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Find patriots once again near and far. I'm here in the swamp, live from the swamp as I as I tend to be these days. I will give you more details on that as soon as I can. Still waiting for the all clear on it. I think it will be probably now next week when the official announcement comes out. Some of you probably have already figured out what's going on. Why I'm down here in the swamp, but it's not officially. I mean, and some of you might have even read

it in some places. Can neither confirm nor deny what has been written in say the Washington Post about what I'm doing right now. But nonetheless, there are some there's some stuff to to get to, and we will get to it. I don't plan on spending too much time today of our show. I find that we have so much to get to of substance, so much that is

worth our our effort and energy and thought processes. That something that's very obvious and straightforward and clear cut, we'll talk about it, but not something that we have to spend too much time on. And that is what happened with Roseanne today. ABC has canceled the reboot of Roseanne's show because, in case you didn't see it, as she wrote something a very openly overtly racist about about Valerie

Jarrett specifically, So she's done. It's it's all over. I mean, the show is is, and I think the show at one point I had eighteen million viewers, so this was going to be they expect a big money maker for ABC. And she was dropped. She was dropped by her talent agency. She's the show has been dropped. I mean, this is this is complete and utter career self immolation by by Rosanne Barr. And it's in no way surprising given what she said. It's not not a surprise. And the tweet

and this is from Fox news dot com. Uh, there was a politically charged tweet she sent linking Chelsea Clinton to donor George Soros, and a racially charged tweet saying Jarrett, who is African American and born in Iran, is like the Muslim Brotherhood. And Planet of the Apes had a baby end quote. That's it. You're you're done, and you know you're Roseanne. You're done. There there, You're you're fired. There's nothing, There's no way around it. There shouldn't be

any way around it. We live with the consequences of our actions. I'm seeing some out there in social media commentary land. Some people say, well, it's a it's a First Amendment issue. No, I take you to exactly where I did with the NFL's policy on kneeling during the anthem. Not that these are similar situations, but I'm just saying, with the free speech episode that I used to illustrate how a private employer has to be able to set boundaries and there can't be zero standards for speech and

conduct in in the workplace. As I said to you, does anyone really think that you could walk up to your boss, as much fun as it may be for you. Although I'm sure some of you think your boss is a lovely person um and perhaps more perhaps all of you think you're boss a lovely person, but I don't believe that any of you are under the impression. I'm certainly not under the impression. And I can walk up to my employer and say and say whatever I want.

I mean, curse him out or curse her out, tell him or her what I really think of of that person, and just let it rip, and then walk away and be like, well, you know, I was just expressing my First Amendment rights. The First Amendment only applies to government action as a function of law. We always separate this out because that's important, right. It's a different thing. You know.

The government cannot come in and say, hey, Roseanne, uh, you know we're we're now gonna find and we're now gonna punish you even more and send you to prison or something because of your racist week government can't do that. And that's now. I will note that there are some people who think that the First Amendment doesn't protect hate speech or racist speech. I think those people are wrong, and you know that that's another component of this debate,

this discussion. As I told you the the guy who was on the Long Island railroad recently, which I was actually on. UH, I was on that railroad this past weekend. Side note. UH, that guy said really nasty racist stuff, but I didn't commit a crime. And when they started to say, well, it was racial menacing or something, No, there was an argument between a jerk and UH, I think two women and he said things he shouldn't say. He'll be publicly shamed forks. It was all on video.

But you can't threaten to lock people up for that. Private employer is different. Private employer can make decisions about you based on your conduct that are that. This is separate from UH. This is separate from the issue of whether the government can intervene based on the content of your speech or your activism or whatever it may be. And you know, anyone who wants to sort of test this theory out, is there a job you think in

America right now? Where you could walk around and just say the most racist thing imaginable and face zero consequence. I think the answer is obviously no. In fact, we really have the other issue in this country, which is now you have people who are getting in trouble for of alleged racial incidents or things that are much more in a gray zone on the borderline, not clear, not intentional.

But that doesn't mean that there's no such thing as two you know, two racists in this case, two racist for not just TV, but you know, any any job or profession. Right, there's gonna be consequences, and she has

now faced the consequences, and and that's that. I would just note a few more things about this, and like I said, by the way, if any of you have more thoughts you want to add on to this, if you think I've there's a part of this that I'm missing, or there's something else that you I would like to add intoor discussion eight four four nine buck eight four or four nine to eight to five. I'm just say this rose in Um, I feel I feel badly. Valerie

Jarrett's already uh spoken on the issue. By the way, I don't know if do we have do we have that audio producer Brandon, and she's we don't. I don't think if we get it we can play it maybe later. But I heard the audio and she just said, look, you know, racism is real, and it was racist and nothing surprising. Um. And I think she's likely to just want to know, move on with her life, as she should. Uh you know where Zan has already been fired. The

show has been canceled. I feel badly, and actually Valley Jarrett said, you know, other people don't have friends and allies who come to their defense immediately, so you know, I mean, Valery Jarrett's a prominent public person with a lot of you know, public relations firepower at her disposal as we've seen today. Other people don't have that. But I feel badly for the I'm assuming the people that had nothing to do this tweet who lost their jobs.

You know, a show like this gets canceled, people will have jobs also. Fellow actors that appear with her in this, you know, this may have been really a big, big break in their career. It may have been something that and now they're all kind of tainted by this too, even though they didn't, you know, they had nothing to do with this this is Rosanne tweeting herself, you know,

late at night. So I feel badly for them. And then just I've said this so many times before for a lot of people, you know Twitter, Twitter gets people into trouble, you know, Twitter, people don't they don't think through what they're gonna write, they don't think through how something will come across. And in some cases it's just a window into a person's mind that it is not it is not to their benefit that the public knows what they think. I think that's what that's what we

had here. I mean that's you know, there are closed there are jokes that are close calls, there are jokes that are misconstrued. There are sometimes when you say, okay, somebody could have said that and you know it's off the cuff. Or with Rosanne, this this was this wasn't just over the line. This was across the you know, the red line. I mean this is ah, there's a no go zone and and she she went there and she's suffering the consequences. I know. Much more on that, Uh,

I think that really covers it. This is now dominating, dominating the news coverage for the day. I mean, this is a twenty four hour Roseanne a thon. Now, as a result of this, a lot of people on the left are going to say that this is an indicative of the realities of of racism. You know, racism today it's much more prevalence. So that's going to be certainly

be a part of this discussion. UM, left wing activists, a lot of people will just be pointing at this and saying, see, it really reminded me actually a little bit of the um meltdown that I forget it he played Cramer on Siginfel. I forget his Michael Richards, Thanks Brendan. Michael Richards had if you remember when he was a stand up where he just he just went into just

like racial hatred mode up on stage out of nowhere. Um, and you know that guy has never been the same, understandably, So you know, so this is Uh, They're gonna continue talk about this, But I don't think there's much much more to take away from other than yeah, there's still people that say very dumb racist things. And I had Herman Kane on right before me on Fox and he said, you know that he said that he doesn't believe and this is what Herman Kane said that Roseanne is a racist,

but what she wrote was definitely racist. Well, I'll let Mr Kane let Mr Kane's quote speak for itself there on that one. Um, And with that, I want to get to a whole bunch of other policy issues today, other things that are just up on the radar. We should be talking about the Starbucks training that happened today they shut down for a few hours. What I really think about that A reparation's happy hour. Talk about that

in the third hour. North Korea obviously it is going to be part of our discussion today and and certainly will spend some time on what is going on at the border with parents being separated from their children, and people are very heated over whether this is a a new Trump initiative. There are photos that are making the rounds among journalists, are getting shared. A lot of stuff going on there at the border I want to talk to you about. And oh yes, also of course Russia

spying and all that stuff. It's getting worse and worse for the other side. Uh. They they're really getting desperate here. Um, I'm seeing analysis now are people saying, well, you know, we'll just never really know what happened here. Because classified, no such things, super duper classified in in all cases even the president can actually get to this information. That doesn't. That's not how it works. So if they're hoping you just hide in the oh it's also classified, uh, that's

not gonna work. That's that's gonna be an issue for them. And we'll get into that spy gate stuff coming up here in just a few minutes. Eight four four eight fo to five much more coming. Stay with I think we have to turn into a teaching moment. I'm fine. I'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense. The person who's walking down the street mining their own business and they see somebody cling to

their purse or water across the street. For every black parent I know who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation, but talk, as we call it, and those as you say, those ordinary um examples of racism that happened every single day. That was Valerie Jared's statements. So I told you we would play, and there you have it. We got a couple of callers. I want to talk to Roseanne and then we will move on to the issue of parents being separated from

children at the border. What's really happening here? What's not so much social media? Dare I say fire and fury over this one? Uh? Over the past weekend. But we have Denver calling in from Houston. One day, we'll have Houston calling in from Denver. Good to talk to you. How you doing a Buckshel brother Shields. Hi, thank you for calling. Oh your sir. Uh. What I want to mention is about the Roseanne issue. You know, obviously that was a pretty harsh comment that she made, but you know,

at the end of the day, and she considered a comedian. Yeah, but there have to be standards, you know. I look, I'm very I'm very open to the idea that people should get a second chance, but this you also have to enforce some standards. And her her joke was it was you know what I mean, It was just so there are there's a place where it's silver line. Right.

There's a difference between telling your boss like I thought your presentation was bad and telling your your boss to go blank himself, like one of them is gonna get you fired. You know what I mean exactly? But you watch all the stand up comedians, they're African Americans out there. They have shows like ABC, NBC and all those programs. They can stand up there and make harsh comments about whites and nothing has ever said. That's that's a double

that's an issue that I'm talking about. They're allowed to still go on their programs say whatever they want to say, attack whoever they want to attack, but nothing's ever said about that. Well, look, you know, Denver, this is where this is where you get into. You have you have a you know, a legacy of slavery in this country, which it's very very real and still very it's still a very painful part of our history. People would also describe how, you know, the the African American community in

this country is still uh still oppressed. There's racism is still real. I mean, these are things that you'll hear all the time. But just because I think some people exploit those kinds of dynamics for their own political game

doesn't mean they're not real dynamics. And and I think that there, I think it's understandable that the African American community and in fact, in fact, I'd say it's to be expected the African African American community is going to be more sensitive on racial jokes directed at them, then say the white or or just non African American community in this country would. So I don't think these are I don't think there's a straightforward comparison, is what I'm

trying to say. Um, and I and and and if you gave me, you know, if you gave me something where you know, we could look at the specifics of one comment that one comedian made, I could say, Okay, well we'll look at but we're speaking and kind of broad generalities. But but Denver, I do appreciate you calling in. I want to get to Mike in Pennsylvania because we're gonna move on from this topic afterwards. Mike, thanks for calling.

Oh Mike dropped, Okay, fair enough? Um, yeah, you know, I uh, you know, I just you know, I know people are gonna say that there's one comment and you know, okay, can't she apologize? And it brings the she's in the media business, she's had quite a career up to this point, but she's a bad representation for ABC's brand at this point. And and they're they're gonna it's a it is a business decision to people are saying it's a it's an it's what's right decision, which I think is fair, but

it's also a business decision. There are places that are just gonna be too um it's two one. There are comments that are unf that are too unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable professionally speaking, Um, you know, personally, you can always ask for forgiveness to you you from your community and from God, and you know, move on as a person. But professionally there are things that go too far. That's all I

got on that. I don't really have much more to add to it other than other than that, although I did, uh really want to get into this immigration situation in the border, which I think is very, um, very interesting, largely because the way the media initially thought it was a huge, huge story, specifically so they could bash Trump, and then the reality was more complicated than what they had initially expected and then things change. We'll get to that and and uh and also the latest on spy Gate.

That's all coming up. He's holding the line for America buck sex in his back. So we had a holiday weekend, obviously, and I wanted to take some time and I did, and I was away with with Miss Molly and her family and her dog Harold, or as I have taken it, calling him had rolled because he's so cute. Uh. He is a boxer pit bull mix and he's a very he's a very robust fellow. He likes to likes to jump up on the on the couch or on the chair and snuggle with you and forgets that he's you know,

about seventy seventy pounds of of muscle and teeth. But he's very cute, very cute fellow. So I took some time away this weekend and it was nice. So it was a lot of rain where where I was, I think it was nice. Another Chicago would looked like people were wearing walking around in bating suits and getting a tin and the whole East Coast was just like a

monsoon practically out there. So I spent a lot of time indoors, read, read, finished off a couple of books, which maybe this Friday i'll talk to you about some of the interesting stuff from them, some good reads to share with all of you. But this came up on my radar, this story about how Trump is the administration that he leads. There's such monsters when it comes to illegal immigrants. I mean, they're they're so dehumanizing that they

have this policy of separating parents and children. Just you can see the footage in your mind of parents just grasping their child's hand as they're pulled apart, and who knows when they'll see each other again. It's so traumatic for the kids. And they're putting cages and they're put in uh busses with restraints specifically for the children. I mean, it was truly scary stuff I was seeing over the weekend.

Problem is it's all basically lies. I mean, might I say basically, I'll give the explanations of you know, the specifics in a moment. But the problem is what we saw on the weekend is that when a few journalists, and this is a recurring theme, when they see an opportunity to be anti Trump, they take it. They don't verify facts, they don't look into the backstory, they don't want to hear from both sides, or even be clear on one side. They just know, if it's bad for Trump,

it's good for me. I'm gonna go for it. And this has led to all these embarrassing retractions in the past or these did these appended corrections to news stories where it's like a chapter of a book. They put at the bottom, well, we got this wrong and this wrong, and this wrong, and that wrong and that wrong. But you know, we don't want to retract the story that's an anti Trump story, because then it's gonna be a little too obvious that we got a problem. We've got

an anti Trump compulsion. It really is a compulsion. It's like the people that hate Trump in the media and more broadly, I think across the country just can't control it anymore. You know that. It's like it bubbles up from inside them. Traumb I hate Traum, but I can't stop. They have an anti Trump addiction. And that's what was

pushing a lot of this story at the boarders. Let me tell you what really happened, all right, This is you can imagine, and there were all these initial tweets, and you had one of the Obama Obama bros, like one of the frat brows from the Obama administration. Um they do, uh Favreau, there you go. Uh. He he was one that that kind of fell for this whole situation, and that was saying, oh, look at this photo of these children in cages, and that was that was what

initially got it going. A New York Times, not just a New York Times employee, the editor in chief of New York Times magazine. So look, that's a in the left wing media world. That's a big that's a big job, that's a big name position. He shared these photos of children's sleeping in cages and use that to go after the Trump administration, you know, he he took this as an opportunity to show his, uh, his distaste for Trump.

And look, you see these photos and they're about children in cages at the border, you know, in holding cells essentially, and it doesn't it's not it's a photo that has emotional impact. The problem though, with blaming Trump for these photos was that they were taken in Now. I bet everyone listening to this, as much faith as you have in Trump, would probably be willing to agree with me that it is unlikely that you could blame national immigration

policy in the year twenty fourteen on Donald Trump. And in fact, I know here it comes, here, it comes. It's gonna be tough. You're ready for a little bit, a little bit. Uh. In fact, there's only really one person if you're going to look at this as an extension of an administration who you could blame for what happened, and that person would be Barack Obama. Oh gosh, what

do they do now? New York Times is sharing a photo from the Obama administration era of children in cages at the border, separate from their parents, saying how terrible it is. And then they find out that, based on the very obvious timeline, it can't be blamed on Trump, and a remarkable thing happens. I bet you're gonna guess what this is. I'm telling you. I'm gonna tell you, but you already know. The interest level that the media had in that story magically plummeted, like all of it.

It went from all over the place, sharing, sharing, retweeting, commenting, oh my gosh, look at Trump. He's locking up He's locking up undocumented immigrants in these cells, illegal alien children, the same idea, he's locking them up in these cells. Oh it was actually Obama's administrator. Oh I guess, uh, I need to correct this wasn't under Trump's tenure. And

let's just move on. But wait, I thought I thought the treatment of these children was so terrible and that's what was Oh oh, it was really only a story to them as long as it was useful against Trump, or it was only an important story as long as it was useful against Trump. Isn't that interesting? Don't we note that with some degree of well disdain for the ethics of the media, which I think we all should have right now. I think that's definitely something to keep

in mind here. Uh. Let me also tell you, though, that it gets worse. I mean, there's more. I shouldn't even say it's worrise, but there's more. Oh, Hadas Gold, who's a new reporter over at CNN, she had been at Political beforehand. She also shared that, you know, it was all about migrant children in cages and it was so h you know, so terrible, and then they kind

of just moved on from it. Um. But there was another photo out there where they were sharing a I mean this one you had to see you to believe it. They shared a bus, a photo of a bus that was an immigration detention facility owned bus or or Immigration and Customs enforcement owned bus. And it was shared as quote, a prison bus for babies. Okay, you can imagine. And this this was again from a a a blue check verified. You know journalist Okay Um from ABC in Houston, a

prison buster for babies. Now, I saw this and I initially thought to myself, come on, like who who really? Because you look at it and you've got these chairs that have restraints in them, right, I mean not not like a strait jacket, but you know they there car seats. Now, if you say that a car seat for a baby is for its or or you know, young child is

for its safety, you're a good person. If you say that it is a scary looking restraint as part of a prison program, people are gonna go, oh gosh, that seems really severe. That's really scary. We can't have that. And you know what what it turns out is true about about those uh And then I wish I could show you. I wish I could show you this Um. But this is from a story that was published on April. That's where they got this photo. They were shared again

about Trump's monstrous border policy separating parents from children. He's a monster, He's so scary. But the photos are from April. Now, everybody who wants to join me in this one was BARACKO was Barack Obama president then? Or was Donald Trump president then. And by the way this got shared, I mean this was all over the meat. Don't think I'm not picking on some little thing here that no one paid attention to. This was everywhere over the weekend. I was trying to stay off Twitter. I did not do

a good enough job. I'm really gonna try to enforce Twitter free Saturday for myself going forward, and I'm gonna build up to Twitter free weekends and you and I we get to hang out via the show Monday through Friday. I can check the Facebook inbox for Team Box. You

can write to me. But you know, I do think that that we, you know, especially those of us who do commentary for a living, need to just and for all of you really social media, social media free at least one day of the weekend, at least one day. We gotta get there. But it's another conversation. So this story circulated on April and the prison bus for babies that was being shared. You know, it's really for educational field trips. Do you know where this prison bus for

young children went went? It's a prison, but it's a prison bus or taking barribies, putting them in prisons in a little babysuit. Prison is scary, you know, the illuminating in the builderbergs are taking all these kids putting him in prison. No this quote prison bus took these children in the custody of hh S. By the way, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement turns over miners in the immigration system to HHS. You know where they were taking terrifying places.

I mean this is real, uh, you know, fascist level stuff we're talking about here. They went to see a movie at a local theater. They went for an excursion to a local park to play kick around the ball. You know, we'll play a little whiffleball. They went to the San Antonio Zoo to see cool animals when you're a kid man, I mean, there are a few things that I remember. I went to Bronx zoo camp. That's right. I went to a camp in a zoo for like

two weeks. All we did was just walk around and learn about the animals, and they would let's let us play with some of the animals. Um mostly like very large if very large insects, which I was not particularly like. They brought over a beatle that I still have nightmares about. But anyway, Yeah, the zoo is a nice place to go.

It's not a prison program. The seats that they were reporting on that were pre Donald Trump any way, for Irtegrations and Customs Enforcement, were child safety seats because they don't want kids when the bus stop short to smack their faces either into the chair in front of them or you know, into the windshield or anything else. They

want them safe. That's it. But it was. This was a remarkable series of errors that were magnified and shared and magnified and shared and the echo chamber effect, and no one stopped to do the bare essentials of journalism. No one stopped to think, wouldn't we maybe know if the Trump administration had instituted a new program that had prison buses for babies, which is such a crazy concept when you really think about. It's amazing at anybody shared

thousands of time all over the place. But all reason, all mental faculties, all ability to be honest, to be national to the media loses all of it if it is against this administration. It actually has gotten to a point for me where it makes me uncomfortable because what I'm seeing and I do not say this to overstated. I'm not trying to be a provocateur here or something. What I'm seeing when people talk about trumps arrangement syndrome I see from some of these people in the media

does seem to be pathological. It does seem to be a mass hysteria along the lines of a mental illness, a collective mental illness that is influencing the way that people are approaching their jobs and their perception of reality. Because of this administration. There are no prison buses for babies, and the detention centers for children that we've seen these photos of existed during the Obama era. So we've got a lot of talking to do about who's really rough

on immigrants and who's not. We'll have more also on parents and children being separated and whether that's true and how it's true. In just a moment, I'm gonna talk more about the truth of the Obama I mean, sorry, the Trump administration. Pardon me, look what I just did, uh, getting all mixed up here with the children being separated from parents at the border. I want to get into that in some detail. And I went a littlong and the last segments, so that means that I got to

hold that for the next hour. I really want to work through that with you. I think it's important. You're gonna see a lot more about this because on the issue of immigration, the left, the Democrats going into the mid terms absolutely have to emotionalize the issue. If people know what's really going on and what had been going on at the border, they will be much more meaning the electorate will be much more with Trump, at least

in my estimation. If it just turns into who who cares about kids more, who's nicer when it comes to immigrants, who's nicer about these things? Then I think you're very likely to have not a Democrat overall advantage necessarily, but their fortunes will be better on immigration if that's the case. But I want to take a moment or just stop and tell you about a a happy story from across

the pond. Here you had this. They're calling him spider Man, twenty two year old Mama do Gussama who If you haven't seen the video, By the way, I mean, this guy is agile. It was it was impressive. He climbed up four floors of an apartment building to save a

dangling child. I mean, by the way, this is a thing that I feel like a lot of people dream that like one day maybe you know when you're thinking about i'd be great to be a hero, do you think you know it's saving a dangling child and the child was literally holding on for dear life on the edge of a holding four floors up. Very likely could have been killed if if the child had lost lost his grip and Gassama just I mean, he he got

up there. It was it was pretty it was pretty remarkable, and the guys in you know, it was very good shape. And he got he climbed up the four floors. Um. But he's now been made a or he's about to be made by Emmanuel macroll. May we be as mccron. I just anytime I can do that with mccrow's name, I like to get a little French. Uh. He's gonna

make him a citizen. And you know, I any of these stories and it's it's true of those who served in the in the military here, and I think it should be true of anyone brought any of these stories where someone gets their citizenship because of an act act of uh bravery, patriotism or service or all the above. I think it's just a good message to send about the citizenship is a valuable thing. It should people should

be able to earn it. It should be something that is earned, not that's just distributed out as as a political favor. And this guy in France, in France, Mama duga sama uh, they're calling him spider Man or perhaps spider man Um. Congrats to him. It was really cool and he saved someone's life. I've got a cup of it in my hand right now, Black Rifle Coffee. I drink coffee every day. It's just something that I need to help get me going. I also think coffee is delicious.

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Buck Sexton Show. Analysts Sexton. So if you cross the border unlawfully, even a first offense, and then we're going to prosecute you. Those cases that are up about double last year and they were going to go higher this year. Uh. You, it's an offense to enter the country unlawfully. If you smuggle an illegal alien across the border, then we'll prosecute you for smuggling. If you're smuggling a child, then we're gonna prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you,

probably as required by law. If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring him across the border illegally. It's not our fault. There an Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, just the last couple of weeks, they're talking about how the Trump administration is approaching the issue of illegal immigration, when it involves children, when involves miners. Now, this is a complicated issue with a lot of different

things going on. I want to break it down for you so you really understand because I spend time over the weekend researching this. Make sure I'm up to speed, and I like to bring you the facts and the truth you want. You know, nonsense and hyperbole, there's plenty of that on social media. And with that in mind, you may have seen some again journalists, people with followings, people that are entrusted, you know, their careers are all

about bringing information to the public. They started run around with this meme or this storyline that the Trump administration has lost has lost, uh, almost fifteen hundred immigrant immigrant children. It did not lose them, folks, But this is what people saying. They lost them. Now they're just lost. We

don't know where they are and can't find them. Trump is It's like Trump took dred immigrant kids to the movies personally, and he left them there and no one knows where they are now, right, It's like, oh, they're lost. That's not what happened. But that was that was what people were saying. You know, do the illistration lose all these kids? How do they lose the word are there? We have to find where are they? We have to

find them? No, no, no, no, no, no no no. This is where we have to step back for a moment and look at what's really going on here, because it matters. You're going to have a major debate over immigration leading into the mid terms, that's for sure. Whether you know whether the Republicans are serious about this or not this time around, I don't know. You're your guess is as good as mine, and Republicans are not not to be trusted on the issue of immigration. I just

I just gotta say it. You don't know what you're getting with the GOP on immigration enforcement. They want to call it reform. You know, it's just a matter of time before you get Marco Ruby out there again running around talking about the Gang of eight bill that died a while ago. They'll try to bring it back, a different gang of eight than the usual here in d C. So that's all gonna happen. So, but here's here's what's happened at the border with regard to these children and

the separation of the children and all this other stuff. Okay, first of all, the Trump administration has not actually changed the rules. And one thing you've always got to remember is that Republicans or conservatives more specifically, get in trouble for literally saying, well, the law that says we have to do this, We're we're going to do what that law says. Democrats on immigration take a position of allah

Caharte lawlessness. It's just the way they approach it, the way they do it, and so you have to remember that. Now we get into what's going on here. The rules are the same. You separate adults from children under certain circumstances at the border. If if an adult and a child show up to the border, for example, as they have from Central America and claim, uh, you know, and claim as well, hold off on the asylum status for now. We'll get I'll get into that in a moment. See

this is I'm honest with you. There's a bunch of different ways this plays out. It's complicated. Of course. The media is just Trump, We hate Trump. Trump's separating children from parents. That's all they can think about. What's really happening. What are the policies. What are the implications legally? How does this work out? They don't care. There's an anti Trump story there for it. There's a pro Trump story

they don't know anything about. So if you show up at the border and you falsely claim you you pretend to be the parent of a child there, which is going on with uh trafficking and trafficking of children, which you know can involve horrific crimes against children. Right. But but if an adult shows up pretending to be a parent, then yeah, they're gonna separate them, all right, because of all the implications there, what could be going on? What

is this, what's happening if you're smuggling children? If you're an adult who was smuggling children, they will separate you if they in any way believe or estimated. Remember we're talking about children were under eighteen here, folks, right, so we could have teenagers in world. If there's a threat

to the child, they'll separate them. That's the These are the obvious cases, right, I mean clearly, if if a coyote is smuggling a ten year old across the border and you catch them together, you're not gonna keep the coyote with a ten year old, right, And if the smuggler is or just any adult is with a child at the border and you and law enforcement is able to ice, is able to figure out that there's some threat. That's all straightforward, obvious. Okay, But these are scenarios. We

understand these scenarios. Put them out there, all right. Now, here's where it gets a little more complicated. What if the adult is put into the criminal justice process. And this is where ever been saying, oh my gosh, you know they're separating adults. You're separating parents from their children. You know, you can just see like tiny hands grabbing the parents finger and like mean law enforcement people in this country pulling them apart. You just see the imagery

they're trying to conjure up here. Well, here's where here's where this actually what this actually turns into. If, in fact, uh, someone shows up at the border and tries to cross illegally into the country with a child, they will be criminally processed. If they are a first time offender, it's a misdemeanor. You can get up to six months. But as anybody knows anything that the criminal justice system knows, first time offenders for non violent crimes don't get the maximum.

In fact that generally don't even get the minimum. I mean, they just usually get a slap on the wrist and I don't do this again. So for people who are first time uh trying to cross the border and are caught illegally, they can temporarily be separated from their child. The child goes in the custody of Health and Human Services. The child is fatted, clothed, and cared for and by the way, all courtesy of the taxpayer, all courtesy of you, uh.

And and the process if the parent wants to just say, okay, you know what, I want to go back. I'll turn around and go back to my home country, is basically immediate. It's very very quick, and it's like same day proceedings. And if the person says, okay, we'll turn back, I want to be with my kid. Ever ever gets reunited the same day. So yeah, I mean they're separated, but

they may be separated for a few hours. I would note that if you're criminally processed, and this is what, this is what the media, you know, they don't like to think hard about these things. If any of you listening were arrested, let's say, you know, you you're in a traffic stop situation. You very in very unwise fashion, decided to get physical with the officer and they arrest you. And you've got like, you know, little little junior in the in the back seat who's ten years old. They

don't say, okay, Junior, we're taking your dad downtown. Take the wheel. You know you don't have a license, but see how it goes right, No, you know, and if they're gonna take another parent, I know to come because but if there's no one you can come take care of the child. If there's no if they can't get anyone, there's no other family member, no other person, then they are going to have to temporarily take custy of the child while the parents process. And there's no other way.

What are you're gonna You're gonna leave this, you know, eight year old or ten year old or whatever, just by the side of the road. So you know, this is not completely unique to the circumstances of crossing at the border. So if you're willing to go back, if you're will to be turned back right away, and remember the administration now is enforcing the law about illegal crossing. So if you try to cross illegally and they get you,

they're going to put you in the criminal system. If you are a repeat offender, you can be charged with a felony, meaning if this is not the first time you've tried to illegally cross, you can be charged with

the felony. But if you're charged with any felony, guess what, You're gonna be separated if you go to prison, You're gonna be separated from your kid, right if you If you don't pay your taxes, I love to get to that one, because we all know doesn't matter if you pay your taxes, No, just like one person crossing the border illegally doesn't really matter to the country. No, But if everybody does, it matters a whole lot. If enough

people to do it, it it matters a whole lot. And it is never a defense that the government will accept about not paying your taxes to say, I mean, come on, you really need like my my fifteen grand this year? Is ever really gonna make a difference to you, guys, Uncle Sam, Even though the answer is no, it makes zero difference none. It is it is literally completely irrelevant.

But they are strict on the black letter straightforward law of tax evasion, whereas an immigration they'll say, oh, there's human rights and all this other stuff that they pretend the law is in the law anymore. But if you don't pay your taxes and you go to prison, somebody else, hopefully it's a family member, somebody else takes care of the kid. The state will take custody of the kid

if nobody else will. So this is not you know that they've created this circumstance for like Trump and administration or these monsters. It's just not true. It's just not true. It gets a little bit more complicated because of the Flores Consent Decree, which says that unaccompanied children can be held only for twenty days. And then there's a ruling by the Ninth Circuit that says the twenty day limit um extends to children who come as part of a

family unit. So there's there's some variations, but that's from been around for a long time, and that comes in for for when somebody's claiming asylum. If you claim asylum, that process can take a little bit longer, and so there can be a separation longer than a day or even a few days between the adult and the children. If you're claiming asylum. So that's where this starts to. But it's not new, it's uh, it's not Trump specific.

And you know, I also think that claiming asylum, you know, it should be because you're in fear of your life. It shouldn't just be, Hey, this is an easy way to get me in my family the United States, which is a better economic situation than what I'm coming from

it in my home country. So because of the abuse, in my opinion, of asylum claims that surge under Obama and have continued under the Trump administration, you have this one area where there's yes, if you show up at the border you're claiming asylum, you might be separated from your children while that processing is going on, and that can last for up to up to twenty days again not months, not years, not, but there can be a separation that occurs there. So that's where all this comes together.

There is Oh, there's nothing specific about Trump with this, and Congress should fix this if they want to fix this, right, there's something that they they can take action here. They don't like to take action because then there on the record actually doing something, and they'd rather just fundraise and be a bunch of clowns in the Congress. Okay on the lost children thing, because this also then turned into oh my gosh, Trump, Trump is separating families and then

they're losing the children. Not what's happening. Okay, what is happening is you've had about immigrant immigrant kids who are out and are put with adult sponsors. This often happens, by the way, a lot of kids when they get to the border, they actually get passed along to their adult sponsors, the unaccompanied miners, that's what or even a company miners, that's what ends up happening. They get given

to an adult sponsor. It's usually a family member. So all that's happened here is that h h S has made follow up calls, has made follow up calls to UH these immigrant children, and there are about and this happened last year. There are about that that we're placed with sponsors in the United States, And what they found out is that they've had a percentage of them that did not respond. Right. So this was the New York Times rest in This losing track of children arrived at

the border alone is not a new phenomenon. Inspector General Ports show the federal government was able to reach only a four percent of children it had placed, leaving four thousand one nine accounting for all that means, folks, And then everyone's freaking out about this. So Trump, they're losing the kids. Where are the kids? Are they hiding somewhere? What's when they when HHS? When government bureaucrats called the

sponsor families, not all of them responded. That's all. This isn't like missing children, like put up a photo of them on the back of a milk cart. No one's seen them in years. This isn't that kind of like really serious stuff. This is just they didn't respond to the phone call. Um, maybe because they weren't there, maybe because they're busy, maybe because they've moved. So they reached eight of the children they had place sixteen per end,

they didn't respond. They're not missing kids. That's just missing phone calls. But what's our what's our common theme? Folks? Oh, that's right. If it's anti Trump, run with the story, figure out the details later. If it makes the Trump administration look bad, run with the story, figure out the details later. Do you have to run a correction? Do it in the dead of night with no one's paying attention.

That is what they do. And now I think we finally dug in deep on what's going on at the border when it comes to adults and children and separation and the administration. Who that was. That was some work. We just did their team. We'll be right back when we went up to Trump Tower to brief then present elect and his team on the Intelligent Community Assessment and right away. Uh. I think the president has been very consistent ever since that anything that casts out on the

legitimacy at his election he has problems with. And so that was the you know, the bad news, the truth to power we were serving up to him. And that's that's that's been an issue where you know, we have alternative facts or relative truth, you know, this kind of thing, and that is anathema to anyone that's in the information business.

For me, if you're going to use the word term spy, which I number have white but anyone, let's assume it's a valid term to me that suggests using intelligence tradecraft, employing an operative who has been formally trained in uh clandestine collection, uh, someone who's masking their identity, or someone who is recruiting. And this informant was none of that, So that to me, the informant is the most benign

form of intelligence collection that you can do. Look at the gymnastics the former d n I is going through on that one, folks, Um benign intelligence collection? Do we think there's such a thing as benign intelligence collection? When the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world are looking into you, looking at your stuff, is it ever benign? What nonsense? Now? One thing he said that I will admit is is true. I've been saying it for a

long time. Everyone pretends there's no such thing as spying anymore. Spying is what bad people do. That is wrong. The intelligence community spies, the c i A spies. These are spying organizations. Right, we can say we can call it intelligence collection, but that's just another way of saying spying. It's the same thing. We can get into the semantics all day long. Right, Even had I think Brennan, who was the CIA directors segment, we don't steal secrets, he

said that publicly. Yeah, dude, actually you do. This is when you're intercepting phone calls from around the world. They're looking at people's emails or whatever. That's stealing information. You're not like, hey, can I hear your phone call? Like this is just craziness. But notice how he gets into the semantics game of yeah, you know, it's an informant, not a spy. Uh so they're running informed they were

running an informant against the Trump campaign. Can I just be clear on was there an informant or was there not an informant? Because you have people saying Marco Ruby over the weekend says there was no spine. So is this now the talking point they'll use because they'll first they'll define away spying like there's really no such thing, like we never spy. This country doesn't spy, law enforcement

doesn't spy. In talentcuted isn't spy. So once they define that away, well of course there's no spine, right because they've changed the definition. But running an informant at somebody to get information to possibly use for a prosecution, Yeah, that's a form of spying. And the former Director of National Intelligence should know that. I think he does know that, which means that what he's doing right now is just

being dishonest. He's back with you now because when it comes to the fight for truth, the funk never stops. You're suggesting he's running a pretty fair investigation right now. Correct. I don't think it's fair. I think it's designed to to punish the president, to ruin the president, to ruin his family, to ruin his businesses, to ruin his friends. You think it fair at all? What would be the

reason not to tell people with top security clearances? The reason it would quiet down many people who have questions, like you and like the president. Yeah, well, the obvious reason is that they didn't have an adequate basis to do it. And that's fortified. That suspicion is fortified by the fact that every time they tell us they can't tell us something, they claim it's because of national security.

And then when the pressure gets ratcheted up and that stuff gets unredacted, we find out it's got nothing to do with national security. It's that they're embarrassed by what what they've done. So to two points there that came from two different sources. First, I'll take them in well, actually i'll take them in order. You had Michael Caputo, who's and we need to keep reminding each other of this.

You need to keep this front of mine. The Mueller probe is, if nothing else, catharsis for angry Democrats who cannot accept that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton and became president, and so as part of their goal for the probe is just that it exists, that it's painful, that it's expensive, and that it hurts people around Trump. And we cannot ignore that because that is one of the reasons they pushed for this and why they defend it. It's not because they want to get to the truth. It's because

they want the process to be the punishment. Okay, Then on to Andy McCarthy's point. Our friend Andy McCarthy from National Review, he was talking on Fox there. We cannot ignore that. Time and again the FBI plays this game where they say, oh, we can't tell you that it's super secret, it's supersensitive, and then we find out more information turns out it wasn't super secret sensitive at all.

It's just as something they don't want to tell us that is explicitly forbidden in the federal rules about what is classified and what is not, and they keep on doing it because there's no consequence. There are no consequences for overclassification. So one of the ways that government protects itself of the bureaucracy that the deep state covers its own butt is to overclassify as much as it possibly can, and specifically to make things classified that no reasonable person

could ever believe would be classified. Case in point, they redacted that Andrew McCabe spent seventy thousand dollars on a conference table for his for his like senior executive FBI conference room or whatever. Now, I'm a fan of interior decorating in so far as I like a comfy couch and a big TV to watch. Seventy thousand is a lot of money for a table anywhere anytime. Do I

think that the Russians do? I think the Chinese now have a national security advantage over us because we know that Andy McCabe clearly has a tendency to think highly of himself as when he was acting FBI director, when he was number two at the FBI, and believes that you know, he's earned that taxpayer funded seventy was on our table. Of course, the answers, no, not a national security issue. It's an Annie McCabe is a self important

jerk issue, and they didn't want people to know. So when we see that on something that's relatively minor like that in the Grand scheme of things. What are we to think the other redacted information that's out there or withheld information. I keep going back to this. I hear all these stories, I see all these articles about how any day now we're gonna see the really bad stuff right there. Mueller didn't want to initially share, his team didn't want to share with a federal judge the full

extent the full orders authorization for the Mueller probe. They eventually shared it. But what could possibly be in there that is of such high national security value that it could not be publicized? So far? The international men of mystery that we're supposed to believe are the justification for this entire year long plus mess. Our Carter Page and George Papadopoulis, neither of whom has been charged with espionage, conspiracy,

or anything of the kind. Papadopoulos has been charged with being caught up in the Muther probe and Lyne, but no no international conspiracy, no espionage, no collusion with Russia. Nothing. And I think that the unwillingness of the FBI to share this information is in large part not just about politics. Sure, it's about that a lot of people in the FBI clearly. Did you know they wanted Hillary to win, They thought

she'd win. They don't like Trump, I get it. But on on top of that, they want to protect the bureaucracy. And this is a very powerful sentiment that you have in these large federal organizations. They want they can justify a lot of stuff to themselves. If it's protecting the institution,

then that becomes its own mission. Right when you show up and when I was showing up the c I c I A day in and day out, you know, we mission first, mission first, we gotta be all about the mission right, protecting America, giving policymakers the best information so they can make smart decisions of all that stuff, right,

all that good stuff. Rab role, that's why you join. Okay, once you're there, once you're in the bureaucracy, once you are a part of the mega state, once of the deep state, but the mega state that is our federal bureaucracy, you start to see that protecting your specific tribe within that larger unit of the federal government becomes its own mission, and one that can be corrosive over time, one that can make otherwise very very clear thinking, reasonable and ethical

people start to act in ways that are dubious. You know, they'll they want to protect the bureau, protect the agency, protect the department, whatever it may be, and suppression of information to that end becomes very self justifying. Right. Oh, you know, the public doesn't really need to know this. We keep them safe. This is just gonna be embarrassing

and difficult for us. I think that's a big part of what's driving the foot dragging over the FBI, because even people that have nothing to do with the whole collusion debacle make believe fiasco. Right. Forget about the Coombys and the yates Is and the McCabe's and the Structs and all the rest of them for a second. Even other folks at the FBI, I worry, have been brought into this mindset of well, look, obviously some shady stuff happened.

They were trying to set Trump up. They were trying to have a pretext to use spine tools against him. But we we were gonna need the FBI tomorrow, in the next year, in the next decade, so to the extent we can, we gotta protect it. To the extent we can protect the American people's perception of d O J. We gotta keep some information out THEA and and that I think that's happening a lot here. So it's a variation on oh, we don't want them to know the truth because I let's see the bad things we did.

That's a big part. That's the the page. I mean, the uh Yates and McCabe and all them that that's what they're doing. Comey obviously, But there are others that are just like, well, you know, we need to protect our institution. If that means that we play a little fast and loose with the information and the truth of the American people, so be it. Problem with that is it's really not their call, and we really do need

transparency and we do need the truth. Here there's a uh this is from NBC News quote c I. A report says North Korea won't de nuclearize but might open a burger joint. Okay, some c I has been wrong in the past, and I used to work there. Let's look at this so called report that NBC has and what's going on with North Korea that's coming up. As we've always said, with moving the embassy from Jerusalem, having historic tax cuts, um pulling out of Paris. This President

keeps the promise of other presidents. Now this president in that letter last week, I thought really got some kinetic energy coing folks all of a sudden said Wow, this may actually not happen, and if we wanted to happen, then we're going to start moving it. Ever since, I'm practically North Korea, South Korea and the United States have been making very positive moves. But let's see what happens. As the President says, if he's satisfied it will go forward,

his number one concern is not prosperity, not economics. Certainly that's important to him. I'm not suggesting us not, but clearly this has always been about security. Why nuclear weapons, why ballistic missiles, why pointing them out the United States? All because he wants his regime to be secure and stay in power. He's a young man and he's looking out many, many years down the road, and he wants

this regime to stay in power. Will there be a summit on June twelfth or not between the Trump administration between the United States of America and North Korea. The answer is, we don't have an answer. We just simply do not know. At this point. A lot of media attention on this. I was actually over on Cavudo showing Fox News or today on this specific issue where you have Kim Young Choll, who is the vice chairman of the Central Committee of the North Korean Communist Party. He

is also the former head of their biggest intelligence organization. Uh. The I think it's the National Reconnaissance Directorate. Uh. I forget my my North Korean. My North Korean and TELL organizations are rusty. I don't remember exactly which one it is. I think that's right. But he's a guy who's now heading to uh, New York City. I'm sorry. The Reconnaissance General Bureau is what North Korea is. Intelligence agency is called the American and European ones I'm very good on

and some of the Mid East ones. But there you have it, the Reconnaissance General Bureau. But Kim Young is heading to New York City's gonna meet with Secretary of State Pompeo, and they're gonna start talking about some stuff. Here's here's part of what I think is gonna be up for discussion. Hey, North Korea, don't let China use you in ways that are against your own interests. This is a a very complicated negotiation over very straightforward things.

North Korea can either agree to dismantle its nuclear program and be integrated into the international community and have way more economic prosperity than they do, right, you know that just a better forget about prosperity, hey, livable economic situation compared to what they have right now, or they can stay on this path of instability and see if it actually leads to war. Right, that's a very quick distillation

of what's at stake here. What's a play. I think that Pompeo and whoever else is gonna talk to Kim yong chol. They're gonna be saying, look, don't list, don't think that China has all of your best interests at heart on this one. Now, China's got all the leverage in the world north Korea. I think North Korea's economy is based on trade and important export with China. So without China, there really is no North Korea. It would cease to be. It would be in a state of

economic and literal starvation. I think there's also why you've got the US now saying, hey, you know what, China, maybe we will put fifty billion dollars of of tariffs on the table. You know, maybe we will start charging a twenty five import tax on certain goods that come from China. And by the way, that could be the beginning of a whole lot more in terms of terroriffs.

Just a few days ago, the administration was saying the Trump administration was saying, you know what, We're gonna ease off on China with all the stuff We're gonna you know where, We're gonna try to give these negotiations a chance and let's see how things go with not just on the Chinese side with trade, but also with the North Koreans. And now you've got a bit of whiplash because Trump and his team come along, they say, oh, hold a hold on a second. China doesn't want to

be constructive and helpful here. We're gonna have to bring back we'll we'll bring back those tariffs, and then you'll have the specter of trade war once again, which I think is still overblown a lot of people's minds. But I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm not saying there's there's no way we get to that. I'm just saying I don't think it's likely we get to that. But how would this, How would this go? You know, what would it look like for us to do a a process

to de nuclearize the Korean peninsula. You have a General Jack Keane, he's a Fox News analyst that's going He gave a pretty good one to three on this today. So just I'll let you hear from him and I'll break it down a bit more. Play five. I think everyone now China, North Korea, and even South Korea know that this president is not going to be played after a lot of the shenanigans has been going on in the last the last couple of weeks. Here's what they

would want by a plan One? Is there full accounting of all your nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles? Can we see that too? Are you willing to open up that entire disarming and dismantling process so we have full verification of the entire process? And number three, well we do this in a reasonable amount of time? Are you gonna drag this out over many years, way beyond the president's term of office so that it's more of a promise than it is a delivery? All right, Well you heard

it from the general. There we'll see. But one thing you can definitely pick up from this is that it's gonna be a long process. They're not gonna be quick no matter what happens here, no matter what the early indicators are, a lot of ways this thing could go go south or sideways, and that's something we have to keep in mind as well. What do I think is gonna happen here? Hi, It is a coin flip right

now that the summit even happens. It's hard to imagine a world for me where North Korea will give up its snooks because I do believe that the paranoia about outside invasion and the hyper militarism of the regime. And remember the regime is is a a dynasty of of the Kim's right, Kim Il sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong On. It's only been three guys, not that many. And by the way, this uh latest visitor um y'all,

Kim Young chol. He is one of those officials within the Korean regime, North Korean regime that spans all three of the chemis before him. So he worked for the founder of North Korea, the son of the founder and the son of the son of the founder. But we will have to see I am I am withholding some judgment here, because I know it's gonna be very tough. I think that when you look at regimes like this one, any transfer of power isn't just an issue of betraying.

They feel like betraying it would betray the country's interest, North Korea's interest, but also everyone who's at the top of the power pyramid would lose power and might lose their lives. You know, Coups are dangerous and messy things, and once a government doesn't once in a government that has had an iron grip loosens it, there's always a fee or that. You know, they don't get to just live out their days on the chan's lise in a big, fancy apartment, but they end up heading to the guillotine,

if you know what I mean. I think that's a part of this whole North Korea situation as well. I gotta keep that in mind all in our three is coming. We're talking about the Starbucks today, these Starbucks uh racial bias training that happened. To give you some thoughts on that one. Also a letter from a Looney English teacher

that's a response to a form letter from Trump. I mean, they're now making news stories out of people that are basically yelling into their closets or yelling out and uh into the woods with no one around them and saying this is a new story, it's crazy. And then we'll get into some roll call. Obviously, so much much more, come and stay with me. Are any background investigation or

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We all have had a life experience, and at that life experience has provided us with a level of understanding that may be different than the level of understanding you have. And it doesn't have to be about race. It could be about ethnic background, sexual orientation, your station in life. But so ill about trying trying to provide a level of empathy and compassion, a new level of sensitivity. So has President Trump's rhetoric personally on race exacerbated racism in America?

I would say on a personal level, it probably has given license two people to feel as if they can emulate and copy the kind of behavior and language that comes out of this administration. There you have Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks or is he chairman of star Wars whatever? Close enough, big big wig over at Starbucks, who is uh, you know, doing the whole virtue signaling routine. Now with this training um that that happened today, eight thousand locations

across the country closed today for racial bias education. It is expected to cost star Bucks twelve million dollars in revenue, and according to NBC, here owners of small coffee shops from Philadelphia to Sacramento see both a an opportunity and a chance to emphasize their value to the community. So there you have it. You had this training that came after a couple of incidents of alleged racial bias, and I just want to I just want to know. I mean, everybody,

come on, okay, I'm I'm sitting here. I'm thinking to myself, what could anyone learn in three hours of of training about about bias? What are they gonna teach? I really mean this, think this one through. What are they going to teach baristas? You know, people who are earning a living. Honorable they show up, they provide a service, earning a living, giving people coffee and food and snacks and things, selling

them food and coffee and snacks. But they're gonna learn about racial bias in a few hours, and that's really going to change anything. I can just tell you that I would be curious to see what the actual statistics are. But Starbucks are very from my own personal experience of drinking coffee for a very long time, Starbucks a very diverse workforce. You don't get the sense that this is a place that very well, it's a progressive company, right,

The company culture is very progressive. They were going to go out there and hire refugees your call. So they like to wait in on politics and always from the perspective of the left, but racial bias education in an afternoon. You see, I'm always told by the social justice left that racism is a very you know, multifasted and complicated issue. There's subconscious bias, there's more overt biased, their systemic racism,

the's historical racis. There's only different things. And you said to me, well, Buck, maybe Starbucks wants to teach its employees about all those things as much as it can.

I just say, but doesn't it seem like kind of a big show, you know, is isn't It doesn't have the feeling of this is all for a show with one afternoon they're gonna shut down and do this why And this comes after they had that whole policy which I was early in skewering, and now many many others decided that obviously it was gonna be a disaster where they're just gonna let you come in use the facility, not just the bathroom, just sitting Starbucks, don't buy anything,

you have to do anything. That's gonna be their policies. And they said, well, you know, no no sleeping, no drug dealing and and probably like no robbing old ladies or you know, urinating on the on the cappuccino machine. And you know none of that either, right, I mean, there there's something things that we all understand. Okay, fine, Starbucks had a draw lines somewhere, but this just feels highly to me, highly un serious and and I think you can't leave out of this that this is a

branding exercise for Starbucks now to you. Now, this company has decided, you know, there's there's a there's a commercial aspect to virtue signaling. To day decided, well, yeah, we're gonna shut down all these stores, um, and but we're gonna have people like everybody in the media, including you know Bucks, exit yours truly, we're gonna talk about what's going on in our stores and talk about how we're gonna have more of this unconscious or racial bias, not

unconscious necessarily that. I'm sure they touched on that too. You know, I had a fair amount of progressive bias training when I was a resident counselor in college. We had to do it. You know, we had a couple of weeks where they bring in these people, diversity educators and just all different manner of expert and and speaker from a left wing perspective on race relations, gender relations, transgender relations, and all of it. Now, this was a

while ago. I'm sure things have evolved quite a bit since then, but much of it felt very, very hollow to me, and I als always felt like it was the things that they say in these racial biased training modules, the ones that I've seen and by the way, had you know I had this when I worked in the government. You know, there was it's huge efforty of the what the I forget what they call it, but the federal government has a whole diversity and inclusiveness initiatives and programs.

It is all over the place. I have never sat in one of these classes or sat through these modules. And I didn't get a chance to do the Starbucks training today, although I would have been very curious. I had other stuff to do, but it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall, were able to sign on and say, hey, I wonder what they're actually teaching people about them there. But I've never sounded one of these trainings and said to myself, you know what, Yeah,

I never thought of it that way. It's a lot of well, you know, okay, it's either obvious or honestly the obvious stuff. You know, Treat people like individuals. Don't be a racist, don't be a jerk, don't be insensitive or unnecessarily you know, aggressive or terse with all this stuff that I just feel like normal people in this country are are aware of the people who have biased I always find who really do have an issue with other races or other and you know, other religions or

whatever it may be. They hear this stuff and they're just like, yeah, well that's all they rejected all so I just don't see it it reaching anybody. And they did this when I was in college, and this when I was the government, and I have to have all this, you know. I keep saying unconstant because that's the one that really gets you where. It's like, well, you may not think in racist terms, you may not take racist action,

but may still be a racist. I think yourself. By the way, uh, the with Schultz, the CEO of US or whatever, chairman of Starbucks saying that you know, Trump has made racism worse, it's definitely note. You know, I think people put way too much emphasis on what one president would do good or bad for racism. I mean, Obama, first black president, very historically momentous for you know, for that and a whole bunch of reasons didn't end racism.

And in fact, there were a lot of really ugly racial incidents that occurred under the eight years of Obama's presidency, including the whole uh anti police movements that were burning down neighborhoods. And so let's not pretelling the president is the driver of this one way or the other. So that is that's how I feel about that. Anyway, we've got a lot more teams stay with me. So we had an all hands meeting at my new venture down here in Washington, d C. We got a big staff

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using zip recruiter. Try it out and see for yourself. Zip recruiter dot com, slash buck. Have you ever heard of a reparation's happy hour? I guess you have now. But it's a real thing. So I'm thing that just happened last week. In fact, in Portland, Oregon. The reparations happy hours reported here about the New York Times invited black, brown, and Indigenous people to a bar and hand them ten dollar bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift

mostly funded by white people who are asked not to attend. Okay, more more specifics on this in a second. But this is a real thing, folks. This is something that happened and being covered in national newspaper. Indigenous people, what is that supposed to mean. Does indigenous people include You know, if we're talking about the indigenous people in the United Kingdom, do we refer to them white people in the UK? Is that? Well? What are we talking about here? I

mean what indigenous mean? No? I really mean this that the terminology that they will use is always very spec effic, very important to them indigenous in this country. Okay, So we've now gone beyond native American, which is also a problematic term because the Natives originally had nothing to do with the whole concept of America and Amerigo Vespucci and the European colonial movement, right, so they call them native Americans.

Is But now we're just saying indigenous people. But are only non white people able to fall into the term indigenous people? I don't know if anyone has an answer for that. I guess if we're talking about like Stockholm, then the indigenous people stretching back as far as we know would be white. But I just I think it's interesting that they're there. This is an evolution the term. I'm seeing it more and more. Okay, Anyway, I don't want to get too hung up on the whole indigenous

people thing, but it's not worthy. But see we get this reparations happy hour. You have people showing up, they're given ten dollars, and white people are asked not to attend, but are asked to give money for the happy hours. So this is a racially and intentionally racially segregated, UH activists function. I'm trying to think of even how to describe this. That's to raise awareness about financial compensation for black people. But now, see here's what and by this

is I'm reading you from what they say here. This is from the Times. Uh. They hope the event, in addition to building community, would call attention to reparations, the concept that black people should be financially compensated for the generations of trauma that preceded them. Oh, by the way of well, sixty eight percent of Americans opposed reparations as of polling, and uh of white people oppose it. Fifty eight percent of black people in the poll support it.

But here's before I even get into reparations as a topic. Notice how they have this reparation they call it. This is the term reparations happy hour. White people not allowed or not ask not to attend. This is very similar, folks to the the day of absence that happened at Evergreen State College. That got so much attention when white students were told just stay off campus, You're not welcome here on this day. Some people I thought that was strange.

You could even say it was not particularly inclusive or tolerance. And yeah, that got a lot of natural attention. But I think they've continued to or at least the Evergreen School Evergreen administrators wanted to keep doing that. But the reparations happy Hour is a is more specific to a policy, which is the policy of reparation, that there should be financial compensation for black people today in this country because

of the legacy of oppression and tyranny under slavery. Now, before I dive too deeply into that idea, I would also note that brown and this is a quote from the piece Brown and Indigenous people were invited to the reparations happy Hour. So do they get reparations? To do Native Americans or as they say in people, do they get reparations? When they say brown? I think activists, well, I don't know. Actually, the left, I think defines brown as not black and not white, and I believe brown

includes South Asian for example, but it also includes Latino. Uh, it's a very I mean, brown is a and you could say this about I guess any skin color that we designated. It's a very imprecise term, or at least I'm not clear on where brown stops and starts with the outer boundaries of quote brown people would be. But would Latinos be a part of a reparations movement If they're not a part of reparations and they certainly there's no legacy of slavery with Latinos in this country, why

are they at this event? You see? It feels very um It's obviously meant to not just raise awareness but to be provocative, I think, but to to get attention from places like the New York Times from me on the other side of the political aisle here on this show. But these ideas that the left runs around, but they're not particularly well thought out. In fact that many cases, it feels like they have not been thought out at all.

And when we're looking at reparations that and reparations events like this that include non black Americans in them, I have to I just have questions like, well, who gets reparations and who doesn't. And then for the specifics of this specifics of the policy, Well, what would be sufficient reparations? Who's going to pay for it? By the way, where will the money come from? And do you get reparations? What if you're an African migrant to this country, immigrant

to this country in the last five years? To you do you know you don't qualify for reparations? So is it a lineage issue? How long have you had to be None of these, none of these actual implementation concerns are ever addressed by the community who talks about this on the left, at least from what I've seen. I mean, maybe there's some plans out there that are more specific than I'm not aware of, but it feels like it's

un serious as a policy matter to me. It just feels more like it is it is used as a wedge on the left as a means of of antagonizing political adversaries, as a means of getting attention, and of separating and dividing people. And that's what this talk about reparations seems to turn into. Every time it comes up, the left will discuss it. There'll be some virtue signaling, you'll have the you know, the Chris Hayzes and the

Ezra Kleins of the world. You know, they'll say, oh, you know, we should take this very seriously, or maybe they're in favor of it. I don't even know, but they'll certainly talk about it. Those are MSNBC guys for those, one of them at Vox now. But same, it's like the same thing, uh tanahassee Coates is the among the most celebrated Black American authors on the left today. He's very much uh well has has at least made open cases for reparations in the past. So it gets talking,

but it never goes anywhere. And I hear about it and it feels like it's just another version of the virtue signaling you see from people on the left. And also a way of separating it. It's a way of saying, well, I'm not racist because I'm for reparations. What would it what would it look like, what would it mean? What, how would it be completed? How would we actually do this? Uh? In terms of reparations and the answers that they don't

know that no one really knows. Um. I think it's I think it's actually immoral because what you're talking about is taking property from people today who have no fault in the matter and giving proper after you've seized it. So you're talking about seizing private property and giving it to people based upon the oppression that their ancestors received. And you have to start asking questions like, well, why does this only apply then to uh African Americans in

this country? Or does it only apply to African Americans in this country? Um? Do we have other reparations movements that we have to reckon with? And then we start to wonder who does the accounting here? It all falls apart once you start to look at it and you try to implement this thinking. But I get the sense that it's just about just like the this reparation is happy hour, it's just about bringing it up. I think

it's toxic, I really do. I think the the the ideas that it promotes and the results that it will create our our toxic. But reparations happy hour. It's now a thing that people are doing. I have a feeling you're gonna see more of it too. But you know, there's Trump arrangement syndrome out there. Is not unusual at all.

I see a lot of it these days. But sometimes what I see now is the Trump arrangement syndrome magnifies what is a non story into a national news story just because someone takes a petty swipe at Trump of some kind of another. I'm gonna tell you about a an English teacher who seems rather rather impressed with herself for no apparent reason, who wanted to take the White House to task on a form letter that's coming up. You know, there's fake news and then there's non news.

And what I mean by that is, I've seen a habit recently of people or or let's just say news organizations, although people who work for the news organizations, who will decide that they're going to make something that is clearly not newsworthy a news item. And I have to stop and say to myself, well, hold on a second, Uh, what exactly is pushing this? Why would a major news

organization pick up some of these stories? And what you see as a uh a tie in as a overall characteristic of this trend is you've got people who hate Trump so much that they'll essentially report on the scrawls in a bathroom of arrest stop if it's mean about Trump. They really have nothing nothing to govern them from just running with anything that's a great example of this. And I tweeted out earlier today, I was like, this is not news, okay, but you have Yvonne Mason, who received

a form letter from Trump. And Mason, who was a retired school teacher in Atlanta, quote thought the riddle. Thought the letter was so riddled with errors that she marked it up, posted a photo of it on Facebook, and sent the corrected version back to the right House, the White House, UM and the New York Times. I thought that this was a story. I mean, the New York

Times reported on this, folks. I need somebody to to explain to me how anyone could believe that this was somehow newsworthy at a lab at a national newspaper letter. And this is the most crappy and you're probably buck we're even talking about it because is it's so crappy and boring. This woman writes back a form letter to the president. I mean, this is up there with reporting on what somebody wrote on on their like cardboard sign in the subway proclaiming the end of the world is near.

I mean, this is really this is just loser stuff from New York Times. CNN reported on it too, and on top of that you have that some of what she thinks need to be corrected are probably the New York Times put a put a photo up of it. I mean, they really ran this wasn't just a little side news item. They really tried to go with this. And she corrects things that aren't really even wrong, right, She's just she thinks she's folks. She's looking at this like she's a teacher, and she's trying to uh tell

Trump or tell the person that wrote this letter. It's a form letter from the White House, not a letter from Trump. But she's correcting Trump's why House, not just on grammar, but as though she's supposed to grade this thing. There's a sentence, for example, about a rule banning devices that turned legal guns into illegal machine guns. She writes,

explain rule. Um, no, that's not how this works. And then at the end she writes, for example or in response the letter is thank you again for writing as president one of my top priorities the safety of America's youth. Who are the future leaders of our great nation? Um? And she writes, OMG, this is wrong, I guess because the capitalization of nation there. But there's a couple of things. First,

of all, who the heck cares? The second of all, the White House style guide is actually different than as I understand I've never worked in the White House. Is different than the style guide you have for uh, for others, for AP for drunken white if I remember those guys. Um, so this is all just crap, she writes at the very top. Have you tried grammar and style check? And she she's correcting their their capitalization this letter? Okay, So

why is the New York Times reporting on this? There's a whole piece on this, folks, and seeing in reports on it as well. I mean, this woman is is really engaged in what I think you could call a cry for help. You're correcting a form letter that wasn't sent to you for any particular reason, right, she writes in with her views on gun safety. She gets this

form letter in response? You know? Does she also respond when she like does a customer feedback survey to the thank you email like you know that says thank you for taking our service, She's like, well tell me this, mr survey man. No, there isn't a survey man or woman. It's an electronic program. It's it's not really even a courtesy. It's just a sheen that's sending this to you. Uh, it's pretty amazing. This is reporting like it's a story, and it just goes to show you that Trump's arrangement

syndrome is not just for individuals. The Trump derangement syndrome of one person will then be magnified by the anti Trump media complex to pretend that it's a story. How different is this really from them saying, you know, we saw someone write something on a bathroom wall about how terrible Trump is this president. We're just bringing you the news, sir,

just the facts, sir. I didn't need to know about this lady's bizarre and delusional response to a White House form letter, but the biggest news outlets in the country figured, yeah, Trump can't spell yeah. Even though Trump didn't write, this kind of forced you to ask the question when you look at all this, who's really the idiot here? It's not Trump. The show ain't over yet, folks. Here's where you take over, keeping it real, Team Buck. It's time

for roll call. Yeah, Tom for some roll call. Oh my, oh my, so excited to hear from all you Facebook dot com. Slash Buck Sexton on the Roll call that's how you get in on this action. I'll have producer Mike remind me to get to our email in box as well later this week, but today it's gonna be via the Facebook, let me tell you. Also, next week will be the first week of our the fireside Chill Chat.

That will be The Freedom Hunt with Buck Sexton. The podcast is launching, very excited to have a relaxed format where you know what I don't. I don't have any commercial breaks. Um, I can pretty much say whatever is on my mind. I don't have to worry about any of that FCC stuff. Although no, it will be keep it clean lyrics obviously, but I'm just saying some of the jokes occasionally that I would like to make on air, I'm like, is that a little too much of the

uh scatological? A little little too much potty humor for a nationally broadcast radio show. I'm just saying the podcast is gonna be a little more experimental, a little more laid back, and I'm very much hoping you'll all check it out. The Freedom Hup with Buck Sex and it's not up yet, you can't find it yet, but I just want you all to know about it. All right, let's get to your thoughts. William up first. Okay, I've got a way that the NFL NFL players can express

themselves and not lose more fans. Stand for the flag, but never talk about football in an interview again? Huh what? Never talked with football again. I'd be interested to hear what they have to say. To be honest, all they do in interviews talk about how great they are. Anyway, these are all allege educated men with what appears to be a strong constitution. I'd love to hear their grievances in a sane, constructive manner. I'd love to have them stand for the flag and talk about the plight of

black men in America today. Um hm hmm. I can't tell if William is even I'm doing this in real time. If I think he's being I don't know if he's being sarcastic or serious. So I'm just gonna say, Okay, William, thank you for your note, and there you go. Um I really I couldn't tell from the way he wrote it, and it was rather long. So next up is Dan. All right, all right, hey, Buck, love your show. I

voted for Hillary. I got over the election results in a couple of minutes, I volunteered in Pennsylvania bringing Hillary voters. My volunteer position was terminated abruptly. Love your show again. Lots lots and lots of hours behind the mic talent. Okay, thank you, Dan, It's very nice of you. I appreciate it. Thanks for the words of support. Thomas. Hey, what's up,

buddy Buck. Don't you think it's time for you and all the other conservative TV and radio show host to stop referring to the politicians and activists and their campaign to destroy this country as being on the left and call them what they really are, radical socialists. They don't hide it anymore, So why do you and all the others continue to portray them as misdirected liberals or the left.

It's pretty obvious when they openly opposed defending our borders, were collectively collectively to undermine the country and defend terrorists like M. S. Thir teen, and they have no interest in the US as a sovereign nation. Call them radical socialist, that's what they are. Well, Thomas, you know there's there's

some people on the left who are radical socialists. In fact, I spoke to a big Bernie Sanders supporter today, not just support, somebody very involved with Bernie Sanders, And I asked him, I said, look, are you guys, do you think that you've rehabilitated for the purposes of the American electorate, the concept of uh, you know, democratic socialists and they think that they have, which I don't know if you know what the polling would show on that. My guess

is that they haven't. And I guess is that that is not, in fact, uh, an accurate portrayal of the America of American public opinion on the notion of democratic socialists. But I could be wrong on that. It's a crazy world we live in. But the left covers, my friend Thomas, a broad range of things, and that I think would include some ideologies that you couldn't well, I know, it would include some ideologies that you couldn't necessarily accurately describe

as radical socialists. Right, so there's a span on the left. You know, there are well what we call moderate democrats. Maybe you never hear that term. There are some uh next up here we have Matthew wrote, we wrote in

a movie quote. You know, we haven't been doing as many movie quotes on Fridays because I feel like that was for a lot of us that was getting to know you thing right For I was new here in this role, on this on this time slot in so many different radio stations across the country, and I felt like it was for folks who were new to the

team away for us to get acquainted. Although I do love my movie quotes, but if you guys think it's something we should bring back, I'm happy to do it, maybe even doing more of them via written in versus calling in, because I know a lot of you listen to the podcast. You're listening a little bit delayed later on, so that's an option as well. But anyway, Matthews movie quote for Friday is, uh, maybe you're not keeping up on current events, but we just got our our asses

kicked pal and shields high. He wrote, Oh yes, that is from Aliens, which is a fantastic movie. Holds up very well, I think, and it's still really really fun to watch. Uh, let's see Paul next up here, you know, Buck, I think Congress should spend of their time in their own jurisdiction. With today's technology, all members of Congress can video chat with other members to get the business of the people done, this would have the representatives in the

places with their the people they represent. It should cut down on lobbying and bring more attention to their own districts rather than to themselves. I think this would better represent the people. Also, term limits are a must. Um well, Paul, Yes, I agree with term limits. I think we'll never We're never going to get them. But it's a really nice idea. I think in principle it's absolutely correct. And as the

Congress effectively telecommuting, I like that idea too. But I think a lot of members of Congress they're all, oh, yeah, I'm so happy to be back in my district. It's so great here. But they like the swamp. The swamp is where they can have the fancy steak dinners, they can hang out with the lobbyists. They they feel important here. And you know, you think about most Americans don't even

know who their congress went. A congressman or congresswoman is right, So I think there are a lot of swamp dwellers that don't like leaving here. And then they go back to their district and they act like they're all about that. But I don't know. Although I did have a conversation offline recently with a member of Congress and his grasp of the demographics and just the rundown of numbers for you know, uh, age, race, ethnicity, average income, population distribution.

This guy was encyclopedic in his knowledge of his district, which a lot of you're probably saying, yeah, buck, because he wants to get reelected. True, but I was impressed with his grasp of of the facts. It was like, Oh, this guy really pays attention. So uh next up here we have whoops, Sorry, Nathaniel, Hey Buck, I love my daily trips to the Freedom Hut. I'm seeing a lot

about immigrant families split up, children lost, etcetera. Is this you what in the law allows this needs some info before besides the liberal uh Trump's arrangement syndrome crowd Well, Daniel, hopefully I've I've addressed this in enough detail today to answer the question. But it's much more. First of all, it's not just a Trump thing, and second of all, it's much more complicated then. Oh Trump wants parents and babies separated from each other at the border, So here

we go. Um, Monica wrote hug your news person day. Husband of Monica would hug all the girls on Fox News, but sorry not you. Shields High. Hey, I'm very huggable, but you know no one has to hug me. I didn't know that hug your newsperson Day happened again this year. I didn't. I was not aware that that was a thing that happens. So yeah, Dale. Next up here, he writes, Hey, Buck, really appreciated your segment about the self phones at meal time.

It annoys me to no end. I don't know how you feel about reference TV shows, but as this one is now defunct, it may not make a difference. Chip and Joanna gains a fixer upper. H G TV fame started up a cafe in Waco, Texas, and put pouches beside each table for patrons to place their cell phones as they dine. I think there's a major backlash going on regarding the cell phones at meal time. Thank you for flagging this, Dale, Well, buddy, I totally agree, and

and I it's something that I'm I'm working on. I don't pretend to be perfect, but I'm trying to get better at it. And it's one of those things where if you're gonna be annoyed when other people do it, you really have to start with your own house, right, start with yourself on it. And so I try to be pretty cell phone free at meals and be very if I have to check my phone, be very discreet about it and quick and not habitual. Right, not numerous times,

So I gotta pick up my phone now. Not acceptable? Uh. As to h GTV. By the way, I do love some of these shows where they're like, you know, Bob and Tania are like looking for a house under three hundred thousand dollars a year and they want beach front and it's like, oh, let's see what they could get, right, Uh, house Hunters, I guess is that the one. Anyway, it's you sit down, you're like, how could this be an

issue show? And you're like, no, don't go with the popcorn ceiling and the small kitchen without the island, like you get. I get pretty animated about it. Maybe I should have been in real estate. Ah, there you have it, all right, that's gonna be it for today. In the hunt my friends every other day this week, we're gonna be rocking out. I missed you because we had off. We had a long weekend on Monday. So we're gonna really pack in a lot and get ready for the

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