WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - 1/7/20 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.120 You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.520 Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.480 social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.200 All of us are faced with two choices, both of 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.360 which are lousy. One choice is vote against the objection, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.320 and tens of millions of Americans will see a vote 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.000 against the objection as a statement that voter fraud doesn't matter, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.319 isn't real and shouldn't be taken seriously, and a great 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.960 many of us don't believe that. On the other hand, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.599 most if not all, of us believe we should not 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.440 set aside the results of an election just because our 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.199 candidate may not have prevailed. And so I endeavored to 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.040 look for door number three, a third option. And for 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.400 that I look to history, to the precedent of the 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.200 eighteen seventy six election, the Hayes tild An election, where 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.960 this Congress appointed an electoral commission to examine claims of 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.800 voter fraud. Five House members, five senators, five Supreme Court 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.640 justices examine the evidence and rendered a judgment. And what 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.639 I would urge of this body is that we do 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.200 the same, that we appoint an electoral commission to conduct 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.640 a ten day emergency audit consider the evidence and resolve 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.160 the claims. For those on the Democratic aisle who says 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.240 say there is no evidence they've been rejected, then you 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.920 should rest in comfort. If that's the case, an electoral 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.560 commission would reject those claims. But for those who respect 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.840 the voters, simply telling the voters go jump in a lake, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.840 the fact that you have deep concerns is of no 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.080 moment to us that jeopardizes I believe the legitimacy of 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:42.160 this and subsequent elections. We can handle the truth, and ultimately, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.039 the truth is what this is all about. Getting to it, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.280 finding out what is real, what is not, what actually 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.960 happened in this election. It is essential our entire system 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.480 rests on the premise that we believe there is a 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.400 good faith and there is a fairness in the operating 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:06.240 procedures of this Republic. Senator Ted Cruz there speaking well 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:11.200 to that point. And yet do we feel any better 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.280 about it today than we did yesterday? No, of course, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:21.480 we feel most likely considerably worse. Why is that. Let's 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.480 first start with why people were marching in DC yesterday. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.120 Let's start on that issue, because it's many things. The 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.080 media and the focus is on those who believe that 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.240 this was a stolen election, and that is certainly a 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.760 big part, perhaps a majority, of all of the concern 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.440 and anger out there on the streets. But what else 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.280 was motivating this? Why do people feel the need to 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.760 take time out of their lives in a very difficult year, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.080 with a lot of stresses around us because of COVID 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.720 and everything else. Why would hundreds of thousands of people 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.880 gather together in DC to make their voices heard. We 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.919 have been drifting as a nation toward a culture politically 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:13.840 socially where there is no middle ground allowed, there's no 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:20.280 dissent allowed, the rights of political minorities are increasingly trampled on, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.679 and there is an incredibly powerful system, one that even 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.079 goes beyond what you've seen and some of the other 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:34.080 authoritarian regimes of history, in that it is entirely capable 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:39.840 of leveraging information technology, the global marketplace wealth on a 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:45.480 scale that human beings have never seen, to brainwash, to control, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:51.240 to determine. And it feels like a rigged game, right. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.120 It feels as though what we do does not really 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.640 change very much, and it feels as though we're not 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.720 allowed to even raise add up anymore and talk about 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:08.720 it publicly for fear of being ostracized by these social 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.839 media companies that I know that we have to get 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.880 used to this idea. Social media is not something that 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.000 kids use now just to say hi to each other 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.720 and communicate. Social media is a dominant force in the 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.920 flow of information in this country and around the world. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.800 It is more powerful than the traditional media because it 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:33.360 determines what traditional media you get to see. Wokeness this 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.760 is another way of describing political orthodoxy of the left, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.880 and wokeness is ever evolving because ultimately it's true goal 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.599 is not changing society so that everybody is equal. It's 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.760 true goal is just power, and then it will figure 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.200 out what it decides to do with it, because it 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.679 doesn't even know what it wants. Why does it feel 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:59.080 like there's an inherent schizophrenia in the Democrat lefts woke 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:06.520 ideology because there is. There are multiple personalities at war 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.440 with each other inside of the Democrat mind on this issue. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.760 Because you can never be sure that you're woken up, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.680 it has to constantly evolve and seek out new targets. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.600 It's effectively a colonial project for the mind right. It 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.560 is dominating your consciousness, that's what it seeks to do, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.320 and that it can entirely control you and then figure 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.760 out how to create an entirely equal society. And what 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.479 would that even look like. As we know, societies that 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:39.240 put the greatest emphasis on achieving absolute equality achieve the 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:44.920 exact opposite, and history speaks very clearly on that. So 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.680 people are upset because of all of these things. And 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:53.560 then also we have suffered through the single worst year 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.359 in terms of our individual freedoms, in terms of government 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:03.560 overreach of my lifetime. But they use this idea that 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.560 the government can protect you from COVID to justify all 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.159 of it. They use the notion that if you only listen, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.680 you'll be saving lives, you'll be protecting people, and if 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.600 you're not willing to listen, if you want to dissent, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.599 you are putting people at risk. This was a recipe 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.560 for absolute control, and they've edged closer and closer to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.840 that this year than I thought would be possible honestly 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:35.080 in my lifetime. And for what are we safer from 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.320 COVID with Think of all the government mandates and shutdowns 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.159 and everything they've done. Does anyone look at what's happening 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.960 right now in the country with hospitalizations and cases, and 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.320 think anything other than the virus is gonna virus. It spreads. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.279 You do your best to stay healthy and stay away 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.680 from it, but the government cannot protect you. Am I 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.719 missing something? Where where's the example of great government success 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.400 in this You had Operation Warp Speed, which is a success, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.280 but the distribution of this vaccine is already a cluster. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.000 And then you look at all the lockdown, at the masking, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.840 all these policies they have instituted, and for what does 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.160 it feel like the journalists who are supposed to be 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.440 speaking truth to power, these media companies that have gotten 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.680 in many cases, especially the social media companies wealthier, more 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:32.480 influential during lockdown because we are now replacing human contact 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:37.160 and living life with screens. We all live our life 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.600 now if you're working remotely, unless you're an essential and 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.480 you have to actually go into your job, we're living 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.080 our life just in front of these screens where you're 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:53.440 being bombarded with information that's destructive, often that's false, that's vicious, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.720 and that has an agenda, and that's really almost all 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.600 the time. And we're replacing those basic bonds of human 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.240 content act that remind us all that we are in 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.640 this together, and we are all on borrowed time. And 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:09.400 when we're talking about Americans, our fellow Americans were losing 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.800 sight of the fact that we live in the greatest 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.840 country in the history of the planet. That's an amazing statement, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.440 isn't it. And I'm sorry if it sounds a little 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.960 hokey today. I'm sorry if it's a little bit corny 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.600 to some of you. But we right now are living 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.360 in the greatest country, in the greatest, wealthiest, happiest time 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.200 in human history, and we are lucky to be here, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.880 and we need to preserve it. Yes, we need to 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.600 fight for them to understand what's so great about it. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.880 But what I see out there right now is this 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:49.120 ideological cancer of destroy. Destroy the dissenters, Destroy those who 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.959 believe in liberty, in limitations on government, Destroy those who 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.760 think the Constitution is supposed to prevent all the great 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.640 plans that the experts are honjuring up for us. Isn't 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.599 this year of the lockdown? Isn't twenty twenty. I know 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.440 we're in twenty twenty one now, but I'm thinking about 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:13.080 the last twelve months. Isn't it a repudiation of the 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:18.040 elites and of government control. It doesn't feel like they 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.880 think that. That's for sure. We were very aware of that. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.600 But anybody who's being honest about it would say, we 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.840 need a return to first principles here in this country. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.080 We need an understanding of what it is that we 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.320 are seeking to create in our society every day, and 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.400 for us to get there, we need to have a 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.600 combin We need to have a combination of things all 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:49.000 come together at once. We need a relentless, unapologetic search 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.240 for the truth. We need the courage and bravery to 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.120 stand for our principles, and we have to remember that 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.439 at the end of the day, what we're all trying 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.480 to do, all of us who are approaching this in 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.360 good faith, with love and reverence for the history of 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.120 this country, for this amazing nation, is to make this 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.520 a better place for all of us, even the wackos, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.240 even the people of Antifa. I want a better America 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:20.400 that they are fortunate to live in because our ideas prevail. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.400 And I know that can be a hard thing. You 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.680 want to think about about destroying your enemy. Sometimes you 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.720 want to think about defeating the other side. And we 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.520 want to win at the ballot box. We want to 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.160 win on the battlefield of ideas. But isn't it this 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.160 beautiful thing about this country that victory achieved the right 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.360 way means that it's a better country for all of us, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.720 even the leftists, even the losers, even the crazies. It's 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.800 a better America that's more secure, more rule of law, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.559 more prosperity, more individual liberty. That is what That's why 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.520 I show up every day, That's why we do this 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.600 thing that we're doing here on this show. So I 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.680 think a return to those first principles for all of 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.000 us at this moment when I know so many feel dejected, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.160 feel like they have been cast aside, and feel like 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.240 we had a momentum. We had a moment and it 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.400 lasted for three years. The COVID year was something else. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.200 The COVID year through the whole project of making America 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.360 great again into this different cycle. We were just all 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.160 locked down and trying to stay alive, trying to do 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.640 what we can to help our neighbors and prevent the 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.280 government from shutting down more businesses and more churches than 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.840 they already were. There's a lot of anger out there 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.920 and that's not going to go away. But we have 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:56.800 to explore together, honestly, what is working for us, what 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.320 can we do, and what does the future look like. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:06.359 The reasons for the march yesterday in DC were patriotic 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.920 and decent, and I support them and I'm with them, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.880 and we have to also know that we maintain principles 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:21.880 even in the face of the most vicious, underhanded, cheating, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:28.960 maniacal opposition. We cannot become that which we seek to defeat. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.680 And I don't think we're even close to it. And 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.760 we're going to talk about the double standards and all this. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.680 We're gonna discuss all that on the show. But let's 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.679 all just take this moment to remember why it is 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.640 that we do what we do and what makes us 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:50.000 who we are as patriots, conservatives, Americans. What is it 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.440 that is so special about all you know or else? 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.280 Why not just go live in New Zealand, Why not 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.280 just move to some other place? Right? No, we understand 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.319 that there's something special about this and we can tinue 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.719 to fight for it, and we'll do everything we can 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.200 to preserve it, win or lose, my friends, that is 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.160 our mentality. We are warriors for the cause of our 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.199 ideological battles. Knowing that there is no guaranteed result, but 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.880 that the fight is worth having anyway. Thanks for listening 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.439 to the Bucksexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.960 information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. And 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.600 we will always be grateful to the men and women 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.280 who stayed at their posts to defend this historic place. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.880 To those who wreaked havoc in our capital today, you 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:49.040 did not win. Violence never wins. Freedom wins. And this 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.640 is still the People's House. And as we reconvene in 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:57.800 this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.839 strength of our democracy. For even in the wake of 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:08.480 unprecedented violence and vandalism at this Capitol, the elected representatives 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.400 of the people of the United States have assembled again 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.360 on the very same day to support and defend the 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:22.120 constitution of the United States. Let me ask you, do 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.440 you think that Vice President Pence is a good man? 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.920 Do you think that he loves this country? Do you 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.880 think that he knows as well as really anyone, with 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.680 perhaps the exception of the President himself, how much is 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.640 at stake here and how much could have been done 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.640 for the good of the country had this election outcome 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.720 been different. I think we have to approach some of 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.240 these some of these questions in a systematic way so 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.520 we can all ground ourselves here. At a moment of 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:06.960 of particular disappointment and all this frenzy of you know, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.720 people that are not pointing fingers at each other and 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.080 everything else, what's really happened here, my friends, is we've 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.600 come to a recognition and it's one that I've been 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.400 trying to to edge us toward here. And I appreciate 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.080 so much that all of you know that what I'm 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.800 telling you, I think this thing is going to happen. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.000 It's not when I'm talking about the Biden Harris presidency, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.680 which is happening. When I say that, it's not to antagonize. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.360 It's not because I like taking some kind of a 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.880 sour position or anything else. It's because we need to 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.840 get ready for what's coming. Psychologically and emotionally. We need 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:47.880 to be prepared for this because it's happening. And I've 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.320 been saying it for weeks. And there are a lot 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.960 of people out there, and I don't like to do this, oh, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.400 you know, the other hosts and stuff, but there are 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:55.840 a lot of people that are playing this game, and 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.400 they're pretending that there was some last minute secret that 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.240 was going to say us from this. I'm sorry. I 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:08.760 look at you, my fellow Americans, my friendly Patriots team Buck, 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.520 I see all of you across the country, and I 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.000 feel like I'm here with you, waiting for this onslaught. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.040 I'm not going to promise you that the cavalry is 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.800 going to come over the hill and we're not even 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.640 gonna have to take any losses metaphorically speaking, I'm not 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.880 going to make that promise because I don't believe it, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.560 because it's not true. Vice President Pence, I think you 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.720 would agree with me, is a good man who has 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.320 been very loyal to this president, very loyal to the 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:45.240 MAGA agenda, and he is doing his best for America 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.320 under the circumstances, and he has been put in a 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.160 very difficult position. The people who are turning on Vice 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.200 President Pence right now, I think are forgetting that the 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.440 actions up to this point of individuals should have already 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.440 shown us what, you know, the totality of the actions 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.600 of people like Mike Pence should show us that we've 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.760 we've done what we can. It is possible, and if 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.680 I can, it's it's almost painful to say this out loud. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.840 It is possible, friends, that we gave it everything we 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.840 had and we are fighting with everything we've got, through 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.520 all the mechanisms at our disposal, and we still lost. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.200 And whether it's lost through cheating or lost through through 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.240 legitimate victory, even with some degree of cheating, which is 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.000 assured of course, So please, don't you don't need to 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.840 tell me, Buck, you don't think there was. Of course 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.560 there was cheating. I don't know how much cheating. I 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.520 suspect it was substantial, but if you can't prove it, it 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.960 it doesn't matter. We are dealing with that sense of 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.480 loss now. But with that loss also comes a recognition 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.879 that we do have so much left to fight for 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.960 and so much more ahead of us. And also see 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.879 the way the other side is seizing upon this moment 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.359 and understand that we're in for a whole new level 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.560 of fight. My friends, You're in the freedom hunt. This 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.359 is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. For more buck head 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:23.480 to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. Fronto. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.679 Reagan once said, peace is not the absence of conflict. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.600 It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.639 The peaceful people in my state in Oklahoma want their 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.760 questions answered, but they don't want this what happened today. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.800 They want to do the right thing, and they also 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.000 want to do it the right way. They went onto 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.440 their constitutional process, but they also want to have debate 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.080 about election security because they want to make sure it's right, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.440 which is why it's an important issue that still needs 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.919 to be resolved. Transparency and government just doesn't seem like 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.560 a bad idea. Obviously, the commission that we have asked 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.919 for is not going to happen at this point, and 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.399 I understand that. And we're headed towards tonight, towards the 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.440 certification of Joe Biden to be the President of the 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.159 United States, and we will work together in this body 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.159 to be able to set a peaceful example the day's ahead. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.760 That was GEOP Senator James Langford who was addressing the 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.919 Congress last night on the floor of the of the 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.320 Senate when he was saying, there's not going to be 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.200 some commission, and this is it. This election's done. That's 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.720 where we are, and and I understand that that's so 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.480 disappointed to hear. And for those who are and look, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.040 I you you are always I always welcome a criticism 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.560 from from people that I consider to be my side, 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.520 my own team, when it's in good faith. Right. So 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.520 when people write in with all caps, lots of curse 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.119 words and say terrible things about me, I'm like, what 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.760 what is that accomplishing? Right? But anybody who has a 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.800 valid or I shouldn't even say valid, has a good 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.400 faith criticism, I welcome it. And sometimes sometimes people write 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.199 into this show and I read and the first thing 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.679 I think when I read their comments about something that 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.080 I've said or about a direction we've gone editorially, is 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.920 they're right. That does happen? That does I want to 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.480 admit that to you. I know that there's a whole 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.280 a kind of radio industry built around people who are 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.879 never never wrong. Right. I don't do that, So that 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.440 does happen. So I don't think that I read these 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.280 things and don't realize that's a completely valid point, or 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.800 even more than that, that they're they're right and I'm wrong. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.480 So for those who are telling me and I think 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.760 we have to have this this is like a family discussion. Now, 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.320 That's how I view this. I sit here talking to 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.479 all of you as I would if there had been 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.199 some incident, you know, with my cousins or something, and 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.879 we're all sitting down at the table to have a 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.600 discussion about what's gone on so we can move forward 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.720 in the most positive fashion. Because not only am I 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.159 on your team, I want to be a leader on 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:54.959 your team. I want to be somebody you can always 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.520 count on that you know is there for you. You 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.919 could trust me. I tell you the truth. I stand 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.480 on the principles we share, and I even will show 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.120 some courage in public about difficult issues. But sometimes courage 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.080 means telling people things that aren't necessarily going to appeal 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.200 to them. And I think one of the one of 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.399 the challenges that we've had in the Trump era on 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.119 the right is that there has been very little space 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.080 for that. There's really been, and I'll just say it, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.920 there's really been almost no market for trying to criticize 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.800 the Trump agenda from or rather from a Trump administration, 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.119 not the agenda, the Trump administration, from a perspective of 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.480 how can we be more effective in achieving goals that 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.840 this presidency set out for? How can we do a 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:46.439 better job of getting these things? We created a bit 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:51.919 of a bit of a silo where all all of 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.879 the public commentary went into this one place and it 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.880 was Trump is awesome and he's doing all these amazing things, 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.000 and we were allowed to say, up is awesome, comma, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.040 but I wish he would or Trump is doing a 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.320 great job on this. But you sit here and you say, well, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.879 one place and for those you were wondering, what have 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.360 you said about this buck that would be an example 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.280 of this. Trump's picks for his advisors and for some 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.480 of his White House personnel was was abominable. I mean 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.080 it was truly awful, and there was a lot of 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.359 a lot of well he can't trust anybody, or well, 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:27.959 you know he meets family members around him, or all 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.040 all these things. You know, at some point you can 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.040 kind of justify anything in this realm. Is it serving 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.480 the president to do that? Is it serving the agenda? 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:39.399 Is it serving all of us? The president being in 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.159 the office. I know he was entertaining and he has 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.760 tweets were remaining, but ultimately he was trying to achieve 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.160 things for you and for me. Some of them he did, 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.800 but some of them he didn't. Does anybody want to 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.120 argue now that we have a big, beautiful wall from 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:57.040 sea to c to Shining Sea. We do not. And 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:58.800 I know that there are all these reasons and there, 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.760 but we would have been more effective in getting some 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.560 of these things done if there had been more room 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:09.720 to be able to say, I'm on the team, but 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:14.400 you know this needs to be done differently. I'm sure 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:15.920 many of you have played team sports, so many of 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:17.480 you have. You know, you've been on a football team 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:21.199 or a basketball or lacrosse or whatever, and you know 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.520 you'll come together in the huddle. Is it. Is it 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.040 a good thing to say, guys, we're down, We're down 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.480 by a lot at halftime, but you know what, we're amazing. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.960 Let's do everything exactly the same way we're doing I 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:35.920 was gonna say that there was a lot of that 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.480 within the GOP and you know that, you know I'm 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:40.680 telling you the truth. Every single one of you knows 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:42.520 that I'm telling you the truth right now. There was 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.520 a lot of that. It was we'll hold on a second, 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.560 maybe maybe we need a greater focus on this, or 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.160 you know, hold on, maybe the the outreach to Kim 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:56.200 Jong un isn't isn't a worthwhile expenditure of presidential time 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.680 and resources? And you know, and I'm not even saying 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.680 that was true. We're done. I'm just pointing out if 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.760 you said that, you were shouted down, if you said that, 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:07.679 people thought that you were no longer on the team. 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:14.760 And you know, the Democrats legally outmaneuvered. I want to 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:16.560 say legally, I don't mean that what they did was 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:21.560 necessarily legal, but they understood that changing these processes for 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:25.080 mail and balloting in these states, they knew that that 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:29.359 was going to give them an enormous advantage going into 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.520