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Speaker 1: every morning, money through Friday. So look, the big story
Speaker 1: obviously continues to be for whatever reason, this saga involving
Speaker 1: the Muller Report, Can we just establish the fact that
Speaker 1: right out of the box, right out of the box,
Speaker 1: there's no collusion with the Russians, which was the point
Speaker 1: of the entire investigation. I know, I know, people are
Speaker 1: bombed out about the fact that we were supposed to
Speaker 1: get collusion. We were promised collusion. If we wanted our collusion,
Speaker 1: we could keep our collusion. We'd even save twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a year, just to borrow a little phrase
Speaker 1: from the Obama years. And I get it, people, I'd
Speaker 1: be bummed out too. I mean, It's a what's a
Speaker 1: bigger bomber right now in America? If you're a progressive
Speaker 1: liberal who watches MSNBC and collusion news over at the end,
Speaker 1: and is it watching that or is it watching the
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones thing from last night? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Only you could tell me that one. But the reality
Speaker 1: is they were promised collusion. The people who were invested
Speaker 1: heavily in drama were promised that there would be collusion
Speaker 1: at the conclusion of this illusion. But it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: and they are mad, I mean mad, furious, angry. Remember
Speaker 1: the folks who after the two thousand and one election
Speaker 1: and then the two thousand and four election that saw
Speaker 1: the defeat alternately of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman in
Speaker 1: two thousand and then of course the election in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four Kerry Edwards, And do you remember how
Speaker 1: they would drive around with their Kerry Edwards bumper stickers
Speaker 1: on the back of their cars and they would pretend,
Speaker 1: by watching shows like The West Wing that somehow still
Speaker 1: progressives won that election. There's no safe harbor now for
Speaker 1: these folks. They have become enraged to such a degree
Speaker 1: that if you were to put a piece of cold
Speaker 1: in their hands. You'd have a diamond by dinner time
Speaker 1: if you did it at noon. It's a remarkable thing
Speaker 1: to see how these people were invested in this mythology.
Speaker 1: So now we have phase two of the delusion. Phase
Speaker 1: one was the expected Muller Report. Remember you would watch
Speaker 1: these chat shows and you'd get the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over again. Oh, there's gonna be secret information that
Speaker 1: only Bob Muller knows, that's gonna be found out. Look,
Speaker 1: the reality is, and you know as well as I
Speaker 1: do when you look at the cast of characters who
Speaker 1: are around that original investigation, Your Brennan's and your clappers,
Speaker 1: your strucks and your pages, your oars and your ores,
Speaker 1: those folks, those folks were all a bunch of sad
Speaker 1: sack bad folk, including McCabe and Comey at all people. Look,
Speaker 1: Robert Muller left the position of FBI director back once
Speaker 1: upon a time in the year what was it, twenty thirteen?
Speaker 1: So he leaves in twenty thirteen, they hand the command
Speaker 1: over to Jim Comey, who takes over the FBI. And
Speaker 1: then when Hillary Clinton is defeated in twenty sixteen, in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Bob Muller took over as the special counsel, right,
Speaker 1: not an independent council of special council working for the
Speaker 1: Department of just Us. That's what it was under the
Speaker 1: Obama team. It was the Department of just Us. So
Speaker 1: you had Muller coming in there, and he knows full
Speaker 1: well when he goes walking in that who the gold
Speaker 1: bricks are, who the bad folks are, who the lazy
Speaker 1: bums are, Who the people are not doing the people's
Speaker 1: business are inside that organization. He knows exactly who it
Speaker 1: is that's not getting the job done. So all he
Speaker 1: has to do is go through the three h two
Speaker 1: is go through the paperwork, and I'd bet you inside
Speaker 1: of three weeks, Bob Muller knew that if strucks involved,
Speaker 1: if pages involved, if any of those people are involved,
Speaker 1: it's all a scam. These are bad people. These are
Speaker 1: not professional people who are delivering the goods. He knew it.
Speaker 1: He's looking at the names, He's like, Oh, that guy,
Speaker 1: I remember that guy. I remember what happen in Panama City,
Speaker 1: Florida with that guy. I remember what happened with that
Speaker 1: guy in Paris. I know what happened with that guy
Speaker 1: in Hackensack, New Jersey. These are all bad people. None
Speaker 1: of these people able to put together a case. So
Speaker 1: they set up the Trump team, right, you put in spies,
Speaker 1: you do all that sort of stuff. Well, well pause
Speaker 1: right there, because Mueller comes out with his report, and
Speaker 1: suddenly the narrative isn't Mueller's report. It's what Bill Barr
Speaker 1: said about Muller's report. It's Bill Barr wrote a letter.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a complete letter. It was a summary.
Speaker 1: It was a book report. If you do four pages
Speaker 1: of a book report on Moby Dick, at the end
Speaker 1: of that book report, you're not are you going to
Speaker 1: really have somebody say, well, you didn't go off into
Speaker 1: the into the meal plans there of the folks on
Speaker 1: that ship going after the Great White Well, no, you're
Speaker 1: summarizing high points. And the highest of the high points
Speaker 1: was there wasn't any collusion that's not been disputed. That
Speaker 1: hasn't been disputed. There's no evidence of collusion that hasn't
Speaker 1: been disputed. What do you have? You have a volume
Speaker 1: two that Bucks talked about, everybody else has talked about
Speaker 1: when they come on the programs and they say listen,
Speaker 1: the volume two is one through twelve one through twelve
Speaker 1: of a wish list of how it is Bob Muller
Speaker 1: would have gone about impeaching Donald Trump if he could
Speaker 1: with obstruction of justice. So what happens, Well, the Democrats
Speaker 1: come out, they're made to look feckless, they're made to
Speaker 1: look very beta, and they're not getting it done. And
Speaker 1: they come out and they declare, now we have to
Speaker 1: get all the underlying paperwork for this investigation, because now
Speaker 1: we don't even know if Bob Muller was allowed to
Speaker 1: complete his work. No, no, no, he was allowed to
Speaker 1: complete his work. He completed his work, him and his
Speaker 1: team completed the work, a million and a half pages
Speaker 1: of documents. They did it, It got done, the report
Speaker 1: was filed. It's now out there, and so what do
Speaker 1: we have. Well, now we have to talk to Don McGann.
Speaker 1: Don McGann, the White House counsel. Don McGann is the
Speaker 1: guy who says, you know, maybe maybe i'll talk, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll won't talk. Well, the White House comes out and says,
Speaker 1: he ain't talking. He's a private citizen. But we're invoking
Speaker 1: executive privilege. And we're done, and we're out of here,
Speaker 1: and we're finished, and it's over and it's that simple,
Speaker 1: and that's not acceptable. And that's why now today you've
Speaker 1: got the usual suspects on the House Judiciary Committee. You're
Speaker 1: Jerry Nadler's, you're David Cicillini's from Rhode Island, those folks
Speaker 1: who are coming out saying this looks like if Don
Speaker 1: McGann doesn't talk, we may need to open an impeachment inquiry.
Speaker 1: That's just in the last half hour, Just in the
Speaker 1: last half hour, Cicellini from Rhode Island comes out and
Speaker 1: he says, well, we may need to open an impeachment inquiry.
Speaker 1: And in fact, folks, it might be a bipartisan impeachment inquiry.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, what Republican is possibly going along with that?
Speaker 1: Justin Ahmash, the Great Hope of Michigan, Justin Amosh, he
Speaker 1: comes out over the weekend and says, I have read
Speaker 1: the reports, the unredacted, the stuff that's posted. I have
Speaker 1: read it all, and I have concluded there may be
Speaker 1: impeachable offenses here for President Trump. No, there there aren't,
Speaker 1: see because we were told, we were told long time ago,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be about collusion, It's gonna be about Russians.
Speaker 1: Sitting down and cutting deals. That the President sat down
Speaker 1: over a plate of Rudy Tuty Freshman fruities there in
Speaker 1: the Saint Petersburg Denny's, and he said to to then
Speaker 1: President Trump, to then President A. Putin, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw the election, and then i'm gonna win the election,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna help me out. And she's gonna
Speaker 1: lose and I'm gonna win, and then I'm gonna owe you,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be great. Why it's as if President
Speaker 1: Trump practically promised to be more flexible after the election.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that was sorry, that was President Obama
Speaker 1: talking talking to to Putin's vice president. Then back once
Speaker 1: upon a time. Okay, so there's no collusion, and we're
Speaker 1: down to just people staking out their territory. People just
Speaker 1: staking out their their political positions. And we don't know
Speaker 1: how this is going to end up, but I can
Speaker 1: make a prediction. The prediction is the American people are
Speaker 1: looking at their watches. The American people are feeling awfully
Speaker 1: let down and bored by this whole affair. How bad
Speaker 1: is it. You're not even seeing Democratic candidates for president
Speaker 1: talk about this investigation. They're not talking about it anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't talk about impeachment. They know this is a
Speaker 1: waste of time. Even the Democrats running for president. No,
Speaker 1: this is a waste of time. This is twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: that we're still stuck, admired, and we got to move on.
Speaker 1: The American people are ready to move on. We're living
Speaker 1: in a Postmuller, post Game of Thrones world now. And
Speaker 1: as much as these folks want to complain and they
Speaker 1: want to have a fit, and they want to do
Speaker 1: all that stuff, it's not going to change the outcome.
Speaker 1: They came on television for two two and a half
Speaker 1: years and they said President Trump was a trader, and
Speaker 1: he's committed treason, and he has helped our enemies. And
Speaker 1: the reality is there's no there there. So if you'd
Speaker 1: like to send a message to Justin Amage, or if
Speaker 1: you'd like to send a message to David Cicillini, the
Speaker 1: leaders in the Democratic Party, the candidates who are out
Speaker 1: there marching around, feel free to pick up the phone,
Speaker 1: give us a call at eight four four nine hundred
Speaker 1: buck eight four four nine hundred twenty eight twenty five.
Speaker 1: Have your voice heard, Lift your voice to the heavens,
Speaker 1: All the way from your house to just down the
Speaker 1: street from the White House at the Capitol. Let them
Speaker 1: know it's time to move on, or perhaps you think
Speaker 1: it's time to continue. We'll put you at the front
Speaker 1: of the line. I'm Brett winter Ball, sitting in for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. It's the Buck Sexton show right here back
Speaker 1: after this, it is the Buck Sexton Show. Great to
Speaker 1: be spending this time with you, Brett Winterball, sitting in
Speaker 1: for Buck, keeping you company. This tweet just coming in
Speaker 1: from Adam Shift. You know I'm here in California. I'm
Speaker 1: behind the Great Blue Wall, the Great Blue Curtain, and
Speaker 1: this tweet coming in from Adam Shift. Just in the
Speaker 1: last couple of hours, Tromp ordered Don McGann not to
Speaker 1: testify before the American people. Duplicitous as ever, The White
Speaker 1: House says Dems don't get to do over, ignoring the
Speaker 1: fact that the Muller report contemplated Congress picking up where
Speaker 1: he left off. The cover up continues, and we will
Speaker 1: fight and whatever. Adam, you know what, why don't you
Speaker 1: just throw your hat in the ring and run for president.
Speaker 1: I've had I've about had peak. I'm at peak, Adam
Speaker 1: Schiff right now, I really am, and this is getting
Speaker 1: this is getting absurd. Y'all did the investigation and you
Speaker 1: didn't find anything, So I mean, why why are we
Speaker 1: still going down this road? Think about it. It's as
Speaker 1: if the president's being forced to prove a negative that
Speaker 1: he didn't obstruct, that he didn't do this, or this
Speaker 1: is just this is crazy time, and it's good because
Speaker 1: the American people have had it. Nobody wants to do impeachment.
Speaker 1: You guys want to do impeachment. Actually, you're worse than
Speaker 1: wanting to do it. I would have more respect for
Speaker 1: you if you wanted to do impeachment. What you want
Speaker 1: is to look like you're doing impeachment so that the
Speaker 1: kooks in your base like Tom Steyer and company are
Speaker 1: given a salve. That's what it is, right, Oh, it's okay.
Speaker 1: They're trying to do impeachment. They just can't do it. Look.
Speaker 1: I have really come around to liking Bill Barr, the
Speaker 1: Attorney General, and Sadie German's got a piece over in
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal just in the last hour or so,
Speaker 1: and the title on the piece is this Barr under
Speaker 1: fire says he's fighting for the presidency, not Trump. They
Speaker 1: keep saying he's Donald Trump's Roy Cohen, He's Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: house lawyer. No he's not, No he's not. William Barr's
Speaker 1: come under criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who say
Speaker 1: he's acting more like the president's personal lawyer than the
Speaker 1: nation's top law enforcement officer. But mister Barr, who has
Speaker 1: a private citizen once upon a time, bristled at the
Speaker 1: barrage of legal and other challenges mister Trump faced during
Speaker 1: his first two years in office, says his long held
Speaker 1: belief in executive power is more about protecting the presidency
Speaker 1: than the current office holder. I felt that the rules
Speaker 1: were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was damaging for the presidency in the long haul. What
Speaker 1: do we keep hearing, Oh, President Trump's got these he's
Speaker 1: got authoritarian inclinations, He's got he's got these these authoritarian
Speaker 1: ways that are no good. He has been under assault
Speaker 1: for two years. Think about what's been done for the
Speaker 1: last two years under assault. It's absurd what we're looking at.
Speaker 1: And for these these people to come out and and say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta keep keep investigating. The truth is
Speaker 1: out there somewhere. This president is more right than people
Speaker 1: realize when he talks about this being a witch hunt,
Speaker 1: because if you ever take a trip over to Plymouth colony,
Speaker 1: they're not Plymouth, I'm sorry, to Salem in Massachusetts. And
Speaker 1: you go read the history and you look at the
Speaker 1: history of the hysteria that was the original witch hunts
Speaker 1: there in Salem. You'll see it was the creation of
Speaker 1: a couple of children who made up a story about
Speaker 1: a couple of people, and mania struck that colony. Mania
Speaker 1: struct that colony. You got to a place where people
Speaker 1: were forced to either admit they were witches or name
Speaker 1: another witch. And isn't that how Muller kind of ran
Speaker 1: his investigation. Oh did you collude? Know? But then who colluded? Well,
Speaker 1: that person might have colluded. That person might have colluded,
Speaker 1: that person might have colluded. There's no collusion. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say one thing about this that I think is important
Speaker 1: and gets overlooked a lot. Look at President Trump. Strip
Speaker 1: away all the politics. Just look at President Trump as
Speaker 1: an individual. You're gonna tell me that that personality, that
Speaker 1: that individuals as a man, not as the president, but
Speaker 1: as a man, is going to let little five foot
Speaker 1: five lad Putin could control him like with Marionette. Like
Speaker 1: a marionette, you think, you really think that that's a
Speaker 1: man who's going to do that. Of course not. It
Speaker 1: doesn't run according to type. Anybody who works and intelligence
Speaker 1: understands when you are doing an intelligence profile, you are
Speaker 1: going to look at the strengths and the weaknesses of
Speaker 1: the person you're looking at. You're going to try to
Speaker 1: figure out what motivates them, what drives them. You're going
Speaker 1: to tell me that President Trump is going to be
Speaker 1: comfortable going to bed at night knowing that that Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin's got the tricks. No way, it just doesn't work. Now,
Speaker 1: progressives might model that as what they think is that
Speaker 1: sort of behavior because progressives now they're kind of comfortable
Speaker 1: with getting run by the old Soviet Union, right, the
Speaker 1: old Soviet Republic. Look at look at Bernie Sanders for example.
Speaker 1: But it is a remarkable thing. These socialists on the
Speaker 1: left hate hate when socialisms kind of cast aside. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend, great speech given by Robert Smith, who is
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and a multi billionaire. He also happens to
Speaker 1: be African American. That's right, He's a black billionaire worth
Speaker 1: more than Oprah Winfrey. By the way, just to give
Speaker 1: you kind of an idea of where he lands. He's
Speaker 1: done a lot of inv spence, a lot of successful
Speaker 1: VC and things like that, and and and helped enrich
Speaker 1: a lot of people. So there he is at Morehouse
Speaker 1: College and he's speaking at the commencement, and what is
Speaker 1: he doing. He's speaking to those graduates, and in an unscripted,
Speaker 1: totally genuine moment, he declares, I'm going to pay your
Speaker 1: outstanding student loan debt and your room and board debt.
Speaker 1: I'm going to help you pay it off. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pay it for you, guys. That wasn't even written in
Speaker 1: the script, that wasn't in the teleprompter. He just made
Speaker 1: that announcement as a concerned human being, as an American,
Speaker 1: and as somebody who wanted to give these kids a
Speaker 1: leg up. He had been so inspired as a young
Speaker 1: man with his parents going to the very famous MLK
Speaker 1: junior speech, I have a dream, and he was so
Speaker 1: motivated to want to help out the next generation that
Speaker 1: out of the kindness of his heart, he made the
Speaker 1: decision that he would forgive that debt on behalf of
Speaker 1: those students, whatever it's going to cost twenty thirty forty
Speaker 1: million dollars, whatever that money is, whatever that money, as
Speaker 1: he's helping that next generation. And who right on Q
Speaker 1: earlier today, comes out on the Twitter machine and takes
Speaker 1: a big swing at this man, at Robert Smith and says,
Speaker 1: we don't all have billionaires to help pay our student loans.
Speaker 1: That's right, your favorite congresswoman from Queens AOC complaining that
Speaker 1: this billionaire stepped up with his own money and took
Speaker 1: care of the debt of these students just starting out
Speaker 1: in life with one proviso, by the way, with one
Speaker 1: proviso that they pay it forward down the road, that
Speaker 1: they pay it forward down the road. So you have
Speaker 1: this amazing act of charity, free will given to help
Speaker 1: these kids out on this new road. And we've all
Speaker 1: been there. If you graduated college in any debt, you
Speaker 1: know that's certainly a concern as you start your life.
Speaker 1: It affects the sort of jobs you take, whether or
Speaker 1: not you could do graduate studies, anything like that. And
Speaker 1: he does a fundamentally great thing. And what happens. Socialists
Speaker 1: they don't like that because they don't like when it's
Speaker 1: private money. They don't like when it's personal money. They
Speaker 1: don't like when it's a free will donation to help
Speaker 1: people out, because there's there's role there for government. These
Speaker 1: people that view the wealthy and the successful, whether it's
Speaker 1: Robert Smith, whether it's President Trump, whether it's anybody else
Speaker 1: as the enemy, as the enemy, do not understand that
Speaker 1: the vast majority of people in this country, they don't
Speaker 1: hate rich people. They want to be rich people. They
Speaker 1: admire rich people. They might sometimes covet the things that
Speaker 1: rich people have, but people buy in large. They don't
Speaker 1: hate wealthy people. That is something that has to be taught.
Speaker 1: A child doesn't grow up saying I'm such a happy
Speaker 1: a little four year old, except I hate that rich
Speaker 1: guy that mister moneybags is No. You have to teach
Speaker 1: that kind of division. You have to push that. And
Speaker 1: I think that's at the basis for a lot of
Speaker 1: these folks who are angry that President Trump comes in,
Speaker 1: busts out the old order, and is successful in his
Speaker 1: first run at any kind of elected office. He gets
Speaker 1: elected to the presidency, so of course it's got to
Speaker 1: be that he cheated. It's got to be that he
Speaker 1: stole it up. Unbelievable, right, our phones were open at
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine
Speaker 1: two eight two five on Brett Whatterville sitting in for
Speaker 1: buck Sexton. It's the buck Sexton Show back after this.
Speaker 1: In some important ways, my generation has failed you in
Speaker 1: this regard. We spent too much time debating. We've been
Speaker 1: too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress.
Speaker 1: And you don't need to look far to find an
Speaker 1: example of that failure here today, in this very place,
Speaker 1: in an arena where thousands once found desperate shelter from
Speaker 1: one hundred year disaster, the kind that seemed to be
Speaker 1: happening more and more frequently. I don't think we can
Speaker 1: talk about who we are as people and what we
Speaker 1: owe to one another without talking about climate change. At
Speaker 1: is Tim Cook speaking at the commencement ceremonies at Tulane? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tim Cook, I noticed didn't need n't pay off anybody's
Speaker 1: student loads at Tulane. But nevertheless, I know that was
Speaker 1: a very special offer by Robert Smith over at Morehouse.
Speaker 1: But Tim Cook, we have failed this generation. We have
Speaker 1: failed the generation that is supposed to and it's the
Speaker 1: climate change is no no, no, no no, no, no no no. Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't believe there's such a thing as generational failure
Speaker 1: because I don't believe in collective punishment. And so for
Speaker 1: Tim Cook to sit there and super virtue signal by saying,
Speaker 1: this is the Superdome where people once I found shelter
Speaker 1: from Hurricane Katrina. Right, that's what he's saying, And where
Speaker 1: once upon a time there was a blown call in
Speaker 1: an NFC championship. Oh never mind, but we failed you
Speaker 1: as a generation. No generations can neither breed success or
Speaker 1: failure for anybody. Sure, we give credit to the World
Speaker 1: War two generation, the greatest generation, and we should. We
Speaker 1: ought to uphold them and celebrate them for defending us
Speaker 1: against the darkest tyranny seen since the Dark Ages. We
Speaker 1: absolutely owe them something that all they did was save
Speaker 1: civilization as we knew it. But a generational failure, I'm
Speaker 1: not buying that. That feels awfully. AOC like that feels awfully.
Speaker 1: We only have twelve years to live awfully. You know
Speaker 1: what have you? Because there are people who get up
Speaker 1: and work every day and fight for what is right
Speaker 1: in this country and fight for what is right in
Speaker 1: the world, and they have nothing but the best of
Speaker 1: intentions coming from them. Okay, and that's important but because
Speaker 1: what you didn't solve the climate change issue, it's a
Speaker 1: generational failure. What I would argue is this, there's a
Speaker 1: generational failure in that there was a generation of people
Speaker 1: programmed to fail. Let's be honest about that. I don't
Speaker 1: think the generation is responsible for it, but I do
Speaker 1: think starting in nineteen sixty five with the Great Society,
Speaker 1: you had an all out assault by progressive liberal ideas
Speaker 1: pushed by LBJU to destroy the communities of color in
Speaker 1: this country by replacing personal responsibility and personal um self
Speaker 1: reliance with the government with handouts and payouts and checking
Speaker 1: it checks and that sort of something. And that is
Speaker 1: wrong because dependency has got to be created, it has
Speaker 1: got to be sold, and it has got to be
Speaker 1: repeated time and time again. Because that's why government's relevant.
Speaker 1: In the abstract. Think about the things government can do.
Speaker 1: They can take all of your possessions. They can put
Speaker 1: you in prison, a government can can seize your property.
Speaker 1: A government can can take your freedom from you. But
Speaker 1: can government make you free? No? Can government make you wealthy? Well,
Speaker 1: unless you're a Clinton or Biden, probably not. Government can't
Speaker 1: do those things. Government hasn't ever invented a brand new,
Speaker 1: amazing technology. I know DARPA in the Internet. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but for years that wasn't anything productive or profitable until
Speaker 1: the private sector got involved with that. While it was
Speaker 1: just a university and military experiment, it was interesting, it
Speaker 1: was kind of cool, but there was no monetization there.
Speaker 1: There was no economic growth coming from that. Government can
Speaker 1: do nothing but destroy value and destroy your freedom. You know,
Speaker 1: we think back to the prior administration and you think
Speaker 1: back to President Obama and Vice President Biden and the
Speaker 1: idea that they may have wire tapped a presidential candidate
Speaker 1: in President Trump, that they may have surveiled and use spies.
Speaker 1: That's really bad, but it was consistently carried out across
Speaker 1: the eight years of that administration that we saw abuses
Speaker 1: when it came to freedoms and liberties. You want examples,
Speaker 1: fast and furious trying to paint with a broad brush
Speaker 1: and condemn the millions of legal gun owners behaving responsibly
Speaker 1: in our country in the hopes of having a predicate
Speaker 1: to go out and hem in your Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 1: So what do they do. They set up a scheme
Speaker 1: by which drug cartels and their trigger men can come
Speaker 1: across the border into border cities and purchase massive amounts
Speaker 1: of firearms to then take back into Mexico, resulting in
Speaker 1: maybe twenty five hundred three AK forty seven's going onto
Speaker 1: the streets of Mexico and as many as three thousand
Speaker 1: people losing their lives. That's the same number plus or
Speaker 1: minus that you had on nine to eleven. Eric Holder
Speaker 1: was never accountable for that. Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary
Speaker 1: of State in Janetapolitano ahead of HS, never held accountable
Speaker 1: for that. When you try to have an investigation into
Speaker 1: the actual transshipment of firearms into Mexico and the hands
Speaker 1: of drug cartels, effectively making the Obama administration on par
Speaker 1: with Pakistan for smuggling weapons into the Taliban's hands there
Speaker 1: in the theater and Afghanistan. When you have that investigation,
Speaker 1: get you get shut down, you get stonewalled. You have
Speaker 1: the death of an American Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry,
Speaker 1: at the hands of those trigger men with those firearms
Speaker 1: on American soil. Nobody's sell to account. Nobody's selled to account.
Speaker 1: When you have the Tea Party investigations by the IRS
Speaker 1: and you see what happens there, when you speak up,
Speaker 1: speak out, because of something you believe in in terms
Speaker 1: of not wanting to spend money, in terms of not
Speaker 1: wanting to do the porculus and the stimulus and the bailouts,
Speaker 1: in terms of not wanting to do Obamacare, you become
Speaker 1: public enemy NUMEROUNA. Is that not scandalous? It is so
Speaker 1: scann this in fact, and so devastating in fact that
Speaker 1: to this day Lowest Learner and Holly Paz, the two
Speaker 1: senior people in the IRS that were responsible for reducing
Speaker 1: your right to free speech at the hands of the
Speaker 1: tax authority, have to this day begged a federal judge
Speaker 1: to keep their testimony secret for fear of angering people
Speaker 1: who would find out the truth about what was done
Speaker 1: with that government power. That's abuse. That's abuse, and that
Speaker 1: was the great hope of the Obama mistress right coming
Speaker 1: in changing everything up, moving it all. No. No, So
Speaker 1: when you have government being sold to you like it's
Speaker 1: a happy puppy just running around the room and kissing
Speaker 1: you and barking at you and all that, you've got
Speaker 1: to think of that puppy as that giant snarling dog,
Speaker 1: that giant nuclear's snarling dog from Chernobyl that can kill
Speaker 1: you in one bite. That's the lovable little puppy that
Speaker 1: grows up from government as a tiny institution of this big,
Speaker 1: overreaching institution, where you can actually have the Internal Revenue
Speaker 1: Service not any longer so interested in internal revenue, but
Speaker 1: in operating like an internal security force, an interior ministry.
Speaker 1: Remember the clip, the sound bite from two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight when President Obama, then candidate Obama, a senator from Illinois,
Speaker 1: was talking about the need for a domestic security force
Speaker 1: on par with the United States military. This is what happens.
Speaker 1: So when Tim Cook comes out and says, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: so very sorry that we failed you on climate No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you should be more upset about the failure to control spending,
Speaker 1: the failure to reign in dependency. No, not to reign
Speaker 1: an independence, to reign in comma dependency, comma. That's what
Speaker 1: should be you should be sorry about. Because at the
Speaker 1: end of this discussion, every person needs to ask whether
Speaker 1: or not they are doing better for government being involved
Speaker 1: or doing worse for government being involved. That's the only
Speaker 1: question that has to be answered, that's the only reality
Speaker 1: that has to be addressed. Does this government program aid
Speaker 1: or does this government program harm your efforts to be productive.
Speaker 1: Now you're going to be told by any number of
Speaker 1: people that the reason why young people can't succeed is
Speaker 1: all the student loan debt. The reason why young people
Speaker 1: can't succeed is because of this cause or that cause.
Speaker 1: The reality is, you have a right as a human
Speaker 1: being to life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. But
Speaker 1: what you do with those rights and responsibilities is your business,
Speaker 1: and if you choose to squander them, that's on you.
Speaker 1: We're not going to come and save you from yourself,
Speaker 1: and you can't expect that. So when Tim Cook says
Speaker 1: the generational failure here, no, no, no, I don't think
Speaker 1: his generation failed anybody. I think the encroachment of government
Speaker 1: hampered the development of a lot of people because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the smallest minority in the world,
Speaker 1: and that group of people who have nobody lobbying for them,
Speaker 1: is the individual. There is no group, the National Association
Speaker 1: of Individuals, the United Foundation for Individuals. You got libertarian politics,
Speaker 1: but nobody advocates for the person, for the individual, And
Speaker 1: we got to re orient the way we think about
Speaker 1: things eight four four nine hundred buck eight or for
Speaker 1: nine hundred two eight two five to have your say,
Speaker 1: I'm Brett Witterbill in for Buck Sexton. We'll take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll leave back right after this. Oh yes, it is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. Brett Whatterbille is sitting in for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton from behind the Blue curtain. Here in San Diego, California.
Speaker 1: They call it America's Fight a City, and it is
Speaker 1: for the most part. I mean, it's beautiful. You get,
Speaker 1: you get all four seasons in one day. I woke
Speaker 1: up today it was forty five degrees in raining and
Speaker 1: now it's like eighty three and Sonny, It's just it's
Speaker 1: one of those weird phenomenon that are that are happening
Speaker 1: here every now and then another phenomenon. Though it draws
Speaker 1: to a close and full disclosure here, other than hearing
Speaker 1: people talk about it, I have no connection with Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones. I'm not one of these people. I don't
Speaker 1: make fun of people for liking Game of Thrones. People
Speaker 1: like what they like. You like certain shows some people.
Speaker 1: I love Cobra Kai, I like the relaunch of the
Speaker 1: Karate Kid. I like Bosh and Uh Jack Ryan. I
Speaker 1: watch a lot of different shows. I've just never been
Speaker 1: like a sci fi fantasy guy. Again, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't fault anybody for that. It's great you have your passions,
Speaker 1: and Lord knows, in a world as nuts as we
Speaker 1: are in today, it's good to have distractions. It's good
Speaker 1: to watch something else. So here at the end of
Speaker 1: the what was this the eighth season of Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: the whole series finale. Folks have been nothing but bummed
Speaker 1: out for the last six weeks, upset with the way
Speaker 1: this thing goes well. I guess over the course of time,
Speaker 1: people have started watching the show from scratch who had
Speaker 1: never watched it in the past. And today on the View,
Speaker 1: I have to take you to the view because otherwise
Speaker 1: you probably didn't watch it. Here is a little back
Speaker 1: and forth Megan McCain and Sunny Austin and Whoopie Goldberg
Speaker 1: there on the View, and Megan makes a boo boo
Speaker 1: on that show. Roll that tape, Holly. We're at the
Speaker 1: end of a giant era of pop culture. Came to
Speaker 1: close last night with serious finale m Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: and this morning there are actual counselors you can reach
Speaker 1: out to. Maybe you're having a hard time with it.
Speaker 1: I spent eight years of my life watching this and
Speaker 1: it was a horrible ending. Horrible brand is the worst.
Speaker 1: Sorry that's a spoiler, but like he didn't do anything
Speaker 1: and now he gets to rule. It should have been
Speaker 1: the Mother of Dragons Megan. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but all over the internet. I mean, that's just that's
Speaker 1: a that's a rough deal. I remember what a few
Speaker 1: weeks back when Avengers came out, there were people who
Speaker 1: were going to the theaters, um standing outside the lines
Speaker 1: when they would come out from the from the seeing
Speaker 1: of the movie, and they would they would yell out
Speaker 1: what the ending was, just to record for people lined up.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to get yourself in a world
Speaker 1: A hurt for sure. But here's the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This just goes to show you what compelling content can
Speaker 1: do for anybody out there who wants to take a
Speaker 1: trip out of reality. And you know, everywhere else you
Speaker 1: look right now is highly politicized. As one smart person
Speaker 1: that I know who watched Game of Thrones observed, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with their observation. I liked their observation,
Speaker 1: even though I don't totally connect with the show. But
Speaker 1: they said essentially that it was the ending was consistent
Speaker 1: with the spirit of what has inspired the show all along,
Speaker 1: the idea that the best wisest ruler is the one
Speaker 1: who has a deep sense of history. A sure that
Speaker 1: sounds good to me, although that also could be an
Speaker 1: argument in favor of the swamp. Couldn't it institutionalized history,
Speaker 1: the one who most respects the institutions should be trusted
Speaker 1: with presidency. M Wait a minute, hold on, I may
Speaker 1: have just sprung a trap on myself here. I may
Speaker 1: have just sideways endorsed Joe Biden. After all, he's been
Speaker 1: institutionalized since what like nineteen seventy one seventy two. When
Speaker 1: it comes to being a senator, I think he got
Speaker 1: elected to the Senate before he was even legally able
Speaker 1: to serve. Who would he be? I don't even you
Speaker 1: know what. You couldn't even call me and tell me
Speaker 1: which Game of Thrones, a king or dragon or whatever
Speaker 1: he was, because I I would just acknowledge and would
Speaker 1: not along with you. But we're going to get into
Speaker 1: this whole Biden conversation and just a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: because Joe Biden's out there on the campaign trail and
Speaker 1: I will be darned if I can figure out what
Speaker 1: it is. What's he running on? Like, what is the plan?
Speaker 1: And I get it. I talked to super smart people
Speaker 1: from inside the Beltway all the time over on the
Speaker 1: Newsmax TV show, my local show in San Diego. I
Speaker 1: get it. I talked to smart people all the time
Speaker 1: and they say things like, well, he's running a general
Speaker 1: election campaign. Well that's fine, you can run a general
Speaker 1: election campaign, but what are you running on? What are
Speaker 1: you going to do when you get elected? May repeat
Speaker 1: the flavor of the month. May Repeat's been out there
Speaker 1: talking about some specifics. He wants a wealth tax, he
Speaker 1: wants to jack up your income tax, he wants social justice,
Speaker 1: he wants all that kind of stuff. But what does
Speaker 1: Biden want to me? It feels like if you were
Speaker 1: disappointed at the outcome a game of Thrones, you may
Speaker 1: end up being disappointed if Joe Biden gets the nomination.
Speaker 1: And you're a Democrat. So I want to make it
Speaker 1: clear here, I'm an equal opportunity offender. I like talking
Speaker 1: to conservatives, I like talking to liberals. And if you're
Speaker 1: out there listening and you want to weigh in on
Speaker 1: the presidential sweepstakes. We're gonna get into that in the
Speaker 1: next the segment of the program talking about Joe Biden
Speaker 1: talking about mayor Pete and all their big plans. But
Speaker 1: I would love to know what it is that Biden's
Speaker 1: going to run on. It's very hard to run on
Speaker 1: I'm not him. I'm not him. Doesn't work for the
Speaker 1: long term. It doesn't motivate people to the polls, especially
Speaker 1: when they feel like they've got some money in their pocket.
Speaker 1: They're able to take a vacation, go try to park
Speaker 1: at a shopping mall, go and try to try to
Speaker 1: get into a car dealership. They're all packed. People are
Speaker 1: spending money. Why because they're confident. For the first year
Speaker 1: and a half two years, I think of the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: they were worried that rug was going to get pulled
Speaker 1: out from underneath them. Now you've seen probably what four
Speaker 1: or five corrections in the stock market just in the
Speaker 1: last little bit. People are not panicking. They're not running
Speaker 1: for the EDG. Market will go down six hundred points
Speaker 1: on Chinese tariffs, boom, It'll be back down sixty at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. It's a buying opportunity. People
Speaker 1: are feeling confident, and for Joe Biden to stand there
Speaker 1: on the steps at the Museum of Fine Arts in
Speaker 1: Philly and say he's the next new guy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: stick around, don't go anywhere, to expending this time with
Speaker 1: you over the course in the next sixteen minutes, take
Speaker 1: you around the world, bring you back home again. All
Speaker 1: the big information that's out there happening. I know that
Speaker 1: there is a there's a rally for President Trump in Montoursville,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania happening. Pennsylvania has been a hot battleground obviously for
Speaker 1: the last number of elections, but it's almost always gone
Speaker 1: to the Democrats. That changed this last election in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: when President Trump was able to prevail all be it
Speaker 1: by a slim margin. Well, now he has a favorite
Speaker 1: son of Pennsylvania who's going to be taking him on,
Speaker 1: and that is a Vice President Biden, who is out
Speaker 1: there busily seeking the nomination. Shouldn't the nomination, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for the presidency of the United States, And well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. We'll see how it works. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens, We'll see how he does. But this
Speaker 1: much is true. If Joe Biden is going to run
Speaker 1: to be president. Joe Biden desperately needs to decide what
Speaker 1: it is he intends to do as president of the
Speaker 1: United States. What's he going to do? What's the big plan?
Speaker 1: Vice President Biden, like, what are you? What are you going?
Speaker 1: You can't just come in and say I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be that person. You know, you just watched You've
Speaker 1: watched a lot of professional sports just in the last
Speaker 1: a few months. You've no doubt you saw the NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: You've seen stuff like that. Those players come in and
Speaker 1: they want to be difference makers, they want to be
Speaker 1: change makers. These are not people are gonna come in
Speaker 1: and say, well, I'm gonna do better than that guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do this. But you've
Speaker 1: got to be specific. What's your strength? What are you
Speaker 1: selling to the American people? What are you selling? Well,
Speaker 1: he says he's bringing civility, he says he is Vice
Speaker 1: President Biden. He's bringing civility, He's bringing strength, he's bringing resolved,
Speaker 1: he's bringing all that stuff, all that stuff, And you
Speaker 1: know what's what's what's amazing about this is there's a
Speaker 1: track record at stake right now, there is a track
Speaker 1: record at play, and the track record is the last
Speaker 1: couple of years huge growth. Stocks are on fire, people
Speaker 1: are feeling better. And that didn't happen because of the
Speaker 1: Obama economy. I mean, I know that's a hot thing
Speaker 1: to sell. Well, it was only by you cutting taxes
Speaker 1: and cutting regulation and trying to gut Obamacare that you
Speaker 1: were able to fully realize the American economy. Mister President Trump. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that means doing everything that the Obama team didn't do.
Speaker 1: That's what led to the economic growth that we have
Speaker 1: seen unfold before our eyes. But here's the problem. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is a known quantity and he's been on the
Speaker 1: scene for a very long time. He is a person
Speaker 1: who has been out there involved in the public discourse
Speaker 1: for forty seven years, forty six years something like that.
Speaker 1: Considered this. He was there when Nixon was president, he
Speaker 1: was there when Clinton was president, and he is there
Speaker 1: now out on the public scene with President Trump. We've
Speaker 1: only had four shots and impeachment in history Johnson in
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds, Clinton and Nixon, and now they want
Speaker 1: to try to impeach President Trump. Joe Biden will have
Speaker 1: been present for three out of the four attempts to impeach,
Speaker 1: efforts to impeach, efforts to remove a president from office.
Speaker 1: And he's not selling you any he's not offering you anything.
Speaker 1: He's just saying, I'm un Wow. Show me the guy
Speaker 1: who's against unity and what do you mean by unity?
Speaker 1: Mayor Pete boodhage Edge went on Fox News yesterday from
Speaker 1: New Hampshire and was greeted at a town hall by
Speaker 1: Chris Wallace. He's asked a number of questions. He came out.
Speaker 1: He gave the standard answers on abortion. You know, only
Speaker 1: a woman can make that decision. As a man, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to make that decision on a woman can
Speaker 1: make that decision between herner doctor. More on that in
Speaker 1: a moment, But you had you had Pete boodhag Edge
Speaker 1: come out and really lay out a vision for what
Speaker 1: he thinks the Democratic Party is and what he thinks
Speaker 1: that party needs to do for this country. This is
Speaker 1: Mayor Pete from South Bend, Indiana who was just burst
Speaker 1: onto the scene and he's this generation's betto here's Pete
Speaker 1: bootage Edge with his vision of what he thinks the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is. Go as you said, it's a point
Speaker 1: of pride for the Democratic Party, that we care about diversity,
Speaker 1: that we want to make sure that our leadership reflects
Speaker 1: the country that we serve. I've sought to do that
Speaker 1: in my administration as mayor. I'm doing that with the
Speaker 1: campaign team that I'm surrounding myselves with. But as he
Speaker 1: said in your question, it's also not just the question
Speaker 1: of the makeup of your team. It's what your policies
Speaker 1: are going to be, and we need to make sure
Speaker 1: that this is an inclusive set of policies that's going
Speaker 1: to serve everybody well. For example, we know just by
Speaker 1: the numbers that if you're a person of color in
Speaker 1: this country, in many ways, you might as well be
Speaker 1: living in a different country. You look at the rate
Speaker 1: at which black women are likely to die from maternal complications.
Speaker 1: It's about three times what it is for white women.
Speaker 1: That didn't just happen, and it's not going to get
Speaker 1: fixed without policies that specifically pay attention to how those
Speaker 1: racial inequities got there in it. So you have a
Speaker 1: guy who's going to deal with the racial inequities in
Speaker 1: the problems that we're facing in this country. That's the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is now, according to this guy the grievance Party.
Speaker 1: He's not the first person to do that. The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party has been the grievance Party for a long time.
Speaker 1: But he tries to tell you what, we're the party
Speaker 1: of misfare and outcasts and outliers, and we are we
Speaker 1: are left behind and all that sort of stuff. And
Speaker 1: then he gets into the mortality rate of black women,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because I didn't know that was like
Speaker 1: a political thing. I mean, I know that there are
Speaker 1: political causes and effects of policies, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: that Republicans were running around causing high mortality rates among
Speaker 1: black women, among African American women who are delivering babies,
Speaker 1: or African American women more broadly. Would I would guess
Speaker 1: that hospitals where those women are being treated might might
Speaker 1: be a factor. The fact that many of those hospitals
Speaker 1: might be in blue cities, Many of those hospitals might
Speaker 1: be public facilities in blue cities, might be misadministrated, maladministrated
Speaker 1: in those that. Now, Brett, don't don't go, don't go
Speaker 1: splitting hairs now, But that's Pete Buddha Jedge. He's got
Speaker 1: a vision. I don't agree with it. He comes out
Speaker 1: and says only a woman should decide what to do
Speaker 1: when it comes to abortion. Well, that may be the case,
Speaker 1: but by the same token, can we make the argument
Speaker 1: with a straight face, And I think we can as
Speaker 1: gun owners that really the Second Amendment is between gun
Speaker 1: owners and the Constitution. It's between gun owners and our God. Right.
Speaker 1: That's that's sort of the same metric. If only women
Speaker 1: can talk about abortion, then only gun owners should be
Speaker 1: allowed to talk about the keeping ear. Don't want to
Speaker 1: get pregnant, don't have sex, if you don't want to
Speaker 1: have a baby, have an abortion, right, that's the messaging.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to own a gun, nobody makes
Speaker 1: you hold a gun, Nobody puts a gun in her
Speaker 1: head and says buy a gun. Although if that God
Speaker 1: forbid did happen, you may be motivated to buy a gun.
Speaker 1: But my point is we can we can dissect and
Speaker 1: bisect all of these points. In this way, we can
Speaker 1: make the argument, well, you know that the only people
Speaker 1: who have served in wartime should have an opinion on war.
Speaker 1: Only people who are actually practicing a faith should should
Speaker 1: be allowed to comment on whether or not there is
Speaker 1: a separation of church and state. What do we I'm
Speaker 1: puzzled by all the I'm puzzled by this sort of differentiation. Look,
Speaker 1: we are all stakeholders in our constitutional republic. We are
Speaker 1: all people who need to take part in the debate. Now,
Speaker 1: k Ivy is the governor of Alabama. In just a
Speaker 1: couple of moments, I'm gonna let you hear from k Ivy,
Speaker 1: who's going to talk about the massive pushback they're now
Speaker 1: getting an Alabama as a result of the abortion law
Speaker 1: that was passed out. K Ivy is catching a lot
Speaker 1: of grief as the as the governor of the state
Speaker 1: of Alabama. And what does k Ivy have that Mayor
Speaker 1: Pete Buddha Jedge does not have anybody guess anybody know,
Speaker 1: anybody know she's a woman. She's a woman who may
Speaker 1: have had or at least had the capacity to actually
Speaker 1: give birth to a child. So in in Pete Boodha
Speaker 1: Jedges metric k Ivy, even though she is pro life,
Speaker 1: ought to be Oh no, no, no no, because she's pro life,
Speaker 1: So she can't be she can't be permitted to have
Speaker 1: an opinion on pregnancy and abortion because that's well, she's
Speaker 1: she's on the wrong side. But wait, now you're voted Jedge,
Speaker 1: you said that you just if you're a woman, then
Speaker 1: it's between you when you're talk now you're saying so
Speaker 1: you're saying only pro choice women. Huh No, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: then then why would the Democrats be supporting and Andrew Cuomo,
Speaker 1: who's a man, but he's in favor of infanticide. But
Speaker 1: he's a man, and the Governor Northam of Virginia. But
Speaker 1: that's he's a man, he should he's See, if you're
Speaker 1: on the right side of it, you can do anything
Speaker 1: you want. If you're on the wrong side of it,
Speaker 1: they're gonna shut you down. They're gonna shout you down.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the terms of this debate
Speaker 1: in the way it's been set out? But by folks
Speaker 1: like U eight boohag Edge or by folks like Biden
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred bucks. Phone, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: a part of the conversation. Eight four four nine hundred
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Speaker 1: Show right here. I'm Brett Wittable. Back after this, I'm
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Speaker 1: Glad to be spending this time with you. The governor
Speaker 1: of the State of Alabama is Kiv. Kiv has come
Speaker 1: out in the last couple of hours and talked about
Speaker 1: some of the challenges the folks are facing here in
Speaker 1: were there in the state of Alabama. She came out
Speaker 1: and she said, look, I understand that there are boycotts
Speaker 1: that are being planned against the State of Alabama, because
Speaker 1: that's what that's a progressive liberals do. Right, if you
Speaker 1: disagree with what they're doing, with what a group is doing,
Speaker 1: you have to destroy them economically. That is the standard
Speaker 1: by which they measure success. Here is the governor of Alabama.
Speaker 1: K I'm a person elected, by the way, by the
Speaker 1: people of Alabama and a person who was a validly
Speaker 1: pro life and who signed this abortion legislation last week.
Speaker 1: This is Kive responding to the boycotts being pointed at
Speaker 1: the state of Alabama. Go the Alabama has a lot
Speaker 1: of different variety of types of things to visit and enjoy,
Speaker 1: and now business can continue to come okay, And so
Speaker 1: that you've got different states coming out and saying they're
Speaker 1: not going to allow their their companies to go to
Speaker 1: that state, or they're not going to allow their their
Speaker 1: employees to do business in the state of Alabama. I'm waiting.
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time. You know, the NCAA
Speaker 1: is going to be pressured to prevent the state, the
Speaker 1: University of Alabama from playing in a bowl game or
Speaker 1: from playing at it. You know, you just know what's coming, right,
Speaker 1: you know what's coming because if you step away from
Speaker 1: the orthodoxy of what you're supposed to believe in, you
Speaker 1: will be punished and punished severely. That's the narrative that
Speaker 1: always plays out. But k Ivy points something else out
Speaker 1: that's very important. She points out the fact that, look,
Speaker 1: I signed this bill. It was passed out by the legislature.
Speaker 1: This is the expression of the will of the people,
Speaker 1: such as it is in the state of Alabama. Roll
Speaker 1: that piece. The legislature has spoken and under schools they
Speaker 1: assigned a deal of life that the people of Alabama
Speaker 1: value so highly. So this is where we now are
Speaker 1: now in response to the boycott of the State of Alabama.
Speaker 1: There are going to be people who engage in buycotts,
Speaker 1: who say, you know what, I'm going to take my
Speaker 1: business to the state of Alabama because I happen to
Speaker 1: support her affirmation and that bill's affirmation when it comes
Speaker 1: to life. That's the way the market can operate. You
Speaker 1: can have people laying pressure, you have people laying pressure
Speaker 1: the other way. But the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: this has to be dealt with and has to be
Speaker 1: dealt with based on the position you're in. And as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned with k I, I don't know
Speaker 1: what else she could have done. She could veto that bill,
Speaker 1: But would that be undermining the intent of the people
Speaker 1: in the state of Alabama. I would submit that it would.
Speaker 1: They're elected leaders pushed for this, and it's not like
Speaker 1: this is something that is absolutely set in stone. Remember
Speaker 1: when you hear people like Kristen Gillibrand and progressives like
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris come out and talk about precedent is sacro saint.
Speaker 1: Once upon a time, dread Scott was precedent, and that
Speaker 1: law found that a fugitive slave, a runaway slave, must
Speaker 1: be returned to their master. It feels positively barbaric by
Speaker 1: today's standards, and it should. Once upon a time, separate
Speaker 1: but equal was a precedent plessy versus Ferguson. Now eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, Plessy versus Ferguson said you could have separate
Speaker 1: but equal that would be overturned by Brown verse Board
Speaker 1: of Education. Now, where were these people, Where were these
Speaker 1: Democrats who once upon a time we're embracing dread Scott,
Speaker 1: who once upon a time we're embracing plusy versus Ferguson.
Speaker 1: Because the Jim Crow Laws were not a creation of
Speaker 1: the abolitionist Republican movement, no way, no how. They were
Speaker 1: a creation of the Democratic Party in the same way
Speaker 1: that you had up until the eighteen forties and fifties,
Speaker 1: the support stated explicitly in the planks of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party platform that slavery should be respected as a state's right.
Speaker 1: That I'm not throwing any kind of fake, phony propaganda
Speaker 1: your way. You can go and read. You actually can
Speaker 1: go on the Google machine when you get a chance,
Speaker 1: go pull up the platforms, the Democrat Party platforms starting
Speaker 1: in eighteen twenty eight, and you'll see it in twenty
Speaker 1: eight and thirty two and thirty six, you'll see it
Speaker 1: in forty and forty four and forty eight. You'll see
Speaker 1: it's enshrined there in the in the Democratic Party platform
Speaker 1: that they support slave It's just that's a fact. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a barbaric institution that we would never stand by today.
Speaker 1: It's because of the hard work done by the abolitionist movement,
Speaker 1: by the men and women in their supporting roles, in
Speaker 1: helping to free the slaves, and in changing that narrative
Speaker 1: in our country, that we no longer have slave states.
Speaker 1: We are all free states, representing and respecting the right
Speaker 1: to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or has
Speaker 1: originally written the pursuit of property. People can try to
Speaker 1: sell it however they want, but they're not allowed and
Speaker 1: they're not entitled to their own history. History is something
Speaker 1: set in stone. And isn't it curious that that same
Speaker 1: mayor pee boota judge that I mentioned in the opening
Speaker 1: segment of this hour as talking about the need to
Speaker 1: protect and preserve abortion, the need to protect and preserve
Speaker 1: marginalized groups who are inside the Democratic Party. Isn't it
Speaker 1: curious that Pete buddhag Edge and company will say that
Speaker 1: only women have a right to make a decision on abortion,
Speaker 1: Only somebody with a uterus has a right to make
Speaker 1: a decision on abortion. And yet the same progressive group
Speaker 1: will say that a person without a uterus can compete
Speaker 1: as a woman in intercollegiate sports there at athletics or
Speaker 1: at the high school level and track and field. They're
Speaker 1: a little bit here and there on the policy effectation,
Speaker 1: but it is curious to see how this is going
Speaker 1: to shake out. Now. Coming up here in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes, we're gonna be joined by my very good friend.
Speaker 1: He's Scott McEwan. You know him from his great work
Speaker 1: with American Sniper. He wrote American Sniper, the story of
Speaker 1: Chris Kyle. He also wrote American Commander and the Ghost
Speaker 1: Sniper series, Camp Valor, and of course City of Death.
Speaker 1: And I want to get his perspective because he, in
Speaker 1: addition to being a great writer, is an attorney, and
Speaker 1: I want to get his interpretation and his thoughts as
Speaker 1: they are being formed. Watching this battle between the deep
Speaker 1: State and Bill Barr, watching this battle between the Congressional
Speaker 1: Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee, and of course what
Speaker 1: it is that they are after with Don McGann coming
Speaker 1: into testify and Mueller coming into testify, and other Trump
Speaker 1: administration folks coming into testify to these committees in the
Speaker 1: hopes of redrawing and rebuilding the case that they hoped
Speaker 1: would manifest itself with the Mueller Report. It didn't. It hasn't.
Speaker 1: They're frustrated, they're bummed out. They are worried about what
Speaker 1: it's going to take to finally turn the tide. I
Speaker 1: don't think they can do it, but they're going to
Speaker 1: try to finally turn the tide in favor of impeachment,
Speaker 1: removing this president and just short circuiting the electoral process
Speaker 1: coming down the pipeline and twenty twenty. There's a reason
Speaker 1: first term presidents don't get impeached. It's because first term
Speaker 1: presidents stand for reelection. That's your chance to pass and
Speaker 1: to cast a political verdict on the commander in chief.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are not happy to do it. They've got
Speaker 1: to undo twenty sixteen. They've got to undo it all,
Speaker 1: and if they don't, it's your fault. Scott McEwen comes
Speaker 1: by next. Don't go anywhere. It's the buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Brett Wodabille in for Buck Sexton. Back right after this,
Speaker 1: Brett Woodabille in for Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Our phonemer is always eight four four nine hundred buck
Speaker 1: eight four four nine two eight two five. Happy to
Speaker 1: welcome into the show. Good friend of mine and I
Speaker 1: always love getting the opportunity to catch up with him.
Speaker 1: He is Scott mckew, and you know him from his
Speaker 1: great work on American Sniper, American Commander, Ghost Snipers series
Speaker 1: of course, Camp Valor, and his most recent which is
Speaker 1: phenomenal City of Death, talking about how these heroes around
Speaker 1: the world banded together to help rescue those folks who
Speaker 1: are held hostage by ISIS in mosl and in other communities.
Speaker 1: Scott McEwen, though, is also an accomplished attorney at his
Speaker 1: own right, and that's why I want to depend on
Speaker 1: him today to talk about what it is that's going
Speaker 1: on here. These democrats desperate from McGan to come and testify.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't testify, it's impeachable. Everything's impeachable, Scott McEwen,
Speaker 1: What are these folks looking for? It's interesting because Bill
Speaker 1: Barr is not acting like Donald Trump's attorney. He's acting
Speaker 1: like the Presidency's attorney, and he's drawn a firm line
Speaker 1: in the sand. Your assessment of this battle, Royale, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me on. First of all, Bret, Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do is shoot the messengers. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: they do not want the message or the indictments that
Speaker 1: are going to follow to come out from bar and
Speaker 1: various other people that know exactly what happened here, and
Speaker 1: we're seeing the fallout from that. These people realize that
Speaker 1: now that the attempt to hose or have a coup
Speaker 1: against the President of the United States was unsuccessful. Now
Speaker 1: those acts that they did in illegally attempting to do
Speaker 1: so are coming back to haunt them. And I believe Brett,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're going to see
Speaker 1: multiple indictments at cabinet, you know, at the top levels
Speaker 1: of the FBI, of the DOJ, and likely at the
Speaker 1: CIA before this thing is done. You know, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: right because you've got You've got you've got James Komey
Speaker 1: pointing fingers at Brennan, Brennan's pointing fingers at Clapper, Clapper's
Speaker 1: pointing fingers that you know somebody else. These are not
Speaker 1: folks that are going to stand firm and tall in
Speaker 1: the defense of what it is that they did. Scott
Speaker 1: so at some point, do you expect we're going to
Speaker 1: start seeing some of these guys flip and and come
Speaker 1: out in a different position from where they went in
Speaker 1: to save their own hides. I certainly do, and I
Speaker 1: believe we're going to see it, you know, not only
Speaker 1: from the Clapper level and the and the Komy level,
Speaker 1: but you know, we've got a lot of lesser players
Speaker 1: that are looking down the barrel of twenty years jail
Speaker 1: terms if they're convicted of some of these acts that
Speaker 1: they've done, such as Strozik and Page and some other
Speaker 1: some other people like that. You know that we're involved,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you those people, when they are put
Speaker 1: on the stand or when they're forced to to to
Speaker 1: make deals, I don't think there's going to be any
Speaker 1: loyalty amongst any of this group, and I believe that
Speaker 1: they're going to make deals, you know, to keep themselves
Speaker 1: out of prison as much as possible, particularly somebody like Brennan,
Speaker 1: who Brennan has already said that he did not authorize
Speaker 1: the use of this steel dossier that Komy used at
Speaker 1: least three times that we know of, to seek and
Speaker 1: obtain you know, illegal fison warrants against various and suddenly
Speaker 1: members of the Trump administrations. So I really believe that
Speaker 1: they're all going to make deals if they can as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. And those deals are probably already on
Speaker 1: the table. Okay. And against the backdrop of that, you've
Speaker 1: got you've got an Inspector General doing his investigation in
Speaker 1: the in the Department of Justice, Mike Horowitz. And you've
Speaker 1: got Durham out of Connecticut, former US attorney who's apparently
Speaker 1: been on this job since at least Valentine's Day. What
Speaker 1: about that, those those contemporaneous investigations happening at the same
Speaker 1: time as the political battle going on here, What do
Speaker 1: you expect those components to yield? Boy, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: When when you look at the when you look at
Speaker 1: what's been going on for so long with this Inspector
Speaker 1: General investigation, you've got to wonder how deep that thing is.
Speaker 1: Because that's been going on now for at least six
Speaker 1: months that we know of, and probably for longer, and
Speaker 1: he still hasn't come out with his report. I have
Speaker 1: to imagine that report is going to be very, very
Speaker 1: in depth and probably is going to cover all of
Speaker 1: the acts that we've seen kind of surfacing up from
Speaker 1: the swamp in the press. But I believe that what
Speaker 1: he's done is probably going to be a complete if
Speaker 1: you will, report on everything that's been done. And I
Speaker 1: think that's probably going to be the puzzle pieces, if
Speaker 1: you will, for all the indictments that we're going to
Speaker 1: see come thereafter. And you know this guy that they
Speaker 1: brought in, you know this Gerham guy. He's shown his
Speaker 1: ability to and willingness to prosecute at the highest levels
Speaker 1: of the FBI with what went on in Boston. And
Speaker 1: if you're going to get the toughest guy you can
Speaker 1: on the street, that has street knowledge of what's going on, right,
Speaker 1: that is the guy to get okay against this. You've
Speaker 1: also got Bill Barr who is holding that line firmly.
Speaker 1: He is not a wilting flower by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. Scott mckw and joining us here the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton show. What about that role that Barr is playing.
Speaker 1: He is a guy that I think was wildly underestimated,
Speaker 1: and he has turned out to be a rock star
Speaker 1: in a lot of the ways. He's been behaving and
Speaker 1: standing firm in the face of the pressure from these
Speaker 1: partisans on the Judiciary Committee and the Intel Committee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think one of the most entertaining
Speaker 1: things I saw was if a guy was really upset
Speaker 1: or really intimidated, if you will, which they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to intimidate him and make him back down,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't say. See the comment that he made at
Speaker 1: that event with Nancy Pelosi when he's walking by, when
Speaker 1: he said, did you bring your handcuffs to this attent?
Speaker 1: When I saw that, I thought to myself, you know,
Speaker 1: that guy's got some moxie, if you will in making
Speaker 1: that comment, because it just was basically a statement back
Speaker 1: to Pelosi. Look, I'm not impressed. I'm doing my job,
Speaker 1: and you know what, and you can make all these
Speaker 1: threats of you know, of contempt or whatever else you
Speaker 1: want to do, but it's not going to sway meet
Speaker 1: from my job. I think Bill Barr is the best thing,
Speaker 1: the best person that Trump could have chosen to be
Speaker 1: there because he's been in that town for thirty years.
Speaker 1: He's seen everything from Nixon, you know, all the way
Speaker 1: through the Obama administration and everything else. So he's seen
Speaker 1: it all and I don't think he's gonna be intimidated
Speaker 1: for one second by any of these people from Congress
Speaker 1: or the Nadlers or the rest of these people trying
Speaker 1: to throw junk in his direction. And remember, we don't
Speaker 1: know who he has relationships with to this day inside
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, who may be giving him the
Speaker 1: straight stuff instead of the obfuscation of the game playing
Speaker 1: that went on under McCabe and Comy in the in
Speaker 1: the FBI exactly. And the guy's respected. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's this thing in the world called respect,
Speaker 1: and that guy has had respect in that town for
Speaker 1: a long time. And you know in that respect is
Speaker 1: not going to end, nor is he going to compromise
Speaker 1: his reputation merely because he's been a point of this position.
Speaker 1: I think whatever he does is not only going to stick.
Speaker 1: These indictments are going to be absolutely rock solid. And
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to do it for political purposes,
Speaker 1: which is what everybody's saying. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: do it to protect the United States. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we had an attempt at Kutata on
Speaker 1: the highest office of the United States. It was unsuccessful,
Speaker 1: thank god, and now the people that did it are
Speaker 1: going to have to pay. And that's exactly why Bill
Speaker 1: Barr is in office. All right, let me ask you
Speaker 1: for a final reaction here on that very point. It
Speaker 1: wasn't spying. They didn't insert spies. It was merely surveillance,
Speaker 1: Scott makeew And it's just surveillance. They're just surveilling. They're
Speaker 1: just looking around. They had to chase down the smoke
Speaker 1: in the fire. That's all they were doing. They're just
Speaker 1: doing their jobs. Your reaction to that nonsense. My reaction
Speaker 1: to that is if you put the shoe on the
Speaker 1: other foot, because that's a political statement. If you put
Speaker 1: the shoe on the other foot, and say, for example,
Speaker 1: if Trump right now was sending the FBI to spy
Speaker 1: on Joe Biden's campaign, or was sending the FBI to
Speaker 1: to you know, to spy on any one of twenty
Speaker 1: other candidates that are coming out of the Democrats, how
Speaker 1: would the Democratic Party feel about that? I think we
Speaker 1: as a nation have to look at this. No are
Speaker 1: no D, no I, no other number designation behind you.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is what would you like us
Speaker 1: to do as a democracy. And I do not believe
Speaker 1: what we saw done by this last administration to the
Speaker 1: then running candidate and now the president is the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. We need to make policy for the
Speaker 1: next fifty years for your and my children, for everybody
Speaker 1: else in this country. And that's exactly what we've got
Speaker 1: to clean up right now. We got to be Americans.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be Republicans or Democrats. We got
Speaker 1: to be Americans, and we need to work hard to
Speaker 1: provide for our family and our loved ones. Always great
Speaker 1: to catch up with you. He is Scott mckew and
Speaker 1: you know him from amazing books and I want to
Speaker 1: encourage folks to check out Scott mckewan dot com Scott
Speaker 1: mckewan dot com for all the latest and greatest stuff
Speaker 1: that he's got in the pipeline. We appreciate you making
Speaker 1: time for us. I know how busy you are. We
Speaker 1: certainly thank you for stopping by today. Scott. Thanks a lot. Brett,
Speaker 1: you keep bringing the word. Talk to you later, Frett.
Speaker 1: What abill in for buck? Sexton eight four four nine
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and talk to Charles and Boston.
Speaker 1: Charles welcome to the show. What's on your mind today? Yes,
Speaker 1: A couple of things of concern here. First of all,
Speaker 1: I mean state where I'm coming from. I do support
Speaker 1: the president, the good things that he's tried to do
Speaker 1: and so forth. But I refer you to an article
Speaker 1: in the Washington Times March eighteenth, two thousand nineteen, on
Speaker 1: page twenty five, and the author of the article Joseph
Speaker 1: curl who covered the White House for the Washington Times
Speaker 1: for some ten years. I believe he said the title
Speaker 1: of the article said, why Uncle Joe Biden will be
Speaker 1: America's next president. He feels quite certain that that's going
Speaker 1: to happen. And the second thing that I find disturbing
Speaker 1: is Justin Justin Abash, a Republican from Michigan, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: from Michigan, has decided to join the ranks for calling
Speaker 1: of impeachment. I mean in this, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's what's going to happen if he's sewn out of office?
Speaker 1: I mean something like that. I mean sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: angry enough if they do something like that, then maybe
Speaker 1: we deserve maybe we deserve an international situation. Uh you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, I goes she's saying. But
Speaker 1: here's what's important to remember, Charles. Okay, there's two pieces here.
Speaker 1: Whether or not Joe Biden gets elected is secondary to
Speaker 1: this issue of impeachment. The reason why the president is
Speaker 1: not being impeached is because the Democrats understand that there
Speaker 1: is nowhere near a majority needed to remove him from office.
Speaker 1: In the United States Senate, you'd have to have sixty
Speaker 1: six votes to remove convict to remove him from office.
Speaker 1: That is an incredibly high bar. It would take a
Speaker 1: lot of Republicans coming on to the bandwagon, with Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, Tom Steyer, and the whole lot of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the reason why Nancy Pelosi is so reticent to
Speaker 1: bring about the call to impeachment, to bring it to fruition,
Speaker 1: is because she knows she doesn't have the numbers. And
Speaker 1: we've seen these people go out there and acknowledge they
Speaker 1: don't have the numbers. I think it was Nadler just
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. So we don't have those numbers,
Speaker 1: nowhere near that number yet. That's the problem. That's why
Speaker 1: they're doing these pretend hearings, these pretend impeachment moves. To
Speaker 1: try to figure out a way to throw him out
Speaker 1: to create enough moral outrage. Justin Amash is now going
Speaker 1: to get primaried in his run there at the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives when he's up for reelection next time around.
Speaker 1: There's conservatives that are coming out saying you're an opportunist.
Speaker 1: There's no basis for this, there was no collusion, and
Speaker 1: anything in terms of obstruction of justice is a construct
Speaker 1: of the Muller narrative. I would not worry about any
Speaker 1: impact from Amash. I don't think there's a big break
Speaker 1: of people coming out looking to remove the president inside
Speaker 1: the Republican Party in the House. Most of those gutless
Speaker 1: wonders retired or were defeated back in the midterms in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. The people that remain other than the Samash
Speaker 1: character tend to be much more conservatives as a rule
Speaker 1: of thumb. Now as to the Biden component, look, elections
Speaker 1: are going to hinge on what elections are going to
Speaker 1: hinge on. Joe Biden is a known quantity. He has
Speaker 1: run at three different times, and he's been unsuccessful in
Speaker 1: each of his runs. He hasn't been able to pull
Speaker 1: it off at two different times, right because he ran
Speaker 1: at eighty eight. He tried to run again in nineteen
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. He's come up short repeatedly.
Speaker 1: He's come up short. He has a lot of skeletons
Speaker 1: in his closet. If I were a betting man now,
Speaker 1: I'm not because I have a wife and kids and
Speaker 1: I can't afford the gamble. But if I were a
Speaker 1: betting man right now and you had to pin me
Speaker 1: down on the ground and say, Okay, Brett, who's going
Speaker 1: to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the
Speaker 1: United States, It's gonna be Kamela Harris. As far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, it's gonna Bekamela Harris. They frontloaded the California
Speaker 1: primary into Super Tuesday. If she's able to float along
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire and Iowa, if she's able to put
Speaker 1: together a reasonable showing in South Carolina, she gets to California,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of delegates that go a long way
Speaker 1: to backen her up. I think she is somebody that
Speaker 1: could be a threat. She's somebody that the President has
Speaker 1: not thrown a whole lot of heat on. He hasn't
Speaker 1: nicknamed her, hasn't done any of that Buddha Jedge is
Speaker 1: pulling terribly when you look at the numbers out of
Speaker 1: South Carolina. He's got no support among people of color.
Speaker 1: He is being supported only by colorless people. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that, but it's it's a joke I
Speaker 1: often use here on the show because I'm not a
Speaker 1: person of color. I guess I am color less. Buddha Jedge.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the critical mass behind him. Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: is an old, creaky guy who's best days are behind him.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren is not anybody who resonates with anybody else
Speaker 1: out there. I think I think Kamala Harris is going
Speaker 1: to be the person that this party ultimately looks to.
Speaker 1: It fulfills a lot of boxes that then get checked.
Speaker 1: And I I just don't see Biden being the guy
Speaker 1: with the golden ticket at the dance. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has the deliverables. He's got too
Speaker 1: many skeletons in that closet. You've got a lot of
Speaker 1: people still upset about Anita Hill. You've got a lot
Speaker 1: of people still upset about the crime bill that he's supported.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of people that are still angry
Speaker 1: about his being friends with some of those old, unreconstructed
Speaker 1: Southern Democrats. Heck, he just spoke at Ernest Hollings' funeral
Speaker 1: a month and a half ago in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Ernest Hollings was the guy in South Carolina who hoisted
Speaker 1: the stars and bars above the state House when he
Speaker 1: was the governor. Joe Biden was his bff. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of baggage with this guy. We're not I'm not
Speaker 1: even getting into Hunter Biden, the weird investment stuff that
Speaker 1: Schweitzer has written about. I'm not even getting into the
Speaker 1: stuff involving the Ukraine or involving any of the other
Speaker 1: things that have happened. Is this is not a guy
Speaker 1: who is a twenty nineteen, twenty twenty character. This is
Speaker 1: a man firmly stuck in the early mid nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: hoping to hold on in this new climate. Consider this,
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was in the Senate in his early days,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the early nineteen seventies. He's serving with
Speaker 1: people who were in the Senate in the nineteen thirties
Speaker 1: and forties. That's how far back this he goes back
Speaker 1: nearly a century in terms of institutional interaction with people
Speaker 1: he served with, people who served with Roosevelt and Truman.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is an unbelievable thing. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the magic with the young people. You get this
Speaker 1: electability phrase, It gets thrown around a whole lot. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's electable. He's an electable guy. He's a guy who
Speaker 1: can get elected. Where's he ever been elected president before?
Speaker 1: Where's he ever been elected president? What is the solid
Speaker 1: track record of Bidenism? What is it? What has he
Speaker 1: ever sold? Back in the day he sold well, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of institutional experience in the Senates.
Speaker 1: Why Barack Obama picked him up? Barack Obama was two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight Pete Boodhage Edge and he needed somebody
Speaker 1: to be the adult in the situation. Biden was the
Speaker 1: adult who understood Capitol Hill. He understood all that. He
Speaker 1: served a purpose, but his purpose was never to be
Speaker 1: president himself. You can book it, you can mark it,
Speaker 1: and I'll eat my words if I'm wrong. It's the
Speaker 1: Bucks Exton Show. I'm Brett Witterbale sitting in for him.
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Speaker 1: also I host a television show on Newsmax TV that's
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Speaker 1: And as always, you're more than welcome to be a
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Speaker 1: Spoke with Charles in the last hour about this impeachment
Speaker 1: stuff and certainly all the big stories out there a
Speaker 1: fair game, right. I don't want you feeling like you
Speaker 1: got to be limited just the things we've talked about.
Speaker 1: If you've got to concern a comment, an issue that
Speaker 1: you think needs to draw more attention to in the
Speaker 1: current political climate, certainly happy to hear from you. Let
Speaker 1: me give you one that I think is fascinating. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: early in the morning, getting ready to go to church,
Speaker 1: getting ready to get out with the family, I'm watching
Speaker 1: Mornings with Maria over on Fox News, and there she's
Speaker 1: talking to Congressman Trey Gaudy about what it is he
Speaker 1: saw as part of this investigation into Russian medaling, collusion,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and now the big obviously
Speaker 1: the big gas lighting that has taken place as a
Speaker 1: result with this intelligence community behaving the way they have.
Speaker 1: And what was so interesting to me was this indication
Speaker 1: from Trey Goudy that it appears, at least from the
Speaker 1: stuff he has seen, that once upon a time, to remember,
Speaker 1: right after the election and going into the inauguration of
Speaker 1: then President Trump, president elect and to President Trump, there
Speaker 1: was that seventeen intelligence agency assessment that the Russians had
Speaker 1: meddled in the election, and the implication was they had
Speaker 1: meddled in the election to the benefit of President Donald J. Trump, Right,
Speaker 1: Remember that that was the narrative. Well, a curious thing
Speaker 1: happened on the way to the investigation. It appears, according
Speaker 1: to Trey Goudy, a very serious man, a man who
Speaker 1: is a serious investigator in his own right, former prosecutor,
Speaker 1: somebody who worked very hard into looking into the Russian
Speaker 1: collusion matter as a part of his last couple of
Speaker 1: years in the Congress. He found out that it appears
Speaker 1: that it was one John Brennan, who was responsible for
Speaker 1: making sure that that dossier, that Steel dossier, constructed and
Speaker 1: fabricated in every possible way by Christopher Steele with a
Speaker 1: wink and a nod from Russian FSB and anybody else
Speaker 1: who wanted to throw a little fun stuff in there. Well,
Speaker 1: it appears that it was John Brennan, the head of
Speaker 1: the CIA, who shepherded that and demanded that that be
Speaker 1: included as part of the basis the underlying facts for
Speaker 1: the Are you ready for this? The seventeen intelligence agency
Speaker 1: assessment that the Russians had intervened and interfered in our election.
Speaker 1: Why does that matter? Well, first of all, if you
Speaker 1: go back and look at the intelligence community itself, the
Speaker 1: broader intel community. I'm sure Bucks talked about this in
Speaker 1: the past. When you talk about seventeen intelligence agencies, that
Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of intelligen agence agencies who all
Speaker 1: seventeen agreed that this happened. Well, if you look at
Speaker 1: who the seventeen intelligence agencies are, it includes people like
Speaker 1: the Coastguard Intelligence Agency, the Navy Intelligence Agency, the Marine
Speaker 1: Corps Intelligence Agency, and the US Army Intelligence Agency. It
Speaker 1: also includes the National geospatial intelligence, all these these these
Speaker 1: leviathans of the intelligence agency, of which really maybe about
Speaker 1: four maybe five had any true connection to dealing with
Speaker 1: Russians and the UH the the meddling in the election.
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Coastguard Intel Agency or the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps intel agencies, and I know they're very important,
Speaker 1: they do very important work for their for their departments.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they were really on the Russia game.
Speaker 1: I just don't know that that's the case. I don't
Speaker 1: know that the DA was on the Russia game. I
Speaker 1: don't know that it would any of those people. I
Speaker 1: do know this. I do know that once upon a
Speaker 1: time Admiral Rodgers was run out of the m N
Speaker 1: say why because he had noticed there were some shady
Speaker 1: moves going on inside the wire tapping and the surveilling
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So if you look at the seventeen
Speaker 1: intelligence agencies and you think about who the big dogs are, right,
Speaker 1: You've You've got obviously the FBIS and Intelligence Agency. You've
Speaker 1: got the the the NSA that's an intelligence agency. You've
Speaker 1: also got a couple of others that are right there
Speaker 1: in the bread and butter business of dealing with Russians,
Speaker 1: and you can see where that might play a factor.
Speaker 1: But I don't know that the Drug Enforcement Agency was
Speaker 1: really watching the Russians. They're an intelligence agency too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get on the list, just you go, go, go,
Speaker 1: go on the Google machine and type in US intelligence
Speaker 1: agencies and then just look at all seventeen of them
Speaker 1: and go why would they be? Why would they be invited?
Speaker 1: How would they be? And they wouldn't. When you boil
Speaker 1: it down, it's like five, it's like five. And it's
Speaker 1: Brennan who wanted to make sure this assessment got in it.
Speaker 1: Why why why would John Brennan want that to go
Speaker 1: in there? Because he wanted there to be a cloud
Speaker 1: over the president. You know, I play a clip on
Speaker 1: my TV show all the time, on my radio show
Speaker 1: all the time in sending, and the clip is of
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. You've heard it, no doubt, from January the fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, talking about how the intelligence community has six
Speaker 1: ways from Sunday to get even with President Trump if
Speaker 1: he's not careful. When I first heard that, I said
Speaker 1: to myself, Now, hold on a second. He hasn't even
Speaker 1: been inaugurated. What is Senator Schumer talking about I mean,
Speaker 1: initially my blood ran cold, getting visions of Dallas in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen sixties. I'm thinking, what is he what
Speaker 1: is he implying? No, no, No, What he was implying
Speaker 1: was the intelligence community has its own way of meeting
Speaker 1: out justice against people that they don't like. And I
Speaker 1: think he revealed more than he ever intended to reveal.
Speaker 1: He revealed, of course that well, of course John Brennan
Speaker 1: would be part of that intelligence community, and he could
Speaker 1: be part of getting even, and so could Jimmy Clapper,
Speaker 1: and so could James Came, and so could so could
Speaker 1: any of these people. They could all have been working together.
Speaker 1: And you know what struck me at the time that
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer said those things, It was, well, what did
Speaker 1: Chuck know about surveillance of the Trump campaign before any
Speaker 1: of this was made pub What did Chuck Schumer? No, certainly,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a senior guy. He was the minority
Speaker 1: leader in the Senate. You had Mitch McConnell as the
Speaker 1: majority leader. He had Chuck Schumer's a minority leader. You know,
Speaker 1: you hear about the Gang of eight all the time,
Speaker 1: not not the Gang of eight back when Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: was talking about we had to do an immigration amnesty.
Speaker 1: The Gang of Eight that was with the eight congress
Speaker 1: people and senators who were working to try to push
Speaker 1: amnesty through back way back, once upon a time. The
Speaker 1: real Gang of eight are these people. They would be
Speaker 1: under the circumstances of twenty seventeen, it would have been
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan. It would have been Nancy Pelosi. It would
Speaker 1: have been Adam Schiff, and it would have been Devin Nunez.
Speaker 1: That would be the House side of the equation. The
Speaker 1: Senate side of the equation would have been Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: It would have been Chuck Schumer, it would have been
Speaker 1: Mark Warner, and it would have been Richard Burr, right,
Speaker 1: because Richard Burr and Mark Warner ran the Senate Intel Committee,
Speaker 1: Devin Nunez was the chair and Adam Schiff was the
Speaker 1: ranking member of the Intel Committee. And you would have had,
Speaker 1: of course, like I said, Ryan and Pelosi, and you
Speaker 1: would have had McConnell and Schumer. And so I just
Speaker 1: kind of wondered when when he went on Rachel Maddow's
Speaker 1: show there on MSNBC and said, mister President, you're being
Speaker 1: very foolish. The intelligence community has six ways from Sunday
Speaker 1: to get even with you. My radar went up, and
Speaker 1: I just wonder how many people have ever asked that
Speaker 1: about what did Chuck Schumer know about surveiling the Trump campaign?
Speaker 1: One of the questions that has not been asked. I
Speaker 1: hope it does get asked, And if it doesn't get
Speaker 1: asked in the process of this primary run, I hope
Speaker 1: it gets asked when President Trump squares off with with
Speaker 1: Joe Biden if he ends up being the nominee again.
Speaker 1: I don't think he will be, but but I hope
Speaker 1: that President Trump does ask Joe Biden, why were you
Speaker 1: spying on my campaign back in twenty sixteen? Sleepy Joe,
Speaker 1: why were you as vice president? Why were you guys spying?
Speaker 1: And when Joe Biden denies he knew anything about it,
Speaker 1: he'll be revealed as incompetent that it was all being
Speaker 1: done by President Obama and Susan Rice and Samantha Power
Speaker 1: and the powers that be with Loretta Lynch and James Comey.
Speaker 1: It'll look like Joe Biden was the last guy on
Speaker 1: the deal team and he had no idea what was
Speaker 1: going on in his own government. If he does answer,
Speaker 1: he's going to have to answer some pretty uncomfortable questions
Speaker 1: about why it is that, standing across the stage from
Speaker 1: a commander in chief, he would have been part of
Speaker 1: a government effort to insert spies Stephen Holper and some
Speaker 1: mysterious woman. And why it was the Central Intelligence Agency,
Speaker 1: the one agency from prohibited from doing business on American soil,
Speaker 1: would be running an intel operation with the FBI. Now,
Speaker 1: why would that happen? Vice President Biden and he's gonna
Speaker 1: have him, and he's gonna hau and he's gonna go
Speaker 1: You don't understand, man, this is about unity. We gotta
Speaker 1: rebuild unity. Man. That's what he'll do. It's what he
Speaker 1: always does. I'm Brett Whatterbill eight four four nine hundred
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four nine two eight two five. It's
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Brett Whattterbal sitting in back
Speaker 1: right after this. It is the Buck Sexton Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Brett Whaterbal sitting in for Buck Sexton eight four to
Speaker 1: four nine hundred Buck eight four four n hundred Buck
Speaker 1: be a part of the conversation. I'm gonna pivot over
Speaker 1: to the border here in just a second. But because
Speaker 1: I was challenged by somebody on Twitter to name the
Speaker 1: intelligence agencies that were part of the Russian assessment, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that now, are you ready? Okay? Three?
Speaker 1: Two one? The twenty fifth Air Force that's the Air
Speaker 1: Force Intelligence Agency, Intelligence and Security Command. That's the US
Speaker 1: Army Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, that's the CIA.
Speaker 1: Coastguard Intelligence that's the Coastguard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of
Speaker 1: Intelligence counter Intelligence, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Bureau of
Speaker 1: Intelligence and Research, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Those
Speaker 1: are all separate, standalone intell agencies. Office of National Security Intelligence,
Speaker 1: you know who that is. That's the d EA. The
Speaker 1: Intelligence Branch, that's the FBI, the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity,
Speaker 1: the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, those
Speaker 1: guys that geospatial and reconnaissance they tend to deal with
Speaker 1: like satellites and maps and topography and electronic intelligence. National
Speaker 1: Security Agency obviously, very obviously who that is. And Office
Speaker 1: of Naval Intelligence. So when you heard these things back
Speaker 1: in twenty seventies, seventeen agencies all agree the Russians influence
Speaker 1: the election. Well yeah, but like five of them are
Speaker 1: actually in that business. The rest are not sorry to
Speaker 1: have to be a Debbie Downer or a Donnie Downer
Speaker 1: or a Brett Bummer. Here's something else I want to
Speaker 1: talk about that it's very important. We are now watching
Speaker 1: a slow motion become fast motion immigration crisis at our
Speaker 1: southern border. I'm in San Diego. I can pretty much
Speaker 1: kick a soccer ball from where I'm sitting right now
Speaker 1: and get pretty close to the border. I grew up
Speaker 1: in El Paso, Texas, also happens to be a very
Speaker 1: significant border community there as well. I understand how borders work,
Speaker 1: and understand how borders, healthy borders are supposed to work.
Speaker 1: People go back and forth every day, they conduct commerce.
Speaker 1: We have billions of dollars in commerce right here in
Speaker 1: San Diego between US and Tijuana and into Baja Mexico.
Speaker 1: Same thing with El Paso, Texas and any number of
Speaker 1: checkpoints across the border. But you have had Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: and Chuck Schumer, you have had Jim Acosta and every
Speaker 1: other talking head on TV try to tell you that
Speaker 1: there's no crisis at the border. There's no crisis at
Speaker 1: the southern border. This is made. This is Donald Trump hysteria.
Speaker 1: Even at Barack Obama in twenty eighteen at campaign rallies,
Speaker 1: saying these people are down the southern part of Mexico,
Speaker 1: take them about six months to get up here. Border crisis.
Speaker 1: There's a border crisis. There's a huge border crisis. I
Speaker 1: was speaking of the folks at Federation for American Immigration
Speaker 1: Reform last week and they informed me that, like in
Speaker 1: the last nine to ten months, you've got seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people coming into the country seeking quote asylum. In reality,
Speaker 1: these are economic refugees looking to get a piece of
Speaker 1: a strong economy. And when the President reaches out, tries
Speaker 1: to secure our border, tries to do the right thing
Speaker 1: to make sure Americans are kept safe, you're told that
Speaker 1: there's no border crisis. Look, I can assure you, living
Speaker 1: here in California, as many people in this audience can
Speaker 1: also attest to, there's a border crisis. And unfortunately, you
Speaker 1: have a governor in Gavin Newsom, and you had a
Speaker 1: governor before him and Jerry Brown, who is more than
Speaker 1: happy to welcome people into this state in an illicit fashion.
Speaker 1: Let me be clear about something here. You had as
Speaker 1: candidate Newsome and then as governor Newsom a man who declared,
Speaker 1: if you want to come and get free healthcare. If
Speaker 1: you want to come and get services, you come into California.
Speaker 1: It is enshrined in the state Code SB fifty four,
Speaker 1: which is the state sanctuary law. That we do not
Speaker 1: cooperate with the Feds save for some very specific cases.
Speaker 1: We are a welcoming state, so says Gavin Newsom. We
Speaker 1: are a state that is committed to allowing everybody who
Speaker 1: wants to come in, regardless of circumstances are being screened,
Speaker 1: to come on in. The term I like to use
Speaker 1: is if you've got turf tooe and you're in Tajikistan,
Speaker 1: come on in and get some medical care. If you've
Speaker 1: got a urology infection and you're from Uzbekistan, come on
Speaker 1: in here. If you're from France and you want a facelift,
Speaker 1: head on down come into California. That's a fact. And
Speaker 1: I would love to states rights activists who advocate for
Speaker 1: sanctuary laws. I would love to see them come out
Speaker 1: and make the same states rights argument in favor of
Speaker 1: what Alabama's done on the abortion law. Oh, the state
Speaker 1: of California has made a decision we're going to be
Speaker 1: a sanctuary state. The state of Alabama's made a decision.
Speaker 1: They're going to be a sanctuary state for the born. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean that what we've basically got it? No, no, no, no, no, no, Brett,
Speaker 1: you've got a dead wrong. Well what do you mean,
Speaker 1: I've got a dead rong. You've got a dead wrong.
Speaker 1: The sanctuary law in California is about social justice. The
Speaker 1: sanctuary law for the born in Alabama is about well,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's about tyranny. It's about tyranny. I got it.
Speaker 1: I understand. That's very interesting. I didn't know that that's
Speaker 1: how it worked out, but yes, that's how it worked out.
Speaker 1: Understand this, if you understand nothing else here in the
Speaker 1: state of California, if you are in the illicit possession
Speaker 1: of plastic bags, single use plastic bags, or if you
Speaker 1: are in the illicit possession of straws, you'll face more
Speaker 1: serious time than you will if you break into the state.
Speaker 1: And isn't it curious that we would have this crisis
Speaker 1: right now, right now before the twenty twenty election, right
Speaker 1: now before the twenty twenty senses? What are you getting at, Brett?
Speaker 1: What are you what are you getting at with the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty what kind of a remark is at about
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty cents. Well, because, to hear Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: tell it, here, in the state of California, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're a citizen, a Green card holder, a migrant,
Speaker 1: and AUSSI lee, somebody who has flown in for six
Speaker 1: months to stay at a VRBO. You can count in
Speaker 1: the census because you'll help us get seats. See. The
Speaker 1: dirty secret about California is there's been a massive outmigration
Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years. People fleeing high taxes, horrible regulation,
Speaker 1: social social problems like heroin addiction, and people urinating and
Speaker 1: defecating in the streets of San Francisco and in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and even right here in San Diego. This has
Speaker 1: been a crisis writ large. But when Gavin Nussom is
Speaker 1: concerned is we don't need to replace the outflow of
Speaker 1: Americans moving out of the state. We just need to
Speaker 1: replace them with any body. No, no, we don't have
Speaker 1: to get anybody to come in. We just need anybody,
Speaker 1: meaning anybody will do whether or not you're a citizen,
Speaker 1: a Green card holder, whether or not you're a migrant
Speaker 1: seeking economic opportunity and illegal immigrant, or even an asili
Speaker 1: come on into the state account California. The doors are
Speaker 1: wide open because you're going to get the hook up.
Speaker 1: And now now you're starting to see the Resettlement Department
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security flying migrants from Texas at a cost
Speaker 1: of six thousand dollars of flight right here to the
Speaker 1: city of San Diego, right to the city of San Diego,
Speaker 1: where they will be dumped off on a street corner
Speaker 1: and people will just kind of hope for the best.
Speaker 1: That's really what's going on here. It's an amazing thing
Speaker 1: to see, and folks want to focus on them, focus
Speaker 1: on whether or not there's a humanitarian crisis. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: There's a humanitarian crisis. It's just what needs to be
Speaker 1: done about it is the great disagreement, and really there's
Speaker 1: a right way and there's a wrong way. And what
Speaker 1: you're seeing take place with the cooperation of the Democrats
Speaker 1: out there, the fact that Nancy Pelosian Chuck Schumer looked
Speaker 1: the other way, and every other Democrat with him does.
Speaker 1: You're seeing a crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and ultimately we're
Speaker 1: gonna pay for it. Eight four four nine hundred buck
Speaker 1: eight four four nine two two five Brett Wordable in
Speaker 1: for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show, and I
Speaker 1: am Brett Wordable. I'm in for Buck Sexton and happy
Speaker 1: to be spending this time with you on another beautiful
Speaker 1: day here in the greatest country on the planet. It
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show. The phone number to be
Speaker 1: part of the conversation eight four four nine hundred Buck
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. Over
Speaker 1: the course of the last couple hours, you know, we've
Speaker 1: gone into a lot of very different and interesting areas.
Speaker 1: And let me if I may take you into some
Speaker 1: of the madness that is the West Coast, the madness
Speaker 1: that is the West Coast. The lunacy is the West Coast.
Speaker 1: I alluded to this in the prior segment. This idea
Speaker 1: that in our country today, the idea that in our
Speaker 1: country today you can you can face in your felony
Speaker 1: charge for illicit possession of plastic bags, single use plastic
Speaker 1: bags and of course straws as well. It is a
Speaker 1: complete and total nightmare. And uh Sabria Outtery riding over
Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece
Speaker 1: in plastic bag Wars. The industry fights back. Now, let
Speaker 1: me let me give you the basis for this, because
Speaker 1: whatever happens here will eventually drift eastward towards where you are,
Speaker 1: or northward or well southward would be Mexico. But from
Speaker 1: here in California, this stuff, this stuff drifts, and I
Speaker 1: don't mean the pollution. I mean the bad policy that
Speaker 1: gets created and crafted. So you have trade groups now
Speaker 1: coming out and having to defend their straws, defend their straws.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. The backlash against single use plastic has
Speaker 1: both straws, bags and takeout containers. But the plastics industry
Speaker 1: is fighting back, arguing that alternatives can be worse for
Speaker 1: the environment and disruptive for business. Trade groups are spending
Speaker 1: more on lobbying, read out to consumers and promote cycling
Speaker 1: amid mounting their message plastic bands target only waste and
Speaker 1: don't take account of environmental negatives. If you use raw
Speaker 1: materials meaning paper bags, remember paper bags. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: you'd get your stuff. Your choice was paper or plastic. Well,
Speaker 1: that forever was the big question. And then we switched
Speaker 1: from the paper to the plastic. Why because we were
Speaker 1: deforesting the trees. Oh, the trees were dying. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: The world was coming to an end. So we switched
Speaker 1: the plastic, flimsy, single use plastic bags and we all
Speaker 1: got used to those. And then and then, like a
Speaker 1: bolt from the dark, we found out about the great
Speaker 1: garbage patch out in the Pacific, the Geyer out in
Speaker 1: the Pacific twice, the size of Texas uncleanable, all caused
Speaker 1: by the American people and our plastic bags and our straws.
Speaker 1: So here in San Diego, I'm not lying when I
Speaker 1: tell you this, you have had communities get together an
Speaker 1: outlaw the following single use plastic bags. They have outlawed straws.
Speaker 1: They have outlawed polystyrene takeout food containers. That's right, the
Speaker 1: styrophone containers where you get to take out from the
Speaker 1: Chinese plays or the lunch place where you got a
Speaker 1: sandwich and some chips. Yeah, that's been outlawed as well.
Speaker 1: Why because it kills the animals. There's no such regulation
Speaker 1: on Mexico. There's no such regulation anywhere else. We're the
Speaker 1: only people doing it. I tell a funny anecdote about
Speaker 1: a friend of mine who is at a bar in
Speaker 1: San Diego having a couple of cocktails with some friends.
Speaker 1: The waitress, and I hope that's not that's not an
Speaker 1: offensive term. But the waitress came over. The server came over,
Speaker 1: and he said, could I have a straw? And she
Speaker 1: took her finger and stirred his drink with her index finger,
Speaker 1: and when he recoiled in horror, she said to him,
Speaker 1: don't worry, it's alcohol. There's no germs in there. Now.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of craziness that we have going on
Speaker 1: out here in California. And so the plastics industry and
Speaker 1: all these other groups are getting together and they're trying
Speaker 1: to tell you that they're not the biggest problem. They're
Speaker 1: not the biggest threat to the world. Do you know
Speaker 1: what the number one threat to the world is? Anybody
Speaker 1: know what The number one polluting item in all the
Speaker 1: world is? Cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are number one, followed
Speaker 1: by food wrappers, plastic beverage bottles, and plastic bottle camp caps.
Speaker 1: You got to go way down the list to you
Speaker 1: have to grocery bags or other plastic bags, or straws
Speaker 1: or takeout containers. You gotta go way down the list
Speaker 1: to get to those numbers. And look, I get it.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see some seagull coughing up a plastic bag,
Speaker 1: or a sperm whale suffering because he's ingesting so much plastic.
Speaker 1: But understand this if you understand nothing else, We in
Speaker 1: the United States are a clean country. We don't pollute
Speaker 1: nearly as badly as the countries in Asia. We don't
Speaker 1: pollute nearly as badly as those nations in South America
Speaker 1: that have much much more lax and loose environmental regulations.
Speaker 1: Think about this for a second. I want you to
Speaker 1: think about the notion of currents and energy and that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff that happens in what direction? In what
Speaker 1: direction do storms approach the United States? If you're on
Speaker 1: the West coast, Do they come from Texas? Do they
Speaker 1: come from Alabama? No, they come from the Pacific, because
Speaker 1: the Pacific flow is toward the coast of the United States,
Speaker 1: the Pacific coast of the United States. That's where the
Speaker 1: flow comes. So where do you think all the pollutions
Speaker 1: coming from? Where do you think the plastic and the
Speaker 1: containers are coming from? Oh, that's right, you guessed right,
Speaker 1: it's Asia. We're not the biggest polluters. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: China that's a bigger polluter. In fact, it's other nations
Speaker 1: in Southeast Asia that are bigger polluters than we are.
Speaker 1: And we haven't even gotten anywhere near the cigarette butts yet.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten anywhere near those cartridges yet. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: Oh and while we're at it. While we're at it,
Speaker 1: being that, I'm in the state of California, and many
Speaker 1: people in this state or in a state of unconsciousness, Um,
Speaker 1: tell me about how those those heroin syringes, those those needles,
Speaker 1: and those syringes, tell me about how it is that
Speaker 1: they they they decompose when you put them in a land. No. See,
Speaker 1: last time I check, those are made out of plastic two,
Speaker 1: aren't they? And they are. They are ankle deep on
Speaker 1: the streets of San Francisco, and on the streets of
Speaker 1: skid Row in Los Angeles, and have been on the
Speaker 1: streets of the city of San Diego where I'm sitting.
Speaker 1: They have absolutely been that. And tell me how healthy
Speaker 1: it is for the environment for people to use sidewalks
Speaker 1: as toilets. I just for the life of me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get that we're gonna get rid of plastic bags,
Speaker 1: and I get that we're gonna get rid of straws,
Speaker 1: But we're ignored. They're an oh barber way, by the way,
Speaker 1: find you of this fact. When we got rid of
Speaker 1: the single use plastic bags, those thinner one ply plastic
Speaker 1: bags that sometimes if you just put in too many
Speaker 1: six packs of soda and then a box of cereal,
Speaker 1: it would tear the bag open because they were so flimsy.
Speaker 1: When we got rid of of those, we replaced him
Speaker 1: with like nine ply plastic, reusable plastic that you get
Speaker 1: it to supermarket for ten cents a bag. Those things
Speaker 1: will survive an atomic detonation. They will not decompose in
Speaker 1: the face of a thermonuclear warhead going off above them.
Speaker 1: They will survive literally anything including being shot into the sun.
Speaker 1: They will not melt, they will not decompose. So what
Speaker 1: we did was we traded the paper bags, which were fine,
Speaker 1: for the single use plastic bags, which we're fine, and
Speaker 1: now we got rid of those two things in the
Speaker 1: hopes that will use even thicker bags. It's absurd. This
Speaker 1: is why regulation, This is why regulation is a nightmare.
Speaker 1: When you do not properly implemented. The issue is polluting,
Speaker 1: the issue is littering, The issue is discarding your garbage
Speaker 1: out in public. Maybe if you wrote a ticket for
Speaker 1: the quality of life crimes for the idiot that throws
Speaker 1: garbage all over the beach, that throws garbage all over
Speaker 1: the streets, maybe you hit him with a ticket for
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, maybe you'll start to change the behavior instead.
Speaker 1: It's lowest common denominator behavior in America today. Folks. You
Speaker 1: put up with it. Why because they know you'll put
Speaker 1: up with it. When you go to the drug store
Speaker 1: and you have to show ID and ask permission to
Speaker 1: buy a box a sudaffeed, why because a bunch of
Speaker 1: folks running meth labs decided they weren't going to use
Speaker 1: it for the intended purpose, and they want to make
Speaker 1: methamphetamines at a sudafed. When you go to to the
Speaker 1: big box store and you want to get yourself a
Speaker 1: can of spray paint because you got to touch up
Speaker 1: the patio furniture for the summer season, you got to
Speaker 1: go find the pimpley phase sixteen year old kid with
Speaker 1: the key to give you permission, as a full grown adult,
Speaker 1: tax paying person, permission to get a can of spray paint,
Speaker 1: because you might go home and huff that right, that's
Speaker 1: that's what you hear all the time. Or if you
Speaker 1: want a sharpie pen or a box cutter, you got
Speaker 1: to fill out a piece of paper with a seven
Speaker 1: day waiting period before you can get those, because you
Speaker 1: might go and tag. I don't know about you. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing many people in this audience that listen to Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton are not out tagging on the weekend. They're not
Speaker 1: out doing scratchety. They're not out huffing paint, and they're
Speaker 1: not out cooking methamphetamines in their backyards. We're living like
Speaker 1: hostages to the dopes, and that's a frustrating reality in
Speaker 1: America in twenty nineteen. So next time you get your
Speaker 1: self a single use plastic bag and you don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with it, you may want to mail
Speaker 1: it to a deserving family. Right here in California. We
Speaker 1: can't get our hands on them anymore on account of pollution.
Speaker 1: We can't get our hands on them anymore because of laws,
Speaker 1: laws written by well meaning bureaucrats that only seek to
Speaker 1: add to the drama and the trauma. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but I'm done living by the lowest common denominator.
Speaker 1: I am done comporting my life around what it is
Speaker 1: that some unelected bureaucrat or elected want to be control
Speaker 1: freak in Sacramento or Washington, DC wants to tell us
Speaker 1: to do. I want to be free. I'm not into
Speaker 1: the socialism. I choose freedom, and I believe most people
Speaker 1: in this country, if you get them in a quiet place,
Speaker 1: will feel just as frustrated as we do about the
Speaker 1: limits on our liberties when it comes to consuming what
Speaker 1: it is we want, using what it is that we want,
Speaker 1: and managing our lives. In my entire life, I've never
Speaker 1: once thrown a plastic bag filled with a bunch of
Speaker 1: takeout containers into the ocean. Why because I think it's
Speaker 1: rude and I want to preserve my planet for future generations.
Speaker 1: Eight four nine buck eight four four nine hundred buck
Speaker 1: eight four four nine two two five. I'm Brett Witterbill
Speaker 1: from San Diego in for Buck Sexton on The Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show.