1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Mr garbutsch Off tears down this wall. Either you're with 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got 3 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you're 4 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: satisfied with it, is not a president of the United States, 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: take it to the bank. Together, we will make America 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: great again. It's what you've been waiting for all day. 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton with America now joined the conversation called Buck 8 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: toll free at eight four four nine hundred Buck. That's 9 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,959 Speaker 1: eight four four, nine hundred to eight to five the 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: Future of talk radio, Buck Sexton, Team Buck, Welcome to 11 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: the Freedom Hut. Great to have you here with me. 12 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: As always, this is Freedom Hunt, d C. Edition. So 13 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: I'm returning to my old stomping ground for a well, 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: for a quick trip here in which I will be 15 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: making the making the rounds, spend a little time over 16 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: with my friends at Fox News, and also catching up 17 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: with some of my former associates UH and friends in 18 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: the DC area. So um, great to have you with 19 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: me here today. One of these days where the media 20 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: narrative has just been completely flipped on its head. Right, 21 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: we went into this and here here's the here's the 22 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: basics as of this morning. Oh my gosh, there's a 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: civil war within the GOP. Nothing's ever gonna get done 24 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: because Trump is just so terrible and is so incapable, 25 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: just utterly incapable of governing the and and being a 26 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: leader of the Republican Party. That's what we were here 27 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: ring this morning, right, That's what the mainstream Democrat media 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: was going with. And then you have a turnabout as 29 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: of early this afternoon where all of a sudden, the 30 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: President is giving a speech and he's out there with 31 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, and Trump is willing to make it seem 32 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, bygones are bygones. Here's what 33 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: President Trump had to say at let's play clips six please. 34 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: We are probably now, despite what we read. We're probably now, 35 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: I think, at least, as far as I'm concerned, closer 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: than ever before. And the relationship is very good. We're 37 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: fighting for the same thing. My relationship with this gentleman 38 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: is outstanding, has been outstanding. We are working very hard 39 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: to get the tax cuts. We will continue to work 40 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: hard to get the healthcare come leaded. He says that 41 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 1: it's all gonna be okay. He's working with McConnell I 42 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: was seeing headlines about and editorials about the GOP civil 43 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: war over the weekend. And now you have the Senate 44 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell out there with Trump and they 45 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: are standing shoulder to shoulder talking about the future. Now 46 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: is some is this at some level theatrics? Is this 47 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: for the optics? Is this President Trump seizing the moment 48 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: here to keep his political opposition off balance and to 49 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: show that he is unpredictable? Well, of course, but it 50 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: is noteworthy that at a moment in time, when it 51 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: seems like there's such a fracture within the Republican Party, 52 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: Trump is opening the door to cooperation with the very 53 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: peak of the GOLP establishment. And Trump is even willing 54 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: to go out and say that this is a unified party. 55 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: So he is single handedly attempting to shift the narrative 56 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: right now with this press conference earlier today, with this 57 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: press conference and meeting with Mitch McConnell earlier today, here's 58 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: what he said about unity within the party. Play clip eight. 59 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: Just so you understand, the Republican Party is very, very unified. 60 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: When we get things approved, we have to go through 61 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: hell because we have no Democrats support. We have nobody. 62 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: We don't have a vote from the Democrats. As an example, 63 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: massive tax cuts, we may not get any Democrat votes. 64 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: Now we also may get three or four. So he's saying, look, 65 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: we've got to keep this all in perspective. Yes, there 66 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: have been some disappointing moments with the Democrats as well 67 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: as well with the Republicans, first and foremost on healthcare. 68 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: But also it should be kept in mind that the 69 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: Democrats have not been willing to be even a little 70 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: bit bipartisan, even the slightest bit reasonable on any of this. 71 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: But you can imagine today for the and I'm here, 72 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: I'm I'm inside the Beltway right, I'm actually close to 73 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: the belly of the beast. I just want to go 74 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: and wander K Street and take a look at all 75 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: the the lobbyists and the donor class, and they're fancy 76 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: martini lunches and all the rest of it. Right now, 77 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: I'm doing field research on the powers that be inside 78 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: of d C. But the storyline has changed very dramatically 79 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: because Trump is out there saying that the Republican Party 80 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: can still get things done, that it's not too late, 81 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: that the agenda is by no means dead. In fact, 82 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: the agenda is alive and well, and maybe the GOP 83 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: established needed a wake up call. Perhaps they've gotten it now. 84 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: I think this is an important part of the discussion 85 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: that often gets left out of this. If Trump was 86 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: going to be a disruptive president, if the plan here 87 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: all along was that he would be essentially a an 88 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: outsider who would not just shake up the overall political 89 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: ecosystem of d C, but that would specifically force the 90 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: Republican Party to either be what they say or be 91 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: what it says it wants to be, or else betray 92 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: the base. Trump is moving in that direction. He is 93 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: clarifying the debate and the discussion. He's doing it in 94 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: an unconventional way. We'll have a little sound few later 95 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who's saying, can we stop? 96 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm paraphrasing Rex now, but can we stop this? Oh? 97 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: He doesn't. He doesn't sound like other presidents. It doesn't 98 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: sound presidential. I don't like the way the president talked 99 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: about this or that issue. Of course, he doesn't sound 100 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: like other presidents. That is not in the least surprising. 101 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: In fact, it would be a shock if he if 102 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: he did sound like other presidents before him, and what 103 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: did they give us? I should note, stretching back now 104 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: for decades in a bipartisan way, what did we get? 105 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: More and more spending, bigger and bigger debt, borders that 106 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: will not be secured, and that both Republicans and Democrats 107 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: inside the Beltway have been lying about. They've been lying 108 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: about the realities of the border. Not all of them, 109 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: but a lot of Republicans have, all the Democrats have, 110 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: and they have been lying about what they would like 111 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: to do about it. This is why this moment with 112 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: the administration of pushing issues onto Congress's plate is so profound. 113 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: This it's it's so important. Now we get to see, 114 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: whether it's immigration, where you have the Democrats who are 115 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: clearly in favor of an amnesty for DOCCA, Nancy Pelosi, 116 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. There were supposed to be a deal with Trump, 117 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: and now we have found out there was actually no 118 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: deal per se. There was just the rough outline, a 119 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: vague agreement that will won't mean anything. And the the Congress, 120 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: the Republican led Congress, is going to have to be 121 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: in charge of doing something about all this. Right, they 122 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: can pass legislation, but it is their prerogative. One of 123 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: the ironies I I believe of the Trump administration so 124 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: far is that on immigration, on the Iran deal, on healthcare, 125 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: these are all places where Trump, well, no matter what 126 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: you think of this White House and this Commander in chief, 127 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: Trump has restored ward some degree of the separation of 128 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: powers that was violated by his predecessors, and most notably 129 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: by Barack Obama, who wasn't willing to challenge his own party. 130 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: In fact, just ran roughshod over the opposition, browbeat them, 131 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: pushed them into submission whenever possible, and claimed whenever there 132 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: was the slightest ideological opposition to his plans, that it 133 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: was rooted in bad faith. That it wasn't a debate 134 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: over the merits of one plan or another, but that 135 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: the Republicans didn't like old people, didn't like sick people, 136 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: poor people, minorities. It was rooted in their antipathy, in 137 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: their in their disdain. That's why they were opposing Obama's 138 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: plans and policies, not because they thought that maybe there 139 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: was something better out there for the American people. And 140 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: that's how we got to the pen and the phone. Right, 141 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: this is how we got to an imperial presidency, one 142 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: that even some Democrats were willing to say during the 143 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: Obama years that he is going too far. We have 144 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: had from the beginning, from the origins of this administration, 145 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: we have had many on the left and most of 146 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: the media saying that Trump is a tyrant in waiting, 147 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: that Trump is a creeping form of American fascism. I mean, 148 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: this is not this is beyond hyperbole. This is just 149 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 1: dangerous and destructive dishonesty about the administration. And yet now 150 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: we see what Trump is willing to do, what he 151 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: actually does, and it is more respectful of the separation 152 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: of powers, is more respectful of the constitutional prerogative of 153 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: the legislative branch then his predecessor. So far by leaps 154 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: and bows. Let's see what Congress comes up with on healthcare. 155 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: Let's see what Congress comes up with on name the issue, 156 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: name the major policy issue. Now, immigration, the Iran Deal. 157 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: These are areas where Obama did not have the authority 158 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: that he usurped for himself from the Congress. Trump is 159 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: trying to restore some balance to that constitutional separation. Whether 160 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: he whether that's his purpose, you know, whether that's his 161 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: intention or not, it is the reality. And now he's 162 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: saying that we should get tax reformed done. It will 163 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: help the middle class. He's out there selling his plan, 164 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: and he's standing next to Mitch McConnell, who cares about 165 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: the petty squabbles, who cares about the high school rumor 166 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: mongering that most of the media is engaged in. When 167 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: it comes to this White House, Let's get some stuff 168 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: done for the American people. Let's see what these elected 169 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: members of Congress can do. Let's see what the Republican 170 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: Party will get done. And at that point we can 171 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: make a judgment about whether or not Trump is following 172 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: through on his agenda. Once we've seen what gets put 173 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: on his desk and what he will or will not sign, 174 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: then we'll have a better understanding, or at least a 175 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: better place from which to judge how is Trump is 176 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: um working out right now? Trump is um is Hold 177 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: on a second. I'm the commander in chief. I appoint 178 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice, for example, through and it has 179 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: to get through the Senate. But I can deal with regulations. 180 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: As the commander in chief, I can do executive orders 181 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: to undo previous bad executive orders of the Obama administration, 182 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: But legislation comes from Congress. The promises that I made 183 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: being Trump now I'm I'm channeling Trump from him and 184 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: the promises that Trump made for them to be followed 185 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,599 Speaker 1: through on. It has to be the Congress that does that. 186 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: It can't be Trump singlehandedly. We saw what that was 187 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: like with the previous administration and it didn't get very 188 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: far and the courts had to say, hold on a second. 189 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: I don't think so President Obama. Now we will see 190 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: what Mitch McConnell's move is here. But we went into 191 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: the weekend being told that it was all over between 192 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: Trump and the Senate, and now here we are wondering 193 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: what magic, if any Mitch McConnell can make happen as 194 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: the Senate majority leader with Trump at his side saying 195 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: they have a great relationship. Whether they do or not, 196 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: who cares. Let's see what the policies are. Eight four 197 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: four buck eight four four to five, Freedom Hunt, Washington, 198 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: d C. Edition. Here is a well underway. Give me 199 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: a ring and we'll be right back. Why Hillary runs? 200 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: Is you going to run? I hope Hillary please run? Again. 201 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: There you have President Trump earlier today talking about how 202 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: he he hopes. He hopes that Hillary would indeed run again. 203 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: I can't believe that this is even seriously under discussion 204 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: in any way. I have a hard time imagining that 205 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: anybody would really. But you know what, the political scene 206 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: is so crazy right now, and so much unpredictability seems 207 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: to be the order of the day, or the order 208 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: of the era, really not the day that who knows. 209 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: Hillary is so power mad that even though the Democrat Party, 210 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: one would think, had I would have moved on from 211 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: her as a prospect for president. What's their other option, 212 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, what do you mean, I'm not the wall. 213 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: Put me in the game, coach, I'll get it fun. 214 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: I just don't see who the the front runner is 215 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: for the next Democrat go at the presidency. I've been 216 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: seeing the early stage efforts for Kamala Harris, but I 217 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: don't think that's going to happen. Um. But the Hillary 218 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: is out there. But but maybe, you know, maybe the 219 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: media is very powerful and she has uh some charisma 220 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: that they, I'm sure would be able to build into 221 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: a national political campaign. But I was trying to I 222 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: was what is the most what is the most accurate 223 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: description of the political fortunes of a Democrat party right 224 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: now uncertain. That's one way to go. You have Hillary 225 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: Clinton though out there speaking, and I think to to 226 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: borrow from from Steve Bannon, who's also making a lot 227 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: of waves these days. You know, when he said that 228 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: the more NFL players kneel, the more culture war stuff 229 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here, but the more cultural war stuff, the 230 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: better for Trump and the administration and the futures of 231 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: the future of the Republican Party right now. I think 232 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: that's true. The more Hillary we can get out there, 233 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: the more we can point to her with what happened 234 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: and all that stuff, the better for Trump's fortunes. Right now. 235 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: Hillary is a in my opinion, a running campaign ad 236 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: for Trump at this point. It will just continue to 237 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: be much of what we've already seen, which is her 238 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: blaming everybody, and and she'll even go out there and 239 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: try and trash the president. She she won't go out 240 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: with dignity as a woman that could now do anything. 241 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: She's worth over a hundred billion dollars, and but she 242 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: won't go out in a dignified fashion as a former 243 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: presidential contender. She she wants to now be a big 244 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: voice in the discussion. I think Hillary is positioning herself 245 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: not for another run. That's just I'd like to say 246 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: it's crazy, but you know this is now. We're a 247 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: never say never territory with the Clintons. I think you 248 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: could say that about our politics in general right now. 249 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: But with Hillary, she wants the role of kingmaker in 250 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party. At least that's a way to maintain 251 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: relevancy and attention. As I've said before, I think she 252 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: has something of a whole in her soul. I don't 253 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: know her as a person, but based on her actions 254 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: in public, the notion of not being a famous, powerful 255 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: political figure is just too much for Hillary Clinton to bear. Right, 256 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: there's no I saw that she might take up a 257 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: teaching job at Columbia University, and I joked around that 258 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: what she's going to teach cybersecurity? One oh one? Who? 259 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: But that's not going to be enough for her. Other 260 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: presidential candidates I think might be willing to settle for 261 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: not that teaching and teaching Columbia sounds like fun. Actually 262 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: I would love to teach, But I'm also not a 263 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: power mad megalomaniac, and I think Hillary is. But when 264 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: she comes out and says these things. It is helpful 265 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: to Trump, I think, to hear from Hillary. And she 266 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: was even willing to go on the Sunday shows and 267 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: compare Trump to Weinstein, play clip to please. This kind 268 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: of behavior cannot be tolerated anywhere, whether it's in entertainment politics. 269 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: After all, we have someone admitting to being a sexual 270 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: assaulter in the the office. That's a lie. Now Trump 271 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: is a public figure, so there's a there's a very 272 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: high bar for slander when you're dealing with a public figure. 273 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: And what she's doing is she's referring to that video 274 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: that NBC released. Oh remember NBC. They're the ones who 275 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: sat on the Weinstein revelations because he's an incredibly powerful 276 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,360 Speaker 1: Democrat and suppressed stories about Weinstein. But somehow a ten 277 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: year old tape of Trump on a bus, they were 278 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: able to find that and go with that real fast. 279 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: I think we all know what's going on there. But 280 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: Hillary is just dishonest and she's a hack. And saying 281 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: that Trump has admitted to sexual assault is to say 282 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 1: that Trump has admitted to a crime which he has 283 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: never done. He has absolutely never admitted to a crime. 284 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: He in locker room talk fashion said that he could 285 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: be very aggressive sometimes with women. He never said they 286 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: were non consenting. He's just never said that. He's never 287 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: admitted to any crime whatsoever. So Hillary is saying that 288 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: is a lie, is a lie. But you know what 289 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: she's at. Clinton's a lying is something that she excels at. 290 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: All Right, We've got more, including the Rex Tillerson uh 291 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: question thrown at him over the weekend that you're just 292 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: gonna have to hear it to believe it. So stay 293 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: with me and we'll be right back. A friend of yours, 294 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: he has tremendous respect for you. He speaks highly of 295 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: you all the time. He says that you're one of 296 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: the best things about the cabinet. And he's dismayed. He 297 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: thinks President Trump is constantly undermining you. This is a 298 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: Republican chairman of the Center Foreign Relations Committee. He said 299 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: that the president has quote castrated you before the world stage. 300 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: That's his word, not mine. What's your response to that? Well, 301 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: as I indicated Earnier Dick, I think this is an 302 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: unconventional president. He uses uncommissional communication tools, he uses uncommistional 303 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: techniques to motivate change and for people that have been 304 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: around Washington a long time. This is a place that 305 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 1: you know better than I. You've been here longer than 306 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: I have. This is not a place that likes to change, 307 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: actually enjoys the status quo. The last thing anyone likes 308 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: to do in this town is make a decision, because 309 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,360 Speaker 1: when you make a decision, you're suddenly accountable for that decision. 310 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: And so the President is out trying to motivate people 311 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: to change, whether it's on healthcare with his executive action 312 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: he recently took to motivate that change, whether it's on 313 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: executive orders or hand immigration to motivate that change, or 314 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: whether it's under the action he took under the Irandeal 315 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: on the Friday, is to motivate a change. People in 316 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: this town get very nervous and get very uptight about 317 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: having to address seriously issues by making decisions. So the 318 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: President is simply trying to do that in his very 319 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: unique style. And he is very unique. I don't think 320 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: there's any doubt that anyone sees him as anything other 321 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: than the most unique president we've certainly ever seen in 322 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,479 Speaker 1: modern history that we can have recorded history of just that. 323 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,719 Speaker 1: But again, I would say I am fully committed to 324 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: his objectives. I agree with his objectives. I agree with 325 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: what he's trying to do, how he wants to use 326 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: his own skills tactically to push things towards change. I'm 327 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: there to help him achieve those that's all. You're a 328 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: cattle you have a cattle ranch. You don't want to 329 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: say anything about the senator, senator calling some suggesting you've 330 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: been gelded before the world, and it's not anything that 331 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: bothers you. I checked. I'm fully intact. Listen to the 332 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: kind of stuff that Big Jay Journalism uh CNN and 333 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper ask the sitting Secretary of State, you know, 334 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: to to pose the question once, to ask him about Corker, 335 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 1: and to to say to him, hey, hold hold on 336 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: a second. You know that this was said, Okay, maybe 337 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: because you're talking about a you're talking about a sitting senator, 338 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: and there's some beef between the president and the senator 339 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: right now Senator Corker, and I understand that they're going 340 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: to run with that as a story. I think they're 341 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: obviously inflating it, but they're also clearly relying on the 342 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,959 Speaker 1: fact that Corker has some kind of feud going on 343 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: with Trump to just take cheap shot at the administration, 344 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: and but to ask him twice, you know, can you 345 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: refer specifically to the the allegation of castration. It's just 346 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: meant to be demeaning. It's just wrong. And this brings 347 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: me to how I mean the reason that people who 348 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: support Trump are willing to support him even after he 349 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: says things that are supposed to be unpresidential or even 350 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 1: in moments where his uh shall we say, non traditional 351 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: approach to the presidency might seem like it's causing some 352 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: issues or some problems. The reason is because we know 353 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: that the other side will do anything to undermine him, 354 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: and so you want to give the president more leeway 355 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: because he's not getting any leeway at all from journalists 356 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: on anything, and that includes to the people around him 357 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: as well. You know, Tillerson, the Secretary of State, would 358 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: really like to have a much more in depth and 359 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: serious discussion with any CNN journalist or anybody else about 360 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: the Iran deal and about what's going on. But you'll 361 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: notice that there's such a focus on the petty palace 362 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: intrigue stuff. They want to make this more like a 363 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: high school gossip situation than discussing matters of state and 364 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: an incredibly important national security concerns for the United States. 365 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 1: They can't have it both ways. On the one hand, 366 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: they'll say that Trump is so unpresidential, and on the 367 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: other hand, they will level such unpresidential or rather un 368 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: journalistic attacks against them that that are clearly meant to 369 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: be part of a propaganda machine to undermine the president, 370 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: that are clearly meant to make people think that this 371 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: administration is completely incompetent and has no ethics. And it's 372 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: not enough to oppose Trump's policies or his agenda. They 373 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: want to ridicule the president everybody around him. And that 374 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: means that those of us who see it for what 375 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: it is, say, you know what, I'm just I'm just 376 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: not playing that game. I just don't want to be 377 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: a part of that. I don't want to allow them 378 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: to get away with it. On top of the fact 379 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: that I think that the administration's policies, if enacted, would 380 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: be really good for the country. And I think that, 381 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: and I think that President Trump has much keener political 382 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: instincts than a lot of Republicans, very prominent Republicans who 383 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: in my mind, seem like they're still so fixed on 384 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 1: whether they can get the Beltway and coastal media to 385 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: just say something nice about them. Trump doesn't care about that. 386 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: And when we see things like the Secretary of State 387 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: being asked multiple times on national TV, have you do 388 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: you have a comment on whether you have been castrated? Uh? 389 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: That makes the rest of us double down and say, okay. So, 390 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: so this is the game they're playing, and we've known 391 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: this for a while, but it's another instance of it. 392 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: It shows us what they're really up to, and it 393 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: shows us how they plan to continue to try and 394 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: oppose Trump and all things that are all people around 395 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: him and all things that are tied to his administration. 396 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: The the Iran Deal. They would like to I mean, 397 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: the journalist would would like to convince people that everything 398 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: is terrible and that the Iran Deal is it's been scrapped, 399 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: and because it's scrapped now these horrible things are going 400 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: to happen to us. But no, in fact, we're not 401 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: even out of the deal. How much of a freak 402 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,239 Speaker 1: out can they have because we're not even separated from 403 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: the Iran Deal. I think a large part of this 404 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: is for journalists who were part of the who were 405 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: covering the Obama administration. They felt like they were part 406 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: of the administration, and this you can't cast this aside. 407 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: You've got to keep this in mind whenever we're talking 408 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: about how the media describes Trump and how they're reacting 409 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: to his policies. The national media, the Democrat media, was 410 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: not just favorable towards the Obama administration, but they had 411 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: a belief that they were a part of it, meaning 412 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: that Obama's election and Obama's success was a great endeavor 413 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: to which they personally journalists, they personally contributed to it 414 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: in many cases. I'm sure financially too, we look at 415 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: who journalists give money to. But I mean that their efforts, 416 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,439 Speaker 1: their work product, was a part of the elevation of 417 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: and in their minds, the success of the eight years 418 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: of the Obama administration. Because on the merits, to be 419 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: so upset about the Iran deal right now is to 420 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: ignore what has happened and what has not happened with 421 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: the Iran deal. The truth of the matter is that 422 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,959 Speaker 1: this is now just going to be further negotiated and 423 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: litigated and out with by people who have expertise on 424 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: nuclear policy and who have expertise on in diplomacy, and 425 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: and they're going to be handling these matters for the 426 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: Trump administration with an eye toward making sure that Iran 427 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: does not ever have a clear pathway to a nuclear weapon, 428 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: and also that Iran isn't able to just get away 429 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 1: with all kinds of uh, destructive and destabilizing behavior in 430 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: the meantime. You know, the Obama administration was so desperate 431 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: to get an Iran deal done that it meant that 432 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: their Syria policy was completely ineffective. They were so desperate 433 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: to get a deal done that we had planeloads full 434 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: of cash arriving in Iran in exchange for hostages. And 435 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: I was on CNN when that happened, or when we 436 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: were talking about it. I should say I was on 437 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: CNN and everyone was looking at me like I'm crazy, 438 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: because I said, when you have an exchange of prisoners 439 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 1: for cash, that is a hosted situation. There. You can 440 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: call it whatever you want. You can say that this 441 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: is a magical super diplomacy moment. But when you're exchanging 442 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: cash for people who have been imprisoned for no reason 443 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: and are being held merely because they are citizens of 444 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: another country, that is a hostage situation, and giving that 445 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: money to the greatest state sponsor of terror in the 446 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: world means that you are paying terrorists for hostages, which 447 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: is what Obama did. That they can try and spend 448 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: in a million different ways, but that is what happened. 449 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: That's the reality. And now we see that any adjustments 450 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: to the Iran Deal, even if they're minor, or even 451 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: if they have not yet been fully implemented, media will 452 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: oppose it because it's such a part of Obama's legacy, 453 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: and that should be pretty frightening to many of us 454 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: that when you're talking about nuclear weapons and a rogue 455 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: terrorist state trying to get nuclear weapons the first concern, 456 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: and with no change in its belligerent behavior in the East, 457 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: by the way, it's actually just gotten worse. There's still 458 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: yelling death to America, are still yelling death to Israel 459 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: in the streets of Tehran. But for many who are 460 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be educating the American public about this circumstance, 461 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to their mind is not, oh, wait, 462 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: maybe we should not have Maybe we should not have 463 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: been putting our thumbs on the scale for the Obama administration. 464 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: Maybe we should just tell the public the truth and 465 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: nothing but the truth about what's happening with this deal 466 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: and what's not happening with this deal. Their impulses circle 467 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: the wagons, defend the Obama administration, find a way to 468 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: make this early stage change in the RANDEO from the 469 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: Trump administration seem like it's just beyond the pale. This 470 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: is just absolutely crazy. And on top of that, find 471 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,719 Speaker 1: a way to ridicule Trump's secretary of State. You know, 472 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: that Corker would that Corker would undermine the administration of 473 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: the Secretary of State in such a childish way is 474 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: much more a function or speaks much more to his 475 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: lack of character and lack of temperament than anything having 476 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: to do with this White House right now in their 477 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: Foreign Policy Secretary court. I mean, pardon me, Senator Corker 478 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: should be embarrassed. He should feel like, wow, that was 479 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: really that was really out of line. You know, he 480 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,239 Speaker 1: can say that Tillerson has been sidelined. There's a lot 481 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: of things he could say, but to say he's been 482 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: castrated is meant to get headlines. It's meant to get attention, 483 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: and it is meant to not just undermine, but ridicule 484 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: the administration at a time when there are major national 485 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: security and diplomatic challenges North Korea, Iran and others that 486 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: we have at the level we have them, I mean 487 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: that they're as bad as they are because of eight 488 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: years of a feckless Obama administration that just didn't have 489 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: a vision and didn't have the strength of character or 490 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: the courage of its convictions to make hard choices to 491 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: do difficult things in the realm of diplomacy and national security. 492 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: You know, the Obama administration was first and foremost about 493 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: how was this going to play on the evening news, 494 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: on the national broadcasts, and how can we pat ourselves 495 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,959 Speaker 1: on the back for being so brilliant, so amazing, and 496 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: so awesome. And as we see, the results of this 497 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: are near catastrophic in a number of places around the world. 498 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: And now the Trump administration has to clean up the mess, 499 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: and that mess is important for all of us to 500 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: be cleaned up. It's not just a partisan thing, but 501 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: the media, as always is being hyperpartisan about it and 502 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: going after the Secretary of State and reporting on all 503 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: this like a bunch of high school girls instead of 504 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: doing what they say they do, which is keep us 505 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: all informed of what is happening in a nonpartisan way, 506 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: which is laughable. We will be back in just a 507 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: few teams. Stay with me. Democrats have terrible policy, terrible 508 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: and they're very good of freely obstruction, one thing they 509 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: do well. The policies no good. And I'm not even 510 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: sure they're very good politicians because they don't seem to 511 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: be doing too well. That could be because of their 512 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: bad policy. But they're great out obstruction. They're great out obstruction. 513 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: President says they're they're great at at that, and he 514 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: says that they're bad on on foreign policy in in particular. Um, 515 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: I think that's fair to say. But the notion of 516 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,719 Speaker 1: Democrats as obstructionists, I just have to revisit for a second. 517 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: How you know, for for years and we're gonna be 518 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: talking about media dishonesty coming up here in a few minutes, 519 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: But for for years, uh, all we heard from Obama 520 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: was how the Republicans are obstructionist, how the Republicans are 521 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: terrible and they won't work with him on things, and 522 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: and that's all we heard. It was never, hey, maybe 523 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: I could try to find some middle ground with the Republicans. 524 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: It was never, hey, I've got an idea, why don't 525 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: we try to find a path that they can actually 526 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: get on board with two for the benefit of American people. 527 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: And you had all of these journalists out there, and 528 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: so many people on the left, and Democrats had Check 529 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: Hill there and you know all the rest of them. 530 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: You know, they were saying time and time again that 531 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: the Republicans all they do is obstruct, OBSTRUCTI obstruct. That 532 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: was the narrative, that was what you would hear from 533 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:52,719 Speaker 1: the left. And then finally when the Republicans come in 534 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: take the House, take the Senate, and now the presidency, 535 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: you see in the in the other direction, that obstruction 536 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: is now great, that that tag resistance is just all 537 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: well and good, it's fine, it's fantastic. In fact, that 538 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: whatever that they whatever they can do to stand in 539 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: the way of Trump making progress on his agenda is 540 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: almost a holy duty for the Democrats. They would never 541 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: think of it as holy, of course, they don't like 542 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: that notion. This is perhaps a time when we can 543 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: get into a discussion of the state in place of God. 544 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 1: For Democrats, which state is m at its core collectivism, 545 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: state is um the underlying ideology of the Democrat party, 546 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: and this is why there's also such a connection with 547 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 1: the psychology of the left in this country to climate 548 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: change is something in place of the almighty. This is 549 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: how you could have Chuck Todd, who's supposed to be 550 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 1: a political walk just in the last few weeks saying, Hey, 551 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: this notion of natural rights as coming from some higher power, 552 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: that's just ridiculous. That's that's eolishness. Uh No, Actually, that's 553 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: that is the whole That is the whole founding thing 554 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: that we've got going on in this country. That is 555 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: how it was. That is the natural law, natural rights, 556 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: and the rights that we have that government is to protect, 557 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: not that government creates the rights predate government. That's why 558 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: they are rights, not gifts, not presents, not something that 559 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: the government just hands to us. But the dishonesty that 560 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: has been on display with the way that Democrats have 561 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: been talking about Trump's recent executive actions, their attempts to 562 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: create more palace, not just palace, intrigue, palace in fighting 563 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: within the White House, to slow down the administration, and 564 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 1: the complete reversal of the notion of a government that 565 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: must do things right. That's that's central to all this. 566 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: The government has to accomplish stuff. This is what they 567 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 1: were telling us. The government must figure some things out 568 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,920 Speaker 1: and do them. It's not enough for the government just 569 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: to exist and continue with status quo. Progressives were pushing 570 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: so hard on all these points before, and now here 571 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: we are with Republicans in power and grinding everything to 572 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: a halt is okay, forcing everything to come to a 573 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: near complete stop if they can, that's what they would 574 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: like to accomplish. And by the way, there's a lot 575 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,399 Speaker 1: of excuses that you get and Trump mentioned this as well. 576 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: Play clip nine about Russia. Thank you, and it would 577 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 1: help you if it would help Special Counsel Robert Mueller 578 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: get to the end of the Russia investigation. Well, I'd 579 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,879 Speaker 1: like to see it end. Look, the whole Russian thing 580 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: was an excuse. Excuse me. The whole Russian thing was 581 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: an excuse for the Democrats losing the election. And it 582 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: turns out to be just one excuse. I mean today 583 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: Hillary blamed Nigel Farage. That one came out of nowhere. 584 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,320 Speaker 1: So that was just an excuse for the Democrats losing 585 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:03,919 Speaker 1: an election. Absolutely, there was just an excuse. Obstruction, excuses, 586 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,160 Speaker 1: underhanded tactics. That's what the Democrats excel at my friends. 587 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about the Kurdish independence movement. 588 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: We'll get into that coming up here and much more so. 589 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: Stay with me. Team. You are now entering the Freedom 590 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: Technical Operations Center. All sensitive programs must be kept strictly. 591 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: Need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for 592 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 1: the Buck Brief. Tensions escalating in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. 593 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 1: Here's the latest from the Washington Post. Iraqi forces said 594 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: Monday they seized a military base and oil field and 595 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 1: other key infrastructure from Kurtish soldiers near the northern city 596 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: of kirk Cook, as the two U S allies face 597 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 1: off over territory and oil in the wake of the 598 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,320 Speaker 1: Kurdish region's independence vote last month. Clashes broke out despite 599 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,279 Speaker 1: an order from Iraqi Prime Minister Hyder Alabadi for his 600 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: troops to avoid violence. Iraqi forces advanced into the contested 601 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: province with the goal of returning to positions they held 602 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: before when they fled in the face of an Islamic 603 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: State push. The positions had since been taken over by 604 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: Kurdish troops. You will recall Team that on this show. 605 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,360 Speaker 1: I have been talking to you in recent weeks about 606 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: the UH flashpoint that is Kurdish separatism and the possibility 607 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: of Kurdish independence in Iraq. And here we see that 608 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: this puts Kurdish forces or Peshmerga into possible military conflict 609 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: with Iraqi government forces, which would be disastrous if it 610 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: were to spiral into a bigger conflict. Right if you 611 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: had the start of a Kurdish Arab Iraqi civil war, 612 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: it would be devastating, especially because well for many many reasons, 613 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: but you also have a fight against the Islamic State 614 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: that is ongoing in Iraq right now. The uh ISIS 615 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: militants still control Hawigia, they still have some areas, some 616 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,760 Speaker 1: smaller towns that they have continued to hold under their grip. 617 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: And so I just hope that they're able to push 618 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,279 Speaker 1: back and find a way to walk back from the 619 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 1: brink here and not get into a shooting war. I 620 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,239 Speaker 1: feel for the Kurdish people, I really do. I think 621 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 1: that Kurdistan would be a look. I think it would 622 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,400 Speaker 1: be a great country. I think could be a place 623 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 1: that you would want to visit, maybe as opposed to 624 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 1: a lot of the other stuff in that neighborhood of 625 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,919 Speaker 1: the Middle East. And it seems to me that there's 626 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:56,560 Speaker 1: just an an inherent unfairness with the Kurdish people being 627 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: told that they cannot form their own formed, their own state. 628 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,680 Speaker 1: You know, we are a country that should have a 629 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 1: lot of sympathy for people who, through a democratic process, 630 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,879 Speaker 1: decide that they want to vote and form their own 631 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: political entity, their own polity. And the Kurds have their 632 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,319 Speaker 1: own culture, their own language, their own ethnicity, and they 633 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:23,839 Speaker 1: have been stalwart allies when we've really needed them. And 634 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,920 Speaker 1: many of you listening, I know, have have written to 635 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: me about this. I know exactly what I'm talking about. 636 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: And the darkest days of the Iraq War, when the 637 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: US had a hundred and fifty thousand plus troops on 638 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 1: the ground and the insurgency was just raging, we could 639 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 1: count on the Curts. We could count on them to 640 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 1: keep their area quiet and to be a ground force 641 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 1: that would actually fight at a time when there were 642 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: a lot of newly conscripted or newly hired, newly enlisted 643 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: units in the Iraqi police and military that would just 644 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,240 Speaker 1: lay down arms and would want no part of doing 645 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,280 Speaker 1: what they had said they wanted to do. The Kurds 646 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: the Peshmerger, in particular, they would stand and fight and 647 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,319 Speaker 1: they would do their part for their country, and they 648 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 1: don't want to be and this is where you see 649 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:23,200 Speaker 1: the problems of our Iran deal and our previous eight 650 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: years of Obama postre towards the Middle East. The Kurds 651 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,839 Speaker 1: don't want to be a uh state that is run 652 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 1: by a client state of the Iranians. And that's what's 653 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,359 Speaker 1: happening right now, at least in their minds. You have 654 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,879 Speaker 1: Iran right next door, which is exerting more and more 655 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: influence on the Shia majority Baghdad government, the government that 656 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: is controlled by Shia Arabs, and they just don't want 657 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: any part of it. And they don't want the Iranians 658 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: to be the ones that are calling the shots in 659 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: their country. And this is one of the unfortunately, one 660 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: of the really destructive legacies of intervention and and toppling 661 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 1: Saddam is that now the Iranians have a pretty clear 662 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:19,879 Speaker 1: path to at least political domination of Iraq. And that 663 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,279 Speaker 1: is critical for the Iranians if they want to be 664 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: the regional power that they aspire to be. So they 665 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,360 Speaker 1: no longer have a um and Iraq on their border 666 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 1: that is a check on Iranian ambitions. Really the Iraq 667 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:40,640 Speaker 1: government that currently exists is largely a puppet, a client 668 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: of that government. So that's problematic for a whole bunch 669 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: of reasons. And I think, to be fair, this is 670 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:54,520 Speaker 1: one of those moments where US rhetoric on well the 671 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: right of people to self governed, and it starts to 672 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:03,960 Speaker 1: run into the realities of politics and and our interests 673 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,799 Speaker 1: in different regions of the world. Because we are not 674 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:12,720 Speaker 1: supporting this Kurdish referendum, not because of any uh problem 675 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,439 Speaker 1: we have with the Kurds. We are not opposing this 676 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:21,319 Speaker 1: Kurdish push for independence because of some belief that we 677 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 1: have that this would be terrible for the Kurdish people. 678 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,359 Speaker 1: It's because the Iraqis don't want it. And we've just 679 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,280 Speaker 1: fought a very expensive, difficult war and blood and treasure 680 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,200 Speaker 1: in Iraq, and we've just helped out the Islamic State 681 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: from Iraq. We have quite an investment in that country 682 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: in national security and great power terms. We have decided 683 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: that we are very much a part of Iraq's future, 684 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,880 Speaker 1: and the Iraqi government doesn't want this, and we fear 685 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,240 Speaker 1: as we look right now at the posturing of forces 686 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,719 Speaker 1: on both sides in Iraq, we fear the possibility of 687 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,640 Speaker 1: an actual military exchange, which is a polite way of 688 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,879 Speaker 1: saying that they start shooting each other, and that would 689 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,960 Speaker 1: be a terrible turn of events in this country in 690 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,680 Speaker 1: a rocket at that point in time. But we also 691 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,400 Speaker 1: oppose it because the Kurds don't I mean, the the 692 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,280 Speaker 1: Turks don't. The Turks don't want it, and they're a 693 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:27,440 Speaker 1: major NATO ally they provide military assistance to us in Afghanistan, 694 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,640 Speaker 1: and they are a country that we don't want to 695 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:36,239 Speaker 1: particularly upset. There's also the optics of the only Muslim 696 00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,759 Speaker 1: member state of NATO that has a major army, Albania. 697 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know this, Albania is 698 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:48,280 Speaker 1: actually a yes. Albania is a small state in eastern 699 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,520 Speaker 1: Europe that is a very pro U S I should note, 700 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,719 Speaker 1: and it is a Muslim majority But the Albanian military 701 00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,359 Speaker 1: is not large enough to play a particularly big role 702 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: in any of our military operations abroad. But Turkeys is, 703 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: and Turkey is the most visible. How many people even 704 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,720 Speaker 1: know that Albania is a Muslim majority state for example, 705 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 1: I think it's very very few. Uh. Turkey, though I 706 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,799 Speaker 1: think everybody kind of knows as a Muslim country. So 707 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,320 Speaker 1: that means that if we were to run a foul 708 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,920 Speaker 1: of Turkey, there would be other problems with how that 709 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,760 Speaker 1: would look. And we are in a position where once again, 710 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,439 Speaker 1: and it would not be the first time, it would 711 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,040 Speaker 1: be actually a few times into our relationship with the Kurds, 712 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,319 Speaker 1: once again we would be kind of leaving them high 713 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 1: and dry. Um. They hopefully will figure out a way 714 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,040 Speaker 1: to uh settle this with the Rocky government that is 715 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,319 Speaker 1: to their liking for now, but they want to have 716 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,839 Speaker 1: their own country and there should be a means of 717 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,000 Speaker 1: coming up with a revenue sharing agreement with the oil 718 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,440 Speaker 1: fields something. You know, it's not a huge portion of 719 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,239 Speaker 1: the rocks oil revenue that flows through kirk Bok in 720 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,840 Speaker 1: the surrounding areas. It's something in the in the neighborhood 721 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,239 Speaker 1: I think ten. So they could figure this out, but 722 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: when it comes to resources, federal governments become very stingy 723 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,960 Speaker 1: and very protective. So this is, as I've been saying, 724 00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,520 Speaker 1: the most likely spot in the Mid East for a 725 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,080 Speaker 1: new conflict to break out, and it would be a 726 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,799 Speaker 1: an intro award, it would be a civil war within 727 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,480 Speaker 1: the Iraqi State. I don't think that's going to happen 728 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,080 Speaker 1: because the Kurds don't want to be shooting at their 729 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:38,240 Speaker 1: allies and friends in the Iraqi National military. But it's 730 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: it's tense, as you can imagine as I started out 731 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: this segment, when you have Iraqi military season oil fields, 732 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they have they have orders that they're 733 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,239 Speaker 1: not just going to back off if Pesh Murger show 734 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,279 Speaker 1: up and say, actually, these are our oil fields. This 735 00:46:54,400 --> 00:47:00,080 Speaker 1: is how miscalculation turns into something really ugly. And I 736 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,880 Speaker 1: I would like to see some more leadership on the 737 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,720 Speaker 1: U S side here, not just to say let's defuse things, 738 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,040 Speaker 1: but also let's come up with a workable agreement for 739 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,840 Speaker 1: the future. I'm sure US military advisors on the ground 740 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,440 Speaker 1: in Iraq are working on this feverishly, and I just 741 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: would like to see what the end strategy is. But 742 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,040 Speaker 1: I keep repeating this point because I really believe it. 743 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,840 Speaker 1: I think we do owe the Koords something and we 744 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 1: need to keep that in mind because America has to 745 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,360 Speaker 1: be a country that remembers its obligations to its allies 746 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,520 Speaker 1: and pays its debts to others. All right, We'll be 747 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,759 Speaker 1: right back with more and stay with me. Oh yeah, 748 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,560 Speaker 1: more on Jimmy Kimmel. Everybody, I know, we're we're making 749 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,960 Speaker 1: a hard turn here from national security for a second, 750 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:48,120 Speaker 1: But Jimmy Kimmel is a like I'm about to explain 751 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,840 Speaker 1: to you who Jimmy Kimmel is in case, in case 752 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,400 Speaker 1: you didn't know. Jimmy Kimmel is a late night comedian 753 00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:01,720 Speaker 1: who has thrust himself into the center of some political debates, 754 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:07,360 Speaker 1: not notably the healthcare debate, which he was appointed to 755 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:14,439 Speaker 1: by the media overall as the source of both emotional 756 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,920 Speaker 1: wisdom as well as policy wisdom on healthcare, and anybody 757 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: who wanted to do away with Obamacare, anybody out there 758 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:29,560 Speaker 1: who had the temerity to challenge this Jimmy Kimmel wisdom 759 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,240 Speaker 1: found themselves in a position where all of a sudden 760 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:36,080 Speaker 1: they weren't just wrong on the facts, they were a 761 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,239 Speaker 1: bad They were a bad person. This is the That 762 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,319 Speaker 1: was the magic of of Jimmy Kimmel. Uh And now 763 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,000 Speaker 1: now I know it's not actually magic, but you know 764 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,400 Speaker 1: what I mean. That was why he was so useful 765 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: at the time. But things have become a little more 766 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 1: complicated because Kimmel didn't want to have didn't want to 767 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,920 Speaker 1: say all that much about Harvey Weinstein, and then it 768 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,480 Speaker 1: came out that Jimmy Kimmel himself said that he does 769 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:09,640 Speaker 1: not hold himself up as the the the conscience of America, 770 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,600 Speaker 1: even though I saw I think it was on CMN 771 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,760 Speaker 1: dot com. No surprise here that Jimmy Kimmel we should 772 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,319 Speaker 1: think of as the conscience of America. Uh. But then 773 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,680 Speaker 1: it became well, actually, with the Weinstein stuff, maybe he's not. 774 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,040 Speaker 1: And sure, of course he has never been. He's an entertainer, 775 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,200 Speaker 1: but we are in an we are in a time 776 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:37,440 Speaker 1: now where entertainers are more powerful than ever before because 777 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,360 Speaker 1: there are more ways for them to reach the masses. 778 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:46,520 Speaker 1: And politics now has well, it's always been a battle 779 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,120 Speaker 1: of propaganda, right, I mean, if you if you want 780 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,239 Speaker 1: to get a little cynical about it, it's competing narratives 781 00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,920 Speaker 1: meant to achieve a certain goal. That is what politics is. 782 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,759 Speaker 1: And we've been hearing about how health care for a 783 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,200 Speaker 1: long time from Democrats. They've been putting forward people that 784 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,000 Speaker 1: have been making emotional appeals. But it's only somebody like 785 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,759 Speaker 1: a Jimmy Kimmel who has a TV presence, a huge 786 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:16,439 Speaker 1: social media following, and he becomes for those who are 787 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,520 Speaker 1: not particularly politically aware, but like to think of themselves 788 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:25,239 Speaker 1: as good people. He becomes the source of wisdom and 789 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:31,000 Speaker 1: information on the health care debate, right, That's what That's 790 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,839 Speaker 1: what was happening a few weeks ago, and he had 791 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,200 Speaker 1: a tearful monologue. I should know before that the only 792 00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,240 Speaker 1: time I had seen Kimmel tear up was when Cecil 793 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,120 Speaker 1: the Lion or was it Cecil the Lion was shot 794 00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,759 Speaker 1: in Africa, and he was very teary eyed in the 795 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:48,640 Speaker 1: monologue about that. But then in Look, he was talking 796 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,879 Speaker 1: about health care and why is it effective? Because he's liked, 797 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:55,439 Speaker 1: because he's a comedian, and because he told a very 798 00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,000 Speaker 1: compelling story that any person of goodwill and any person 799 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:05,080 Speaker 1: and with the most basic human feeling sympathizes with him, 800 00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,560 Speaker 1: which is that he had a sick child. But having 801 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:12,120 Speaker 1: a sick child is not the grounds for healthcare expertise 802 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,279 Speaker 1: on an incredibly complicated problem. And on top of that, 803 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,600 Speaker 1: saying that people who disagree with you are bullies or liars. 804 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,960 Speaker 1: You know, Kimmel went after he went after Republicans on 805 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,480 Speaker 1: this one for disagreeing with him on healthcare, And now 806 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,480 Speaker 1: he's doesn't want to say much on Weinstein, so he's well, 807 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,160 Speaker 1: not really the moral conscience anymore on healthcare. He was, 808 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,880 Speaker 1: and then they move off from that and say, oh, 809 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:38,640 Speaker 1: actually he's not anymore. And you can add onto all 810 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:45,480 Speaker 1: of this that he doesn't care if Republicans stop watching him. 811 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:50,480 Speaker 1: This is something a little different in this current moment 812 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,920 Speaker 1: in time. This is something that separates our political and 813 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,640 Speaker 1: media environment from what has come before. Now you have 814 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,200 Speaker 1: whether it's Eminem who just what was it last week, 815 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:05,440 Speaker 1: had his his rap battle against the administration or whatever 816 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:10,040 Speaker 1: it was, saying that if you support Trump, exportive expletive 817 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,399 Speaker 1: and go expletive and you know he he doesn't want 818 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:16,719 Speaker 1: you buying his records anymore. And this is I suppose 819 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,000 Speaker 1: going to uh work out for him in the long run, 820 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,520 Speaker 1: because it's just about getting attention for his new album. 821 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,160 Speaker 1: And I know plenty of Republicans who can separate out. 822 00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,960 Speaker 1: I have plenty of Conservatives who will say, Okay, just 823 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,560 Speaker 1: because somebody has really bad politics and they annoy me politically, 824 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:40,840 Speaker 1: it does not mean that I won't appreciate their art anymore, 825 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:46,160 Speaker 1: that I will somehow separate myself from enjoying what they're 826 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:50,200 Speaker 1: actually supposed to do. Although the NFL has started a challenge, 827 00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,200 Speaker 1: and I know there are exceptions, but with Kimmel saying 828 00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,200 Speaker 1: that he wouldn't even want to have a conversation with 829 00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,840 Speaker 1: the Republicans that might stop watching his show, this is 830 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,319 Speaker 1: the it is. This came out just in the last 831 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,680 Speaker 1: few days. Might stop watching his show because of his politics. 832 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:12,560 Speaker 1: I just think it's so uh nasty. It's really unkind 833 00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,560 Speaker 1: to take the position, the one that Kimmel takes on this, 834 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,080 Speaker 1: that to disagree with him on this is to be 835 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,080 Speaker 1: not just somebody who's wrong, but somebody who's beneath contempt 836 00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,920 Speaker 1: for him not worth talking to. If healthcare and I 837 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,160 Speaker 1: feel this way about climate change and healthcare and a 838 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,000 Speaker 1: whole bunch of issues that are overly emotionalized by the left, 839 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,200 Speaker 1: if they were, if it was really so important to 840 00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:44,160 Speaker 1: get it right, wouldn't the focus be on promoting a 841 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,920 Speaker 1: better understanding of the issue and to try and convince 842 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,040 Speaker 1: people to come to your side. If Jimmy Kimmel were 843 00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:55,399 Speaker 1: serious about healthcare reform in this country, and dare I say, 844 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,800 Speaker 1: if the NFL players taking a knee were serious about 845 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,520 Speaker 1: police reform in this country, and some of them have 846 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,600 Speaker 1: taken this to be fair. Some of them have taken 847 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,640 Speaker 1: this approach more recent They are meeting with and I 848 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:08,520 Speaker 1: don't want to skip over that they have met with 849 00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:13,000 Speaker 1: police and community leaders. They're taking action, not just deciding 850 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,560 Speaker 1: to draw attention to themselves, but absent that for anyone 851 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,120 Speaker 1: else who's out there who thinks that they are an activist, 852 00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,560 Speaker 1: they are quote woke right, which means socially social justice 853 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:30,000 Speaker 1: aware is how I define woke. Why not try to 854 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:35,280 Speaker 1: create converts instead of hunting for heretics, someone like Jimmy 855 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,239 Speaker 1: Kimmel with a sense of humor and a huge platform. 856 00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,640 Speaker 1: Why not make jokes that all Americans can laugh about 857 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,719 Speaker 1: when it comes to a health care system and then 858 00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,880 Speaker 1: try to educate a little and bring some who are 859 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,799 Speaker 1: having open mind over to his side. Now I know 860 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,480 Speaker 1: a lot of you are yelling Buck, the facts aren't 861 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,160 Speaker 1: on his side, so you can never do this. But 862 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,040 Speaker 1: he's not even making the effort, and I think that 863 00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: tells us a lot. He's not even trying to reach 864 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,720 Speaker 1: the other side. He is shutting it down. And this 865 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,920 Speaker 1: is something that we see on college campuses. Now we 866 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,480 Speaker 1: see it in the media. They want to stop the 867 00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,440 Speaker 1: exchange of ideas unless you sign on for their ideas, 868 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,560 Speaker 1: and with the entertainment industry and its current disarray because 869 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:25,239 Speaker 1: of the recent Weinstein revelations, we know that they don't 870 00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,880 Speaker 1: have any moral authority. So maybe they should use whatever 871 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:32,800 Speaker 1: gifts in Hollywood and late night comedians and musicians and 872 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,640 Speaker 1: professional athletes, what the gifts they do possess, Perhaps they 873 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,680 Speaker 1: could strive for unity among all of us and promoting 874 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:46,239 Speaker 1: greater understanding and common ground before deciding to push the 875 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:51,000 Speaker 1: schism even further, to to double down to harden the 876 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:56,880 Speaker 1: ossification of our political beliefs. Kimmel's not the conscience of America, 877 00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,160 Speaker 1: but he could at least try to be a nice 878 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:03,040 Speaker 1: guy to everybody. How about that revolutionary idea? I know, alright, 879 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,440 Speaker 1: team much more coming Stay with me now. I know 880 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:09,360 Speaker 1: this is kind of a small story and the grand 881 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:11,760 Speaker 1: scheme of things, but I think it actually has really 882 00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:19,879 Speaker 1: big implications. UH journalism has been sucker punched recently by 883 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,760 Speaker 1: the truth. Journalists are no longer able to hide behind 884 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:29,680 Speaker 1: the over objective UH storyline quite the same way as 885 00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,080 Speaker 1: they used to be able to. We now are able 886 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,719 Speaker 1: to see what most journalists think, and we're able to 887 00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:41,520 Speaker 1: see it because of social media. Social media means now 888 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,040 Speaker 1: that people who write for the Washington Post, the New 889 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:49,040 Speaker 1: York Times, you name it, people that have supposedly straight up, 890 00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:53,480 Speaker 1: straight down the middle news shows, they share their thoughts 891 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:58,480 Speaker 1: with us without any oversight. They share their opinions without 892 00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:03,719 Speaker 1: it going through the editorial massaging that I'm sure the 893 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,120 Speaker 1: news directors in all these places would want them to. 894 00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,880 Speaker 1: And that means that they will say something or write 895 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:17,000 Speaker 1: something more likely that is obviously left wing and deeply partisan, 896 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,800 Speaker 1: and then the next day they'll have a piece up 897 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,600 Speaker 1: in a newspaper and they'll say, well, you see now, 898 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,640 Speaker 1: I'm I'm just being a journalist. Before that was just 899 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,440 Speaker 1: my opinion, and many of us look at them and 900 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,680 Speaker 1: just want to laugh, because it doesn't work that way. 901 00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:36,080 Speaker 1: Once you've established that you are biased against the Trump administration, 902 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 1: then we know, we know that you're leftist, we know 903 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:45,040 Speaker 1: that you're progressive. There's no point in the pretense anymore 904 00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:49,920 Speaker 1: unless you think that people will just forget. The New 905 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,280 Speaker 1: York Times has figured this out recently, that the power 906 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:57,480 Speaker 1: of a quote unbiased media is slipping out of their hands, 907 00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:02,320 Speaker 1: or rather the power of a narrative of an unbiased media. 908 00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,960 Speaker 1: And I have always rejected this. You look at other countries, 909 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,439 Speaker 1: there are papers that are explicitly, clearly associated with one 910 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:15,920 Speaker 1: political party or another. It is unique, really that America 911 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,320 Speaker 1: has this notion of not not just there are some 912 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:25,400 Speaker 1: journalists who are nonpartisan, but that journalism is a nonpartisan profession. 913 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,840 Speaker 1: I mean, this is laughable stuff. This is utterly preposterous. 914 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,120 Speaker 1: And yet here we are. How many decades have gone by, 915 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:38,120 Speaker 1: with mass media growing and growing each year, and journalists 916 00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,320 Speaker 1: still have this this game that they want to play. Well. 917 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,880 Speaker 1: The Times is trying to put the genie back in 918 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:49,120 Speaker 1: the bottle here by issuing new social media guidance for 919 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,640 Speaker 1: their newsroom. This just came out. This just came out 920 00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,880 Speaker 1: last and the last few days, and they're more or 921 00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:01,959 Speaker 1: less trying to get their journalists to hide what they think. 922 00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:06,480 Speaker 1: Here's part of their new guidance quote. But social media 923 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,360 Speaker 1: presents potential risks for The Times. If our journalists are 924 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,600 Speaker 1: perceived as biased, or if they engage in editorializing on 925 00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:18,280 Speaker 1: social media, they can undercut the credibility of the entire newsroom. 926 00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,880 Speaker 1: We've always made clear that news or employees should avoid 927 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:24,480 Speaker 1: posting anything on social media that damages our reputation. For 928 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:29,760 Speaker 1: neutrality and fairness. This memo offers more detailed guidelines. As 929 00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,360 Speaker 1: I was saying, this seems almost to a lot of folks, 930 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:37,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure, like Buck, this is internal New York Times stuff. 931 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,560 Speaker 1: Why should I care? But they're trying to hide from 932 00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,800 Speaker 1: the new reality of all of us out here in 933 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, Consumerville. All of us who are the people 934 00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,760 Speaker 1: who are reading and paying attention to what's going on 935 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:55,360 Speaker 1: in the country can see that. Glenn Thrush at The 936 00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,040 Speaker 1: New York Times despises this present, Maggie Haberman at the 937 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:02,600 Speaker 1: New York Times aspieses this president, and everyone who works 938 01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,080 Speaker 1: more them we see it in their social media feeds. 939 01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:10,200 Speaker 1: It's obvious. And so when you have the sanctimonious and 940 01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:13,240 Speaker 1: self important journalists puff up their chest and say, well, 941 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,600 Speaker 1: you know, I work for a real news organization, we 942 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:21,120 Speaker 1: would never take sides and politics, we laugh because they're 943 01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:25,600 Speaker 1: either idiots or their liars, or they're both. And they 944 01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,960 Speaker 1: have Finally, it seems to me caught on that you 945 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:34,160 Speaker 1: can have somebody who is establishing their bias on Twitter 946 01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,960 Speaker 1: all day and then the next day writing a quote 947 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 1: nonpartisan news article. That's just not how it works. Now 948 01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:47,160 Speaker 1: I disagree that the best scenario if we're really going 949 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,360 Speaker 1: to talk about this state of journalism and and just 950 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,160 Speaker 1: the media in this country in general. I want everyone 951 01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 1: to be open about where they're coming from, what they believe. 952 01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,680 Speaker 1: Facts are facts, Facts have to be accurate. But beyond that, 953 01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,840 Speaker 1: I want everyone to have to say, this is what 954 01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,600 Speaker 1: I think about this where this is where I come 955 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,480 Speaker 1: from on this issue, unless it is a very straightforward 956 01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,720 Speaker 1: news piece that doesn't lend itself to any of that. 957 01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,960 Speaker 1: But but even then, there are no matter what the 958 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:19,880 Speaker 1: story is, there are almost always some shades of partisanship 959 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,200 Speaker 1: that you will see in them. There are almost always 960 01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:27,160 Speaker 1: some places where you will get a real sense that 961 01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,320 Speaker 1: this is something that is coming from a person who 962 01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,680 Speaker 1: believes one thing or another. So this is gonna follow 963 01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,520 Speaker 1: at other I assure you this will follow at other 964 01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:39,000 Speaker 1: news organizations too. You will see people who are trying 965 01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,640 Speaker 1: to get their employees now to stop. I mean, I 966 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:49,200 Speaker 1: remember a now long since moved on Blaze Blaze editor 967 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,960 Speaker 1: when I work for the Blaze dot com tell me once, well, 968 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,320 Speaker 1: you know you you can't you can't be sharing your 969 01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,160 Speaker 1: opinions on social media. And I was like, I'm a 970 01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:01,720 Speaker 1: I'm an opinion writer. I right opinions, man, like, that's 971 01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:06,200 Speaker 1: what I do. But he had come from a supposedly 972 01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:10,160 Speaker 1: big j journalism background and thought that it was necessary 973 01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,240 Speaker 1: to remind me, as as a straight up opinion person, 974 01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,040 Speaker 1: that I can't share opinions on social media. Anyway, he 975 01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,240 Speaker 1: was wrong and lost that discussion. But the point is 976 01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,200 Speaker 1: that this is a an ongoing debate and it really 977 01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:26,560 Speaker 1: does it really does matter. This is why Trump has 978 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:30,160 Speaker 1: been so effective in battling with the media, I think, 979 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:35,000 Speaker 1: in at least in large part, because he is speaking 980 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,200 Speaker 1: a truth that is self evident once you see what 981 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,720 Speaker 1: people post, what these different journalists are posting on social media. 982 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,160 Speaker 1: And so this effort to come up with guidance and 983 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:50,920 Speaker 1: to change things and to to somehow hide the obvious 984 01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,640 Speaker 1: political opinions of those who are supposed to be writing 985 01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,520 Speaker 1: stuff that are not uh, that are not in the 986 01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:02,640 Speaker 1: realm of in opinion right, it's just nonsense, and I 987 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,560 Speaker 1: think it's doomed to fail. But it is the first 988 01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:10,400 Speaker 1: time I've seen real clear evidence that these newsrooms are 989 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,080 Speaker 1: aware of the fact that they are they are burning credibility, 990 01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,360 Speaker 1: that they are no longer in a place where they 991 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,680 Speaker 1: can just say, oh, you know, we're big J journalists. No, sorry, 992 01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,600 Speaker 1: we can read and we can see what you're big 993 01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:27,120 Speaker 1: J journalists think about Trump in particular, but all issues guns, climate, 994 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,680 Speaker 1: and they're spouting off and they're just all part of 995 01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,160 Speaker 1: this leftist group think. And then they're like, well, you know, 996 01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,760 Speaker 1: I'm just bringing you the facts the next day. Doesn't 997 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,320 Speaker 1: work that way. So we'll see if they continue with 998 01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,760 Speaker 1: this campaign to try and hide the or or or 999 01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,800 Speaker 1: at least damping and and limit the social media usage 1000 01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,320 Speaker 1: of their employees at the New York Times, washing posts 1001 01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,600 Speaker 1: and others. But they can't hide from us, my friends. 1002 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,200 Speaker 1: We know the truth. Alright, We've got much more. I'll 1003 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:57,520 Speaker 1: be back right after this break. Welcome back to jam. I. 1004 01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:03,600 Speaker 1: I think that the prosecutorial side of our government is 1005 01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:09,280 Speaker 1: one of the areas that should get additional scrutiny in 1006 01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:14,320 Speaker 1: the days and weeks, months, maybe even years ahead, because 1007 01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,760 Speaker 1: there have been a number of stories about very high 1008 01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:21,760 Speaker 1: profile individuals, and Harvey Weinstein is just the one that 1009 01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,720 Speaker 1: comes to mind right now, but there are others as 1010 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:29,920 Speaker 1: well who clearly had connections to those who were in 1011 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:35,560 Speaker 1: prosecutor's offices and felt like they would capitalize on that 1012 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,680 Speaker 1: at some point in the future, but you had Weinstein there. 1013 01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:41,919 Speaker 1: There have been other incidences of this as well, and 1014 01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:47,800 Speaker 1: the undermining of justice that occurred under the Obama administration 1015 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:53,640 Speaker 1: in a particularly egregious way. But the undermining of justice 1016 01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:57,840 Speaker 1: that went on then has ramifications that continue on now. 1017 01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:01,600 Speaker 1: And the notion that there are different sets of laws 1018 01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,480 Speaker 1: between the powerful and the powerless is something that must 1019 01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:08,480 Speaker 1: be combated because unless we have belief in the fairness 1020 01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:13,360 Speaker 1: of the system, then what are we to think when 1021 01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,200 Speaker 1: they come after one of us, or when they decide 1022 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,600 Speaker 1: that we have to listen to or obey even their 1023 01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,360 Speaker 1: most arcane and ridiculous laws. We have to have respect 1024 01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:29,160 Speaker 1: for the system. I'm thinking also about the Menendez trial here, 1025 01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:34,960 Speaker 1: which I should still note gets scant coverage. Scant coverage 1026 01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:40,240 Speaker 1: despite the fact that Menendez is a person of tremendous 1027 01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,520 Speaker 1: power and influence. He was he was a Senate Foreign 1028 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,760 Speaker 1: Relations Committee member for a long time, long standing senator 1029 01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:53,120 Speaker 1: from New Jersey, and his whole defense where I shouldn't 1030 01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:57,840 Speaker 1: says whole defense, but the he was hoping that, first 1031 01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,440 Speaker 1: of all, the prosecutors would never bring charges against him, 1032 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,320 Speaker 1: which turned out not to be the case because it 1033 01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:06,160 Speaker 1: was so egregious. But then his defense team went before 1034 01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:09,040 Speaker 1: a judge and wanted all eighteen counts of corruption thrown 1035 01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:13,520 Speaker 1: out against him because he was saying that there was 1036 01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,240 Speaker 1: no uh, that this was spaced out over time, that 1037 01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,040 Speaker 1: because the acts that were taken, that there seems to 1038 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,880 Speaker 1: be a quid pro quo based on the facts here right, 1039 01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:27,600 Speaker 1: this uh eye doctor in Florida, Meligan, I believe is 1040 01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:31,800 Speaker 1: Dr Meligan, who would run this ninety million dollar medicare 1041 01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:37,760 Speaker 1: scam and went to prison himself, was calling upon Menendez 1042 01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:42,440 Speaker 1: for favors, and Menendez was delivering on favors. But because 1043 01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:46,760 Speaker 1: the nice stuff that Meligan was doing for Menendez was 1044 01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:50,160 Speaker 1: over a long period of time. It's because they were friends, 1045 01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,080 Speaker 1: not because there was corruption, right, not because that there 1046 01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,400 Speaker 1: was any expectation. I mean, this is to suggest for 1047 01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:01,560 Speaker 1: all of us out there that centered Menendez, democrat from 1048 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,800 Speaker 1: New Jersey. You don't hear that enough. Let me repeat, 1049 01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:10,880 Speaker 1: Democrat senator from New Jersey facing felony corruption charges. Menendez, 1050 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,680 Speaker 1: because this was spaced out over time and he was 1051 01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:18,760 Speaker 1: buddies with Meligan, there's nothing that can be There's nothing 1052 01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:24,160 Speaker 1: that can be called illicit and criminal from his activities. 1053 01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,880 Speaker 1: I mean, this is just nonsensical, but this is the 1054 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,200 Speaker 1: defense that's offered up. And I think when you look 1055 01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:35,760 Speaker 1: at what Menendez was really expecting here, and this brings 1056 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,480 Speaker 1: me back to my original promise, because going for a 1057 01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,120 Speaker 1: judge and saying, yeah, this guy, there were quid pro quos. 1058 01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,480 Speaker 1: I did do things for him. I did favors for 1059 01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,040 Speaker 1: this donor. And it looks really shady, but you know, 1060 01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:47,720 Speaker 1: we were friends and it was over a long period 1061 01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,880 Speaker 1: of time. Menendez was assuming all along. He's not a 1062 01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:53,480 Speaker 1: dumb guy, and he's been in the game for quite 1063 01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:59,640 Speaker 1: some time. His assumption was that there would never be charges. 1064 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,880 Speaker 1: I I have friends who are prosecutors, and there we 1065 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,920 Speaker 1: say that the best lawyer, the best lawyers out there, 1066 01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:11,000 Speaker 1: defense attorneys make sure that the charges are never brought, 1067 01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,440 Speaker 1: that that whatever there is an opportunity, because the charges 1068 01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:20,080 Speaker 1: themselves are destructive to reputation to bank accounts. But then 1069 01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:24,000 Speaker 1: you see that prosecutorial discretion about which cases to bring 1070 01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,719 Speaker 1: in which not to bring. That's one of the most 1071 01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,519 Speaker 1: fearsome powers that it really is the most fearsome power 1072 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:33,400 Speaker 1: that the federal government has against its own citizens. Right 1073 01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,960 Speaker 1: I mean, the single most fearsomething the federal government has 1074 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,639 Speaker 1: at its disposal as the United States military, But that's 1075 01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,240 Speaker 1: dealing with foreign enemies, at least primarily. I know it's 1076 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:48,880 Speaker 1: enemies foreign and domestic. But uh, the reality is that 1077 01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:53,040 Speaker 1: when you have a prosecutor who is favorable towards you 1078 01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,479 Speaker 1: and decides not to bring charges, that's the that's the 1079 01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,080 Speaker 1: greatest thing that you can possibly hope for. That's what 1080 01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,639 Speaker 1: real power is in democrats circles. And you're seeing the 1081 01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,280 Speaker 1: opposite of that with the Trump administration and the Special Council. 1082 01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,280 Speaker 1: Right now. People refer to the swamp and they talk 1083 01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,200 Speaker 1: about the machinery. What I see happening here is that 1084 01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,599 Speaker 1: Trump has gotten on the wrong side of the swamp 1085 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,600 Speaker 1: of the machinery, and that means that they're going to 1086 01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,160 Speaker 1: go after him with everything they have, and the best 1087 01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:28,360 Speaker 1: thing they have is a an investigation from within the 1088 01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,120 Speaker 1: d o J. The stuff that they are trying to 1089 01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:36,320 Speaker 1: push right now about Facebook and Facebook ads, they're hoping 1090 01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:41,639 Speaker 1: that no one's paying particularly close attention. It's just flimsy. Oh, Russia, 1091 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:46,679 Speaker 1: ransom Facebook. Everybody's running Facebook ads, and Russia was running 1092 01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:51,799 Speaker 1: and and still runs a straight up propaganda cable news 1093 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,720 Speaker 1: channel known as RT and Russia has been running that 1094 01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,920 Speaker 1: for quite some time. Out in the open has huge 1095 01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:01,880 Speaker 1: amounts of views on you. You and I should note 1096 01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,200 Speaker 1: and you won't hear there's some other people r T 1097 01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:08,880 Speaker 1: or Russia. Today the propaganda channel of the Kremlin is 1098 01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:15,840 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly favorable, not toward what Republicans would generally like, but 1099 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,520 Speaker 1: towards what Democrats like. To have you heard that from anybody? 1100 01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,519 Speaker 1: If you were to look at the criticisms of policy 1101 01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,479 Speaker 1: on our t in this country. They're favorable to a leftist, 1102 01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:31,280 Speaker 1: progressive perspective, and they're critical of Republicans. They're critical of conservatism. 1103 01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,639 Speaker 1: But that open propaganda funded by the Kremlin, that wasn't 1104 01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:37,800 Speaker 1: a cause for concern until well, it's still not a 1105 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:39,720 Speaker 1: cost because they always to hear about his Russia and 1106 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:44,479 Speaker 1: Trumpet election. But this has always been why I'm I'm 1107 01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:50,599 Speaker 1: worried because Democrats are in charge of the federal machinery, 1108 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,920 Speaker 1: the federal bureaucracy, and with that, much of the d 1109 01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,000 Speaker 1: o J, much of the career is within the d J. 1110 01:10:55,840 --> 01:11:01,080 Speaker 1: The legal profession has been largely corrupted based on legal education, 1111 01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:04,120 Speaker 1: based on what people learn in law school. Legal profession 1112 01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:09,799 Speaker 1: has been largely corrupted against individuals who have a h 1113 01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,360 Speaker 1: conservative point of view in favor of one for a 1114 01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:16,320 Speaker 1: progressive point of view. Right, the law schools are now 1115 01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:19,960 Speaker 1: factories of liberal liberalism, and that then stretches all the 1116 01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,280 Speaker 1: way up through the Department of Justice and through prosecutors offices, 1117 01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:28,559 Speaker 1: And that ideological proclivity among the people that have the 1118 01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:36,400 Speaker 1: power of prosecution is deeply, deeply unnerving. And we see 1119 01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,599 Speaker 1: it playing out, I believe, with the Trump administration. Now 1120 01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:44,200 Speaker 1: we see this happening as this Russia investigation seeks to 1121 01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:49,599 Speaker 1: be the pinnacle of hashtag resistance. Um. So you know, 1122 01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,240 Speaker 1: Menendez didn't have the didn't have the connections to avoid 1123 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:57,200 Speaker 1: prosecution forever, but for a long time he did. Weinstein 1124 01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,040 Speaker 1: didn't have They didn't have the connections to have a 1125 01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:04,320 Speaker 1: prosecution forever, but for a long time they look the 1126 01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,200 Speaker 1: other way. For a long time they didn't see enough 1127 01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:12,479 Speaker 1: there to go on judgment calls, my friends, And when 1128 01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:16,360 Speaker 1: those making those judgment calls are overwhelmingly of one political 1129 01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:19,400 Speaker 1: party and see the world in one way, we all 1130 01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:21,200 Speaker 1: need to be on guard. We all need to be 1131 01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:25,559 Speaker 1: aware of what that means for our country and for 1132 01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,920 Speaker 1: our future. So I'm putting out something of a warning 1133 01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:32,519 Speaker 1: here on this for all of us. Be aware of 1134 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:37,720 Speaker 1: the politicization of prosecutors offices. Be aware of how that 1135 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,800 Speaker 1: is being used as a primary weapon against the Trump administration. 1136 01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:42,720 Speaker 1: And it's not just going to be the Russia part 1137 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:45,040 Speaker 1: of this. Get ready for them to go after other 1138 01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:48,320 Speaker 1: people tied to Trump in whatever ways they can, particularly 1139 01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:53,679 Speaker 1: in blue states, New York, California, you name it. Alright, 1140 01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,040 Speaker 1: coming up, we've got a whole lot more. Team, stay 1141 01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,880 Speaker 1: with me. So, Team, you may not know this, but 1142 01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:03,160 Speaker 1: the transgender movement in a way is at war with 1143 01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:07,120 Speaker 1: the English language. I've talked to you before on this 1144 01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:10,960 Speaker 1: show many times in fact, about how there are efforts 1145 01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:16,080 Speaker 1: under way two force people to use pronouns that do 1146 01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:21,000 Speaker 1: not correspond to the actual uh sex of the individual, 1147 01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:26,320 Speaker 1: as well as using plural pronouns now for the singular. Now. 1148 01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,160 Speaker 1: This has meant that, in the case of the New 1149 01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:33,400 Speaker 1: York Times, there is a struggle between being woke as 1150 01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:37,519 Speaker 1: leftists who are socially aware or that our social justice 1151 01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:42,800 Speaker 1: warriors like to refer to themselves, and being correct because 1152 01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,799 Speaker 1: there is such a thing even still in the crazy 1153 01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,360 Speaker 1: world we live in as a difference between one individual 1154 01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:53,720 Speaker 1: and more than one individual singular versus plural. But The 1155 01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:57,320 Speaker 1: Times doesn't want to offend anyone in the transgender movement. 1156 01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:00,880 Speaker 1: In fact, the Times wants to build upon and strengthen 1157 01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,880 Speaker 1: fortify the transgender movement. So what do they do when 1158 01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:10,479 Speaker 1: they have people individuals who want to be referred to 1159 01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,760 Speaker 1: as they? Times for now at least, has decided that 1160 01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:18,200 Speaker 1: they will use preferred pronouns, but only in the case 1161 01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:21,720 Speaker 1: of singular pronouns for individuals. So you can claim to 1162 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:23,280 Speaker 1: be a he when you're a she, or a she 1163 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,920 Speaker 1: when you're a he, but you can't yet claim to 1164 01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,599 Speaker 1: be a they, at least in the New York Times. 1165 01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:35,679 Speaker 1: The Associated Press, I should note, has recently joined this battle, however, 1166 01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:40,559 Speaker 1: and this is how it is playing out right now. Uh. 1167 01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:46,200 Speaker 1: The AP has new gender guidelines, and they put out 1168 01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:49,360 Speaker 1: a series of tweets earlier in the week or this 1169 01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,840 Speaker 1: was last week where they were referring to where they 1170 01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:56,280 Speaker 1: said that gender refers to quote a person social identity, 1171 01:14:56,320 --> 01:15:02,200 Speaker 1: while sex refers to biological characteristics. They also told writers 1172 01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,639 Speaker 1: to quote avoid This is the Associated Press, everyone, Okay, 1173 01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,320 Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest news organizations in the world, 1174 01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:12,080 Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be the objective source of news 1175 01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:16,639 Speaker 1: wires from which many people build their news stories. So 1176 01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:20,439 Speaker 1: this is at the root of all journalism. They want 1177 01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,840 Speaker 1: to quote avoid references to being born a boy or 1178 01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:29,120 Speaker 1: a girl. Uh. And they also said instead of using 1179 01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:33,880 Speaker 1: quote sex change or quote transition, writers are to use 1180 01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:39,719 Speaker 1: quote gender confirmation. Now, this is not a minor change, 1181 01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:43,439 Speaker 1: my friends. As I've told you before, the shift from 1182 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:49,920 Speaker 1: illegal alien to illegal immigrant to undocumented immigrant has explicit 1183 01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:55,280 Speaker 1: political purposes. Explicitly political purposes. It is meant to win 1184 01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:58,360 Speaker 1: the debate just by forcing the other side to use 1185 01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:02,200 Speaker 1: certain words. It is is not just something you do 1186 01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:06,000 Speaker 1: to be polite. You have already submitted to the other 1187 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:10,000 Speaker 1: side if you use the terms that they insist you use, 1188 01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:14,920 Speaker 1: even at the risk or at the certainty of being incorrect, 1189 01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:19,360 Speaker 1: as is the case with for example, undocumented immigrant. That's 1190 01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:22,600 Speaker 1: a nonsense. That's a nonsense claim. They're documented, they just 1191 01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,880 Speaker 1: don't have legal status. They are illegal, and the term 1192 01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:29,559 Speaker 1: for that is an illegal alien, because you are outside 1193 01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,840 Speaker 1: of the immigration system. But by changing the language, they 1194 01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:36,280 Speaker 1: change and in fact can win the debate. To say 1195 01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:40,800 Speaker 1: gender confirmation. That phrase is so loaded. This is the 1196 01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:44,840 Speaker 1: Associated Press. Now everybody that is making this determination to 1197 01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:49,200 Speaker 1: say gender confirmation is to say that an individual who 1198 01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:55,240 Speaker 1: changes his or her gender was in fact always that gender, 1199 01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:58,559 Speaker 1: because it is just confirming what they were. Now this 1200 01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,360 Speaker 1: ignores research that I have told you about on this 1201 01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:04,160 Speaker 1: show that there are plenty of people who go through 1202 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:09,320 Speaker 1: the transition process and are unhappy with it and actually 1203 01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:14,680 Speaker 1: would like to transition back. So what then is the 1204 01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,320 Speaker 1: surgery when you want to go back to your original sex? 1205 01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:21,640 Speaker 1: Is it deconfirmation? You can see that the terms themselves 1206 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:28,640 Speaker 1: are determining the debate. But really as annoying and outrageous 1207 01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:32,240 Speaker 1: as anything else in this is that the Associated Press 1208 01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:40,240 Speaker 1: has endorsed, now officially has endorsed using the plural pronouns 1209 01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,160 Speaker 1: for singular individuals, which even the New York Times, at 1210 01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:45,840 Speaker 1: least as of a few months ago when I talked 1211 01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:48,200 Speaker 1: to you about this, the New York Times wasn't yet 1212 01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:53,000 Speaker 1: willing to do that because it's just so clearly wrong, 1213 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:59,000 Speaker 1: and it is building into language something that is not accurate. Right, 1214 01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:03,439 Speaker 1: that it's a question of one versus several individuals. Now 1215 01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,120 Speaker 1: the Associated Press is changing things up, and they will 1216 01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:11,760 Speaker 1: not only use uh, the they or them for an individual. 1217 01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:16,920 Speaker 1: It will also consider usage of z and zur, which 1218 01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,120 Speaker 1: are just made up. I mean, this is this is 1219 01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:23,200 Speaker 1: a it's a war on language everybody. They are distorting 1220 01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:27,120 Speaker 1: and destroying the English language for the purposes of a 1221 01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:31,360 Speaker 1: political agenda for the transgender movement. And you can already 1222 01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,599 Speaker 1: see that a part of this is to make sure 1223 01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:37,320 Speaker 1: that there is no debate, because if you use these terms, 1224 01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:42,240 Speaker 1: you have already conceded. If you use the verbiage that 1225 01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:46,640 Speaker 1: is now required by the Associated Press, you are confirming 1226 01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:51,720 Speaker 1: that transgenderism is completely normal, that it is healthy, that 1227 01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,280 Speaker 1: it should be respected, that it should be celebrated. And 1228 01:18:55,280 --> 01:19:00,559 Speaker 1: there's also something inherently dishonest about creating style rules that 1229 01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:06,479 Speaker 1: are politically loaded, but that decide that reality no longer counts. 1230 01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:11,240 Speaker 1: For example, dead naming is how they refer to any 1231 01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:15,679 Speaker 1: reference to someone's previous name before their transition. The most 1232 01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:19,160 Speaker 1: well known example this would be Caitlyn Jenner or Chelsea Manning. 1233 01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:24,280 Speaker 1: For example, Uh, Caitlyn Jenning used to be Chris Jenning 1234 01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:27,920 Speaker 1: and Chelsea Manning used to be Bradley Manning. To just 1235 01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:30,240 Speaker 1: bring up their former name, even to do so with 1236 01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:34,800 Speaker 1: full respect is considered to be in affront. It's considered 1237 01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:39,600 Speaker 1: to be offensive. And if you can't, as a journalist 1238 01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,520 Speaker 1: show all of the facts of somebody's life and background, 1239 01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,960 Speaker 1: you're making an enormous concession here. Because it's one thing 1240 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,720 Speaker 1: to say that someone has changed their name and to 1241 01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:52,880 Speaker 1: call them that name out of respect, which I do. 1242 01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:57,360 Speaker 1: I will call formerly Bradley now Chelsea Manning. Uh. I 1243 01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,640 Speaker 1: don't want someone telling me because my middle name is 1244 01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,120 Speaker 1: but my first name is James. My middle name is 1245 01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:05,679 Speaker 1: actually Buckman that I can't be called buck right. People 1246 01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:08,000 Speaker 1: should call me what I want to be called. But 1247 01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,080 Speaker 1: on my driver's license it says James, and that's just 1248 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,360 Speaker 1: a fact. And for me, for example, to tell a 1249 01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,400 Speaker 1: journalist that they could not ever write that my first 1250 01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,080 Speaker 1: name is James would be to deprive them of the 1251 01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:25,599 Speaker 1: right to share facts. And that's what they are doing 1252 01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:28,400 Speaker 1: as part of the transgender movement. They are changing language. 1253 01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:35,400 Speaker 1: They are instituting a loaded political terminology that's meant to 1254 01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:39,759 Speaker 1: have implications well beyond the descriptive, into the political sphere. 1255 01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:45,120 Speaker 1: And they are also just deciding that reality no longer matters. 1256 01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:48,519 Speaker 1: An individual can be plural, and the language has to 1257 01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:53,240 Speaker 1: reflect the political proclivities of a movement that is literally 1258 01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,680 Speaker 1: making all this up as it goes along, and the 1259 01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:59,640 Speaker 1: associated press is going along with it. All right, we 1260 01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:01,960 Speaker 1: will get into much more red after this break. Stay 1261 01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:06,000 Speaker 1: with me the Siege of Malta, Part four. I wanted 1262 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,559 Speaker 1: to continue with our deep dive into what happened in 1263 01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:14,639 Speaker 1: fifteen sixty five, ending in this month September, in fact, 1264 01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:19,400 Speaker 1: ending this week in fifty a siege on the Mediterranean 1265 01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:22,720 Speaker 1: island of Malta, that, had it been successful, would have 1266 01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:26,439 Speaker 1: allowed the Ottoman Empire, the caliphate of the time and 1267 01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:31,960 Speaker 1: the hottest expansion is Um that it represented, to strike 1268 01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,439 Speaker 1: into the heart of Europe itself and would have changed 1269 01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:38,599 Speaker 1: with it world history. When we last left the battle, 1270 01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,680 Speaker 1: we had the siege of Fort Elmo underway within the 1271 01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:46,160 Speaker 1: Greater Siege of Malta in the Grand Harbor, there were 1272 01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:52,320 Speaker 1: a number of fortifications. Those fortifications included St. Michael's on 1273 01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:56,639 Speaker 1: Saint Leia the Fort of St. Angelo on Burgoo. Those 1274 01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:00,000 Speaker 1: are two peninsulas that stick out into the Grand Harbor 1275 01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:04,360 Speaker 1: of Malta and then at the base of Mount Skibberris, 1276 01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:07,719 Speaker 1: which is currently the site of the capital of Malta Valletta, 1277 01:22:08,400 --> 01:22:11,400 Speaker 1: but at the base of Mount Skippers was Fort Saint Elmo. 1278 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:16,879 Speaker 1: You had forty thousand or so Turkish troops, including the 1279 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:22,360 Speaker 1: fear Janissary Core and also spah He's the Turkish elite cavalry, 1280 01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:27,880 Speaker 1: along with an incredible array of heavy artillery, mortars and Basilisks, 1281 01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,879 Speaker 1: so named for the ancient dragon that fired incredibly heavy 1282 01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:36,840 Speaker 1: stone shot as a form of battering down fortifications. The 1283 01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:41,759 Speaker 1: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had broken down command between Pali 1284 01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:45,719 Speaker 1: Pasha as a supreme naval commander and Mustapha Pasha as 1285 01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:49,920 Speaker 1: the Supreme land forces commander for the Ottoman Turks for 1286 01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:53,439 Speaker 1: the Forces of Islam in this case, and then leading 1287 01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,160 Speaker 1: the defense of the island of Malta. You had Jean 1288 01:22:56,200 --> 01:23:00,400 Speaker 1: Pariso de Valette about five hundred of his Night of 1289 01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:03,800 Speaker 1: Saint John, along with them Knights hospital Or and then 1290 01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:09,480 Speaker 1: a core of a few thousand European mercenaries and religious 1291 01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:13,479 Speaker 1: soldiers of fortune and the Maltese inhabitants and the levy 1292 01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:18,160 Speaker 1: of soldiers from them as well. They were completely surrounded 1293 01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,160 Speaker 1: and had by May of fifteen sixty five set down 1294 01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:27,599 Speaker 1: for a protracted siege. The princes, dukes and kings the 1295 01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:31,400 Speaker 1: assorted royalty of Christendom at the time had said that 1296 01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:34,639 Speaker 1: they would come to the aid of the Knights hospital 1297 01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:38,240 Speaker 1: Or on the island of Malta. But Valette knew that 1298 01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,439 Speaker 1: there would be in action among those nobles, as each 1299 01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:43,519 Speaker 1: would assume that the other would be the one to 1300 01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,759 Speaker 1: send reinforcements, and no one wanted to send their troops 1301 01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:53,040 Speaker 1: into a disastrous situation. So after the initial unopposed landing 1302 01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:57,000 Speaker 1: force of Ottoman troops seized control of the island of Malta, 1303 01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,720 Speaker 1: which is part of two islands, really a small archipelago, 1304 01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:02,720 Speaker 1: including the island of Gozo to the north, and then 1305 01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:06,799 Speaker 1: you have the Straits of Malta which separates it from Sicily, 1306 01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:10,559 Speaker 1: and then Sicily of course nearby to the southern tip 1307 01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:14,200 Speaker 1: of the boot of Italy. The Ottomans were quickly able 1308 01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:18,320 Speaker 1: to entrench themselves around the fortifications of the Knights of St. John. 1309 01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:21,840 Speaker 1: And when I last left you, we were discussing the 1310 01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,680 Speaker 1: siege of St. Elmo. This was a pivotal moment in 1311 01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:29,679 Speaker 1: this incredibly important battle that I'm willing to bet very few, 1312 01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:31,920 Speaker 1: if any of you, were taught in history class. I 1313 01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:35,000 Speaker 1: had to read about it on my own. But the 1314 01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:38,479 Speaker 1: decision to besiege st Elmo instead of going for the 1315 01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,800 Speaker 1: main fortifications that the Knights of St. John had set 1316 01:24:41,880 --> 01:24:45,080 Speaker 1: up around the Grand Harbor of Malta meant that the 1317 01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:48,519 Speaker 1: Ottomans were in effect going for a limb of the 1318 01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:52,759 Speaker 1: resistance instead of the throat right away, and that limb 1319 01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,960 Speaker 1: for St Elmo was much hardier than any of them 1320 01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:59,160 Speaker 1: had anticipated. As an aside, it's worth noting that st. 1321 01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:05,240 Speaker 1: Elmo is the Italian name for St. Erasmus of Formia, 1322 01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:09,280 Speaker 1: and St. Elmo or St. Erasmus was the patron saint 1323 01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:13,840 Speaker 1: of That's right, you guessed it, sailors and navigators. So 1324 01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:17,920 Speaker 1: for an island like Malta, which was a shipping port 1325 01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,600 Speaker 1: with some people living living on it, naming one of 1326 01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:24,280 Speaker 1: your primary fortifications after that patron saint certainly seemed to 1327 01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:27,439 Speaker 1: make a whole deal of sense. And also, those of 1328 01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:31,519 Speaker 1: you who have an interest in naval navigation UH in 1329 01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:36,479 Speaker 1: centuries past and present may be familiar with St Elmo's fire. No, 1330 01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:41,679 Speaker 1: I'm not referring to eighties teen Heartthrob movie with Emilio 1331 01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:46,920 Speaker 1: Estevez in it. I'm talking about the phenomenon whereby electric 1332 01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:51,879 Speaker 1: fields in the air can create a bluish tinge around 1333 01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,240 Speaker 1: objects on ships at sea, with an effect that gives 1334 01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:59,080 Speaker 1: it something of a neon glow in low light conditions. 1335 01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:03,160 Speaker 1: That's sat Almos fire. But the fire at Fort st 1336 01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:09,320 Speaker 1: Elmo from the Ottoman Turks, cannons and various sharpshooters was withering. 1337 01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:14,600 Speaker 1: It was only because of the impressive fortifications and preparations 1338 01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,599 Speaker 1: by Valette and his Knights of Saint John that they 1339 01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:23,320 Speaker 1: were able to continue what was a hopelessly outnumbered resistance 1340 01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,360 Speaker 1: at this one small fort. So let's discuss the fortification 1341 01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:28,639 Speaker 1: for a moment to get an understanding of just what 1342 01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:32,400 Speaker 1: was going on here. As written by Earnly Bradford in 1343 01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:37,480 Speaker 1: his excellent historical work The Great Siege, quote, Mustapha's engineers 1344 01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,559 Speaker 1: and officers were sent forward to reconnoiter their position and 1345 01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,559 Speaker 1: report on it. It is a star fort, they said. 1346 01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,080 Speaker 1: There are four main silients, and the front which we 1347 01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:50,560 Speaker 1: have to storm is broken into a bastion form. The cavalier, 1348 01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:54,439 Speaker 1: which rises to seaward, is separated by a ditch. There 1349 01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:58,639 Speaker 1: is also a small raveling. Both these outworks are connected 1350 01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,519 Speaker 1: to the main fort the one by a drawbridge and 1351 01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:06,519 Speaker 1: the other by a fixed bridge. It was a classic 1352 01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:09,040 Speaker 1: and old fashioned type of ford, and it seemed likely 1353 01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,639 Speaker 1: to present few difficulties to the sappers, miners, and siege 1354 01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:16,160 Speaker 1: artillery of the Turkish army. The greatest difficulty that confronted them, 1355 01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:19,520 Speaker 1: they reported, was the nature of the terrain. Mount Skibbers 1356 01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:23,240 Speaker 1: was a bleak bone of rock, affording no shelter or cover, 1357 01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:26,200 Speaker 1: nor even that matter, any earth in which the troops 1358 01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:30,320 Speaker 1: might entrench. And that's particularly noteworthy because the Turks had 1359 01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:35,240 Speaker 1: been mastering siege warfare for centuries and had been successful, 1360 01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:39,880 Speaker 1: particularly in using engineers and sappers, those who will dig 1361 01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:43,840 Speaker 1: tunnels under the fortifications themselves and then usually light a fire, 1362 01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:47,080 Speaker 1: or they could use gunpowder and cave in the wall, 1363 01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,800 Speaker 1: which would, in turn, because it would take the land 1364 01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:53,640 Speaker 1: above it with it, bring down the fortification. So this 1365 01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:57,479 Speaker 1: was an ancient medieval tactic, but the Turks brought to 1366 01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:02,400 Speaker 1: it gunpowder and greater technical Now, speaking of Turkish artillery, 1367 01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:06,200 Speaker 1: the weight of Turkish artillery, as written by Bradford at 1368 01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,960 Speaker 1: this period of history quote far exceeded that of the 1369 01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,880 Speaker 1: Christian The Sultan's artillerymen and engineers in forty years of 1370 01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:16,240 Speaker 1: land campaign throughout Europe and the East, had brought bombardment 1371 01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:19,559 Speaker 1: to a fine art. They had learned in siege upon siege, 1372 01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,120 Speaker 1: the effects of different weapons and the techniques to be 1373 01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:27,040 Speaker 1: applied against varying fortresses. To sixty pound culverns, ten eighty 1374 01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:30,760 Speaker 1: pounders and an enormous basilisk firing solid shot wearhing a 1375 01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:33,160 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pounds were brought up for the attack 1376 01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:36,519 Speaker 1: on St Elmo. With such heavy weapons, the Turkish fire 1377 01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:40,000 Speaker 1: was slower than the Christian but applied at short ranges, 1378 01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:43,559 Speaker 1: the battering power of this heavy iron and stone shot 1379 01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:48,280 Speaker 1: was enormous end quote. So the Turks were bringing everything 1380 01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:51,040 Speaker 1: they had to bear on this one fort which had 1381 01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:54,479 Speaker 1: no more than hundreds, perhaps in the mid to high 1382 01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:58,680 Speaker 1: hundreds of defenders in it. But those defenders had decided 1383 01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:02,599 Speaker 1: early on that they would die in place, and because 1384 01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:05,880 Speaker 1: it was across the Grand Harbor from the main fortifications 1385 01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:09,600 Speaker 1: on beer Goo and Sengleia, they were able, with the 1386 01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:14,000 Speaker 1: cover of darkness, to send limited reinforcements over the course 1387 01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:18,200 Speaker 1: of this siege. Within a siege of for st Elmo, 1388 01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:21,800 Speaker 1: the Turks thought this would take days. It took weeks 1389 01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:25,400 Speaker 1: and took them deep into the summer. All the while 1390 01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,080 Speaker 1: there was the fear in the Turkish minds and the 1391 01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:31,759 Speaker 1: hope in the Christian minds that there would be reinforcements coming. 1392 01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:36,280 Speaker 1: In fact, the Viceroy of Sicily had promised that that 1393 01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:40,200 Speaker 1: help was just a matter of weeks away. But Valet, 1394 01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,320 Speaker 1: the leader of the Knights of Saint John, knew that 1395 01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:47,160 Speaker 1: he couldn't count on these promises from a noble French family. Himself. 1396 01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:51,040 Speaker 1: He had quite an understanding of the perfidious nature of 1397 01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:55,640 Speaker 1: European nobility, always quick to claim they would defend Christendom 1398 01:29:55,640 --> 01:30:00,520 Speaker 1: when called upon, but much more concerned about their own domains, 1399 01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:05,760 Speaker 1: their treasuries, and their necks. The bombardment started around the 1400 01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:09,639 Speaker 1: seven of May, and it went on four weeks. While 1401 01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:12,679 Speaker 1: the fort looked like a pile of rubble within days, 1402 01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:17,560 Speaker 1: the Knights of Saint John and their mercenary and Maltese 1403 01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:21,479 Speaker 1: comrades and arms held out no matter what, and with 1404 01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:24,320 Speaker 1: the reinforcements they received from across the harbor at night, 1405 01:30:24,680 --> 01:30:27,840 Speaker 1: they were able to stretch this siege within a siege 1406 01:30:27,880 --> 01:30:30,719 Speaker 1: until the end of June. It wasn't until the twenty 1407 01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:34,280 Speaker 1: three of June, after what seemed like an endless uh 1408 01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:38,240 Speaker 1: pummeling by the Turkish artillery that the fort finally fell. 1409 01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:42,360 Speaker 1: But one important note along the way. This part of 1410 01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:47,280 Speaker 1: the Turkish campaign to take Malta also saw the arrival 1411 01:30:47,479 --> 01:30:51,680 Speaker 1: of of Dragout Race also known as tour Good. He 1412 01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:56,799 Speaker 1: was among the most famous pirates of the entire history 1413 01:30:56,880 --> 01:31:00,400 Speaker 1: of the Mediterranean. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of the 1414 01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,360 Speaker 1: seas that he operated in, and he was a feared 1415 01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:06,759 Speaker 1: Corsair who had been not just a thorn in the side, 1416 01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:11,080 Speaker 1: but a boogeyman, a nightmare story told to Christian children 1417 01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:16,360 Speaker 1: because of his habit of raiding the different Christian settlements 1418 01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:20,360 Speaker 1: and cities along the Mediterranean basin to grab slaves, slaves 1419 01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:23,840 Speaker 1: for the galleys of the ships, and slaves for yes, 1420 01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:29,840 Speaker 1: the harems and rock quarries of the Sultan's domains. Dragut 1421 01:31:29,920 --> 01:31:33,439 Speaker 1: was also a scion of the perhaps more famous, although 1422 01:31:33,479 --> 01:31:37,360 Speaker 1: some historians dispute whether that was should be considered to 1423 01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:40,080 Speaker 1: be the case, given how much more skilled Dragot was 1424 01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:44,439 Speaker 1: on the sea and in warfare. But Barbarossa was the 1425 01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:48,720 Speaker 1: mentor of Dragout, and Dragut was his successor once the 1426 01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:54,960 Speaker 1: famed pirate Barbarossa died. But but drag Out knew Malta well. 1427 01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:59,240 Speaker 1: In fact, he had engaged in hostilities against the island, 1428 01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:03,519 Speaker 1: seizing slave waves during previous seasons. And I should note 1429 01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:07,000 Speaker 1: that the seasonality of warfare at this time, especially on 1430 01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:10,519 Speaker 1: the high seas, was a major part of what was 1431 01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:14,720 Speaker 1: possible during a campaign. These ships, these galleys, these ord 1432 01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:20,360 Speaker 1: road warships were not particularly sturdy in rough seas, and 1433 01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:24,240 Speaker 1: so once the winter storms came along it became too 1434 01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:27,719 Speaker 1: dangerous to operate them on the Mediterranean. So you really 1435 01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,320 Speaker 1: only had the summer and into fall to complete this 1436 01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:34,280 Speaker 1: campaign in Malta. So time mattered for that reason, and 1437 01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:39,120 Speaker 1: time mattered because the Viceroy of Sicily Don Garcia had 1438 01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:41,720 Speaker 1: promised and it was known that he was nearby and 1439 01:32:41,760 --> 01:32:45,160 Speaker 1: could have deployed thousands and thousands of troops as a 1440 01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:49,599 Speaker 1: relief force on Malta. So for weeks stretching from May 1441 01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:52,360 Speaker 1: into the end of June, the fred at st Elmo 1442 01:32:52,479 --> 01:32:56,559 Speaker 1: held out, and then with one great charge on June 1443 01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:00,960 Speaker 1: twenty three, the Turks, with the Janissary core assisting them, 1444 01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:05,880 Speaker 1: were able to take this first fortification at tremendous cost. 1445 01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,480 Speaker 1: It is estimated that five to six thousand uh Turkish 1446 01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:15,880 Speaker 1: dead resulted from taking this one fortification on the peninsula 1447 01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:21,960 Speaker 1: beneath Mount Skibberus, and in the process Dragut himself was 1448 01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:26,120 Speaker 1: mortally wounded. It was drag Out who understood the lines 1449 01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:31,240 Speaker 1: of fire and the necessary preparations and counter fortifications that 1450 01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,280 Speaker 1: had to be put in place to take Saint Elmo. 1451 01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:39,520 Speaker 1: When he was lost, all military command passed to the bickering, squabbling, 1452 01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:46,799 Speaker 1: arrogant Pasha Piala and Pasha Mustafa. This one exchange following 1453 01:33:46,800 --> 01:33:50,920 Speaker 1: the fall of Fort Saint Elmo became emblematic for the 1454 01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:54,439 Speaker 1: entire Siege of Malta. As it were, it let both 1455 01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,639 Speaker 1: sides know that this would be a fight until the end, 1456 01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,640 Speaker 1: that there would be no quarter and no mercy, and 1457 01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:04,880 Speaker 1: the stakes, in many ways, the survival and future of 1458 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:10,240 Speaker 1: the Christian world itself were made clear to all. I'm 1459 01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:11,720 Speaker 1: going to take a quick break. Your team will be 1460 01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,720 Speaker 1: right back. I wanted to give you an update on 1461 01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:18,880 Speaker 1: the Las Vegas shooter investigation from what came in over 1462 01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:22,840 Speaker 1: the weekend. Team, I've been trying to piece together this 1463 01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:27,040 Speaker 1: narrative of what exactly happened here since the very beginning, 1464 01:34:27,400 --> 01:34:30,680 Speaker 1: and one of the problems that came up was that 1465 01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:34,879 Speaker 1: there was this timeline that was changed three different times. 1466 01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:38,040 Speaker 1: And I said, this seems to me to be strange 1467 01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:42,440 Speaker 1: because it was and that there originally it was reported 1468 01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:45,719 Speaker 1: was over an hour when police were on the scene 1469 01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:50,840 Speaker 1: and the shooter Paddock, had stopped shooting, but could have 1470 01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:55,240 Speaker 1: opened up and shot again. That seemed to be tactically 1471 01:34:55,920 --> 01:35:00,200 Speaker 1: at least worth more investigation and more inquiry. Right Well, 1472 01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,760 Speaker 1: I think we've seen a little bit of what the 1473 01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,800 Speaker 1: problem was with all that over the weekend, and these 1474 01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,960 Speaker 1: reports won't get nearly as much attention as some of 1475 01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:16,040 Speaker 1: the earlier iterations of this whole story. But the Las 1476 01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:21,160 Speaker 1: Vegas Casino UM seems to have had some problems in 1477 01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:26,200 Speaker 1: passing along this information. And the uh Mandalay Bay is 1478 01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:31,200 Speaker 1: owned by MGM Resorts International. It's a major corporation. It 1479 01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:36,120 Speaker 1: owns enormously expensive properties, including others on the strip and 1480 01:35:36,360 --> 01:35:41,360 Speaker 1: around the world. And from what I'm seeing here, there 1481 01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,600 Speaker 1: is the possibility that all of the confusion and the 1482 01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:49,320 Speaker 1: reasons for some of the conflicting earlier reports about the 1483 01:35:49,400 --> 01:35:54,960 Speaker 1: timeline are a function of the hotel and hotel security, 1484 01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,200 Speaker 1: because they would be the ones who would have known, 1485 01:35:57,360 --> 01:36:01,559 Speaker 1: for example, not police, when did Hazo Campos get up 1486 01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:04,960 Speaker 1: to the floor, when was he shot? What was the 1487 01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:09,880 Speaker 1: relay of information? How long did it take for Mandalay 1488 01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:14,160 Speaker 1: Bay Hotel security to get information to their dispatch because 1489 01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:16,840 Speaker 1: that's how they do it, not directly to police. And 1490 01:36:16,880 --> 01:36:19,000 Speaker 1: then how long did it take for the dispatch to 1491 01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:23,400 Speaker 1: get police zeroed in on where this mass shooting was 1492 01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:26,559 Speaker 1: taking place inside of the Mandalay Bay. I think we 1493 01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:30,799 Speaker 1: may have something of of an answer to the earlier 1494 01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:33,200 Speaker 1: question I was posing about, how can you get the 1495 01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:36,280 Speaker 1: timeline so wrong? It wasn't the police from what I'm 1496 01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:39,679 Speaker 1: seeing here, they got the timeline wrong. It was the 1497 01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:44,040 Speaker 1: relay of information from the hotel to the police, and 1498 01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:46,519 Speaker 1: that's information that the police would not The police wouldn't 1499 01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:48,800 Speaker 1: know what the response was initially. I mean, they're not 1500 01:36:49,080 --> 01:36:51,679 Speaker 1: like seizing records and subpoenang and right, They're just gonna 1501 01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:53,519 Speaker 1: ask the hotel when did the guy? When was he 1502 01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,400 Speaker 1: up there? It looks like the hotel got that information 1503 01:36:56,439 --> 01:37:02,320 Speaker 1: wrong and police were response wasn't act very rapid. And 1504 01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:06,080 Speaker 1: it is now also reported that police that first responders 1505 01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:10,480 Speaker 1: to this massacre were specifically targeted once they were arriving 1506 01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:14,880 Speaker 1: on the scene of the of the concert where all 1507 01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:18,240 Speaker 1: of the victims were um. So it seems to me 1508 01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:23,360 Speaker 1: that some of the disconnect with information comes from the 1509 01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:26,880 Speaker 1: casino side, from the hotel side of this equation, and 1510 01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:31,679 Speaker 1: not from law enforcement. And assuming that this is correct 1511 01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:35,000 Speaker 1: now and then I'm right with this line of thinking, 1512 01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:38,160 Speaker 1: a lot of other things begin to fall into place too. 1513 01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:41,479 Speaker 1: You're not going to get anywhere if you are an 1514 01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,760 Speaker 1: individual who is bringing a lawsuit, as many people will 1515 01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:48,920 Speaker 1: in this case against the Las Vegas Police department right 1516 01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:52,400 Speaker 1: there just arriving on the scene, putting their lives in jeopardy, 1517 01:37:52,439 --> 01:37:55,960 Speaker 1: trying to diffuse a horrific situation and put their own 1518 01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:58,760 Speaker 1: lives at risk at the time. Uh, And you're sure 1519 01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:00,839 Speaker 1: you're not gonna sue the laws veg A police department 1520 01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:02,760 Speaker 1: if you were involved, if you are a victim of 1521 01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:06,600 Speaker 1: this incident, or if you're somebody who because there are lawsuits. 1522 01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,599 Speaker 1: We don't like to talk about this after an incident 1523 01:38:09,680 --> 01:38:12,599 Speaker 1: of this magnitude and gravity, We don't like to think 1524 01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:17,160 Speaker 1: of this in terms of what the the legal payouts 1525 01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,240 Speaker 1: will be, but there are already active lawsuits that are 1526 01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:25,000 Speaker 1: underway right now because of this mass shooting and the 1527 01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:30,559 Speaker 1: MGM hotel. Even though sure they want to be at 1528 01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,679 Speaker 1: some level good citizens and and to be a supportive 1529 01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:36,760 Speaker 1: of the investigation as possible, they've got to know at 1530 01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:41,400 Speaker 1: another level that whatever information they pass along to the 1531 01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:45,840 Speaker 1: police is information that would be part of discovery in 1532 01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:51,560 Speaker 1: any lawsuit against them for having faulty or inadequate security 1533 01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:56,360 Speaker 1: measures in place. That's where I think a lot of 1534 01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:58,720 Speaker 1: this is going to end up as we see more, 1535 01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:01,960 Speaker 1: because it was just other wise inexplicable, And honestly I'm 1536 01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:04,639 Speaker 1: kicking myself a little bit because I should have picked 1537 01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,960 Speaker 1: up Well, how is it possible the police we get 1538 01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:11,400 Speaker 1: the timeline wrong given how many days in the incidant. Well, 1539 01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,360 Speaker 1: if they were, if their primary source for part of 1540 01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:18,320 Speaker 1: the information was the hotel, Uh, then you can see 1541 01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:21,120 Speaker 1: how there would initially be a problem of the relay 1542 01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:24,559 Speaker 1: of that information. And now because and the police have 1543 01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:30,240 Speaker 1: no reason or rationale to give anything but the most straightforward, honest, 1544 01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:36,599 Speaker 1: forthright information possible to the public in this circumstance, I'm 1545 01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:40,640 Speaker 1: not I'm not casting aspersions. I'm asking questions. But the hotel, 1546 01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:44,519 Speaker 1: you know, corporate headquarters for MGM, they are looking at 1547 01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:48,160 Speaker 1: this as well as UH as a function of trying 1548 01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:50,200 Speaker 1: to be good citizens, they have to look at this 1549 01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:55,280 Speaker 1: as a legal liability question. There are in fact a 1550 01:39:55,360 --> 01:39:58,519 Speaker 1: number of lawsuits that are underway, not just against the hotel, 1551 01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:02,519 Speaker 1: but the con certain promoters are being sued, the Mandalaid 1552 01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:06,679 Speaker 1: Bays being sued, Paddocks estate, the shooter himself, his estate 1553 01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:09,880 Speaker 1: is being sued, and the makers of the bump stock 1554 01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:14,280 Speaker 1: slide fire, which is a company based in Texas, UH, 1555 01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:17,000 Speaker 1: they are being sued as well. So there's a lot 1556 01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:20,840 Speaker 1: of legal action going on behind the scenes with all 1557 01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:23,160 Speaker 1: of this, and I think that's why you may have 1558 01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:27,800 Speaker 1: had that initial problem with the timeline. I'm wondering if 1559 01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,800 Speaker 1: the timeline of response from the hotel side and what 1560 01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:35,840 Speaker 1: the hotel did and did not do may become a 1561 01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:38,840 Speaker 1: part of the suit if it is not already. I'm 1562 01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:40,519 Speaker 1: going to guess there already is. I haven't read through 1563 01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:45,160 Speaker 1: the lawsuits against the Mandalai Bay, and that explains why 1564 01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:49,400 Speaker 1: there would be some slowness to give the information, and 1565 01:40:49,439 --> 01:40:52,440 Speaker 1: that also could explain how there maybe was a problem 1566 01:40:52,479 --> 01:40:57,599 Speaker 1: with getting all of the information in and not just 1567 01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:01,680 Speaker 1: timely in a timely fashion, but to have it all accurate. 1568 01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:06,479 Speaker 1: So from what I'm seeing now, UH, there was no 1569 01:41:06,600 --> 01:41:10,280 Speaker 1: issue with either the law enforcement accuracy or law enforcement 1570 01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:15,720 Speaker 1: uh timeline of events. It's the Mandalay Bay, which is 1571 01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:19,200 Speaker 1: the heart, which is the root of some of these problems, 1572 01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:23,519 Speaker 1: and whether willfully or just through some degree of of 1573 01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,880 Speaker 1: you know, of the stress and and just the whole 1574 01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:30,800 Speaker 1: situation coming together, they gave some wrong information out there, 1575 01:41:30,800 --> 01:41:32,680 Speaker 1: So I wanted to make sure that I updated that 1576 01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,880 Speaker 1: because it's not fair if I'm gonna ask questions. But hey, 1577 01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,000 Speaker 1: hold on a second, how did law enforcement get this wrong? 1578 01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:40,519 Speaker 1: And then I find out, well, no, law enforcement didn't 1579 01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:45,280 Speaker 1: really get it wrong. The hotel told them that their 1580 01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:48,040 Speaker 1: security officer was shot at a different time from when 1581 01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:50,519 Speaker 1: he was actually shot and makes a big difference in 1582 01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:53,640 Speaker 1: all of this. And with all these lawsuits pending, I 1583 01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,439 Speaker 1: think we have our answer as to how there was 1584 01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,040 Speaker 1: a problem with some of the information come from the 1585 01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,000 Speaker 1: hotel side, So still really not much about the motive, 1586 01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:04,559 Speaker 1: and I think people are gonna be asking a lot 1587 01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:09,360 Speaker 1: of questions about the hotel. The Mandela Bay has much 1588 01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:12,320 Speaker 1: more security in place to protect its casino and the 1589 01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:16,400 Speaker 1: chips on the floor than it's actual hotel guests. That's 1590 01:42:16,479 --> 01:42:20,559 Speaker 1: a whole separate concern and our whole separate conversation. But 1591 01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:22,920 Speaker 1: we'll get into that another time. Stay with me, Team, 1592 01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:26,120 Speaker 1: I'll be right back. So I had a house guest 1593 01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:30,120 Speaker 1: this past weekend, Team, and we had quite a lot 1594 01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:35,120 Speaker 1: of fun. So Molly's family, her parents have a rescue dog. 1595 01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:38,320 Speaker 1: Um she actually rescued it from the street from a 1596 01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:43,720 Speaker 1: cardboard box. And his name is Harold, and he is 1597 01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:47,280 Speaker 1: a handsome and regal fellow. He is a mix of 1598 01:42:47,320 --> 01:42:50,680 Speaker 1: a pit bull and a boxer, so unlike what I'm 1599 01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:52,800 Speaker 1: used to here in New York City and what I 1600 01:42:52,840 --> 01:42:55,280 Speaker 1: grew up with, which was a Boston Terrier, which I 1601 01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:58,920 Speaker 1: have to say, Boston Terriers have a tremendous amount of 1602 01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,519 Speaker 1: personality in a small package. And now my family here, 1603 01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:05,759 Speaker 1: my parents have a French bulldog, which are just little 1604 01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:08,840 Speaker 1: furry love bugs. French bulldogs are great dogs for the city. 1605 01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:12,000 Speaker 1: They're incredibly popular, especially in New York and I saw 1606 01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,639 Speaker 1: a lot when I was in l A too. But Harold, 1607 01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:17,400 Speaker 1: who is a sweetheart who thinks that he's a lap dog, 1608 01:43:17,479 --> 01:43:21,680 Speaker 1: even though he weighs about sixty sixty five pounds. Uh. 1609 01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:24,479 Speaker 1: Harold is a dog that if you were in a 1610 01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:27,680 Speaker 1: dark alley and you heard something go crack, you'd be 1611 01:43:27,720 --> 01:43:30,040 Speaker 1: happy if you had him at your side on a 1612 01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:33,160 Speaker 1: leash because he is a he is a strong and 1613 01:43:33,400 --> 01:43:36,240 Speaker 1: when he wants to be fierce little fellow. But we 1614 01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:38,840 Speaker 1: had a lot of fun. I took him for all 1615 01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:42,360 Speaker 1: kinds of walks, and it was difficult to have him 1616 01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:45,240 Speaker 1: actually sleeping right next to me in the bed. But 1617 01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:48,000 Speaker 1: that is his preferred as I found out when he 1618 01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:50,080 Speaker 1: woke me up at three o'clock in the morning, that 1619 01:43:50,240 --> 01:43:53,840 Speaker 1: is his preferred place. He does not like the couch, 1620 01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:56,599 Speaker 1: he does not like the floor. He likes the bed, 1621 01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,800 Speaker 1: which I'm pretty sure, uh, is not the way that 1622 01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:01,679 Speaker 1: it's supposed to go if you're gonna train your dog, 1623 01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:04,160 Speaker 1: but you know, it is what it is. I actually 1624 01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:07,720 Speaker 1: saw for Braunch, a dear friend of mine. I know Brunch, right, 1625 01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:09,160 Speaker 1: you listen to a guy who does a show out 1626 01:44:09,160 --> 01:44:11,320 Speaker 1: in New York City? What can I tell you? Uh? 1627 01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:14,719 Speaker 1: And she is a is like a world class dog 1628 01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:17,680 Speaker 1: trainer herself, and she has a couple of dogs, and 1629 01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:20,160 Speaker 1: she has a new baby and her husband and we're 1630 01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:24,080 Speaker 1: all hanging out together and catching up. Uh. And I 1631 01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:25,439 Speaker 1: was telling her about some of the things that I 1632 01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:29,000 Speaker 1: did with the pitbull boxer mix named Harold over the weekend, 1633 01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:32,040 Speaker 1: and she said, well, that's so cute and great, except 1634 01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:35,639 Speaker 1: you're not really you're reinforcing some not so great habits 1635 01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:38,000 Speaker 1: for him. If you want him to behave a certain way, 1636 01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, that's maybe not the way you want to do, 1637 01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,840 Speaker 1: things like letting him sleep in the bed. Uh. You know, 1638 01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:46,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I wish I had one of those 1639 01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,439 Speaker 1: dogs that you could give it a command and it 1640 01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,160 Speaker 1: was like ready to do open heart surgery for you 1641 01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:53,200 Speaker 1: or something like it's the most highly trained dog in 1642 01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,720 Speaker 1: the world. But I've just gotten used to if a 1643 01:44:55,760 --> 01:44:59,320 Speaker 1: dog is sweet and and likes to, uh, give everybody 1644 01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:00,880 Speaker 1: a lot lots of a action and love, that's all 1645 01:45:00,920 --> 01:45:03,080 Speaker 1: I really care about. So we had a lot of 1646 01:45:03,080 --> 01:45:05,439 Speaker 1: fun with him. It's a lot of dog for New 1647 01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:08,320 Speaker 1: York City. For people who say, oh, I only like 1648 01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:11,760 Speaker 1: big dogs, then you should probably not ever live in 1649 01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:13,960 Speaker 1: a major city where you're going to be in an 1650 01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:19,200 Speaker 1: apartment because it's it's snug. Having having sixty plus pounds 1651 01:45:19,240 --> 01:45:22,840 Speaker 1: of a dog in an urban environment. And just one 1652 01:45:22,840 --> 01:45:26,960 Speaker 1: more thing on the dogs. I stopped by a dog 1653 01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:29,360 Speaker 1: with my friends who had two dogs and their baby, 1654 01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:31,840 Speaker 1: so they had their dogs with them. I didn't have 1655 01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:34,160 Speaker 1: Harold with me at the time. He was with Molly, 1656 01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:39,560 Speaker 1: but I stopped by a dog Halloween costume contest. I 1657 01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:41,960 Speaker 1: know everybody, this is New York City, right, Everyone's showing 1658 01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:46,480 Speaker 1: up with their Macha green tie lattes after their transcendental 1659 01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,880 Speaker 1: meditation classes on Sunday, and then they're going to the 1660 01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:54,160 Speaker 1: park for the dog Halloween cost costume contest. And I 1661 01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:55,760 Speaker 1: thought it was funny because there was a little dog. 1662 01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:58,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell what it was, but he had like 1663 01:45:58,200 --> 01:46:00,679 Speaker 1: a suit on, you know, he's a dog in a suit, 1664 01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:04,120 Speaker 1: a little dog suit. Um, and it almost looked like 1665 01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:06,679 Speaker 1: it was a black tie for a for a dog. 1666 01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:10,080 Speaker 1: And they announced him over the speaker as and now 1667 01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:16,759 Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein and everyone boom. It's like, yeah, that's pretty 1668 01:46:16,840 --> 01:46:19,439 Speaker 1: much what I would expect for a dog entrant named 1669 01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:23,120 Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein trying to capitalize on the current news cycle 1670 01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:25,479 Speaker 1: here for the contest. I think there was some money 1671 01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:28,000 Speaker 1: at stake in this contest, but there was all kinds 1672 01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:31,320 Speaker 1: of cute stuff. There was a dog in a Sherlock 1673 01:46:31,400 --> 01:46:35,120 Speaker 1: Holmes costume and I thought was particularly amazing. So a 1674 01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:36,840 Speaker 1: lot of dogs stuff this weekend, which is making me 1675 01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:40,360 Speaker 1: think that it's probably time we've we in a sense, 1676 01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:42,600 Speaker 1: we had foster dog this weekend. We baby sat a 1677 01:46:42,640 --> 01:46:45,880 Speaker 1: dog this weekend. But I can handle a dog, but 1678 01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:49,080 Speaker 1: I think for my purposes it's probably gonna have to 1679 01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:52,599 Speaker 1: be thirty pounds below. It's just over sixty is a lot. 1680 01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:55,200 Speaker 1: It's a lot for New York City. If I had 1681 01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,799 Speaker 1: more land and more room, well then that would be different. 1682 01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:00,519 Speaker 1: I wanted to also close up to Day. I know 1683 01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:02,800 Speaker 1: him down in in d C. But as part of 1684 01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:06,960 Speaker 1: making sure like I'm connected with the team, I wanted 1685 01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:10,959 Speaker 1: to give you some of Team buck speaks. Remember Facebook 1686 01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,840 Speaker 1: dot com slash buck Sexton. Please do click like or 1687 01:47:13,960 --> 01:47:16,280 Speaker 1: follow on the page when you go to it, and 1688 01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,160 Speaker 1: then you can write me messages and you can also 1689 01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:19,680 Speaker 1: talk to other members of the team and you can 1690 01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:23,960 Speaker 1: read our posts there throughout the day. Jeffrey writes in 1691 01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:27,639 Speaker 1: Hi Buck, I just finished the Moral Case for Fossil 1692 01:47:27,680 --> 01:47:32,160 Speaker 1: Fuels by Alex Epstein and Informative one sitting read thought 1693 01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,280 Speaker 1: you might like it, well, Jeffrey sounds right up my alley. 1694 01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:37,600 Speaker 1: I will definitely go check it out. I'll add it 1695 01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:41,040 Speaker 1: to my my literal pile of to read books that 1696 01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:43,040 Speaker 1: I have at home, which maybe I should take a 1697 01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:46,160 Speaker 1: photo of and just share that, because I've got a 1698 01:47:46,160 --> 01:47:49,280 Speaker 1: good pile going. I My favorite book on the issue 1699 01:47:49,320 --> 01:47:51,800 Speaker 1: of our the subject of fossil fuels is Daniel you 1700 01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:56,559 Speaker 1: Jurgen's The Prize. It's a great book if you want 1701 01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:59,920 Speaker 1: to just get a really good soup to nuts over 1702 01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:05,200 Speaker 1: review history of fossil fuel starting with the well going 1703 01:48:05,240 --> 01:48:07,719 Speaker 1: all the way back to the beginning of the discovery 1704 01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:10,160 Speaker 1: of oil in Pennsylvania, believe it or not, that's where 1705 01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:12,400 Speaker 1: it really got going, and then Texas and then eventually 1706 01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:14,320 Speaker 1: made its way over the Middle East. But if you 1707 01:48:14,320 --> 01:48:17,639 Speaker 1: want to have a pretty good working grasp of that, 1708 01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:21,479 Speaker 1: The Prize is a great, great book. And all right, 1709 01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:24,479 Speaker 1: I knew we'd get some on this, I corrected myself 1710 01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:28,200 Speaker 1: on air. But nonetheless I said something wrong about firearms 1711 01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:31,799 Speaker 1: and World War two history, and with with this team, 1712 01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:34,080 Speaker 1: you do that at your peril, and I knew that. 1713 01:48:34,439 --> 01:48:36,280 Speaker 1: So I get a note here from John who's who's 1714 01:48:36,280 --> 01:48:40,400 Speaker 1: being very helpful and very kind about it. He writes 1715 01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:45,760 Speaker 1: in subject George Patton's pistols Hi buck shields high my 1716 01:48:45,840 --> 01:48:48,719 Speaker 1: first attempt to converse with you. I write this on 1717 01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:52,120 Speaker 1: Sunday while listening to the podcast A Friday Show. As 1718 01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:54,639 Speaker 1: an avid student of arms in history, I was amused 1719 01:48:54,640 --> 01:48:57,120 Speaker 1: at all the brew haha over the gun grips he 1720 01:48:57,160 --> 01:49:01,160 Speaker 1: wore during World War Two. Old George was the enthusiastic 1721 01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:04,640 Speaker 1: all his life, having completed in the Are, competed in 1722 01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:08,200 Speaker 1: the pentathlon, and I believe the nineteen twelve Olympic Games. 1723 01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,760 Speaker 1: He was very good with both pistol and saber. He 1724 01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:16,800 Speaker 1: designed the last issue model of cavalry saber for the U. S. Army. 1725 01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:19,720 Speaker 1: In any case, there were three main pistols he was 1726 01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:23,439 Speaker 1: pictured wearing during the war. Patton's favorite was probably the 1727 01:49:23,479 --> 01:49:26,920 Speaker 1: cult single action Army or Peacemaker, with a five and 1728 01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:31,439 Speaker 1: a half inch barrel, full engraving and nickel plating forty 1729 01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:35,920 Speaker 1: five caliber, as well as the ivory grips. The Peacemaker's 1730 01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:38,799 Speaker 1: grips were smooth on the right panel with a gold 1731 01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:44,720 Speaker 1: inlaid initials monogram g SP. The left panel features a 1732 01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:49,080 Speaker 1: mantled eagle and two notches up by the trigger guard. Uh. 1733 01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:51,519 Speaker 1: This was the gun he used to kill two uh 1734 01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:56,719 Speaker 1: VI Lanista's during Pershing's punitive expedition into Mexico. The second 1735 01:49:56,760 --> 01:49:59,679 Speaker 1: gun on his belt and sd Meyer's full general's issue 1736 01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:04,439 Speaker 1: leather tunnel was a blue Smith and Wesson registered magnum 1737 01:50:04,479 --> 01:50:08,240 Speaker 1: with an end frame sized three magnum with a three 1738 01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:11,799 Speaker 1: and a half inch barrel factory grip adapter in ivory 1739 01:50:11,880 --> 01:50:15,719 Speaker 1: stocks smooth with the initials on the right panel. Lastly, 1740 01:50:15,760 --> 01:50:20,000 Speaker 1: a government issued peace or two Occult Model three and 1741 01:50:20,560 --> 01:50:23,880 Speaker 1: eight semi auto pistols blued in thirty two caliber a 1742 01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:28,519 Speaker 1: CP and three A a CP respectively, the pocket hammerless model. 1743 01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:34,160 Speaker 1: Only difference between them being caliber. Uh. This is incredible. 1744 01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:35,920 Speaker 1: I mean the information that John has here, he keeps 1745 01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,640 Speaker 1: going by the way. Um, but there you have it 1746 01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:41,160 Speaker 1: that there's more here. Thanks for all your work, Bluck 1747 01:50:41,200 --> 01:50:45,120 Speaker 1: and Shields High. John, Thank you for a museum worthy 1748 01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:50,360 Speaker 1: description of General Patton's side arms over the course of 1749 01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:52,880 Speaker 1: World War Two. Very much appreciated. And now he gets 1750 01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:56,320 Speaker 1: someone writing in about a dog Alice with the following 1751 01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:59,200 Speaker 1: just listen to Friday's podcast and had to share my 1752 01:50:59,240 --> 01:51:02,559 Speaker 1: recent dogs story. A friend who works for a local 1753 01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:06,879 Speaker 1: rescue sent me photos of dogs from an South Carolina 1754 01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:10,000 Speaker 1: kill shelter who had twenty four hours before they were euthanized. 1755 01:51:10,360 --> 01:51:12,960 Speaker 1: I agreed to foster an eight month old lab puppy. 1756 01:51:13,040 --> 01:51:16,439 Speaker 1: When the transport arrived in Vermont, outbounded a big black 1757 01:51:16,560 --> 01:51:19,240 Speaker 1: lab pit bull mix. It was a long ride home 1758 01:51:19,640 --> 01:51:22,720 Speaker 1: wondering if he'd kill our cats since I've always been 1759 01:51:22,840 --> 01:51:25,839 Speaker 1: a never pit person. He was a mess, so skinny 1760 01:51:25,840 --> 01:51:28,760 Speaker 1: you could see every bone covered with bites and scratches, 1761 01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:32,400 Speaker 1: not neotered. Although he's two years old, full of worms 1762 01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:36,120 Speaker 1: and tested heartworm positive, and we completely fell in love 1763 01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:38,599 Speaker 1: with him. Three weeks later, he's put on a good 1764 01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:41,519 Speaker 1: deal of weight and his glossy happy and is a 1765 01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:44,679 Speaker 1: great dog. He stays by my side everywhere, is gentle 1766 01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:48,200 Speaker 1: with cats, likes humans and other dogs. Tomorrow he goes 1767 01:51:48,240 --> 01:51:51,560 Speaker 1: in for his series of heartworm treatments. If he survives, 1768 01:51:51,880 --> 01:51:54,320 Speaker 1: we will officially make him part of our family and 1769 01:51:54,360 --> 01:51:58,240 Speaker 1: formally adopt him. Big heart from Alice. Well, Alice, that 1770 01:51:58,400 --> 01:52:00,920 Speaker 1: is the best story that I have ray in quite 1771 01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:04,160 Speaker 1: a while, So thank you for sharing that. And uh 1772 01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:07,719 Speaker 1: fingers crossed and I'll say a prayer forget fingers crossed. 1773 01:52:07,720 --> 01:52:11,439 Speaker 1: I'll say a prayer for your the new member, the 1774 01:52:11,560 --> 01:52:14,439 Speaker 1: soon to be newest member. I'm sure of your family 1775 01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:18,240 Speaker 1: and God bless for adopting and saving that dog. And 1776 01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going to enrich your life and your 1777 01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:24,640 Speaker 1: family's life lives along with it. So congrats and that 1778 01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:28,439 Speaker 1: is awesome. And with that from d C, the Freedom Hunt, 1779 01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:32,519 Speaker 1: d C until tomorrow, my friends, Shields high