 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.159 in DC call networking. She was making friends and trying 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.959 to create relationships of influence. If she were not, and 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:44.320 this is where I'm going to this and I know 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.480 that some people may disagree with me on That's fine. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.119 I don't care. I mean, people are entitled their opinion whatever. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.280 If she were not a Russian and if we were 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:59.119 not living through the Russia hysteria witch hunt situation, I 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.400 don't believe that she would have faced any criminal charges whatsoever. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.600 If Maria Boutina were from France. Do you think that 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.560 she would have faced charges for conspiracy to act as 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.879 a foreign agent without registering in this country, and that 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.399 they would they would want prison time. They got eighteen months. 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.600 That's a real prison sentence for her, of course not. 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.440 This is one of the reasons why I'm so pleased 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.600 that we're going to have George Papadopoulos joining us later 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:30.760 on in the program, because you know, the media wants 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.680 to just drive past all this wreckage that they have created, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.840 you know, they they want to find some way to 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.760 just move on to the next conspiracy that undermines Trump 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.879 and that's bad for the administration. Mean, that really is 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:48.399 their goal, and I refuse to allow them to do 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:52.760 that because they did real damage here. They hurt people, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.400 and the environment of near psychosis they created where people 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:01.239 are so concerned about Russia and so concerned about you know, 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.399 what's going to happen in the Muller pro of the 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:09.320 Muller investigation, that then led to overreach of all kinds, 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:14.560 to people's reputations being destroyed, to these very aggressive raids 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:17.879 against individuals, whether it's Papadopolis or Stone or you know, 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.920 Maniport and all these different people who are at worst 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:25.760 guilty of essentially white collar and process crimes. But the 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.159 hysteria had spread throughout the federal government, and it should 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.200 really put us all on edge. It should really make 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.080 us all feel very uncomfortable that all it took for 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:40.240 some of the most powerful people in the national security 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:47.040 bureaucracy to become deep state left wing activists was this 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.240 conspiracy theory that there was collusion between the Trump campaign 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:55.320 and Russia. That's all it took. And then they abandoned 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.640 so many of their professional and ethical obligations, and they 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:04.240 decided that sure enough, they would not give any benefit 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.280 of the doubt to the people that they were investigating. 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:09.320