WEBVTT - IG Report Crushes Comey 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:15.640 You are entering the freedom hunt. Sank to Coomey was 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.840 a liar and a fraud all along. The Inspector General 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.520 report on James Coomy has dropped and guess what. He 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.960 broke a lot of rules, he lied about what went on, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.440 and he just barely avoids prosecution. What does this tell 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.639 us about the deep state, the anti Trumpers and all 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.040 the rats. We're going to that plus General Madis has 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.239 some words about President Trump. Will discuss coming up on 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.479 the buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.560 where the mission or mission is to decode what really 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:54.360 matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a 0:00:54.400 --> 0:01:00.840 great American. Again the buck Sexton Show begins. Remember he's 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:06.160 a great guy. It is. The report itself is still 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.880 very damning for the former FBI director. It goes on 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.319 to say that James Comy violated FBI policies and the 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.120 way he handled, retained and disseminated this memos. It says 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.480 that Komy set a dangerous example for other members of 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.800 the FBI, and it points out that you know, he 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.039 even had these conversations with President Trump about how important 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.160 it is to keep investigatory details secret to not share 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.959 information with the press and then essentially says, you know, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.000 he was a hypocrite for turning around and doing the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.640 same thing himself. It also includes a couple of select 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.760 quotes from interviews they did with Komey's advisors where Komey's 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.680 advisers are telling the IG that they were stunned, they 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.959 were shocked. It was disappointment to see that this is 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.360 how Coomy had acted. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.680 IG Report on Komey. Remember there's still more to come 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.200 with the Russia collusion. Delusion led to the Muller probe 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:04.920 and the conduct the FBI during the Muller probe. But 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.280 we know who James Coomy is. If you listen to 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.960 the show, you know who he is. We call him 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.480 sank To Coomy, a play on of course, his name 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:18.520 and sanctimony, because he is exactly that. He's someone with 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:24.359 a very high self regard, someone who has inserted himself 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:31.240 as a government civil servant, not an elected official, at 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.400 critical times in some of the most politically contentious moments 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:43.959 in recent history. And all the while there was this backstory, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:52.560 there was this facade of Komi, the incorruptible Comy could 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.399 not be pushed, he could not be bought, he could 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.840 not be cajoled, he cannot be persuade. All this stuff, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.440 and it turns out that he is first and foremost 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:09.440 a commiist. He believes that he knows better the rules 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.679 you see there for little people. Colmy has a different approach. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.800 What did we really find out in this Inspector General report. Well, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:25.280 for one thing, Comy broke FBI rules and regulations. He 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.480 had to know he was breaking them, and was just 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:35.920 on the very edge of sharing classified information. What bailed 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.559 him out is that the lawyer that he sent classified 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:46.320 information to happen to maintain a clearance. And I suppose 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.320 the way that he sent the information did not violate, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.880 meaning the way the information transited. I'm guessing he did 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.400 it over the internet. I think that's what it's said 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.560 in the report. I read the report first thing this morning. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.280 It wasn't of such a high sensitivity that that was 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.920 going to be a criminal issue for Comy. Now, though, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.040 we look at the seven memos and we see that 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.920 there is no question that James Coomy used the office 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:21.240 of the FBI Director to wage a personal vendetta against 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.560 the President of the United states, Comey's feelings were hurt. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.840 Comy was mad that he got fired, and there were 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.000 so many reasons to fire Comy. And that's why you 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.400 have to remember this, this self righteousness that he walks 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.240 around with all the time, and the way that he's 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.359 just completely lacking in self awareness. I mean, just the 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.440 weird photos he takes of himself staring out over lakes 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.520 and everything else, and the way that he speaks to 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.719 everybody like he's just I'm just here to just be 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.520 the honest guy. You know. I didn't mean to get 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.640 my nose all in the midst of all this political stuff. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.599 I'm just trying to do my job at the FBI. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.400 Sure you are, Comey, Sure you are. That's why he 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.400 broke protocol as came up in the last Inspector General 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.680 port by stepping forward and speaking about the Hillary Clinton 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:20.760 email investigation, which was just flatly not his job, not 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:28.440 his role. But he did it anyway. Why because he 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:33.239 thought it was best. And then Comey wrote these memos down, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.960 and at one point he made seven memos of different 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.719 meetings with the president. But let's break that down for 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:46.440 a moment. The memos aren't a true recitation of exactly 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.440 what was said at the meeting. This is, by the way, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.480 an old I'm gonna say this is an old FBI 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.800 agent trick. They get to write whatever they want to 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.479 write about what you were saying. Which is why any 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.720 good defense attorney will tell you that if you're going 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.760 to sit down for questioning with the FBI, first of all, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.680 always have an attorney present. Always. What is what if 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.000 I can teach you nothing else from listening to this show, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.400 it is don't talk to the FBI, and if you're 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.479 going to talk to him, you have to have an 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.279 attorney present, right. That's if you take that away from this, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.560 I may save you a criminal federal indictment at some 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.240 point in the future that you just get jammed up 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.760 in because you think you're just being a good citizen 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.440 and a helpful person. So you decide to sit and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.840 talk to the FBI. Oh, like General Flynn, don't think 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.800 that they're gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.600 And we'll get into this too, about the elites and 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.919 what rules apply to us, and what rules don't rules 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.080 don't apply to them very strict and all the rest 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.080 of us. They can get away Coomy can get away 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.920 with whatever we'll see. I think McCabe is going to 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.599 get away too, but that we'll get to that. So 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.560 Comy makes these memos which are just what he decides 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.800 to say or write down was said in the meeting, 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.440 and then that's the Oh, that's the contemporary contemporaneous record. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.520 That's all you have to go on. That's all you 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:14.280 need to know. That is the record from that meeting. Well, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.440 hold on a second. Why would James Comey then, as 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:25.280 FBI director take some of the of the seven memos, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.480 there were at least three that had information that was classified. Now, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.960 he was a classification authority and he determines what the 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.800 classifications were on those memos. Some of them he handled 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.360 those though they were classified. Something he look Comy is slick, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.080 but he couldn't help it with his ego this time around. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.560 Now he went too far, but he was smart enough 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.160 not to put himself in overt and egregious criminal jeopardy 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.560 the way that Andy McCabe did. I mean, if they 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.120 let McCabe go without charges, that's just because he's FBI 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:00.600 and they don't want to charge a guy who was 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.120 very senior in the FBI with a crime. That's all 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.920 that is, it's a decision they're making because he's McKay 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.120 komy was smoother. He broke FBI rules. He would have 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.800 been fired if he tried to stay around as FBI director. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:19.600 What he did was unethical. Why would he do it 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.600 in the first place? Though? I mean, I'll get into 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.040 the violation. The violations are pretty obvious. He's taking work 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.920 product home with him and keeping it as though it 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.760 is his personal property. He locked it in a safe 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.040 at home. Why would you do that unless you were 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.480 plotting something? Well, as we know, he was plotting something. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.280 He was scheming in this whole process, and he went 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:50.600 after the President of the United States. That was the plot, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.360 and he managed to get his way the Muller probe. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.280 He even said openly on the record that the whole 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.319 point of what he was doing was to get a 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:07.680 special council appointed. That's what he wanted from the process, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.640 and he managed to do it. James Comey is smart 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.600 enough and has been a player in this DC centric 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:22.440 world long enough to know that taking home notes of 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.880 meetings with the President United States is just wildly inappropriate. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.600 Why would he do that? Under he said that he 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.679 thought that they were his private. So basically Comy decides 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.839 that this is unclassified information, it's for official use only. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.800 It's the acronym they'll use fo uo and he and 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.200 he takes it home with him just to keep because 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.680 why why would anyone do that? And there's so much 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.840 that comes from them, so many ramifications. One is, how 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.160 can anyone trust that they can have a conversation in 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.040 the Oval office with a member of the intelligence community 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.440 now or somebody at the top of a federal law 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.880 enforcement and not think that maybe they're creating a little 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.160 OPO file on the President the United States that they're 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:11.960 going to release to the press at any point in time. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.839 The Inspector General report made clear what Comy did violated 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:25.760 FBI regulations. It was unacceptable. He broke the very codes, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.680 the very rules that as an FBI director he was 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.120 sworn to uphold. And if you asked him why he 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.000 did this, well, of course it's because Trump is a 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.840 clear and present danger, he would say to America. So 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.920 he got a special counsel started. When we know that 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.480 Comy should have been fired long before any of these 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.640 seven memorialized meetings from January of twenty seventeen all the 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:58.840 way up to when he was finally fired. Another thing 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.720 that jumps out when you read this. I was in 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.600 the intelligence community. I briefed the President the United States 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.800 a couple of times, ran those Oval Office briefings for 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.720 the intelligence community. I was the guy in the oval 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.040 explaining to the President some of the more important issues 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:22.360 of the day. Why on earth would the FBI director 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.880 think that it was a good idea and it was 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.120 appropriate to have a one on one, a personal meeting 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.680 with the President the United States to present him with 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:39.280 something that was the equivalent of online gossip. And how 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.520 are we really supposed to believe that Komey or one 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.800 of his close allies, Clapper or somebody of that sort 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.840 didn't leak the information. When CNN was reporting on it 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:58.120 the next day, they told the press that they were 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.439 briefing the president on this dossier that they had had 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.440 four months, so that they could make a news story 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.240 out of it and then have an excuse to push 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.360 the dossier itself as though it was true. This is 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.959 the well, I can't verify this, but I'm going to 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.240 report on someone else reporting on it routine call me 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.720 knew exactly what he was doing. How does it help 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.360 the President of the United States to be told that 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.320 there is a crazy rumor mill of lies out there. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.760 Would it have been useful for somebody to have briefed 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.880 Obama on what the birther conspiracies on the internet work. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.959 So the FBI Director of sat down and say, hey, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.600 I saw you know, there's some people that are saying 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:52.320 this stuff about you. Of course not, it's absurd, but 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.839 guess what they decided to brief the President of the 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.600 United States on a dossier that is a collection of 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.760 lies paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, taken from 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.640 Russian subsources who were most likely running a disinformation campaign 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:15.800 against the United States anyway, and then laundered it through CNN. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.360 And Comy did all of this knowingly and willfully, and 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.439 was willing to break FBI rules and regulations in the process. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.040 If he had not already been fired, he would be 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.679 fired now what James Comy did. Don't believe he's now 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.760 claiming he's vindicated. Why because he's not going to be 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:41.679 a felon. What James Comy did was wrong. He abused 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.960 the power of his office. He betrayed the trust of 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.600 his president. He can't walk around hiss. FBI director and 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.120 say not my president. It was his president. The commander 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.160 in chief the United States Military and the top law 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.319 enforcement officer in the United States government, is in fact 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.160 the President of the United States, and he betrayed him 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:08.880 out of personal spite. And we were told that Comey 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.000 was beyond reproach by the media for as long as 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.319 they could get away with it, just like we were 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.280 told that Muller was the ultimate FBI guy until we 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.840 saw him give that press conference and realized, oh my gosh, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:30.200 he and Biden need some time out together. When we 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:36.200 talk about a deep state, a conspiracy in effort at 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.440 the top reaches of the federal bureaucracy and in conjunction 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.600 with the Democratic Party to undo the results of the 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.360 twenty sixteen election, how can we not put what we've 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.280 learned about James Coomy right at the very top of 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:59.200 that list. He was FBI director, He used used Russian 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:04.080 disinformation paid for by the Clinton campaign as an excuse 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.360 to create a news story that would embarrass the President 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.360 of the United States, and then he refused to say 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.960 publicly that the president himself was not a target of 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.640 a federal investigation into treasonous activity, even though he told 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.800 the president. He was not. James Comy is all about 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.320 the rules until the rules getting the way. He's all 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.720 about by the book until he wants to write a 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:35.880 different book. And now we know, we know we've been 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.640 lied to, We know that he abused his power, and 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.640 we know that this is not an ethical person acting 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.720 the best interests of the country. James Comey was acting 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.800 in his own best interests, and he was willing to 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.440 degrade the very FBI that he claimed to love so 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:01.760 much as he was getting pushed out the door. We're 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.320 just beginning to get into this, my friends. I have 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.240 much more for you on the Inspector General report. What 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.880 this tells us about our institutions, what this tells us 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.920 about rule of law and justice in the DOJ, the 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.880 prosecutorial arm and what we can expect going forward. We've 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.960 got much more. Stay with you, Presidents treated innumerable times, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.120 calling to you a leader or what's your response to 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.720 President Trump? Look, it's true. I mean I'm the one 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.800 who testified about it. That's how people know about it. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.240 I gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.040 him to give it to a reporter. That is entirely appropriate. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.160 Whym not do it yourself. Why not do it openly, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.800 transparently for one very practical reason. At the end of 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.640 my driveway was a horde of media, and my thought was, 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.920 if I give it to one reporter, then what's my 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.880 answer to all the others about why I won't answer 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.880 their questions? So it was a liar or an idiot. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.520 I don't know, you can say either one because it 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.040 was not entirely appropriate. The Inspector General found that it 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.560 was entirely inappropriate. This guy was the FBI director Folks, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.080 a lifelong prosecutor. That's really what he was. Remember he's 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.320 not really an FBI agent, got He's not law enforcement 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.200 in that sense. He was a prosecutor. And his close 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.320 buddy Patrick Fitzgerald, another prosecutor who was also a lawyer 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.040 who received some of these documents for him, was the 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:25.560 headhunter who for political reasons, went after Scooter Libby. Oh wow, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:32.800 It's almost like some of these very prominent pro hillary 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.760 prosecutors decide that they're going to get some people because 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.359 they want to even the score with the other side. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.919 I mean, you know, Comey is one of these guys 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.080 that loves to go around telling everybody about how he 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.560 would never break any rules. And he was even saying, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.919 do we think that he didn't know? I mean I 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.240 was in the CIA. I would never, as a little 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:03.640 nobody analyst ever have taken notes from a meeting inside Langley, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.400 taken it home and put it in by safe because 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.840 I thought I should have it. This is what this 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.320 guy did. People would have thought I was insane. I 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:12.960 mean I would have been I would have been fired. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.520 I would have been stripped to my clearance. He acts 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.560 like this was normal. Yeah, he was totally appropriate. Oh, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.439 it's only appropriate in the sense that Comey believes that 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.679 he is a great historical figure and that he is 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.080 the anti Trump and going to save the country. And 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.560 there'll be history books written about how James Comey was 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.040 more honorable than George Washington himself. Well, the problem is 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.280 the Inspector General Port came out and said, actually, you're 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.480 a jerk, Comey, and you broke a lot of rules. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.280 A couple of years back, he gave a speech saying, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.679 if we fall in love with our own virtue, we 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.399 can go sideways. At any point over the last two years, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.719 did you fall prey to that, Did you fall in 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.600 love with your own virtue. I don't think so, but 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.720 I worried about it constantly. And the guardrail for that, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.000 because that's a big worry I have about myself, was 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.600 to surround on myself with people who will get that 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.080 hit at the certainty, hit at the pride, to make 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.479 sure I've thought about things well. I'm gonna teach, I'm 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.640 gonna travel around and speak about leadership, but I want 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.280 to offer them a vision of here's what it should 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.480 look like. Values matter. This president does not reflect the 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:25.720 values of this country. For a normal person, the answer 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.800 to the question did you ever fall in love with 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:33.320 your own virtue? Would be no. For James Comey, it's yes. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.840 I'm very introspective about that. I was always so concerned 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.160 with it that was always a risk of worry, when 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.919 quite clearly James Comey did fall in love with his 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:50.399 own virtue, did decide that he knew better than the rules, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.840 the rules that he would have expected every FBI agent 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:57.280 below him, every person working in federal law enforcement to follow, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.119 He no longer had to follow Hi. Just in case 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.120 there's any any doubt about this, when you look at 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.000 the Inspector General report that came out today, the conclusions 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.280 at the closing, they talk about things like quote Comy's 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.840 improper disclosure of Memos two, four, six, and seven to 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.600 his attorneys. Here's what they write. Comy told the OIG 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.199 that he shared copies of Memos two, four, six, and 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.960 seven with his attorneys to obtain legal representation in connection 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.840 with his removal as FBI Director and any post removal 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.960 legal issues that might arise. However, Comy was not authorized 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.800 to provide these memos to his attorneys without prior approval 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:45.439 from or coordination with, the FBI. Goes on here. This 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.280 is under Appendix C, page sixty two. Comy failed to 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.800 immediately alert the FBI to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.639 On June seven, twenty seventeen, call Me learned of the 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.720 FBI's classification decision regarding Memo two when the FBI allowed 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.160 him to review copies of all seven memos with classification 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.919 banners and marketings in preparation for his June eight, twenty 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.399 seventeen congressional testimony. Once he knew that the FBI had 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.479 classified portions of Memo two, Comy failed to immediately notify 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.119 the FBI that he had previously given Memo two to 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:22.439 his attorneys. It just goes on. I mean, this is 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.160 a guy and this is the Let me just give 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.120 you the closing paragraph of this whole IG report really 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:33.440 put it into perspective. We have previously faulted Comy for 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:38.879 acting unilaterally and inconsistently with Department policy. Coomy's unauthorized disclosure 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.040 of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation merits 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.400 similar criticism. In a country built on the rule of law, 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.760 it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees inherited 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.959 department in FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appeared 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:59.400 to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions. Comy had 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.560 several other lawful options available to him to advocate for 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.440 the appointment of a special council, which he told us 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:08.960 was his goal in making the disclosure. What was not 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:14.200 permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigation information obtained 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.920 during the course of FBI employment in order to achieve 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:23.600 a personally desired outcome. The OIG has provided this report 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.919 to the FBI and the Department of Justice Office of 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:38.280 Professional Responsibility for action they deem appropriate. My friends. Comy 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.560 told us all along that he did everything exactly the 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.280 way that he should have that it was all fine, 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.520 that he was proud of how he acted in this 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:51.760 whole process. It was the FBI director he didn't know. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.280 You don't take memos home with you just because you 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:59.480 feel like it. Now we get into the broader question. 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.760 Do the rules in this country apply to those who 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.880 are in power? Do the rules apply to those who 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:14.920 hold what are considered the correct beliefs within the institutions 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:17.280 that wield that power, And the correct beliefs are always 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.040 left of center right. Depending on the institution, it might 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.280 be a little bit to the left. But the federal 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:27.119 bureaucracy is an organ of the institutional left and the 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:30.919 Democratic Party in this country. There are a lot of Republicans, 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.200 a lot of Conservatives who work in the federal bureaucracy. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:38.720 They don't run it. They aren't the ones who will 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:43.520 call out for Hatch Act investigations and decide that somebody 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:48.040 needs to be punished as a warning to the others. Overwhelmingly, 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.919 it is the case that bureaucrats are democrats, and the 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:58.560 bureaucrats that want to wield power for political purposes have 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:04.359 leftist leanings. We have been told so much in the 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:09.200 era of Trump that the big threat we really face 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.760 is the possibility of the erosion of public trust and 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:18.080 our institutions. And they keep telling us that Trump is 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:21.560 the one who erodes all that trust. Let's look at 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:26.280 the scoreboard. Was it Trump's fault that Comey and the 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:35.000 FBI decided to break protocol and give an unbelievably favorable 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:39.280 decision to Hillary Clinton about prosecution for misuse of classified information? 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:44.119 Was that Trump's fault? Is it Trump's fault that It 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:47.399 is very likely, as I have been telling you, that 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:52.280 Annie McCabe is despite lying. They know he lied, they 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:54.760 know why he lied, and they got him multiple times 0:24:54.840 --> 0:25:03.080 lying with criminal jeopardy attached to such such falsehoods. Are 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:04.840 we going to be surprised when they decide to just 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:09.120 give a really mean letter to McCabe instead of criminal prosecution. 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:12.960 Look at what other people get sent away for. Look 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.520 at what they will bring charges for. They sent thirty 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:21.960 guys in to Roger Stone's house in tac Care with 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:28.520 long guns because they say that he lied about a 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:32.480 communication that was legal over email or over tech or 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:37.160 over Twitter or something. He lied about something that isn't important, 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:39.960 and they made it look like they were going after 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:44.679 bin Laden. Oh but oh, but if you lie, you 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.720 undermine the very system of justice. If you lie, you 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:52.960 do an affront to the United States government. Okay, but 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:58.480 what about McCabe. Why should he skate? And I know 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:00.000 that he might not. I might have to come back 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:01.960 and say, Wow, it's surprised the actually our bringing charges. 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:05.600 But I bet money they won't. They're not bringing charges 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:10.840 against Comy. He's already out of the FBI. But we 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:13.800 were told all along that the big problem would be 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:16.600 that we would lose faith in these institutions. I'm here 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:18.639 to tell you that the problem that I see is 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:20.880 that we have too much faith in some of these institutions. 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:25.600 We don't ask enough questions, We aren't willing to grapple 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:34.880 with the increasingly obvious reality that these institutions have individuals 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:39.679 at very senior positions who view the power that they 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.760 are supposed to wield on behalf of the American people 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:46.760 and the rule of law as an opportunity to fight 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.720 for their team, to even the score for their side. 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:55.200 This was the case with Sally Yates, with Andy McKay, 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:58.680 with Jim Comey, with Peter Struck, with Lisa Page, with 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:04.919 Jim Clapper, with John Brennan, all of them. They're not 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:08.280 supposed to say, I'm the CIA director, I'm the FBI director, 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:12.760 and therefore I'm gonna break protocol, I'm gonna break rules. 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:15.320 Maybe even laws will find out one day who leaked 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:23.240 the Flynn conversation. Somebody created somebody committed a felony there. 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:26.119 And it wasn't some random guy who worked in the 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:29.120 mail room. I can assure you, someone very high up 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:33.080 the government food chain decided that they had an opportunity 0:27:33.160 --> 0:27:37.720 to take out one of the most despised Trump allies 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.320 and a very important one for the implementation of his policies, 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:45.360 General Flynn, on national security side, and they broke the law. 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:47.000 You know what, I'm sure they would say, whoever it is, 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:49.280 when they're caught, if they're caught, which I unfortunately think 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:54.760 will not happen, say I had to do it. Trump 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:59.600 is a clear and present danger to this country. Well, 0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:02.400 what we really have evidence of is that the clear 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:04.399 and present danger to this country are the people that 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:07.840 think that they have a right that they take unto 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:12.040 themselves to break the law, to break rules, to break protocol, 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:17.280 to break trust. It should be for a government official 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:21.119 like James Comey, a sacred feeling to be in the 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:24.040 Oval office and advising and working with and speaking to 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:29.400 the President United States. I don't care who the president is. Instead, 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:32.399 James Comey is writing these memos and taking them home 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:36.040 and creating a little opo file. That's what this was, 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:41.080 an opposition file, compromat. The Russians would have called it. 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:44.440 That's what the KGB would have said. This was got 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:49.600 to keep those documents handy, not because there was anything 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:52.760 illegal that he could have charged the President with, but 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:55.920 because he wanted to spin a narrative, that's right, a 0:28:56.040 --> 0:29:00.400 narrative in the media to hurt the president politically. Who 0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:04.560 fired James Comey and was entirely justified in doing so. 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:14.720 People have been prosecuted for much less. That was that 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:17.360 sailor who was prosecuted for taking a photo of a 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:19.640 classified area of a submarine. He should have known better, 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:22.479 but the photo was deleted, no one ever saw it. 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:27.600 I want to send me to prison for a year. Papadopoulos, 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:35.120 under extreme pressure from Muller's team of obviously anti Trump zealots, 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:41.520 either misremembered or told the minor lie about when he 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:44.760 had a communication that wasn't illegal, that didn't mean anything, 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:47.800 and they made him go to prison for two weeks. 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:51.320 And now he's a convicted felon. I already talked about 0:29:51.320 --> 0:29:53.240 what they did to Roger Stone. Look at what happens. 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.600 They wanted to ruin Scooter Libby, Coomy's buddy, his lawyer. 0:29:56.640 --> 0:30:02.760 Fitzgerald knew that Libby didn't leak any covert agent's name. 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:06.240 He knew that Armitage accidentally, as the story goes, let 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:11.200 it slip. And they decided to just put as many 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:18.080 Bush officials through the ringer as possible. Why because they 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:21.120 wanted to get one and they figured they'd find somebody 0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:24.920 who had there was a fact discrepancy, there was an 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:31.360 opening to say that a crime was committed, and they'd 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:34.040 make the case. And Bush because the Iraq War was 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:39.320 in a moment of extreme unpopularity and political peril, and 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:41.800 they wanted to take scood Or Libby, who was the 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:45.080 President's National security advisor, and lock him up for a 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:48.640 couple of years in federal prison, take away his law license. 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:54.200 Connected felon for what? For what? Tell me who the 0:30:54.280 --> 0:30:58.840 Democrat is? Tell me who the person that the establishment? 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:03.920 The establishment meeting the Democrat establishment in politics. Find me 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:07.400 one name of somebody who was treated roughly by the 0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:15.640 justice system who is actually anti Trump. You can't. And 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:17.920 I just sat here and ran through all these names 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:22.280 of people that we're not given any kind of leniency, 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:26.040 no mercy, no you know, do better next time. And 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:27.520 in some cases I think we're set up. I think 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:34.480 General Flynn was set up. Sally Yates created a completely pretextual, 0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:38.880 nonsensical excuse to send some FBI agents in to talk 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:41.000 to him about a conversation that he was completely within 0:31:41.040 --> 0:31:45.600 his rights to have. And then, in order to make 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:49.320 this a big scandal, the information was leaked about the 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:53.240 conversation to the press. And now we know they're able 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:56.880 to take out General Flynn. This is how the other 0:31:56.880 --> 0:32:00.760 side plays the game. We've seen it now. James Comey's 0:32:00.760 --> 0:32:03.920 a fraud. He's pretended all along to be a just 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:06.280 by the book guy, and he has done so many 0:32:06.320 --> 0:32:12.120 things in exactly the opposite manner. He has chosen to 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:14.880 take his own judgment in lieu of the law, and 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:19.160 that is a betrayal of the very justice system that 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:23.600 he claims to have served for so many decades. It's 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:26.040 not up to James Colemey to think, oh, I can 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:28.960 do this even though the REGs say otherwise. It's not 0:32:29.040 --> 0:32:32.040 up to James come to decide that the election in 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:38.160 twenty sixteen shouldn't count, should be undone. That's what he did. 0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:42.920 That was his decision making. He's not really going to 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:45.600 be held to account for. But just remember how many 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:48.760 times you have been lied to about all of these 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:51.800 anti Trump government figures. Who I would know it were 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:56.320 tied to the Obama administration. We don't hear enough about that. 0:32:56.400 --> 0:33:00.840 We should hear substantially more. And I still want to 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:06.720 know in this whole process, what did Obama no? What 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:09.120 did Obama know when the FBI director was going to 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:13.040 stand in front of the American people and decide that 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:16.520 Hillary Clinton wouldn't face charges, which was not his job. 0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:20.560 What did Obama know when James Comey was going home 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:25.560 putting these memos in his own personal safe in preparation 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:29.760 for what was going to be a public media enabled 0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:34.960 anti Trump propaganda campaign. If you're James Comy, you don't 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:37.240 think you're gonna want a powerful ally on your side. 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:42.480 You don't think you're gonna tell anybody else about this? Well, 0:33:42.520 --> 0:33:47.880 he'd certainly told his lawyers about it. You know that 0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:50.239 that he was planning to go after the president in 0:33:50.280 --> 0:33:54.200 some way before and then after the presidents Right, these 0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:57.880 meetings occurred in January twenty seventeen. What did Obama know 0:33:58.240 --> 0:34:04.320 in October of twenty sixteen about what Comey's thoughts were 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.000 about Trump? Are we to assume that Comy just went 0:34:07.040 --> 0:34:11.200 anti Trump later on in the process. I don't buy it. 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:15.200 All right, we've got more. I'll be right back, no 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:17.240 doubt in my mind. But that doesn't mean I'm against 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:19.480 review of it. That's totally fine. Do you think the 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:22.279 Inspector General will find nothing inappropriate? I don't think so, 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:24.399 at least not that I know of. But if they do, 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.960 they do, and they should be transparent about it. Again, 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.120 I'm a big believer in the truth. If the truth 0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:31.920 is there was something concerning, then let's hear it. I 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:34.560 don't know of anything like that. There was a lot concerning, 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:39.120 and now we know or was inappropriate behavior, improper behavior, 0:34:39.200 --> 0:34:44.160 unethical behavior from James Coomy. Another time here where we 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:47.000 have to find out eventually that someone who's a great 0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:51.440 resistance anti Trump hero is a fraud and a fake, 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:55.520 not do we pretended to be Maybe maybe there's a 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:58.480 lesson in that. Maybe we should keep that in mind 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:03.520 going forward. By the way, there was a video I 0:35:03.520 --> 0:35:05.000 saw that they a fox and he was talking about 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:09.400 video from the from a two thousand and five police 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:14.000 rate of Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. And the home 0:35:14.200 --> 0:35:18.720 was just strewn decorated all over the place with images 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:23.080 of what we're described as naked young women all over 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:28.280 this home. I am curious. Did the people that visited 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:32.319 this home not think that was a bit weird. We're 0:35:32.440 --> 0:35:33.680 to believe, you know, all these people that spend this 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:36.840 time with Epstein tell us they didn't know anything weird 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:40.719 was going on. This guy has naked young women adorning 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:44.440 his home on the walls. No one thought that there 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:47.879 was something up here. How many of you would would 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:49.799 go over and hang out at someone's home if they 0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:51.839 had pictures of young naked girls all over the place. 0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:55.600 I think the answer is zero. I'm gonna stay on 0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:58.000 this Epstein case. I'll be back. Last night on this show, 0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:02.160 I discussed information that wasn't for reporting. I repeated statements 0:36:02.200 --> 0:36:05.319 a single source told me about the president's finances and 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:10.480 loan documents with Deutsche Bank, saying if true, as I discussed, 0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:13.560 the information was simply not good enough. I did not 0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:17.279 go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:21.439 MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:24.520 it gone through that process, I would not have been 0:36:24.560 --> 0:36:28.120 permitted to report it. I should not have said it 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:31.040 on air or posted it on Twitter. I was wrong 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.919 to do so. This afternoon, attorneys for the President sent 0:36:34.080 --> 0:36:37.000 us a letter asserting the story is false. They also 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:41.920 demanded a retraction tonight. We are retracting the story. We 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:46.960 don't know whether the information is inaccurate, but the fact 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:51.040 is we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast, and 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:57.560 for that I apologize. All right, close, but no cigar 0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:00.200 here from Lord's O'Donnell close still what he should do. 0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:05.360 They've retracted the story obviously, right. I mean, you know, 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:07.480 if they're going to not retract a story that's so 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:12.440 blatantly flimsy and its sourcing not up to standards, not 0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:15.160 up to par, then we all know that the whole 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:17.960 thing's a joke. But the problem is CNN and MSNBC. 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.839 They've been doing this time and time again, and at 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:24.320 some point as I mentioned you yesterday. The retraction is 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:27.719 not enough at some point. It's it's not enough to 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:30.839 just say, oh, well, well, we'll do better next time. 0:37:30.880 --> 0:37:36.919 If you keep on producing anti Trump stories that are 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:43.400 not in fact accurate, people are going to question your objectivity. 0:37:43.520 --> 0:37:45.160 And in the case of these major news networks, they 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:46.719 shouldn't question it. They should know that it's not there. 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:49.320 There is, There is no objectivity. But I like this, 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:54.400 this standard. This reminds me of the post Muller investigation 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:58.800 delusion that so many of the left have, where they'll say, okay, well, 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:02.920 just because you know, we just because we couldn't prove 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:05.880 that that Trump colluded with Russia, it doesn't mean that 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:09.960 he didn't collude with Russia. Right, just because we weren't 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:12.000 able to get him with the Muller probe doesn't mean 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:14.960 that Congress doesn't have a role now in trying to, 0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:19.880 you know, figure this out, find out what exactly the 0:38:20.040 --> 0:38:23.880 collusion was. And you know, essentially, you know, you can't 0:38:24.000 --> 0:38:26.799 you can't prove that, I can't prove it. That's what 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:31.719 they're saying. You can't find a way to make this thing. 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.440 You know, you can't find a way to make this 0:38:35.719 --> 0:38:38.920 impossible to be true, and so if you can't make 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:42.839 it impossible to be true, then the standard will be 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:48.520 all right, we're gonna pretend like maybe it could be true. Horrible, 0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:51.680 horrible stuff. But this is what they do. This is 0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:55.080 how the left, how the left wing media does their 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:59.040 business these days. Now, I don't want to just switch 0:38:59.080 --> 0:39:04.840 gears for a moment here to uh Maddis. And you know, 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:07.399 I don't know General Mattis. There's some people that wore 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:11.000 the uniform and had three or four stars on their 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:13.360 shoulder that I that I came across professionally when I 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:16.240 was in the CIA and sat in briefings with UM, 0:39:16.400 --> 0:39:18.439 got a sense of who they were, what they knew, 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:21.319 you know how, how on top of their game they 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:23.640 were at any given time. I never met Maddis. I 0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:29.799 didn't know. But I do find this a little bit, uh, 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.759 a little bit disappointing. Now he's allowed to speak out 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:36.279 against commander in chief. He's a private citizen. Now that's fine, 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:39.000 and I don't. And it goes that saying I think 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:42.759 you all listening to show know this. I've I do 0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:47.160 have a deep and real, a tremendous respect for the 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:52.200 United States military for people who serve. I was up 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:56.920 close and personal with that service as a CIA analyst 0:39:57.520 --> 0:40:00.439 deploying to a Rock and Afghanistan. There were men many 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:03.719 times where I trusted my life to men and women 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:06.520 in uniform in the war zones, trusted my safety to them, 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:10.400 you know, flying around in blackhawks, you know, driving around 0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:14.359 in humvees, and it was that was something you don't 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:17.400 ever forget right, And you know, I was in a 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:20.200 position to defend myself, but I was relying on them 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:24.160 to be the first line of defense and then some always. 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:27.040 So it's with that said that that doesn't mean that 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:29.600 I can't disagree with Mattis on something, you know, just 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:32.160 because someone served that I think that this also you 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:33.879 see this a lot with people when they will talk 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:37.759 about the John McCain's political record, I'll say, oh, but 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:40.239 his service to his country. I would never criticize his 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:44.520 service to his country. And I did not approve of 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:47.839 or think it was okay when when Trump went after 0:40:47.880 --> 0:40:50.160 a serve. I didn't like that. But I also think 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:53.080 it's not fair that because John McCain served, when you're 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:55.400 speaking about his political record and decisions he made, you 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:58.719 can't criticize them I think that's wrong. I think there 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:00.640 are a lot of people who serve, and if we 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.279 can't criticize their politics separate from their service, obviously no 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:07.640 one's criticizing anyone's military service. You can't criticize their politics, 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:11.799 then where does that stop and start? What are the 0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:15.520 outer limits of that new approach to all these things? 0:41:16.040 --> 0:41:18.080 And so with that that, I see that you've got 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:21.280 Maddis going around now. He's got a book call signed Chaos, 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.760 Learning to Lead. And look, I think you know Maddis, 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:26.640 I don't know him until some of you listen maybe 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:30.000 work with him, knowing much better than I do. I'm 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:33.280 always a little suspicious. I was always suspicious of Petraeus, 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:36.480 just because I knew, and that I knew more firsthand 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:40.160 that he was cultivating a reputation for himself and had 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:44.520 aspirations and politics. And you know, Maddis is not shy 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.520 about liking the media, liking the press, and liking the spotlight. 0:41:47.560 --> 0:41:51.960 I think that's that's been fair to say. And you 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:56.080 know he's out there now giving interviews in support of 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:59.239 this book, and he's talking about things like he gave 0:41:59.239 --> 0:42:01.480 an interview The Atlantic where he said, quote the next 0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:05.480 day this is about meeting a meeting with Trump in 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:08.600 the Oval Office, and he says, this is what happened. 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:11.560 The next day with Trump in the Oval Office, Mattis 0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:14.880 made his case for keeping troops in Syria. Trump rejected 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:18.800 his arguments. Thirty minutes into the conversation, Mattis told the President, 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:20.880 you're going to have to get the next Secretary of 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:23.439 Defense to lose to isis. I'm not going to do it. 0:42:23.840 --> 0:42:26.160 He handed Trump his resignation letter, a letter that would 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:28.000 soon become one of the most famous documents of the 0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:34.680 Trump presidency so far. Mattis's interview also touched on things 0:42:34.719 --> 0:42:36.680 like quote, he found the president to be of limited 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:42.320 cognitive ability and of generally dubious character end quote. Mattis 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:45.120 declined to directly criticize the President for the most part, 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:48.279 citing a duty of silence he owed the administration. He 0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:50.320 warned this will not be permanent, saying, quote, there is 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:52.520 a period in which I owe my silence. It's not eternal. 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:55.799 It's not going to be forever. Well, he's not being 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:58.640 silent right now, so I don't That part of it 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:02.400 for me was a little bit confused. Um, he's not 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:06.719 being silent right now and to say, you know, to 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.280 say that the presidence of generally dubi's character and limited 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:12.919 cognitive ability. First of all, we're all of limited cognitive ability, 0:43:13.000 --> 0:43:15.279 So I'm not sure that's a particularly descript that that's 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:17.760 a backhanded way of saying he thinks that Trump is stupid, 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:20.600 that's what he's saying, or a more subtle way of 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:23.399 saying he thinks the Trump is stupid. And I keep 0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:27.160 coming back this, how exactly is It's not just that 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:30.880 Trump became president. He didn't have a dad. Look, Bush 0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:33.400 had a very different pathway to the presidency than than Trump. 0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:36.239 Let's not let's not delude ourselves, all right, Plenty of 0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:41.040 people have had very different steps up in politics as 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:44.400 a result of a family name or you know. Trump 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:46.080 did this on his own, and he beat the Clinton 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:49.080 machine with all the media behind it. It's a remarkable feat. 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:52.640 We're really to believe that Trump is stupid. I'm not. 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:57.120 He's not he's not bookish, he's not an intellectual. But 0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.560 we're gonna believe that. I'm sorry, I reject that the 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:01.600 president to stupid. I do not think that there's any 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:06.600 I don't think that's a reasonable position to hold he's 0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:13.640 clearly politically gifted. He's a gifted communicator. He has instincts 0:44:13.680 --> 0:44:17.000 that are amazingly useful in politics as well as in business. 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:19.080 You know what we would have called back in the 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:22.160 day here at NYC Street Smots Trump Scott street Smots, 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:26.799 you know, and that means a lot, and maybe having 0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:30.760 a presidency with street Smarts is something that this country 0:44:30.960 --> 0:44:34.200 needed at this point. And I don't want to have 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.200 to go there, but I'm gonna have to go there, 0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:38.160 you know. With Mattis, again, this is not about his 0:44:38.200 --> 0:44:41.000 military service. That was incredible and we thank him for that, 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:46.000 and he's an honorable warrior, thank you, sir. But if 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:50.080 we're talking about Maddis's ability to assess someone's character, he 0:44:50.320 --> 0:44:53.200 was one of the go to defenders, and this is 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.040 a matter of public record, folks, one of the go 0:44:56.200 --> 0:45:03.560 to defenders of Pharaonos c Elizabeth holmes Is character. At 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:07.840 times when people were really questioning whether Tharno's this blood 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.680 testing company that was that raised eight hundred million dollars 0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:14.640 from investors and had a multi billion dollar valuation, it 0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:18.000 was a huge fraud. It was the investor equivalent of 0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:24.399 a Ponzi scheme. Elizabeth Holmes is a weirdo. That's a 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:27.439 total weirdo who was playing people like a fiddle left 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:31.040 and right. And Maddis was the person who was vouching, 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:33.560 saying that he had looked into her soul and YadA YadA, 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:37.080 and he vouched for her character. So does he really 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:42.880 understand Trump? I don't know. I don't think so, and 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:46.520 I'm disappointed to see that at the current moment he's 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:49.759 coming out and saying, oh, I won't really go after 0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:51.319 the present, but I'm gonna kind of go after him 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:54.439 when my book is out there. Mannis is a good man. 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.480 I think he's making a mistake here. That's how I feel. 0:45:57.719 --> 0:46:00.480 This is his standard go too. This is what he 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:04.160 knows is absolute red meat to his base. It's what 0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:07.480 gets them riled up and keeps them distracted from the 0:46:07.520 --> 0:46:11.200 fact that more and more economists are telling us that 0:46:11.239 --> 0:46:14.040 we may be headed into a recession. Putting Donald Trump 0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:17.600 in the Oval office is may well wreck the American economy. 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:20.520 You know, these trade wars that he's engaging in with 0:46:20.600 --> 0:46:24.760 China are costing people jobs in Iowa and other places. 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:29.560 So yeah, I mean, this is his old standby Castro. 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:34.480 I hope is the next the next candidate who's going 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:36.799 to have to drop out? Because while I've made it 0:46:36.880 --> 0:46:41.360 very clear that Beto, in my opinion, is the worst 0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:45.000 Betto is the worst candidate of all the Democrats that 0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:48.520 are still out there, Castro is certainly at that. And 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:52.359 now we don't have Jilla Brand anymore. Makes me very sad. 0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:55.360 Now we no longer have Jila Brand, but I would 0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:57.040 it just makes me sad because it's been fun to 0:46:57.080 --> 0:47:00.120 make fun of her. I'm Jilla Brand. You know, she 0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:03.320 was really really like the she was like the peppie 0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:07.640 ex wife that you just never wanted to hear from. Again, 0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:13.239 I'm Jilah Brand. Uh. Yeah. It was a lot of 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:17.400 lecturing from her, and not not a good thing. Um, 0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:19.920 she's a little bit like a young version of Hillary. 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:21.400 I got it that. That's the way I think of 0:47:21.440 --> 0:47:24.719 her voice. So that's kind of instead of hollow, it's 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:27.400 a little more like hello. You know, it's like a 0:47:27.400 --> 0:47:30.680 little less old and old and crusty in the voice, 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:34.800 but it's still there. There's still the same same shrill, 0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:40.320 annoying entitlement that is. That is the case with Hillary, 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:43.239 is the case with Jilla Brand. I gotta tell you, 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:46.080 I was thinking for a long time. I was of 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:52.000 the mind that Hillary would probably become the candidate um 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:55.600 eventually for the Democrats, because they just she would do it. 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:57.680 I mean, that's let's let's be clear about this. Hillary 0:47:57.760 --> 0:48:02.840 would definitely sign on. I believe that Hillary was willing 0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:07.200 to be the consensus candidate because ultimately, the only way, 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:11.960 the only way that you can set right in the 0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:16.000 liberal mind, what went wrong in the twenty sixteen election 0:48:16.280 --> 0:48:19.239 would be to have a redo, and a redo in 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:24.920 which Hillary won the only way, the only way you 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:26.839 can do it right. But it looks like that's not 0:48:26.880 --> 0:48:29.560 going to happen. That's a little bit frustrating. Okay, fine, 0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:33.839 but now we see one of the storylines that are 0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:36.319 coming to theories that the economy is going to tank 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:41.160 because of Trump. Now they tried this in speaking of 0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:43.319 a redo of the election. This is what Castro was saying, 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:46.919 if Trump is president, the economical tank. Meanwhile, Trump has 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:51.640 been president and the economy has not been tanking. In fact, 0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:55.520 quite the opposite, economy has been strong. It has been 0:48:55.520 --> 0:49:00.520 going very very well. So in what world, in what 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:05.319 universe does it make any sense for the left to 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:08.919 come out and claim that Trump is going to ruin 0:49:08.960 --> 0:49:11.279 the economy when he's already been in office, he's been 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:16.160 the guy in charge and things are going great. It's 0:49:16.480 --> 0:49:18.840 it's like, don't listen to me, you know, don't listen 0:49:18.840 --> 0:49:21.360 to what you hear. Don't listen to your lying years. 0:49:21.400 --> 0:49:24.840 Listen to what I say. This seems to be the 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:28.120 pitch that Democrats have come up with it because there's 0:49:28.120 --> 0:49:32.800 a desperation. They know that absent a recession, there is 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:37.440 a very high likelihood, just based on history, based on 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.240 all the numbers, a very high likelihood that Trump gets 0:49:41.080 --> 0:49:46.120 reelected absent a recession. That's a very real thing. And 0:49:46.200 --> 0:49:48.839 so they're going to come up with some way. They're 0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:54.600 going to come up with some narrative in the meantime that, oh, 0:49:54.640 --> 0:49:58.080 there's not a recession yet, but just wait, just wait. 0:49:58.080 --> 0:50:01.600 There will be a recession. It's coming, that's for sure. 0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:06.200 But you know, believe them, that's what they're asking you. 0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:09.919 Oh just now, will this continue to work in six months? 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:11.520 I don't know, but you're gonna you're gonna hear this 0:50:11.680 --> 0:50:14.160 up until election day. What does Castro, by the way, 0:50:14.160 --> 0:50:17.080 what does he know about recessions or about anything else. 0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:20.520 The problems Democrats have is that they don't none of 0:50:20.600 --> 0:50:26.279 the candidates who sound like reasonable people can appeal the left, 0:50:26.320 --> 0:50:28.680 so they can't get out of the primary. And the 0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:32.040 person that's supposed to be I mean, they'll say Castro 0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:35.399 is an open borders guy. Castro was the guy who 0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:38.040 not only wants to decriminalize illegal crossings of the border, 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:41.839 which is completely insane, he also is the individual who 0:50:41.880 --> 0:50:47.680 wanted the I mean, it's sorry to believe he's the 0:50:47.719 --> 0:50:52.680 one who wanted taxpayer funded abortions for transgender individuals. He 0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:56.800 was the one that went to that to that length recently, 0:50:57.520 --> 0:51:03.759 which again, it's just absolutely nuts. It's just nuts for 0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:05.279 him to say that, But he said it, and the 0:51:05.320 --> 0:51:07.959 Democrats didn't really seem to have much of a problem 0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:10.480 with it. They're of the belief that, yeah, sure, you know, 0:51:10.560 --> 0:51:13.920 he's probably a little bit out of bound sometimes, but 0:51:15.320 --> 0:51:18.400 that's where we are here with Castro. But they got Biden. 0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:23.160 Biden's supposed to be the return to normalcy, and yet 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:25.480 this guy cannot go. First of all, that they've tried 0:51:25.520 --> 0:51:28.960 to scale back his schedule. They tried to scale back 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:31.520 his schedule because they feel like later in the day 0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:34.160 he's more. This is real, this has been reported. I'm 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:38.799 not I'm not imagining this. Later in the day, he 0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:42.240 is more likely to make gaffs because he's tired, because 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:46.160 he's too old. That's they won't say that part of it, 0:51:46.200 --> 0:51:48.240 but that's what's really going on. Because he's too old. 0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:54.600 They don't go beyond that. Excellent, they won't say more 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:57.640 than that. They'll just say, yeah, he wants to have 0:51:57.760 --> 0:51:59.520 He shouldn't have things later on the day. He wants 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:02.440 to have them earlier on because of that. And it's 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:05.880 because every seems like about every two days now, Biden 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:09.879 says something that is just a wow moment. Oh well, 0:52:09.960 --> 0:52:18.760 Biden's gone and done it again. Why are economically distress 0:52:19.960 --> 0:52:34.120 who help? No? No, yeah, that's what he wants. Social worst, 0:52:34.120 --> 0:52:37.200 going to teach them how to raise their children. I mean, 0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:39.319 that's what it sounds like to me. Do you think 0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:41.680 if maybe you might even say, oh, but buck, some 0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:44.439 people do need to learn more, or there's some role 0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:46.799 of the state and trying to Okay, but do you 0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:50.080 think a Republican would ever get away with saying something 0:52:50.120 --> 0:52:54.800 like that. Biden is just a walking, talking political liability 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:58.160 for the Democratic Party and yet he's way ahead in 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:01.600 the polls. Still, you have to sit back and ask 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:06.359 yourself about half the country or Democrats at least by registration, right, 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:08.160 I mean, I know people say, oh, buck, no, there's 0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:12.000 more conservatives, Republican, fine, whatever, it's it's close to half 0:53:12.040 --> 0:53:17.080 the country is reddish your Democrat? Okay, Biden's the best 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:20.719 they've got. This is who they're offering up to take 0:53:20.760 --> 0:53:24.800 on Trump. I think that they must know, they must 0:53:24.840 --> 0:53:27.960 know deep down that this is that his campaign is 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:31.200 doomed to failure. But I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe 0:53:31.200 --> 0:53:33.239 I'm missing something. You know, there is this part of 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:36.360 me that keeps thinking, given what happened in twenty sixteen, 0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:39.600 perhaps we have to approach all politics from the mindset 0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:42.719 of anything is possible, anything could happen, right Biden? Maybe 0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:47.319 you know, Joe Biden just gets the job done. I 0:53:47.360 --> 0:53:51.440 don't think that's possible. But look, it's it's a crazy 0:53:51.480 --> 0:53:53.319 world we live, and it really is. There's all kinds 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:56.279 of crazy stuff going on, So who knows, Folks, I'll 0:53:56.360 --> 0:53:57.640 keep an eye on. If that's for sure, We'll be 0:53:57.719 --> 0:54:00.480 right back, my friends. I want to tell you about 0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:06.359 de foi Gras wars that is coming. Yes, you may 0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:09.120 not have heard of this, but it is a real problem. 0:54:09.360 --> 0:54:13.719 My friends. De foi gras may be banned here in 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:17.040 the city called New York. You may not be able 0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:20.320 to partise. Now. I see the problem. My French accent 0:54:20.400 --> 0:54:22.120 is it turns into a Russian accent sometimes. And I 0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:24.360 haven't even had anything to drink. If I had a 0:54:24.400 --> 0:54:27.040 little bit of vodka going, that would be an acceptable situation, 0:54:27.080 --> 0:54:31.359 but I have not. And so this is where we are. 0:54:33.800 --> 0:54:37.480 New York City. May ban may follow in California's footsteps. 0:54:37.480 --> 0:54:40.719 California's already done this before. California's banned plastic bags. They 0:54:40.800 --> 0:54:45.200 like to ban things. We're gonna ban it, but they're 0:54:45.239 --> 0:54:46.960 looking at ban foi gras. For those who don't know, 0:54:48.080 --> 0:54:54.960 foi gras is a delicacy and it has been somewhat controversial, 0:54:55.800 --> 0:55:00.840 especially in animal rights activists circles for a while because 0:55:00.880 --> 0:55:03.160 the way and it can be either goose or duck 0:55:03.239 --> 0:55:05.439 foi gras. I will tell you I prefer the duck, 0:55:05.520 --> 0:55:07.680 but I will eat the goose foigra. I'll do either. 0:55:10.239 --> 0:55:13.759 But the way that it works is they take this, uh, 0:55:13.840 --> 0:55:15.720 they take let's talk about it with the duck foigra 0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:18.120 because that's the best. And Hudson Valley, New York, a 0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:20.000 place that I know very well. My grandparents had a 0:55:20.040 --> 0:55:23.359 home up there for many many years. Hudson Valley, New York, 0:55:23.520 --> 0:55:29.120 is famous for it's fois gras, right, it is a famous, 0:55:29.520 --> 0:55:35.239 famous locale for foi gras. And if it is, if 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:39.200 it's banned there. I think they said there's fifteen I 0:55:39.200 --> 0:55:42.839 think they said fifteen million. Yeah, fifteen million dollars of 0:55:43.000 --> 0:55:46.200 fois gras is sold. I don't know if that was 0:55:46.320 --> 0:55:48.440 nationwide or just to New York every year, but it's 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:51.240 you know, it's it's a real business. There's real money 0:55:51.280 --> 0:55:52.920 at stake and for a lot of people, for a 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:58.080 lot of farms, this is a do or die situation, 0:55:58.320 --> 0:56:02.880 you know. Um yeah, last year, I'm sorry, Hudson Valley, 0:56:03.160 --> 0:56:06.520 is this one This one place found in a nineteen 0:56:06.560 --> 0:56:09.120 ninety slaughters about eight hundred fouag Grad ducks every day. 0:56:09.200 --> 0:56:11.399 Last year, it's sold about fifteen million dollars of foua 0:56:11.480 --> 0:56:15.600 grad restaurants and distributors. So that's just one place. Wow, 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:17.520 I guess foag grads a much bigger business. The fifteen 0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:21.439 million dollars anyway, people like this fatty duck liver. That's 0:56:21.440 --> 0:56:24.440 what it is. They take the duck and they force 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:28.800 feed it a high fat corn feed. They put a 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:30.600 it's it's like a put a hose. It's like a 0:56:30.640 --> 0:56:33.680 thin hose they put in the duck's throat, and the 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:37.920 and the liver of the duck turns a kind of 0:56:38.000 --> 0:56:40.960 translucent yellow and becomes about the size they say, of 0:56:41.000 --> 0:56:43.160 a it should be able to fit in the palm 0:56:43.200 --> 0:56:45.640 of your hand, a duck liver, but it becomes about 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:48.359 the size of a of a human brain over the 0:56:48.360 --> 0:56:52.319 course of this this feeding process, so the liver gets very, 0:56:52.400 --> 0:56:55.480 very large and fatty. It's it's you know, fatty liver. 0:56:55.560 --> 0:56:57.319 Disease is the thing that people can suffer from. But 0:56:57.360 --> 0:56:59.160 this is like a fatty liver in the duck. The 0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:01.359 thing is, if you see it properly and put like 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:05.440 a cherry compote on it, it's delicious. Brucer Mark, do 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:08.960 you like fagra? I don't really like liver. That's fair. 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:11.279 Why am I telling you this is not just so 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:13.280 I can do a weird French accent and talk about 0:57:13.280 --> 0:57:16.960 foagras because I'm hungry. This is going to lead to 0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:20.479 a whole lot more if they get this band through 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:26.600 based solely on how this is inhumane. That is the 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:30.200 approach they're taking. They're saying that this is an inhumane thing. 0:57:31.320 --> 0:57:35.520 If they are successful in doing that, what's to stop 0:57:35.560 --> 0:57:42.000 them from saying that factory farm chickens are also raised 0:57:42.040 --> 0:57:46.280 and killed in an inhumane fashion. And you're going to 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:50.600 see more of this. You're going to see these activists, 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:54.560 these animal rights activists who are always politically left. I've 0:57:54.560 --> 0:57:58.280 never met an animal rights activist who wasn't. Also, you know, 0:57:58.840 --> 0:58:01.840 either a Hilary or any Sanders voter who probably drives 0:58:01.880 --> 0:58:04.760 a Prius and there's usually a degree. And by the way, 0:58:05.000 --> 0:58:07.520 you know, I love animals. I love dogs particularly, but 0:58:07.560 --> 0:58:09.680 I love animals in general. But I also think of 0:58:09.760 --> 0:58:12.200 human beings are meant to eat animals, and I think 0:58:12.200 --> 0:58:16.200 that ultimately, you know, we don't want to be unnecessarily cruel. Ever, 0:58:16.400 --> 0:58:18.040 you don't want to inflict pain for the sake of 0:58:18.080 --> 0:58:22.880 pain ever, U But you do start getting into this 0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:27.520 this gray zone of well what is acceptable? You know, 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:30.120 they they've banned for a long time. I forget what 0:58:30.200 --> 0:58:37.080 it's called, but a small bird in Brandy, uh that 0:58:37.440 --> 0:58:40.640 was a delicacy for Orto lawns. There we go, the 0:58:40.840 --> 0:58:42.720 Orto lawns. This was when they would take a little 0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:47.800 songbird and they would pluck out its eyes and drown 0:58:47.880 --> 0:58:55.040 the bird in arm armagnac and marinated in this this 0:58:55.160 --> 0:59:00.240 liqueur and then it is roasted and then plucked. Yeah, 0:59:00.360 --> 0:59:02.320 and this goes back to ancient Rome. So people like 0:59:02.680 --> 0:59:06.760 like this this orderlan thing, and that's been outlawed for 0:59:06.760 --> 0:59:08.840 a while because they cruelty. They're trying to get foil gron. 0:59:08.880 --> 0:59:11.920 It's outlawed in California. You can't get foil grown California anymore. 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:14.560 But I'm telling you next is going to come. The 0:59:15.320 --> 0:59:18.360 factory farming is cruel and there's gonna be a real 0:59:18.360 --> 0:59:21.960 political movement on the left about this. And look at 0:59:22.000 --> 0:59:24.040 how they're they're they're coming after your food in a 0:59:24.040 --> 0:59:25.800 bunch of ways. They're coming after your food because they 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:31.720 say the climate change footprint is too large. They're coming 0:59:31.760 --> 0:59:37.000 after your food because they're saying that it's it's cruel. 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:42.080 It's essentially cruel and unusual punishment against animals, and they 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:44.360 want to control more and more aspects of your life. 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:49.040 I do think that also with the beyond meat success, 0:59:49.080 --> 0:59:51.160 and they have all these meat substitutes. We've talked a 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:54.280 bit about this. You're going to see a greater push 0:59:54.320 --> 0:59:56.480 because it's never gonna taste as good. And all of 0:59:56.480 --> 0:59:59.360 you already know that your barbecue, your burger, that's just 1:00:00.040 --> 1:00:02.080 it's just more delicious than whatever they can make in 1:00:02.080 --> 1:00:05.160 a test tube somewhere. We're no, we are nowhere close 1:00:05.800 --> 1:00:10.400 to creating meat substitutes that if someone is okay with 1:00:10.480 --> 1:00:12.960 eating meat, they would choose based on taste. And I'm 1:00:13.000 --> 1:00:15.080 willing to try it. I'm going to try the different things. 1:00:15.960 --> 1:00:18.720 We are nowhere in the in the stratosphere of that 1:00:18.800 --> 1:00:22.720 being the case, we are in fact going to be 1:00:22.800 --> 1:00:26.400 told that we have to eat this much less delicious 1:00:26.480 --> 1:00:30.280 stuff because it's better for the environment, or in this case, 1:00:30.760 --> 1:00:34.000 because they're so mean to animals. It's so mean to 1:00:34.040 --> 1:00:36.600 the animals. You know, if you're gonna eat animals, there's 1:00:36.600 --> 1:00:38.400 going to be violence. There's going to be there's going 1:00:38.440 --> 1:00:40.320 to be the killing of the animal, unless you're gonna, 1:00:40.440 --> 1:00:44.640 you know, go real caveman style, and you know, they 1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:46.160 try to take a bite out of the animal while 1:00:46.200 --> 1:00:48.000 it's you know, still flopping around on the boat or 1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:50.360 something that's not a good idea. You know that. I 1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:52.720 heard a story from a fly fishing guide a long 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:55.280 time ago who said that he went fishing with a 1:00:55.320 --> 1:00:58.120 bunch of Russians and they like to they would actually 1:00:58.160 --> 1:01:01.240 take the salmon and eat the row that they with. 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:03.439 The salmon would still be flopping around on the shore 1:01:03.840 --> 1:01:08.120 and they would create an incision across the bell, or 1:01:09.040 --> 1:01:11.320 they would slit the belly and then they would eat 1:01:11.360 --> 1:01:13.840 salmon row right out of the fish producer mark how 1:01:13.920 --> 1:01:15.120 much money would have to pay you to have you 1:01:15.160 --> 1:01:18.720 do that? A lot? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's 1:01:18.840 --> 1:01:22.160 very very salty, so if you like salty things, but 1:01:22.320 --> 1:01:25.000 I don't like super salty stuff. So I'm telling you 1:01:25.000 --> 1:01:26.920 they're gonna they're gonna come after. You're gonna see that. 1:01:26.960 --> 1:01:29.080 And the movement is there. I think they are going 1:01:29.160 --> 1:01:31.360 to ban FOI ground New York, and then they'll be 1:01:31.400 --> 1:01:34.640 a push to bannon in other cities across and other 1:01:34.880 --> 1:01:37.480 blue areas of the country for shore where this is 1:01:37.520 --> 1:01:40.120 a delicacy of that people actually eat, and it's going 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:42.320 to affect people. Look, you're you're gonna have farms that 1:01:42.400 --> 1:01:44.200 I'll go out of business. Hundreds of people lose their 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:47.680 livelihoods because they think they're being a little a little 1:01:47.760 --> 1:01:50.520 rough with the goose and the last thirty days of life. 1:01:50.680 --> 1:01:53.760 There are veterinarians who say this is cruel. They're veterinarians 1:01:53.800 --> 1:01:56.440 who say all factory farming is cruel. And there's some 1:01:56.480 --> 1:01:58.240 who say that you know, this is the circle of life. 1:01:58.280 --> 1:02:00.520 So take your pick, folks, But I'm telling you they're 1:02:00.520 --> 1:02:05.120 coming after your burger. You are now entering the Freedom 1:02:05.160 --> 1:02:09.520 had kind of operation center. All sensitive programs money cans 1:02:09.560 --> 1:02:14.160 strongly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready 1:02:14.200 --> 1:02:18.240 for the Buck breeze. Look, it is the case that 1:02:18.360 --> 1:02:21.360 for a couple of decades, and here this isn't political, 1:02:21.400 --> 1:02:24.360 this is Republican and Democrat administrations alike. For a couple 1:02:24.360 --> 1:02:28.400 of decades, we allowed China to run rough shot over 1:02:28.560 --> 1:02:32.720 American interests as as did Europe allowed China to run 1:02:32.920 --> 1:02:35.360 rough shot over their interests as well. President Trump is 1:02:36.000 --> 1:02:38.200 clear that's not going to be the case anymore. It's 1:02:38.440 --> 1:02:40.320 it's most prominent that as you see it in the 1:02:41.080 --> 1:02:43.840 trade issues, where we're trying to simply get fair and 1:02:43.920 --> 1:02:46.840 reciprocal trade between the United States and China. But I 1:02:46.880 --> 1:02:49.720 think you also see and all the other components of 1:02:49.800 --> 1:02:52.760 the challenge that China presents, whether it's pushing back as 1:02:52.800 --> 1:02:54.640 we've done here at the State Department on the risk 1:02:54.720 --> 1:03:00.439 presented by Chinese telecommunications infrastructure, Huawei and others, the work 1:03:00.480 --> 1:03:03.840 that we've done to convince our partners around the world 1:03:03.840 --> 1:03:07.280 that allowing China to make investments in their countries that 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:11.160 will ultimately make them vassal states of China along every 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:15.440 dimension political, diplomatic, and security, we're pushing back to make 1:03:15.440 --> 1:03:17.880 sure that the American people are protected against the challenges 1:03:17.920 --> 1:03:22.840 that China presents to us. That is the essence that 1:03:23.000 --> 1:03:25.640 Secretary of State Pompeia laying it out for That is 1:03:25.640 --> 1:03:28.640 the essence of why Trump has been willing to take 1:03:29.160 --> 1:03:33.439 the position he has against China. That they have been 1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:38.680 bad actors on a number of fronts for a long time, 1:03:39.560 --> 1:03:43.000 and we've all finally just had enough of it, and 1:03:43.040 --> 1:03:46.560 so I think that has to be reiterated. We have 1:03:46.680 --> 1:03:50.960 to continue to hone in on that reality if we're 1:03:50.960 --> 1:03:54.080 going to assess whether or not it is the right 1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:59.280 move for President Trump to continue on with this battle 1:03:59.440 --> 1:04:04.320 with China. Understand that any anyone who pays attention to 1:04:04.480 --> 1:04:10.240 geopolitics and is not an internationalist, cosmopolitan this type. If 1:04:10.280 --> 1:04:13.919 you ask them, does the Chinese do the Chinese view 1:04:14.920 --> 1:04:17.480 our relationship with them at some level as zero sum? 1:04:18.600 --> 1:04:21.880 The answer has to be yes. Now, if you were 1:04:21.920 --> 1:04:26.280 to ask anybody if the Russians view the US China 1:04:26.760 --> 1:04:30.720 US relationship as zero sum, everybody would say, well, of course, 1:04:30.720 --> 1:04:34.200 I mean putin that's the way. What evidence is there 1:04:35.160 --> 1:04:38.720 at all that the Chinese take a different approach to 1:04:38.880 --> 1:04:44.240 their relationship with the United States trading relationship, political relationship. 1:04:44.600 --> 1:04:46.560 You know, do we really think the Chinese, for example, 1:04:46.680 --> 1:04:49.280 have tried their best to help us on the North 1:04:49.360 --> 1:04:54.000 Korea issue? Do we really believe that the Chinese government 1:04:54.080 --> 1:04:59.160 is doing everything in its power to help with what 1:04:59.320 --> 1:05:03.920 is the one of them most important national security challenges 1:05:04.120 --> 1:05:07.880 in the world, which is the preventing North Korea from 1:05:07.920 --> 1:05:14.000 becoming a true nuclear power that is able to hit 1:05:14.080 --> 1:05:17.240 any country anywhere in the world with an intercontinental ballistic missile. 1:05:17.720 --> 1:05:20.000 I mean, they already have nuclear weapons, which is a 1:05:20.080 --> 1:05:24.040 somewhat terrifying thought in and of itself. Chinese aren't putting 1:05:24.080 --> 1:05:26.120 undue pressure on them. In fact, that Chinese like the 1:05:26.160 --> 1:05:29.880 current relationship where we have to run to them and say, okay, 1:05:29.880 --> 1:05:32.320 come on, we need a little help here getting North 1:05:32.360 --> 1:05:34.560 Korea to fall inline. What what can you do for us? 1:05:36.400 --> 1:05:39.960 So that's another component of this. I mean that you 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:44.160 see Chinese action not just on trade, but on national 1:05:44.160 --> 1:05:50.280 security and other issues. It's quite clear to me that 1:05:50.360 --> 1:05:53.520 they aren't helpful to there aren't They're not an ally right. 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:58.400 This is what There is a very clear strategic clash 1:05:58.480 --> 1:06:00.880 going on between us and them. They want to be 1:06:01.400 --> 1:06:05.520 the global hedgemon. The Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party 1:06:05.840 --> 1:06:09.440 have aspirations to be the wealthiest, strongest country in the world, 1:06:09.760 --> 1:06:12.439 and to be the wealthiest and strongest country in the world. 1:06:12.800 --> 1:06:16.800 If you're going to be an interconnected as we are 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:22.240 with the Internet and transit on planes as simple as 1:06:22.240 --> 1:06:24.040 it is to get all over the place, and a 1:06:24.120 --> 1:06:28.200 truly globalized economy, you're going to have to be influential 1:06:28.240 --> 1:06:31.280 outside of your borders in ways that we don't want. 1:06:31.280 --> 1:06:33.080 We simply don't want the Chinese to be. I mean, 1:06:33.240 --> 1:06:37.000 we do not want the spread of a one state 1:06:37.080 --> 1:06:41.520 capitalist or sort of a one state quasi capitalist authoritarian 1:06:42.680 --> 1:06:45.600 communist Chinese Party. We don't want that spread all over 1:06:45.640 --> 1:06:47.400 the world. We don't want that to become the new 1:06:48.080 --> 1:06:50.080 model for other countries. Now you could say, oh, but 1:06:51.080 --> 1:06:53.760 China isn't trying to create China in the rest of 1:06:53.760 --> 1:06:56.200 the world. That's true to that's true to extent. But 1:06:56.240 --> 1:06:59.240 it's also the case that the Chinese government by being 1:06:59.320 --> 1:07:05.080 completely willing to work with any country, irrespective of the 1:07:05.200 --> 1:07:08.480 nature of that regime, the way that regime interacts with 1:07:08.520 --> 1:07:11.040 other countries as well as its own people, it just 1:07:11.080 --> 1:07:13.800 means that, you know, imagine if the US were to 1:07:13.840 --> 1:07:15.280 go bad and decide that we were going to be 1:07:15.320 --> 1:07:17.000 buddies with all the worst countries in the world, that 1:07:17.000 --> 1:07:21.240 would have that would have profound ramifications for the future 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:25.439 of the earth, I mean for all of us. And 1:07:25.480 --> 1:07:27.760 that's the future we're headed forth with China. So I 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:30.919 think that there has to be a long term view 1:07:30.960 --> 1:07:34.000 of this, and I think that the president deserves a 1:07:34.040 --> 1:07:36.360 lot of credit. And I know that he's getting criticized 1:07:36.440 --> 1:07:38.280 right now by Maddis who says that he has a 1:07:38.360 --> 1:07:42.760 lack of cognitive ability. Essentially, I mean Maddis more or 1:07:42.800 --> 1:07:46.400 less the saying the President's not smart. I think he's 1:07:46.440 --> 1:07:49.120 trying to do it in a very well, not even 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:50.960 very he's trying to do in a somewhat roundabout way, 1:07:50.960 --> 1:07:53.360 but that's what is going That's what's going on here. 1:07:54.280 --> 1:07:56.600 By the way, Mike Pompeo also spoke a bit about 1:07:56.680 --> 1:08:01.800 the Israel and Iran issue and how this administration is 1:08:01.880 --> 1:08:06.320 approaching that. With respect of Islamic Republic of Iran, we've flipped, 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:11.120 we flipped the US policy there. The previous administration guaranteed 1:08:11.160 --> 1:08:13.480 Iran a path the nuclear weapons system, allowed them to 1:08:13.520 --> 1:08:16.760 foment error, and allowed their missile system to run. The 1:08:17.080 --> 1:08:20.360 President Trumps directed that we do just the opposite of 1:08:20.439 --> 1:08:23.760 deny them their resources to create resk not only for 1:08:23.800 --> 1:08:26.479 the United States and its citizens, but for Israel as well. 1:08:26.479 --> 1:08:29.519 And we've been successful with that, and we've also been 1:08:29.560 --> 1:08:33.760 incredibly supportive each time Israel has been forced to take 1:08:33.800 --> 1:08:36.639 actions to defend itself. The United States has made very 1:08:36.640 --> 1:08:39.600 clear that that country has not only the right, but 1:08:39.720 --> 1:08:42.320 the duty to protect its own people, and we are 1:08:42.360 --> 1:08:44.559 always supportive of their efforts to do that. And so 1:08:44.680 --> 1:08:48.640 with respect to ensuring that Israel is treated fairly at 1:08:48.640 --> 1:08:50.840 the United Nations, is or will can certainly count on 1:08:50.840 --> 1:08:55.720 the United States of America see, there's a fundamental difference 1:08:55.880 --> 1:08:58.320 in the way you have to think about the Iranian regime, 1:08:58.360 --> 1:09:02.040 Iranian government, and the Israeli government. And this is where 1:09:02.360 --> 1:09:05.880 the left is wrong. This is where the left loses it. 1:09:05.960 --> 1:09:09.519 That's what they don't understand, or rather they're just wrong, 1:09:09.680 --> 1:09:12.680 and maybe they understand they're just wrong, and that is 1:09:12.720 --> 1:09:18.559 that the Israeli regime, the government of the country of Israel, 1:09:19.520 --> 1:09:25.559 is at its core a decent, moral, rule of law government. 1:09:27.520 --> 1:09:31.639 The government in Tehran, the Mullahs, the Guardian Council, they 1:09:31.680 --> 1:09:34.120 are at their core, and the government that they run 1:09:34.439 --> 1:09:41.640 is an indecent, immoral, corrupt and evil regime. And everything 1:09:41.680 --> 1:09:44.519 that you think about when you're when you're talking about 1:09:44.560 --> 1:09:46.560 the relationship between those countries and what's going on in 1:09:46.600 --> 1:09:49.600 their spheres of influence the Middle East, it has to 1:09:49.640 --> 1:09:54.720 start from that context in a very straightforward way. The 1:09:54.720 --> 1:09:57.080 Iranian government of the bad guys, the Israeli government of 1:09:57.120 --> 1:10:00.920 the good guys, and conservatives are willing to put it 1:10:01.000 --> 1:10:05.280 in those those terms. For the left, it's oh, there's 1:10:05.280 --> 1:10:08.160 always a greater complexity, and they'll say there's greater complexity, 1:10:08.200 --> 1:10:13.080 and then all of their efforts at condemning all their 1:10:13.240 --> 1:10:15.760 all the diplomatic pressure they can bring, that's always brought 1:10:15.760 --> 1:10:19.760 to bear against Israel. Right, that's where the UN and 1:10:19.800 --> 1:10:23.559 all these international bodies are always criticizing Israel as though 1:10:23.640 --> 1:10:26.000 it's the country we have to really be the most 1:10:26.680 --> 1:10:29.360 worried about, you know, that's the country that's really and 1:10:29.640 --> 1:10:32.719 so this is where you have even if Trump lacks 1:10:33.600 --> 1:10:38.800 the more nuanced understanding out there that obviously Libs think 1:10:38.840 --> 1:10:41.040 that he's a psycho and a traitor and an idiot 1:10:41.040 --> 1:10:43.400 all at once. Right, Libs think all kind he's Hitler. 1:10:43.439 --> 1:10:47.559 He's worse than Hitler. He's worse than Mow. He's he's 1:10:47.600 --> 1:10:50.400 you know, Satan himself, except at least Satan could tempt 1:10:50.400 --> 1:10:54.800 people in ways that we're clever. They think that Trump 1:10:54.920 --> 1:10:58.360 is just borish, But on the Israel versus Iran question, 1:10:58.560 --> 1:11:02.400 Trump is fundamentally right, Just like on the China US relationship, 1:11:02.439 --> 1:11:04.920 He's fundamentally right, and we can't lose sight of that. 1:11:05.280 --> 1:11:09.960 So one of my favorite things to complain about, and 1:11:10.000 --> 1:11:12.160 since this is my radio show, I'll take a moment 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:15.400 to complain about something that is on my mind. It's 1:11:15.439 --> 1:11:18.600 just all the stuff I just moved from DC to 1:11:18.600 --> 1:11:20.639 New York and you have all this stuff you have 1:11:20.720 --> 1:11:22.920 to deal with when you move, which is very annoying. 1:11:22.960 --> 1:11:27.559 Moving is very expensive, it's very pricey, and you know, 1:11:27.600 --> 1:11:30.680 you have to be quite aware of what's going on 1:11:30.720 --> 1:11:33.439 around you because there's always stuff that comes up. But 1:11:33.560 --> 1:11:35.719 then when you deal with apartments in New York City, 1:11:35.760 --> 1:11:41.599 you get the double whammy of it's very expensive. Wherever 1:11:41.640 --> 1:11:43.240 you live in New York City is very expensive. And 1:11:43.320 --> 1:11:44.800 those of you that are in this area, you know 1:11:44.800 --> 1:11:46.479 what I'm talking about, a lot of you, I know, 1:11:46.720 --> 1:11:48.920 those of you who listen to the show out in Omaha. 1:11:49.080 --> 1:11:53.439 You're laughing at me. You've got, you know, your thousands 1:11:53.439 --> 1:11:56.200 of square feet or whatever, and you've got a yard 1:11:56.240 --> 1:11:58.639 and land and all this stuff, and you're telling me, Buck, 1:11:58.680 --> 1:12:01.600 I've got a very cute workshed that you could go 1:12:01.680 --> 1:12:03.880 throw a cot in and I'll only I'll charge you, 1:12:03.880 --> 1:12:07.560 you know, bottom dollar for it. So I appreciate all that. 1:12:07.600 --> 1:12:09.400 But yeah, here in New York it's very very expensive. 1:12:09.439 --> 1:12:13.799 And wherever you end up living, there's always there's always 1:12:13.840 --> 1:12:17.080 a risk. You know, there's always a risk because you 1:12:17.120 --> 1:12:21.639 go see the place, But until you have actually lived 1:12:21.680 --> 1:12:25.080 in a place like sleep there for the st sleep there, 1:12:25.200 --> 1:12:31.240 slept there, speak the English buck for the night. You 1:12:31.240 --> 1:12:33.960 don't really know what you're getting into. And I've dealt 1:12:33.960 --> 1:12:35.960 with this many times before. For example, years ago, I 1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:39.920 lived in a tiny studio a studio apartment by for 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:42.320 those who don't know the lingo. A studio is a 1:12:42.320 --> 1:12:44.880 fancy term for a one room apartment, which is what 1:12:44.960 --> 1:12:48.000 I have lived in for most of my adult life. Yeah, 1:12:48.040 --> 1:12:50.599 that's right. The freedom hut is it's a hut. It's 1:12:50.640 --> 1:12:54.120 not It is not a mansion. It is not a hacienda. 1:12:54.360 --> 1:12:56.720 One day, producer Mark will have a freedom Hunt hacienda 1:12:57.439 --> 1:12:59.439 if we go big. If we go big time and 1:12:59.560 --> 1:13:01.160 we are in a hundred and sixty stations, but we 1:13:01.280 --> 1:13:03.680 get to five hundred, we'll get a hacienda and we'll 1:13:03.720 --> 1:13:05.720 get you. I don't know, what do you call it, 1:13:05.920 --> 1:13:11.640 like the carriage house for a Haciendael, Yeah, it's you know, 1:13:11.640 --> 1:13:13.559 it's a big house, I think, or it's a fancy house. 1:13:14.000 --> 1:13:16.040 So so whenever you move into a place for the 1:13:16.080 --> 1:13:17.880 first time around and I don't know how many of you, 1:13:17.920 --> 1:13:21.400 I've moved ten times as an adult, I've moved over 1:13:21.560 --> 1:13:24.720 and over again. I had to move mostly because when 1:13:24.720 --> 1:13:26.679 I was in the CIA, they would raise my rent 1:13:26.920 --> 1:13:31.080 when I lived in DC, and so I would say, okay, 1:13:31.160 --> 1:13:33.880 And I was living right at the edge of you know, 1:13:33.960 --> 1:13:36.599 paycheck to paycheck, So when somebody would raise my rent, 1:13:36.600 --> 1:13:38.280 even a couple one hundred bucks a month or one 1:13:38.320 --> 1:13:40.639 hundred fifty bucks a month, I'd have to move. So 1:13:40.680 --> 1:13:42.880 that happened to me a bunch of times in DC. 1:13:43.320 --> 1:13:46.120 But you know, you learn, you there's a growth process 1:13:46.200 --> 1:13:51.639 from that, from being somebody who has to just get 1:13:51.640 --> 1:13:53.800 it done and move and find a place to live 1:13:53.880 --> 1:13:55.920 and deal with the situation right there. There's a lot 1:13:56.000 --> 1:13:58.760 that you have to you have to handle there. Um. 1:13:58.920 --> 1:14:01.840 I mean I I hacked, and in retrospect, some of 1:14:01.880 --> 1:14:03.519 you're gonna say that, Well, first of all, some of 1:14:03.520 --> 1:14:05.720 you are superhuman, all right, So let's just start right there. 1:14:06.320 --> 1:14:08.320 Every time every time I talk about something, I'm like, 1:14:08.320 --> 1:14:11.200 I'm working on my fitness, I get like eight members 1:14:11.200 --> 1:14:12.840 of Team buck who are like I just I just 1:14:12.840 --> 1:14:15.599 competed in the IFBB Championship and like, look at me, 1:14:15.640 --> 1:14:17.439 and I've got like a sixteen pack and do this 1:14:17.479 --> 1:14:20.120 and that. And I appreciate the advice, but you know, 1:14:20.920 --> 1:14:22.720 I gotta sit here behind a radio mic for three 1:14:22.760 --> 1:14:24.519 hours a day, and to do this show, I gotta 1:14:24.560 --> 1:14:27.479 read for like four or five hours before I do 1:14:27.560 --> 1:14:29.400 the three hour show. So it's a long it's a 1:14:29.400 --> 1:14:31.960 long haul. So when people ask the question, how do 1:14:31.960 --> 1:14:33.280 you know all this stuff? I know all the stuff 1:14:33.320 --> 1:14:36.680 because I read all this stuff. That should probably we 1:14:36.720 --> 1:14:39.080 could we could probably make that a tagline. I just 1:14:39.120 --> 1:14:44.000 came up with that one hashtag radio skills. But anyway, 1:14:44.080 --> 1:14:46.200 you know, when you move around, you learn things. I 1:14:46.320 --> 1:14:49.240 moved a one bedroom apartment. This is good. This is 1:14:49.240 --> 1:14:51.080 good for like pre labor day stuff. I moved a 1:14:51.080 --> 1:14:55.800 one bedroom apartment by myself from New York. From DC 1:14:55.960 --> 1:14:58.320 to New York. Drove the truck, the whole thing, just 1:14:58.360 --> 1:15:00.840 by myself, a little it up the truck. I didn't 1:15:00.840 --> 1:15:03.120 have much stuff. I just had a little Dolly and 1:15:03.200 --> 1:15:05.080 drove it all up. And then I got to New 1:15:05.120 --> 1:15:06.760 York and then I realized that I couldn't move my 1:15:06.800 --> 1:15:09.000 stuff into the apartment because I had missed the window. 1:15:09.280 --> 1:15:10.880 And then I had my stuff in a truck and 1:15:10.920 --> 1:15:12.760 I couldn't leave the truck on the street. And I mean, 1:15:12.800 --> 1:15:17.680 it's just I have had so much so much anxiety 1:15:17.880 --> 1:15:21.679 and drama and irritation from having to constantly be mobile 1:15:23.000 --> 1:15:25.360 too for different jobs. I've had to move around for 1:15:25.439 --> 1:15:29.600 obviously CIA, I've had to move around that. You know, 1:15:29.640 --> 1:15:31.960 after a while you kind of get You just get 1:15:32.040 --> 1:15:33.840 into a mindset where you're like, whatever roles my way, 1:15:33.840 --> 1:15:35.880 I'm gonna deal with it. But so this time around, 1:15:35.920 --> 1:15:41.320 I was looking for apartments in New York and there 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:45.120 are a few things. I'll tell you this. I hate whistling. 1:15:45.160 --> 1:15:47.559 Like the sound of whistling. I understand it makes me. 1:15:48.760 --> 1:15:53.519 It makes me irrationally mad. I just some of it. 1:15:53.760 --> 1:15:55.960 Someone's walking down the street, and I understand that you're 1:15:55.960 --> 1:15:58.400 allowed to walk down the street and whistle. I mean, 1:15:58.840 --> 1:16:01.400 we probably asked yourself, why can't you just be quiet 1:16:01.479 --> 1:16:03.040 with your thoughts? But you know, if you want a whistle, 1:16:03.080 --> 1:16:06.120 you can whistle. If you're an enclosed space and somebody 1:16:06.120 --> 1:16:08.200 has to hear your whistling and can't get away, that's 1:16:08.280 --> 1:16:11.360 slightly different for me. But I understand this is I 1:16:11.479 --> 1:16:13.200 just hate it, and I think there's actually a medical 1:16:13.240 --> 1:16:16.280 condition that I probably there is a condition I think 1:16:16.320 --> 1:16:19.520 I suffer from it, where whistling is like the equivalent 1:16:19.560 --> 1:16:21.280 of a dog. You know, dog whistle is not a 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:23.840 pleasant thing for dogs. Human whistling for me is like 1:16:23.880 --> 1:16:25.479 a dog. I don't I don't like it. I don 1:16:25.680 --> 1:16:30.599 enjoyed it. I find it pretty irritating. But so I've 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:32.599 had the experience before of looking for apartments in New York. 1:16:32.640 --> 1:16:35.080 I found one when I was living in a tiny 1:16:35.520 --> 1:16:37.840 It was under I think it was four hundred and 1:16:37.880 --> 1:16:40.519 fifty square feet. That was the apartment I lived in. 1:16:40.680 --> 1:16:44.360 This was only maybe four years ago. So yes, I 1:16:44.400 --> 1:16:48.400 am not living in the in like a Fox News 1:16:48.400 --> 1:16:50.160 anchor mansion, you know what I'm saying. I'm living in 1:16:50.160 --> 1:16:52.479 a little so I'm living in a tiny space and 1:16:52.520 --> 1:16:54.639 it was cute. It was my own space, my own place. 1:16:54.680 --> 1:16:56.960 I figure it's gonna be fine. And you know, I 1:16:56.960 --> 1:16:58.960 actually didn't have a TV there for the first year 1:16:59.000 --> 1:17:02.080 I lived there, which is pretty markable, and I hadn't 1:17:02.120 --> 1:17:03.719 had a TV before that for a number of years. 1:17:04.760 --> 1:17:09.200 But every night there would be truck deliveries for a 1:17:09.320 --> 1:17:13.160 major department store that was on the same block, and 1:17:13.200 --> 1:17:15.680 so every night I could and just the way that 1:17:15.760 --> 1:17:19.880 the buildings magnified the sound you could hear these is 1:17:19.920 --> 1:17:22.080 it a sixteen wheeler an eighteen wheeler. Do they have 1:17:22.120 --> 1:17:24.760 both of those? I don't know which which is a 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:28.160 big eighteen wheeler. I mean, I guess it's a sixteen 1:17:28.160 --> 1:17:30.559 wheeler if you lose a couple, right, But okay, eighteen wheeler, 1:17:30.680 --> 1:17:33.640 whatever kind of wheeler to have a big truck. And 1:17:33.760 --> 1:17:36.080 the big truck would drive down, and I would say 1:17:36.120 --> 1:17:38.719 to myself, and of course I'm there. I'm reading Edmund 1:17:38.760 --> 1:17:42.320 Burke late at night, as one does. I'm reading, you know, 1:17:42.600 --> 1:17:45.120 reflections on the Revolution in France. I'm taking notes so 1:17:45.120 --> 1:17:46.880 I can come here and talk to team Buck about it. 1:17:46.920 --> 1:17:48.920 I got all kinds of stuff like that going on. Okay, fine, 1:17:50.479 --> 1:17:53.479 And then they would have the even though it would 1:17:53.520 --> 1:17:57.040 be dead quiet three o'clock in the morning, those trucks 1:17:57.600 --> 1:18:02.799 would back up and you'd have the beep, beep beep noise, 1:18:03.080 --> 1:18:05.040 which is why I hate that noise so much. I mean, 1:18:05.080 --> 1:18:08.320 I was traumatized by that noise. It would wake me 1:18:08.400 --> 1:18:10.439 up in the middle of the night. It was mattening. 1:18:10.560 --> 1:18:12.240 And you know, I was like paying half of the 1:18:12.240 --> 1:18:13.840 money I was making in rent to live in this 1:18:13.880 --> 1:18:17.240 tiny shoe box in Manhattan with a beeping truck noise. 1:18:17.439 --> 1:18:20.599 And I lived there for three years, so I just 1:18:20.680 --> 1:18:22.519 learned to deal with it. Sunday, I'm moving a new 1:18:22.560 --> 1:18:26.280 place now, and I'm I'm all. I'm so excited to 1:18:26.320 --> 1:18:27.760 be in New York, so excited to be back with 1:18:27.800 --> 1:18:29.479 my friends and my family and everything. And I know, 1:18:29.560 --> 1:18:33.000 for all the flaws, I love this I love this town. 1:18:33.120 --> 1:18:36.960 I mean, it's it's a mess, it's crazy. It will 1:18:37.000 --> 1:18:42.040 sometimes almost break you, almost break you, Marcus. New York 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:45.760 ever almost broke you almost every day, almost every day, right, 1:18:46.320 --> 1:18:47.960 I mean the stuff of you deal with just being 1:18:47.960 --> 1:18:51.680 on the subway here, A lot of people would be like, 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:53.640 I can't I can't handle it. I can't handle it, 1:18:53.720 --> 1:18:55.719 you know. I mean I've seen some wild I've seen 1:18:55.760 --> 1:18:57.720 some wild stuff go on on the subway, that is 1:18:57.760 --> 1:19:01.880 for sure. I have seen people using a rather crowded 1:19:01.920 --> 1:19:05.559 subway car as a toilet. I've seen some pretty wild 1:19:05.680 --> 1:19:07.400 you know. And you can't go anywhere because the subway 1:19:07.439 --> 1:19:09.880 car is moving. So I've seen some pretty wild stuff. 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:11.880 But I like this town. And maybe I'm just used 1:19:11.880 --> 1:19:13.960 to the craziest of anything else. But I find this 1:19:14.000 --> 1:19:17.200 apartment and I find this place to live, and I 1:19:17.240 --> 1:19:19.479 may be telling you guys more about this because I'm 1:19:19.560 --> 1:19:22.559 hoping that they're gonna help me out. But otherwise, this 1:19:22.600 --> 1:19:24.640 is gonna be a recurring theme on the show, and 1:19:24.720 --> 1:19:27.519 I'll give you more information what should be Buck versus 1:19:28.120 --> 1:19:32.639 the building that refuses to address the problem, Buck versus 1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:37.320 the building management that's decided like tough for you, And 1:19:37.720 --> 1:19:39.439 then we're gonna have a whole Then it's gonna be 1:19:39.439 --> 1:19:41.599 a whole thing. Then we're gonna have whole conversations here 1:19:41.640 --> 1:19:46.160 on the show and elsewhere about what's going on. So, 1:19:46.160 --> 1:19:50.040 so here's what I've learned. You can be actually pretty 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:54.440 high up in a building, but if there's a building nearby, 1:19:54.720 --> 1:19:59.760 you can be subject to their machinery noise. Right. So 1:19:59.800 --> 1:20:01.880 I come to my new by my apartment, and I 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:03.640 think i'd seen it before. I'm like, oh, this is 1:20:03.640 --> 1:20:06.040 gonna be great. It looks really nice. And you know, 1:20:06.120 --> 1:20:08.920 I'm spending way too much money for me on it, right, 1:20:08.960 --> 1:20:11.160 which is as a percentage of income, I'm doing what 1:20:11.200 --> 1:20:13.040 you should tell your kids don't do. Don't spend that 1:20:13.080 --> 1:20:15.599 much of your money on an apartment. And sure, if 1:20:15.640 --> 1:20:18.080 I walk in and I what do I hear? Because 1:20:18.120 --> 1:20:19.880 I know this sound as a New York or too. 1:20:20.760 --> 1:20:25.439 I hear the high pitched screech of an h VACT 1:20:25.520 --> 1:20:28.920 machine that is an industrial size, right, it's for an 1:20:29.040 --> 1:20:31.719 entire building. And I look down and on the building 1:20:31.760 --> 1:20:36.040 right next to me, there's this h vaccine. It's making 1:20:36.080 --> 1:20:38.760 this noise and you can hear it. If you open 1:20:38.800 --> 1:20:40.200 the window then it's out. You might as well be 1:20:40.280 --> 1:20:41.960 in the machinery room. And I can hear this noise, 1:20:43.000 --> 1:20:45.439 and it's just one of these moments where you realize 1:20:46.080 --> 1:20:49.519 the noise wasn't there when I saw the apartment no idea. 1:20:49.600 --> 1:20:51.840 It turns out that it's it's obviously cyclical, and they 1:20:51.880 --> 1:20:54.040 only it's only been an issue. It must have been 1:20:54.040 --> 1:20:57.040 an issue recently. It's a mechanical problem. I actually, in 1:20:57.080 --> 1:21:01.240 true New York fashion, I was writing all on a 1:21:01.240 --> 1:21:04.599 subway car and they're two guys standing there who look 1:21:04.680 --> 1:21:08.640 like union members at two full seven five local, you know, 1:21:09.160 --> 1:21:12.080 steelworkers union or whatever, and you know they look like, 1:21:12.120 --> 1:21:15.639 you know, good, good American industrial working kind of folk. 1:21:16.960 --> 1:21:19.280 And I said, you guys have HVAC shirts on. I said, 1:21:19.280 --> 1:21:21.520 list is my problem? What's going on? They said, oh, yeah, 1:21:21.560 --> 1:21:24.320 it can be fixed. It can be fixed. It's a 1:21:24.520 --> 1:21:29.559 it's either a motor or a belt in the cooling 1:21:29.640 --> 1:21:34.320 tower of the building HVAC unit. So I go and 1:21:34.360 --> 1:21:35.639 I go back, and I go, all right, well, now 1:21:35.640 --> 1:21:39.200 I finally got some I finally got some information here. 1:21:39.240 --> 1:21:42.439 It just so happened these guys we're willing to give 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:44.519 share a little of their expertise. I told them the problem. 1:21:44.520 --> 1:21:47.160 We're on the subway, very New York story. You know, 1:21:47.360 --> 1:21:52.439 I'm learning about industrial machinery or commercial machinery exhaust systems 1:21:52.479 --> 1:21:54.080 because I'm on a subway and it just happened to 1:21:54.080 --> 1:21:55.360 me next to a couple of guys that that's what 1:21:55.400 --> 1:21:58.000 they do for a living. Based on the T shirts 1:21:58.000 --> 1:22:00.400 they're wearing. It said, you know, HVAC special list, blah 1:22:00.400 --> 1:22:03.080 blah blah. And I go into the building and they go, 1:22:03.080 --> 1:22:04.880 oh yeah, we'll take care of it. And then then 1:22:04.880 --> 1:22:07.320 they they go next door. I mean, at first they 1:22:07.320 --> 1:22:10.600 say does a noise really bother you? And and the 1:22:11.439 --> 1:22:15.439 answer is obviously yes. That's I wouldn't I wouldn't come 1:22:15.479 --> 1:22:18.400 in to this office of this big building in New 1:22:18.479 --> 1:22:20.280 York and say, hey, I got a real problem here. 1:22:20.320 --> 1:22:23.439 I got noise. The answer is obviously yes. But they 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:25.439 like to do the whole like are you sure? And 1:22:25.479 --> 1:22:27.439 they keep producer mark This is my favorite. They keep 1:22:27.479 --> 1:22:31.479 sending up people as if as if I'm crazy, and 1:22:31.600 --> 1:22:33.160 you know what happens when they come up they go, 1:22:33.479 --> 1:22:37.599 oh yeah, that is pretty loud. That is pretty annoying. 1:22:37.960 --> 1:22:43.160 Oh you don't say you don't say, oh, so I'm 1:22:43.200 --> 1:22:46.599 not actually hearing, like how we've set up four different people. 1:22:47.560 --> 1:22:49.240 I mean, look, how many of you have to come up? 1:22:49.360 --> 1:22:51.000 Do you just not believe? Do you think that I 1:22:51.080 --> 1:22:53.840 like wasting my time like walking into a leasing office 1:22:53.840 --> 1:22:55.479 and having this discussion with you? Do you think I 1:22:55.720 --> 1:22:58.439 like saying I like being this new tenant, this new 1:22:58.479 --> 1:23:02.639 resident in this uh, this new residential tower. Who's the guy? 1:23:02.680 --> 1:23:05.880 You know? I'm not complaining about the croissants in the 1:23:06.320 --> 1:23:10.479 breakfast buffet being stale. I can hear a noise in 1:23:10.520 --> 1:23:12.439 my apartment building that I do not want you in 1:23:12.479 --> 1:23:14.080 my apartment rather that I do not want to hear. 1:23:14.680 --> 1:23:18.840 So we shall see. It is a quick fix if 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:22.479 they're willing to fix it. It is something that they 1:23:22.520 --> 1:23:27.320 could absolutely do if they want to do it. Question 1:23:27.400 --> 1:23:28.639 is going to be do they want to do anything 1:23:28.640 --> 1:23:34.599 about it? Do they want to help? It's gonna be interesting, 1:23:34.600 --> 1:23:36.840 because the HVACT guys also told me, because you know, 1:23:36.880 --> 1:23:40.760 we became buddies on the train. That buildings. You know, 1:23:41.160 --> 1:23:43.200 as far as they're concerned, it's like the noise if 1:23:43.240 --> 1:23:45.080 it only affects a few tenants, which I'm of course 1:23:45.120 --> 1:23:47.320 one of the few that's affected by it, you know, 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:49.479 they'd rather like wait and not spend the money until 1:23:49.520 --> 1:23:52.400 it breaks, basically because the screeching means that the machinery 1:23:52.560 --> 1:23:54.840 is wearing, and but they'd rather wait till it just 1:23:54.880 --> 1:23:56.880 totally breaks and then they'll fix it. That seems to 1:23:56.920 --> 1:24:00.000 be the approach of these big buildings. Now for those 1:24:00.040 --> 1:24:01.479 you don't, I mean in New York, I'm talking about 1:24:01.640 --> 1:24:03.680 the building I live in is you know, forty or 1:24:03.680 --> 1:24:05.800 fifty stories. The building next to me is the twenty 1:24:05.880 --> 1:24:09.080 or thirty stories. I mean, he's talking a big, big machinery, 1:24:09.160 --> 1:24:12.080 big buildings, and but it's just goes to show you. 1:24:12.080 --> 1:24:13.600 I've lived in New York my whole life. I know 1:24:13.640 --> 1:24:16.720 apartments here, backwards and forwards. I know what to look for. 1:24:16.880 --> 1:24:20.400 I know red flags. The moment that you're stepping into 1:24:20.439 --> 1:24:25.679 the unknown, you are rolling the dice, and right now 1:24:25.880 --> 1:24:29.400 the buster on the apartment front is getting snake eyes? 1:24:29.880 --> 1:24:31.760 Isn't that sneak eyes is bad? Right? When you get 1:24:31.760 --> 1:24:35.240 a snake eyes in the when rolling dice? Is that right, Marks, Yeah, yeah, 1:24:35.240 --> 1:24:38.280 that's with I don't really roll dice much. I think 1:24:38.280 --> 1:24:40.479 that gambler. I think that I gamble every day in life. 1:24:40.479 --> 1:24:42.360 People like to gamble for fun. I'm always like, I 1:24:42.360 --> 1:24:44.760 feel like I'm gambling when I take a walk on 1:24:44.800 --> 1:24:49.439 the street. See some wild stuff happening here. It's crazy times. 1:24:49.520 --> 1:24:52.400 So so we'll see, I mean, team, I'll hopefully I'll 1:24:52.400 --> 1:24:55.439 have I'll have some updates for you. I'm hoping that 1:24:55.520 --> 1:24:57.360 you know, we're gonna go into this weekend. I'm sure 1:24:57.400 --> 1:25:00.000 they're gonna say they can't fix anything. Hottie weekend, blah blah. 1:25:00.040 --> 1:25:02.120 I'm hoping next week we get it resolved. Otherwise I 1:25:02.160 --> 1:25:04.240 don't know. The Buckster might be looking for a new 1:25:04.280 --> 1:25:07.519 place to live in New York pretty soon after living 1:25:07.600 --> 1:25:10.519 after moving once in uh, you know, I might have 1:25:10.520 --> 1:25:13.800 to move again. So that's that's the If you like 1:25:13.920 --> 1:25:17.360 where you live, this the lesson here is if you 1:25:17.439 --> 1:25:22.519 like where you live, do not move unless you absolutely 1:25:22.600 --> 1:25:25.720 have to. If you are happy with your living situation. 1:25:26.120 --> 1:25:27.880 And I already knew this, but I wanted to move 1:25:27.920 --> 1:25:30.040 from DC to New York. And I'm happy with that change. 1:25:30.040 --> 1:25:32.479 For sure. We got the freedom at NYC. We're gonna 1:25:32.520 --> 1:25:35.639 start streaming the show probably now in October. We're having 1:25:35.640 --> 1:25:37.679 a little bit of a construction delay on the studio, 1:25:37.720 --> 1:25:41.840 but it's going to happen. But I had to switch 1:25:41.960 --> 1:25:43.720 from an apartment in DC that I love to an 1:25:43.760 --> 1:25:46.000 apartment of New York. That's a nightmare. It reminds me 1:25:46.040 --> 1:25:49.960 of when, just just a quick story, I signed a 1:25:50.439 --> 1:25:52.760 and I was convinced by a friend to do this. 1:25:52.800 --> 1:25:55.080 I didn't want to do it. I signed on a 1:25:55.800 --> 1:25:59.400 lease in a house in DC and the deal was 1:25:59.400 --> 1:26:01.240 that I was going to be living in what they 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:04.080 call the English basement, which is a fancy way of 1:26:04.120 --> 1:26:07.360 saying basement. That's right, it's a basement, but they call 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:10.320 them English basements because they're somewhat ground level in DC 1:26:10.520 --> 1:26:13.519 or whatever it is they say. And I remember, and 1:26:13.560 --> 1:26:17.920 that apartment, that house had been empty for six months. 1:26:18.080 --> 1:26:19.680 I would drive because I would drive past it every 1:26:19.720 --> 1:26:21.799 day on the way home from work. For six months, 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:24.600 that house had been totally empty. And they told me 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:27.400 that if you're in the basement and no one's above you, 1:26:27.400 --> 1:26:30.640 you can you can just use the whole house. So 1:26:30.760 --> 1:26:32.360 and I thought, okay, and my rent was going to 1:26:32.400 --> 1:26:34.280 be a thousand dollars a month, So I'm gonna be 1:26:34.320 --> 1:26:36.439 living in Washington, DC in a basement apartment for a 1:26:36.479 --> 1:26:39.200 thousand dollars a month and have access to the whole 1:26:39.240 --> 1:26:41.479 house basically and do whatever I want. I had a yard, 1:26:41.600 --> 1:26:43.439 and you know, I was like, this is great. And 1:26:43.520 --> 1:26:46.160 this guy totally was a friend of mine, totally swindled 1:26:46.200 --> 1:26:50.440 me into this because as soon as I was actually 1:26:50.479 --> 1:26:54.480 the day after I moved in, I'm at the day 1:26:54.560 --> 1:26:56.840 after I moved into this house, it had been empty 1:26:56.840 --> 1:26:59.920 for six months. There was an enormous moving truck out 1:27:00.080 --> 1:27:04.520 up front, and a family of five moved in upstairs. 1:27:04.880 --> 1:27:08.439 And I'm telling you, I went through nine months before 1:27:08.479 --> 1:27:10.920 I finally just threw in the towel of it was like, 1:27:12.040 --> 1:27:14.760 you know, Captain Kangaroo upstairs, man, I mean it was 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:17.479 just you know, kids run around screaming. I can hear 1:27:17.520 --> 1:27:19.640 a little toys on the floor. You know, it's just 1:27:19.720 --> 1:27:22.960 a total Oh man, you know what, team, I gotta 1:27:23.000 --> 1:27:24.880 move to one of the rural areas of America's what 1:27:25.000 --> 1:27:27.120 I realized. I just can't I can't deal with the noise. 1:27:27.640 --> 1:27:29.479 So we're gonna have to do it. It can't happen 1:27:29.560 --> 1:27:30.960 right away because I just got here. We're gonna have 1:27:30.960 --> 1:27:33.800 to do like a Team Buck sweepstakes. Where's Buck gonna 1:27:33.960 --> 1:27:36.200 head to? Where where is he gonna decide that it's 1:27:36.240 --> 1:27:39.320 time to time to roll too? So team that's what 1:27:39.479 --> 1:27:41.800 That's what I've got in mind here. We're gonna have 1:27:41.840 --> 1:27:44.080 to find a new new spot for the Bucks. Are 1:27:44.080 --> 1:27:46.960 all we gottah a quick break? I'll come right back. Man. Man, 1:27:47.000 --> 1:27:49.720 It's unusual for me to get into a bunch of 1:27:49.960 --> 1:27:52.240 personal stuff here, but I will say on the upside 1:27:52.280 --> 1:27:55.880 of New York City, there's a lot of good stuff 1:27:55.920 --> 1:27:59.000 that happens here. A lot of people to grab lunch with, 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:02.960 grab but a lot lot of restaurants everywhere, fun stuff 1:28:03.000 --> 1:28:04.920 for sure. So I'm looking forward to that. And I 1:28:04.920 --> 1:28:07.120 want to give you a quick update. Yeah, I mentioned 1:28:07.120 --> 1:28:09.120 the streaming. We are going to be streaming the Buck 1:28:09.160 --> 1:28:12.639 Sexton Show. I'm going to know exactly the time. It's 1:28:12.680 --> 1:28:16.160 going to be earlier in the day than the radio 1:28:16.160 --> 1:28:21.880 show is right now, and it'll be streamed, and I 1:28:21.880 --> 1:28:24.679 think we'll be starting that the first or second week 1:28:25.680 --> 1:28:28.400 of October. We're just waiting for a studio construction and 1:28:28.479 --> 1:28:32.240 also a few big name folks that you know, to 1:28:32.400 --> 1:28:36.360 get their stuff finalized. We're in the final stages of 1:28:36.439 --> 1:28:38.360 getting some people signed on as well, so we'll have 1:28:38.400 --> 1:28:41.320 a whole streaming lineup that you will be able to 1:28:41.360 --> 1:28:46.320 watch at your leisure. That's the plan. So it'll be 1:28:46.400 --> 1:28:48.240 in October. I came up here thinking it would be 1:28:48.240 --> 1:28:49.880 in September, but it looks like it's going to be 1:28:49.920 --> 1:28:54.400 in October. We're gonna have a whole streaming network of shows, 1:28:54.439 --> 1:28:55.640 and I'm going to be one of those shows. So 1:28:55.680 --> 1:28:58.439 the whole, the entirety of the Bucks Exton Show will 1:28:58.479 --> 1:29:01.919 be available as a vision, will as a video product 1:29:02.479 --> 1:29:05.760 starting very soon, so and it will be well, I 1:29:05.840 --> 1:29:07.680 can't name the platform quite yet, but it's gonna be 1:29:07.720 --> 1:29:15.000 very fun. I promise you that we'll be right back Buck. 1:29:15.600 --> 1:29:29.320 It's time for roll call. Roll call, everybody. We're gonna 1:29:29.320 --> 1:29:31.960 do a double roll call. That I why because it's 1:29:32.040 --> 1:29:34.720 late in summer and I feel like it. That's why 1:29:34.960 --> 1:29:36.479 I think I think that should be Hopefully that's a 1:29:36.479 --> 1:29:40.000 good enough reason. Hopefully we're all on board for that 1:29:40.280 --> 1:29:45.560 as the reason. The reason is I feel like it 1:29:45.800 --> 1:29:50.800 Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton, so you send it 1:29:50.840 --> 1:29:53.920 to me, and that's how we roll. And we start 1:29:53.960 --> 1:29:57.479 off with my friend Tim Buck love the show. Just 1:29:57.760 --> 1:30:02.559 enjoyed mescal. Some people say mescal. I guess that's the 1:30:02.600 --> 1:30:05.559 fancy way. Just enjoyed mescal for the first time. Love 1:30:05.680 --> 1:30:10.320 that smoky flavor. Is there a brand you recommend? Is 1:30:10.320 --> 1:30:13.720 there a specific cocktail or a homemade concoction that you 1:30:13.800 --> 1:30:16.320 recommend going to pick up a bottle to enjoy over 1:30:16.360 --> 1:30:18.560 the weekend. Thank you for all the insight and entertainment, 1:30:18.600 --> 1:30:24.040 brother Tim. I wish I could give you more worthwhile 1:30:24.120 --> 1:30:27.639 information on Mesical. I wish I could tell you that 1:30:27.680 --> 1:30:32.200 there's something that I could give you. The brand, I 1:30:32.200 --> 1:30:34.920 don't know that. I just get whatever illegal is. I 1:30:34.960 --> 1:30:38.280 think the most well known mescal, so I could start 1:30:38.280 --> 1:30:40.160 with that, but usually they only have one or two 1:30:40.160 --> 1:30:41.760 at a bar, and I like it so much that 1:30:41.840 --> 1:30:45.599 I'm just like, whatever mesical you have, I will drink. 1:30:46.240 --> 1:30:49.280 And that is usually how we do it, and that's 1:30:49.320 --> 1:30:54.639 usually how we roll. Benny Benny and the JITs Hey 1:30:54.680 --> 1:30:58.080 Buck today I write with a oh man, a heavy heart. 1:30:58.600 --> 1:31:00.840 I'm a twenty five year and I raised my eight 1:31:00.840 --> 1:31:02.960 and six year old voice to respect all law enforcement 1:31:02.960 --> 1:31:05.960 and first responders. But today, with the release of the 1:31:06.000 --> 1:31:09.799 IG report on Comy, that ends, and it pains me greatly. 1:31:10.320 --> 1:31:13.000 There's obviously a two tiered justice system. And I'll teach 1:31:13.040 --> 1:31:15.720 my boys to say to any law enforcement official, I 1:31:15.760 --> 1:31:18.240 will not make any statement, and I want to speak 1:31:18.240 --> 1:31:20.560 to a lawyer. The standard is if you lie to 1:31:20.600 --> 1:31:24.720 the FBI, even making an innocent mistake, you are prosecuted 1:31:24.840 --> 1:31:29.320 Ie Flynn, Papadopolis or eg Flynn and Papadopolis, Stone Manafort, etc. 1:31:29.920 --> 1:31:32.519 But if you are a demn you get a pass. Clapper, Clinton, 1:31:32.600 --> 1:31:37.080 Comey Larner. Where is the freaking justice? The FBI and 1:31:37.120 --> 1:31:40.200 the Department of Justice have proven they operate without integrity 1:31:40.840 --> 1:31:46.439 and with a political bias shields High Benny in Mississippi. Well, 1:31:46.479 --> 1:31:51.200 thank you for saying it exactly right. There is an 1:31:51.280 --> 1:31:53.640 enormous double standard in our justice system. I think that 1:31:53.720 --> 1:31:59.040 part is abundantly clear. There are what do we say 1:31:59.040 --> 1:32:00.800 about this? What do we do about the fact that 1:32:00.840 --> 1:32:05.000 we cannot trust the FBI anymore? Now you'd say oh back, 1:32:05.040 --> 1:32:08.240 But yeah, we can trust them to put away drug 1:32:08.240 --> 1:32:12.559 dealers and kidnappers and terrorists. But the moment that there 1:32:12.640 --> 1:32:17.599 is a political connection to a case, the normal assumption 1:32:17.760 --> 1:32:24.320 must be. It has to be that they are going 1:32:24.360 --> 1:32:26.040 to give the benefit of the doubt to the Democrat 1:32:26.080 --> 1:32:28.080 and they're going to crush the Republican because that's what 1:32:28.120 --> 1:32:31.479 we keep seeing. And if we ignore what we know 1:32:31.760 --> 1:32:36.479 to be true, what comes after that? What's next after that? 1:32:39.000 --> 1:32:41.120 Caroline and Ryans Hey, Buck, I want to thank you 1:32:41.160 --> 1:32:44.479 for staying on the Jeffrey Epstein story. Seems to have 1:32:44.560 --> 1:32:46.720 dropped off the radar for most news outlets, and that's 1:32:46.720 --> 1:32:50.200 a shame because it's a hugely important story. It isn't 1:32:50.240 --> 1:32:53.759 just a salacious ogling and the predation of an extremely 1:32:53.840 --> 1:32:56.320 rich weirdo. As you point out, this may be an 1:32:56.320 --> 1:32:59.679 international blackmail ring operating with the knowledge and implicit consent 1:32:59.800 --> 1:33:04.600 of our intelligence community. Having experience inside the swamp, you 1:33:04.640 --> 1:33:07.439 offer your listeners a valuable and unique insight into this 1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:12.200 highly disturbing story. Keep up the great work as always, 1:33:13.000 --> 1:33:16.160 Shields High. Well, thank you so much, Caroline, and Yeah, 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:20.000 I think look my record speaks for itself on this one. 1:33:20.120 --> 1:33:25.200 I was very concerned about what was going to happen 1:33:25.200 --> 1:33:28.920 with the Epstein case from the beginning, and I knew 1:33:28.960 --> 1:33:31.880 that this was going to turn into a moment where 1:33:31.880 --> 1:33:34.599 we would at a minimum have to question because remember 1:33:34.760 --> 1:33:39.160 even before the investigation, that it took so long for 1:33:39.320 --> 1:33:43.280 us to get here, that there were so clearly an 1:33:43.400 --> 1:33:50.680 effort to suppress information. Within the DOJ, within the prosecutor's 1:33:50.720 --> 1:33:54.360 office in Palm Beach, there were people who just did 1:33:54.439 --> 1:33:57.400 not want to deal with this. They did not want 1:33:57.439 --> 1:34:00.760 to make a case of this. And to remember, it's 1:34:01.160 --> 1:34:04.760 usually the opposite. You know, if you tell most prosecutors 1:34:05.120 --> 1:34:07.960 they're going to have a chance to bring down a 1:34:08.040 --> 1:34:12.599 billionaire pedophile who was a serial trafficker of women, you'd 1:34:12.600 --> 1:34:17.160 think that most prosecutors would leap at that opportunity. Meanwhile, 1:34:17.200 --> 1:34:21.880 what we see are prosecutors leaping in opportunities like prosecuting Papadopolis, 1:34:22.040 --> 1:34:26.559 prosecuting not even just the recent cases of Russia collusion. 1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:32.599 I insist on pointing out to everyone that we've had 1:34:32.640 --> 1:34:36.880 a number of very high profile Republicans who were just harassed, 1:34:37.840 --> 1:34:42.320 who were utterly and completely hounded, and it was because 1:34:42.320 --> 1:34:45.840 of their politics. That's what was going on. It was 1:34:45.920 --> 1:34:49.640 because they were targets of the prosecutor's office as a 1:34:49.720 --> 1:34:52.400 result of what was going on in their lives, as 1:34:52.439 --> 1:34:54.559 a result of the politics around them, right. That that's 1:34:54.600 --> 1:34:58.679 what's really happening here. I mean, you see this with 1:34:59.680 --> 1:35:04.760 Scot Walker in Wisconsin, they had prosecutors desperately trying to 1:35:04.760 --> 1:35:07.720 take him down. Saw this with Chris Christie and Bridgegate. 1:35:08.600 --> 1:35:11.639 You so, even calling it Bridgegate, they caused it. They 1:35:11.680 --> 1:35:14.479 caused some traffic. I mean, it's it's something that happens 1:35:14.479 --> 1:35:17.360 all the time. I remember when that originally went down, 1:35:17.520 --> 1:35:21.679 MSNBC was trying to make it seem like there should 1:35:21.720 --> 1:35:26.120 be murder charges perhaps if there was anybody on that 1:35:26.280 --> 1:35:28.439 bridge on the way to a hospital as a result 1:35:28.439 --> 1:35:30.600 of traffic. I mean, you know, this is this is 1:35:30.600 --> 1:35:34.360 where it was going that that was how extreme. Rachel 1:35:34.439 --> 1:35:36.679 Maddow I think it was. On the Bill Maher show, 1:35:37.120 --> 1:35:41.719 referred to the Bridgegate scandal as the most delicious political 1:35:41.760 --> 1:35:44.640 scandal of her lifetime, as though this was such a 1:35:44.680 --> 1:35:49.840 fascinating or important or worthwhile story. To begin with Rick 1:35:49.920 --> 1:35:53.800 Perry in Texas, they went after Rick Perry. You know, 1:35:53.840 --> 1:35:57.680 they decided that they were going to try to prosecute 1:35:57.760 --> 1:35:59.760 him for misuse of his position because he did not 1:35:59.840 --> 1:36:04.400 want someone who was in the prosecutor's office who had 1:36:04.400 --> 1:36:07.719 just been arrested for drunk driving, and so as governor, 1:36:07.760 --> 1:36:09.640 he said that he was going to veto funding for 1:36:09.720 --> 1:36:13.200 that office unless they got rid of the drunk driving prosecutor. 1:36:13.280 --> 1:36:17.120 And then you had another prosecutor in the state say, oh, 1:36:17.160 --> 1:36:20.680 maybe we're gonna bring bring charges against Rick Perryman. This 1:36:20.720 --> 1:36:24.120 is what keeps. When does this happen to Democrats? I'm 1:36:24.120 --> 1:36:26.960 sure they're Democrats out there, say well, look good Hillary there. Yeah, well, 1:36:27.040 --> 1:36:30.840 Hilary broke the law a lot. And if you believe 1:36:30.920 --> 1:36:34.519 the recent CEO of Overstock what he what he's had 1:36:34.560 --> 1:36:36.120 to say about this, you broke the law a lot 1:36:36.160 --> 1:36:40.519 more than people have even realized. When is enough enough? 1:36:40.520 --> 1:36:44.120 When when do we see that the mentality of the liberals, 1:36:44.160 --> 1:36:46.439 the mentality of the left in this country is such 1:36:46.479 --> 1:36:50.439 that their side should always be treated differently and better, 1:36:51.280 --> 1:36:53.200 that to be a liberal isn't just to be a 1:36:53.240 --> 1:36:57.639 better person, but to demand better treatment by the government, 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:03.640 to demand that your team, so to speak, is always 1:37:03.680 --> 1:37:07.720 going to be in a position of strength visa other 1:37:07.840 --> 1:37:11.680 because the party that supports the government is now the 1:37:11.720 --> 1:37:16.360 party of the government. People inside, people in the bureaucracy, 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:19.479 use their power to try not the elected officials. I'm 1:37:19.479 --> 1:37:22.679 talking about the bureaucrats. They try to crush the opposition. 1:37:22.720 --> 1:37:25.639 They try to crush the other side. That's what's going on. 1:37:26.040 --> 1:37:29.679 We see it happening Adam Wright's Buck. On the Twilight side, 1:37:29.720 --> 1:37:32.240 it was Prestar Trek William Shatner, and the only other 1:37:32.320 --> 1:37:35.559 movie was Kat's Eye. I love James Woods in that 1:37:35.600 --> 1:37:37.640 movie Shields High. I didn't even realize James Woods was 1:37:37.680 --> 1:37:40.519 in that movie. By the way, I've missed James Woods Twitter. 1:37:41.240 --> 1:37:44.719 Why don't you get kicked off of Twitter? Funny story 1:37:44.760 --> 1:37:48.120 about James Woods. My grandmother on my mother's side was 1:37:48.160 --> 1:37:54.360 this very very elegant, very wonderful woman who was an 1:37:54.360 --> 1:37:58.320 actress and did a bit of modeling, and she did 1:37:58.400 --> 1:38:02.320 a play. It was I think a company theater or 1:38:02.479 --> 1:38:05.880 you know, a neighborhood theater thing, but she did a 1:38:05.960 --> 1:38:12.320 play and it was must have been forty oh, no, 1:38:12.439 --> 1:38:15.120 maybe thirty years ago, now something like that, maybe thirty 1:38:15.200 --> 1:38:18.479 years ago. And I knew that she had referred in 1:38:18.520 --> 1:38:22.759 the past to my friend Jimmy Woods, and my grandmother 1:38:22.760 --> 1:38:25.320 had said my friend Jimmy Woods. And I always thought 1:38:25.320 --> 1:38:26.680 that was kind of a funny thing because I had 1:38:26.680 --> 1:38:28.840 seen him in a bunch of different movies, you know, 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:32.479 Casino and some other movie where he's playing a cop 1:38:32.479 --> 1:38:33.760 and I can't remember what his call, but I'd seen 1:38:33.840 --> 1:38:39.160 him a bunch of movies. And I tweeted at him 1:38:39.200 --> 1:38:42.640 about at once, and he wrote that my grandmother, A 1:38:42.760 --> 1:38:45.840 Jean was a lovely woman with excellent taste, because she 1:38:45.880 --> 1:38:48.160 said he was smart, and I thought that was very nice. 1:38:48.200 --> 1:38:50.680 It's very big of him, and that he clearly did 1:38:50.720 --> 1:38:54.800 remember her based on our exchange. So I like James Woods. 1:38:54.840 --> 1:38:57.599 I miss seeing his tweets, but his tweets were fire. 1:38:58.640 --> 1:39:03.080 James woods tweets were not to not for the faint 1:39:03.120 --> 1:39:07.280 of heart, that's for sure. Let's see we got here 1:39:07.960 --> 1:39:10.320 taft right. I've been serving the military now for six 1:39:10.439 --> 1:39:12.840 years in a combat arms unit, and then the last 1:39:12.920 --> 1:39:15.639 year we have received the first two females in our unit. Ever, 1:39:16.479 --> 1:39:19.920 neither of them have passed a single PT test since 1:39:19.960 --> 1:39:23.560 being with us. When we do our combat fitness assessments, 1:39:24.040 --> 1:39:28.080 they both complete last with terrible scores. It's not a 1:39:28.120 --> 1:39:31.880 sexism thing, It's a biology thing. I know a few 1:39:31.920 --> 1:39:36.160 females who can and do knock PT tests and CFAs 1:39:36.160 --> 1:39:39.839 out of the water, but they are the exceptions. Lives 1:39:39.880 --> 1:39:44.840 are more important than feelings. Well, taft I, as a civilian, 1:39:44.920 --> 1:39:47.599 would obviously agree with this assessment, and I know plenty 1:39:47.640 --> 1:39:50.599 of other guys in the military like you who agree 1:39:50.600 --> 1:39:53.639 with this assessment. And I just wonder at what point, 1:39:54.120 --> 1:39:55.920 at what point it's too much, At what point we 1:39:55.960 --> 1:39:59.519 all can agree and understand that there are lives that 1:39:59.520 --> 1:40:02.240 are going to be put at risk for this. It 1:40:02.320 --> 1:40:05.559 does remind me at some level of when people there's 1:40:05.560 --> 1:40:09.200 all this talk about pushing people forward an education. Oh, 1:40:09.280 --> 1:40:11.439 we need more diversity, we need to do this that. 1:40:11.920 --> 1:40:16.479 But when you start talking about cardiothoracic surgery, for example, 1:40:16.479 --> 1:40:19.599 you start talking about more elite medical professions, then all 1:40:19.640 --> 1:40:22.120 of a sudden, the whole oh, well, for the good 1:40:22.200 --> 1:40:25.160 of for the good of diversity, we're going to change 1:40:25.160 --> 1:40:27.760 the standards. People start to have a questions about this. 1:40:27.760 --> 1:40:31.200 I remember Ward Connolly, who was very involved in getting 1:40:31.320 --> 1:40:36.040 rid of racial admissions preferences in California. California State system 1:40:36.120 --> 1:40:38.960 got rid of racial preferences and guess what the school 1:40:39.000 --> 1:40:42.840 system is doing fine, and then you still have all 1:40:43.479 --> 1:40:46.360 different people of all different backgrounds going to university state 1:40:46.400 --> 1:40:51.080 school in California. It just means that you have at UCLA, 1:40:51.160 --> 1:40:54.320 for example, a very heavy Asian American population that's really 1:40:54.360 --> 1:40:57.960 been the main change, and those students have earned it. 1:40:58.439 --> 1:41:01.960 But there are places where you finally realize that the 1:41:02.080 --> 1:41:06.800 social justice tinkering is just too much. It's just too much. 1:41:07.760 --> 1:41:11.800 And when you start talking about forward deployed combat units, 1:41:11.840 --> 1:41:14.800 I hope, I hope everyone can agree that that's where 1:41:15.439 --> 1:41:18.040 it shouldn't matter. If the social justice components should not 1:41:18.080 --> 1:41:21.880 matter anymore. It should just be about what is best 1:41:21.920 --> 1:41:25.640 for defeating the enemy. That's what matters. All Right, we 1:41:25.640 --> 1:41:27.720 got more roll call coming up. Team. All right, roll 1:41:27.760 --> 1:41:32.160 call continues here. Let's see we got TJ's buck. Everyone's 1:41:32.160 --> 1:41:34.439 giving Obama a hard time for purchasing that new beach 1:41:34.439 --> 1:41:36.280 house at Martha's Vineyard, but I think it was pretty 1:41:36.280 --> 1:41:40.240 strategic on his part, hear me out. Think about it. 1:41:40.560 --> 1:41:43.160 What will motivate leftist more to fight climate change than 1:41:43.160 --> 1:41:46.280 being able to save the Chosen One's mansion from being 1:41:46.320 --> 1:41:50.040 destroyed by the rising sea level, they'll do whatever it 1:41:50.120 --> 1:41:52.679 takes to keep the Obamas from being flooded out, even 1:41:52.720 --> 1:41:55.439 if that means passing a fully socialized green new deal 1:41:55.479 --> 1:42:01.760 for the country. Yes, sarcasm was intended. It I see 1:42:01.760 --> 1:42:05.080 what you're saying, Tj' You're a clever fellow and you're 1:42:05.120 --> 1:42:08.720 a good friend of the show. So thank you so 1:42:08.800 --> 1:42:13.120 much for writing in your humorous content. I'll say that 1:42:13.160 --> 1:42:15.719 thanks to you, J, you're the man. TJ's the man. 1:42:16.680 --> 1:42:18.600 I think he's wearing I can't really see it, but 1:42:18.640 --> 1:42:20.680 I think, yep, knowing he's wearing a shield high T 1:42:20.800 --> 1:42:23.200 shirt in his avatar TJ. That means I love you forever. 1:42:23.320 --> 1:42:27.400 That's what that means. You're my brother from another mother. 1:42:28.800 --> 1:42:31.599 Chris Ryan saying, hey, Buck, thanks for answering my question 1:42:31.680 --> 1:42:34.160 regarding gun ownership, and if there's a home protection class 1:42:34.200 --> 1:42:36.360 that I can take. If you do plan on going 1:42:36.360 --> 1:42:38.400 to that class in the fall, the sheep dog class, 1:42:38.560 --> 1:42:40.840 let us know. My mom and I are so down 1:42:40.880 --> 1:42:42.519 to drive from San Diego to take it with you 1:42:42.560 --> 1:42:45.479 and everyone else from team Buck. Thanks well, Chris, thank you, 1:42:45.520 --> 1:42:49.800 my man. I'm definitely trying to get down there. I mean, 1:42:49.840 --> 1:42:51.799 the thing is right now I've already got on the books. 1:42:51.880 --> 1:42:54.440 I got to get out to Vegas for the Stansbury 1:42:54.520 --> 1:42:57.600 Research Conference. Those of you that know what Stansbury Research is, 1:42:58.439 --> 1:43:01.680 you should definitely come out to that conference. It's October. 1:43:02.400 --> 1:43:05.840 Oh gosh, am I am I forgetting the dates. I'm having. 1:43:05.880 --> 1:43:08.800 I'm having a Joe Biden moment here. It is the 1:43:09.120 --> 1:43:12.840 seventh to the ninth is the Stansbury or maybe know 1:43:13.000 --> 1:43:14.400 the eighth and the ninth. But I'm gonna be out 1:43:14.400 --> 1:43:17.120 there the seventh of October, so I've got to go 1:43:17.120 --> 1:43:19.160 out there. And then I think I'm going into Nashville 1:43:19.280 --> 1:43:21.080 later on in October for an event, so I might 1:43:21.280 --> 1:43:24.080 see some folks in Nashville, and you know, I don't know. 1:43:24.080 --> 1:43:25.400 Then I might just have to go to some other 1:43:25.439 --> 1:43:29.479 country and defeat the terrorists. I'm very busy. I'm very 1:43:29.479 --> 1:43:31.160 busy with all these things. That said, I would love 1:43:31.240 --> 1:43:34.879 to get down to Austin KLBJ Austin in the House 1:43:35.320 --> 1:43:37.920 and try to hang out with all the team Buck 1:43:37.960 --> 1:43:40.400 Austin folks and do some cool shooting of guns and 1:43:40.439 --> 1:43:43.080 things like that with Tim Kennedy. Who you know, if 1:43:43.080 --> 1:43:45.719 you're gonna get trained by somebody or you know you're 1:43:45.840 --> 1:43:47.800 gonna have somebody try to save your butt, either in 1:43:47.800 --> 1:43:50.519 a firefight or a bar fight. I do think you 1:43:50.560 --> 1:43:52.720 want it to be, Tim Kennedy. I think that's I 1:43:52.760 --> 1:43:57.160 think that's real. Steve writes, I get tired about AOC 1:43:57.280 --> 1:44:00.200 and others talking about climate change that the glaciers are 1:44:00.240 --> 1:44:04.000 melting and sea levels rising. All a lie, glaciers displace 1:44:04.120 --> 1:44:07.360 water and when they melt, the water level doesn't rise. 1:44:07.520 --> 1:44:10.320 It stays right where it was. Do this test. Take 1:44:10.320 --> 1:44:12.679 a glass and put some ice cubes in it, then 1:44:12.760 --> 1:44:14.920 fill with water to a line. Mark it on the cup. 1:44:14.960 --> 1:44:16.840 Wait for the ice to melt. The water will be 1:44:16.880 --> 1:44:19.600 at the same line. As the ice melts, it displaces 1:44:19.680 --> 1:44:26.280 less water. It's plain science. Okay, Well, I think that 1:44:27.520 --> 1:44:33.120 glaciers displaced water when they melt, the water level doesn't rise. Um, 1:44:33.640 --> 1:44:35.120 I think you might have I think you might have 1:44:35.160 --> 1:44:39.200 a point here. Is that sound feasible? Mark? I'm trying 1:44:39.200 --> 1:44:41.200 to think about, like last time I got in a bathtub, 1:44:41.439 --> 1:44:43.280 how does that work? I haven't taken a bath in 1:44:43.360 --> 1:44:46.120 fifteen years, so I'm not sure a bath is a 1:44:46.200 --> 1:44:50.840 luxurious experience. My friend, don't don't forget about what that's 1:44:50.880 --> 1:44:52.600 like you know, I mean, you put out some candles, 1:44:53.240 --> 1:44:57.040 you put on some Kenny G. I don't know if 1:44:57.040 --> 1:44:59.160 you've watched scrub is what you sound like? John Dorian? 1:44:59.280 --> 1:45:06.120 Right now? Du n just getting that tub, getting that 1:45:06.200 --> 1:45:10.479 tub with Kenny G and some scented obviously scented candles. 1:45:10.479 --> 1:45:12.840 I mean, you're not going if you don't have the aromatics. 1:45:13.240 --> 1:45:16.599 Are you really getting the full benefit of the tub experience? Oh? 1:45:16.680 --> 1:45:18.559 I will say, my lad. I've I've lived in apartments 1:45:18.560 --> 1:45:22.679 where we didn't even have a tub, so that's a thing. Yeah, 1:45:22.760 --> 1:45:25.160 did you So do you have a tub? Now? I do. 1:45:25.439 --> 1:45:26.840 I don't think i'd ever want to take a bath. 1:45:27.040 --> 1:45:28.760 This reminds me of the Seinfeld where they say that 1:45:28.800 --> 1:45:30.519 if you're taking a bath, it's like you're lying in 1:45:30.520 --> 1:45:33.680 your own filth. Yes, I don't know. I don't know 1:45:33.720 --> 1:45:35.920 if that's really true or not. You know, I think, uh, 1:45:36.600 --> 1:45:38.519 maybe maybe not. I mean, think about it. You're closing 1:45:38.520 --> 1:45:42.960 the drain. Where is the filth going into the water? Yes, 1:45:43.000 --> 1:45:45.519 but yeah, no, that's I mean, but there's a lot 1:45:45.560 --> 1:45:47.240 of water. I mean, if you ever swim in a 1:45:47.240 --> 1:45:48.960 public pool, you didn't want to know what goes on 1:45:49.000 --> 1:45:51.439 in there. I've never swim in a public pool. Wow, 1:45:51.479 --> 1:45:56.800 you're one of those. Yeah, you're very hygienic, hygiene interested fellow. 1:45:56.880 --> 1:45:58.640 There's a bottle of hand sanitizer in my pocket. At 1:45:58.680 --> 1:46:00.280 all good because when we moved to the other udio, 1:46:00.280 --> 1:46:02.479 we're gonna be like a very close proximity producer Mark. 1:46:02.520 --> 1:46:04.240 So that's the point. There's gonna be no glass between us. 1:46:04.280 --> 1:46:07.080 That's right, the video studio. Everybody. Oh, that's a little 1:46:07.080 --> 1:46:08.920 preview of what's to come. But maybe we'll talk more 1:46:08.960 --> 1:46:11.559 about that tomorrow because for right now, I gotta close 1:46:11.640 --> 1:46:13.400 up shop. She'll tie