Bill Barr Goes Beast Mode

American again. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Former CIA analysts can speak to three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometimes. No. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Great to have you here as always, Thank you so much for joining an honor and a privilege. As we bear down on this election and things are just going to keep heating up, I've got to say I'm already.

I'm ready for the fight. I'm I'm like a guy that can't wait to run out of the tunnel to a backflip on the field and start dunking and throwing touchdowns and all those fun things. Right. I want to get into this battle. I want to get into this fight. And let's start right now with what the Attorney General. As you know, I think probably the most competent, most effective member of the Trump cabinet. And he gave his speech last night that's got the liberals all upset. He

hit on some key issues. But let me break down just a couple them for you, because this, this really matters. This goes to the philosophy right now, the underlying philosophical contest, debate fight between the right and the left as it pertains to the deep state and the weaponization of prosecutors' offices and the increase of tyranny that we've gone through this year. There is a iranical impulse on display in this era of COVID. There's no question about that. That's

what's happening right now. That's what's really going on. And the Attorney General finally said enough is enough. Now let me start with his view of these lockdown measures. Now, keep in mind, keep in mind that we just had a federal judge tell the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolfe, no, you can't just keep doing this. You can't extend indefinitely. Think of the power we've given governors. Think of the power we have allowed state level officials to have. It's

as though we have we have no constitutional protection. We don't even have administrative or process protections, just the stroke of a pen. Yeah, I'm the governor, and I say you got to stay home, you have to stay in your domicile, you have to shelter in place. We usually accept these things in extremes like a hurricane or and we know it's gonna pass pretty quickly and it's limited duration. What we've seen is lockdown has turned into an extension

of emergency measures to make them quasi permanent. What the heck is this limitations on how many people can gather together? What are those based on? Well, whatever the governor thinks or is moron, health advisors, your Pennsylvania, California, they're all coming up with this. Look. Even Texas was put in restrictions in place that I was saying, what the heck are they doing? You know, give me liberty or give me death? Very quickly turned into give me a promise

of safety and a face mask. Right away, friends, it's time to take back our liberty. This was wrong. What's happened here was wrong. It did not even make a safer which is always the problem with this bargain that the government inflicts on us. They pretend it's a bargain, it's really a prescription, but it's do we go along with it willingly? And in this instance, unfortunately, the answer

was yes, we did. We said, sure, a slight reduction in COVID nineteen, a slight reduction in the infections maybe theoretically from all these measures. Remember I'm not talking about a reduction for a week or two. I'm looking at the totality of cases. The measures were meant. The only way that God is to agree to this was to tell us that it was about hospital capacity, so we

can't have too many cases all at once, guys. And then they just somehow seamlessly transition into well, we're just gonna stop this disease by ruining businesses and taking away your freedom. We're going to stop the disease. It's not possible. And everyone who had looked at this problem set before of a pandemic had said a lockdown like this probably won't work and it'll be catastrophically costly. Sixty percent of businesses that have closed are now permanent closures, according to

YELP data, sixty perc. We don't even really know what the long term consequences of this are going to be. And it's as though we've We've put a bandage over the wound, and no one's really seen how bad is the bleeding. Well, until we remove the bandage, we're not even gonna know. I asked the Attorney General when he was on the show. I tried to get to sir, are we going to see any legal effort to remedy this?

Why is in the Department of Justice suing states? But I understand why they would say, oh, well, now, now the federal government is using the legal process. This is what the left, the Democrats, would say, using legal process to advance Trump's reelection prospects at the advance of killing at the expense of killing Grandma. And that would be

the whole argument. That's everything that they would say. And unfortunately, politically, that's a very powerful argument because we have a lot of fearful, stupid people who believe whatever the mainstream media tell them to this day, which is remarkable, remarkable, even when you look at NBC and ABC News, this war

armed over liberal crap, millions and millions of people. You know, more people watch that than any show on Fox News as Monster as the Fox News ratings have been recently enormous ratings and Tuckers shows got a four million people a night watching that show on Sunits. It's amazing how many people actually want the truth. This isn't that a fascinating When they have that option, they do turn to that. But there are a lot of people that want to

be told what they've been told in the past. A lot of people watch those other channels and they don't understand what's really happening in this country. As a result of it, the Attorney General certainly understands where was the justification for all of us? I see people saying, oh, buck,

what about seatbelt laws? Now we're going to play this game where we're going to pretend that shunning down entire industries on a whim, That making restrictions on businesses that are destroying their ability to operate, That telling people that they have no freedom of movement or associate that that's like telling somebody to wear a seepo. You know, I think you actually could probably make a case about sebo laws and how they shouldn't be federal in any way.

But that's not the point. The point here is that, yes, you know, we're a reasonable people, and if we're told, hey, guys, there's a huge hurricane coming in. We're gonna need everybody to get out of this one area for a day or two. Most people, not everybody. Most people will go along with that, assuming they can go back to their homes afterwards. But imagine if we had a hurricane coming and by the way, thoughts and prayers go down to people along the Gulf coast. I know they've been hit

very hard. But imagine if there was a nationwide hurricane coming across the country and they said, okay, everyone, you just need a shelter in place for two days, and then they said, well, no, it's gonna be more like twenty actually, gonna be more like three months, make it six, make it not. There's a difference, there isn't there. We can all see, we all understand, and that's exactly what has happened here. And you need to be aware of this.

People that push for these lockdowns, the people that push these policies dishonestly, that kept changing their mind on what the science says. Oh, the science changes month the month. Apparently, that's how important the science is to these lockdowners. They will never admit they were wrong. They will never admit that this was a catastrophic mistake. They'll never admit that Masks didn't do anything. Now, maybe Masks did something fine,

Maybe they reduced transmission five percent. Who knows. I don't know, but they don't know either, and they act like they can change their mind. And we're not supposed to ask any questions. I mean, like a bunch of sheep, people, just go along with this. The CDC director, we're gonna get into this in a little bit. He's saying stuff in direct contradiction to what he was saying months ago and looks at you like, if you don't just go along with what he says, now, there's something wrong with you.

Here in New York, we're being told get ready for a second lockdown this winner, and it's gonna be been worse because there's gonna be flu. You know what I think's gonna happen. You're gonna have a lot of people that think they have flu that then say they have COVID, and then you're gonna have panic spreading because it's or rather I think they have COVID, they really have the flu.

And there's gonna be all kinds of problems within the data sets and everyone's gonna go there is no rational explanation for what has gone on in places like New York that have been so so hard hit by this virus and now have effectively almost no COVID other than we basically let this thing burn through the whole city, and then after the city had been burned by this virus, we turn around and said, oh, well, now let's make sure that we have no one allowed to use any fire,

no one, no one allowed to use any electrical appliances. Good. It's already burned through, So you get the downside without any of the upside. Do you think they'll ever admit that. You think the scientific community is ever gonna say, yeah,

you are right. Look at them on Russia collusion. Look at the eagal community and how many people that are esteemed professors at Harvard Law are go on various cable news channels to opine about the law who still talk about Russia collusion like it happened because people are lunatics. You think they're ever gonna say, yeah, you know, we cost millions and millions of people their jobs, their livelihoods, bankrupted them, took away their freedom, put them under tremendous

psychological durests. You know, exacerbated their alcoholism or exacerbated their drug abuse problems by separating them from their families. Told people they couldn't even say goodbye to loved ones except the a skype if they were lucky because of our policies for the lockdown. You think they're gonna turund and say, whoop sees, that was all a mistake. No, So just be clear on this right now. They will It doesn't

matter what the numbers actually say. They will never admit this, the same way that the people that believe California is on the you know the state of California is on fire because of climate change now because it's so terrible now, ten like, we don't remember what they said twenty years ago, and how we would already be in a place where climate change was supposed to catastrophically hit us now in ways that it hasn't. They just it doesn't matter. They're

never going to admit they were wrong. So don't ever expect that day of recognition to come. But at least we can speak the truth here. At least we can know the truth about what has happened to this country and that there was no political will to stop it. Nobody was willing to say, what are we doing here now? The President told me in May he said no second lockdown, and he kept his word. There was no federal lockdown.

We have Biden running around saying we need a national mask mandate, and the President left it to the states, which under the circumstances, was the right thing to do. But what are the states done with this? What makes them think they have this right? Cuomo and Newsome and you know, whitmerr and these governors lecture the American people about how it's our fault if things are still bad because we didn't do enough of what they told us, and the things they've been telling us to do making

us do are idiotic. BLM protests are great, that's fantastic. You want to hang out with your friends in a group of more than ten people outdoors in the middle of summer. Who friends? They were sending police in California after loan paddle borders in the friggin ocean. You think that's about health. It's amazing how quickly we forgot what we believed our ideological heritage as a nation was all

about individual liberty and freedom. It's amazing how we just so quickly abandoned it, and I'm glad that now there are some voices, including the Attorney General, who are speaking out saying this is unacceptable, this is wrong. This even goes beyond just the Trump election, although I do think that's a critical part of restoring our our liberties. I don't think the President has been perfect on COVID, of course,

not mistakes have been made. I know he's better than what the Democrats would have done, a lot better, And I know that if you put Democrats in charge, they're going to act like there's a COVID pandemic so that they can use that crisis when they're in power, even if there aren't the numbers to justify it at all, which there aren't now in a lot of places in the country already, they're going to use that to their advantage.

They're they're going to continue and even if necessary, man you facture elements of the COVID crisis into twenty twenty one for their own purposes, to exaggerate it, to pretend it's worse than it is, so that they can have Look at all this power, power that we have allowed the state to have, that we should wrest from them with every ounce of our being. We should pull it from their grubby little fingers. You're in the freedom und

This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders is like house arrest. It's the it's you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint. This is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history. The man is speaking

the truth there. You could argue about the interment of the Japanese during World War Two, and I think that if he thought about that, he might say, Okay, fine, it's the third greatest intrusion of civil liberties in our history. But it's right up there, and this affects far more people, while admittedly less specifically individually agreedis that affects far more people across the nation than the interment of Japanese, although of course the Japanese Americans that that was also racist.

But this is a catastrophic, a catastrophic blow to our individual liberties. And where have been the voices against this? I even started to have people reaching out to me saying, Buck, you're talking about this lockdown thing too much. There's other things. No, this is the most important thing. This has been this year the most important thing, because they can't protect you. They're they're not saving your life. So put that aside and look at the numbers. You think the government's doing

a great job of saving lives. They can't do. The virus is gonna virus. There's nothing they can do to stop the virus from spreading within the population to a level at which the virus won't spread anymore because there will be herd immunity, which some of us have been saying from the beginning, we're doing a herd immunity strategy. We're just calling it a million other things and changing every month. We're just running around with our hair on fire,

desperate to say it's something else, but it's not. But it's just simply not. Where were people calling this out? I remember in those early weeks, Oh my gosh, the blue check lives. You just want you just want people's grandparents to die. You just don't care about the older. Bring it just for bringing up the lack of evidence that lockdowns would even be effective, and the certainty, the certainty that they would be economically devastating and devastating to

our liberties. What is Ask yourself this question and It's one that I've posed before on this show. What are the outer limits of the ability now that a government official or a government official who's elected has when it comes to a declaring an emergency and curtailing your rights? You think that what are those limits? I don't know. Is there a time duration? Is there is there even

a need for legislation? No governor could declare tomorrow a climate emergency in California and say no one can use any electricity with some exceptions, I'm sure they'd make right. No one can use any water in their homes right now, only bottled water. And you know, everybody has to start changing the way that they go about their day to day lives until we say the climate emergency is over. Oh, unless you're an essential work or you have to stay home.

We're not going to make everybody tell you tell a work. Why is there no authority? You want to say, Buck, that's crazy, and it is. But they have the authority

to do that. Now, my friends, if the government has the authority because it says so to tell you to stay in your home on pain of arrest or fine, to tell you you cannot gather with other human beings that you cannot engage in otherwise lawful activity, that you have to shut down your business and suffer the economic consequences that you have bills that you must pay while being unable to make the income necessary for paying them because of government mandate. What do you think they can't do?

And mind you, over ninety nine percent of the people they're making do that are zero risk to public health, do not have the disease, are not spreading it to anybody? Where Where are the limits to their power and authority? Friends, there isn't a limit lockdown in your homes if they want you for years, and some of them are even talking about extending this deep into next year. So let's not just pretend it's theoretical. Thanks for listening to the

buses and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you know there's something wrong here with the narrative about COVID, about lockdowns, about what it's done to our liberties? What's the what's the first obvious sign? What's the first evidence you could point to? You're not allowed to ask questions. That's always the mark of a tyrant. The mark of somebody who wants to take away your freedom.

The first thing you'll often encounter is that you're not allowed to ask questions right when you're in a meeting in the office. And if at the end of it

they just say no questions, they walk out. If they've made a major announcement of some kind, usually that's that's letting you know this is the way it's going to be, So shut your mouth and do what you're told, right, no questions, not allowed to ask any questions, or if you already know that, if you were to pose a question, it would be at your professional peril, and you know

you got a problem. Our government has been making all kinds of claims, and it's mostly at the state level, and also the permanent bureaucracy of the CDC and the NIH and they've been making all kinds of claims for which any reasonable person, reasonable person would have questions. I ask these things publicly. I bring these up, and I get hatred from people people have been for for months writing And I'm not whining. I don't care they're losers,

but I just mean, think of the mentality. I'm merely asking for answers that any normal person who had not been brain washed with fear and loathing of Trump. Right, it's always the one two punch. Be scared, COVID is gonna get you, and oh my gosh, it's all Trump's fault. Right. They terrify the population and then they mobilize that terror against the sitting president. That's the whole game. That's what

it's been all year. That's what they're doing. But I do have some questions that I want answers to as I sit here technically under I am doing this show, and I am still technically under mandatory state order to stay in my home. I am not allowed to go outside according to state law, unless it's for a medical need. I mean, you know other countries they did this thing. Maybe one person per households can go get food per day or something. You know. The little the little libs

just all go along with this. Whatever we're told, whatever the government says, must be good. We're responsible. Okay, Well, let's talk about what the government has been telling us. This was yesterday the CDC director Redfield, who I mean, this is just mind blowing that this guy says this, buddy, but he does. You need to hear. This is what he told the United States Senate yesterday about masks versus

vaccines play one. I'm not going to comment directly about the President, but I am going to comment as the CDC director that face masks. These face masks are the most important powerful public health tool we have, and I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these facecoffings. I've said it, if we did it for six, eight, ten, twelve weeks, we'd

bring this pandemic under control. These actually we have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense. I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me. Again that when I take a COVID vaccine, because the imminogenicity may be seventy percent, and if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me.

This face mask will. So I do want to keep asking the American public to take the responsibility, particularly the eighteen to twenty five year olds where we're seeing the outbreak in America continue to go like this because we haven't got the acceptance to personal responsibility that we need for all Americans to embrace this face mask I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than

when I take a COVID vaccine. He said, Wow, you realize that the vaccines will have gone through many months of thousands and thousands of individuals who are being monitored the whole way to task for safety and efficacy. And have we done any experiment like with masks that you're aware of? That is, I just want to see where's the data? Okay, But before before I get into my problems with even that statement, I'm not a I'm not a medical doctor, as we all know, and I don't

have a background in biology, biochemistry or science. But then again, neither do any of these lives making all these decisions. Really, I mean at the political level. That was what the CDC director said yesterday. Here is the same CDC director in his own words, six months ago, play three, should you wear a mask if you're healthy? No, that was six months ago. I just I want them to identify for me where the massive leap in scientific knowledge occurred.

What are they using as the data to show that six months ago? Something as straightforward as should you wear a mask if you're healthy. The answer was a definitive no from the same CDC chief who now is telling you I accident masks may be a better protection for you than even a vaccine. Is what? Now? Okay, that's that's as clear a contradiction as you're going to find. Right. And this is supposed to be about science. This is not politics where people are always just changing their predictions

and making it up as they go along. Why is that? Where is this evidence? Where where is the basis for this change? And I asked that question honestly, every study that I have seen on the internet so far, and I don't mean that people are making up on the internet.

I mean that's published for people to read, that is from a peer of view journal, whether it's in the Lancet, one of the most esteemed medical journals in the world, or different different European health and virology and institutes coming forward with their own act fual testing actual data on this. Everything that I've seen says that it might work a tiny bit, but it probably does almost nothing. Now I may be missing something, and I am always I want to learn more and I want to be right. I

want to know the truth always. That is the central promise of what I do here every day. I want to know what's true. But you see, we have a problem, friends, because there are a whole lot of people who don't want to know what's true, because of the stakes involved with all of this. You have two major competing forces against truth about the lockdown, truth about this policy that has been inflicted on us, that's effectively stolen a year

of our lives from everybody in this country. And one way or another, or one way or another, you have the election and the need to blame everything on Trump, but you also have, for many people, the equally powerful need to avoid accountability from within the federal bureaucracy for pushing disastrous policies that have been terrible for the American people and and ineffective. All right, it's one thing if you at least get something for your pain. It's not

clear at all we've gotten anything for our pain. Some of us have been warning from the beginning about this. Some of us were raising alarm, asking, we were drowned out. We were shouted down, Oh, you're not a scientist. Yeah, but the scientists change their mind every quote. Scientists change their mind about every two weeks. So what am I supposed I'm supposed to think that Now it's like science ex cathedra pronouncements. Now it's inviolate. You can't even wonder

if maybe there's something else going on here. It's truly, it's truly astonishing. Friends. I don't know what else it's going to take other than I think that we've reached a point now where the American people in their own way, and you know, if they feel they feel ready to take whatever consequences come. You're you're looking at it at

a need to just refuse. You're looking at a need for there to be mass non compliance, intentional non compliance for businesses, for people that are saying, oh okay, and by the way, I'm not saying, you know, go cough on people in a nursing home and be a lunatic.

But when you're talking about specific policies, no, I'm not going to put a mask on to walk from a restaurant table to a bathroom when I've been sitting indoors in a restaurant for an hour and a half breathing, and do it because it makes people feel better that there's something being done that's dumb. And these are mandates, These are required by law. I've got to tell you, it's it's been a failing. It's been a failing of conservatives. Up to this point. We've lost the code narrative battle.

We've lost it. It doesn't mean that we can't push back now and hopefully turn this around. But the left was able, with their larger and more numerous megaphones, to drown out the voices of reason in this and to even get Republicans to submit and comply and go along with it. And for what So you can now have the CDC director act, Like, what do you mean? You

don't realize masks are the greatest thing ever. But it's not just masks, it's all this stuff, the masks and the remember all the stuff about just wash your hands. And that was we were told at one point that was the most the most important tool in fighting this, and then we were told the most important tool was social distancing, and then we were told the most important

tool was face mask. And all the while, people are watching their bank accounts go to zero, their businesses get destroyed and boarded up, their mental health deteriorate, their physical health deteriorate millions and millions of them, But government employees, bureaucrats, the rich, the elites, the people who tell awork with

no problem for them. It just turned into a big you know, hang out in your pajamas, watch Netflix, eat your mac and cheese, and you know, express your contempt for anybody that has a problem with having their business shut down. Oh, they don't care enough about people. This is a very dark chapter of this nation's history and it's still being written right now. And if we lose this election, they're going to do this again in twenty

twenty one because they love the power and control. The party that does not, at its core, want more than anything else, to just constantly be dictating everything to you about every aspect of life. The party that doesn't want to do that is has been in power, and this is what we've gone through this year. Can you imagine what happens if the executive branch goes into the hands of Biden and the lunatics around him that are making

the marionette dance to the prescribed tune. I'm just so these are part of the stakes that we face now. I was thinking that they're going to open the country after Biden wins. Oh no, friends, no, no, no, We haven't paid a high enough price, according to the Libs, not for COVID for our election of Donald Trump in

twenty sixteen. No, they have to. They have to purge our sins even more through continued control, manipulation, usurpation of our rights in the name of keeping us safe, in the name of you being responsible and considerate of your fellow Americans. That's what they're going to tell you. I think it was a month ago that I wear a mask to protect you, is what they were saying, right, And now the CDC director today just switched it. Well, you know, masks are great protection for you. I'm sorry,

which is it? That just changes? Why are you asking questions? Don't ask questions? Not allowed? You see, friends, it's long past time to say enough is enough here. But that means that they're going to be consequences for fighting back. Tyrants don't give pack, tyrants don't give back power willingly has to be taken. You're in the freedom hunt. This

is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So what's Joe Biden going to do if the American people make the very foolhardy mistake of putting him in power to deal with all of this? Well, here's what he says we can expect in just the next couple of months play fourteen. He still won't accept any responsibility, he still won't offer a plan, and last night he repeated what he said so many times before that even if he continues to offer only failing indifference, someday the virus is going to

go away by America. Even if he does nothing, it's going to go away by America. It won't go away like America. In fact, even if it get able to get a vaccine will not be available for most populations. Are well into the twenty twenty one you know, so we're heading into a very dangerous autumn. The fact that the University of Washington model, which the White House is previously touted, projects and cases and deaths are going to spike this November, and an additional by two hundred and

fifteen thousand Americans they say, you're going to die. Begin the spike in November, but by the first of the year, two fifteen thousand will be dead. Additional, that's more than the already died. We need leadership right now to prevent that from happening. Here is this complete imbecile telling the American people vote for me, or two hundred thousand more people.

And it wasn't it was two two hundred and fifteen thousand, because you know, the HM models have been so accurate that the Hime models are laughably wrong, laughably wrong, and have been all along. But and he says, oh, the president tatted. Yeah, they touted the until they saw that they were all wrong. Two hundred and fifteen thousand Americans, he says, will die unless you vote for him. Is it possible to think of more ballfaced, reckless demagoguery than this put me in power? Or a couple of one

hundred thousand of you will more will die? And does any intelligent person really believe that? What is what is Joe Biden going to do to stop this virus? But I tell you this is this is a big it's a shift in my thinking. Now. I had thought that we would be allowed our lives back starting November fourth, if Biden wins, because that's an easy way to all of a sudden get the economy up and running, and oh it's a brighter day. No no, no, no, no, you're gonna have to earn it. The lives are gonna

make you earn it. America. They're not done telling you how many jumping jacks to do. They're not done telling you when you're allowed to stop your run or stop the burp bees or stop whatever. Oh no, they've got a lot more instruction for you going forward. There's gonna

be instruction for your health during the COVID pandemic. That involves climate, that involves gun control, that involves you name it, right, massive expansions of government in the healthcare system, right taking Obamacare and buy executive fiat, piecing at all, piecing more of it back together, and building an even larger mess within the healthcare system. They've got all kinds of plans. They're not just going to let us go back to a normal life. They don't want that. They don't trust.

They don't think that people should be making their own decisions. That's central to the ethos of the Democrat Party, right. They have like a communist politburrow mentality. They really do well, we'll put all the really good smart people in charge. We'll crush the individualistic types who want to get ahead and have their own lives and make their own choices, and then we'll give enough to the rest of the masses that they'll keep us in power. There we go.

That's going to be the plan with COVID. They're gonna leverage the crisis even more. They're not gonna let this crisis go to waste. Right, Thanks for listening to the bus sess and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's continue this. What would the Democrats do if Biden wins and let's say they keep the House and the Senate. Let's say the Senate days in Republican hands, just for

wargaming purposes. What will they do? Well, you'd see a lot of rules by executive fiat. And this is why it's so damning, it's so dangerous that we've allowed the COVID, the COVID response to be just whatever any executive authority and government decides it wants to do. At the state level, at least they can do. Man, they tell you tell you that, you know, five people in a bar's okay, But five people in a bar, but ten at a you know, at a store, some stores open, other stores close.

Some business is essential, others not. I mean, just making whatever determinations they want with real consequences for people. This isn't due process. Look at all the left wing judges Obama appointees, almost all of them, who will use the Administrative Procedures Act to shut down some Trump executive order

about something he's completely within his rights to do. Where's the administrative procedure for a governor that's one day saying schools are open, the next day schools are all closed, or they're gonna be half open and half clothed, or your business has got I mean what, I know, everyone's scared. Everyone's scared, so we don't want to do anything about it. You know, life is scary, there's always fear, there's always risk. I thought we were a country that really understood that.

I've been very disappointed in this. What would Biden do well? He says there's going to be a national mask mandate Play thirteen. A question whether I can mandate over state lines that every single state has to comply. Our legal team thinks I can do that based upon the degree to which there's a crisis in those states and how bad things are for the country, and if we don't do it, what happens. But I would make the case.

I'd make the case why it's necessary. I'd have a scientist to raid to lay out in detail why, and I would go to every governor, and I'd go to governor's relating Republican and Democratic governors, and I'd say, we have to have this national mandate. We must do it. A national mandate, federalized mask policy. I mean, this is this should be setting off alarm bells in everyone's head. What So the government now can make a mandate that they say is necessary for health that's completely unproven for

I mean, if they can do this, they can. They can mandate people have to take you know, mandate people have to take ssrries so they don't get too depressed. Mandate people can have to take whatever whatever vaccines they want you to take. Never mind just like a few that are long, long tested and proven. U they you know, what, what can they not do in the name of public health. They can lock you in your home, stick a needle in your arm, take away your property, and tell you

that you can't breathe normally. Oh oh yeah, sure, we're the live free or diet country. Sure we are. I think we've all woken up from that that it's a self delusion and certainly not the case. Our legal team thinks based on what, oh, the commerce caause. I know people will say this, right, because Libs think that the

commerce caause means whatever they want it to mean. Joe Biden was in fact part of the Violence Against Women Act at which initially was saying, well, we're gonna make violence against women a federal crime because of its effect on commerce. Violence against women is horrible and it's illegal in all fifty states. But it's not a commerce issue. I mean, if that's a commerce issue anything, but that's what they do. They say everything is and whatever they

want to do something, it's a commerce issue. This is the continuing constitutional distortion we have because the Wicker v. Filburn decision. Oh, you can't just grow wheat for your own usage, even if it doesn't cross state lines, because if you're not buying it, then it's a fact, you know, if you're not buying it from other people, and it's affecting the commerce between states. So there you go, even you're not being in the market as you being in

the market. Right, that's what they were. That's where that came from. Though one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in terms of its lasting effects of all time. I mean, it's not quite Roe v. Wade, but it's you know, it's not quite Dread Scott, but it's it's a really bad Supreme Court decision. Now we have Biden saying and he thinks there's legal team things that can mandate this, and we're at the end, at the end of the pandemic. That's what the other thing is. So now we're gonna

have a mask mandate for how long? Who determines how many cases is acceptable? No? I know, friends, I could see here and just be like, Trump is awesome. Let's look at polls. Yeah, he's gonna win another A lot of shows they are doing that every day. This really matters, this discussion which has been forestalled, this debate which a lot of people, even on the right, have been unwilling to really engaging because people all they get so upset

when someone says they're anti science. All the people they'll call me anti science. I know more and am smarter than so I don't really care. It doesn't bother me. I don't sit there go oh they think I'm anti science. But I guess I'm lucky in that regard. If we impose universal masking. What will be the upside? Talk about magic thinking. Here, here's here's what Biden says, two hundred

and fifteen thousand people. I mean, he's really he's got all the numbers for your two hundred fifty thousand people will die if you don't elect Biden. If you do elect Biden, here's what he claims will happen. Play twelve. The same university. The model shows the University of Washington. Model shows it if if there's universal masking, these desks could be projected, desks could be cut in half. We could stay between now and the end of the year.

One hundred thousand lives. Let's assume they're off by half on all of this, fifty thousand lives, one hundred and fifty thousand dead. Donald trumpshone director of CDC, told us that wearing a mask is a single most important step we can take to curd this virus. So let's let's just unpack this for a second. He's saying, well, let's say we're off and fifty thousand lives. I mean they're off by a lot more than that. They're fifty thousand lives, So you're gonna be a universal mask mandate to say,

fifty thousand lives. That's the claim, right, how many people die every year from influenza thirty to seventy thousand about that something like that, twenty to seventy thousand, depends on the year. So we're gonna wear masks every year now, right, We're gonna wear masks forever. This is the standard that they created. And I know people shot, that's not the flu, and they say this, that's not what morons say, because they're missing the point. No one's saying it's the flu.

We're saying the principle is you can enforce these arbitrary and stifling inconveniences on human beings at will, because if it saves just one life, is now our health policy, well then that's gonna extend to a whole lot of it. That's gonna extend to you know, red meat, that's gonna extend to climate change. That's gonna extend to a whole lot of things. And if you think the Libs won't do it, you haven't been paying attention to the last twenty years. All right, ten years ago, it was no

one's saying that. A twelve year old boy who says he's a girl is going to be in a locker room with your twelve year old girls at school. That's crazy. And then about four or five years ago was what do you mean you don't think that a girl who was born male shouldn't be allowed at the age of twelve or thirteen to undress. I mean, they just they

just keep rolling. We keep getting rolled on all this stuff. Well, you guys aren't going to do this thing, right, Well, we'll concede this ground, but you won't do this next thing, will you? Oh no, they will, they will. They keep doing it. The only thing that stops them from doing exactly what they want is when we win. Is when our side steps in and says, no, we're in power now, we're not gonna let you do at least that thing you want to do, which is why the election is

in fact so important. Right now, one hundred thousand lives saved. Yeah, you're going to have and even if it was fifties, he said, you're going to have to wear a mask now for the rest of your life outdoors as long as Democrats insanities in charge. And I guess we've been losing tens of thousands of lives every year because we weren't willing to make this very easy, straightforward step. This

is all emotion, friends. Their argument doesn't make any sense unless they think that you should wear a mask all the time, you know, and then then we do get into the wire, isn't they Remember these are the arguments we're having at the very beginning, and then just the panic porn from the media rewhelmed all the rational voices, the organs we had the beginning. Okay, you could save tens of thousands of lives a year by making the speed limit fifteen miles an hour, twenty miles an hour,

tens of guaranteed tens of thousands of lives. But people say, no, I'm gonna take my chances and go sixty five or seventy or eighty. Nah, sorry, I'm not going to do that. This is really though, This is one of the fundamental question we face right now. Is the government allowed to tell you what to do in ways that are only justified if you think that every little action of yours is somehow in the government's purview. Is we all have

to confront this now. This is where we are as a country, This is what we have been led to here, and yes, it has happened on President Trump's watch, and he is a Republican and this is a very challenging set of circumstances. And I know that he has been just completely boxed in advisors and and you know people around him who are supposed to know more about this. But it's time for the it's time for the backlash against the lockdown. Friends, the big one right now, you're

in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. You know, somehow lost in all of this is who is most responsible at a state level for the worst outcomes. As I've said to you, the highest approval rating governors for dealing with COVID are somehow in the states that have had the worst record when it comes to deaths per capita dealing with COVID. This is purely medium manipulation. This is pure propaganda. That's the only reason.

There's no other way. Right. If people are running a race and they're supposed to get the finish line first, and the people who get the finished line last are given the gold medal, you'd say, what the heck is

not all about? That's what's happening here with Governor Murphy in New Jersey, Governor Cuomo in New York, Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania's people did a terrible job, but we're being told all they did a great They did a great job, or at least that's what their own populations have been led to believe, which is truly stunning, and it's honestly upsetting that people could be that wrong on all this stuff. But that's where we are. The President points this out. Obviously,

it upsets liberals. Play eighteen. If you look at what we've done and all of the lives that we've saved, and I'm going to ask that a graph be put up, and now it's up. This was right at the beginning. This was our prediction that if we do a really good job, we'll be at about one hundred and one hundred thousand to two hundred and forty thousand deaths. And we're below that substantially. And we'll see where it comes out. But that would be if we did the good job.

If the not so good job was done, you'd be in one point five million. I remember these numbers so well, and two point two million. That's quite a difference. So we're down in this raco and that's despite the fact that the Blue States had had tremendous death rates. If you take the Blue States set, we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the world would be at. We're really at a very low level. But it's true if you take New York even out of the equation,

it pretty dramatically drops down those COVID numbers. If New York had Texas or Florida numbers, you would see twenty or thirty thousand people. A twenty thousand people, I should say alive. If New York just did as well as Florida, twenty thousand lives saved, just a straight per capita head to head comparison. But cuomos out there lecturing people and blaming Trump all the time, And then you have the usual apparatus of media morons. Steve Schmidt, he's the captain

of team media moron. He really is a He is telling you that that Trump is the worst ever because of this place seventeen. This is a catastrophe that was completely totally preventable, and if anything, Bob Woodward is underplaying his description of it. It is a catastrophic leadership failure. But more than that, there's no equivalent in the country's history to it, it is the greatest malfeasance in the

history of the United States. You realize that this moron just went on TV there and said that it was the greatest catastrophe and was he said, totally entirely preventable. Why didn't Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Brazil, Mexico, India, China. Why didn't they prevent if it's entire preventable. Is it possible to say anything dumber than this guy says on television? You know, but he plays a role, really, that's what

you see. He's almost like an actor. He just found his job is to go on TV be like I used to be a Republican and now I just say Trump is the worst ever at everything ever. And there are more on Libs who sit at home who are like, yeah, this is good, Yeah, this works. Unbelievable, unbelievable. Oh then there was the big kerfuffle yesterday about how the CDC director is saying that we might not get vaccine to people until the third quarter of next year. How does

that make any sense? I mean, here's what the president's telling people about what's really going on from the top of the government. He's seeing all the information. He's seeing all the data play nineteen. We're attracted deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very safe and effective manner, and we think we can st sometime in October, so as soon as it is announced, we'll be able to start. It'll be from mid October on, maybe a little bit later than that, but we'll be all set. So as

soon as it's given the go ahead. They're doing trials as you know, and as soon as it's given they go ahead, we will get it out defeat the virus. We've manufactured all of the necessary supplies so that as soon as the FDA approves the vaccine, and as you know, we're very close to that, we'll be able to distribute at least one hundred million vaccine doses by the end of twenty twenty, and a large number much sooner than that. Not everybody's going to have to get this vaccine, and

not everyone's going to get this vaccine. But once you have the vulnerable population inoculated people with pre existing conditions or comorbid conditions. You have the elderly and those with hypertension and obesity, along with being over the age of sixty five. Once a large portion of that population is inoculated and therefore is pretty much safe from this. We're we're gonna we're gonna be fine. Right then this thing people are acting like this never, this never goes away.

Why why are we even entertaining that as a notion of course this is going to go away. Ah, But you see, panic, fear, anger, emotions. These are things that Democrats are very good at manipulating. And these are the things that they need to manipulate if they're going to defeat Donald Trump in this election. So that's what they're

going to do. And this is why you're hearing very clearly from the very top of the Democrat apparatus that you know, you can't really here here we actually have we have Biden saying at play five, let me be clear, I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump. At this moment, the American people can't either can't trust the president on this, can't trust him, which

means you can't trust the FDA. So in the same breath you'll have Biden say, listen to what the CDC director says, but don't listen to what the FDA says, Now, keep in mind the CDC director has to do some cya for the CDC here because they said don't wear masks, another saying wear masks, and ultimately they view this as why not make people take the extra precaution? No one, you know, no one's gonna be able to really hold you all that responsible for taking the extra precaution with

the FDA. If people are taking this vaccine and it doesn't work and or people are getting sick from it, they're gonna know that's a big problem. But Biden is happy to dabble in anti vax conspiracy here. Put aside whether you think this vaccine is rushed or not, just for a second. The only reason Biden is pretending that he has can turns is because it's bad for Trump. If the American people are safe from this virus. That's the only reason. It's not about actual vaccine stuff. Thanks

for listening to The bus Essence Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm calling on and Biden to step promoting his anti vaccine theories because all they're doing is hurting the importance of what we're doing. And I know that if they were in this position, they'll be saying, how wonderful it is. They're recklessly endangering lives. You can't

do that. And again, this is really a case that they're only talking to just started talking a little bit negatively, and that's only because they know we have it, or we will soon have it. And the answer to that is very soon. It's true. I'm seeing people on the right confuse, and I want to I want to be very clear about this confuse asking questions about whether a condensed scene schedule poses actual risks and thinking that that is what is motivating questions from Biden and the Democrats

right now. They don't care what they haven't seen the data, they don't know anything about this. They're already saying, can't trust it, can't trust it. And it's not because they have a problem with vaccines. It's because or any particular vaccine. It's because they don't want people to think that we're getting through this and we're going to be better and that Trump managed to get a vaccine done in record time.

I remember I was on the Bill Mars Show in February, right before the Penn Like it was right before the pandemic really hit. You know, I went to the I remember going to the going to the airport, and you know, the airport was pretty much empty, but people were realizing, oh, we're about to get We're about to get hit really, you know, pretty hard with this thing. And I said, they said that he lied about how we're gonna get

a vaccine quickly. And I said, well, they are thinking that they're gonna be able to get one fastest, and all the audience was all laughing, and of course what I said was true, and they're a bunch, you know, that audience is full of idiots, but it is true that this is a record pace for getting a brand new vaccination from testing to trial to market. And they don't want the president to receive any benefit for that either. But I do think just and I want to I

want to switch the law and order issue. But I want everyone to be clear on this because I've had this shift in thinking, no, they're they're The pandemic doesn't end November fourth. They're gonna they're gonna stretch this thing out and use it as long as they can. They're gonna use this thing. They like that people are scared and we'll do what they're told right now. They're not

going to let this go. They're gonna have you know, a hundred cases of COVID in a state in eight months, and they're gonna say, oh, boa bop, we gotta you know, we gotta institute some changes right away. I mean, it's just it's madness. They don't care about the jobs that are lost small business owners. They don't care about small Just use Amazon. Just use Amazon and pay your taxes. So we've got a lot of you know, civil servants,

bureaucrats sitting at home doing nothing. You know, sorry, sorry, America, you're not allowed to have your own American dream and who were not allowed to have your small business work for a company that you started, or work for a small family company that you've been a valued employee or for years and years. You know. Nope, you better work for a big national cham with massive cash reserves and political influence, or sit at home and collect whatever unemployment

check the Democrats decide you're worthy of. Those are your options. That's what they want you to know, all right. On the law and order issue, this is one of my one of my oh my gosh moments yesterday there's a

story about Minneapolis, and you're not gonna unbelieve this. It turns out that the Minneapolis City Council, remember Minneapolis where George Floyd happened, the riots and the broad and they were defunding police, and they had people who are supposed to be like anti violence knock cops, you know, some kind of anti violent specialists or something like that. And now now the Minnesota, Minnesota City Council is worried about rising crime rates. Oh my gosh, wait a second, hold

the phone, everybody. You mean that when you throw your police force under the bus, and when you work toward defunding them, your city becomes more dangerous, more violent, you have more problems. That's that's crazy. Of course, it's entirely predictable.

And there's there's really nothing you can say about this other than the people that are now um expressing any kind of surprise at the Minnesota City Council or in the Minnesota City Council about this are honest Minneapolis, I should say, are honestly so either so dumb or so dishonest that their opinions about anything really can't matter very much. They're alarmed by the crime surge after defunding police. That's

the headline of the New York Post. Wait, but I thought all I thought we were going to envision a world without cops. I thought we were going to create a society, or we don't even need police. Remember the autonomous zones and all this other lunacy out there. This is lunacy. It's all coming from the Democrat Party, all unhinged, all untethered from what really works in the real world.

It's totally absurd. So you have the Minneapolis City Council members who just two months ago moved to eliminate the police department. According to the New York Post, here sounded the alarm this week about a surgeon crime seen by their constituents. Council members press police Chief Medaria Arodondo about the upticking crimes, including daylight carjackings. Oh that sounds pretty horrible, robberies,

assault shootings, and street racing. Residents are asking where are the police, said council member Jamal Osman, noting that constituents calls to Minneapolis police departments have gone unanswered. That is the only public safety option they have at the moment, and they're saying they're nowhere. To be seen. Council President Lisa Bender accused police of intentionally not enforcing laws. This

is not new, but it's very concerning in the current context. No, it turns out if you cut police budgets and there aren't enough of them and they aren't allowed to do

their jobs because of systemic racism, everybody suffers. Black people suffer, White people suffer, Asian people suffer, Latino people suffer everyone when the police are cut down from what they need to be and are even as importantly not allowed to do their jobs because sometimes wrestling a criminal to the ground can involve force that does not look pretty on video. And sometimes people try to stab cops or go for a gun or go for something in their waistband and

they need to get shot. That is also a reality of the world we live in. That's it. That's justice. There's no way around this. But the Libs thought they could figure something out. They figured that there's some way they could get around having cops, they could get around all of this, and they were They were wrong. So now we're seeing it. Now we're seeing what ends up happening when you decide that you're big problem is really the police. The president still calling on everyone or everyone

on the Democrat side to stop this nonsense. Play twenty two. The anti police crusade from the Democrats and the radical left and radical left Democrats also has to stop. The left wing war on cops puts our officers in danger and our communities at very grave risk. Yeah, that's the truth. Libs can pretend they can scream about justice and the

protests and it's mostly peaceful and systemic racism. They've run an experiment that is so stupid and so reckless that soon nobody will be able to make a case with a straight face who has above two digit IQ that defunding cops was anything other than emotionally based lunacy. You're in the hud This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. There's another big component of law in order that we should talk about today, and that has to do with the weaponization of prosecutors and the deep state and the

bureaucracy for political lens. This is the whole Russia collusion nonsense. The appointment of the Special Council that never should have happened. It was a clear partisan hit job. Everybody knows it, everyone could see it. Yet it was not stopped a big failing of Jeff Sessions, among others, and Bill Barr

spoke more about this. Let me first just say, the same way that the people that push for lockdowns will never admit that they were catastrophically wrong, costly, stupid, and counterproductive, the same people that will never it It doesn't matter what study you show that they can't. Could you imagine they won't subject themselves to that rage. But those same individuals, I'm sorry, In the same way that those individuals will never admit that they were wrong, the deep staters, They're

never gonna say I'm sorry. They're never gonna say, maybe I shouldn't have tried to undo the results of an election. No, quite the opposite. They think they deserve bigger book advances. They think that they're heroes of the Republic. How else

are they going to sleep at night? Right, So they totally believe this BS And a perfect example of this is Peter Struck, he of the insurance policy in Kate's Trump Won investigating President Trump, the guy who sat down and completely just like a slimy, unctious, disgusting swamp creature that he is set up General Flynn Right. Struck, Oh

it went along with that whole thing here. If this guy's fingerprints are all over the worst Deep States of him and Komey and McKay abe all over all the worst stuff with the Russia collusion, nonsense, they throw Brennan in there, You've really got a row of idiots. But here he is telling everybody that he thinks he's one of the good guys. Of course, play two twenty five

years from now. How does history see you? I think it's sees all of us as patriots who were working as hard as we could to defend America against a Russian threat, against a Russian attack on our elections that helped elect the forty fifth president of the United States, Patriots defending against the Russians, picking Donald Trump. I voted for Donald Trump. Is that because the Russians made me do it? What really is the claim here? But they're never going to stop in some ways the other than

the assault on our liberties. The speech that Attorney General Barr gave last night, I think it was at Hillsdale, was very powerful on how prosecutors not only are politicized now weapon in ways that should be deeply troubling to all of us. And it's always in favor of the Democrats. I can sit here and rattle off the top of my head a whole bunch of politically motivated prosecutions that

Democrats did, that Democrats pushed for. I don't have that on the right that people would say, if they really tried hard, they'd say, well, what about the Special Council investigation of Bill Clinton. It's like, well, Bill Clinton was breaking the law. So there's that Bill Clinton was somebody who ended up completely disgracing any notion of the President of the United States acting with legal decency. I'm not even talking about being a good guy. And he did

break the law. So there's that. There's that component of it too. But you look at what the philosophy has become of a bureauqu see that exists without oversight. Where did that all of a sudden come into the picture. You keep hearing, you know, career line prosecutors or career civil servants in the DOJ, non party. This is the same bullcrap game they play with journalists. Non partisan journalists say therefore it must be true career people in journalism.

That doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean anything. What matters is their conduct. What matters is their mindset, their philosophy, the way that they approach all this stuff. That's what actually matters. That's what the real issue is. And the Attorney General had some great lines and all this here's from his

speech last night. Indeed, aside from the importance of not fully decoupling law enforcement from the constraining and moderating forces of politics, devolving all authority down to the most junior officials does not even make sense as a matter of basic man management. Name one successful organization or the lowest level employees. Decisions are deemed sacrosanct. There aren't any letting

the most junior members set the agenda. Might be a good philosophy for a Montessori preschool, but it's no way to run a federal agency. Good leaders at the Justice Department at any organization need to trust and support their subordinates. But that does not mean blindly deferring to whatever those subordinates want to do. You hear this in the media, they'll say, Oh, but people in the DOJ, you know, that work for bart don't like his decision tough, they

work for him. It's not the other way around. This is what people seem to forget. But you know, the department or the agency is held as being more important than the person at the top charge with making sure that it functions well, who is a political appointee. For a reason. It's part of the separation of powers and accountability processes that we have built into the system. This is a feature, not a bug. Friends, It's supposed to be like this. Say, oh, but he intervened in a prosecution.

The Attorney General, if he sees injustice being done by the Justice Department, has every right, in fact, has a mandate to intervene. He goes on, though, to say that there's really a mentality the doj of stretching the law beyond comprehension in bad faith to crush people, particularly Republicans who are political opponents of the deep state Democrat left. That's what's happening. That is what is occurring across the country.

He goes on, quote, all the supervision in the world will not be enough without a strong culture across the Justice Department of fairness and commitment to even handed justice. That is what Justice Jackson described as the spirit of fair play and decency that should animal the federal prosecutor. In his memorable turn of phrase, even when the government technically loses its case, it has really won if justice

has been done. We want our prosecutors to be aggressive and tenacious in their pursuit of justice, but we also want to ensure that justice is ultimately administered dispassionately. We are all human, Like any person, a prosecutor can become overly invested in a particular goal. Prosecutors who devote months or years of their lives to investigate in a particular target may become deeply invested in their case and assured

of the rightness of their cause. When a prosecution becomes your prosecution, particularly if the investigation is highly public or has been acrimonious, or if you're a confident early on the target committed serious crimes, there is always a temptation to will a prosecution into existence, even when the facts, the law, or the fair handed administration of justice do

not support bringing charges. You're darn right, anybody having a little muller probe tingle right there, and anybody's starting to feel like, wait a second, why is General Flynn still facing a prosecution again from a judge after prosecutors decided there should be no case at all. This is what the attorney Ghal was talking about thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Buddy

David Harsani from National Review back in the mix. He joins us not to talk about the peace deals and also some deep state action. We got our man, David join us. David, thanks so much, always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. So I want to start with the change that people should have now in their thinking about consensus foreign policy, and how anytime there's an issue of foreign policy where all the smart people are just supposed to think a sir thing people should have their concerns.

Here is John Kerry, Obama's second Secretary of State, in the most drippingly condescending an arrogant tone possible, telling everybody, I mean, there's no peace deals with Israel in the Middle East that don't go right through the Palestinian authority play for there will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you. I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well, the Arab world's in a

different place. Now. We just have to reach out to them and we can work some things with the Arab world, and we'll deal with the Palestinians. No, no, no, and no. I can tell you that reaffirmed even in the last week as I have talked to leaders of the Arab community. There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody

needs to understand that that is a hard reality. There is no way, David that John Kerrey then the second, you know, the most recent Democrats Secretary of State said, I mean, as everyone's been pointing out, this aged about as well as you know, raw hamburger meat left in the trunk of a car in Dallas in July. But what say you. I think you said it very well there. But we have to remember that this is just one

of the comments. John Kerry has made dozens of similar, you know, you know, very confident comments about how the Middle East would never have peace if there wasn't first to Palestinian state, if Israel didn't first capitulate to Hamas and the PLO that he said that Israel would be isolated economically if they didn't you know, first make a

deal with the PLO. Meanwhile, of course Israel is one of the top investment destination there is there are in that region, and now they're going to have to relationships with very wealthy Arab nations. He's completely wrong, and of course he's just echoing the consensus. I love that in that clip, the you know behind him, it says Brookings Institute, where you know, tons of minds have been wrong for dozens of years, and we keep listening to that. We're

expected to listen to them. We have them in government, we have them on MSNBC and CNN, you know, confidently explaining to us what's going on there. They've been wrong in every way. I noted this in a column this week. But Jared Kushner has been has done more in four years for peace than everyone at Brookings has done in a hundred years for peace. And that's just the fact

that there's no way around it anymore. And anyone who argues that the prism of all foreign policies should be conducted through the Palestinian authority in the Middle East is no longer. It's just not a credible person anymore. And I think of Thomas Friedman, for example, who for me, it's just always been a creation of the liberal media.

I mean, here's a guy who was such a huge proponent of how I mean Palestinian it became trendy when I was, you know, in college and in high school to think of the most important challenge in the world was finding a way to make the Palestinians happy enough

that they would stop threatening to destroy Israel. That that was it, right, There was no other policy challenge as important as getting the Palestinians and Helmas and the plos you point out the Palestinian authority of pain to finally say we're going to stop destroying Israel, and nothing else was worth even discussing in the region. This was a

an ossified consensus for years and years. And it's just such a reminder the people that say this stuff and right these are they don't know what the hell they're talking about. No, and I don't listen. I'm not some big brain or anything like that. But I mean, it was clear from the early nineties on that this was not going to work. It never works. The Palestinian authority is just incapable of making a deal with Israel. That is something that's acceptable to both sides. They want to

write a return, which is suicidal for Israel. They want to go back to the sixty seven lines, which is not the suicidal for Israel. They want to create a little mini terror state next door, which is not going to happen. So what why this is so historic, I think is that they've circumvented that whole discussion. Within the agreement that these nations made the other day, it mentions nothing about a Palestinian state, and mentions nothing about a right of return and the usual things that are always

part of these agreements. And more than that, the Arab League itself would not even condemn the deal in any way. So the Palestinians, who basically had veto power over the foreign policy in the region, no longer have that, and that that is what's super important. You know, for Obama and for the carry types, everything's about Iran. Everything is

about making a deal with Iran. You know. I saw Jeffrey Goldberg, who's been as wrong as anyone on the Middle East, say, look at this, Israel's just making deals for a with authoritarians, and this is just about it, all about that. As if Palestinians and Iranians aren't authoritarians, and he's been you know, pining for a deal with them. You have to deal with certain people, and they're not the best people. But I'd rather have bad people who are on my side than bad people who aren't and

you know, dealing with them. So I think, I think it's a really historic deal. I'm not sure people fully comprehend that, who haven't been around a long time, unfortunately. Right. And the other the other talking Pointmage that was was pretty amazing, is well, Israel's gotten a deal now with two countries it's never been at war with. These are countries that pretend that Israel doesn't exist, that won't allow

and Israeli passport to fly through. I mean, like there's enormous animosity and restrictions that had existed between these countries previously. But you know, whatever works for the new site, whatever gets some clicks. That is the most insane and stupid thing to say of all the talking points I've seen. I mean, we've never been at or with Russia either. Right,

It's uh, you know, it's the Gulf nations. They create, they helped create the Palestinian the PLO, and they helped create Hamas and they've been They were funding from nineteen even before nineteen sixty seven, they were funding terrorism against Jewish civilians around the world. To me, that sounds like like a war of some sort. You can call whatever you know, whatever, use whatever you word you like. But more than that is a sea change in how people

are going to deal with each other. If some countries in the our world have friendly relationships with Israel and Jewish people, that is going to that is going to probably spread. When people do business together, they form relationships together, they form cultural cultural bonds together. I mean, this is this is really important in that aspect, and that's not

obviously just written out in an agreement. It's just more about the spirit of where the world is headed, rather than this ridiculous idea that or they weren't going to launch weapons at each other. No, they weren't, because no one launches weapons at Israel nearby anymore. Because it doesn't end well, David, I also want to talk to you about it. I know you wrote a column about this recently. This should have gotten a lot more attention in my view.

First of all, you know, I'm a little annoyed to myself because well, matt has kind of predated my institution of this rule. But now I know that anyone that the media elevates from within the like nonpartisan ranks of government service. Anyone the media tells you is amazing is

almost always an egomaniac. And at some level there's there's a real problem, right, I mean, at some level this is sort of a fraudulent narrative that we've been handed at something I'm not saying entirely, but there's something off, There's something, you know. We were told that James Komy was like the greatest law man in the history of the world. We were told that Robert Mueller was the ultimate FBI guy. We were told. But I remember this, and so it's not even always a strictly partisan thing.

Petreus was the most brilliant and you know, fantastic strategic mind ever. Yeah, when he wasn't you know, you know, wedding with his biographer on the desk in Afghanistan while people are fighting and dying for him. I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on here. And never mind also the classified information leak that he engaged in. But Mattis was always treated like this warrior monk almost like

a saint of the Marine Corps. And I do hear from people in the military say that they really liked him, but there were some warning signs about him maybe getting a little too big for his britches, so to speak, thinking that his mandate extended beyond and that he would say, and this is written about in the wool War book, and no one denies this, that they may need to take collective action against the sitting president. That should set off a lot more alarm bells from people that I

think we've seen so far. Yeah, but you know, because it's against Trump and its resistance, worn it's fine that no one's going to say anything. But that little snippet in the book, it's a chapter there that you know, the whole book frames Maddis is some kind of great hero. Was constantly concerned about, you know, what's going to happen to America and etc. You know, they like are always putting like he goes to the National Cathedral to pray

for America. There's a whole scene of that. You know, as you know in Washington that's a huge tourist spot, not a place you slip away to pray for the country. But what Anyways, aside from that, Yeah, collective action with the city, you know, with high level member, you know, high ranking members of the administration. And then why because he didn't like decisions that Donald Trump was making re Assyria, probably mostly Syria, Russia, etc. So that's not up to him.

He's a general, and we in this country, the military answers to civilians. Donald Trump was very clear that he wanted to get out of Syria. He mentions it numerous times during the twenty sixteen campaign. So why, First of all, it was matthis so surprised that that was happening. A and B. Even if he was surprised, he should have left the administration, which he did, and then taken it to the media. Not plotted or whatever word you want

to use. Behind the scenes. Now, I don't know if anything came of those conversations, but it's not a heroic thing to say you're going to take collective action to undermine an duly elected president. We still not don't know of a single vote that was changed by the Russians or anyone else to make him president. He was voted in by the American people. And I don't like everything he does either, but the idea that generals should be

deciding where we go and where we don't go. I think, as you mentioned before, is a good indication at deep state, even though they try to sort of embarrass you when you use that word, but because it sounds conspiratorial, but it actually does exist. You know, to some extent, there are people in the administration, in the executive branch who plotted against the president that they're supposed to serve. And that's not normal and this probably never hasn't happened in

a very long time in to this extent. And I also note that not not only were they trying to manufacture in the case of Russia collusion, the Muller probe crimes a president committed that he didn't. They also seem to think that there's some special exception to service in the executive branch where you can override the president who's doing something completely everyone agrees legal or you know, within the bounds of his authority from a du but you

just don't like it. You know better that you know Betterism within the National security apparatus is stunning, and as somebody who worked in that apparatus and knows that it is full of morons, by the way, not everybody, but

a lot of them morons all over the place. That's very unsettling, actually, that that notion that this is so widespread, whether it's Lieutenant Colonel Vinman or call me lieutenant colonel sir, right that guy, or it's Maddest or it's you know, just go down the list of these people, all these different FBI and DJ figures. You know, what was this Rosenstein with the twenty fifth Amendment based on what it's like there's a permanent bureaucracy in place that runs the

country almost, it seems. And and and now because it's Donald Trump is president, you know, they are given sort of what we have to treat them with this reverence that I've never seen Democrats treat soldiers before, or or even civil servants. Civil servants are just working. It's just a job. They're supposed to do a good job, and they're supposed to listen to their boss like everyone else does. And if they don't like it, they should quit and then make their case to the American people. But they

don't do that. They leak things to reporters, who of course have showed either no skepticism or a part of this and undermine the presidency, delegitimized elections. It's a really dangerous thing to be doing just because they don't like what Donald Trump is up to in foreign policy, which incidentally, I want to say I was very skeptical of it

before he became president. But I just don't see how anyone, any clear minded person can say that this four years in foreign policy hasn't been better than wasn't better than the eight years that preceded it. Even though Germans and French and Swiss don't like us or whatever or don't like him, I don't really care. I think that the world he has not that's involved in a new conflict is the first president maybe since Jimmy Carter, and things are.

I think the American American foreign policy was handled better than it was before. But that's up to voters, not up to Mattis or any other general. David Arsagny everybody Nashview dot com for his latest David, stay safe, stay free down there in DC. Man, good to talk to you too. Thank you you're in the Freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. I almost forgot one of my favorite things that Bob Barr has been

in fuego this week. One of my favorite things that he did has mentioned that he thinks that they should consider that federal prosecutor should consider. It is on the books, It is a law, and it is good law. It is applicable still charging people who were plotting to destroy federal buildings with sedition. Oh wait a second. Here's a Democrat senator who's, of course very upset about this. Is

Merkley play. I'm astounded. If people are engaged in property damage, and I condemn violence on all fronts, they should be charged with property damage. But what I read into an Attorney general bars comments is he wants people who are protesting in opposition to the administration to be charged with sedition. I don't know that it's that clearly laid out, but that was the impression I took from it. This is a part of imperial presidency, an authoritarian approach where you

undermine the legitimacy of the press. You absolutely make disagreeing with the administration a crime. Charge them with sedition. It's I think the attorney generals or the various prosecutors who wait in and shared that news, they're professionals who were just astounded that our top law enforcement person would would propose, really, what is politicizing protest? It's not protests more. We're talking about people who were destroying things. That's not protest, lighting

buildings on fire, attacking police, breaking glass windows. That's not protest. That's rioting. And if it's an organized riot activity and it goes after a federal building and is meant to undermine the federal government, it would fall under statutes covering sedition the attempt to overthrow in part or in whole, the federal government. Ah, sedition. The Democrats are guilty of sedition.

That's real, that's truth. Not all of them, the ones who are doing this stuff, the ones who are engaged in this attempt to burn down of they're trying to burn out a federal courthouse in Portland. I mean that was a night after night activity and saying that they want to top the state. I think that counts. I think that that raises to the level. You know, there're a couple of hundred people who are in federal customed right now and they're facing some really serious federal charges,

as they should. It's not all fun and games anymore, is it, lib rioters, It's not not not all just one big, big ha ha. Look at us. We're gonna throw bags of urine at the police. Hah Yeah, you might end up spending three four five years in federal prison. That that'll really put a put a damper on your riot fun activities. This is this is great. I think this is fantastic. Oh authoritarian regime. Please, these people are doing criminal acts. Very no one's just no one's talking

about legal protest. There hasn't been a single protester who's been harassed in the least who's not breaking the law by federal prosecutors. They're not going after them. They're not they're not making problems for them. No one cares protests all day, go for it, right. This is about people who are engaged in criminal acts in violation of the law and holding them accountable. And that needs to happen.

And because it's going to, unfortunately for the Libs, mean that some of their favorite little little paramilitary street soldier types are going to end up maybe spending a long time in a federal penn Too bad, Libs. Thanks for listening to The Bus Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Big Ten Football is back, producer, Mark's what's going on here? You probably know more about this one than I do.

I believe they just decided they're coming back to play after originally around August deciding they would not play a football season in the fall. I think they tried to say they would play it in the spring. I believe the idea is now to get it going around Halloween, maybe a little bit before that. And the President's taking some credit for this one. I guess he was encouraging them, and now we're hearing that he's going to push it even beyond the Big Ten? Is the Big Ten? Is

that the best? You know? The SEC? You told me this, I remember this time I listen. The SEC is the best football conference, Yes it is, but the Big Ten is one of the better ones as well. It's one of the big five football conferences and was one of the two that was not going to play this season, them in the Pac twelve that had decided to not play. Who is your Did you watch college football? I mean, as a New Yorker, no, because there's not really a

good try around here. That's what I was saying. I mean, how good is Rutgers. They're not very good. They're in the Big Ten. They joined the Big Ten. That was like their big move to try and advance their athletics. But they're just awful. So do they get their butts kicked by the other Big Ten teams pretty much all the time. I mean, they won a couple of games here and there, but they're not very good. M Yeah, I'm pretty sure the y the ny U football team would, uh,

but I don't think they actually have a football team. Rather, I don't even think I have one. I think I know Columbia does. I don't think any Columbia does. I don't think m YU does. I know there's some other schools that have gotten rid of their their football teams. That's I grew up. Yeah, I grew up in New York City, So you know, football is not a big sport here to play a lot of people watch it, but it's not a sport that a lot of people. If you live in the Five Boroughs, there's not a

lot of football leagues. Believe they're people are diets. But there's no college football, and yes, there's no college football. And then because there's no college football, you just have less of uh, you know, you have less of a draw for it. Yeah, it's lacrosse is huge in Long Island in New Jersey. I know that, and it's it's big in the South too. Um, I don't. I feel like there are a lot of places out west where they don't really play much lacrosse, but they too busy

skiing or something. Anyway, Big ten is back everybody. So if you like college sports, which hey i'll give. I'll give college football a watch, they're not. I don't see them kneeling, So there's that. I don't see them doing any of that nonsense just out of curiosity. Do you think they're not gonna kneel? That's a good I don't think the college sports will be kneeling, do you You

don't know. I have no idea. I really it's just a general question to put out there for the audience because I don't know if the schools are gonna let them. I don't know what the athletes are gonna do. I guess we'll see. Um, none of the big schools have really played yet. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. That's it. I hadn't even I was unaware of that. I haven't even thought of that. I think it's an interesting point. All right, let's get to oh eight before

I get to this. You know, I finished season one of Cobra Kai just same, producer Mark, going on season two right now. Where are you, buddy? I have not started yet. There's a lot of sports on. That's true. All right, roll call, I hit it. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real, It's time for roll Call. Bro call everybody, Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton Team buck at iHeartMedia dot com. If you want to email us, we love that one. Please send us the emails and

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teams were. The return of football was magical the NBA playoffs were thrilling. I have not watched any NBA or NFL game since they returned. The stench of hypocrisy is too much to endure. I cannot watch. Also, Das Boot is definitely the most realistic submarine movie. I concur with previous fans, but Crimson Tide is my favorite because Gene Hackman is the best. I thank you and producer Mark for providing fresh air in the Freedom Hut with all

the communist stench out there, shields high from KALBJ Austin. Well, Josh, you know, my one of my brothers is actually currently in the process of moving to Austin. I'm very tired with my family and my brothers, my sister and my parents, and so once he's down there, I'm I am absolutely one hun making it down to Austin to visit him. And so I don't know what we'll do, but for KALBJ folks, we might. We might just put put up

the bat signal. Maybe we'll tell the station to let people know we'll be at a barbecue joint one night and people want to come hang out. We can all have a drink and you know, catch up or something. So that's because I've been wanting to get down to Austin and see all the kalbj folks for a long time now. So that's that's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.

Uh So yeah, there we go. Um And as for oh, but as for Elijuan Schooling Patrick Ewing, I'll never forget when it was the Rockets and the Knicks in the finals. And yeah, Elijuan was just a better player. So Ewing has a bigger name. I think in people's minds, he just people know Patrick Ewing. Moreau at his peak was a better center than Patrick Ewing was. Just it just was. Yeah, anyway, I agree. I agree with you, except I think the reason Ewing's more well known is because Georgetown number one,

because he played for the Knicks. No, I think I think that's true. But but Hakima LaJuan was was a better center and in his in his heyday, because I'm trying to think if he was when he was at his peak, I don't think Shack was really I think Shack might have been in his Orlando Magic phase. He wasn't yet in the Lakers dominance phase. But there was a time in Hakim Elajwan, I think was the best center in the NBA. So, I mean that guy, he just had way more, way more of an offensive arsenal

compared to you. I mean, look, Patrick Hing was seven feet tall at a time when there weren't a lot of seven footers in the league, and his go to move was a fade away jump shot, which is the lowest percentage shot in the NBA. So you're the tallest guy on the floor and you want to go for the lowest percentage shot. Hakim was big into the drop step.

Hakim had a lot of moves around the rim to get to the rim, whereas Patrick was always like, give it to me on the elbow of the paint and let me do a two step drop fade away and see what happens. And that's why people like me who grew up as super fans of the Knicks, believe it or not, just never got our champion, never got our championship, never got one. You are a team that you love

that sucks. Yeah, the New York Mets, Come on. Uh. I thought I was trying to talk about him once a week because the Rangers were like a dynasty for a while. The Rangers, the Rangers didn't win a Stanley Cup for fifty four years. Between nineteen forty and nineteen ninety four, when they had Mark Messiers, they won one championship. Oh one, Okay, I thought they won for a few years. All right, all right, I was wrong about that one. I was wrong about that one. But yeah, yeah, basically

every gonna be every team really good. Now you're gonna be coming on the show. Be like. Steve Cohen is a genius. I love him. He's changed the game. Also, the food of the for the food of the stadium, I actually think the food there is pretty good for what I'm told already Field has the best food in baseball. Yeah, you're you're gonna be. You're gonna be at like the caviar station watching a Dream Team play thanks to Steve Cohen, I hope. So yeah, it makes me don't what even

is it? Fish eggs? No, I don't like caviar. We're gonna make producer Mark try it sometime. They will make a little video. Rich Rights. I love watching it with Tucker and now just found your podcast succinct, quick pace and so very insightful. Thanks for all you do well, Rich that's great. We love to hear about people who get discovery of the Buck Sexton Show. As I've said to you, you know, I don't. I don't have you know, millions of dollars of investor money that I spend on

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that they should listen to this show. Brad Hey, Buck and producer Mark this idea of Joe Rogan hosting a debate between President Trump and Sleepy Joe is excellent. Trump should get together with Joe Rogan and set a date. It's up to Biden to show up. If Biden doesn't show, they can do an interview and spread reason to all of Joe Rogan's fan base. Also, the debate needs to be in person. Sleepy Joe can be in his own plexiglass aquarium on stage, but no zoom calls where his

team can feed him teleprompted answers. Keep up the good work as always, Shields, I Brad, that was funny. Thank you. I think Joe Rogan would be great. I've said that before. I think it would be much more interesting to have a non traditional interviewer and broadcaster handling one of these. Look, you can still have the usual talking points contest debate with you know, fake Tapper or one of those one of those jerks pretending to be even handed in all this.

But I really do believe that it would be a more interesting watch, a more illuminating experience for the people who designed But and then the problem with it is that them may the media, the legacy media companies will see that and say, WHOA hold on a second, you know how long for this world are we? They need those built in advantages, right. If CNN doesn't get to moderate a presidential debate, if it all of a sudden turns into who has the biggest audience? Why is anyone

watching CNN? Right? They need these built in advantages, and so they will not part with them easily. And there's a lot of pressure that has brought to bear on behalf of NBC and CNN and these different by the companies that are above them, that own them, that run them. Right, So keep that in mind too. You're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. More roll call here JJ Right, hey Buck, Just a quick comment about how the commedies have taken over absolutely all industries.

I follow several authors here on Instagram, and a couple of them shared a breaking news story that the country's largest printing presses are really backlogged thanks to COVID nineteen. Because of this, nearly all of the books later for release during late fall and early winter have been pushed back three to six months. And yet we're all supposed to believe it's pure coincidence that dozens of anti Trump books are somehow all making their way onto bookshelves with

six weeks left until the election. I also noticed that my local target now has its own dedicated anti racism and cap in the book section. It would make me laugh if it weren't also truly despicable. Thanks guys for all you do keeping a safe and warm at night. That's how we roll. We keep Team Bucks safe and warm at night with the freedom hunt and JJ. Yeah, I'm look the public. The major publishers are as LIB dominated as Netflix and the news media and all the

rest of it. So the libs run publishing, the libs run media, The libs are in charge of all that stuff unfortunately, and so it wouldn't be the least bit. In fact, I would go so far as to say it would be surprising if we found out that that wasn't happening, right, if they weren't stacking the deck in favor of Biden with the books that are getting published, I'd say, Wow, really, that's crazy. I would just expect it, alrighty, Diane rights Buck, I have two questions I'm hoping you

can answer them. First, what is the drop dead date for deams to potentially replace Biden? And Second, well, I believe there's no precedent. Could Harris debate Trump. We're definitely at a time where we all need to keep our shield high. Thanks for all you do, Diane. I mean, I don't really know the technicality of I just know that I don't think they couldn't get them on the ballot. Now,

they couldn't get someone to replace Biden the ballot. It so no, they're not going to replace Biden at this stage. You can, you can put that one out. I appreciate your thinking outside the box, but I don't think that's going to happen. And as for Harris debating Trump, that wouldn't happen either, because that would be effectively an admission that Biden. Everything that we're saying about Biden being too old and you know, not of sound mind is true, and that would hurt him, so that they can't do

that either. But you are right in thinking that what has been normal in the past it's not necessarily what's going to be in the future. So do keep your keep your eyes open for things that one would assume are untenable and possible would never happen, and then all of a sudden they happen. Because we're living in this crazy time where Democrats have no accountability. Douglas Buck, we have to stop talking about the popular vote for the presidency.

There is no such thing as the popular vote for president. Hillary did not win the popular vote. A national popular vote is not an alternative way to elect the president. There are not two types of votes that determine the presidency. Like it or not, understand it or not. Only the popular votes in each state and then the Electoral College determine the election. We must stop referring to the popular vote as if it were some legitimate, legal, alternate way

of determining who should be president. It is misleading the American people and leading division and chaos. Oh look, Dougas, I totally agree with you. I mean, I think the popular vote. People bring it up. I always tell you it's very It's It's exactly my analogy. You know. If I'm playing somebody in tennis and I say, oh, if it's been two hours, I'm ahead, I win, and they say no, it's it's best three out of five sets. Yeah,

it doesn't matter that I'm ahead two hours. In that the US Open match on Sunday went I think over four hours. So to declare yourself the winner after two hours. No, it doesn't work. If you're playing basketball and you know the score is eighty two to eighty after the fourth quarter, you don't get to say no the games to one hundred if you've played the four quarters right. It's exactly the same concept with the electoral College. You're running the

race you're running. You're not running a race for something else, So you're you're completely correct in that. I agree with you. We shouldn't get drawn into that team. Tomorrow's Friday. Wow. This week has flown bye. Please pass the buck. Check us out at bucksexton dot com. Make sure you're following me on Instagram, posting more and more there every day buck Sexton Until next time. Team, you have your orders, Sit back, relax, come out to the coast, have a few laughs, Shields high.