Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. Sank to Coomey was
Speaker 1: a liar and a fraud all along. The Inspector General
Speaker 1: report on James Coomy has dropped and guess what. He
Speaker 1: broke a lot of rules, he lied about what went on,
Speaker 1: and he just barely avoids prosecution. What does this tell
Speaker 1: us about the deep state, the anti Trumpers and all
Speaker 1: the rats. We're going to that plus General Madis has
Speaker 1: some words about President Trump. Will discuss coming up on
Speaker 1: the buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show
Speaker 1: where the mission or mission is to decode what really
Speaker 1: matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a
Speaker 1: great American. Again the buck Sexton Show begins. Remember he's
Speaker 1: a great guy. It is. The report itself is still
Speaker 1: very damning for the former FBI director. It goes on
Speaker 1: to say that James Comy violated FBI policies and the
Speaker 1: way he handled, retained and disseminated this memos. It says
Speaker 1: that Komy set a dangerous example for other members of
Speaker 1: the FBI, and it points out that you know, he
Speaker 1: even had these conversations with President Trump about how important
Speaker 1: it is to keep investigatory details secret to not share
Speaker 1: information with the press and then essentially says, you know,
Speaker 1: he was a hypocrite for turning around and doing the
Speaker 1: same thing himself. It also includes a couple of select
Speaker 1: quotes from interviews they did with Komey's advisors where Komey's
Speaker 1: advisers are telling the IG that they were stunned, they
Speaker 1: were shocked. It was disappointment to see that this is
Speaker 1: how Coomy had acted. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show,
Speaker 1: IG Report on Komey. Remember there's still more to come
Speaker 1: with the Russia collusion. Delusion led to the Muller probe
Speaker 1: and the conduct the FBI during the Muller probe. But
Speaker 1: we know who James Coomy is. If you listen to
Speaker 1: the show, you know who he is. We call him
Speaker 1: sank To Coomy, a play on of course, his name
Speaker 1: and sanctimony, because he is exactly that. He's someone with
Speaker 1: a very high self regard, someone who has inserted himself
Speaker 1: as a government civil servant, not an elected official, at
Speaker 1: critical times in some of the most politically contentious moments
Speaker 1: in recent history. And all the while there was this backstory,
Speaker 1: there was this facade of Komi, the incorruptible Comy could
Speaker 1: not be pushed, he could not be bought, he could
Speaker 1: not be cajoled, he cannot be persuade. All this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that he is first and foremost
Speaker 1: a commiist. He believes that he knows better the rules
Speaker 1: you see there for little people. Colmy has a different approach.
Speaker 1: What did we really find out in this Inspector General report. Well,
Speaker 1: for one thing, Comy broke FBI rules and regulations. He
Speaker 1: had to know he was breaking them, and was just
Speaker 1: on the very edge of sharing classified information. What bailed
Speaker 1: him out is that the lawyer that he sent classified
Speaker 1: information to happen to maintain a clearance. And I suppose
Speaker 1: the way that he sent the information did not violate,
Speaker 1: meaning the way the information transited. I'm guessing he did
Speaker 1: it over the internet. I think that's what it's said
Speaker 1: in the report. I read the report first thing this morning.
Speaker 1: It wasn't of such a high sensitivity that that was
Speaker 1: going to be a criminal issue for Comy. Now, though,
Speaker 1: we look at the seven memos and we see that
Speaker 1: there is no question that James Coomy used the office
Speaker 1: of the FBI Director to wage a personal vendetta against
Speaker 1: the President of the United states, Comey's feelings were hurt.
Speaker 1: Comy was mad that he got fired, and there were
Speaker 1: so many reasons to fire Comy. And that's why you
Speaker 1: have to remember this, this self righteousness that he walks
Speaker 1: around with all the time, and the way that he's
Speaker 1: just completely lacking in self awareness. I mean, just the
Speaker 1: weird photos he takes of himself staring out over lakes
Speaker 1: and everything else, and the way that he speaks to
Speaker 1: everybody like he's just I'm just here to just be
Speaker 1: the honest guy. You know. I didn't mean to get
Speaker 1: my nose all in the midst of all this political stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do my job at the FBI.
Speaker 1: Sure you are, Comey, Sure you are. That's why he
Speaker 1: broke protocol as came up in the last Inspector General
Speaker 1: port by stepping forward and speaking about the Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: email investigation, which was just flatly not his job, not
Speaker 1: his role. But he did it anyway. Why because he
Speaker 1: thought it was best. And then Comey wrote these memos down,
Speaker 1: and at one point he made seven memos of different
Speaker 1: meetings with the president. But let's break that down for
Speaker 1: a moment. The memos aren't a true recitation of exactly
Speaker 1: what was said at the meeting. This is, by the way,
Speaker 1: an old I'm gonna say this is an old FBI
Speaker 1: agent trick. They get to write whatever they want to
Speaker 1: write about what you were saying. Which is why any
Speaker 1: good defense attorney will tell you that if you're going
Speaker 1: to sit down for questioning with the FBI, first of all,
Speaker 1: always have an attorney present. Always. What is what if
Speaker 1: I can teach you nothing else from listening to this show,
Speaker 1: it is don't talk to the FBI, and if you're
Speaker 1: going to talk to him, you have to have an
Speaker 1: attorney present, right. That's if you take that away from this,
Speaker 1: I may save you a criminal federal indictment at some
Speaker 1: point in the future that you just get jammed up
Speaker 1: in because you think you're just being a good citizen
Speaker 1: and a helpful person. So you decide to sit and
Speaker 1: talk to the FBI. Oh, like General Flynn, don't think
Speaker 1: that they're gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: And we'll get into this too, about the elites and
Speaker 1: what rules apply to us, and what rules don't rules
Speaker 1: don't apply to them very strict and all the rest
Speaker 1: of us. They can get away Coomy can get away
Speaker 1: with whatever we'll see. I think McCabe is going to
Speaker 1: get away too, but that we'll get to that. So
Speaker 1: Comy makes these memos which are just what he decides
Speaker 1: to say or write down was said in the meeting,
Speaker 1: and then that's the Oh, that's the contemporary contemporaneous record.
Speaker 1: That's all you have to go on. That's all you
Speaker 1: need to know. That is the record from that meeting. Well,
Speaker 1: hold on a second. Why would James Comey then, as
Speaker 1: FBI director take some of the of the seven memos,
Speaker 1: there were at least three that had information that was classified. Now,
Speaker 1: he was a classification authority and he determines what the
Speaker 1: classifications were on those memos. Some of them he handled
Speaker 1: those though they were classified. Something he look Comy is slick,
Speaker 1: but he couldn't help it with his ego this time around.
Speaker 1: Now he went too far, but he was smart enough
Speaker 1: not to put himself in overt and egregious criminal jeopardy
Speaker 1: the way that Andy McCabe did. I mean, if they
Speaker 1: let McCabe go without charges, that's just because he's FBI
Speaker 1: and they don't want to charge a guy who was
Speaker 1: very senior in the FBI with a crime. That's all
Speaker 1: that is, it's a decision they're making because he's McKay
Speaker 1: komy was smoother. He broke FBI rules. He would have
Speaker 1: been fired if he tried to stay around as FBI director.
Speaker 1: What he did was unethical. Why would he do it
Speaker 1: in the first place? Though? I mean, I'll get into
Speaker 1: the violation. The violations are pretty obvious. He's taking work
Speaker 1: product home with him and keeping it as though it
Speaker 1: is his personal property. He locked it in a safe
Speaker 1: at home. Why would you do that unless you were
Speaker 1: plotting something? Well, as we know, he was plotting something.
Speaker 1: He was scheming in this whole process, and he went
Speaker 1: after the President of the United States. That was the plot,
Speaker 1: and he managed to get his way the Muller probe.
Speaker 1: He even said openly on the record that the whole
Speaker 1: point of what he was doing was to get a
Speaker 1: special council appointed. That's what he wanted from the process,
Speaker 1: and he managed to do it. James Comey is smart
Speaker 1: enough and has been a player in this DC centric
Speaker 1: world long enough to know that taking home notes of
Speaker 1: meetings with the President United States is just wildly inappropriate.
Speaker 1: Why would he do that? Under he said that he
Speaker 1: thought that they were his private. So basically Comy decides
Speaker 1: that this is unclassified information, it's for official use only.
Speaker 1: It's the acronym they'll use fo uo and he and
Speaker 1: he takes it home with him just to keep because
Speaker 1: why why would anyone do that? And there's so much
Speaker 1: that comes from them, so many ramifications. One is, how
Speaker 1: can anyone trust that they can have a conversation in
Speaker 1: the Oval office with a member of the intelligence community
Speaker 1: now or somebody at the top of a federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement and not think that maybe they're creating a little
Speaker 1: OPO file on the President the United States that they're
Speaker 1: going to release to the press at any point in time.
Speaker 1: The Inspector General report made clear what Comy did violated
Speaker 1: FBI regulations. It was unacceptable. He broke the very codes,
Speaker 1: the very rules that as an FBI director he was
Speaker 1: sworn to uphold. And if you asked him why he
Speaker 1: did this, well, of course it's because Trump is a
Speaker 1: clear and present danger, he would say to America. So
Speaker 1: he got a special counsel started. When we know that
Speaker 1: Comy should have been fired long before any of these
Speaker 1: seven memorialized meetings from January of twenty seventeen all the
Speaker 1: way up to when he was finally fired. Another thing
Speaker 1: that jumps out when you read this. I was in
Speaker 1: the intelligence community. I briefed the President the United States
Speaker 1: a couple of times, ran those Oval Office briefings for
Speaker 1: the intelligence community. I was the guy in the oval
Speaker 1: explaining to the President some of the more important issues
Speaker 1: of the day. Why on earth would the FBI director
Speaker 1: think that it was a good idea and it was
Speaker 1: appropriate to have a one on one, a personal meeting
Speaker 1: with the President the United States to present him with
Speaker 1: something that was the equivalent of online gossip. And how
Speaker 1: are we really supposed to believe that Komey or one
Speaker 1: of his close allies, Clapper or somebody of that sort
Speaker 1: didn't leak the information. When CNN was reporting on it
Speaker 1: the next day, they told the press that they were
Speaker 1: briefing the president on this dossier that they had had
Speaker 1: four months, so that they could make a news story
Speaker 1: out of it and then have an excuse to push
Speaker 1: the dossier itself as though it was true. This is
Speaker 1: the well, I can't verify this, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: report on someone else reporting on it routine call me
Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was doing. How does it help
Speaker 1: the President of the United States to be told that
Speaker 1: there is a crazy rumor mill of lies out there.
Speaker 1: Would it have been useful for somebody to have briefed
Speaker 1: Obama on what the birther conspiracies on the internet work.
Speaker 1: So the FBI Director of sat down and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I saw you know, there's some people that are saying
Speaker 1: this stuff about you. Of course not, it's absurd, but
Speaker 1: guess what they decided to brief the President of the
Speaker 1: United States on a dossier that is a collection of
Speaker 1: lies paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, taken from
Speaker 1: Russian subsources who were most likely running a disinformation campaign
Speaker 1: against the United States anyway, and then laundered it through CNN.
Speaker 1: And Comy did all of this knowingly and willfully, and
Speaker 1: was willing to break FBI rules and regulations in the process.
Speaker 1: If he had not already been fired, he would be
Speaker 1: fired now what James Comy did. Don't believe he's now
Speaker 1: claiming he's vindicated. Why because he's not going to be
Speaker 1: a felon. What James Comy did was wrong. He abused
Speaker 1: the power of his office. He betrayed the trust of
Speaker 1: his president. He can't walk around hiss. FBI director and
Speaker 1: say not my president. It was his president. The commander
Speaker 1: in chief the United States Military and the top law
Speaker 1: enforcement officer in the United States government, is in fact
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, and he betrayed him
Speaker 1: out of personal spite. And we were told that Comey
Speaker 1: was beyond reproach by the media for as long as
Speaker 1: they could get away with it, just like we were
Speaker 1: told that Muller was the ultimate FBI guy until we
Speaker 1: saw him give that press conference and realized, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: he and Biden need some time out together. When we
Speaker 1: talk about a deep state, a conspiracy in effort at
Speaker 1: the top reaches of the federal bureaucracy and in conjunction
Speaker 1: with the Democratic Party to undo the results of the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election, how can we not put what we've
Speaker 1: learned about James Coomy right at the very top of
Speaker 1: that list. He was FBI director, He used used Russian
Speaker 1: disinformation paid for by the Clinton campaign as an excuse
Speaker 1: to create a news story that would embarrass the President
Speaker 1: of the United States, and then he refused to say
Speaker 1: publicly that the president himself was not a target of
Speaker 1: a federal investigation into treasonous activity, even though he told
Speaker 1: the president. He was not. James Comy is all about
Speaker 1: the rules until the rules getting the way. He's all
Speaker 1: about by the book until he wants to write a
Speaker 1: different book. And now we know, we know we've been
Speaker 1: lied to, We know that he abused his power, and
Speaker 1: we know that this is not an ethical person acting
Speaker 1: the best interests of the country. James Comey was acting
Speaker 1: in his own best interests, and he was willing to
Speaker 1: degrade the very FBI that he claimed to love so
Speaker 1: much as he was getting pushed out the door. We're
Speaker 1: just beginning to get into this, my friends. I have
Speaker 1: much more for you on the Inspector General report. What
Speaker 1: this tells us about our institutions, what this tells us
Speaker 1: about rule of law and justice in the DOJ, the
Speaker 1: prosecutorial arm and what we can expect going forward. We've
Speaker 1: got much more. Stay with you, Presidents treated innumerable times,
Speaker 1: calling to you a leader or what's your response to
Speaker 1: President Trump? Look, it's true. I mean I'm the one
Speaker 1: who testified about it. That's how people know about it.
Speaker 1: I gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked
Speaker 1: him to give it to a reporter. That is entirely appropriate.
Speaker 1: Whym not do it yourself. Why not do it openly,
Speaker 1: transparently for one very practical reason. At the end of
Speaker 1: my driveway was a horde of media, and my thought was,
Speaker 1: if I give it to one reporter, then what's my
Speaker 1: answer to all the others about why I won't answer
Speaker 1: their questions? So it was a liar or an idiot.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you can say either one because it
Speaker 1: was not entirely appropriate. The Inspector General found that it
Speaker 1: was entirely inappropriate. This guy was the FBI director Folks,
Speaker 1: a lifelong prosecutor. That's really what he was. Remember he's
Speaker 1: not really an FBI agent, got He's not law enforcement
Speaker 1: in that sense. He was a prosecutor. And his close
Speaker 1: buddy Patrick Fitzgerald, another prosecutor who was also a lawyer
Speaker 1: who received some of these documents for him, was the
Speaker 1: headhunter who for political reasons, went after Scooter Libby. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: It's almost like some of these very prominent pro hillary
Speaker 1: prosecutors decide that they're going to get some people because
Speaker 1: they want to even the score with the other side.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Comey is one of these guys
Speaker 1: that loves to go around telling everybody about how he
Speaker 1: would never break any rules. And he was even saying,
Speaker 1: do we think that he didn't know? I mean I
Speaker 1: was in the CIA. I would never, as a little
Speaker 1: nobody analyst ever have taken notes from a meeting inside Langley,
Speaker 1: taken it home and put it in by safe because
Speaker 1: I thought I should have it. This is what this
Speaker 1: guy did. People would have thought I was insane. I
Speaker 1: mean I would have been I would have been fired.
Speaker 1: I would have been stripped to my clearance. He acts
Speaker 1: like this was normal. Yeah, he was totally appropriate. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's only appropriate in the sense that Comey believes that
Speaker 1: he is a great historical figure and that he is
Speaker 1: the anti Trump and going to save the country. And
Speaker 1: there'll be history books written about how James Comey was
Speaker 1: more honorable than George Washington himself. Well, the problem is
Speaker 1: the Inspector General Port came out and said, actually, you're
Speaker 1: a jerk, Comey, and you broke a lot of rules.
Speaker 1: A couple of years back, he gave a speech saying,
Speaker 1: if we fall in love with our own virtue, we
Speaker 1: can go sideways. At any point over the last two years,
Speaker 1: did you fall prey to that, Did you fall in
Speaker 1: love with your own virtue. I don't think so, but
Speaker 1: I worried about it constantly. And the guardrail for that,
Speaker 1: because that's a big worry I have about myself, was
Speaker 1: to surround on myself with people who will get that
Speaker 1: hit at the certainty, hit at the pride, to make
Speaker 1: sure I've thought about things well. I'm gonna teach, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna travel around and speak about leadership, but I want
Speaker 1: to offer them a vision of here's what it should
Speaker 1: look like. Values matter. This president does not reflect the
Speaker 1: values of this country. For a normal person, the answer
Speaker 1: to the question did you ever fall in love with
Speaker 1: your own virtue? Would be no. For James Comey, it's yes.
Speaker 1: I'm very introspective about that. I was always so concerned
Speaker 1: with it that was always a risk of worry, when
Speaker 1: quite clearly James Comey did fall in love with his
Speaker 1: own virtue, did decide that he knew better than the rules,
Speaker 1: the rules that he would have expected every FBI agent
Speaker 1: below him, every person working in federal law enforcement to follow,
Speaker 1: He no longer had to follow Hi. Just in case
Speaker 1: there's any any doubt about this, when you look at
Speaker 1: the Inspector General report that came out today, the conclusions
Speaker 1: at the closing, they talk about things like quote Comy's
Speaker 1: improper disclosure of Memos two, four, six, and seven to
Speaker 1: his attorneys. Here's what they write. Comy told the OIG
Speaker 1: that he shared copies of Memos two, four, six, and
Speaker 1: seven with his attorneys to obtain legal representation in connection
Speaker 1: with his removal as FBI Director and any post removal
Speaker 1: legal issues that might arise. However, Comy was not authorized
Speaker 1: to provide these memos to his attorneys without prior approval
Speaker 1: from or coordination with, the FBI. Goes on here. This
Speaker 1: is under Appendix C, page sixty two. Comy failed to
Speaker 1: immediately alert the FBI to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
Speaker 1: On June seven, twenty seventeen, call Me learned of the
Speaker 1: FBI's classification decision regarding Memo two when the FBI allowed
Speaker 1: him to review copies of all seven memos with classification
Speaker 1: banners and marketings in preparation for his June eight, twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen congressional testimony. Once he knew that the FBI had
Speaker 1: classified portions of Memo two, Comy failed to immediately notify
Speaker 1: the FBI that he had previously given Memo two to
Speaker 1: his attorneys. It just goes on. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a guy and this is the Let me just give
Speaker 1: you the closing paragraph of this whole IG report really
Speaker 1: put it into perspective. We have previously faulted Comy for
Speaker 1: acting unilaterally and inconsistently with Department policy. Coomy's unauthorized disclosure
Speaker 1: of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation merits
Speaker 1: similar criticism. In a country built on the rule of law,
Speaker 1: it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees inherited
Speaker 1: department in FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appeared
Speaker 1: to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions. Comy had
Speaker 1: several other lawful options available to him to advocate for
Speaker 1: the appointment of a special council, which he told us
Speaker 1: was his goal in making the disclosure. What was not
Speaker 1: permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigation information obtained
Speaker 1: during the course of FBI employment in order to achieve
Speaker 1: a personally desired outcome. The OIG has provided this report
Speaker 1: to the FBI and the Department of Justice Office of
Speaker 1: Professional Responsibility for action they deem appropriate. My friends. Comy
Speaker 1: told us all along that he did everything exactly the
Speaker 1: way that he should have that it was all fine,
Speaker 1: that he was proud of how he acted in this
Speaker 1: whole process. It was the FBI director he didn't know.
Speaker 1: You don't take memos home with you just because you
Speaker 1: feel like it. Now we get into the broader question.
Speaker 1: Do the rules in this country apply to those who
Speaker 1: are in power? Do the rules apply to those who
Speaker 1: hold what are considered the correct beliefs within the institutions
Speaker 1: that wield that power, And the correct beliefs are always
Speaker 1: left of center right. Depending on the institution, it might
Speaker 1: be a little bit to the left. But the federal
Speaker 1: bureaucracy is an organ of the institutional left and the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party in this country. There are a lot of Republicans,
Speaker 1: a lot of Conservatives who work in the federal bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: They don't run it. They aren't the ones who will
Speaker 1: call out for Hatch Act investigations and decide that somebody
Speaker 1: needs to be punished as a warning to the others. Overwhelmingly,
Speaker 1: it is the case that bureaucrats are democrats, and the
Speaker 1: bureaucrats that want to wield power for political purposes have
Speaker 1: leftist leanings. We have been told so much in the
Speaker 1: era of Trump that the big threat we really face
Speaker 1: is the possibility of the erosion of public trust and
Speaker 1: our institutions. And they keep telling us that Trump is
Speaker 1: the one who erodes all that trust. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. Was it Trump's fault that Comey and the
Speaker 1: FBI decided to break protocol and give an unbelievably favorable
Speaker 1: decision to Hillary Clinton about prosecution for misuse of classified information?
Speaker 1: Was that Trump's fault? Is it Trump's fault that It
Speaker 1: is very likely, as I have been telling you, that
Speaker 1: Annie McCabe is despite lying. They know he lied, they
Speaker 1: know why he lied, and they got him multiple times
Speaker 1: lying with criminal jeopardy attached to such such falsehoods. Are
Speaker 1: we going to be surprised when they decide to just
Speaker 1: give a really mean letter to McCabe instead of criminal prosecution.
Speaker 1: Look at what other people get sent away for. Look
Speaker 1: at what they will bring charges for. They sent thirty
Speaker 1: guys in to Roger Stone's house in tac Care with
Speaker 1: long guns because they say that he lied about a
Speaker 1: communication that was legal over email or over tech or
Speaker 1: over Twitter or something. He lied about something that isn't important,
Speaker 1: and they made it look like they were going after
Speaker 1: bin Laden. Oh but oh, but if you lie, you
Speaker 1: undermine the very system of justice. If you lie, you
Speaker 1: do an affront to the United States government. Okay, but
Speaker 1: what about McCabe. Why should he skate? And I know
Speaker 1: that he might not. I might have to come back
Speaker 1: and say, Wow, it's surprised the actually our bringing charges.
Speaker 1: But I bet money they won't. They're not bringing charges
Speaker 1: against Comy. He's already out of the FBI. But we
Speaker 1: were told all along that the big problem would be
Speaker 1: that we would lose faith in these institutions. I'm here
Speaker 1: to tell you that the problem that I see is
Speaker 1: that we have too much faith in some of these institutions.
Speaker 1: We don't ask enough questions, We aren't willing to grapple
Speaker 1: with the increasingly obvious reality that these institutions have individuals
Speaker 1: at very senior positions who view the power that they
Speaker 1: are supposed to wield on behalf of the American people
Speaker 1: and the rule of law as an opportunity to fight
Speaker 1: for their team, to even the score for their side.
Speaker 1: This was the case with Sally Yates, with Andy McKay,
Speaker 1: with Jim Comey, with Peter Struck, with Lisa Page, with
Speaker 1: Jim Clapper, with John Brennan, all of them. They're not
Speaker 1: supposed to say, I'm the CIA director, I'm the FBI director,
Speaker 1: and therefore I'm gonna break protocol, I'm gonna break rules.
Speaker 1: Maybe even laws will find out one day who leaked
Speaker 1: the Flynn conversation. Somebody created somebody committed a felony there.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't some random guy who worked in the
Speaker 1: mail room. I can assure you, someone very high up
Speaker 1: the government food chain decided that they had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to take out one of the most despised Trump allies
Speaker 1: and a very important one for the implementation of his policies,
Speaker 1: General Flynn, on national security side, and they broke the law.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm sure they would say, whoever it is,
Speaker 1: when they're caught, if they're caught, which I unfortunately think
Speaker 1: will not happen, say I had to do it. Trump
Speaker 1: is a clear and present danger to this country. Well,
Speaker 1: what we really have evidence of is that the clear
Speaker 1: and present danger to this country are the people that
Speaker 1: think that they have a right that they take unto
Speaker 1: themselves to break the law, to break rules, to break protocol,
Speaker 1: to break trust. It should be for a government official
Speaker 1: like James Comey, a sacred feeling to be in the
Speaker 1: Oval office and advising and working with and speaking to
Speaker 1: the President United States. I don't care who the president is. Instead,
Speaker 1: James Comey is writing these memos and taking them home
Speaker 1: and creating a little opo file. That's what this was,
Speaker 1: an opposition file, compromat. The Russians would have called it.
Speaker 1: That's what the KGB would have said. This was got
Speaker 1: to keep those documents handy, not because there was anything
Speaker 1: illegal that he could have charged the President with, but
Speaker 1: because he wanted to spin a narrative, that's right, a
Speaker 1: narrative in the media to hurt the president politically. Who
Speaker 1: fired James Comey and was entirely justified in doing so.
Speaker 1: People have been prosecuted for much less. That was that
Speaker 1: sailor who was prosecuted for taking a photo of a
Speaker 1: classified area of a submarine. He should have known better,
Speaker 1: but the photo was deleted, no one ever saw it.
Speaker 1: I want to send me to prison for a year. Papadopoulos,
Speaker 1: under extreme pressure from Muller's team of obviously anti Trump zealots,
Speaker 1: either misremembered or told the minor lie about when he
Speaker 1: had a communication that wasn't illegal, that didn't mean anything,
Speaker 1: and they made him go to prison for two weeks.
Speaker 1: And now he's a convicted felon. I already talked about
Speaker 1: what they did to Roger Stone. Look at what happens.
Speaker 1: They wanted to ruin Scooter Libby, Coomy's buddy, his lawyer.
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald knew that Libby didn't leak any covert agent's name.
Speaker 1: He knew that Armitage accidentally, as the story goes, let
Speaker 1: it slip. And they decided to just put as many
Speaker 1: Bush officials through the ringer as possible. Why because they
Speaker 1: wanted to get one and they figured they'd find somebody
Speaker 1: who had there was a fact discrepancy, there was an
Speaker 1: opening to say that a crime was committed, and they'd
Speaker 1: make the case. And Bush because the Iraq War was
Speaker 1: in a moment of extreme unpopularity and political peril, and
Speaker 1: they wanted to take scood Or Libby, who was the
Speaker 1: President's National security advisor, and lock him up for a
Speaker 1: couple of years in federal prison, take away his law license.
Speaker 1: Connected felon for what? For what? Tell me who the
Speaker 1: Democrat is? Tell me who the person that the establishment?
Speaker 1: The establishment meeting the Democrat establishment in politics. Find me
Speaker 1: one name of somebody who was treated roughly by the
Speaker 1: justice system who is actually anti Trump. You can't. And
Speaker 1: I just sat here and ran through all these names
Speaker 1: of people that we're not given any kind of leniency,
Speaker 1: no mercy, no you know, do better next time. And
Speaker 1: in some cases I think we're set up. I think
Speaker 1: General Flynn was set up. Sally Yates created a completely pretextual,
Speaker 1: nonsensical excuse to send some FBI agents in to talk
Speaker 1: to him about a conversation that he was completely within
Speaker 1: his rights to have. And then, in order to make
Speaker 1: this a big scandal, the information was leaked about the
Speaker 1: conversation to the press. And now we know they're able
Speaker 1: to take out General Flynn. This is how the other
Speaker 1: side plays the game. We've seen it now. James Comey's
Speaker 1: a fraud. He's pretended all along to be a just
Speaker 1: by the book guy, and he has done so many
Speaker 1: things in exactly the opposite manner. He has chosen to
Speaker 1: take his own judgment in lieu of the law, and
Speaker 1: that is a betrayal of the very justice system that
Speaker 1: he claims to have served for so many decades. It's
Speaker 1: not up to James Colemey to think, oh, I can
Speaker 1: do this even though the REGs say otherwise. It's not
Speaker 1: up to James come to decide that the election in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen shouldn't count, should be undone. That's what he did.
Speaker 1: That was his decision making. He's not really going to
Speaker 1: be held to account for. But just remember how many
Speaker 1: times you have been lied to about all of these
Speaker 1: anti Trump government figures. Who I would know it were
Speaker 1: tied to the Obama administration. We don't hear enough about that.
Speaker 1: We should hear substantially more. And I still want to
Speaker 1: know in this whole process, what did Obama no? What
Speaker 1: did Obama know when the FBI director was going to
Speaker 1: stand in front of the American people and decide that
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton wouldn't face charges, which was not his job.
Speaker 1: What did Obama know when James Comey was going home
Speaker 1: putting these memos in his own personal safe in preparation
Speaker 1: for what was going to be a public media enabled
Speaker 1: anti Trump propaganda campaign. If you're James Comy, you don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna want a powerful ally on your side.
Speaker 1: You don't think you're gonna tell anybody else about this? Well,
Speaker 1: he'd certainly told his lawyers about it. You know that
Speaker 1: that he was planning to go after the president in
Speaker 1: some way before and then after the presidents Right, these
Speaker 1: meetings occurred in January twenty seventeen. What did Obama know
Speaker 1: in October of twenty sixteen about what Comey's thoughts were
Speaker 1: about Trump? Are we to assume that Comy just went
Speaker 1: anti Trump later on in the process. I don't buy it.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got more. I'll be right back, no
Speaker 1: doubt in my mind. But that doesn't mean I'm against
Speaker 1: review of it. That's totally fine. Do you think the
Speaker 1: Inspector General will find nothing inappropriate? I don't think so,
Speaker 1: at least not that I know of. But if they do,
Speaker 1: they do, and they should be transparent about it. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in the truth. If the truth
Speaker 1: is there was something concerning, then let's hear it. I
Speaker 1: don't know of anything like that. There was a lot concerning,
Speaker 1: and now we know or was inappropriate behavior, improper behavior,
Speaker 1: unethical behavior from James Coomy. Another time here where we
Speaker 1: have to find out eventually that someone who's a great
Speaker 1: resistance anti Trump hero is a fraud and a fake,
Speaker 1: not do we pretended to be Maybe maybe there's a
Speaker 1: lesson in that. Maybe we should keep that in mind
Speaker 1: going forward. By the way, there was a video I
Speaker 1: saw that they a fox and he was talking about
Speaker 1: video from the from a two thousand and five police
Speaker 1: rate of Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. And the home
Speaker 1: was just strewn decorated all over the place with images
Speaker 1: of what we're described as naked young women all over
Speaker 1: this home. I am curious. Did the people that visited
Speaker 1: this home not think that was a bit weird. We're
Speaker 1: to believe, you know, all these people that spend this
Speaker 1: time with Epstein tell us they didn't know anything weird
Speaker 1: was going on. This guy has naked young women adorning
Speaker 1: his home on the walls. No one thought that there
Speaker 1: was something up here. How many of you would would
Speaker 1: go over and hang out at someone's home if they
Speaker 1: had pictures of young naked girls all over the place.
Speaker 1: I think the answer is zero. I'm gonna stay on
Speaker 1: this Epstein case. I'll be back. Last night on this show,
Speaker 1: I discussed information that wasn't for reporting. I repeated statements
Speaker 1: a single source told me about the president's finances and
Speaker 1: loan documents with Deutsche Bank, saying if true, as I discussed,
Speaker 1: the information was simply not good enough. I did not
Speaker 1: go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at
Speaker 1: MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had
Speaker 1: it gone through that process, I would not have been
Speaker 1: permitted to report it. I should not have said it
Speaker 1: on air or posted it on Twitter. I was wrong
Speaker 1: to do so. This afternoon, attorneys for the President sent
Speaker 1: us a letter asserting the story is false. They also
Speaker 1: demanded a retraction tonight. We are retracting the story. We
Speaker 1: don't know whether the information is inaccurate, but the fact
Speaker 1: is we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast, and
Speaker 1: for that I apologize. All right, close, but no cigar
Speaker 1: here from Lord's O'Donnell close still what he should do.
Speaker 1: They've retracted the story obviously, right. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if they're going to not retract a story that's so
Speaker 1: blatantly flimsy and its sourcing not up to standards, not
Speaker 1: up to par, then we all know that the whole
Speaker 1: thing's a joke. But the problem is CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 1: They've been doing this time and time again, and at
Speaker 1: some point as I mentioned you yesterday. The retraction is
Speaker 1: not enough at some point. It's it's not enough to
Speaker 1: just say, oh, well, well, we'll do better next time.
Speaker 1: If you keep on producing anti Trump stories that are
Speaker 1: not in fact accurate, people are going to question your objectivity.
Speaker 1: And in the case of these major news networks, they
Speaker 1: shouldn't question it. They should know that it's not there.
Speaker 1: There is, There is no objectivity. But I like this,
Speaker 1: this standard. This reminds me of the post Muller investigation
Speaker 1: delusion that so many of the left have, where they'll say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: just because you know, we just because we couldn't prove
Speaker 1: that that Trump colluded with Russia, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: he didn't collude with Russia. Right, just because we weren't
Speaker 1: able to get him with the Muller probe doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that Congress doesn't have a role now in trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, figure this out, find out what exactly the
Speaker 1: collusion was. And you know, essentially, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: you can't prove that, I can't prove it. That's what
Speaker 1: they're saying. You can't find a way to make this thing.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't find a way to make this
Speaker 1: impossible to be true, and so if you can't make
Speaker 1: it impossible to be true, then the standard will be
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna pretend like maybe it could be true. Horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible stuff. But this is what they do. This is
Speaker 1: how the left, how the left wing media does their
Speaker 1: business these days. Now, I don't want to just switch
Speaker 1: gears for a moment here to uh Maddis. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know General Mattis. There's some people that wore
Speaker 1: the uniform and had three or four stars on their
Speaker 1: shoulder that I that I came across professionally when I
Speaker 1: was in the CIA and sat in briefings with UM,
Speaker 1: got a sense of who they were, what they knew,
Speaker 1: you know how, how on top of their game they
Speaker 1: were at any given time. I never met Maddis. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. But I do find this a little bit, uh,
Speaker 1: a little bit disappointing. Now he's allowed to speak out
Speaker 1: against commander in chief. He's a private citizen. Now that's fine,
Speaker 1: and I don't. And it goes that saying I think
Speaker 1: you all listening to show know this. I've I do
Speaker 1: have a deep and real, a tremendous respect for the
Speaker 1: United States military for people who serve. I was up
Speaker 1: close and personal with that service as a CIA analyst
Speaker 1: deploying to a Rock and Afghanistan. There were men many
Speaker 1: times where I trusted my life to men and women
Speaker 1: in uniform in the war zones, trusted my safety to them,
Speaker 1: you know, flying around in blackhawks, you know, driving around
Speaker 1: in humvees, and it was that was something you don't
Speaker 1: ever forget right, And you know, I was in a
Speaker 1: position to defend myself, but I was relying on them
Speaker 1: to be the first line of defense and then some always.
Speaker 1: So it's with that said that that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I can't disagree with Mattis on something, you know, just
Speaker 1: because someone served that I think that this also you
Speaker 1: see this a lot with people when they will talk
Speaker 1: about the John McCain's political record, I'll say, oh, but
Speaker 1: his service to his country. I would never criticize his
Speaker 1: service to his country. And I did not approve of
Speaker 1: or think it was okay when when Trump went after
Speaker 1: a serve. I didn't like that. But I also think
Speaker 1: it's not fair that because John McCain served, when you're
Speaker 1: speaking about his political record and decisions he made, you
Speaker 1: can't criticize them I think that's wrong. I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who serve, and if we
Speaker 1: can't criticize their politics separate from their service, obviously no
Speaker 1: one's criticizing anyone's military service. You can't criticize their politics,
Speaker 1: then where does that stop and start? What are the
Speaker 1: outer limits of that new approach to all these things?
Speaker 1: And so with that that, I see that you've got
Speaker 1: Maddis going around now. He's got a book call signed Chaos,
Speaker 1: Learning to Lead. And look, I think you know Maddis,
Speaker 1: I don't know him until some of you listen maybe
Speaker 1: work with him, knowing much better than I do. I'm
Speaker 1: always a little suspicious. I was always suspicious of Petraeus,
Speaker 1: just because I knew, and that I knew more firsthand
Speaker 1: that he was cultivating a reputation for himself and had
Speaker 1: aspirations and politics. And you know, Maddis is not shy
Speaker 1: about liking the media, liking the press, and liking the spotlight.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's been fair to say. And you
Speaker 1: know he's out there now giving interviews in support of
Speaker 1: this book, and he's talking about things like he gave
Speaker 1: an interview The Atlantic where he said, quote the next
Speaker 1: day this is about meeting a meeting with Trump in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office, and he says, this is what happened.
Speaker 1: The next day with Trump in the Oval Office, Mattis
Speaker 1: made his case for keeping troops in Syria. Trump rejected
Speaker 1: his arguments. Thirty minutes into the conversation, Mattis told the President,
Speaker 1: you're going to have to get the next Secretary of
Speaker 1: Defense to lose to isis. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: He handed Trump his resignation letter, a letter that would
Speaker 1: soon become one of the most famous documents of the
Speaker 1: Trump presidency so far. Mattis's interview also touched on things
Speaker 1: like quote, he found the president to be of limited
Speaker 1: cognitive ability and of generally dubious character end quote. Mattis
Speaker 1: declined to directly criticize the President for the most part,
Speaker 1: citing a duty of silence he owed the administration. He
Speaker 1: warned this will not be permanent, saying, quote, there is
Speaker 1: a period in which I owe my silence. It's not eternal.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be forever. Well, he's not being
Speaker 1: silent right now, so I don't That part of it
Speaker 1: for me was a little bit confused. Um, he's not
Speaker 1: being silent right now and to say, you know, to
Speaker 1: say that the presidence of generally dubi's character and limited
Speaker 1: cognitive ability. First of all, we're all of limited cognitive ability,
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that's a particularly descript that that's
Speaker 1: a backhanded way of saying he thinks that Trump is stupid,
Speaker 1: that's what he's saying, or a more subtle way of
Speaker 1: saying he thinks the Trump is stupid. And I keep
Speaker 1: coming back this, how exactly is It's not just that
Speaker 1: Trump became president. He didn't have a dad. Look, Bush
Speaker 1: had a very different pathway to the presidency than than Trump.
Speaker 1: Let's not let's not delude ourselves, all right, Plenty of
Speaker 1: people have had very different steps up in politics as
Speaker 1: a result of a family name or you know. Trump
Speaker 1: did this on his own, and he beat the Clinton
Speaker 1: machine with all the media behind it. It's a remarkable feat.
Speaker 1: We're really to believe that Trump is stupid. I'm not.
Speaker 1: He's not he's not bookish, he's not an intellectual. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna believe that. I'm sorry, I reject that the
Speaker 1: president to stupid. I do not think that there's any
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a reasonable position to hold he's
Speaker 1: clearly politically gifted. He's a gifted communicator. He has instincts
Speaker 1: that are amazingly useful in politics as well as in business.
Speaker 1: You know what we would have called back in the
Speaker 1: day here at NYC Street Smots Trump Scott street Smots,
Speaker 1: you know, and that means a lot, and maybe having
Speaker 1: a presidency with street Smarts is something that this country
Speaker 1: needed at this point. And I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to go there, but I'm gonna have to go there,
Speaker 1: you know. With Mattis, again, this is not about his
Speaker 1: military service. That was incredible and we thank him for that,
Speaker 1: and he's an honorable warrior, thank you, sir. But if
Speaker 1: we're talking about Maddis's ability to assess someone's character, he
Speaker 1: was one of the go to defenders, and this is
Speaker 1: a matter of public record, folks, one of the go
Speaker 1: to defenders of Pharaonos c Elizabeth holmes Is character. At
Speaker 1: times when people were really questioning whether Tharno's this blood
Speaker 1: testing company that was that raised eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: from investors and had a multi billion dollar valuation, it
Speaker 1: was a huge fraud. It was the investor equivalent of
Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme. Elizabeth Holmes is a weirdo. That's a
Speaker 1: total weirdo who was playing people like a fiddle left
Speaker 1: and right. And Maddis was the person who was vouching,
Speaker 1: saying that he had looked into her soul and YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: and he vouched for her character. So does he really
Speaker 1: understand Trump? I don't know. I don't think so, and
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed to see that at the current moment he's
Speaker 1: coming out and saying, oh, I won't really go after
Speaker 1: the present, but I'm gonna kind of go after him
Speaker 1: when my book is out there. Mannis is a good man.
Speaker 1: I think he's making a mistake here. That's how I feel.
Speaker 1: This is his standard go too. This is what he
Speaker 1: knows is absolute red meat to his base. It's what
Speaker 1: gets them riled up and keeps them distracted from the
Speaker 1: fact that more and more economists are telling us that
Speaker 1: we may be headed into a recession. Putting Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in the Oval office is may well wreck the American economy.
Speaker 1: You know, these trade wars that he's engaging in with
Speaker 1: China are costing people jobs in Iowa and other places.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, this is his old standby Castro.
Speaker 1: I hope is the next the next candidate who's going
Speaker 1: to have to drop out? Because while I've made it
Speaker 1: very clear that Beto, in my opinion, is the worst
Speaker 1: Betto is the worst candidate of all the Democrats that
Speaker 1: are still out there, Castro is certainly at that. And
Speaker 1: now we don't have Jilla Brand anymore. Makes me very sad.
Speaker 1: Now we no longer have Jila Brand, but I would
Speaker 1: it just makes me sad because it's been fun to
Speaker 1: make fun of her. I'm Jilla Brand. You know, she
Speaker 1: was really really like the she was like the peppie
Speaker 1: ex wife that you just never wanted to hear from. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm Jilah Brand. Uh. Yeah. It was a lot of
Speaker 1: lecturing from her, and not not a good thing. Um,
Speaker 1: she's a little bit like a young version of Hillary.
Speaker 1: I got it that. That's the way I think of
Speaker 1: her voice. So that's kind of instead of hollow, it's
Speaker 1: a little more like hello. You know, it's like a
Speaker 1: little less old and old and crusty in the voice,
Speaker 1: but it's still there. There's still the same same shrill,
Speaker 1: annoying entitlement that is. That is the case with Hillary,
Speaker 1: is the case with Jilla Brand. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I was thinking for a long time. I was of
Speaker 1: the mind that Hillary would probably become the candidate um
Speaker 1: eventually for the Democrats, because they just she would do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's let's let's be clear about this. Hillary
Speaker 1: would definitely sign on. I believe that Hillary was willing
Speaker 1: to be the consensus candidate because ultimately, the only way,
Speaker 1: the only way that you can set right in the
Speaker 1: liberal mind, what went wrong in the twenty sixteen election
Speaker 1: would be to have a redo, and a redo in
Speaker 1: which Hillary won the only way, the only way you
Speaker 1: can do it right. But it looks like that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen. That's a little bit frustrating. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but now we see one of the storylines that are
Speaker 1: coming to theories that the economy is going to tank
Speaker 1: because of Trump. Now they tried this in speaking of
Speaker 1: a redo of the election. This is what Castro was saying,
Speaker 1: if Trump is president, the economical tank. Meanwhile, Trump has
Speaker 1: been president and the economy has not been tanking. In fact,
Speaker 1: quite the opposite, economy has been strong. It has been
Speaker 1: going very very well. So in what world, in what
Speaker 1: universe does it make any sense for the left to
Speaker 1: come out and claim that Trump is going to ruin
Speaker 1: the economy when he's already been in office, he's been
Speaker 1: the guy in charge and things are going great. It's
Speaker 1: it's like, don't listen to me, you know, don't listen
Speaker 1: to what you hear. Don't listen to your lying years.
Speaker 1: Listen to what I say. This seems to be the
Speaker 1: pitch that Democrats have come up with it because there's
Speaker 1: a desperation. They know that absent a recession, there is
Speaker 1: a very high likelihood, just based on history, based on
Speaker 1: all the numbers, a very high likelihood that Trump gets
Speaker 1: reelected absent a recession. That's a very real thing. And
Speaker 1: so they're going to come up with some way. They're
Speaker 1: going to come up with some narrative in the meantime that, oh,
Speaker 1: there's not a recession yet, but just wait, just wait.
Speaker 1: There will be a recession. It's coming, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: But you know, believe them, that's what they're asking you.
Speaker 1: Oh just now, will this continue to work in six months?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you're gonna you're gonna hear this
Speaker 1: up until election day. What does Castro, by the way,
Speaker 1: what does he know about recessions or about anything else.
Speaker 1: The problems Democrats have is that they don't none of
Speaker 1: the candidates who sound like reasonable people can appeal the left,
Speaker 1: so they can't get out of the primary. And the
Speaker 1: person that's supposed to be I mean, they'll say Castro
Speaker 1: is an open borders guy. Castro was the guy who
Speaker 1: not only wants to decriminalize illegal crossings of the border,
Speaker 1: which is completely insane, he also is the individual who
Speaker 1: wanted the I mean, it's sorry to believe he's the
Speaker 1: one who wanted taxpayer funded abortions for transgender individuals. He
Speaker 1: was the one that went to that to that length recently,
Speaker 1: which again, it's just absolutely nuts. It's just nuts for
Speaker 1: him to say that, But he said it, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats didn't really seem to have much of a problem
Speaker 1: with it. They're of the belief that, yeah, sure, you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably a little bit out of bound sometimes, but
Speaker 1: that's where we are here with Castro. But they got Biden.
Speaker 1: Biden's supposed to be the return to normalcy, and yet
Speaker 1: this guy cannot go. First of all, that they've tried
Speaker 1: to scale back his schedule. They tried to scale back
Speaker 1: his schedule because they feel like later in the day
Speaker 1: he's more. This is real, this has been reported. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not imagining this. Later in the day, he
Speaker 1: is more likely to make gaffs because he's tired, because
Speaker 1: he's too old. That's they won't say that part of it,
Speaker 1: but that's what's really going on. Because he's too old.
Speaker 1: They don't go beyond that. Excellent, they won't say more
Speaker 1: than that. They'll just say, yeah, he wants to have
Speaker 1: He shouldn't have things later on the day. He wants
Speaker 1: to have them earlier on because of that. And it's
Speaker 1: because every seems like about every two days now, Biden
Speaker 1: says something that is just a wow moment. Oh well,
Speaker 1: Biden's gone and done it again. Why are economically distress
Speaker 1: who help? No? No, yeah, that's what he wants. Social worst,
Speaker 1: going to teach them how to raise their children. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what it sounds like to me. Do you think
Speaker 1: if maybe you might even say, oh, but buck, some
Speaker 1: people do need to learn more, or there's some role
Speaker 1: of the state and trying to Okay, but do you
Speaker 1: think a Republican would ever get away with saying something
Speaker 1: like that. Biden is just a walking, talking political liability
Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party and yet he's way ahead in
Speaker 1: the polls. Still, you have to sit back and ask
Speaker 1: yourself about half the country or Democrats at least by registration, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know people say, oh, buck, no, there's
Speaker 1: more conservatives, Republican, fine, whatever, it's it's close to half
Speaker 1: the country is reddish your Democrat? Okay, Biden's the best
Speaker 1: they've got. This is who they're offering up to take
Speaker 1: on Trump. I think that they must know, they must
Speaker 1: know deep down that this is that his campaign is
Speaker 1: doomed to failure. But I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe
Speaker 1: I'm missing something. You know, there is this part of
Speaker 1: me that keeps thinking, given what happened in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: perhaps we have to approach all politics from the mindset
Speaker 1: of anything is possible, anything could happen, right Biden? Maybe
Speaker 1: you know, Joe Biden just gets the job done. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's possible. But look, it's it's a crazy
Speaker 1: world we live, and it really is. There's all kinds
Speaker 1: of crazy stuff going on, So who knows, Folks, I'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. If that's for sure, We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, my friends. I want to tell you about
Speaker 1: de foi Gras wars that is coming. Yes, you may
Speaker 1: not have heard of this, but it is a real problem.
Speaker 1: My friends. De foi gras may be banned here in
Speaker 1: the city called New York. You may not be able
Speaker 1: to partise. Now. I see the problem. My French accent
Speaker 1: is it turns into a Russian accent sometimes. And I
Speaker 1: haven't even had anything to drink. If I had a
Speaker 1: little bit of vodka going, that would be an acceptable situation,
Speaker 1: but I have not. And so this is where we are.
Speaker 1: New York City. May ban may follow in California's footsteps.
Speaker 1: California's already done this before. California's banned plastic bags. They
Speaker 1: like to ban things. We're gonna ban it, but they're
Speaker 1: looking at ban foi gras. For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: foi gras is a delicacy and it has been somewhat controversial,
Speaker 1: especially in animal rights activists circles for a while because
Speaker 1: the way and it can be either goose or duck
Speaker 1: foi gras. I will tell you I prefer the duck,
Speaker 1: but I will eat the goose foigra. I'll do either.
Speaker 1: But the way that it works is they take this, uh,
Speaker 1: they take let's talk about it with the duck foigra
Speaker 1: because that's the best. And Hudson Valley, New York, a
Speaker 1: place that I know very well. My grandparents had a
Speaker 1: home up there for many many years. Hudson Valley, New York,
Speaker 1: is famous for it's fois gras, right, it is a famous,
Speaker 1: famous locale for foi gras. And if it is, if
Speaker 1: it's banned there. I think they said there's fifteen I
Speaker 1: think they said fifteen million. Yeah, fifteen million dollars of
Speaker 1: fois gras is sold. I don't know if that was
Speaker 1: nationwide or just to New York every year, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a real business. There's real money
Speaker 1: at stake and for a lot of people, for a
Speaker 1: lot of farms, this is a do or die situation,
Speaker 1: you know. Um yeah, last year, I'm sorry, Hudson Valley,
Speaker 1: is this one This one place found in a nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety slaughters about eight hundred fouag Grad ducks every day.
Speaker 1: Last year, it's sold about fifteen million dollars of foua
Speaker 1: grad restaurants and distributors. So that's just one place. Wow,
Speaker 1: I guess foag grads a much bigger business. The fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollars anyway, people like this fatty duck liver. That's
Speaker 1: what it is. They take the duck and they force
Speaker 1: feed it a high fat corn feed. They put a
Speaker 1: it's it's like a put a hose. It's like a
Speaker 1: thin hose they put in the duck's throat, and the
Speaker 1: and the liver of the duck turns a kind of
Speaker 1: translucent yellow and becomes about the size they say, of
Speaker 1: a it should be able to fit in the palm
Speaker 1: of your hand, a duck liver, but it becomes about
Speaker 1: the size of a of a human brain over the
Speaker 1: course of this this feeding process, so the liver gets very,
Speaker 1: very large and fatty. It's it's you know, fatty liver.
Speaker 1: Disease is the thing that people can suffer from. But
Speaker 1: this is like a fatty liver in the duck. The
Speaker 1: thing is, if you see it properly and put like
Speaker 1: a cherry compote on it, it's delicious. Brucer Mark, do
Speaker 1: you like fagra? I don't really like liver. That's fair.
Speaker 1: Why am I telling you this is not just so
Speaker 1: I can do a weird French accent and talk about
Speaker 1: foagras because I'm hungry. This is going to lead to
Speaker 1: a whole lot more if they get this band through
Speaker 1: based solely on how this is inhumane. That is the
Speaker 1: approach they're taking. They're saying that this is an inhumane thing.
Speaker 1: If they are successful in doing that, what's to stop
Speaker 1: them from saying that factory farm chickens are also raised
Speaker 1: and killed in an inhumane fashion. And you're going to
Speaker 1: see more of this. You're going to see these activists,
Speaker 1: these animal rights activists who are always politically left. I've
Speaker 1: never met an animal rights activist who wasn't. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: either a Hilary or any Sanders voter who probably drives
Speaker 1: a Prius and there's usually a degree. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, I love animals. I love dogs particularly, but
Speaker 1: I love animals in general. But I also think of
Speaker 1: human beings are meant to eat animals, and I think
Speaker 1: that ultimately, you know, we don't want to be unnecessarily cruel. Ever,
Speaker 1: you don't want to inflict pain for the sake of
Speaker 1: pain ever, U But you do start getting into this
Speaker 1: this gray zone of well what is acceptable? You know,
Speaker 1: they they've banned for a long time. I forget what
Speaker 1: it's called, but a small bird in Brandy, uh that
Speaker 1: was a delicacy for Orto lawns. There we go, the
Speaker 1: Orto lawns. This was when they would take a little
Speaker 1: songbird and they would pluck out its eyes and drown
Speaker 1: the bird in arm armagnac and marinated in this this
Speaker 1: liqueur and then it is roasted and then plucked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this goes back to ancient Rome. So people like
Speaker 1: like this this orderlan thing, and that's been outlawed for
Speaker 1: a while because they cruelty. They're trying to get foil gron.
Speaker 1: It's outlawed in California. You can't get foil grown California anymore.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you next is going to come. The
Speaker 1: factory farming is cruel and there's gonna be a real
Speaker 1: political movement on the left about this. And look at
Speaker 1: how they're they're they're coming after your food in a
Speaker 1: bunch of ways. They're coming after your food because they
Speaker 1: say the climate change footprint is too large. They're coming
Speaker 1: after your food because they're saying that it's it's cruel.
Speaker 1: It's essentially cruel and unusual punishment against animals, and they
Speaker 1: want to control more and more aspects of your life.
Speaker 1: I do think that also with the beyond meat success,
Speaker 1: and they have all these meat substitutes. We've talked a
Speaker 1: bit about this. You're going to see a greater push
Speaker 1: because it's never gonna taste as good. And all of
Speaker 1: you already know that your barbecue, your burger, that's just
Speaker 1: it's just more delicious than whatever they can make in
Speaker 1: a test tube somewhere. We're no, we are nowhere close
Speaker 1: to creating meat substitutes that if someone is okay with
Speaker 1: eating meat, they would choose based on taste. And I'm
Speaker 1: willing to try it. I'm going to try the different things.
Speaker 1: We are nowhere in the in the stratosphere of that
Speaker 1: being the case, we are in fact going to be
Speaker 1: told that we have to eat this much less delicious
Speaker 1: stuff because it's better for the environment, or in this case,
Speaker 1: because they're so mean to animals. It's so mean to
Speaker 1: the animals. You know, if you're gonna eat animals, there's
Speaker 1: going to be violence. There's going to be there's going
Speaker 1: to be the killing of the animal, unless you're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, go real caveman style, and you know, they
Speaker 1: try to take a bite out of the animal while
Speaker 1: it's you know, still flopping around on the boat or
Speaker 1: something that's not a good idea. You know that. I
Speaker 1: heard a story from a fly fishing guide a long
Speaker 1: time ago who said that he went fishing with a
Speaker 1: bunch of Russians and they like to they would actually
Speaker 1: take the salmon and eat the row that they with.
Speaker 1: The salmon would still be flopping around on the shore
Speaker 1: and they would create an incision across the bell, or
Speaker 1: they would slit the belly and then they would eat
Speaker 1: salmon row right out of the fish producer mark how
Speaker 1: much money would have to pay you to have you
Speaker 1: do that? A lot? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: very very salty, so if you like salty things, but
Speaker 1: I don't like super salty stuff. So I'm telling you
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna come after. You're gonna see that.
Speaker 1: And the movement is there. I think they are going
Speaker 1: to ban FOI ground New York, and then they'll be
Speaker 1: a push to bannon in other cities across and other
Speaker 1: blue areas of the country for shore where this is
Speaker 1: a delicacy of that people actually eat, and it's going
Speaker 1: to affect people. Look, you're you're gonna have farms that
Speaker 1: I'll go out of business. Hundreds of people lose their
Speaker 1: livelihoods because they think they're being a little a little
Speaker 1: rough with the goose and the last thirty days of life.
Speaker 1: There are veterinarians who say this is cruel. They're veterinarians
Speaker 1: who say all factory farming is cruel. And there's some
Speaker 1: who say that you know, this is the circle of life.
Speaker 1: So take your pick, folks, But I'm telling you they're
Speaker 1: coming after your burger. You are now entering the Freedom
Speaker 1: had kind of operation center. All sensitive programs money cans
Speaker 1: strongly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready
Speaker 1: for the Buck breeze. Look, it is the case that
Speaker 1: for a couple of decades, and here this isn't political,
Speaker 1: this is Republican and Democrat administrations alike. For a couple
Speaker 1: of decades, we allowed China to run rough shot over
Speaker 1: American interests as as did Europe allowed China to run
Speaker 1: rough shot over their interests as well. President Trump is
Speaker 1: clear that's not going to be the case anymore. It's
Speaker 1: it's most prominent that as you see it in the
Speaker 1: trade issues, where we're trying to simply get fair and
Speaker 1: reciprocal trade between the United States and China. But I
Speaker 1: think you also see and all the other components of
Speaker 1: the challenge that China presents, whether it's pushing back as
Speaker 1: we've done here at the State Department on the risk
Speaker 1: presented by Chinese telecommunications infrastructure, Huawei and others, the work
Speaker 1: that we've done to convince our partners around the world
Speaker 1: that allowing China to make investments in their countries that
Speaker 1: will ultimately make them vassal states of China along every
Speaker 1: dimension political, diplomatic, and security, we're pushing back to make
Speaker 1: sure that the American people are protected against the challenges
Speaker 1: that China presents to us. That is the essence that
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Pompeia laying it out for That is
Speaker 1: the essence of why Trump has been willing to take
Speaker 1: the position he has against China. That they have been
Speaker 1: bad actors on a number of fronts for a long time,
Speaker 1: and we've all finally just had enough of it, and
Speaker 1: so I think that has to be reiterated. We have
Speaker 1: to continue to hone in on that reality if we're
Speaker 1: going to assess whether or not it is the right
Speaker 1: move for President Trump to continue on with this battle
Speaker 1: with China. Understand that any anyone who pays attention to
Speaker 1: geopolitics and is not an internationalist, cosmopolitan this type. If
Speaker 1: you ask them, does the Chinese do the Chinese view
Speaker 1: our relationship with them at some level as zero sum?
Speaker 1: The answer has to be yes. Now, if you were
Speaker 1: to ask anybody if the Russians view the US China
Speaker 1: US relationship as zero sum, everybody would say, well, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean putin that's the way. What evidence is there
Speaker 1: at all that the Chinese take a different approach to
Speaker 1: their relationship with the United States trading relationship, political relationship.
Speaker 1: You know, do we really think the Chinese, for example,
Speaker 1: have tried their best to help us on the North
Speaker 1: Korea issue? Do we really believe that the Chinese government
Speaker 1: is doing everything in its power to help with what
Speaker 1: is the one of them most important national security challenges
Speaker 1: in the world, which is the preventing North Korea from
Speaker 1: becoming a true nuclear power that is able to hit
Speaker 1: any country anywhere in the world with an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Speaker 1: I mean, they already have nuclear weapons, which is a
Speaker 1: somewhat terrifying thought in and of itself. Chinese aren't putting
Speaker 1: undue pressure on them. In fact, that Chinese like the
Speaker 1: current relationship where we have to run to them and say, okay,
Speaker 1: come on, we need a little help here getting North
Speaker 1: Korea to fall inline. What what can you do for us?
Speaker 1: So that's another component of this. I mean that you
Speaker 1: see Chinese action not just on trade, but on national
Speaker 1: security and other issues. It's quite clear to me that
Speaker 1: they aren't helpful to there aren't They're not an ally right.
Speaker 1: This is what There is a very clear strategic clash
Speaker 1: going on between us and them. They want to be
Speaker 1: the global hedgemon. The Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 1: have aspirations to be the wealthiest, strongest country in the world,
Speaker 1: and to be the wealthiest and strongest country in the world.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be an interconnected as we are
Speaker 1: with the Internet and transit on planes as simple as
Speaker 1: it is to get all over the place, and a
Speaker 1: truly globalized economy, you're going to have to be influential
Speaker 1: outside of your borders in ways that we don't want.
Speaker 1: We simply don't want the Chinese to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: we do not want the spread of a one state
Speaker 1: capitalist or sort of a one state quasi capitalist authoritarian
Speaker 1: communist Chinese Party. We don't want that spread all over
Speaker 1: the world. We don't want that to become the new
Speaker 1: model for other countries. Now you could say, oh, but
Speaker 1: China isn't trying to create China in the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. That's true to that's true to extent. But
Speaker 1: it's also the case that the Chinese government by being
Speaker 1: completely willing to work with any country, irrespective of the
Speaker 1: nature of that regime, the way that regime interacts with
Speaker 1: other countries as well as its own people, it just
Speaker 1: means that, you know, imagine if the US were to
Speaker 1: go bad and decide that we were going to be
Speaker 1: buddies with all the worst countries in the world, that
Speaker 1: would have that would have profound ramifications for the future
Speaker 1: of the earth, I mean for all of us. And
Speaker 1: that's the future we're headed forth with China. So I
Speaker 1: think that there has to be a long term view
Speaker 1: of this, and I think that the president deserves a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. And I know that he's getting criticized
Speaker 1: right now by Maddis who says that he has a
Speaker 1: lack of cognitive ability. Essentially, I mean Maddis more or
Speaker 1: less the saying the President's not smart. I think he's
Speaker 1: trying to do it in a very well, not even
Speaker 1: very he's trying to do in a somewhat roundabout way,
Speaker 1: but that's what is going That's what's going on here.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike Pompeo also spoke a bit about
Speaker 1: the Israel and Iran issue and how this administration is
Speaker 1: approaching that. With respect of Islamic Republic of Iran, we've flipped,
Speaker 1: we flipped the US policy there. The previous administration guaranteed
Speaker 1: Iran a path the nuclear weapons system, allowed them to
Speaker 1: foment error, and allowed their missile system to run. The
Speaker 1: President Trumps directed that we do just the opposite of
Speaker 1: deny them their resources to create resk not only for
Speaker 1: the United States and its citizens, but for Israel as well.
Speaker 1: And we've been successful with that, and we've also been
Speaker 1: incredibly supportive each time Israel has been forced to take
Speaker 1: actions to defend itself. The United States has made very
Speaker 1: clear that that country has not only the right, but
Speaker 1: the duty to protect its own people, and we are
Speaker 1: always supportive of their efforts to do that. And so
Speaker 1: with respect to ensuring that Israel is treated fairly at
Speaker 1: the United Nations, is or will can certainly count on
Speaker 1: the United States of America see, there's a fundamental difference
Speaker 1: in the way you have to think about the Iranian regime,
Speaker 1: Iranian government, and the Israeli government. And this is where
Speaker 1: the left is wrong. This is where the left loses it.
Speaker 1: That's what they don't understand, or rather they're just wrong,
Speaker 1: and maybe they understand they're just wrong, and that is
Speaker 1: that the Israeli regime, the government of the country of Israel,
Speaker 1: is at its core a decent, moral, rule of law government.
Speaker 1: The government in Tehran, the Mullahs, the Guardian Council, they
Speaker 1: are at their core, and the government that they run
Speaker 1: is an indecent, immoral, corrupt and evil regime. And everything
Speaker 1: that you think about when you're when you're talking about
Speaker 1: the relationship between those countries and what's going on in
Speaker 1: their spheres of influence the Middle East, it has to
Speaker 1: start from that context in a very straightforward way. The
Speaker 1: Iranian government of the bad guys, the Israeli government of
Speaker 1: the good guys, and conservatives are willing to put it
Speaker 1: in those those terms. For the left, it's oh, there's
Speaker 1: always a greater complexity, and they'll say there's greater complexity,
Speaker 1: and then all of their efforts at condemning all their
Speaker 1: all the diplomatic pressure they can bring, that's always brought
Speaker 1: to bear against Israel. Right, that's where the UN and
Speaker 1: all these international bodies are always criticizing Israel as though
Speaker 1: it's the country we have to really be the most
Speaker 1: worried about, you know, that's the country that's really and
Speaker 1: so this is where you have even if Trump lacks
Speaker 1: the more nuanced understanding out there that obviously Libs think
Speaker 1: that he's a psycho and a traitor and an idiot
Speaker 1: all at once. Right, Libs think all kind he's Hitler.
Speaker 1: He's worse than Hitler. He's worse than Mow. He's he's
Speaker 1: you know, Satan himself, except at least Satan could tempt
Speaker 1: people in ways that we're clever. They think that Trump
Speaker 1: is just borish, But on the Israel versus Iran question,
Speaker 1: Trump is fundamentally right, Just like on the China US relationship,
Speaker 1: He's fundamentally right, and we can't lose sight of that.
Speaker 1: So one of my favorite things to complain about, and
Speaker 1: since this is my radio show, I'll take a moment
Speaker 1: to complain about something that is on my mind. It's
Speaker 1: just all the stuff I just moved from DC to
Speaker 1: New York and you have all this stuff you have
Speaker 1: to deal with when you move, which is very annoying.
Speaker 1: Moving is very expensive, it's very pricey, and you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be quite aware of what's going on
Speaker 1: around you because there's always stuff that comes up. But
Speaker 1: then when you deal with apartments in New York City,
Speaker 1: you get the double whammy of it's very expensive. Wherever
Speaker 1: you live in New York City is very expensive. And
Speaker 1: those of you that are in this area, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, a lot of you, I know,
Speaker 1: those of you who listen to the show out in Omaha.
Speaker 1: You're laughing at me. You've got, you know, your thousands
Speaker 1: of square feet or whatever, and you've got a yard
Speaker 1: and land and all this stuff, and you're telling me, Buck,
Speaker 1: I've got a very cute workshed that you could go
Speaker 1: throw a cot in and I'll only I'll charge you,
Speaker 1: you know, bottom dollar for it. So I appreciate all that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, here in New York it's very very expensive.
Speaker 1: And wherever you end up living, there's always there's always
Speaker 1: a risk. You know, there's always a risk because you
Speaker 1: go see the place, But until you have actually lived
Speaker 1: in a place like sleep there for the st sleep there,
Speaker 1: slept there, speak the English buck for the night. You
Speaker 1: don't really know what you're getting into. And I've dealt
Speaker 1: with this many times before. For example, years ago, I
Speaker 1: lived in a tiny studio a studio apartment by for
Speaker 1: those who don't know the lingo. A studio is a
Speaker 1: fancy term for a one room apartment, which is what
Speaker 1: I have lived in for most of my adult life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. The freedom hut is it's a hut. It's
Speaker 1: not It is not a mansion. It is not a hacienda.
Speaker 1: One day, producer Mark will have a freedom Hunt hacienda
Speaker 1: if we go big. If we go big time and
Speaker 1: we are in a hundred and sixty stations, but we
Speaker 1: get to five hundred, we'll get a hacienda and we'll
Speaker 1: get you. I don't know, what do you call it,
Speaker 1: like the carriage house for a Haciendael, Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big house, I think, or it's a fancy house.
Speaker 1: So so whenever you move into a place for the
Speaker 1: first time around and I don't know how many of you,
Speaker 1: I've moved ten times as an adult, I've moved over
Speaker 1: and over again. I had to move mostly because when
Speaker 1: I was in the CIA, they would raise my rent
Speaker 1: when I lived in DC, and so I would say, okay,
Speaker 1: And I was living right at the edge of you know,
Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck, So when somebody would raise my rent,
Speaker 1: even a couple one hundred bucks a month or one
Speaker 1: hundred fifty bucks a month, I'd have to move. So
Speaker 1: that happened to me a bunch of times in DC.
Speaker 1: But you know, you learn, you there's a growth process
Speaker 1: from that, from being somebody who has to just get
Speaker 1: it done and move and find a place to live
Speaker 1: and deal with the situation right there. There's a lot
Speaker 1: that you have to you have to handle there. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean I I hacked, and in retrospect, some of
Speaker 1: you're gonna say that, Well, first of all, some of
Speaker 1: you are superhuman, all right, So let's just start right there.
Speaker 1: Every time every time I talk about something, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm working on my fitness, I get like eight members
Speaker 1: of Team buck who are like I just I just
Speaker 1: competed in the IFBB Championship and like, look at me,
Speaker 1: and I've got like a sixteen pack and do this
Speaker 1: and that. And I appreciate the advice, but you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta sit here behind a radio mic for three
Speaker 1: hours a day, and to do this show, I gotta
Speaker 1: read for like four or five hours before I do
Speaker 1: the three hour show. So it's a long it's a
Speaker 1: long haul. So when people ask the question, how do
Speaker 1: you know all this stuff? I know all the stuff
Speaker 1: because I read all this stuff. That should probably we
Speaker 1: could we could probably make that a tagline. I just
Speaker 1: came up with that one hashtag radio skills. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, when you move around, you learn things. I
Speaker 1: moved a one bedroom apartment. This is good. This is
Speaker 1: good for like pre labor day stuff. I moved a
Speaker 1: one bedroom apartment by myself from New York. From DC
Speaker 1: to New York. Drove the truck, the whole thing, just
Speaker 1: by myself, a little it up the truck. I didn't
Speaker 1: have much stuff. I just had a little Dolly and
Speaker 1: drove it all up. And then I got to New
Speaker 1: York and then I realized that I couldn't move my
Speaker 1: stuff into the apartment because I had missed the window.
Speaker 1: And then I had my stuff in a truck and
Speaker 1: I couldn't leave the truck on the street. And I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just I have had so much so much anxiety
Speaker 1: and drama and irritation from having to constantly be mobile
Speaker 1: too for different jobs. I've had to move around for
Speaker 1: obviously CIA, I've had to move around that. You know,
Speaker 1: after a while you kind of get You just get
Speaker 1: into a mindset where you're like, whatever roles my way,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna deal with it. But so this time around,
Speaker 1: I was looking for apartments in New York and there
Speaker 1: are a few things. I'll tell you this. I hate whistling.
Speaker 1: Like the sound of whistling. I understand it makes me.
Speaker 1: It makes me irrationally mad. I just some of it.
Speaker 1: Someone's walking down the street, and I understand that you're
Speaker 1: allowed to walk down the street and whistle. I mean,
Speaker 1: we probably asked yourself, why can't you just be quiet
Speaker 1: with your thoughts? But you know, if you want a whistle,
Speaker 1: you can whistle. If you're an enclosed space and somebody
Speaker 1: has to hear your whistling and can't get away, that's
Speaker 1: slightly different for me. But I understand this is I
Speaker 1: just hate it, and I think there's actually a medical
Speaker 1: condition that I probably there is a condition I think
Speaker 1: I suffer from it, where whistling is like the equivalent
Speaker 1: of a dog. You know, dog whistle is not a
Speaker 1: pleasant thing for dogs. Human whistling for me is like
Speaker 1: a dog. I don't I don't like it. I don
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I find it pretty irritating. But so I've
Speaker 1: had the experience before of looking for apartments in New York.
Speaker 1: I found one when I was living in a tiny
Speaker 1: It was under I think it was four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty square feet. That was the apartment I lived in.
Speaker 1: This was only maybe four years ago. So yes, I
Speaker 1: am not living in the in like a Fox News
Speaker 1: anchor mansion, you know what I'm saying. I'm living in
Speaker 1: a little so I'm living in a tiny space and
Speaker 1: it was cute. It was my own space, my own place.
Speaker 1: I figure it's gonna be fine. And you know, I
Speaker 1: actually didn't have a TV there for the first year
Speaker 1: I lived there, which is pretty markable, and I hadn't
Speaker 1: had a TV before that for a number of years.
Speaker 1: But every night there would be truck deliveries for a
Speaker 1: major department store that was on the same block, and
Speaker 1: so every night I could and just the way that
Speaker 1: the buildings magnified the sound you could hear these is
Speaker 1: it a sixteen wheeler an eighteen wheeler. Do they have
Speaker 1: both of those? I don't know which which is a
Speaker 1: big eighteen wheeler. I mean, I guess it's a sixteen
Speaker 1: wheeler if you lose a couple, right, But okay, eighteen wheeler,
Speaker 1: whatever kind of wheeler to have a big truck. And
Speaker 1: the big truck would drive down, and I would say
Speaker 1: to myself, and of course I'm there. I'm reading Edmund
Speaker 1: Burke late at night, as one does. I'm reading, you know,
Speaker 1: reflections on the Revolution in France. I'm taking notes so
Speaker 1: I can come here and talk to team Buck about it.
Speaker 1: I got all kinds of stuff like that going on. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: And then they would have the even though it would
Speaker 1: be dead quiet three o'clock in the morning, those trucks
Speaker 1: would back up and you'd have the beep, beep beep noise,
Speaker 1: which is why I hate that noise so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was traumatized by that noise. It would wake me
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. It was mattening.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was like paying half of the
Speaker 1: money I was making in rent to live in this
Speaker 1: tiny shoe box in Manhattan with a beeping truck noise.
Speaker 1: And I lived there for three years, so I just
Speaker 1: learned to deal with it. Sunday, I'm moving a new
Speaker 1: place now, and I'm I'm all. I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: be in New York, so excited to be back with
Speaker 1: my friends and my family and everything. And I know,
Speaker 1: for all the flaws, I love this I love this town.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a mess, it's crazy. It will
Speaker 1: sometimes almost break you, almost break you, Marcus. New York
Speaker 1: ever almost broke you almost every day, almost every day, right,
Speaker 1: I mean the stuff of you deal with just being
Speaker 1: on the subway here, A lot of people would be like,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't handle it. I can't handle it,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I've seen some wild I've seen
Speaker 1: some wild stuff go on on the subway, that is
Speaker 1: for sure. I have seen people using a rather crowded
Speaker 1: subway car as a toilet. I've seen some pretty wild
Speaker 1: you know. And you can't go anywhere because the subway
Speaker 1: car is moving. So I've seen some pretty wild stuff.
Speaker 1: But I like this town. And maybe I'm just used
Speaker 1: to the craziest of anything else. But I find this
Speaker 1: apartment and I find this place to live, and I
Speaker 1: may be telling you guys more about this because I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that they're gonna help me out. But otherwise, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a recurring theme on the show, and
Speaker 1: I'll give you more information what should be Buck versus
Speaker 1: the building that refuses to address the problem, Buck versus
Speaker 1: the building management that's decided like tough for you, And
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have a whole Then it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a whole thing. Then we're gonna have whole conversations here
Speaker 1: on the show and elsewhere about what's going on. So,
Speaker 1: so here's what I've learned. You can be actually pretty
Speaker 1: high up in a building, but if there's a building nearby,
Speaker 1: you can be subject to their machinery noise. Right. So
Speaker 1: I come to my new by my apartment, and I
Speaker 1: think i'd seen it before. I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be great. It looks really nice. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm spending way too much money for me on it, right,
Speaker 1: which is as a percentage of income, I'm doing what
Speaker 1: you should tell your kids don't do. Don't spend that
Speaker 1: much of your money on an apartment. And sure, if
Speaker 1: I walk in and I what do I hear? Because
Speaker 1: I know this sound as a New York or too.
Speaker 1: I hear the high pitched screech of an h VACT
Speaker 1: machine that is an industrial size, right, it's for an
Speaker 1: entire building. And I look down and on the building
Speaker 1: right next to me, there's this h vaccine. It's making
Speaker 1: this noise and you can hear it. If you open
Speaker 1: the window then it's out. You might as well be
Speaker 1: in the machinery room. And I can hear this noise,
Speaker 1: and it's just one of these moments where you realize
Speaker 1: the noise wasn't there when I saw the apartment no idea.
Speaker 1: It turns out that it's it's obviously cyclical, and they
Speaker 1: only it's only been an issue. It must have been
Speaker 1: an issue recently. It's a mechanical problem. I actually, in
Speaker 1: true New York fashion, I was writing all on a
Speaker 1: subway car and they're two guys standing there who look
Speaker 1: like union members at two full seven five local, you know,
Speaker 1: steelworkers union or whatever, and you know they look like,
Speaker 1: you know, good, good American industrial working kind of folk.
Speaker 1: And I said, you guys have HVAC shirts on. I said,
Speaker 1: list is my problem? What's going on? They said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it can be fixed. It can be fixed. It's a
Speaker 1: it's either a motor or a belt in the cooling
Speaker 1: tower of the building HVAC unit. So I go and
Speaker 1: I go back, and I go, all right, well, now
Speaker 1: I finally got some I finally got some information here.
Speaker 1: It just so happened these guys we're willing to give
Speaker 1: share a little of their expertise. I told them the problem.
Speaker 1: We're on the subway, very New York story. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm learning about industrial machinery or commercial machinery exhaust systems
Speaker 1: because I'm on a subway and it just happened to
Speaker 1: me next to a couple of guys that that's what
Speaker 1: they do for a living. Based on the T shirts
Speaker 1: they're wearing. It said, you know, HVAC special list, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And I go into the building and they go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we'll take care of it. And then then
Speaker 1: they they go next door. I mean, at first they
Speaker 1: say does a noise really bother you? And and the
Speaker 1: answer is obviously yes. That's I wouldn't I wouldn't come
Speaker 1: in to this office of this big building in New
Speaker 1: York and say, hey, I got a real problem here.
Speaker 1: I got noise. The answer is obviously yes. But they
Speaker 1: like to do the whole like are you sure? And
Speaker 1: they keep producer mark This is my favorite. They keep
Speaker 1: sending up people as if as if I'm crazy, and
Speaker 1: you know what happens when they come up they go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that is pretty loud. That is pretty annoying.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't say you don't say, oh, so I'm
Speaker 1: not actually hearing, like how we've set up four different people.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, how many of you have to come up?
Speaker 1: Do you just not believe? Do you think that I
Speaker 1: like wasting my time like walking into a leasing office
Speaker 1: and having this discussion with you? Do you think I
Speaker 1: like saying I like being this new tenant, this new
Speaker 1: resident in this uh, this new residential tower. Who's the guy?
Speaker 1: You know? I'm not complaining about the croissants in the
Speaker 1: breakfast buffet being stale. I can hear a noise in
Speaker 1: my apartment building that I do not want you in
Speaker 1: my apartment rather that I do not want to hear.
Speaker 1: So we shall see. It is a quick fix if
Speaker 1: they're willing to fix it. It is something that they
Speaker 1: could absolutely do if they want to do it. Question
Speaker 1: is going to be do they want to do anything
Speaker 1: about it? Do they want to help? It's gonna be interesting,
Speaker 1: because the HVACT guys also told me, because you know,
Speaker 1: we became buddies on the train. That buildings. You know,
Speaker 1: as far as they're concerned, it's like the noise if
Speaker 1: it only affects a few tenants, which I'm of course
Speaker 1: one of the few that's affected by it, you know,
Speaker 1: they'd rather like wait and not spend the money until
Speaker 1: it breaks, basically because the screeching means that the machinery
Speaker 1: is wearing, and but they'd rather wait till it just
Speaker 1: totally breaks and then they'll fix it. That seems to
Speaker 1: be the approach of these big buildings. Now for those
Speaker 1: you don't, I mean in New York, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the building I live in is you know, forty or
Speaker 1: fifty stories. The building next to me is the twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty stories. I mean, he's talking a big, big machinery,
Speaker 1: big buildings, and but it's just goes to show you.
Speaker 1: I've lived in New York my whole life. I know
Speaker 1: apartments here, backwards and forwards. I know what to look for.
Speaker 1: I know red flags. The moment that you're stepping into
Speaker 1: the unknown, you are rolling the dice, and right now
Speaker 1: the buster on the apartment front is getting snake eyes?
Speaker 1: Isn't that sneak eyes is bad? Right? When you get
Speaker 1: a snake eyes in the when rolling dice? Is that right, Marks, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's with I don't really roll dice much. I think
Speaker 1: that gambler. I think that I gamble every day in life.
Speaker 1: People like to gamble for fun. I'm always like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gambling when I take a walk on
Speaker 1: the street. See some wild stuff happening here. It's crazy times.
Speaker 1: So so we'll see, I mean, team, I'll hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: have I'll have some updates for you. I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna go into this weekend. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're gonna say they can't fix anything. Hottie weekend, blah blah.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping next week we get it resolved. Otherwise I
Speaker 1: don't know. The Buckster might be looking for a new
Speaker 1: place to live in New York pretty soon after living
Speaker 1: after moving once in uh, you know, I might have
Speaker 1: to move again. So that's that's the If you like
Speaker 1: where you live, this the lesson here is if you
Speaker 1: like where you live, do not move unless you absolutely
Speaker 1: have to. If you are happy with your living situation.
Speaker 1: And I already knew this, but I wanted to move
Speaker 1: from DC to New York. And I'm happy with that change.
Speaker 1: For sure. We got the freedom at NYC. We're gonna
Speaker 1: start streaming the show probably now in October. We're having
Speaker 1: a little bit of a construction delay on the studio,
Speaker 1: but it's going to happen. But I had to switch
Speaker 1: from an apartment in DC that I love to an
Speaker 1: apartment of New York. That's a nightmare. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of when, just just a quick story, I signed a
Speaker 1: and I was convinced by a friend to do this.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it. I signed on a
Speaker 1: lease in a house in DC and the deal was
Speaker 1: that I was going to be living in what they
Speaker 1: call the English basement, which is a fancy way of
Speaker 1: saying basement. That's right, it's a basement, but they call
Speaker 1: them English basements because they're somewhat ground level in DC
Speaker 1: or whatever it is they say. And I remember, and
Speaker 1: that apartment, that house had been empty for six months.
Speaker 1: I would drive because I would drive past it every
Speaker 1: day on the way home from work. For six months,
Speaker 1: that house had been totally empty. And they told me
Speaker 1: that if you're in the basement and no one's above you,
Speaker 1: you can you can just use the whole house. So
Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, and my rent was going to
Speaker 1: be a thousand dollars a month, So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: living in Washington, DC in a basement apartment for a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month and have access to the whole
Speaker 1: house basically and do whatever I want. I had a yard,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was like, this is great. And
Speaker 1: this guy totally was a friend of mine, totally swindled
Speaker 1: me into this because as soon as I was actually
Speaker 1: the day after I moved in, I'm at the day
Speaker 1: after I moved into this house, it had been empty
Speaker 1: for six months. There was an enormous moving truck out
Speaker 1: up front, and a family of five moved in upstairs.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I went through nine months before
Speaker 1: I finally just threw in the towel of it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, Captain Kangaroo upstairs, man, I mean it was
Speaker 1: just you know, kids run around screaming. I can hear
Speaker 1: a little toys on the floor. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: a total Oh man, you know what, team, I gotta
Speaker 1: move to one of the rural areas of America's what
Speaker 1: I realized. I just can't I can't deal with the noise.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to do it. It can't happen
Speaker 1: right away because I just got here. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do like a Team Buck sweepstakes. Where's Buck gonna
Speaker 1: head to? Where where is he gonna decide that it's
Speaker 1: time to time to roll too? So team that's what
Speaker 1: That's what I've got in mind here. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to find a new new spot for the Bucks. Are
Speaker 1: all we gottah a quick break? I'll come right back. Man. Man,
Speaker 1: It's unusual for me to get into a bunch of
Speaker 1: personal stuff here, but I will say on the upside
Speaker 1: of New York City, there's a lot of good stuff
Speaker 1: that happens here. A lot of people to grab lunch with,
Speaker 1: grab but a lot lot of restaurants everywhere, fun stuff
Speaker 1: for sure. So I'm looking forward to that. And I
Speaker 1: want to give you a quick update. Yeah, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the streaming. We are going to be streaming the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm going to know exactly the time. It's
Speaker 1: going to be earlier in the day than the radio
Speaker 1: show is right now, and it'll be streamed, and I
Speaker 1: think we'll be starting that the first or second week
Speaker 1: of October. We're just waiting for a studio construction and
Speaker 1: also a few big name folks that you know, to
Speaker 1: get their stuff finalized. We're in the final stages of
Speaker 1: getting some people signed on as well, so we'll have
Speaker 1: a whole streaming lineup that you will be able to
Speaker 1: watch at your leisure. That's the plan. So it'll be
Speaker 1: in October. I came up here thinking it would be
Speaker 1: in September, but it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 1: in October. We're gonna have a whole streaming network of shows,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be one of those shows. So
Speaker 1: the whole, the entirety of the Bucks Exton Show will
Speaker 1: be available as a vision, will as a video product
Speaker 1: starting very soon, so and it will be well, I
Speaker 1: can't name the platform quite yet, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very fun. I promise you that we'll be right back Buck.
Speaker 1: It's time for roll call. Roll call, everybody. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do a double roll call. That I why because it's
Speaker 1: late in summer and I feel like it. That's why
Speaker 1: I think I think that should be Hopefully that's a
Speaker 1: good enough reason. Hopefully we're all on board for that
Speaker 1: as the reason. The reason is I feel like it
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton, so you send it
Speaker 1: to me, and that's how we roll. And we start
Speaker 1: off with my friend Tim Buck love the show. Just
Speaker 1: enjoyed mescal. Some people say mescal. I guess that's the
Speaker 1: fancy way. Just enjoyed mescal for the first time. Love
Speaker 1: that smoky flavor. Is there a brand you recommend? Is
Speaker 1: there a specific cocktail or a homemade concoction that you
Speaker 1: recommend going to pick up a bottle to enjoy over
Speaker 1: the weekend. Thank you for all the insight and entertainment,
Speaker 1: brother Tim. I wish I could give you more worthwhile
Speaker 1: information on Mesical. I wish I could tell you that
Speaker 1: there's something that I could give you. The brand, I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I just get whatever illegal is. I
Speaker 1: think the most well known mescal, so I could start
Speaker 1: with that, but usually they only have one or two
Speaker 1: at a bar, and I like it so much that
Speaker 1: I'm just like, whatever mesical you have, I will drink.
Speaker 1: And that is usually how we do it, and that's
Speaker 1: usually how we roll. Benny Benny and the JITs Hey
Speaker 1: Buck today I write with a oh man, a heavy heart.
Speaker 1: I'm a twenty five year and I raised my eight
Speaker 1: and six year old voice to respect all law enforcement
Speaker 1: and first responders. But today, with the release of the
Speaker 1: IG report on Comy, that ends, and it pains me greatly.
Speaker 1: There's obviously a two tiered justice system. And I'll teach
Speaker 1: my boys to say to any law enforcement official, I
Speaker 1: will not make any statement, and I want to speak
Speaker 1: to a lawyer. The standard is if you lie to
Speaker 1: the FBI, even making an innocent mistake, you are prosecuted
Speaker 1: Ie Flynn, Papadopolis or eg Flynn and Papadopolis, Stone Manafort, etc.
Speaker 1: But if you are a demn you get a pass. Clapper, Clinton,
Speaker 1: Comey Larner. Where is the freaking justice? The FBI and
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice have proven they operate without integrity
Speaker 1: and with a political bias shields High Benny in Mississippi. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for saying it exactly right. There is an
Speaker 1: enormous double standard in our justice system. I think that
Speaker 1: part is abundantly clear. There are what do we say
Speaker 1: about this? What do we do about the fact that
Speaker 1: we cannot trust the FBI anymore? Now you'd say oh back,
Speaker 1: But yeah, we can trust them to put away drug
Speaker 1: dealers and kidnappers and terrorists. But the moment that there
Speaker 1: is a political connection to a case, the normal assumption
Speaker 1: must be. It has to be that they are going
Speaker 1: to give the benefit of the doubt to the Democrat
Speaker 1: and they're going to crush the Republican because that's what
Speaker 1: we keep seeing. And if we ignore what we know
Speaker 1: to be true, what comes after that? What's next after that?
Speaker 1: Caroline and Ryans Hey, Buck, I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for staying on the Jeffrey Epstein story. Seems to have
Speaker 1: dropped off the radar for most news outlets, and that's
Speaker 1: a shame because it's a hugely important story. It isn't
Speaker 1: just a salacious ogling and the predation of an extremely
Speaker 1: rich weirdo. As you point out, this may be an
Speaker 1: international blackmail ring operating with the knowledge and implicit consent
Speaker 1: of our intelligence community. Having experience inside the swamp, you
Speaker 1: offer your listeners a valuable and unique insight into this
Speaker 1: highly disturbing story. Keep up the great work as always,
Speaker 1: Shields High. Well, thank you so much, Caroline, and Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think look my record speaks for itself on this one.
Speaker 1: I was very concerned about what was going to happen
Speaker 1: with the Epstein case from the beginning, and I knew
Speaker 1: that this was going to turn into a moment where
Speaker 1: we would at a minimum have to question because remember
Speaker 1: even before the investigation, that it took so long for
Speaker 1: us to get here, that there were so clearly an
Speaker 1: effort to suppress information. Within the DOJ, within the prosecutor's
Speaker 1: office in Palm Beach, there were people who just did
Speaker 1: not want to deal with this. They did not want
Speaker 1: to make a case of this. And to remember, it's
Speaker 1: usually the opposite. You know, if you tell most prosecutors
Speaker 1: they're going to have a chance to bring down a
Speaker 1: billionaire pedophile who was a serial trafficker of women, you'd
Speaker 1: think that most prosecutors would leap at that opportunity. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: what we see are prosecutors leaping in opportunities like prosecuting Papadopolis,
Speaker 1: prosecuting not even just the recent cases of Russia collusion.
Speaker 1: I insist on pointing out to everyone that we've had
Speaker 1: a number of very high profile Republicans who were just harassed,
Speaker 1: who were utterly and completely hounded, and it was because
Speaker 1: of their politics. That's what was going on. It was
Speaker 1: because they were targets of the prosecutor's office as a
Speaker 1: result of what was going on in their lives, as
Speaker 1: a result of the politics around them, right. That that's
Speaker 1: what's really happening here. I mean, you see this with
Speaker 1: Scot Walker in Wisconsin, they had prosecutors desperately trying to
Speaker 1: take him down. Saw this with Chris Christie and Bridgegate.
Speaker 1: You so, even calling it Bridgegate, they caused it. They
Speaker 1: caused some traffic. I mean, it's it's something that happens
Speaker 1: all the time. I remember when that originally went down,
Speaker 1: MSNBC was trying to make it seem like there should
Speaker 1: be murder charges perhaps if there was anybody on that
Speaker 1: bridge on the way to a hospital as a result
Speaker 1: of traffic. I mean, you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: where it was going that that was how extreme. Rachel
Speaker 1: Maddow I think it was. On the Bill Maher show,
Speaker 1: referred to the Bridgegate scandal as the most delicious political
Speaker 1: scandal of her lifetime, as though this was such a
Speaker 1: fascinating or important or worthwhile story. To begin with Rick
Speaker 1: Perry in Texas, they went after Rick Perry. You know,
Speaker 1: they decided that they were going to try to prosecute
Speaker 1: him for misuse of his position because he did not
Speaker 1: want someone who was in the prosecutor's office who had
Speaker 1: just been arrested for drunk driving, and so as governor,
Speaker 1: he said that he was going to veto funding for
Speaker 1: that office unless they got rid of the drunk driving prosecutor.
Speaker 1: And then you had another prosecutor in the state say, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna bring bring charges against Rick Perryman. This
Speaker 1: is what keeps. When does this happen to Democrats? I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're Democrats out there, say well, look good Hillary there. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Hilary broke the law a lot. And if you believe
Speaker 1: the recent CEO of Overstock what he what he's had
Speaker 1: to say about this, you broke the law a lot
Speaker 1: more than people have even realized. When is enough enough?
Speaker 1: When when do we see that the mentality of the liberals,
Speaker 1: the mentality of the left in this country is such
Speaker 1: that their side should always be treated differently and better,
Speaker 1: that to be a liberal isn't just to be a
Speaker 1: better person, but to demand better treatment by the government,
Speaker 1: to demand that your team, so to speak, is always
Speaker 1: going to be in a position of strength visa other
Speaker 1: because the party that supports the government is now the
Speaker 1: party of the government. People inside, people in the bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: use their power to try not the elected officials. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the bureaucrats. They try to crush the opposition.
Speaker 1: They try to crush the other side. That's what's going on.
Speaker 1: We see it happening Adam Wright's Buck. On the Twilight side,
Speaker 1: it was Prestar Trek William Shatner, and the only other
Speaker 1: movie was Kat's Eye. I love James Woods in that
Speaker 1: movie Shields High. I didn't even realize James Woods was
Speaker 1: in that movie. By the way, I've missed James Woods Twitter.
Speaker 1: Why don't you get kicked off of Twitter? Funny story
Speaker 1: about James Woods. My grandmother on my mother's side was
Speaker 1: this very very elegant, very wonderful woman who was an
Speaker 1: actress and did a bit of modeling, and she did
Speaker 1: a play. It was I think a company theater or
Speaker 1: you know, a neighborhood theater thing, but she did a
Speaker 1: play and it was must have been forty oh, no,
Speaker 1: maybe thirty years ago, now something like that, maybe thirty
Speaker 1: years ago. And I knew that she had referred in
Speaker 1: the past to my friend Jimmy Woods, and my grandmother
Speaker 1: had said my friend Jimmy Woods. And I always thought
Speaker 1: that was kind of a funny thing because I had
Speaker 1: seen him in a bunch of different movies, you know,
Speaker 1: Casino and some other movie where he's playing a cop
Speaker 1: and I can't remember what his call, but I'd seen
Speaker 1: him a bunch of movies. And I tweeted at him
Speaker 1: about at once, and he wrote that my grandmother, A
Speaker 1: Jean was a lovely woman with excellent taste, because she
Speaker 1: said he was smart, and I thought that was very nice.
Speaker 1: It's very big of him, and that he clearly did
Speaker 1: remember her based on our exchange. So I like James Woods.
Speaker 1: I miss seeing his tweets, but his tweets were fire.
Speaker 1: James woods tweets were not to not for the faint
Speaker 1: of heart, that's for sure. Let's see we got here
Speaker 1: taft right. I've been serving the military now for six
Speaker 1: years in a combat arms unit, and then the last
Speaker 1: year we have received the first two females in our unit. Ever,
Speaker 1: neither of them have passed a single PT test since
Speaker 1: being with us. When we do our combat fitness assessments,
Speaker 1: they both complete last with terrible scores. It's not a
Speaker 1: sexism thing, It's a biology thing. I know a few
Speaker 1: females who can and do knock PT tests and CFAs
Speaker 1: out of the water, but they are the exceptions. Lives
Speaker 1: are more important than feelings. Well, taft I, as a civilian,
Speaker 1: would obviously agree with this assessment, and I know plenty
Speaker 1: of other guys in the military like you who agree
Speaker 1: with this assessment. And I just wonder at what point,
Speaker 1: at what point it's too much, At what point we
Speaker 1: all can agree and understand that there are lives that
Speaker 1: are going to be put at risk for this. It
Speaker 1: does remind me at some level of when people there's
Speaker 1: all this talk about pushing people forward an education. Oh,
Speaker 1: we need more diversity, we need to do this that.
Speaker 1: But when you start talking about cardiothoracic surgery, for example,
Speaker 1: you start talking about more elite medical professions, then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the whole oh, well, for the good
Speaker 1: of for the good of diversity, we're going to change
Speaker 1: the standards. People start to have a questions about this.
Speaker 1: I remember Ward Connolly, who was very involved in getting
Speaker 1: rid of racial admissions preferences in California. California State system
Speaker 1: got rid of racial preferences and guess what the school
Speaker 1: system is doing fine, and then you still have all
Speaker 1: different people of all different backgrounds going to university state
Speaker 1: school in California. It just means that you have at UCLA,
Speaker 1: for example, a very heavy Asian American population that's really
Speaker 1: been the main change, and those students have earned it.
Speaker 1: But there are places where you finally realize that the
Speaker 1: social justice tinkering is just too much. It's just too much.
Speaker 1: And when you start talking about forward deployed combat units,
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope everyone can agree that that's where
Speaker 1: it shouldn't matter. If the social justice components should not
Speaker 1: matter anymore. It should just be about what is best
Speaker 1: for defeating the enemy. That's what matters. All Right, we
Speaker 1: got more roll call coming up. Team. All right, roll
Speaker 1: call continues here. Let's see we got TJ's buck. Everyone's
Speaker 1: giving Obama a hard time for purchasing that new beach
Speaker 1: house at Martha's Vineyard, but I think it was pretty
Speaker 1: strategic on his part, hear me out. Think about it.
Speaker 1: What will motivate leftist more to fight climate change than
Speaker 1: being able to save the Chosen One's mansion from being
Speaker 1: destroyed by the rising sea level, they'll do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to keep the Obamas from being flooded out, even
Speaker 1: if that means passing a fully socialized green new deal
Speaker 1: for the country. Yes, sarcasm was intended. It I see
Speaker 1: what you're saying, Tj' You're a clever fellow and you're
Speaker 1: a good friend of the show. So thank you so
Speaker 1: much for writing in your humorous content. I'll say that
Speaker 1: thanks to you, J, you're the man. TJ's the man.
Speaker 1: I think he's wearing I can't really see it, but
Speaker 1: I think, yep, knowing he's wearing a shield high T
Speaker 1: shirt in his avatar TJ. That means I love you forever.
Speaker 1: That's what that means. You're my brother from another mother.
Speaker 1: Chris Ryan saying, hey, Buck, thanks for answering my question
Speaker 1: regarding gun ownership, and if there's a home protection class
Speaker 1: that I can take. If you do plan on going
Speaker 1: to that class in the fall, the sheep dog class,
Speaker 1: let us know. My mom and I are so down
Speaker 1: to drive from San Diego to take it with you
Speaker 1: and everyone else from team Buck. Thanks well, Chris, thank you,
Speaker 1: my man. I'm definitely trying to get down there. I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing is right now I've already got on the books.
Speaker 1: I got to get out to Vegas for the Stansbury
Speaker 1: Research Conference. Those of you that know what Stansbury Research is,
Speaker 1: you should definitely come out to that conference. It's October.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, am I am I forgetting the dates. I'm having.
Speaker 1: I'm having a Joe Biden moment here. It is the
Speaker 1: seventh to the ninth is the Stansbury or maybe know
Speaker 1: the eighth and the ninth. But I'm gonna be out
Speaker 1: there the seventh of October, so I've got to go
Speaker 1: out there. And then I think I'm going into Nashville
Speaker 1: later on in October for an event, so I might
Speaker 1: see some folks in Nashville, and you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Then I might just have to go to some other
Speaker 1: country and defeat the terrorists. I'm very busy. I'm very
Speaker 1: busy with all these things. That said, I would love
Speaker 1: to get down to Austin KLBJ Austin in the House
Speaker 1: and try to hang out with all the team Buck
Speaker 1: Austin folks and do some cool shooting of guns and
Speaker 1: things like that with Tim Kennedy. Who you know, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna get trained by somebody or you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna have somebody try to save your butt, either in
Speaker 1: a firefight or a bar fight. I do think you
Speaker 1: want it to be, Tim Kennedy. I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's real. Steve writes, I get tired about AOC
Speaker 1: and others talking about climate change that the glaciers are
Speaker 1: melting and sea levels rising. All a lie, glaciers displace
Speaker 1: water and when they melt, the water level doesn't rise.
Speaker 1: It stays right where it was. Do this test. Take
Speaker 1: a glass and put some ice cubes in it, then
Speaker 1: fill with water to a line. Mark it on the cup.
Speaker 1: Wait for the ice to melt. The water will be
Speaker 1: at the same line. As the ice melts, it displaces
Speaker 1: less water. It's plain science. Okay, Well, I think that
Speaker 1: glaciers displaced water when they melt, the water level doesn't rise. Um,
Speaker 1: I think you might have I think you might have
Speaker 1: a point here. Is that sound feasible? Mark? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think about, like last time I got in a bathtub,
Speaker 1: how does that work? I haven't taken a bath in
Speaker 1: fifteen years, so I'm not sure a bath is a
Speaker 1: luxurious experience. My friend, don't don't forget about what that's
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean, you put out some candles,
Speaker 1: you put on some Kenny G. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've watched scrub is what you sound like? John Dorian?
Speaker 1: Right now? Du n just getting that tub, getting that
Speaker 1: tub with Kenny G and some scented obviously scented candles.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not going if you don't have the aromatics.
Speaker 1: Are you really getting the full benefit of the tub experience? Oh?
Speaker 1: I will say, my lad. I've I've lived in apartments
Speaker 1: where we didn't even have a tub, so that's a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you So do you have a tub? Now? I do.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd ever want to take a bath.
Speaker 1: This reminds me of the Seinfeld where they say that
Speaker 1: if you're taking a bath, it's like you're lying in
Speaker 1: your own filth. Yes, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's really true or not. You know, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not. I mean, think about it. You're closing
Speaker 1: the drain. Where is the filth going into the water? Yes,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, that's I mean, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of water. I mean, if you ever swim in a
Speaker 1: public pool, you didn't want to know what goes on
Speaker 1: in there. I've never swim in a public pool. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're one of those. Yeah, you're very hygienic, hygiene interested fellow.
Speaker 1: There's a bottle of hand sanitizer in my pocket. At
Speaker 1: all good because when we moved to the other udio,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be like a very close proximity producer Mark.
Speaker 1: So that's the point. There's gonna be no glass between us.
Speaker 1: That's right, the video studio. Everybody. Oh, that's a little
Speaker 1: preview of what's to come. But maybe we'll talk more
Speaker 1: about that tomorrow because for right now, I gotta close
Speaker 1: up shop. She'll tie