WEBVTT - The Flynn Ambush Succeded 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.840 You are entering the freedom hunt. General Flynn has his 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.040 day in court for a sentencing hearing, but it does 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.040 not go as planned. Will have the details. Also, is 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.840 there going to be a shutdown or not? It looks 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.920 like the White House might have been backtracking a bit 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.120 today on previous promises and what happens when an eleven 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.400 year old is dancing on stage in drag and the 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.720 media covers it that. I'm more coming up on the 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.960 buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.040 the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:51.519 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, You're a great 0:00:51.560 --> 0:01:01.880 American Again The buck Sexton Show beginst. No, President Trump 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.880 should understand there are not the votes for the wall 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.720 in the House or the Senate. He is not going 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.600 to get the wall in any form. I asked the 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.400 people at Customs of Border Protection what would it cost 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.440 to have scanners to scan all the vehicles coming in. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.000 They said three hundred million dollars. That's a four cry 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.920 from five billion, in a much more effective way to 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.280 have a secure border. Most of us, speaking for myself, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:34.880 consider the wall immral ineffective, expensive to spend billions of 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.600 dollars on an immoral, ineffective, and expensive wall. Don't waste 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:45.080 billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to build 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.240 something that will not make our border more secure. Border 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.080 security is enormously important, but I think building a wall 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.480 is a very costly and inefficient way to do that. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:02.200 So many lies, so many lies, and so little time 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.880 to knock them all down. Welcome to the buck Sex 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:09.560 and show everybody. Democrats are in full scale talking points 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.520 mode right now. They're all in on this idea that 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:19.320 a wall just cannot happen. A wall cannot happen, and 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:26.040 the GOP as of now, according to Mitch McConnell, is 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:31.160 not willing to go to a shutdown send a majority leader. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.720 Mitch McConnell has declared the government's going to stay open 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.080 and that the White House will be flexible, flexible on 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:43.960 its border wall demands. Why I would like to know 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.639 why they think this is a good idea. Why is 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.680 it that the Republicans are the ones who once again 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:57.680 are running to cave on the signature issue of this presidency. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.200 What is the difference now? What has changed in their calculation? 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.040 A week ago Trump was having his I Am Spartacus 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:07.560 moment on this one. You know, he said, you know, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.880 we'll shut it down, Stephen Miller over the weekend, Presidents 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.000 Senior a in the White House, Oh, we'll shut it down. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.400 You know. I'm not here to say everything that Trump 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.720 does is advisors do is great. Often quite the opposite. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.399 I'm here to tell you what I think about what's 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.360 best for the country and what the reality of the 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.079 agenda is that was promised by these people who were 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.360 given power, including the President of the United States, to 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.600 follow through on that agenda. You know, they were not 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:43.000 saying build the existing fences and add to border patrol 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.920 over time hours. No, they were saying build the wall. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.280 Not seeing this get through right now, not seeing how 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.360 it's gonna happen. Now. There are a bunch of ways 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.680 this could play out, and I will get into them. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.600 But I do want to note that my initial inclination here, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.520 which is the GOP is unwilling to have a shutdown 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.040 battle right before the Christmas holiday. They think they're gonna 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.560 lose on this one. They think the Democrats and their 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.200 media allies are going to manage to convince people that 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:17.480 Republicans are being reckless, that all that just means that 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:23.000 this is Lucy pulling the football and we are Charlie 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.719 missing by a mile and landed on our butts. Oh, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.120 we're gonna have the shutdown fight. Oh it's going to 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.159 be the you know, now is our moment to finally 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.400 do what's right here. Nope, that's that is That is 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.159 not how this is going to play out. Unfortunately, that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.720 is not what is likely to happen. I don't know 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.280 how the president. I'm just gonna say it. I don't 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.279 know how the president can win reelection if the wall 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.240 promise is not in any way fulfilled, meaning that that 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.320 construction has not started. I don't know, you know, because 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.080 this is how I see this playing out right now. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.440 They're not going to do the shutdown. They're going to 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:04.839 get a another continuing resolution, and you know they're gonna 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.520 push They're gonna push this off into January and then 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.680 they'll have another Oh no, we gotta have a big thing, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.440 and then they're gonna push it off again. No politician 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.360 wants to make a hard choice. No members of Congress 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.480 want to do what's necessary and what's responsible here. They 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.120 want to do what's easiest and what's going to get 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:26.080 them reelected. It's all driven by self interest, and we're 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.880 gonna be told, you know what, Okay, fine, maybe the 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.720 president is going to order them to find the money 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.039 somewhere else. I'm already seeing this. This is the storyline. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.159 All the President's gonna find the money somewhere else for 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:43.720 the wall. Okay, where find five billion dollars? That's I'm 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.159 sure they can find that somewhere in the budget. But 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.120 how are they gonna Oh well, okay, well, you know what. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:52.720 The President's also gonna just the President's going to tell 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.359 the military that this should be done, this is the 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.680 way it should go, and we will respond to this. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.159 All right, Well, guess what happens? Then a federal judge 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.479 is going to block it, you know, just just the 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.480 same way that a federal judge said no travel band, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.640 even though it was within the president's constitutional authority to 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.960 implement that travel band. As we know from the from 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:20.120 the Supreme Court, they're gonna say, oh, some judge somewhere 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.000 in the country is going to come up with a 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.400 pretext to stop them, stop the building of the border wall, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.840 or stop the funding of it. They're the reapportionment of 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.560 funding from within the federal government so that they could 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.120 build a wall. No, no, no, they're gonna they're gonna 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.039 find it. So then the judge shuts this thing down. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.279 It turns into a court battle, and you know what 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.480 they're gonna tell us for twenty twenty because that's how 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.520 long this thing's gonna extend out with with no wall 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.920 in place and no funding for a wall. You know 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.039 what they're gonna tell us, Oh, well, we need to 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.600 give Trump four more years and we need a supermajority 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.720 in Congress. Now that's what we need, a supermajority in 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.080 Congress to get this done. I think it's now never. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.679 They're either willing to have this fight and do everything 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.160 that they can to start building this wall. It's going 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.760 to be piecemeal, it's gonna take a long time. It's 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.440 not going to be an easy thing to do. But 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.560 they either win the fight to begin construction, or you know, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:26.960 we gotta start thinking about a way to live under 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.040 a democrat socialist regime because that's where this country's heading. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.840 And I don't like saying it, but that's what's that's 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.760 what's going to happen. That's where we're gonna be. We've 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.720 basically lost the healthcare fight. I know other conservatives don't 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.320 want to tell you that. They're, oh, you know, we're 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.560 gonna we're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare. Really, when how 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.000 you had a chance, didn't do it, it's only going 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.960 to get harder. In fact, we're only moving further to 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.760 the left, more government spending, more dependency on the government 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.119 subsidizing healthcare. You think we're gonna have some great moment 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.120 of clarity on this one, all of a sudden, the 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.640 Milton Friedman spirit is going to overtake the country. We're 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.720 going to realize that a free market and healthcare is 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.680 going to be better. No, of course not. People like 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.800 free stuff. It's rational to like free stuff. The whole 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.200 government system we have now when it comes to healthcare 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.280 and a whole lot of things, is premised on not 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.800 really letting you know, not really making it clear that 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.840 you are paying for it, that that this doesn't come 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.040 without cost. You know, they don't want you to know that. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.079 They want to obfuscate that. They want to make it 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:43.000 hard to understand that we're losing the fight over healthcare. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.240 What's the replacement plan? You know, got all these Republicans 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.880 in Congress and their staffs and their offices, and I 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.839 go over and I interview them the whole thing I 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.640 always want asking what exactly do you do here? Guys 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.440 don't have an Obamacare replacement plan, you haven't won the fight. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.720 In fact, Amacare is more popular now than it's ever 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.320 been based on the polling, it is more popular now. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.640 You could say, well, buck, that's because they you know, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.280 we have some stop gap measures and the Congress said, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.200 you don't have to pay the penalty. But the reason 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.360 people sign up for Obamacare insurance that the main driver 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.280 is not actually whether or not they have to pay 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.199 the penalty. It's whether or not they get subsidies. Because 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.240 in some cases the subsidy covers essentially their entire cost 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.800 of premium. So it's effectively like having free health insurance 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.439 with limited access to the private health insurance market and 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.440 a high deductible. But that's what it is. You know, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.480 we were told that Republicans would would fight. I mean 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:49.000 I came into media on healthcare issue at the healthcare 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.920 issue time, right. I came in when Obamacare was the 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.439 dominant subject matter, when the Tea Party was Yeah, we 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.080 worried about the debt and the deficit, But what was 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.080 really pushing the debt and deficit healthcare spending, Medicare and medicaid. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.320 That's where the problem is. Obamacare has only made that worse. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:12.040 And Obamacare was compelled commerce, and we were told that 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.679 this is terrible, and it is terrible, it's wrong, it's unconstitutional. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.280 But what are we going to do about it? You know? 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.760 I start to worry that conservatism is accepting of its 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.240 toothlessness when it comes to policy, when it comes to 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.360 the way this country is governed and how that affects 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.439 the three hundred and twenty million or so people who 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:40.440 live here, that we just make really interesting arguments and 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.720 never expect to actually win. And what's most frustrating right 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.599 now with Trump and the Oval office. And I know 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.360 it's a lame duck Congress, but we still do have 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.920 a majority. What's most frustrating is that Republicans are essentially 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.720 now being told even when you win, you lose. Even 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.040 when we have this is political miracle of the Trump 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:10.960 administration that defeats the most propped up establishment back candidate imaginable. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:17.520 We can't we can't follow through, we can't execute. We're 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.559 a lot of you know, the right conservatism. Trump is 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.080 m whatever. A lot of promises, not all of execution. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.800 I know there's are people would say, oh buck the 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.600 economy and yeah, the economy is good. Stock market is 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.040 not so good, but the economy is good. Unemployment still 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.000 really low, regulations better than it was. Healthcare is not 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.280 much better, it's not it's been two years. The wall 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.080 hasn't been built. Still at war in Afghanistan, still have 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:49.880 troops in about a third of Syria. So what exactly 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.800 are the are the are the huge winds here the worst? Okay, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.040 we are not in the Paris Climate Agreement. Fine, that's good. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.760 Iran sanctions are back good. I mean, there are good things, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:05.280 but all those key issues, those core issues that motivated 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.000 sixty three million people to vote for President Trump. Where 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.120 are we now in this process? Do we think that 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.160 there's going to be a better time to have this 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.080 fight or after the Democrats are done turning Trump and 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.880 everybody around him, everyone he's ever known or loved, practically 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:30.480 is going to get the most intrusive, taxpayer funded examination 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.439 of everything they've done, said, and everywhere they've been imaginable. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:36.960 You think then they're really going to have the fighting 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:42.720 spirit when we're having debates about a possible impeachment. That's 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.480 when Trump and those around him are going to say, oh, yeah, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:51.079 let's get the wall. It is now or never. I 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.040 am frustrated that. I'm also frustrated because of what happened 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:02.240 with General Flynn, where you have I think increasingly the 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.439 conclusion we have to draw from this is that yes 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.360 he was set up. Yes they went after him, and 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:12.720 there was you know, they were playing dirty pool. But 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:17.360 Flynn also messed up. He messed up with the lobbying 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:22.160 for Turkey. He messed up by lying, I don't I'm 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.600 waiting for him to say that he didn't actually lie. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.480 I'm waiting for someone to produce the three O two 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.240 that the original three O two from either Struck or 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.559 the other agent that was in the room that says 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.840 that you know that that we have that moment of wow, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.559 they actually set this guy up. That still could happen, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.079 but it hasn't happened yet. In the meantime, Flynn is saying, yeah, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.600 I lied. And we had the scene today with a judge, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.840 a judge who brought up that some might make the 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.520 argument that Flynn sold out his country. It's a federal 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:57.680 judge speaking to a three star general. It's been a 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.720 frustrating day for the gendat. It doesn't mean that we've lost. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.440 And I'm not I'm not all fatalistic about this now. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:11.720 I just I'm disappointed that the White House, I think, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.600 has had the establishment whispering in its ear too much 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.720 on this one, and they just they won't have this fight. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.680 Pelosi and Schumer and their whole gang cannot win on 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.400 the issue of immigration. If the debate has had in 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.640 public and if people hear what they really think and 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.760 what they really believe, they can't win. But if we 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.840 don't have that, if we allow it to be business 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.800 as usual, then yes, either shutdown won't happen or would 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.600 be blamed on Republicans and Pelosi and Schumer, you know, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.440 laugh all the way to the election of the Beeto 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:49.760 Biden ticket that everyone's talking about right now. Oh my gosh. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.680 Just yeah. Just double up, double up on the lightweights. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.000 That's the way to go. Double up on the lightweights, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.680 and you'll have it like a you know, a middleweight 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.920 running for press. That sounds great, That sounds great. All right, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.480 we got we got a lot of I will talk 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.480 to you about the Flint situation in detail. The second hour, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.680 we'll break down what happened today. We've got a former 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.400 federal prosecutor joining us to talk about that, also, my 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.840 friend Sean Davis, the federalists, they've been doing excellent work. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.480 He'll give us his sense of it. And in the 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.240 third hour, I'll tell you about the story I saw 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.640 in the Daily Wire about an eleven year old dressed 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.960 in drag and these media stories that are hailing this 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.120 as some kind of victory. Ah. I mean, well, the 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.800 world hasn't gone mad, but a lot of people in 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.120 and half. You've got got much more show coming. Team, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:40.600 stay with me. Schumer and I have set me to 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.480 Schumer and I have said that we cannot accept the 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.480 offer they made of a billion dollars slushman for the 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.360 President to implement his very wrong immigration policies. So that 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.760 won't happen. So what's the way out? Well, we've said 0:15:54.800 --> 0:16:00.480 before very clearly that we could possibly come together around 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:05.000 a CR for all seven bills more better than that, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:10.440 six bills that have already passed the Senate committees and 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.880 one bill that CR for Homeland Security six and one 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.120 or all seven under a CR. So as you're saying, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.800 you know, Trump's not going to get anything he wants 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.400 out of this. I thought elections were supposed to have consequences. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.640 Apparently only when Democrats win to elections have consequences. Notice, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.360 the discussion had been until today that Trump weren't five 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.800 billion for the wall and the Democrats were offering one 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:39.280 point five billion for border security overall? What do they 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.640 expect that one point five billion is going to do 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.680 to change the situation. If we had a real press corps, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.960 Democrats would be asked questions like, what are you going 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.920 to do to stop all the illegals from coming into 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.920 the country? What are you going to do about the 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.080 caravans and the family the tens of thousands of family 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.600 units that are showing up at the southern border? Well, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:06.119 what's your policy for that? How does just continuing the 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.560 status quo make anything better? Words, the answer is it 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.560 doesn't make anything better, and they don't want to make 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:15.560 anything better. I also just love the ridiculousness of Democrats 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.040 pretending that all of a sudden they care about wasteful 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.520 government spending. You know, oh yes, oh a billion dollars 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.879 slush faun Oh good heavens, what will we ever do 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:30.720 about that? Also, they say that the border wall is racist. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.720 By the way, at sixteen, the President went to the 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.280 heart of what I call his brown menace theory. These migrants, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.520 they're dirty people, They bring disease. This border wall thing 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.040 is about controlling the browning of America. Donald Trump is 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.960 fixated on the southern border, as he was the day 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.880 that he announced this campaign. It is not about securing 0:17:54.880 --> 0:18:00.680 the borders. It is about xenophobic, racist, bigoted beliefs he believes, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.040 and unfortunately, maybe the facts will bear this out. His 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.320 base is scared of anyone who is not visibly white, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.600 and it's just all slanders. I want to know, if 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:17.080 a wall is racist, shouldn't we be watching Democrats talk 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.800 about how they want to tear down the existing wall 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.480 and say the San Diego sector which has been keeping 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.160 out a flood of illegals. I mean, if a wall 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.360 is racist, why aren't they telling us that we need 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.960 to take down the wall that do exist and the 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.680 fencing that's already there. Oh, it's only a new wall 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.000 is racist, that only more fencing is racist. That's a 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.520 fascinating position. I'd love to hear Schumer and Pelosi try 0:18:43.560 --> 0:19:03.159 to explain that one sometime what do Americans really care about? 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.360 If you based it on what gets media coverage, If 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.160 you were to look at this and make your decisions 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:19.280 based upon what the journalist class thinks matters, it's just 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.880 an endless array of sob stories about everybody who tries 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.080 to come to the country illegally, and then Trump the 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:33.160 latest evil thing that someone that knew Trump wants somewhere 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:38.280 thought he did. I mean, it's just that's what the 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.000 media focuses on all the time. Meanwhile, now, look, I'm 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.840 not a big pole guy. I think that polling is 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.880 often an invitation for somewhat lazy analysis. But I did 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.320 think that this is an important reminder because it's exactly 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.920 what if you would if I had been asked to guess. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.120 And I'm sure you feel the same way. What do Americans? 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.920 According to this gallop Pole site is the biggest problem 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.040 the biggest problems in America right now? You know what 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:12.160 they say based on the percentages government, immigration, healthcare. That's 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.600 about right, that's about right. That makes sense to me. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.280 And immigration is a problem, yes, in many ways, but 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.720 the American people are not with the progressive left on 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.959 advocating for unlimited legal immigration continuously and just pretending it's 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.360 either not a problem or just saying that they want 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.800 more of it. American people are not on board for 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.720 that by and large. Maybe twenty or thirty percent are, 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.280 but the rest of the country is not. Why is 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.520 government a problem? Well, I think that's kind of self evident. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.480 That's a whole that's a whole show right there. Why 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.000 is government a problem? I think a lot of it. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.760 They'll also has to do with our expectations. There's so 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.600 much overpromising, there's so much that government is involved in 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.720 that it's not good at that. It's understanding that, the 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.879 understandable that people across across the board from all sides 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.600 of the political aisle are frustrated with what's going on 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.160 with government because it is not doing what it has 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.199 set out to do. It is not particularly effective, and 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.159 there are important conversations to be had about this. You know, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.600 there's there's whole discussions about I mean, I got on 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.440 a little healthcare a rent before, but government's going to 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.520 be in charge of more of your healthcare in five years, 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:28.119 in ten years than it is now, So we might 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.879 as well start to figure out how to make it 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.640 less terrible at it, you know, how to make it 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:40.320 less of an unaccountable bureaucracy than it already is. The 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:46.600 free marketeers are losing ground every day, and we do 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:48.959 not have a look for all the things about President 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.240 Trump that I think on a policy On a policy level, 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:54.920 I like now he is. He is for a muscular 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.560 federal government. He is not a limited government, small government guy. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:01.760 Not what it comes to trade, not when it comes 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.160 to a whole lot of issues. He wants the government 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:09.240 to be very involved in aspects of trade and commerce. 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.399 And so where are we heading with all of this? 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.960 Not to a very good place? You know, I'm starting 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.119 to get a little Maybe it's just this week with 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.080 all the bad news about I want to say bad news, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:23.960 it just mean negative news. I don't think the news 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.119 is nearly as damaging as they want to pretend it 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.720 is about Trump and everybody around him, but they make 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.720 it sound like any day and any day now we're 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.760 going to have that moment where that moment where we 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.119 all realize, oh no, they finally got him. The President's 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:39.840 not going to be able to continue an office because 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:46.200 of this. This is just not reality based. But unfortunately 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:50.000 it's good ratings for the media to do this and 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:55.640 it feeds into what is essentially a left wing delusion. Here, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.480 very interesting column from sarab A. Maria should have reached 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.240 out to him, but I got busy with some things today. 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:03.639 But he wrote in the New York Post about this, 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.199 about how in his home country of Iran. He's now 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.840 a US citizen, but he was born in Iran. How 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:15.000 even the most educated, the most sophisticated people believe in conspiracies, 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.240 and particularly in the case of Iran, the conspiracies are 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:23.160 either related to Jews or America or both. That's where 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:27.480 the conspiracy theorists go. And it's hard to parody the 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.359 level of conspiracy mongering that goes on in Iran. It, 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:32.160 by the way, it's also true and other it's true 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:33.879 in Iran, it's true in Egypt. There's a lot of 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.280 the Mid East is a very conspiracy might have played. 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.800 People say the same about Russia and parts of Eastern Europe. 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.760 I think too, where the general public, including the most 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:47.240 sophisticated players, are believers in conspiracy theories. We have that 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:51.400 problem in this country now too, And we have this 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:54.880 problem in a way that mirrors the problem, let's say, 0:23:55.119 --> 0:24:00.679 in another advanced, industrialized Western democracy like France, where instead 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:06.639 of believing that the reason in France the yellow vests 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:10.600 are rioting and why there's so much public support for them, 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:14.520 it's because the French elite, the establishment, is making stupid 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.479 decisions that are disconnected from the reality of people's day 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:21.760 to day lives and that are ideologically based and that 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.400 are unsound in practice. Instead of accepting that, they think that, oh, 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:30.080 there's this is the result of some right wing forces. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:32.800 There's an excuse. They find an excuse to not deal 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:38.359 with the real problem that is at the heart of 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.240 the hatred against Trump and the Trump movement as well. 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:48.760 The elites of both parties, stretching back for decades now, 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:53.000 have been inect at the following things. They have been 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:58.440 inect at creating a more stable Middle East. For example, 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:00.880