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every morning, money through Friday. So look, the big story obviously continues to be for whatever reason, this saga involving the Muller Report, Can we just establish the fact that right out of the box, right out of the box, there's no collusion with the Russians, which was the point of the entire investigation. I know, I know, people are bombed out about the fact that we were supposed to get collusion. We were promised collusion. If we wanted our collusion,

we could keep our collusion. We'd even save twenty five hundred bucks a year, just to borrow a little phrase from the Obama years. And I get it, people, I'd be bummed out too. I mean, It's a what's a bigger bomber right now in America? If you're a progressive liberal who watches MSNBC and collusion news over at the end, and is it watching that or is it watching the Game of Thrones thing from last night? I don't know. Only you could tell me that one. But the reality

is they were promised collusion. The people who were invested heavily in drama were promised that there would be collusion at the conclusion of this illusion. But it didn't happen,

and they are mad, I mean mad, furious, angry. Remember the folks who after the two thousand and one election and then the two thousand and four election that saw the defeat alternately of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman in two thousand and then of course the election in two thousand and four Kerry Edwards, And do you remember how they would drive around with their Kerry Edwards bumper stickers on the back of their cars and they would pretend, by watching shows like The West Wing that somehow still

progressives won that election. There's no safe harbor now for these folks. They have become enraged to such a degree that if you were to put a piece of cold in their hands. You'd have a diamond by dinner time if you did it at noon. It's a remarkable thing to see how these people were invested in this mythology. So now we have phase two of the delusion. Phase one was the expected Muller Report. Remember you would watch these chat shows and you'd get the same thing over

and over again. Oh, there's gonna be secret information that only Bob Muller knows, that's gonna be found out. Look, the reality is, and you know as well as I do when you look at the cast of characters who are around that original investigation, Your Brennan's and your clappers, your strucks and your pages, your oars and your ores, those folks, those folks were all a bunch of sad

sack bad folk, including McCabe and Comey at all people. Look, Robert Muller left the position of FBI director back once upon a time in the year what was it, twenty thirteen? So he leaves in twenty thirteen, they hand the command over to Jim Comey, who takes over the FBI. And then when Hillary Clinton is defeated in twenty sixteen, in twenty seventeen, Bob Muller took over as the special counsel, right, not an independent council of special council working for the

Department of just Us. That's what it was under the Obama team. It was the Department of just Us. So you had Muller coming in there, and he knows full well when he goes walking in that who the gold bricks are, who the bad folks are, who the lazy bums are, Who the people are not doing the people's business are inside that organization. He knows exactly who it

is that's not getting the job done. So all he has to do is go through the three h two is go through the paperwork, and I'd bet you inside of three weeks, Bob Muller knew that if strucks involved, if pages involved, if any of those people are involved, it's all a scam. These are bad people. These are not professional people who are delivering the goods. He knew it. He's looking at the names, He's like, Oh, that guy, I remember that guy. I remember what happen in Panama City,

Florida with that guy. I remember what happened with that guy in Paris. I know what happened with that guy in Hackensack, New Jersey. These are all bad people. None of these people able to put together a case. So they set up the Trump team, right, you put in spies, you do all that sort of stuff. Well, well pause right there, because Mueller comes out with his report, and suddenly the narrative isn't Mueller's report. It's what Bill Barr said about Muller's report. It's Bill Barr wrote a letter.

And it wasn't a complete letter. It was a summary. It was a book report. If you do four pages of a book report on Moby Dick, at the end of that book report, you're not are you going to really have somebody say, well, you didn't go off into the into the meal plans there of the folks on that ship going after the Great White Well, no, you're summarizing high points. And the highest of the high points was there wasn't any collusion that's not been disputed. That

hasn't been disputed. There's no evidence of collusion that hasn't been disputed. What do you have? You have a volume two that Bucks talked about, everybody else has talked about when they come on the programs and they say listen, the volume two is one through twelve one through twelve of a wish list of how it is Bob Muller would have gone about impeaching Donald Trump if he could

with obstruction of justice. So what happens, Well, the Democrats come out, they're made to look feckless, they're made to look very beta, and they're not getting it done. And they come out and they declare, now we have to get all the underlying paperwork for this investigation, because now we don't even know if Bob Muller was allowed to complete his work. No, no, no, he was allowed to complete his work. He completed his work, him and his team completed the work, a million and a half pages

of documents. They did it, It got done, the report was filed. It's now out there, and so what do we have. Well, now we have to talk to Don McGann. Don McGann, the White House counsel. Don McGann is the guy who says, you know, maybe maybe i'll talk, maybe I'll won't talk. Well, the White House comes out and says, he ain't talking. He's a private citizen. But we're invoking executive privilege. And we're done, and we're out of here, and we're finished, and it's over and it's that simple,

and that's not acceptable. And that's why now today you've got the usual suspects on the House Judiciary Committee. You're Jerry Nadler's, you're David Cicillini's from Rhode Island, those folks who are coming out saying this looks like if Don McGann doesn't talk, we may need to open an impeachment inquiry. That's just in the last half hour, Just in the last half hour, Cicellini from Rhode Island comes out and he says, well, we may need to open an impeachment inquiry.

And in fact, folks, it might be a bipartisan impeachment inquiry. Oh gosh, what Republican is possibly going along with that? Justin Ahmash, the Great Hope of Michigan, Justin Amosh, he comes out over the weekend and says, I have read the reports, the unredacted, the stuff that's posted. I have read it all, and I have concluded there may be

impeachable offenses here for President Trump. No, there there aren't, see because we were told, we were told long time ago, it's gonna be about collusion, It's gonna be about Russians. Sitting down and cutting deals. That the President sat down over a plate of Rudy Tuty Freshman fruities there in the Saint Petersburg Denny's, and he said to to then President Trump, to then President A. Putin, look, I'm gonna throw the election, and then i'm gonna win the election,

and then you're gonna help me out. And she's gonna lose and I'm gonna win, and then I'm gonna owe you, and it's gonna be great. Why it's as if President Trump practically promised to be more flexible after the election. Wait a minute, that was sorry, that was President Obama talking talking to to Putin's vice president. Then back once upon a time. Okay, so there's no collusion, and we're down to just people staking out their territory. People just

staking out their their political positions. And we don't know how this is going to end up, but I can make a prediction. The prediction is the American people are looking at their watches. The American people are feeling awfully let down and bored by this whole affair. How bad is it. You're not even seeing Democratic candidates for president talk about this investigation. They're not talking about it anymore. They don't talk about impeachment. They know this is a

waste of time. Even the Democrats running for president. No, this is a waste of time. This is twenty sixteen that we're still stuck, admired, and we got to move on. The American people are ready to move on. We're living in a Postmuller, post Game of Thrones world now. And as much as these folks want to complain and they want to have a fit, and they want to do all that stuff, it's not going to change the outcome.

They came on television for two two and a half years and they said President Trump was a trader, and he's committed treason, and he has helped our enemies. And

the reality is there's no there there. So if you'd like to send a message to Justin Amage, or if you'd like to send a message to David Cicillini, the leaders in the Democratic Party, the candidates who are out there marching around, feel free to pick up the phone, give us a call at eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine hundred twenty eight twenty five. Have your voice heard, Lift your voice to the heavens, All the way from your house to just down the

street from the White House at the Capitol. Let them know it's time to move on, or perhaps you think it's time to continue. We'll put you at the front of the line. I'm Brett winter Ball, sitting in for Buck Sexton. It's the Buck Sexton show right here back after this, it is the Buck Sexton Show. Great to be spending this time with you, Brett Winterball, sitting in for Buck, keeping you company. This tweet just coming in

from Adam Shift. You know I'm here in California. I'm behind the Great Blue Wall, the Great Blue Curtain, and this tweet coming in from Adam Shift. Just in the last couple of hours, Tromp ordered Don McGann not to testify before the American people. Duplicitous as ever, The White House says Dems don't get to do over, ignoring the fact that the Muller report contemplated Congress picking up where he left off. The cover up continues, and we will

fight and whatever. Adam, you know what, why don't you just throw your hat in the ring and run for president. I've had I've about had peak. I'm at peak, Adam Schiff right now, I really am, and this is getting this is getting absurd. Y'all did the investigation and you didn't find anything, So I mean, why why are we

still going down this road? Think about it. It's as if the president's being forced to prove a negative that he didn't obstruct, that he didn't do this, or this is just this is crazy time, and it's good because the American people have had it. Nobody wants to do impeachment. You guys want to do impeachment. Actually, you're worse than wanting to do it. I would have more respect for

you if you wanted to do impeachment. What you want is to look like you're doing impeachment so that the kooks in your base like Tom Steyer and company are given a salve. That's what it is, right, Oh, it's okay. They're trying to do impeachment. They just can't do it. Look. I have really come around to liking Bill Barr, the Attorney General, and Sadie German's got a piece over in the Wall Street Journal just in the last hour or so, and the title on the piece is this Barr under

fire says he's fighting for the presidency, not Trump. They keep saying he's Donald Trump's Roy Cohen, He's Donald Trump's house lawyer. No he's not, No he's not. William Barr's come under criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who say he's acting more like the president's personal lawyer than the

nation's top law enforcement officer. But mister Barr, who has a private citizen once upon a time, bristled at the barrage of legal and other challenges mister Trump faced during his first two years in office, says his long held belief in executive power is more about protecting the presidency than the current office holder. I felt that the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it

was damaging for the presidency in the long haul. What do we keep hearing, Oh, President Trump's got these he's got authoritarian inclinations, He's got he's got these these authoritarian ways that are no good. He has been under assault for two years. Think about what's been done for the last two years under assault. It's absurd what we're looking at. And for these these people to come out and and say, well, you know, we gotta keep keep investigating. The truth is

out there somewhere. This president is more right than people realize when he talks about this being a witch hunt, because if you ever take a trip over to Plymouth colony, they're not Plymouth, I'm sorry, to Salem in Massachusetts. And you go read the history and you look at the history of the hysteria that was the original witch hunts there in Salem. You'll see it was the creation of a couple of children who made up a story about a couple of people, and mania struck that colony. Mania

struct that colony. You got to a place where people were forced to either admit they were witches or name another witch. And isn't that how Muller kind of ran his investigation. Oh did you collude? Know? But then who colluded? Well, that person might have colluded. That person might have colluded, that person might have colluded. There's no collusion. I'm gonna say one thing about this that I think is important and gets overlooked a lot. Look at President Trump. Strip

away all the politics. Just look at President Trump as an individual. You're gonna tell me that that personality, that that individuals as a man, not as the president, but as a man, is going to let little five foot five lad Putin could control him like with Marionette. Like a marionette, you think, you really think that that's a man who's going to do that. Of course not. It

doesn't run according to type. Anybody who works and intelligence understands when you are doing an intelligence profile, you are going to look at the strengths and the weaknesses of the person you're looking at. You're going to try to figure out what motivates them, what drives them. You're going to tell me that President Trump is going to be comfortable going to bed at night knowing that that Vladimir

Putin's got the tricks. No way, it just doesn't work. Now, progressives might model that as what they think is that sort of behavior because progressives now they're kind of comfortable with getting run by the old Soviet Union, right, the old Soviet Republic. Look at look at Bernie Sanders for example. But it is a remarkable thing. These socialists on the left hate hate when socialisms kind of cast aside. Over the weekend, great speech given by Robert Smith, who is

an entrepreneur and a multi billionaire. He also happens to be African American. That's right, He's a black billionaire worth more than Oprah Winfrey. By the way, just to give you kind of an idea of where he lands. He's done a lot of inv spence, a lot of successful VC and things like that, and and and helped enrich a lot of people. So there he is at Morehouse College and he's speaking at the commencement, and what is

he doing. He's speaking to those graduates, and in an unscripted, totally genuine moment, he declares, I'm going to pay your outstanding student loan debt and your room and board debt. I'm going to help you pay it off. I'm gonna pay it for you, guys. That wasn't even written in the script, that wasn't in the teleprompter. He just made that announcement as a concerned human being, as an American, and as somebody who wanted to give these kids a

leg up. He had been so inspired as a young man with his parents going to the very famous MLK junior speech, I have a dream, and he was so motivated to want to help out the next generation that out of the kindness of his heart, he made the decision that he would forgive that debt on behalf of those students, whatever it's going to cost twenty thirty forty million dollars, whatever that money is, whatever that money, as

he's helping that next generation. And who right on Q earlier today, comes out on the Twitter machine and takes a big swing at this man, at Robert Smith and says, we don't all have billionaires to help pay our student loans.

That's right, your favorite congresswoman from Queens AOC complaining that this billionaire stepped up with his own money and took care of the debt of these students just starting out in life with one proviso, by the way, with one proviso that they pay it forward down the road, that they pay it forward down the road. So you have this amazing act of charity, free will given to help these kids out on this new road. And we've all

been there. If you graduated college in any debt, you know that's certainly a concern as you start your life. It affects the sort of jobs you take, whether or not you could do graduate studies, anything like that. And he does a fundamentally great thing. And what happens. Socialists they don't like that because they don't like when it's private money. They don't like when it's personal money. They don't like when it's a free will donation to help

people out, because there's there's role there for government. These people that view the wealthy and the successful, whether it's Robert Smith, whether it's President Trump, whether it's anybody else as the enemy, as the enemy, do not understand that the vast majority of people in this country, they don't hate rich people. They want to be rich people. They admire rich people. They might sometimes covet the things that rich people have, but people buy in large. They don't

hate wealthy people. That is something that has to be taught. A child doesn't grow up saying I'm such a happy a little four year old, except I hate that rich guy that mister moneybags is No. You have to teach that kind of division. You have to push that. And I think that's at the basis for a lot of these folks who are angry that President Trump comes in, busts out the old order, and is successful in his

first run at any kind of elected office. He gets elected to the presidency, so of course it's got to be that he cheated. It's got to be that he stole it up. Unbelievable, right, our phones were open at eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine two eight two five on Brett Whatterville sitting in for buck Sexton. It's the buck Sexton Show back after this. In some important ways, my generation has failed you in

this regard. We spent too much time debating. We've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress. And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure here today, in this very place, in an arena where thousands once found desperate shelter from one hundred year disaster, the kind that seemed to be happening more and more frequently. I don't think we can talk about who we are as people and what we owe to one another without talking about climate change. At

is Tim Cook speaking at the commencement ceremonies at Tulane? Yeah, Tim Cook, I noticed didn't need n't pay off anybody's student loads at Tulane. But nevertheless, I know that was a very special offer by Robert Smith over at Morehouse. But Tim Cook, we have failed this generation. We have failed the generation that is supposed to and it's the climate change is no no, no, no no, no, no no no. Listen, I don't believe there's such a thing as generational failure

because I don't believe in collective punishment. And so for Tim Cook to sit there and super virtue signal by saying, this is the Superdome where people once I found shelter from Hurricane Katrina. Right, that's what he's saying, And where once upon a time there was a blown call in an NFC championship. Oh never mind, but we failed you as a generation. No generations can neither breed success or failure for anybody. Sure, we give credit to the World

War two generation, the greatest generation, and we should. We ought to uphold them and celebrate them for defending us against the darkest tyranny seen since the Dark Ages. We absolutely owe them something that all they did was save civilization as we knew it. But a generational failure, I'm not buying that. That feels awfully. AOC like that feels awfully. We only have twelve years to live awfully. You know

what have you? Because there are people who get up and work every day and fight for what is right in this country and fight for what is right in the world, and they have nothing but the best of intentions coming from them. Okay, and that's important but because what you didn't solve the climate change issue, it's a generational failure. What I would argue is this, there's a generational failure in that there was a generation of people

programmed to fail. Let's be honest about that. I don't think the generation is responsible for it, but I do think starting in nineteen sixty five with the Great Society, you had an all out assault by progressive liberal ideas pushed by LBJU to destroy the communities of color in this country by replacing personal responsibility and personal um self reliance with the government with handouts and payouts and checking

it checks and that sort of something. And that is wrong because dependency has got to be created, it has got to be sold, and it has got to be repeated time and time again. Because that's why government's relevant. In the abstract. Think about the things government can do. They can take all of your possessions. They can put you in prison, a government can can seize your property. A government can can take your freedom from you. But

can government make you free? No? Can government make you wealthy? Well, unless you're a Clinton or Biden, probably not. Government can't do those things. Government hasn't ever invented a brand new, amazing technology. I know DARPA in the Internet. That's fine, but for years that wasn't anything productive or profitable until

the private sector got involved with that. While it was just a university and military experiment, it was interesting, it was kind of cool, but there was no monetization there. There was no economic growth coming from that. Government can

do nothing but destroy value and destroy your freedom. You know, we think back to the prior administration and you think back to President Obama and Vice President Biden and the idea that they may have wire tapped a presidential candidate in President Trump, that they may have surveiled and use spies. That's really bad, but it was consistently carried out across the eight years of that administration that we saw abuses

when it came to freedoms and liberties. You want examples, fast and furious trying to paint with a broad brush and condemn the millions of legal gun owners behaving responsibly in our country in the hopes of having a predicate to go out and hem in your Second Amendment rights.

So what do they do. They set up a scheme by which drug cartels and their trigger men can come across the border into border cities and purchase massive amounts of firearms to then take back into Mexico, resulting in maybe twenty five hundred three AK forty seven's going onto the streets of Mexico and as many as three thousand people losing their lives. That's the same number plus or minus that you had on nine to eleven. Eric Holder

was never accountable for that. Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State in Janetapolitano ahead of HS, never held accountable for that. When you try to have an investigation into the actual transshipment of firearms into Mexico and the hands of drug cartels, effectively making the Obama administration on par with Pakistan for smuggling weapons into the Taliban's hands there in the theater and Afghanistan. When you have that investigation,

get you get shut down, you get stonewalled. You have the death of an American Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, at the hands of those trigger men with those firearms on American soil. Nobody's sell to account. Nobody's selled to account.

When you have the Tea Party investigations by the IRS and you see what happens there, when you speak up, speak out, because of something you believe in in terms of not wanting to spend money, in terms of not wanting to do the porculus and the stimulus and the bailouts, in terms of not wanting to do Obamacare, you become

public enemy NUMEROUNA. Is that not scandalous? It is so scann this in fact, and so devastating in fact that to this day Lowest Learner and Holly Paz, the two senior people in the IRS that were responsible for reducing your right to free speech at the hands of the tax authority, have to this day begged a federal judge to keep their testimony secret for fear of angering people who would find out the truth about what was done

with that government power. That's abuse. That's abuse, and that was the great hope of the Obama mistress right coming in changing everything up, moving it all. No. No, So when you have government being sold to you like it's a happy puppy just running around the room and kissing you and barking at you and all that, you've got to think of that puppy as that giant snarling dog, that giant nuclear's snarling dog from Chernobyl that can kill

you in one bite. That's the lovable little puppy that grows up from government as a tiny institution of this big, overreaching institution, where you can actually have the Internal Revenue Service not any longer so interested in internal revenue, but in operating like an internal security force, an interior ministry.

Remember the clip, the sound bite from two thousand and eight when President Obama, then candidate Obama, a senator from Illinois, was talking about the need for a domestic security force on par with the United States military. This is what happens. So when Tim Cook comes out and says, oh, I'm so very sorry that we failed you on climate No, no, no, no, no, you should be more upset about the failure to control spending, the failure to reign in dependency. No, not to reign

an independence, to reign in comma dependency, comma. That's what should be you should be sorry about. Because at the end of this discussion, every person needs to ask whether or not they are doing better for government being involved or doing worse for government being involved. That's the only question that has to be answered, that's the only reality that has to be addressed. Does this government program aid or does this government program harm your efforts to be productive.

Now you're going to be told by any number of people that the reason why young people can't succeed is all the student loan debt. The reason why young people can't succeed is because of this cause or that cause. The reality is, you have a right as a human being to life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. But what you do with those rights and responsibilities is your business, and if you choose to squander them, that's on you. We're not going to come and save you from yourself,

and you can't expect that. So when Tim Cook says the generational failure here, no, no, no, I don't think his generation failed anybody. I think the encroachment of government hampered the development of a lot of people because at the end of the day, the smallest minority in the world, and that group of people who have nobody lobbying for them, is the individual. There is no group, the National Association

of Individuals, the United Foundation for Individuals. You got libertarian politics, but nobody advocates for the person, for the individual, And we got to re orient the way we think about things eight four four nine hundred buck eight or for nine hundred two eight two five to have your say, I'm Brett Witterbill in for Buck Sexton. We'll take a break, we'll leave back right after this. Oh yes, it is the Buck Sexton Show. Brett Whatterbille is sitting in for

Buck Sexton from behind the Blue curtain. Here in San Diego, California. They call it America's Fight a City, and it is for the most part. I mean, it's beautiful. You get, you get all four seasons in one day. I woke up today it was forty five degrees in raining and now it's like eighty three and Sonny, It's just it's one of those weird phenomenon that are that are happening

here every now and then another phenomenon. Though it draws to a close and full disclosure here, other than hearing people talk about it, I have no connection with Game of Thrones. I'm not one of these people. I don't make fun of people for liking Game of Thrones. People like what they like. You like certain shows some people. I love Cobra Kai, I like the relaunch of the Karate Kid. I like Bosh and Uh Jack Ryan. I watch a lot of different shows. I've just never been

like a sci fi fantasy guy. Again, I don't I don't fault anybody for that. It's great you have your passions, and Lord knows, in a world as nuts as we are in today, it's good to have distractions. It's good to watch something else. So here at the end of the what was this the eighth season of Game of Thrones, the whole series finale. Folks have been nothing but bummed out for the last six weeks, upset with the way

this thing goes well. I guess over the course of time, people have started watching the show from scratch who had never watched it in the past. And today on the View, I have to take you to the view because otherwise you probably didn't watch it. Here is a little back and forth Megan McCain and Sunny Austin and Whoopie Goldberg there on the View, and Megan makes a boo boo on that show. Roll that tape, Holly. We're at the

end of a giant era of pop culture. Came to close last night with serious finale m Game of Thrones, and this morning there are actual counselors you can reach out to. Maybe you're having a hard time with it. I spent eight years of my life watching this and it was a horrible ending. Horrible brand is the worst. Sorry that's a spoiler, but like he didn't do anything and now he gets to rule. It should have been the Mother of Dragons Megan. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm sorry,

but all over the internet. I mean, that's just that's a that's a rough deal. I remember what a few weeks back when Avengers came out, there were people who were going to the theaters, um standing outside the lines when they would come out from the from the seeing of the movie, and they would they would yell out what the ending was, just to record for people lined up. That's a good way to get yourself in a world A hurt for sure. But here's the thing. Here's the thing.

This just goes to show you what compelling content can do for anybody out there who wants to take a trip out of reality. And you know, everywhere else you look right now is highly politicized. As one smart person that I know who watched Game of Thrones observed, and I'm gonna go with their observation. I liked their observation,

even though I don't totally connect with the show. But they said essentially that it was the ending was consistent with the spirit of what has inspired the show all along, the idea that the best wisest ruler is the one who has a deep sense of history. A sure that sounds good to me, although that also could be an argument in favor of the swamp. Couldn't it institutionalized history, the one who most respects the institutions should be trusted with presidency. M Wait a minute, hold on, I may

have just sprung a trap on myself here. I may have just sideways endorsed Joe Biden. After all, he's been institutionalized since what like nineteen seventy one seventy two. When it comes to being a senator, I think he got elected to the Senate before he was even legally able to serve. Who would he be? I don't even you know what. You couldn't even call me and tell me which Game of Thrones, a king or dragon or whatever he was, because I I would just acknowledge and would

not along with you. But we're going to get into this whole Biden conversation and just a couple of minutes, because Joe Biden's out there on the campaign trail and I will be darned if I can figure out what it is. What's he running on? Like, what is the plan? And I get it. I talked to super smart people from inside the Beltway all the time over on the Newsmax TV show, my local show in San Diego. I get it. I talked to smart people all the time and they say things like, well, he's running a general

election campaign. Well that's fine, you can run a general election campaign, but what are you running on? What are you going to do when you get elected? May repeat the flavor of the month. May Repeat's been out there talking about some specifics. He wants a wealth tax, he wants to jack up your income tax, he wants social justice, he wants all that kind of stuff. But what does

Biden want to me? It feels like if you were disappointed at the outcome a game of Thrones, you may end up being disappointed if Joe Biden gets the nomination. And you're a Democrat. So I want to make it clear here, I'm an equal opportunity offender. I like talking to conservatives, I like talking to liberals. And if you're out there listening and you want to weigh in on the presidential sweepstakes. We're gonna get into that in the next the segment of the program talking about Joe Biden

talking about mayor Pete and all their big plans. But I would love to know what it is that Biden's going to run on. It's very hard to run on I'm not him. I'm not him. Doesn't work for the long term. It doesn't motivate people to the polls, especially when they feel like they've got some money in their pocket. They're able to take a vacation, go try to park at a shopping mall, go and try to try to get into a car dealership. They're all packed. People are

spending money. Why because they're confident. For the first year and a half two years, I think of the Trump administration, they were worried that rug was going to get pulled out from underneath them. Now you've seen probably what four or five corrections in the stock market just in the last little bit. People are not panicking. They're not running for the EDG. Market will go down six hundred points on Chinese tariffs, boom, It'll be back down sixty at

the end of the day. It's a buying opportunity. People are feeling confident, and for Joe Biden to stand there on the steps at the Museum of Fine Arts in Philly and say he's the next new guy. I don't know, stick around, don't go anywhere, to expending this time with you over the course in the next sixteen minutes, take you around the world, bring you back home again. All the big information that's out there happening. I know that there is a there's a rally for President Trump in Montoursville,

Pennsylvania happening. Pennsylvania has been a hot battleground obviously for the last number of elections, but it's almost always gone to the Democrats. That changed this last election in twenty sixteen, when President Trump was able to prevail all be it by a slim margin. Well, now he has a favorite son of Pennsylvania who's going to be taking him on, and that is a Vice President Biden, who is out

there busily seeking the nomination. Shouldn't the nomination, uh, you know, for the presidency of the United States, And well, you know, we'll see what happens. We'll see how it works. We'll see what happens, We'll see how he does. But this much is true. If Joe Biden is going to run to be president. Joe Biden desperately needs to decide what it is he intends to do as president of the United States. What's he going to do? What's the big plan?

Vice President Biden, like, what are you? What are you going? You can't just come in and say I'm not going to be that person. You know, you just watched You've watched a lot of professional sports just in the last a few months. You've no doubt you saw the NFL Draft, You've seen stuff like that. Those players come in and they want to be difference makers, they want to be change makers. These are not people are gonna come in and say, well, I'm gonna do better than that guy.

I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do this. But you've got to be specific. What's your strength? What are you selling to the American people? What are you selling? Well, he says he's bringing civility, he says he is Vice

President Biden. He's bringing civility, He's bringing strength, he's bringing resolved, he's bringing all that stuff, all that stuff, And you know what's what's what's amazing about this is there's a track record at stake right now, there is a track record at play, and the track record is the last couple of years huge growth. Stocks are on fire, people are feeling better. And that didn't happen because of the Obama economy. I mean, I know that's a hot thing

to sell. Well, it was only by you cutting taxes and cutting regulation and trying to gut Obamacare that you were able to fully realize the American economy. Mister President Trump. Well, yeah, that means doing everything that the Obama team didn't do. That's what led to the economic growth that we have seen unfold before our eyes. But here's the problem. Joe Biden is a known quantity and he's been on the

scene for a very long time. He is a person who has been out there involved in the public discourse for forty seven years, forty six years something like that. Considered this. He was there when Nixon was president, he was there when Clinton was president, and he is there now out on the public scene with President Trump. We've only had four shots and impeachment in history Johnson in the eighteen hundreds, Clinton and Nixon, and now they want

to try to impeach President Trump. Joe Biden will have been present for three out of the four attempts to impeach, efforts to impeach, efforts to remove a president from office. And he's not selling you any he's not offering you anything. He's just saying, I'm un Wow. Show me the guy who's against unity and what do you mean by unity? Mayor Pete boodhage Edge went on Fox News yesterday from New Hampshire and was greeted at a town hall by

Chris Wallace. He's asked a number of questions. He came out. He gave the standard answers on abortion. You know, only a woman can make that decision. As a man, I'm not going to make that decision on a woman can make that decision between herner doctor. More on that in a moment, But you had you had Pete boodhag Edge come out and really lay out a vision for what he thinks the Democratic Party is and what he thinks

that party needs to do for this country. This is Mayor Pete from South Bend, Indiana who was just burst onto the scene and he's this generation's betto here's Pete bootage Edge with his vision of what he thinks the Democratic Party is. Go as you said, it's a point of pride for the Democratic Party, that we care about diversity, that we want to make sure that our leadership reflects the country that we serve. I've sought to do that in my administration as mayor. I'm doing that with the

campaign team that I'm surrounding myselves with. But as he said in your question, it's also not just the question of the makeup of your team. It's what your policies are going to be, and we need to make sure that this is an inclusive set of policies that's going to serve everybody well. For example, we know just by the numbers that if you're a person of color in this country, in many ways, you might as well be

living in a different country. You look at the rate at which black women are likely to die from maternal complications. It's about three times what it is for white women. That didn't just happen, and it's not going to get fixed without policies that specifically pay attention to how those racial inequities got there in it. So you have a guy who's going to deal with the racial inequities in

the problems that we're facing in this country. That's the Democratic Party is now, according to this guy the grievance Party. He's not the first person to do that. The Democratic Party has been the grievance Party for a long time. But he tries to tell you what, we're the party of misfare and outcasts and outliers, and we are we are left behind and all that sort of stuff. And then he gets into the mortality rate of black women, which is interesting because I didn't know that was like

a political thing. I mean, I know that there are political causes and effects of policies, but I didn't know that Republicans were running around causing high mortality rates among black women, among African American women who are delivering babies, or African American women more broadly. Would I would guess that hospitals where those women are being treated might might

be a factor. The fact that many of those hospitals might be in blue cities, Many of those hospitals might be public facilities in blue cities, might be misadministrated, maladministrated in those that. Now, Brett, don't don't go, don't go splitting hairs now, But that's Pete Buddha Jedge. He's got a vision. I don't agree with it. He comes out and says only a woman should decide what to do

when it comes to abortion. Well, that may be the case, but by the same token, can we make the argument with a straight face, And I think we can as gun owners that really the Second Amendment is between gun owners and the Constitution. It's between gun owners and our God. Right. That's that's sort of the same metric. If only women can talk about abortion, then only gun owners should be

allowed to talk about the keeping ear. Don't want to get pregnant, don't have sex, if you don't want to have a baby, have an abortion, right, that's the messaging. If you don't want to own a gun, nobody makes you hold a gun, Nobody puts a gun in her head and says buy a gun. Although if that God forbid did happen, you may be motivated to buy a gun. But my point is we can we can dissect and

bisect all of these points. In this way, we can make the argument, well, you know that the only people who have served in wartime should have an opinion on war. Only people who are actually practicing a faith should should be allowed to comment on whether or not there is a separation of church and state. What do we I'm puzzled by all the I'm puzzled by this sort of differentiation. Look, we are all stakeholders in our constitutional republic. We are

all people who need to take part in the debate. Now, k Ivy is the governor of Alabama. In just a couple of moments, I'm gonna let you hear from k Ivy, who's going to talk about the massive pushback they're now getting an Alabama as a result of the abortion law that was passed out. K Ivy is catching a lot of grief as the as the governor of the state of Alabama. And what does k Ivy have that Mayor Pete Buddha Jedge does not have anybody guess anybody know,

anybody know she's a woman. She's a woman who may have had or at least had the capacity to actually give birth to a child. So in in Pete Boodha Jedges metric k Ivy, even though she is pro life, ought to be Oh no, no, no no, because she's pro life, So she can't be she can't be permitted to have an opinion on pregnancy and abortion because that's well, she's

she's on the wrong side. But wait, now you're voted Jedge, you said that you just if you're a woman, then it's between you when you're talk now you're saying so you're saying only pro choice women. Huh No, Wait a minute, then then why would the Democrats be supporting and Andrew Cuomo, who's a man, but he's in favor of infanticide. But he's a man, and the Governor Northam of Virginia. But that's he's a man, he should he's See, if you're on the right side of it, you can do anything

you want. If you're on the wrong side of it, they're gonna shut you down. They're gonna shout you down. How do you feel about the terms of this debate in the way it's been set out? But by folks like U eight boohag Edge or by folks like Biden eight four four nine hundred bucks. Phone, I'm gonna be a part of the conversation. Eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. You're listening to the buck Sexton Show right here. I'm Brett Wittable. Back after this, I'm

Brett Werball. I'm in four buck Sexton on the buck Sexton Show. Eight four four nine hundred bucks. The phone number eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. Glad to be spending this time with you. The governor of the State of Alabama is Kiv. Kiv has come out in the last couple of hours and talked about some of the challenges the folks are facing here in

were there in the state of Alabama. She came out and she said, look, I understand that there are boycotts that are being planned against the State of Alabama, because that's what that's a progressive liberals do. Right, if you disagree with what they're doing, with what a group is doing, you have to destroy them economically. That is the standard by which they measure success. Here is the governor of Alabama.

K I'm a person elected, by the way, by the people of Alabama and a person who was a validly pro life and who signed this abortion legislation last week. This is Kive responding to the boycotts being pointed at

the state of Alabama. Go the Alabama has a lot of different variety of types of things to visit and enjoy, and now business can continue to come okay, And so that you've got different states coming out and saying they're not going to allow their their companies to go to that state, or they're not going to allow their their employees to do business in the state of Alabama. I'm waiting.

It's only a matter of time. You know, the NCAA is going to be pressured to prevent the state, the University of Alabama from playing in a bowl game or from playing at it. You know, you just know what's coming, right, you know what's coming because if you step away from the orthodoxy of what you're supposed to believe in, you will be punished and punished severely. That's the narrative that always plays out. But k Ivy points something else out

that's very important. She points out the fact that, look, I signed this bill. It was passed out by the legislature. This is the expression of the will of the people, such as it is in the state of Alabama. Roll that piece. The legislature has spoken and under schools they assigned a deal of life that the people of Alabama value so highly. So this is where we now are now in response to the boycott of the State of Alabama.

There are going to be people who engage in buycotts, who say, you know what, I'm going to take my business to the state of Alabama because I happen to support her affirmation and that bill's affirmation when it comes to life. That's the way the market can operate. You can have people laying pressure, you have people laying pressure the other way. But the fact of the matter is this has to be dealt with and has to be

dealt with based on the position you're in. And as far as I'm concerned with k I, I don't know what else she could have done. She could veto that bill, But would that be undermining the intent of the people in the state of Alabama. I would submit that it would. They're elected leaders pushed for this, and it's not like

this is something that is absolutely set in stone. Remember when you hear people like Kristen Gillibrand and progressives like Kamala Harris come out and talk about precedent is sacro saint. Once upon a time, dread Scott was precedent, and that law found that a fugitive slave, a runaway slave, must be returned to their master. It feels positively barbaric by today's standards, and it should. Once upon a time, separate

but equal was a precedent plessy versus Ferguson. Now eighteen ninety six, Plessy versus Ferguson said you could have separate but equal that would be overturned by Brown verse Board of Education. Now, where were these people, Where were these Democrats who once upon a time we're embracing dread Scott, who once upon a time we're embracing plusy versus Ferguson. Because the Jim Crow Laws were not a creation of

the abolitionist Republican movement, no way, no how. They were a creation of the Democratic Party in the same way that you had up until the eighteen forties and fifties, the support stated explicitly in the planks of the Democratic Party platform that slavery should be respected as a state's right. That I'm not throwing any kind of fake, phony propaganda

your way. You can go and read. You actually can go on the Google machine when you get a chance, go pull up the platforms, the Democrat Party platforms starting in eighteen twenty eight, and you'll see it in twenty eight and thirty two and thirty six, you'll see it in forty and forty four and forty eight. You'll see it's enshrined there in the in the Democratic Party platform that they support slave It's just that's a fact. Now, that's a barbaric institution that we would never stand by today.

It's because of the hard work done by the abolitionist movement, by the men and women in their supporting roles, in helping to free the slaves, and in changing that narrative in our country, that we no longer have slave states. We are all free states, representing and respecting the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or has originally written the pursuit of property. People can try to sell it however they want, but they're not allowed and

they're not entitled to their own history. History is something set in stone. And isn't it curious that that same mayor pee boota judge that I mentioned in the opening segment of this hour as talking about the need to protect and preserve abortion, the need to protect and preserve

marginalized groups who are inside the Democratic Party. Isn't it curious that Pete buddhag Edge and company will say that only women have a right to make a decision on abortion, Only somebody with a uterus has a right to make a decision on abortion. And yet the same progressive group will say that a person without a uterus can compete as a woman in intercollegiate sports there at athletics or

at the high school level and track and field. They're a little bit here and there on the policy effectation, but it is curious to see how this is going to shake out. Now. Coming up here in just a few minutes, we're gonna be joined by my very good friend. He's Scott McEwan. You know him from his great work with American Sniper. He wrote American Sniper, the story of Chris Kyle. He also wrote American Commander and the Ghost Sniper series, Camp Valor, and of course City of Death.

And I want to get his perspective because he, in addition to being a great writer, is an attorney, and I want to get his interpretation and his thoughts as

they are being formed. Watching this battle between the deep State and Bill Barr, watching this battle between the Congressional Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee, and of course what it is that they are after with Don McGann coming into testify and Mueller coming into testify, and other Trump administration folks coming into testify to these committees in the hopes of redrawing and rebuilding the case that they hoped would manifest itself with the Mueller Report. It didn't. It hasn't.

They're frustrated, they're bummed out. They are worried about what it's going to take to finally turn the tide. I don't think they can do it, but they're going to try to finally turn the tide in favor of impeachment, removing this president and just short circuiting the electoral process coming down the pipeline and twenty twenty. There's a reason first term presidents don't get impeached. It's because first term

presidents stand for reelection. That's your chance to pass and to cast a political verdict on the commander in chief. The Democrats are not happy to do it. They've got to undo twenty sixteen. They've got to undo it all, and if they don't, it's your fault. Scott McEwen comes by next. Don't go anywhere. It's the buck Sexton Show. I'm Brett Wodabille in for Buck Sexton. Back right after this, Brett Woodabille in for Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show.

Our phonemer is always eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine two eight two five. Happy to welcome into the show. Good friend of mine and I always love getting the opportunity to catch up with him.

He is Scott mckew, and you know him from his great work on American Sniper, American Commander, Ghost Snipers series of course, Camp Valor, and his most recent which is phenomenal City of Death, talking about how these heroes around the world banded together to help rescue those folks who are held hostage by ISIS in mosl and in other communities.

Scott McEwen, though, is also an accomplished attorney at his own right, and that's why I want to depend on him today to talk about what it is that's going on here. These democrats desperate from McGan to come and testify. If he doesn't testify, it's impeachable. Everything's impeachable, Scott McEwen, What are these folks looking for? It's interesting because Bill Barr is not acting like Donald Trump's attorney. He's acting like the Presidency's attorney, and he's drawn a firm line

in the sand. Your assessment of this battle, Royale, Yeah, well, thank you for having me on. First of all, Bret, Yes, I mean, at the end of the day, what they're trying to do is shoot the messengers. I mean, really, they do not want the message or the indictments that are going to follow to come out from bar and various other people that know exactly what happened here, and we're seeing the fallout from that. These people realize that now that the attempt to hose or have a coup

against the President of the United States was unsuccessful. Now those acts that they did in illegally attempting to do so are coming back to haunt them. And I believe Brett, at the end of the day, we're going to see multiple indictments at cabinet, you know, at the top levels of the FBI, of the DOJ, and likely at the

CIA before this thing is done. You know, it's amazing, right because you've got You've got you've got James Komey pointing fingers at Brennan, Brennan's pointing fingers at Clapper, Clapper's pointing fingers that you know somebody else. These are not folks that are going to stand firm and tall in the defense of what it is that they did. Scott so at some point, do you expect we're going to start seeing some of these guys flip and and come out in a different position from where they went in

to save their own hides. I certainly do, and I believe we're going to see it, you know, not only from the Clapper level and the and the Komy level, but you know, we've got a lot of lesser players that are looking down the barrel of twenty years jail terms if they're convicted of some of these acts that they've done, such as Strozik and Page and some other

some other people like that. You know that we're involved, and I'm telling you those people, when they are put on the stand or when they're forced to to to make deals, I don't think there's going to be any loyalty amongst any of this group, and I believe that they're going to make deals, you know, to keep themselves out of prison as much as possible, particularly somebody like Brennan, who Brennan has already said that he did not authorize the use of this steel dossier that Komy used at

least three times that we know of, to seek and obtain you know, illegal fison warrants against various and suddenly members of the Trump administrations. So I really believe that they're all going to make deals if they can as soon as possible. And those deals are probably already on the table. Okay. And against the backdrop of that, you've got you've got an Inspector General doing his investigation in

the in the Department of Justice, Mike Horowitz. And you've got Durham out of Connecticut, former US attorney who's apparently been on this job since at least Valentine's Day. What about that, those those contemporaneous investigations happening at the same time as the political battle going on here, What do you expect those components to yield? Boy, I'll tell you what.

When when you look at the when you look at what's been going on for so long with this Inspector General investigation, you've got to wonder how deep that thing is. Because that's been going on now for at least six months that we know of, and probably for longer, and he still hasn't come out with his report. I have to imagine that report is going to be very, very in depth and probably is going to cover all of the acts that we've seen kind of surfacing up from

the swamp in the press. But I believe that what he's done is probably going to be a complete if you will, report on everything that's been done. And I think that's probably going to be the puzzle pieces, if you will, for all the indictments that we're going to see come thereafter. And you know this guy that they brought in, you know this Gerham guy. He's shown his ability to and willingness to prosecute at the highest levels

of the FBI with what went on in Boston. And if you're going to get the toughest guy you can on the street, that has street knowledge of what's going on, right, that is the guy to get okay against this. You've also got Bill Barr who is holding that line firmly. He is not a wilting flower by any stretch of the imagination. Scott mckw and joining us here the Buck Sexton show. What about that role that Barr is playing.

He is a guy that I think was wildly underestimated, and he has turned out to be a rock star in a lot of the ways. He's been behaving and standing firm in the face of the pressure from these partisans on the Judiciary Committee and the Intel Committee. Yeah, you know, And I think one of the most entertaining things I saw was if a guy was really upset or really intimidated, if you will, which they're trying to do. They're just trying to intimidate him and make him back down,

you wouldn't say. See the comment that he made at that event with Nancy Pelosi when he's walking by, when he said, did you bring your handcuffs to this attent? When I saw that, I thought to myself, you know, that guy's got some moxie, if you will in making that comment, because it just was basically a statement back

to Pelosi. Look, I'm not impressed. I'm doing my job, and you know what, and you can make all these threats of you know, of contempt or whatever else you want to do, but it's not going to sway meet from my job. I think Bill Barr is the best thing, the best person that Trump could have chosen to be there because he's been in that town for thirty years. He's seen everything from Nixon, you know, all the way

through the Obama administration and everything else. So he's seen it all and I don't think he's gonna be intimidated for one second by any of these people from Congress or the Nadlers or the rest of these people trying to throw junk in his direction. And remember, we don't know who he has relationships with to this day inside the Department of Justice, who may be giving him the straight stuff instead of the obfuscation of the game playing that went on under McCabe and Comy in the in

the FBI exactly. And the guy's respected. I mean, you know, there's there's a there's this thing in the world called respect, and that guy has had respect in that town for a long time. And you know in that respect is not going to end, nor is he going to compromise his reputation merely because he's been a point of this position. I think whatever he does is not only going to stick.

These indictments are going to be absolutely rock solid. And I don't think he's going to do it for political purposes, which is what everybody's saying. I think he's going to do it to protect the United States. At the end of the day, we had an attempt at Kutata on the highest office of the United States. It was unsuccessful, thank god, and now the people that did it are going to have to pay. And that's exactly why Bill Barr is in office. All right, let me ask you

for a final reaction here on that very point. It wasn't spying. They didn't insert spies. It was merely surveillance, Scott makeew And it's just surveillance. They're just surveilling. They're just looking around. They had to chase down the smoke in the fire. That's all they were doing. They're just doing their jobs. Your reaction to that nonsense. My reaction to that is if you put the shoe on the

other foot, because that's a political statement. If you put the shoe on the other foot, and say, for example, if Trump right now was sending the FBI to spy on Joe Biden's campaign, or was sending the FBI to to you know, to spy on any one of twenty other candidates that are coming out of the Democrats, how would the Democratic Party feel about that? I think we as a nation have to look at this. No are no D, no I, no other number designation behind you.

But the bottom line is what would you like us to do as a democracy. And I do not believe what we saw done by this last administration to the then running candidate and now the president is the right thing to do. We need to make policy for the next fifty years for your and my children, for everybody else in this country. And that's exactly what we've got to clean up right now. We got to be Americans. We don't have to be Republicans or Democrats. We got to be Americans, and we need to work hard to

provide for our family and our loved ones. Always great to catch up with you. He is Scott mckew and you know him from amazing books and I want to encourage folks to check out Scott mckewan dot com Scott mckewan dot com for all the latest and greatest stuff that he's got in the pipeline. We appreciate you making time for us. I know how busy you are. We certainly thank you for stopping by today. Scott. Thanks a lot. Brett, you keep bringing the word. Talk to you later, Frett.

What abill in for buck? Sexton eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine hundred buck That translates date eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. Let's go to the phones and talk to Charles and Boston. Charles welcome to the show. What's on your mind today? Yes, A couple of things of concern here. First of all, I mean state where I'm coming from. I do support the president, the good things that he's tried to do

and so forth. But I refer you to an article in the Washington Times March eighteenth, two thousand nineteen, on page twenty five, and the author of the article Joseph curl who covered the White House for the Washington Times for some ten years. I believe he said the title of the article said, why Uncle Joe Biden will be America's next president. He feels quite certain that that's going

to happen. And the second thing that I find disturbing is Justin Justin Abash, a Republican from Michigan, right, Yeah, from Michigan, has decided to join the ranks for calling of impeachment. I mean in this, I don't know. I mean, what's what's going to happen if he's sewn out of office? I mean something like that. I mean sometimes I feel angry enough if they do something like that, then maybe we deserve maybe we deserve an international situation. Uh you

know what I'm saying. Yeah, I goes she's saying. But here's what's important to remember, Charles. Okay, there's two pieces here. Whether or not Joe Biden gets elected is secondary to this issue of impeachment. The reason why the president is not being impeached is because the Democrats understand that there is nowhere near a majority needed to remove him from office. In the United States Senate, you'd have to have sixty six votes to remove convict to remove him from office.

That is an incredibly high bar. It would take a lot of Republicans coming on to the bandwagon, with Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Steyer, and the whole lot of them. Okay, So the reason why Nancy Pelosi is so reticent to bring about the call to impeachment, to bring it to fruition, is because she knows she doesn't have the numbers. And we've seen these people go out there and acknowledge they don't have the numbers. I think it was Nadler just

a couple of weeks back. So we don't have those numbers, nowhere near that number yet. That's the problem. That's why they're doing these pretend hearings, these pretend impeachment moves. To try to figure out a way to throw him out to create enough moral outrage. Justin Amash is now going to get primaried in his run there at the House of Representatives when he's up for reelection next time around. There's conservatives that are coming out saying you're an opportunist.

There's no basis for this, there was no collusion, and anything in terms of obstruction of justice is a construct of the Muller narrative. I would not worry about any impact from Amash. I don't think there's a big break of people coming out looking to remove the president inside the Republican Party in the House. Most of those gutless wonders retired or were defeated back in the midterms in

twenty eighteen. The people that remain other than the Samash character tend to be much more conservatives as a rule of thumb. Now as to the Biden component, look, elections are going to hinge on what elections are going to hinge on. Joe Biden is a known quantity. He has run at three different times, and he's been unsuccessful in each of his runs. He hasn't been able to pull it off at two different times, right because he ran at eighty eight. He tried to run again in nineteen

in two thousand and eight. He's come up short repeatedly. He's come up short. He has a lot of skeletons in his closet. If I were a betting man now, I'm not because I have a wife and kids and I can't afford the gamble. But if I were a betting man right now and you had to pin me down on the ground and say, Okay, Brett, who's going to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States, It's gonna be Kamela Harris. As far as

I'm concerned, it's gonna Bekamela Harris. They frontloaded the California primary into Super Tuesday. If she's able to float along in New Hampshire and Iowa, if she's able to put together a reasonable showing in South Carolina, she gets to California, that's a lot of delegates that go a long way to backen her up. I think she is somebody that could be a threat. She's somebody that the President has

not thrown a whole lot of heat on. He hasn't nicknamed her, hasn't done any of that Buddha Jedge is pulling terribly when you look at the numbers out of South Carolina. He's got no support among people of color. He is being supported only by colorless people. I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, but it's it's a joke I often use here on the show because I'm not a person of color. I guess I am color less. Buddha Jedge.

He doesn't have the critical mass behind him. Bernie Sanders is an old, creaky guy who's best days are behind him. Elizabeth Warren is not anybody who resonates with anybody else out there. I think I think Kamala Harris is going to be the person that this party ultimately looks to. It fulfills a lot of boxes that then get checked. And I I just don't see Biden being the guy with the golden ticket at the dance. I just don't. I don't think he has the deliverables. He's got too

many skeletons in that closet. You've got a lot of people still upset about Anita Hill. You've got a lot of people still upset about the crime bill that he's supported. You've got a lot of people that are still angry about his being friends with some of those old, unreconstructed Southern Democrats. Heck, he just spoke at Ernest Hollings' funeral a month and a half ago in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ernest Hollings was the guy in South Carolina who hoisted the stars and bars above the state House when he was the governor. Joe Biden was his bff. There's a lot of baggage with this guy. We're not I'm not even getting into Hunter Biden, the weird investment stuff that Schweitzer has written about. I'm not even getting into the stuff involving the Ukraine or involving any of the other things that have happened. Is this is not a guy

who is a twenty nineteen, twenty twenty character. This is a man firmly stuck in the early mid nineteen seventies hoping to hold on in this new climate. Consider this, when Joe Biden was in the Senate in his early days, you're talking about the early nineteen seventies. He's serving with people who were in the Senate in the nineteen thirties

and forties. That's how far back this he goes back nearly a century in terms of institutional interaction with people he served with, people who served with Roosevelt and Truman. I mean, this is an unbelievable thing. But he doesn't have the magic with the young people. You get this electability phrase, It gets thrown around a whole lot. Oh, he's electable. He's an electable guy. He's a guy who can get elected. Where's he ever been elected president before?

Where's he ever been elected president? What is the solid track record of Bidenism? What is it? What has he ever sold? Back in the day he sold well, you know, I've got a lot of institutional experience in the Senates. Why Barack Obama picked him up? Barack Obama was two thousand and eight Pete Boodhage Edge and he needed somebody to be the adult in the situation. Biden was the adult who understood Capitol Hill. He understood all that. He served a purpose, but his purpose was never to be

president himself. You can book it, you can mark it, and I'll eat my words if I'm wrong. It's the Bucks Exton Show. I'm Brett Witterbale sitting in for him. Take a breakfeeback after the top of the hour. Twenty more and your phone calls back after this, and I'm Brett Witterball sitting in four Bucks, Exeton on the Bucks

Exton Show. You normally would would hear me here in San Diego on radio show on seven sixty K. And also I host a television show on Newsmax TV that's Mondays through Fridays at ten o'clock am Eastern on Newsmax. And as always, you're more than welcome to be a part of the conversation at eight four four nine hundred Buck eight four four nine zero zero two eight two five. Spoke with Charles in the last hour about this impeachment stuff and certainly all the big stories out there a

fair game, right. I don't want you feeling like you got to be limited just the things we've talked about. If you've got to concern a comment, an issue that you think needs to draw more attention to in the current political climate, certainly happy to hear from you. Let

me give you one that I think is fascinating. Yesterday, early in the morning, getting ready to go to church, getting ready to get out with the family, I'm watching Mornings with Maria over on Fox News, and there she's talking to Congressman Trey Gaudy about what it is he saw as part of this investigation into Russian medaling, collusion, all that kind of stuff, and now the big obviously the big gas lighting that has taken place as a

result with this intelligence community behaving the way they have.

And what was so interesting to me was this indication from Trey Goudy that it appears, at least from the stuff he has seen, that once upon a time, to remember, right after the election and going into the inauguration of then President Trump, president elect and to President Trump, there was that seventeen intelligence agency assessment that the Russians had meddled in the election, and the implication was they had meddled in the election to the benefit of President Donald J. Trump, Right,

Remember that that was the narrative. Well, a curious thing happened on the way to the investigation. It appears, according to Trey Goudy, a very serious man, a man who is a serious investigator in his own right, former prosecutor, somebody who worked very hard into looking into the Russian collusion matter as a part of his last couple of

years in the Congress. He found out that it appears that it was one John Brennan, who was responsible for making sure that that dossier, that Steel dossier, constructed and fabricated in every possible way by Christopher Steele with a wink and a nod from Russian FSB and anybody else who wanted to throw a little fun stuff in there. Well, it appears that it was John Brennan, the head of the CIA, who shepherded that and demanded that that be included as part of the basis the underlying facts for

the Are you ready for this? The seventeen intelligence agency assessment that the Russians had intervened and interfered in our election. Why does that matter? Well, first of all, if you go back and look at the intelligence community itself, the broader intel community. I'm sure Bucks talked about this in the past. When you talk about seventeen intelligence agencies, that sounds like a lot of intelligen agence agencies who all

seventeen agreed that this happened. Well, if you look at who the seventeen intelligence agencies are, it includes people like the Coastguard Intelligence Agency, the Navy Intelligence Agency, the Marine

Corps Intelligence Agency, and the US Army Intelligence Agency. It also includes the National geospatial intelligence, all these these these leviathans of the intelligence agency, of which really maybe about four maybe five had any true connection to dealing with Russians and the UH the the meddling in the election. I don't know that the Coastguard Intel Agency or the Marine Corps intel agencies, and I know they're very important, they do very important work for their for their departments.

I don't know that they were really on the Russia game. I just don't know that that's the case. I don't know that the DA was on the Russia game. I don't know that it would any of those people. I do know this. I do know that once upon a time Admiral Rodgers was run out of the m N say why because he had noticed there were some shady moves going on inside the wire tapping and the surveilling

sort of stuff. So if you look at the seventeen intelligence agencies and you think about who the big dogs are, right, You've You've got obviously the FBIS and Intelligence Agency. You've got the the the NSA that's an intelligence agency. You've also got a couple of others that are right there in the bread and butter business of dealing with Russians, and you can see where that might play a factor. But I don't know that the Drug Enforcement Agency was

really watching the Russians. They're an intelligence agency too. I mean, you get on the list, just you go, go, go, go on the Google machine and type in US intelligence agencies and then just look at all seventeen of them and go why would they be? Why would they be invited? How would they be? And they wouldn't. When you boil it down, it's like five, it's like five. And it's Brennan who wanted to make sure this assessment got in it. Why why why would John Brennan want that to go

in there? Because he wanted there to be a cloud over the president. You know, I play a clip on my TV show all the time, on my radio show all the time in sending, and the clip is of Chuck Schumer. You've heard it, no doubt, from January the fourth, twenty seventeen, talking about how the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get even with President Trump if he's not careful. When I first heard that, I said to myself, Now, hold on a second. He hasn't even

been inaugurated. What is Senator Schumer talking about I mean, initially my blood ran cold, getting visions of Dallas in the early nineteen sixties. I'm thinking, what is he what is he implying? No, no, No, What he was implying was the intelligence community has its own way of meeting out justice against people that they don't like. And I think he revealed more than he ever intended to reveal.

He revealed, of course that well, of course John Brennan would be part of that intelligence community, and he could be part of getting even, and so could Jimmy Clapper, and so could James Came, and so could so could any of these people. They could all have been working together. And you know what struck me at the time that Chuck Schumer said those things, It was, well, what did Chuck know about surveillance of the Trump campaign before any

of this was made pub What did Chuck Schumer? No, certainly, he's a he's a senior guy. He was the minority leader in the Senate. You had Mitch McConnell as the majority leader. He had Chuck Schumer's a minority leader. You know, you hear about the Gang of eight all the time, not not the Gang of eight back when Marco Rubio was talking about we had to do an immigration amnesty. The Gang of Eight that was with the eight congress people and senators who were working to try to push

amnesty through back way back, once upon a time. The real Gang of eight are these people. They would be under the circumstances of twenty seventeen, it would have been Paul Ryan. It would have been Nancy Pelosi. It would have been Adam Schiff, and it would have been Devin Nunez. That would be the House side of the equation. The Senate side of the equation would have been Mitch McConnell.

It would have been Chuck Schumer, it would have been Mark Warner, and it would have been Richard Burr, right, because Richard Burr and Mark Warner ran the Senate Intel Committee, Devin Nunez was the chair and Adam Schiff was the ranking member of the Intel Committee. And you would have had, of course, like I said, Ryan and Pelosi, and you

would have had McConnell and Schumer. And so I just kind of wondered when when he went on Rachel Maddow's show there on MSNBC and said, mister President, you're being very foolish. The intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get even with you. My radar went up, and I just wonder how many people have ever asked that about what did Chuck Schumer know about surveiling the Trump campaign?

One of the questions that has not been asked. I hope it does get asked, And if it doesn't get asked in the process of this primary run, I hope it gets asked when President Trump squares off with with Joe Biden if he ends up being the nominee again. I don't think he will be, but but I hope that President Trump does ask Joe Biden, why were you spying on my campaign back in twenty sixteen? Sleepy Joe, why were you as vice president? Why were you guys spying?

And when Joe Biden denies he knew anything about it, he'll be revealed as incompetent that it was all being done by President Obama and Susan Rice and Samantha Power and the powers that be with Loretta Lynch and James Comey. It'll look like Joe Biden was the last guy on the deal team and he had no idea what was

going on in his own government. If he does answer, he's going to have to answer some pretty uncomfortable questions about why it is that, standing across the stage from a commander in chief, he would have been part of a government effort to insert spies Stephen Holper and some mysterious woman. And why it was the Central Intelligence Agency, the one agency from prohibited from doing business on American soil, would be running an intel operation with the FBI. Now,

why would that happen? Vice President Biden and he's gonna have him, and he's gonna hau and he's gonna go You don't understand, man, this is about unity. We gotta rebuild unity. Man. That's what he'll do. It's what he always does. I'm Brett Whatterbill eight four four nine hundred Buck eight four four nine two eight two five. It's the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Brett Whattterbal sitting in back

right after this. It is the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Brett Whaterbal sitting in for Buck Sexton eight four to four nine hundred Buck eight four four n hundred Buck be a part of the conversation. I'm gonna pivot over to the border here in just a second. But because I was challenged by somebody on Twitter to name the intelligence agencies that were part of the Russian assessment, I'm going to do that now, are you ready? Okay? Three? Two one? The twenty fifth Air Force that's the Air

Force Intelligence Agency, Intelligence and Security Command. That's the US Army Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, that's the CIA. Coastguard Intelligence that's the Coastguard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of Intelligence counter Intelligence, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Those are all separate, standalone intell agencies. Office of National Security Intelligence,

you know who that is. That's the d EA. The Intelligence Branch, that's the FBI, the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, those guys that geospatial and reconnaissance they tend to deal with like satellites and maps and topography and electronic intelligence. National Security Agency obviously, very obviously who that is. And Office

of Naval Intelligence. So when you heard these things back in twenty seventies, seventeen agencies all agree the Russians influence the election. Well yeah, but like five of them are actually in that business. The rest are not sorry to have to be a Debbie Downer or a Donnie Downer or a Brett Bummer. Here's something else I want to talk about that it's very important. We are now watching a slow motion become fast motion immigration crisis at our

southern border. I'm in San Diego. I can pretty much kick a soccer ball from where I'm sitting right now and get pretty close to the border. I grew up in El Paso, Texas, also happens to be a very significant border community there as well. I understand how borders work, and understand how borders, healthy borders are supposed to work. People go back and forth every day, they conduct commerce.

We have billions of dollars in commerce right here in San Diego between US and Tijuana and into Baja Mexico. Same thing with El Paso, Texas and any number of checkpoints across the border. But you have had Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, you have had Jim Acosta and every other talking head on TV try to tell you that there's no crisis at the border. There's no crisis at the southern border. This is made. This is Donald Trump hysteria.

Even at Barack Obama in twenty eighteen at campaign rallies, saying these people are down the southern part of Mexico, take them about six months to get up here. Border crisis. There's a border crisis. There's a huge border crisis. I was speaking of the folks at Federation for American Immigration Reform last week and they informed me that, like in the last nine to ten months, you've got seven hundred

thousand people coming into the country seeking quote asylum. In reality, these are economic refugees looking to get a piece of a strong economy. And when the President reaches out, tries to secure our border, tries to do the right thing to make sure Americans are kept safe, you're told that there's no border crisis. Look, I can assure you, living here in California, as many people in this audience can

also attest to, there's a border crisis. And unfortunately, you have a governor in Gavin Newsom, and you had a governor before him and Jerry Brown, who is more than happy to welcome people into this state in an illicit fashion. Let me be clear about something here. You had as candidate Newsome and then as governor Newsom a man who declared, if you want to come and get free healthcare. If you want to come and get services, you come into California. It is enshrined in the state Code SB fifty four,

which is the state sanctuary law. That we do not cooperate with the Feds save for some very specific cases. We are a welcoming state, so says Gavin Newsom. We are a state that is committed to allowing everybody who wants to come in, regardless of circumstances are being screened, to come on in. The term I like to use is if you've got turf tooe and you're in Tajikistan, come on in and get some medical care. If you've got a urology infection and you're from Uzbekistan, come on

in here. If you're from France and you want a facelift, head on down come into California. That's a fact. And I would love to states rights activists who advocate for sanctuary laws. I would love to see them come out and make the same states rights argument in favor of what Alabama's done on the abortion law. Oh, the state of California has made a decision we're going to be a sanctuary state. The state of Alabama's made a decision. They're going to be a sanctuary state for the born. Right,

I mean that what we've basically got it? No, no, no, no, no, no, Brett, you've got a dead wrong. Well what do you mean, I've got a dead rong. You've got a dead wrong. The sanctuary law in California is about social justice. The sanctuary law for the born in Alabama is about well, that's that's that's about tyranny. It's about tyranny. I got it. I understand. That's very interesting. I didn't know that that's how it worked out, but yes, that's how it worked out.

Understand this, if you understand nothing else here in the state of California, if you are in the illicit possession of plastic bags, single use plastic bags, or if you are in the illicit possession of straws, you'll face more serious time than you will if you break into the state. And isn't it curious that we would have this crisis right now, right now before the twenty twenty election, right now before the twenty twenty senses? What are you getting at, Brett?

What are you what are you getting at with the twenty twenty what kind of a remark is at about the twenty twenty cents. Well, because, to hear Gavin Newsom tell it, here, in the state of California, it doesn't matter if you're a citizen, a Green card holder, a migrant, and AUSSI lee, somebody who has flown in for six months to stay at a VRBO. You can count in the census because you'll help us get seats. See. The dirty secret about California is there's been a massive outmigration

for the last fifteen years. People fleeing high taxes, horrible regulation, social social problems like heroin addiction, and people urinating and defecating in the streets of San Francisco and in Los Angeles and even right here in San Diego. This has been a crisis writ large. But when Gavin Nussom is concerned is we don't need to replace the outflow of Americans moving out of the state. We just need to replace them with any body. No, no, we don't have

to get anybody to come in. We just need anybody, meaning anybody will do whether or not you're a citizen, a Green card holder, whether or not you're a migrant seeking economic opportunity and illegal immigrant, or even an asili come on into the state account California. The doors are wide open because you're going to get the hook up.

And now now you're starting to see the Resettlement Department of Homeland Security flying migrants from Texas at a cost of six thousand dollars of flight right here to the city of San Diego, right to the city of San Diego, where they will be dumped off on a street corner and people will just kind of hope for the best. That's really what's going on here. It's an amazing thing to see, and folks want to focus on them, focus on whether or not there's a humanitarian crisis. Ladies and gentlemen.

There's a humanitarian crisis. It's just what needs to be done about it is the great disagreement, and really there's a right way and there's a wrong way. And what you're seeing take place with the cooperation of the Democrats out there, the fact that Nancy Pelosian Chuck Schumer looked the other way, and every other Democrat with him does. You're seeing a crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and ultimately we're

gonna pay for it. Eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine two two five Brett Wordable in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show, and I am Brett Wordable. I'm in for Buck Sexton and happy to be spending this time with you on another beautiful day here in the greatest country on the planet. It is the Buck Sexton Show. The phone number to be part of the conversation eight four four nine hundred Buck

eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. Over the course of the last couple hours, you know, we've gone into a lot of very different and interesting areas. And let me if I may take you into some of the madness that is the West Coast, the madness that is the West Coast. The lunacy is the West Coast.

I alluded to this in the prior segment. This idea that in our country today, the idea that in our country today you can you can face in your felony charge for illicit possession of plastic bags, single use plastic bags and of course straws as well. It is a complete and total nightmare. And uh Sabria Outtery riding over in the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece

in plastic bag Wars. The industry fights back. Now, let me let me give you the basis for this, because whatever happens here will eventually drift eastward towards where you are, or northward or well southward would be Mexico. But from here in California, this stuff, this stuff drifts, and I don't mean the pollution. I mean the bad policy that gets created and crafted. So you have trade groups now coming out and having to defend their straws, defend their straws.

This is amazing. The backlash against single use plastic has both straws, bags and takeout containers. But the plastics industry is fighting back, arguing that alternatives can be worse for the environment and disruptive for business. Trade groups are spending more on lobbying, read out to consumers and promote cycling amid mounting their message plastic bands target only waste and don't take account of environmental negatives. If you use raw

materials meaning paper bags, remember paper bags. Back in the day, you'd get your stuff. Your choice was paper or plastic. Well, that forever was the big question. And then we switched from the paper to the plastic. Why because we were deforesting the trees. Oh, the trees were dying. It was terrible. The world was coming to an end. So we switched the plastic, flimsy, single use plastic bags and we all

got used to those. And then and then, like a bolt from the dark, we found out about the great garbage patch out in the Pacific, the Geyer out in the Pacific twice, the size of Texas uncleanable, all caused by the American people and our plastic bags and our straws. So here in San Diego, I'm not lying when I tell you this, you have had communities get together an outlaw the following single use plastic bags. They have outlawed straws.

They have outlawed polystyrene takeout food containers. That's right, the styrophone containers where you get to take out from the Chinese plays or the lunch place where you got a sandwich and some chips. Yeah, that's been outlawed as well. Why because it kills the animals. There's no such regulation on Mexico. There's no such regulation anywhere else. We're the

only people doing it. I tell a funny anecdote about a friend of mine who is at a bar in San Diego having a couple of cocktails with some friends. The waitress, and I hope that's not that's not an offensive term. But the waitress came over. The server came over, and he said, could I have a straw? And she took her finger and stirred his drink with her index finger, and when he recoiled in horror, she said to him, don't worry, it's alcohol. There's no germs in there. Now.

That's the kind of craziness that we have going on out here in California. And so the plastics industry and all these other groups are getting together and they're trying to tell you that they're not the biggest problem. They're not the biggest threat to the world. Do you know what the number one threat to the world is? Anybody know what The number one polluting item in all the

world is? Cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are number one, followed by food wrappers, plastic beverage bottles, and plastic bottle camp caps. You got to go way down the list to you have to grocery bags or other plastic bags, or straws or takeout containers. You gotta go way down the list to get to those numbers. And look, I get it. Nobody wants to see some seagull coughing up a plastic bag, or a sperm whale suffering because he's ingesting so much plastic.

But understand this if you understand nothing else, We in the United States are a clean country. We don't pollute nearly as badly as the countries in Asia. We don't pollute nearly as badly as those nations in South America that have much much more lax and loose environmental regulations. Think about this for a second. I want you to think about the notion of currents and energy and that sort of stuff that happens in what direction? In what

direction do storms approach the United States? If you're on the West coast, Do they come from Texas? Do they come from Alabama? No, they come from the Pacific, because the Pacific flow is toward the coast of the United States, the Pacific coast of the United States. That's where the flow comes. So where do you think all the pollutions coming from? Where do you think the plastic and the containers are coming from? Oh, that's right, you guessed right,

it's Asia. We're not the biggest polluters. In fact, it's China that's a bigger polluter. In fact, it's other nations in Southeast Asia that are bigger polluters than we are. And we haven't even gotten anywhere near the cigarette butts yet. We haven't gotten anywhere near those cartridges yet. That's the problem.

Oh and while we're at it. While we're at it, being that, I'm in the state of California, and many people in this state or in a state of unconsciousness, Um, tell me about how those those heroin syringes, those those needles, and those syringes, tell me about how it is that they they they decompose when you put them in a land. No. See, last time I check, those are made out of plastic two,

aren't they? And they are. They are ankle deep on the streets of San Francisco, and on the streets of skid Row in Los Angeles, and have been on the streets of the city of San Diego where I'm sitting. They have absolutely been that. And tell me how healthy it is for the environment for people to use sidewalks as toilets. I just for the life of me. I mean, I get that we're gonna get rid of plastic bags, and I get that we're gonna get rid of straws,

But we're ignored. They're an oh barber way, by the way, find you of this fact. When we got rid of the single use plastic bags, those thinner one ply plastic bags that sometimes if you just put in too many six packs of soda and then a box of cereal, it would tear the bag open because they were so flimsy. When we got rid of of those, we replaced him with like nine ply plastic, reusable plastic that you get it to supermarket for ten cents a bag. Those things

will survive an atomic detonation. They will not decompose in the face of a thermonuclear warhead going off above them. They will survive literally anything including being shot into the sun. They will not melt, they will not decompose. So what we did was we traded the paper bags, which were fine, for the single use plastic bags, which we're fine, and now we got rid of those two things in the

hopes that will use even thicker bags. It's absurd. This is why regulation, This is why regulation is a nightmare. When you do not properly implemented. The issue is polluting, the issue is littering, The issue is discarding your garbage

out in public. Maybe if you wrote a ticket for the quality of life crimes for the idiot that throws garbage all over the beach, that throws garbage all over the streets, maybe you hit him with a ticket for five hundred dollars, maybe you'll start to change the behavior instead. It's lowest common denominator behavior in America today. Folks. You put up with it. Why because they know you'll put

up with it. When you go to the drug store and you have to show ID and ask permission to buy a box a sudaffeed, why because a bunch of folks running meth labs decided they weren't going to use it for the intended purpose, and they want to make

methamphetamines at a sudafed. When you go to to the big box store and you want to get yourself a can of spray paint because you got to touch up the patio furniture for the summer season, you got to go find the pimpley phase sixteen year old kid with the key to give you permission, as a full grown adult, tax paying person, permission to get a can of spray paint, because you might go home and huff that right, that's

that's what you hear all the time. Or if you want a sharpie pen or a box cutter, you got to fill out a piece of paper with a seven day waiting period before you can get those, because you might go and tag. I don't know about you. I'm guessing many people in this audience that listen to Buck Sexton are not out tagging on the weekend. They're not out doing scratchety. They're not out huffing paint, and they're

not out cooking methamphetamines in their backyards. We're living like hostages to the dopes, and that's a frustrating reality in America in twenty nineteen. So next time you get your self a single use plastic bag and you don't know what to do with it, you may want to mail it to a deserving family. Right here in California. We can't get our hands on them anymore on account of pollution.

We can't get our hands on them anymore because of laws, laws written by well meaning bureaucrats that only seek to add to the drama and the trauma. I don't know about you, but I'm done living by the lowest common denominator. I am done comporting my life around what it is that some unelected bureaucrat or elected want to be control freak in Sacramento or Washington, DC wants to tell us to do. I want to be free. I'm not into

the socialism. I choose freedom, and I believe most people in this country, if you get them in a quiet place, will feel just as frustrated as we do about the limits on our liberties when it comes to consuming what it is we want, using what it is that we want, and managing our lives. In my entire life, I've never once thrown a plastic bag filled with a bunch of takeout containers into the ocean. Why because I think it's rude and I want to preserve my planet for future generations.

Eight four nine buck eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine two two five. I'm Brett Witterbill from San Diego in for Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show.