WEBVTT - Trump Upgrade

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<v Speaker 1>Mr Garbutschof teared down this wall. Either you're with us

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<v Speaker 1>or you were with the terrorists. If you've got healthcare already,

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<v Speaker 1>then you can keep your plan. If you're satisfied with

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is not president of the United States, take it

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<v Speaker 1>to a bank. Together, we will make America great again.

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<v Speaker 1>It's what you've been waiting for all day. The Buck

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<v Speaker 1>Sexton Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll Free at

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<v Speaker 1>eight four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four

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<v Speaker 1>nine hundred two eight to five the future of talk radio,

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<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton. You'll fire, you fired, your fire. You're fired,

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<v Speaker 1>you fired, You're fired. You'll fired, ye fire, and now

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<v Speaker 1>you can say you're fired fired. I was wondering what

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<v Speaker 1>you would say to President Obama, you're fired. Welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>the Buck Sex and show everybody Trump dropping some pink

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<v Speaker 1>slips today or at least, well at least a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of them. You're fired. Uh Rex Tillerson. That's how that

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<v Speaker 1>went down. Not surprising to me at all, although I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not I'm not in the anti Tillerson camp. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>that he was a pretty He seemed pretty confident to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and he certainly would be sitting seating at the seat

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<v Speaker 1>at the adults table within the administration. He's got a

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<v Speaker 1>guy with considerable experience, but he's out. As you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you've heard some folks talking about today. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll dig into that a bit. You have the the

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<v Speaker 1>of Gina Haspell nominated as the CIA's first female director.

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<v Speaker 1>You're got the first female director of the CIA, assuming

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<v Speaker 1>that all goes through, and Pompeio, Mike Pompeo, the CIA Director,

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<v Speaker 1>is going to head over to the State Department to

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<v Speaker 1>run things at Foggy Bottom. If they thought that things

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<v Speaker 1>were a little rocky with Rex in charge, who, as

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<v Speaker 1>I have said, does remind me of the old weather

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<v Speaker 1>tough Texan sheriff and pretty much every Western I've ever seen. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>if they thought that Rex was rough, just wait till

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<v Speaker 1>they get a load of Pompeo. And then there's some

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<v Speaker 1>other guy who was uh oh, John McEntee, the former

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<v Speaker 1>White House assistant. He was somebody was with Trump a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>He's one of these guys who, if you're not covering

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<v Speaker 1>the White House, I feel like it doesn't really get

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<v Speaker 1>all that much, all that much attention, or he doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>get all that much attention. But he's out for security

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<v Speaker 1>clearance reasons, but he's getting a lot of attention. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say this, I think that John Kelly, the

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<v Speaker 1>White House Chief of Staff, finally decided that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, how we deal with all the all the

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<v Speaker 1>riff raff in the White House and get everyone fall online.

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<v Speaker 1>No more passes on security clearance stuff because there's no

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<v Speaker 1>oh but I know so and so and I'm friends

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<v Speaker 1>with so and so way around that stuff. Really unless

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<v Speaker 1>you are the president, unless you're you are the elected official,

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<v Speaker 1>because then the premise becomes the people have given you

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<v Speaker 1>their trust and you get access to classified there's no

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<v Speaker 1>there's no end runs or shortcuts on those investigations for

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<v Speaker 1>administration officials. And I think that Kelly did the right

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<v Speaker 1>thing by saying are enough is enough? And if you

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<v Speaker 1>if you can't get clearance, you shouldn't be around classified

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<v Speaker 1>material and you shouldn't be in positions of such trust.

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<v Speaker 1>And so you just cleaned it out a bit. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I'm getting a little ahead of myself here

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<v Speaker 1>with uh where I wanted to go, because I was

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<v Speaker 1>hoping to switch into the talk at the Wall, which

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do in a second. But I think this

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<v Speaker 1>is actually an upgrade for the administration, at least on

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<v Speaker 1>the secretary of State side. You need someone align with you,

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<v Speaker 1>and Peo is a ligne with Trump. You need someone

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<v Speaker 1>who's gonna fight for you and fight for your agenda.

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<v Speaker 1>That's Pompeo, you know, Rex, good guys, smart guy, not

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<v Speaker 1>on board for some important stuff, not on board for Iran,

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<v Speaker 1>different on Paris climate accord, and doesn't look like he

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<v Speaker 1>was on board North Korea or tariffs either. So how

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<v Speaker 1>are you going to be the president secretary of state

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<v Speaker 1>if you're not really if you're not really going to

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<v Speaker 1>be the person that believes in these policies, believes in

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<v Speaker 1>what the president trying to accomplished. But I want to

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<v Speaker 1>take a step back from that for a second. Everyone

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<v Speaker 1>gets all excited about talking about personnel. We've got some

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<v Speaker 1>other news to hit on, including the Pennsylvania congressional race

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<v Speaker 1>between Lamb and Saccone. Why is it shouldn't it be

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<v Speaker 1>You're you're basically a Philly guy Scone, right, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>why do they that's the Italian should be Saccone, but

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<v Speaker 1>they call it Secone. I never know, you know, man,

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<v Speaker 1>it's uh, You've gotta I feel like I say Italian

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<v Speaker 1>names wrong these days because did you americanize? Did you

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<v Speaker 1>keep it? It's like a lot of US Irish folks.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, you'll notice i'mhearing green today. You're on

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<v Speaker 1>radio at home, folks, so you don't know this, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm wearing a green. It's right luck of the Irish,

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<v Speaker 1>and we we got rid of the o's in front

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<v Speaker 1>of most of our names. None on everybody like O'Reilly factor.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm pretty sure at one point I was I

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<v Speaker 1>come from oh Hikey's. I'm pretty sure. Uh, I should

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<v Speaker 1>check on that one before I say that would allow,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think so. Nonetheless, Sacconi versus Lamb, I just

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<v Speaker 1>did it, Saccone versus Lamb. That's gonna be a race

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<v Speaker 1>where tonight it will be decided as we are, or

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<v Speaker 1>the early results will coming as we're on air. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think. I don't think we're gonna be able to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you who wins tonight, although we'll see if for

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<v Speaker 1>some reason it was a landslide one or the other,

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<v Speaker 1>which would be completely contra the polling that we've seen,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll let you know. So oh. Biden traveled to Pennsylvania

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<v Speaker 1>to support Connor Lamb Democrats are really they're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>make a thing of this one. It's all for the narrative, folks.

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta remember it's one congressional seat and there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of members of Congress running around, which is important

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<v Speaker 1>for you to remember because you can feel a little

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<v Speaker 1>less terrified for our future when you hear what some

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<v Speaker 1>of those bozos and Congress had to say. You're like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>at least there's a lot of them. No one member

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<v Speaker 1>of Congress really has that much power been speak of

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<v Speaker 1>the House. There's some roles that have a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of an elevated profile. But anyway, we got that pennsylvani

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<v Speaker 1>your race, and we will we'll see what we can

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<v Speaker 1>tell you about that. Solena Zito will be joining later

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<v Speaker 1>to discuss She is uh former columns for the Pittsburgh Tribune.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean she knows this area backwards and forward, so

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<v Speaker 1>she'll be really insightful on it. And we also have

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<v Speaker 1>Fred Flights joining, like me, a former CIA analysts, my

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<v Speaker 1>my brother from Langley, Fred Flights will be joining talk

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<v Speaker 1>about North Korea and his sense of that. Not much

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<v Speaker 1>new news on North creator Day, so or we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get into the analysis of it with Fred later on,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't have anything breaking on it. So with

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<v Speaker 1>all that, I'm gonna return to the issue of the

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<v Speaker 1>personnel changes, probably later on the hour because I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to move, although I had to start with it so

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<v Speaker 1>we could play that you're fired clips. And it is

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<v Speaker 1>funny now to me at least, that every time that

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<v Speaker 1>you have one of these departures that is forced, the

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<v Speaker 1>president is in a position where we can all remember

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<v Speaker 1>that he was, in fact the guy most famous for

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<v Speaker 1>saying you fired. I know people say you're fired, but

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<v Speaker 1>I like saying it that way, the little Queen's rashness,

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<v Speaker 1>little little New York style. You fired. That's how we

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<v Speaker 1>do it here. So with all that, we can get

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<v Speaker 1>into the wall. You want to talk policy, you want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk what's going to change the game and change

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<v Speaker 1>the discussion. Trump was out in California today. I'm pretty

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<v Speaker 1>sure there was like a two person fundraiser too, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>as one does. But he was checking out the wall

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<v Speaker 1>literally pieces of what would be the future wall. And

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<v Speaker 1>he's also taking on the sanctuary city policies of California,

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<v Speaker 1>specifically Californias become the front line of the fight against

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<v Speaker 1>illegal immigration because California does. This is what's fundamental to

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<v Speaker 1>this discussion. The state of California does not see illegal

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<v Speaker 1>immigration it's a problem. It sees it as a reality

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<v Speaker 1>to be managed and to even be exploited as necessary

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<v Speaker 1>and as is helpful to democrats and status. But they

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<v Speaker 1>don't see it as a problem that needs to stop.

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<v Speaker 1>They are encouraging it. We don't have in California, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is true in some other states too, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>most true in California. We don't have a situation where

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<v Speaker 1>the federal government and the state government differ on how

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<v Speaker 1>best to achieve the same ends, which in this case

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<v Speaker 1>would be stopping illegal immigration and enforcing immigration laws when

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<v Speaker 1>it comes to illegals. No, the state government of California

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<v Speaker 1>and the federal government is at a an impasse. They

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<v Speaker 1>want fundamentally different things. They are working at cross purposes.

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<v Speaker 1>They are against each other on this, and that's why

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<v Speaker 1>this is so politically combustible. It's not like they're saying, well,

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<v Speaker 1>we want this and you want this, but we're trying

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<v Speaker 1>to do it in different ways. We want to slow down,

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<v Speaker 1>stop and prohibit illegal immigration, and they want to continue it.

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<v Speaker 1>And just manage it. They see it as something to

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<v Speaker 1>be managed. I'm not even sure you could say it's

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<v Speaker 1>a problem to be managed. They they encourage. They think

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<v Speaker 1>the legals are necessary for the economy, necessary for the votes,

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<v Speaker 1>necessary for the future of the state of California. At

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<v Speaker 1>least that's what the elected I know a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>you in California, like Buck, that's not what I think.

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<v Speaker 1>But that is what the Democrat Party and the left

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<v Speaker 1>in California have signed on for. And that's why Trump

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<v Speaker 1>out at the wall today was so important. Like for example,

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<v Speaker 1>when he's and this, you don't have a wall system,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna have We're not gonna have a country.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of problems in Mexico. They have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of problems over there, and they have the cartels

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<v Speaker 1>and the cartels. We're fighting the cartels. So we're fighting

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<v Speaker 1>them hard. Nobody ever fought him like we fought him.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, we fight them hard. But the fact is,

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't have a wall system, it would be

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<v Speaker 1>bedlum I imagine it's very hard to control a just

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<v Speaker 1>personnel there. It's a combination of all. So we'll look

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<v Speaker 1>at it. The walls where you have some three really

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<v Speaker 1>some sea through capability. If you don't have some sea

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<v Speaker 1>through it's a problem. So we'll take a look up here,

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<v Speaker 1>President saying you need a wall. Isn't it noteworthy that

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<v Speaker 1>as he's out in California and San Diego, he is

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<v Speaker 1>in fact in a place that has a wall, and

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<v Speaker 1>that has dramatically improved the ability of border patrol to

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<v Speaker 1>do their jobs. It has made it easier re border

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<v Speaker 1>patrol to secure the San Diego sector of the world.

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<v Speaker 1>No one saying it's perfect, but no security measure is perfect.

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<v Speaker 1>There is no such thing. People will say, oh, well

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<v Speaker 1>they'll get a they'll get a ladder, or they'll dig

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<v Speaker 1>a tunnel. Well yeah, but that doesn't stop anyone else

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<v Speaker 1>from building walls for any number of reasons. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to be a cure all. It is supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be an impediment. And that is obviously what a wall

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<v Speaker 1>is all about. You know, it doesn't even get much

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<v Speaker 1>attention right now, but the most by a recent statistical analysis.

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<v Speaker 1>I forget who did it, so I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>throw that out on the air, but we'll figure it out.

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<v Speaker 1>The most dangerous city in the world per capita, right

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<v Speaker 1>now for murders is it was Warez for a little while,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think then it moved down into Central America

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<v Speaker 1>and now you know, Caracas and Venezuela is definitely trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get to the top spot. But the most dangested

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<v Speaker 1>in the world as of last month per capita was Cabo.

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<v Speaker 1>Those of you who are familiar with the geography know

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<v Speaker 1>that Bo is on the tip of the Baja Peninsula

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<v Speaker 1>and they're Los Cabos. The cities that are there used

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<v Speaker 1>to be and still are actually, I think a pretty

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<v Speaker 1>popular tourist destination, which is amazing. I checked it out.

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<v Speaker 1>I was just curious, what's it like you try to

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<v Speaker 1>go to Los Cabos now are there? Yeah, they're still

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<v Speaker 1>eight night hotel rooms there and people are still going,

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose. But they have the highest murder ra per

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<v Speaker 1>capita of any city in the world. Why is that,

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<v Speaker 1>you say, Well, because of the cartels, Because the Sinaloa

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<v Speaker 1>Cartel and some of these other cartels, the Nuevo Generation Cartel,

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<v Speaker 1>um Nuevo Jalisco Generation Cartel and some of these others

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<v Speaker 1>are all fighting it out for supremacy. But the worst

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<v Speaker 1>part of the border right now for crossings is not

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<v Speaker 1>the San Diego secret, despite the fact that Baja the peninsula,

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<v Speaker 1>which I know is very long, but is home to

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<v Speaker 1>some really nasty cartel violence. No, no, it's it's in

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<v Speaker 1>other places along the border. You know, they've even this

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<v Speaker 1>is people don't see nearly enough of of this reporting. Acapulco,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a internationally known beach resort I believe, has

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<v Speaker 1>had to deploy the military in Mexico to its beaches,

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<v Speaker 1>not even to protect tourists, just to protect locals who

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<v Speaker 1>want to go to the beach. They have marines, Mexican

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<v Speaker 1>marines who have to go to the beach that people

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<v Speaker 1>are able to go without fear of being shot or kidnapped.

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<v Speaker 1>That is right across our border, folks, that kind of violence.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, when you start to look at what

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<v Speaker 1>we could do to make things easier for us and

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<v Speaker 1>easier for our Mexican counterparts, you know that's a part

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<v Speaker 1>of this too. I actually want a prosperous Mexico. I

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<v Speaker 1>want the cartels to be up against it. I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to be much less appealing for people to break our

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<v Speaker 1>laws because it is much more appealing for Mexicans and

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<v Speaker 1>Central Americans to stay and build prosperity in their own countries, right.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that that's what I think we could all

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<v Speaker 1>say we would like that. And making it a more

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<v Speaker 1>secure border, building this border wall, helping our border patrol

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<v Speaker 1>on our Mexican counterparts is all a part of that.

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<v Speaker 1>As long as you have cartels that have bank rolls

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<v Speaker 1>that will will make corruption widespread with the Mexican government

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<v Speaker 1>of Mexican security forces, and as long as the cartels

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<v Speaker 1>are able to fight over billions of dollars, you're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to have a secure stable Mexico and you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have problems that spill over into our own country, which

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is also taking note of. And I mentioned to

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<v Speaker 1>you yesterday with MS their team we got more on

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<v Speaker 1>the boarder we gotta talk about here. As you can tell,

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<v Speaker 1>I find this to be an incredibly important issue. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's important for the future of this country. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think that Trump drew a line in the san today.

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<v Speaker 1>You could say he put the first brick up in

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<v Speaker 1>the wall by making it quite clear he's not backing

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<v Speaker 1>off this one. A lot of the haters, the underminers, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>the detractors from Trump have been and you're not going

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<v Speaker 1>to get this wall. It's a lie. He's clowning you.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, there's no way he can walk back from it. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got to do everything he can to get that wall.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think he's going to This is the guy

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<v Speaker 1>who agreed to meet with Kim John Un despite all

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<v Speaker 1>the conventional wisdom against it. Right. I think you're also

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<v Speaker 1>seeing the president today who's going to be the one

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<v Speaker 1>who starts getting that wall built. And that will be

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<v Speaker 1>It will be a game changer. It was a game

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<v Speaker 1>changer for Israel, and oh guess what, it's been a

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<v Speaker 1>game changer at the San Diego sector of the US

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<v Speaker 1>Mexico border. So we have proof already. If it wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>gonna work, the left wouldn't hate it so much. Alright, alright,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm fired up. I know we will be back with

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<v Speaker 1>much more on this. Stay with me. Both countries recognized

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<v Speaker 1>the need to stem the cross border flow of illegal weapons, drugs, people,

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<v Speaker 1>and cash. I have a great relationship at the President

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<v Speaker 1>of Mexico, wonderful guy Enrique, terrific guy. We're working, we're

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<v Speaker 1>trying to work things out. We'll see whether or not

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<v Speaker 1>it happens. I don't know that it's going to happen.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a very good negotiator, he loves the people of Mexico,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's working very hard. We'll see what happens. I

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<v Speaker 1>like how even Trump, with all of his optimism and salesmanship,

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<v Speaker 1>is like, I mean, it might happen, Like maybe it

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<v Speaker 1>won't happen. But usually he's like, Oh, we're gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>it done. It's gonna be amazing, it's gonna be great,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, And that's part of his his charm and

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<v Speaker 1>his power, quite honestly. But on this one, he's like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if Mexico is gonna be like all

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<v Speaker 1>on board for this. I'm not sure. I could not sure.

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<v Speaker 1>I could promise that, but I can't promise the wall,

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<v Speaker 1>and he certainly is promising. By the way, Producer producer

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<v Speaker 1>Mike actually has some some numbers for me. So well,

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<v Speaker 1>So what I said about the cities what was true here?

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<v Speaker 1>Lobos was one, Caracas is two, and Acapulco comes in third. Damn,

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<v Speaker 1>look at I did not even know that, and those

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<v Speaker 1>three cities came up in my discussion because that is

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<v Speaker 1>how I roll. So there you go. Yeah, the violence

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<v Speaker 1>in Venezuela's pretty self explanatory if you know what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on with the government. But Acapulco, I think it's mostly

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<v Speaker 1>because the I believe the Sinaloa cartel, which is really

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<v Speaker 1>the oldest, is fighting a turf battle with the Nuevo

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<v Speaker 1>Helisco or Helisco Nuevo Generation cartel, and which is ultra there.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean they're both ultra violent, but they're they're finding

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<v Speaker 1>out in Acapulco. And and then yeah, Los Cabos, but

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<v Speaker 1>people still go there because I still if you go on,

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<v Speaker 1>if you go on like hotels dot Com right now

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<v Speaker 1>and you look up places in Cabo, they're like all

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<v Speaker 1>in cloth with twelve to night for mom cation. Ya

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<v Speaker 1>mom cation Cabo. No, moms do not mom cation Cabo. No. No,

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<v Speaker 1>many petties on the beach in Cabo stay there? Yeah

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<v Speaker 1>what what? What's a murder? Yeah? Bad things going on there,

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<v Speaker 1>bad things going on there. You did not want to

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<v Speaker 1>be anywhere near that. So, nonetheless, we we got to

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<v Speaker 1>talk more about Trump in this policy of fighting. So

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<v Speaker 1>we know the wall is important. He promised the wall,

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<v Speaker 1>and also the other side was saying you'll never get it.

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<v Speaker 1>He is threatening to veto the next funding bill if

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<v Speaker 1>there's not funding for a wall. This is you know,

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<v Speaker 1>with Congress funding for a wall next budget bill. And

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<v Speaker 1>also sanctuary cities get defunded unless they stop their anti

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<v Speaker 1>rule of law shenanigans. Nless they stop their lawlessness. What's

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<v Speaker 1>that gonna look like? What's that gonna mean? You can

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<v Speaker 1>see we're heavy on immigration this hour. We'll talk more

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<v Speaker 1>about White House personnel and some other stuff. Stay with me.

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<v Speaker 1>He's back with you now, because when it comes to

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<v Speaker 1>the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. California sanctuary

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<v Speaker 1>policies put the entire nation at risk. They're the best

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<v Speaker 1>friend of the criminal. These smugglers, the traffickers, the gang members,

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<v Speaker 1>they're all taking refuge. These policies released dangerous criminal offenders

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<v Speaker 1>to prey on innocent people and nullify the federal law.

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<v Speaker 1>They're threatening the security and the safety of the people

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<v Speaker 1>of our country. The presidents going after sanctuary cities too.

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<v Speaker 1>The promise here is that if they don't fall in

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<v Speaker 1>line and start supporting federal law and stop supporting lawlessness,

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna stop getting some federal grant money. That's going

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<v Speaker 1>to really sting some of these locales. What's the point

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<v Speaker 1>of the federal government having grant money to give or

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<v Speaker 1>not give. If states and cities get it without compliance

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<v Speaker 1>to what the federal government is requesting, right, then then

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<v Speaker 1>it's not a grant. Then it's just a demand. Then

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<v Speaker 1>it's a an expectation. And what was it? He talked

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<v Speaker 1>about it later today as well. You know, Trump spoke

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<v Speaker 1>to a group of Marines and mentioned sanctuary cities to

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<v Speaker 1>them too. My administration is confronting sanctuary city policies that

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<v Speaker 1>nullify federal law, violate our constitution, and threatened the safety

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<v Speaker 1>and security of our nation. They shield criminals. We can't

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<v Speaker 1>do that, and that is why we are asking Congress

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<v Speaker 1>to ensure that no federal funds subsidized this dangerous and

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<v Speaker 1>unlawful behavior. We want to protect you, and we want

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<v Speaker 1>to protect all of our families. We want to protect

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<v Speaker 1>our nation. There is no other area of criminal law

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<v Speaker 1>of which I am where at least that has cities,

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<v Speaker 1>elected officials, even law enforcement, law enforcement officials too, who

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<v Speaker 1>actively subvert criminal law. There's there's no other area that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm that I'm aware of, um where this, where this

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<v Speaker 1>happens in this way. Keep in mind that as much

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<v Speaker 1>as I disapprove of the message, that's sent about federalism

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<v Speaker 1>and about the role of the federal government. The states

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<v Speaker 1>with the California legalization, uh de facto legalization in gosh

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<v Speaker 1>if it's Colorado and Washington. But there are some other

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<v Speaker 1>places have followed suit, right, or they've at least decriminalized it.

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<v Speaker 1>There are a few places now, but a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>states stretching back for a few years, have effectively decriminalized marijuana.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's different because the federal government has said, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>we're cool at that for now. Do I think that

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<v Speaker 1>that's a good way for the country, But no, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that Congress should you know, either, they should pass

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<v Speaker 1>laws that prohibit substances at the federal level using the

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<v Speaker 1>interstate commerce clause. By the way, which is distressing. The

0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.920
<v Speaker 1>interstate commerce clauses abused by status. It is the many

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<v Speaker 1>headed hydra from which so many of our authoritarian ills

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<v Speaker 1>stem in this country. So much of what the federal

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<v Speaker 1>government does that it shouldn't is because of Wickered v.

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<v Speaker 1>Philburn and the interstate commerce clause. Quick version of it

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<v Speaker 1>is the guys selling wheat, but he's like, I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>selling across state lines, so they say, well, selling it

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<v Speaker 1>within state lines. Affects the price across state lines. Therefore,

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<v Speaker 1>will regulate it as though you're selling it across state lines.

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<v Speaker 1>Once you apply that logic to things, there's really no

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<v Speaker 1>there's no such thing as a state anymore, which is

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<v Speaker 1>how you had in the nineties. Even the Violence Against

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<v Speaker 1>Women Act pass at a federal level, even though all

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<v Speaker 1>fifty states had statutes criminalizing, as they should domestic violence.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's not a federal government issue. It's a state

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<v Speaker 1>and local issue. But they said, well, it affects commerce.

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<v Speaker 1>They've done this with any number of things. But if

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<v Speaker 1>marijuana is not going to be illegal, the federal government

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<v Speaker 1>should back off and not have it be illegal. Nonetheless,

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<v Speaker 1>the point I'm making is about the state versus the

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<v Speaker 1>federal and on drugs, at least the federal government says, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>states will allow it. With immigration and sanctuary cities, the

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<v Speaker 1>federal government's like, no, no, no, we gotta this is

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<v Speaker 1>an urgent problem. We've got to handle this. We've got

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<v Speaker 1>way too much illegal immigration happening in this country, way

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<v Speaker 1>too many legal aliens running around. Many of them are dangerous,

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<v Speaker 1>They're committing a lot of crimes, and this is a

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<v Speaker 1>problem we have to address. And state and local governments

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<v Speaker 1>are saying, sorry, I don't want to know no part

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<v Speaker 1>of They don't want to help you on that one. Listen,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, nowhere else do you have this. Nowhere else

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<v Speaker 1>do you have government authorities who are supposed to be

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<v Speaker 1>about the rule of law, who are actively working to

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<v Speaker 1>undermine the rule of law. And Trump has had enough

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<v Speaker 1>of it and s indeed California is ground zero for

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<v Speaker 1>this fight. And Trump singled out Governor Jerry Brown for

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<v Speaker 1>being among the worst of the worst offenders of the

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<v Speaker 1>sanctuary city policy type. Thank you having a Brown has

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<v Speaker 1>done a very poor job running California. They have the

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<v Speaker 1>highest taxes in the United States. The place is totally

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<v Speaker 1>out of control. You have sanctuary cities where you have

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<v Speaker 1>criminals living in the sanctuary cities, and then the mayor

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<v Speaker 1>of Oakland goes out and notifies when Ice is going

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<v Speaker 1>in to pick them up. And many of them were

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<v Speaker 1>criminals with criminal records and very dangerous people. You would say,

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<v Speaker 1>dangerous people. And uh No, I think the governor is

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<v Speaker 1>doing a terrible job running the state of California. I

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<v Speaker 1>think that's fair to say. I've got so many friends

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<v Speaker 1>who live in California, who are like, yeah, it's beautiful here,

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<v Speaker 1>it's great, but the taxes and government services and infrastructure,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, not unless you are really rich and you

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<v Speaker 1>know already got a maid in shade, you do not

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<v Speaker 1>want to try to make it happen out in California.

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<v Speaker 1>They say, it's just it's just too hard. Um, it's

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<v Speaker 1>just there are too many regulations and too many hurdles

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<v Speaker 1>putting the way of success, and successes increasingly penalized there.

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<v Speaker 1>So look, I this is where you got to see

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<v Speaker 1>if Trump is Trump is really going to get it done.

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<v Speaker 1>There's no way for him to back off. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>way for him to back off the wall without letting

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<v Speaker 1>his base down there. It's it's just not possible. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think this is one issue. You know that the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump supporters, the real die hard Trump supporters, believe that

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<v Speaker 1>they can give some leeway to Trump to get certain

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<v Speaker 1>things done. They're not, oh, well, he's gonna get it

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<v Speaker 1>all right away. But the day that Trump says, sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>we can't make the wall happen and it's not and

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<v Speaker 1>it's something that I could do something about, is the

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<v Speaker 1>day that his base starts to crumble. If he and

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<v Speaker 1>if he livers on the wall. The the opposite effect

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<v Speaker 1>will happen, which is his base will stay with him

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<v Speaker 1>through They'll give him so much, but let'll stay with

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<v Speaker 1>him through anything, because I'll know. That was the single

0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:15.280
<v Speaker 1>biggest promise of his entire campaign. That was also the

0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:17.520
<v Speaker 1>promise that was most ridiculed by the left, and that

0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:21.320
<v Speaker 1>got the Democrats the most upset. So the wall is

0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:24.040
<v Speaker 1>a big deal. Um it is. It is a big deal,

0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:25.960
<v Speaker 1>and it's not gonna get built all at once, and

0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:27.960
<v Speaker 1>I know there's gonna be problems and everything else, but

0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:32.760
<v Speaker 1>getting it going sends huge signals. And that's why Trump

0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.480
<v Speaker 1>is out there today talking about how important it is

0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:38.479
<v Speaker 1>to put up this wall and what it will mean

0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:42.879
<v Speaker 1>for us going forward. You know, just just imagine if

0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.360
<v Speaker 1>our southern border was like our northern border in terms

0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:49.520
<v Speaker 1>of not having to worry as much about legal aliens,

0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:54.959
<v Speaker 1>about criminal infiltration, even possible terrorist infiltration. We could live

0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:57.959
<v Speaker 1>in that world. Our northern border doesn't keep us up

0:26:57.960 --> 0:27:00.840
<v Speaker 1>at night with worry. Our southern border shouldn't, and it

0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:04.600
<v Speaker 1>should be addressed. And this is an old school solution

0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:09.760
<v Speaker 1>for a current day problem. Create an obstacle that gives

0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:15.080
<v Speaker 1>you better ability to police and and gives you that additional,

0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:19.359
<v Speaker 1>really real force multiplier effect of having yes, border patrol

0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:21.920
<v Speaker 1>that can react quickly, have drones in the air, have

0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 1>all the different sensors and electronic assistance that they can

0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:31.360
<v Speaker 1>bring to bear. But also you know, not just play, uh,

0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:33.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, hide and seek and run around in the

0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:35.920
<v Speaker 1>desert and trying to find people when all they could

0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:39.280
<v Speaker 1>do is just keep walking. That's going to be a

0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.600
<v Speaker 1>game changer, I think eight four four d to eight

0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:44.720
<v Speaker 1>to five. If you want to chat about this or

0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.320
<v Speaker 1>anything else, eight four four nin buck, You've got a

0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:50.560
<v Speaker 1>lot more, including what's going on with the whole Tillerson

0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:52.920
<v Speaker 1>Pompeo shake up. I'll give you more thoughts on that,

0:27:53.119 --> 0:28:08.160
<v Speaker 1>So stay with me. You honor your duty to your country.

0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:13.680
<v Speaker 1>Now we must honor our duty to you. For too long,

0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:16.640
<v Speaker 1>the men and women of the United States Armed Forces

0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:24.000
<v Speaker 1>have been asked to do more with less. You've borne

0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:31.639
<v Speaker 1>the costs of under investment and deferred modernization and also

0:28:31.880 --> 0:28:39.200
<v Speaker 1>deferred maintenance. You've endured longer and more frequent deployments. You've

0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:45.200
<v Speaker 1>spent countless hours fixing and maintaining old equipment. President Trump,

0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:49.480
<v Speaker 1>speaking earlier today at the Marine Corps air Station Miramar

0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:53.600
<v Speaker 1>in San Diego. And it's always, I think some notable

0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:56.520
<v Speaker 1>that when Trump speaks to the troops, he speaks with

0:28:56.760 --> 0:29:01.560
<v Speaker 1>a a an affection and a reverence and our respect

0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:07.120
<v Speaker 1>that is very apparent, despite the fact that the media

0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:09.520
<v Speaker 1>has been trying for a long time to suggest that

0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:12.720
<v Speaker 1>Trump doesn't respect the military, doesn't respect military service because

0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:16.880
<v Speaker 1>of things he said to political opponents, UM and and

0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:19.200
<v Speaker 1>every person and I know people on all sides of

0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.240
<v Speaker 1>the aisle and all kinds of stuff, including military and

0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:25.200
<v Speaker 1>intelligence work, but all the military folks I talked to

0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.880
<v Speaker 1>her like, yeah, Trump is. Trump is very well liked

0:29:28.920 --> 0:29:32.720
<v Speaker 1>as commander in chief, overwhelmingly well liked as commander in chief,

0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:37.239
<v Speaker 1>and I don't think there's nearly enough attention given by

0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:40.760
<v Speaker 1>the various media outlets to that fact. And his focusing

0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:45.800
<v Speaker 1>on rebuilding parts of military that have not received adequate funding,

0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:53.880
<v Speaker 1>and his efforts to improve different parts of that authorization

0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:58.400
<v Speaker 1>and financial authorization process, I think is getting a lot

0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.360
<v Speaker 1>of people over onto his side, for um uh, from

0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.680
<v Speaker 1>those who are military and also from the veteran community

0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 1>to um. But he also mentioned nuclear force specifically, we're

0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:17.840
<v Speaker 1>also modernizing our nuclear capabilities and rebuilding our nuclear infrastructure.

0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.200
<v Speaker 1>We're investing more money than we have ever done before

0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:26.920
<v Speaker 1>because we have to be so far ahead of any

0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:31.000
<v Speaker 1>other country. It's a capability we never even want to

0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:35.240
<v Speaker 1>think about using, but we have to be prepared, and

0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.760
<v Speaker 1>in a nuclear front, we are so far and will

0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:45.120
<v Speaker 1>be so far ahead of any other country. You know,

0:30:45.160 --> 0:30:47.760
<v Speaker 1>I think it's notable that with the recent bluster from

0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:52.320
<v Speaker 1>Vladimir Putin on the nuclear weapons that he has in

0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:56.040
<v Speaker 1>his arsenal, it's not some people said he doesn't have

0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:59.360
<v Speaker 1>that capability and this stuff he's talking about with the

0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.880
<v Speaker 1>you know what, hypersonic glide vehicles and things like that. Uh,

0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:07.520
<v Speaker 1>it's not that it would be impossible to do. Just

0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:09.840
<v Speaker 1>many of the analysts I saw said they're not they

0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 1>don't believe, or they're not sure that Putin has already

0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:16.320
<v Speaker 1>gotten there. But these are things that will most likely

0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:19.480
<v Speaker 1>be a reality very soon if they're not already, and

0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:22.600
<v Speaker 1>that will change the way that we have to think

0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:26.320
<v Speaker 1>about missile defense and intercontinental ballistic missiles. And once you

0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.320
<v Speaker 1>start adding advanced technologies into it, you know, you no

0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:34.160
<v Speaker 1>longer have mutually assured destruction if one side can reasonably

0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:37.800
<v Speaker 1>be expected to shoot down whatever missiles may come its way,

0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.320
<v Speaker 1>if they're old school missiles or or on the other

0:31:40.400 --> 0:31:43.120
<v Speaker 1>side of it, if one side of the equation, say

0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:46.240
<v Speaker 1>the Russians or somebody else, has missiles that can reliably

0:31:46.320 --> 0:31:49.360
<v Speaker 1>get around any defense that we have, you know that

0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:52.400
<v Speaker 1>that changes the strategic calculation. And I think Trump is

0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:55.400
<v Speaker 1>aware of this, and it's very just like with Reagan.

0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:58.240
<v Speaker 1>You remember, these are very expensive issues and you have

0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:01.960
<v Speaker 1>to take a long term view. But if we want

0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:05.880
<v Speaker 1>to maintain all our military pre eminence and can maintain

0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:09.000
<v Speaker 1>our role as the world superpower, we can't allow ourselves

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:13.760
<v Speaker 1>to fall behind on this and think in terms that

0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:17.800
<v Speaker 1>are outdated about all of it. So oh, but there's

0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:20.400
<v Speaker 1>one other part is that it was like a hey

0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:23.040
<v Speaker 1>moment today, I'm like, WHOA hold on a second, it's

0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:25.640
<v Speaker 1>Trump really gonna yeah, he's going there. He's talking about

0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:29.240
<v Speaker 1>talking about space and the space race in terms of

0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:34.680
<v Speaker 1>national security. So think of that spaceforce because we're spending

0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:37.360
<v Speaker 1>a lot and we have a lot of private money

0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:39.920
<v Speaker 1>coming in tremendous you saw what happened the other day,

0:32:40.000 --> 0:32:43.680
<v Speaker 1>and tremendous success. From the very beginning, many of our

0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:48.880
<v Speaker 1>astronauts have been soldiers and sailors, airmen, coast guardsmen and marines,

0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:54.840
<v Speaker 1>and our service members will be vital to ensuring America

0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:57.920
<v Speaker 1>continues to lead the way into the stars. We're gonna

0:32:57.960 --> 0:33:02.080
<v Speaker 1>lead the way in space. We're way way behind and

0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:06.920
<v Speaker 1>we're catching up fast. Space Force. I like it. I

0:33:07.000 --> 0:33:09.800
<v Speaker 1>want to be a part of Space Force sounds awesome.

0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:12.160
<v Speaker 1>I'd want some kind of laser gun that goes pu P,

0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, Space Force. Think you'd be a lot of fun.

0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:18.880
<v Speaker 1>I would enjoy it. But it is getting more and

0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:22.160
<v Speaker 1>more a reality. You mentioned the private sector money that's

0:33:22.200 --> 0:33:25.600
<v Speaker 1>coming into it. Look at what Elon Musk just said,

0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:31.400
<v Speaker 1>I think yesterday about Mars. Get yourself to Mars. Uh.

0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:35.840
<v Speaker 1>That's a reference to total Recall Schwarzenegger, who will be

0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:37.720
<v Speaker 1>making an appearance later on in the show as well.

0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:42.680
<v Speaker 1>But yes, Elon Musk play it. We're building the first ship,

0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:48.880
<v Speaker 1>the first Mars m interplanetary ship UM right now, and

0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:52.080
<v Speaker 1>I think we'll prob fail to do short flights, short

0:33:52.160 --> 0:33:55.120
<v Speaker 1>sort of up and down flights UM. Only sometime in

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.600
<v Speaker 1>the first half of next year. I'm gonna have ships

0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:02.280
<v Speaker 1>visiting Mars. Folks. You know, this is one thing that

0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:06.880
<v Speaker 1>the climate change alarmists and the radical environmentalists left and

0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:10.359
<v Speaker 1>the redistributionists who just think that we have a It's

0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:12.400
<v Speaker 1>all about what we do with the pie we have now,

0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:15.960
<v Speaker 1>not what the the economic pie looks like tomorrow. Uh,

0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:17.919
<v Speaker 1>you know what the government can do with it meeting

0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:20.560
<v Speaker 1>who they give it to, is that this is all

0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:23.200
<v Speaker 1>gonna be changing so rapidly. You know. One thing I

0:34:23.239 --> 0:34:26.400
<v Speaker 1>will say is I kind of hate airlines. And I

0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.279
<v Speaker 1>know it's easy to hate on airlines, but I really

0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:31.600
<v Speaker 1>have a tough time not hating on them these days. Uh,

0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:34.919
<v Speaker 1>every time I fly, there's a problem, and it's it's

0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.040
<v Speaker 1>as reliable as clockwork. Every time I fly there is

0:34:37.080 --> 0:34:41.840
<v Speaker 1>a problem. And I saw that terrible story about a

0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:44.040
<v Speaker 1>woman who had to put her was forced to put

0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:47.359
<v Speaker 1>her dog in the overhead compartment and the dog died.

0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:50.160
<v Speaker 1>I would lose my mind. I hope she sues that

0:34:50.200 --> 0:34:54.640
<v Speaker 1>airline out of you know, sues it's pants off, so

0:34:54.760 --> 0:34:59.239
<v Speaker 1>to speak. And I just would like to see technology

0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:01.840
<v Speaker 1>advanced to a point where we can get airlines that

0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:06.960
<v Speaker 1>are not punishing us so that they can make more money,

0:35:06.960 --> 0:35:09.200
<v Speaker 1>because that's what they really do. It's it's put you

0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:12.160
<v Speaker 1>in the most uncomfortable seats in the most uncomfortable places,

0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:14.360
<v Speaker 1>and you know, and and have you at their mercy

0:35:14.480 --> 0:35:17.399
<v Speaker 1>and everything else, and it's all for their bottom line.

0:35:17.600 --> 0:35:19.960
<v Speaker 1>And I would just love to see disruption in that industry.

0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:23.600
<v Speaker 1>And I'm hoping that air and space travel will advance

0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:28.160
<v Speaker 1>to a point where we can finally say sayonara to

0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:32.839
<v Speaker 1>the old version of the airlines we've seen for decades now,

0:35:32.880 --> 0:35:35.520
<v Speaker 1>where it's just it's it's their world and you're living

0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:37.400
<v Speaker 1>in it for the few hours or whatever it is

0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:40.439
<v Speaker 1>that you're trying to get to wherever it is you're going.

0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:44.000
<v Speaker 1>It's uh, you know, space flight. I know it's not

0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:46.319
<v Speaker 1>directly tied in this, but I'm thinking about flying cars too.

0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:49.560
<v Speaker 1>And all this technological progress is going to change a

0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:51.839
<v Speaker 1>lot when it comes to policies, and so you want

0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:54.319
<v Speaker 1>to you want to keep that in mind. Maybe another

0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:56.200
<v Speaker 1>day I'll give you a speech on how we're decarbonizing

0:35:56.239 --> 0:35:58.719
<v Speaker 1>as a society already. And that's why the climate change

0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:00.480
<v Speaker 1>alarm is just have no idea what they're talking about.

0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:04.400
<v Speaker 1>We are naturally decarbonizing using less carbon intensive fuels all

0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:07.640
<v Speaker 1>the time. It's happening as a result of technology. Um,

0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:09.520
<v Speaker 1>but there I go on all that stuff. We're gonna

0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:13.680
<v Speaker 1>get into the taylorson Pompeo shift, and maybe also that

0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:16.799
<v Speaker 1>poisoning in Russia, and we'll talk about that and more

0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:31.919
<v Speaker 1>coming up here. He's holding the line for America. Buck

0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:35.320
<v Speaker 1>Sex in his back. Welcome to our two of the

0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:37.799
<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton Show. I thank you very much for being here.

0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:44.680
<v Speaker 1>We have the firing of Tillerson as Secretary of State

0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:47.960
<v Speaker 1>to get into for a few moments here, as well

0:36:48.040 --> 0:36:51.239
<v Speaker 1>as the elevation of see I Director Pompeo to the

0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:57.080
<v Speaker 1>Secretary of State role, and the also the promotion of

0:36:57.160 --> 0:37:01.359
<v Speaker 1>a woman to head the c I A. And then

0:37:01.520 --> 0:37:04.680
<v Speaker 1>you have a Trump aid who has gone for security

0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:06.759
<v Speaker 1>clearance reasons. I don't find that last part of it

0:37:06.800 --> 0:37:10.040
<v Speaker 1>all that interesting or noteworthy. Money if people leave administrations

0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.719
<v Speaker 1>for reasons like this all the time, So I'll leave

0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:18.960
<v Speaker 1>that one off our docket for now. But Tillerson, uh, well,

0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:21.600
<v Speaker 1>he said this about the end of his tenure as

0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:24.800
<v Speaker 1>what we used to refer to as Sex State. Here's

0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:28.840
<v Speaker 1>what he said. I received a call today from the

0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:32.319
<v Speaker 1>President United States at a little afternoon time from Air

0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:35.640
<v Speaker 1>Force one, and I've also spoken to White House Chief

0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:39.080
<v Speaker 1>of Staff Kelly, to ensure we have clarity as to

0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:42.880
<v Speaker 1>the days ahead. What is most important is to ensure

0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:46.080
<v Speaker 1>an orderly of smooth transition during the time that the

0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:50.960
<v Speaker 1>country continues to face significant policy and national security challenges.

0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:56.560
<v Speaker 1>Has such effective At the end of the day, I'm

0:37:56.640 --> 0:38:00.040
<v Speaker 1>delegating all responsibilities of the office of the Secretary the

0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:04.440
<v Speaker 1>Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan. My commission is Secretary of

0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:10.560
<v Speaker 1>State will terminate at midnight mart one, so he's out.

0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:17.880
<v Speaker 1>I didn't have a whole lot to say about the

0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:20.440
<v Speaker 1>President on this one. Did mention what's sort of left

0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:23.000
<v Speaker 1>to deal with in terms of the portfolio the Secretary

0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:27.000
<v Speaker 1>of State, notably China and Russia. Much work remains to

0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:29.640
<v Speaker 1>establish a clear view of the nature of our future

0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:33.640
<v Speaker 1>relationship with China. How shall we deal with one another

0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.880
<v Speaker 1>over the next fifty years and insure a period of

0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:41.480
<v Speaker 1>prosperity for all of our people's free of conflict between

0:38:41.560 --> 0:38:46.920
<v Speaker 1>two very powerful nations. And much work remains to respond

0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:49.279
<v Speaker 1>to the troubling behavior and actions on the part of

0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:54.200
<v Speaker 1>the Russian government. Russia must assessed carefully as to how

0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:56.280
<v Speaker 1>its actions are in the best interests of the Russian

0:38:56.320 --> 0:39:00.799
<v Speaker 1>people and of the world. More broadly, continuing on their

0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:04.600
<v Speaker 1>current trajectory is likely to lead to greater obscolation on

0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:09.040
<v Speaker 1>their part, the situation, which is not in anyone's interesting.

0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:13.799
<v Speaker 1>So Tillerson is done, and now we have to look

0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:17.000
<v Speaker 1>at what that means going forward. Now, now I mentioned

0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:21.040
<v Speaker 1>the last hour, I think that Pompeo makes more sense

0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:25.600
<v Speaker 1>as the person to be in this role. I think

0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:29.560
<v Speaker 1>that Pompeo is aligned with Trump on policy. I think

0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:33.640
<v Speaker 1>that Pompeo is a a guy who understands the political

0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:38.480
<v Speaker 1>fight that the administration is currently in. And I believe

0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:44.600
<v Speaker 1>that Pompeo will be more effective then Tillerson was on

0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:49.680
<v Speaker 1>issues like Iran and their recertification or the lack of certification,

0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:53.080
<v Speaker 1>whatever ends up happening, on the Iran nuclear deal, on

0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:58.080
<v Speaker 1>dealing with these upcoming North Korea talks, and then also

0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:01.360
<v Speaker 1>everything else that comes long being Secretary of State. I

0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:05.200
<v Speaker 1>just think that Pompeo and Trump, well, Trump says this,

0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:08.320
<v Speaker 1>and it's not just my my opinion, man, it's also

0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:13.080
<v Speaker 1>but the President himself has made quite clear um that

0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:17.480
<v Speaker 1>he really gets along with Pompeo. I've worked with Mike

0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:23.880
<v Speaker 1>Pompeo now for quite some time, tremendous energy, tremendous intellect.

0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:29.319
<v Speaker 1>We're always on the same wavelength. The relationship has been

0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.320
<v Speaker 1>very good, and that's what I need at a secretary

0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:38.080
<v Speaker 1>of State. I wish wreck Pillerson well. Gina, by the way,

0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:40.560
<v Speaker 1>who I know very well, who I've worked very closely,

0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:43.640
<v Speaker 1>will be the first woman director of the c I A.

0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:48.080
<v Speaker 1>He's an outstanding persisdon who also I have gotten it

0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:51.640
<v Speaker 1>over very well. But I don't have any opinion for

0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:55.719
<v Speaker 1>you really on the the new the new director. Um,

0:40:56.239 --> 0:40:59.920
<v Speaker 1>I've been out long enough and away from it long

0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:02.160
<v Speaker 1>then off at any of the kind of you know,

0:41:03.480 --> 0:41:04.799
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I mean, I don't. I don't know her,

0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:08.040
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know anything about this. Got nothing for

0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:10.040
<v Speaker 1>you on it. That's what I'm trying to say. So

0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:12.480
<v Speaker 1>if Trump says she's good, I mean, all I know

0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:14.880
<v Speaker 1>is what I'm reading about in the newspapers, just like you.

0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:18.640
<v Speaker 1>And we'll have to see first female though, to head

0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:24.440
<v Speaker 1>the agencies. So that's that's gonna be an interesting talking

0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:26.560
<v Speaker 1>point that will get lost very quickly because the media

0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:30.120
<v Speaker 1>that the media doesn't consider women who are Republicans, or

0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:34.560
<v Speaker 1>even women in a Republican administration to be breaking any

0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:38.160
<v Speaker 1>glass ceilings that that can't really happen. But Pompeo over

0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:40.200
<v Speaker 1>chillers didn't what to see. I mean, Trump said that

0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:43.480
<v Speaker 1>look that that Rex and he that they were just

0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:49.080
<v Speaker 1>having some some issues between the two of them, that's

0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.160
<v Speaker 1>one way to put it. I really didn't discuss it

0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:55.640
<v Speaker 1>very much with them, honestly, Uh. I made that decision

0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:59.320
<v Speaker 1>by myself. Rex wasn't you know, in our in this country.

0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:04.720
<v Speaker 1>I made see North Korean decision with consultation from many people.

0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:10.319
<v Speaker 1>But I made that decision by myself. I actually got

0:42:10.360 --> 0:42:13.880
<v Speaker 1>along well with Rex, but really it was a different mindset.

0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:16.200
<v Speaker 1>It was a different thinking. I've gotten the long well

0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:19.800
<v Speaker 1>with Mike Bumbao, and frankly, I get along well with

0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:23.319
<v Speaker 1>Rex su And you know, I wish Rex a lot

0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:26.000
<v Speaker 1>of good things. I think Rex will be much happier now.

0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:28.320
<v Speaker 1>I think so too. So I don't really want to

0:42:28.360 --> 0:42:31.080
<v Speaker 1>get to now. Tillerson gets to go back to being

0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:34.440
<v Speaker 1>the former CEO of Exxon Mobile, the until recently it's

0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:37.960
<v Speaker 1>the biggest company in the world, and he's gonna be

0:42:38.120 --> 0:42:40.880
<v Speaker 1>someone who you know, he has a lot of he

0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:42.640
<v Speaker 1>can spend a lot of money, He's got a lot

0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 1>of money, he can hang out and do whatever he wants,

0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.359
<v Speaker 1>and he was just too much of an alpha dog

0:42:47.560 --> 0:42:50.320
<v Speaker 1>to play the role that he needed to in this administration.

0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:52.680
<v Speaker 1>We all know in Trump world there can only be

0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:55.960
<v Speaker 1>one alpha dog. And you know, Rex Tillerson, I think,

0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:57.480
<v Speaker 1>was always kind of like, I don't need this job.

0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:00.520
<v Speaker 1>I'll do it to serve my country. But if you

0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:03.920
<v Speaker 1>take that position and you don't see eye to eye

0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:06.799
<v Speaker 1>with Trump on where things need to go, it's gonna

0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:10.279
<v Speaker 1>be tough. It's gonna be tough. You get you get

0:43:10.320 --> 0:43:13.480
<v Speaker 1>to to alpha's in the room. You know, two can enter,

0:43:13.560 --> 0:43:15.520
<v Speaker 1>only one, only one will leave, right I mean to

0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:19.680
<v Speaker 1>or like Highlander, there can be only one. It was

0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:22.320
<v Speaker 1>like that in this administration. That's my analysis is the

0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:26.319
<v Speaker 1>Highlander theory of Trump's cabinet picks. There can be only one.

0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:30.320
<v Speaker 1>So there you have it much for you on that

0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:32.560
<v Speaker 1>before Other than that, you know, I think I'm gonna

0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:33.800
<v Speaker 1>I want to mix it up here. I want to

0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:35.320
<v Speaker 1>talk to you about something that I'd be willing to

0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:39.440
<v Speaker 1>bet you haven't heard much coverage of anywhere else, if

0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:43.239
<v Speaker 1>any and the media is trying very hard not to

0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:47.080
<v Speaker 1>cover it. And I've got just enough for just enough

0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:51.200
<v Speaker 1>vetting an analysis of it to share the tonight. Did

0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:58.080
<v Speaker 1>you know that South African South African government may go

0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:02.440
<v Speaker 1>forward with and appropriation which is just a fans we

0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:07.480
<v Speaker 1>have saying season land, season land from farmers. Why are

0:44:07.520 --> 0:44:09.480
<v Speaker 1>they season this land from the farmers because the farmers

0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:17.280
<v Speaker 1>are white. This is a whole campaign that is being ignored,

0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:22.640
<v Speaker 1>swept aside, kept out of the public's eye, and we

0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 1>have to start asking why why is that the case?

0:44:27.120 --> 0:44:29.360
<v Speaker 1>Why are am I sitting here? And I'm willing to

0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:32.439
<v Speaker 1>bet that very few of you have heard, um maybe

0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.360
<v Speaker 1>some of you have seen something on social media about it,

0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.080
<v Speaker 1>but it is it is very much going on that

0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:39.480
<v Speaker 1>there is a campaign now to dispossess people in South Africa,

0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:44.840
<v Speaker 1>which is the wealthiest country in Sub Saharan Africa. Do

0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:48.440
<v Speaker 1>you dispossess people based on their skin color? Because the

0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:52.720
<v Speaker 1>government now is saying, particularly the more radical Marxist elements

0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:56.680
<v Speaker 1>of the South African government are saying that the land

0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:59.880
<v Speaker 1>was never there is to begin with. And some very

0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:04.080
<v Speaker 1>very disturbing stuff is coming out about all this, and

0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:07.400
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be tough for the media to keep hiding

0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:12.880
<v Speaker 1>what's going on here. You have campaigns, uh systemic campaigns

0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:18.800
<v Speaker 1>of intimidation, violence, and rape against the white farmers that

0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:23.080
<v Speaker 1>have been well documented now and the government is not

0:45:23.239 --> 0:45:25.080
<v Speaker 1>only unwilling to help, but there was one case that

0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:27.920
<v Speaker 1>I read about where a woman was trying to defend herself,

0:45:28.000 --> 0:45:30.160
<v Speaker 1>I believe, with a firearm and she ended up being arrested.

0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:36.319
<v Speaker 1>So you've got very very dangerous things going on right

0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:38.120
<v Speaker 1>now in South Africa, and I just want to talk

0:45:38.160 --> 0:45:40.680
<v Speaker 1>to you about what's happening there because how is this

0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:43.040
<v Speaker 1>not a bigger news story? And also, at what point

0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:46.080
<v Speaker 1>do we get to say that the Trump administration should

0:45:46.160 --> 0:45:51.640
<v Speaker 1>consider taking in these farmers as refugees. They're English speaking

0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:57.880
<v Speaker 1>there from a a an Anglo Anglo tradition of of

0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:02.200
<v Speaker 1>culture and rule of law. How how about we open

0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:05.000
<v Speaker 1>our doors to the the farmers in South Africa who

0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:09.719
<v Speaker 1>are being threatened with murder and dispossession of their land. Now,

0:46:09.840 --> 0:46:11.480
<v Speaker 1>this is a question that I'm just wondering why no

0:46:11.560 --> 0:46:14.200
<v Speaker 1>one's really asking it, but you see this happening time

0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:16.200
<v Speaker 1>and again. It's kind of like the Christians in Iraq.

0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:20.800
<v Speaker 1>You know, they're they're facing extinction and they're being openly targeted.

0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:22.440
<v Speaker 1>But you know, we we can't really help them here

0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:27.879
<v Speaker 1>because because what their minority there, they're under threat. Well yeah,

0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:29.760
<v Speaker 1>but we don't want to seem like we're playing favorites.

0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:34.080
<v Speaker 1>We play favorites with refugee populations all the time, but

0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:36.560
<v Speaker 1>when we look outside our own borders, we have this

0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:39.480
<v Speaker 1>sense of well, whoever is a minority or a a

0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:44.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, somebody who's either suffers from oppression or enjoys

0:46:44.320 --> 0:46:46.920
<v Speaker 1>privilege here, they must have the same thing and the

0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:48.680
<v Speaker 1>rest of the world. That's not how the world works.

0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:51.080
<v Speaker 1>I just think you'll find this to be a fascinating

0:46:51.160 --> 0:46:54.600
<v Speaker 1>story and and frightening. And when you look at the

0:46:55.640 --> 0:46:59.719
<v Speaker 1>precursor situation or the most similar situation with Zimbabwe next

0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:04.640
<v Speaker 1>door are h then you see what the future could

0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:07.320
<v Speaker 1>look like unless this gets stopped in the international community

0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:08.839
<v Speaker 1>should have a role to play here. The US government

0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:10.480
<v Speaker 1>should speak up. I'll give you some of the details

0:47:10.520 --> 0:47:12.120
<v Speaker 1>on this week. Come back. I think you'll be fascinated

0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:26.960
<v Speaker 1>by this. Stay with me. So, what is going on

0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:31.719
<v Speaker 1>in South Africa right now? It's been some reporting on

0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:35.719
<v Speaker 1>it here and there, but there seems to be an

0:47:35.840 --> 0:47:40.239
<v Speaker 1>unwillingness or a desire in the media to not pay

0:47:40.360 --> 0:47:46.000
<v Speaker 1>any attention to this, even though some of those who

0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:50.759
<v Speaker 1>are in positions of authority and power saying some pretty

0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:55.560
<v Speaker 1>terrible things in South Africa's parliament just past emotion in

0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:59.200
<v Speaker 1>the last few weeks that would that could lead to

0:47:59.280 --> 0:48:04.600
<v Speaker 1>the seizure of land from white farmers, and that can

0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:07.719
<v Speaker 1>get very violent and very scary as well. And on

0:48:07.840 --> 0:48:11.840
<v Speaker 1>top of that it's deeply immoral and wrong. But you have,

0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:16.640
<v Speaker 1>for example, Julius Malema, who is a far left Marxist

0:48:17.239 --> 0:48:22.680
<v Speaker 1>radical but elected member of parliament in South Africa, who

0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:25.520
<v Speaker 1>at a at a rally earlier this year said this

0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:31.680
<v Speaker 1>about the white farmers that's been living peacefully, that had

0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:39.319
<v Speaker 1>been swimming in a pile, be going themselves because they're

0:48:39.440 --> 0:48:49.680
<v Speaker 1>always the high school older. Our peace was this time

0:48:50.560 --> 0:48:56.320
<v Speaker 1>by white men's arbal. They call me black gino sign.

0:48:56.920 --> 0:49:04.399
<v Speaker 1>They killed our people. King pay whats gotten to step

0:49:04.600 --> 0:49:10.479
<v Speaker 1>them keeping when they found the place put up against here,

0:49:10.960 --> 0:49:16.920
<v Speaker 1>they killed them. There's them like we are not calling

0:49:17.000 --> 0:49:20.680
<v Speaker 1>for the lot of white people, at least for them.

0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:24.600
<v Speaker 1>I know it was tough with the audience here, he

0:49:24.719 --> 0:49:26.239
<v Speaker 1>said at the end. This is the leader of the

0:49:26.320 --> 0:49:30.280
<v Speaker 1>Economic Freedom Fighters Party in South Africa. He's a political

0:49:30.360 --> 0:49:32.760
<v Speaker 1>leader there. He says they're not calling for the slaughter

0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:37.320
<v Speaker 1>of white people yet. Is that a public rally, folks,

0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:39.759
<v Speaker 1>That that's the kind of thing that you know in

0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:42.800
<v Speaker 1>most countries, most societies would raise a lot of eyebrows,

0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:45.000
<v Speaker 1>get a lot of attention. This was earlier this year

0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:50.640
<v Speaker 1>and there is some reporting on this, but not nearly enough.

0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:54.560
<v Speaker 1>Here is part of a report from sky News, the

0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:59.879
<v Speaker 1>UK owned international news channel, and here's what they rep

0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:02.880
<v Speaker 1>order had to say about the violence against white farmers

0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:06.320
<v Speaker 1>in South Africa. What we've saying over there is is

0:50:06.840 --> 0:50:10.520
<v Speaker 1>placed to respond. They will turn up, but it seems

0:50:10.560 --> 0:50:14.360
<v Speaker 1>hardly anyone has ever arrested. I think another problem with

0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:18.200
<v Speaker 1>South Africa has been this mandate to him employ the

0:50:18.320 --> 0:50:21.719
<v Speaker 1>cycle previously disadvantaged at any cost, and that's including in

0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:25.240
<v Speaker 1>the place force. So we have very lovely skilled place

0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:28.319
<v Speaker 1>who don't seem to have the capacity to investigate these

0:50:28.360 --> 0:50:32.880
<v Speaker 1>crimes properly. What's refferm to you with employing the previously

0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:37.920
<v Speaker 1>disadvantaged is effectively a form of affirmative action. So you're

0:50:37.920 --> 0:50:39.800
<v Speaker 1>saying you've got police that have no skills, have no

0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.280
<v Speaker 1>idea what they're doing, but they're being employed for largely

0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:45.000
<v Speaker 1>political reasons. Who are showing up and being told, hey,

0:50:45.120 --> 0:50:47.920
<v Speaker 1>this white farmer has been attacked in what is a

0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:51.040
<v Speaker 1>a racial and racist attack right there, attacking people because

0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:53.480
<v Speaker 1>they're white, and they feel that they have a green

0:50:53.560 --> 0:50:56.239
<v Speaker 1>light from the government which just voted the parliament just

0:50:56.360 --> 0:51:01.120
<v Speaker 1>voted overwhelmingly to seize the property of white farmers. Of

0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:03.680
<v Speaker 1>farmland in South Africa is in the hands of white farmers,

0:51:05.600 --> 0:51:08.080
<v Speaker 1>and they show please show up, and you know they

0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:10.080
<v Speaker 1>don't want to. They they don't want to or unwilling

0:51:10.160 --> 0:51:12.879
<v Speaker 1>to do anything about it, or unable to do anything

0:51:12.920 --> 0:51:16.239
<v Speaker 1>about it because of their lack of training. So this

0:51:16.440 --> 0:51:19.319
<v Speaker 1>is really disturbing stuff. And and people are saying, well,

0:51:19.360 --> 0:51:21.480
<v Speaker 1>why don't the farmers leave. We'll think about this. Who

0:51:21.520 --> 0:51:24.720
<v Speaker 1>are they going to sell their land to? And their farmers,

0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:28.359
<v Speaker 1>their their livelihood, everything is tied up in their land.

0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:31.919
<v Speaker 1>If they leave, what do they have. Who will even

0:51:31.960 --> 0:51:34.279
<v Speaker 1>buy the farm from them? The answer is nobody, because

0:51:34.400 --> 0:51:38.600
<v Speaker 1>right now the government's talking about literally seizing it, nationalizing

0:51:38.680 --> 0:51:41.000
<v Speaker 1>for the purposes of social justice or in this case,

0:51:41.480 --> 0:51:46.160
<v Speaker 1>racial justice, nationalizing farms to redistribute to the people. By

0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:48.200
<v Speaker 1>the way, this is very similar to the social justice

0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:51.839
<v Speaker 1>rhetoric you've heard in Venezuela until recently as well. Oh,

0:51:51.960 --> 0:51:53.520
<v Speaker 1>we have to give more to the people, land to

0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:58.480
<v Speaker 1>the people, redistribution reforms. This stuff always ends in disaster.

0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:03.480
<v Speaker 1>It is ended an absolute disaster next door in Zimbabwe,

0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:08.759
<v Speaker 1>which had the same program going on basically now it's

0:52:08.800 --> 0:52:10.880
<v Speaker 1>not it's has to still pass that has to be

0:52:10.960 --> 0:52:15.000
<v Speaker 1>signed off on, but the legislative branch of the South

0:52:15.080 --> 0:52:20.239
<v Speaker 1>African government, the parliament, has passed it overwhelmingly. In Zimbabwe,

0:52:20.600 --> 0:52:24.799
<v Speaker 1>the seizure of land from white farmers, which was done

0:52:24.840 --> 0:52:29.400
<v Speaker 1>with with the absolute you know, complicity and on the

0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:33.080
<v Speaker 1>orders really of the government, has turned Zimbabwe from a

0:52:33.120 --> 0:52:38.520
<v Speaker 1>country that was Southern Africa's bread basket into a country

0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:42.640
<v Speaker 1>that can't feed itself, that has to import food, that

0:52:42.760 --> 0:52:48.080
<v Speaker 1>has food shortages regularly um and has hyper inflation of

0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:50.399
<v Speaker 1>a level of the currency has actually turned into nothing.

0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:54.400
<v Speaker 1>Their their currency has really no value. They've abandoned it.

0:52:54.880 --> 0:53:00.080
<v Speaker 1>They literally inflated the currency into into zero. Uh. But

0:53:00.239 --> 0:53:02.440
<v Speaker 1>things did not get better when they did their land

0:53:02.480 --> 0:53:04.840
<v Speaker 1>appropriations there. And if you want to see what that

0:53:05.080 --> 0:53:08.759
<v Speaker 1>was like, because it was happening relatively recently, a documentary,

0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:11.720
<v Speaker 1>I would recommend to you is Mugabe and the White

0:53:12.480 --> 0:53:16.120
<v Speaker 1>I believe it's Mugabe and the White African um which

0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:20.200
<v Speaker 1>I saw years ago and it's specifically about is that

0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:25.160
<v Speaker 1>mcgabi in the white Farmer? I can't remember. Um, I'll producer, Mike,

0:53:25.239 --> 0:53:27.560
<v Speaker 1>let me know which one. It is a documentary. It's

0:53:27.640 --> 0:53:31.120
<v Speaker 1>very good. I saw maybe ten years ago. And it

0:53:31.520 --> 0:53:33.600
<v Speaker 1>shows you you've got a documentary is living on a

0:53:33.719 --> 0:53:35.799
<v Speaker 1>on a white farm? This is in Zimbabwe now next

0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:41.640
<v Speaker 1>door formerly Rhodesia and Zimbabwe after independence. Uh, and they've

0:53:41.680 --> 0:53:45.000
<v Speaker 1>got these what is it, the white African? Yeah, Zimbabwe

0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:48.240
<v Speaker 1>and the white Mugabe rather and the white African. Mugabe

0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:51.240
<v Speaker 1>is the dictator of or was until recently the dictator

0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:55.879
<v Speaker 1>of of Zimbabwe. Very bad guy, by the way, very

0:53:55.960 --> 0:53:59.960
<v Speaker 1>bad guy. Um. But in that you see these government

0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:01.920
<v Speaker 1>officials who show up and are just like, you know,

0:54:01.960 --> 0:54:04.560
<v Speaker 1>you white people are scum, your thieves. This is not

0:54:04.719 --> 0:54:07.000
<v Speaker 1>your land. It's our land now it belongs to the people.

0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:09.680
<v Speaker 1>Which by the people they just mean government cronies and

0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:12.520
<v Speaker 1>the power structure. But they're just gonna take it. And

0:54:12.640 --> 0:54:15.319
<v Speaker 1>what happened is they stripped the farms down to nothing.

0:54:15.840 --> 0:54:18.360
<v Speaker 1>Nobody was able to or cared to be able to

0:54:18.400 --> 0:54:20.560
<v Speaker 1>plant any crops. They just this is you know, they

0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:22.960
<v Speaker 1>took all the I mean the copper wiring out of

0:54:22.960 --> 0:54:25.839
<v Speaker 1>the buildings, They took the farm equipment, they sold it off.

0:54:25.880 --> 0:54:29.600
<v Speaker 1>Everything was sold and destroyed and nothing left. What do

0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:31.560
<v Speaker 1>people that think is gonna happen if they seize the

0:54:31.600 --> 0:54:35.239
<v Speaker 1>farmers from the farmers in South Africa? What messages that

0:54:35.320 --> 0:54:38.200
<v Speaker 1>send of the world. By the way, Yeah, this is

0:54:38.320 --> 0:54:41.239
<v Speaker 1>distressing and I just would want to note, given to

0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:43.279
<v Speaker 1>how much we talked about refugees, we take refugees from

0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:46.839
<v Speaker 1>Central America because Central America is violent, not because Central

0:54:46.880 --> 0:54:50.080
<v Speaker 1>Americans are being targeted for being Central Americans. We're talking

0:54:50.080 --> 0:54:53.400
<v Speaker 1>about racial targeting by the government in South Africa, a

0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:58.239
<v Speaker 1>relatively advanced economy and country. Why haven't you heard about

0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:12.959
<v Speaker 1>this until now? He's holding the line for America. Buck

0:55:13.040 --> 0:55:17.440
<v Speaker 1>Sexton is back. It is now clear that Mr. Scrippan

0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:20.560
<v Speaker 1>and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve

0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:24.520
<v Speaker 1>agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part

0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:27.120
<v Speaker 1>of a group of nerve agents known as Novi chok.

0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:31.359
<v Speaker 1>Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by

0:55:31.440 --> 0:55:35.040
<v Speaker 1>world leading experts at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory

0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:38.760
<v Speaker 1>at Porton down our knowledge that Russia has previously produced

0:55:38.840 --> 0:55:41.560
<v Speaker 1>this agent and would still be capable of doing so,

0:55:42.640 --> 0:55:47.960
<v Speaker 1>Russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations, and our assessment

0:55:48.120 --> 0:55:53.040
<v Speaker 1>that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations.

0:55:53.640 --> 0:55:56.759
<v Speaker 1>The government has concluded that it is highly likely that

0:55:56.920 --> 0:56:00.040
<v Speaker 1>Russia was responsible for the act against Serge and to

0:56:00.200 --> 0:56:06.000
<v Speaker 1>the Theresa May, British Prime Minister laying down the law

0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:12.680
<v Speaker 1>there on Moscow and this is this is brazen stuff,

0:56:12.719 --> 0:56:16.719
<v Speaker 1>but it's not new for Russia really. I mean this

0:56:17.840 --> 0:56:22.560
<v Speaker 1>using this substance um, which is a nerve agent that

0:56:22.719 --> 0:56:26.640
<v Speaker 1>as I did some researchs today was coming across that

0:56:26.719 --> 0:56:31.759
<v Speaker 1>it's more potent than VX gas, which sounds like very

0:56:31.880 --> 0:56:36.239
<v Speaker 1>very very nasty stuff indeed. But to assassinate somebody with

0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:39.680
<v Speaker 1>a nerve agent on a street in the UK or

0:56:40.000 --> 0:56:41.800
<v Speaker 1>on a park bench I think it's where he was

0:56:41.840 --> 0:56:44.080
<v Speaker 1>found with his daughter, or to try to I know

0:56:44.160 --> 0:56:48.640
<v Speaker 1>they're in there. I believe they're both in hospital and

0:56:48.719 --> 0:56:50.719
<v Speaker 1>who knows what the long term damages. But this, this

0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:55.840
<v Speaker 1>is how the Russians do things. They enforce loyalty. I

0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:59.280
<v Speaker 1>mean Russia is really a run as a mafia state,

0:57:00.320 --> 0:57:03.680
<v Speaker 1>and there's the what's the omerta, the code of silence, right,

0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:07.240
<v Speaker 1>they kind of enforced that extra territorially around the world.

0:57:07.840 --> 0:57:12.560
<v Speaker 1>If you defect or that's the old, the old Soviet terminology.

0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:16.960
<v Speaker 1>But if you become an informant for a foreign government

0:57:17.040 --> 0:57:20.680
<v Speaker 1>of foreign intelligence service, or if the Russians believe you

0:57:20.840 --> 0:57:25.600
<v Speaker 1>two have become one, they will get rid of you

0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:28.320
<v Speaker 1>in a way that's meant to show that they. Yeah,

0:57:29.080 --> 0:57:32.080
<v Speaker 1>their fingerprints are all over this. It shows that the

0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Russians were behind it. It sends the message very clearly,

0:57:37.120 --> 0:57:41.200
<v Speaker 1>and that's just the way they do things. And you

0:57:41.280 --> 0:57:44.560
<v Speaker 1>start to wonder, well, what are we what are we expecting?

0:57:45.880 --> 0:57:49.360
<v Speaker 1>What are we expecting the response to be? You know,

0:57:49.480 --> 0:57:52.960
<v Speaker 1>this March fourth nerve agent attack on serage screen Paul

0:57:54.320 --> 0:57:59.240
<v Speaker 1>and his daughter Julia also put bystanders at risk and

0:57:59.400 --> 0:58:04.360
<v Speaker 1>bystander who were exposed to this poison. The poison has

0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.040
<v Speaker 1>actually left traces at a pub and a pizza parlor

0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:10.040
<v Speaker 1>that they visited, So we're not entirely clear are they've

0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:13.080
<v Speaker 1>gone where they're just making sure I'm not missing this

0:58:13.320 --> 0:58:16.880
<v Speaker 1>on where they were put in contact with this military

0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:20.880
<v Speaker 1>grade nerve agent. But we do know that the Russians

0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:24.120
<v Speaker 1>did this understanding that we were likely to find out

0:58:24.840 --> 0:58:26.919
<v Speaker 1>that it was the Russians, or not that we would

0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:29.440
<v Speaker 1>find out that it was the Russians once we uh,

0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:33.160
<v Speaker 1>we're looking at this, and I know people are already

0:58:33.160 --> 0:58:35.560
<v Speaker 1>bringing up the previous poisons they've done. I mean there

0:58:35.600 --> 0:58:39.240
<v Speaker 1>was one way back when that I think was traced

0:58:39.320 --> 0:58:43.120
<v Speaker 1>to the UH. This was on a on a bridge

0:58:43.520 --> 0:58:46.960
<v Speaker 1>and I think it was traced to the Bulgarian a

0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:49.600
<v Speaker 1>secret police trained by the Soviets, but I could be

0:58:49.720 --> 0:58:51.920
<v Speaker 1>wrong about that. Where they used a rice and tipped

0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:57.040
<v Speaker 1>pellet in an umbrella on on what was a successful assassination.

0:58:57.680 --> 0:58:59.360
<v Speaker 1>This is what they do, and that was for being

0:58:59.400 --> 0:59:01.200
<v Speaker 1>a dissident. I mean there was a time when the

0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:04.440
<v Speaker 1>Soviets would kill you just for being a former for

0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:06.480
<v Speaker 1>being a former Soviet who was telling the world the

0:59:06.560 --> 0:59:08.640
<v Speaker 1>truth about what was going on behind the Iron Curtain.

0:59:09.320 --> 0:59:13.640
<v Speaker 1>But now if you are a turncoat on the Kremlin

0:59:13.720 --> 0:59:15.800
<v Speaker 1>anywhere in the world, they'll come after you. Now what

0:59:15.880 --> 0:59:17.880
<v Speaker 1>should people have asked me this? You know, what should

0:59:17.880 --> 0:59:21.200
<v Speaker 1>we do about? Oh, by the way, Trump is is uh,

0:59:21.360 --> 0:59:23.800
<v Speaker 1>it's talked about this one earlier today too. As soon

0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:26.080
<v Speaker 1>as we get the fact straight, and we're gonna be

0:59:26.200 --> 0:59:29.960
<v Speaker 1>speaking with the British today. We're speaking with Theresa mate today.

0:59:30.480 --> 0:59:33.400
<v Speaker 1>As as soon as we get the fact straight. If

0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:36.280
<v Speaker 1>we agree with them, we will condemn my show, whoever

0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:40.080
<v Speaker 1>it may be. He says, we'll condemn them for a

0:59:40.120 --> 0:59:43.040
<v Speaker 1>lot of people. That's not sufficient in this case. But

0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:45.400
<v Speaker 1>then I started to push and say, well, what would

0:59:45.440 --> 0:59:47.480
<v Speaker 1>you like him to do? You know, it was a

0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:51.600
<v Speaker 1>Russian missile with Russian back separatists that shot a plane

0:59:51.760 --> 0:59:55.240
<v Speaker 1>full of AIDS researchers out of the sky and kill

0:59:55.360 --> 0:59:57.440
<v Speaker 1>over a hundred people. I forget what the full number was.

0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Remember that back a few years ago under the Obama

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<v Speaker 1>administration and a Russian missile shot a civilian jet liner

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<v Speaker 1>out of the sky. You know what, what was the

1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:10.720
<v Speaker 1>big retaliation we did there? Now they'll say it was

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<v Speaker 1>an accident, but the point is the Russians were responsible

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<v Speaker 1>for that. Um it was Russian aggression in Ukraine that

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<v Speaker 1>even made that a problem in the first place. What

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<v Speaker 1>would folks really like us do. Maybe they'll expel diplomats

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<v Speaker 1>in the UK, you know, maybe they will get rid

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<v Speaker 1>of some people that they believe are stooping around doing

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<v Speaker 1>shady stuff for the Russians in the UK. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>But the truth is, you know, we've got to find

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<v Speaker 1>more creative ways to slap back at Putin. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>the media is gonna complain about how, oh it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>not strong enough and the language isn't isn't clear enough.

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<v Speaker 1>What's that? You think Putin gives a crap what anybody

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<v Speaker 1>in the country says about what Russia did. No, right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's just foolishness, that's just utter nonsense. So then you

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<v Speaker 1>have to look too, Okay, what are really the feasible responses?

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<v Speaker 1>And the answer is I haven't seen one yet. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what we're gonna do about this. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>the Russians played dirty and they played by a different code,

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<v Speaker 1>and we've already got sanctions against them. So we'll keep

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<v Speaker 1>an eye on this. I'm gonna try to think of

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<v Speaker 1>what a what a good retaliatory response would be. And

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<v Speaker 1>we've got our friend, uh Fred Flights join us here

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<v Speaker 1>talking about North Korea in a minute, so stay with me.

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<v Speaker 1>So North Korea big in the headlines in the last

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<v Speaker 1>few days because of the upcoming Trump Kim Jong un summit.

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<v Speaker 1>Some people are saying this is going to be the

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<v Speaker 1>beginning of a of a new era in US North

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<v Speaker 1>Korean relations. Others are saying it's a trap, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>terrible idea, it's gonna be a diplomatic ambush of sorts. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>what's true and what's not. We've got Fred Flights with

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<v Speaker 1>us now on the line. He is, like me, a

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<v Speaker 1>former CIA analyst uh pred is also the off of

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<v Speaker 1>the upcoming UH The Coming North Korean Nuclear Nightmare, which

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<v Speaker 1>is a book you should all check out. It's available

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<v Speaker 1>on Amazon, and he's a senior vice president for policy

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<v Speaker 1>and Programs at the Center for Security Policy. Fred, Great

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<v Speaker 1>to have you back, man, Thanks for making the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey Bacco to be here. All right, let's let's start

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<v Speaker 1>before we get into the specifics of your book, although

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<v Speaker 1>it's obviously going to tie into our conversation. What do

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<v Speaker 1>you what do you make of the Trump offer? Just

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<v Speaker 1>take us to the thirty thousand foot view here. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I think we have to consider that President Trump has

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<v Speaker 1>changed in the game concerning North Korea's unorthodox diplomacy, which

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<v Speaker 1>everyone was criticizing a few years ago as trying to

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<v Speaker 1>get US into a war. Those same people who had

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<v Speaker 1>nothing bad to say about Obama's abysmal policies, the latter

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<v Speaker 1>runs North Korea's nuclear missile programs to surge. Now they're

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<v Speaker 1>condemning the President for giving away too much. So I

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<v Speaker 1>think the President has put the fear of God in

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<v Speaker 1>the in the in the North Koreans and forced them

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<v Speaker 1>to change tactics. Um, I don't think there's sincere. Frankly,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that this is probably a ploy to divide

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<v Speaker 1>US some other countries, to get concessions and to weaken

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<v Speaker 1>sanctions and to buy time to continue developing its nuclear

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<v Speaker 1>missile programs. But at a minimum, we have a change

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<v Speaker 1>in tactics, and the next task is to get the

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<v Speaker 1>North Koreans to prove their sincerity and wanting to do

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear eyes. Now, the pressure is going to continue. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you think that it would be wise for the administration

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<v Speaker 1>to continue to reach out to China and others say

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<v Speaker 1>you've got to keep this going? Or could that sour

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<v Speaker 1>the talks before they even happen. Now we have to

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<v Speaker 1>keep the pressure on. We're going to do that. The

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<v Speaker 1>South Koreans has said that they're going to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>We can't do what we've done in the past, basically

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<v Speaker 1>let our guard down, which is what the North Koreans

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<v Speaker 1>are after weakening sanctions. And you know, when we start

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<v Speaker 1>pressing them for things like inspections, they've got to be

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<v Speaker 1>robust inspections. We can't do what the Iranians and the

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<v Speaker 1>North Koreans have done in similar circumstances, putting a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of the sensitive sites off limits, so the world can't

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<v Speaker 1>determine what types of illegal nuclear activities they were engaged in.

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<v Speaker 1>Speaking of Fred Flights, he's a formacy I analysts and

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<v Speaker 1>author of The Coming North Korean Nuclear Nightmare. Fred, take

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<v Speaker 1>me into the book, which is obviously very topical because

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<v Speaker 1>we're now faced with a the most important negotiation. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's fair to say of Trump's life most likely

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<v Speaker 1>thus far, it's certainly got to make it in the

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<v Speaker 1>top three or four. Um. But tell me about the

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<v Speaker 1>North Korean Nuclear Nightmare as you see it. Well, The

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<v Speaker 1>Coming North kore Nuclear Nightmare has a subtitle what Trump

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<v Speaker 1>must do to reverse Obama Strategic Patients. You know, I

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<v Speaker 1>talked about how numerous presidents have mishandled North Korea and

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<v Speaker 1>have been taken advantage of certainly Clinton was George W.

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<v Speaker 1>Bush was taken advantage up by the North queens very badly.

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<v Speaker 1>But nothing compares to the incredibly incompetence date eg Patient's

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<v Speaker 1>policy of the Abom administration, which basically was a policy

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<v Speaker 1>to kick the North Korean situation down the road. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>It's nuclear missile programs were growing and growing and growing

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<v Speaker 1>under Kim Jong Owen, and that left what President Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has often described as a mess when he came into office.

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<v Speaker 1>We know Susan Rice said earlier in the Trump administration

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<v Speaker 1>that we just have to accept North Korea as a

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear power. That sort of sums up the Abom administration's

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<v Speaker 1>approach to ran into Korea. Let's just live with it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's unacceptable. That's what the president said. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>by actually putting the use of force on the table

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<v Speaker 1>and an unorthodox farm policy really has ratchet up sanctions

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<v Speaker 1>and sanctions compliance. As I said earlier, he has changed

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<v Speaker 1>the game towards North Korea, and I discussed that in

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<v Speaker 1>the book. Now, fred I as I see it, um

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<v Speaker 1>and there might be a third option I'm not bringing

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<v Speaker 1>up here, so feel free to toss that in the

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<v Speaker 1>next two But assuming the Trump talks fail, which I

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<v Speaker 1>think and this is not a declaration from my part

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<v Speaker 1>about whether I think it's a good idea or not.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm actually I think that that Trump your point, shaking

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<v Speaker 1>up the game. He's got to do something right. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>the pathway we're on is not sustainable. But let's say

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<v Speaker 1>that it doesn't happen. Let's say it is. What I

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<v Speaker 1>believe you agree is the most likely scenario. That this

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<v Speaker 1>is either Kim Jong installing for time, trying to take

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<v Speaker 1>some concessions out of our hands, all the things that

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<v Speaker 1>one would expect here from this regime based on previous behavior.

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<v Speaker 1>It seems to me that we have two paths which

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<v Speaker 1>after that, which would be on the one hand, learned

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<v Speaker 1>to try and live with a fully nuclear capable North

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<v Speaker 1>Korea that has I C b M s that can

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<v Speaker 1>hit anywhere in the world, or some kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>military strike. Is there a third option? And what do

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<v Speaker 1>you think we do about those options as I put

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<v Speaker 1>them out there, Well, we first have to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>what is the purpose of North Korea's nuclear and nuclear

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<v Speaker 1>weapons and missiles. And I think with sixty nuclear weapons

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<v Speaker 1>according to the intelligence community and I C b ms,

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<v Speaker 1>we can't consider this a determ aren't anymore. This is

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<v Speaker 1>an offensive force that the North plans to use eventually

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<v Speaker 1>to force the unification of the creates on its terms

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<v Speaker 1>and to drive US from the region. So there is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be a military conflict eventually. That's why if

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<v Speaker 1>these talks don't go well, and if if if another

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<v Speaker 1>round of sanctions and an additional diplomatic pressure fails, I

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<v Speaker 1>argue in the book that we have to start considering

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<v Speaker 1>the limited use of military force against North Korea, perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>with a naval blockade and shooting down missiles, to further

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<v Speaker 1>ratchet up the pressure, and the economic pressure should be

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<v Speaker 1>ratched up significantly. This is already causing pain to North

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<v Speaker 1>create North Crean economy. I think they respect strength, and

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<v Speaker 1>I think the use of force like that will be

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<v Speaker 1>another step towards convincing them to negotiating good faith to

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<v Speaker 1>give up the nuclear weapons. What would limited use of

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<v Speaker 1>force against North Korea conceivably look like. Well, I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 1>of a naval blockade and shooting down missiles, basically saying

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<v Speaker 1>to to North Korea that We're not going to tolerate

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<v Speaker 1>UH any more missile tests, and we we may expand

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<v Speaker 1>that to taking out missiles on the ground. The North

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<v Speaker 1>is already afraid We're going to do that, which is

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<v Speaker 1>why it has been launching missiles from UH near Pyongyang,

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<v Speaker 1>near populated areas, because it fears the US might start

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<v Speaker 1>doing this. UM. It is intolerable that the North is

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<v Speaker 1>beginning to develop I C. D ms and may already

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<v Speaker 1>have them that they could use to transport nuclear weapons

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<v Speaker 1>against the United States. And I think time is running

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<v Speaker 1>out fred for folks at home, how should they think

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<v Speaker 1>of the willingness of the North Korean regime to do

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<v Speaker 1>something that we would see very unwise, but that they

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<v Speaker 1>may feel cornered to do and UH kill a whole

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people in the process. Well, I mean some

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<v Speaker 1>people have wondered whether Kim Jong un is interested in

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<v Speaker 1>firing missiles at Guam or at the United States, may

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<v Speaker 1>be unprovoked. I don't think that the North Korean regime

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<v Speaker 1>has a wish UH. And I think that if there

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<v Speaker 1>was a limited use of military force, such a shooting

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<v Speaker 1>down missiles, the North is not going to attacks out

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<v Speaker 1>Korea or the United States because we would flatten the

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<v Speaker 1>country UH. And I think eventually, if these talks fail,

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<v Speaker 1>we may have to make it clear to them, we're

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<v Speaker 1>simply not going to tower anymore. I CBM tests, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know if you're going to test this on that

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to start shooting them down. Is there a

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<v Speaker 1>universe of really, let me looking put it this way,

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<v Speaker 1>let me rephrase this. Is there a realistic proposition in

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<v Speaker 1>your mind that after this Trump summit? Now I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>saying likely, but is it even realistic to think that

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<v Speaker 1>there's a world in which North Korea moves towards actual

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<v Speaker 1>de nuclearization. It's hard to imagine that that's going to happen,

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<v Speaker 1>especially after one meeting. All we can say is that

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<v Speaker 1>the President has forced the North Koreans to change tactics.

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<v Speaker 1>We haven't gotten a response whether they're actually going to

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<v Speaker 1>attend the summit. I think they were surprise. There was

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<v Speaker 1>a surprise as everyone else when President Trump immediately accepted

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<v Speaker 1>this offer, And right now I think they're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>formulate their response, and I expect they're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>some unacceptable conditions, such as we'll get rid of our

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear weapons if all US forces are pulled out of

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<v Speaker 1>South Korea, which is not going to happen. Um we

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<v Speaker 1>we we know we will see. I'd like to see

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<v Speaker 1>the summer take place in Seoul to expose Kim Jong

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<v Speaker 1>lun to South Korean society and its prosperity. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if that's going to change his mind, but I'd

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<v Speaker 1>like to get him out of North Korea and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>weaken the relationship he has with I think a number

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<v Speaker 1>of very malign advisors. One last one for you, Fred,

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<v Speaker 1>Just so we can set expectations, and we know the

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<v Speaker 1>media is going to move the media overall, we'll move

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<v Speaker 1>goalposts on this. You know, a few months ago it

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<v Speaker 1>was Trump is taking us into nuclear war with his tweets.

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<v Speaker 1>Now it's Trump is rushing into diplomacy. You know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's always one or the other. But so we can

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<v Speaker 1>understand what expectations should be. What would um, let's say,

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<v Speaker 1>a low probability but high impact diplomatic victory from the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump side look like after this summer. What's the best

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<v Speaker 1>that we could reasonably hope for if Trump and again,

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<v Speaker 1>as you said, maybe it doesn't even happen, if Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and Kim Jong n sit down, what does winning look like?

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<v Speaker 1>I think an outline for denuclearizing and for lower intentions

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<v Speaker 1>is the best we could hope for I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>it will be in agreement. And there are ways to

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<v Speaker 1>lower tensions in North Koreans MNA theygree to, like possibly

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<v Speaker 1>sending Chinese or Russian peacekeepers into North Korea to guarantee them.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, there's no chance of the US attack

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<v Speaker 1>as it would be an attack on Russia or China.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's so creative ways that could be pursued

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<v Speaker 1>to try to address their interests in d nuclearization if

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<v Speaker 1>they're sincere, but so far we don't know that. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>Fred flights everybody, former cy I analysts book coming out,

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<v Speaker 1>The Coming North Korean Nuclear Nightmare, available now on Amazon. Fred,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a bailable on Amazon, and we're doing a Facebook

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<v Speaker 1>live press conference two pm on UH Wednesday. All Right, fantastic, everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>be sure to check it out tomorrow the Facebook live

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<v Speaker 1>for the book. Fred, thank you so much for your time,

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<v Speaker 1>my friend. I appreciate it. Good to be here. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gona roll into a quick break. We've got our three

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<v Speaker 1>coming up, and I'm going to be talking about politics

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<v Speaker 1>with our friend Selena Zito. This race that's just about

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<v Speaker 1>just about over in terms of the voting or at

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<v Speaker 1>least we're at the deadline. Um, we'll tell you what's

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<v Speaker 1>going on, so stay with us. So there's a big election,

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<v Speaker 1>as you may have heard, going on as we are

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<v Speaker 1>on air. In fact, polls have just closed, I believe

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<v Speaker 1>as we go on air here at around eight Eastern

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<v Speaker 1>Standard time. Selena Zito is with us now to discuss this,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's gonna tell us what she thinks is going

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<v Speaker 1>on here. She is a CNN contributor, a New York

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<v Speaker 1>Post columnists, and author of the upcoming book The Great

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<v Speaker 1>The Great Revolt, which we're hoping we'll have a great

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<v Speaker 1>result because you're all going to buy it out in May. Selena,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so

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<v Speaker 1>much for having me. So we got eighteen congressional district

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<v Speaker 1>in play here. We've talked to you. I believe about

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<v Speaker 1>this one specifically before Connor Lamb versus Rick Sconi. Lamb

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<v Speaker 1>is a Democrat, Scone is the Republican. There's also a

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<v Speaker 1>Libertarian named Drew Miller, which is so cute. I just

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<v Speaker 1>like how the Libertarians are just they're just in there,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's adorable. Anyway, what do you think is

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<v Speaker 1>gonna happen with Lamb and CICONI here. Well, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Lamb has had the edge in the past two weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>He has the most excitement generated around his candidacy. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, for a number of unique reasons. He's not

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<v Speaker 1>used the word Democrat in any on any of this

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<v Speaker 1>campaign signs. Um. He I haven't noticed it on his website.

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<v Speaker 1>Now there might it might be on there somewhere, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not in his ads. He's essentially run independent

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<v Speaker 1>of his party. He put the gauntlet down early with

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<v Speaker 1>a very effective ad saying running against Nancy Pelos name,

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<v Speaker 1>he's pro gun, he's for the president's tariff and um

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<v Speaker 1>in In many ways, this election is like a Republican

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<v Speaker 1>primary with a more conservative Republican running against a more

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<v Speaker 1>moderate Republican Connor Lean amazults are very young, he's very charming.

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<v Speaker 1>He has a great background military form and a former

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<v Speaker 1>federal prosecutor. Yeah, so he has what I mean, he's

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<v Speaker 1>the perfect Democrat. But there's a couple of things we

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<v Speaker 1>need to think about here. But is he really a Democrat? Selena,

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I mean. He's pro life and pro gun,

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<v Speaker 1>which feels like, how does he sit on the same

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<v Speaker 1>side of the I'm sorry. Yeah, when it gets to Washington,

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<v Speaker 1>he has to be a Democrat. No, I know, but

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<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, how does he sit next to

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<v Speaker 1>Nancy Pelosi with a straight face as somebody who's pro

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<v Speaker 1>gun and pro pro life not life, Oh, I thought you.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh oh no, No. In fact, he's not even for

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<v Speaker 1>the twenty week van important distinction, so he's not very important. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's very important distinctions. I thought he was really running

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<v Speaker 1>as essentially a stealth Republican, like the old schoolmember the

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<v Speaker 1>gun total Democrats of your who were all about guns

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<v Speaker 1>and grew up one of those Democrats. That's that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're born Catholic and a Democrat in Western Pennsis. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's that's an important distinguishing characteristic. And so yeah, because

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<v Speaker 1>you you can't be in good stead with the modern

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<v Speaker 1>Democrat party. I don't care what the situation is if

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<v Speaker 1>you're you know, he was going to have to flip

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<v Speaker 1>that position if he didn't have it already. But you're

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<v Speaker 1>telling me he has pro choice, So there we go. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's a couple of unique things about this race.

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<v Speaker 1>First of all, this this seat no longer or exists

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<v Speaker 1>thanks to the state Supreme Court, which throughout the old

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<v Speaker 1>congressional districts eighteen of them, calling them unconstitutional, and which

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<v Speaker 1>is interesting because they did that seven years after they

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<v Speaker 1>were drawn. So I don't know how they all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden became unconstitutional. Await, there was an election and

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats won the majority in the state Supreme Court. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>that has something to do with it. Anyways, Um, so

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<v Speaker 1>this district no longer exists. Um. Second of all, he

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<v Speaker 1>is garnering support from unions who robustly supported Trump in

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<v Speaker 1>this district in two thousand and sixteen. But because the

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<v Speaker 1>CONE is a pro is a right to work guy,

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<v Speaker 1>they do not He does not UM gather their support.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think the deciding vote here is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be on the union vote, the union family household votes,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's the boat that could um triggered this in

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<v Speaker 1>in Lamb's direction, there are thousand more registered Democrats in

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<v Speaker 1>this UH in this district despite Trump winning it by

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<v Speaker 1>twenty percentage points. So this would be because because at

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<v Speaker 1>the national level, obviously this is gonna there's there's limited

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<v Speaker 1>data you could draw from this for how the Democrats

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<v Speaker 1>wereun in the mid terms, and this is where all

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<v Speaker 1>the old cliches about all congressional races are actually local

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<v Speaker 1>and all that stuff applies. But here's Selena. You would

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<v Speaker 1>have someone who is running essentially as a prototype of

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<v Speaker 1>what the Democrats could do in other places to try

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<v Speaker 1>to win back the voters that Trump got to beat

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<v Speaker 1>Hillary in those key states like Pennsylvania, right exactly, And

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<v Speaker 1>and and um, Lamb faces his own challenges if he

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<v Speaker 1>wins this evening. He is now thrust into a different

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<v Speaker 1>congressional district where he will face aggressive primary challengers. He

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<v Speaker 1>has not faced the primary before, and as we all understand,

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<v Speaker 1>including progressives, that is where the energy is. So you

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<v Speaker 1>have to wonder are they willing to go with the

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<v Speaker 1>guy that's a proven winner or do they want to

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<v Speaker 1>go in with more with their passions UM on the resistance. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>He also has never sorted. He has never once criticized

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump during this entire election, So what will happen

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<v Speaker 1>to him in a primary? So those are those are

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<v Speaker 1>the things going forward. But I think the lesson if

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<v Speaker 1>if Lamb wins, I think the lesson is that Republicans

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<v Speaker 1>need a better message outside of Nancy Pelosi is bad

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<v Speaker 1>because they need to talk about their accomplishments and not

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<v Speaker 1>be so afraid of talking about Trump's accublishments. The Republican

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<v Speaker 1>Party has changed. It's more populist in nature, and they

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<v Speaker 1>need to to feed the beast in populism, and populism

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<v Speaker 1>isn't just about anger, It's also about aspiration. Now. I

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<v Speaker 1>talk a lot about that in my book The Great Revolt,

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<v Speaker 1>about understanding who these new coalitions are. We're speaking to

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<v Speaker 1>Selena Zito. She has seen, a contributor to New York

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<v Speaker 1>Post Commist, author of the upcoming opus The Great Revolt,

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<v Speaker 1>which she just mentioned. Selena, what are some of the

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<v Speaker 1>lessons and takeaways from your book that are applicable to

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<v Speaker 1>this race right now in Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania is obviously

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<v Speaker 1>one of those key states that everyone was like, whoa

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<v Speaker 1>hold on a second Trump can and yes, in fact

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<v Speaker 1>he did win that state. Yeah. I mean, elections are

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<v Speaker 1>about you know, gas pedal, brake pedal, right, and typically

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<v Speaker 1>in midterms, voters want to put the brake pedal on

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<v Speaker 1>the current party in power. So what they need to

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<v Speaker 1>do is understand that they need to run again, as

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<v Speaker 1>I just said, on a more populist, more aspirational um

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<v Speaker 1>campaign and less about the negatives on Nancy Pelosi. Talk

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<v Speaker 1>about what you've accomplished, talk about what you want to accomplish,

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<v Speaker 1>sort of like the way that Ronald Reagan and and Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>even though people don't always get that, how he made

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<v Speaker 1>people want to be part of something bigger than themselves.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that's the key. I don't think people

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<v Speaker 1>are hungry for a negative. I mean they should be

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<v Speaker 1>reminded that if they if if the Republicans lose, Nancy

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<v Speaker 1>Pelosi will be the House Speaker by all intents and purposes.

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<v Speaker 1>But they also need to be reminded that they have

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<v Speaker 1>to continue to go forward and here are the reasons.

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<v Speaker 1>And that message was very missing in this special election.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's assume for a second that these results Selena, which

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<v Speaker 1>are going to be coming in the earliest results should

1:20:54.120 --> 1:20:56.080
<v Speaker 1>be coming in shortly here, and we'll be looking at

1:20:56.120 --> 1:20:58.479
<v Speaker 1>them when we're all on air. But let's assume for

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<v Speaker 1>the purpose of our conversation that Connor Lamb does in

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<v Speaker 1>fact win this thing. What is the democra What does

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<v Speaker 1>that do for the Democrat message going into the midterms.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think it affects it at a national level?

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<v Speaker 1>You think they'll take this as a lesson learned or

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<v Speaker 1>is it just going to be a wait and see

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<v Speaker 1>until we get much closer. I mean, if there's a

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<v Speaker 1>such a one Democratic strategist for my story this evening,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, I said, you know, what, what do

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<v Speaker 1>you think? And he said, well, if we're starts, we're smart. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>Connor Lambs will win in primaries. But we don't control primaries.

1:21:34.640 --> 1:21:38.280
<v Speaker 1>The people do. And it has been proven that the

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<v Speaker 1>more active, the more engage, the more excited Democrats are

1:21:44.680 --> 1:21:47.360
<v Speaker 1>are the ones that are more progressive. We don't know

1:21:47.600 --> 1:21:51.960
<v Speaker 1>yet if they'll be willing to compromise some of their um,

1:21:52.680 --> 1:21:57.600
<v Speaker 1>their their agenda to win. I mean, Ron Emmanuel was

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly good and make sure that happened in two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and six. And you've got moderate Democrats elected in primaries

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<v Speaker 1>in in swing states like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and

1:22:09.960 --> 1:22:13.479
<v Speaker 1>Ohio and Wisconsin and Iowa. Uh, they've got to go

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<v Speaker 1>through that process and they have to convince their voters

1:22:18.000 --> 1:22:22.000
<v Speaker 1>in those kinds of districts that you want a Conner Lamb.

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<v Speaker 1>It is I'm unsure if if the most um, the

1:22:27.640 --> 1:22:30.360
<v Speaker 1>hard left progressive types are not going to be excited

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<v Speaker 1>about the national level DNC efforts to get out the

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<v Speaker 1>vote that include, yeah, we like guys who are kind

1:22:37.280 --> 1:22:39.400
<v Speaker 1>of pro n r A. In some places, you might

1:22:39.479 --> 1:22:41.960
<v Speaker 1>have some progressive activists that even you know, kick up

1:22:42.040 --> 1:22:44.479
<v Speaker 1>some dust about this one. You get the Bernie Brows

1:22:44.640 --> 1:22:46.920
<v Speaker 1>and sisters may not like that too much going into

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<v Speaker 1>the mid terms. And and the intellectual liberals too, you know,

1:22:51.040 --> 1:22:55.439
<v Speaker 1>they're also you know, incredibly um swept up in this

1:22:55.720 --> 1:23:02.719
<v Speaker 1>resistance UH movement, and resistance is not aspirational. Both parties

1:23:02.880 --> 1:23:07.120
<v Speaker 1>need to understand. To morder to capture the imagination of

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<v Speaker 1>their voters, it has to include this sweeping motion that

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<v Speaker 1>you are going to be part of something bigger than yourself,

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<v Speaker 1>and you are going to be part of something with

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<v Speaker 1>other people that's in our d n A. UM Trump

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<v Speaker 1>was very good at that. We'll see if they they're

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<v Speaker 1>able to do that in the mid terms. Selena Zero everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>author of the upcoming The Great Revolt. You can pre

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<v Speaker 1>order now on Amazon and I recommend you all do.

1:23:35.080 --> 1:23:37.799
<v Speaker 1>I'll be reading it. I hope you do as well. Selena,

1:23:37.880 --> 1:23:39.600
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for joining Always appreciate when you

1:23:39.640 --> 1:23:42.320
<v Speaker 1>make the time. Thank you so much for having me

1:23:42.920 --> 1:23:45.560
<v Speaker 1>team we're going to roll into a break. We'll have

1:23:45.760 --> 1:23:48.559
<v Speaker 1>any updates for you on the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania election as

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<v Speaker 1>we can, and we'll be right back. The Governator Schwarzenegger,

1:24:07.640 --> 1:24:12.320
<v Speaker 1>who I have so much fondness for because of his

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<v Speaker 1>contributions to the pantheon of action movie greatness and his

1:24:17.600 --> 1:24:20.519
<v Speaker 1>lines like I'll be back get through the chopp all

1:24:20.600 --> 1:24:24.000
<v Speaker 1>of it amazing, really a major part of my childhood,

1:24:24.520 --> 1:24:26.960
<v Speaker 1>which perhaps explains a lot of how I view the world.

1:24:27.400 --> 1:24:31.719
<v Speaker 1>Considering that a guy who was benching over four hundred

1:24:31.760 --> 1:24:36.679
<v Speaker 1>pounds was clearly taking performance in dancing drugs and played

1:24:36.720 --> 1:24:39.639
<v Speaker 1>Conan the barbarian all too well was like my hero

1:24:39.800 --> 1:24:44.599
<v Speaker 1>growing up. But anyway, I give Schwarzenegger a a wide berth.

1:24:44.960 --> 1:24:47.400
<v Speaker 1>You know, that guy's obviously made some mistakes. You know,

1:24:47.520 --> 1:24:50.920
<v Speaker 1>he's done some things that were not good, both as

1:24:50.960 --> 1:24:54.400
<v Speaker 1>a politician and as a as a private person. No

1:24:54.560 --> 1:24:57.479
<v Speaker 1>need for me to get into that, but you know,

1:24:57.720 --> 1:25:00.000
<v Speaker 1>really really arnold some of the stuff that we found

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<v Speaker 1>out in recent years was was a little tough. I'm glad,

1:25:02.280 --> 1:25:05.599
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm glad I'm an older man that I can

1:25:05.720 --> 1:25:09.040
<v Speaker 1>see that we all make mistakes, and maybe I shouldn't

1:25:09.080 --> 1:25:10.920
<v Speaker 1>judge too much, although I guess I'm on a radio

1:25:10.960 --> 1:25:14.519
<v Speaker 1>show and I have to judge that. All said Arnold

1:25:14.560 --> 1:25:20.600
<v Speaker 1>Schwarzenegger is still waxing philosophical on policy and this is

1:25:20.680 --> 1:25:24.200
<v Speaker 1>just going too far. He was at south By Southwest,

1:25:24.240 --> 1:25:29.479
<v Speaker 1>which has become this major media music thing in Austin.

1:25:29.600 --> 1:25:31.360
<v Speaker 1>I've I've never been, but I'd like to go at

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<v Speaker 1>some point. I know it's going on Austin right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Next year, maybe I'll use it as another excuse to

1:25:36.240 --> 1:25:39.240
<v Speaker 1>go visit Austin. But he's down there and he says,

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<v Speaker 1>and he said this on Politico's Off Message podcast, which

1:25:43.640 --> 1:25:46.920
<v Speaker 1>I had never even heard of before. And yeah, there's

1:25:46.960 --> 1:25:51.479
<v Speaker 1>that that quote. Uh. He wants to take on oil

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<v Speaker 1>companies for quote knowingly killing people all over the world.

1:25:56.360 --> 1:25:58.479
<v Speaker 1>He right, He said that this is no different from

1:25:58.520 --> 1:26:01.320
<v Speaker 1>the smoking issue that tobacco industry new for years and

1:26:01.479 --> 1:26:04.960
<v Speaker 1>years and decades that smoking would kill people, would harm people,

1:26:05.000 --> 1:26:08.080
<v Speaker 1>and create cancer, and we're hiding that fact the from

1:26:08.160 --> 1:26:10.519
<v Speaker 1>people and denied it. Then eventually they were taking a

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<v Speaker 1>court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars

1:26:13.000 --> 1:26:16.280
<v Speaker 1>because of that. The oil companies knew from nine on

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<v Speaker 1>they did their own study that there would be global

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<v Speaker 1>warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of

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<v Speaker 1>that it would be risky for people's lives. He says

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<v Speaker 1>that this is like climate change man, this is you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he's hosting a major environmental conference in May and Vienna.

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<v Speaker 1>This is just all crap. This is what people do

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<v Speaker 1>now when they want to burnish their brands because climate

1:26:37.920 --> 1:26:41.719
<v Speaker 1>change gets you. So it gets you a very loyal,

1:26:41.960 --> 1:26:47.120
<v Speaker 1>very globalist, internationalist audience that it gets big donor supporters

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<v Speaker 1>to your side, and the people who don't believe in

1:26:49.760 --> 1:26:52.320
<v Speaker 1>this ignore it like a religion that they don't really

1:26:52.360 --> 1:26:54.559
<v Speaker 1>care about for the most part until they make us

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<v Speaker 1>deal with it. So that's why I just see this

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<v Speaker 1>as this is pandering. I mean, Schwartzenegger doesn't need to

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<v Speaker 1>do this um by the way he says, quote, we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to go after them and we're going to be

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<v Speaker 1>in there like an Alabama tick. Because to me, it's

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely irresponsible to know that your product is killing people

1:27:12.800 --> 1:27:14.719
<v Speaker 1>and not have a warning label on it, like tobacco.

1:27:15.360 --> 1:27:18.280
<v Speaker 1>Every gas station on it, every car should have a

1:27:18.360 --> 1:27:20.760
<v Speaker 1>warning label on it. Every product that has fossil fuel

1:27:20.760 --> 1:27:23.519
<v Speaker 1>should have a warning label on it. This is the

1:27:23.600 --> 1:27:26.960
<v Speaker 1>dumbest thing that the governator has said in a long time.

1:27:27.040 --> 1:27:29.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, maybe ever as a total aside here,

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<v Speaker 1>but one that I could not help but point out.

1:27:32.920 --> 1:27:35.479
<v Speaker 1>His phrase here, we're going to be in there like

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<v Speaker 1>an Alabama tic is all too close to what Jesse

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<v Speaker 1>the Body Ventura says in the movie Predator when referring

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<v Speaker 1>to a pill box of enemy he shoulds they're dugging

1:27:47.479 --> 1:27:51.479
<v Speaker 1>there like an Alabama tic. I don't think that's an accident, friends,

1:27:52.000 --> 1:27:55.439
<v Speaker 1>I think Schwarzenegger now in his political podcast, is dropping

1:27:55.920 --> 1:27:58.840
<v Speaker 1>some not so well known action movie lines because that's

1:27:58.880 --> 1:28:01.200
<v Speaker 1>just how he rolls. That's kind of a strange phrase

1:28:01.280 --> 1:28:04.040
<v Speaker 1>for a guy from Austria, from the Austrian Alps to use.

1:28:04.120 --> 1:28:05.800
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying. It's not like he just

1:28:05.840 --> 1:28:09.880
<v Speaker 1>threw in a yodel here. He's saying Alabama tick, not

1:28:09.960 --> 1:28:12.760
<v Speaker 1>from Alabamare to the California. What is this guy? I'm

1:28:12.800 --> 1:28:14.519
<v Speaker 1>telling if you go back, we could even find it.

1:28:14.600 --> 1:28:17.320
<v Speaker 1>Maybe for tomorrow. There's a Jesse the Body venture a

1:28:17.400 --> 1:28:21.560
<v Speaker 1>line where he says that in in Predators, in like

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<v Speaker 1>an Alabama chick. You go um anyway, This is craziness.

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<v Speaker 1>This is, though, a an issue that we're gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>to deal with because people think that there's real money

1:28:33.600 --> 1:28:36.280
<v Speaker 1>involved as well as real power. And if it is

1:28:36.360 --> 1:28:40.120
<v Speaker 1>their belief that they will be able to sue for

1:28:40.520 --> 1:28:44.320
<v Speaker 1>hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars, they view that

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<v Speaker 1>as progress for social justice, even if it doesn't slow

1:28:48.320 --> 1:28:50.599
<v Speaker 1>down the global warming stuff. Right, So you gotta remember

1:28:50.680 --> 1:28:53.040
<v Speaker 1>that even if they're wrong on the science, they think

1:28:53.120 --> 1:28:56.720
<v Speaker 1>they're right in principle. Even if the global warming alarmists

1:28:57.280 --> 1:29:00.920
<v Speaker 1>believe that they're not going to be able to prove

1:29:01.280 --> 1:29:04.000
<v Speaker 1>the things that they say. If it isn't true, but

1:29:04.120 --> 1:29:07.520
<v Speaker 1>it rings true to borrow from that recent Trump biography,

1:29:07.600 --> 1:29:12.639
<v Speaker 1>guy Uh, then they feel like it's good enough because

1:29:12.680 --> 1:29:15.080
<v Speaker 1>they're gonna use this money for development the third world.

1:29:15.600 --> 1:29:19.400
<v Speaker 1>This becomes a massive wealth transfer scheme from you and

1:29:19.600 --> 1:29:23.280
<v Speaker 1>me to other parts of the world. And it's also

1:29:23.600 --> 1:29:29.000
<v Speaker 1>a form of paying for indulgences. Back in the old

1:29:29.240 --> 1:29:31.800
<v Speaker 1>Catholic Church in the medieval period, you know, you could

1:29:31.840 --> 1:29:35.000
<v Speaker 1>pay for your sins. This is that on a global scale.

1:29:35.760 --> 1:29:40.280
<v Speaker 1>This is paying money as an apology for how wealthy

1:29:40.320 --> 1:29:44.000
<v Speaker 1>and prosperous America has become and trying to prop up

1:29:44.000 --> 1:29:46.400
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the world with it, but it's ultimately

1:29:46.479 --> 1:29:50.400
<v Speaker 1>doomed by think too to failure. Attorneys general from various states,

1:29:51.520 --> 1:29:53.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, Schneiderman and others. Schneiderman's here in New York.

1:29:54.000 --> 1:29:57.040
<v Speaker 1>They thought about doing this. This is a movement that's

1:29:57.040 --> 1:29:59.920
<v Speaker 1>going to continue on it. It's gonna be like reparations movement,

1:30:00.600 --> 1:30:02.760
<v Speaker 1>the reparations movement in this country. He's also been talked

1:30:02.760 --> 1:30:05.760
<v Speaker 1>about for decades. And it'll get enough steam that you

1:30:05.800 --> 1:30:08.000
<v Speaker 1>actually have to pay attention to it because it will

1:30:08.000 --> 1:30:10.280
<v Speaker 1>become a legal issue, and then it'll get pushed back

1:30:10.360 --> 1:30:13.479
<v Speaker 1>and then we'll get steam. But the governorator is really

1:30:13.760 --> 1:30:16.280
<v Speaker 1>upsetting me here. Why don't you want to global it's

1:30:16.280 --> 1:30:19.000
<v Speaker 1>climate chance? Like it's really hard, you know, it's it's

1:30:19.080 --> 1:30:21.400
<v Speaker 1>much better if you have like the Conan O'Brien show

1:30:21.479 --> 1:30:24.600
<v Speaker 1>the face and you do the mouth, because really that

1:30:24.720 --> 1:30:27.280
<v Speaker 1>doesn't sound it's a comment, you know, you know, it

1:30:27.400 --> 1:30:29.920
<v Speaker 1>doesn't really sound like Schwarzeneger at all, but because you

1:30:29.960 --> 1:30:31.680
<v Speaker 1>can see his face, it sounds a little like it.

1:30:31.680 --> 1:30:34.000
<v Speaker 1>I gotta work on with Schwarzenegger because he's not really

1:30:34.080 --> 1:30:37.000
<v Speaker 1>German in the and it's not like yeah, coutin talk.

1:30:37.080 --> 1:30:40.880
<v Speaker 1>He's not in that realm at all. He's got it.

1:30:40.920 --> 1:30:45.200
<v Speaker 1>He's really got his own accent. He's really uh almost

1:30:45.240 --> 1:30:47.479
<v Speaker 1>like speaking his own his own version of English in

1:30:47.680 --> 1:30:52.639
<v Speaker 1>a way that Schwarzenegger style. It's disappointing though, to see

1:30:52.680 --> 1:30:54.320
<v Speaker 1>this with the governor. Anyway, we're gonna get into some

1:30:54.640 --> 1:30:57.720
<v Speaker 1>roll call coming up here in in just a few

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<v Speaker 1>minutes if you want to call in eight four or

1:30:59.240 --> 1:31:04.120
<v Speaker 1>four nine to eight five eight Buck. Also, you can

1:31:04.160 --> 1:31:07.439
<v Speaker 1>follow me on Twitter at buck Sexton. We'll be right back.

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<v Speaker 1>He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back.

1:31:31.920 --> 1:31:34.519
<v Speaker 1>But Lettons are a virus in the Democratic Party. You

1:31:34.600 --> 1:31:39.320
<v Speaker 1>have to move on if this is our messaging. Thought

1:31:39.360 --> 1:31:41.320
<v Speaker 1>that I thought that it was time for them to

1:31:41.400 --> 1:31:43.559
<v Speaker 1>back off right now. Right now. I don't think they're

1:31:43.560 --> 1:31:50.400
<v Speaker 1>helping the party right message. There's one things are getting

1:31:50.520 --> 1:31:53.160
<v Speaker 1>testy on the view over this one. You know, the

1:31:53.439 --> 1:31:56.040
<v Speaker 1>old pro Hillary guard. They don't want to let it go.

1:31:56.400 --> 1:31:58.839
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm just gonna say it. It's like boomers

1:31:58.920 --> 1:32:01.719
<v Speaker 1>with the rolling Stones. It's just getting weird now. They're

1:32:01.840 --> 1:32:04.639
<v Speaker 1>they're they're they're no longer like rock stars that should

1:32:04.640 --> 1:32:06.680
<v Speaker 1>be marrying twenty two year olds and doing all the

1:32:06.680 --> 1:32:09.599
<v Speaker 1>stuff they're doing. I'm just saying it's getting weird now.

1:32:10.080 --> 1:32:11.960
<v Speaker 1>You know. People are like, oh, the Stones and they're

1:32:11.960 --> 1:32:14.560
<v Speaker 1>still going strong, and like, there's only so far nostalgic

1:32:14.640 --> 1:32:18.800
<v Speaker 1>can really get you, folks, all right, And the same

1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:22.080
<v Speaker 1>thing true with the Clintons. There's a whole media group

1:32:22.240 --> 1:32:25.880
<v Speaker 1>of boomers out there in particular, who just the Clintons.

1:32:26.240 --> 1:32:28.720
<v Speaker 1>They associate the Clintons with the America that they know,

1:32:29.120 --> 1:32:31.200
<v Speaker 1>and and Hillary and Bill were gonna make it all

1:32:31.320 --> 1:32:34.040
<v Speaker 1>better and the big mean Republicans and Kent Star came

1:32:34.080 --> 1:32:35.479
<v Speaker 1>out for them, and they just can't let it go.

1:32:35.720 --> 1:32:39.519
<v Speaker 1>That's why Hillary can wander around just being terrible and

1:32:39.640 --> 1:32:42.320
<v Speaker 1>saying all kinds of really unhelpful things, and I mean

1:32:42.439 --> 1:32:46.160
<v Speaker 1>unhelpful from the perspective of being a Democrat, right, I

1:32:46.479 --> 1:32:50.880
<v Speaker 1>mean unhelpful for everyone. Republicans don't want to hear it,

1:32:51.080 --> 1:32:53.560
<v Speaker 1>and Democrats don't need to hear it, because all it

1:32:53.720 --> 1:32:56.840
<v Speaker 1>is is her whining about what happened. Here's what she's

1:32:56.840 --> 1:33:01.240
<v Speaker 1>been saying. His whole campaign make America Rate Again was

1:33:01.360 --> 1:33:04.840
<v Speaker 1>looking backwards. You know, you didn't like black people getting

1:33:04.960 --> 1:33:07.439
<v Speaker 1>right you don't like women, you know, getting jobs, you

1:33:07.479 --> 1:33:09.640
<v Speaker 1>don't want it. And you know see that Indian Americans

1:33:09.680 --> 1:33:14.040
<v Speaker 1>succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm

1:33:14.080 --> 1:33:18.600
<v Speaker 1>gonna solve that. So it was a symptom, but it

1:33:18.720 --> 1:33:23.800
<v Speaker 1>was also a cause. I mean, Hillary is amazing, you know,

1:33:24.080 --> 1:33:29.280
<v Speaker 1>she she can't even she she can't help herself. But

1:33:29.360 --> 1:33:31.080
<v Speaker 1>say that the reason that she couldn't win over the

1:33:31.120 --> 1:33:33.200
<v Speaker 1>sixty three million people who voted against her in the

1:33:33.280 --> 1:33:37.520
<v Speaker 1>last election was because they're a bunch of racist, redneck hillbilly's.

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<v Speaker 1>That's pretty much. It doesn't really take much on our

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<v Speaker 1>own plate by way of responsibility for any of this

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't really have anything to to add into the national

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<v Speaker 1>conversation other than just to say that, you know, Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is a racist. But I'm actually hopeful, and I will

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<v Speaker 1>say this, I am hopeful that Hillary is not going

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<v Speaker 1>to go anywhere for quite a while. I would like

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<v Speaker 1>her to be running around and used as a surrogate

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<v Speaker 1>for the Democrat Party as much as much as is

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<v Speaker 1>possible and as much as is feasible. I would like

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<v Speaker 1>to see Hillary Clinton running around and saying, you know, wow,

1:34:17.760 --> 1:34:22.360
<v Speaker 1>Trump is race instant, just saying all kinds of very

1:34:23.040 --> 1:34:29.280
<v Speaker 1>derogatory and disrespectful things about the electorate. Remember we were

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<v Speaker 1>just talking before to Selina Zeno about this Democrats play

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<v Speaker 1>in some of these states is going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>be going more moderate Democrats are gonna have to run

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<v Speaker 1>Lamb like for Connor Lamb, not like mad Lamb like

1:34:47.200 --> 1:34:52.280
<v Speaker 1>candidates in some of these other congressional races. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna mean that they need to clear the slate as

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<v Speaker 1>much as possible of just the the detroitus of political

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<v Speaker 1>careers passed, you know, the the leftovers of the Clintons.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's just funny to see it because it's like

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<v Speaker 1>the media doesn't get the message. You know, they still

1:35:10.320 --> 1:35:14.560
<v Speaker 1>want to have Clinton access, and they still want to

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<v Speaker 1>have the favors of being in tight with the Clintons

1:35:18.680 --> 1:35:21.639
<v Speaker 1>and the fact that that's no longer something that's good

1:35:21.680 --> 1:35:24.080
<v Speaker 1>for the left of the Democrat Party. The message is

1:35:24.080 --> 1:35:27.479
<v Speaker 1>getting them pretty slowly. They haven't yet totally given up

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<v Speaker 1>on it. What's gonna end up happening though, and this

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<v Speaker 1>this takes me to the discussion we had last week

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<v Speaker 1>about Netflix. What's going to happen is that when they

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<v Speaker 1>start rolling out Obama as overall Democrat, you know, stand

1:35:42.080 --> 1:35:45.280
<v Speaker 1>in and Hillary as everything can say are we just

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<v Speaker 1>need we need more Obama and less Hillary. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that that's going to be the way that this

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<v Speaker 1>all plays out. It will only be when the Democrats

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<v Speaker 1>have to stare down a mid term victory for Trump

1:35:58.000 --> 1:36:01.280
<v Speaker 1>that they finally show a real willingness us to back

1:36:01.360 --> 1:36:04.360
<v Speaker 1>off of the Hillary express. I don't think there are

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<v Speaker 1>some members of the media, and I mean big ones,

1:36:06.880 --> 1:36:10.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean big names, who think Hillary would be a

1:36:10.200 --> 1:36:12.280
<v Speaker 1>good idea. They think that's the only way to set

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<v Speaker 1>this right. I mean they are Their insanity over how

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<v Speaker 1>much they hate Trump is only matched by the delusion

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<v Speaker 1>of how much they love Hillary and how viable they

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<v Speaker 1>think she is politically. All Right, I just wanted to

1:36:26.439 --> 1:36:27.880
<v Speaker 1>throw that in there for a second. We're gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>into some roll call here, so stay with me. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's been quite a day here in the Freedom hond

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<v Speaker 1>I hope you've enjoyed what we've dived into together. I

1:36:51.120 --> 1:36:54.840
<v Speaker 1>always said doved into, but I think that's wrong. It's

1:36:54.840 --> 1:36:58.600
<v Speaker 1>gonna be dived And since I'm a have diven have

1:36:58.800 --> 1:37:02.880
<v Speaker 1>been dived to know something like that. Dove, Yeah, we

1:37:02.960 --> 1:37:05.439
<v Speaker 1>dove into together. I know, I'm just it's late in

1:37:05.520 --> 1:37:08.760
<v Speaker 1>the show, John, I'm tired. Uh. But speaking of which,

1:37:09.160 --> 1:37:11.679
<v Speaker 1>I'm just kidding. Thank you for the assistant. Speaking of which,

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<v Speaker 1>it's time for roll call. Hit it, Team Buck. It's

1:37:24.400 --> 1:37:28.080
<v Speaker 1>time for roll call. I like women the base drops.

1:37:28.120 --> 1:37:29.519
<v Speaker 1>That's of all you home. We're supposed to be like

1:37:29.720 --> 1:37:34.960
<v Speaker 1>oh C. J. Buck in the Hound. Alright, better stop

1:37:35.320 --> 1:37:38.280
<v Speaker 1>right now before you all turn this off. Okay, if

1:37:38.320 --> 1:37:40.600
<v Speaker 1>you want to be a part of roll call, you

1:37:40.680 --> 1:37:43.559
<v Speaker 1>can send an email to official Team Buck at gmail

1:37:43.600 --> 1:37:49.600
<v Speaker 1>dot com or Facebook dot com slash buck sexon. So

1:37:50.439 --> 1:37:55.040
<v Speaker 1>with that's my friends. Here we have Chuck, who is

1:37:55.120 --> 1:37:59.240
<v Speaker 1>writing to Buck. He says the following, I heard your

1:37:59.240 --> 1:38:02.960
<v Speaker 1>thoughts on Obama as Netflix show, very concise but really

1:38:03.000 --> 1:38:09.680
<v Speaker 1>no surprise. How is that any different than his presidency? Well, Chuck, oh,

1:38:10.080 --> 1:38:13.080
<v Speaker 1>he's not president anymore. But you're right. He is definitely,

1:38:14.320 --> 1:38:19.160
<v Speaker 1>or was and still is a media darling. And you

1:38:19.240 --> 1:38:21.360
<v Speaker 1>make a fair point, sir, So thank you very much

1:38:21.400 --> 1:38:26.600
<v Speaker 1>for that. James. Next up in our roll call mailbox,

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<v Speaker 1>he writes, Hi, Buck love the piece on the tariff,

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<v Speaker 1>But why hasn't anyone mentioned that having a tariff in

1:38:33.360 --> 1:38:37.320
<v Speaker 1>place might make companies wanting to buy, sell, and trade

1:38:37.400 --> 1:38:41.080
<v Speaker 1>with the USA come to the USA and set up

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<v Speaker 1>shop here and provide jobs and participate in our economy. James,

1:38:46.439 --> 1:38:50.560
<v Speaker 1>very interesting point, right, If there is an advantage to

1:38:50.960 --> 1:38:56.799
<v Speaker 1>producing equipment, material, whatever may be here in the US

1:38:56.880 --> 1:39:02.040
<v Speaker 1>of A, then couldn't we have reverse the reverse of offshoring.

1:39:02.920 --> 1:39:07.080
<v Speaker 1>Couldn't we have the reverse of sending our jobs overseas

1:39:07.200 --> 1:39:10.960
<v Speaker 1>overseas sends their jobs here. At some level, it's at

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<v Speaker 1>least feasible, It's possible. One of the big problems in

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<v Speaker 1>all this is the wage scale and wage expectations in

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<v Speaker 1>this country versus some of the other places where a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of production happens. I know I know a bit

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<v Speaker 1>about this because Ms Molly works for a very large retailer,

1:39:27.120 --> 1:39:32.280
<v Speaker 1>and a lot of the places where different clothing brands

1:39:32.920 --> 1:39:36.000
<v Speaker 1>get their stuff made are all of the world in

1:39:36.080 --> 1:39:40.280
<v Speaker 1>places where the labor is a lot cheaper. So that's

1:39:40.320 --> 1:39:41.960
<v Speaker 1>something else, and we're never going to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>match that list unskilled labor. When you look at the

1:39:47.520 --> 1:39:52.240
<v Speaker 1>different wage rates in countries based on unskilled labor, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that's when I think you get into a problem with

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<v Speaker 1>expecting we're gonna move a lot of the jobs here

1:39:57.160 --> 1:40:02.400
<v Speaker 1>because people expect and need to be paid. We're here. Um, okay,

1:40:02.560 --> 1:40:07.559
<v Speaker 1>next up we have, Jim. I was listening to your

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<v Speaker 1>podcast about name changes and you mentioned Obama's name change.

1:40:13.040 --> 1:40:15.280
<v Speaker 1>I worked for a missionary outfit and talked to a

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<v Speaker 1>man who brought two Muslims to faith in christ. He

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<v Speaker 1>said he gave them, as they requested, new Christian names

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<v Speaker 1>and changed them before they were baptized into the faith.

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<v Speaker 1>I understand this is common among Muslims who convert. Uh

1:40:30.120 --> 1:40:32.599
<v Speaker 1>didn't you say Obama changed his name from a Christian

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<v Speaker 1>name to a Muslim one. Ps. My wife and I

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<v Speaker 1>retired and listen to you often now as I brought

1:40:38.560 --> 1:40:40.679
<v Speaker 1>her to the team, But instead of the usual saying

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<v Speaker 1>good night, I'll see in the morning after all call,

1:40:43.240 --> 1:40:46.160
<v Speaker 1>she has started saying good night. Shields High. You're pretty

1:40:46.160 --> 1:40:47.680
<v Speaker 1>good with your words. So is there some way you

1:40:47.760 --> 1:40:50.720
<v Speaker 1>could sort of uninstall what you've done? If not, don't

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<v Speaker 1>sweat it, Shields High, Jim, thank you for the kind

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<v Speaker 1>note as to Obama. He know he was born. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>he was in fact born based on all the record

1:41:00.000 --> 1:41:03.040
<v Speaker 1>everything else we've seen Barack Obama, but he was went

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<v Speaker 1>by Barry, so he went by that as his preferred

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<v Speaker 1>name for a long time, and during the period when

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<v Speaker 1>he was living in Indonesia he went by the surname

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<v Speaker 1>of I believe the man that his why that his

1:41:19.040 --> 1:41:22.720
<v Speaker 1>mom was dating at the time, Satoro or living with

1:41:22.840 --> 1:41:26.679
<v Speaker 1>the time, whatever the case may be. So Obama's biography

1:41:26.800 --> 1:41:29.560
<v Speaker 1>is not top of mind these days. So there you

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<v Speaker 1>have it. Next up here, where did it go? Oh? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>this is from Tricia, She writes. I so do appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>your calm discussions. Interesting you should mention, but at the

1:41:45.920 --> 1:41:49.640
<v Speaker 1>time of Trump's button comment, there was an uprising by

1:41:49.760 --> 1:41:54.320
<v Speaker 1>hungry and thirsty people. M hmm what he said some people.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure where we're going here. Liberals need a

1:41:56.360 --> 1:41:59.960
<v Speaker 1>dose of self control. Gun control gives us dead children,

1:42:00.000 --> 1:42:04.080
<v Speaker 1>and birth control gives us Okay, what guess the tragedy

1:42:04.120 --> 1:42:06.400
<v Speaker 1>and murder depends which side of the womb you're on, Tricia.

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<v Speaker 1>Tricia carried a lot of territory in this email, so

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of gave you the abbreviated version. Thank you, Tricia.

1:42:14.280 --> 1:42:16.360
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I should start reading these before I go on there.

1:42:16.400 --> 1:42:19.080
<v Speaker 1>Although I kind of like the off the cuff nature

1:42:19.200 --> 1:42:22.640
<v Speaker 1>of of having to address them as we go. Occasionally

1:42:22.640 --> 1:42:24.400
<v Speaker 1>I have to bleep out some words in my mind,

1:42:24.479 --> 1:42:26.040
<v Speaker 1>and I've gotten good enough that I feel like very

1:42:26.080 --> 1:42:28.920
<v Speaker 1>few people could tell that that's what I'm doing. This

1:42:29.120 --> 1:42:32.360
<v Speaker 1>is from Mary, he writes. I'm a podcast listener. I

1:42:32.400 --> 1:42:35.920
<v Speaker 1>have been listening since mid seen, having seen you on Fox,

1:42:36.400 --> 1:42:39.080
<v Speaker 1>read you on Twitter, and heard you fill in Once

1:42:39.200 --> 1:42:42.920
<v Speaker 1>upon a Time for Rush Limbaugh. Your programs are excellent.

1:42:43.000 --> 1:42:48.320
<v Speaker 1>The history podcasts are outstanding. Both are most informative and enlightening. Yes,

1:42:48.560 --> 1:42:51.480
<v Speaker 1>I would even pay to get the Shields High podcasts.

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<v Speaker 1>One thought about Kim Jong uns interest in meeting President Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Kim's buying time and creating a distraction while

1:42:59.479 --> 1:43:03.280
<v Speaker 1>they continue to supply Syria. Your mentioned of Massa's recent

1:43:03.400 --> 1:43:07.439
<v Speaker 1>chemical attack on the Damascus Damascus suburbs helps me come

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<v Speaker 1>to that conclusion. Your thoughts. Have a wonderful weekend and

1:43:11.040 --> 1:43:13.960
<v Speaker 1>a blessed week Mary. Well, Mary, thank you so much,

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<v Speaker 1>very kind of you. I do think that Kim is

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<v Speaker 1>most likely trying to buy time, but I'm not sure

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<v Speaker 1>he will be able to buy time in the way

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<v Speaker 1>that he is hoping because of the strength of the

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<v Speaker 1>sanctions that President Trump has put forth on North Korea.

1:43:34.000 --> 1:43:37.800
<v Speaker 1>They are in a tougher spot than they have ever

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<v Speaker 1>been in before economically, or at least since the famine

1:43:41.439 --> 1:43:45.040
<v Speaker 1>in the nineties. And I think that this this could

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<v Speaker 1>be a different outcome. I am hopeful that it could

1:43:47.760 --> 1:43:55.439
<v Speaker 1>be a different outcome. Um next up here? Uh, John,

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<v Speaker 1>you're right, Hey Buck. I've been listening to your show

1:43:57.240 --> 1:43:58.680
<v Speaker 1>for about a year. Oh sorry, this is from the

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<v Speaker 1>Facebook inbox and if you want to write to us

1:44:00.720 --> 1:44:05.559
<v Speaker 1>there Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton Jonens Hey Buck,

1:44:05.560 --> 1:44:07.200
<v Speaker 1>I've been listening to your show for about a year.

1:44:07.360 --> 1:44:10.160
<v Speaker 1>You do a great job. But I had a thought

1:44:10.280 --> 1:44:13.400
<v Speaker 1>that no one is seeming to consider. What if the

1:44:13.479 --> 1:44:16.920
<v Speaker 1>meeting with Kim Jong own is just a trap, an

1:44:16.960 --> 1:44:19.840
<v Speaker 1>assassination attempt Like the guy in Star Wars. It's a trap.

1:44:20.000 --> 1:44:21.320
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm talking about, what he's going on,

1:44:21.840 --> 1:44:24.680
<v Speaker 1>It's a trap. What if the meeting with Kim Jong

1:44:24.760 --> 1:44:27.040
<v Speaker 1>un is a trap? An assassination attempts set up by

1:44:27.080 --> 1:44:30.800
<v Speaker 1>the North Korean leader and maybe Democrats. Clinton accolytes to me,

1:44:30.920 --> 1:44:33.080
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't seem far fetch when it's a guy who

1:44:33.160 --> 1:44:35.320
<v Speaker 1>assassinates his own family and people who are willing to

1:44:35.360 --> 1:44:38.400
<v Speaker 1>make deals with enemy's just a thought. Great show shields high, John.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't worry about our our president in this situation

1:44:41.720 --> 1:44:46.640
<v Speaker 1>and this uh uh possible or likely planned meeting with

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<v Speaker 1>Kim Jong un. It'll be in a mutually agreed upon place,

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<v Speaker 1>and the consequences for North Korea of any such effort

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<v Speaker 1>like you are describing here would be severe, to say

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<v Speaker 1>the least, and it would not get the anywhere except

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<v Speaker 1>on the wrong side of an American broadside, and perhaps

1:45:05.680 --> 1:45:08.120
<v Speaker 1>a whole lot more than that. So I don't I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that's a concern. You need to have

1:45:09.680 --> 1:45:12.720
<v Speaker 1>secret services, got it uh squared away, and and I

1:45:13.040 --> 1:45:15.120
<v Speaker 1>know some secret service folks, and they're very very good

1:45:15.160 --> 1:45:16.760
<v Speaker 1>at what they do. And I don't worry about the

1:45:16.800 --> 1:45:21.000
<v Speaker 1>president sitting down with another head of state. Uh. Here

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<v Speaker 1>we go, Karen, rites congratulations on scoring Jeff Sessions. Your

1:45:25.880 --> 1:45:27.800
<v Speaker 1>hard work is paying off well. Thank you, Karen, and

1:45:28.000 --> 1:45:31.240
<v Speaker 1>I the folks Nana d o J actually really thought

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<v Speaker 1>it was a good interview with Mr Sessions. That's always nice.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, the people that work for the boss reach

1:45:36.479 --> 1:45:38.439
<v Speaker 1>out to me. They're like, hey, I thought that went

1:45:38.560 --> 1:45:40.800
<v Speaker 1>really well. That, you know, the session's interview, so I'm

1:45:40.840 --> 1:45:42.920
<v Speaker 1>glad we'll have him back at some point. You know,

1:45:42.960 --> 1:45:44.640
<v Speaker 1>I can make some room for the Attorney general here

1:45:44.680 --> 1:45:46.519
<v Speaker 1>on my radio show, you know, time to time, I

1:45:46.560 --> 1:45:48.560
<v Speaker 1>feel like he's got some important stuff to say. He

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<v Speaker 1>is the most uh important law enforcement official in the country.

1:45:52.600 --> 1:45:55.080
<v Speaker 1>You're the highest law enforcement official in the country. So

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I make room for for excellent guests as

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<v Speaker 1>well as guests are at the cabinet level and above,

1:46:01.960 --> 1:46:04.479
<v Speaker 1>you know, cabinet level and above, we can fit you

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<v Speaker 1>in here. On the Buck Sexton Show, we try to

1:46:07.800 --> 1:46:11.040
<v Speaker 1>avoid deputy under assistant secretary for who gives a crap,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. So that's that's an unwritten

1:46:13.320 --> 1:46:16.840
<v Speaker 1>policy here on the show. Don next up here, he writes,

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<v Speaker 1>Buck love your show. I usually agree with most of

1:46:19.320 --> 1:46:24.240
<v Speaker 1>your points, but comparing Netflix's Ozark to Breaking Bad is

1:46:24.320 --> 1:46:28.040
<v Speaker 1>like calling both Bill ny and Carl Sagan scientists. They

1:46:28.080 --> 1:46:32.040
<v Speaker 1>were both engaging, but one was incredibly written and believably realistic,

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<v Speaker 1>while the other, though sinfully entertaining, was rather poorly written

1:46:35.520 --> 1:46:38.479
<v Speaker 1>and it was also ridiculously impossible. I'm sure you can

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<v Speaker 1>tell which I preferred. As always, I loved hearing your take,

1:46:41.640 --> 1:46:43.320
<v Speaker 1>but you were out to lunch on this one and

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<v Speaker 1>I had to call you and call you out on it.

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<v Speaker 1>Keep up the great work. You're still the best, Don

1:46:48.280 --> 1:46:50.000
<v Speaker 1>Don I'm not really going to defend myself on this

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<v Speaker 1>one too much because I think or I was trying

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<v Speaker 1>to say, at least that the genre is similar, so

1:46:57.320 --> 1:47:00.599
<v Speaker 1>if you liked one, you'll like the other. I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>trying to say that they are almost equivalent in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of greatness, right. It's sort of like if I were

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<v Speaker 1>talking to you and I said, hey, I think you

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<v Speaker 1>will like uh, porter House if you've never had meat before,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, I think you would like a Porterhouse steak,

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<v Speaker 1>and oh, by the way, if you like by the

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<v Speaker 1>let's let's take this back for a second, Ribby, which

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<v Speaker 1>is better than Porterhouse. We take this back for a second.

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<v Speaker 1>And then before that, I said, you hold on, wait,

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<v Speaker 1>if you like Ribby, you'll also probably like flank steak.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying they're the same. I'm just saying in

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<v Speaker 1>my own way, as being the human Pandora that I am,

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<v Speaker 1>where I try to say, if you like this, you

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<v Speaker 1>like this, I think they're similar enough that all said,

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<v Speaker 1>I think your analysis is correct. Ozark is uh not

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<v Speaker 1>nearly as plausible, not nearly as well written, not as

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<v Speaker 1>good a show. But you are comparing a Netflix show

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<v Speaker 1>that's gotten very little pressed to what is arguably one

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<v Speaker 1>of the greatest, if not the greatest, scripted television dramas

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<v Speaker 1>of all time. So you know we've gotta keep it,

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<v Speaker 1>keep it here. But a fair a fair point made

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<v Speaker 1>from Don. I've got a lot of other movie recommendations

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<v Speaker 1>in the inbox, but I will have to wait and

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<v Speaker 1>hold those for next time because I am running out

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<v Speaker 1>the Freedom Hunt for today. We will have much more

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<v Speaker 1>for you tomorrow every day this week, as we always do.

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<v Speaker 1>Until then, my friends, no matter what mayhem may find you,

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<v Speaker 1>shields high,