1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Come back to Clay Anne Buck. We 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: have Stephen Miller with us, now former senior White House 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: Advisor and a man who knows policy both legal and 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: border and everything in between like the back of his hand. Stephen, 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Great to 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: be here today. So we've got Homeland Security Committee field 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: hearing today going on down in Texas. Democrats, as I 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: understand it, have pulled out of this at the last minute, 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: and they're saying, for example, this is Representative Mark Greene 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: who talked about how there's an app where you, if 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: you're an illegal who comes into America right now, you 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: fill out the app and you get parole as soon 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: as you fill it out. Play it. Why would Secretary 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: myarchus want to do away with the judiciary, Why would 16 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: you want to subvert law written by this body, the Congress. 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: It's because they want more people to come into the country. 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: And now their solution is an app where whomever fills 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: it out just automatically gets parole when they show up 20 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: at the crossing site. That is in total contravention to 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: what the laws passed by Congress about how people are 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: to enter this country. I can see it now, some 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: drug cartel coyote. Hey, for an additional fee, we'll fill 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: the app out for you. Is there really an app 25 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: for that, Stephen, There most certainly is. And Chairman Green 26 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: explained it correctly when you said, this whole administration is 27 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: objective is to get as many people into the country 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: as possible. It is that simple as that straightforward. Anybody 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: who's been fallowing this for two years understands that in 30 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty is the policy of the Trump administration. And 31 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: I know because I implemented that policy to detain and 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: deport all illegal border crossers. So we would meet on 33 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: a regular basis with the whole management structure of CBP 34 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Border Patrol and ICE to reiterate this over and over 35 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: and over again. If you apprehending legal immigrant, you use 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: every single available policy tool at your disposal. Under no 37 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: circumstances are they allowed to leave a detained setting to 38 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: be able to walk freely on US soil. And so 39 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: we saw as a result, record low numbers in twenty twenty. 40 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Biden comes in in twenty twenty one and he changes 41 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: the policy from detaining the port to catch and release. 42 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: And it's not even just released, it's recubtled. I mean, 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: you see people, as we all know, particularly on accompany 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: of minors, being flown to the destination of their choice 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: in the United States. So the government is resettling legal 46 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: immigrants in the country. This new application is a way 47 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: of expanding that process. So you can be an intending 48 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: legal immigrant. You can go onto the smartphone application. By 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: the way, the fact that you have a smartphone also 50 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: demonstrates that you're definitely not in the kinds of dire 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: straits that are off and for trade. You fill out 52 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: the application and you show up at a port of 53 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: entry and you get admitted into the United States of 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: America to live the rest of your life here. And 55 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: these are overwhelmingly going to be individuals who do not 56 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: have a high school education or the equivalent of one 57 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: of the United States. They do not have the kinds 58 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: of professional skills that are going to make them financially 59 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: self sufficient. So it's going to be an incredible burden 60 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: on the US tax payer who's gonna have to to subsidize 61 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: free housing, free education, free welfare, free food, and so 62 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: on and so forth for decades to come, Stephen. You 63 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: know the latest from Border Patrol Chief Raoul or Tease 64 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: earlier this morning and his testimony is that there have 65 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: been approximately three hundred and eighty five thousand known gotaways, 66 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: not to include unknown goataways. There's a lot of those 67 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: two since the fiscal year in October of twenty twenty three, 68 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: so we're looking at approximately this is according to Border 69 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Biden's Border Patrol Chief says that there are one point 70 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: four million goataways since the start of fiscal year twenty one. 71 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: One point four million. That's not including as we know, 72 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: the whatever it is now six or seven million who 73 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,679 Speaker 1: have just come into the country and gained the system. 74 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: Who's who are choosing to just let everyone know in 75 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: this audience, because you know these numbers, you know this reality. 76 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: Who are the people who are choosing to be goataways 77 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: when they could just otherwise surrender? Right, I mean there's 78 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: something going on here? Yes, well, very much so. And 79 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: so the hearing had a lot of explosive revelations and 80 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: I did watch the hearing in this entirety today and 81 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: that was indeed one of them. So the number of goataways, 82 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: of course, can we only measure what we call known godaways, 83 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, almost four hundred thousand just in 84 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: this fiscal year alone. And there's this other number that 85 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: I would estimate personally is at least as many as 86 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: the known number of goataways. And these are the ones 87 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: that you don't even know that escaped versus the ones 88 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: that you can ectimate escaped because of drone footage and 89 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: censored technology, footpaths, visual observation, things of that nature. And 90 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: so who are these people? Why are they evading? So, 91 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: as you mentioned, there are an enormous number of people 92 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: who are turnins or surrenders. This would include almost all 93 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: family units are going to be turn ins. All miners 94 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: in most cases are going to be turnins because they 95 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: get automatic or settlement. So people seventeen and younger, and 96 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: then many nationalities that no, there's no deportation to their 97 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 1: home country are going to be turning in as well too. 98 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: So the gataways are going to have among them two 99 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: groups primarily one which is pretty straightforward, are going to 100 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: be Mexican nationals, just because for them, it's a zero 101 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: cost proposition. You know, you run away, you get caught, 102 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: you get them back, you try again, so you just 103 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: you keep trying till you get in. And then the 104 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: other group, though, is going to be, which of course 105 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: include some Mexican nationals, are going to be people who 106 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: have criminal records, whether in their home countries or in 107 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: the United States, who have multiple previous deportations, which although 108 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: I don't think this administration would apply it, which can 109 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: trigger a felony prosecution, are going to be of course 110 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: a huge category here are going to be actively smuggling 111 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: or transporting narcotics or contrabant into the United States. And 112 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: then of course sex trafficking and labor trafficking and things 113 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: of that nature. So you have within that group an 114 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: enormous amount of criminal activity, and that now is all 115 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: inside of the United States and every state and every 116 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: city all throughout the country. There's being a Stephen Miller, 117 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: former senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Stephen, you may 118 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: have seen this as well, that the DA now, according 119 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: to reporting by Fox News, DA is aware that there 120 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: are Mexican pharmacies that are selling pills that are laced 121 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: with fentanyl. So now it's we've known for a while 122 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: that the cartels will try to press pills to look 123 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: like pharmaceutical grade pills. And then people overdose and there's 124 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: no quality control and the whole thing is a disaster 125 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: for the American people. But Mexican pharmacies are selling this stuff, 126 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: and of course it's getting across the border to us. 127 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: What can we do about this? Well, and of course 128 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: they are, because the cartels have operational control of vast 129 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: loss of territory and if you don't go along with 130 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: their program, you're going to be killed. So if they 131 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: want pharmacies to manufacture this drug and just shoubting denied states, 132 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: and that's exactly what's going to happen. What you do, 133 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: of course, is exactly what we did to in twenty twenty. 134 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: And then what President Trump is further proposed to, and 135 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: which obviously is you need to treat the cartels as 136 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: a as an unlawful enemy combatant with all that that entails. 137 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: And then you also need the United States Navy to 138 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: blockade the seas where the drugs are being transported into 139 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: Mexico from areas further to the south, including of course 140 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: South America, and the United States Border Patrol needs to 141 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: have a policy of one hundred percent deportation, and we're 142 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: applicable one hundred percent prosecution, and so you have the 143 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: place completely sealed up between ports of entry, and then 144 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: you have the military engaging with the cartels to do 145 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: what we need to be done in terms of kinetic activity. 146 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, we just have 147 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: to realize that there's not a single foreign threat on 148 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: the face of the earth that comes even close to 149 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: these cartels in terms of the loss of American life. 150 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: No one, no one even approaches that, no one even 151 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: gets close. And yet the United States military is engaged 152 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: in nation building activities and purportedly peacekeeping activities all throughout 153 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: the planet, and our southern border is where the greatest 154 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: threat m and as some lies that it is untouched, 155 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: in fact it is actively aided by this administration. Stephen, 156 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: how can we address the issue of the asylum claims 157 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: that are being made and the open door that that 158 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: has created. What would be you know, what is within 159 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: statute or within the executive branches discretion. We know Biden's 160 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: not going to do this right. This is more of 161 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: a look toward twenty twenty four when maybe there'll be 162 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: an administration hopefully that will decide to do something about this. 163 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: But how can the false asylum loophole be closed. It's 164 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: actually a very straightforward to do so. One of the 165 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: common misconceptions that people have, and that is repeated out 166 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: of an item by many, is that anyone who enters 167 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: the country illegally has a quote right to make an 168 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: asylum claim and then to be released if that claim 169 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: is deemed to be plausible or credible. And way that 170 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: is not true. In fact, there are multiple tools that 171 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: already exist in federal law that would invalidate those claims. 172 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 1: The one of those, of course, is Title forty two, 173 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: which was pioneered and implemented by the Trump administration and 174 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: invalidated hundreds of thousands of asylum claims. Right, that's a 175 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: pandemic authority, right, that's the CDC pandemic you can't come 176 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: in here authority, right, And so that authority is a 177 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: is a particularly broad grant of executive authority. Then, so 178 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: we use that, for example, Title forty two, we use 179 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: that to solve the problem of unaccompanied minors. So when 180 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: we would get a minor from say or say fifteen 181 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: or sixteen minor sixteen seventeen years old from Haiti that 182 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: under the current administration would be sent to HHS helping 183 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: human services and then relocated wherever they want to go, 184 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: be it, you know, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, what 185 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: have you. We would call the local government in Haiti 186 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: and would say, get social workers ready, we've got a 187 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: plane coming in tomorrow. We seventeen minors and we would 188 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: use Titli forty two to do that, and it would 189 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,719 Speaker 1: work quite seamlessly, and the numbers dropped almost nothing. Then 190 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: you have what's called safe third agreements, which in statute 191 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: it says, and it's there in black and white that 192 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: one of the categorical bars to asylum eligibility is if 193 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: another country is willing to take you. So you could 194 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: even be eligible for asylum, like fully eligible, and even 195 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: then by any definition, so you could be somebody who 196 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: has a rock solid claim which of course you basically 197 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: never see you on the southern border, but just hypothetically, 198 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: and you still wouldn't be able to get asylum in 199 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: the United States because another countries agreed to take you. 200 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: So when we left the White House in twenty twenty, 201 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: we had safe third agreements with all three Northern Triangle 202 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: countries sell Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. And so anyone who 203 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: applied for asylum, we could just say to them, your 204 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: claim is not receivable in the United States. You can 205 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: choose to withdraw it and go home, or you can 206 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: choose to be flown to Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, 207 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: and you can apply for asylum in one of those countries. 208 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: Because I think to remember about asylum is that the 209 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: whole premise of it that you're being politically persecuted in 210 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: your home country. It's not an escape hatch from violence 211 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: or from poverty. If half the world is living in 212 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: one of those two conditions or both at a given 213 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: moment in time. So if you are asking for asylum, 214 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: all that means is you want to go somewhere where 215 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: you're not going to be politically persecuted. So if you've 216 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: invented some fantastical pale of political persecution in Haiti, but 217 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: it's okay, great, Well, however it's persecuting you in Haiti, 218 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure doesn't live in Guatemala, so by all means, 219 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: go there. And that is a complete solution to the 220 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: asylum frauda issue. So I would just say that in 221 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, number one, you put in place a 222 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: robust network of safe third or rooms all over the country. 223 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: And then you get Congress to a men Title forty 224 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: two to be a catchall authority for bordom management and 225 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: not just tied to public health. Stephen Miller, everybody, the 226 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: guy knows the border backwards and forwards and something we 227 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: need to fix. Steven, thanks so much for being with us. 228 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: Thank you. 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The Clay Travis said, 250 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton shows so important that ever understands what's going 251 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: on at the border. I thought of it's fascinating. Talked 252 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: to Stephen Miller about that, just because of the all 253 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: the interlocking layers, and you have to understand both the 254 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: depth of the failure of the Biden administration on this 255 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: issue and the desire for that failure from the Biden administration. 256 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: So it's going terror This is an unusual thing when 257 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: it is going terribly by all measures, by all indicators, 258 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: and the people in charge are happy about it. That's 259 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: en Now. I know some of you are saying Oh, 260 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: they want to collapse the economy and everything else. I'm 261 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi likes being rich. She wants to They want 262 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: to collapse the economy for you, but they want to 263 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: make sure they don't, you know, they destroy the entire 264 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: US currency. I got news for you. We've all got 265 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: a lot of problems. It reminds me um for the 266 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: ancient the ancient history folks out there, we have to 267 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: come up a better term than calling people who like 268 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: history nerds. We're not nerds. We're history athletes, you know, 269 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: history cool people. But the coinage of the this is famous. 270 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: And if you go to uh in you know, lectures 271 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: from the you know, the Meses Institute, and you go 272 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: about Milton Friedman fans and everything else. Ancient Rome at 273 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: its absolute height of power would have been Now some 274 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: people are going to argue with me about this, but 275 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: essentially the ray of the Emperor Caesar Augustus. That would 276 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: be when you reach its absolute peak, and that's when 277 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: you had or around then roughly you had the coinage 278 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: of the denarius or denie. I guess is what the 279 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: eplura would be, which was the Roman silver coin. Actually, 280 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: I think the coinage of the Denarius started well before that, 281 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: but it reached its you know, the Roman Empire reached 282 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: its total peak, and they were having these they minted 283 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: these silver coins, the Denarius, and it went from being 284 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: I think one hundred percent pure silver over the course 285 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: of a couple of hundred years, to you know, seventy 286 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: percent silver, fifty percent silver, and then by the end 287 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: it was like five history aficionados. Producer Ali says, I 288 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: don't know that it makes us sound fancy, like we're 289 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: lighting one hundred dollar bills on fire where their fancy 290 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: cigars talking about history. Although maybe that's cool if you 291 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: were starting a history club, that might be a good 292 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: way to go. But the the Denarius was debased as 293 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: a precious metal coin over the course. This is the 294 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: bottom line. Okay, I'm just going from memory here, so 295 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: pardon me if I'm getting some of the dates. I 296 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: think they might have even started coinage of the Denarius 297 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: during the Second Punic War, one of the most fascinating 298 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,959 Speaker 1: military historical periods you could ever find. Hannibal crossing the Alps. 299 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: People always talk about all the elephants he crossed with. 300 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: Actually didn't cross it very many because the elephants died. 301 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: It turns out they didn't really want to be in 302 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: the European Alps for very long anyway. But the coinage 303 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: was destroyed and the Roman Empire essentially collapsed along with it. 304 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: But you know what they made sure to do the 305 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: whole time, to pay the bureaucrats and to pay the military. 306 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: That was the one thing that they knew they had 307 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: to keep doing and raise their pay and raise their pays. 308 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: The bureaucrats and the people work for the state that 309 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: kept getting and the military, because you need to control 310 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: the population, they kept getting their pay raised over time. 311 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: There are lessons from history about inflation. 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I think 340 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: any version of that it's just gaslighting, which is very 341 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: common these days, and they're doing it on a range 342 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: of issues. But the place where you'll see it. I 343 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: think in the most obvious the most obvious cases would 344 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: be on issues of gender, where they're now calling gender 345 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: equality or the transgender agenda. Right. So we have up 346 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: in Vermont, and I always say this Vermont is for 347 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: me a place that we should have seen this coming 348 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: and should have done something to keep well, to prevent 349 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 1: Vermont from becoming the left wing haven in New England. 350 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: That it is a lot of people from New York, 351 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: New Jersey and Connecticut who had very leftist tendencies figured well, 352 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: you know, I can get more land and cheaper, cheaper 353 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: cost of living, etc. Moved to Vermont. So you know 354 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders for example, like Brooklyn New Yorker who moved 355 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: to and now as a senator from Vermont. It's a 356 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: beautiful state. I love it. I used to spend summers there. 357 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: I used to go to camp in Vermont, so I 358 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: think Vermont's lovely. Well in the summers, at least, I've 359 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: never been in the winter. I'm not a skier, so 360 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: it's not as appealing to me. But Vermont has a 361 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: situation unfolding the mid Vermont Christian School. A few weeks ago, 362 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: it's high school basketball team forfeited a playoff game. You 363 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: all know where this is going. The Christian School mid 364 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: Vermont Christian School forfeited the playoff game because the opposing 365 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: team had a transgender player. As in a teenage you know, 366 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: an adolescent male who wants to play against women's basketball 367 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: players or you know, teenage girl basketball players. I'm not 368 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: sure if they're if they could be eighteen, they could 369 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: be sixteen. I think it's their varsity they're probably older anyway, 370 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: So we'll say roughly sixteen to eighteen years of age 371 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: is what we're talking about here. And and by the way, 372 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: any of you who have who well I was gonna 373 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: say who have kids, but just anybody who has has 374 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: eyes knows that by the time boys get to thirteen 375 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: fourteen years old and puberty hits, their strength, speed, musculature, 376 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: everything is very different from girls. Right, So it's you know, 377 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: at earlier ages the differences are still pronounced, but are not, 378 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: you know, super pronounced, and then they get into their 379 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: teenage years and all of a sudden it's quite different. 380 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, as any guy who played high school sports knows, 381 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: if you then went to college and you know, scrimmaged 382 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: on like a co ed team and you came up 383 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: against you know, all American women in your sport. You 384 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: realize men have a huge advantage over women, right even now, 385 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 1: I just mean in a recreational setting. So here's where 386 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: we are. The mid Vermont Christian School said they would 387 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: not participate in this game, and now they have to 388 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: be punished. You see, this is heresy in the Democrats 389 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: stronghold of Vermont. You're not allowed, and this is they're saying, 390 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: this is a violation of a gender discrimination So the school, 391 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: this Christian School, has had its affiliation in the Athletic 392 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: League that it is canceled. They say that the mid 393 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: Vermont Christian School violated the organization's policies against gender discrimination, 394 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: and they say they're no longer able to be members 395 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: in this league. So this just goes to show you 396 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: how committed the left is to this. It's not enough. Remember, 397 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: they just forfeited. So they're not even taking action beyond saying, look, 398 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,239 Speaker 1: we're just not going to play against a trends. We're 399 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: not going to play against the team that as a 400 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: transgender student. Look, i'm a forty one year old man. 401 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: If I decided that I was actually an eighth grader 402 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: and that I wanted to play eighth grade basketball. I 403 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: would hope, I would hope that all of the parents 404 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: on that eighth grade basketball team that I was going 405 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: to play against would say, this is not fair, this 406 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: is crazy, and we're not going to allow it. We're 407 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: not going to allow it. I mean, I remember I 408 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: used to make the argument many years ago that and 409 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: I'm talking about two thousand when I first started in radio, 410 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: so twelve gosh, twelve years ago now maybe ten eleven 411 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: years ago, I said, what about transgender because this is 412 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,479 Speaker 1: when the beginnings of the transgender athlete thing was becoming 413 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: really really a debate. I said, what about combative sports? 414 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: What about MMA? And sure enough, within a short period 415 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: after having these discussions, and by the way the left 416 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 1: then they're gas letting. Then was that'll never happen, Nobody 417 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: will want to do that. There's no transgender man who 418 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: wants to fight against women the MMA. Actually there are, 419 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: and in one case, the individual just just watching the 420 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: fight between the biological man and the women in the cave. 421 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's horrific, it's wrong, it's unethical, it's gross, 422 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: and yet the left they won't budge on this stuff. 423 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: Their argument is crazy, so they're going to keep making 424 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: crazy arguments. In fact, they don't even really have an argument. 425 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: What is the argument here that there's genderscription, you have 426 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: gender segregated sports, but it's gender discrimination to insist that 427 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: the gender segregated sports are actually segregated by gender. That 428 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: is what is happening in Vermont right now. The Vermont 429 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 1: you know, Athletic Association, involved the State of Vermont, the 430 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 1: Democrat apparatus there, they're all in favor of punishing this 431 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: team this. Of course it's a Christian school too, which 432 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: is great. That gets extra extra points for slapping down 433 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: a Christian school, you know, that gets the left really excited, 434 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: godless commies. So you look at this and you say, 435 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: what exactly are the rules? I mean, I'm just wondering. 436 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: And the state of Vermont right now, and the you know, 437 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: looking at that, the Vermont I'm trying to find the 438 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: name of this this entity that is banning them whatever. 439 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: But the VPA, Vermont Public Athletic Association, I guess I 440 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: don't know, something like that. The Vermont Principles Association, the 441 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: Vermont Principles Association, their official policy is that if you 442 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: live in the state of Vermont, and and an eighteen 443 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: year old boy wants to play basketball against your eighteen 444 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 1: year old daughter. If she has a problem with that, 445 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,719 Speaker 1: she better shut up. And if she gets an elbow 446 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: into the face from this, you know, from this guy 447 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: and his you know, swinging his elbows around, he's got it, 448 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: you know, the probably a little bit of a beard growing. 449 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: That's her problem. You notice they always try to make 450 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: this about kindness, but actually what they're doing is trying 451 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: to rely on the desire that people who who are 452 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: traditional in their view of gender to be kind so 453 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: that the people on the left can do vicious things. 454 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: This is wrong, this is absurd. It's also a slap 455 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: in the face to women's athletics. What is the point 456 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: of this, right, What is the rationale behind it? Exactly 457 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: as you know, it's the eradication of gender. And even 458 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: more than that, it is to force you to bend 459 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: the knee to insanity. If they can make you affirm 460 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: obvious lies, they can make you believe and affirm anything 461 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: they own you psychologically, if they can make you say, hey, 462 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: there's no problem here. So it's an eighteen year old 463 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: guy that decided he was a woman I don't know 464 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,679 Speaker 1: a few months ago, and he wants to play against 465 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 1: women's basketball. This is great, this is progress. And by 466 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: the way, there are a lot of Democrat parents who 467 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: go along with this, a lot of Biden voters go 468 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: along with this because that is what the herd demands 469 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: of them. But yeah, up in Vermont right now, that's 470 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: what you're up against. We're also going to talk in 471 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: the third hour, by the way, about Wellesley College. It's 472 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: a women's college, but is it though? Is there a 473 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: women's because the students there wanted to be open to 474 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: not only transgender women, but non binary individuals, which I 475 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: feel like that leaves a lot of it's a lot 476 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: of open territories. And we'll talk we'll talk about this. 477 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: We'll talk about this. Oh yes, Oh, and also Lindsay 478 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: Graham had some thoughts on what we should do about 479 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: Russian planes South Carolina. I love South Carolina. It's one 480 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: of my favorite states to visit. South Carolina. Republican voters, 481 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: we got to have a talk about Lindsay Graham. Okay, 482 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: we gotta have a discussion about this. March fifteenth today, 483 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: we're about a month away from tax Day, which is Tuesday, 484 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: April eighteenth. As you know, there's no shortage of early 485 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: filers looking for their tax refund check. 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I don't know anyway, 512 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: messed with a Reaper drone, brought down the drone, and 513 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: we have Lindsay Graham wighing in on this situation. Can 514 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: we play mister Senator Graham's comments on this one? They 515 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: shot down our drone. What should our answer be, Well, 516 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: we should hold him accountable and say that if you 517 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: ever get near another US set flying in international waters, 518 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: your airplane would be shot down. What would Ronald Reagan 519 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: do right now? He would start shooting Russian planes down 520 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: if they were threatening our assets. American foreign policies in freefall? 521 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: Oh boy, if you start shooting Russian planes down to 522 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: see how that ghosts just start shooting those planes out 523 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: of the sky. Look, I get it right, there is 524 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: a provocation here the Russians, but it is a drone. 525 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: We did not have loss of life, and we have 526 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: to be very very serious about how we view the 527 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: long term consequences of these things. I just think the 528 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: problem with trying to prevent a slide into massive conflict 529 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: in a situation like Ukraine is that there's an inherent 530 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: incrementalism on the other side. The people that want more 531 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: and more involvement use that to their advantage. It's, Oh, 532 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: what's the big deal. We're just gonna do a little more. 533 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,719 Speaker 1: We're just gonna send a little bit more, more advanced 534 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: weapon systems, more of those systems, more intelligent support, more, 535 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 1: you name it. We're not gonna We're not gonna get 536 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: to this point that you're worried about. But the problem 537 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: is you have a momentum to these conflicts, and once 538 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: you start getting too far involved in the first place, 539 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: it is the unexpected. It's kind of like how the 540 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: economy can just all of a sudden almost fall off 541 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: a cliff. Right. Well, there are the systemic issues that 542 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: you talk about, Hey, guys, the debt, inflation, we're spending 543 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: too much. We have too much inflation, or rather we 544 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: have too much debt, and the inflation problem is going 545 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: to get worse. But you hear that every day and 546 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: people go, ah, you know, they'll figure it out, I guess, 547 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: and you know, tune it out. You get used to paying, 548 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: you know, higher prices for all these different things in 549 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: the stores, and you figure it will eventually it'll go away. 550 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: But so people tune it out. I think that there's 551 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: a lot of tuning out of the voices that are 552 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: saying what are we doing in Ukraine? Exactly? There is 553 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: no chance this conflict is going to end on its 554 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: own because of a Russian battlefield defeat before the next election. 555 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: I mean, in my mind it is it is a 556 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: fantasy to think that that's going to happen, And in fact, 557 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: we could see, depending on how the next six months ago, 558 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: you could see some pretty substantial territorial losses by the 559 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: Ukrainian defenders. I don't know. I don't pretend to be 560 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: able to assess the battlefield moves that are going on here. 561 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: This is not a conflict that I've seen up close 562 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: and personal myself, as other conflicts I have certainly from 563 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: a strategic analyst level. And so I look at this 564 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: and I say, well, when are we going to say 565 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: that there are some things right now? The red line 566 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: seems to be that we won't put US troops in 567 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: harm's way. Is that the only thing that we won't do, 568 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: because if we're going to keep sending one hundred billion 569 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: dollars a year and if we're going to have senators, 570 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: remember Lizzie Graham also said maybe somebody could just take 571 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: Putin out. I don't understand. I don't understand why Republicans 572 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: listen to this man on foreign policy issues. I've never 573 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: heard him say anything that wasn't yeah, hold them accountable 574 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: and do something aggressive. All right, Well, one is is 575 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: it actually going to result in accountability? Other way? The 576 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: answers no, Putin doesn't care. But two, the notion that 577 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: we would start shooting Russian planes and pilots out of 578 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: the sky over an incident like this is reckless. It's 579 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: a reckless thing to say. It's it's a it's a 580 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 1: foolish thing to say. And I watch some of the 581 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: Republican voices on this on this issue, and you heard you, 582 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 1: or I should say, you saw what Trump put out 583 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: and what Desantists put out on Ukraine, which I think 584 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: we're even handed and nuance on both counts. I think 585 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: that there was a sensibility Trump is like, we gotta 586 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: negotiate this thing. We got to get it done as 587 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: as quickly as we can. We got to stop the 588 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: bullets from flying, the missiles from flying over there. Desantist's 589 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: position in summary is more, we just got to make 590 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: sure that this doesn't become a huge problem for America. 591 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 1: We gotta folk us on our own issues here in 592 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 1: the southern border and limit our involvement in what's going 593 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: on in Ukraine. But I hear other Republicans say, if 594 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: if Russia loses in I'm sorry, if Ukraine loses and 595 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: Russia were to take i don't know, half the country 596 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 1: or maybe all the country under into its domain, that 597 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: the next step would be a Russian invasion of Poland 598 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: and trigger Article five of NATO. And I hear this, 599 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: and I say, how look at the trouble that Russia 600 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: is having in Ukraine, which I would note is a 601 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: territorial and strategic interest of the Russian Federation in a 602 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: very real way. This is not made. But they didn't 603 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 1: just decide this recently, that that's been the case for 604 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: a long time, not saying the invasion is anything other 605 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: than wrong morally and belligerent, but it matters to Russia, 606 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: and has mattered to Russia every single day since the 607 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: collapse of the Soviet Union. This has never Oh, it's 608 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: not a big deal for us thing the future of 609 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 1: Ukraine and this idea that they would go and invade 610 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: Poland next, how is that? I mean, if you're if 611 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: you're having trouble winning the high school JV basketball game, 612 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: but maybe you're able to sort of squeak it out 613 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: in the end, then you're gonna take on an NBA 614 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 1: team next. I mean, I just I don't understand the 615 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 1: logic of this position at all, other than it tries 616 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 1: to silence people who say we should be very cautious 617 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,919 Speaker 1: about getting too into this conflict in Europe. That isn't 618 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,879 Speaker 1: they keep saying there's a core American interest at stake here? 619 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: What exactly is that the future of Ukrainian regime, the 620 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 1: future of the Ukrainian regime is a core American interest. 621 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not open to hearing about this 622 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: stuff from the other side of the debate. But let's 623 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: not just throw around. We're gonna shoot Russian planes out 624 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: of the sky. I am asking that