Austin Mad Bomber

free at eight four four nine hundred Buck. That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five the future of talk radio. Buck Sexton terrible. The bombings in Austin are terrible. Local, state and federal of working hand in hand to get to the bottom of it. This is obviously a very very sick individual or maybe individuals. These are sick people, and we will get to the bottom of it. We will be very strong. We have all

sorts of federal agencies over there right now. We're searching what's going on in Austin, a great place, tremendous place, is absolutely disgraceful, So we have a lot of power over there. We're looking. It's not easy to find, but these are sick people and we have to find them as soon as possible. We have to find them really immediately. Welcome to the buck Sex and show everybody you have.

A fifth explosion earlier today in Texas. It's believed to be linked to the bombings that have already happened in Austin, Texas, and we are now in the midst of a man hunt for a serial bomber. We do not have much in the way of additional information about motive, about any description of the suspect, any inclination about who the suspect or suspects are. We had the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speak earlier today. Here's what he had to say

about it. Obviously, as you know an ongoing investigation, law enforcement can't share everything they know, So there are definitely things that that law enforcement knows about what's what's going on with the proms and potentially who this is that they're not gonna be able to share at this time. But yes, I do think that this guy, whoever it is, is trying to increase fear. Well, he's certainly trying to increase fear. The question is for what purpose and who

is it so we can stop him? Um. I hope that law enforcement has a lot more information than is out there in the public right now, because otherwise it seems to me they have very little to go on right now. And if you look at the history of mad bombers in the past, a serial bombers people that were just trying to uh so chaos and and just kill people at random, or kill people for as part of some twisted political agenda. Some of these bomber man

hunts stretch on. We're not just months, not years, but decades. I certainly hope that is not the case here. Some of you may be familiar with the mad bomber case who terrorized New York City back in the fifties, George Mateski. I took them quite a long time to finally get Metski. He had left bombs in phone booths and bathrooms. He left bombs at Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station, the New York Public Library. Scotty was leaving bombs place, thirty three bombs,

six of them, twenty two of them exploded. Uh And it took them a long time to track him down. The most well known serial bomber of all time, the UNI bomber Ted Kazinski. You know that went on for decades. There's now a series. I was actually planning on on watching it, and there's a series on I believe Netflix right now. Manhunt Unibomber. Just about that decades long effort by the FBI to track down Kazinski had and it's important folks remember what brought him down. He wanted his

message to be out there. If Kazinski didn't have a streak of narcissism and grandiosity, he didn't insist on a manifesto being published by the Washington Post etly the New York Times, would we ever found him. He was meticulous, He planned it out, and he was completely and utterly sociopathic when it came to the lives that he ruined and lives and he ended um There's also a a similar a similar need for a sense of message. If you go back into um mates Ki's case, he would

send letters. He sent letters into the New York Herald Tribune like this one on October. Bombs will continue until the consolidated Edison Company is brought to justice for their dastardly acts against me. I have exhausted all other means. I intend with bombs to cause others to cry out for justice for me. So these bombers are crazy, but not stupid. They are careful with what they do and

it is very tough to track them down. People have been asking, I was over at Fox this morning a few times, trying to shed some light on how this all works. And we have incredib double forensics right now. I mean, the things that can be done today are are are amazing. They can find d N A on a on a switch. They can find DNA on a blasting cap after it's been used, even although oftentimes the

explosion will burn off any residual DNA. People usually, if you watch enough TV and movies you think of fingerprints. They're always dusting for fingerprints. Yeah, fingerprints are great if you can get them, but if someone wears gloves, guess what a hard fingerprints DNA that you leave behind that's much harder to eliminate from a device and and can

be left behind even after an explosion. In fact, one of the better known cases of trying to track down all of this involved the FBI is a special lab that they set up and thousands and thousands of I E. D s from a rock and Afghanistan have been sent there for analysis, and they track down one of the one of the cases of a refugee who turned out to be a really bad, really bad choice for this country. I believe he was living in Kentucky. He's in a

rocky refugee. It turned out he was involved in insurgency there and was bragging about how he had killed U. S soldiers, And they were trying to do a match between an I E. D. In the Beiji area of Iraq, known best for the oil refinery north of Baghdad, a couple of hours drive. I think, um about maybe it's

about sixty miles well on a rocky roads. But they're a will track him down, and in part the effort involved looking at exactly that the DNA on I E. D. S in Iraq and seeing if you had any connection to it. And he ended up getting a forty years sentence I believe. So there are ways that they could be trying this down. This may be over in a day or two. I'm not trying to make this seem

more dire than it is. I just know the history of tracking down serial bombers is one of a lot of slow and plotting and difficult detective work usually, and this case, so far, we're seeing increased. He Here are the things that give me real pause. One is no message anywhere that we know of. And maybe what Paxton, the a GA Texas said is the case, law enforcement might already have a really excellent tip, you know, and great,

and I hope that's the case. But from what we know, and I can only work here on this show, I'm not in law enforcement anymore. I'm not intelligence anymore. I can just tell you what's out there in the press, which is all I would anyway. Right Uh, what we know is that the bomber, assuming this is all one person or one group, and I do think it's likely to be a person. I don't see this being a group. I also don't see this being um the I don't I don't see being gee hottest terrorism. I don't see

this being drug cartels, you know. Any It's some the things that are put out there as suspect profiles by people that are just trying to theorize and then also getting a sense of motivations for this. We just don't have enough right now. I mean, the profile you can expect here would be a single male, probably middle aged,

with a gripe. If he fits the mad bomber profile. UM, it's probably a loner and someone who feels like he has been wrong very possibly by the government, although we don't know that for sure, and views this as a means of retribution, right, and and attention seeking. What's complicating situation is that we have not and it's still very early, but we have not yet seen any manifested. We haven't seen any claims of credit for this that anyone believes

are credible. We have a case where someone has chosen targets that seem random, even from the mind of a of a terrorist, right, even for a sick and deluded mind. We can't pick up much of a much of a pattern based on what we've seen so far. And now that you have one bomb that went off at a FedEx, you've got another and this is this is still I

believe developing. They they have a a suspicious package, because if they have an intact device, that would be much better for all the forensic stuff I was talking about, looking at the mechanics of it, what pieces are in, what pieces are actually in the explosive device. UM, then again look sweeping for fingerprints for DNA, all the things

that they always do. The standard kit. If you have a device that's still together, you're more likely to get some answers that if you have a device that's been blown to smithery, just shrapnel and residue. But they're saying there's also some degree of sophistication here either that that runs quite a gamut, right, I mean, are we talking about someone who spent a lot of time, maybe in some basement somewhere, thinking about how to do this? Absolutely?

I mean this is this has been thought out. This person knows what the plan was here and and is executing this bloody mayhem according to what they had been plotting out for some time. But beyond that, is this somebody with an actual skill set from explosives explosive ordinance disposal? Is this? You know? That? To me too early to say, But I haven't seen the devices, right, the law enforcement

maybe keeping this close hold. The fact that they're saying greater level of sophistication, to me, it's starting to be an indicator. And this is reading between the lines. This is not based on This is not what we know. This is what we may know based on what we've been told old that you could have someone here who is beyond reading the Anarchist Cookbook and trial and error at home. But as we know, you can get far if you're just trying to blow up innocent people. That's

not a hard thing to do. It's an evil thing to do, but it's not a difficult thing to do. So this is this is now where we hope that law enforcement is gonna I have a a rapid arrest and there will be no more of these bombings. But using the postal system or using FedEx, you know, using any of these parcel or package transfer services adds a layer of complication, and it means that they're spreading a sense of anxiety and fear throughout that entire system anywhere

where they can reach. You know, these these bombs could theoretically reached so far it's all been in Texas, could expand beyond that. We don't know a lot of unknowns. But we have a serial bomber on the loose in this country. We've got over five hundred law enforcement agents that are working in the case full time, just doing everything they can to find him, and we will keep

you updated on it beyond that. Right now, I just I hope that this is a story that doesn't last beyond the week because they get him and this doesn't turn into a Motetski or a Kazinski or any other long term serial bomber cases that have been out there. If you have any thoughts on this, especially those of you out there who are law enforcement or a former military e O D. Explosive Ordinance disposal folks, by all means, lines are open eight four four n eight to five

eight four four nine Buck, I'll be back. We we've got to We've got a packed show today. I've got to talk to you about the updates on Cambridge Analytic of that whole thing. It's just people have lost their minds. They are crazy on that thing, just the latest overblown conspiracy. But we'll we'll pull that apart together. And then also a school shooting today and one that you won't hear about from the media. I'd say, starting tomorrow, this is

gonna fall off the rail. Why would a school shooting not be talked about for more than one day's news cycle. Some of you are probably already saying it aloud. You already know why. But we'll talk about it because it's important and it should reflect it should be reflected in the policies going forward to know that you have Betsy Divos with that School Safety Commission. We'll get into all this coming up, so stay with me team. Much more

on the way, Welcome back, folks. Before we get into the what really should be a non story about Cambridge Cambridge Analytica, UM, I just want to say that there are some people who are talking quite a bit about the possibility of a government shutdown. We're to get to Cambridge Analytica and then the school shooting in just a few minutes, but first the government shutdown. Jim Jordan's it's raising the alarm over the spending increase that's going to

be happening here. This is the second largest discretionary spending increase in the last decade, second only to the Obama stimulus package. I don't think the American people elected Republicans in sixteen to preside over a spending increase of this magnitude, not to mention some of the things that might go in the bill that are still being talked about, namely bailouts for insurance companies and and elements like that. So

this builds a bad piece of legislations. I think you're gonna see lots of Conservatives opposed Freedom Caucus will be offering a number of amendments to try to change it. We'll see how it all plays out in the next

forty eight hours. How seriously can we really take the notion at this point that Republicans are the party of conservatives, that conservatives don't want to spend beyond their means, and that we're not just oh, we have the checkbook now, so let's buy the things that we want as a party. What evidence is there that I'm wrong on that one? I watched an interview earlier today because, as I say, I have the great advantage because you hear me later in the day of I've been reading and listening and

watching and researching all day. I don't have much of a life, but it means I got a lot to say. On radio, I saw Paul Ryan and he was talking about the increase for the military, and it's just so interesting me. When does Paul Ryan decide to speak of the House. He's really going to go to the mat on decreasing spending answers is never gonna happen. And then when the Democrats are in charge, Paul Ryan is gonna

be Mr. Depsit Hawk all over again. Deps it's twenty one trillion dollars everybody twenty one trillion with the T I know, people say, well, that's money we own ourselves. Are we all ourselves? Um? Yeah, good luck with that one. When interest rates start to rise, Oh we owe to ourselves. People are starting to get a little skittish, a little

nervous about what this means for the economy. And the problem with it is that everyone I know who understands this, that really understands it, not just pretends for the purposes of being on TV, really understands what the macro economic trend is here say that the problem with waiting until you know it's a problem is that it is then too late. When you wake up and you're like, oh wow, the twenty one trillion, what number do you want me

to stop at? That that level of debt becomes unsustainable when everyone understands that it will be too late and you will have no one even really knows what the full extent the economic consequences will be. But I know who's going to benefit from it. China. China is gonna benefit from it. Oh there you go, whoa uh, They're going to be waiting in the wings to take over as the dominant superpower. Right, that's the plan economically, is how they think they're going to get there, and much

rather get there through that means than any other. So I just want to know that, you know, Jim Jordan's saying we're spending too much money. Everyone says we spend too much money. In the Congress, nobody does a darn thing about it. And even if there is a government shutdown, which I don't think there will be, the government doesn't even really shut down. It won't be sort of shut

down for long, and it won't matter. What will matter is that we have spent too much darn money because no one wants to be the politician, No one wants to be the party of You know, you just can't have five scoops of ice cream every day after dinner. It's a bad idea. No, no five scoops for everyone. He's holding the line for America. Buck sext in his back look, did not talk. Shel Sandberg did not talk. That's wrong, okay, pretty simple. Where the hell is he?

I want to compare for a moment to to the financial crisis, everybody got called in. He didn't question JP even with Lloyd combative JP Morrian with exception you know victorim Pantai Okay in city. Look at these names that I'm telling you. When I say Jamie, okay, when I say Lloyd, when I say Zook, when I say Cheryl, that's who you put out. Okay, you don't Mickey Mouse. It don't Mickey Mouse. It don't Mickey Mouse, it says Kramer about Zuckerberg going m I A on Facebook, the

CEO of Facebook. Some would say because he well, discussion for another day. If you've seen the social network, you know what direction I was going in. But yeah, he's talking about the financial crisis. I think that's way exaggerated

as to what we're dealing with here with Facebook. This is just, frankly not nearly as big of an issue as the media wants to make it into a data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica UH that had some ties to Trump's campaign, may have gotten access to information in violation of a Facebook policy about uh you know, whether you can I think there's an FTC issue here, Federal Trade Commission with you have to opt in and you have to get people notice if you're gonna use your data

for something. So here's why this is a just mounting out of a molehill, because it's yet another explanation for why Hillary lost the election. That's what this is. And Facebook the arguably most powerful company in the world right now. I mean it's definitely up there. It's definitely like top three, maybe top five. Other than the builder Burg's illuminating, and you know, Queen of England win't even calls all the shots.

Folks google it, google it. But other than you know, a couple of other companies, Facebook is among the most powerful companies in the world. And you have the CEO running and hiding right now from this tempest. You know, this uh wave of outrage over fifty million people who may have had their basic Facebook information, that the basic Facebook information shared. You get a kid who's running around

talking about how this is weaponizing people. You know, he was part of the Cammebradge analytical team or something, and now he's the whistleblower. He's weaponizing people's fears. I'm like, unless you are writing down that you have a fear of clowns or arachnids, Facebook does not know your fears. And we're not even talking about going through your chat laws. The algorithms don't exist to do what some of the people in the media reporting on this are calling it

micro targeting. Oh it's not. It's micro targeting because macro targeting has another word. It's called public relations. Were marketing. It's tough to make that sound that scary. But in this era of Mueller targeting Facebook puppets and Twitter sock puppets for our Twitter trolls, for information warfare against the United States, anything that you can tie to Trump involving the Internet and information, you can make sounds scary and people will believe it. This is a non story. This

is not scary. Not only is it not scary, but as I mentioned to you yesterday, the Obama campaign back in was bragging about this and Facebook, and you can check this is on the record. You look it up, you'll see Facebook figured out what the Obama campaign, the Obama digital team was up to with this data, and they're like, well, you know, we don't really think that that's the way we that this should be used under our terms of service. Keep in mind, this isn't like

the Constitution in terms of service for Internet companies. We're really discussing here, you know, how the information they're gathering, the information they have it, it's just how it's gonna be used, and they they already have it. And Facebook is already using it. By the way, you gotta remember that too. Facebook already has all this and is selling it to advertisers. It's just a question of how it's package and what protocols are in place. Some of this

is driven by the FTC. Someone's just Facebook trying to, you know, be a company that people want to continue to use. But the reason that for those you are listening, the reason that you see ads for things you're like, Oh, I kind of like that. I think I might have to buy those waterproof hiking boots. How did Facebook? No, it's not because they have some super secret squirrel algori rhythm that understands that you like the color beige and you're somebody who grew up in an outdoorsy family and

didn't know you did a searcher. You know, they know where you are. They can do locate you. You did a search recently for footwear. It's wintertime, bam hiking boots. Look at that. If you're here in New York City, snowshoes. Because we're about to get she lacked apparently first day of spring. Every Yeah, first day of spring, come out to the coast, have a few lefts. It's not gonna be funny. We're up to our up to our ears

in snow tomorrow. But I digress. Maybe I'll be able to cross country ski into the radio studio the other part of the Cambra generally, I think, I know they suspended the CEO, but yeah, that's the people want to know. Who are journalists? Are honest? By the way, about Cambra generally, nickol are the ones we're saying. They're not even a good analytics company. They're not even good at this. Why

is everyone pretending like they're good? Oh? It brings me back to my initial point that it's an excuse for Hillary lost. Someone violated Facebook's terms of service with a super secret algorithm that was doing micro targeting to exploit your fears, and it was information warfare, it was weaponizing personal data. These are just all exaggerated words for marketing,

for social media marketing. That's it. But the reason people are pretending to believe it or are willing to believe it, because I do think that Trump arrangement syndrome brings otherwise sentient, functioning adults into a place of crazy town. The reason they will believe it is that it is yet another excuse for Hillary loss. I just don't know which is the main excuse this week. I'm gonna return to this later on the show. I want to know what the

main reason why Hillary lost is. It's never that she was like I hate Peo Paul and I'm entitled and grasping and terrible. It's never that. It's never that she's the most dishonest, unlikable politician of her generation. It's always something else. Now here's my theory on this. I don't believe that Democrats think that Hillary is actually a great politician. I just think it makes them feel better to believe

that she was cheated. They they would prefer They don't want to deal with the reality of Hillary, even if they know that she was a weak candidate, which is probably a small subset overall of what we're talking about. But it also feeds into how much they hate Trump. If Trump is a cheater, he's even worse than they thought. And how is that even possible? I don't know, because I think he's a you know, Trump is a is

a racist, misogynist, molester. You know, all these things that they say about the President of the United States all the time, and they're gonna forget about this, but we're not. They have so lower the discourse when it comes to the respect shown to a presidency. I can tell you this. I've I've been doing media now, gosh going on eight years. It never would have occurred to me, and I would have been unwilling, if told to, to speak with the

same level of personal disrespect about Barack Obama. Not that I didn't have enormous problems with Obama and thought that he was a bad president. I did, but I never would have spoken with the same level of just blatant personal snide disrespect that I see on CNN and MSNBC in other places seven about this president all the time. It's normal now, it's normal to call him a criminal,

a traitor. And and what's amazing to me is that the Trump't arrangement syndrome of the media has prevents them from understanding what the long term implications of this are. We're gonna remember this a right, just like we were ber what happened with Hillary's emails, just like we remember Bill Clinton lying under oath and being an actual molester, assaulter and overall gross detestable person. That's real me. You know,

I just luck, ladies. I just want to get them close and give him hug and kisses and teach them all about being president. As much as we look at all this now, they don't even understand that we will remember and that. But that's why they get so wound up about Cambridge Analytica because it fits into their their favorite psychological need right now, which is Trump cheated, Trump cheated,

Trump cheated. They have to repeat this to themselves, the idea that the Trump phenomenon is real and based on what a majority of the American electorate via the Electoral College and the system that we have wanted for this country, was in fact that that the majority one. It was in fact Trump is um and not another eight years of Clintonian garbage of devolution via Clinton. The fact that that's the kay they they just won't accept it. They

won't accept it. That's what the Cambridge Onelytical thing comes down to. Nothing's gonna happen here. Oh, people are talking about They're going to pay some fine. Cambradge Analytical Bank go bankrupt, they say, all forty dollars for a violation of under FTC of Privacy regulations. Oh there needs to be needs to speak before Congress and all this stuff.

This just goes to show you how much they have created a frenzy around this because remember it was Facebook also that was used by the Russians to target Now, right, so face, what are the what is the more likely scenario? Let let me pose it to you this way. That Facebook is just a social media platform and people could say and do things, and people will push ideas Paula Dicks market products, all that the good, the bad, and

the ugly that comes along with it. Um Or that both Russia and Cambridge Analytica separately did some terrible stuff that used Facebook as the centerpiece of an information warfare campaign to stop Hillary from being the president. Both of them, not just one. Both they both did this. Now it's crazy, isn't it? When I say it out loud too, I

feel like what is going on here? I I long for the good old days when we talk about the Affordable Care Act Obamacare and how it's gonna make healthcare crappy because of the basic laws of supply and demand and economics but oh, we have a moral obligation to cover everybody ball, but it's gonna make things worse, and you're gonna cover people with less actual healthcare. Forget about cover.

I missed those debates about those things. Instead, I literally have to sit here and refute because it's the dominant narrative that's being fed to you all the time, even if you don't watch it an MSNBC. It's being fed to the teachers and your kids schools. It's being fed to the professors at your children's universities. It's being fed to the c suite at wherever you work. It's being fed to the politicians, especially if you're in a blue part of the country. Never mind if you're in a

purple toss up area there too. It is permeating the country around you. Whether you accept any aspect of the narrative or not. If you rejected wholesale, like I do, you still have to deal with it. So that's why I show up here, roll up the sleeves and try to just hammer away at this because we can't escape it. I wish we could, but we can't. If we allow it to go unopposed, then you'll just have Democrats winning the mid terms, the Trump administration stime. Trump probably gets impeached.

I don't know if he gets removed from office, depends on what happens in the Senate. That's what happens if we don't fight back, as you know, so fighting back means, unfortunately, we have to play a bit of defense here, sometimes ideologically speaking. Eight four four eight to five, eight four

four nine, buck, Oh gosh, I have much more. We're gonna talk about that shooting, school shooting in Maryland and why this is going to be a shooting that you hear about for for a maximum twenty four hours and that will be it. Now. I understand that we're not a lot of fatality. There are differences here. I'm clear and honest about that. But do we think that gave in all the movement? They just had the big march on d C. But hold hold on, we'll get to it.

We'll get to it. Stay with me. There's an update here on a story that you will not hear much about from the media. I covered it on the show. If I recall early on when I was first on the air here on the Box Section show with Premiere Networks about a year ago, um, but this is about the the terrible situate, a terrible case of Justine Damond

who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. And the story was that she had called the police there was a concern about a sexual assault in an alleyway and she can't walked out of her home and walked up to the patrol car. This was on I'm sorry, No, this is about yeah, this was July. It wasn't a year ago. It was about gosh, I can't keep track of the time, this past summer. And she walked up

to the passenger side of the police car. There are two cops in the car and one police and the police officer in the passenger side just pulled out his gun and shot her. Uh pose, no threat, not not nothing, just pulled out his gun and shot her. And people were wondering, especially at this time of particular sensitivity to any unjustifiable force, unjustified law enforcement lethal force in particular,

how come this wasn't getting more attention. Oh well, the in this case alleged murderer because he has been charged with murder by the Districttorney's office. The alleged murder was officer Mohammed Nor, who was of Somali dissent and had been widely celebrated on the force he was of. It was considered a big, a big win to bring on Officer Nor from the Somali American population of Minneapolis, which, as you know, there's a large Somali diaspora in Minnesota.

And Officer Nor was someone that they were publicly the department saying, see, you know, diversity, and an Officer Nor killed this woman at close range for no one. To this day, he hasn't spoken publicly about this and he will not speak to investigators about it. No one that's there really knows. I just on the district attorney and making the right move from what I can see here. Uh charged charged a second degree Uh? Second agree, I'm sorry.

Third agree murder charge for perpetrating an eminently dangerous act while showing a depraved mind charting depraved mind murder here, folks. Second agree manslaughter that he that's an additional charge that he acted with culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk. And I assume they're gonna get him on that one. But why even charged depraved mind murder of a police officer of a woman who posed no threat, and he saw Australian,

wonderful young woman. It's terrible for her family. Why the d a charge to prave mind murder unless they had reason to believe that the guy had to prave mind. There's gotta be more here. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. When the shooting took place, our school resource officer, who was stationed inside the school, was alerted to the event and the shots being fired. UH. He pursued the shooter and engaged the shooter, during which that

engagement he fired a round at the shooter. Simultaneously, the shooter fired around as well. So in the hours to come, in the days to come, through detailed investigation, we will be able to determine UM if our school resource officers round struck the shooter. UH. The these school resource officer is uninjured and was not struck by any firearm projectile. Welcome to our two of the Buck Sexton show. UH school shooting in Maryland Earlier today, you just heard law enforcement.

They're giving a rundown as to what what happened. UH. You had Austin Wyatt Rollins seventeen the only fatality, he was the shooter. So, as these situations go, when you only have one fatality, that's the shooter. Um, you know, and obviously could have been much much worse. But you do have a sixteen year old female student in the I see you with life threatening injuries and a fourteen year old male student was shot, but he's in stable conditions.

So two shot and wounded, one in life threatening condition. Um, But the shooter is the shooters down, the shooter is dead. And this was because and you're all ready for this, of a good guy with a gun, Deputy Blaine gas Skill, who was the school resource officer also I read happens to be a member of a swat team. So for those who insist that it's impossible to get people with the right training to be able to also be patrolling in schools, well, you've got a guy who was squat

who was a school resource officer. Here. The shooting happened, and we don't know the specifics, but given the training and background that officer, our deputy gas Skill had, UM, I would I would be willing to uh to wager that would likely happen is that the shooter drew down on him. When confronted Deputy Gaskill, you know, waited and then this guy took a shot, meaning the shooter took

a shot and Gaskell took a shot Gaskell. We don't know this yet, but it seems likely to me that Gaskell did not miss unless the school shooter took his own life. But that doesn't that doesn't make any sense. Then you'd only have Gaskell missing once and then maybe the shooter taking us off. I doubt that. It seems to me it's likely there was an exchange of gun fire here. We don't know. We don't know. I'm just

trying to read beyond the headlines a little bit with that. Um, But I I'd be my assumption here, My working assumption is that the shooter tried to fire on Gaskell, Gascroll returned fire, hit him with one round, killed him. Um. And we'll see we get the full read out the report on that, I'll know if that analysis is correct or not. But you're not gonna hear a lot about this shooting for the in the days ahead. This one's not and it's looking at two people who were shot.

Given the amount of attention paid to school safety and school shootings, right now, you would think that this would be a top of mind story for much of the media. I have seen very little of it on See an End Tonight, for example. A lot of talk about Trump congratulating Putin. We'll get into that later on in the show. By the way, I don't think we're gonna skip over that.

But they're not going to talk much about this because a good guy with a with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, and that's not the storyline that the media. That's not the narrative that they want to run with. They want guns out of schools and out of your hands. They want no guns, they want gun bands, they want gun restrictions. That's the purpose of this movement that has arisen from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting about a month ago in Parkland, Florida.

It exists for a purpose. The purpose is not just generic school safety. It is gun control, and it is to change the discussion the culture around guns such that abridging the Second Amendment partially and then eventually entirely abrogating it. That's what they're trying to do. This is incrementalism under the guise of a general security discussion. And because in this case, a school resource officer was able to confront, disrupt, stop an active shooter situation in the school, that's not

the storyline that they want. That's not what you're that's not what's gonna be on the evening news for the next three days. Because we've talked about this. Republicans, you know, the n r A, these vilified gun owners across the country, anyone who supports the Second Amendment, a lot of them have been saying, yeah, if you we want more armed

or armed officers in school. Most people have had ideas about programs specifically for for veterans, those who've got the you know, the weapons training and just the desire to protect our our kids across the country, and there's all these ideas put out there about having more armed personnel in schools for exactly this kind of a situation. But that's not what they want. That's not what the left is going for here. It's not about keeping kids safe.

It's about taking organs. And that's why officer gas Skill, s Rrows, school resource officer and SWAT team member is not going to be a name you here that much more in the days ahead. UM and I know that some people are also choosing not to name the shooter. I'll try to leave it out of the rest of the discussion. I think that that's a guideline more than

a rule. It's very hard to talk about what what could have been a homicide here certainly was a attempted, multiple attempted murder, and not name the person at all involved. There's some reporting that this may have been a um, a former He might have shot a former girlfriend that you know who. We don't really know, well, we don't really know. We just know that somebody's inna school trying

to kill people, and resource officers stopped him. Will this, in any way you think, influence the discussion, influence the conversation that's going to be happening in the next few days about the March four Our Lives as it's being called, which is gonna be happening this coming weekend. Um, this is the Washington Post reporting on it. Uh, let me give you a little bit of what the details are here.

Federal agents will be on watch, d C police will be in full force, and metro trains will run every few minutes to accommodate the five hundred thousand people expected to descend on downtown Washington, d C. This coming week end for the March for Our Lives rally UH. The Saturday March is an anti gun violence demonstration led by

the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. It will draw thousands of students, many of them under eighteen, so officials are saying they're taking extra care to ensure the safety of protesters. There's also gonna be a huge march here in New York Right right producer Mike. That's the expectation. There's gonna be a huge march here in New York City. I'll probably other cities across the country too. I even

heard some people that I somebody asked, uh. Somebody asked me a lot, I'm not gonna gain any specific Somebody asked me you, oh, hey, are you this is just a friend of a friend, alright, a friend of a friend. Are you gonna go go to this anti gun violence march this weekend? I was like, do you listen to my radio? Do you know anything about who who you're talking to? You? Do you think I'm gonna go to a march that says that if it were really about

stopping violence? Yeah, of course, we're all in favor of that. It's a gun control march, that's what this is. And the fact that it's being given this the name and the branding or the March for Our Lives, you know that you're dealing with progressives in the left behind the scenes when you have these slogans, these phrases, the stuff that's going to go up on the placards that is not only meant to bring people together for the cause, but if you're not for it, you're a bad person.

If somehow you're opposed to this, you're you're not You're mean your pro violence or something. Because it's a March for our lives? Are you opposed to children's lives? Well, no, of course not. Well how can you be opposed to the march? Then? Buck? Oh my gosh's amazing what they do here kind of reminds me. And this is an aside, but I'm a big fan of the show Parks and Wreck and people sometimes say that I look like one of the guys on there, but I do not look

like Yeah, John is shaking his head. Yes, that is false. First of all, that guy, whatever his name is, he's like five three hundred and ten pounds or something. All right, so let's just start with that. I'm six ft and not add and ten pounds, so let's leave it at that. But it's a great show. I would skip the whole this first season. This is the advice I always give about the show, because one of my ten favorite shows of all time. I'd skipped the first season entirely and

go to the second season. Just start with the sexth season. But there's a cult called the Reasonable Lists, and they meet every year in the park and they say the world's gonna end tomorrow, and of course each year, the big the gag is that the world doesn't end. They go, oh, no, we misread the the book. We have that like the fire breathing alien space monster left for us and all this stuff. And each year they do this. But they call themselves the Reasonable Lists because if you're opposed to them,

well clearly you're not reasonable. And it's it's a joke. It's a funny show. It's a very light show. But this is true, folks. And this goes all the way back to Orwell and his essays on the English language about political words and the efforts that political movements and politicians go through to use terms, to use use phrases that obscure what they really want. You know, you sit here, you're probably thinking out loud to me right now. Uh, you know, pro choice, What does that even mean? What

does it mean to be pro choice? If it's if it's fine, if it's a constitutional right. Why don't you say pro abortion? Why say pro choice? Oh, it's to obscure the actual intent of the movement. And you can go down any number of these. And this is also why they, you know, talking about undocumented immigrants. By using those words, you are conceding that they're just immigrants and it's just a question of changing the documents then they'll be immigrants. Then it's fine, it's legal, it's good on

the March for our lives. Very clever marketing, which is what this what is what this spoils down, Very clever marketing, because if you know, what somebody asks a friend of a friend is like, hey, is Buck gonna go march this weekend? It's like, no, Buck is not gonna go March this weekend because he knows what it's about. But two people that have a passing familiarity with what's going on in the country, you don't pay that much attention

to news, don't really care that much. They're just like, well, I'm gonna marr. I don't want to march here. It's a big march for for kids in safety and march for our lives. Women's March another great example. Are you opposed to women? No, I'm rather fond of women, But if you're opposed to the Women's March, then you must be you know you're you're anti women, right. This is what they do time and time again. Look, it's I'm a big believer in the first thing. I'm like liberals,

I'm actually believe in the First Amendment. But if you want to have a big anti gun march, if you want to have a big gun confiscation or restriction march, just say, you know, a march to end a march to end guns, you know, a march against gun in American society, a march against the Second Amendment, a march to change the constitution. Just say what it is, be

honest about it. I don't like the dishonesty and it undermines any willingness that I really want to that that I'm willing to show the other side and discussing the issue much further with them, because I know it's gonna happen.

They're gonna have a bunch of speeches that have been handed to or had activists working at least on, a bunch of speeches from you know, eighteen year olds, seventeen year old, sixteen year olds who were telling us about the role of guns in American society, as you know, to discuss school violence, which is going down and is actually quite rare. There's ale book of schools really haven't done it. Yeah, things happen all the time, folks, Lots

of bad stuff happens all the time. I just found I was astonished yesterday forty thousand people died in car accents last year. I thought it was more like thirty. Very very bad things happen. That's not new, that's not unusual. That's not some revelation changing policy because and don't even get me started on why we're not talking about the violence that happens with students outside of schools. A lot of it are on drugs, a lot of the inner city. No, No,

that that's not the discussion. Let's have a discussion instead about well, whatever it is they're gonna be talking about these marches, how cowardly politicians won't stand up to the n r A. How we're gonna have teenagers in some cases who have never voted, and I have no idea what they're talking about on any of these political issues, yelling at how the n r A owns politicians and the n r A is a terrorist organization, and adults are going to be standing behind them kind of snickering

to each other, you know, ha ha. There's nothing. No one can say anything about this because these are the victims, right, these are this is now. This is now. Victim splaining is what is happening. Democrats love to do it. Speaking of House of Cards, that show, one of the main

messages that it sends is that politics is spectacle. After spoiler alert, um, after Zoe Barnes is killed, clar sorry, I'm a little behind, okay, So that's the most controversial thing that's ever So after one of the characters is killed, Claire immediately turns to him your and starts putting on the makeup. And what that symbolizes is how politics is spectacle. That's in real life too. That's uh. David Hogg, who is now the the single most well known gun control advocate.

After the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooting. He was there. He's been on all the different TV channels constantly. He's the one who accuses, without any pushback from the anchor, here's the n r A of being responsible for dead children and being a terrorist organization. Says, the n r A owns politicians. That's and now he's I'm sure he's gonna be giving the among the keynote addresses at one of

these marchins. I'm not sure which one, but you're hearing there talking about you know, Yeah, he's watched House of Cards, so he understands politics and stuff. Look, you make yourself the center of a national political debate, you don't get to fall back on the Oh, no, I've been traumatized, so you can't say that what I'm saying is wrong or dumb. A lot of what that kid has said

is wrong and dumb. Just the truth. I don't know why it's a problem for us to say it, but you know what, Democrats, it's often a problem to say the truth. Actually, these days the problem said the truth to a lot of people. Dr Rick wants to u join in the conversation from Silver Springs moment. Dr Rick, do you know where this is? This school pretty close to you? I know you're down in Maryland. Um, you know, I'm not sure. I mean what I know is, oh, oh at St. Mary's County. At schools not that big.

I mean, how far away could this be? Probably about an hour away? Um, you know. And it's very sad, but this is not a mass shooting. And I was one another station talking about the mass shootings that occurred. These were very sick kids known for a long time.

But my my, you know, I am just steamed because I paid twenty three thousand dollars a year to send my child to a Catholic school high school, and they were forced, you know, they wouldn't say it forced, but everyone left the school on the seventeen minutes to pray at the grotto. They tried to say it was only prayerful, but it was so political. And I've had ongoing dialogue with the president of the school and the principle because I am one of several vocal steamed parents about the

um it's just being ran down the throat. There is no balance, there's no diversity of stall on this whatsoever. And it is just using them as political pawns and propaganda. It's indoctrination and it is despicable. Well, as I've been saying, and I would had to Matt Walsh over the Daily Wire for putting this idea out there publicly. Students should advocate for a walkout for life, meaning a pro life march, and see if the teachers unions and all these different

schools across the country will back it. Excuse student absences, pay for people to be doing politics, the the adults on you know, on the on the clock. I'm willing to bet Dr Rick the answer is a firm no on all that. But they should test it. They should test the idea of doctor Oric. Thank you for calling it from Maryland. Um, we're gonna be talking about immigration

coming up here in just a few moments. We've got more updates on that and my my thesis about the opioid epidemic and the cartels by the way, we're putting more and more together on that, seeing more research on. We'll talk about that and also try and congratulated Putin. Oh no, that's so terrible, except Obama did exactly the same thing after Putin's last election victory. He's holding the

line for America, buck Sexton his back. In another case, an alleged illegal gang member was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department more than ten times between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and seventeen for charges including domestic battery, assault, theft, and rape. But San Francisco refused to cooperate with ice. You know that very well, don't you tell? You have a lot of problems with that, And he kept getting released over and over again. He

was released. Sanctuary cities and states like California put innocent Americans at the mercy of hardened criminals, hardened murderers many cases. President Trump speaking on the fight over immigration right now, over illegal immigration, let's be quite clear on that, and all of the criminality and the negative ramifications, and all of the pain and suffering an expense that the American taxpayer has to go through because of illegal immigration. President

Trump has had enough. He is giving voice to a frustration that has existed in this country for a long time. We finally have a commander in chief. We finally have a chief executive of the federal government who was saying this cannot stand. And it comes at a particularly important time here because you have a number of major fights over illegal immigration going on right now. For one, remember that the mayor who tipped off this was in Oakland.

I believe the mayor who tipped off legal immigrants to array that was coming. And Jeff Sessions, who as you know, was on the show last week, the Attorney General, completely skewered that decision. I just thought that was, as he said, an outrage. And some of them, some of the illegals who dodged the law enforcement effort to pick them up because of that early warning by that Oakland mayor, according to Fox News here, have been picked off for new

crimes that they have committed. So some of the ones that got away thanks to the Oakland mayor did other criminal things and so now they have been grab But there's another really important fight playing out in California where the city of Los Alamitos, a small California city, is trying to exempt itself from the state law in California, which is effectively lawlessness. He it is a an effort, an effort through the legislature, the California state legislature, to

prevent any worthwhile serious cooperation with immigration authorities. The state of California. It's doing everything that it can. Just shy of ordering state law enforcement to stand in the doorway and not let federal officers go through. That would be a very big problem. But they're doing everything up to that. Right. We we don't want private citizens to help immigrations and customs enforcement. We don't want uh, we don't want law

enforcement to do so except in very narrow and specific circumstances. Uh. They are just deciding for the people of California that illegal immigration is not illegal. That's what they're doing. There's nothing wrong with it. Like they should be forced every California politician should be forced to answer the question do you think there is anything wrong with illegal immigration? Because they would say on the record, I don't think they would. I don't think that they would say no. They would

say future illegal immigration maybe is a problem. But illegal immigrants in the country. No. They they they pick our produce. They you know, they work in our restaurants, they work in the service industry. They're the the the lifeblood of American entrepreneurship. Now all that stuff. The Democrat Party is absolutely decided on this issue right now. This they're becoming increasingly a well I'd say a three a three issue party.

The Democrat Party today is defined by abortion, illegal immigration, and redistribution of wealth, class warfare. Those are that's really the the the triad of bad that the Democrat Party is pulling together. Now, those are the issue shoes. You'll see them rally around the most, the ones they believe in the most. Abortion, illegal immigration, and redistribution of wealth, which is just a nice way of saying Marxism. But nonetheless, or how about we'll do class warfare. There we go,

class warfare. That one, I think is quite fair. One of the things about the immigration issue, as you know, I've been doing some deep dive research on my own into the cartels and what's going on in Mexico, and I've been seeing a trend for a while here. You have over sixty thousand dead in the last year for which we have complete numbers. I think it was sixty thousand dead or sixty three thousand and seen might have been. I think it's seen. Anyway, over sixty tho are dying

a year from the opioid epidemic. You had Trump up in New Hampshire, Jeff Sessions. They're pushing all kinds of new policies. I'll probably address that in some more detail tomorrow. The the opioid crisis and how they're trying to tackle it. But as a uh, part of the discussion that I think it's left out ties very much into the immigration discussion. I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that you have over sixty people dying in this country from drug overdoses

and it's almost entirely the result of unscrupulous doctors. No, no, and I know that. You know, if if I pushed enough on this issue and people said no, no, of course there's I mean, heroin is illegal, right, so anyone who's overdosing on heroin. But people say, well, you know, people get hooked on the legal opioid and they go to heroin because it's more plentiful, it's cheaper. I say, wait a second, why is it more plentiful? Why is

it cheaper? Or because of the cartels, because of the Mexican narco traffickers, because of their poppy growing operations in Mexico now no longer having to import it from South America or even South Asia. No, no, it's right across the border now they are growing poppy. They are also importing some cases from massive Chinese factories. Thanks for that one, China. Another thing China's doing to hurt us. Uh, they're sending in fentanyl and the chemical opioids and bringing them in

in large quantities. I don't have the owners known as this. Over at Conservative View or Review, Daniel Horowitz wrote a piece Trump is right on drug traffickers. Heroin and fentanyl are killing us. Seriously, It's not from prescriptions. Here's what he writes the first paragraph. Those who claim to be morally outraged by Trump's proposal the death penalty for drug traffickers, especially cartel leaders, either have no heart themselves or oblivious to the worst drug drug epidemic ever and how it

came about. And then he goes into some details about synthetic opioids and the you know what, I'll let me because I have to run in a break here. Um, but here's the bottom line quote. The epidemic we are facing today is not from prescription opioids, at least not more than it has been foreign entire generation. The number of prescriptions has already been reduced dramatically, almost the entirety of the increased fatalities above the long term existing trajectory.

We're from illicit drugs and mainly the most dangerous one heroin end quote. Folks, the cartels are open border, illegal immigration and illegal crossings. They are killing thousands and thousands of US. It's the Democrats and the people on the other side who are fueling this speculation. I can't see any conceivable reason why the president would even consider firing um Motherer. That would create a real problem on the Republican side of the aisle, as well as obviously on

the Democratic side of the aisle. I don't think he's going to fire him. I don't think he should fire him. So we have to keep hearing stories though about how Trump may fire Mueller, may fire Muller, breaking news. Trump may fire Muller, and I could wake up tomorrow and we could be on a collision course with an asteroid that would destroy the planet. But I don't run that as breaking news every day. At some point this turns into what is clearly silly. At some point, this is

just too much. Oh, he's gonna He's gonna fire Muller. Now that's said. I really wish we could get on message here, because you do have some Republicans it's not just Democrats. Occasionally Republicans will come out and say, yeah, it's it's time to fire Muller. Like this, Matt gets fellow in Congress. I think that the president firing Mr Muller would create a series of conflicts and and other downstream effects that would be bad for the country. I

think this is the job of the Attorney General. Because there's been no evidence of collusion produced by the Special Counsel, and because there's been a House finding of no conclusion in the Intelligence Committee, I think the Attorney General would be right to renounce his refusal to re establish command of the Department of Justice, and then to give Bob Muller a time period to produce the evidence that he may or may not have regarding collusion, and if he

doesn't produce it, let's wrap this up and move on to tax cuts and other important things for the country. So he's saying, let's let's have Sessions renounce the recusal and then come back in and then kind of wind this thing down. But he's gotta understand that if that happens, they're gonna say that there's pressure from the outside, and it's as good as a firing and so we are stuck with this thing, folks, And the White House has

come out and said not thinking about it. I believe Seawan Sean Hannity on his show has already said, Look, no one's even talking about Mueller getting fired. There's been assurances across the board it's not going to happen. And I I do think that the fallout from it would be would be strong. The fallout from it would cause some problems. But I'm just But on the other hand, on the other hand, there is a part of me

that figures they're gonna hate Trump no matter what. Unless Republicans in Congress really planned on turning on the President because he took moves, whether it was a tell Sessions, look, there's a lot of ways that could happen, right, Maybe Sessions decides he's had enough and he wants to move aside. Maybe he tells Sessions on recuse yourself. This is nonsense, And I don't know, but but shutting it down in some way or creating a definitive endpoint to the Mueller probe.

I understand why everyone's saying no, no, no, But there's a part of me that feels like, you know, maybe this is one big, ikey, crusty band aid that you just have to just just rip it off. Man. I mean, it's gonna it's gonna leave you with quite an alley afterwards. But there's a there is a part of that, it feels like this is what needs to be done here. Um, I understand it's not going to happen, and I'm not suggesting that it should happen. I'm just saying I understand

the impulse. I'm just saying that I've really had enough of the Mueller probe. I'm I'm sick of it. I think that it is destructive. I think it's hurting the country. I think that it's become a clown show. I think it's obviously Democrat operatives working against the president, and they are. They are a cabal, and I mean, you can't make this stuff up, folks. Call me is like the man scorned, and Mueller his close buddy is the one who's supposed to get vengeance for Comey and Hillary and all the

rest of them. Understand that that top layer call Mey Brannan Brandon was probably gonna be Secretary of State if he if Hillary Clinton won, very very possible, right, They all feel like Hillary's loss personally affected them in ways that they feel like they deserve some some justice for they feel like Hillary losing to Trump cost them personally.

And these are the people that have been unearthed now in this investigation, and some of them are directly tied to those who are running who are currently running the Special Council. It's so many, there are so many conflicts of interest her. But notice how the Democrats play the game. On our side, we have Attorney General Sessions is trying to be honorable, trying to be ethical. He accuses himself. Whether you like that decision or not, it's based in

in an effort at ethical conduct. And did the REDDA inch accuse herself and the Hillary email investigation, come on, what are you? Are you a toddler? Right, that's what they would say. That's a joke. Roland's not gonna recuse herself, is gonna be there make sure the Hillary is okay. The Democrat Party's fortunes rested on hillary shoulders, as scary as that was, and the careers of a lot of these people who now we're finding out did in fact abuse their power and their authority in order to assist

the anti Trump effort. A lot of them would have advanced their careers even more too. So I I just look at this and and uh, I wonder if it's if we will let me put it to you this way, because I go back and forth, as you can tell, usually come into a segment. I'm like, this is the truth, this is what's best, this is what should happen with the you know, with with fiery Mueller, or with with

shutting down the Special Council of the Apartment. It's like me, you know, at first, like oh no, no, it's crazy, we can't do that. That's a part of it goes Hey, there are worse things, There are worse things we can We can allow this to drag on forever. Ask yourself this question. Is there a point at which the Special

Counsel would have gone on for too long? We would have seen too many news stories about it, too many you know, seeing and oh my gosh, the Special Counsel is going to be interviewing the lunch lady from the Trump campaign's headquarters. At what point is it too much? At what point have we heard too many preposterous conspiracy theories on TV? I can't even keep up with the conspiracies. Now, so this week, what is it that's right? This week?

It's a combination of Russia and Facebook. Don't forget that. For a while they put this all on Comey. Comey was the guy that calls Hillary the election for a good while. They've changed their tune on this. But that's a relatively new component of all this, right, I mean, or or rather they they've dropped that for now, but called me by bringing up the emails. See they stopped why they stopped talking about that because now Comy is

the hero who got the special Counsel started. It's almost like Comey wanted to worm his way back into the good graces of the elite establishment just in time too, I don't know, get him all a million dollar advance on his book, right, and to pray at the altar of comyn. This is a guy who self regard exceeds well. There's a lot of people with a lot of self regard these days in the media and in government, so I can't even really find a benchmark for him. But

it's crazy how much this guy loves himself. Crazy how much Comy is a I saw it written somewhere I can't remember where, it was now, but someone described Comy as a commy is ist. It's a very accurate description of how this individual is approaching so many different pretending he's a commy is ist in Patriots clothing, right, I mean,

he's a he's a commyist. That he's always acting like he's the last honest man in in d C. And I always knew that there was a problem because he went along with that narrative, and the media was pushing that narrative long before the email thing, long before a lot of or rather when he brought the emails up. I'm talking right before the election, not before Hillary's email problem, but they were always all, you know, called me the

last honest man. They're building him up so much during the email investigation into Hillary Server, I like, this guy is just he's buying his own press. You can't you can't trust this guy is someone you can trust. Sure Enough, we find out later on that he is a huge weirdo with no self awareness. And that's what we're dealing with now. So all right, don't fire Muller, but let's not rule out entirely forever A minimum will give seen and something to freak out about. If we just even

talk about in the future. So that's where I come down on this one. I'm gonna give a little more thoughts, see if I can come up with a definitive buck answer. We got our three coming up. Stay with him. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome to our three of the bucks X and show everyone, thank you so much for being here. Uh wow, show is really

moving along tonight. Um. We have this reality of a media that acts like we don't have access to the internet, that we can't look up the way things were, that whatever they say is going to be accepted as truth, and that hypocrisy is not going to be a problem. Let let me get into what I mean specifically here. All right. You had President Trump speaking today about have Vladimir Putin won the election, and Trump said the following I had a call with President Putin and congratulated him

on the victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do also with the fact that we will uh probably get together in the not too distant future. We are spending seven billion dollars this year and our military and a lot of it is that we are going to remain stronger than any other nation in the world by far. We will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we had. So Trump was getting a lot of heat for calling Vladimir Putin, and people were piling

on that, Oh my gosh, the Kremlin's puppet. I mean, they act like they act like Trump is somehow exposing himself more and more with each passing day as how pro Russia he is. Meanwhile, Trump is the one who has the administration that is slapping even more sanctions on Russia. Trump is the one who has given sniper rifles, anti tank missiles to the Ukrainian Resistance, or rather Ukrainian National Government,

fighting against the rebels in eastern Ukraine. Trump is the one who is the commander in chief while US forces backing up Kords in Syria killed two hundred Russians. We don't even know the number is The reports very widely, But that's all been Trump. But because of trump arrangement syndrome, the media still believes and he somehow a Russian puppet, that he secretly goes to bed at night pledging allegiance to the Kremlin, and that he mumbles Russian proverbs in

his sleep. Meanwhile, the rest of us, trying to live in reality, see this for what it is, which is the president United States making a call to another head of state after he has had their version of an election. Now people will say to me, and I know, I can I can see it coming. They'll say, oh, but we will condemn unfair election practices in Iran, and we'll condemn it in North Korea, and we'll condemn it. And you know, name a dictatorship somewhere or quasi dictatorship. Did that?

I respond, yeah, Well, every situation when you're talking talking about international relations is unique. Notice how the intelligencia, the so called smart set, all those very intelligent people and foggy bottom walking around, not like all the palises. Excuse me, sir, do you realize that we could give him a day marsh and if we did marshed him enough, he might in fact yield to our palaceated mads. In reality, Russia is still a very important country with a very large

nuclear arsenal. It is much more important for what it can do on the bad side of things than what it is doing on the good side. But nonetheless, we don't have a choice of acting like Russia doesn't exist, and we don't have the choice of constantly antagonizing the Russian state more than we already are. I mean, I'm operating in a world where we already have sanctions in place, we already have a media that is obsessed with Putin.

I mean, I think he must kind of get a giggle out of it sometimes, or giggle, but you know what I mean, he must crack something of a smile as he is shirtless doing judo wrestling, bears, discovering priceless artifacts in the sea, all that stuff that he does because of this obsession here and and it even expanded two Sarah huckeyby standers getting grilled today on this specifically, as the White House believes that the election in Russia was free and fair. Look in terms of the election,

uh there. We're focused on our elections. We don't get to dictate how other countries operate. Um what we do know is that um Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. We can only focus on the freeness and the fairness of our elections, something we fully support and something we're going to continue to do everything we can to protect to make sure bad actors don't have the opportunity to impact them in any way. This has

really turned into a game for the media. It's it's like Putin baiting. You know, they just want there's never enough that Trump can do to satisfy their lust for humiliating Russia and and speaking down to Russia and speaking in bellicast terms about the Russian state. What purpose would it serve right now for the United States government to officially condemn the election in Russia? What is that going

to do? And I would also know that do we really do we really know the full extent of the irregularities. I'm not being a Putent apologist here. I know that he cracks down on dissent. I know he plays super dirty. I know he's basically a dictator. But he also has a lot of popular support in the country. Is it seventy per cent or no, But as the votes votality was basically you know, it's probably in the high fifties. It's a lot more than you get in a usual

presidential administration. Here. Now that's not to say that there's that his situation was better. He's doing a better job. It's just to suggest that we don't have the option of sitting around and just going la la la, don't know Russia, la la, don't want to talk to Russia. It doesn't work that way. And we are already taking actions that show our displeasure on the diplomatic stage with

what they're doing. It gets even more tense if we start having the White House spokesman or the President himself saying that, yeah, your election was a sham. Yeah, the whole thing is a joke. How could we expect to have any constructive dialogue with the Russian state going forward? Keep in mind, these are the same journalists you're look up when Obama said that, you know, he would trans met to Vladimir. You know, he was just talking about just talking about, you know, his favorite i iPod list

or whatever. You know, he's just listening to tunes. You remember that, right, you know, after the election, will have more freedom, and mid videv saying it will throns middewsto Vladomuir just like that, Actually it will tron smidnewsto Vladomuir. And he's like touching his thigh and the whole thing, and they're very chummy, very chummy. Obama straight up set

it on an open mic. Once I've won the election, then I can basically do what I wanna do, which is give you guys what you want to make you happy, because that's how Obama does diplomacy America. You know, we've done bad things, were naughty. We need to be punished. So whatever Iron wants, we're basically going to give them within the context of getting some semblance of a deal. Well, we're not gonna make it too painful them because we don't want to be meat. And he was planning the

same things with Usha. I guess I don't know. I'm not Obama. But then again, I also didn't say that. I didn't say that it was a good idea to pass along to the Russian the real Russian premier, remember Medvidev. At the time, you know, maybe it's kind of Putin's puppet, actually Putin's puppet. But now it's this game that journalists play. Oh, you know, you haven't condemned Russia enough, you haven't said

enough nasty things about the Russian state. These are people who until now, until Trump was president, I didn't want to push back against any dictators. The same journalists, my friends, who are lecturing all of us on how Trump is just so warm and fuzzy towards Russia and oh he won't are the ones that are always coddling Fidel Castro. They're the ones who are always making excuses for Maduro.

By the way, Venezuela launched a cryptocurrency because they're just trying to do whatever they can to get around sections and prevent the complete collapse of their economy, social justice warrior economy. That's what Venezuela has. Remember that, my friends, and the administration via executive order, as in a side our administration, President Trump slapped down their cryptocurrency, Venezuela's cryptocurrency with an executive order that you can't get involved with

that anyway. I digress. But these journalists can always find the good in any regime around the world. You know, they can take that. They can take this side of whomever sits across the table from any Republican president. And yet on Russia we find ourselves with the media that will say, well, hold on a second, you're being too nice to the other side. Okay, in this case, changes changes the tune. What a surprise what a shock. This is a mass delusion. I really, I mean this. It's

a mass psychosis. Trump arrangement syndrome is actually a mental disorder. The media suffers from it, and Russia is like the main trigger. I'll hit a quick break, will be right back. Yeah. When I was eleven years old, life was tough. There's mamma, she don't want me no more, and she don't want me.

You're neither, and I've always loved music. Dad. I can do this how you can, And you're gonna blink your eyes and you're gonna realize that life has got you nowhere because you chased some stupid drink I didn't want. My dad was a monster, and I saw God transform him, and so I wrote this song from my dad. That is from the film I can only imagine out in yeters now. It broke in the top three overall the box office, even though it's an independent film. Very few

independent films exceed expectations right away like this one. This is doing well beyond what everyone thought, or at least what the meaty industry expected. And we actually have John Irwin with us right now. John uh and his brother Andy are directing team and he is the director of this one. John, thanks for joining us. Hey, thank you so much. I just can't Uh, we're all in a stunned state of shocked. This is such a huge when um, you know, uh for this movie and and for Christians

and people of values in general. Uh. We we just shocked the industry. Uh. And you know, I can only imagine was was estimated to do between two to four million opening weekend, and it did over seventeen and uh, you know, landing right behind Tomb Raider and above Wrinkle in Time. And it's just uh, it's it's I don't have words for of gratitude for everyone that went and saw the film. Your voice has been heard. We we

just shook up an industry over the weekend. And I think it just shows, uh, you know how many fans of this song there are, and and I'm one of them. This song was a beacon of hope to me in a tough season in my life and has been to millions of other people as well. And I'm just so honored now to you know, uh, for it to be getting this this type of recognition and and uh and it's just a big win for all of us, John, for those listening across the country who may not know

the story of the film. Can you just give us a bit of a summary, and then also the song and how that ties into it. Yeah, well, you know, I can only imagine it's the best selling, most played Christian song of all time, crossed over too many pop and country charts as well, number one most requested song on a lot of top forty stations, and and uh, it just it was this anomaly, and uh and come to find out, there's this incredible story behind the song.

And uh and I remember Bart Millard who wrote it, whose lead singer of Mercy me Um he hadn't he hooked when he said, Uh, I know God is real because of the change I saw my dad, He said, I watched the monster transform into my best friend and the man I wanted to become. And there's just no other explanation for it. Then what God did in his life. And so that incredible story of reconciliation between a father and son and redemption, it's really what we fell in

love with. And so I can only imagine to a song about heaven. We all know that, but we don't know is it's a son singing for his father. Because their relationship was completely mended and put back together. And to see Dennis Quaid portray that transformation and uh, you know, uh brokenness and and redemption. Uh. When he signed on of the project, he says, I've never played transformation like a is before. You know, I've never taken a character this full circle and uh, he does such a great

job in the film. How long ago did you decide you wanted to work on this project? This take a bit to get it done? Or do you realize right away? And were you able to thread the needle of putting together a project like this? It's been so successful? Well, you know, I think that overall. Um, you know, films always take a lot of time, but this one actually

went faster than anything that we've ever done. We were exposed to the project and he was actually at the screening, uh of one of our other films, and Bart uh came, We've worked we worked the music business for many years before we did films, and and they were talking and and Bart loved our films, and he said, Uh, is there anyways you guys would ever take a look at my story because it has been in development in another studio and kind of wasn't going anywhere, and uh and

he said, you know what's interesting if they sent the script this morning and uh. So from that and so we took a look at it, fell in love with the story. From that point on, it was just like this. It was there was a fate to the project. There

was it was almost left. We were all strapped to a freight train and uh and the film had a will of its own and it was just kind of coincidence after coincidence that that's what you want to call them, that every step of this project has just been a miracle and uh and it happened a lot faster than most projects happened. The audience has spoken with more than just their their dollars here, which as a filmmaker and we're speaking to uh John Irwin, John and Andy Irwin

or the directing team and production studio behind. I can only imagine which is out in theaters now, everyone listening across the country. But when you see some of the stories that are coming out about this, John, people are saying that, uh, that viewers that the audience is staying afterwards to pray or to seeing people are going to theaters multiple times to see this movie. This is having a real impact on people. They're not just saying yeah,

that was all right. Yeah, Well you know what's what's Uh my favorite, um kind of response from the film is, uh, there was a first happen in superall South Dakota, and and uh, you know, I think people love the film. First of all, it's very entertaining, it's very emotional. You'll laugh, you will cry, hopefully you'll cheer. But to see some of the responses after the film, there's a guy that wouldn't leave the theater until he found his dad on Facebook.

He hadn't seen his dad since he was fourteen years old. He was harboring a lot of anger and uh, you know, in bitterness, found him on Facebook, met within the next day, forgave him, told him he loved him, re established connection and and and and God's kind of healing them both, you know. And if, boy, if that could happen all over America, if relationships could be mended and restored, Um, how cool would that be. There's so much in our

culture that's tearing us apart. To have something that brings us back together and and mince what's broken. Uh, that could be a cool thing. I think in society in general, but certainly for for the family and to see that begin to have and all over the country is a really cool, uh kind of result of the film. John. I know people can go to the Facebook page for I can only imagine movie. It's Facebook, dot com slash,

I can only imagine movie. Um. But if folks want to go see it, I know it's it's in theaters. But is there is there a digital option or do you have to find a theater near you or how can folks see it? Yeah, you can see it. It's in theaters nationwide. We're actually um, we're actually scaling significantly. Will be in over almost twenty three theaters this weekend, which is one of the largest um kind of footprints ever for a Christian film. And uh, just because of

the success of last weekend. And so uh check it out, get out to a theater, and when you do, you create something called fomo. It means the fear of missing out. And this is one of the coolest ways that we can get the attention of a generation again. And so your movie think it is your vote, and so it in theaters nationwide. You good. I can only imagine dot com. It'll be on DVD and everything after that, but gotiate in the theater. The theater, everybody, I can only imagine

is the movie. John Irwin, producer and director. John, thank you so much for your time today. Hey, thank you so much. All right, team, we are rolling her break will be right back. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. You know, some of these ostensibly Catholic institutions, some of these universities that are supposed to have a Catholic or even just a Christian affiliation, are increasingly abandoning whatever vestiges there are of actually being Christian.

And that ties into a decision at holy Cross, a school up in Massachusetts, very good school. A lot of my high school classmates. I went to a Jesuit Catholic school here in New York City, and a lot of the guys from my year and from all the years at Regious High School would end up going to holy Cross. I think they even had a specific scholarship for a Regious student, or we send people there on scholarships. A lot I know that, and it's a very good institution.

And sure enough, political correctness has struck once again. Holy Cross has gotten rid of the night mascot, you know, a night like the Knights of the Round Table, the Knights of King Arthur. Right, they've gotten rid of the night mascot because of the association. Does anyone to guess before I go there, why would Holy Cross drop a night? I mean, a night is not something that's inherently good

or bad? Right, it's really referring to a a mounted cavalryman with plate armor, landed nobility, right, and it depends on knights have been around for a long time. The whole notion, it actually stretches all the way back to the Roman Empire and the cavalry, which was a designation that was only it was really based upon socioeconomic status. Yeah, equitez romani um. So that's where we we get all

this terminology like equestrian. But anyway back to nights. Uh. You would think that this is a pretty safe mascot to have, but you'd be wrong. The College of the Holy Cross has announced that it is dropping the night mascot because of the crew Sades. Oh that's right, that thing that a bunch of Christians just did with no provocation and for no reason whatsoever. It just was trying to be mean to those peaceful Muslims in the Holy

Land in the uh twelfth century, eleventh centuries. It was That's what it was really all about, just being mean those Muslim armies that had just showed up that they invited people to join Islam. There was no conquest there. It's not like, Oh wait, those of you who listened to this show know about the Byzantine Empire, know about Eastern Orthodox Christianities history in fighting against the Islamic expansion

in the Islamic Conquest. You know about the fall of Constantinople, but well before that, you also all know about the lead up to the First Crusade, in which Muslim armies made it not just into the Holy Land to seize Jerusalem, but all the way across North Africa up through Spain. And we're only turned back by Charles Martel. The But I digress. So they're dropping this. And this goes to my theory that even mascots that you think right now are safe are not. You just have to give it

some time. Even those mascots that you would assume, hold on a second, there's no way they could really be offended by this. Oh no, they will find a way I've been joking or half joking for a while that it's just a matter of time before they decide that the Vikings become too politically incorrect and the NFL is going to be dealing with all kinds of pushback. They're fighting Irish, It's already happened. People have complained about the fighting.

Irish Vikings were into some pretty intense stuff in their day, you know. They their first contact with Christianity involved arriving at completely unguarded monasteries in what is today England and in Ireland and massacring everybody, so you know, and then there was the whole slavery that the Vikings engaged in. They would go and pillage, they would rape and pillage

whole villages, and they would take slaves. So, you know, we think of Vikings is kind of a produvader, you know, these comical warriors from cartoons with big helmets with and then by the way that the helmets with the horns that actually comes from the opera, that's not really something good has anything can do with the way Vikings would actually dress for battle, even though we think of it that way, or we are led by pop culture to

think of it that way. But yeah, they got rid of the Crusader, or rather they got rid of I'm sorry, the Knights if it were Crusaders, which I will know. There are a number of schools that the Crusaders are in fact the mascot. I wonder if my own high school. At some point the Raiders like Raiders of the Lost Arc. Are they going to say that that has some connotation with the Raids against you know, I don't even know

where the Ocean of the Raiders comes from. Um. But oh, by the way, the buccaneers people figure out that piracy very violent, very very much part of the patriarchy. Piracy. Not a lot of women pirates, you know, not a lot of women captain ing of the pirate ships. So that's gonna that's gonna fall by the wayside. But nothing is nothing is safe anymore from the PC mob. When you at at the University of the Holy Cross or Holy Cross University or whatever, I'm sorry, the college okay, sorry,

the College of the Holy Cross. You know what, they're gonna figure out at some point that the Crusaders, the Knights who fought in the Crusades had crosses on their chests, red ones against white if they were templars. And guess what, some people find the Cross offensive. In fact, a lot of people do. They're called democrats. I kid, I kid mostly, But nonetheless, the Cross it self could be construed by

some and will be as a form of aggression. So as the whole as the College of the Holy Cross, a Christian school going to eventually change its name so as not to be offensive, it can't be a Christian school anymore, really, if it's going to cease being offensive. But that's kind of the plan, isn't it for a lot of these places. All Right, we will get into a roll call coming up here in just a moment. Stay with me, all right, team, coming into our last segment of the day, It would give me a case

of the sad face. But this is if you will saving the best for last, this is where we get into row call, Team Buck. It's time for roll calls, and all right, let's jump right into it. Now. We have Thomas who writes, I'm wondering why the media is so persistent pushing this story of Donald Trump having an affair with Stormy Daniels back in two thousand and six.

It has no relevance to his presidency. It might have had some impact on his campaign when he was running, as all dirt does on any candidate they want to destroy, but he is president. Now they're wasting their time and their ratings that they think this is going anywhere. No one cares except the media. I think that that's largely true, Thomas. I don't think anybody really does care about this whole

situation that they're reporting on. The media is obsessed with it, though, but they're obsessed with anything that they believe is damaging to Trump and all. So that reaffirms their belief that Trump is basically hitler, which is really the media's general position. Trump is basically hitler. As insane as that is so. Next up here, uh Sterling, who writes, Buck, I love you and your show not in a weird way, so neither you are, miss Molly have anything to worry about. Well,

thank you, Sterling. I love the podcast because I never miss anything, But then sometimes I get behind. Now. I think you're typically thorough. Typically throw objectivity is lacking when it comes to airlines. Oh for example, airlines adhere to a strict schedule, and anyone who deviated from that schedule just because would be fired would you experience when you're playing Diverted for fuel sounded like a diversion. Diversions are most common for weather, but there are other reasons too.

There's more, but I don't want to annoy you. You have some valid points, but I think some are misguided from Sterling. Well, Sterling, thank you for liking the show. And on airlines, I would note that I am upfront about feeling like I have been traumatized in slow motion over the years by crappy airline situations, by terribly uncomfortable airline seats, by price gouging at the last minute, by all sorts of stuff. I mean, if I sat here and wrote out all the things that have gone on.

And while I know that there are business rationales for this, I would also note that airlines are heavily regulated, as a lot of government intervention in them, and airlines are the only area of consumer life that I can think of because even cable companies, as I've noted, have gotten better, airlines are the only place that feel like they're just inoculated. They are invulnerable to customer complaints and outrage. Really, I would note that it isn't lost on me that with

the American people. If you mistreat a human being, there will be outrage. If you really severely mistreat and or end up taking the life of a small cute dog, there will be people out in the streets with pitchforks, so to speak. So that's why United is having some of the troubles that it is. Um, let's get into uh next one. Here we have Corey who writes, so school shootings are a quote rare occurrence, not anymore. Buck,

jump on the van, on the bandwagon. They have figured out how to manipulate young and adult minds in the pursuit of stripping us of our guns. That's what they're trying to do. Look at the direction it's leading us. Only one outcome from a continuing of school shootings to disarm us. The mental war began a long time ago. Well, Corey,

as I've noted, school shootings are very, very rare. Overall, you have an enormous population of school aged students in this country, and we have data on this stretching back for decades, and I understand that it pulls out our heart strength and school shootings are a psychological trauma, even for those who are just reading about it or seeing the images on TV, but by the same token, they

are rare events. And to make policy based on the emotions that come after school policy school shootings is just a bad idea. And that's what's going on, Susannah. She's next up here. Buck. I'm laughing so hard listening to Monday's podcast, and you're keeping the trifecta of steak, eggs and bacon. Just keep the bacon under a pound. Oh my stars, you're the best. I've shared you with several friends and family and they appreciate you as well as ever.

Shields high Well, Susannah, thank you so much for the kind note. I really am hoping that I managed to start a tray in here. Why why are you going to a restaurant? You're going to dinner? They're like, oh yeah, uh, steaking eggs is on the menu. Where's my bacon? Home Slice? Where's my bacon? Just because I got steaking eggs doesn't mean I don't want bacon. If you want to take some parsley or something to add a little green so that I have a the visuals go with the palette

or whatever, that's fine. There's no reason to cut bacon out of the equation. It's just wrong. It's just wrong, and we're addressing it here on the show. Steve up next here, he wrote that shepherd's pie made with ground moose meat is awesome. Steve, I feel like that's not an Irish delicacy, though, because I'm pretty sure they don't have moose in Ireland. A island you got mooses, you

got moose is in Ireland? I don't think so. Steve also writes, really, almost everything made with ground moose is great. I prefer wild game to antibiotics and growth hormone beef. But Alaskan moose are big and a lot of war Uh Steve, I'm gonna have to take your word for it, my friend, I do not have a lot of experience with moose meat. Uh So, thank you, Holly. Next up here short note, love the show, but I fear for America. Well, Holly, thank you for your fondness of the show. It means

a lot to me. I put a lot of effort into the show. Every single day. I spend my whole day thinking about it and go to bed at night thinking about what I can do the next day to make the show just a little bit better. As for fearing for America. Now we confront any fears that we have about the future of America. Here we try to deal with what's really happening and look at what solutions we can all in our own way, and then also

as an American people in act. So don't don't be don't be afraid about America, and please continue your support for the show. Brad. Next up here, Buck, I love your show. The Shape of Water should be called the Shape of East Reality. Brad, thank you again for your kind words about the show. And yeah, the Shape of Water is about a woman who has sex with her

aquarium pet. That is a factual, true statement. I think it's the aquarium not terrarium, right, because terrariums are for like lizards, and he's really more of a fish, although he is kind of lizard like. It's tough to tough to know. Uh. Corinna reminded me of Hey, there, where's

the link to the article on the progressive mind. Well, it's the host the host um the psychology of progressive hostility is the name of the link, and Corinna, you're right, I guess we haven't put it up and this just happens because I write things down here as I'm on air and then I get lost in thought and I don't necessarily get it get it going. I'm gonna write you directly here Karna with the article link, and I'm also going to have our team post it so everyone

can see it on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton. Uh. So there you have it, Aries, Oh, Aries, got quite a screed here, Arias. I'm gonna read some of it, but I'm not gonna be able to read all of it on air. Look, the reason the Left is more prone or accepting of cheating and breaking the rules like weaponizing the Justice Department, violating the Constitution, and voter fraud isn't necessarily because they're generally bad people. It's because they

see America as the bad guys. It's reflected in their expression of popular culture, where the military, police, CIA or various other government agents are depicted as bad guys. It still make them, makes them traitors and quite possibly crazy, but their actions are rational if that's what they believe. Um, I think you make a very good point here, Aries.

I think that's true. I've often said that there are those who derive pride from being American in this country, and there are those who derive pride from thinking they're better than America, and progressives fall into that latter category. They think they exist here to make us better than the America that they inherited, and they look down upon

the history of America. And I would note that this was a generally speaking, a very accurate description I think of sentiment during the Obama administration, not just of the President, but of his entire the entire theme surrounding him in the White House, his top advisors, the media. Uh. They all felt like there was an atonement that was going on for all of America as a result of having a Democrat president like Obama in office. So there you have it. There is that sense, uh, team, we are

going to have to close up shop here in the Freedom. How, thank you as always for joining Until next time, no matter what comes your way, remember shields high.