WEBVTT - Obama's Obstruction

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<v Speaker 1>Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either beer with

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<v Speaker 1>what you've been waiting for all day. The Buck Sexton

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<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, great

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<v Speaker 1>to have you with me. My, oh my. We have

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<v Speaker 1>a lot to get into today. We will discuss all

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<v Speaker 1>the latest on the FBI, FISA abuse, the Mueller probe,

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<v Speaker 1>the memos, the Dueling memos, all that stuff. We'll get

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<v Speaker 1>into quite a bit of that. We'll also talk about

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<v Speaker 1>how it looks like the government's funded. There will be

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<v Speaker 1>no the final shutdown in it. That was off, I was,

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<v Speaker 1>I was a little I was sharp and flat at

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<v Speaker 1>the same time. That was just not good. But the

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<v Speaker 1>final shutdown will not happen. Most most of you have

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<v Speaker 1>heard right the final countdown from when you're at sports stadiums.

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<v Speaker 1>They always play that at the end, So we will

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<v Speaker 1>talk about what that means. We'll talk about Nancy Pelosi's marathon,

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<v Speaker 1>DACA Grandstanding seven hours, and we'll get in to that.

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<v Speaker 1>But and then finally I'll tell you about a an

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<v Speaker 1>unexpected showdown between a Women's March participant and a kind

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<v Speaker 1>and selfless Trump voter that she bumped into on the

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<v Speaker 1>side of the road. It's going to be quite a story.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get to that later on the show. Good to Heavens.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he's a Trump voter, Yes, indeed, So we

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<v Speaker 1>will get into all of that. I need to start though,

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<v Speaker 1>with this the latest of latest info Info deep dive

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<v Speaker 1>on the FBI probe. The Mueller situated all this stuff, right,

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<v Speaker 1>I still there's so many different facets to it that

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<v Speaker 1>it's hard to find a single way to describe all

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<v Speaker 1>of it. But here's where we know, here's what matters.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's why you're listening in to the show so we

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<v Speaker 1>can get into this. First of all, this guy struck

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<v Speaker 1>uh spelled stock but we say struck he um. It's

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<v Speaker 1>even worse than we thought. More text messages have been released.

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<v Speaker 1>We now know more about who this guy was and

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<v Speaker 1>what he thought about Trump. And now here's what uh,

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<v Speaker 1>here's what we know. This is the Senate investigators have

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<v Speaker 1>released this. It turns out that Struck is a oh,

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<v Speaker 1>who's gonna be shocked here, a social justice warrior, That

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<v Speaker 1>he has self righteous and deeply ignorant views on politics. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>that he is full of disdain for Republicans. Even referred

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<v Speaker 1>to those in in in Louden County as Hillbillies, I believe,

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<v Speaker 1>which is interesting cause I think Loudon County is one

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<v Speaker 1>of the five wealthiest per capita counties in the entire

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<v Speaker 1>United States. So yeah, a lot of a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>Banjoe's played with the toes in Louden County. They're Struck. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>So we we've seen more of who this guy is.

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<v Speaker 1>And remember, he helped this is not just we're not

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<v Speaker 1>just picking on some random FBI agent. As you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he helped craft of the language for the Comy exoneration

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<v Speaker 1>of Hillary Clinton's email crimes, because that's what they were.

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<v Speaker 1>He has been involved that keynotes of the Hillary email

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<v Speaker 1>investigation and the Russia probe. He was I think Deputy

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<v Speaker 1>chief of Counterintelligence the FBI. So he's a he's a

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<v Speaker 1>senior guy. He's not just someone that we're We're not.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not finding the guy in charge of you know,

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<v Speaker 1>refilling the printer in cartridges and saying, oh, look at

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<v Speaker 1>his political opinions. Right, this is a guy who's ideas

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<v Speaker 1>and biases matter. So we find out more about him.

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<v Speaker 1>We find out that he says there are a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of dumb white men in the FBI. We you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he says a lot of nasty stuff. Um. He said

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<v Speaker 1>that he would rather his son. Remember this is somebody

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<v Speaker 1>that we are we are told to trust in his professionalism, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>that he would never try to stack the deck in

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<v Speaker 1>favor of Hillary, and he would ever tried a deep

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<v Speaker 1>six Trump's chances, right, just trusting his professionalism. Oh, he's

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<v Speaker 1>very professional. But Peter Struck joked in these text messages

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<v Speaker 1>released by sending investigators today that he would rather his

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<v Speaker 1>son be homeless than support Ted Cruz. He joked that

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<v Speaker 1>the government should maybe shut down a pro life march.

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<v Speaker 1>That's really funny for a federal agent to joke about.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, So so he's snide, he's a partisan,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's an idiot. By the way, left quite a

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<v Speaker 1>trail here using government devices to write this stuff. Folks,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been there, right, I had an NYPD Intelligence Division

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<v Speaker 1>issued uh phone smartphone, and I assure you I was

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<v Speaker 1>not writing to my colleagues saying crazy political stuff or

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<v Speaker 1>how I wanted to stack an investigation one way or another,

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<v Speaker 1>because I mean, yeah, put it aside. Just this guy's

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<v Speaker 1>obvious bias and lack of ethics. What an idiot this

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<v Speaker 1>was that? Can we just talk about this for a second, everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the number two guy and FBI counter intelligence.

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<v Speaker 1>This is who gets that job you want to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about undermining institutions. I'm sorry, but he doesn't think that

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<v Speaker 1>any of this information could be subpoena. He never stopped

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<v Speaker 1>to think that maybe I shouldn't be saying all this stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember this is not like we went through his private

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<v Speaker 1>right I'd feel differently about this. This isn't like we

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<v Speaker 1>are releasing transcripts of private phone calls on his own time,

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<v Speaker 1>on his own dime with his mistress. No, no no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>this is what he was writing on his government issued

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<v Speaker 1>devices he has. He is a senior counter intelligence FBI investigator.

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<v Speaker 1>This is like, you know, a rocket scientist who can't

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<v Speaker 1>get the DVD player to work. I mean, come on, yet,

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<v Speaker 1>here we are. Now you're saying Buck, well, okay, you're

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<v Speaker 1>telling me more about this. We know this guy's a

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<v Speaker 1>dirt bag and all that, but let's you know, why

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<v Speaker 1>do we really care? Oh, don't really care? Because some

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<v Speaker 1>of the other stuff that was in these text messages,

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<v Speaker 1>most notably that the president of the United States President

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<v Speaker 1>United States wanted to be briefed on everything they were

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<v Speaker 1>dealing with. And that was right be That was a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of months before the election POTUS president United States

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<v Speaker 1>President Obama at the time, Why would Obama want to

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<v Speaker 1>know everything the FBI is doing? And the assumption here

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<v Speaker 1>is surrounding the Clinton email probe, Well, I think that's

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<v Speaker 1>a that's a fair question, isn't it. He wanted updates.

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<v Speaker 1>Obama wanted updates from the FBI. Know, this is weird

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<v Speaker 1>and a red flag for a number of reasons, But

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<v Speaker 1>let me put out there that it is also weird

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<v Speaker 1>because Obama very explicitly claimed that he would never get

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<v Speaker 1>involved in anything having to do with an FBI investigation.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you guarantee to the American people, can you direct

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<v Speaker 1>the Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated

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<v Speaker 1>as the evidence goes, she will not be in any

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<v Speaker 1>way protected. I can guarantee that, and I can guarantee

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<v Speaker 1>that not because I give Attorney General Lynch a directive

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<v Speaker 1>that is institutionally how we have always operated. I do

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<v Speaker 1>not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I

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<v Speaker 1>do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. The

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<v Speaker 1>we have a strict line and always have maintained it

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<v Speaker 1>previs President just a button this up. I guarantee it.

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<v Speaker 1>I guarantee that there is no political influence in any

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<v Speaker 1>investigation conducted by the Justice part for the FBI, not

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<v Speaker 1>just in this case, but in any case. And she

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<v Speaker 1>will be full stop, period, and she will be treated

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<v Speaker 1>no guaranteed, full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to the Justice Department, because even if she ends

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<v Speaker 1>up as the Democratic And how a many time do

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<v Speaker 1>you have to say, Chris, guarantee guaranteed now, But see,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got a little problem here. Why why, oh why

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<v Speaker 1>is an FBI agent texting is mistress that Obama wants

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<v Speaker 1>a full update on this. And it's the same guy

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<v Speaker 1>who added the extremely careless language into the COMI exoneration

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<v Speaker 1>letter for Hillary Clinton. I just want to know how

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<v Speaker 1>that's possible. I need someone to explain that to me.

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<v Speaker 1>How you could have the President of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>who says, guaranteer, our guaranteered christ how much our guaranteer,

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<v Speaker 1>how many times we have to go through this, But

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<v Speaker 1>yet here we have to look at what we've seen

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<v Speaker 1>based on these FBI texts, and the President wants an

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<v Speaker 1>update on everything we're doing, having having through the Hillary

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<v Speaker 1>email investigation, that would be m hmm. It's almost like

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<v Speaker 1>maybe Obama was lying in that interview. And given that

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<v Speaker 1>the Attorney General at the time basically de facto had

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<v Speaker 1>to recuse herself from the investigation to Hillary Clinton's emails

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<v Speaker 1>because of her misconduct everyone, not just because she didn't

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<v Speaker 1>recuse herself in advance of it. Loretta Lynch had to

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<v Speaker 1>step back. She never formally recused herself, but she had

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<v Speaker 1>to step back or Comey had to step in for her.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh isn't that Comey just just showing up right in

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<v Speaker 1>the nick of time? That had to happen because of

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<v Speaker 1>Loretta Lynch's misconduct for Barack Obama's Attorney generals misconduct by

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<v Speaker 1>by meeting with Bill Clinton right when Hillary Clinton is

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<v Speaker 1>not just under investigation, but a decision is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be announced to the American public. And now we find

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<v Speaker 1>out that some FBI not just some FBI agent and

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<v Speaker 1>FBI agent who was intimately involved in the Hillary email

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<v Speaker 1>investigation and the Russia probe. Is that is saying that

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<v Speaker 1>the president wants updates on this. What are we to

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<v Speaker 1>make of that? Folks? You know, we're gonna start putting

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<v Speaker 1>sort of pressuring Trump to answer questions under oath, which

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<v Speaker 1>he should not do, by the way, but if we

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<v Speaker 1>i'd like to bring in uh former President Barack Obama

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<v Speaker 1>asked him some questions while we're at it. President Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>did you did you actually ever get briefed on the

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<v Speaker 1>because then we're also gonna bring in some FBI folks,

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<v Speaker 1>because then, you know, we know this game is played.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see how they like it. Did you ever let

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<v Speaker 1>President Obama? Did you ever have a discussion with President Obama?

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<v Speaker 1>Peter Struck, James Comey, go down the list, McCabe, Sally

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<v Speaker 1>Yates at d o J have you ever talked to

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<v Speaker 1>Obama about Hillary's email investigation? If we were to check

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<v Speaker 1>the visitor's log, would you be able to account for

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<v Speaker 1>all the different conversations in front of uh Senate, Senate

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<v Speaker 1>committee or House committee investigating this matter. Would you really

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<v Speaker 1>be able to do that? I'm gonna guess the answers

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<v Speaker 1>probably No. I'm going to go out on a limb

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<v Speaker 1>here and suggest that maybe what we're starting to figure out,

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<v Speaker 1>or we're starting to be able to prove, is that

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<v Speaker 1>the fix wasn't in from the d o J folks,

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<v Speaker 1>the fix was in from President Obama. Well, we wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>that make a lot more sense now that we remember

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<v Speaker 1>Obama was going on TV saying that Hillary didn't do

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<v Speaker 1>anything wrong while the investigation was going on. We want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about people saying, oh, obstruction of justice with Trump, right,

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<v Speaker 1>they forget that. Obama is like, yeah, you know, what

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<v Speaker 1>she did is overblown, no big deal, no harm, no foul.

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<v Speaker 1>Obama's the president. This is the actual sitting president United

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<v Speaker 1>States is saying the Democrat content under for the presidency,

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<v Speaker 1>who did violate classified protocols over a hundred times on

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<v Speaker 1>our on our server, destroyed evidence, lied about it. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it was a disaster. But with all of that, with

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<v Speaker 1>all of that, we never hear about Obama's obstruction of justice.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we deserve some answers, folks. I think we

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<v Speaker 1>should all be allowed to know. We have a right

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<v Speaker 1>to know what was Obama's hand in all this Hillary's emails,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even the Russia probe. How often was he briefed

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<v Speaker 1>on the Russia probe? What did he know about the Russia?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, look, I understand the game, right, Hill exert

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<v Speaker 1>executive privilege and the but let's start asking some questions here,

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<v Speaker 1>because now what we've se what we've seen with what's

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<v Speaker 1>been released today, is that we've been talking about this scandal.

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<v Speaker 1>We've been talking about this massive anti Trump conspiracy and

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<v Speaker 1>the deep state and the anti trumpers, as though the

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<v Speaker 1>the pinnacle of the conspiracy, the top of the conspiracy

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<v Speaker 1>is at the Department of Justice. But I'm pretty sure

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<v Speaker 1>the Department of Justice is under the purview of the

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<v Speaker 1>executive branch, which means that the very very top is

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<v Speaker 1>the president, and the president who would have been presiding

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<v Speaker 1>over that d o J for the entire period we're

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<v Speaker 1>looking at here with regard to Hillary's emails and leading

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<v Speaker 1>into the change of power with the Trump presidency was

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<v Speaker 1>former President Barack Obama. The if you like your plan,

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<v Speaker 1>you can keep your plan. That paragon of truth and virtue,

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<v Speaker 1>So I like a little more information on that one.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm starting to think that the buck stops with Obama

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<v Speaker 1>on this one, if you will. Um, maybe this is

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<v Speaker 1>much higher up than we had even imagined beforehand. Because

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<v Speaker 1>if President Obama was getting briefed on these emails, these

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<v Speaker 1>lined the American people about it and having discussions about

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<v Speaker 1>what's going to happen, that is a big deal. And

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<v Speaker 1>I have not even gotten into the Ashley memo. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats tend pager that's coming out. We've got We've

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<v Speaker 1>got a lot more to talk about all the stuff here,

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<v Speaker 1>but we will be a right back stay there too.

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<v Speaker 1>The President wants to know what they're doing to try

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<v Speaker 1>to stop Trump, because that's clearly from all the other

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<v Speaker 1>text messages, that's what they were working on. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>they cared about. We need to get to the bottom

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<v Speaker 1>of this and find out what the president knew and

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<v Speaker 1>when he knew. Clearly, the FBI covered for Hillary Clinton,

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<v Speaker 1>the d o J covered for Hillary Clinton, and we

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<v Speaker 1>have got to get the facts out. Congress from Gomer,

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<v Speaker 1>it's right, we have to get the facts out. And yes,

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<v Speaker 1>the d o J did cover for Hillary Clinton. And

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<v Speaker 1>we've all seen now the way that d o J investigators, prosecutors,

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<v Speaker 1>how they act when they want to get somebody i e.

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<v Speaker 1>The Mueller probe versus how they act when they want

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<v Speaker 1>to do everything they can to make sure that the

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<v Speaker 1>problem goes away. Which is really just a description of

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<v Speaker 1>the Hillary email investigation by the Department of Justice. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's troubling. But here we are, my friends. It

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<v Speaker 1>is troubling to see how disparate the treatment is of

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats and Republicans by the Department of Justice. But I'd

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<v Speaker 1>rather us be living in reality and deal with the

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<v Speaker 1>truth than allow these false narratives to just continue on

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<v Speaker 1>un challenged. Um, the notion of Obama getting brief by

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<v Speaker 1>this FBI guy Struck is well, we need to find out,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, and we need more information. Speaking of information,

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<v Speaker 1>you've got a Democrat memo that's supposed to come out

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<v Speaker 1>relatively soon or or is on schedule, I should say,

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<v Speaker 1>to come out relatively soon. And those of you who

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<v Speaker 1>listen to show every day, remember that yesterday I said

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<v Speaker 1>to you that the Democrats might play games with redactions

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<v Speaker 1>and as of today the Washington Examiner. Remember I said

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<v Speaker 1>that they will include lots of classified stuff, so they

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<v Speaker 1>can just in their memo, right, supersecret squirrel, supersecret squirrel.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the debt Republicans lied about this other thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and then supersecret squirrel, supersecret squirrel. Just keep repeating stuff

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<v Speaker 1>that they know will will not get through because it

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<v Speaker 1>is actually sensitive, it is actually classified. And then whatever

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<v Speaker 1>redactions exist in the document, whatever blocked outlines there are,

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<v Speaker 1>they can just say whatever they want publicly about how

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<v Speaker 1>oh the Republicans are being are being so unfair they

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<v Speaker 1>don't want the truth to get out. See all these redactions. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>guess what I said that yesterday. This is the Washington

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Examiner today. Quote. The Democratic memo Republicans say is

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<v Speaker 1>very different from theirs. It's full of sources and methods,

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<v Speaker 1>said one lawmaker, referring to highly fight information. It includes

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<v Speaker 1>material they clearly cannot release. It's nothing but sources and methods,

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<v Speaker 1>said a third, uh second, and a third even to

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<v Speaker 1>the footnotes. And then, in case you were wondering, you

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<v Speaker 1>have Adam Schiff wing in. We want to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>that the White House does not redact our memo for

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<v Speaker 1>political purposes. And obviously that's a deep concern. Let's think

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<v Speaker 1>about this for a second. If the White House is redacting,

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<v Speaker 1>what what would be the circumstances under which the White

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<v Speaker 1>House would want less information to get out there? Right,

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<v Speaker 1>there's this whole conspiracy against Trump, there's there. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>conceive of anything that would go into the Carter Page

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<v Speaker 1>visor warrant that would hurt Trump, because if something existed

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<v Speaker 1>in the Carter Page visa warrant that would hurt Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>we would have already heard about it. Everybody, we would

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<v Speaker 1>have already heard about So here's what I'll say. I

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<v Speaker 1>hope Republicans, um, I hope Republicans call their bluff on

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<v Speaker 1>this one. If Schiff and the other Democrats decide that

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<v Speaker 1>their approach is going to be to try and put

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<v Speaker 1>redaction land mines in this document, I think that we should,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the Republicans should say all right, go for it,

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<v Speaker 1>meaning that they should say, no, no, well we'll clear this.

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<v Speaker 1>And now I know people say, oh, the sources and methods.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, if some guy said some of the some

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<v Speaker 1>guy about Carter Page at some point is that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we we gotta see who we're talking about here. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm theorizing because I don't know what the sources and

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<v Speaker 1>methods are, but it's a very important issue. Sometimes you

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<v Speaker 1>gotta let the truth be known, folks. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>we're there. I think Republicans if if Democrats are willing

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<v Speaker 1>to let it, if they're willing to put it on

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<v Speaker 1>paper and say this is what we want to release,

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<v Speaker 1>I say go for it. The more transparency the better,

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<v Speaker 1>because I can't see how more information hurts Trump. He's

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<v Speaker 1>holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back. This movie,

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<v Speaker 1>Declassified Criminal Referral, released by Senators Grassley and Graham, shows

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI relied heavily on the Trump dossier to secure

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<v Speaker 1>these surveillance warrants and that Clinton associates were feeding information

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<v Speaker 1>to the former British by Christopher Steele as he compiled

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<v Speaker 1>the dossier, and it reads in part, the report was

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<v Speaker 1>information that came from a foreign subsource who was in

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<v Speaker 1>touch with redacted, a contact of redacted, a friend of

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<v Speaker 1>the Clinton's who passed it to redacted. There are indications

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<v Speaker 1>that the blacked out sections referred to a longtime Clinton

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<v Speaker 1>ally and friend, Sidney Blumenthal, who you'll remember provided intelligence

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<v Speaker 1>reports to then Secretary of State Clinton through her unsecured

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<v Speaker 1>personal server used exclusively for government business. When you hear

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<v Speaker 1>who the source one of the sources of that information is,

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna think, oh my gosh, I've heard that name

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<v Speaker 1>somewhere before. Where could it possibly have been? And the

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<v Speaker 1>domestic source? And I'm trying to think how Secretary Clinton

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<v Speaker 1>to find him. I think she said he was an

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<v Speaker 1>old friend who emailed her from time to time. That'd

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<v Speaker 1>be really warm, really warm, drag out, he says, really

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<v Speaker 1>not track outa Remember Cyndey Bloomenthal from the whole Benghazi situation,

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<v Speaker 1>because Secretary of State at the time, Hillary Clinton, you

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<v Speaker 1>will call, from the Benghazi investigations, was reaching out to

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<v Speaker 1>Sydney Bloomenthal. That's some kind of expert on Libya. Just

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<v Speaker 1>before we get deeper into this conversation, who's Sydney Bloomenthal?

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<v Speaker 1>Think of him as one of the Clinton's chief hatchetmen.

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<v Speaker 1>He was a White House advisor under Bill Clinton. And

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<v Speaker 1>when Bill Clinton was engaged in his philandering and harassing

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<v Speaker 1>and lying and scheming and conspiring, Sidney Blumenthal was like

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<v Speaker 1>the first guy to always tell the rest of the

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<v Speaker 1>White House, you know, we gotta we gotta get out

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<v Speaker 1>there on the front line to defend Bill's reputation and

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<v Speaker 1>has since then been something of a well a guy

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<v Speaker 1>who does stuff for the Clintons and including spreading. He

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<v Speaker 1>was a journalist for a while. He's written books, I think,

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<v Speaker 1>including spreading conspiracies, all to the all for the benefit

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<v Speaker 1>of the Clintons. He'll plant stories in the media. He

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<v Speaker 1>is a political operative and opportunist, very close ties to

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<v Speaker 1>the Clinton's hiller. When you're when you're emailing directly the

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<v Speaker 1>Secretary of State or an issue like Libya and sheet

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<v Speaker 1>cares what you have to say about it, clearly you've

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<v Speaker 1>got some influence. So wouldn't this be interesting? Now we've

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<v Speaker 1>been questioning here the whole fis a process around the

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<v Speaker 1>Carter page warrant and what went into it and everything else.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we're starting to get some very league signals. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not definite yet again, some signals that a close

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<v Speaker 1>Clinton hatchetman, right Sydney Bloomenthal, may have been passing along

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<v Speaker 1>information to steal who was passing along information to the

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<v Speaker 1>Phis Accord. My friends, this would this is like a

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<v Speaker 1>step removed from finding out that one of the sources

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<v Speaker 1>for the information used in the dossier to get a

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<v Speaker 1>PHISES surveillance warrant on an American citizen. Was Hillary Clinton. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>this is really and I know that sounds crazy, but

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<v Speaker 1>this is not that far, you know. This is this

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<v Speaker 1>is somebody who has close and continuing contact and access

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<v Speaker 1>to Hillary and she Secretary of State and has a

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<v Speaker 1>decades long relationship with her. And now it looks like

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<v Speaker 1>it's possible that some of the information steal got came

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<v Speaker 1>from a hill re, a Hillary supporting really a Hillary

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<v Speaker 1>acolyte and a political hitman of sorts, somebody who goes

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<v Speaker 1>out there and goes after the opponents of the Clintons.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what this guy does. That's one of his roles, right,

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<v Speaker 1>He kind of he puts on the black hat and

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<v Speaker 1>he goes out there and spreads the rumors and does

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff. If that isn't undermining whatever faith and

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<v Speaker 1>trust that we should or could have in this visa

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<v Speaker 1>process at this point, I don't know, guys, how much

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<v Speaker 1>worse is it gonna get. Today we found out that

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI, or at the top level, an FBI agent

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<v Speaker 1>involved in Hillary's emails may have been updating Obama despite

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<v Speaker 1>his very clear and definitive claims to the contrary on

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<v Speaker 1>Hillary's email investigation, which brings up some questions about that.

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<v Speaker 1>And we found out that at most likely a close

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<v Speaker 1>friend of Hillary Clinton's, who was Trump's opponent at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>everybody in the presidential race, a close friend of Hillary's,

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<v Speaker 1>may have been one of the ones feeding information into

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<v Speaker 1>the dossier. I mean, this guy still just put together

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<v Speaker 1>a gossip compendium, and that's what this was. This was

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<v Speaker 1>just a compilation of gossip, no real verification, no nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>And I remember reading when BuzzFeed first published it, I

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<v Speaker 1>guess in January, thinking the stuff with the Russian hookers

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<v Speaker 1>and all that was. Come on, guys, doesn't even you

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<v Speaker 1>know that that's the part of the movie. We're like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna walk out. This doesn't make any sense. This

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<v Speaker 1>is this is garbage, you know. But these are people

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<v Speaker 1>that supposedly we should trust. That's that were that were

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<v Speaker 1>worth the FBI trusting. Now I'm stuck, and I wonder

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<v Speaker 1>what you think about this. I'm stuck going back and

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<v Speaker 1>forth on on a file on the following issue that

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<v Speaker 1>affects everything we're talking about here. On the one hand,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that there was a clear effort to be

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<v Speaker 1>to abuse power at the at the Department of Justice

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<v Speaker 1>against Trump and in Hillary's favor. Stretching back through all

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<v Speaker 1>the all the things we talked about, the Russia collusion

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<v Speaker 1>probe and Hillary's emails, I think that there was a

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<v Speaker 1>clearer But then I also feel like, was there a

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<v Speaker 1>Trump derangement syndrome that had already spread among these individuals

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<v Speaker 1>such that they did they did they really believe this

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<v Speaker 1>stuff or was it a convenient pretext to go after Trump?

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<v Speaker 1>You see what I'm saying. Did they actually think that

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<v Speaker 1>there was a a plot of foot because they're so

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<v Speaker 1>psychotically anti Trump, or were they conjuring the plot entirely

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<v Speaker 1>knowing it was completely bow this just because it was

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<v Speaker 1>a way of trying to take Trump down. I go

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<v Speaker 1>back and forth on this because when you look at

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<v Speaker 1>the the evidence, and it's also hard to to assess

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<v Speaker 1>all this new evidence and information when so many of

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<v Speaker 1>these different actors that we're seeing, particularly like Struck at

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI and others, assume that this would never come out.

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<v Speaker 1>So we've got to take that into account as well. Right,

0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:31.440
<v Speaker 1>they were taking actions that they figured would never come

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<v Speaker 1>to the light of day, which means that you know that.

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<v Speaker 1>That's when I start to lean towards you know what.

0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:40.920
<v Speaker 1>They knew that this was nonsense, but they figured that, hey,

0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:43.159
<v Speaker 1>we can get away with it, right, we can. This

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<v Speaker 1>gives us an excuse two surveil some of Trump's people

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<v Speaker 1>and to start leaking stories about this to the media.

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<v Speaker 1>Because there's another thing. If remember Obama was told about

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<v Speaker 1>the Russia interference in the election. We knew that, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and and the obaministration chose not to make it a

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<v Speaker 1>bigger deal. Maybe this was offered up to Obama on

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<v Speaker 1>a silver platter, so to speak, by the FBI, by

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<v Speaker 1>the d o J. And had he chosen to he

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<v Speaker 1>could have made the Russia collusion narrative a much bigger

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<v Speaker 1>pre election story. But he might have figured out, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what this is, This could backfire. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, I would have you know, because there

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<v Speaker 1>were some news reports were already coming out about this.

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<v Speaker 1>There were some efforts in the media to get that

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<v Speaker 1>story going, but Obama was not. And you had all

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<v Speaker 1>these officials to write Brennan Formacy I Director and others

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<v Speaker 1>saying hold on, you know, we should have been more

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<v Speaker 1>aggressive about Russia collusion. We should have come out sooner

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<v Speaker 1>on the story, Well, why didn't they when we think

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<v Speaker 1>that went through together, folks, I think it's much more

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<v Speaker 1>likely that they had they had come up with Essentially,

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<v Speaker 1>they didn't take action on conspiracy that they had concocted

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<v Speaker 1>before the election. What I mean by that is, why

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<v Speaker 1>do they have, you know, the the leaks about the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump and Russia and their surveillance and all the things

0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:14.920
<v Speaker 1>that we started to hear. Maybe it was all being

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<v Speaker 1>presented by some of these pro Hillary deep staters to Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>to Loretta Lynch, you know, to Comey, to McCabe, etcetera,

0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:32.920
<v Speaker 1>and or I'm sorry by them to Obama. Uh, and

0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:36.400
<v Speaker 1>they just decided it's too risky to try to run

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<v Speaker 1>with this. I see that as a real possibility here,

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<v Speaker 1>because they have they have told us that they chose

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<v Speaker 1>at the highest level not to make Russia a bigger

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<v Speaker 1>issue in advance of that Russian meddling was not going

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<v Speaker 1>to be made a bigger issue in advance of the election.

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<v Speaker 1>Why why do you think that is given all that

0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:01.520
<v Speaker 1>they given their psychotic fixation on it. Now out, I'm

0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:03.719
<v Speaker 1>starting to think that maybe they put all this together

0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:06.560
<v Speaker 1>and that they had that this was all in place

0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:10.000
<v Speaker 1>to be the ultimate October surprise. And there's other we

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<v Speaker 1>look at some of the way the news stories when

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<v Speaker 1>you can see it, but Obama just couldn't quite bring

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<v Speaker 1>himself to to do it before the allige. You know,

0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:21.680
<v Speaker 1>look he put the sanctions on rush afterwards, right, I mean,

0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:25.280
<v Speaker 1>you see there's all this stuff. I feel like they

0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:29.360
<v Speaker 1>didn't They built this machine and then they did not

0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:34.840
<v Speaker 1>fully let it loose the Russia collusion narrative right before

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<v Speaker 1>the election, because it would have looked a little too convenient,

0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:41.440
<v Speaker 1>a little too much like a construct. And so that

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<v Speaker 1>explains some of the sloppiness with all this too, in

0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:46.200
<v Speaker 1>the way that this comes together. I'm hoping that this

0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:48.480
<v Speaker 1>that you see what I'm what I'm saying here. I

0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:51.280
<v Speaker 1>know we're we're getting down deep into the weeds here.

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<v Speaker 1>So my basic premise is that the FBI guys all

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<v Speaker 1>the stuff we're seeing now is that they were trying

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<v Speaker 1>to pull together the fires award on carter page. They

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<v Speaker 1>were trying to create something that they wanted to make

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<v Speaker 1>public and the Abdministration could make public, and it was

0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:09.000
<v Speaker 1>gonna basically be Russia wants to get what Russia wants

0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:11.800
<v Speaker 1>to elect Trump Trump people are working with the Russians

0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:13.480
<v Speaker 1>and I've been talking to the Russians about how to

0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:16.840
<v Speaker 1>elect Trump. They dropped that story in October. It cost

0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:20.440
<v Speaker 1>Trump the election. Hillary wins and all those people struck

0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:22.880
<v Speaker 1>McCabe calling me the rest of them, they're all heroes

0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:29.360
<v Speaker 1>above suspicion. That's how I see it. This is how

0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.960
<v Speaker 1>I see it all coming together. You could. You can

0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:33.800
<v Speaker 1>call me crazy, but that's what I see. We've got

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<v Speaker 1>every Linelets let's get into some calls. I'll be back

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<v Speaker 1>right after this break. All right, let's get into a team.

0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:54.000
<v Speaker 1>Got lines lit, Let's do it. We have Brian and

0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:58.320
<v Speaker 1>Woos the Massachusetts in line. Hey Brian, Hey Buck. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what I was thinking. If the demo Tress packed

0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:04.600
<v Speaker 1>this memo full of sources and methods in order to

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<v Speaker 1>force redactions by the GOP and cause a whole bunch

0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:10.120
<v Speaker 1>of confusion, and I make people wonder why they if

0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.800
<v Speaker 1>they're hiding anything, why not just give the Democrats complete

0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:15.239
<v Speaker 1>control over what they can redact, because I don't think

0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:17.840
<v Speaker 1>they're gonna expose their own sources and methods. And it

0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:21.440
<v Speaker 1>completely takes away from from a GOP. You know, as

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<v Speaker 1>far as you know, I think Brian, that they have

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<v Speaker 1>to I think that the Republicans and Committee would have

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<v Speaker 1>to vote in favor of release. So I don't think

0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:32.840
<v Speaker 1>there's a way that that, you know what I'm saying,

0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:35.040
<v Speaker 1>Like it's it's based on the vote. So I don't

0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:37.400
<v Speaker 1>think that they're They're probably just have to vote yea

0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:40.800
<v Speaker 1>or nay. They're not otherwise it doesn't go anywhere. So

0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:43.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that would work. But now we're getting

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<v Speaker 1>pretty down into the processes, and I look, I've never

0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:48.560
<v Speaker 1>been in Congress, so I don't know exactly how it goes.

0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:53.760
<v Speaker 1>I thought that the already voted on releasing it, or

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<v Speaker 1>is that just the Intelligence Council. Yeah, No, that that's

0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:59.520
<v Speaker 1>the the House Intelligence Committee voted on release. But now

0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:02.120
<v Speaker 1>it goes is too. It goes through the exact same

0:33:02.200 --> 0:33:05.520
<v Speaker 1>process that Republican memo did. So now it goes to Uh,

0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:08.080
<v Speaker 1>there's like a period of a few days or I

0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:11.840
<v Speaker 1>figure out five days. The White House is looking at it, Uh,

0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:14.960
<v Speaker 1>the FBI in talent community can also weigh in on it,

0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:17.280
<v Speaker 1>and then I think it goes back to the House

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<v Speaker 1>after that, and then there's left final sort of a

0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:24.040
<v Speaker 1>final release. I think that's how it goes. But again,

0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:26.280
<v Speaker 1>there's there's games that are being played with the process,

0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:29.120
<v Speaker 1>and and I would like to see just more information

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<v Speaker 1>coming out. So I don't think, I don't know, let

0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:34.160
<v Speaker 1>me look into that, Brian. Maybe your plan would work.

0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:36.320
<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling though, that the Republicans wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 1>in a position where they can just wash their hands

0:33:38.160 --> 0:33:40.040
<v Speaker 1>of it, right. But then again, you get to the

0:33:40.040 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 1>whole thing about well, why have any redactions at all?

0:33:42.560 --> 0:33:45.600
<v Speaker 1>Why not just if everyone agrees that you can't say

0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:47.920
<v Speaker 1>certain stuff, what's the point of leaving it in with

0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:50.280
<v Speaker 1>the blacked outlines. Although I didn't even talk about the

0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:54.440
<v Speaker 1>grass Lee referral about Christopher Steel that was released today,

0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:56.760
<v Speaker 1>and there's a lot of blacked out stuff in that,

0:33:56.880 --> 0:34:00.880
<v Speaker 1>a lot of redactions, which race some questions for me.

0:34:01.000 --> 0:34:05.880
<v Speaker 1>So we're working in some some gray areas of blacked

0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.759
<v Speaker 1>out information, Brian. But I do appreciate you calling in Shields. Hi,

0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:14.880
<v Speaker 1>thanks for thanks for holding Let's get uh. Gretchen in

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<v Speaker 1>Long Beach, Mississippi. Hey, Gretchen, Hey, how are you. I'm good?

0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:23.279
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for your call. Good good good? Yeah. Well,

0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:25.640
<v Speaker 1>my my thought is along the same long kind of

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<v Speaker 1>as Brian. Um. I kind of wish, in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 1>if it's safe enough, I would give the Democrats. Here

0:34:33.680 --> 0:34:37.000
<v Speaker 1>you go, here's your twenty four hours. Um, this is

0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:40.720
<v Speaker 1>your paper, your document. You you wanna, I'm gonna release

0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:43.000
<v Speaker 1>it in twenty four hours because that's what you want.

0:34:43.120 --> 0:34:45.720
<v Speaker 1>You've requested it. Just to shift has made it quite clear.

0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.560
<v Speaker 1>Here you go back, make your whatever you want to

0:34:48.600 --> 0:34:50.839
<v Speaker 1>do with it, put it in their court. And if

0:34:50.840 --> 0:34:52.680
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't have to go back to Congress, which it

0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:54.840
<v Speaker 1>probably is, to go to committee, the vote will go

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:58.720
<v Speaker 1>down party lines like I did before. Protect the people

0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:01.200
<v Speaker 1>that need to be protect. Could I mean, they already

0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:04.000
<v Speaker 1>know who that is, but let it out, it's already

0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.240
<v Speaker 1>got to come out. And then it's there. It's there,

0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:11.120
<v Speaker 1>It's it's their thing. They own it. And my own

0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:14.879
<v Speaker 1>question was, since they wrote this document and they want

0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:18.000
<v Speaker 1>to reveal these sources and methods it's stuff, isn't that

0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:21.880
<v Speaker 1>revealing Since they wrote it, they own it. Do they

0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:27.320
<v Speaker 1>not only also own perhaps the release of classified information

0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:31.080
<v Speaker 1>if they do not redact it themselves, which would be illegal.

0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:33.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm wondering how that, you know, I know, we're kind

0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:36.439
<v Speaker 1>of getting into the long world of you know, down

0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:38.959
<v Speaker 1>in the weeds. But I'm wondering, then if if they've

0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:42.600
<v Speaker 1>written it, it's their document, then should they also own

0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:46.440
<v Speaker 1>any of the repercussions legally? Well, but if they go

0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:50.120
<v Speaker 1>through the process, then the information is effectively declassified. Right.

0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:53.120
<v Speaker 1>So so nothing that can come out of this process

0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:57.040
<v Speaker 1>would be legally actionable as classified information because if Congress

0:35:57.080 --> 0:36:00.839
<v Speaker 1>approves the release, it is it is, it is declass sified, right,

0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:04.080
<v Speaker 1>So it doesn't make Yeah, it doesn't maintain its classified

0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:06.839
<v Speaker 1>status after the Congress does this. So that's what's really

0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:10.600
<v Speaker 1>what's really interesting is in classification, and this is i think, uh,

0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:14.839
<v Speaker 1>just a worthwhile addition to this conversation. Corretch and classification

0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:17.360
<v Speaker 1>is always a little bit of a little bit of

0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:20.839
<v Speaker 1>an art, not a science. Uh. And the truth is

0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:24.920
<v Speaker 1>what is and is not sensitive government information? The government

0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:26.960
<v Speaker 1>just always says, well, yeah, it's classified. I mean, if

0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:30.719
<v Speaker 1>there's any hint of it's classified, they say, yes, it's classified.

0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:32.560
<v Speaker 1>They always air on the side of that to the

0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.319
<v Speaker 1>point where it's actually silly. I mean they they will

0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.200
<v Speaker 1>classify you know what I had for lunch yesterday. I

0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:42.640
<v Speaker 1>mean it's insane. But the uh, you know, the other

0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:44.120
<v Speaker 1>side of this is that you have to always have

0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:47.120
<v Speaker 1>a balancing of our right to know and Congress is

0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:53.040
<v Speaker 1>obligations for oversight to the executive branch's ability to conduct

0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:55.320
<v Speaker 1>some of its some of what it does in secret,

0:36:55.360 --> 0:36:59.840
<v Speaker 1>particularly on kind of intelligence investigations, any intelligence related matter,

0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:02.879
<v Speaker 1>and all the rest of it. So it's a very complicated.

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<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, Gretchen, Okay, Well, I don't know how you know,

0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.600
<v Speaker 1>I have a I have a son who's deployed, so

0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:12.080
<v Speaker 1>we can't talk about We can talk about the weather,

0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:15.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, but there's a lot that we don't talk about,

0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.120
<v Speaker 1>like I have his dog. Your dog is doing great,

0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:19.759
<v Speaker 1>you know, and superficial really kind of thing, and I

0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:23.920
<v Speaker 1>don't ask. And I mean there's military parents and wives

0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 1>and stuff. We all know these things, you know, so

0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:30.239
<v Speaker 1>we all kind of know. So Hillary apparently doesn't know,

0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:33.239
<v Speaker 1>by the way, but you know, well apparently not. But

0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:38.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, you have to think about even the smallest

0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:42.480
<v Speaker 1>little thing, um can make a big difference, you just do.

0:37:42.520 --> 0:37:46.320
<v Speaker 1>You never really know, so you know, we kind of understand.

0:37:46.320 --> 0:37:48.960
<v Speaker 1>And maybe some of his parents were wives. It's all

0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:52.400
<v Speaker 1>maybe a little overboard and being whatever. It's kind of awkward.

0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:54.160
<v Speaker 1>It's a little hard, but it's just part of the deal.

0:37:54.719 --> 0:37:58.600
<v Speaker 1>So I don't understand, uh, you know, well that the

0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:02.800
<v Speaker 1>Hillary emails and all that kind of stuff. It's it's just, um,

0:38:02.840 --> 0:38:05.799
<v Speaker 1>I think it shows an arrogance of power. Oh absolutely

0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:07.960
<v Speaker 1>absolutely no, I mean and and also a lack of

0:38:08.000 --> 0:38:10.920
<v Speaker 1>accountability and at a double standard in the justice is

0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.480
<v Speaker 1>um gretch and tell your tell your son that we

0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:15.480
<v Speaker 1>here in the freedom of sending our regards and our

0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:17.279
<v Speaker 1>thanks for his service. All right, thank you very much

0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:20.480
<v Speaker 1>for calling in team. We're going to roll into this

0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.120
<v Speaker 1>break the top of the hour coming up. Second hour

0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:27.560
<v Speaker 1>of the Buck's Action Show is upon us. Uh. We

0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:30.960
<v Speaker 1>have a lot to discuss here, including the Pelosi. Was

0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:34.440
<v Speaker 1>it seven or eight hours that she was up there? Uh,

0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:37.200
<v Speaker 1>yammering on, We'll get into that and more. Stay with me.

0:38:48.200 --> 0:38:50.759
<v Speaker 1>He's back with you now, because when it comes to

0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:58.040
<v Speaker 1>the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. If a

0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:00.720
<v Speaker 1>Dream Act were brought to the floor, it would pass

0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:05.120
<v Speaker 1>immediately with strong bipartisan support. And I commend my Republican

0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:09.000
<v Speaker 1>colleagues for their courage and speaking out on this. Yet

0:39:09.000 --> 0:39:12.239
<v Speaker 1>our dreamers hanging limbo with a cruel cloud of fear

0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:16.879
<v Speaker 1>and uncertainty above them. The Republican moral cowardice must end

0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:20.160
<v Speaker 1>members of Congress or trustees of the people and of

0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:23.040
<v Speaker 1>our nation. Why are we here if not to protect

0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:26.719
<v Speaker 1>the patriotic young people who are determined to contribute and

0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:31.080
<v Speaker 1>to strength in America. So welcome back to the buck section.

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<v Speaker 1>To everybody. Hour two. That was your favorite. Nancy Pelosi,

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<v Speaker 1>she gaven eight our speech today on the House floor.

0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:48.879
<v Speaker 1>She went on for eight hours about dreamers. Now, there's

0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:50.400
<v Speaker 1>a lot that I want to see here. Let me

0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:55.800
<v Speaker 1>start with this. Democrats have a weird obsession with this issue.

0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:58.040
<v Speaker 1>You'll notice this. There's a lot of other stuff going

0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.759
<v Speaker 1>on in the country, a lot of other things that

0:40:00.800 --> 0:40:06.640
<v Speaker 1>matter to Americans, and yet this has become the primary

0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:13.839
<v Speaker 1>policy concerned, primary policy fight for the Democrat Party. They

0:40:13.880 --> 0:40:16.759
<v Speaker 1>are using their powers in elected office to advocate for

0:40:16.840 --> 0:40:20.320
<v Speaker 1>illegal aliens, which is what dreamers are. It's not a

0:40:20.680 --> 0:40:22.600
<v Speaker 1>that that's not to impugne each and every one of

0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:26.719
<v Speaker 1>them as individuals. It's just a factual statement about their

0:40:27.320 --> 0:40:31.400
<v Speaker 1>legal or in this case illegal status. This is issue

0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:34.759
<v Speaker 1>number one for Democrats. I wonder why. And yet at

0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:38.440
<v Speaker 1>the same time, you had a very interesting phenomenon today

0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:41.680
<v Speaker 1>one that I think did not get nearly enough attention.

0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:46.640
<v Speaker 1>You had Nancy Pelosi to speak for hate. Hey hours

0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:52.280
<v Speaker 1>and hey have had dreamers. I mean Nancy progressive private

0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:56.400
<v Speaker 1>Jet Pelosi. She's out there talking about dreamers and how

0:40:56.480 --> 0:40:58.480
<v Speaker 1>much she wants to help, you know, these patriots. And

0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:00.160
<v Speaker 1>by the way, if we're gonna start saying thing think

0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:04.200
<v Speaker 1>they're patriotic, that I also want to look at okay, um,

0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:06.440
<v Speaker 1>what are really the numbers on dreamers in terms of

0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:12.399
<v Speaker 1>high school graduation, employment rate, criminal background. Let's really get

0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:14.440
<v Speaker 1>into it. Then don't tell me that that's mean and nasty.

0:41:14.480 --> 0:41:16.680
<v Speaker 1>If we're gonna start being told, oh, well, they're all great,

0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:19.439
<v Speaker 1>so therefore we should change the law for them, which

0:41:19.480 --> 0:41:22.760
<v Speaker 1>what Pelosi is saying. But what you saw happen today

0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:27.439
<v Speaker 1>was was very instructive. Not Pelosi blathering on for eight

0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:33.040
<v Speaker 1>hours of that jammers. Um. But you had Chuck Schumer

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<v Speaker 1>being very pleased about the budget deal. Now that they

0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:41.080
<v Speaker 1>raised the debt ceiling, right, they got a budget deal.

0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:43.960
<v Speaker 1>Allows so oh they're gonna on the big fight the shutdown. Nope,

0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:47.880
<v Speaker 1>they didn't. The reason they didn't have the fight is

0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:51.480
<v Speaker 1>because the last one they lost, and there they think

0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:55.160
<v Speaker 1>they can use this brinksmanship over the debt ceiling, the

0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:58.000
<v Speaker 1>federal government's debt ceiling, as a way of getting the

0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:02.440
<v Speaker 1>public to support their is and more Republicans will look bad.

0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:05.520
<v Speaker 1>The American people will start to say, Yeah, Democrats, dreamers,

0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:08.120
<v Speaker 1>that's what we're all really focused on. So they got

0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:10.800
<v Speaker 1>a budget deal, It just happened yesterday, funding the government

0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:15.520
<v Speaker 1>until March. Right, that's what they've decided to do. And

0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:21.120
<v Speaker 1>yet Chuck Schumer is saying this is a good thing.

0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:23.760
<v Speaker 1>Nancy Pelosi is giving an eight hour speech about dreamers,

0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:27.759
<v Speaker 1>which is no one really cares about. But it's a

0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.120
<v Speaker 1>lot of grand standing. Right, So what's really happening here.

0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:34.480
<v Speaker 1>Why is the Senate minority leader saying, yeah, let's move

0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:36.120
<v Speaker 1>on from this and let's let's just get a budget

0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.960
<v Speaker 1>deal done, when the House minority leaders like, yeah, this

0:42:39.040 --> 0:42:42.080
<v Speaker 1>is terrible, we need to talk about it for eight hours. Well,

0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:46.879
<v Speaker 1>here's a hint. The Morning Consult a polling company that's

0:42:47.600 --> 0:42:50.280
<v Speaker 1>been growing very rapidly in recent years, doing very well

0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:53.319
<v Speaker 1>as a poll with the following the GOP. This is

0:42:53.360 --> 0:42:58.479
<v Speaker 1>just out today. GOP has a thirteen point edge over

0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:03.560
<v Speaker 1>Democrats on National Party a nine point edge over Democrats

0:43:03.640 --> 0:43:09.120
<v Speaker 1>on the economy, a six point edge over Democrats on jobs,

0:43:10.719 --> 0:43:15.960
<v Speaker 1>and a six point edge over Democrats on immigration. But

0:43:16.080 --> 0:43:19.280
<v Speaker 1>wait a second, I thought the American people think that

0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.400
<v Speaker 1>that the dreamers are just the heart and soul of

0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:25.279
<v Speaker 1>America because they're just dreaming about a better future. That's

0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:28.439
<v Speaker 1>what the media would lead us to believe. They will

0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:32.960
<v Speaker 1>tell us that the American people are on the side

0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:37.200
<v Speaker 1>of the Democrats on this issue, and yet no, No.

0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:43.000
<v Speaker 1>In fact, Trump highlighting the costs of illegal immigration, highlighting

0:43:43.040 --> 0:43:48.000
<v Speaker 1>the criminality that is a very serious consideration. Whenever we

0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:51.719
<v Speaker 1>talk about illegal immigration gangs like ms ther Team, which

0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:55.080
<v Speaker 1>we spent quite a bit of time talking about yesterday.

0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:57.560
<v Speaker 1>He's showing that there's another, there's a whole another side

0:43:57.560 --> 0:43:59.560
<v Speaker 1>to this discussion. In fact, there are many sides of

0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:03.120
<v Speaker 1>this just gushion, and the American people are not in

0:44:03.160 --> 0:44:06.960
<v Speaker 1>favor of an amnesty. They are just not. Pelosi can

0:44:06.960 --> 0:44:09.040
<v Speaker 1>tell us all day that the House will vote for it,

0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:10.680
<v Speaker 1>and this is the right thing to do and everything else,

0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:15.439
<v Speaker 1>but the American people do not want an amnesty and

0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:19.319
<v Speaker 1>the Democrats do not want to deal. That's why Chuck

0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:22.160
<v Speaker 1>Schumer is happy to move along see Pelosi, she knows

0:44:22.200 --> 0:44:24.080
<v Speaker 1>that she can get away with saying whatever she wants

0:44:24.080 --> 0:44:26.440
<v Speaker 1>on dreamers, and she can just grandstand on it. That's

0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:31.120
<v Speaker 1>what she's doing, eight hours of grandstanding today. But Schumer

0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:34.520
<v Speaker 1>in the Senate, he's gonna have to deal with a

0:44:34.600 --> 0:44:37.920
<v Speaker 1>more complicated set of circumstances on the possibility of an

0:44:37.960 --> 0:44:40.160
<v Speaker 1>amnesty and on dreamers and everything else going on here

0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:44.319
<v Speaker 1>because Trump has made quite an offer to them as

0:44:44.320 --> 0:44:48.719
<v Speaker 1>an as an opening bid one point eight million. If

0:44:48.840 --> 0:44:52.680
<v Speaker 1>dreamers are so important to the Democrat party, why are

0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:57.040
<v Speaker 1>they not willing to meet the Trump administration halfway on

0:44:57.200 --> 0:44:59.839
<v Speaker 1>border security, on e Verify, on a wall and all

0:44:59.840 --> 0:45:04.520
<v Speaker 1>these other issues. If Dreamers are an issue of such

0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:07.200
<v Speaker 1>great importance to Democrats that Pelosi needs to stand up

0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:10.640
<v Speaker 1>and talk about them for eight hours, there's no way

0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:15.240
<v Speaker 1>that the Democrats could walk away from a very serious

0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:21.600
<v Speaker 1>and I would offer generous first opening bid from the

0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:24.840
<v Speaker 1>from the Trump side on this. So they'd rather just

0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:26.759
<v Speaker 1>move on because they don't want to. They don't want

0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:28.120
<v Speaker 1>to actually get into this fight. They just want to

0:45:28.200 --> 0:45:31.040
<v Speaker 1>keep talking about it. They want to keep talking about

0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:32.600
<v Speaker 1>it in the hopes that they can use this as

0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:36.480
<v Speaker 1>an issue in the midterms, and that at some point

0:45:36.560 --> 0:45:39.680
<v Speaker 1>they'll just be able to fundraise off this, and or

0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:41.440
<v Speaker 1>that they will be able to fundraise off this and

0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:45.400
<v Speaker 1>just continue on pretending that they have the moral not

0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:47.680
<v Speaker 1>just the moral high ground, which they will never stop pretending.

0:45:47.920 --> 0:45:49.799
<v Speaker 1>But also the American people are with them on this,

0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:53.239
<v Speaker 1>They just frankly are not. But there's another component here,

0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:56.080
<v Speaker 1>one that is not getting nearly attention. And this one

0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:59.840
<v Speaker 1>is a bit of a bummer everyone, Right, Pelosi rambling

0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:03.040
<v Speaker 1>on for eight hours semi coherently, uh in a way

0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:04.600
<v Speaker 1>that it's just meant to draw attention to her and

0:46:04.600 --> 0:46:08.680
<v Speaker 1>how great she is, who cares. But there's also a

0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:12.080
<v Speaker 1>problem here about what's going on with the budget and

0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:14.399
<v Speaker 1>spending in this country. And I know that it's not

0:46:14.680 --> 0:46:18.239
<v Speaker 1>it's not hip, it's not cool these days to discuss

0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:22.960
<v Speaker 1>the debt, to discuss the deficit. But I'm starting to

0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:26.080
<v Speaker 1>get a little worried. One of the issues that those

0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:29.560
<v Speaker 1>who actually know about the markets, and I'm not pretending

0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:31.520
<v Speaker 1>to be one of them, but I do read people

0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:33.399
<v Speaker 1>who know about the markets, and I know people who

0:46:33.400 --> 0:46:36.160
<v Speaker 1>are very knowledgeable about macro trends in the economy, and

0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:38.919
<v Speaker 1>I asked them questions as one does, and one wants

0:46:38.960 --> 0:46:43.799
<v Speaker 1>to learn that the possibility of inflation is looming quite

0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:45.600
<v Speaker 1>large and much of what's going on in the economy

0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:49.520
<v Speaker 1>right now because that that that is one issue um

0:46:49.560 --> 0:46:54.480
<v Speaker 1>and also raising interest rates right, raising interest rates, which

0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:58.400
<v Speaker 1>would mean that are servicing of the debt, and this

0:46:58.440 --> 0:47:00.760
<v Speaker 1>goes back to our Tea party day, folks, are servicing

0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:04.600
<v Speaker 1>of the debt becomes a much bigger concern, a much

0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:09.040
<v Speaker 1>bigger part of the outlay that we currently have a

0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:11.239
<v Speaker 1>federal spending. Now, this is not going to be the

0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:15.080
<v Speaker 1>most you know, knock your socks off exciting, sexy topic

0:47:15.120 --> 0:47:16.759
<v Speaker 1>we ever discussed on the show, but I do after

0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:17.840
<v Speaker 1>the break, I do want to talk to you a

0:47:17.880 --> 0:47:19.680
<v Speaker 1>little bit about what's going on with spending right now,

0:47:20.719 --> 0:47:23.080
<v Speaker 1>because we're not worried about spending on a parade, whether

0:47:23.120 --> 0:47:25.560
<v Speaker 1>you like parades or not, but there's other stuff out

0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:29.000
<v Speaker 1>there that should get some attention here and we will

0:47:29.040 --> 0:47:30.319
<v Speaker 1>get into it, and I would love to hear your

0:47:30.320 --> 0:47:33.080
<v Speaker 1>thoughts on list. What do you think about just extending

0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:36.600
<v Speaker 1>the extending the debt ceiling here funding the government for

0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:41.200
<v Speaker 1>another whatever it is, six weeks or so, and why

0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:45.759
<v Speaker 1>Pelosi and Schumer have this dissonance in their messaging. Something's

0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:50.960
<v Speaker 1>going on, folks, what is that funky smell? Something? Something

0:47:51.000 --> 0:47:53.880
<v Speaker 1>smells funky here. We should figure out what it is,

0:47:55.120 --> 0:48:15.040
<v Speaker 1>um and we will be right back. Yeah. If you

0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:21.640
<v Speaker 1>believe that we are all God's creation, as I do,

0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:24.920
<v Speaker 1>as people of faith do, and I do believe faith

0:48:24.960 --> 0:48:27.399
<v Speaker 1>as a gift that everyone doesn't have. So you may

0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:31.359
<v Speaker 1>not have that same perspective. Getting a little lecture on

0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:36.200
<v Speaker 1>faith from Catholic politician not Nancy Pelosi, who is an

0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:38.920
<v Speaker 1>abortion extremist who believes an abortion for nine months of

0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:43.439
<v Speaker 1>her pregnancy. That's interesting, isn't it. Anyway? Uh, Pelosi gave

0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 1>her speech today on immigration. We're starting to see that

0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:49.000
<v Speaker 1>Democrats are un serious on the issue. They really just

0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:51.719
<v Speaker 1>want to use it for fundraising and as a as

0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:55.279
<v Speaker 1>a cudgel, as a weapon against Republicans, to say that

0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:58.040
<v Speaker 1>they're racist, to say that they're bad people, and to

0:48:58.239 --> 0:49:02.440
<v Speaker 1>just as much as possible, play the race card against Republicans.

0:49:02.480 --> 0:49:04.840
<v Speaker 1>That's what the immigration issue really boils down to for

0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:08.600
<v Speaker 1>now for Democrats, in the hopes that eventually they can

0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:14.440
<v Speaker 1>mobilize that sentiment into victory at the polls and then

0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:17.760
<v Speaker 1>they'll just have a mass amnesty. And what the country

0:49:17.760 --> 0:49:19.840
<v Speaker 1>looks like with that mass amnesty. Just in terms of

0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:23.560
<v Speaker 1>the politics, we become a single party state, folks, it'll

0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:26.640
<v Speaker 1>be Democrats and Democrat like some of your like buck,

0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:28.799
<v Speaker 1>we already have that. But that's a discussion maybe that

0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:32.600
<v Speaker 1>we'll hold off on for now. But here's my problem.

0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:35.239
<v Speaker 1>What's going on with the GOP right now? Folks? That's right.

0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm not just gonna sit here like everything is isn't it?

0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:42.560
<v Speaker 1>Isn't that the Lego Lego song Everything is awesome? Right? Yeah?

0:49:42.719 --> 0:49:46.520
<v Speaker 1>I can't be the Lego theme song guy for the

0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:49.439
<v Speaker 1>GOP here in the Freedom hud because while some things

0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:52.799
<v Speaker 1>are awesome, and Trump has been impressing me with the

0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:54.759
<v Speaker 1>first year and what he's been doing the first now

0:49:54.840 --> 0:49:59.280
<v Speaker 1>a couple of months of this year. Um, but Trump

0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:02.680
<v Speaker 1>is in a good job the GOP overall, though, I've

0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:06.960
<v Speaker 1>got some problems with it, Like, for example, Uh, they've

0:50:06.960 --> 0:50:10.120
<v Speaker 1>bust They've busted through the spending cap by three billion dollars.

0:50:10.719 --> 0:50:13.120
<v Speaker 1>They've been raising the debt limit time and again. There's

0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:17.319
<v Speaker 1>no cuts that are being made anywhere. Um. They will

0:50:17.360 --> 0:50:21.920
<v Speaker 1>not cut entitlements, they will not deal with Medicare, Medicaitor,

0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:27.960
<v Speaker 1>social Security, they've actually thought about getting earmarks back, and

0:50:29.239 --> 0:50:31.120
<v Speaker 1>they're spending a lot of money. I mean, I think,

0:50:31.120 --> 0:50:32.920
<v Speaker 1>are we gonna sp what's it, what's it a trillion

0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:36.439
<v Speaker 1>dollars on track to spend a trillion dollars in the whole,

0:50:36.480 --> 0:50:39.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean, not a trill not not total, a trillion

0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:43.719
<v Speaker 1>dollars more than we take in. So that's a problem, um,

0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:46.919
<v Speaker 1>And I think what's unfairers That Obama racked up insane

0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:51.880
<v Speaker 1>debt in his eight years, as we know, but with

0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:55.560
<v Speaker 1>the artificially low interest rates because of FED policy, the debt,

0:50:56.040 --> 0:51:00.560
<v Speaker 1>the servicing of that debt was not quite the uh

0:51:00.640 --> 0:51:03.359
<v Speaker 1>the punishment that it could have otherwise been for all

0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:07.960
<v Speaker 1>of us. And this is really just racking up debts

0:51:08.000 --> 0:51:11.160
<v Speaker 1>the future generations will have to pay. But in the meantime,

0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:13.320
<v Speaker 1>if interest rates rise, you're gonna have a problem because

0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:16.239
<v Speaker 1>if you've got whatever it is now, I forget what

0:51:16.280 --> 0:51:19.960
<v Speaker 1>the percentage of our percentage of our outlays goes towards

0:51:20.000 --> 0:51:23.000
<v Speaker 1>servicing the debt we already have, which is twenty trillion dollars.

0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:26.520
<v Speaker 1>But as that percentage ticks up, you start spending a

0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:29.600
<v Speaker 1>lot of money just on keeping up with the money

0:51:29.600 --> 0:51:31.520
<v Speaker 1>you've already spent. Right, It's like if you've got a

0:51:31.520 --> 0:51:34.799
<v Speaker 1>credit card and you you've got a ten thousand dollar

0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:38.200
<v Speaker 1>outstanding balance and it goes from all right, well now

0:51:38.239 --> 0:51:41.640
<v Speaker 1>you're paying Uh we're talking credit cards here, So the

0:51:41.920 --> 0:51:43.920
<v Speaker 1>a p R is really high, right, I mean, fortunately,

0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.400
<v Speaker 1>servicing the debt is not that I but you know,

0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:48.640
<v Speaker 1>if you go from a five to a p R

0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:51.439
<v Speaker 1>and your credit card, that's gonna hurt because now money

0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:54.400
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna use spending for groceries, he's gonna go to

0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:56.520
<v Speaker 1>paying down the debt you've already run up on that

0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:59.279
<v Speaker 1>credit card because of the rays in the percentage, the

0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:02.520
<v Speaker 1>annual percentage, Right, the A p R. Government kind of

0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:06.520
<v Speaker 1>functions a similar way here. If interest rates rise and

0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:08.960
<v Speaker 1>we have to pay back interest on the debt that

0:52:09.000 --> 0:52:13.920
<v Speaker 1>we've already accrued, it starts to crowd out other government

0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.279
<v Speaker 1>spending and now we start to feel it. And by

0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:20.640
<v Speaker 1>the way, government spending I think it was Milton Friedman right,

0:52:20.719 --> 0:52:23.880
<v Speaker 1>government spending is just just another form of taxation, folks.

0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:26.520
<v Speaker 1>So while we can cut taxes on one side, if

0:52:26.520 --> 0:52:29.760
<v Speaker 1>we don't cut spending and keep going deeper and deeper

0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:33.360
<v Speaker 1>into debt. The interest rates that we will be paying

0:52:33.360 --> 0:52:35.120
<v Speaker 1>on that debt are gonna be rising, and that means

0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:36.880
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna be paying off even more. And this is

0:52:36.920 --> 0:52:40.799
<v Speaker 1>how this is how things gets scary for the economy

0:52:40.840 --> 0:52:44.080
<v Speaker 1>because here's what I can tell you. Nobody knows when

0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.319
<v Speaker 1>this debt go when the debt thing goes bad. No

0:52:46.360 --> 0:52:49.000
<v Speaker 1>one knows when the debt bomb goes off, no one,

0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:51.120
<v Speaker 1>no one, no one knows what I've heard. Everybody who's

0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:53.799
<v Speaker 1>talked about this whose knowledge, but they don't know. They

0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:56.239
<v Speaker 1>can't say a trillion or a thirty trillion all of

0:52:56.280 --> 0:52:58.680
<v Speaker 1>a sudden it all comes crumbling down. But here's what

0:52:58.719 --> 0:53:01.600
<v Speaker 1>the people who watch this ken all you. At some

0:53:01.680 --> 0:53:05.280
<v Speaker 1>point it does I don't know when, but the music

0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:09.520
<v Speaker 1>will stop. It will be a very big problem. And

0:53:09.560 --> 0:53:12.560
<v Speaker 1>how that looks for the future of this country is

0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:14.799
<v Speaker 1>something that nobody can really answer. Nobody really knows. So

0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:19.160
<v Speaker 1>I think we have to start being realistic about what

0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:22.080
<v Speaker 1>the GOP is doing here. Look, if the decision is

0:53:22.080 --> 0:53:25.400
<v Speaker 1>we're just gonna party and do what we can and

0:53:25.480 --> 0:53:29.680
<v Speaker 1>hope the future generations figure it out somehow, well that's

0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:32.480
<v Speaker 1>one way to go. But that's kind of what we're

0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:35.399
<v Speaker 1>doing right now without admitting that's what's going on. It's

0:53:35.440 --> 0:53:37.480
<v Speaker 1>not a good thing. I know, I know everything is

0:53:37.520 --> 0:53:39.239
<v Speaker 1>not awesome. I wish I could say it was. But

0:53:40.000 --> 0:53:42.080
<v Speaker 1>that is a concern. I will raise it occasionally here

0:53:42.120 --> 0:53:45.799
<v Speaker 1>on the show. I will not I will not be

0:53:45.920 --> 0:53:53.520
<v Speaker 1>labor the point, hopefully right Carl in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Hey, Hey,

0:53:53.520 --> 0:53:56.440
<v Speaker 1>what's up, buddy. Hey, Now I got a solution for

0:53:56.520 --> 0:53:59.120
<v Speaker 1>all these all the woes that we're talking about. It

0:53:59.280 --> 0:54:01.920
<v Speaker 1>it's called a fair at tax. You get to keep

0:54:01.960 --> 0:54:04.680
<v Speaker 1>all the money you may call your income tax, and

0:54:04.760 --> 0:54:07.920
<v Speaker 1>all the people that live here get to pay um

0:54:08.360 --> 0:54:12.879
<v Speaker 1>uh consumption tax, which means like a quarter for every

0:54:12.920 --> 0:54:15.279
<v Speaker 1>dollar you spend goes to the government. And it's been

0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:18.040
<v Speaker 1>figured out that that will pay all the government bills

0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:21.160
<v Speaker 1>and it will take care of all the doctor problems,

0:54:21.200 --> 0:54:24.799
<v Speaker 1>all the immigration problems. But more people here will have

0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:28.480
<v Speaker 1>more more people consuming and paying our national debt. Off

0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:32.160
<v Speaker 1>is that simple. There's no reason to play politics with

0:54:32.280 --> 0:54:35.480
<v Speaker 1>my income tax money. And and that's all manthey, polics

0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:37.440
<v Speaker 1>who wants to do you can tell her to shut up.

0:54:37.840 --> 0:54:39.799
<v Speaker 1>But you know, if I'm not if I don't have

0:54:39.840 --> 0:54:42.880
<v Speaker 1>a diamond diamond area. I'm not paying any income tax.

0:54:42.920 --> 0:54:45.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't care how many people's here. I mean, I

0:54:45.960 --> 0:54:48.239
<v Speaker 1>get to keep from my whole paycheck. That's my That's

0:54:48.280 --> 0:54:51.640
<v Speaker 1>what makes me happy. Yeah, look, I would love a

0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:53.399
<v Speaker 1>fair at tax. I mean, I think taxes are still

0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:57.040
<v Speaker 1>way too high. It's hard to celebrate that much when

0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:58.520
<v Speaker 1>you just had a little bit of a cut in

0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:03.000
<v Speaker 1>what is already I think, in unfair and confiscatory taxation system.

0:55:03.040 --> 0:55:05.840
<v Speaker 1>But to keep in mind that the entitlement state that

0:55:05.880 --> 0:55:09.320
<v Speaker 1>we currently have, and this is look at the expenditures

0:55:09.320 --> 0:55:13.800
<v Speaker 1>of the federal government really just come down to Medicare, Medicaid,

0:55:13.800 --> 0:55:17.400
<v Speaker 1>and Social Security. That's where the money is. And Social

0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Security is a very popular program. People want to keep it.

0:55:19.719 --> 0:55:23.600
<v Speaker 1>That's manageable. Social Security is manageable. It's Medicare and Medicaid

0:55:23.719 --> 0:55:28.320
<v Speaker 1>that are the beasts that can eat up the entirety

0:55:28.480 --> 0:55:31.200
<v Speaker 1>of not entirety, but eat up way too much of

0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:35.320
<v Speaker 1>government outlets and government spending. And it's just not popular

0:55:35.360 --> 0:55:37.200
<v Speaker 1>to tell people that someone's not gonna pay for most

0:55:37.200 --> 0:55:39.080
<v Speaker 1>of their health care when they're old. And it's not

0:55:39.160 --> 0:55:41.120
<v Speaker 1>popular to tell people that they're not going to get

0:55:41.160 --> 0:55:46.200
<v Speaker 1>government sponsored healthcare if they are below a certain income threshold.

0:55:46.280 --> 0:55:48.839
<v Speaker 1>Right that that's just and neither political party wants to

0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.480
<v Speaker 1>touch it. And it's an unfortunate circumstance. But I'm with

0:55:51.520 --> 0:55:52.920
<v Speaker 1>you on a fair tax. I think there'll be a

0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:56.680
<v Speaker 1>way better way to go. And you know, there's there's

0:55:56.680 --> 0:55:58.960
<v Speaker 1>a whole other discussion about how the notion of a

0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:01.480
<v Speaker 1>federal income tax that is the same across the whole

0:56:01.480 --> 0:56:03.880
<v Speaker 1>country when cost of living is very different across the

0:56:03.920 --> 0:56:07.920
<v Speaker 1>country is It's just inherently unfair what goes on right now.

0:56:07.920 --> 0:56:09.960
<v Speaker 1>But Carl, thank you for calling in from North Carolina.

0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:15.600
<v Speaker 1>Anthony out on the eastern shore of Maryland. What's up, Anthony, Yes, sir,

0:56:15.760 --> 0:56:20.600
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing? Bucks you? Uh, there's issue going

0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:23.319
<v Speaker 1>on with the spending and all that. I was kind

0:56:23.320 --> 0:56:25.600
<v Speaker 1>of watching the news on TV a little bit with

0:56:26.440 --> 0:56:30.720
<v Speaker 1>a couple of this agreements with with the UH spending

0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:33.400
<v Speaker 1>and all that, and agree and not agree. Uh. My

0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:37.440
<v Speaker 1>issue is domestic has been put in the last eight

0:56:37.520 --> 0:56:42.160
<v Speaker 1>or ten years um with with the absorbent and spending

0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:44.720
<v Speaker 1>over the Obama administration, and then all of a sudden,

0:56:44.719 --> 0:56:48.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, we got President Trump and thenarratives trying to

0:56:48.400 --> 0:56:53.680
<v Speaker 1>help us out, and and um, I think, uh, give

0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:56.200
<v Speaker 1>it a year or so with these tax breaks and all.

0:56:56.280 --> 0:56:59.719
<v Speaker 1>I think, Uh, in my personal opinion, just like the

0:56:59.880 --> 0:57:02.839
<v Speaker 1>d in years, things will start mellowing out. But in

0:57:02.880 --> 0:57:06.879
<v Speaker 1>the meantime, you know, let's get something going. Let's get

0:57:06.960 --> 0:57:10.160
<v Speaker 1>something going. But you think interest rates need to go up.

0:57:10.200 --> 0:57:14.040
<v Speaker 1>I see here, I say, I'm thinking for it's all day.

0:57:14.120 --> 0:57:17.200
<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, I'm not not no eight time percent, but

0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:23.400
<v Speaker 1>uh we're we're at out or down like two. Yeah. Look,

0:57:23.480 --> 0:57:26.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean for savers, the situation, there's really been a

0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:30.520
<v Speaker 1>transfer of wealth that's going on away away from savers.

0:57:30.640 --> 0:57:33.480
<v Speaker 1>So that's been and that's a function of government monetary

0:57:33.520 --> 0:57:37.360
<v Speaker 1>policy stretching back now for many years. And that's a problem, right,

0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:39.000
<v Speaker 1>And it's one of the reasons there's so much money

0:57:39.560 --> 0:57:43.000
<v Speaker 1>chasing yields in the stock market. I think it needs

0:57:43.040 --> 0:57:46.600
<v Speaker 1>to be a little bit stronger to get the dollar stronger,

0:57:47.240 --> 0:57:50.400
<v Speaker 1>which which is I've heard President Trump say that. You know, Look,

0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:54.680
<v Speaker 1>I like to have the stronger dollar. Right now it's weak. Um,

0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:57.920
<v Speaker 1>with with everything else going on and everything getting on together,

0:57:58.080 --> 0:58:01.920
<v Speaker 1>I think everything's going to come together and start flying, right,

0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:04.520
<v Speaker 1>I hope. So, my friend Anthony, thanks for calling from Maryland.

0:58:04.560 --> 0:58:08.560
<v Speaker 1>Shield time, my friend, Um, I uh, I gotta talk

0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:09.720
<v Speaker 1>to you about some other stuff comeing out of here.

0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:12.600
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, the military parade that Trump talked about. All

0:58:12.600 --> 0:58:16.160
<v Speaker 1>the media's all freaking out. Trump is a dictator. He

0:58:16.280 --> 0:58:19.800
<v Speaker 1>wants to have a parade that honors our military. Oh no,

0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:23.240
<v Speaker 1>talk about that and more coming up right after the break,

0:58:23.320 --> 0:58:33.840
<v Speaker 1>stay with other shows. Just talk at you in the

0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:37.160
<v Speaker 1>Freedom hud. We have a mission. We fight for the

0:58:37.200 --> 0:58:40.560
<v Speaker 1>truth in a team effort, and buck us back with

0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:45.880
<v Speaker 1>our next play. So before I talk about how democrats,

0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:49.360
<v Speaker 1>some of them, not a lot of them, are acting

0:58:49.480 --> 0:58:53.240
<v Speaker 1>like Trump's suggestion about a military parade is the equivalent

0:58:53.480 --> 0:58:56.720
<v Speaker 1>of when the what is it the the Cubans and

0:58:56.760 --> 0:59:00.080
<v Speaker 1>the Chinese invade in Red Dawn? I always get the

0:59:00.120 --> 0:59:03.960
<v Speaker 1>remake confused, isn't it? Oh no, sorry, the Soviets and

0:59:04.000 --> 0:59:06.480
<v Speaker 1>the Cubans invade in the original Red Dawn, And then

0:59:06.520 --> 0:59:08.640
<v Speaker 1>I think it's the North Koreans and the Chinese and

0:59:08.680 --> 0:59:11.000
<v Speaker 1>the remake of Red Dawn. They're acting though, like it's

0:59:11.040 --> 0:59:13.880
<v Speaker 1>that scary Trump. Am I right? Yeah, I'm right. That's

0:59:13.880 --> 0:59:16.240
<v Speaker 1>that's how I roll But before we get into that,

0:59:16.240 --> 0:59:17.960
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to take some time here to hand

0:59:18.000 --> 0:59:22.520
<v Speaker 1>out some buckslaps. Oh yeah, one more, give me one more,

0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:25.880
<v Speaker 1>give me a buck slab. There we go. I don't

0:59:25.920 --> 0:59:27.760
<v Speaker 1>know why. I don't know why we make a karate

0:59:27.880 --> 0:59:29.560
<v Speaker 1>noise with a buck slap, but it adds a little

0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:32.240
<v Speaker 1>bit of the you know, and we really know what's

0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:35.240
<v Speaker 1>going on. So alright, first up for the bucks lap,

0:59:35.320 --> 0:59:41.320
<v Speaker 1>We've got John Heilman, the guy over at MSNBC. Who

0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:43.560
<v Speaker 1>are I always confused with the other guy who lost

0:59:43.560 --> 0:59:47.640
<v Speaker 1>his job because he was like a harassing predator predator type.

0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:52.400
<v Speaker 1>But John Heilman said the following about the White House

0:59:52.480 --> 0:59:55.600
<v Speaker 1>Chief of Staff Chief staff walked into the way House

0:59:55.640 --> 0:59:59.680
<v Speaker 1>briefing room few months ago and attacked the African American

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<v Speaker 1>rish woman. I can tell you that there are all

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of African Americans who who detected racial animals

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<v Speaker 1>in the way in which that played out. And so

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<v Speaker 1>I think there's a pattern here that where we're on

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<v Speaker 1>these issues the touch culture and touch race, where the

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<v Speaker 1>chief of Staff is not that far away from m

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump. Heileman saying that that that three star General

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<v Speaker 1>Kelly lost his son in combat uh, say he's a racist.

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<v Speaker 1>That's this. This is how the Democrats, this is how

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<v Speaker 1>they analyze that was on Morning Joe. I could tell

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<v Speaker 1>just from Mika big Oh my gosh, Um, that's just

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<v Speaker 1>a slur. I mean, that's so unacceptable from Heilman. And

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<v Speaker 1>I would note that, you know, in a previous administration,

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<v Speaker 1>if you made such a such a baseless and scirless

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<v Speaker 1>charge against the White House Chief of Staff, you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be allowed on the different TV networks. Really, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you would be told, oh no, you can't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>But going after John Kelly saying he is a racists

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<v Speaker 1>also just not here that this is one of the

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<v Speaker 1>games of Democrats love to play. They'll say, well, and

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<v Speaker 1>they'll name a bunch of minorities and women that Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has attacked, or that one of Trump's people, one of

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<v Speaker 1>his top advisors, has you know, publicly tangled with in

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<v Speaker 1>some way. And I just want to note, Okay, if

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<v Speaker 1>there's one thing we all know, it's a trumpell tangle

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<v Speaker 1>with anybody, all right, Trump Trump is he's given out.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump slaps left and right. I mean, he does not discriminate.

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<v Speaker 1>He will throw down with anyone. And it's just so

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<v Speaker 1>pathetic that they try to fit into this this narrative,

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<v Speaker 1>into this mold that somehow Trump is only picking on her.

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<v Speaker 1>In this case, John Kelly, his wife, his chief of staff,

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<v Speaker 1>is only picking on minorities and women. Therefore he's a

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<v Speaker 1>misogynist and a racist. Like there's just no basis, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is this is a symptom of Trump arrangement syndrome,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's an argument that can't stand up to five

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<v Speaker 1>minutes of scrutiny. Right, it is just Trump's arrangement syndrome,

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<v Speaker 1>pure and simple. I just noticed I saw a commercial

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<v Speaker 1>secning with a statue of Liberty on an island, and

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<v Speaker 1>I've never been to the statue of liberty. For a

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<v Speaker 1>guy who loves freedom and America so much and literally

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<v Speaker 1>lives in New York City and used to have, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a window where you could see when I would go

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<v Speaker 1>to work, could see the statue of Liberty. I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like that's unacceptable. I feel like I'm gonna have to

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<v Speaker 1>remedy this, and you need to buck slap yourself. I

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<v Speaker 1>think I do need to buck slap myself. That needs

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<v Speaker 1>to get okay, alright, alright, that easily remedied. Next up, here.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a few different clips that got It's to the Highlman.

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<v Speaker 1>One he's just being a punk. He gets a buck slap,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you get Couch and Nelly versus Navarro now

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<v Speaker 1>and a. Navarro is a CNN favorite because she says

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<v Speaker 1>she's a Republican, but all she does is trash Republicans,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly Donald Trump, and gets away with saying just a

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<v Speaker 1>long slew a series of idiotic and nasty things on television.

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<v Speaker 1>They love her over there though, because she is great.

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<v Speaker 1>She's a Republican quote unquote who's great at trashing Republicans,

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<v Speaker 1>never has really a terse word for a Democrat, but

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<v Speaker 1>loves to. And she speaks for the Latino community at

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<v Speaker 1>some level, right, That's that's part of She'll say, oh

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<v Speaker 1>we know Latinos this, and Latinos that, she'll speak for

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<v Speaker 1>Latino community. She is among and I can tell you

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<v Speaker 1>this from my own experience over there, among the least insightful,

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<v Speaker 1>least well read, least polite, and least worthwhile commentators on

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<v Speaker 1>TV at CNN period, among the very very worst, which

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<v Speaker 1>I will say that's saying something. She's going up against

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<v Speaker 1>Ken Cucinelli, who I'm sure you're a familiar with from

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<v Speaker 1>his long career in uh in Republican politics. But they

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<v Speaker 1>got into the DOCCA thing and things got a little nasty.

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<v Speaker 1>We haven't gotten to the heart of this problem at all.

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<v Speaker 1>The President is willing to have a showdown with the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats again, that's where the shutdown comment came from, because

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<v Speaker 1>he knows how it's gonna end. And my last comment

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<v Speaker 1>is that since the last shutdown, only one side has

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<v Speaker 1>given any ground on this, and that is President Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has gone from the six nine thousand actual dock and

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<v Speaker 1>number to a hypothetical number of one point eight million

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<v Speaker 1>that we aren't even sure of before those people have

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<v Speaker 1>made contact of the So the words of General Kelly,

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<v Speaker 1>they don't concern you at all. Look, the guy's a

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<v Speaker 1>military man. He started off what you all have characterized

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<v Speaker 1>him saying, is everybody's lazy. That isn't what he said.

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<v Speaker 1>He started off, and you played the quote some people

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<v Speaker 1>think that they might have been scared and so they

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<v Speaker 1>didn't signet might have come. He said, get off your

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<v Speaker 1>that's disrespectful. And I don't think, of course to pretend,

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<v Speaker 1>of course people who cares. I care that people are

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<v Speaker 1>breaking the law, that over people who can that people

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<v Speaker 1>who care, who are gonna get no, I'll tell you

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<v Speaker 1>who cares. Let me tell you who cares? Can I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>let me explain to you who cares? Damn question about

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<v Speaker 1>who cares? That people who care are the immigrants who

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<v Speaker 1>are special. And she just keeps going on and talking

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<v Speaker 1>over them and talking over that. That's what That's what

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<v Speaker 1>an overro does, ever see an end to talk over

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<v Speaker 1>people yell and scream and trump and racist and so

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<v Speaker 1>mean to immigrants that it's all about immigrants all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>I would know that one of the one of the

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<v Speaker 1>tricks that you may have if you could watch that

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<v Speaker 1>whole clip, which I wouldn't recommend, but it went on

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<v Speaker 1>for like six minutes. We played a little bit of

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<v Speaker 1>it there for you, is that they say that the

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<v Speaker 1>segment is ending, and so that means that you know

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<v Speaker 1>they're they're wrapping it up. And then though when one

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<v Speaker 1>of the two Democrat guests it was three on one

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<v Speaker 1>Don Lemon Democrat, Van Jones Democrat, and a Navar Democrat,

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<v Speaker 1>and then when they're saying we'll give you the last

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<v Speaker 1>world will go, then they top and they let Navarro

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<v Speaker 1>just go on this this tirade about you know how

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<v Speaker 1>Trump and racism and immigrants and blah blah blah blah

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<v Speaker 1>blah and just just the usual blather, the usual verbal

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<v Speaker 1>vomit that comes out of her on CNN, and they

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<v Speaker 1>extend the segment magically, it just gets longer all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden, Oh no, let her go, let her go. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>she's uh, she's slamming him, she's smearing him, She's she's

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<v Speaker 1>destroying his argument, she's attacking the president. She well, she's

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<v Speaker 1>just really attacking Cucinelli to uh, and then it's time

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<v Speaker 1>to go to commercial break CNN. This is CNN. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>They all deserve bucks laps over there these days. But

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<v Speaker 1>we'll be back with more. Stay with me the Center.

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<v Speaker 1>John Heilman here. Um, the President apparently would like to

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<v Speaker 1>throw himself a parade, military parade, um troops and tanks

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<v Speaker 1>and all that kind of stuff, And there's some planning

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<v Speaker 1>now underwear at least dates are being considered. What say you,

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<v Speaker 1>I say it's a fantastic waste of money to amuse

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<v Speaker 1>the president. I don't think a show of military might.

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<v Speaker 1>It reminds you of what the Soviets do and what

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<v Speaker 1>the Chinese do uh. And we need to honor our

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<v Speaker 1>men and women in uniform, and but I think we

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<v Speaker 1>ought to do so in a way that does not

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily appear bellicoasts are threatening to the rest of the world.

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<v Speaker 1>We want to be peacemakers, not warmakers. It also, uh

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<v Speaker 1>can be perceived as jinguists in some respects uh, saber

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<v Speaker 1>rattling in some respects. There you have a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats who, no surprise, all of a sudden, are concerned

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<v Speaker 1>about government spending. Oh my gosh, a parade. And this

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<v Speaker 1>is one of the first times I think I've ever

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<v Speaker 1>heard Democrats in elected office argue against any parade that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm familiar with. I mean, we got we got parades

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<v Speaker 1>going on for everything these days, folks. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>live in New York City, and let me tell you,

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<v Speaker 1>it's you know, uh, this week it's the Army you know,

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<v Speaker 1>not really, but you know, it's the Armenian Parade, and

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<v Speaker 1>next week it's the Bulgarian Parade, and next week it's

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<v Speaker 1>the Bolivian Parade, and next week it's you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>Southern County Kerry of Ireland Parade. And it's like just

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<v Speaker 1>parade after parade, parades all the time. All right, Darvon's

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<v Speaker 1>having parades. I will tell you, as a general rule,

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<v Speaker 1>i'm kind of anti parade. This will not surprise any

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<v Speaker 1>of you. I think that parades are overrated. Now, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not anti them as that I begrudge anyone who likes

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<v Speaker 1>them or thinks that they should all end or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I just find the parades or it's like, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's loud, the floats. You're like, Okay, I gotta wait

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<v Speaker 1>a few more minutes. It's gonna be another it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be a you know, another bunch of are I I

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<v Speaker 1>can hear some drums. Let's give it a few minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they're gonna, they're walking, they're coming. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just not the most exciting spectator spectator sport I've

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<v Speaker 1>every Yeah, I know, I'm hate it right now. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>yeah you agree. Oh you're with me all right. Producer

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<v Speaker 1>Mike is giving me the thumbs down on parades, the

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<v Speaker 1>thumbs up on parades or not. You know, like sports

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<v Speaker 1>teams have parades. Although your Eagles fans had their own

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<v Speaker 1>parade by friend, I saw that. But yeah, you know, look,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not a parade. I wanna have a parade of

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<v Speaker 1>a parade. Here's the thing though, The one time when

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you know what, I like, I think that

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<v Speaker 1>this is important and you need to show up is

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<v Speaker 1>like Veterans Day. Yeah, Veterans Day parade, Memorial Day parade.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are parades that matter. Right. So anything that involves

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<v Speaker 1>respect for the armed forces in the military, I think

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<v Speaker 1>goes into a different category of parade. And this notion

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<v Speaker 1>that Democrats have that it's so crazy that we would

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<v Speaker 1>take some time to celebrate. You notice none of these

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<v Speaker 1>people like, what's the Women's March about? What the heck

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<v Speaker 1>are they complaining about? Right? I mean, and by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>you want to you want to get into the cost

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<v Speaker 1>of some of these things that the Women's marching terms

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<v Speaker 1>of Oh, that's right, city services over time, clean up,

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<v Speaker 1>the clean up for some of the parades in New

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<v Speaker 1>York City, it looks like a hurricane slash, tornado slash,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, bombing raid went through downtown Manhattan. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's crazy what happens after these parades. So it is

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<v Speaker 1>very expensive, uh, in a city budgetary sense, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>in a national budget having a parade, I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty minor. But the point is there's cross associated with

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<v Speaker 1>all this stuff. But we're gonna get We're gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>cheap all of a sudden. We're gonna want to pend uh,

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<v Speaker 1>pinch pennies, pinch pennies. Uh, We're gonna want to pinch

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<v Speaker 1>pennies when it comes to honor in the military. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>just take a little step back here for a second. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And and we're gonna start saying it's jingoistic. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're not North Korea, Dick Durbin. We're not saying that, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>look at these big missiles, We're gonna fire them at you.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's not the point. It's just for us

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<v Speaker 1>to celebrate our own military. And I wouldn't. We've got

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<v Speaker 1>a few million active duty and recently uh recently separated

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<v Speaker 1>from the service veterans who I fought wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,

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<v Speaker 1>deployed all over the world. They defeated the Taliban, they

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<v Speaker 1>defeated Saddam Hussein, ousted him from power, defeated the Al

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<v Speaker 1>Qaeda in Iraq insurgency, handed Iraq back over to the Iraqis.

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<v Speaker 1>And I mean, I'm just going off the top of

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<v Speaker 1>my head. By the way, I'm not trying to forget

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<v Speaker 1>or leave out anything, but has they've done a tremendous

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<v Speaker 1>amount of good work for the world, and we all

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<v Speaker 1>owe them, as the American people a debt of gratitude

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<v Speaker 1>will never be able to pay. And so if we

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<v Speaker 1>have a parade, why why is that? This reminds me

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<v Speaker 1>of when Democrats right after Not eleven, we're kind of like, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know about flags, you know, all the flag waving.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe everyone was like, I'm sorry, what's that. You got

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<v Speaker 1>a problem with the American flag? Now elected officials and

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<v Speaker 1>media pundits, because that's weird now all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>because Trump is for a military parade, there against it.

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<v Speaker 1>So maybe I should give them the benefit of the

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<v Speaker 1>doubt and assume here that what's really at work is

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<v Speaker 1>just their Trump derangement syndrome, and that they don't have

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<v Speaker 1>a problem with a parade for the military as a concept.

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<v Speaker 1>They're just pretending to because they hate Trump so much.

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<v Speaker 1>I just hate Trump. They just get so upset about

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<v Speaker 1>all of this. But I recall, you know, after World

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<v Speaker 1>War Two, for example, some really timeless and inspiring photos

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<v Speaker 1>of our our boys coming back from overseas, so to speak,

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<v Speaker 1>our men and women in uniform. Coming back to the States,

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<v Speaker 1>ticker tape parade, the whole thing. What's what's wrong with that?

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<v Speaker 1>I would need some of these Democrats to explain, Oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they're worried about the budget, right, sure, that's what it's about.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's the biggest crock of nonsense. But they're

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<v Speaker 1>opposed to the optics of this. They think that the

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<v Speaker 1>perception of a parade would somehow what antagonized North Korea?

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<v Speaker 1>Do we care about antagonizing North Korea? I think I

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<v Speaker 1>think a little more antagonism against North Korea is probably

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing. That's you know, the assaumble. And by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, anyone who says that we should uh, we

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<v Speaker 1>are not or we are overestimating the furer and opposition

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<v Speaker 1>to this doesn't pay attention to what's going on in

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<v Speaker 1>the world around them. You've got a guy named Arne

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<v Speaker 1>men Coney who is a former a former US Senate candidate.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling he probably got a grand total

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<v Speaker 1>of uh, you know, five votes, But he says, we quote,

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<v Speaker 1>we already have thirteen people who have signed up to

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<v Speaker 1>lay down in front of the tanks. If Trump brings

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<v Speaker 1>out a military parade. This is not a military authoritarian state.

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<v Speaker 1>We will you join us hashtag Trump parade. These people

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<v Speaker 1>think that this is like Tianamen Square, you know that

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<v Speaker 1>they're standing up the Trump, the dictator. It's like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>this would be U. S. Military. You know, it would

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<v Speaker 1>be a parade where we're celebrating the military and thank

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<v Speaker 1>you very much. This should be a big thank you

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<v Speaker 1>for your service day. Right, So what's what's the issue.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't it so interesting Democrats? You know, I know they

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<v Speaker 1>all say things like, oh, we support the troops. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>that's bipartisan. A lot of Democrats they got some questions

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<v Speaker 1>about the troops. Be honest with you. A lot of

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats in places they don't talk about at parties, they wonder,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, why didn't they have the I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 1>Democrat elected politicians now, but they wonder, you know, they

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have the the fortitude to do it. And look,

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<v Speaker 1>I know there are other Democrats who are in Congress

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<v Speaker 1>who served honorably and are great and all that too.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you're looking for disdain for the military and

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<v Speaker 1>political circles, even it might be slightly closeted disdain. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you're looking for it's always among Democrats. You never

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<v Speaker 1>find Republicans that are like, yeah, military, I'm kind of

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<v Speaker 1>iffy on it. There are some Democrats that are like, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a little iffy on the whole US military thing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a it's just the way it is. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the way that they're ideology lines up on a

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<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of things, um not, not the least of

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<v Speaker 1>which is that we are the cause of problems in

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<v Speaker 1>the world. Right that's a classic leftist Democrat talking point,

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<v Speaker 1>that we cause, that our military causes problems all over

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<v Speaker 1>the world. And the Gnome Chomsky view, if you will,

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<v Speaker 1>on the military, that's a Democrat issue, that's not a

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<v Speaker 1>Republican one. So like I I don't like parades, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'd be down for a parade for a military And

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<v Speaker 1>I think that Trump's onto onto something here, if nothing else.

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<v Speaker 1>Once again, he manages to expose that Democrats just always

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<v Speaker 1>seem to have a little bit of a well Trump

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<v Speaker 1>arrangement syndrome clouds their judgment on everything. But also when

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<v Speaker 1>it comes to military, it's like, why aren't you guys

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<v Speaker 1>on board for this a little bit sooner? A little strange,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it. I want to tell you about a Trump

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<v Speaker 1>voter and a March for Women person that they had

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<v Speaker 1>quite they had quite a little a little sit down.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna not sit down, but all an interaction. This

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<v Speaker 1>is gonna come up. You've got to hear this. It

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<v Speaker 1>is illuminating about the way that coastal blue Democrat voters

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<v Speaker 1>view Trump. Trump is um and people who vote for

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<v Speaker 1>either of those things. Um, I think we're gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>some fun with it. So what happens when when somebody

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<v Speaker 1>from the Women's March is having car trouble and is

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the

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<v Speaker 1>wilds of Virginia confronted with that always ah, always terrifying

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<v Speaker 1>situation of a Trump voter who comes to her aid

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<v Speaker 1>on the side of the highway. Oh, we will discuss

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<v Speaker 1>that and much more, my friends coming up in the

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<v Speaker 1>next hour. Stay with me. Welcome back to our three

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<v Speaker 1>of the buck Sections show. Everybody, Thank you so much

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<v Speaker 1>for being here with me. So, there was a column

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<v Speaker 1>that came out recently, and I feel like it was

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<v Speaker 1>such an excellent, excellent exploration of the Trump derangement syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>It's almost like a clinical study in Trump arrangement syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>And the piece was in the Tampa Bay Times, so

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<v Speaker 1>there you have it. And it was just published a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of days ago or a day or two ago,

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<v Speaker 1>and the title was I detest Trump, but a redneck

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<v Speaker 1>fixed the redneck fixed my prius with zip ties. Now

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<v Speaker 1>for us to really written by a woman named Ruth

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<v Speaker 1>mayer Um. So I wanted to share with you some

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<v Speaker 1>of what's in this piece because if you wanted understanding

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<v Speaker 1>for what Trump derangement syndrome does to people, I think

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<v Speaker 1>this article is a really excellent exploration of it. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the you know, this is the progressive latte drinker

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<v Speaker 1>coming face to face with an American with like just

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<v Speaker 1>like an everyday American. It's terrifying something you are, like,

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<v Speaker 1>I know, Buck, those latte drinkers are really scary. So

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<v Speaker 1>here you go. I went to this. These are her words.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm reading to you from her peace. I went to

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<v Speaker 1>the Women's March in Washington, d C. And I arrived

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<v Speaker 1>home feeling heartbroken. It was the last way I expected

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<v Speaker 1>to feel. I had spent the morning sitting on the

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<v Speaker 1>steps of the Lincoln Memorial with my sixteen year old daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>whose silent tears on election night in ten had marked

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning of this national nightmare for me. She had

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<v Speaker 1>insisted we drive from Charlotte to d C this year

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<v Speaker 1>so that we could quote protests in front of the

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<v Speaker 1>President's house. We heard all of the inspiring speakers. We

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<v Speaker 1>relish the creativity of the posters and slogans, but I

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<v Speaker 1>guess not the hats, because I got rid of those.

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<v Speaker 1>Being among so many like minded people was comforting. I

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<v Speaker 1>heard one woman say, I love being here today. It

1:18:58.479 --> 1:19:01.800
<v Speaker 1>makes me feel less alone. I wanted to be with

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<v Speaker 1>people who shared my anger because I have been so

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<v Speaker 1>angry about Donald Trump this past year. I have been

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<v Speaker 1>angry at my country for electing this man, Angry at

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<v Speaker 1>my neighbors who support him, Angry at the wealthy who

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<v Speaker 1>sacrificed our country and its goodness for tax breaks. Angry

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<v Speaker 1>at the coal miners who believed his promises. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>ed quote, I gotta I gotta take I gotta take

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<v Speaker 1>a step back from this for a second. Here. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna go out on limb and say, this woman is angry.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm just gonna put that out. I'm sensing some

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<v Speaker 1>anger from her. I think it's maybe clouding her judgment

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit. I also think she may have internalized

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<v Speaker 1>national politics a little too much. You know, it's really

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<v Speaker 1>not all about you. It's okay, you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>cry at night. I also would note that, Okay, her

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<v Speaker 1>daughters sixteen, so at least she can have some idea

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<v Speaker 1>of what's going on. She didn't pull the favorite progressive

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<v Speaker 1>trick of the first six months or so, which was

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<v Speaker 1>my four year old came up to me and said,

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<v Speaker 1>what are we gonna do about the change in marginal

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<v Speaker 1>progressive tax rights for millionaires and billionaires? It's like, I

1:20:03.400 --> 1:20:05.759
<v Speaker 1>don't think your four year old ask you that question, actually,

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm talking about journalists, by the way, like people

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<v Speaker 1>that have careers and in the media and and in

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<v Speaker 1>writing and supposedly spreading truth. They're like, my eight year

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<v Speaker 1>old came up to me and said, I don't understand

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<v Speaker 1>how the president can withhold further action on deferred action

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<v Speaker 1>for childhood arrivals. It's like, no, your six year old

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<v Speaker 1>son did not ask that question. But it's cute that

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<v Speaker 1>you like to use that as a trope to show

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<v Speaker 1>how outraged you are. But anyways, sixteen, fine, sixteen, you're

1:20:32.920 --> 1:20:35.599
<v Speaker 1>allowed to be upset about politics. Crying about politicists at

1:20:35.600 --> 1:20:38.880
<v Speaker 1>sixteen strikes me as a little bit, uh, a little

1:20:38.880 --> 1:20:40.880
<v Speaker 1>bit too much. But then again, some sixteen year old

1:20:40.920 --> 1:20:43.360
<v Speaker 1>girls cry when the mall closes too early, or sixteen

1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:45.960
<v Speaker 1>year old guys cry when they lose a video game, right,

1:20:46.000 --> 1:20:49.960
<v Speaker 1>So okay, so people cry, fine, fair enough. Whatever you

1:20:50.000 --> 1:20:52.479
<v Speaker 1>can tell though she's a little angry. You can tell

1:20:52.560 --> 1:20:55.280
<v Speaker 1>she's a little upset. And this is part of the

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<v Speaker 1>mentality that we see time and again when it comes

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<v Speaker 1>to the anti trumpers um that they do take this

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<v Speaker 1>so very very personally. People ask me all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>how do you live in New York City, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>all these people, I just I just live my life,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. Uh. It's you know when in the movie

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<v Speaker 1>Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jonah Jonah Hill, who has a CD

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<v Speaker 1>that he's made, goes up to Russell Brand, who's supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be a rock star, and he's like, hey, I

1:21:21.840 --> 1:21:23.519
<v Speaker 1>just wondering if you've got a chance to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>my CD, and Russell Brand's like, no, I just went

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<v Speaker 1>on living my life. And that's actually my approach to

1:21:30.920 --> 1:21:33.920
<v Speaker 1>living around a whole bunch of progressives in New York City.

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<v Speaker 1>When I'm not actually working, right, when I'm not writing

1:21:36.640 --> 1:21:38.960
<v Speaker 1>or on radio or TV or something, I just I

1:21:39.000 --> 1:21:42.639
<v Speaker 1>don't engage, right do I? In my in my pre

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<v Speaker 1>in my pre pre black Rifle coffee days, for example,

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<v Speaker 1>what I go to the anarchist coffee shop that's right

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<v Speaker 1>near me, and and and here they're they're terrible music.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm sure try to avoid looking at all the

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<v Speaker 1>all the posters about the next Women's march. Yeah, you know,

1:21:58.520 --> 1:22:01.400
<v Speaker 1>before I knew about better options. Sure, I just try

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<v Speaker 1>to ignore this stuff. But the anti trumpers can't ignore.

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<v Speaker 1>They can't separate it out. It's all so intertwined in

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<v Speaker 1>their identity and in their sense of self. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>also why they aren't impervious to new information, new facts,

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<v Speaker 1>good faith arguments, because to change their mind about much

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<v Speaker 1>of the reasons are many of the reasons they have

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<v Speaker 1>for hating Trump is to change their mind about how

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<v Speaker 1>righteous and brilliant and wonderful they are. It's not about Hey,

1:22:32.200 --> 1:22:34.800
<v Speaker 1>this is about this is public policy, which is complicated,

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<v Speaker 1>and here's a different approach to this, and maybe you

1:22:36.600 --> 1:22:39.720
<v Speaker 1>should think about it. It's I'm a good person. I

1:22:39.840 --> 1:22:43.160
<v Speaker 1>voted for Hillary. You guys, are still mean you voted

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<v Speaker 1>for Trump? So she went to the women's march. Fine,

1:22:46.920 --> 1:22:49.080
<v Speaker 1>what are they marching about? Not really clear to me,

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<v Speaker 1>although not for unborn babies. But that's another discussion for

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<v Speaker 1>another time. Uh. Anyway, she went back to my fury.

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<v Speaker 1>We gotta keep going here. So and she's mad at

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<v Speaker 1>hole miners. I would note I'm guessing of whom she

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<v Speaker 1>has met zero, But she's mad at coal miners for

1:23:04.920 --> 1:23:07.599
<v Speaker 1>believing Trump. She's mad at everybody. I mean, you could

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<v Speaker 1>really say this is the quintessential Remember how Pajama Boy

1:23:11.000 --> 1:23:14.760
<v Speaker 1>was like the ultimate Obama voter. This woman in this

1:23:14.880 --> 1:23:19.040
<v Speaker 1>article comes across as the quintessential Hillary voter. She's just

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<v Speaker 1>so angry that Hillary didn't shatter that glass ceiling. I

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<v Speaker 1>will read you some more of her piece here. My

1:23:25.880 --> 1:23:31.479
<v Speaker 1>fury has been bottomless. I drink my cup. I drink

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<v Speaker 1>my morning coffee from a cup that says I hate

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<v Speaker 1>to wake up when Donald Trump is president. I swear

1:23:36.880 --> 1:23:39.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm not making this up. Guys. The constancy of my

1:23:39.800 --> 1:23:42.880
<v Speaker 1>outrage has been exhausting, yet I have not found a

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<v Speaker 1>way to quell it. Nearly each day has brought our

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<v Speaker 1>new reason to stoke the fire, but a day with

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<v Speaker 1>my daughter communing with the angryly aggrieved seemed a good

1:23:52.520 --> 1:23:57.800
<v Speaker 1>way to try. Oh man, she actually drinks coffee out

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<v Speaker 1>of a cup every day. That says, I hate waking

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<v Speaker 1>up with Donald Trump. First of all, where does you

1:24:02.000 --> 1:24:04.040
<v Speaker 1>where does she even get that? I'm assuming she went

1:24:04.080 --> 1:24:07.200
<v Speaker 1>online for like I hate Trump merch and found this.

1:24:07.360 --> 1:24:10.800
<v Speaker 1>But you know, talk about a self reinforcing message, like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, turne it down a little bit, maybe get

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<v Speaker 1>like a you know, a little image of a puppy

1:24:17.280 --> 1:24:19.519
<v Speaker 1>or something for your coffee mug. You know, maybe just

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<v Speaker 1>take a step back, lady. Anyway, So then she goes

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<v Speaker 1>on too, and this is what this is what we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to get into a second. Then she goes on

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<v Speaker 1>to tell about the rest of her day and the

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<v Speaker 1>unexpected happened after protesting and exuding and really reveling in

1:24:38.080 --> 1:24:42.000
<v Speaker 1>wallowing in her hatred and fury against Trump and all

1:24:42.000 --> 1:24:45.639
<v Speaker 1>the Trump voters and all the Oh, they're just those

1:24:45.880 --> 1:24:49.400
<v Speaker 1>in the like like Peter's, like Peter Struck from the FBI,

1:24:49.520 --> 1:24:54.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, those those hillbillies, right. Oh, she's so disgusted

1:24:54.560 --> 1:24:59.880
<v Speaker 1>by them. But then fate intervenes and the woman who's

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<v Speaker 1>any about how she's just so angry. She can't find

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<v Speaker 1>enough outlets for her anti Trump anger. It doesn't work

1:25:05.360 --> 1:25:08.479
<v Speaker 1>in politics, from what I understand, Like this is, uh,

1:25:08.600 --> 1:25:13.960
<v Speaker 1>she comes across an actual Trump voter, No, she and

1:25:14.080 --> 1:25:16.400
<v Speaker 1>she has no choice. She has no choice but to

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<v Speaker 1>to stand there, and she doesn't want to make any

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<v Speaker 1>sudden movements. She doesn't want to give the Trump voter

1:25:22.479 --> 1:25:25.360
<v Speaker 1>an excuse to charge. You know, you don't want to

1:25:25.360 --> 1:25:27.280
<v Speaker 1>make too much eye contact either with the Trump voter,

1:25:27.600 --> 1:25:30.519
<v Speaker 1>because the Trump voter might might take that as a

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<v Speaker 1>as a signal for you vying for dominance, you know,

1:25:33.720 --> 1:25:35.080
<v Speaker 1>but you don't want to run away from the Trump

1:25:35.160 --> 1:25:37.080
<v Speaker 1>voter because then the Trump voter may think your prey.

1:25:38.280 --> 1:25:43.360
<v Speaker 1>So this pro Hillary, anti Trump voter had to face

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<v Speaker 1>her greatest fear. She had to actually have a conversation

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<v Speaker 1>with the Trump voter. I will tell you about it

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<v Speaker 1>right after this break welcome back. When I last left you,

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<v Speaker 1>we had a priest driving women's marsh attending ang gree

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<v Speaker 1>Hillary voter who is not just never ever Trump, she

1:26:04.120 --> 1:26:07.919
<v Speaker 1>is I hate Trump so much, and she was squaring

1:26:07.960 --> 1:26:12.480
<v Speaker 1>off against that most dangerous, that most dangerous of opponents

1:26:13.160 --> 1:26:18.360
<v Speaker 1>in every day Trump voter terrifying I know. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>read to you from her account. She survived it, so

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<v Speaker 1>we can all be thankful for that, the Trump voter

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<v Speaker 1>and her did not. This did not end with tragedy.

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<v Speaker 1>Here is what happened. Quote. Before I could do anything

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<v Speaker 1>but park my gray Prius. Of course it's a Gray Prius,

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<v Speaker 1>a man rushed over. I heard you coming down that road,

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<v Speaker 1>he said. Before I could say much, he started surveying

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<v Speaker 1>the situation. You said she had car trouble. Oh, she

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<v Speaker 1>had car trouble. She thought she had blown out a tire,

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<v Speaker 1>and she had to pull off at the nearest exit.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a popping sound followed by a screeching, and

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<v Speaker 1>she was worried she might be driving on metal, very dangerous.

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<v Speaker 1>So she stuck there. And in this moment of need,

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<v Speaker 1>in this terrifying ordeal, who comes along with somebody that

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<v Speaker 1>she clearly identifies as a Trump voter. So he says,

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<v Speaker 1>I heard you coming down that road, and she said that.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't so much offer to help as get right

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<v Speaker 1>to work. Quote it turned out that I hadn't blown

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<v Speaker 1>a tire. A huge piece of plastic under the front

1:27:24.640 --> 1:27:28.160
<v Speaker 1>bumper had come loose, causing the screeching as it scraped

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<v Speaker 1>along the road. After determining that he couldn't cut the

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<v Speaker 1>plastic off, he ran over to his car to grab

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<v Speaker 1>some zip ties so he could secure the piece back

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<v Speaker 1>in place. He did all of this so quickly that

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't have time to grab the prominent resist of

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<v Speaker 1>course sticker on the side of my Prius, which suddenly

1:27:49.560 --> 1:27:54.360
<v Speaker 1>felt needlessly alienating. You don't say. As this man lay

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<v Speaker 1>on the ground under my car with his miracle zip ties,

1:27:58.320 --> 1:28:00.360
<v Speaker 1>I asked if he thought they would hold for four

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<v Speaker 1>more hours of driving. Just ask any redneck like me

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<v Speaker 1>what you can do with zip ties. Well, zip ties

1:28:06.360 --> 1:28:08.920
<v Speaker 1>and duct tape. You can solve almost any problem. You'll

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<v Speaker 1>get home safe, turned to his teenage son standing nearby.

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<v Speaker 1>You can say that again. His son agreed. The whole

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<v Speaker 1>interaction lasted ten minutes. Tops Catherine and I that's the

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<v Speaker 1>name of her daughter, made it home safely, survived. She

1:28:27.680 --> 1:28:31.040
<v Speaker 1>survived the Trump voter. He didn't. He didn't take her hostage,

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<v Speaker 1>he didn't kidnap her. He just was really nice and

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<v Speaker 1>fixed her car right away. And yeah, she was ninety

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<v Speaker 1>minutes south of d C. That's way outside of Beltway territory, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>that's like the wilderness. I mean, you're practically in more

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<v Speaker 1>door when you go ninety minutes south of d C,

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<v Speaker 1>because that's actually real Virginia. It's not the Northern Virginia

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<v Speaker 1>part that has now been taken into d C and

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<v Speaker 1>the Metroplex right ninety minutes is like, I mean, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna hit Charlottesville before long. It's Virginia, Virginia. And sure

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<v Speaker 1>enough she she was approached by a Trump voter in

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<v Speaker 1>her great prius because of course that's what she drives.

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<v Speaker 1>And he just ran over there helped her out, didn't

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<v Speaker 1>didn't you know? It's weird the and she just I

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<v Speaker 1>will also know it with all this, she just identifies

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<v Speaker 1>him as a Trump voter. I am assuming that this

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<v Speaker 1>gentleman was I don't know, did he have like a

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<v Speaker 1>mullet trucker hat and a Maga T shirt on? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>what she gives no no explanation of this from what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to How does she even know that he's

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe she's just like, oh my gosh, strikes me as

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<v Speaker 1>a Trump He was wearing a car heart jacket. Strikes

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<v Speaker 1>me as a Trump voter. Good gosh. Um, he looked

1:29:50.320 --> 1:29:53.080
<v Speaker 1>like his hands had done heavy labor recently. He must

1:29:53.120 --> 1:29:56.360
<v Speaker 1>be a Trump voter. It's like, I'm not. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm giving you more detail than she did. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know how she knew. I'm she's driving a great Prius,

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<v Speaker 1>she has a resist bumper sticker on. I can tell

1:30:03.200 --> 1:30:06.040
<v Speaker 1>you there's a lot of stuff. There is a preponderance

1:30:06.040 --> 1:30:09.000
<v Speaker 1>of cats at home most likely. Yes, that's right, not

1:30:09.040 --> 1:30:13.600
<v Speaker 1>like one or two. That's cool. Cats are fine. Like anyway,

1:30:14.120 --> 1:30:16.920
<v Speaker 1>she she doesn't. She says, this guy's a Trump voter.

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<v Speaker 1>How she knows, I don't know. Um maybe because he

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<v Speaker 1>said like ma'am and was polite and friendly and helpful

1:30:24.160 --> 1:30:25.840
<v Speaker 1>to her and wasn't like, oh my gosh, we have

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<v Speaker 1>to call Triple A right away. Like he's like, I

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<v Speaker 1>got some zip tiz, let's fix it. So here's what

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<v Speaker 1>she She goes on though, And I will say the

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<v Speaker 1>story has a happy ending, folks. I'd like to tell

1:30:35.640 --> 1:30:37.599
<v Speaker 1>you stories with happy endings. When I can't, A story

1:30:37.960 --> 1:30:40.599
<v Speaker 1>goes on like this. This is our author here, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 1>She is a oh, she's a communications consultant. Mm hmm. Interesting.

1:30:46.600 --> 1:30:50.360
<v Speaker 1>So it's like communications consultants, social media manager these you know,

1:30:50.560 --> 1:30:52.360
<v Speaker 1>you tend to have a lot of a lot of

1:30:52.360 --> 1:30:56.200
<v Speaker 1>Bernie Bros. And Bernie's sisters in in that in those categories.

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<v Speaker 1>But here's what she says in her piece, Our encounter

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<v Speaker 1>changed the day for me. When I tried to dive

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<v Speaker 1>back into my liberal podcast, my mind kept being pulled

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<v Speaker 1>back to the gas station. I couldn't stop thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>the man who called himself a redneck. She couldn't stop

1:31:11.160 --> 1:31:13.600
<v Speaker 1>thinking about that. I mean, look, you know redneck. You

1:31:13.600 --> 1:31:16.080
<v Speaker 1>know some of this guy's got some manly appeal. Probably

1:31:16.080 --> 1:31:18.679
<v Speaker 1>I'm just putting that out there. Who came to our rescue.

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<v Speaker 1>I sized him up as a Trump voter again based

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<v Speaker 1>on the fact that he's good with his hands and

1:31:24.040 --> 1:31:26.439
<v Speaker 1>fixed a car. But there you go, Trump voters, you

1:31:26.439 --> 1:31:28.800
<v Speaker 1>should feel good about that one, just as he likely

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<v Speaker 1>drew inferences from my prius and resist sicker. You know

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<v Speaker 1>what's so funny, I'm obviously not quoting her anymore. I

1:31:34.320 --> 1:31:37.360
<v Speaker 1>guarantee this guy wasn't like, oh wow, there's a Hillary voter.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go help her with my zip dies. He

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<v Speaker 1>was just like, a woman needs help with car, will

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<v Speaker 1>help her, because right but she's like, he must have

1:31:44.280 --> 1:31:46.920
<v Speaker 1>sized me up. He probably knew right away. I just

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<v Speaker 1>come from the Hillary March or whatever they're calling it.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, back to what she says. For a moment,

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<v Speaker 1>we were just two people and the exchange was kindness

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<v Speaker 1>his and gratitude mine. As I drove home, I felt

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<v Speaker 1>the full extent to which Trump has actually diminished my

1:32:03.760 --> 1:32:07.680
<v Speaker 1>desire to be kind. He is keeping me so outraged

1:32:07.720 --> 1:32:10.920
<v Speaker 1>that I hold ill will towards others on a daily basis.

1:32:11.600 --> 1:32:15.320
<v Speaker 1>Trump is not just ruining our nation, he is ruining me.

1:32:15.960 --> 1:32:19.519
<v Speaker 1>By the end of the drive, I felt heartbroken. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>So go there, let's you see what I said. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a happy ending. I mean, it's like there's a silver lining.

1:32:26.160 --> 1:32:27.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure we could say it's a totally happy ending,

1:32:27.680 --> 1:32:30.280
<v Speaker 1>because here's what's going on. This woman has the self

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<v Speaker 1>awareness to realize that once she's super judge. If MS

1:32:34.080 --> 1:32:36.719
<v Speaker 1>Molly was here, she'd be like, oh, that's very judgy

1:32:36.800 --> 1:32:38.560
<v Speaker 1>to say that this guy's a Trump vote her with no.

1:32:39.360 --> 1:32:40.640
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's not like he hadn't I don't. I

1:32:40.640 --> 1:32:42.519
<v Speaker 1>didn't hear anything about a Trump bumper sticker on his

1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:45.600
<v Speaker 1>car or something. He was driving a pickup truck and

1:32:45.640 --> 1:32:48.920
<v Speaker 1>he had workman's boots on. It was terrified, Like, what's

1:32:48.960 --> 1:32:51.479
<v Speaker 1>the problem I was? I guess as she figured she

1:32:51.560 --> 1:32:54.040
<v Speaker 1>was in rural Virginia and there's a decent chance that

1:32:54.200 --> 1:32:59.519
<v Speaker 1>sure enough you know this guy anyway. Uh. But instead

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<v Speaker 1>of taking the lesson she should take from this is

1:33:02.320 --> 1:33:06.240
<v Speaker 1>maybe I need to rethink how much I internalize politics

1:33:06.320 --> 1:33:09.880
<v Speaker 1>and how much I have been fed this steady diet

1:33:09.920 --> 1:33:13.080
<v Speaker 1>of real hatred for Trump, as though he's the Antichrist.

1:33:13.120 --> 1:33:16.360
<v Speaker 1>He's he's basically he's like basically Hitler, I mean all

1:33:16.400 --> 1:33:19.639
<v Speaker 1>that stuff. Instead of thinking again about all of that,

1:33:20.800 --> 1:33:22.880
<v Speaker 1>she's actually like, you know what, I feel bad that

1:33:23.000 --> 1:33:26.800
<v Speaker 1>I'm mean and and nasty to some people, at least

1:33:26.800 --> 1:33:29.960
<v Speaker 1>in my in my head, that's my first inclination because

1:33:30.000 --> 1:33:34.040
<v Speaker 1>of Trump. Therefore, you'll see where I'm going here. Her

1:33:34.120 --> 1:33:39.080
<v Speaker 1>meanness is not a function of the progressive brainwashing that

1:33:39.160 --> 1:33:42.080
<v Speaker 1>she's had from the media and everything else. Her meanness

1:33:42.320 --> 1:33:45.280
<v Speaker 1>is Trump's fault. And I kind of wish I could

1:33:45.360 --> 1:33:48.280
<v Speaker 1>sit down with miss miss Mayor or Meyer Mayor. However,

1:33:48.280 --> 1:33:50.160
<v Speaker 1>he said, I wish I could sit down with Ruth.

1:33:50.280 --> 1:33:53.599
<v Speaker 1>Can I call your Ruth? No, you may not, sir um,

1:33:53.880 --> 1:33:56.080
<v Speaker 1>and just say to her, you know, maybe a better

1:33:56.120 --> 1:33:59.559
<v Speaker 1>approach to this would be to just treat everybody like

1:34:00.040 --> 1:34:01.680
<v Speaker 1>you would want to be treated, which is what they

1:34:01.680 --> 1:34:05.240
<v Speaker 1>tell us all starting in around kindergarten, I think, and

1:34:05.400 --> 1:34:07.760
<v Speaker 1>just be cool and like, have your beliefs and politics. Look,

1:34:07.800 --> 1:34:09.639
<v Speaker 1>you want to go march in the Women's March, that's great,

1:34:09.680 --> 1:34:12.920
<v Speaker 1>do your thing, but don't come to all kinds of

1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:16.200
<v Speaker 1>judgments about somebody. I mean, you don't have about judging him.

1:34:16.240 --> 1:34:18.639
<v Speaker 1>She's you know, just because he calls himself a redneck.

1:34:18.680 --> 1:34:22.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure there's some rednecks that voted for Hillary. You know,

1:34:22.960 --> 1:34:26.960
<v Speaker 1>they're like probably four or five somewhere in the country.

1:34:27.080 --> 1:34:29.120
<v Speaker 1>But no, seriously, like, like, just because he called himself

1:34:29.120 --> 1:34:32.240
<v Speaker 1>a redneck doesn't mean that she knows all that much

1:34:32.240 --> 1:34:34.679
<v Speaker 1>about him. She doesn't, you know, she doesn't know him.

1:34:34.720 --> 1:34:36.640
<v Speaker 1>She doesn't understand what he what he's been through, and

1:34:36.640 --> 1:34:39.320
<v Speaker 1>what he's dealt with. And so just be a nice

1:34:39.360 --> 1:34:43.559
<v Speaker 1>person instead and stop thinking that politics is the defining

1:34:43.600 --> 1:34:45.920
<v Speaker 1>characteristic of who you are day in and day out.

1:34:46.360 --> 1:34:48.280
<v Speaker 1>That should be I mean, then we'd get to a

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<v Speaker 1>happy ending, right then we would be in a better

1:34:51.520 --> 1:34:54.800
<v Speaker 1>position here. Um, she says at the end, it felt

1:34:54.800 --> 1:34:56.400
<v Speaker 1>like a sign that maybe if we treat one another

1:34:56.439 --> 1:35:00.160
<v Speaker 1>with kindness, ingratitude, putting our most loving selves for or,

1:35:00.200 --> 1:35:03.639
<v Speaker 1>this moment can transform into something more bearable. But how

1:35:03.680 --> 1:35:06.000
<v Speaker 1>do we hold onto the fire fueling our resistance to

1:35:06.040 --> 1:35:09.240
<v Speaker 1>the cruelty Trump unleashes, but also embraced the world with love.

1:35:09.280 --> 1:35:11.840
<v Speaker 1>I wish I knew she sees she's getting close to

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<v Speaker 1>the answer, but I'm gonna have to give her a

1:35:13.320 --> 1:35:15.320
<v Speaker 1>red X on the paper here because she's not getting

1:35:15.320 --> 1:35:20.000
<v Speaker 1>the answer right. Yeah, don't be such a judgmental weirdo

1:35:20.080 --> 1:35:23.080
<v Speaker 1>about people because you differ with them politically. Don't think

1:35:23.120 --> 1:35:27.080
<v Speaker 1>that your own politics define who you are. But also

1:35:28.040 --> 1:35:31.120
<v Speaker 1>don't get so wrapped up in the national political situation

1:35:31.640 --> 1:35:36.120
<v Speaker 1>that it's affecting your day to day life. Lady, if

1:35:36.120 --> 1:35:38.720
<v Speaker 1>you're drinking from an I Hate Trump monk every day,

1:35:38.880 --> 1:35:40.800
<v Speaker 1>you got a problem. It's time to admit you have

1:35:40.840 --> 1:35:43.519
<v Speaker 1>a problem. So I hope she comes to that at

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<v Speaker 1>some point. But she survived her encounter with the redneck

1:35:46.600 --> 1:35:49.960
<v Speaker 1>self described she she's okay, She's okay, everybody. She might

1:35:50.000 --> 1:35:52.200
<v Speaker 1>have learned something, and that guy sounds awesome. By the way,

1:35:52.200 --> 1:35:54.479
<v Speaker 1>I'd like to have some gluten free tequila with him

1:35:54.520 --> 1:35:56.880
<v Speaker 1>at some point, and we're rolling a quick break, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>be back with Selena Zito telling us about russ Bell Democrats.

1:36:00.640 --> 1:36:04.920
<v Speaker 1>Perfect transition here, stay with me. Well, you know, there's

1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:07.479
<v Speaker 1>a lot of political stories going on right now, and

1:36:07.560 --> 1:36:10.080
<v Speaker 1>some of them aren't getting nearly enough attention because of

1:36:10.120 --> 1:36:14.760
<v Speaker 1>all the Russia memo collusion Muller nonsense. But we've got

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<v Speaker 1>a national political reporter with us now to bring us

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<v Speaker 1>up to speed on the mess in Pennsylvania. Our friends

1:36:21.479 --> 1:36:24.960
<v Speaker 1>Selena Zero is with us now. She's written in the

1:36:25.000 --> 1:36:28.599
<v Speaker 1>Washington Washington Examiner on this and she wants to tell

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<v Speaker 1>us about what's going on. Selena, great to have you back,

1:36:32.200 --> 1:36:34.599
<v Speaker 1>always great to be on the show. Thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>So tell me what's going on in in Pennsylvania with

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<v Speaker 1>and there's redistricting and the Democrats are having a big

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<v Speaker 1>rough time. What's happening. So we've got a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>things going on in Pennsylvania. Let's start with the with

1:36:46.160 --> 1:36:50.960
<v Speaker 1>the congressional map uh tow or yeah to know. About

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<v Speaker 1>ten days ago, as the state Supreme Court ruled that

1:36:56.720 --> 1:37:03.960
<v Speaker 1>the current congressional map as drawn was illegal, unconstitutional, unconstitutional

1:37:04.040 --> 1:37:06.400
<v Speaker 1>under the state, and that has to be thrown out,

1:37:06.840 --> 1:37:11.360
<v Speaker 1>redrawn by the state legislature, which is a majority Republican,

1:37:12.120 --> 1:37:16.320
<v Speaker 1>and then signed by the Democratic governor and put in

1:37:16.400 --> 1:37:23.360
<v Speaker 1>place intended, which is crazy, right, Like can you just

1:37:23.560 --> 1:37:30.080
<v Speaker 1>imagine imagine redrawing eighteen congressional districts intendees and then um

1:37:30.560 --> 1:37:33.360
<v Speaker 1>changing them, and then people have to have their petitions

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<v Speaker 1>in so they can run, and people will then have

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out who where they live because it's going

1:37:39.479 --> 1:37:43.760
<v Speaker 1>to change. So the Republicans balked at it, and they

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<v Speaker 1>took it back to the state Supreme Court and asked

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<v Speaker 1>them to put a stay on their own ruling, which

1:37:49.439 --> 1:37:51.599
<v Speaker 1>of course they were never going to do. So then

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<v Speaker 1>they took it to the U. S. Supreme Court and

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<v Speaker 1>uh sam Alito said he's not going to at touch this.

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<v Speaker 1>So now we're back to all of the eighteen congressional

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<v Speaker 1>districts having to be redrawn. Of those eighteen seats, thirteen

1:38:10.280 --> 1:38:15.040
<v Speaker 1>of them are held by Republicans, five by Democrats. Of

1:38:15.120 --> 1:38:19.840
<v Speaker 1>those thirteen republicans, five have decided not to run. Whether

1:38:19.920 --> 1:38:23.519
<v Speaker 1>there are um like a lot of them, Like Schuster,

1:38:24.320 --> 1:38:28.479
<v Speaker 1>you know, his chairmanship and transportation expires, and these guys

1:38:28.640 --> 1:38:32.080
<v Speaker 1>don't like to go from being in leadership to one

1:38:32.240 --> 1:38:34.960
<v Speaker 1>of four hundred and thirty five members, So a lot

1:38:35.000 --> 1:38:39.800
<v Speaker 1>of them are retiring. And um, so that's in a

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<v Speaker 1>nutshell where this is so and they lost their leadership

1:38:46.240 --> 1:38:49.680
<v Speaker 1>or step down. The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, yes, oh yes,

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<v Speaker 1>And there's also the state Democratic chairman, Marcel Grons, who

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<v Speaker 1>is was a very respected state party chair leader. He

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<v Speaker 1>was one of the first sort of Democrats to make

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<v Speaker 1>it allowable for more moderate and centrist Democrats to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>get on the slate and run, something that hasn't been

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<v Speaker 1>able to happen for Democrats in this state since two

1:39:17.240 --> 1:39:21.000
<v Speaker 1>thousand and eight. So it opened up the possibility that

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<v Speaker 1>some Democrats could win in some state legislative state or

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<v Speaker 1>congressional seats and you know, maybe have an impact in

1:39:31.479 --> 1:39:36.000
<v Speaker 1>where the majority is in either of those bodies. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>He made some controversial mistake or uh, controversial opinions last week.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure where they were because it was within

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<v Speaker 1>an interview with the Philadelphia Enquirer and show the the

1:39:51.760 --> 1:39:55.160
<v Speaker 1>Democratic Governor Tom Wolffe asked him to leave. And now

1:39:55.200 --> 1:39:59.679
<v Speaker 1>they without a state party chairman until June. We're speaking

1:39:59.680 --> 1:40:03.360
<v Speaker 1>of Nazito. She is a political analyist and columnists with

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Examiner national political reporter Selena tell me about your piece,

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<v Speaker 1>Rise of the Rush Belt Democrats. So that was my

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<v Speaker 1>interview with UH Congressman Tim Ryan. Jim Ryan. If you remember,

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and sixteen, right after the Democrats lost

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<v Speaker 1>not only the presidency but lost more seats in the

1:40:25.800 --> 1:40:30.519
<v Speaker 1>House and the majority their minority became even smaller, UH

1:40:31.000 --> 1:40:36.320
<v Speaker 1>challenge Nancy Pelosi to UH for her minority leader's seat. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan has for the most part been a back venture

1:40:41.000 --> 1:40:45.360
<v Speaker 1>UH and and so his quest was chaotic at best.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't win, but he did give her a run

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<v Speaker 1>for the money. And what he did do was give

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<v Speaker 1>a more forceful voice for moderate Democrats that has been

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<v Speaker 1>allowed again since about two thousand and eight, two thousand

1:41:00.439 --> 1:41:05.080
<v Speaker 1>and nine. He has now been asked to go to

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<v Speaker 1>New Hampshire and more than any other Democrat considering running

1:41:10.479 --> 1:41:14.519
<v Speaker 1>for Democrats for president in two thousand and twenty. So

1:41:14.840 --> 1:41:21.439
<v Speaker 1>it's interesting to see a more moderate UH politician getting

1:41:21.520 --> 1:41:24.920
<v Speaker 1>a voice in in a sort of upper echelon of

1:41:24.960 --> 1:41:30.040
<v Speaker 1>the Democratic grassroots activism than you have seen a sense

1:41:30.120 --> 1:41:33.720
<v Speaker 1>about since so, my goodness, since the time Al Gore

1:41:33.880 --> 1:41:36.760
<v Speaker 1>ran in two thousand, Selena, is that part of the

1:41:36.760 --> 1:41:40.360
<v Speaker 1>Democrat strategy to try to win, to get some pickups

1:41:40.400 --> 1:41:42.679
<v Speaker 1>in the mid terms, they're gonna return to the old

1:41:43.040 --> 1:41:48.599
<v Speaker 1>blue dog Democrat, gun toton Democrat playbook. We'll see everybody

1:41:48.640 --> 1:41:53.519
<v Speaker 1>talks about that, But honest to goodness, it's there's sort

1:41:53.560 --> 1:41:56.800
<v Speaker 1>of no self awareness among the Democrats. As I watched

1:41:56.920 --> 1:42:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Nancy Pelosi today give a six our were she called

1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:04.400
<v Speaker 1>it a filibuster, and what the House doesn't do a filibuster,

1:42:04.800 --> 1:42:08.000
<v Speaker 1>but her six hour speech on the House floor, and

1:42:08.040 --> 1:42:11.280
<v Speaker 1>I said, and I thought, you know, this does not

1:42:11.640 --> 1:42:17.479
<v Speaker 1>help swing state Democrat candidates. Yeah, even if they wanted

1:42:17.520 --> 1:42:19.479
<v Speaker 1>to return to that old playbook, it seems to me

1:42:19.600 --> 1:42:24.000
<v Speaker 1>like being a gun total Bible loving Southern Democrat or

1:42:24.040 --> 1:42:27.639
<v Speaker 1>you know whatever, brust belt Democrat. Uh, That to me

1:42:27.800 --> 1:42:30.160
<v Speaker 1>is is tough to do when you're also advocating for

1:42:30.360 --> 1:42:33.759
<v Speaker 1>legal alien rights all the time and transgender bathroom issues.

1:42:33.800 --> 1:42:35.680
<v Speaker 1>So I think that they're gonna have a tough I

1:42:35.720 --> 1:42:37.760
<v Speaker 1>think the national Democrat Party is gonna have a tough

1:42:37.760 --> 1:42:40.040
<v Speaker 1>sell with that. But we'll see what happens. Selena, where's

1:42:40.080 --> 1:42:41.880
<v Speaker 1>people go for? Where's your website? We gotta go in

1:42:41.920 --> 1:42:45.280
<v Speaker 1>a second. Oh, Selina Zito F A L E N

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<v Speaker 1>A S D I T O. That has everything that

1:42:47.000 --> 1:42:49.520
<v Speaker 1>I write for the Examiner in the New York pust fantastic.

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<v Speaker 1>Check it out at Selena Zito dot com. Selena, thank

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<v Speaker 1>you so much for joining us. We appreciate and have

1:42:53.640 --> 1:42:57.599
<v Speaker 1>a great one. Thanks you too. Alright, team, we're gonna

1:42:57.640 --> 1:42:59.800
<v Speaker 1>do some roll call on the flip side of this

1:42:59.800 --> 1:43:01.960
<v Speaker 1>BA we get to hear from all of you. Will

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<v Speaker 1>be right back. Centator John Hallman here. Um, the president

1:43:05.600 --> 1:43:09.559
<v Speaker 1>apparently I would like to throw himself a parade, military parade,

1:43:09.960 --> 1:43:13.120
<v Speaker 1>um troops and tanks and all that kind of stuff. Uh.

1:43:13.160 --> 1:43:15.280
<v Speaker 1>And there's some planning now underwear or at least states

1:43:15.320 --> 1:43:18.599
<v Speaker 1>are being considered. What say you? I say that it's

1:43:18.600 --> 1:43:23.040
<v Speaker 1>a fantastic waste of money to amuse the president. I

1:43:23.080 --> 1:43:26.280
<v Speaker 1>don't think a show of military might have reminds you

1:43:26.320 --> 1:43:31.520
<v Speaker 1>of what the Soviets do and what the Chinese do. Uh.

1:43:31.880 --> 1:43:34.360
<v Speaker 1>And we need to honor our men and women in uniform,

1:43:34.439 --> 1:43:36.479
<v Speaker 1>and but I think we ought to do so in

1:43:36.520 --> 1:43:41.040
<v Speaker 1>a way that does not necessarily appear bellicoasts are threatening

1:43:41.080 --> 1:43:43.720
<v Speaker 1>to the rest of the world. We want to be peacemakers,

1:43:43.720 --> 1:43:49.840
<v Speaker 1>not warmakers. It also uh can be perceived as jinguists

1:43:50.240 --> 1:43:55.360
<v Speaker 1>in some respects uh, saber rattling in some respects. There

1:43:55.400 --> 1:43:59.840
<v Speaker 1>you have a bunch of Democrats who, no surprise, all

1:43:59.880 --> 1:44:02.800
<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, are concerned about government spending. Oh my gosh,

1:44:02.840 --> 1:44:06.719
<v Speaker 1>a parade. And this is one of the first times

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<v Speaker 1>I think I've ever heard Democrats in elected office argue

1:44:10.240 --> 1:44:13.160
<v Speaker 1>against any parade that I'm familiar with. I mean, we

1:44:13.240 --> 1:44:15.599
<v Speaker 1>got we got parades going on for everything these days, folks.

1:44:15.600 --> 1:44:17.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I live in New York City, and let

1:44:17.200 --> 1:44:20.760
<v Speaker 1>me tell you, it's you know, uh, this week it's

1:44:20.840 --> 1:44:23.040
<v Speaker 1>the Army you know, not really, but you know, it's

1:44:23.040 --> 1:44:26.200
<v Speaker 1>the Armenian Parade. And next week it's the Bulgarian Parade,

1:44:26.200 --> 1:44:28.720
<v Speaker 1>and next week it's the Bolivian Parade, and next week

1:44:28.760 --> 1:44:32.679
<v Speaker 1>it's you know, the Southern County Kerry of Ireland Parade.

1:44:32.680 --> 1:44:36.719
<v Speaker 1>And it's like just parade after parade, parades all the time.

1:44:36.760 --> 1:44:40.320
<v Speaker 1>All right, Devon's having parades. I will tell you, as

1:44:40.360 --> 1:44:43.920
<v Speaker 1>a general rule, I'm kind of anti parade. This will

1:44:43.960 --> 1:44:47.440
<v Speaker 1>not surprise any of you. I think that parades are overrated.

1:44:47.479 --> 1:44:50.320
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm not anti them as that I begrudge anyone

1:44:50.360 --> 1:44:52.640
<v Speaker 1>who likes them or thinks that they should all end

1:44:52.760 --> 1:44:55.280
<v Speaker 1>or something. I just find the parades or it's like,

1:44:55.320 --> 1:44:58.880
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, that's loud, the floats. You're like, Okay, I

1:44:58.920 --> 1:45:01.160
<v Speaker 1>gotta wait a few more minutes. It's gonna be another.

1:45:01.680 --> 1:45:03.760
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a you know, another bunch of are

1:45:03.840 --> 1:45:06.000
<v Speaker 1>I I can hear some drums. Let's give you a

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<v Speaker 1>few minutes. You know they're gonna they're walking, they're coming.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just not the most exciting spectator spectator

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<v Speaker 1>sport I've every Yeah, I know I'm a hater right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah you agree. Oh you're with me all right,

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<v Speaker 1>Producer Mike is giving me the thumbs down on parades,

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<v Speaker 1>the thumbs up on parades or not. You know, look,

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<v Speaker 1>sports teams have parades. Although your Eagles fans had their

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<v Speaker 1>own parade by friend, I saw that. But yeah, you know, look,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not a parade. You wanna have a pray to

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<v Speaker 1>a parade. Here's the thing, though, the one time when

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you know what, I like, I think that

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<v Speaker 1>this is important and you need to show up. Is

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<v Speaker 1>like Veterans Day, you Veterans Day parade, Memorial Day parade,

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<v Speaker 1>those are parades that matter. Right, So anything that involves

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<v Speaker 1>respect for the armed forces in the military, I think

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<v Speaker 1>goes into a different category of parade. And this notion

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<v Speaker 1>that Democrats have that it's so crazy z that we

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<v Speaker 1>would take some time to celebrate. You notice none of

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<v Speaker 1>these people like, what's the Women's March about? What the

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<v Speaker 1>heck are they complaining about? Right? I mean, and by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, you want to you want to get into

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<v Speaker 1>the costs of some of these things that the Women's

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<v Speaker 1>march in terms of oh, that's right, city services, over time,

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<v Speaker 1>clean up to clean up for some of the parades.

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<v Speaker 1>In New York City, it looks like a hurricane slash,

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<v Speaker 1>tornado slash, you know, bombing raid went through downtown Manhattan.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's crazy what happens after these parades. So

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<v Speaker 1>it is very expensive, uh, in a city budgetary sense,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, in a national budget having a parade, I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's pretty minor. But the point is there's cross

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<v Speaker 1>associated with all this stuff. But we're gonna get We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get cheap. All of a sudden, we're gonna want

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<v Speaker 1>to pen uh, pinch pennies, pinch pennies. Uh, we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>want to pinch pennies when it comes to honor in

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<v Speaker 1>the military. Let's just take a little step back here

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<v Speaker 1>for a second. Uh. And and we're gonna start saying

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<v Speaker 1>it's jingoistic. You know, we're not North Korea, Dick Durbin.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not saying that, Hey, look at these big missiles,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna fire them at you. I mean, that's not

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<v Speaker 1>the point. It's just for us to celebrate our own military.

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<v Speaker 1>And I would don't. We've got a few million active

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<v Speaker 1>duty and recently uh recently separated from the service veterans

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<v Speaker 1>who I fought wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, deployed all over

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<v Speaker 1>the world. They defeated the Taliban, they defeated Saddam Hussein,

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<v Speaker 1>ousted him from power, defeated the Al Qaeda in Iraq insurgency,

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<v Speaker 1>handed Iraq back over to the Iraqis. And I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just going off the top of my head. By

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<v Speaker 1>the way, I'm not trying to forget or leave out anything,

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<v Speaker 1>but has they've done a tremendous amount of good work

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<v Speaker 1>for the world, and we all owe them, as the

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<v Speaker 1>American people a debt of gratitude will never be able

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<v Speaker 1>to pay. And so if we have a prey, why

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<v Speaker 1>why is that? This reminds me of when Democrats right

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<v Speaker 1>after Not eleven we're kind of like, man, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know about flags, you know, all the flag waving maybe,

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<v Speaker 1>and everyone was like, I'm sorry, what's that. You got

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<v Speaker 1>a problem with the American flag? Now elected officials and

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<v Speaker 1>media pundits, because that's weird now all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>because Trump is for a military parade, there against it.

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<v Speaker 1>So maybe I should give them the benefit of the

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<v Speaker 1>doubt and assume here that what's really at work is

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<v Speaker 1>just their Trump derangement syndrome and that they don't have

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<v Speaker 1>a problem with a parade for the military as a concept.

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<v Speaker 1>They're just pretending to because they hate Trump so much.

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<v Speaker 1>I just hate Trump. They just get so upset about

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<v Speaker 1>all of this. But I recall, you know, after World

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<v Speaker 1>War Two, for example, some really timeless and inspiring photos

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<v Speaker 1>of our our boys coming back from overseas, so to speak,

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<v Speaker 1>are men and women in uniform coming back to the States,

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<v Speaker 1>ticker tape parade, the whole thing. What's what's wrong with that.

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<v Speaker 1>I would need some of these Democrats to explain. Oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they're worried about the budget, right, sure, that's what it's about.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's the biggest crock of nonsense. But they're

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<v Speaker 1>opposed to the optics of this. They think that the

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<v Speaker 1>perception of a parade would somehow what antagonized North Korea.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we care about antagonizing North Korea? I think I

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<v Speaker 1>think a little more antagonism against North Korea is probably

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing. But that's you know, the assamble. And

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, anyone who says that we should uh

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<v Speaker 1>we are not or or we are overestimating the furer

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<v Speaker 1>and opposition to this doesn't pay attention to what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on in the world around them. You've got a guy

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<v Speaker 1>named Arne men Coni who is a former a former

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<v Speaker 1>US Senate candidate. I have a feeling he probably got

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<v Speaker 1>a grand total of uh, you know, five votes. But

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<v Speaker 1>he says, we quote, we already have thirteen people who

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<v Speaker 1>have signed up to lay down in front of the tanks.

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<v Speaker 1>If Trump brings out a military parade. This is not

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<v Speaker 1>a military authoritarian state, we will you join us. Hashtag

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<v Speaker 1>Trump parade. These people think that this is like Tianamen Square,

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<v Speaker 1>you know that they're standing up the Trump, the dictator.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, no, this would be U. S. Military. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it would be a parade where we're celebrating the military

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<v Speaker 1>and thank you very much. This should be a big

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for your service day. Right, So what's what's

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<v Speaker 1>the issue? Isn't it so interesting Democrats? You know, I

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<v Speaker 1>know they all say things like, oh, we support the troops.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, that's bipartisan. A lot of Democrats they got

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<v Speaker 1>some questions about the troops. To be honest with you,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of Democrats in places they don't talk about

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<v Speaker 1>at parties, they wonder, you know, why didn't they have

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<v Speaker 1>the I'm talking about Democrat elected politicians now, but they wonder,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they didn't have the the fortitude to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>And look, I know there are other Democrats who are

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<v Speaker 1>in Congress who served honorably and are great and all

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<v Speaker 1>that too. But if you're looking for disdain for the

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<v Speaker 1>military and political circles, even it might be slightly closeted disdain,

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<v Speaker 1>but you're looking for it's always among Democrats. You never

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<v Speaker 1>find Republicans that are like, yeah, military, I'm kind of

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<v Speaker 1>iffy on it. There are some Democrats that are like, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a little iffy on the whole U. S. Military thing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a it's just the way it is. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the way that their ideology lines up on a

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<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of things, um not, not the least of

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<v Speaker 1>which is that we are the cause of problems in

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<v Speaker 1>the world. Right, that's a classic leftist Democrat talking point,

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<v Speaker 1>that we cause, that our military causes problems all over

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<v Speaker 1>the world. And the Gnome Chomsky view, if you will,

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<v Speaker 1>on the military, that's a Democrat issue, that's not a

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<v Speaker 1>Republican one. So like, I don't like parades, but I'd

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<v Speaker 1>be down for a parade for a military And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that Trump's onto onto something here, if nothing else.

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<v Speaker 1>Once again, he manages to expose that Democrats just always

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<v Speaker 1>seem to have a little bit of a well Trump

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<v Speaker 1>de arrangement syndrome clouds their judgment on everything. But also

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<v Speaker 1>when it comes to military, it's like, why aren't you

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<v Speaker 1>guys on board for this a little bit sooner? A

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<v Speaker 1>little strange, isn't it. I want to tell you about

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<v Speaker 1>a Trump voter and a March for Women person that

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<v Speaker 1>they had quite they had quite a little a little

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<v Speaker 1>sit down. I'm gonna not sit down, but an interaction.

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<v Speaker 1>This is gonna come up. You've got to hear this.

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<v Speaker 1>It is illuminating about the way that coastal blue Democrat

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<v Speaker 1>voters view Trump. Trump is um and people who vote

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<v Speaker 1>for either of those things. Um, I think we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have some fun with it. So what happens when when

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<v Speaker 1>somebody from the Women's March is having car trouble and

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<v Speaker 1>is in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of

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<v Speaker 1>the wilds of Virginia confronted with that always ah, always

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<v Speaker 1>terrifying situation of a Trump voter who comes to her

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<v Speaker 1>aid on the side of the highway. Oh, we will

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<v Speaker 1>discuss that and much more. My friend's coming up in

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<v Speaker 1>the next hour. Stay with me.