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That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five The Future of talk radio buck Sexton. Ultimately, you and other like minded people on your board feel that sanctuary status is unc institutional. Well, it is unconstitutional. I mean I realized there are a lot of states that don't care to live by certain rules in the federal government

or or the Constitution if they disagree with it. Last I checked, it's not optional even if you don't like the outcome, and it puts our law enforcement personnel in a very awkward spot. They have to uphold the Constitution and the log They swear to do that. I swore to do that when I took the oath, and uh, California has decided to poke the President and his administration in the eye, and I'd rather they just not involve us.

The Sanctuary City showdown continues. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Great to have you here, oh man. The fight over immigration is intensifying. Now, a few things to put out there right right away. I've got to look a bit deeper into whether Trump has a means of building building the wall without actually having to get specific congressional funds for I know every bee saying it. I don't see

how it's possible. But I'm I'm seeing stuff left and right about how we're not not I'm on the political left, you know what I mean. I'm seeing reports out there of Trump could do this in Amat. We'll see that would be some amazing. That would be four D chess, it would it will be eight D chess. I don't even know what that looks like, but it's some crazy chest. It looks like it's out of a nightmare. But there there'll be nuts if he could pull that off. I

don't know how he's gonna do that. But there's another place, or a couple of places where the immigration fight continues on, and if nothing else, it is important for us to have clarity on it going into the mid terms. I mentioned the issue of sanctuary cities, and be very careful as I say that, especially when you say sanctuary city showdown on a live radios. That's not something you want to say ten times real fast. Trust me, don't do it, folks,

Trust me on that one. You're gonna have to apologize in front of your kids. Whoops, mommy said something she didn't mean to. Uh. But sanctuary city showdown is ongoing, and you've got actual cities in California that are saying, you know what, we want to opt out of this mess. We we don't believe that California's state legislature should be able to pass laws that directly contravene the spirit, if not the law, of the federal government when it comes

to immigration. Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it to you straight. I like the resistance here, hashtag crazy sts no, the hashtag resistance. I like what they're doing. I like that it's part of conversation. But states have police powers, not cities. States are gonna win this fight. I think I'm just telling you the truth. And you know what, we should get My buddy Jeff, you know, the big

big j Mr Sessions. We'll have the Attorney General come back on the show and explain to us how he thinks this can play out legally in the course, because I completely agree with him that this is just utter lawlessness. In the case of California, it's just sheer utter lawlessness that they are totally okay with because they're like Hemi

and they live everybody like Langy. By the way, my ratings in California are probably going off a cliff right now, But you know, I love you, my fellow California Conservatives. Don't you understand You're like me, but the West Coast version. You're a Republican behind enemy lines or Conservative behind enemy lines. You're like Buck but with a tan and eating more healthfully. You know that's you're You're the West Coast branch of the freedom Hunt. So I'm not I'm not making fun

of you, guys and gals. I'm talking about your friend Tad. You know, who drives a Prius, were's a lot of hemp based clothing as a pet therapist, drinks a lot of things that require a blender but just look like green mush and thinks he knows about politics based on the latest Kardashian tweet, that's not who you should be

getting your political analysis from. As you know. Unfortunately, those folks make up a plurality of your state, a massive majority of your state, and they're the ones determining policy. So the sanctuary issue, I think in California, the fight between the state and the federal government is going to be a close from the fight between some of these cities and the state, I think the state's gonna win. I'm just saying, you can do things that the state

doesn't mind. So New York City, for example, has even more restrictive gun laws than New York State does because, to borrow from Governor Cuomo, nobody needs a bazooka to kill a deer. Fact check true, um, but nonetheless, and no one has a bazooka. But you get all that. Uh, you look at what New York City does. New York State's okay with it. That's why if they thought it contradicted what was coming out of our state capital, Albany.

In the case of California, Sacramento be an issue. Keep in mind, though, there's another big area of immigration focus right now that is fascinating for what it says about the political parties and our our national conversation right now. And I think the federal government will win. The state of California is challenging the federal government including a question in our ten years census. Right constitutionally mandated. You gotta

have a census every ten years. Gotta do apportionment of the various uh members of the House or the seats for the House of Representatives. You don't actually apportion the members. That would be weird, like put me down, but you know you've got actually on a map decide where which dates have which representatives and where what the districts are. This matters a lot for that. It also matters a whole lot the census data for federal funds for grant money,

so that the stakes here are pretty high. Last time we had this was by the way, it costs thirteen billion dollars. It seems like a lot for handing out a questionnaire. I mean, there's a lot of people in this country, but there it is done on paper. I think maybe you can do it online now too. I gotta check, but you would think that the thirteen billion with a B is a it's a lot of money for a census. I think that at six and workers as well. The Census, uh, the Census Bureau. You know,

it's this like they're Super Bowl folks. Is it's big time for them. They want to take it from the friend zone to the end zone in game time. The song Lyric'm assuming some of you will get anyway, it's a big deal for them. And the big problem right now is over the inclusion of a question about citizenship. See, this is what's so fascinating right the way the census works. And I really dug into this one today. I may have spent way too much time reading about the census.

And you know where it comes from. By the way, it used to have a question about citizenship of some kind or another from like eighteen. So there's a long period there where hey, like, are you actually a citizen? Because they do just count persons. And then the strateches stretches back all the way to the clause of the Constitution about three fits. And you know, there's there's a whole other part of the American legacy that you see in the in the issue of this is you know

what an Article two, Section one. I think I'm doing that from memory. Don't yell at me. Constitution super geniuses. If I got that one wrong. I think it's Article two, Section one. Um. But the census is necessary for apportionment of the House. It's also, you know, we have to worry about what the Senate because, as we all know, even Rhode Island gets two senators. Why, it's a little quirk of history. That's right. We don't have an affiliate

and Rhode Island right now. So I'm just like, whatever, whatever, Rhode Island take your two senators speak grateful. Um, Actually we might have it. I'm sorry if we do have a Rhode Island affiliate. I love you guys that I'm totally kidding about your two senators that you probably don't need. Um. Massachusetts is not just gonna swallow you up any day now.

But back to the census. The question about citizenship has set off all kinds of alarms and problems and oh my gosh, because here's what the Democrat Party really has become. It is no longer just a pro amnesty party. It is a pro illegal immigration party. They don't think illegal immigration is a crime, they don't think it's a problem.

They want all people that are currently quote undocumented, which is a term they've invented for people who are legal aliens to be legalized, and any future illegal aliens they will also make an effort to legalize. So they are ideologically and open borders party, although they're not a day a de jure open borders party, right. They won't advocate for the laws to change to make us open borders, but they want the continuation of what we have, which

is legal immigration amnesty, illegal immigration amnesty. That's the cycle that they like. It empowers them. So why are they so upset about the census, Well, they don't want to question about illegal well about citizenship status, because they say it will frighten people in and not answering the question. I want to tell you there's a whole another reason why they don't want the question about citizenship to be

on the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau data. And that's why the state of California and now Eric Schneiderman, the very annoying attorney genre from the state of New York, some of the most populous states in the country, are challenging the federal government on this preemptively to stop it from being included in the Census. I will tell you why they're doing this, but I'm gonna have to tell you after the break because we are deep dive. We

are going wild here. We're having a census party, and it's getting Craig Kray up in the Freedom hund Right now. We will be back with much more on that eight four four to five. If you want to call in eight four four nine buck, stay with me. This is a question that's been included in every census since nineteen

sixty five, with the exception of when it was removed. Uh. This is we've contained this question that's provided data that's necessary for the Department of Justice to protect voters, uh and specifically to help us better comply with the Voting Rights Act, which is something that is important in a part of this process. UH. And again, this is something that has been part of the census for decades and something that the Department of Commerce felt strongly needed to

be included. Against. So they have the Press Secretary Sarah Cooby Sanders talking about the the justification for including the question, which is that historically it has generally overwhelmingly been included, but also it's necessary under I think Section two of the Voting Rights Act has to do with minority representation

and protecting minority voting. They have to know what's going on in different districts if they're going to be in compliance the federal government complying with the Voting Rights Act, the parts of it that still apply. Remember there was a truncation of the Voting Rights Act a few years back, which sent the left into fits of frenzy. But nonetheless, here's what's really going on. Though, you guys ready for this? Y'all ready for this? Do do? There's a music thing

we didn't have it. I don't have it. I can't make the music sound. Let's just get past that buck. So here's what's really going on with the census. Democrats want the number to be as high as possible, which means they want as many illegals as possible, especially in a place like California. They want the number high as possible for the reasons of apportionment, but also federal funding

and all the different good is the federal government distributes. Right, if you've got a county that has a hundred thousand people, well that's you get stuff based on the formula that the government has for those hundred thousands. If you have

a hundred fifty thousand, you're gonna get more stuff. So if California wants the other states, including states that are not sanctuary jurisdictions that are not full of millions of illegal aliens, to pay for their or emergency room visits, to pay for their school system, to to be giving them additional federal funds, they need the illegals to be counted. They want the illegals to be counted the problem. So so they don't want the inclusion, they say, because it'll

scare people off. I don't know if it'll really scare anybody from answering one or the other one. I think you can just leave the question blank. And two it's the last question on the survey, so people have already filed out all this stuff, and the last one they'll have a thing about citizenship status. And I'm sure they'll just have a you know, uh, you know, a little clause about you know neither or does not apply or no answer or whatever, or you just leave it blank.

You know what, really scary thing happens to you if you don't fill out your citizenship I'm sorry, you're a census forms. I think they can send someone to hand it to you, and then if you really want to play hardball, they can find you a hundred dollars. No one's going to prison over this one. Folks when they start talking about ever so scared, Oh, I'm so scared, the census workers are coming for me. You know, if you're worrying about the census workers coming for you need

to have a whole other bunch of talks. Time to check and see how you're doing. Um. But the other part of it is that if you had let's say a high degree of compliance with the census in California, including the question about illegal aliens um, including that question, then you'd be able to see how many illegals are actually in California. And you know, we're told time and time again all the government has a number. They know the number. The numbers clear, you know, the worry about it,

They've got it, and no big deal. Come out to the coast, have a few laughs. They pretend like they have a really good hand on this. I'm of the school and I know that some of our esteemed friends in this debate, who are true experts market corpying from Center Immigration Studies, among others, believe that the eleven and twelve million number is is accurate. I think it's higher than that UM, and I have a whole rationale or

reasoning of as to why that is. UM. Whenever there's something the government wants to be a lower number, trust me, they undercount it, right. So that's just a basic rule. Whenever that's it's bad for the number to be higher, the government magically finds a way to pretend the number is lower, uh than it actually is. So I think

illegal immigrations know different than that. But also if people really had a renewed sense of how many illegals are in for example, Los Angeles County, then I think they want to know, well, what is this costing us folks? Yeah, and and and if there's federal dollars being directed See this is one really comes down to, if there are federal dollars that are specifically being increased for these areas of the country because of their illegal alien populations, which

in a state like California, it's in the millions. I don't know how many millions, but in terms of the percentages, it's a large percentage of the overall state now is illegal. I don't want to throw out a number because I might be overestimating it in my head. And while I like to think I'm human Google, occasionally I do make mistakes.

But there are some There are some people who are seeing what's happened in California and understanding that they want the money, but they don't want the data, meaning they don't want people to really know how many illegals are. Actually what do we got, producer Mike uh And this is going back to the estimated between two point three

five and two point six million undocumented immigrants. In fairness, I was gonna say three millions, so, you know, close, But that's you're you're you're looking at getting in the neighborhood of me. You know what, what what's the population of California? I'm gonna keep a human Google needs to keep turning to actual Google here. I think it's thirty five million, nish thirty to thirty five million? What do we got, producer Mike millionamn, close enough that I give

it to myself. I showed my war work. I get half credit at least on the math test. Thirty thirty nine millions, So let's say it's roughly three million. Okay, I'm not saying it's but that's a large portion of the state, but that number is low. That number is low, No way, it's actually and they say two points six, but I think they're unaccount undercounting by at least would be my guests, and they don't want people to really know.

But here's what you see happening. The Democrat Party is now the party of illegal aliens, which means the Democrat Party privileges the interests of non citizens or in the country illegally over legal US citizens. And if this fight over the census question continues, that we may also see is in fact a situation where the government is privileging

the interests of order. The government in California would be privileging the interests of illegal aliens over the interests of minority communities in this country who are specifically protected under the Voting Rights Act. It just goes to show you where the priorities the Democrat Party are. Now. Forget about Americans, forget about minorities, forget about African Americans. In this context, the Democrat Party concerned first and foremost with non American

illegal aliens. We'll be back. Fox News has the conservative piece of the Real Estate sewed up and has thrived on that and done incredibly well. I will say what has happened there in the post Roger Rails world is somewhat shocking. Frankly, it is really state run TV. It is a pure propaganda machine and I think does an incredible disservice to this country. Oh boy, I'm excited. Time for some bucks laps here for Mr Mr Zucker, there

we go. Who is the my technically my four were boss at CNN, although I don't know if he would know me if I walked into the room, and I don't care, But but he threw the first punch here in the Fox News wars. You know, usually the corporate executive types stay out of this because they understand that the moment the guys at the very top start rolling up the sleeves and throwing punches, the second this turns

into a bit of rhetorical pugilism. It's a throwdown. Um. That's when you, in fact, can have all the rest of the organization deciding that they're also going to get in on it, if you know what I mean, They're also going to throw down quite a bit. And there's so much that's a problem here. Okay, there's so much that's wrong with what was just said, but let me just start from the perspective of what CNN was for

the eight years of the Obama administration. If you went on CNN and you were insufficiently uh favorable towards Obama, if you did not show him reverence, you were automatically suspect in the eyes of the entirety of the leadership there, and the producers that would book you for the shows, and as all the different hosts. In fact, the hosts of the various CNN shows were incredibly close to senior

Obama administration officials, both personally in many cases professionally. It was as close as you can be in the media, I think, without actually working in the West wing. That's where CNN was an MSNBC during the Obama years. There was no effort whatsoever to really call to account the Obama administration lies. He was like, oh what lies. Oh, I don't know, Like, if you like your health care plan,

you can keep it. And also if you were and I was so I speak from experience here, if you were a conservative over at CNN, you were always being either subtly or not so subtle a fashion undermined. You were contly being underlined. You were there to be a clay pigeon. If you did too well, you would get

put on ice, you'd be sent on injured Reserve. And for CNN right now to have its head haunt show out there throwing stuff in the direction of Fox News, when CNN has just engaged in among the most appalling weeks of journalism or months of journalism I've ever seen with regard to the gun issue, is particularly rich. It's crazy that CNN thinks they can lecture anyone on anything at this point in time, considering that they set up a gun town hall that was the the equivalent of

some kind of show trial. It really was. It was a show trial. It was let's bring out people who will defend the Second Amendment, who will have an honest conversation with this frenzied anti gun mob. And do you have to remember what I say and you know it's true, because when I say it, left just get really mad at me. When I talk about the truth of the anti gun movement, I get all this victriol from the left when I say things like anti gun sentiment is

really about anti gun owner sentiment. They get so angry because it's true, and they don't like it when people speak the truth about what's really going on in their minds, why they take the positions they do, why they feel the way they do about all these various gun control issues and debates that come up. But you had Marco Rubio, Dana Lash, you had individuals showing up for that CNN town hall, which was really, as I said, a televised show trial and just a a two minutes hate against

gun owners. It's not gonna change any policy in any meaningful sense. It's not gonna save anyone's lives, any lives. It's just going to be exactly what it was, an effort to play Kate the frenzied, ignorant anti gun base that comprises most of CNN's viewership. They're proudly ignorant. I mean, these are the chainsaw batonet people, right. Oh, why do I gotta know about the chan saw band nuts with the Buzuka machine lasers on it. You say, well, that's

not really a thing. Oh, it's always about the minutia with you children are dying. Well, I'm just trying to be clear. If you want to pass a lot of band something you should probably know what you're trying to ban, right. You know, this would be like if somebody said, yeah, let's just let's just ban let's just ban opioids. This is ban them all, And I said, well, hold on a second. Some opioids are actually really useful for people for medicinal purposes. Some give people their lives back, allow

them to function instead of being chronic pain. Some opioids are incredibly useful during and after or after generally but surgery. Right, Oh no, let's just ban them. Don't you care about all the people losing their lives, Well, of course I care about the people losing their lives. But you know, if you're saying, just ban opioid, I'm gonna say that's a bad idea. If you're saying just band guns or band handguns or band rifles, I'm gonna say that's a bad idea. But CNN doesn't want to get lost in

those distinctions. It's a network that has just gone from one storyline to another. Not meant to illuminate different aspects of Democrat policy. Not meant to give people a both sides understanding of what the Trump administrations up to. They are a political Action Committee devoted to undermining and destroying this presidency. That's it. They will do fake news as they have in the past, in order to get there.

They are unapologetic about the bias that they have. In fact, they unlike MSNBC, which will kind of sort of admitted. I mean, they know they're leftist at MSNBC, CNN doesn't think it has a bias, which in many ways makes it even worse. In many ways, I find that more bothersome than what we see from other places. You know, no, no one admits that. No one thinks I should say that Vox or Slate or the Huffing and Post doesn't have a point of view. They don't understand that their

point of view is insane and they're practically communists. But nonetheless they've got a point of view. CNN thinks it's still the gold standard in journalism. I could say here and just tell your story after story about the stuff that I heard on air, off air, behind the scenes, always playing games. They didn't realize what they were doing. And this is fundamental, This is important for all of

you listening. They kept putting the Trump people on TV, yes, because of ratings, but also they thought that Trump and all of his defenders in the media, of which I was won by the way after the primary. Uh, they thought that they were creating us and and and idiotic, and if they would just put them on air, it would expose how awful they were to the people that watch CMN. So it was a two fur. You get great ratings and you're just letting these these pro Trump

clowns embarrassed themselves. What they didn't understand was that people saw this and they thought, Wow, this guy's actually really he's really making sense, He's got something. What they didn't understand was that when they had their anchors say things like, oh, Anderson Cooper, Mr super journalist, Donald Trump would take a dump on a desk, and you would defend it. That's a quote from him when he was on air on

National TV. Oh yeah, this this the second coming of Edward R. Murrow right there, Anderson Cooper, when he's not drunk on New Year's Eve, he's doing a great job on air. You know, he said that on TV. And it's because over time it just became hard to get attention for the different ways that people at CNN could try to undermine and humiliate Trump. Supporters on air, and so he finally just lent one fly there. But there

were other times too. I remember when he went after Andy Dean and basically said, you know, your little punk life, you've never done any thing like I've done. It was a really nasty exchange with Andy Dean, who's a friend of mine, a good guy. By the way, I actually used to be a host of radio show. UM, so the bias is very clear. And then just real quickly.

I won't spend much time on this, but Fox News has people who are very supportive of Trump, people who are kind of supportive of Trump, people who are opposed to Trump, and they are all on air and they are all treated with respect. I cannot say the same

thing for CNN. Pro Trump people are ridiculed there. And it's CNN's fault and CNN's loss and CNN's poor judgment that they thought by putting Trump people on TV during the campaign, they were assuring Hillary's victory and whoops, it's not how it turned out as uh, as you can see. I do not I do not appreciate. I do not think we all need to hear the lecture from Mr Zucker on Fox News as state TV and it's it's particularly galling a team. We've got a lot more show

coming up here. Uh, phone lines are open eight four five eight four four. Buck Also, don't forget you can tweet at me throughout the show if you'd like at buck Sexton on Twitter. I'm hoping some of you sign up for Twitter. It's actually really cool platform. Hce you start using it, and certainly Facebook, Facebook dot com slash

buck Sexton. We'll be right back. Do you think in showing these kids so often as often as we we all do, we're doing actually them a disservice because the policy is actually what's going to change this The passion I fear will just sound like noise after a while and people will tune it out. Disservices is a strong word. But when I was interviewing David Hogg only ten days after the massacre, Uh, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and and say, let's let's correct

that fact. That's so interesting. And at one of the times I did, and other times I did not. So there you have my friend sc cup over at over at hl N sister network, CNN, who is one of the very few loan conservatives over there and and she

is treated with respect. She has her own show on hl N, so it's the sister network to see an N. But she's asked a very important question of Brian Salter, who has a show of Mind You on CNN and whom I My one experience with him was was he tried to ambush me in a taped interview and got so buck slapped and so taken to school that the the interview never saw the light of day. They never aired it, and wouldn't even tell me they weren't going to air it two days later when I said, hey,

whatever happened that interview was overtaken by breaking news. It's a Sunday morning. This was supposed to air on Sunday morning. I don't think there was any breaking news in the last couple of hours since you guys were all planning on running this. Because he keep it as like that, But well, what do you know about terrorism? Then why

would this be a terrorisis? Like, I don't know. I might have brief the president on issues relating to counter terrorism when I was in the Central Intelligence Aide, see his Office of counter Terrorism and then the Office of a Rock Analysis. Maybe I might know something about it enough to talk about it on CNN without an anchor coming at me with that stuff that that my week's us has been thrown back at my face. I'm so sad. Now Stelter is not not among the more impressive journalists

over there. He also walks around all the time wearing new balanced sneakers with his suit on. Which are you, Steve Jobs? No wear some real shoes, all right, Stelter, I'm somebody's all about comfortable shoes. Don't wear shoes that say, hey, I'm too cool at my place of work to have to wear real shoes with this suit. You can say this is petty, but I'm just enjoying making fun of Selter a little bit. Okay, So, uh we we have the admission there though, and this was what was important,

admission that they just don't really challenge the kids. You see. That's why the kids are so perfect for the purposes of the propaganda that's out there, the uh March for Our Lives and then never again moving all this different stuff because the demo crats can use it in whatever way they want whenever they want. You know, they're experts when they sound good, they're just kids. When they make fools of themselves. They're people of great gravitas and authority

when they're pushing the left wing line. There, He'll be me into the kids that whenever the media decides on on the one hand, of the voices of reason and wisdom on the other hand, that is going to change a generation. On the other hand, uh, they are the kids who we can't be mean to because they've been through a trauma. Right. So looking at this now you see the way the game is playing out time and time again with this. It's not new. They did this.

The Democrats did this with a handful of nine eleven widows, and everyone was very, oh gosh, how could you call?

You know, there are a few people that are in campaign commercials for John Kerry and acting like they can't be challenged on foreign policy because there are among the thousands of people who lost family members on on eleven and now here we are at this And I would note that the one of the survivors of the Bota Clon massacre, which saw I believe over a hundred killed that day you had suicide bombing at the Stad de France, I was actually at seeing then covering it as an

analyst at the time when it was breaking news and you had all these so I remember the night very well, and you had all these different stories about how horrific the Bota Clon massacre was. And you've got a survivor of that saying that he thinks these kids are acting like they're acting like, uh, you know, punks. Basically, he thinks it's completely He calls them pathetic. I'm trying to find the oh and and and vile. I'm trying to find the direct quotes from him. Now. It was the

Eagles of Death metal frontman Jesse Hughes. He's been getting attention now for so so what do we say to this in response? He was there from one of the most horrific brutal terrorist massacres who happen in the West in memory, all right, other than nine eleven and Battle Clown massacres up there, and like probably the top ten or fifteen in terms of number killed. And so does does he get a special place in terms of his opinions on this is? Is he treated with reverence and deference?

Of course not, because he's not a useful tool for the left. He is not someone who does what they want him to do. Therefore, he does not get the special protections. One more. I wanted to get this in before we get to the next hour. We're gonna talk about Russia coming up, right, I know, get excited Russia time. Uh here is uh CNN, I'm really going after see

it is. I've got some unresolved CNN issues. Apparently I need to go sit down with my therapist and be like, CNN was so mean to me, and I just feel like I just want some CNN closure because they just were I mean, it's not really like that. I smacked around all the people that they actually let me get near in terms of on air, but they kept mending of them away from me. You know, they were smart.

I give him credit for that. There were some that were we're dodging me on the Hillary Clinton story in particular, because it's like, well, I had a t S clearance and actually know the rules in the law on this. You're putting a bunch of political hillary hacks on TV who want jobs. Who do you think is going to look smarter on TV? Like, let's keep this buck kid off to the side. Please. Uh he he looks twenty

maybe on a good day. But they'll still believe him because he actually knows what the heck he's talking about. But polling says some things that they don't like over at CNN, so uh of people, despite allegations of affairs, forty two of people UM are approving of Trump at this point in time, UM, which is actually right about right about where he was, right about where he's been

all along. So they keep running these stories. They keep running the different iterations of you know, playboy bunny and the affair and all this other stuff off and it doesn't affect Trump's approval, right, And the ratings are terrible over at CNN, by the way, So what are they really doing. They are on an a hab like quest. Trump is CNN's white whale. We could have a lot of fun with that, and CNN is a hab and they are never given this thing up. The polling shows

that's not working so far, but they don't care. They don't care. Our maytee with the higher poon. I don't know if that's really what they have sounds like, but you know what I mean, Our to Russia coming up. Stay with me. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops.

This is twenty nations, including many nations in Western Europe, which is a history of being somewhat soft on Russia, as well as the Stern Block nations for the former Soviet satellite states, and the United States is leading the way in this in terms of the number of expulsions. Look, Eric, I'm a I'm an old piece through strength guy, and I always will be. When one nation does something inappropriate, messes with international order and law, it is entirely right

and you must retaliate. We retaliated. We need to do more. But this is very appropriate, felt familiar, felt a bit like old times. Now, look look at what just happened. We're tough on Russia. We acted in concert with our allies globally. The United States took a leadership role, very untrumpion and so I'm I'm very happy to see it. In response to the President's leadership, several additional countries and NATO have followed up with similar actions since our announcement.

As of this morning, over twenty five countries all around the world have expelled one hundred and fifty Russian intelligence officers hiding under diplomatic cover in their countries. As we have said before the United States is open to building a better relationship with Russia, but the Russian government must understand that there are serious consequences for its destabilizing actions.

Trump takes on the bear, welcome back to the buck, Sex and show everybody we had just in that little little sound bite we ran there, we had a former Bush administration, White House Press secretary, former CIA director in fact, my boss, I remember Mike. There's a good dude. Actually, I like Mike. I want to be Remember I want to be like Mike. By the way, that was such a big campaign. I didn't want to be like Mike in that I wanted to run the agency. But nonetheless,

Hayden was a good guy. And uh then you also sarahuckeby Sanders of this administration. But you're noticing a trend here, folks. Not a surprise at all. Right, A lot of action taken on Russia by this administration. Action that is real. It's not just words. It's not sitting around talking go under summits giving interview, used to friendly press outlets, going on MSNBC. You know we're gonna work together, bambministration is gonna do things. We're gonna make it better. We're gonna

work and we're gonna stop Russian. Uh. This is actually Trump saying, okay, you know, you want to poison somebody with nova chalk in the UK, one of our closest allies in the whole world. There's there's gonna be consequences, and they're going to be tailored to what is a a response one would expect in this situation. Right, We're not just it's not okay they use nova chalk. Now we're about to, you know, land a marine expeditionary force in St. Petersburg. But it is saying, hold on a second,

this is not okay. You guys gotta knock this stuff off. See it's interesting, isn't it. You have so many people that refer to Putin as a thug. You'll hear that a lot. You'll hear about how You'll hear about how Putin is such a thug, he's such a bad guy. And then what they don't understand is they want a you win, multi e lateral, sit down, drink tea Davo

style push back to whatever Putin is doing. And the trump bean approach is much more you know, look, I'm not gonna sit here and give all kinds of bluster about how I don't like what Putin did in the elections, I don't think. But when he steps out of line, you know, he steps out of line, he's gonna get smacked. And that's what happened here, right, This is I'm sure, producer Mike, these are the same rules in certain neighborhoods

in Philly. You go to the outer boroughs in New York, in Staten Island, for example, you step out of line, you get smacked. Right, This is the Trump approach to dealing with Russia. And sometimes there's a genius in simplicity, or at least there's an effectiveness in simplicity. And I think with with Trump on international affairs, because he isn't trying to trying so hard to impress people with these

degrees from various UH international relations institutes. A Fletcher School at Toughs, George George Town's School of Foreign Service, the Walsh School, JOHNS. Hopkins School of Advanced in International Studies, Columbia's School of International Public Affairs SEA. But I mean, go through all these places, You're like, Buck, why do you know about these things? Who do you think you know? These are people who go work in government. They're working.

They go from these schools and they go they become the bureaucrats. Who are, you know, working at the State Department, working at the you name it. And the truth is, for a lot of them, it would just be better to have some to focus on a life experience instead of getting a master's degree. That's the equivalent of a lot of reading assignments that you could do on your own if you just had the time and the discipline.

That's that's just that's the deal. So Trump is taking this approach, and now you're seeing a shift in at least that the punditocracy on the Russia issue. For now. They will abandon this in a few weeks and we'll be back to you know, Trump. You know, it's like miss It's like Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the silarium. You know, it'll be Trump and putin stuffing ballot boxes in Wisconsin. That's gonna be where they take us. Just

give it some time for now. Though there's a little bit of mm hmmm, what are we to make of this? What are we supposed to do about the fact that one of the dominant narratives from the media all along has been, oh, do we have it Erry, the hunt for Roud October M's like always gets me in the mood for Russia analysis. So thank you Brandon on the board.

Now I'm now, I'm really ready to go. So one of the main storylines all along has been that the Trump approach to Russia is tainted by either their ability to blackmail him or some bizarre and inexplicable favoritism that Trump has when it comes to Russia. You know, all these different things, and yet all in the actual policy issues, Trump has been willing to do things that his predecessor Obama was not willing to do. And I think it's in part because of the my my thesis here for

Trumps international relations. What pulse? Who's pulse? Or that. That was one of my favorite moments with now famous for very different reasons, lawyer Michael Cohen's who's pulse? You've got poles? I got pulse? Who's pulse? On CNN? It was great. The anchor was like, the pulse, who's pulse? You've got poles? They're wrong by the way those poles, Uh, the step out of line, you get smacked. That's how you deal with bullies. That's actually how you deal with a KGB thug.

You get all these reporters running around saying he's a thug, he's a thug, and yet you don't have any way to deal with that that's effective. And you've also got to look at this from the perspective of let's assume that what we all hear about Putin all the time is is true. All all I can know about Putin

is what I've read about him. I have not yet, despite comy bears and treatise on my behalf, I have not yet gotten an invitation to the Kremlin to hang out with Putin, to go shirtless, uh, deer hunting and go right around on. I don't know, elephants, whatever else he's got. I know they don't have elephants in Russia, but you know he does all those cool things all over the world. Right this is they've created a cult of personality around him. It's a it's very clear that

he is the guy. He has now melded into the state in a similar way to the Chinese premier Hijin Ping. But how do you deal with somebody who is aggressive in a bully, Well, you stand up to them, you don't give them a you don't give them an excuse to escalate necessarily. But if a bully pushes you, you push back. If if a bully pushes you, you you don't necessarily try to wind up and give him a Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick to the nose, because one you'll

probably miss. Because high kicks are generally very ineffective in street fights from what I've seen and been told by people who are trained in these matters. And if you think about it, it it makes sense. If I tried to throw a high kick, I would pull a hammy, no doubt. You know I'm getting up there, I'm getting all and that's not cool. No matter what kind of fights you're in, you'ren't gonna go hold up, hold up, I just pulled something. But you don't want to escalate beyond what the bully

is already doing. And that's why we're expelling diplomats. This is there aren't that many things in our tool kit. Keep that in mind. We were already doing sanctions punishing Russia economically, we are already taking diplomatic actions against them. And remember that the single most important thing we have done to box in the Russian States ambitions abroad and

to push back on Putin's belligerence. The single most important thing I would argue is the share revolution in this country that has brought the price of oil down so much that the Russian economy, which is really a one trick pony, I mean, Russia is kind of like Saudi Arabia plus the kgb um. That's the most important thing that we've done, and that was done. Remember this, what is it. The barrel of oil right now is sixty four dollars. I Remembermber when it was like a hundred

twenty dollars. Yeah, and you you'd actually fill up a gas tank. You're like, my camera, just eight fifty dollars. You're like, oh my gosh, very expensive stuff. Uh. The most important thing we've done is through essentially US prosperity, technology, innovation, ingenuity, energy. That's been more important than any other policy we've had. It's also the reason now Venezuela is in a terrible place of despair. But it's what's collapsed the Venezuelan regime,

the Iraqi regime. People don't often give them credit for this, and this is just an aside for those of you who are rock watchers and care but the Iraqis were like, no, no, we're not going to budget for a very high price of oil going into the future. At least some years ago. They seemed to have a little bit of foresight with their budgeting, right, they didn't prepare for nothing but high prices and oil for the foreseeable. It also is bringing about some degree re of reform in the Middle East.

I would note there's more of that, and this is all the result of the private sector really in the United States. So our most formidable weapon against a country that still has thousands of nuclear weapons, a very capable advanced military, and not necessarily delusions of grandeur, but defer definitely an inflated sense of its importance on the world stage, has just been allowing our oil companies and our technology

to bring down the price of oil dramatically. Because remember this, the Russian oil industries are are state essentially state owned, state backed enterprise. I mean there's some private sector of a near but it's really the state makes all the decisions. State is ros Neft in these other oil oil conglomerates.

They are essential for funding Russian government operations. I think Russia has a flat tax by the way, I think it's like ten or fiftent Hey if it works for Russia, um, but they have not been able to refit and and build out their military the way they'd like to because they don't have the capital to do it. So I just think that's a story that doesn't get told very much.

And oh, by the way, one of the reasons it's not told to you and we we don't you don't have a media telling this is to the United States. Has thanks to all the folks listening who work in the ural industry, and thanks to those scientists in the private sector and and researchers who have created this revolution in shale oil technology, we can get so much more and it's so it gets put on the market cheaply.

And uh, this has changed geopolitics more than any policy I can think of in the last well in the post nine eleven era, really and for the better. And you don't hear about it because, oh, that's right, the Obama administration opposed it every step of the way. No no offshore drilling, no drilling on federal land, no drilling on in or fracking is bad. Remember when there was that whole effort to say that fracking was gonna poison

all of our drinking water. There was a guy who made some documentary, total total wacko, by the way, I've seen him on I can't remember his name right now, but it was gas Land. I think it was gas Land was the name of the documentary. So, I mean, it's like maybe ten years ago. You know, I'm human Google, but I'm imprecise. You know, you gotta fact check the human Google over here, which I guess it means I'm

not actually Google. But the whole premise is that you got everybody with all this gas underground and shale oil, and we're all gonna it's all gonna poison us, right, Mike, Yeah, that guy running around, We're all are drinking water is all getting poisoned because of shale. Oh, we need to pass legislation in New York to protect the well the New York Watershed from shale. It's it's all. It's not true.

This has all been complete. Sky is falling. I was gonna say Silence of the Lambs, it was actually boy who cried wolf. That's what I meant to say. I'm getting my I'm mixing metaphors in a big way. No, no no, sid it uses the low shot or it gets the hose. That's a very different, very different metaphor to use. So yeah, um boy, who cried wolf? Though with the shale oil situation, is is apt. They were saying it would be so

bad it would poison our drinking water. Meanwhile, if you want to see why Vladimir Putin is a lot of bluster and isn't nearly as effective on the world stage as he would like to be, forget about anything and including honestly, Trump policy up to this point. And Trump's done good stuff, but he hasn't been in office that long.

Bringing the price of oil down dramatically and having the United States become the world's energy producing superpower is a single most important thing, and that was done over the strenuous objections of the Obama administration, of the environmentalist lobby of the Democrat Party. So thanks for nothing, lefties, No surprise there. I don't mean that like for people who

are left handed. Although if we're really going to get into it, the term sinister comes from the Latin on left, and those of you who remember your Bible know that one of the ways that an assassination was pulled off was by hiding a weapon on the left side because they only checked the right. It was considered kind of cheating to be left handed. So there's that. I gotta go to our sponsor this half hour before we move on,

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an affair way, it wouldn't make it true. It is completely If you went on the radio and said that Blue Clinton is the father mallegitimate black child, you would be laughed at. People would think you're crazy. I guarantee you that if you do this, you'll never work in democratic politics again. Maybe you don't want it. I'm not saying it matters. You will be embarrassed before the National Press Corps, people will think nobody will believe you, and

people will think you're scumming that. The alternative is you don't do it. It causes you some temporary pain with people who tomorrow aren't gonna matter, and you have a campaign that understands it. In a difficult time. You did something right. Um, and you know that's important. I mean it doesn't mean anything. We can't do anything for you specifically or anything like that, but you, uh, you know that you did the right thing. So that's George Stephanopolis.

As a flashback included in the Freedom Hunt packet Today producer Mike what what was the context for this? By the way, when when was this going on? This is way back in the day. This is Stephanopolis, the political operative threatening a journalist. It sounds like, yeah, it's actually from thementary called the War Room. Um it was. It

took place during um the president presidential campaign. Interesting, Yes, Stephanopolis a guy who was somehow able to transition from being a straight up political operative to to a newsman. And everyone's like, oh, he's just a newsman. H Mmm, how does that work? That reminds me. You know what I got this week? Actually, I'm gonna see chap a Quittic. I'm gonna that is on my list of things that

I need to see. I'm excited that someone made her, or I'm thankful probably even a better word, that somebody made a movie about what happened in Chapa Quittic with Teddy Kennedy. It is somewhat astonishing, though, that here we are, this many years later, and it's only after Teddy Kennedy has passed away and there's really not a Kennedy that's in the stable that's supposed to take over. You know that the Kennedy throne and the fact that there's even

a Kennedy throne is terrible, folks. I am opposed to political dynasties, I really, you know, it's one of the one of the big problems I have with with Jeb. I didn't like it about George w not gonna lie. I hated about the Clintons, And I think we need

to be consistent on this one. One of the biggest things that separates the right from a left in this country, conservatives from liberals, is our are our willingness to say things even when we don't want to or even when it's not the most fun thing to say, because we don't want to be hypocrites. Right, we need to hold

onto that. It's important. I'm saying we're perfect. I'm just saying the left embraces hypocrisy means to an end whatever you know, what's fine in one case is not fine, and the other depends on whether it's a D or an R by the person's name. And we see this with the whole fiasco over Trump and the alleged affairs versus the way they treated Clinton, the way they treated Kennedy, the JFK and Teddy Kennedy Um, the way that they

covered for uh. John Edwards wouldn't touch that story for the longest time, and that was really he is the fact that he was so close to being president is really to this day still one of the one of the moments where I start to question this, this whole experiment we call America, like, you're gonna make this ambulance chaser who's lying to everybody repeatedly all TV about cheating on his cancer stricken wife who he uses at campaign rallies for sympathy. I mean, the whole thing was just

beyond appalling. But the media was, you know, they do whatever they want to do. All this stuff. The Stephanopolis thing, I just I never heard Stephanopolis gets so fierce. That was that was interesting. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck

never stops. Oh boy, the Facebook stuff continues here. I've I will give myself a little paddle the pack because while everybody else was, oh my gosh, Facebook is combing for you, I was like, Facebook has been doing this all along, folks. It's not new. There is There is nothing about Facebook aggregating your your data and using it and trying to sell it at a profit that is it any way different. And I'm happy that we're finally

seeing what's going on here. By the numbers those of you listening to this show, I think I want to say of the Country is on the problem with doing statistics off the top of your head. You know, I'm just it's a freestyle three hour radio show and I just say things. I think of the Country has a Facebook account. Maybe it's I don't know. I'm gonna take a mulligan on this one. It's a lot though most of you listening have a Facebook account. I don't know how much you use it or not, but it is.

It is the dominant social media platform by far in terms of overall usage and percentage of people who are are involved with Facebook in some way. So it's it's a b a myth, okay, and it's got a tremendous it really. It has the budget of a pretty good sized country. And it is a a force in economics, a force in in our economy in ways that we're just beginning to really understand. But here's the latest on this,

and this one's courtesy of p J Media. I saw this, um, I saw this one on Drudge and he goes as follow us quote Cambridge Analytical Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wiley appearing before a committee of British MPs on Tuesday. So that Facebook has the ability to spy on users in their homes and offices. The British Parliament is investigating Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the Brexit election. MP Damian Collins, who chaired

the committee, asked, why is you know, Wiley? Yeah, whether Facebook has the ability to listen to what people are talking about in order to better target them with ads. Quote, There's been various speculation about the fact that Facebook can, through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen into what people are talking about and discussing and using that to prioritize the advertising as well. Other people would say no,

they don't think it's possible. It's just that the Facebook system is so good at predicting what you're interested in that it can guess. He asked for Wiley's thoughts on the possibility, and Wiley said, there's audio that could be useful, just in terms of are you in an office environment, are you outside? Are you watching TV? Facebook mean, while denies allegations that its app listens in on people. Look, I'm gonna tell you this, Siri, I don't trust Siri,

I don't trust Alexa. I turn all those things off because when series on on my phone and I'm not some paranoid guy. Are you paranoid? Sexton? Are you ready for what's coming? Bill? The Burgh's camp trails. Oh yeah, it's nothing. Just look at them up at the sky. There's nothing there, just camp trails. Nothing, nothing happened. But no, seriously, I turn off of what what not? Alexa? Alexe is the other one, right? Alexe is all it? Alexa? Are you working for the government? Alexa? That was one of

my favorite clips. If we have that, By the way, should we should play that just because it's fun. He's an incredible performance artist. I give him credit for that. Um. But the serie thing, the serie thing, I sound like, oh, the serie thing on my phone. It's hard to press the buttons and I can't get it to work. Dad, nabb it. But the serie whatever it is, app function.

I believe the serie function did this thing when I got a phone that actually had it on, where all of a sudden it would go like no, like I do not know where the pizza party is. I'm like, whoa, whoa, No one's talking to you. It would it's occasionally maybe this is just a malfunction on my phone, but it would pick up, you know, if you left it on, or if I left it on, it would pick up

what I had said and would respond to it. And I'm sure there's some techy explanation for this or whatever, but that to me means it has to have an active microphone on while I'm talking. And if it has an active microphone on, you've got a couple of possibilities.

One is that at least it is very possible that somebody could hack into your phone and be listened to everything, and they would hear my long conversations, uh with miss Molly about how I really just think that this is the best aoli for my frozen chicken tenders, which is pretty much my I have a few weaknesses in life. Bacon, frozen chicken tenders, chocolate, whole milk, tequila that's pretty and

wine those are that's the list. Really. If you give me all that, I'm in pretty owing steak, obviously, but I'm in pretty good shape. If you're giving all those things, maybe you can put some greens on my plate so

I seem healthy. Uh. But I didn't like that this would pick up the words that I was that are were the words that I was saying the things that I was saying, and it would get processed through some kind of you know, computer algorithm, and it would it would make decisions based on what I was saying, and it did necessarily wait for me to prompt it. So if we were thinking about this from a counterintelligence perspective, let me just say this would be you have to

think of this as a nightmare. Right. You're gonna walk around with it with a microphone that is always enabled and that is always connected to the web or to your cell phone, to the cell towers, and you're just hoping that not only is there good enough encryption to stop hackers, but you're trusting any company that you put an app on your phone that they're not going to misuse or abuse this data. Now, you know, I would say that I'm sounding a little paranoid, but I also

know people who really do the thing. And producer Mike Brandon either you do this where they put the piece of tape on there on the top of their computer where the camera is because they know that it can be turned on and turned off. I think a lot of this is kind of like the local news stories you'll see where it's like can somebody hack into your baby monitor and they had put up a photo of like some creepy guy in a sweatshirt and just you know, you can't see his face. They're like News at eleven.

It's like, yeah, of course somebody could hack into a a baby monitor, I guess technologically speaking, but I think they're doing a bit of fearmongering to get people to tune in. You know, it's like is your toothpaste killing you? News at eleven. There's a lot of that. But you know, you start thinking about what is really possible in this world we live in now and how we all uh we all carry around with us active microphones, we carry

surveillance devices on us. You know, if you were if you were trying to walk around East Germany Circle and Vistazi was able to give you a device that could that was a recording device, a locational device, a video device, and you could have it with you at all times. The Stasi would have been like, oh my gosh, this is crazy, but they would have been very happy because it's much more, uh, it is much more effect of surveillance.

And they were even able to do with their enormous network of informants, which I then, now I have to give you my requisite plug for the Lives of Others das Leben Derander. In a few of you actually speak fluent German, and whenever I do anything in German on the show, you completely call me out on Facebook. So I'm prepared for that. That's fine, but it's it's a wonderful movie The Lives of Others. Highly highly recommended. I recommend that it to somebody recently and he told me

he fell asleep during it. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm never gonna think of the same way again. He's off the list now now I don't know. I'm not I'm not recommending any to him anymore. I recommended Win River and he's all like, oh, book, you're a genius. Then I'm like, all right, we're gonna bring up to the big time. Now we're gonna put you in a foreign language situation with the lives of others, things like yeah, I fell asleep during it. I was like, oh, you

insult me, sir. If you get a chance, I would highly recommend you see it. But we need to understand that these platforms like Facebook and the technology that we carry around with us. It all comes with risks. It all is changing the way we interact, you know, I keep saying it, and it's gonna it's gonna be like the drug cartels and opiate overdoses. I was saying that for quite a while on the show. I'm like, no one else is saying it. Now everyone's saying so like, wow, Buck,

how'd you know? Uh, the biggest change in crime and criminal behavior in this country we've seen over the last thirty or forty years is there. I don't care anyone said they could talk broken windows theory. They you know, you could. You could read freakonomics and which I think is garbage on this issue. But there's a and you

can say whatever you want. It's technology. It's that you are carrying around the ability to in real time photograph, live stream video, communicate with text, message with GEO, locate all of us all the time, and we're all connected. You can speak to a non one one operator in a matter of seconds. All of us can all the time. I mean, maybe this is a bad thing. And heaven forbid any of these stuff about radiation and like carrying

radiation in your pocket. You know, it's there's there's some there's actually some you want to talk about conspiracy, oh, I got one for you. But if you want to talk about conspiracies, the possible destructive effects of selling their technology as it as it uh as it affects uh tumor growth and and cancer and things like that. That's people say it's it's not bad for you, and it's fine, But then all the people are like, well there was this study, and you know, who really knows how all

this stuff affects you. I have big concerns about it. Um Over the long term, I started to see people who who are like carrying around radiation shielded phones now and stuff. I've seen some there's some stuff out there which hey, at least it is definitely a conversation start. If you're on a date, she's like, what's that, and you're like, don't worry about that, honey, it's my radiation shield, you know what I mean. I've got one that's actually from my computer that I you know, I guess you

gotta protect what's precious in life. So I put it. You gotta put it across your lap. We put the laptop on top of it. There you go. Um. We were talking about Facebook. I think in Facebook Analytica. But things took a little of a turn, and I just was sharing you some of Buck's philosophy of all the things, Buck's theory of everything. If you will probably too soon, um, eight four four to five eight four buck, I'll be

right back. Yeah. Occasionally I like to share some stories with you that are are uplifting, actually, um, and I like to be able to sit here and tell you about something that makes us off a little bit good. You know. Usually Facebook is is a a place, UM, a place or or a Twitter is a place where you'll see all kinds of nastiness and people just say that they say really mean things to each other and they're just big, mean meanings and it's not cool. You know.

You get a lot of that. Um. Usually that's the case with Facebook. But sometimes, as you know, I was beating up on it a lot before, but sometimes they can be a place for good. Nice things happen, right, People actually build there. And I'm being smug about all this. There's a lot of people. They're nice. People are nice on social media. That's what you're kind of funding out.

People who are actually good people in their day to day lives are good people on social media, people who are angry and hateful and spiteful that tends to come across in the way that they interact with others. And I'm sure all of you listening know what I'm talking about.

It has never crossed my mind. For example, two even before I was in public life in some capacity, you know, being a radio dude, But it would never cross my mind to write something really mean about public figures appearance and send it to them, right, particularly to do that for a lady. I just think that's terrible. And people do that stuff, do it all the time. I used

to see. I used to get angry on behalf of some of my colleagues at The Blaze who were women who would get stuff written to them that was there was just it would embarrass any normal person to write such a thing. But there's good stuff too that happens in social media. And I just wanted to note, Uh,

this is a this is a nice a nice story. Um. This comes courtesy of Fox News and Shannon Bream, who is over at Fox and has her own show at eleven o'clock at eleven o'clock at night and is one of the there there are some very very nice people in this business. Shannon is one of the nicest people I have met in in media, and she's very likely one of the nicest believe I think you would meet anywhere. I mean, she's a really, really kind, down to earth person. Um.

She put out the following on Twitter. Need your help, Twitter Verse, trying to help a young boy who is dying. He probably has just days and all he wants is a greeting from one of the Avengers. If you have a celebrity connection, please let me know. Otherwise, could you please help out with a retweet? So forty thousand plus people. I don't even know what the numbers right now, but as of this article, forty thousand plus people and this was from five hours or no a few hours ago,

had retreated it. I was among them. Um. If I had a connection to Holly what I would have reached out, But I don't. But within a few hours, Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, and Paul Bettany, who played Vision in The Avengers, reached out publicly to Shannon and said that they were uh willing to help. Chris Evans said happy to d M me and Paul Bettany said, I'm

the purple one. Dm ME, and then Ryan Reynolds, who's Deadpool, said I'm more of a reverse a reserve Avenger, but happy to help h d m ME And I also saw uh, the guy from and I feel badly now that I forget Jeremy Renner who's from wind River, but he's also of the you know, the guy with the bow and arrow Avenger. He wrote, I saw the tweet that he put out, you know, suited up and and ready to go. Um. So you know, people are are stepping up, and it was just it was really nice.

It was a really nice thing to see. I know this isn't gonna change the world or national policy, but you know, you've got a boy who's running short on time and his and his wish, his his biggest wish right now is to meet one of the Avengers. And it's uh, you know, we beat up on Hollywood a lot, as we should, and I hold them to account for the things they say in public life, but it's it's nice to see that some of these guys and and

gals uh stepped up. Fox News is reporting that a batch of videos have been sent from the various Avengers, so they've recorded videos, you know, suited up and Elizabeth Olsen who was Oh she was also I think in uh she was in wind River. Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, Paul Rudd as Aunt Man. They're all sending greetings to this boy, and uh, it's very nice to see this happen. Shannon tweeted out, thank you everyone. Major progress has been made because of you. A special assist coming in from

Jake Tapper. Hey, thanks to Jake Tapper. You know I've I will say this. I don't know. Jake never had me on the show, we've never interacted. I've actually heard he's a good guy. So you know, I'm not gonna talk smack about him other than criticizing some of his positions on air. But I've heard he's a good He's a good guy. See. I'll say this about democrats I

disagree with. They won't say it about people like me, even if they don't know me, or even if they know that everyone who's pretty much ever worked with me is like, yeah, he's he's at least honorable and trustworthy and a good dude. You know, you don't have to like me, but there are some things that are just true. Um, but God bless Shannon for getting this going. I mean, she's one of the great ones over at Fox. If you guys, I'm basically doing a you know, a little

public service announcement for her now too. But if you haven't, you know, check out her show. She's she's everything that you'd expect from TV, and she's helping out this young boy and it's a really nice thing. And thanks to all the Avengers who are doing it too, And I just hope that it brings a lot of joy to this young man who you know, has had a has had a tough go um and it's just nice to see social media being used to not tear someone down

and do damaging, nasty things. Everything got said. You know, we we can leverage these technologies for good things. We can use these technologies to make people feel better about themselves, feel a little happier, to be in touch with loved ones, with friends, teach people thing, to spread knowledge to It's amazing easy, but it's just a reflection of who we are and how we choose to act. We've got a lot more coming up, team, including a zinky Secretary of

the Interior and the diversity issue. G four Tequila is the pinnacle of Master distiller Felipe Camarina's passion for crafting truly great. He's back with you now because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. This is a wom star. Why are we giving it any credibility? The fact that she now wants to come out with a story because she's afraid of her children? Goodness, would you tell the kiddos about your full time job. I know that when I voted for him, I wasn't

voting for a quiet boy. Someone is looking shopping for these people to come out of the woodwork because it is demeaning to our president. You can throw all that stuff up in our face as many times as you want, but that means that we will work harder for Trump. Is that not so, lady? That's correct. This is the media defining the narrative the people. We the people are ready to define the narrative. You're looking for a way to impeach my president that I worked very hard for.

Welcome to our three of the buck Sexton showing my friends that was a collection of Trump supporters, Lady, Trump supporters who are just not having it with the whole story d annuals narrative. They do not care, or if they care, it would be fair to say they only care, and so much as they think that the media is being deeply hypocritical about this and the allegations are either unfounded or unimportant to them as voters for for Trump.

There is a special kind of gall that is on display when you see a situation like this where you have many of the people pushing the story over at the different networks a non Fox media. Many of those who are pushing the story the hardest were among the most stalwart defenders of Clinton during the effort to try and cover up what was really going on with Clinton, and not just the philandering, but the sexual harassment lying

under oath, the sexual assaults. This they don't care though, now that they were covering up for Clinton and that now they're on on the war path against the Trump administration doesn't matter to them. It's all about a purpose. You know, we had a clip that I didn't get a chance to play for you yesterday, but there was a young journalist who's talking about how journalism is actually activism.

Can producer, Mike, if you if you grab that one from yesterday, let me know, because I thought it was so important for everyone to hear that that's really the mentality now, and that's becoming more and more the case that it's out there for us all to see journalism as activism is becoming the inescapable reality of a vast majority of the media outlets that are out there. So when that all of a sudden is the case, when you don't have professional ethics anymore, you have ideological goals?

What is not what? What is no longer acceptable? If it is okay for people to do whatever they can to stop Trump, then isn't it fair to say that we've seen the end of the notion of journalism as a major force in American politics? Right? If they embrace activism, they're openly about being activists because they can't hide it anymore. I mean, they can only play games for so long. If they do that, then don't we think it's fair to say that journalism is really atory, it's it's an

anachronism or becoming an anachronism. Now on the actual story Daniels thing for a second a few days. One is I gotta say, if if in fact that that this is true, let's all let's all get on the same page without I know you already. It's it's it's bad conduct. It is. It is reprehensible, it's not okay, it's not a not a not an all right thing to do. To be a married man with a newborn baby. Be a merryman, period, but merryman, newborn baby, and you're running around.

So if you believe that Trump did this, we all need to understand it's reprehensible behavior. But it doesn't mean that I can't support the agenda anymore and that he's no longer a good politician doesn't change the view of what the actual platform is and what the goals are for the country. If you don't believe it, of course, well then you just think this is a media smear campaign. And but i's we can all agree the conduct is bad. Oh, we've got this play play the activist. This is she's

from like the the Eagle journal or something. What was it called Eagle I believe it was the Eagle Eye. Oh, that sounds kind of intense. Play it out of Parkland students becoming activists journalists. Do you see a difference right now between journalism and activism and what you're doing? I think that for me, the purpose of journalism is to raise, you know, the voices of people that maybe don't have a voice. And so I think that in its own right,

journalism is a form of activism. And I think that there is distinctions for me, um, you know, as a journalist and also as someone that wants to demand change. But I think that the partnership of the two is the only reason that we are able to make a change. Journalisms great. Can you answer this Christian from me? I'm the one with the show one seeing variance, doth reportice what she said, journalism is a form of activism. Okay, Well, in that case, journalism is a form of politics. Journalist

was a former propaganda. You know, we we could play this game all day. But I actually, I'm not trying to put that young woman down. I think she's articulating what they all think. She's just saying it. And you see it with everything we talked about here on the show, whether it's all the way from Stormy Daniels to Trump is in Russia's pocket too, Oh my gosh, the trade war is gonna destroy this country. Oh my gosh. Trump is you know, the worst president in the history of presidence,

all of it. You see it on display constantly, and it's it's never going to be the same. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, so to speak. Is that a microaggression now, by the way, the whole genie in a bottle thing is that like an appropriation of of Mid East culture. It's so few people even know it comes from Arabian nights. And you know, there's actually a backtra It's not from Aladdin. Disney didn't just come up with this out of nowhere, but Arabian Nights.

Remember that. It's amazing. That was like not really close, but it was okay. It kind of it kind of gotten you in the mood for a second for some Aladdin I had a professor a long time ago who used to go on this this tirade or Tara Day if you're really fancy. Uh no one says that book. But he used to go on this tirade where he would talk about how uh there was so much of what Edward said the Columbia University professor of Middle East from Studies called Orientalism, which is the other iizing of

those from the East. And like Princess Jasmine in the movie Aladdin is basically dressed as a as a bellied answer slash harem girl, which the princess would not dress like effectively A yeah, yeah, Maybe we'll talk about the all the ways that Aladdin is offensive to the left another day. That's kind of a fun conversation. That's a fun one too, they get into So anyway, team, I've got a whole lot more for you this hour, including Zinky is in trouble for not loving diversity enough. He's

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It's a good one. It's important for us to see it because it's the truth about all this gun grabber stuff. You know that they play the same game every time. We know what the game is, right, Oh no, we just want common sense gun reforms. And you know whose streets are streets? You know, they say it's about activism and listen to the youth and a revolution against violence and blah blah blah all that. But then you start

to see some people that are actually advocating from prominent positions. Uh. You see some people who are well clear on what they want, which is they want to repeal the Second Amendment. They don't want to tinker with it, they don't wanna nibble around the edges. They don't want to cut the cookie into pieces. They wanted to be gone, Googie monster.

They wanted to be gone. And The Times published in order to make that case as strongly as they possibly could, The Times published in editorial by none other then the retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Now in perfect this is as as classic as it gets. Folks, John Paul Stevens, repeal the Second Amendment is the title. But this is the most New York Times thing ever. At the top of the article they and this is featured on their editorial page. It just went up. What was

it today? I think, um, they've got a picture of a must get in a picture of and a R fift or maybe it's a holl whatever they're calling it. It's all rifle. But at the bottom they had to append this correction to this New York Times piece. An earlier version of a picture captioned with this article misidentified the eighteenth century firearm depicted It is a musket, not a rifle. What a shock here we have the New York Times in an editorial. They're literally saying they want

to get rid of the Second Amendment. I mean they are actually just coming out and saying it, you know, get rid of the Second Amendment. And they misidentify a firearm at the top of the article, and not by like a little bit. You know. It's not like they said, oh, it's an A R fifteen and it's actually an M for you know, something like that. No, no, no, you know,

people make mistakes. I used to remember when I worked at The Blaze, at the website, and we would all joke around about how you could get away with typos here and there. You know, you make an error. We're posting a lot of stories all day. This was the old days, the Blaze dot com. And uh, you know I was. I was hired as an assistant assistant editor for Nashal for intelligence and technology, I think, And I was like, all right, first of all, I don't really

know any about technology. Second of all, I'm the national security guy, so why don't we call it that? So we changed it in time. But anyway, uh, but I remember the one thing that you could not could not get away with making any mistakes on was firearms related. If you found yourself, if you find yourself riding in fields with the sun on your face. Do not be

alarmed for you r in Elysium. No, but if you found yourself writing something that was incorrect about firearms, um, then you would very quickly have a pie the pylon to end all pylons of how could you be so stupid? Like people would completely lose it on you, and you know, sure enough you would change it and it'd be fine. I think somebody once identified a two forty two forty golf it as a an M sixty and that and

that was an issue that was a problem. So but now I want to get in the substance of this editorial that John Paul Stevens actually wrote for The Times. So hey, yeah, this uh, as I was saying this, this John Paul Stevens thing is is amazing. But um, let me let me read you a little bit of of the case that he makes in it, and then

we'll get into it in some more detail. Uh. He writes. Quote, during the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice from nineteen sixty, no judge federal or state, as far as I'm aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign. Began their campaign claiming that federal regulations of farms curtailed Second

Amendment rights. Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the n r A as perpetrating quote, one of the greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud on the American public by special interest interest groups I've ever seen in my lifetime. So he cites this what one judge was saying back in you know, I don't know wherever it was, nineteen

sixties or something. And then he goes into the d C v. Heller decision two thousand and eight, the one time the Supreme Court has really looked at the issue specifically of ken a municipality in that case, the District of Columbia where our federal government space. Can it just say no guns, no guns for you? Can I do that? And d C v. Hellertel told us that no, in fact, the government can't just say you do not have any

right to own a firearm because we say so. And that I think it's something that particularly added tates and irritates liberals now, um, because uh, because now they have to just be very wildly hypocritical returning to a theme here, folks about whether or not Supreme Court precedent is settled. Is it settled? You'll notice they'll say Roe v. Wade is a constitutional right. Now, Roe v. Wade is a

Supreme Court decision. It's not a constitutional right. And no realistic, honest assessment of what the Constitution says in any way indicates that Roe v. Waight is, or that the right to abortion is a constitutional right. But they'll speak of it as though this is as settled as it gets. This is as settled as the you know, the world is not flat, but d c. Heller, which just happened a few years ago, so it's happening in our current political context. Right, it's not doesn't feel like a long

time ago because it wasn't a long time ago. That doesn't how that doesn't really count the same way for them. That doesn't really uh doesn't really rate for them. That's just a bad decision. Well, which is it is a Supreme Court decision on something like the right to bear arms binding and important going forward? Or is it just important when you think it is when you say it is. There's such a dishonesty at the heart of a lot of what goes on with the liberal discussion about firearms.

And that's why I like to see the John Paul Stevens column, because he's just coming out and saying it. His argument is crap. They can't even get the name of a frigging gun right at the top of the thing. But at least he's like, you know, I would just like to ban firearms. I want to ban the Second Amendment, get it, get rid of it, no more repeal it. You say to yourself, all right, well, at least we're gonna have a discussion now about whether or not that

should happen. There's such a dishonesty at work with the liberal efforts to do the incremental Oh, no more magazines with more than ten rounds. They love to call them clips, and we love to make fun of them when they do. But you know what I mean, no more magazines above ten rounds. No more uh cosmetic features on a are variant rail systems, you know, no more four grips, no more uh well, no more bump stock. I'm actually okay

within no more bump stocks. You know, some some people yell at me for that, but I'm like, you know what, bump stock is kind of ridiculous. It's really a technique for firing more than it is actually in addition to a weapon. And nonetheless, but this is this is a reminder that those of us who say to you they actually want to just band guns and they should be honest about it, are telling you the truth. They're the

ones who are dissembling. They're the ones who are not telling the truth when they pretend that all they really want, all they really want is common sense gun reform. All they want is some changes around the margins that won't really affect anything, that won't really upset anyone, and it's just not that big a deal. That's a very big deal actually, because the incrementalism is meant to change the culture around guns. It's meant to change the way you

think about firearms. And as I keep saying to you, it's more that they just don't like the people that own guns than anything else. And I get in trouble for it. That's fine, it's the truth. They think that gun owners are toothless hillabilities who watched Nascar, and so if they can antagonize gun owners by saying that the second ammage should be repealed or even just more limited

than any other constitutionally protected right. They're more than willing to do so, more than willing, you know, they are absolutely in favor of doing everything that they can up to and including lying pressure campaigns. And you've got a former Supreme Court justiceh's just saying with all the other all the other lives out there, belief really, which is that the right to bear arms is not really a right, that the n r A is effectively a domestic terrorist

or zation or whatever the latest defamatory statement is. And uh, ultimately, as we look at this, we need to understand what the other side really wants and what we're dealing with here. So I think that, uh, it's good, it is good, and you should read this. It's good that we saw this, and you should read this. At a tromp in the New York Times where we finally get some honest in the left. They don't want common sense gun reforms. They want to ban your guns. Were right back with Zinky

and diversity, stay with me. He's holding the line for America, Buck Sexton, his back. I knew that they would go after Secretary of Interior Zinky. I mean, the guy's uh a former Navy Seal. He's way too pro America and pro freedom for the Democrat left to just let things slide. Right, he's got he's tied to the Trump administration. They're gonna find a way to go after him. But if you look at this guy's record, if you know his background,

there's really not much of an opening. He's clearly a patriot, He's an honorable guy, well respected. I've actually done a podcast or two with him in the past as we were co guests, and he's a it's just a good man, a good American, and they're going after him, folks, on on what grounds? By the way, what is the easiest way to attack any member of the administration who is in a position of managerial authority? What do you know you'll be able to make a case about insufficient devotion

to diversity? Oh? Yes, of course. It's just always there for them, isn't it. You know, whenever they need some way to attack, they know that insufficient devotion. Remember, I'm not saying even uh, dismissing diversity. I'm not even saying being an opponent of diversity outright is what they're looking for. You just if you don't pray to the diversity gods, so to speak. If you aren't someone who bends the knee,

you are a target. If you speak out about the witch hunt mentality surrounding anyone in any federal agency or really anywhere who is not sufficiently devoted to diversity, then you get yourself into trouble. And I always start with, well,

what is diversity exactly? They talk about insufficient diversity at these institutions, and then I'll say, like, for example, the Department of the Interior, which is what Ryan Zinky is in fact the director of our secretary of And when you look at the numbers, there is minority representation or minority employees at these places, at places like the Interior Department. Uh, they're just saying it's insufficient. Well, I always want to say, how do we know if it's sufficient? Folks? We can't

have quotas. Remember, quotas are unacceptable because quotas are an open admission of the elimination of merit in the process. You can't say we have to have a certain number of X and Y and z and not say that you're adjusting the merit requirements for getting different jobs. And so what you have is okay if only of the Department of the Interior's minority and thirty four percent of

the United States is minority. Let's I'm making those numbers up, by the way, but they're roughly there there in the in the ballpark of accurate. So you're saying that's insufficient minority representation. But do we have to have the exact number? Do we have to have more than the number would be as a percentage of the U s population to make up for historical wrongs? Who decides what sufficient attention

and devotion to diversity really is? The answer is it's really just a dividing line between left and right in this country. It is used as a concept against conservatives. It's not really a concept that actually has any definable limits or definable goals. And by the way, what does Zinky even do to come under fire, so to speak? From the left? Here? CNN writes this piece sources Zinky tells employees diversity isn't important. That's not really what he said.

According to the piece itself, let me read to you from this CNN hit piece, because that's what it is. Quote. Three high ranking Interior Interior officials from three different divisions said that Zinki has made several comments with a similar theme, saying diversity isn't important, or I don't care about diversity,

or I don't really think that's important anymore. Each time, Zinki followed with something along the lines of what's important is having the right person for the job, or I care about excels and I'm going to get the best people and you'll find we have had the most diverse group anyone's ever had. Uh So, what's the problem, folks? This was a big story yesterday they were covering on CNN,

covering in other places. When you look at what was actually said here, not only is it not a problem I agree with Zink, does that mean I'm insufficiently devoted to diversity. He's saying that he wants the best people for the job, and he said we have the most diverse group anyone's ever had. So he's saying I look for the best and and we actually have a very diverse staff relative to other Department of Interior staffs. And he's still in trouble though, because he's not allowed to

say things like I don't care about diversity. You know, this whole notion of social justice versus merit is at the heart of so many leftist policies. It's clearly at the heart of affirmative action and the concept of diversity. The look I saw it. I remember when I was overseas and seeing up on the walls of military bases in a war zone, my friends posters with things like

diversity is our strength. No, that's not true. The strength of the United States military and military is the courage, bravery, and skill of those wearing the uniform, those carrying arms for their country. Uh. Diversity is not the strength of the United States military. And that kind of brainless propaganda is pretty widespread within the diversity movement. It's really not unusual at all to read slogans about diversity that make you think to yourself, this is idiotic, This makes no sense.

I don't even know what they're really trying to say, other than to hammer at home that you have to you have to be part of team diversity, which really just means you will do whatever is necessary to play kate the politically correct dictates of the left, whatever their whims may be, at any point in time, you have to say sir, yes sir, or ma'am yes, ma'am, or there, yes, there because with a Z now or or an X by the way, because I don't want to be mis

gendering people. Right, Yeah, big D diversity. We're going to continue to fight against the nonsense concept here in the Freedom Hut. Uh. We will be right back with some roll call. Oh man, it's been a long day. It's been fun here in the Hut though, but just a lot of stuff. I did America's Newsroom this morning, Brett Bears Panel tonight, and then Kennedy Show How Do I

Do It? All the magic of media, My friends. I hope you got a chance to check that out, and if you didn't, we'll put it up on Facebook so you can see the latest analysis and all things that I'm up to. And with that, let's hear what you're up to. Oh, you know what means it's time for some row call. Team, It's time for roll call. All right. We have Isaac who has written about the uh, the what he calls the white South African genocide, and it is about the white farmers in South Africa. He says,

please try to get the media to start talking about this. Well, Isaac, I've been talking about the violence against white farmers. Genocide would be too strong and an inaccurate a term at this point. But there has been a long and concerted campaign of violence and intimidation against white farmers in Zimbabwe formerly Rhodesia under the reign of Mugabe, who just came

to an end some months ago. So this is something we have to be on the lookout for, um and I will continue to talk about it here in the Hut. We have next up here Susannah, who says, hey, Buck, passing along a message from my original Saturday Squad husband Oss, who introduced me to you regarding music for Roll Call. He likes the original drumming, bringing everyone to attention, I'm okay with anything, just you don't go anywhere. Love the

show and appreciate you and your insight shields. Hi Susannah, thank you so much. And yeah, well we'll mix it up a bit. We could get a little bit of that old school drummer music thrown in there for you. So we will keep everyone on their toes because that is how we roll in the hut. That's how we do, as the kids say. Jen writes the following, Buck, is this a budget or a bill? It seems from what I've read, Trump does not have to spend the money

as allocated because this is not truly a budget per se. A. You know, Jen, I'm digging down into this because I want to make sure that I know the full facts about what level of discretion the president has within the budget that had or within the the bill that has been passed which contains many budgetary measures. So this is a level of uh intra governmental complexity that I'm gonna have to deep dive into this and spend a bit more time on it. But you raise a very important point,

and thank you for your support of the show. Chris writes what Happened to Shields High Podcast. I drove a truck at night and really enjoyed it. Chris, it's coming back. If I could only just lay out all of the First of all, I really appreciate your enthusiasm for I love doing it. It just takes up my entire well part of the week and then weekend. I end up reading multiple books for each episode, and I love doing it.

But it will come back and it will be a whole series, and you're just you're just gonna have to ask for your patients. I hope you all and forget about the shields high podcast, and uh we we will get that. I can't leave it with the the Ottoman Turks taking Constantinople and that's just the end, right, Oh No, in the wars of Christendom and Islam in the Renaissance period, we are gonna, We're gonna make our way through the

whole thing. So I'm getting there, thank you very much. So, Chris James writes, low gluten hosts are available, but not gluten free hosts. My wife has very bad Cilia celiac disease, and she can receive a gluten free host or low gluten host once a week without ill effects. But there there is not a gluten free host available. The bread cannot be pure wheat and stick together without gluten. A good traditional priest will be happy to provide it. I'm

not taking I'm look, folks, I'm gonna. I'm not taking any chances on low gluten. I want no gluten. So bucks tummy is very important. I of my eternal salvation is also really important, But so is my tummy. So I gotta figure out a way to handle this, and I'll get back to you when I have more answers. Uh Dale rites, Hey Buck thanks so much for the tip on the New York Times series on the Vegas Shooter.

It was eerie all right, especially so since I was staying at the Attached Delano and hanging at the Mandalay and quite possibly had passed this creep in the passageways while I was there on business. I came back Thursday morning, I never realized he had been the place all week. Dale. I do recommend that everybody who has the time and inclination check out those New York Times video pieces that have been put up on the website that have to do with, uh, the Vegas shooters seven day just calm

walking around preparation for his mass murder spree. It's I don't know why The New York Times got the exclusive on It's another thing that just somewhat surprised me. But it's worth watching if you get a chance. It really is. Kevin is up next, Hey Buck, great show as always. Uh since the o G Saturday shows, Oh Wow, o G Saturday or OSS, I just want to let you know that your oh for two With answering that roll call question about the Twitter thread from Friday three three.

It was by Alexandra de Sanctis of National Review. Uh, to revisit the error. Wow, Kevin's plunging a knife in and twisting it now you had said Daily Wire or the Federalist. Nice try. Mr Sanctus is one of the most prodent up prodent pardon me ardent pro life voices out there in case you want to have someone talk about such issues. All the best, Kevin. Kevin is completely correct. He's calling me out, and he's right to do so.

I was wrong. It wasn't the Federalist. It was National Review, and it was Alexander de Sanctists and it's a very important Twitter thread. Uh. Next we have Heidi, who writes just recently transfer here to University of Southern Florida, and I am in the United States Marine Corps Officer program here, like I was at my last university. Here, I find myself the only conservative and the only Christian in the program, which is somewhat surprising considering most of the people I

know in the military are conservative Christians. Anyway, thanks for all you're doing. I don't know what I do without the daily broadcast from the Freedom Hut, Truth to Power and Shields High. Thank you so much. Hidi. First of all, thank you for what you're doing in the USMC Officer program. Great to hear that young ladies patriots like yourself are joining up in the core. So that's just really cool. And uh, thank you very much for your support of

the show. And you know, you're probably you probably have more like mine conservatives around you than you can tell right now. It's often just a question of whether they're willing to expose themselves, you know, whether they're willing to be public about it. A lot of people keep it quiet, and I know I do. And in social settings, people would generally have very little idea until I know them about what I think of the world. I've gotten very good as a New Yorker at I'm talking about in

superficial quick you know, hey, how you doing? Oh hey, I'm fine. You know when your voice goes all high when you say, oh hey, what's going on? Oh hey, how are you? You know, one of those greetings, not like an old friend or someone you know, but oh hey, Bob, it's been a while. What's going on Bob? You know? Oh hey, Buck, hey how are you? Uh? I tend not to get into the gosh, can you believe what's going on with these uh gun marches across the country

anti gun marches. It's just not worth it to put myself through the frustration of listening to all the ignorance. Hey, how are you doing? Oh yeah, it's great. You know, Buck, What are you working on these days? Oh? You know, lots of stuff, real busy. I've gotten really good at that, at the non conversation conversation when I'm in a very blue place like New York City, and unless I know it's a friendly I just keep it all on the I'm polite. I talked about dogs and food and I

leave it there. You know, maybe the weather, but I try not to get into the global warming part of the weather. Next up here we have Doug, who writes Hi Buck. After suffering through the hype and rhetoric surrounding Saturday's events in d C, I just wanted to suggest our word for the day should be occuocracy. It gives me chills each time I see a clip showing these kids were setting the mantra this is what democracy looks like.

No children are constitutional. Republic incorporates a democrats structure of represent democratic structure of representative government, not dictate via mob rule. Yes, Oculocracy is actually something I wrote about in Occupy American Spring and the book I wrote as a cub reporter at The Blaze Gosh almost seven years ago. Now, I specifically got into the ococracy of Occupy Wall Street. So I was oclocracy before oclocracy was cool. It's a fun

word to say, by the way. With that, I think we're in a perfect place for me to close down the Freedom Hunt for the evening. Thank you so much for being here with me team. It is the best part of my day every single day. I'm gonna go home now and probably eat a whole bunch of red meat because I have some very delicious grass fed hamburger beating the fridge that I'm going to just probably eat about a pound up and uh, and then I'll get

ready for tomorrow's show. I usually fall asleep reading for this show and I look forward to it every night. Please tell your friends download the podcast. It's just on iTunes at the Buck Sexton Show until tomorrow night, my friends, No matter what comes your way, Shields high